Jesus Christ has no honor in the world created through Him.

John 4:43-44

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“…the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:10 If you want to know where the world is in prophecy just look at where Jesus is within the world.

 “Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.” John 4:43-44

In a sense, this world is the country of Jesus because He is the one who created it. As a Prophet, the Lord Jesus came to bring us the word which God gave Him to share with us. It’s the same word of prophecy which His followers share because we are sharing the testimony of Jesus, which is, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 His own country crucified Him for the prophecy He brought to us from God. As Jesus said, “…a prophet has no honor in His own country.” Bible prophecy has been thrown out by today’s global culture involving Zechariah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Matthew 24, Revelations, Genesis 6 etc. which centers around how the world relates to the testimony of Jesus Christ.

We live in a world today which browbeats, afflicts, persecutes, and extinguishes the messengers of the Gospel of Christ and all Bible prophecy. Revelation 12 talks about Christian births being snuffed out. It is exactly the prophecy which Jesus gave to us when He gave the parable of the vinedressers, as quoted below,

Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country. 

Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, that they might receive its fruit. And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them. 

Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’ So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Matthew 21:33-39

We can assess that Jesus Christ has no honor in His own country which He created, which is this world.  The diagnosis is that the global culture has rejected the Gospel of Christ and Bible prophecy in exchange for receiving the thing which forms their thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors. The plan is to acknowledge the Lord Jesus as the Prophet sent by God to atone for sin and to realize that without Him there is no prophecy. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. We implement that plan by centering all Bible prophecy around Jesus Christ who brings the remission of sin, the Holy Spirit, and reconciliation with God. The plan is successful when Jesus Christ is the focus of all prophecy, and we look for Jesus in the world to determine where the world is in Bible prophecy.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1