In this session, we see how God has been working all things throughout history to His timetable and for His purposes.

This ancient mystery determines the course of world history, it touches everything from kings, to presidents, empires, superpowers, down to the most minute details… and, as we will see, everything happens to happen in the exact way, at the exact place, and at the exact time.

And no one’s orchestrating it, no one on earth.

We have already noted the rise and fall of empires, the raising to positions of authority those who will accomplish His will – all in accordance with the ancient Jubilean mystery. We now go on to explore hidden codes, prophetic messages from millennia ago now being fulfilled on the very days appointed. We will uncover secrets hidden in the earth for centuries!

But with all of this said, we still have to answer the ‘so what’ question.

Why does everything seem to revolve around this Jubilean mystery? –Prophecy, revelation, World History.

The simple answer is, that it’s because the principle of the Jubilee is about return & restoration.

The Jewish people stand for all people – what happens to them has to do with us all. In the natural, we have not all left our ancestral possession… But in the spiritual, all have lost what belonged to us, given up the title of what was once ours.

You can never feel at home in this world because it’s not your inheritance. It’s not your land. It’s not what you were created for!

Redemption is at the center of the mystery. But “Who is it that the Jubilee is for?” For the exiled, the separated, the broken, the fallen, the one who has lost.

May you be blessed, encouraged and challenged by this study.

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This is the 5th study in our series entitled ‘The Greatest Mystery’.

In this session, we continue to explore the incredible way God engineered to bring the Jews back into their homeland after almost 2000 years in accordance with His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

May you be blessed, challenged and amazed as we stand back in wonder, considering all that He has done!

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In this session, we continue uncovering how God has engineered history to bring about his plans and designs.

May you be blessed and encouraged by this study.

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In our first session, we looked at over 20 undeniable proofs for God’s existence and the validity, accuracy, and trustworthiness of the Bible, demonstrating it has been given to us from outside our time domain.

In the second session, we looked at one of the principal subjects of the Bible – The Nation of Israel – through Whom God has chosen to reveal Himself to this world. In his final address to the Nation Moses spoke of the blessing they would receive if they obeyed God and His laws, but he also spoke of the punishment that would come upon them if they disobeyed. Furthermore, he told them what would happen to them in the centuries and ages to come – he foretold their future. Now, that should be impossible! To tell the intricate course of human events even days or weeks before they take place cannot happen, let alone speaking thousands of years into the future of a nation. But all that Moses said has come true with incredible detail & precision!

In this third session, we begin by considering “The Mystery of the 490”, and again see undeniable proof that God is in complete control in the affairs of man. All History has been working to His timetable, and His timepiece is the Nation of Israel!

We then look at what could be the greatest of all mysteries, “The Jubilee Mysteries”!

For Israel, the Jubilee would occur every 50 years, and those who had lost or sold their home or land would have it restored, your separation from that which was yours would be ended. To mark the Jubilee there would be the blowing of the Shofar – the rams horn, as a trumpet to announce the coming of the year of Jubilee.

• What does the Jubilee signify?
• Returning to your possession, to regain that which you had lost
• For two thousand years Israel had wandered the world without a homeland, without a possession of their own.
• But as prophesied by Moses, their return home would be a sign that we are in the end times, the final days of this era.

Although totally unprecedented, Israel have returned to the land, a sign that the ancient Jubilee Mystery is being played out on a cosmic scale, touching kings, prime ministers, presidents and world leaders alike.

May you be astounded and blessed by this study!

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If such a people were to exist, what do you think would become of them? Wouldn’t you expect them to stand out? … to be different from every other people group on Earth.

And if there is a God and everything the Bible says about Him is true, it follows that there must also be a Devil, and everything the Bible says about him must also be true.  Logically it would then follow that…  If God had brought a group of people, a nation, into existence to stand as a witness to His existence and to fulfill His purposes… We could expect the Devil to have a peculiar hatred toward that group of people, and even go as far as attempting to destroy them.

Well, there is just such a people, they have remained an identifiable ethnic group despite the most vitriolic hatred and persecution ever known; despite being driven from their homeland for almost 2000 years.

The people? The Nation of Israel.

In this second study in our series ‘The Greatest Mystery’, Pastor Barry looks at the incredibly detailed prophecies concerning the history and future of the Jewish people, and looks and some incredible discoveries hidden in their Feasts and ‘religious holidays’.

But all of this – as staggering as it all is – is just the prelude to something even more astounding!

To be continued…

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What if I told you this mystery involves global leaders, heads of state, presidents, and many others who have all been working to a predetermined timetable? What if I could show you that this mystery has decided world events down to the year, the month and even the very day of their occurring?

What if I showed you that everything that ever has been and all that will be are connected to and are part of this mystery?

What if I showed you that you don’t need faith to believe this mystery, because it is etched as a silent witness into our past, present and future?

This study, taught by pastor Barry Forder, is the first part of a series entitled “The Greatest Mystery” that will provide undeniable proof of the existence of God as revealed in the Bible, and of His working in the affairs of man throughout the ages.

In this session, pastor Barry will lay the foundation, drawing on a number of apologetic arguments, to demonstrate the solid basis for the Christian faith. But this is only the beginning! What is to follow over the coming weeks is truly breath-taking!

May you be blessed and encouraged by this study!

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