PROPHETIC TIMELINE

 Sir,

The Bible was designed to be a guide to all who wish to become acquainted with the will of their Maker. God gave to men the sure word of prophecy; angels came to make known the will of God to the world. Those important matters that concern our salvation were not left involved in mystery.

They were not revealed in such a way as to perplex and mislead an honest seeker after the truth. The Lord said through Prophet Habakkuk; “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it.”
In the prophetic books of Daniel and Revelation different images are used with a common time period. Daniel 7:25 talks of God’s people being handed over to the ‘little horn’ power for a time, two times and half a time.

The same period of time is mentioned seven times in the two books of Daniel and Revelation in various forms. In prophecy a ‘time’ represents a year (Daniel 4:23), therefore, the period described as ‘time, times and half a time’ is equal to three and a half years.

What happened during this period, Satan used the Roman Empire to kill many of God’s people. This period of persecution is mentioned in Matthew 24:21 as the worst period of persecution God’s people experienced. Verse 22 tells us it was so devastating that not one soul would have survived if God had not shortened it. But thank God He did shorten it.

The 1 260-year period is also referred to as the ‘dark ages’ - a time when millions of God’s people were martyred for refusing to follow the dictates of the Romans. This period began in AD 538, when the armies of the Roman Empire drove the Arian Ostrogoths out of Rome.  

During this period Christians were forced to choose either to yield their integrity and accept the Roman ceremonies and worship, or to wear away their lives in dungeons or to suffer death by the rack, the fagot, or the headsman’s axe. By so doing the words of Christ were fulfilled: “You shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake,” (Luke 21:16, 17).

Persecution opened upon the faithful with greater fury than ever before, and the world became a vast battlefield. For hundreds of years the church of Christ found refuge in seclusion and obscurity. Thus says John the revelator: “The woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there 1260 days,” (Revelation 12:6). However, Revelation 12:11 said; “They overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them, (Revelation 14:12-13).
 
Bopoto Gwinyai
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