Standing In The Holy Place.

This will probably read like a strange note to post but consider it as a hypothesis. It's probably best understood with a bit of the Historicist interpretation of apocalyptic prophecy so it will be confusing for the traditional Dispensationalists. I understand that the SDA view of the USA is that it's the second beast that rises from the "earth" in Revelation 13. I'm going to be saying here instead that the USA is actually the "earth" who helped the woman from Revelation 12. I also think that Revelation 12:7 to 14:5 is one long prophecy that doesn't stop until chronological order is broken so that the "earth" who helped the woman in chapter 12 is also the same "earth" where the second beast rises from and unfortunately he is our end time Antichrist. I'm also going to say here that the abomination of desolation is now currently standing in the holy place. And if that isn't enough I think this all might be confirmed by the possibility that Jesus is talking about a solar and lunar eclipse in Matthew 24 that will occur immediately after the tribulation.

I believe that Daniel 7 and Revelation 12 are related, and that they share the same prophetic time period of 1260 years. And that also these two books are not understood by the popularly recognized commentaries. I would therefore recommend that anyone Google the names: "Ostrogoths, Heruli, Vandals" as these are most likely the three who were "plucked up by the roots" which began a very important prophetic time period of 1260 years. Then Google the name "General Berthier" as he was most likely responsible for causing the deadly head wound that ended the 1260 year time period. Read all that you can and get an impartial opinion regarding these names and then decide for yourself.

I'm afraid that the first and longest prophetic time period in Revelation's story is completed and that we are currently waiting in an intermission between two great Biblical periods of Christian persecution. This prophetic time period is referred to three times in the Bible, once in Daniel 7 and twice in Revelation 12. This big span of prophetic time began just 443 years after Revelation was written in AD 95 and came to it's conclusion after 1260 years of Christian persecution in 1798. That's when Napoleon's General Berthier arrested and took pope Pius as prisoner back to Valence (France) where he, after a torturous journey under Berthier's supervision, would die in a jail cell a few days latter. The Vatican would remain closed for business with a mortal head wound until Mussolini agreed to reopening it in 1929. This head began a healing process which will ultimately come to a completion when the beast rises from the sea, the Vatican will regain civil authority and one of his heads will have been healed.

The Wiki author here writes it as: "dealing a major "blow" to the Vatican's political power:

Louis-Alexandre Berthier - Wikipedia

"and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days

A "place prepared by God" is a holy place. In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, there were four blood moons and God was opening up a new continent. A flood was spewing forth from the dragon's mouth but with the help of men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson a holy place, the earth would be made ready to help the woman after 1260 years of papal persecution came to an end in 1798. The first nation on the planet complete with a "Bible belt" was to be born when it was previously illegal to be caught with one. In 1776 America was founded and would become a safe place for God's people to own, print and study their Bibles. Prior to this in the dark ages of Europe, entire villages of Christian men, women and children had none of these religious freedoms and were burnt at the stake more often than not for reading or owning their own Bibles. This was the dragon chasing the woman and these estimated 75 million or more Christian martyrs would become the 5th seal souls beneath the alter. Lucifer was the hand that used the early church like a glove which hit the woman very hard during the middle ages. The founding fathers of the USA made sure that church and state were separate, America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

"The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around. - Numbers 35:4
I kept getting stuck on the idea that the temple mount has ceased to be the "holy place" since the day that the curtain was rent. So what I did was to relax my criteria and consider other possibilities for what might be a "holy place" in our appointed time of the end. If the Roman army could be considered to be standing in a "holy place" because the earth surrounding the city wall was the land given to the Levites by God, there might be other "holy places" that we've overlooked. After all, the NT Script does NOT say: "when you see the abomination of desolation standing in the temple".

"Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy."
And Joshua did so. - Joshua 5:15

Most haven't recognized the U.S.A. as the holy place but when God does a thing it becomes holy, rather than the thing being holy so that God does it. Like when the "ground" became holy for Moses and Joshua. America became the earth who would help the woman in 1776 and at the same time the holy place established by God as a refuge from the persecutions of the church in Rome. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God.

What I think ultimately makes the fourth beast so different and exceedingly terrifying from the first 3 was not it's iron teeth but it's strange alliance of church and state, who can make war with it? So I don't think that it's really just Rome or a revival of the holy Roman empire that we need to be concerned about. It was how this unholy alliance between church and state morphed into a monster beast that had absolute and corrupt power over so many people. In the 1500's you had a guy like Martin Luther that wasn't always safe and on some occasions running from the stake in his own home country. But one of the most bizarre stories I found was the exhumation of John Wycliffe who they didn't manage to catch alive, so they dug him up and burned his dead body. That's what you call true hatred and I'm sure that this dragon hates our guts. But this monster beast will not have been healed until these things begin again.

John Wycliffe

Known as “The Morning Star of the Reformation,” John Wycliffe was a 14th century theologian. He is probably best remembered as a translator of scriptures. He was persecuted for his stand against Papal authority. While he was not burned at the stake as a martyr, his persecution extended beyond his death. His body was exhumed and burned along with many of his writings. The Anti-Wycliffe Statute of 1401 brought persecution to his followers and specifically addressed the fact that there should not be any translation of Scripture into English.
10 Famous Christian Martyrs

"And how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to Myself." - Exodus 19:4

"The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness," - Revelation 12:14

But then the woman, God's people, were given the two wings so that she could escape from the dragon to the place prepared for her. Like a solid rocket booster on the space shuttle Discovery, wing # 1 was used up during the 1260 years of papal persecution from 538 to 1798. Wing # 2 is still burning it's propellant pending the beast's 42 months of end time authority. But we are not the woman in the wilderness anymore, we are the offspring of the woman, who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus, with whom the dragon is preparing to make war with.

"Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.

There's two great Biblical prophetic time periods of Christian persecution. The 1st is the woman from Revelation 12 which took place over 1260 years in the Fox Book style and the 2nd is the 42 month period from Revelation 13 that will involve the rest of her offspring. These two prophetic time periods are separated by an intermission where the dragon becomes furious and prepares to resume the war on the offspring. We have been living in a cease fire between these two great periods of Christian persecution. I think this is also supported by the "souls beneath the alter" being told to rest a little longer until a second group of saints would be gathered to join them.

Why this is so important to piece together is so that our generation can understand that "a place" which is prepared by God would by default automatically become the "holy place" and without this realization we will never recognize the abomination of desolation standing there. So many people are looking the other way to the middle east and for another temple to be built that maybe they don't really want to recognize it, so I find it fascinating to see it standing right here in our own back yard where it ought not to be.

Notice here how Luke 17 replaces the abomination of desolation with the days of Lot. Remember how in Matthew after seeing the abomination of desolation we are told to flee and not come back to collect our belongings.

Matthew 24:

“So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.

Notice again in the Luke version how those same instructions come right after the mention of "the days of Lot".

Luke 17:

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back.

Luke has exchanged the "abomination of desolation" for the "days of Lot". Why? Are the Bible writers trying to give us a hint here? Just like it was in the days of Lot when fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed the Sodomites. That sounds to me just like saying when you see the days of Lot again you can stick a fork in us because we're almost done here and head for the hills.

"And at the latter end of their kingdom,
when the transgressors have reached their limit,
a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.

Think of it like the "abomination that makes desolate" is when the "transgressors have reached their limit". Notice a Divine "limit to transgression", it's the kingdom of the transgressors not the kingdom of the 4 horns. This is not talking about a specific nation or kingdom, but instead is referring to the prevailing number or group of world wide transgressing individuals. Are we now living at the latter end of the kingdom of the transgressors when they have reached and exceeded their "limit". Is it a particular transgression itself that makes desolate like the last straw and this causes the "taking away of the daily" by Jesus in Heaven's Temple that starts our tribulation clock. "Abomination" just means a despicable act, so it's a despicable act of the transgression of God's Word that makes desolate. Make sense?

"And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away,
and the abomination that maketh desolate
set up,
there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

“So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel,
standing in the
holy place (let the reader understand),
then let those who are
in Judea flee to the mountains.

Set up
Standing
Holy Place
Judea


These are just some news articles and sayings that I've Googled to help address the language and show the usage of the phrases. How a law can be "set up" and a decision can be made to "stand". And I found it most important to see the Bible's use of the phrase "set up" relating to the rule of law.

Set up:

Set up a business.

Set up royal commission on failing drugs laws.

Parliament to set up the Supreme Court.

Does the pope set up laws?

Ugandan Government to set up Laws for Regulating its ...

"Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?" - Job 38:33

Standing in:

The Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the United States in a divided ruling that will stand as one of the major milestones in its 226-year history.

Supreme Court says conviction stands.

Supreme Court lets stand lower court ruling blocking $4B in payouts ...

'This decision will not stand': Republicans seek common cause against same-sex marriage.

Holy Place:

"and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God"

Judea:

The Hebraic du Tillet version of Matthew reads like this:

24:16 "then let them which be in Judah flee unto the mountains"

Think of "Judah" as in "Lion of the tribe of".

So those who are in Jesus:

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself,
unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless
you abide in me.
I am the vine;
you are the branches.
Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you,
that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me,
may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me
may be in them, and I in them.”


In Judah?

The Lion of the tribe of Judah?,
Them which be IN Jesus
-->may your flight not be in winter
or on a Sabbath.

Did the days of our Appointed Time of the End begin on June 26, 2015 when the abomination that maketh desolate was "set up" and is now "standing" in the "holy place"? Was the "daily" taken away in Heaven's Temple, in the True Tent was our Restrainer taken out of the way? Are the 144,000 being sealed and can Divine Wrath begin in the form of trumpet #1 at any moment?

On Friday June 26, 2015 the United States became the 21st nation on Earth to make legal same sex marriage. It's an incredible thing to consider that this law which was "set up" and is now "standing" in the "holy place" (where it ought not to be) could actually be our sign to evacuate the cities.

Leviticus 18:

22You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
23And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.
24“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
25and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. (Became desolate)
26But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you
27(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),
28lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.
30So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.”

So is this just a case of some guy trying to make the Bible say whatever he wants it to say? Or is this it? Are we there yet? I'm not sure.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,

In exactly 1290 days after June 26, 2015 when the United States became the 21st country to make legal same sex marriage, there will be a solar eclipse followed by a blood moon when the moon will not give it's light. These two celestial events also have a sort of unique spacing of days with the solar and lunar eclipse that were part of the tetrads that we've passed through.

DS/AoD<-------1290 days------->Sun/Moon

The first location on the planet to witness this darkening of the sun begins on January 5 at 11:34 PM. The last location to see this eclipse end will culminate on Jan 6 at 3:48 AM.

This would make it impossible to know the day or the hour.

Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.


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Partial Solar Eclipse on January 5–6, 2019
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"But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness,


The Eagle has landed.

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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

"We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled,
appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions,

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association, assurances of my high respect and esteem.

-Thomas Jefferson
President of the United States

Letter to the Danbury Baptists - January 1, 1802 - Wikisource, the free online library

And now the USA becomes the 21st nation on the planet to legalize same sex marriage which God calls an abomination:

1) The Netherlands (2000)
2) Belgium (2003)
3) canada (2005)
4) Spain (2005)
5) South Africa (2006)
6) Norway (2009)
7) Sweden (2009)
8) Argentina (2010)
9) Iceland (2010)
10) Portugal (2010)
11) Denmark (2012)
12) Brazil (2013)
13) England and Wales (2013)
14) France (2013)
15) New Zealand (2013)
16) Uruguay (2013)
17) Luxembourg (2014)
18) Scotland (2014)
19) Finland: (signed 2015, effective 2017)
20) Ireland: (2015)
21) United States: (2015)

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