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16/04/2026

16/04/2026

"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." John 16:33 [NKJV]

16/04/2026

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16/04/2026

Many call Jesus “Lord.”
Far fewer are willing to do what He says.

In Luke 6:46, Christ exposes the emptiness of mere profession:
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?”

This is a solemn warning to every generation. It is possible to speak respectfully of Christ, sing about Christ, preach Christ, and even claim faith in Christ—while refusing the authority of His word.

But true faith does not only confess Him with the lips. It obeys Him with the life.

Jesus is not Lord in name only. If He is Lord, then His word must rule. His commands are not optional suggestions. They are the will of the Master. A profession of faith that refuses obedience is self-deception.

Scripture is consistent on this point:

“Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” — James 2:17
“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.” — 1 John 5:3
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” — John 14:15

We are not saved by obedience, but neither are we saved into disobedience. We are saved by grace through faith—and that faith works, submits, follows, and yields to Christ.

The modern gospel often says, “Just believe,” while leaving men in rebellion against the word of God. But Jesus never separated faith from obedience. The faith that saves is the faith that surrenders.

A mouth that says “Lord, Lord” means nothing if the life says, “I will not do what You say.”

There is no faith without obedience.

16/04/2026

We should pray to see people through God’s eye. Manifesting His love for these struggling souls will bring great spiritual results of conversion.

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13/04/2026

Daniel 8 gives the prophecy of the 2300 days, but no starting point is given there.

The explanation comes in Daniel 9.

In Daniel 8, two Hebrew words are used for “vision”: 'chazon' and 'mareh'. The 'mareh' is the part specifically connected with the “evenings and mornings” (Daniel 8:26, NKJV)—the time element of the vision—while the 'chazon' refers to the broader vision.

Daniel says he did not understand the 'mareh' (Daniel 8:27, NKJV).

So when Gabriel returns in Daniel 9 to give Daniel “skill to understand” the vision (mareh) (Daniel 9:22–23, NKJV), he is not introducing a new prophecy. He is explaining the part Daniel did not understand.

That is why he immediately says, “Seventy weeks are determined...” (Daniel 9:24, NKJV).

The word 'determined' (Hebrew: châthak) means 'cut off'. The 70 weeks are cut off from the larger prophetic period and form its opening portion.

Then the starting point is given: “From the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem...” (Daniel 9:25, NKJV). That decree was issued by Artaxerxes in 457 BC (Ezra 7), restoring Jerusalem in a full civil and judicial sense.

Prophetic time is reckoned on the year-day principle: “I have laid on you a day for each year” (Ezekiel 4:6, NKJV). The 70 weeks reach to Messiah, confirming that we are dealing with symbolic time.

So the larger period also runs from 457 BC to 1844.

This brings us to Daniel 8:14: “For two thousand three hundred days; then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.” (NKJV)

By that point, the sanctuary in view is not earthly, but heavenly: Christ is “a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man” (Hebrews 8:1–2, NKJV).

And when Scripture speaks of the cleansing of the sanctuary, it takes us directly to the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16.

So what event began in 1844? And what does it mean for the heavenly sanctuary to be cleansed?

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13/04/2026

“Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” (Dan. 8:14, NKJV)

The cleansing of the sanctuary is not an arbitrary act. It requires a work of judgment.

Throughout the year, confessed sins were transferred into the sanctuary through the ministry of the priest (Lev. 4:4–7, 17–18; Lev. 10:17). In this way, the sanctuary bore the record of sin.

But at the end of the year, on the Day of Atonement, that record could not simply be removed without distinction. A decision had to be made. Would those sins remain covered through abiding faith, or would they return upon the sinner who had turned away from God? That is why the cleansing of the sanctuary was a work of judgment (Lev. 16:16, 29–31).

Daniel 8:14 points to the beginning of this antitypical work in the heavenly sanctuary. At the end of the 2300 days, in 1844, Christ entered the final phase of His priestly ministry—the judgment hour announced to the world in Revelation 14:7 (Dan. 8:14; Rev. 14:7).

In that judgment, each case is decided, and the final destination of sin is revealed.

If we remain in Christ, the sins once confessed are removed from the sanctuary and placed upon the head of the scapegoat, representing Satan, who will bear ultimate responsibility for the ruin he has caused (Lev. 16:21–22; Rev. 20:1–3, 10).

But if we turn away from Christ, the sins once forgiven are no longer retained in His saving work for us. They return upon our own head, and we bear them ourselves (Ezek. 18:24; Heb. 10:26–27).

So the cleansing of the sanctuary is a work of judgment because the record of sin cannot be disposed of until it is determined which way it will go.

Which way will your sins go?