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Set Time Signs Of His Coming

By Daymond Duck


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There is an interesting prophecy in Psalm 102 that reads, “ Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof. So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory” (Psa. 102:13-16). This glimpse into the future says God has established a set time to have mercy upon Zion (a term that refers to Jerusalem more than 150 times in the Bible, but it can also refer to Israel or the Temple Mount). At God’s set time, He will rise up and cause the Jewish people to love the stones and dust (soil) of Zion. Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount will figure prominently in God’s plan to cause the Gentiles to respect Him. And, of great significance to our generation, these set time events will be a sign of His soon return.

Following the announcement that Israel has approved the construction of 797 homes in the Gilo neighborhood of East Jerusalem, EU Foreign Policy Chief, Catherine Ashton, said, “Settlements are illegal under international law and threaten to make a two-state solution impossible.” The way I understand it: 1) Gilo is not a settlement, but it is a neighborhood in East Jerusalem and part of the eternal capital of Israel; 2) Israel’s Supreme Court investigated the legality of the homes before their construction was approved and the judges determined that building the homes in Gilo is not a violation of international law; 3) The international community may believe their international law trumps the promises and laws of God to Israel, but they don’t and He will have the final say on that; and 4) Instead of Israel causing problems by building in East Jerusalem, its the international community caving in to the unrealistic never-ending demands of the militant Muslims that makes the two-state solution impossible.

Jerusalem truly is a cup of trembling and a burdensome stone for its neighbors and the world just like the Bible says (Zech. 12:2-3). In fact, according to the Bible, this problem won’t be solved until it triggers the Battle of Armageddon at the Second Coming of Jesus (Joel 3:2; Rev. 19). Oh, make no mistake about it, the highly-touted Antichrist will appear after the Rapture and negotiate a phony peace treaty that the international community will proudly boast about, but when they say, “Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape” (I Thess. 5:3). The dysfunctional and corrupt UN has wasted one-third of its resolutions condemning and berating Israel and it will continue to do so until it is restructured into a satanic one-world government headed up by its beloved Antichrist. The proud and arrogant international community supports a peace process that the Bible says will fail and some in Israel and the PA have already declared it dead. More than 15 years ago, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution and appropriated money to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, but it has never happened (Several presidential candidates promised to do it when they were campaigning for office, but all of them broke their promise after they were elected). The rich and powerful Roman Catholic Church regularly ignores God’s prophecies about Jerusalem in the Scriptures and they issue misguided calls for Jerusalem to be declared an international city. Anti-Semites in several mainline Protestant denominations continue to fail to contend for the faith and wrongly call for the division of Israel and Jerusalem because they have foolishly bought into a Bible-rejecting false doctrine called Replacement Theology.

This fury over Jerusalem, the involvement of the people of the Antichrist (EU) in the peace process, the creation of an international community (a wanna-be world government), the deceit of presidential candidates concerning Jerusalem and the corruption in the Church are sure signs that prophecy is being fulfilled and God’s set time is near. These current events are not little things and God didn’t reveal them in prophecy without a reason.



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Zechariah 12:3,9:
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.


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Under the obsolete unprofitable Sinai covenant, the prophets indeed spoke of earthly Zion and earthly Israel and earthly Jerusalem- but the prophecies now pertain to the heavenly things as the faithful seed of Abraham are now under the life-giving covenant through Jesus Christ and so the writer to the Hebrews tells us :

Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Don't be deceived by the carnally, earthly-minded men who mind earthly things- set your thoughts in the heavens where they belong in Christ:

Ro 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Php 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Take heed and listen: the earthly nation of Israel isn't brought into the land to receive the favor of God: it is brought into the land to be judged in the wrath of God, and moreover to test your understanding of the WORD OF GOD and to reveal and make manifest those approved of God in these final days.

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While this is carnally true, it is only so by the work of men, and is the working of iniquity spoken of by Paul; this prophecy is speaking of the heavenly Jerusalem: the church of which the author of Hebrews had written. When all of the world follows the false Christianity into worship of the antichrist, then the faithful elect will begin the work of judgment against Great Babel in the name of the Lord: it is at this time that this prophecy will begin to be fulfilled: after "another Jesus" comes to deceive the woman into entering his false covenant of peace, then the world will say "Peace peace" but the elect will then draw out their swords- which is the WORD OF GOD- against him: this is when Jerusalem and Zion become a cup of trembling to the world: this is when the elect begin to trouble the world with the righteous judgment of God.

2Cor 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.



This is somewhat true, but misleading. Israel was not replaced by the church, but Israel was refined by the everlasting fire of the everlasting gospel. True and faithful Israel was called out of unfaithful Israel- and so Israel was divided into two: carnal, earthly-minded Israel and spiritual, heavenly-minded Israel. As carnal Jacob/Israel begat 12 carnal sons, so spiritual Jacob/Israel (the man Jesus) begat 12 spiritual sons (the apostles) and these 12 spiritual sons begat sons and flourished into spiritual Israel- to whom pertain the blessings and the life-giving covenant through the blood and grace of Jesus Christ.

Now then, there are TWO bodies called by the name Israel- both begotten by carnal Jews (for salvation is of the Jews) but the firstborn is rejected of God and will find no place before him, nor repentence (though he seek it with tears), but the blessings and the birthright have passed to he that was second born. See that you make no covenant with the carnal Israel- for out of perdition he has come to test you, and into perdition he will return; but the birthright is Joseph's.

1Ch 5:2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph‘s: