Three other times in history when God stopped the clock!
[SIZE=+3]The 2000 year comma[/SIZE]
By Jim Brackin *Used with permission
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. Luke, Chapter Four, verse sixteen.[SIZE=+3]The 2000 year comma[/SIZE]
By Jim Brackin *Used with permission
Much has been said and written about the time out, the parenthetical dispensation, the clock stopping and the age of grace in which we now live. Here are the facts:
When Jesus Christ stood up in the synagogue to read, there was handed to him the book of the prophet Isaiah and when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written.........and the Lord quotes from Isaiah, Chapter 61.
The fascinating thing is, he reads word for word what the prophet had written hundreds of years beforehand until he gets to the place that says, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, (PLEASE NOTE THE COMMA) and he closed the book! If he had completed the passage he would have added, AND the day of vengeance of our God.
You may very well assume that comma is the most important punctuation mark in the history of the human race! We are, indeed living in the acceptable time. The Apostle Paul calls it the Dispensation of the Grace of God.
We are not experiencing the wrath of God in the age in which we now live. On the contrary this age is the age of the grace of God. A time in which God would have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. God is not now pouring out his wrath, his vengeance upon the human race, but is longsuffering, not willing that any should perish.
But, on the other hand, rest assured that the fire will fall! The wrath will one day come....and who will be able to withstand it? Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior right now, if you have not already done so and rest assured that in doing so you have already passed from death unto life. Also rest assured that if your faith is in Jesus Christ and in Him alone for your salvation.....then the Rapture of the Church will occur before the Day of Vengeance begins and the wrath falls and you will be delivered, personally by the Lord Jesus Christ from this present evil world to forever be with the Lord.
Now we are talking here about The 2000 Year Comma. In the book of Daniel, in Daniel 9 and verses 24 through 27 the entire course of human history is outlined.....except for the part not covered by the comma! It is depicted there as being seventy weeks which can be understood as weeks of years or 490 years.
Those 490 years are divided into three separate periods: First there are seven weeks and then three score and two weeks, making 483 years, and then an additional week making a total of 490. The scripture says that Messiah would be cut off, that is, killed, after 483 years and just a casual reading of the passage would lead you to believe that the remaining seven years flow right along without interruption. But something happened that cause God to stop the clock! Israel rejected their Messiah. Israel fell from a favored position with God and salvation came to the Gentiles!
This mystery cannot be found in the Old Testament scriptures, because it was hidden in God before the foundation of the world.......and was only known when the Lord Jesus Christ revealed it to the Apostle Paul and Paul began to preach Jesus Christ.....according to the revelation of the mystery! God stopped the prophetic time clock because of the mystery. But God stopped the clock at least three other times when the Jews were out of favor.....proving that time doesnt count in such cases! Here are the three precedents, based upon three earlier time periods of exactly 490 years each:
1. From the birth of Abraham until the Exodus and the giving of the law:
Actual time: 505 years - subtract 15 years for the time that Ishmael was a usurper and you get exactly 490 years. (Genesis 12:4,16:16, 21:15 and Galations 3:17)
2. From the Exodus to the dedication of Solomons temple:
Actual time: 591 years - Subtract the six servitudes when the Jews were in bondage, (Mesopotamia - 8 years, Moabites - 18 years, Cannonites - 20 years, Midianites - 7 years. Philistines/Ammonites - 18 years, Philistines -40 years and consider the ten years to build Solomons temple and you get exactly 490 years
(Judges 3:8 through 13:1 and I Kings 6: 1 and 38)
3. From the dedication of Solomons temple to the order by Artaxerxes in Nehemiah 2:1 to restore Jerusalem.
Actual time:560 years - Subtract the Babylonian Captivity and you get exactly 490 years.
God isnt counting time in the age in which we live, but would have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved!