I don’t think anyone can seriously question that Daniel chapter 9 forms a framework for these end times. Here is a text I would like you to consider:Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. -Daniel 9:24 NKJV
There’s general agreement that these items must all be completed before the Seventy Weeks are concluded. We know from explicit scripture that Jesus was crucified after sixty-two weeks had elapsed, and it’s accepted that seven weeks preceded that sixty-two week period. I think we also agree that the six items in the verse above have not been accomplished. The last item on the list is not necessarily the last item chronologically, but I’d hope we can all agree that the anointing of the Most Holy must be accomplished before the final ‘week’ ends.
Now, there are LOTS of rabbit-trails here, but I want to start by asking just one clarifying question: What does the Bible mean when it uses the phrase “Most Holy“?
To answer the question, we simply go to Blue Letter Bible and search for “most holy.” The phrase appears 46 times in the KJV, 49 in the NKJV. With just one exception (Jude 1:20) it refers to either the inner sanctuary of the Temple, or specific objects used there. It is never used to refer to a person.
The reason I bring this up is because when I ask people about this specific “agenda item” that must be accomplished before the final ‘week’ ends and the Millennium begins, the answer is almost without exception (and no exceptions come to mind) that JESUS is the “most holy” that will be anointed. You may have believed that yourself.
Now I don’t question Jesus’ holiness. That’s not at issue. He has at least two anointing that we’re aware of: first, as noted in Luke 4:18 where Jesus states that the Spirit of the Lord had anointed him to preach, and second in Mark 14:8 where He was anointed for burial. But the question I’m asking is “what needs to be anointed in order to complete the reconciliation between God and His covenant people, and bring the final seven years to a close?”
If you would now answer, “the sanctuary for the Millennial Temple” then you are correct. That is exactly what Daniel is referring to. The follow-up questions are: 1) how long will it take to build the Temple (believed by many – myself included – to be the Temple Complex that Ezekiel describes in Ezek. 40-41), and 2) is it reasonable to believe that this construction can be done during a period of great tribulation and wrath while the Antichrist is ruling the planet?
Because, as you know, this is exactly what some “Bible scholars” and “prophecy experts” necessarily require if their Seven-Year-Tribulation-Period timelines can be believed. They usually posit 3 1/2 years of general misery, then The Disclosure, when Satan casts aside the masquerade and shows his true colors, and then 3 1/2 years of GREAT tribulation when things are really awful and lots of people die …. and then suddenly it’s Mayberry, the war is over, peace returns to the global village, and Jesus is anointed and begins to reign from Jerusalem.
I don’t think so, and the Bible certainly does not say so either. Lindsey in The Late, Great Planet Earth suggested that Daniel 12:12 was 1,335 days after the mid-point of the “Seven year tribulation period” but that would put it well after the close of the final seven years. In other words, the math in his model requires that the six items in Daniel 9:24 be completed, the final ‘week’ ends, and then another 45 days must pass before the Day of Blessing.
And yet …. people still cling to the “Seven Year Tribulation Period.” I just don’t get it.
If you search YouTube or similar platforms, you may find videos with models of the Temple built to the specifications in Ezekiel. It’s huge, majestic, elaborate, and not the sort of thing that could be built quickly, or during intense wartime or earthquakes. This is NOT the temple described in Revelation 21 for what should be obvious reasons. It must be built, and building takes time. I would submit about three years.
https://stevekerp.wordpress.com/2021/09/23/anoint-the-most-holy/
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Evil appears as good in the minds of those whom God leads to destruction. - Sophocles