Luk 21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; Luk 21:30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. Luk 21:31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Luk 21:32 Verily I say unto you,This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
1.How long is a generation? Psalms 95:10, Hebrews 3:9-10
Psa 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Heb 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Heb 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do away err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Ans=40 years
2.What do the trees starts to bear when they shoot forth? Ezekiel 36:8, Psalms 1:3
Eze 36:8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
Psa 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruitin his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Ans=fruits
3.What causes the fig tree and the trees to shoot forth? Leviticus 26:4, James 5:7
Lev 26:4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Jas 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
Ans=rain
4. Name the two parts of the rain. Deuteronomy 32:2, Job 38: 27-28
Deu 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Job 38:27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Job 38:28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Ans=dew and showers(rain)
Jesus imparts the first few drops before the plentiful showers.
John 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on[them], and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
“The act of Christ in breathing upon his disciples the Holy Ghost, and in imparting his peace to them, was as a few drops before the plentiful shower to be given on the day of Pentecost”.Spirit of Prophecy volume 3, pg 243
5.When does the latter rain dew begin that causes the trees to shoot forth?
Amos 7:1-2, Isaiah 27:8,10
Amo 7:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in
the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
Amo 7:2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Isa 27:8 In measure(dew), when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind(locust).
Isa 27:10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Ans= When the locusts/grasshoppers attack.
Grasshopper=Locust…Nahum 3:17, Lev 11:22
East wind=brought the locust…Exodus 10:13
Locusts represents Islam
The Bible employs the locust as a symbol of the Arab. Speaking of-the Midianite Arabs it says, They came as grasshoppers [or locusts] for multitude.” Judges 6:5 [The original word is “locusts!’] Midianites and the Amalekites (Arab tribes] … lay along the valley like grasshoppers or [locusts] for multitude.” Judges 7:12
“In the Bedoween Romance of Antar the locust is introduced as the national emblem of the Ishmaelites.” ‘Mahommedanism Unveiled.’-Vol 1.217.
Edward Gibbon quoting Volney, “the most judicious of our Syrian travelers” declared,”The inhabitants of Syria have remarked that locusts come constantly from the desert of Arabia.”. C. Volney “Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie!’Chap.XX Sect. 5.
6.What did the locusts destroyed or make desolate in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth?
Joel 2:1-9, Zepeniah 1:12-16
Joe 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Joe 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Joe 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Joe 2:7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
Joe 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Zep 1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Zep 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Zep 1:16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
Ans=wall/towers (September 11, 2001…9/11 Terrorist attack)
7.What is the name of the wall or towers that the locusts destroyed?
Songs of Solomon 8:10,7:3
Son 8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers…
Son 7:3 Thy two breasts…are twins.
Ans=twin
8.What happens when the Twin Towers fall? Isaiah 9:8-10, Isaiah 30:25-26
Isa 9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
Isa 9:9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
Isa 9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Isa 30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Isa 30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Ans=God send a light into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9.Who brought that new light or word? Revelation 18:1,10:1
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Rev 10:1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
Ans=an angel
10.What is the light that the angel brought? Proverbs 16:15, 2 Samuel 23:4
Pro 16:15 In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
2Sa 23:4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Ans=latter rain
“Unless we are daily advancing in the exemplification of the active Christian virtues, we shall not recognize the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the latter rain. It may be falling on hearts all around us, but we shall not discern or receive it”. Review and Herald march 2, 1897
• Locusts symbolizes the religion Islam.
(Ishmael– promise given to be a great nation without number) Genesis 16:6-12, 21:10-21
• Midianites/Ishmaelites-same people-Genesis 37:28,Judges 8:5,21-24
• God made the Ishmaelites a great nation without number–Judges 6:1-9, Joel 1:1-6, Joel 2:1-9, Revelation 9
1st Woe–Islam –7/27/1299 to 7/27/1449 (Rev 9:5-12)
2nd Woe-Turkish Islam-7/27/1449 to 8/11/1840 (Rev 9:13-15)
3rd Woe begins-Radical Islam-9/11/2001… (Rev chapter 7)
Ellen G. White tells when latter rain dew begins (sealing).
“Now comes the word that I have declared that New York is to be swept away by a tidal wave. This I have never said. I have said, as I looked at the great buildings going up there, story after story: What terrible scenes will take place when the Lord shall arise to shake terribly the earth! Then the words of Revelation 18:1-3 will be fulfilled. The whole of the eighteenth chapter of Revelation is a warning of what is coming on the earth. But I have no light in particular in regard to what is coming on New York, only I know that one day the great buildings there will be thrown down by the turning and overturning of God’s power. From the light given me, I know that destruction is in the world. One word from the Lord, one touch of His mighty power, and these massive structures will fall. Scenes will take place the fearfulness of which we cannot imagine.” {Life Sketches of Ellen G. White 411.5 (1915)}
On one occasion, when in New York City, I was in the night season called upon to behold buildings rising story after story toward heaven. These buildings were warranted to be fireproof, and they were erected to glorify their owners and builders. . . .
The scene that next passed before me was an alarm of fire. Men looked at the lofty and supposedly fireproof buildings and said: “They are perfectly safe.” But these buildings were consumed as if made of pitch. The fire engines could do nothing to stay the destruction. The firemen were unable to operate the engines.–Testimonies for the Church Volume 9, pg 12, 13 (1909).{Last Day Events 113.2}
When the sprinkling of the latter rain arrives and the sealing of God’s people is initiated the judgment of the living begins. The book of Acts clearly teaches that we must send our sins beforehand into judgment in order to receive “the refreshing” that Sis. White further identifies as the latter rain. Therefore when the latter rain begins to sprinkle we have reached the time when the sins of the living are being blotted out. Our lives need to be investigated and judged prior to the blotting out.“The work of the investigative judgment and the blotting out of sins is to be accomplished before the second advent of the Lord. Since the dead are to be judged out of the things written in the books, it is impossible that the sins of men should be blotted out until after the judgment at which their cases are to be investigated. But the apostle Peter distinctly states that the sins of believers will be blotted out ‘when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and He shall send Jesus Christ.’Acts 3:19–20.”The Great Controversy, 485.
6.What did the locusts destroyed or make desolate in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth?
Joel 2:1-9, Zepeniah 1:12-16
Joe 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Joe 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Joe 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Joe 2:7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
Joe 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Zep 1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Zep 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Zep 1:16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
Ans=wall/towers (September 11, 2001…9/11 Terrorist attack)
7.What is the name of the wall or towers that the locusts destroyed?
Songs of Solomon 8:10,7:3
Son 8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers…
Son 7:3 Thy two breasts…are twins.
Ans=twin
8.What happens when the Twin Towers fall? Isaiah 9:8-10, Isaiah 30:25-26
Isa 9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
Isa 9:9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
Isa 9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Isa 30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Isa 30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Ans=God send a light into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9.Who brought that new light or word? Revelation 18:1,10:1
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Rev 10:1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
Ans=an angel
10.What is the light that the angel brought? Proverbs 16:15, 2 Samuel 23:4
Pro 16:15 In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
2Sa 23:4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Ans=latter rain
“Unless we are daily advancing in the exemplification of the active Christian virtues, we shall not recognize the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the latter rain. It may be falling on hearts all around us, but we shall not discern or receive it”. Review and Herald march 2, 1897
• Locusts symbolizes the religion Islam.
(Ishmael– promise given to be a great nation without number) Genesis 16:6-12, 21:10-21
• Midianites/Ishmaelites-same people-Genesis 37:28,Judges 8:5,21-24
• God made the Ishmaelites a great nation without number–Judges 6:1-9, Joel 1:1-6, Joel 2:1-9, Revelation 9
1st Woe–Islam –7/27/1299 to 7/27/1449 (Rev 9:5-12)
2nd Woe-Turkish Islam-7/27/1449 to 8/11/1840 (Rev 9:13-15)
3rd Woe begins-Radical Islam-9/11/2001… (Rev chapter 7)
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