What are the seven parables of Matthew 13? Why has Jesus listed them in this order and why are only seven parables listed here? This great chapter in Matthew consists of only seven small parables yet in order to understand them in the light our Lord projected them we must first get the thought he had in mind. These words spoken by our Lord in parable form were spoken as much as 60 years before the Book of Revelation was written or even conceived in the mind of John the Revelator while a prisoner on the Isle of Patmos.

INTRODUCTION: FOLLOWING THE RESURRECTION, CHRIST APPEARED UNTO HIS DISCIPLES TO PRESENT HIS GREAT COMMISSION. WAS IT PRESENTED IN ONE SESSION OR DID IT REQUIRE MANY? WAS HE PRESENTING ONLY ONE COMMISSION OR SEVERAL? WHERE DID JESUS DECLARE THE FIRST PLACE THIS GOSPEL MUST BE FULFILLED? READ THE AMAZING STORY IN WHICH GOD HID THE TRUTH IN THE WRITINGS OF FOUR

WHAT ASTOUNDING CLUE, REVEALED IN REVELATION 11:2, DEALING WITH A PRECISE, ALLOTTED 42 MONTHS PERIOD, INDICATES WHEN ISRAEL’S 3RD TEMPLE SHOULD BE ERECTED? FURTHERMORE, WHAT DID GOD REVEAL THROUGH ZECHARIAH & HAGGAI, HIS TWO (2ND) TEMPLE RESTORATION PROPHETS IN 512 B.C. CONCERNING A LATTER HOUSE AS WELL AS TWO MIGHTY PROPHETS BEING ON THE SCENE WHEN ISRAEL REBUILDS HER TEMPLE? WHY WERE THESE TWO PROPHETS SINGLED OUT TO REVEAL SUCH AN ASTOUNDING PROPHECY CONCERNING A 3RD HOUSE?

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The breakthrough modern sports novel The Contender shows readers the true meaning of being a hero. This acclaimed novel by celebrated sportswriter Robert Lipsyte, the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in YA fiction, is the story of a young boxer in Harlem who overcomes hardships and finds hope in the ring on his path to becoming a contender. Alfred Brooks is scared. He’s a high-school dropout, and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are after him for something he didn’t even do. So Alfred begins going to Donatelli’s Gym, a boxing club in Harlem that has trained champions. There he learns it’s the effort, not the win, that makes the boxer—that before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender. ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children’s Book * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

SEVEN THINGS TO TRANSPIRE WITHIN THE 70171 WEEK ARE AS FOLLOW—(1). ISRAEL’S MANY WARS ALREADY FOUGHT SINCE 1948 UNTIL THE 70TH WEEK BEGINS FORCES HER THROUGH ECONOMICAL PRESSURES TO SIGN WORLD PEACE TREATY WITH ANTI-CHRIST. (2). THAT POLITICAL JEW (NOT ORTHODOX) BECAUSE OF POLITICAL PRESSURE WILL SELL THEIR NATION DOWN THE DRAIN. (3). BECAUSE THE WORLD CRYING FOR PEACE IN THAT HOUR WILL CAUSE ISRAEL TO FOLLOW SUIT TO KEEP FROM BEING A BLACK SHEEP AMONG THE NATIONS AND BOYCOTTED. (4). ISRAEL’S TWO PROPHETS APPEAR ON THE SCENE PROPHESYING FOR 1260 DAYS THUS BEGINNING THE SOUNDING OF SEVEN TRUMPETS IN REV. 8 & 9 (trumpets sound because of Israel’s disobedience). (5). WORLD CHURCH WILL BECOME COMPLETELY APOSTATIZED BEING FILLED WITH ALL WORLDLINESS AND SATANIC POWER. (6). MIDDLE OF PROPHETIC WEEK FALSE PEACEMAKER BREAKS COVENANT WITH ISRAEL, KILLS HER PROPHETS OF REV. 11 AND DESTROYS ALTAR SACRIFICE AND TEMPLE WORSHIP (Dan. 9:27) CAUSING JERUSALEM TO BECOME AN INTERNATIONALLY CONTROLLED CITY FULFILLING REV. 13:4. (7). TRUMPETS AND VIALS BEGIN TO SOUNsD SETTING STAGE FOR THE LORD’S RETURN.