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NASB | Isaiah 55:11 So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 55:11 So will My word be which goes out of My mouth; It will not return to Me void (useless, without result), Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. |
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Bible Note: 2 Peter 3:3-5 “knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,” This verse tells us that there will be those who say that “all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation”, describing the evolutionary theory, and that they choose to forget that God, by His Word, created the heavens and the earth. This is a prophecy of the last days, which has been fulfilled in our school textbooks. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. This verse says much in what it assumes. Paul, the writer, is speaking of the Day of the LORD, when God will judge the earth. The man of sin, who we commonly call the antichrist, will “sit in the temple”. This means there will be a temple. This also means there will be an Israel. For hundreds of years people could not figure out how this could happen. Then the modern Israel was born in 1948, and now there is a Temple Institute in Jerusalem. This institute not only has architectural plans for a temple, they have all the materials, the temple furnishings, special oil and incense, altars, priests robes, everything needed to build a temple and establish temple worship. This will be one of the next things to happen, but might not happen until after the church has been removed from the earth (the rapture). Daniel 9:27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. This verse assumes there will be temple worship during the last 7 years period, known as the Tribulation, before Jesus returns. The rapture will happen before this 7-year period. Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks [weeks of years] are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. 25 "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times. 26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, and till the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate." These verses contain the outline of prophecy from the time the Jews are allowed to rebuild Jerusalem following the Babylonian captivity. Basically, it says, that there will be seventy weeks of seven years each to complete everything. Starting when the command is given to rebuild the city with its wall [given by King Artexerses of Persia in 445 BC], it will be 490 years. This time will be divided into a) 49 years to rebuild the city, b) 434 more years “until Messiah the Prince”, and c) a 7 year covenant during which the sacrifices will be stopped. Sir Robert Anderson wrote a book called “The Coming Prince” showing the math of how Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem as the Messiah on the very day predicted in Daniel, about 570 years before it happened. Then Daniel says the Messiah will be “cut off, but not for himself”. Jesus was killed on a cross for you and me. Next, Daniel tells us that the city and the sanctuary [Jerusalem and the temple] will be destroyed. This also indicates that there is a gap between the 69th and 70th week. The final week of 7 years is the time described in Revelation, a time when God will plead with the people of the earth one last time to turn to Him, then will judge those who refuse. There are hundreds upon hundreds of predictive prophecies made in the Bible that have been literally fulfilled. There are many more we see in the process of being fulfilled today. There is no other explanation for this, than that the Author of this book, The Bible, is outside of our space-time continuum, able to see it from beginning to end, and able to reach inside it to communicate with us. |