Sherry Vance (28 Sep 2010)
"Lauren's 70 Weeks Timeline Is an Impossibility - Understand Why Below"


 
Lauren is banking on a 70 Weeks Timeline, but I must ask: Since the 7 + 62 (=69) weeks were over BEFORE the Spring Feasts were fulfilled --- with one more "week" to go being determined for "His people"......why does anyone think we have to "start over" with the 70 weeks again???   
    IT IS CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT THE MODERN (SECOND) HISTORY OF ISRAEL FOLLOWS THE HISTORICAL PATTERN NOT OF DANIEL'S 70 WEEKS, BUT OF THE THREE WEEKS OF JACOB'S TROUBLE!!!!  AND TO FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THIS PATTERN, WE CAN SEE AND UNDERSTAND THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE IN THAT AFTER IT'S BIRTH IN "ONE DAY" (BY U.N. PROCLAMATION) IT "GREW LEAVES", MATURED, (19 TO 20 YEARS OF AGE), TOOK NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND REUNITED JERUSALEM...WHICH BEGAN THE 40 YEAR COUNTDOWN OF THE GENERATION THAT WOULD NOT PASS AWAY BUT SEE ALL THINGS FULFILLED. 
    In the course of this 40 year generation, there came a point in time when Israel/JACOB began to have worldwide "issues" regarding the Land of Israel.  Now Israel/Jacob has always had issues with the Land (remembering all of the subsequent wars which God used against Israel's enemies to actually enlarge the borders of the Land of Israel,) but this time the focus was in a worldwide public forum over who had the "right" to the Land.  Events have to start with something.....and this something (whether Israel had a "right" to the Land) was with regard to the 1993 Oslo Accords in which Jacob/Israel and Arafat/representing the Palestinians put forth the "first- time-ever-public-"agreement" that Israel "exists" (which is different than saying Israel has a RIGHT to exist per God's Covenant with them.)  However, this "Oslo agreement" (which was a lied-to-agreement since Arafat never intended to honor it) was the "start of something big."  IT WAS THE (first week of) the START OF JACOB'S TROUBLE!  (Oslo was presented to the world on Rosh HaShanah 1993 and it was a 7 year (one 'week') agreement.)
    Seven years later, ON Rosh Hashanah 2000, the lied-to-agreement officially died when the Intifada began.  What triggered it?  They say Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount.  But the intifada had little to do with Sharon's visit, and everything to do with the Palestinian Arabs' political agenda.  In July 2000, Yasser Arafat had walked out of the Camp David peace talks and began plans for the armed struggle to resume.  When Ariel Sharon made his provocative visit to the Temple Mount in September on Rosh Hashanah 2000, it was the most appropriate moment for the outbreak of the intifada.  He had gone up there to reassert the peace initiative but it was not to be because for the next 7 years (2nd week of Jacob's Trouble) Israel/Jacob suffered greatly at the hands of Palestinian suicide bombers, bus bombs, terrorists, etc.
    "Coincidentally," on Rosh HaShanah 2000, the Israeli Rabbis declared "THE TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE HAS BEGUN."  In accordance with this, they also declared the ending of 6,000 years according to the biblical Hebrew Creation calendar. (BTW - the counting of this calendar is backed by NASA calculations, for those who are doubting Thomases.)  The inescapable meaning of this is absolutely PROFOUND!  It means man's 6 days of granted dominion ENDED....and THE LORD'S DAY -THE 7TH DAY- THE LAST DAY - THE SABBATH DAY OF THE LORD HAD BEGUN....in the Gregorian year 2000!!! 
    The obscure comprehension of this FACT is what has escaped most people and is why they do not understand "what time it is."  God created each day beginning with  "the evening and the morning were the first day, second day, etc.  But when the 7th day, the Sabbath rest arrived, there was no mention of an "evening and a morning."  Gen. 1:31 simply says "And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."  The beginning of Gen. chapter 2 simply states "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."  The inescapable meaning of this is clear >>> the 7th day is not limited to an evening and morning...AND, the SABBATH will be a day/year of REST. Therefore the 7th day -the LAST DAY- will encompass all that must be accomplished to bring His foreordained Plan to it's conclusion.  What is His foreordained plan? >>>> "TO FINISH THE TRANSGRESSION, AND TO MAKE AN END OF SINS, AND TO MAKE RECONCILITAION FOR INIQUITY, AND TO BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!!"   This will necessarily encompass and include Daniel's 70th Week, the LAST WEEK, also known as THE THIRD WEEK OF JACOB'S TROUBLE, from which Jacob will be saved out of
    The seventy weeks determined upon Daniel's people and upon thy holy city cannot, and did not, "start over" with the rebirth of Israel in 1948!   It is an impossibility because the SABBATH YEAR (which began on Rosh Hashanah 2000/2001, which ended the 6th Day and began the 7th Day) can only come to Sabbath cycles from 2000-2001, 2007-2008, 20014-2015, and 2021-2022, and so on.
But The LORD OF THE SABBATH MUST RETURN ON THE SABBATH...which must begin in one of the cycles above!!!!
    Another reason a 70 Week timeline from Israel's rebirth is an impossibility is because 69 Weeks have already ended with only ONE week to go.  How can you finish 69 weeks and "forget" the fulfillment of the 70th week, which has not concluded, but then "start over again???"  Besides, after the 69 Weeks ended Christ fulfilled the Spring Feasts.  They will never be repeated.  The gap between the fulfillment of the Spring Feasts and the Former Rain were not just for the fulfillment of the "Church Age" ---- they were for the separation of SEASONS regarding the COMING fulfillment of the Latter Rain and FALL FEASTS at His Second Coming! 
    Lauren's "changing" of the counting of the weeks, (she states: "On September 15, 1947, unbeknown to NO ONE, the 1st of the "62" weeks of Daniel 9:25's "62"+"7"+"1"= 70 weeks, began its COUNT UP TO it's 62nd and last week on September 18, 2009") is a direct perversion of historical events made in order to make some kind of pseudo-factual case to "fit" her timeline.  The true fact is that Daniel's 9:25 shows 7+62+1=70....which has everything to do with historical facts and with the absolute accurate detailed analogy of the Three Weeks of Jacob's Trouble which will conclude with Jacob being "saved out of it."  Out of WHAT?  Out of that LAST WEEK / 70th WEEK of Daniel's 70 Weeks which were determined upon his people and which has NOT been fufilled as yet (even though we are about to enter the middle of it, the 4th Year - at which point all hell will break loose in the form of the 3 1/2 year/42 month "great tribulation" spoken of by Jesus.
    Another reason Lauren's timeline is an impossibility is simply because "it doesn't make any sense."  Look at it below in depth and not for what it seems to imply:
    
Lauren said: 1) On September 15, 1947, unbeknown to NO ONE, the 1st of the "62" weeks of Daniel 9:25's "62"+"7"+"1"= 70 weeks, began its COUNT UP TO it's 62nd and last week on September 18, 2009
First of all, the 62 weeks do not come first in Dan. 9:25.  Second of all, choosing to count 62 years (again, out of order) from Rosh Hashanah "1947" means nothing. And nothing "significant" happened on Rosh Hashanah 2009 either.  It is a fabrication without meaning.  The "significance" is conjured up in citing 62 years from absolutely nothing to absolutely nothing. 
 
Lauren said: 2.) On November 29, 1947 A UN "proclamation" went out saying that Israel would be granted statehood.  It fulfilled Daniel's words when he proclaimed, "Seventy weeks" are determined upon your people and upon your holy city". The  UN proclamation on 11-29-1947 fulfilled the "your people" part of the verse.
It did nothing of the sort!  It was not a "proclamation!"  It was a 'Resolution' -a formal expression of opinion or intention- for the Jews to prepare to implement a Jewish State....which was the fulfillment of the 1897 First Zionist Congress, inspired by Theodor Herzl's vision of the Jewish State. This was no more (and no less) significant than the League of Nations 1917 Balfour Declaration which gave explicit international recognition to the historic connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and their right to reconstitute their National Home.  So why not start counting 30 years earlier, from 1917 instead of 1947, for all the significance 62 years supposedly had?  That would bring you to 1979 - wow! ....which is about as much significance as 2009 had...which is to say NONE!  My point is, there is nothing significant about counting 62 years from 1947 to 2009.  It means nothing to the timeline.
    However, let's re-address November 29, 1947.  The Holocaust proved the need for the re-establishment of the Jewish State, which would endow the Jewish people with a Homeland; so the U.N. adopted a Resolution requiring the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine, and advised the Jews to take all the necessary steps on their part to put the plan into effect and on May 14, 1948 the State of Israel was declared. 
 
Lauren said: 3.) On May 14, 1948 Israel was declared a nation.
Since Lauren has already established in her own mind that the 62 year count began with the November 29, 1947 UN "proclamation" that went out saying Israel would be granted statehood.....so what makes May 14, 1948 significant to her timeline (again out of order in counting) of "62+7+1=70"?  Nothing.
    HOWEVER, May 14, 1948 is significant to SOMETHING!  It began the COUNT for the parable of the FIG TREE.  The 'count' would be based on when the Fig Tree would become "mature" - meaning to reach the Age of Accountability & National Service, which, as established under the Law of Moses during the first time Israel was called a Nation, is 20 years of age.  Lo and behold, Israel was 19 in May 1967 but within less than a month into her 20th year, Israel took hold of National responsibility and reunified Jerusalem for the first time in 2,000 years!  This confirms that the timeline is on track with the parable of the Fig Tree...not Daniel's 70 Weeks.
    
Lauren said: 4.) On June 6, 1967, during the 'six day war' Jerusalem was turned over to Israel, fulfilling the "your holy city" part of Daniel 9:25.
This statement is an errant and insignificant justification regarding Lauren's timeline of "70 weeks determined for thy holy city."  Just how does this fit in with any counting at all....apart from the Fig Tree, which is not part of her equation anyway? 
 
Lauren said: 5.) On October 5, 1967 the FIRST WEEK of SEVEN-seven week Sabbatical cycles totaling 49 weeks began.
Rosh Hashanah, Oct. 5, 1967 was NOT the "start of a Sabbatical cycle."
Counting backward from Rosh Hashanah 2000 (the end of 6,000 yrs. and start of the 7th Day/Sabbath Year/7th Millennium) we know that the Sabbath cycles are in the years 2000/2001....1993/1994....1986/1987....1979/1980....1972/1973....1965/1966 --- NOT in 1967.  Lauren declares a Sabbath cycle started on Oct. 5, 1967 only to "fit" her timeline of 7x7=49 years to establish her contention that On October 12/13, 2016 the Jubilee year begins in the Millennial reign.  However, her further error is not understanding that the Lord must return in a Sabbath Year and that that year will be a Sabbath REST, with the Jubilee Year following the Sabbath, as is necessary. Besides that, where is the last "1 week" in this equation that ends in 2016?
    Consequently, the ONLY beginning Sabbath Year cycle in which the Lord will return is 2014/2015, with the Jubilee Year following in 2015/2016....unless you desire to wait until 2021-2022?  This SABBATH cycle timeline "fits" with the ending of the Three Weeks of Jacob's Trouble, the LAST WEEK, the 70th Week.....not a "70 Weeks timeline."
 
Lauren said: 6.) On September 19, 2009 the first week of the "7" of Daniel 9:25's "62"+"7"+"1"=70 weeks began its COUNT UP TO the "69th" and last week that ended on October 4, 2016.
Again, you cannot change the order of historical events from 7+62+1=70 weeks to "62+7+1=70"!!!   And again, 1947+62 years=2009 means nothing; just as 2009+7 years=2016 (NOT a Sabbatical year at all!) means nothing.  And in all of this, again, just WHERE is the last "1 week of 7 years" then??? 
 
Lauren said: 7.) During this September 19, 2009 week, the 1st week of the LAST SEVEN-seven weeks of 49 Sabbatical weeks also began its COUNT OUT TO October 4, 2016
....EXCEPT that Rosh HaShanah 2016 is NOT a Sabbatical Year!  Explain that away!
The Lord must return in a SABBATH Year, not a Jubilee Year which follows!
 
Lauren said: 8.) On October 12/13, 2016 the Jubilee year begins in the Millennial reign.
If this is when Christ "returns", what happened to the Sabbatical Year of REST?  Lauren proposes Christ returns in a year that is NOT a Sabbatical Year and on top of that, claims after only ten days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, wahlaaa - the Millennial Reign begins???.....yet neither Rosh Hashanah NOR Yom Kippur 2016 is in a Sabbatical Year at all!!!
 
No, Lauren's "70 Weeks timeline" requires that the 70 Weeks that are determined for Israel would start all over again with the "proclamation of a resolution" for a state of Israel (1947) - leaving out the FACT that the whole purpose of the historical 7 weeks was to re-establish/restore the people and the holy city from Babylonian captivity, and the 62 weeks were for Christ's First Advent, and after the total of 69 weeks Christ would FULFILL THE FOUR SPRING FEASTS, coming as the Former Rain, pouring out His Spirit.  The last three feasts will be fulfilled by his 2nd coming as he literally comes to earth to bring his kingdom and rule the nations.
    It is so far proven that the timeline based on the Three Weeks of Jacob's Trouble (showing the START of the Timeline), and the parable of the Fig Tree, and all of the historic analogy associated with the details in accordance with the modern, present-day history of Israel/Jacob have been right on the mark, right down to the exact FEAST DAYS and SABBATHS they were fulfilled.  And there has been NO changing or wresting of dates or counting to make them "fit" anything....including the Sabbath Years.  AND there has been a recently seen confirmation of the John 7 passage indicating that Jesus, previously hidden, suddenly appeared "about the midst of the feast" - in other words the MIDDLE OF THE WEEK, aka the 4th day/year.  So, get ready --- we are now in the 4th, middle, midst of the Week!!!!  Right now a lot of people are asking, as the Jews did in John 7:11, "Where is he?"   Well, he is about to "appear" in about 4 months...before the exact middle of the Week when the Abomination of Desolation takes place.!  
    So, in conclusion, I will re-iterate below the timeline as simply as I can...but for details, charts, commentaries, please go to Godstimeline.com. 
Timeline: 
* 6,000 years ended at Rosh Hashanah 2000 and the 7th Day/The Last Day/The Sabbath Day began.
 
*The 7th Day (Jewish New Year of 2001) is the Sabbath Day which began a new Sabbath Year cycle. >>> 2000-2001, 20007-2008, 2014-2015.  
 
* At Rosh HaShanah 2007-2008, the Sabbath Year & 70th Week of Daniel began.
This is in accordance and agreement with the Third Week of Jacob's Trouble from which Jacob/Israel shall be saved out of.  The analogy following these Three Weeks thus far has been exact and true right down to the Rosh HaShanah's of 1993-1994, 2000-2001, and 2007-2008, which all began with Sabbath cycles.
 
* The whole 4th year of the 7 Years of the 70th Week is the middle year....thus, on our Gregorian calendar, Rosh HaShanah 2010  is the Jewish new year of 2011, or 5771 .....THUS, WE ARE NOW IN THE 4th YEAR, i.e. IN THE MIDST OF THE 70TH WEEK. 
 
In John 7 we read "Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand."  That 'Tabernacles was at hand' is not the issue....we are NOT saying the Rapture is "at hand" during the Feast of Tabernacles!  The issue is that at Tabernacles one was required, one was EXPECTED, to SHOW UP .  Jesus told his disciples "Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come."  He knew the Jewish leaders sought to kill him.  So "he abode still in Galilee." 
    Now his disciples had already left for the feast, and "then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret." 
    Verses 11-13 shows that many of the Jews looked for him.  They knew it was required to attend the feast but they did not see him.  "They sought him at the feast and said Where is he?  And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him" and though they wondered and sought him and spoke about him, they did so quietly, not openly, for they were afraid of the Jews (Jewish leaders.)
    They apparently looked for him on Day One, Day Two, and Day Three of the feast and did not see him.....JUST AS many Doves have been looking for Jesus during these last 3 years, even not knowing it is already the 70th Week.  But in verse 14, all of a sudden he appears!>>>"NOW ABOUT THE MIDST OF THE FEAST JESUS WENT UP INTO THE TEMPLE, AND TAUGHT."
    Do you see the significance of this?  Everybody was looking for him for they knew he MUST attend the feast - he must COME!  But he was nowhere to be seen.
Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere IN THE MIDST OF THE FEAST - THE 4TH DAY!!! - MID-WEEK - MID-POINT!!!! JESUS APPEARS AND GOES UP INTO THE TEMPLE.
    Do you yet see the significance?  We have just entered the midst of the week - the 4th year - the mid-point!  We have not seen him yet.....but all of a sudden he will appear - and we will go up into the temple in heaven with him!
    I see this as a confirmation of the Three Weeks of Jacob's Trouble Timeline.  Many do not even yet know "what time it is."  They are still waiting for the 70th Week/so-called 7 year Tribulation to start.  They are waiting for a Sabbath that has already begun.  They are still looking forward to the "Last Day", the "Lord's Day" which has already begun!  But we are already there!  One day, two days, three days (each for a year) have already gone by!  We are in the midst of the week!!! - the 4th day is NOW!
    Sometime before the exact mid-point of the 70th Week (March 2011):
    * there will be war in heaven and satan will be cast down to earth. 
    *When Satan, the Accuser of the brethren, is no longer accusing, Christ will descend from heaven in the air and the Resurrection of the Dead-in-Christ and the Rapture of living believers will be caught up to him in the clouds. 
    *The two witnesses will descend to begin their 1260 day ministry.  They MUST arrive before the 1260 day "great tribulation" begins because, though their ministry is the same length of time as the great tribulation, the antichrist kills them BEFORE the great tribulation ends!  Therefore, they must be resurrected before the end of the 1260 days of 'great tribulation.' 
    *Satan is granted 42 months/1260 days to 'continue," and thus empowers the antichrist to do his bidding....beginning with the abomination that makes desolate. 
 
ALL of these things: the war in heaven, the Resurrection/Rapture, satan cast out of heaven, the appearance of the two witnesses, the abomination of desolation --- all of these things take place in the 4th year of the 70th Week > "IN THE MIDST OF."  
    John 7 shows us that Jesus is HERE NOW!  This is HIS DAY, the 7th DAY, THE LAST DAY, the SABBATH DAY!  All things will be accomplished in this HIS DAY.  Remember, in Genesis, the 7th Day does not begin and end as the others do - there is "no evening and no morning" stated for the 7th day, the Sabbath.  It is because it belongs to the Lord!  It encompasses much more than the 1,000 year Kingdom.  It includes the last Week of 7 years designated for ISRAEL, in order to bring them to Redemption!!!
    WE ARE NOW IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK, BEFORE JESUS WILL APPEAR!  We are looking for him, watching for him even NOW.....but knowing he cannot come until the Accuser is taken out of the way of the Throne of God where he has been accusing living believers day and night, in other words CONTINOUSLY!
Soon he will not be able to accuse us anymore for he not only will be cast out of heaven, we will go up as he comes down.
    Wake up!  The Bridegroom is coming - we know he is - even before we hear the shout we are expecting it for we know the time he is expected!  Jesus is LORD OF THE SABBATH - the Sabbath has already begun and he is on his way!  When he returns in The Second Coming He will then be annointed and crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords on Rosh HaShanah 2014 WHICH IS A SABBATH YEAR!.....THE LORD OF THE SABBATH, MUST TAKE HIS THRONE ON THE SABBATH!
    Why do we know 2014 is the Sabbath Year (of rest?)  Because when the 6th Day ended at Rosh HaShanah 2000, THE 7TH DAY, THE SABBATH DAY, BEGAN!  We know how to count off the years, 6 and then the 7th, the Sabbath - and following the Sabbath Year of Rest will be the Lord's JUBILEE!!!  NOT your average run-of-the-mill-Jewish Jubilee where (if the Jews had kept it) they would have returned all things to the original owner, cancelled debts, freed their slaves, etc. etc.  NO!  The Year of the Lord's Jubilee is when ALL THINGS - HIS WHOLE CREATION, AND HIS PEOPLE WILL BE RETURNED TO HIM - THE RIGHTFUL OWNER, THE CREATOR HIMSELF - THE LORD'S JUBILEE at Rosh HaShanah 2015-2016.
    For those advocating a 70 year plan from Israel's birth in 1948 (or even in 1947???) - well, you're wrong because you are not following first of all the Sabbath schedule and second of all, the already fulfilled types, shadows, histories, and analogies that were given to us so we could know the timeline as it began and is unfolding before our very eyes. The Jews missed His crucial timing the first time - don't miss it the second time.  The Three 7's - Three Weeks of Jacob's Trouble - has been being fulfilled down to the very exact DAY since Rosh HaShanah 1993.  It hasn't missed a beat.
Shalom and until, Sherry Vance