Thank you Joe for the suggestion to look at the prophetic timetable at a different angle.
I think perhaps you also may have a misinterpretation on at least one major thing.
That is the time frame for the 2 witnesses.
I will not use a bunch of scripture but a comparison in bible history.
The types of AC in the past always had their nemeses the prophets to dog them.
I think it will be the same once again, they will be the needles whom persecute the unrighteous one until the day they are taken away.
 
Now on a personal note, I believe like many others that Obama is somehow linked to the great evil starting.
I  have shared this from a personal testimony like some others have.
It is nothing that I can prove scripturally other then the lightning cast down from heaven scripture some have referred to.
 
Also,  all seriousness aside, you mentioned that the Jews missed Jesus because of
wrong preconceptions of scripture. I think Jewish Christians are still doing that now,  just like many of us.
Which of coarse probably includes you.
And me.
And the rest of us
Amen
franko