When God said "Let there be light" he was not starting an undirected arbitrary project... he knew where he was going... his creation was made in his mind before it ever came into existence in the physical world. He always knows what is going to take place because God knows everything from end to the beginning. As humans, we must move through time in order to discover the events of our lives, but God is outside of time and knows all things without regard to past, present, or future. Isaiah reveals this when he prophesies "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My council shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure." (Isa 46:10)

God has a plan and all that he does is "... according to the purpose of him (God) who worketh all things after the council of his own will." God confers with himself in all that he does so that he already knows what is going to happen... he never needs time to reveal anything to him because it is all by his own design.

In studying prophecy it is essential to keep in mind that what we are reading, or studying, is not a history of events moving through time, but rather the declaration of events from the perspective of eternity. That which has not happened in time is just as real as that which has, and the prophetic word is giving insight to the reality of the future. Therefore, it is important for us to approach our interpretation of prophecies not from our historical thinking, but from God's declarative thinking... that is to say we need to look first of all to the end of God's plan so that we may know where events are going to conclude.

God sent Gabriel to Daniel to give the prophet the determined plan of God for the time of Daniel up to the beginning of the thousand year reign of Christ. The 70 determined weeks began with a command to restore and build Jerusalem and the end of the same 70 weeks of years was that the Most Holy would be anointed. My purpose in this writing is to establish that in order to correctly understand the end time prophecies we need to start at the end and work backwards.

Often, for example, the four horsemen of Revelation chapter 6 are interpreted as various things. Some say that the white horse represents Jesus Christ others say that it represents the anti-Christ. Which is it? Or, is it something entirely different? These interpretations will end up being very arbitrary, or worse biased, because the interpretation is approached from the wrong end... the beginning. We must start at the end and realize that the outcome of all these things is the anointing of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem as King of Kings.

To illustrate this consider the first (white) horse and the fourth (pale) horse. Which of the two are easier to identify? Obviously, the pale horse is easier ... it is very clear that it represents a time of much suffering and death. This is stated within the prophecy itself. This horse is revealed at the opening of the fourth seal. What about the fifth seal? We see the souls of the dead speaking out for justice (a logical consequence of the fourth seal). And the sixth seal reveals mankind fearfully watching the Day of the Lord approach. This seal is accompanied by the heavenly signs in the sun, moon, and stars. These celestial events are very identifiable and without question are associated with the return of Jesus Christ and his subsequent anointing as King.

I write these things to illustrate the very important fact that the closer the events in a prophecy are to the anointing of the King (the end) the more clearly they can be interpreted ... and consequently more correctly.