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There is a chronology of events from creation to the eternal kingdom of God, which is distinctively presented to us within the scriptures. Like a three-dimensional picture, the more intently we focus on God's word, the more clearly we begin to see the complete picture emerge.
The literal Word of God is the pure milk fed to us as newborns in faith, immature in understanding. The simple to understand Bible stories we learned as children and the principles and precepts we derived from them, furnishing us with a solid base of human compassion and integrity, provide this milk. Digesting the milk is accepting the literal Word of God.
Those who accept and believe the literal Word of God also accept the literal ministry of Christ. Understanding His fundamental teachings ? that He is the Son of God, His ministry of repentance, baptism and His future kingdom ? is digesting the bread dimension of God's word. Those too weak to receive the milk of God's word, whose systems reject its literal teachings, are not capable of digesting the bread. Christ is the Bread of Life.
The third dimension of this three-dimensional view allows us to see that every literal event relayed through the scriptures is also prophetic of events that will yet take place during the final days prior to the return of Christ. This prophetic application is the meat dimension of God's word.
The most graphic illustrations of this third dimensional view are the circumstances by which Christ was accused and killed. They are direct, prophetic allegories to the events Israel is and will yet endure as a nation during this, her third and final era as a nation.
Those who cannot accept and digest the literal ministry of Christ, the bread, are most assuredly unable to digest the meat, the third dimension of God's word. Only those matured in understanding the fundamentals of basic truth can comprehend the end-time prophecies that are revealed in the underlying message of the scriptures.
On the first level of understanding, the milk dimension, the bloodshed described as the Children of Israel entered the Promised Land, is the literal description of the physical conflict between men resulting from man's wickedness and evil intentions on the earth. These are the literal events of history. They constitute the past.
In a deeper level of understanding, the bread dimension, we perceive the concept of baptism as being buried with Christ, raised with Him to newness of life, and obtaining eternal life in the kingdom, which Christ taught. Those who are "buried" in baptism must first "die" to their former ways of life. Being slain with the sword, the Word of God, causes this "death." This application represents the present.
All enemies will ultimately be put under the soles of Christ's feet. The last enemy to be destroyed will be death itself. These yet unseen events prophesied in God's word constitute the meat dimension of understanding. They are our future.
The Bible is a book of God's love and the ultimate victory of truth and justice prevailing over all evil. It has a very happy ending for those who believe and there is a great irony described within its pages that is yet to be revealed to those who do not. Judaism will conquer the entire earth with the Sword, the Word of God, proudly proclaiming Christ as their Messiah as they prepare to enter the yet future Promised Land of the Kingdom of God.
The Word of God primarily focuses on one hundred major events from this earth's creation to the presentation of a new heaven and new earth:
1. Creation 2. The Sabbath Day Is Hallowed 3. Sin Enters 4. Men Began To Call Upon The Name Of The Lord 5. Destruction Of The Earth With Water 6. The Rainbow: God's Covenant With Mankind 7. God's Covenant With Abraham 8. God's Covenant With Isaac 9. God's Covenant With Jacob 10. The 12 Sons Of Jacob 11. Israel Arrives In Egypt 12. 430 Year Egyptian Affliction 13. The First Segment Of Moses' Life 14. The Second Segment Of Moses' Life In Desolation 15. The Passover 16. Crossing The Red Sea 17. The Revelation At Mt. Sinai 18. Twelve Spies Sent Into The Promised Land 19. Israel's 40 Year Wilderness Journey 20. Israel's Original Entrance Into The Promised Land 21. The Line Of Kings Is Established 22. Jerusalem Is Chosen As The City Of God 23. The Original Temple Of God Is Built And Dedicated 24. The New Nation Flourishes 25. The Division Of Israel And Judah 26. The House Of Israel Breaks Their Covenant With God 27. The House Of Israel Dispersed Into The Nations In 721 B.C. 28. The House Of Judah Breaks Their Covenant With God 29. The House Of Judah Destroyed By Babylon In 587 B.C. 30. Israel Of Era #2 31. Temple #2 Is Built And Dedicated 32. Christ Is Born 33. Ministry And Miracles Of Christ 34. Suffering Of Christ 35. Death Of Christ 36. Baptism Is Introduced 37. Resurrection Of Christ 38. Christ's Ministry Continues 40 Days 39. Ascension Of Christ To The Right Hand Of The Father 40. The Work Of Christ Continues Today 41. The Spirit Of God Sent Into The Upper Room 42. Overturning Of The Nation By Rome In 70 A.D. 43. The Bible Is Published 44. The Holocaust 45. Restoration Of Israel In 1948 46. The PLO Is Formed 47. Jerusalem Is Renamed As Israel's Capital City 48. Israel's Seven-Year Agreement 49. Temple #3 To Be Built And Dedicated 50. Trumpet #1: The Spirit Of God Poured Out On Jerusalem 51. Watch #1 Of The Rapture To Occur 52. Seal #1: The 144,000 Are Sealed 53. Seal #2: Wickedness In High Places 54. The Beast Rises To Popularity 55. Trumpet #2: The Name Of Christ Made Illegal In Israel 56. Trumpet #3: Israel Is Given The Bitter Waters Of God's Jealousy 57. Israel's Economic Success During The First Half Of The Final Seven Years 58. The Word Of God Flourishes On The Earth 59. Israel's Enemies Find his "Secret Strength" 60. The Image To The Beast 61. The Mark Of The Beast Becomes International Law 62. The 30-Day "Hour" Of Temptation 63. The Abomination Of Desolation To Be Placed In God's Temple 64. Trumpet #4: Israel's Tribulation Begins 65. Two Witnesses To Prophesy In Jerusalem 66. Seal #3: The Flood Cast Out Of The Serpent's Mouth/Christian Persecution Begins With An International Terror Campaign 67. Seal #4: The Four Sore Judgments On Israel 68. Seal #5: Watch #2 Of The Rapture To Occur 69. Three Horns Plucked Up By The Beast 70. Israel To Be Pronounced Dead As A Nation For The Third Time 71. Trumpet #5: Locusts Darken The Earth 72. Trumpet #6: 200 Million Horsemen 73. Two Witnesses Killed In Jerusalem 74. Two Witnesses Ascend To Heaven 75. Israel's Remnant Accepts Christ 76. Israel's Atonement 77. The Gospel Preached To All Nations 78. Trumpet #7: Part A ? Israel's Rapture ? Watch #3 79. Trumpet #7: Part B ? The Vials Of Wrath 80. Christ Is Reunited With His Brethren 81. Seal #6: Wickedness Cast Out Of Heaven Onto The Earth 82. Seal #7: Circumcision Of All Hearts Takes Place In Heaven 83. The Coronation Ceremony Of Christ Takes Place 84. The Long-Awaited Communion Service With Christ 85. Ten Kings Destroy Babylon The Great 86. The Marriage Feast 87. The Armies Of Earth Gather At Armageddon 88. Christ And His Army Descend 89. Armageddon 90. The Beast And False Prophet Are Destroyed 91. The Devil To Be Chained And Sealed 92. The Earth To Be Cleansed With Fire 93. Those Raptured Return To The Earth 94. The Thousand Year Reign Of Christ 95. Judgment Day 96. Lake Of Fire 97. Satan Destroyed ? Death And Hell To Be Cast Into The Lake Of Fire 98. New Jerusalem Descends 99. Time Ends And Eternity Begins 100. The New Heaven And New Earth
All things are to be done decently and in order. This is the way God likes his business to be conducted and he has given us his word in this very manner.
God's word is truth. We are welcomed to hop, skip, jump and do cartwheels down the straight path of God's word, but we are warned not to venture off its path by open-mindedness to any distortion of the facts contained within it. The Bible contains neither discrepancies, nor contradictions, allowing its readers to see the spectacular three-dimensional picture, which emerges from within its pages - a picture framed in love and hung on the wall of truth.
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