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. . . Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.
Similarly, in Habakkuk 2:3, God says:
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
From the above Biblical references, we should understand that God’s whole salvation plan for this earth was carefully pre-programmed to follow a very precise time schedule.
God’s whole salvation plan for this earth was carefully pre-programmed to follow a very precise
time schedule.
Now we should realize why God has put so much time information in the Bible.Earlier, we briefly looked at Acts 7:17 in which the time for Israel to go out of Egypt is spoken of as having almost come. Then, within the next few verses, God makes four distinct time references. In Acts 7:20, we read:
In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months.
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Also, in Acts 7:30, God says:
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
And in Acts 7:36, we read:
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Obviously, the amount of time required for each event to occur is a very important part of the Gospel message.
. . . the whole Bible is a calendar that details the various important milestones in the unfolding
of God’s Gospel plan.
Thus, we should not be surprised when we learn that the whole Bible is a calendar that details the various important milestones in the unfolding of God’s Gospel plan. To understand this Calendar will be one important goal of this study. We will discover that these important milestones did not occur in any random or haphazard form. Instead, we will discover that each event is time-related to other important events in a very distinct pattern that must have been previously carefully designed.
One curious fact is that there was also a time for God to enlighten the minds of His people, so that they might know this Biblical Calendar of History. Amazingly, it is only in our generation that this calendar has been found in the Bible. Why God waited until this time when we have come almost to the very end of time before He made the calendar known is a puzzle in itself.
We can speculate that because the Bible does not reveal a probable date for the end of the world, people have not taken seriously the idea of a judgment day. A day of reckoning has been largely dismissed because it always has been projected so far into the distant future. But the teaching of the Bible is that at any
time that awful day is close at hand. This is so because when a person dies, the next moment he will experience will be the moment he has been resurrected to stand before Christ as the Judge.
Perhaps God did not want to encourage premature discussion of this subject which is very interesting and enticing to some people but which might intrude upon the most important focus of the Bible
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salvation. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for Jesus’ words in Acts 1:7 after the disciples asked Him if this were the time that He would “restore again the kingdom to Israel” (Acts 1:6b). Jesus replied to them:. . . It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
However, as we have come very close to the very end of history, a discussion of the possible timing of the end of time itself enhances the warning that Christ is coming as the Judge of all the earth. Thus, the need for salvation is greatly magnified. It should cause mankind to search the Bible more carefully than ever in an effort to find truth.
This surely gives major insight into what God teaches in Daniel Chapter 12, that is, the principle of progressive revelation. Daniel Chapter 12 teaches that there are many things in the Bible that are sealed up until the time of the end. That is, as we come to the end of the world, there are many teachings of the Bible that God did not allow earlier searchers of Bible truth to understand but which are now becoming increasingly understood.
Certainly, it is the duty of a faithful Bible teacher to share the doctrines he has come to understand as God has opened his understanding to Bible truth.
True Believers Are Watchmen
Moreover, the Bible teaches that the true believers are watchmen. We read in Ezekiel 33:2-6:
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: if when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him
but he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
We read in Luke 12:37-38:
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
The watchmen, the true believers, are faithfully to sound the warning concerning what they can know from the Bible about the closeness of Judgment Day.
In any case, at this time in history, when we have approached very close to the time when the world will come to an end, God has revealed the fact that the Bible gives us a detailed calendar of the history of this earth. As God opens our understanding of this very interesting and important subject, we learn afresh how difficult it is to understand the Bible. Fact is, God has hidden the necessary Biblical information concerning the Calendar of the Bible to such a degree that no Bible students or theologians have come to an understanding of it until our day. Incidentally, we must understand that an enlarged understanding of this important subject did not come because someone is smarter or more worthy or more holy than those in the past who have searched the Bible for truth. It is only because we are now living at a time when God is revealing many truths of the Bible to His true believers who are earnestly searching the Word. God has prophesied concerning this matter. Daniel 12:9 declares:
. . . Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Eternity Past
We will learn in this study that time began in the year 11,013 B.C. However, God’s Law Book, the Bible, reaches into eternity past. We, of course, do not understand eternity. Our minds were designed to identify with time. Time is regulated by the great celestial clock that God spoke into existence on the fourth
day of creation. But prior to the first day of creation, time did not exist. There did exist eternity, however, which our human knowledge cannot measure. The best we can say is that what existed before time was “eternity past.”
We will also learn that there is an “eternity future.” We will see that this concept identifies with the end of time which will come on the day that Christ, the Judge of all the earth, comes to end this earth’s existence. At this point, however, we will read several passages that give a little insight into eternity past.
In speaking about eternity past God uses the phrase “from everlasting.” We read, for example, in Psalm 41:13:
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
Again, in Psalm 90:2, we read:
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
God also uses language such as “before the foundation of the world.” Now, in this present universe, planet Earth is the most important planet because it serves as the locale for God’s salvation program. Therefore, God uses the words “before the foundation of the world” to refer to eternity past. We read in John 17:24:
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Again, we read in Ephesians 1:4, as God speaks of His grand plan of salvation:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.
In yet another example, I Peter 1:18-20 speaks about Christ as the Savior:
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the
precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.
From these Biblical citations we learn that not only did there exist an eternity before the creation of time, but also, that God’s plan of salvation was worked out in meticulous detail before the first day of creation.
Because God is infinite in every aspect of His being, He knew every individual who would be born . . .
Because God is infinite in every aspect of His being, He knew every individual who would be born at any time during the duration of the history of the world, even before He created time. God also knew that our first parents, Adam and Eve, whom He would create, would rebel against His Law and plunge the whole human race into rebellion against God (Romans 5:12). As a consequence, that rebellion could only bring the righteous justice and wrath of God against mankind. But because God is a God of salvation, the Bible tells us that He would choose to withhold His wrath from many who are just as deserving of eternal punishment as all the others. Therefore, in eternity past, before time began, God had already chosen those whom He would save. He already had prepared for their salvation by choosing to become their Substitute in Christ, “in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9). The Lord Jesus Christ was to be their Savior so that in principle, He, as the great I AM, the ever-present One (John 8:58; 17:5), was “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8b).
Earlier, we learned that the death of Christ was payment for each and every sin of those whom He came to save. Since Christ, in principle, was slain from the foundation of the world, we may conclude that He knew about each and every sin that would ever be committed by those He came to save.
In addition to the verses quoted above, we read in Matthew 25:34, where God says:
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works werefinished from the foundation of the world.
God’s great and wonderful salvation plan was the motivating cause for His creation of this amazing planet Earth.
Thus, we learn that God’s great and wonderful salvation plan was the motivating cause for His creation of this amazing planet Earth. We, therefore, should not at all be surprised to learn that what governs the timeline of earth’s history is the unfolding of God’s marvelous work of salvation. Everything connected with God’s salvation program works to unfold the greatest event in all of history. No earthly story, no human saga, no sprawling epic can come within an eternity of matching what God is declaring in His Word the Bible. Fact is, God’s magnificent salvation plan is the very substance and essence of history. How then, and when, and where did it all begin?
Before the start of any great trip, whether it be a journey to the South Pole or an ascent to the top of the earth’s highest mountain or a trip to the moon, enormous and detailed preparations must be made. So too, before the beginning of the unfolding of God’s salvation program, enormous preparations were made. In no particular chronological order, those preparations included but were not limited to the following:
• Creation of the universe to demonstrate the glory of God as Creator.
• Creation of time.
• Creation of planet Earth, the locale where God’s salvation pro- gram would be developed and which eternally would identify with mankind.
• Creation of mankind in the image of God. • Naming of Christ to be the Savior.
• God’s choosing of all those who were to become saved. • Creation of angels to be servants of God. Some would be used
of God as His servants in His salvation program, some would rebel and become instrumental in the rebellion of mankind. • Creation of the great celestial time clock (our solar system) to
of various aspects of God’s salvation program.
• Establishment of the Law of God which began rather simply and finally was expanded to become the entire Bible.
• Christ, in principle, dying for the sins of those who were chosen to salvation so that from the moment mankind sinned, salvation was an existent reality.
• The establishment of a testing arena where our first parents could be tested concerning their obedience to God. This testing arena was the beautiful Garden of Eden, which was located in the perfect world that God had created. This garden was to typify how the perfect kingdom of God (consisting of those who would become saved) would exist in a world which would become altogether sinful. (See also The Glorious Garden of Eden, available from Family Radio free of charge.)
• Establishment of the seventh-day Sabbath as a day of rest. God Himself rested on the seventh day of creation (Genesis 2:1-3). This was a tremendous sign pointing to the fact that we must never try to achieve salvation by our own efforts. (See also Sunday: The Sabbath, available from Family Radio.) • The institution of marriage which would point to the beautiful
fact that those who were recipients of God’s salvation would become married to Christ (Genesis 2:23-24; Ephesians 5:25- 33). (See also What God Hath Joined Together, available free of charge from Family Radio.)
Within a very short time, God’s whole salvation plan for mankind was set into motion.
• Desiring to be a king like God, the angel Lucifer rebelled against God.
• Taking on the form of a serpent, Lucifer tempted Eve so that she disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit.
• Eve gave the forbidden fruit to Adam. He, too, in disobedience, ate of it.
• Mankind became spiritually dead. They no longer were ener- gized by God, and God no longer dwelt within them.
• Also known as Satan or the devil, the serpent was cursed but was given the right to rule over mankind.
• Mankind was cursed and became completely infected by sin because God no longer energized them. The whole human race
became subject to eternal damnation in both body and soul. • Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden wherein
was the tree of life. The cherubim with a flaming sword, placed at the entrance of the garden, represented God as the Judge. God was portraying the fact that the only way for anyone to get into the kingdom of God (the Garden of Eden), wherein is Christ (the tree of life), is for that person first to be judged for his sins. This meant that no one could ever enter into Heaven, wherein is Christ, unless he first spent an eternity in Hell pay- ing for his sins, and because eternity is forever, this excluded all mankind from Heaven unless a capable and willing substitute could be found to pay for their sins.
• The earth itself was cursed so that in many ways, it became an enemy of man. Thorns, thistles, poisonous animals, poisonous bacteria, carnivorous animals, etc., resulted from this curse. Immediately, man’s life span began to become shorter and shorter.
• Adam and Eve discovered their physical nakedness which was a picture of their spiritual nakedness, that is, God could readily see their sin-infected personality.
• God killed animals and provided animal skins to cover the na- kedness of Adam and Eve. This action pointed to the essence of God’s salvation plan that must unfold. The killed animals