Re: A support for
the "Jubileé = 2017/2018" alternative
That seems reasonable and would explain why the count wasn't matching up with everything else pointing to 2017.
Good
to see someone exploring the calculations, not just assuming it is
correct and then changing the entire rest of the program to try to fit
into a 2014/2015 timeframe when all the evidence before us and all the
signs are pointing to a 70th week that hasn't yet begun and that looks
likely to end with a Second Coming in 2017/2018.
Also, I think sometimes we forget to look back at Daniel's prophecy
when discussing the rapture, and therefore miss some very basic
concepts.
For example, Daniel describes the 70 weeks as God's
dealings with the nation of Israel and the ungodly gentile nations. He
lists specifically their purpose: "Seventy weeks have
been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the
transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity,
to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy
and to anoint the most holy place." (Daniel 9:24 NASB)
The church was not present
for the first 69 weeks. There is no reason for the church to still be
on earth for the 70th week either. Note that that's all seven
years. Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy doesn't make a distinction of the
first 3.5 years being so-called "man's wrath" and the second 3.5 years
being God's wrath. In fact, nowhere in the Bible do we read of "man's
wrath against the Church" aside from the common persecution of the
saints experienced throughout the last 2,000 years in various forms and
varying degrees. The 70th week, on the other hand, is said to be God's
activity and specifically focused on Israel and the ungodly gentile
nations around her.
Let us not forget that when we discuss the timing of the rapture.
And
when we remember that, we can be pretty confident that the 70th week
has not begun because the Church is still here. That is a strong
evidence that a 2014/2015 timeframe for the Second Coming is suspect
and probably miscalculated, as our brother Karl has noted.
Grace and peace.
Jay