The Dispensation of the Fulness of Times Part 3
Isa 26:17-18 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD
· Isa 51:9a Israel wondered if the LORD had forgotten them and had chosen to sleep during their time of trouble.
· Neh 9:32 let not all the trouble seem little before thee
· Isa 51:9b-11 This is the Messiah what Israel has been waiting for and looking for. Israel has been yearning for the time when their mourning shall flee away and they will have everlasting joy. During the Babylon captivity the Jews wanted a Passover moment and a Red Sea moment to bring then out of Babylon
· The LORD’s answer: Isa 51:12-23
· The LORD’s Promise: Isa 52:1-3
Ø Jer 24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Ø Dan 12:1 ¶ And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Ø Jer 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it
Zec 7:12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
· Before Jer 24:7 can be a reality the hard as stone heart of the Jews must be broken.
Luke 19:41-44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
· The time of Jerusalem’s visitation when their enemies upon the nation and Jerusalem. Babylon destroyed the city and temple, Rome destroyed them and in the dispensation of the fullness of times it will happen again even more complete
· Mat 24 account of the same event. It adds in Vs 13-14 that there will be a different gospel during this dispensation. That is: endure until the end and enter the kingdom alive. The kingdom is the 1000 year reign where the Son of Man sits upon the throne of David as the Christ.
Ps 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
Heb 10:30-31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Joel 3:1-3 God will bring another captivity upon His people as He did during the 70 year captivity in Babylon but this one will be much worse. Dan 12:1
Jer 18:23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
Ps 21:9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Jer 51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
· Isa 26:20-21; 47:6
Eze 35:5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Jer 8:12 Were they (the people of Jerusalem) ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jer 10:15 They (the heathen) are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish
· Jer 46:21, 50:27, Jer 51:18
Jer 15:11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Zec 10:1 ¶ Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
Mt 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn
Dan 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
· Dan 8:17,11:40,12:4, 12:9
God has approved the time when all the times will be fulfilled.