Hello Colonel Bramlett!When you previously shared Isaac Newton's prophecy, I responded (Five Doves, Nov. 30, 2014 post) saying I disagree with Newton's idea that there is no linguistic basis for adding (7 weeks + 62 weeks) those two numbers (49 yrs and 434 yrs), because it is already proven there is indeed a basis for adding the two together when one considers it gives us the mathematical equation that predicted when Jesus would announce Himself as Messiah, as well as when He would be "cut off" (crucified/killed.)In other words, there had to be a START of the counting of the 70 Weeks. The "anointed One" would come some time after the 7 Weeks/49 years (the counting of which began with the decree of King Artaxerxes in 445 BC).Then when the 7 Weeks are added to the following 62 Weeks, we are told Messiah would be killed AFTER those 69 Weeks. So how could it be that there is no linguistic basis for adding (7 weeks + 62 weeks) those two numbers??? Without showing the 7 weeks and the 62 Weeks separately, and then adding them together, the correct chronology for knowing when to expect the Messiah and when He would be cut off could not have been known! Those two numbers (7+62=69) certainly are dependent on each other to give the correct chronological equations. Not only that, but the 70 Weeks prophecy forms the backbone of prophetic chronology from the First to the Second Advent of Messiah.The key to the appointed time lies in the past; and it seems Jesus had this on His mind when He entered Jerusalem on the day after Palm Sunday and delivered the Matthew 24 Olivet Discourse, which was nothing less than a detailed preview of Daniel 9:27. As Jesus revealed the details of Israel's future final Week, He was well aware that the Seventy Weeks Timeline had just been suspended the day before (on Palm Sunday when He was presented as King.) If it hadn't been suspended, the day after Palm Sunday would have been the first day of Daniel 9:27!Jesus didn't address the "time gap" (of the Church Age which was about to commence) and it wasn't shown on Daniel's timeline either. But no matter how long this time gap was going to be, Jesus acted as though it was non-existent and so immediately after the 69th week closed, He introduced Israel to the events that begin to unfold in the final "70th (last) week."I'll close by recapping what I said in the November post >>>When Rosh HaShanah/Feast of Trumpets 2015 begins the new Sabbatical Cycle on Sept. 13, 2015 it will be the Jewish New Year of 5776, which is Tishri 1, 2016 on the Hebrew calendar. That is the date I believe -along with many others who are watching and sounding the alarm- of the Resurrection/Rapture; while Newton is correct that Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement will be fulfilled by the Second Coming....7 years hence.I can't help but believe that Newton miscalculated what he SAW, which was the significant timing of the Lord's Return in 2016 (1967+49 years=2016).....except it will not be the Second Coming, but the Resurrection/Rapture!....and he just didn't know it. (I'm wondering if he's not kicking himself right now?.....poor guy.....so close. It only goes to show that NONE of us have it ALL right - but all of us have SOME of it right!)Shalomsherry vance~
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Thanks for your always excellent input. However, since Isaac Newton was possibly the greatest genius who ever lived, I think for now I will stick with his understanding.
Jim