How I interpret the Scripture. jfhJesus died on the cross and three days later he arose from the dead and appeared to his believers for 40 days and on the 490th day from the beginning his ministry, or 70 weeks later, he baptized the 120 in the upper room with his Holy Spirit.
So he actually did come back in the flesh and ate with them. Through those he then began to rule and reign with a rod of iron. He’s coming the 2nd time to gather believers to himself, at the appointed time, and take them to the New Jerusalem prepared for them. Hallelujah !!! Oh, btw it was also 490 years, or 70 week-of-weeks, from the 7th year of Artaxerxes I (Esther’s king) that Jesus began his earthly ministry.
He rules through his believers by his Holy Spirit.
Jesus rules over the Spiritual kingdom that is in control of unbelievers for he says his kingdom is not of this world. God is a Spirit.
Rev. 5:10 “And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”
John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
Luke 4:16-21 “And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
Isaiah 61:1-4 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.” Beginning on Pentecost
Zech. 2:5 “For I, said the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.”
Daniel 9:24-27 “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
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. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince [Titus] that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
And he [Jesus] shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”
This was the midst of the 63rd week which was Passion Week and 7 weeks later was Pentecost, or the 70th week. Titus came 40 years later and burned the city of Jerusalem and the Temple. Vespasian overcame the three Caesars [Galba, Otho and Vitellius] after Nero and took his kingdom as Caesar for 10 years.
“Christian folks fail to realize that all the nations of the Bible world kept records, accounting records, tax records, political, military, records of births, even data on such things as year to year harvest yields and the weather, etc. The ancient records are preserved for us and there is absolutely zero evidence that Jesus has had a second coming. They exist but are not of interest to most of us so we simply assume of their being non-existent.” by Pastor Bob
Yes, they put it on steles and monuments that have been translated for us today. Jesus’ coming and coming again is recorded in the heavens/stars also. Gen 1:14, Psa 19:1-4 jfh
There is nothing in Scripture that says there is a “gap” between those last 7 weeks. Jesus died in the midst of the 63rd week and the Holy Spirit descended on the 120 at the end of the 70th week.
Proverbs 25:2 “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.”
Rev. 5:10 “And has made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”
I’m a king and a priest on the earth by way of the Holy Spirit in me.
1 Cor. 6:19 “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
On the eve of Yom Kippur I heard the voices, as of angels, singing for a few seconds of time in 2007. It will soon be 7 years this Yom Kippur. This is a very auspicious/hopeful number in Scripture. It will also be 6,000 years from God saying…
Genesis 6:3 “And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty [Jubilee] years. [120x50=6,000]
I believe it was the time when Cain killed Abel. The first born’s sacrifice was not accepted and he didn’t like it.
May God bless you all, jfh