Jim Bakker Show - Timing of the Antichrist
Aired: 2015-02-12
Duration: 05:31


=== Astonishing Questions (02:24) ===

[00:00:00]  Daniel, he wanted to know what was going on, so he asked the question, even though he was told it was sealed.
[00:00:06]  He said, How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?
[00:00:11]  What are the astonishing things he's asking about?
[00:00:15]  We'll go back and start reading in verse 1.
[00:00:18]  It says there will be a time of distress, great tribulation, and leading up to a time when the saints will be delivered, those that are alive and those that are asleep.
[00:00:29]  So, what is the question?
[00:00:31]  How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?
[00:00:36]  From the beginning of the time of distress until the time of deliverance.
[00:00:41]  How long?
[00:00:42]  And you know what?
[00:00:44]  From eons, people would read this and we didn't get it.
[00:00:47]  We didn't see the answer.
[00:00:48]  It was right there.
[00:00:50]  Because two verses down, it says, It will be for a time, times, and half a time.
[00:00:59]  When the power of God's people has been finally broken, we've been defeated after 42 months.
[00:01:08]  All these things will be completed.
[00:01:10]  You know, that's plain speak.
[00:01:13]  That's plain speak.
[00:01:14]  If you don't get it, you need to read it again.
[00:01:18]  He's asking, How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?
[00:01:23]  The subject was time of distress up to a time of deliverance, and he says it will be for 42 months.
[00:01:33]  Well, then Daniel asks another question.
[00:01:38]  It's like, God, I didn't quite get it.
[00:01:40]  Let me ask you another question.
[00:01:42]  I mean, he's fishing for answers here.
[00:01:45]  Because listen to this.
[00:01:47]  He says, I heard, but I did not understand.
[00:01:50]  So I asked, my Lord, what will the outcome of all this be?
[00:01:57]  Now, you know, I checked a couple other translations, and one of the translations says, What will be the end of all these things?
[00:02:06]  And his answer was, he replied, Go your way, Daniel, because the words are sealed.

=== Three and a Half Years (03:21) ===

[00:02:12]  But then you look down two more verses, and the answer is there.
[00:02:16]  Because it says, from the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished, we saw that in Daniel 9:27.
[00:02:25]  That a covenant would be made at the end of three and a half years that he would cancel the covenant and he would desecrate the temple.
[00:02:34]  So it says, from the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, this is three and a half years into the tribulation based on Daniel 9:27.
[00:02:50]  It says, there will be 1,290 days.
[00:02:56]  You add that up, that's just barely short of three and a half years.
[00:03:02]  Well, now, I want to tie this now to Matthew 24.
[00:03:07]  Because what I want to read to you is Daniel 12, verse 1 or 2.
[00:03:15]  It's actually the second part of verse 1.
[00:03:18]  Listen to this.
[00:03:21]  There will be a time of distress such as not happened from the beginning of nations until then.
[00:03:32]  Shall not happen from the beginning of nations until this time.
[00:03:37]  And then what is this time it's talking about?
[00:03:40]  The time when those that will awake from sleep and those that are alive will be delivered.
[00:03:48]  So Daniel is saying, there will be a time of distress such as not happened from the beginning of nations.
[00:03:57]  Now let's go to Matthew.
[00:03:59]  That's right.
[00:03:59]  Because what are we seeing in Matthew?
[00:04:03]  Number one, Jim just already covered this, but his disciples were asking him, tell us, what will be the happen?
[00:04:11]  What will be the sign of your coming in the end of the age?
[00:04:14]  And he goes over and he says wars and famines and earthquakes.
[00:04:19]  Literally, he's going down through the seals of Revelation and the times at which we're in right now.
[00:04:25]  And then listen to this.
[00:04:27]  He says, so when you see standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of, listen to this, spoken of through the prophet Daniel.
[00:04:38]  That's right.
[00:04:39]  We just covered this in Daniel.
[00:04:41]  That's right.
[00:04:42]  And he's saying, you're going to see this.
[00:04:44]  And now look, I'm going to skip down to verse 21.
[00:04:46]  Listen to this.
[00:04:49]  For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now, never to be equaled again.
[00:05:01]  This time of distress that Daniel 12 is talking about, literally leading into the deliverance of the saints, is being repeated right here in Matthew 24.
[00:05:13]  And Jesus hasn't come back yet.
[00:05:16]  Exactly.
[00:05:18]  This is the thing that you've got to understand and know the timing.
[00:05:23]  This is like Daniel, he's referring to Daniel as Matthew 24, 15.
[00:05:30]  Yes.