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Previous Back to list. In the cold winter of , He came to this earth a second time as He had promised. He was born more secretly than His first coming. Nobody thought He would come like that. In when He was thirty years old, He began to teach again the things that He had taught when He came the first time.
His job was harder than that He had at His first coming. He did masonry work. Painful marks were left on his hands and shoulders. People scorned Him even more than when He came the first time. People say that He is not God. Just as Jesus said that the enemy, the devil, came and sowed weeds among the wheat, the seeds of lawlessness began to flourish around the end of the apostolic age and the new covenant—the truth that leads to salvation—faded away from the earth.
As the truth—the light—disappeared, the Dark Ages came. When there was no one who would discern the truth or teach it in total darkness, God came to this earth. Without restoration of the truth, we cannot receive the forgiveness of sins, and without the forgiveness of sins, the way to heaven cannot be opened to us. Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. At that time each will receive his praise from God.
In the dark, no one can tell what the truth is and which way is the way to heaven. Wicked servants and righteous servants, lazy servants and diligent and wise servants, can also be clearly distinguished from each other. Man-made rules, which are prevalent in the world today, are not part of the gospel of the kingdom. Only when God Himself comes and restores the truth of the early Church can the gospel be preached in Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and about the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn that looked more imposing than the others and that had eyes and a mouth that spoke boastfully.
As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and defeating them. The fourth beast in Daniel 7 represents the Roman Empire.
Just as it was prophesied that a little horn would come up and uproot three horns, the Roman Papacy destroyed three of the ten kingdoms into which the Roman Empire had been divided—Heruli, Vandals and Ostrogoths, and solidified its position. While God was on this earth, His people were victorious. After His ascension, however, they were defeated by the little horn. Since the Dark Ages, there have been so many Bible scholars and Christian denominations.
However, none of them have been able to restore the new covenant laws that were lost, and they just insist that they are the only true church. No one can find the truth because all human beings are spiritually blind; though seeing, they do not see, and though hearing, they do not hear or understand with their hearts.
Only God can restore the truth. Da Then the one who had been living forever came and pronounced judgment in favor of the people of the Supreme God. Da , TEV. According to this prophecy, we are now keeping the new covenant laws in Zion, including the seven feasts in three times such as the Passover as well as the Sabbath. However, God has come and broken down the bars of their hearts. He will teach us his ways.
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