Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?

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Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?
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A prophetic day a year of literal time
42 months 1260 days or 1260 literal years
time, times and half a time 1260 prophetic
days or 1260 years
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. . . and the holy city shall they tread
underfoot forty and two months. And I will give
power unto My two witnesses, and they shall
prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore
days clothed in sackcloth. Rev. 112, 3
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. . . and the HOLY CITY shall they tread
underfoot forty and two months. And I will give
power unto My two witnesses, and they shall
prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore
days clothed in sackcloth. Rev. 112, 3
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. . . and the holy city shall THEY tread
underfoot forty and two months. And I will give
power unto My two witnesses, and they shall
prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore
days clothed in sackcloth. Rev. 112, 3
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. . . and the holy city shall they tread
underfoot forty and two months. And I will give
POWER unto My two witnesses, and they shall
prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore
days clothed in sackcloth. Rev. 112, 3
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. . . and the holy city shall they tread
underfoot forty and two months. And I will give
power unto My two witnesses, and they shall
PROPHESY a thousand two hundred and threescore
days clothed in sackcloth. Rev. 112, 3
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. . . and the holy city shall they tread
underfoot forty and two months. And I will give
power unto My two witnesses, and they shall
prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore
days clothed in SACKCLOTH. Rev. 112, 3
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. . . and the holy city shall they tread
underfoot forty and two months. And I will give
power unto My two witnesses, and they shall
prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore
days clothed in sackcloth. Rev. 112, 3
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And I will restore . . . afterward thou shalt
be called, The city of righteousness, the
faithful city. Isaiah 126
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Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called
by the name of Israel . . . which swear by the
name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of
Israel . . .
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. . . but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
For they call themselves of the holy city, and
stay themselves upon the God of Israel the LORD
of hosts is His name. Isaiah 481, 2
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The Jews valued themselves on descent from
Jacob, and used the name of Jehovah as their God.
They prided themselves respecting Jerusalem and
the temple . . .
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. . . yet there was no holiness in their lives.
If we are not sincere in religion, we do but take
the name of the Lord in vain. Matthew Henry
Concise Commentary
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This people draweth nigh unto Me with their
mouth, and honoureth Me with their lips but
their heart is far from Me. . . .
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But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for
doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew
158, 9
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So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God
dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain then shall
Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers
pass through her any more. Joel 317
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And there shall in no wise enter into it the
holy city any thing that defileth, neither
whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie
but they which are written in the Lamb's book of
life. Revelation 2127
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From these verses we can easily see that
Gentiles of the previous phrase in verse 2
strangers to Gods word and character they are
not part of Gods holy nation and His holy
city.
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. . . and the holy city shall they tread
underfoot forty and two months. And I will give
POWER unto My two witnesses, and they shall
prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore
days clothed in sackcloth. Rev. 112, 3
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Power is a supplied word in verse 3 it derives
its meaning from the previous phrase I will
give and therefore literally means to you it
has been granted Thayer's Greek-English
Lexicon
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I will grant unto My two witnesses that they
should prophesy 1260 years clothed in sackcloth.
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Define prophesy to act as a prophet, discharge
the prophetic office Thayer's Greek-English
Lexicon the inspired declaration of divine will
and purpose.
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For the prophecy came not in old time by the
will of man but holy men of God spake as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2 Peter 121
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Prophecy is used in the New Testament of the
utterances of the Old Testament prophets
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon
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And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth
upon his loins, and mourned for his son many
days. Genesis 3734
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As a garment of grief and self-abasement,
sackcloth was sometimes the dress of the prophet
who preached a message of repentance.
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
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The Council of Toulouse (southern France), in
the year 1229, forbade the people to possess the
books of the Old and New Testaments in their own
tongue. Search was made for any portions of
Scripture hidden in the homes of the people.
Beacon Lights of Prophecy
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Indictments were found against Bible lovers as
follows against John Barret, because he, John
Barret, was heard in his own house, before his
wife and maid there present, to recite the
epistle of St. James, which epistle, with many
other things, he had perfectly without book. . .
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John Newman was impeached because he was present
in the house of John Barret, at the reading of
Scripture. William Haliday was detected for
having in his custody a book of the Acts of the
Apostles in English. Beacon Lights, p. 252-253
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A prophetic day a year of literal time
42 months 1260 days or 1260 literal years
time, times and half a time 1260 prophetic
days or 1260 years
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Babylon
Medo-Persia
605-538B.C.
538-331B.C.
Four Beasts of Daniel chapter 7
Greece
331-168B.C.
Pagan Rome
168 B.C. to A.D. 538
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Pagan Rome with 10 horns
Non-descript beast from the sea
Papal Rome came up among the 10 horns
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Pergamos Church (A.D. 313-538) Compromise with
paganism Great falling away 2 Thess. 21-10
Gnostic philosophy exalted Traditions
replaced the Bible
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Thyatira Church (538-1789) Papacy
established Doctrines were developed contrary
to Bible truth Persecution of Gods people by
the church
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Thyatira
Church of the Dark Ages
During this period of church history we find the
full development of the counterfeit system that
challenged Christs authority
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Thyatira
Jezebel usurped power from her husband, Ahab, and
assumed full control both of the state and the
church of the day (Baal worship)
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Justinian, victor, pious, fortunate, famous,
triumphant, ever Augustus, to John, the most holy
Archbishop and Patriarch of the noble city of
Rome, we have been sedulous to subject and unite
all the princes of the Orient . . .
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. . . throughout its whole extent to the see of
Your Holiness . . . For, as we have said before,
we are zealous for the increase of the honor and
authority of your see in all respects.
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We therefore decree that the most holy Pope of
the elder Rome is the first of all the
priesthood, and that the most blessed Archbishop
of Constantinople, the new Rome, shall hold the
second rank after the Apostolic chair of the
elder Rome.
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We therefore decree that the most holy Pope of
the elder Rome is the first of all the
priesthood, and that the most blessed Archbishop
of Constantinople, the new Rome, shall hold the
second rank after the Apostolic chair of the
elder Rome.
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. . . all affairs touching the church shall be
referred to the pope, head of all bishops, and
the true and effective corrector of
heretics. Letter from Justinian to Epiphanius,
dated 25 March A.D. 533
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But the provisions of the decree could not at
once be carried into effect Rome and Italy were
held by the Ostrogoths, who were Arians in faith,
and strongly opposed to the religion of Justinian
and the pope. . .
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. . . It is therefore evident that the
Ostrogoths must be rooted out of Rome before the
pope could exercise the power with which he had
been clothed. To accomplish this object, the
Italian war began in 534.Uriah Smith, Daniel and
Revelation (1885)
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Franks
Ostrogoths
Visigoths
Vandals
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In A.D. 533, Justinian entered upon his Vandal
and Gothic wars. Wishing to obtain the influence
of the pope at Rome and the Catholic party, he
issued that memorable decree . . .
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. . . which was to constitute the pope the head
of all churches, and from the carrying out of
which, in A.D. 538, the period of papal supremacy
is to be dated. Uriah SmithDaniel and the
Revelation, p. 127 (1881)
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In the year 1793 twelve hundred and sixty years
from the letter of Justinian A.D. 533 declaring
the Pope Universal Bishop, the gospel was, by a
solemn act of the legislature and the people,
abolished in France. . .
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. . . By the decree of the French government,
declaring that the nation acknowledged no God,
the Old and New Testaments were slain throughout
the limits of republican France. George
CrolyThe Apocalypse of St. John, pp. 175-176
(1828)
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• Establishment of papacy
• Group who call themselves the people of God,
  but are not (strangers)
• Bible suppressed (sackcloth)
• Bible believers persecuted

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How can we say that France fulfills the prophecy
of Revelation 11?
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