times and has been renovated at least seven. Right now it’s in dire need of complete repair once again. Actually, according to Time maga zine, August 4, 1967, “It is nothing more than a tasteless clutter of rival altars, candelabras, icons, and statu ary. The shrines are ringed by ba zaars hocking everything from plas tic crosses to soft drinks. . . . It seems unlikely that the world has yet COMING AGAIN Children of God, "Lift up your heads,” Redemption draweth nigh . . . Soon we shall see the morning break Across the eastern sky. The world down here is full of strife, Of bitterness and hate . . . But gathering clouds are hov'ring low, The hour is growing late. Men’s hearts are failing them for fear; For peace they strive in vain; There’ll be no peace till He shall come. Whose right it is to reign. But "Be not troubled,” lift your heads, All signs are pointing home, Our waiting, yearning hearts would cry, heard an answer to Isaiah’s an guished prayer, “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended.’ ” Now, what about the future of Israel for a few moments? I wonder if you have ever had an experience like this ? Whenever we’re going on a trip anywhere, our children usually start by asking a question. We may have been on the freeway only for a minute or two, but we fully expect 18 “Lord Jesus, quickly come!” We long to enter into rest, Above this troubled scene, To gaze forever on Thy face, Without a cloud between.
one of the three young people to questioningly wonder, “Daddy, when do we get there?” While we do not set specific dates, yet we do know that in Matthew 16:3 our Lord Jesus Christ has said that we should dis cern the signs of the times. We find that the children of Israel today are returning largely in unbelief. Juda ism includes both orthodox and lib eral theology. There is no firm uni fication. The problem which now faces the Israeli people concerning the rebuild ing of the temple is the fact that on the spot where it should be placed historically, where it was built two times before, there is what is some times called the Mosque of Omar. Omar was the general who captured the area for the Arabs in the 7th Century. The Dome of the Rock has been built on Mount Moriah, which was the sacred spot where Abraham went to offer Isaac as a sacrifice to the Lord. This is actually the second most sacred spot in all the Arab world. Supposedly the prophet Mo hammed ascended from here into Heaven, riding on a white-winged horse. There are some Muslim people who believe that it was not Isaac, but rather Ishmael, whom Abraham was willing to offer up as a sacrifice in obedience to the one true God. Many of the prophecies given in the Word of God, yet to be fulfilled, deal with the millennium and the King dom age rule of our Lord Jesus Christ from Jerusalem. As we conclude, we want to sug gest just a brief order of events which w ill transpire. We believe Scripture teaches that the next event of prophecy to be realized is the Rap ture of the Church, made up of all who have been born again through personal faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. We personally believe that there is no prophecy which yet re mains to be fulfilled before the re turn of our Lord Jesus Christ. Here at Biola we believe in His imminent
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