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The
SIGN of the END of TIME
William
H. Grotheer Bible
Prophecy Lectures 1995 p
2 -- Twice during His earthly ministry, Jesus
sought to cleanse the Jewish Temple. At the first Passover, following
His baptism, the record reads: And
the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and
found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the
changers of money sitting. And when he had made a scourge of small cords,
he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and
poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; and he said
unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's
house an house of merchandise. (John 2:13-16) At
the Passover, just prior to His death, Jesus attempted once again to
cleanse the Temple. Coming to the Temple after His triumphal entry into
Jerusalem, He "began to cast out them that sold therein, and them
that bought; saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house
of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." (Luke 19:45-46) On
His approach to the city, Jesus had paused, and wept over it, "saying,
if thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things
which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes, ...
because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation," (Luke 19:41-44)
The days of the probation of the Jewish nation as the chosen people
of God were rapidly drawing to a close. Jesus was entering the last
week of His earthly life. During
this last week - Tuesday to be exact - Jesus exposed before the people,
the hypocrisy of the religious leadership. He used strong language,
declaring, "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape
the damnation of hell?" He had sent to them prophets and wisemen,
but they had killed these and persecuted them from city to city, with
the result that "all the righteous blood shed upon the earth"
was to "come upon this generation." (Matt. 23:33-36) The final
generation had arrived for the Jewish nation. Jesus declared emphatically,
"Your house is left unto you desolate." (verse 38) No longer
was it "my Father's house." Twice He had tried to restore
it to its original purpose as an house of prayer. Now it was their house,
and it was desolate. Having thus spoken, Jesus left the Temple never
more to enter its once sacred precincts. (24:1) This
stunned the disciples. Their whole religious life was centered on the
Temple and its services. Annual pilgrimages had been a part of their
life and practice. Now the center of their religious devotion, desolate!
This could not be, so they pointed Jesus to "the buildings of the
temple." His response only added to their consternation. "There
shall not be left here p
3 -- one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down"
(24:2). Silence reigned as they made their way from the Temple back
to a secluded garden on the slopes of the Mount of Olives. Finally,
four of the disciples ventured to ask Jesus a question. Such a catastrophe
involving the Temple had to be the end of the world, so they phrased
their question - "Tell us, when shall these things be? and what
shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"
(24:3) They did not ask for "signs", but for the specific
sign that would mark the event. Luke in outlining the response of Jesus
gives the sign which would mark "when these things shall be,"
and the sign which would signal the end of time. He quotes Jesus
as saying concerning "when these shall be": When
ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation
thereof is nigh. (Luke 21:20) Jesus
had declared the Temple desolate, now He gives the sign by which His
disciples would know that the desolation of the city was nigh. The sign
was to be an historical event involving the city, not the temple. When
this sign was to occur, they were to depart from the city. He tells
them why: For
these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may
be fulfilled... for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath
upon this people. (verses 21-23) The
sign occurred in AD 66. Cestius with his Roman legions surrounded the
city. Josephus tells us that he then "retired from the city, without
any reason in the world." (Wars of the Jews, bk II, chap.
XIX, par. 7) The Jewish army poured forth from the city in hot pursuit.
The gates were left open, and the Christians departed the city. Not
a Christian perished in the destruction and desolation which followed
when Titus renewed the siege of the city in AD 70. Why? The Christians
believed the prophecy of Jesus, and acted upon it. Herein is the mark
of the true follower of Christ - the acceptance of His words and acting
in harmony with those words. In
this same setting, - the history of the city of Jerusalem - Jesus gave
the sign that would mark the end of time. He declared: Jerusalem
shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles
be fulfilled. (Verse 24) We
need to take note of the words which Jesus used as recorded by Luke.
First, one word in the text is translated two different ways. If not
understood, it can limit our perception. The inhabitants of Jerusalem
were to "be led away captive into all nations." The
city was to "be trodden down of the p
4 -- Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."
There was to be "upon the earth distress of nations."
Each word emphasized, "nations," or "Gentiles,"
is the same word in the Greek - ta ethne (ta
eqnh)-
and means those nations other than Israel. These
Gentile nations were to tread down the city. Nineteen centuries of history
should provide adequate proof of this fact - "first the Romans,
then by the Arabs, next by different Christian nations during the Crusades,
fourth by the Turks up to the end of the first world war, then by the
British, and finally by the Jordanians." Then in the Six-Day War
of June, 1967, a dramatic change took place. The Reader's Digest
(March, 1975) in an article, "Jerusalem - Too Holy for Its Own
Good," gave the story: A stone
wall, rising starkly in the Walled City, figures strongly in Israel's
adamancy over not wanting to give up East Jerusalem. This is the Western
Wall, a fragment of the rampart of a platform on which the First Temple
of King Solomon and the Second Temple of King Herod stood. The Second
Temple was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70, when the Jews were driven
into diaspora, or dispersion. Throughout 19 centuries of diaspora,
the wall, or the memory of it served as a spiritual beacon and a symbol
of a lost homeland to Jews the world over. During that time, Passover
and Yom Kippur services ended in the incantation in Hebrew: "Next
year in Jerusalem. "... When
the British withdrew from Palestine in 1948, and Jews and Arabs fought
for the control of the state, the Jews managed to hold West Jerusalem...
Yet, tantalizingly, the Western Wall remained just beyond reach. Jordan
annexed East Jerusalem as well as the West Bank of the River Jordan,
a territory that surrounds the city on three sides. For 19 years, a
no-man's-land separated the two sectors, and Jordanians refused to allow
Jews to worship at the Western Wall. When
war came again in 1967, Israel urged Jordan's King Hussein to stay out
of it, promising, in return, not to attack Jordan. But, ... Hussein
sent artillery shells crashing into West Jerusalem. Israeli soldiers
counterattacked, and poured into the Walled City. Their religious fervor
was such that many headed directly for the Western Wall, where they
paused to pray. For the first time in 19 centuries, the wall was under
Jewish control. (p. 132) The
restoration of Old Jerusalem to Israeli control marked the fulfillment
of the second part of Jesus' prophecy - "Jerusalem shall be trodden
down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled."
It also was the sign which signaled the beginning of the end of time. p
5 -- Secondly, we need to consider, how the word, "times"
is used in Luke 21:24. The Greek word translated, "times,"
is kairos (kairoV). The same word
was used by Luke in quoting Jesus as He wept over Jerusalem, because
they did not know "the time of [their] visitation"
(Luke 19:44). Paul used the word when he wrote of the accepted time
for salvation. (II Cor. 6:2) It is probationary time - not chronological
time(cronoV). Thus the fulfillment of "the
times of the nations" means simply that the probationary time allotted
to the nations as corporate bodies was closing. Thirdly,
the record in Luke connects this event with a specific condition to
begin among the nations - "distress of nations with perplexity."
The word, "distress" is a translation of the Greek word, sunoche
(sunoch), meaning a constricted passage way,
or being "in the narrows." The prepositional phrase - "with
perplexity" (en aporia) - carries the
force of inability to meet the demands placed on the nations financially.
The word, aporia is found in the papyri used in an imperial edict,
in this sense. The verb form is used of a weaver who disqualified himself
from public service because, though having means, they were inadequate
to meet the demands of the office. (The Vocabulary of the Greek New
Testament, p. 68) We might illustrate the financial picture conveyed
by the use of this word, aporia by contrast. Following the Panic
of 1837, an editor of a paper in the midwest declined an offer of a
cow and calf for a $1.00 advance subscription for his paper "because
he had no way of realizing that amount of cash from the transaction."
There was almost literally, no money. Now there is money but it is not
adequate to cover the increasing costs. This
financial crisis for the nations began in 1967 as predicted in harmony
with the sign given. The late C. V. Myers, noted in the London Financial
Times, as the "well-known Canadian financial expert" wrote
in his Finance & Energy of July 4, 1974: It
has now been established over the course of the last seven years --
since 1967 -- that there is nothing in this world the international
monetary authorities can do to stem the advance of gold, or to stem
the collapse of inflation - or to avoid the enormous deflation -- the
global liquidity crunch -- and the resulting depressions. In
1975, Myers wrote from Zurich, Switzerland, that the "monetary
confusion deepens," stating: From
all that I have observed of international conferences since 1967,
I do not believe that any conference is going to come up with any workable
answer, It seems that the situation will just continue to deteriorate.
Only six months ago we heard every monetary authority in the world shouting,
"either p
6 -- we lick inflation
or we are doomed. This is the battle of the century." President
Ford said, we have a war, and we intend to fight this war against inflation.
The way he is fighting this war against inflation is to add a $70 to
$100 bil. deficit to the U.S. budget. What
happened to all the dire predictions of the result of inflation? All
brains have been stunned. There is no answer - - so now they begin to
think no answer is necessary. Or at least they have decided there is
no use thinking about it at all. Therefore I can only see as the end
product, as I have repeatedly said in these letters -- and especially
after attending the big world meetings of the IMF -- the answer is total
collapse. Either the countries will have to go back to a system which
will stabilize the money, such as gold -- or the social order, not only
of the United States but of all of the industrialized world, will disintegrate,
and from this enormous confusion new governments will arise after much
suffering and bloodshed, starvation and horror. These governments would
be dictatorships. Recently
D'Estaing [Economist and former Premier of France] observed: "The
world is unhappy. It is unhappy because it doesn't know where it is
going, and because it senses that if it knew, it would discover that
it is heading for disaster. ... The crisis the world knows today will
be a long one. It is not a passing difficulty. It is actually the recognition
of permanent change. (ibid, March 11, 1975, pp. 1-2) Keep
in mind this beginning date for the "distress of nations"
- 1967. Newsweek, noting the great California Tax Revolt of 1978,
observed that "since 1967, the value of the dollar has declined
47.6 per cent, and the average American working family is now barely
better off in real dollars than it was a decade ago." (June 19,
1978, p. 21) The Consumer Price Index prepared by the US Department
of Labor uses as its "Base Period - 1967 = 100." (See Appendix
A) Jesus gave the signal when these things would begin to come to pass
- the sign of the end of time - Jerusalem would again return to Israeli
control. The beginning of the financial "distress of nations"
coincides with that date! Movings
in the Spirit World The
date 1967 marked significant movements in the "spirit"
world. John Godwin in his book, Occult America, wrote: The
year 1967 was a historic milestone for the United States toy
industry. In that year Americans ditched their longest-standing favorite
among board games, Monopoly, and elevated Ouija boards to its place.
(p. 271) p
7 -- In 1967, Eastern mystic religions were introduced into
the West. The "hippie" phenomenon reached a peak in midsummer
and turned to Eastern religions and their writings in an effort to provide
meaning for a nonviolent generation. "The Beatles were the best
known of the celebrities who turned to Eastern religion as they sought
'transcendental meditation' through contact with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
their chosen spiritual leader. Timothy Leary advocated drugs like LSD,
but also literary resources of Eastern religion." (World Book
Encyclopedia, 1968 Yearbook, p. 476) Isaiah predicting a
time of religious revival "in the last days," indicated that
the participants would "be replenished from the east, and [be]
soothsayers like the Philistines." (See Isa. 2:2-6) The
year 1967 marked the beginning of the "New Age" movement
with its spirit manifestations, and union of Western and Eastern religious
philosophy. Kenneth R. Wade in his book, Secrets of the New Age,
describes the roots of the Movement and the convictions resulting from
"messages" received from the spirit world. He writes: At
the core of the current New Age movement is a community called Findhorn.
Many if not most of the movement's leaders have visited or lived at
Findhorn. The development of Findhorn illustrates what typically happens
when people try to meld Eastern and Western religions. The
roots of the community go back to 1953 when Peter and Eileen Caddy visited
Glastonbury, England, In her book The Findhorn Garden, Eileen
Caddy describes Glastonbury as "a center of spiritual power."
... While
meditating at Glastonbury, Eileen heard a voice speaking to her from
within her mind. At first the voice said simply, "Be still, and
know that I am God," but later went on to explain that human beings
- indeed everything in the world - are a part of God. So the Caddy's
started from a Western mystical background and soon progressed to Eastern
pantheism.... In
their spiritual quest to know the will of God, Peter and Eileen linked
up with Dorothy Maclean, who had developed a facility for communicating
with various spirit beings. The Caddys and Ms. Maclean were employed
from 1957 until 1962 at the Cluny Hill resort hotel in northern Scotland.
Peter served as the hotel manager. During his tenure there, the hotel
prospered under the guidance that Dorothy received from the spirits. Then
at the end of the summer of 1962 the Caddys and Dorothy suddenly found
themselves unemployed. But because they had learned to trust the god
they knew, this did not worry them particularly. They simply took their
small traveltrailer and moved, along with the Caddys' three young sons
into p
8 -- a trailer park on
nearby Findhorn Bay. ... The
soil at Findhorn was more suitable for a quarry than for gardening.
Digging revealed that an inch or so down the soil gave way to sand,
and below that was gravel. The entire area seemed incapable of supporting
any type of garden crop. Yet the following spring, with the right mix
of compost, organic fertilizer, backbreaking work and communication
from beings they called devas, the Caddy's and Dorothy managed to raise
several crops successfully. In
the following years they continued to expand their garden until it received
local, then nationwide, attention. During this time they became convinced
that the New Age would begin at the end of 1967. (pp. 23-25) During
the years various New Age - oriented people visited Findhorn. The ones
noted by Wade in his book all had communion with some being from the
spirit world. In 1970 a David Spangler and his soulmate, Myrtle Glines
came for a visit and stayed for three years. During this time Spangler
began to receive messages from a spirit that identified itself as Limitless
Love and Truth. These messages are recorded in Spangler's book - Revelation:
The Birth of a New Age. This same spirit being had sent messages
to other people in England, "These [messages] formed the basis
of their belief that the New Age began at the end of 1967."
(Ibid., p. 27) A
Greek Idiom Twenty
times in his two New Testament books - the Gospel and Acts - Luke uses
the Greek word, achri(s) (acri) translated
in Luke 21:24 as "until." However, in this verse and in two
others in Acts, he connects it with the Greek relative pronoun, (hou),
(ou[accent over the o]) making it an idiomatic
expression. How is it to be understood? In Acts 27:31-34, we have recorded
the story of Paul's shipwreck on the way to Rome. During the storm,
the crew and passengers had eaten nothing. Now it appeared the boat
was about to be dashed to pieces on the rocks of an unidentified shore.
The text reads - "And while the day was coming on, Paul
besought them all to take meat." (v. 33). The word translated,
''while" is the Greek, achri hou, as in Luke 21:24. It is
obvious that it is used in Acts to cover that identifiable period of
time between the first rays of light, and the full light of day. How
shall the idiom be understood in Luke 21:24? When Israel took control
of Jerusalem in 1967, the government continued to function from Tel
Aviv. On July 30, 1980, the Knesset passed a Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capitol
of Israel. This Law read in part: (See Appendix B) 1.
Jerusalem, complete
and united, is the capital of Israel. p
9 -- 2.
Jerusalem is the seat of the President of the State, the Knesset, the
Government and the Supreme Court. With
this action, the prophecy of Jesus met complete fulfillment. During
this brief definable period, 1967 to 1980, the probationary time allotted
by God to the nations was closing. As
this period neared its end, Jimmy Carter was in the White House. When
Pope John Paul II visited the United States in 1979, the President invited
him to the White House. "It was the first time, not only that a
pope has visited the White House, but the first time any pope had called
on a governmental leader anywhere." (Religious News Service
{RNS}, Oct. 6, 1979) Here on the North Lawn, Protestant, Baptist
Jimmy Carter clasped hands with the Roman Catholic Pontiff, symbolized
in Bible Prophecy as "the little horn" of Daniel 7; the second
phase of "the abomination of desolation" of Daniel 8, and
the wounded but restored head of the beast of Revelation 13, In welcoming
the pope, Carter said, "I welcome you to the White House the symbolic
home of all our people. On behalf of every American of every faith,
I also welcome you into our nation's heart." (Ibid.) At
the largest reception of the Carter administration, and possibly the
largest ever held at the White House, attended by representatives of
all three branches of the American government, the pope, at the conclusion
of the reception, surprised the assembled dignitaries and guests by
saying, "The pope wants to bless you -- with the permission of
the President of the United States." (Ibid.) Such an apostolic
blessing by the pope for United States governmental officials would
not have been possible a decade earlier. An
interesting correlation between this event, coming near the close of
the achri hou of Luke 21:24 in 1980, and 1967 is the fact that
Jimmy Carter stated, prior to his election, "In 1967, 1 had a profound
religious experience that changed my life." ("Carter and Religion,"
Oroville, CA, Mercury Register, May 7, 1976) In
1980, Reagan was elected to succeed Carter in the White House. Time
magazine reported that Reagan set as one of his earliest goals as president,
the recognition of "the Vatican as a state" and "to make
them an ally." (Feb. 24, 1992, p. 31) The attainment of this goal
and how it was realized with an assist from the ecumenically oriented
Baptist, Billy Graham, is a matter of history. The contrast of how this
recognition succeeded and the failed attempt of the Truman administration
to appoint General Mark Clark as Ambassador to the Vatican dare not
be overlooked. The strong protest deluged the White House in 1951 caused
the withdrawal of Clark's p
10 -- name. The appointment of William Wilson by Reagan met with
little opposition largely due to Graham having defused the Protestant
protest. A change had taken place. Jesus' prophecy indicated that
such would be! What
is the prophecy of Luke 21:24 saying at its least common denominator.
Simply, that the probationary time for the nations had closed, and that
God had given them into the hands of Satan to work his will with them.
The design of Satan is clearly defined in the Scriptures. Through
the prophet Isaiah, God revealed the heart of Lucifer. He declared of
Lucifer's intent - "Thou has said in thine heart, I will ascend
into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit
also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north"
(14:13). The "mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north"
is "mount Zion, the city of the great King" (Ps. 48:2), Jerusalem
and the Temple site. This final objective will be realized in the last
remnant of time. In describing the cause for the Sixth Plague of the
final Seven, John the Revelator writes: And
I saw three unclean spirits like frogs... for they are the spirits of
devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth
and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of the great day
of God Almighty. ... And (they) gathered them together into a place
called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. (Rev. 16:13-14, 16) "Armageddon"
is a compound word in the Hebrew - "Har" - meaning mountain,
and "Mo'ed" meaning congregation. (See Appendix D) The final
gathering of the rulers of earth is prophesied to be Jerusalem, at the
mount of the congregation. Here the line needs to be clearly drawn.
Jesus as He left the Temple site declared it desolate; now another is
to come, and will seek to exalt himself at this very site. This will
be the antichrist par excellence, with his vicegerent. Of this
the prophet Daniel wrote: And
he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the
glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end and none shall
help him. (11:45; see also 9:16) On
June 30, 1980, the Charge d'Affairs of the Permanant Observer Mission
of the Holy See to the UN lodged with the President of the Security
Council a text from the June 30 issue of Osservatore Romano,
official organ of the Vatican, asking that it be circulated as a Security
Council Document. It was (S/14032), and set forth "the position
of the Holy See concerning Jerusalem and all the holy places."
Citing past actions of the General Assembly, the text reads: As
early as its second session, the General Assembly of the United Nations p
11 -- approved on 29 November
1947 a resolution on Palestine of which the third part was devoted to
Jerusalem. The resolution was confirmed in the next two sessions, on
11 December 1948 and 9 December 1949 while on 14 April 1950 the Trusteeship
Council approved a "special stature" for the city on the basis
of the Assembly's decisions. The solution proposed by the United Nations
envisaged the setting up of a "corpus separatum" for "Jerusalem
and the surrounding area," administered by the Trusteeship Council
of the United Nations. This
"territorial internationalization" of Jerusalem was not of
course put into effect, because in the 1948 conflict the Arab side occupied
the eastern zone of the city and the Israeli side, the western. The
position of the United Nations does not appear at least as yet to have
been formally revoked. The General Assembly, as well as the Security
Council, has repeatedly, beginning with the resolution of 4 July 1967,
insisted on the invalidity of any measure taken to change the status
of the city. The
Holy See considers the safeguarding of the Sacred and Universal character
of Jerusalem to be of such primary importance as to require any Power
that comes to exercise sovereignty over the Holy Land to assume the
obligation, to the three religious confessions spread throughout the
world, to protect not only the special character of the City, but also
the rights connected, on the basis of an appropriate juridical system
guaranteed by a higher international body. Although
Israel became a nation once again in 1948, it was not until December
30, 1993 that Israel and the Vatican signed an accord calling for full
diplomatic relations between itself and the Holy See. Frank Dimant,
Executive Vice President of B'nai Brith who has met with Vatican officials,
emphasized to a Canadian audience assembled in the Calgary Jewish Center
that "Rome would not have made peace with the Jewish state unless
she was certain that Jerusalem would fall from Israeli control and become
an international city." (The Jewish Tribune, April 13, 1995,
p. 3) In
an editorial in The Jewish Press (September 2, 1994), it was
revealed that just before the Oslo talks began, Israeli Foreign Minister
Peres submitted a plan to the Papacy outlining the Vaticanization of
Jerusalem. "The plan called for the extraterritoriality of the
Old City and the airport at Atarot, which would become a world-wide
meeting center." (See Appendix C) What
does all of this mean? Simply in point of time we stand between the
fulfilled prophecy of Jesus as given in Luke 21:24, and the prophecy
of Daniel 11:45 which can be seen to be in the process of fulfillment
even now. What then? We read: p
12 -- And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great
prince which standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall
be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even
to that same time. (Daniel 12:1) Simply
stated, this means Divine intercession ceases, human probation closes
for all the inhabitants of earth. The end has arrived. Jesus
said: When
ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is
nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass
away, till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my
words shall not pass away. (Luke 21:31-33) Then
He counseled: Take
heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with
surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and so that
day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them
that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray
always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all of these things
that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. (Luke 21:34-36) p 13 -- APPENDIX
A - Consumer Pricing Index Up -- Inflation again double-digit: p 14 -- APPENDIX
B -- Knesset - Basic Law: JERUSALEM, CAPITOL OF ISRAEL p 15 -- APPENDIX
C -- The Selling of Jerusalem p 16 -- APPENDIX
D -- The Jewish Press (EDITORIALS) p 17 -- APPENDIX
E -- A Place Called in the Hebrew Tongue ARMAGEDDON End
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