Piece By Piece.

Today's wars are not fought as they once were. With the extreme advancement in our technology there are aspects to war today that never existed before. We can fly an unmanned aircraft into a war zone and use it to kill people. We can use drones and remotely drop bombs. War today has been taken to another level entirely. People today can use instant video chat to hold meetings that decide life and death for others. When we look at prophecy, as we did yesterday, it can be very confusing.  In fact after re-reading yesterday's study I was more confused than ever- I did a very lousy job trying to convey my thoughts that's for sure, so I'm going to take a step back and try to explain my thoughts once more.

This is truly just a study on my thoughts, right or wrong I don’t know. Ultimately I hope God is guiding me and there is truth in what people may read here. Always go to the Bible for yourselves though, please… go right to God's word and with prayer and supplication request comprehension, truth, and all that you need to know our God and His Son, Jesus Christ our Savior, our Lord.

Prophecy is like a puzzle with many, many pieces.

This prophecy puzzle started in the beginning when we were told this--

Gen 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 

It shall bruise thy head- Satan's head.

And thou shalt bruise his heel- Christ's heel.

Satan would be destroyed and Christ would be hurt but not ultimately destroyed.

From the first prophecy puzzle pieces unto the last there have been a myriad of them in between.

There are two special books of prophecy- Daniel and Revelation, an Old Testament and a New Testament book. These two books written hundreds of years apart go hand in hand in many ways.

One impressive prophecy is the one concerning the dream a king had about a statue.  That statue started history from the day the dream was given and marked history down to the very end-

Dan 2:34  Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 

Dan 2:35  Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 

Dan 2:44  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. 

Dan 2:45  Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. 

A stone breaks the entire statue- all of history comes to an end.

The prophecy puzzle pieces were given and hundreds of years later, thousands, the pieces were each put into place until we can without any doubt see that the only remaining piece to be put in this particular part of the puzzle is the stone destroying the statue. All the parts of that statue represented a time period in our history and they've all come to pass beyond doubt, right down to the ten toes and the knowledge that there would never be a single world power in dominance again- there never has been. What is left is our Savior returning. 

Now some may say that the puzzle is taking a long time to put together, but our time and God's time are two different things. A day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day with God.

2Pe 3:8  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

So while it may seem like the prophecy puzzle's completion is taking entirely too long, it's not. God is longsuffering, without that longsuffering neither you, nor I would be here right now living in the time right before the end.

There are puzzles pieces and a major one was put into place in 1980, when it was put in place this was also said….

Luk_21:32  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

When the puzzle piece was placed it was made very clear that the generation of those born in 1980 would not pass until this occurred-

Luk 21:27  And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 

A generation in the Bible can mean various lengths of time- the span of one man's life until his offspring appear, forty years is another, and there may be more references to generation. What is known though is that from one generation to the next it is not more than the life span of a man whether that be death at 72 years or later. 

We know the end will come, or else how could all those puzzle pieces have been placed already? Prophecy has come to pass over and over again. From ancient days until 1980, and on…NOTHING will stop all of it from coming to pass, nothing. Our believing doesn’t matter, truth is truth. You can shake your head in total disbelief, but it won't change a thing.

Obviously a lot of detail has been left out here on prophecy, I've studied it more than once in the past and it's available for anyone to go back and read. I'm not saying I won't go through it all again, God's will be done, but right now I'm looking into the prophecy that isn't known to be fulfilled just yet. Meaning, the pieces of the puzzle are in front of us, but we can't put them in the puzzle just yet.

Logically we know that at some point we will be living prophecy and we won't be able to look back as history. We can only hope and pray that we are alive and able to witness things transpire in our watching and praying as we wait for our Savior to return.

More on this tomorrow by the grace and will of our Savior, Jesus Christ, now and forever!!!!!!!

Dan 11:40  And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. 

Dan 11:41  He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 

Dan 11:42  He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 

Dan 11:43  But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. 

Dan 11:44  But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. 

Dan 11:45  And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. 

Dan 12:1  And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.