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WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?  WHEN DID HE RETURN?

About forty years after he ascended back to us.  It was what secular historians would call “The Fall of Jerusalem.”  We manifested our judgment in the Roman army, not at all unlike we had done so often in the past.  We “rode in” on those magnificent war horses and laid waste to an already debauched city.  We flattened a corrupted temple and rendered inoperable a whole way of life.⁶⁶  We made way for a better way.⁶⁷

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE GREAT TRIBULATION?  WHO WAS THE BEAST?  WHAT ABOUT THE ANTI-CHRIST?

Don’t go bailing out on me now.  It takes courage to believe the truth – especially when you have a lot invested in something else.  Great tribulation?  You want to know about great tribulation?⁶⁸

About four years before Jerusalem fell, what historians would tag “The Siege of Jerusalem” would begin.  Conditions became so bad that I don’t even want to discuss it here.  You’ll have to read it for yourself, but let me warn you – it isn’t pretty, and they didn’t tell the half of it.  The beast and the anti-Christ?  Both the same fellow.  Came on the scene and left the stage just prior to the siege – just as my son’s close friend had seen in a vision.  It’s all in the introductory remarks, submersed in a lot of symbolism.⁶⁹  We had to do that to protect the innocent, a remnant we would use to carry on the production from there.  My spirit guided them past the murkiness and into the truth as need be.⁷⁰

WHOA!  YOU’RE LOSING ME.  THE BEAST AND THE ANTI-CHRIST THE SAME GUY?  AND JUST WHOM ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?

He’s a well-known and rather infamous historical figure, as one might imagine.  I’m sure you’ve heard the expression:  “He fiddled while Rome burned.”  That was the guy – as nasty a critter as ever came down the pike.  He wasn’t nicknamed “The Beast” for nothing.

66 “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. . . . Therefore say I to you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof” (Matthew 7:18, 21:43, King James Version).

67 “In that He says, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete.  Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away” (Hebrews 8:13).  “. . . the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining . . .” (1 John 2:8b).  “For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious” (2 Corinthians 3:11).

68 “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.  And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened” (Matthew 24:21-22).

69 “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near. . . . I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day (when) . . . I turned to see the voice that spoke to me.  And having turned I saw . . . out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword . . .” (Revelation 1:3, 10a, 12a, 16a).

70 “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come” (John 16:13).