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Bible Prophecy and the Church

The Church (literally the called out (of the world) ones) is the people from every nation and from the Jews that the LORD or God the Father is calling out to be a special eternal people for His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. All people in the true Church have personally trusted in Jesus Christ that He is God's only begotten Son and that He died for us and our sins and rose from the dead to give us new life. When we do this we enter a personal relationship with God Himself including Jesus and become indwelt, led and taught by His Holy Spirit.

The Church Age or Dispensation began at Pentecost in about 30 AD and is almost at its completion point when there will be members of the Church from all nations, languages and tribes. Then the Church will be raptured or caught up to Heaven with new spiritual or heavenly bodies for all its members to our homes in Heaven. The Church will also have a part in ruling Earth in the Millennial Kingdom of the Messiah - Jesus and a glorious eternal future. If you are not part of it already I hope you join us while they is still the little remaining time in this Age of Grace, the Church Age or the Age of the Holy Spirit. This can be done by praying to God in Jesus' name to personally receive Jesus as your Lord and Saviour from your sins.

For the true meaning of Christmas see the references to the birth and infancy of the Lord Jesus Christ in the First Earthly Ministry of Messiah (Christ) Jesus web page

For Bible teaching in context about the expression ye are gods see New Nature in Christ web page

For a biblical view of Contemplative prayer, the silence and the New Age movement follow Great Commission and Paganism

Increasing World Emphasis on UFOs and Aliens Including Abductions as Preparing for Possible Non-biblical Erroneous Explanation of the Catching Up to Heaven (Rapture) of True Christians See Following

For more entire Bible information about Christianity, Israel and God's program of salvation for all people through Jesus in many languages:

Bible Prophecy and the Nations

For an excellent source for information about Bible teaching and Bible prophecy about the Church, Israel, the Nations and Science visit:

There is much the Bible says about the nations (meaning all nations but Israel) especially for the last days after the Church is caught up (raptured) to Heaven. Then God will work among the Jews and the nations. Sometimes the Bible speaks of nations in general and somtimes of specific nations or group of nations. Often, especially in the Old Testament, prophecies for the nations use the old names of nations that can usually be related to present people groups, nations or regions with some study.

Prophecy of Saint Malachy and Roman Catholic Popes

Oct. 18, 2007 Constitution like Treaty of European Union Agreed by European Officials See Image and Ten Toes of Daniel

March 23, 2011 Substantial Steps Toward Not Just Monetary Union but Also Economic Union in the European Union see Image and Ten Toes of Daniel

May 2012 Elections in France and Greece of Anti-Austerity Parties and Possible Political and Prophetic Implications see Image and Ten Toes of Daniel

Other nations web pages

Ancient Astronaut Theory's Use of Term Elohim for Ancient Astronauts in Genesis 1 for Creators of the Human Race Refuted

Throughout 2008 US Led Financial Crisis Could Make Way for Antichrist's Currency see Antichrist web page

September 2009 G20 Group of Industrialized and Developing Nations Start to Implement Measures Further Advancing a One World Economy

November 19, 2009 Low Profile Leaders Chosen For First President and Foreign Minister Positions of The European Union (See False Prophet and Antichrist Web Pages)

December 1, 2009 EU Lisbon Treaty Becomes Law Throughout the European Union

May 2010 European Union President Herman Van Rompuy Leads EU Efforts to Tighten Economic System and Restructure It With More Centralized Powers for the European Union

September 2010 Second Five Year World Summit of United Nations to Review Millennium Development Goals for Global Program to Help Developing Programs

December 2011 Establishment of Closer Fiscal Union with Most of the European Union to Prepare for the Leadership of the Antichrist and False Prophet

May 2010 Economic and Social Problems in Greece and Possibly Other European Union Counties as Possible Precursor to Rise of the Antichrist Based In Europe and the Tribulation

June 2010 Possible Beginnings of a One World Currency Preparing for the Tribulation

August 2011 Deal on the US Debt by President Obama and US Lawmakers to Try to Limit Government Spending and Possibly Increase Taxes

Actual or attempted invasion of Israel by Russia, Iran and other Islamic countries see part 3 of Battle of Armageddon.

An excellent source of worldwide, comprehensive news is the BBC website. Although it is secular there is much especially about Israel, the Middle East situation, the European Union, the United Nations and world government or globalization, the Vatican etc. that can help the reader with a basic knowledge of Bible prophecy see last days Bible prophecy being realized or prepared in current events before our eyes.

Bible Prophecy and Israel

There is very much the Bible says about Israel especially its future in the last days of the world and God and Messiah's rule on Earth but I will just give you some background first. After the building of the Flood of Noah and the building of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 6 - 11 there was universal idolatry (and immorality) on Earth. Then the LORD - the One True God's solution was to separate from the nations one man and his wife Abraham and Sarah. God used them to build a godly nation for Himself that would follow His laws and be a witness to the nations of the blessings of following God's ways and trusting in Him. This nation and people through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who was renamed by God Israel is the people of Israel or the Jews. God's ways to them was the law of Moses given in the first five books of the Bible.

About 2000 years ago through Jewish geneaology and into a Jewish culture was born, lived, died for our sins, rose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven the Jewish Messiah and Saviour of the world Jesus Christ or Jesus the Messiah. At Pentecost believing Jews in the Messiah became part of the Church. After the rapture believing Jews (the remnant of Israel) will again be distinct from believing Gentiles.

In the Great Tribulaton or 70th week of Daniel God will arrange the building of a 3rd or Tribulation Temple of God for the Jews on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He will also witness to Jews and Gentiles (people of the nations) through two special witnesses and 144,000 witnesses who will all be Jews that believe in Jesus. They will witness that Jesus was the promised Messiah and that He then will be coming soon to set up His and God's Kingdom over all the Earth ruling from Jerusalem with Israel of the Jews then the Head of the nations in fulfillment of many Bible prophecies. God will also bless Israel in eternity or that part that believes in His Messiah Jesus Christ.

Main Possible Locations of the Ark of the Covenant

I believe there are only two serious candidates for the Ark of the Covenant current locations. The most likely location is under the Temple Mount perhaps under the Chamber of Wood spoken in favour by The Temple Institute and others. Possible Locations of the Ark of the Covenant

Death of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Leader Yasser Arafat late 2004

Gaza Withdrawal

Sickness of Israeli Leader Ariel Sharon

2006 Palestinian and Israeli Elections

2006 Conflicts With Israel and Hamas Led Palestinian Government in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon

June 2007 Hamas Takeover of Gaza Strip and Mahmoud Abbas Declared New West Bank Centred Palestinian State Less Hamas

September 2009 Increasing Religious Nature of Israeli Armed Forces and Possible Last Days Significance

October 2009 Review of the United Nations Goldstone Report Into Alleged War Crimes of Israel and the Palestinian Terrorists Hamas in Early 2009 Gaza Conflict and Preceding Events

Octeber 2009 Unrest In Jerusalem and Elsewhere Based on Increasing Contention Between Jews and Muslims Over the Temple Mount and the Possible Prophetic Implications

Late November 2009 Initiative by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Freeze West Bank Settlements With Some Reasons and Reactions

May 2010 Israeli Interception of Flotilla Bound for the Gaza Strip

June 2010 Probably Easing of Israel's Blockade of the Gaza Strip

September 2010 End of 10 Month Israeli Moratorium on New West Bank Jewish Settlements and Possible Following Events

Februay 2011 Overthrow of Israel friendly Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and uncertain future relations of Egypt with Israel due to Islamic militants in Egypt

May 15, 2011 Arab Unrest on the Borders with Israel on Anniversary of Israeli Independence that Arabs Call Al Naqba Day

May 2011 US President Barack Obama's 2011 Middle East Peace Proposal and its Significance

June 2011 Palestinian and other Arab Protests Especially on the Syrian Border with Israel and Israeli Response

September 2011 Nicolas Sarkozy Leader of France Speaking for Europe of Their Future More Assertive Policy in the Middle East and Seaking a United Position on UN Palestinian State Vote Possibly Indicating He is the Antichrist

September 23, 2011 Palestinian Arab Leader Mahmoud Abbas Submits to a Vote in the United Nations Security Council a Measure for Membership in the United Nations of a Palestinian State with Pre-1967 Borders

October 18, 2011 Exchange of Imprisoned Israeli Soldier Gilad Shalit by Hamas for Over Release of Over 1000 Hamas Terrorists by Israel

February 2012 Unrest on the Temple Mount Due to Rumours that Jewish People Have Plans to Build the Third Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount Soon

April 2012 Ending of Egyptian Supply of Natural Gas to Israel and Likely Israeli Energy Supply Problems

May 2012 Bringing Centre Kadima Party Into Coalition Government of Benjamin Netanyahu

For more information : The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

August 2007 Further Muslim Destruction of Temple Mount and Increased Jewish Support for Third Temple

The Image of the Beast will probably be above the pentagonal Ark of Hope with the New Age New World Order Earth Charter inside.

Antichrist Will Offer the Red Heifer After the Rapture

October 15, 2008 The Temple Institute Completes Up To 120 Sets of Garments for Ordinary Priests for Qualified Preistly Volunteers Some of Which Were Wearing Them at Hakhel Ceremony at Feast of Tabernacles

July 29, 2009 The Temple Institute Starts Work on The Altar of Sacrifice for the Third Temple in Israel see www.templeinstitute.org

March 2, 2010 The Temple Institute Announces a So Far Qualified Red Heifer

March 2011 The Temple Institute Affirms They Still Have a Qualified Red Heifer and Show Pictures of It on Their Web Site

August 2011 The Temple Institute Describes Increased Freedom of Religious Jews to Pray and to Speak About the Temple on Jewish Holidays Such as the 9th of AV When the Previous Temples Were Destroyed

Official Re-establishment of Jewish Sanhedrin in Israel After Absence for 1600 Years on Monday, December 6, 2004

Before September 21, 2006 The Sanhedrin By Majority Decision Decided the Exact Location of the Jewish Temple is the Muslim Dome of the Rock

July 23, 2008 Found from the Sanhedrin that garments of the high priest will be completed after dedication of the Third (Tribulation)Temple see The Sanhedrin (General Discussion, Doug for Temple Garments of the High Priest

Personal discovery that coat and belt of the high priest are already prepared for the Third Temple.

Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute Declares That the Garments of the High Priest are Completed June 7, 2009

September 13, 2009 The Temple Institute Mentions The Israeli Supreme Court Has Ordered the Israeli Temple Police to Stop Descriminating Against Religious Jews Who Attempt to Visit the Temple Mount

Wednesday, December 14, 2005 The blue robe and 72 golden bells and pomegranites of the high priest have been completed.

Possible Implication of Similiarities of Jordanian and Palestinian (Arab) Flags See Fig Tree as a Sign of Nation of Israel

Prosperity Especially of Israel Under Their Messiah Jesus of Nazareth in the Millennial Kingdom in An Economy Likely Based on Gold and Silver Instead of the Current Fiat or Issued Money

For more information from a literal Christian scriptural context about Israel especially the Last Days Jewish Temple worship in Jerusalem visit Randall Price's website at:

The Temple Institute is involved primarily in research and making authentic productions of material needed for the Third Jewish Temple worship such as the furniture of the Temple such as the Menorah, Altar of Sacrifice, Table of Shewbread etc and priestly garments. These are all made as specified in the Law of Moses or other Jewish writings about the Tabernacle or earlier Jewish Temple worship.

The main problem with these literal interpretation of the Old Testament based Jewish temple groups thinking and actions is that, because they don't accept the New Testament as the word of God or Jesus of Nazareth as the Jewish Messiah, they believe they are preparing for the Messianic Thousand Year Kingdom on earth but they are actually unwittingly preparing for what God says in His Word about Israel in the 70th week tribulation of Daniel. However these literal or orthodox Jewish believers are right to believe in, look forward to and prepare for the resumption of their temple worship on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem but that will come in a blessed way in the real Messianic Age after the 70th week of Daniel and after the second coming of the Jewish Messiah in Jesus of Nazareth. Also see: The Temple Mount Faithful

Timeline of God Dealing with the Church, the Jews and the Nations

Legend of Symbolsfor Timeline of the Jews, Nations and Church Table

Table of Major Bible Events and Dispensations (Administrations in a Given Age) and Their Number in Bible Timeline Table

General Bible Study

For Chinese Calendar Origins See Early History

General Bible Prophecy

Bible Prophecy and Space Science (Astronomy)

There is much reference to outer space "the heavens" in the Bible, especially the Old Testament, but there is an important point that should be kept in mind when reading or studying these verses. God's Word - the Holy Bible sometimes refers to the physical or natural heavens, sometimes to the spiritual heavens or that which is in them such as angels, demons or God Himself or the future believers. The scriptures sometimes use references to the heavens in an ambiguous way such as the term "heavenly host" that can be taken very soundly in either a natural or spiritual sense. Human beings who have gone into the heavens in our present state, such as astronauts, seem to sense in a limited but real way the co-existing spiritual aspect in the heavens.

December 2010 Discovery of Water Vapour in Atmosphere of First Examined Terrestrial Super-earth Extrasolar Planet

December 2010 Discovery on Earth of Exotic Microbe That Survives in Arsenic Rich Lake and Has Replaced Most Phosphorus in its DNA With Arsenic

January 2011 Experimentally Supported Theory That 1976 Viking Lander Could Have Detected Organic Chemicals or Even Microbes on Mars and Possibility of Followup in 2012 With Mars Science Laboratory see Extraterrestrial Life web page

December 8, 2009 Major Inorganic Explanations for Methane in Martian Atmosphere of Volcanic Eruptions or Meteors from Outer Space Eliminated, Microbial Life Still Possible Explanation

Februay 2, 2011 Release of Further Kepler Transiting Candidate But So-far Unproven Planets Including a NUmber of Earth-like and Habitable Zone Planets

September 2011 Discovery of HD 85512 b The So Far Most Habitable Planet See Part 2 a Scientific and Christian Perspective on Extraterrestrial Life

November 2011 Discovery of GJ 667C c a Probably Habitable Planet see Part 2 a Scientifid and Christian Perspecitive on Extraterrestrial Life

Possible Background to America's Space Agency Name Nasa and Transliteration of Hebrew Word nasa to lift away see The Astronomical or Starry Heavens

Bible Prophecy and Other Science

There are many topics in science or nature that are referred to in the Bible. Often they have primarily a literal or physical meaning but sometimes they have more of a spiritual meaning at other times there is both a natural and figurative or spiritual meaning. Some topics dealt with in the Bible from the natural realm include trees, water, the wilderness, spices, animals, rain, precious stones and metals, wind, fire, wood, mountains, seas and rivers.

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