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1 THE 5 PILLARS OF MATTHEW 5.7. Why Must People Be Prepared? (Matt 24:42-51)

2 ESCHATOLOGY THROUGH COMPARATIVE STUDY Daniel 5 Pillars of Matthew Revelation Visible Kingdom Spiritual Kingdom Full Kingdom Israel Church Millennium [[Rise]] [Fall] Restoration 1.Design 2.Presentation 3.Stages 4.Key 5.Transition: from the Spiritual Kingdom to the Full Kingdom Christ in Glory (1) Church Age (2-3) Rapture (4-5) Tribulation (6-18) 2nd Coming (19) Millennium (20) Eternal State (21-22)

4 5 PILLARS OF MATTHEW No.1 No.2 No.3 No.4 No.5 5 Discourses of Jesus in Matthew The Sermon on the Mount --The Design of the Spiritual Kingdom The Sending of the Twelve --The Presentation of the Spiritual Kingdom The Kingdom Parables --The Stages of the Spiritual Kingdom The Kingdom Life Discourse --The Key of the Spiritual Kingdom The Olivet Discourse --The Transition of the Spiritual Kingdom Matt 5-7 Matt 10 Matt 13 Matt Matt 24-25

7 LAYERED Q&A IN THE OLIVET DISCOURSE Chiasm in the Q&A of Matt 24:1-34 Backdrop The Beautiful 2 nd Temple Will Fall. vv.1-2 Q1 When will all these things (the fall of temple) be? v.3 Q2a Q2b What will be the sign for the beginning of the End Time? What will be the signs for the end of the world and your coming? A2b 6 signs (= 6 seals in Rev 6) before the 2 nd coming vv.4-31 A2a When the fig tree (state of Israel) revives. vv A1 Within one generation (40 years). v.34 Reminder We Are Limited on the Knowledge of the Timing. v v.3 v.3

9 SPECIAL ADDRESSES Additional Issues about the End Time in Matt 24:35--25:46 S1a What Is the Time of Noah Like? 24:37-39 S1b Why Is the Rapture a Valid Concept? 24:40-41 S2a Why Should People Get Ready? 24:42-51 S2b What Is the Essence of Being Ready? 25:1-13 S3a S3b What Is the Standard for Judging the Jews at the End of the Tribulation? What Is the Standard for Judging the Gentiles at the End of the Tribulation? 25: :31-46

11 THE STRUCTURE OF THE OLIVET DISCOURSE The First Half of the Olivet Discourse Has a Chiasm: Backdrop (24:1-2); Q1, Q2a, Q2b [α & β] (24:3); A2b [α (24:4-26) & β (24:27-31)], A2a (24:32-33), A1 (24:34) Reminder (24:35-36). The Second Half of the Olivet Discourse Also Has a Clear Structure: S1a = The End of the Church Age Is Like Noah s Days (24:37-39) S1b = The Rapture Is Removing the Restrainer to Wrath (24:40-41) S2 = Preparation for the Rapture (Jew & Gentile): S2a = The Need of Being Prepared to the Rapture (24:42-51) S2b The Key for the Preparation for the Rapture (25:1-13) S3 Preparation for the Second Coming (Jew and Gentile): S3a = The Standard of Judging the Servants (25:14-30) S3b = The Standard of Judging the Served (25:31-46) The Hebrew Matthew Preserved And/Again Jesus Said to the Disciples before A2bα, A2bβ; S1a, S2a, S2b, S3a, and S3b.

12 JESUS WARNING TO THE SERVANTS 42 Then Jesus said to his disciples: Therefore watch with me because you do not know at what hour your lord is coming. 43 This you know, if one knew at what hour this thief was coming, he would watch and not allow him (to dig) into his house. 44 So you should be prepared, because you do not know at what hour the Son of Man is going to come. (Hebrew Matthew 24:42-44) Remember Jesus Reminder that the Day and Hour Are Restricted to Men. The Rapture: The Day Cannot Be Known The 2 nd Coming: The Hour Cannot Be Known

13 JESUS WARNING TO THE SERVANTS 42 "Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. 43 "But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 44 "For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will. (Greek Matt 24:42-44, NAU) The Translator of the Hebrew Matthew (c.a.d.35) into Greek Matthew (c.a.d.80s) Thought that the Day (for the Rapture) and the Hour (for the 2 nd Coming) Are Interchangeable. He Changed One in v.42, from Hour to Day.

14 JESUS WARNING TO THE SERVANTS 45 What do you think of the faithful and wise servant whose lord places him over his children to give (them) food in its time? 46 Blessed is that servant whose lord (finds) him doing thus when he comes. 47 Truly I say to you that he will place him over his children. (Hebrew Matthew 24:45-47) The Faithful & Wise Servants Could Be Jews who Recognize Jesus as King, Messianic but Not Trinitarian. All Humanity Are Children, unless One Is United with Christ (the Eternal Son, a Member of the Trinity), and thus Become a Son/Heir. The Non-Trinitarian Messianic Jews Could Be the Ones Left Behind in the Rapture and Become the

15 JESUS WARNING TO THE SERVANTS 45 "Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 "Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. 47 "Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. (Greek Matt 24:45-47, NAU) The Faithful and Sensible Slaves Are Rewarded at the Coming Back of the Lord & King (2 Stages) A = Rapture (to Take Care of His Children [Nonbelievers]) B = 2 nd Coming of Christ (to Take Care of His Possessions). The Translator of the Hebrew Matthew (c.a.d.35) into Greek Matthew (c.a.d.80s) Thought that the Children and the Possessions/Household Are Interchangeable.

16 JESUS WARNING TO THE SERVANTS 48 But if the servant should be evil and should say in his heart: My lord is late (in) coming, 49 and should begin to beat the servant of his lord and should eat and drink with gluttons, 50 his lord will come in a day for which he does not wait and at a time which he does not know. 51 He will divide him and place his portion with the hypocrites; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Hebrew Matthew 24:48-51) The Rapture Happens in a Day Unknown to Men. The 2 nd Coming Occurs in an Hour/Time Unknown to Men. If a Servant Is Found No-Good at Both Times, He Will Be Lost Forever, together with the Hypocrites [Pharisees?].

17 JESUS WARNING TO THE SERVANTS 48 "But if that evil slave says in his heart, 'My master is not coming for a long time, 49 and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; 50 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, 51 and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 24:48-51 NAU) The Translator of the Greek Matthew Affirmed that the Time Is Equivalent to the Hour. He also Thought that the Day and the Hour/Time Are Exchangeable.

18 BE ON ALERT IN MARK 33 "Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come. 34 It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert. 35 Therefore, be on the alert-- for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning-- 36 in case he should come suddenly and find you asleep. 37 "What I say to you I say to all, 'Be on the alert!'" (Mk. 13:33-37 NAU) Mark (c.a.d.45) = Peter s Sermon. He Went into Illustration for the Hour/Time.

19 BE ON GUARD IN LUKE 34 Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap; 35 for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth. 36 But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man. (Lk. 21:34-36 NAU) Luke (c.a.d.57) Did Not Distinguish the Day & the Hour/Time. He Paid More Attention to Personal Virtue (as Luke Was Defending Paul and Christianity in the Roman Court). He Was Focused the 1 st Century Application (Expecting to Escape the Disasters and See the 2 nd Coming Jesus).

20 IMMINENCE IN THE 1 ST CENTURY Jesus Distinguished 3 Events [Procedures] in Answering the 3 Questions of the Disciples in Matt 24:3. 1 st Century Event: Fall of the 2 nd Temple [ => A.D.70] Beginning of the End Time: Restoration of the Fig Tree (the State of Israel) [ => A.D.1948]. End Time Proper (Tribulation) and the 2 nd Coming. As All People Who Want to See God s Kingdom in His Own Life Time (cf. Acts 1:6), the Disciples Combined that Three into One, Ignoring that the Fig Tree (Israel) Has to Be Destroyed First (with the Fall of the Temple) and Be Restored (with the State, then the Temple). They Perceived that the Tribulation Is in 1 Generation (40 Years), thus before A.D.73 ( = 73; 73 7 = 66).

21 IMMINENCE IN THE 1 ST CENTURY The Jews Rejected Jesus, but Welcomed Herod Agrippa I as the True Messiah: Jesus Was Killed in A.D.33, 7 Years Before A.D.40, the Perceived Date When the Messiah Would Be Cut Off (69*7 = 483, = 40; cf. Dan 9:24-27; Neh 2:1). Herod Agrippa I Became the King of the Jews in A.D.40. He Accepted His Position and Began to Cleanse the Heretics according to the Sanhedrin. He Killed James the Son of Zebedee, and Was about to Kill Peter after the Passover of A.D.41 (Acts 12). The Angels Released Him, and He Went to Antioch, Syria, Confirmed the Church Pastored by Barnabas and Paul etc. Peter then Went through Asia Minor (cf. 1 Pet 1:1) to Rome, Fought with Simon Magus (cf. Eusebius), and Founded the Church of Rome in A.D.43. Herod Died of a Bug Bite in A.D.43.

22 IMMINENCE IN THE 1 ST CENTURY The Jews then Were Open to the Messiahship of Jesus if His Prophecy that He Would Come Back in 1 Generation Is Fulfilled. They Expected that: He Would Rapture His Church in A.D.66. The Tribulation Would Be during A.D Then the Full Kingdom Would Come. They Put Jesus to the Test. And Jesus Failed the Test. So the Tens of Thousands of Jews who Believed in Jesus and Were Zealous for the Law (Acts 21:20) Rejected Jesus, and Joined the Zealots, Who Preached that if the Jews Revolt against Rome, and Persist beyond A.D.73, They Would Be the Messiah Themselves!

23 IMMINENCE IN THE 1 ST CENTURY The Jews Began the 1 st Jewish Revolt (the Great Revolt) in A.D.66, Exactly the Year When Jesus Failed the Test. The Temple Fell in A.D.70, in the Middle of the 7 Years. Masada Fell in A.D.73, at the End of the 7 Years. No Jewish Resistance Survived through the 7 Years! The Jews Recalculated the Chronology, and Aimed at A.D.132. They Counted A.D.70 as the 490 th Year from a Fictitious Date of the Fall of the First Temple, thus the 420 th Year of a Period of Restoration. They 483 rd Year of the Restoration Would Be = 63, A.D = A.D.133. The Tishri Year Begins in the Fall of A.D.132. The Bar Kohkba Revolt Began in A.D.132, and Failed in A.D.135

24 IMMINENCE IN LATER YEARS The Author of the Epistle of Barnabas (Written between A.D ) Believed that the 2 nd Coming Should Be at the 6000 th Year from Creation. The Church Adopted the Chronology of the Septuagint (LXX, Which Added c.2000 Years to Gen 5,11), so that the Date Would Be Close to the Early Church. Jesus Failed that Expectation, again. The Jews Produced 50 Messiahs since Jesus, from Bar Kohkba to Rabbi Schniersohn. The Later Ones Turned Luciferian: Sabbatai Zevi Claimed Messiahship in A.D Jacob Frank (Trained the Jacobins of the French Revolution) Allied with Adam Weishaupt (Who Set up the Illuminati on May 1, 1776, the Date on the $1 Bill) and Amschel Bauer Mayer Rothschild.

25 IMMINENCE IN THE 20 TH CENTURY The Evangelical Church Which Adopted Dispensationalism Expected and Accepted the Restoration of the State of Israel (the Fig Tree) in They Kept on Adding 1 Generation to that Date, Expecting that the Rapture Would Happen. Jesus Failed that Expectation again and again. If 1 Generation = 40 Years, then = If 1 Generation = 100 Years, then = Now, Date Setter Is Derogative. In the Jewish Chronology (from Tishri 1, 3761 B.C.), Year 5777 (A.D ) Seems to Be Perfect (777) for the Devil (5 Pointed Star). Some Luciferian Wanted to Begin the Tribulation. But the Timing Is Wrong.

26 IMMINENCE IN THE 21 ST CENTURY The 1 st Century Imminence Is Based on the Concrete Prediction that the Temple Would Fall in 1 Generation (40 Years). That Is Why the Disciples Expected that Jesus Would Come Back in A.D.66 to Rapture the Church. The 21 st Century Imminence Is Bases on the Concrete Biblical Chronology: The 70 th Jubilee Would Be in A.D.2101 (70*50 = 3500, = 2101). [God Demonstrates Maximum Mercy]. The 6000 th Year from Creation Would Be in A.D.2108 ( = 2108) [Beginning of God s Sabbath].

27 IMMINENCE IN THE 21 ST CENTURY God Does Not Have to Demonstrate His Maximum Mercy, for the Sinners Do Not Deserve It. Therefore, the Any Day Rapture Remains POSSIBILE. However, with the Prayer for Mercy by the Church at Work, It Becomes Likely that God Would Demonstrate His Maximum Mercy. Therefore, the 2101 Rapture Is PROBABLE. The Doctrine of Imminence, therefore, Is Not Totally Rejected, but Refined. We Still Need to Be Prepared to Face Jesus because of Our Own Likely Death [and Resurrection]. Those Who Can Live to 2101 Can Expect with a High Probability to Be Raptured, without Going through Death.

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