The Great Detective

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ALL of us have read a mystery. We find clues along the way and part of

the fun in reading a mystery is trying to solve it. None of us is ever smart

enough to do so, of course, so in the final chapter, a brilliant detective

solves the crime, calls in the police, and the miserable felon is hauled off

1 Cor 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even

the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world.

Hummm ... the Greek word for mystery, musterion, appears 27 times in

the New Testament, so part of the Bible is a mystery. Now much of

God’s mystery has been explained in the first 65 books of the Bible, but

not all. The mere fact that there are so many confusing doctrines around

is proof that we really haven’t got it all figured out. So where can we

find a detective who can solve the rest of God’s mystery for us?

Rev 1:1 The Revelation1 of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto

him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come

1 PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Occasionally the author has boldfaced a few words or a phrase

in a Bible quote to draw your attention to a central subject. Such bold-facing does not

to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant

For 2000 years, we have been trying to solve God’s mystery on our

own. We have poured over Scriptures, finding this clue and that. Then

with magnifying glass in hand have gone to Revelation to see if we

could figure out that book as well, as if Revelation was part of the

mystery. But from the above verse, it is apparent that Revelation isn’t

part of the mystery. It’s Jesus’ solution! God gave us a Great Detective

Rev 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the

prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.

Folks, have we been looking at Revelation through the wrong end

of the telescope? Have we been going to Revelation with our doctrines

in hand, trying to interpret that book through the filter of what we

already believe? What if we stand behind Revelation and look back at

the rest of Scripture through the grid of what Jesus might reveal to us in

that book? If so, might Revelation emerge as Jesus’ unraveling of the

mystery of God’s dealings with man throughout the ages? Might we be

able to see the Jews, the church, the tribulation, and the Middle Eastern

terrorists in a whole new light? Let’s find out.

At the end of the Middle Ages, the Church had fallen into a dead

formalism that ushered in the Great Reformation. Many Roman Catholic

Priests, some long forgotten, Eckhart, Tauler, Rokycana, Briconnet,

Huss and the rest, were used of God to begin a great spiritual revival. At

the time, every one of those early evangelists was considered a radical

cultist by the established church. Those excommunicate priests taught

fanatically “heretical” doctrinal systems like salvation “by grace through

faith,” believer baptism, and communion of both bread and cup for all

believers. New converts followed those “left wing extremist” elder

brethren, supporting their “heretical” positions, and almost before you

knew it, those reformation groups became new denominations.

Five hundred years have passed, and those extremists have become

us: the Baptists, the Presbyterians, the Lutherans, the Free Methodists –

the whole Protestant evangelical world. The worthy elders of our

denominations passed their views on down to us and most of them are

still taught today. What’s more, their views were generally sound, until

Among other unlikely concepts, the Leopard-Bear-Lion beast, the

Beast with Two Horns, and the Scarlet Beast of Revelation were thought

to be real living animals that would roam the earth. When those

prophetic doctrines were in style, England was the great world power

that spanned the globe and the sun never set on the British flag. Europe

was the cultural center of the universe and the United States was but a

minor nation full of woodsmen and farmers. In their wildest dreams,

theologians of horse-and-buggy days couldn’t have imagined two 110

story glass covered buildings standing on an island for which the Dutch

paid $24, much less, that those buildings would be destroyed by ten

Islamic terrorists using commercial airplanes as flying bombs.

If we are honest with ourselves, we can see that the end-time

scenarios those venerable theologians proposed just don’t fit what’s

happening in the world today. It is evident to all that we are at the end

of the Christian Era, but as yet, there is no visible one-world

government, no antichrist, and no Seven-Year Tribulation in sight. Is it

possible that the Lord’s plan for the end-times is somewhat different

from the traditions we learned in Sunday school? It surely could be,

because the Lord appears to have opened His prophetic Word in a new

way through two almost unbelievable fulfillments of prophecy that have

taken place in the Holy Land during the last 50 years:

In 1948AD, the new nation of Israel was established and in

1967, Jerusalem again came under Jewish control for the

Though they were dispersed from their land for two millennia and

persecuted beyond measure, the Jews again control the Holy Land.

Jerusalem is again the capital of a sovereign nation called Israel.

In the following chapters, we will show that these two events fulfill

more Bible prophecy than any other events since the crucifixion. What’s

more, these two events allow us to understand scriptures that were

previously a mystery to us — scriptures that change our view of God’s

overall plan and of how He intends to bring this age to a close.

It is apparent that a rocky road lies ahead for Christians everywhere

before Jesus stands on Zion. Spiritual storm clouds already loom on the

horizon and there are questions that need to be answered. Will a

worldwide holocaust against Jews and Christians soon take place and if

so, can we escape it? How long will it last? Where would the Lord have

us be while it is here and how will that time of trouble come to an end?