drama of the ages - remnant prophecy
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The final week of years, of the time allotted
to the Jews began in AD 27 and ended in
AD 34 with the Gospel going out to the
Gentiles.
The shadow pictures had come true - no
more would the ceremonial law have any
use except to study and see how prophecy
was fulfilled.
It was God's signal to the Jews that the
Messiah had fulfilled the ceremonies and
no more would they be of any use to
practice.
John was the disciple that lived longest, he
died in his late nineties. In his old age,
Rome tried to boil him in oil but God
protected him and they could not.
So they exiled him to the penal colony on
Patmos. There the Lord appeared to him
in a vision and gave him the amazing
prophecies of the Revelation.
This book is the companion book of Daniel
and the prophesies parallel each other.
Revelation explains Daniel, and Daniel
explains Revelation.
There again we see the prophecy that for
1260 prophetic years, the true faith would
suffer terrible persecution at the hands of
an apostate church.
The events of history are spelled out in
Revelation from John's time to the end,
just as the events of history from Daniel's
time to the end were spelt out in Daniel.
Careful study reveals the overlaps and
parallels enough to fit them together.
Truly, God is wonderful to spell out the
future so clearly for us!
Paul, John and Peter as well as Jesus, tell
us that soon after the Gospel of Jesus the
Saviour went out to the whole world with
purity and power in the first century, that
corruption would come in.
Again Satan was on the scene to get
heathen priests interested in joining with
the Christians and soon another
mongrelized Pagan religion was born, but
sadly, this one claimed to be Christian.
It took a while before the churches at Rome
and Alexandria had managed to gather
enough power and influence, but soon, the
Papacy was born out of a mix of pagan
sun worship, and a few Christian names.
In the 300s, Constantine, a Sun worshipper
encouraged the adoption of sun-worship
practices into the now apostatizing church,
including Sunday, Easter and so on.
There was a problem though, three nations
that taught a type of Christianity contrary to
Catholicism stood in the way of her
complete dominance of the religious world.
In 508 AD a wonderful event occurred that
turned the tables and led to the uprooting
and destroying of the three powers. Clovis,
King of France declared himself Catholic
and soon most of Europe joined him.
They assisted the Papacy by eradicating the
three nations, the Ostragoths, the Hueruli
and the Vandals.
In 538, the Emperor Justinian left Rome for
Constantinople and decreed the Bishop of
Rome was to have his 'seat' (or see).
Now not all by far of the early church went into
this apostasy, many of the far flung places
such as the far east, the middle east and the
isle of Ireland and Briton had the apostolic
message AND the true Bible.
Also from the area of Rome, many who
would not yield their faith, fled into the
mountains and there through all the years
of darkness maintained their true faith and
the true Bible.
This was foretold by the prophecy that the true
church would be given wings like and eagle to
flee into the wilderness where God would take
care of her for 1260 years. (Revelation 12)