Giver said in post #30:
This may or may not have anything to do with what you
are sharing. Jesus told me thirty years ago that a
time was coming soon when man would suffer more than
he has ever suffered.
That time will come after the Antichrist commits the
abomination of desolation: "When ye therefore shall
see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso
readeth, let him understand) Then let them which be
in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is
on the housetop not come down to take any thing out
of his house: Neither let him which is in the field
return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them
that are with child, and to them that give suck in
those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in
the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then
shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever
shall be. And except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's
sake those days shall be shortened" (Matthew 24:15-22).
The abomination of desolation will be when the
Antichrist breaks a seven-year treaty he will have
made with the Orthodox Jews allowing them to continue
to offer animal sacrifices before a rebuilt temple in
Jerusalem; in the midst of the seven years, the
Antichrist will stop the sacrifices and sit in the
temple and proclaim himself God: "he shall confirm
the covenant with many for one week [seven]: and in
the midst of the week [seven] he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall make it
desolate" (Daniel 9:27); "arms shall stand on his
part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of
strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice,
and they shall place the abomination that maketh
desolate ... and he shall exalt himself, and magnify
himself above every god" (Daniel 11:31,36); "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" (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
The abomination of desolation will mark the beginning
of the Antichrist's 42-month reign over the earth:
"And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him
to continue forty and two months. And he opened his
mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his
name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in
heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with
the saints, and to overcome them: and power was
given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and
nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall
worship him, whose names are not written in the book
of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
world. If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that
leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he
that killeth with the sword must be killed with the
sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the
saints" (Revelation 13:5-10).
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they
that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of
Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto
me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the
Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that
they may rest from their labours; and their works do
follow them" (Revelation 14:12-13).
Giver said in post #30:
I was to give a word and leave.
"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all
longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn
away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned
unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:2-4).
Giver said in post #30:
He wanted a place of safety for his people.
There will be a place of safety for the Church during
the reign of the Antichrist: "And the woman fled into
the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of
God, that they should feed her there a thousand two
hundred and threescore days ... to the woman were
given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly
into the wilderness, into her place, where she is
nourished for a time, and times, and half a time,
from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast
out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman,
that he might cause her to be carried away of the
flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth
opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which
the dragon cast out of his mouth" (Revelation
12:6,14-16).
Here, just as the woman represents the many different
people in the Church who will flee into the
wilderness, so the place to which she flees
represents the many different wilderness-places
around the world into which some people in the Church
will flee.
Those in the Church need to begin thinking about
preparing well-stocked hiding places in the
wilderness, the mountains, to which they might flee
when they see the abomination of desolation, places
in which they can remain hidden during the coming
reign of the Antichrist: "then shall that Wicked be
revealed" (2 Thessalonians 2:8); "When the wicked
rise, men hide themselves" (Proverbs 28:28).
) so the mark of the beast thing is in the back of my mind here.
