‘Know and Understand this: From the Time the Word goes out
to Restore and Rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the
Ruler, comes, there will be 7 70s, and 62 7s. It will be
Rebuilt with Streets and a Trench, but in Times of Trouble.
After the 62 7s, the Anointed One will be put to Death and
will have Nothing. The People of the Ruler who will come
will Destroy the City and the Sanctuary. The End will come
like a Flood: War will continue until the End, and
Desolations have been Decreed. He will Confirm a Covenant
with Many for one 7. In the Middle of the 7, he will put an
End to Sacrifice and Offering. And at the Temple he will
set-up an Abomination that causes Desolation, until the End
that is decreed is poured out on him’. -Daniel 9:25-27
The following is one’s Critique of the Video Teaching that one
was asked to consider and Respond to. One will be summarizing
the Points that one agrees with and then those Points and/or
Logic that one either does not agree with or would need to
have more information as to how certain Statements made were
derived from. One will be upfront to say that one does have
one’s own Interpretation, Calculation and Timeline concern,
‘When does Daniel’s 70th Week Start?’ The Reference Articles
delving into this Subject will be in the End-Notes. Here is
the Link to the Video Teaching in Question.
Finding Daniel’s 70th Week and the Rapture
ByStander YouTube Video Teaching
Here are one’s Reactions. One found the Topic and Presentation
Interesting and engaging enough to not lose Focus or Interest.
One would agree that the Rapture is a Pre-Tribulation Event.
Based on this Presenters way of calculating the 7-Year
Tribulation, it suggests a 2025-2032 Timeline. One would again
agree with this Timeline as that is how one presently is
asserting the Year Count, as far as one has the Information to
go off of.
The Presenter of the Video Teaching on Daniel claims that he
has come-up with a ‘More Accurate’ Translation of Daniel
9:25-27, based on the Original Hebrew. Here is how he
translates the Passages based on the Exegesis of the
individual Words based on the Strongs, varied Translations and
the Blue Letter Bible, etc. ‘Know and Understand this: From
the Time the Order goes out to Restore and Rebuild Jerusalem
until the Anointed One, Prince, Seventy (70) 7’s (490 Years)
then Jubilee 60 and 2nd (Order with 490 Years to the Ruler).
Abomination of Desolations Event
They will come back and (Jerusalem) will be built with
Plaza and Moat then in Tribulation the Times End’. It is
interesting. Now, how he gets to the End Date is that he
chooses the Ezra Date of the Decree to ‘Restore and Rebuilt’.
And that Year is presumed to be -457 BC. Having this Start
date, if one then adds the initial 490 Years, that will be
then the Year 33 AD.
-457 BC + 490 Year Prophecy = 33 AD
However, one must realize that there were 4 Major Royal
Decrees made: Cyrus, Darius, ArtaXerxes I and then his Son,
ArtaXerxes II. This Last Persian King was the Son of Esther
and ArtaXerxes I. There is also the alternative Prophecy Year
count that it is rather the 483 Years that should be used
instead of the 490 Year Count. That is because it is the 2nd
Portion of the Prophecy where Messiah, the Prince would be
‘Cut-Off’ or Killed. If one uses this 483 Year Factor, one has
then shown how it was the Last Decree of Esther’s Son in -455
BC that determined Jesus’ Triumphal Entry.
-445 BC + (69 Years x 7 = 483 Years) = 39 AD – 7 Year
Tribulation = 32 AD
The Presenter subscribes to the ever-increasing Theory that
the 70th Week of Daniel actually started with Jesus’ Ministry,
that being the 1st 3.5 Years of the Total 7-Years. There is
some merit here in the Logic one is agreeable to a Point. One
is more convinced that the Prophecy of Daniel is a ‘Prophetic
Onion’ with Layers and Double-Entendres. It has to do with
Single Verses and Texts. The Subject of the Dialog switches
between Princes, 2 Messiah Figures, the Christ and then the
AntiChrist. One is of the Interpretation that there is that
3.5 Year Ministry of Jesus that was Cut at the Middle as it
was a Shemitah Cycle.
It is upon the Abomination of Desolations Event at the
Mid-Point of the 7-Year Tribulation that nonetheless fulfills
or Dove-Tails the Initial Shemitah of Jesus that then is
concluded when it ‘Switches’ and is concluded with the
AntiChrist being Cut-Off in the Midst and then the People of
that Prince are Destroyed, etc. This speaks of the 2nd Half of
the Tribulation Period, which is still 7 Years in totality,
but it is the 3.5 Years 2nd half where Lucifer is given Total
Authority, etc.
So, in this regard, the Timeline the Presenter displays is how
he used then the Decree of the Muslim 'Solomon' or Suleiman
the Magnificent to determine the Timeline of when, then the
70th Week is to begin. He uses the 1535 AD Decree of the
Ottoman Sultan to rebuild the Wall of Jerusalem. One would
agree with this, but not sure why he chose him or what is the
Rationale behind that decision. Nonetheless, astonishing, that
Prophetic Template of Daniel is the following, when using the
490 Year Count.
1535 Suleiman Decree + 490 Years of Daniel = 2025
Who is the Ruler?
However, in the Presenter’s Timeline, he has it as being 2024
as the End Year, not 2025. He does, perhaps inadvertently,
place the 7-Year Tribulation as being a 2025-2031 Time-Spans,
which again is off by 1 Year. It should be 2025-2032. In this
regard, one too has come up with this same Calculation in
previous Articles. It shows that, perhaps 2024 could imply the
‘End’ of the Gentile Age or specifically, that of the Church
Age in 2024.
This would then lead to conclude, based on such a Logic, that
the Rapture of the Bride of Christ is to take place in 2024,
whatever remains of it. This will need to be seen, if the
Calculations and Assertions are to be correct. At this
point in the Video Teaching the Presenter further Translates
the following Portion Daniel 9. And after the Jubilee 60 and
2nd (Group of Weeks) Messiah will cut a Covenant and Rapture
to Himself and the City and he will sanctify (Everyone in the
City).
He will destroy the People of the Ruler to come, and the End
thereof with a Flood (Army), unto the End of the War,
Desolations are Decreed. One can accept this Interpretation as
it is dealing with the Messiah, that being Jesus that
Established the New Covenant and will return to Destroy the
People of the False Messiah, the AntiChrist, etc. In that
Text, it is that other ‘Prince’ or Ruler, the Anti-Prince.
From this point in the Presentation, there is a Definition
explained of what is the 7 and the 70 = 490. Agree. No
Problem.
The following is how the Presenter breaks-down the subsequent
Verses. What one has seen in this World Study of Daniel 9 is
now the Notion of the Rapture is truly encoded, hidden in the
Verse. If that is the case, this insight would be extremely
significant. One has to study this Word, ‘To Disappear,
Vanish, Make Nothing, Was Gone, Shall Not Be’, more in line
with the Context and not perhaps interpose one’s own Personal
Interproton. One is not saying that is what the Presenter has
intended to do. The Presenter does state that he is inserting
his own Interpretation.
The Presenter then interjects the Verse from Jeremiah 50 and
51 to assert that this is a Confirming Witness and Verse
pertaining to his Translation of Daniel 9 as Delineated above.
The Last Portion of his Presentation if about the other
Reference to a Covenant. One has also researched the Original
Hebrew concerning who are the ‘Many’. One is more convinced
that this ‘Many’, the L'Rabbim, are pertaining to the Elders
of the Many that make-up the Sanhedrin.
Essentially, they are the Religious Teachers or the Elders of
Zion that will be in Power and calling the Shots in Israel
after the Rapture. The Article discussing this Interpretation
will be linked in the End-Notes. This is where he also
displays another Timeline. It is very interesting as it begins
with the Conception and then Passover Birth of John the
Baptist. How does he know this? What is his source? If this is
the case, as he determines it to be in -4 BC, it would confirm
a -3 BC Birth of Jesus.
Tribulation Timeline
Recall how there was a 6 Month Overlap of Time when the 2
Mothers of John and Jesus met in person and John leaped in the
Womb of Elizabeth at the Encounter of Jesus, in Mary’s Womb
still. However, this 6 Month Overlap of Gestations would mean
that John the Baptist was conceived 6 Months prior to
September 11, -3 BC. That would put the Conception of John in
the Month of March 11. This would be well before any possible
Passover Conception or Birth.
The other Quandary is what others have brought-up also in that
the Presenter then goes to demonstrate how the ‘Week’ and the
‘Half’, then ‘One’ and then ‘Week’ is really 73.5 Years. One
does not agree with this Interpretation or Extrapolation of
the Numbers, correlated to the Years. It Is clear that the
Time given in insinuating 7 Year Sabbath of Time. This is
later corroborated in how the Scripture reiterates this
Time-Frame in the Terms of ‘Time, Times and Half a Time’. This
is clearly 1 Year, 2 Years and 1/2 Year or 3.5 Years. Then in
other Reiterations, it is even made more clear by the actual
Day Count, that being 1260 Days or 48 Months.
3.5 Years = 1260 Days or 48 Months (Not 73.5 Years as the
Presenter asserts.)
One can see who the Presenters attempt to decipher the
Original Hebrew. But in so doing, it is one’s Opinion that he
has discombobulated the Meaning, altogether. Now from the
Timeline presented, the Point of the Crucifixion would be
correlated to 30 AD. And the Timeline shows that from there,
the 40 Year Time-Frame leads to 70 AD. And that is when the
Temple was Destroyed. One would agree with this Timeline, but
realizing that based on one’s own Year Calculations, it was in
the Year 29 AD.
That is the Year Jesus Started His Public Ministry, on Yom
Kippur to be exact, in one's Calculations. It is when Jesus
read the Fulfilment of the Jubilee at the Synagogue of
Nazareth. And 40 Years from then was August of 70 AD when the
2nd Temple was Destroyed on the same Day Solomon’s Temple as
too, on the 9th of Av, etc. The Presenter finishes by
asserting that Jesus’ 1st Coming was about the ‘Marriage
Proposal’. One can accept this. He then asserts that at Jesus’
2nd Coming is when the ‘Marriage Feast’ will be concluded and
consummated, etc. However, in his next Statements, one does
not agree and one sincerely believes he is now ‘Off Base’ in
this sense.
He states, ‘That is when we become the Bride and that is when
our Sins are forgiven’. No, one becomes the Bride the Moment
one Calls Upon the Name of Jesus in a sincere Heart to be
Saved and Adopted as the Sons of the Promise. The Sins of all
Adam’s Fallen Race were Forgiven at the Point of Jesus Death
as His Blood is what had the Life Force and was shed to Pay or
Atone or Cover for one’s Debt of Sins. At the Cross, Jesus’
Last Words were, ‘It Is Paid For’. That Appropriation is
Accredited to each Sinner at the point that one comes to
Jesus. From that Point forward, one is a New Creation and
Positionally in Jesus, one is Seated already in Glory, in
Jesus. One is just working-out one’s Degree of Sanctification
or going ‘Holy’ or Separated from the World, Sin and Satan. In
the Future, one’s Body, that is still under the Curse of Sin,
will be Transformed with a New Body of Glory and
Indestructible Light and Eternal Life.
Daily Sacrifices
He then states that if his Conclusion is correct, and he
believes it is, then the Whole Church has been ‘Looking at the
Wrong Signs of the Times’. Now in this aspect, one can respect
this Audacity as one has done the same with one’s New Wine
Pentecost Rapture Date and Leo New Year Rapture Theory. One
has said the same thing, in that the Church Tradition for
nearly 2000 Years has been ‘Wrong’. One can be Wrong and that
is why one can only present the Circumstantial Evidence as a
Theory that has to be Tested by Time.
But no, the Covenant with the Many has not been Confirmed.
Yes, there will be a 3rd Temple. There is an Abomination of
Desolation that essentially Defiles it rather than Destroys it
as he conceives, erroneously, in one’s Opinion. Yes, it is the
AntiChrist that does indeed Stop the Daily Sacrifices. It is
because he started them. And that has been also one’s other
Theory in that this coming Solomon 2.0 or Suleiman the Great
to the Muslims will be dedicating the 3rd Temple by them. This
is of course, one’s personal Conjecture.
Yes, the Church Age Believer does not need to ‘Wait’ for the
Daily Sacrifices to Begin. If one sees them, you have just
missed the Pre-Tribulation Rapture. How so? It is that the New
Testament clearly teaches that one will not even see who the
AntiChrist will be, at least from Earth’s Point of View. One
will from the ‘Heavenly Balcony’. But the Tribulation Period,
in one’s Estimation and Interpretation is precisely depending
on when the 3rd Temple is to be Dedicated. It is because that
is when the Daily Sacrifices are Initiated. And from that
Point in Time, the Mid-Point will be and can be then
determined. And from the Mid-Point, one can then calculate the
Return of Jesus, to the Day, precisely 1260 Days later.
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