Spirit Food to Ponder in these Final Hours...


Summary of the 7th day of Hanukkah


Jesus put many CLUES in Matthew 24 as to the timing of when the Tribulation would begin...

“Tell us,” they said, “ WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN, and what will be the SIGN OF YOUR COMING and of the end of the age?”

For THEN there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.

WHEN? WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN???? Jesus said THEN. THEN means at that time or immediately after this happens. What happens? Look at the clues.

Matthew and Mark both said, LET THE READER UNDERSTAND. What is Matthew and Mark telling us to understand? THE CLUES! Here are the clues that Jesus gives us:

1. So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand

2. FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS

3. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

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

How are these clues? What is Jesus talking about? There is no doubt in my mind that every single one of Jesus' disciples knew EXACTLY what Jesus was referring to. This was an event that had taken place less than 200 years earlier and the Jews knew the history of it very well. An abomination was set up on the 25th of Kislev. On that day, the Jews fled into the mountains after killing Antiochus' temple guards and the Jew who had tried to make the abominable sacrifice. The following Sabbath, during the winter, Antiochus' army showed up and slaughtered 1000 people, including women and young children



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