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THE FORE AND THE FORTH


The Lord Jesus taught a parable, saying, “If the manager of the house knew when the thief would come, the manager would have watched or prepared and prevented his house from getting broken through or robbed” – [Luke 12:39].

Basically, if you know someone so well that you can predict his next or future acts and moves before he even imagines or does them, surely you can prevent damages/harm the person would have done to you and your house in future.

So many people have regretted over others on the basis of “Had I known:” — “Had-I-Known-Regret” implies that if one had known much earlier before a certain time what he/she now knows at this time, he/she would not have done certain things he/she did or would have done those things differently then. Those holding this regret credit their regretted actions or inactions to their lack of knowledge or limitations in knowledge in the past, or to their unbelief.

Nevertheless, knowing things much long before they happen is always meant for preventing bad/evil things from happening; for sometimes knowing that a evil thing is about to happen much long before it does is meant to “Prepare” against, and not to “Prevent” against, the evil thing about to happen. It's like, “Brace for Impart of the Incoming” kind of preparations. So fore-knowledge or knowing evil things about to happen before they happen, do not always apply for prevention of those evil things, but sometimes apply for preparation. This is because, some things including some evil things as well as good things are “Inevitable” — meaning they were fore-ordained to not be preventable or avoidable, given the mandate of mandatory to happen or event, eventually: This comes from the ordinance of Sowing and Reaping - The Harvest Rules.

◇*◇ Why do you think the LORD knew these two Saul(s) - both from the tribe of Benjamin - would latter change and yet He empowered them: One of the Saul(s) began as a choice man and well pleasing to the man of God, but not too long after the LORD anointed him king of Israel that Saul changed from good to bad; On the other hand, the other Saul began as a terrible man and hostile to the saints of God, but not too long after the LORD appeared to make him an Apostle to non-Israel that Saul changed from bad to good?

◇*◇ Why do you think the LORD knew His people would suffer in Egypt as in bondage for centuries, and yet He brought them into Egypt?

◇*◇ Why do you think the LORD knew He would suffer in Jerusalem, and be condemned, crucified and killed, there - yet He walked straight into these?

◇*◇ Why do you think the LORD knew the one of His disciples and close associates that would betray Him into His enemies hands and have Him go into His sufferings and death, and yet the LORD still kept His prospective betrayer close to the point of him knowing their secret hideout or moves?

◇*◇ Why do you think the LORD knew He would suffer much blasphemies, hatred, and oppression of His Saints and His Name, at the emergence of the Antichrist as the king of the world, and yet the LORD still empowered him?

[Daniel 7:25 AKJV] — "And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time."

[Daniel 7:25 WEB] — "He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time."

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In this main Bible verse in Red, the Antichrist (chief king of the destroying kingdom) would attempt three distinct damages to the LORD's Own:

●1▪︎ - Blasphemies — He shall speak great words against the Most High;

●2▪︎ - Persecutions — He shall oppress, wear out, the saints of the Most High;

●3▪︎ - Transgression — He shall consider changing the Times and the Laws.

And yet, though the LORD already knows he would do all these and more destruction and damages beside these, yet the LORD promised they would be given into his hand until a time (one year) plus times (plus two years) and half or dividing of time (six months/half year), amounting to Three and half years.

So, not only would dominion, kingdom, and power, be given to him; but also the saints of the Most High shall be given into his hands, as well as the Law and Time. However, while these were given into his hand, his days were numbered to about 1,280 days before he goes into perdition. [Later, we study this in the next Chapter, Daniel-8, during the “Vision of the Daily Sacrifice].

Look at these:

●A● The Antichrist would think of changing the Times and Laws, but when the Ancient of Days comes He will change the Times and Seasons, removing Time and Chance and replacing them with Time and Judgment.

[Ecclesiastes 8:5-7 AKJV] — "Whoever keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerns both time and judgment. Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great on him. For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?”

●B● The Antichrist was given so much, including dominion, authority over all tribes and all people on earth, kingdom of the Horns, dominion of the great dragon, and the saints of the Most High God, all delivered into his hands. But all the saints needed to receive first was Judgment of the Ancient of Days given to the saints of the Most High.

I heard of a story of a wealthy old man who had an only begotten son of his, but the son was unworthy to be his heir, while a faithful steward of his was more worthy than his son to be his heir. As the old man was dying, he gave all his wealth to his steward as heir to his wealth, but gave his unworthy son just one pick from all the wealth given to the steward: and whatever the son shall pick shall be his only inheritance. And the son wisely picked the steward as the only thing he would have. That choice alone changed everything, and his dying father knew his unworthy son had become worthy by being this wise.

Between the Antichrist and the Saints, let the Antichrist have all those things including having the Saints in his hand, but let the Saints choose Judgment.