Social Distancing Day 27 - "Good Friday" - 1,335 days later...
If you're just joining us, we were in here discussing the scriptures that came to my friend Shae and I the other night... after a few glasses of wine. God works in mysterious ways and He speaks to us whenever we need to hear it...
We were talking about Daniel... the last few verses went like this...
11 "From the time the daily sacrifice is stopped and the sacrilegious object that causes desecration is set up to be worshiped, there will be 1,290 days. 12 And blessed are those who wait and remain until the end of the 1,335 days!"
13 "As for you, go your way until the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days, you will rise again to receive the inheritance set aside for you."
How long is 1,335 days exactly? A little over 3 and a half years. This number is referenced again and again throughout the bible. My question is... even though we know the time is 3 and a half years, how do we know when those years began?
I think we each have our own 1,335 days. The start of those days represents our trials. It is the time for us to be tested, tried, and put through the wringer. Think about the interview process before you get the job. You may go through several versions of the interview. You may experience stressful times, financial impacts, and all of that while waiting to see if you are chosen.
I think the same goes for our 1,335 days before Jesus returns. It's the time to get our stuff together. Get our houses in order but since we don't know when the start begins...we have to always be alert and working everyday to honor God in our daily lives.
But I digress... sort of..
So then God said: "Go, to Matthew 24" and so we went on.. my fingers tapping the screen and then scrolling until I saw 24... the heading for this chapter was... "Jesus speaks about the future."
See this is when it started to get good. I know a few scriptures from memory but there is no way that I would have been able to quickly turn from book to book and they would be interrelated. This is how I knew that we were in a sacred space...
Matthew 24:1-2
"As Jesus was leaving the Temple grounds, his disciples pointed out to him the various Temple buildings. But he responded, 'Do you see all these buildings? I tell you the truth, they will be completely demolished. Not one stone will be left on top of another!'"
Matthew 24:15
"The day is coming when you will see what Daniel the prophet spoke about-- the sacrilegious object that causes desecration standing in the Holy Place." (READER, PAY ATTENTION!)
The "Reader, pay attention" is in the text. I took personal privilege and added emphasis with the caps. Do you see how Jesus references Daniel? Everything that we experience or will experience has already been written. We can't run from it even if we tried. Which is a good shift into the next few lines of Matthew.
Matthew 24: 21-22
"For there will be greater anguish than at any time since the world began. And it will never be so great again. In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen ones."
Keep reading Matthew 24... the rest of the chapter will have you shouting in your kitchen.
So then God said to Shae and I, "Go to Revelation 19" and so we did. (Read this entire chapter when you have a chance. It talks about the great wedding feast in heaven and about how those who "made it" rejoiced!)
Then we went on to Psalms 44 and 45...
Then to Proverbs 23... Romans 14 and James 4:1-3 ("Drawing Close to God")
"What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don't they come from the evil desires at war within you? You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don't get it because your motives are all wrong- you want only what will give you pleasure."
James 4:17
"Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it."
Finally we ended in Numbers the 28th chapter...
What we learned by the end of it all...
God most definitely speaks to us when we need it the most. In the midst of everything going on in the world we were able to find peace in the word.
Things will be a little hazy for awhile, but know that this too shall pass. What we see now is only temporary.
The question is... what will you do in the meantime?
We were talking about Daniel... the last few verses went like this...
11 "From the time the daily sacrifice is stopped and the sacrilegious object that causes desecration is set up to be worshiped, there will be 1,290 days. 12 And blessed are those who wait and remain until the end of the 1,335 days!"
13 "As for you, go your way until the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days, you will rise again to receive the inheritance set aside for you."
How long is 1,335 days exactly? A little over 3 and a half years. This number is referenced again and again throughout the bible. My question is... even though we know the time is 3 and a half years, how do we know when those years began?
I think we each have our own 1,335 days. The start of those days represents our trials. It is the time for us to be tested, tried, and put through the wringer. Think about the interview process before you get the job. You may go through several versions of the interview. You may experience stressful times, financial impacts, and all of that while waiting to see if you are chosen.
I think the same goes for our 1,335 days before Jesus returns. It's the time to get our stuff together. Get our houses in order but since we don't know when the start begins...we have to always be alert and working everyday to honor God in our daily lives.
But I digress... sort of..
So then God said: "Go, to Matthew 24" and so we went on.. my fingers tapping the screen and then scrolling until I saw 24... the heading for this chapter was... "Jesus speaks about the future."
See this is when it started to get good. I know a few scriptures from memory but there is no way that I would have been able to quickly turn from book to book and they would be interrelated. This is how I knew that we were in a sacred space...
Matthew 24:1-2
"As Jesus was leaving the Temple grounds, his disciples pointed out to him the various Temple buildings. But he responded, 'Do you see all these buildings? I tell you the truth, they will be completely demolished. Not one stone will be left on top of another!'"
Matthew 24:15
"The day is coming when you will see what Daniel the prophet spoke about-- the sacrilegious object that causes desecration standing in the Holy Place." (READER, PAY ATTENTION!)
The "Reader, pay attention" is in the text. I took personal privilege and added emphasis with the caps. Do you see how Jesus references Daniel? Everything that we experience or will experience has already been written. We can't run from it even if we tried. Which is a good shift into the next few lines of Matthew.
Matthew 24: 21-22
"For there will be greater anguish than at any time since the world began. And it will never be so great again. In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen ones."
Keep reading Matthew 24... the rest of the chapter will have you shouting in your kitchen.
So then God said to Shae and I, "Go to Revelation 19" and so we did. (Read this entire chapter when you have a chance. It talks about the great wedding feast in heaven and about how those who "made it" rejoiced!)
Then we went on to Psalms 44 and 45...
Then to Proverbs 23... Romans 14 and James 4:1-3 ("Drawing Close to God")
"What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don't they come from the evil desires at war within you? You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don't get it because your motives are all wrong- you want only what will give you pleasure."
James 4:17
"Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it."
Finally we ended in Numbers the 28th chapter...
What we learned by the end of it all...
God most definitely speaks to us when we need it the most. In the midst of everything going on in the world we were able to find peace in the word.
Things will be a little hazy for awhile, but know that this too shall pass. What we see now is only temporary.
The question is... what will you do in the meantime?
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