Posted by Bible Probe on July 26, 2005 at 20:56:56:
Compiled and written by:
Steve Keohane BibleProbe.com
The 70th Great weeks of Daniel Delusion
The 70 weeks of the Daniel Prophecy have nothing to do with tribulation and the antichrist. There is no text in the Bible that teaches a 7-year tribulation. Daniel 9:27 speaks of nothing to do with an antichrist, a rebuilt Jewish Temple, or even tribulation. Nothing! That's because it is all about Jesus Christ, the Messiah (Mashiach ben David), who had been promised by Old Testament prophets. AND the Jewish people. And it does not speak of an Antichrist making or breaking a covenant. It speaks of Jesus Christ confirming the covenant or "the promises made to the fathers (see Romans 15:8 and Galatians 3:17). Jesus said, this is My blood of the new covenant. During His 3.5 years of ministry Jesus was Himself focused on saving "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 10:6).
Daniel 9:27 says;
"He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease".
Many (especially Evangelicals) have wrongfully applied this somehow to the coming Antichrist, when in reality, Daniel is speaking of Our Lord Jesus Christ. By offering Himself as the perfect sacrifice, Jesus put an end to the Levitical sacrifices --which ceased to be pleasing to God the moment Jesus died on
the cross and the veil in the Jewish Temple was torn (Matthew 27:51).
One week refers to seven years in bible time. This seven weeks was 3.5 years given to the Jews during Christ's earthly ministry. and 3.5 years after His crucifixion.
Many Evangelicals and other Christians and Christian book writers are also deluded to think the 70th week of Daniel went on hold for 2000 years. When in fact it happened just like clockwork and ended when Stephen was stoned by the Jews at the end of the 70th week (3.5 yrs after Christ's crucifixion).
GOSPEL SWITCHES TO THE GENTILES AFTER 70th WEEK OF DANIEL
The second 3.5 years of the "70th week" was also given to the Jews as a second chance (Acts 1-6), but this 7 years of ministry officially ended when the Jewish Sanhedrin (highest Jewish office) rejected Jesus and His Gospel a second time and stoned Stephen. Immediately the 70th week ended, and the
Gospel then went to the Gentiles. You will recall also, that Paul was "recruited" at the end of this 7 years to minister to the Gentiles. His name was changed from the Jewish Saul to the Gentile Paul (Romans 11:13) which signified the new focus.
Also, at this time God gave Peter a vision indicating it was now time to preach to the Gentiles (Acts 10:1-28)
Regarding the "abomination of desolation". Jesus was speaking of the time in 70 AD when his followers were to flee Jerusalem, because the Roman armies under Titus would destroy the city and the Temple. In Matthew 24:15 Jesus told His followers, "When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies (Roman armies) then know that its desolation is near". And desolation did happen. Josephus spoke of blood flowing in the streets when up to a million Jews were butchered by the Romans inside Jerusalem.
Why did this happen? In Matthew 23-38 Jesus told the Pharisees:
"See! Your house is left to you desolate". That's because of the "abominations" of the Pharisees.
JEWISH SCHOLARS FAILED MISERABLY IN THE 1st CENTURY:
They failed to see that Jesus Christ was the one predicted by Daniel and He would die in the middle of the 70th week, per Daniel 9:27.
THE BOOK OF DANIEL IS AWESOME! It was written by Daniel from a prophecy the angel Gabriel gave him while he and the Jews were undergoing their exile in Babylon. It tells the Jews that God had given them a second chance to return to Israel and rebuild their Temple to get ready to ultimately receive their Messiah (Jesus Christ). It is an actual blueprint to the day Jesus would ride into Jerusalem on a donkey, and the first day (Psalm Sunday) He would allow them to be proclaim Him King --the actual day He would die on the cross - to the actual day (end of 70th week-3.5 years after His crucifixion) that the door would slam shut on the Jews.
Writing in about 607 BC, the Prophet Daniel prophesized the exact date the Messiah (Jesus) would ride into Jerusalem on a colt.
DANIEL 9:24-27:Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
This edict to rebuild Jerusalem was issued on March 16, 445 BC by Artaxerxes Longimanus of Persia. Exactly 173,880 days later Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. This was the first time Jesus allowed Himself to be publicly proclaimed as the Messiah and King. A week later Jesus was "cut off" or crucified.
Who else claiming to be the Messiah, and doing many wondrous miracles rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey on Palm Sunday, April 6, 32 A.D.?
Zechariah wrote in about 520 BC (Zechariah 9:9):
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
This prophesy refers to weeks of years, or 483 biblical years.
Beginning with the exact day on which Persian King Artaxerxes gave the decree to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem (March 14, 445), exactly 173,880 days later--Palm Sunday, April 6, 32 A.D.
This is the precise number of days spanning 483 biblical years, which were then measured as 12 months of 30 days each.
Daniel's prophecy is based on seventy (70) periods of seven year cycles. Literally, the Old Testament called for the land in Israel to lie idle every seventh year. "Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. . . . the land shall have a sabbatical year" (Lev. 25:3-5).
Keeping the seven year cycles in mind, Daniel's prophecy reveals that seven "cycles of seven years" would be counted to start the prophecy, which equals 49 years. So the first segment of Daniel's "time-oriented" prophecy culminated in a year of Jubilee, the 50th year.
The second time span in Daniel's prophecy calls for a period of sixty-two (62) "cycles of seven years," which equals 434 years.
Adding the initial 49 years to the 434 years equals 483 years.
According to Daniel's prophecy, the Messiah was to appear at Jerusalem 483 years after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem.
Let's multiply the 483 years by the number of days in a year.
Our solar calendar has 365¼ days each year. The Hebrew lunar calendar contains 354 days in a normal year or 383 days in a leap year.
Which length is correct? Let's assume that the length of a year revealed in the Bible is correct. What will we find?
The Bible uses 360 days for a biblical year. We find the 360 days in the books of Genesis [noah], the Torah [Moses], Daniel, and Revelation. Consider the 360 day year found in the book of Revelation. They [Gentiles] will trample on the holy city for 42 months. And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth (Rev. 11:2-3).
By this verse, 1,260 days equal 42 months.
We divide the 1,260 days by 42 months to arrive at 30 days in a month.
Since there are 12 months in a year, we multiply 30 x 12 to equal 360 days in a year.
Now we can get the exact length of Daniel's time line.
We must multiply 483 years by 360 days in a year to get 173,880 days.
About 40 years after Jesus was crucified, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple. The Romans flooded in, murdering hundreds of thousands (some say a million) of Jews.
Nehemiah 2:1 says; "And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king....." Note: No exact day in the month of Nisan was given. But according to Jewish tradition - when no exact day is given the first day of the month is assumed (the first day of Nisan would be March 14, 445 B.C.). Artaxerxes came to power in 465 B.C., 20 years later would make this 445 B.C., or March 14, 445 B.C. So, on March 14, 445 B.C. the rebuilding of Jerusalem began.
It took "Seven weeks (or 49 years)" to rebuild Jerusalem and its walls.
Isaiah 8:14 (written: 742 Before Christ)
"And he shall be a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
Isaiah 53:3 (written: 712 Before Christ)
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
HaYehudim
W'Melech HaNazarei
Yeshua
(Says Jesus the Nazarene and King of the Jews)
read Hebrew from right to left
When Jesus was crucified, Pilate wrote the formal epitaph above that was nailed to the cross. This particular wording he chose displeased the Jewish leadership, and they asked him to change it. Pilate refused.
Look at the first letters of each word above in bold...
above acrostic is quoted from the book; "The Genesis Factor", by Yacov Rambsel
John 19 19-22:
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
Note: This article above article on the Daniel Prophecy relies heavily on the works of a converted Jew: Steve Wohlberg, and his book: End Time Delusions
RECOMMENDED READING
End Time Delusions: The
Rapture, the Antichrist,
Israel, and the End of the World (Paperback)
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