02_04 Your Personal Bible Study

Document #02_04, Your Personal Bible Study, is your key to real Bible Study, as was revealed to the pioneers of our end-time faith! Do not fail to understand its message!

Scripture Text: Daniel 12:4 (Read, just before the study)

Title: Your Personal Bible Study

According to time prophecies, over 170 years have passed since we entered “the hour of His Judgment.” Yet, time is still going on. We are supposed to be in “the time of the end.” So we want to answer two questions today:
First: Are we really in “the time of the end?” and Second:
If we are, why hasn’t Jesus yet come in the clouds of Glory?

I need to give you proofs that it is “the time of the end.” My first one is very simple, but extremely important, so I don’t want you to miss it. The Book of Daniel would be sealed from man’s understanding until when? Are you with me?
Until when?
Until “the time of the end.” When we see that the Book of Daniel has been unsealed, are we not then in “the time of the end?” That settles it for me.

Since some of you may still be unsure, we need to pick up the history of the unsealing of the Book of Daniel. What prophet unsealed the Book? Yes, he was a prophet. Many of you may not realize that there are two kinds of prophet in Scripture. A lesser noted kind of prophet were those that explained Scripture.
Many, taught by Holy Spirit, were such prophets in the first century. John the Baptist was pre-eminently such a prophet!
Further, “Prophecy is history before it happens.”
Because we know this, and apply history to a prophecy to prove our interpretation to be correct, the prophets today are called “historicist” in our interpretation of prophecy. Do you know your history? Even the history of the Great Awakening of the 1800’s? What prophet unsealed the Book of Daniel? William Miller, an obscure farmer in pioneer New England, unsealed the book of Daniel. But people, it didn’t happen all by itself. God brought it to pass, along with several other fulfillments of prophecy. Lots of things are to happen “at the time of the end.”

Daniel 12, verses 4 all the way to verse 9, and especially verse 7, are explanation
of when to expect “the time of the end.” The answer? “…it shall be for a time, times, and an half.” You will know that that is 1260 days, which is 1260 years, because William Miller, the prophet God used for the purpose of unsealing the Book of Daniel, discovered that in Scripture prophecy, a prophetic “day” is a literal year.
That’s what unsealed the book of Daniel!
A year for a “day,” in prophecy, unsealed the book.

What prophetic history applies here? The Papacy of the Dark Ages was taken out of the position of power to persecute God’s people, by Napoleon’s General Berthier. The “man of sin” being thus “taken out of the way,” (2 Thessalonians 2, verse 7) through God’s direction, allowed that by 1805 the Bible Societies began to distribute the KJV Bible freely in England and the United States, leading to the unsealing!

Let us next look to the latter half of our Scripture text in Daniel 12, verse 4. It says, “Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Shawn Boonstra, speaker on the “It is Written” Television program, rightly interpreted this verse recently. It doesn’t have to do with the explosion of our finite knowledge in this industrial age. It has to do with the context of this verse, the unsealing of Daniel’s Book! You will find that to be true in thousands of places in Scripture, that the immediate context reveals what the words really mean.

Knowledge of Scripture prophecy was exponentially increased. Because Daniel’s Book was unsealed, Revelation as well was revealed to our understanding. To “run to and fro” refers to the Bible Study Method by which knowledge of Scripture prophecy has increased!
William Miller was led by Holy Spirit to the key to Bible Study Method and prophetic interpretation.
Believers, in our time, are to possess “the Spirit of Prophecy!” What is Holy Spirit’s prescription for personal Bible Study? Do you know it? Do you use it? Do you study your Bible, or do you just dabble in it? Do you have a relationship with Holy Spirit, when you study, or are you alone? That’s how important using Holy Spirit’s prescription for Bible study is!!
Jesus told the disciple John (who also wrote the Book of Revelation) that “the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things.” John 14:26. There is a Scripture that says, “Whom shall He teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand doctrine? …For precept must be upon precept [law compared with law] line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing.” Isaiah 28, verses 9 to 12.

People, this is Holy Spirit’s Prescription for Personal Bible Study!! If you get nothing else from this seminar today, get this! This is how William Miller unsealed the Book of Daniel! This is how he and millions of others “run to and fro” and increase knowledge of the Bible prophecies. This is how you can prove all things that we will learn here, from the Scriptures! But NOTE this WELL: God Provided the KJV of the Bible so that His prophecies would be unfolded, and only the KJV even contains this Prescription.
Without the KJV, Daniel’s Book might never have been unsealed! And that is still true of new light today! Line upon line is still unfolding prophecy.
Therefore, use the KJV as your study Bible because God miraculously Provided it!
All other versions change the key-words!

So: how does the prescription work? William Miller’s nick-name was, “The old man and his Concordance.” The Concordance is a book still available today, that he used to compare line with line of Scripture, to find the answers Holy Spirit is willing to give you, yes even you, so that you may rightly divide the Word of God. William Miller didn’t understand the words, in the 8th chapter of Daniel, verse 14, “unto 2300 days.” He looked up the key-word “day” in the Concordance, and found a pair of texts that clearly revealed that a prophetic day was to be understood as referring to a year! They were Numbers 14, verse 34 and Ezekiel 4, verse 6.

Now: here is the big proof that he was right. Daniel 9, verse 25, teaches that sixty-nine weeks (sixty-nine sevens) was to lead unto Messiah. Not four hundred and eighty three literal days would lead to the beginning of the work of Jesus as the Messiah, but 483 years came exactly to when Jesus began his ministry. This fulfillment, according to Dan.9:24, sealed prophecy into a year for a day!

So: Do you want to study your Bible alone, or do you want to study it with your Divine Teacher, Holy Spirit?

Alright: what other proofs should I give you that we are in “the time of the end?” It was to be at the end of the 1260 days, which is 1260 years. What happened during
this 1260 years? The Papacy, as the Emperor of Rome decreed, was given the power to be “the corrector of heretics.” He forced all of the people of the so-called Holy Roman Empire, to worship as he dictated, or die: to believe as he dictated, or die. He removed from their possession the Holy Bible, trying to keep them from knowing Bible Truth.
For 1260 years he continued. Then, he was “taken out of the way.” 2 Thessalonians 2,
verse 7. What was he taken out of the way of? Why on earth do men put themselves
“in the way of” the revealing of Truth? In 1798, at “the time of the end,” at the end of “a time, and times, and an half” (Dan.12:7) – 1260 days which is 1260 years,
the Papacy was “taken out of the way” of the Bible. The Bible was given back to the
people. By seven years after he was taken out of the way, the Bible Societies of
England and America were up and running, distributing the Bible to everyone who wanted one. By 1831, William Miller had unsealed the Book of Daniel. God caused it to happen. God called William Miller to the task, and gave him the tools to be His prophet. It was time to prepare the world for the Judgment Hour, that would begin in 1844! Amos 3, verse 7, says, “Surely the Lord God will do nothing but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets.” (Do you still think William Miller wasn’t a prophet?)
You may be chosen to be one of God’s Elijah prophets of these last days!!

What else marked the beginning of “the time of the end?”
John tells us, in Revelation 6, verses 12 and 13, “I beheld, when he had opened the
sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as
sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.” Do you know that history now? Can you remember it to tell it to others?

In 1755, a huge earthquake centered in Lisbon, Portugal, affected 4 million square
miles. 90,000 perished in Lisbon alone. Many cities were destroyed. The worst hit
were Portugal, Spain, and North Africa. 1755.
25 years later, in 1780, the Dark Day covered the entirety of New England (early
America) from 10 in the morning till 1 a.m. the next night. People were filled with fear that the Judgment Day was at hand, a very general opinion. The full moon appeared finally, but it was blood red! There was no mistaking this sign! The newspapers of the day shouted, “This is the second sign of the soon return of Jesus!” Mt.24:33 says,  “…when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors!”

In 1831, William Miller began to give a seminar series that unsealed the Book of
Daniel. Two years into that movement, the third sign occurred. 1833. Again centered over Protestant early America, the New England States, a falling of the stars such as had never been recorded before occurred: just two years after William Miller began to preach the Judgment Day at hand and the return of Jesus in the Second Advent. The Great Awakening, world-wide, had begun! In 1838, Josiah Litch, another “minor” prophet, took the “year for a day” principle taught by William Miller, and proclaimed that if it was right, the Turkish power (the king of the north of Daniel 11 verse 40) would end August 11, 1840, at the end of a prophecy of 391 years and 15 days from Rev.9:15.
It came to pass exactly on that day! The surety of the 1844 date that the Millerites
pointed to for the Judgment was strengthened still more!

The answer to our second question, that we began with today, I can answer in short order. If we are really in “the time of the end,” why hasn’t Jesus yet come in the clouds of Glory? It is partly because there are fulfillments yet to happen. The Three Angel’s Messages of Rev.14, that were proclaimed in 1844, are to be repeated, along with the up-dated Fourth Angel’s Message of Revelation 18.
But the problem is that, as a Christian, none of you know, in detail, that Bible
Message for this time!

Will you dedicate yourself to learn your message here, seminar by seminar? Those who do, will “Prepare the Way of the Lord!”

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