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NASB	Matthew 25:13 "Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.
AMPLIFIED 2015 2015	Matthew 25:13 "Therefore, be on the alert [be prepared and ready], for you do not know the day nor the hour [when the Son of Man will come].

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Subject: will the world end soon

Bible Note: Why is it that when we look at prophecy, we think it involves Gentiles????? The end times are about Israel and the Jewish people. Look at what Daniel said in his seventy-week prophecy........
Dan 9:25-27
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
(KJV)

The commandment to rebuild Jerusalem was given to Nehemiah by King Artaxerxes around 414 B.C. by our calender (Neh. 2). 62 weeks (434 years) later, Jesus died on the cross in 21 A.D. 7 Weeks (49 years) later the Romans detroyed the Jewish temple and eventually Judea ( or Israel) ceased to exist. 69 weeks have passed and the final week has yet to happen. What God did not tell Daniel was that there would be a 2000 year gap between the 69th and 70th week. This period would be known as " the times of the Gentiles". At some point in time, this period would end. The Gentile church would be removed and replaced by a Jewish church beginning with 144,000 (Rev. 7: 4-8). When would this happen??
Luke 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
(KJV)

If we look in the history books, we will see that all of this has taken place. Therefore, the "times of the Gentiles" is almost over. Will the church be raptured before the Tribulation period begins????..............Absolutely!!!!
II Th 2:1-8
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 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.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
(KJV)

In vs. 1, he speaks of the Rapture ("gathering together unto him"). In vs. 3, he speaks of a falling away or apostasy. This is happening right before our eyes. We have many denominations who claim to be Christian, but in fact are apostates. Some of these are Jehovah's Witness, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Christian Science, Unitarian Universalists, Roman Catholic church,etc.,etc.,etc. The remaining denominations such as Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, etc.,etc. spend much of their time fighting false doctrines that have ALREADY crept into their midst. The "apostasy" has arrived. In vs. 7, Paul finishes with this: " only he (the Church) who now letteth will let, until he (the Church) be taken out of the way". "and then shall that Wicked (Antichrist) be revealed" (vs. 8).

Will the church be raptured?.......Absolutely!
Will people be saved during the Tribulation?........Absolutely! (Rev. 7:9-17)
Will Israel be saved by grace as we are?...........
Rom 11:25-27
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
(KJV)

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