(This is part two of a series. You can read part one here.)
What if we are living in one of the greatest times in history and don’t even know it? What if we’ve been wrong in declaring these to be “the last days” that the Apostles spoke of in the Bible?
Is it possible that we’ve been so off for so long? That, really, we’re even in an entirely different historical period than we’ve been proclaiming for the last 100 years?
What if the kingdom Jesus spoke of is spreading across the earth as we speak?
Here’s another thought for you: if we shifted our perspective and faith to this time frame and fully understood the period we’re now living in, what miracles out of the Kingdom of Heaven would be seen ?
I think the early church realized they were living at the end of the Old Testament age and a NEW age was about to begin. In fact, it was being birthed even as they wrote.
If we look closely at the Apostles’ writings we will see that they spoke of their day as the last days and that they understood it to be the end of the Age.
Even the gift of tongues was a sign of the end of the age and the end for Israel/Jerusalem.
Acts 2:16-17 – “but this is what was spoken of through the prophet Joel: ‘AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,’ God says, ‘THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT UPON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS…'”
Acts 2:39-40 – “For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call to Himself.” And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”
Isaiah 28:11-13 – Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue, He who said to them, “Here is rest, give rest to the weary,” And, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen. So the word of the LORD to them will be, “Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.
The stammering lips and foreign tongues spoken of here in Isaiah were the gift of tongues as seen in the book of Acts. And the stumbling, breaking, and being taken captive also mentioned sounds eerily like the fall of Jerusalem that took place in 70 AD.
More to come, so stay tuned! Share it if you like it!
