Chanukah: Return of the King Candle Five

OK.  It is crystal clear by now that Jesus is teaching about His return using the sequence of events in 1 Maccabees 2.  It is too amazing.  The exact order in 1 Maccabees 2 is the exact order in Matthew 24:9-21.  We don't get it since we are 1) not Jewish and 2) we are not taught the Bible in its historical context.  But, the Lord is doing something new.  He is doing something to bring us who are behind the curtain, behind the veil, to see more clearly.  This so to take His "bride" into a more complete and enhanced understanding of His word and get "her" (that is us) ready for the coming of the Bridegroom. 

In this video we will meet more amazing Jewish people from those dark and terrible days under the cruelty of Antiochus Epiphanes IV.  We will meet my hero, Eleazar, and Bible teacher.  We will also learn about Jewish families and how they would not buckle under the pressure to turn away from the Lord and turn to the practices of the pagan Greeks and their worldview of Hellenism, a worldview straight from hell.  And from this we will again see how they faced persecution and torture and death.  It was a time of a great tribulation on all Israel. 

But, it is interesting that Jesus is teaching that before His return that the terrible days of the Maccabees is nothing compared to the terror of the tribulation.  After all the things He said that relate to those days Jesus ends those five statement with ...

"For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.  Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short."  Matt. 24:21-22

I had an awesome lady Bible teacher who taught on the book of the Revelation.  When it got to the rapture she taught we should hope for the best but prepare for the worst.  She asked us to ask some questions that no one asks?  What if those who are post-trib - in other words that the rapture will happen after the tribulation - are right?  What if we as Christians must go through what the Jews went through but 1000 times worse?  Those who hold to post-trib are simply speculating as to their view of the end times.  Those who are mid-trib and pre-trib are simply stating a man made view of the endtimes.  There are endless arguments and no conclusion except one's own prejudice.  So, all those Christians - pre and mid and post and who are not rapture people - will be saved and we will finally all see who was right and who was wrong.  So, I remember that great lesson I learned from that women Bible teacher who I held in high high esteem when she said, "Hope for the best but plan for the worst."  

One famous Christian pastor says Christians in the USA are not ready.  Here's his article.  We are not ready.  We are too soft and too integrated into the culture of "me first" that is all around us.  We don't hold a candle to the heroes of the faith in this lesson and in the previous lesson.  It is time to wake up and get ready.  

Link to Pastor Brunson's article - https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/milton-quintanilla/were-not-ready-pastor-urges-us-christians-to-prepare-for-persecution.html

Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?  What's his background?  Why should I listen to him?  Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0