Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009

6-30 Timeline Interrupted

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Is your cup half empty or half full? Do you just see black clouds, or do you see the silver lining? Ok, this is really a question for yours truly… ME! Yesterday I struggled to see things from the positive side. Why? First of all, over the weekend, I had two checks bouncing around out of state and it seemed like I could do nothing about it. Like a lot of people, my finances have been tight and my Health Savings Account is no exception. I caught wind of it Friday in an email. I called on Saturday. There was nothing they could do on the weekend. By Monday morning I had accrued almost $100 in charges because they just kept sending the same two checks back through… boing, boing, boing! If one bounce is good, let’s send them back two or three times! Hello! Here’s the bright side. I didn’t even have to ask them to reverse the charges! They volunteered! And then as a bonus threw in an EXTRA 10 bucks! Like when does that happen! …but bad moods are hard to shake. It took me until almost noon to leave the house! And then my trailer got a flat tire! Great! Now I’m grumpy! The silver lining? I have two spare tires. God is good. No need to let circumstances ruin your day. He’s taking care of me!

Today's Scripture reading is 2 Samuel 19:23-43; Nahum 3; Luke 6:1-26
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Today’s thought comes from Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people… 25 "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times. 26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

I hope you did your best to follow my math class yesterday. It is one of the coolest prophecies ever! Let me review this amazing prophecy in simplified form. A) The first 7 weeks (49 years) – Jerusalem will be rebuilt in troublesome times. B) Add 62 more weeks (total of 483 years) – to Messiah “The Prince” at the triumphal entry. After he presents himself as Prince he will be “cut off” or killed, but “not for himself!” He died for our sins. This is really awesome stuff! C) AFTER Messiah is cut of then the people of the “Prince that is to come” shall destroy Jerusalem. That happened in AD 70 when General Titus took Jerusalem. Remember Jesus piercing cry as he looked down upon Jerusalem? While his supporters shouted “Hosanna in the highest” he saw the city and wept over it. Jesus cried out, oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation." (Luke 19:42-44) Jesus knew Daniel! He was simply expressing Daniel’s prophecy in expanded form. Because He, the Messiah was rejected and cut off, the rest of the prophecy came into play. The people of “the prince to come” were going to leave the city desolate and the nation again would be scattered to the four winds until God brought them back into the land in fulfillment of yet another prophecy. D) Now get this! The prophetic timeline for Israel was interrupted when they rejected their Prince at the Triumphal entry. The things that happened after that are OUTSIDE the days planned for Israel. They occurred during the prophetic period we call “The Times of the Gentiles!” Once they rejected their Prince, God “set them aside” for a time! Tomorrow we will look at the last week of prophecy for God’s earthly chosen people.

Dear Messiah, my Savior and Lord. Thank you for being “cut off” for my sins and for the sins of the world. Help me to understand the time of my visitation, that now is the time for me to tune in my heart to you! Help me to always embrace you and your plan for me.

“Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.”

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