Dear Jim Bramlett & Doves,
Newton’s 7 Weeks to the Second Return
Your article on Sir Isaac Newton and 2012 was EXCELLENT:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2012/jim315.htm
This “alternative take” on the 69 week timeline was actually one of the four main reasons why I am such a strong proponent of the 2008 – 2015 timeline that Ron Reese has been subscribing to. This “alternative take” was outlined in the following link that discussed the prospect of the 7 weeks of Daniel 9 being a separate prophecy for the Second Coming:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2011/mathman1229-2.htm (this post was titled: “Why I continue to be unreasonable by believing that 2015 will be the year of return for Jesus”)
The Section dealing specifically with this 7 week prophecy “alternative take” in this post is quoted as follows:
“FORMULA 3: THE 7 IN THE 7 + 62 OF THE 69 WEEKS
Daniel 9: 25: “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times”
Personal Theory 3 (PT3): There is controversy over the split between the 7 and the 62, which in turn adds to 69 weeks. In the first arrival, Jesus made His triumphant return to Jerusalem precisely 69 weeks of 2520 days in each week from the first decree to rebuild Jerusalem. Some have speculated that the first part, the seven weeks, represents a completely separate prophecy related to his second arrival for His triumphant return to Jerusalem. If this is truly a separate prophecy, given that Jewish days begin the evening before, such decree would have had to happen on June 7, 1967 or the day after, for it to be another signpost pointing towards the Day of Atonement 2015.
Fact 7: That is exactly what happened. In the first arrival of Jesus, all it took was a leader with the appropriate authority to declare that Jerusalem be rebuilt to start the 69 week countdown to the first return. In a similar manner, the PM of Israel made the EXACT same kind of decree the very next day after the retaking of Jerusalem, on June 8th of 1967 to be precise!! But it wasn’t all of Jerusalem that had to be rebuilt, just the Jewish Quarter, also known as Old Jerusalem. Ironically, this is the exact same portion ordered to be rebuilt that was used to prophesize the first time Jesus returned. In fact, Old Jerusalem was so completely and utterly destroyed in 1948 in the Arab Israel War that a Jordan leader gloated that no Jew would ever return to the Jewish Quarter.”
Please note that, in the above quote, I have outlined an even tighter deadline than the 2016 you have in your post.
Using Solar years, we get the 2016 you came up with. However, using 360 day Prophetic Years (matching the First Coming), it lands DIRECTLY, PRECISELY AND EXACTLY on the Day of Atonement, September 23, 2015, like a God-Guided Missile!! According to Leviticus, the Day of Atonement is THE most LOGICAL day for Jesus to reclaim the world from the evil one and destroy the Anti-Christ while doing it.
However, I have further support for using 360 days versus solar calendar days!!
In terms of the Anti-Christ, note that President Obama made his, “I will change the world in this final week” speech on October 29, 2008. October 29, 2008 is EXACTLY, to the day, 2520 days prior to the Day of Atonement, September 23, 2015!! This is the EXACT same date that Sir Isaac Newton’s analysis pointed to!! This is YET ANOTHER reason I love and support the 2008 – 2015 timeline with such vigor. Indeed, I will remain supporting it. Only the arrival of April 8th will make me change my opinion on this!!
Jim, what you reported so eloquently in your post even makes me more in love with the 2008-2015 timeline. I had not been aware that someone so dedicated and brilliant as Sir Isaac Newton had also subscribed to the theory that the 7 + 62 week split was there for a VERY important reason. Again, thanks for sharing this!!
Regardless of the type of calendar year we use in our projections, it all points to the same thing – WE WILL BE OUT OF HERE SOON, VERY SOON! Yes, 2012 looks like THE year of our Great Hope and our long-awaited departure!!
For those who can’t comprehend Jesus not Rapturing us yet (as we are in the Final Seven Years already, which started in 2008), simply look to John 7 for an example of Jesus not coming when WE expected him to. Indeed, I wrote a whole article on John 7 being an analogy related to a Post-Rapture Tribulation Period of SUBSTANTIALLY less than 7 years, linked as follows:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2011/mathman127.htm
BE EXCITED, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST, OUR REDEMPTION DRAWS EXTREMELY NEAR!!
As always, to God be ALL the glory!!! He is at the door!! Maranatha!!
YbiC, MathMan