Prophecy

The Lord God gave Daniel dreams and visions of the end times, and said that the wise will understand.

 ^{Daniel 12:9}And he said, “Go thy way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.¹⁰ Many shall be purified and made white and tried, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.



God scattered Israel throughout the nations

^{Deuteronomy 28:64} And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.⁶⁵ And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest; but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind.

God said he would return Israel to their own land:

^{Ezekiel 21} “And say unto them, ‘Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen whither they have gone, and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land.

Israel became a State on May 14, 1948

Jerusalem is the center of the world in prophecy:

Zechariah 12: ³ And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people. All who burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Jesus entered the Golden Gate on Palm Sunday

Ezekiel 44:2 Then said the Lord unto me, “This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened and no man shall enter in by it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

This gate in Jerusalem is shut to this day.  Reference:  http://www.biblewalks.com/Sites/GoldenGate.html



to be continued............................

Bishop after Peter

Ignatius was the 2nd in line as Bishop after Peter.  Read about him here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=whQG2bmW_iAC&pg=PA1&num=11&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

THE NEW WORLD ORDER

http://www.biblestudysite.com/nwo.htm

Demonic Possesion

"for our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places" (Ephesians 6:12)

He (demon) may attack man's body from without (obsession), or assume control of it from within (possession)  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12315a.htm

The possessed are sometimes gifted with superhuman powers: "a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains. For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him" (Mark 5:2-4). 

Some of the unfortunate victims were controlled by several demons (Matthew 12:43, 45; Mark 16:9;Luke 11:24-26); in one case by so many that their name was Legion (Mark 5:9; Luke 8:30). Yet, evil as the possessing spirits were, they could not help testifying to Christ's Divine mission (Matthew 8:29; Mark 1:24, 34; 3:12; 5:7; Luke 4:34, 41; 8:28). And they continued to do so after His Ascension (Acts 16:16-18).

The 1st Twelve Disciples

Simon Peter

Andrew (Simon's brother)

James and John  sons of Zebedee.  Jesus named them Boanerges (sons of thunder)

Matthew (Levi)   son of Alphaeus

Philip

Bartholamew

Thomas

James (son of Alphaeus)

Thaddaeus

Simon (the Canaanite)

Judas Iscariot

Isaiah 53

The Book of Isaiah was written between 701 and 681 B.C. and Isaiah 53 describes the Messiah:

53 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

² For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

³ He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

⁸ He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

⁹ And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹ He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

¹² Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

THE RAPTURE

Jesus returns after the antichrist is here in Jerusalem claiming to be God!

2 Thessalonians 2

2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

² That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
³ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Mark 13: ¹⁴  But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

The Antichrist  http://www.biblestudysite.com/anti.htm