PROPHECY BECOMES
REALITY: CURRENT HAPPENINGS ARE WEARING OUT THE
SAINTS
(Dan
7:25-27)
And he [the
body of antichrists under the head Antichrist] shall
speak great
words against
the most High, and
shall
wear out [Heb: afflict
(but only
in a mental sense) /// fail, decay, consume: make old, spend, waste] the saints of the most High, and
think to change times and laws: and they [the saints]
shall be given
into his hand until a
time
and times and the dividing of time [3
½ years, the Great Tribulation]. But
the judgment shall sit, and they [the
saints] shall take away
his
dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. And the
kingdom and dominion, and the
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven,
shall be given
to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and
all dominions [Heb: empires] shall serve and obey him [Christ Jesus, i.e., the Head of the Body
of Christ].
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EATING
OF THE TREE OF LIFE
(Gen
2:7-9)
And the LORD God formed
man
of the dust of the ground, and
breathed [God’s breath,
the Holy
Spirit] into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD
God planted a
garden [Heb: a garden (as
fenced)
/// to hedge about, protect: defend] eastward
in Eden [Heb:
pleasure:
delight]; and there he put
the
man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD
God to grow every
tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good
for food; the
tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the
tree of knowledge
of good and evil.
(Gen 2:15-18)
And
the LORD God took the man, and put him into the
garden of Eden [the archetype of
the Bible] to dress it
and to keep it.
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree
of the garden
thou mayest freely eat [including
the tree of life]: But of the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for
in the day [“one
day is with
the Lord as a thousand years” 2 Pet 3:8]
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And
the LORD
God said, It is not good that
the
man should be alone; I will make
him an
help [Heb: aid] meet for him [Heb: part opposite; a counterpart or mate].
(Gen
3:1-3)
Now the serpent
was more
subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had
made. And he said
unto the woman, Yea,
hath God
said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may
eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of
the fruit of the
tree which is in the midst of
the garden [“the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil” Gen 2:17],
God hath said, Ye
shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it,
lest ye die.
(Luke 5:1-7)
And it came to pass, that, as the
people pressed
upon him to hear the word of God, he [Jesus] stood by the lake of
Gennesaret [lake Galilee], And saw two ships standing by
the
lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one
of the ships, which was Simon's [Simon
Peter’s], and prayed him that he
would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat
down, and taught
the people out of the ship. Now
when he had left [Gk: ceased]
speaking [to those standing on
the shore, on dry land, unsaved],
he said unto Simon [Peter], Launch out
into the deep
[Gk: profundity, mystery: deep things], and
let down your nets for a draught [Gk:
a catch: a haul (of fish)].
And Simon answering said unto him, Master,
we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing:
nevertheless at thy word I will let down the
net [“nets” Amplif., NAS,
NIV]. And
when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and
their net [“nets” Amplif.,
NAS,
NIV] brake [Gk: tore asunder] [“were (at the point of)
breaking” Amplif., “began to break” NAS, NIV].
And they [Peter
and Andrew] beckoned unto their
partners [James and John], which
were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they
came, and
filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.
(John
21:1-6)
After these things [the resurrected]
Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the
sea of
Tiberias [the lake of Galilee]; and on this wise shewed he himself.
There were together Simon
Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and
[James and John] the
sons of Zebedee,
and two other of his disciples [totaling
seven, that number symbolizing, in this case, heavenly completion]. Simon
Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say
unto him, We also go
with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship
immediately [Gk: at once] [“immediately” is omitted in Amplif.,
NAS, NIV]; and that night [Luke 5:5] they
caught nothing [Luke
5:5]. But when the morning [Gk: day dawn]
was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the
disciples knew
not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus saith unto them, Children,
have ye any
meat [Gk: fish]? They
answered him, No. And
he said
unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye
shall find [Luke
5:4]. They cast therefore [“Nevertheless” Luke 5:5],
and now they were not able to draw it [up
into the ship] for the
multitude of fishes [Luke
5:6].
(John 21:7) Therefore
[meaning because of the latter
event]
[“Then” Amplif., NIV, “That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved” NAS] that disciple whom Jesus loved
saith
unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter
heard that it was the
Lord, he girt his fisher's
coat
unto him, (for he was naked,)
and did cast himself into the sea.
(John 21:8-11)
And
the other disciples came in a little ship; (for
they were not far from
land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) [twice
the length of the tabernacle compound]
dragging
[horizontally]
the net with fishes.
As soon
then as they were come to land [the
Promised Land], they saw a fire of
coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus saith unto them, Bring
of the fish which ye have now caught
[Gk: seized]. Simon Peter
[rather than God or Christ Jesus] went up, and drew the net to land full
of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all
there were so
many, yet was not the net broken
[Luke 5:6].