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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, November 20, 1979
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Daniel did not understand, but the angel said, "Go thy way, Daniel:
for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end" (Dan.
12: 9).
And then what--in the TIME OF THE END, into which we have entered?
"Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried,...but the wise shall
understand" (Verse 10). WE ARE IN THAT TIME OF TRYING AND TESTING, TO
BRING US CLOSER TO GOD--TO PREPARE US FOR CHRIST'S COMING--NO\'i' !
Many of us are being tried and tested as NEVER BEFORE--and for our
own good!
But, verse 11, "from the time the daily sacrifice shall be taken
away...." Consider this a moment. This does NOT imply a material temple
to be built in our time in Jerusalem. It does seem to imply the Israelis
may restore the daily (twice daily) sacrifice--possibly at the wailing
wall. The indication is the armies of the "beast" of Revelation 17,
entering Jerusalem (Dan. 11:41, Zech. 14:2), will stop this daily
sacrifice. "...And the abomination that maketh desolate set up." What
is this abomination?
Th�s refers to Daniel 11:31 and Matthew 24:15. In Daniel 11:31, the
armies of Antiochus Ephiphanes were at Jerusalem, and some commentators
have interpreted it as Antiochus placing a statue of Jupiter in the Holy
of Holies in the Temple. Not only does Matthew 24:15 also refer to this,
but in a parallel New Testament scripture, Luke 21:20 speaks of the same
thing as "Jerusalem compassed with armies."
This is the correct meaning
of this "abomination." It is the armies--not a statue--that make
Jerusalem desolate.
From this time (Dan. 12:11) to Christ's coming will be 1290 days.
Now, verse 12, "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the 1335
days."
Never before have we understood these periods of 1260, 1290, and
1335 days. But it seems evident, now, a blessing is pronounced on us-
GOD'S CHURCH--who wait and endure until the 1335 days--approximately 1335
days prior to Christ's coming. But since no one can know the day or the
hour of His coming, we probably shall not be able to know the exact day
that this 1335 days begins. But apparently that is the time when OUR
WORK SHALL END. That will be a time when the UNITED EUROPE shall appear
--the revival of the medieval "Holy Roman Empire." We shall then be
warned, and readied to be taken to a place of refuge and safety from the
Great Tribulation. Forty-five days later "the beast's" armies will
surround Jerusalem. Thirty days later the Great Tribulation will probably
start with a nuclear attack on London and Britain--and possibly the same
day or immediately after, on United States and Canadian cities.
The GREAT TRIBULATION, we shall then fully realize, is the time of
"Jacob's Trouble," spoken of in Jeremiah 30:7. And Jacob's name was
named on Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Manasseh (Gen. 48:16). At that time
a third of the people in our nations will die, or shall have died, by
famine and disease epidemics; another third will die of the war--our
cities being destroyed (Ezek. 6:6), and the remaining third will be
carried to the land of our enemies as slaves (Ezek. 5:12).