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Daniel 9:24, "Seventy-sevens are decreed (alloted) for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy."
The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar consisting of 360 days. "seventy-sevens" is prophetic speak for 490 Jewish years.
Daniel 9:25, "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the Rule, comes, there will be seven 'seven,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble."
The decree to rebuild Jerusalem was issued by Artaxerces exactly 483 years to Jesus, see Ezra and Nehemiah. On the eighth day Jesus' human parents took Him to the temple to be dedicated. Anna and Simeon waited there, confident they'd see the Lord, Luke 2:21-38, because they knew their Bibles.
490 - 483 = 7 years. This leaves 7 years on God's prophetic calendar for the JEWS to finish what is commanded in verse 24. More accurately, Jesus is the only One who can finish what's required in verse 24, but the point I'm making is that the church age is not part of this prophetic clock--this information in Daniel refers to Israel and her Messiah. The entire church age is like a parenthesis in the story.
Daniel 9:26, "After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off (suffer a violent death) and will have nothing."
To the Jewish way of looking at things, Jesus was left with nothing. He had no heirs, He seemed to have failed in His mission--what the Jews considered His mission--which was to end Roman rule and establish God's Kingdom on the earth.
Daniel 9:26b, "The people of the ruler will come and destroy the city and the sanctuary."
This happened in A.D. 70 when the Romans entered Jerusalem and sacked it and took the temple apart stone by stone to get at the gold that had been used as roofing material that had melted down between the stones.
Daniel 9:26c & 27, "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 'seven,' but in the middle of that 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And one who causes desolation will place abominations on a wing of the temple, until the end that is decreed for him is poured out on him."
So, we have a similar prophetic utterance as Jesus issued in Matthew 24 and Mark 13--wars and rumors of wars until the end. But then there's this "he." He must be Anti-Christ because the false prophet orders a image of the beast be set up. This robotic statue will have the power to kill those who do not bow down to it, Revelation 13:14 & 15. Daniel says that this abomination will be placed on a "wing" of the temple.
For the Jews there are two ways to have an "abomination that causes desolation." One way is to sacrifice a pig on the Jewish altar. One of Alexander the Great's generals did this. The other way is to place an idol in the temple.
But at present there is no Jewish temple, in fact, from a practical standpoint there never will be a Jewish temple. There's only one place where a Jewish temple can be built and that is on the temple mount where the Muslims have a mosque. The Muslims will not easily give up that ground!
But according to Daniel 9:27, Anti-Christ will make a deal that allows the Jews to build their temple--otherwise how can anyone cause an abomination in the temple after 3 1/2 years into Anti-Christ's deal? Perhaps, Anti-Christ this covenant gets the Muslims to allow the Jews to build their temple next door to the Islamic mosque. In Revelation 11 John is told to measure the temple. Verse 2, "But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given over to the Gentiles."
But here's my point. If you want to know when Anti-Christ is rising to power, watch the Jews and anyone able to bring apparent and seemingly lasting reconciliation between Israelis and Muslims. Everybody who's tried any version of reconciliation like this has failed so far. Someone who is able to make the Muslims friendly and actually make nice with the Jews while simultaneously making the Jews happy--that would be Anti-Christ.
Sincerely,
Marilyn
The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar consisting of 360 days. "seventy-sevens" is prophetic speak for 490 Jewish years.
Daniel 9:25, "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the Rule, comes, there will be seven 'seven,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble."
The decree to rebuild Jerusalem was issued by Artaxerces exactly 483 years to Jesus, see Ezra and Nehemiah. On the eighth day Jesus' human parents took Him to the temple to be dedicated. Anna and Simeon waited there, confident they'd see the Lord, Luke 2:21-38, because they knew their Bibles.
490 - 483 = 7 years. This leaves 7 years on God's prophetic calendar for the JEWS to finish what is commanded in verse 24. More accurately, Jesus is the only One who can finish what's required in verse 24, but the point I'm making is that the church age is not part of this prophetic clock--this information in Daniel refers to Israel and her Messiah. The entire church age is like a parenthesis in the story.
Daniel 9:26, "After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off (suffer a violent death) and will have nothing."
To the Jewish way of looking at things, Jesus was left with nothing. He had no heirs, He seemed to have failed in His mission--what the Jews considered His mission--which was to end Roman rule and establish God's Kingdom on the earth.
Daniel 9:26b, "The people of the ruler will come and destroy the city and the sanctuary."
This happened in A.D. 70 when the Romans entered Jerusalem and sacked it and took the temple apart stone by stone to get at the gold that had been used as roofing material that had melted down between the stones.
Daniel 9:26c & 27, "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 'seven,' but in the middle of that 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And one who causes desolation will place abominations on a wing of the temple, until the end that is decreed for him is poured out on him."
So, we have a similar prophetic utterance as Jesus issued in Matthew 24 and Mark 13--wars and rumors of wars until the end. But then there's this "he." He must be Anti-Christ because the false prophet orders a image of the beast be set up. This robotic statue will have the power to kill those who do not bow down to it, Revelation 13:14 & 15. Daniel says that this abomination will be placed on a "wing" of the temple.
For the Jews there are two ways to have an "abomination that causes desolation." One way is to sacrifice a pig on the Jewish altar. One of Alexander the Great's generals did this. The other way is to place an idol in the temple.
But at present there is no Jewish temple, in fact, from a practical standpoint there never will be a Jewish temple. There's only one place where a Jewish temple can be built and that is on the temple mount where the Muslims have a mosque. The Muslims will not easily give up that ground!
But according to Daniel 9:27, Anti-Christ will make a deal that allows the Jews to build their temple--otherwise how can anyone cause an abomination in the temple after 3 1/2 years into Anti-Christ's deal? Perhaps, Anti-Christ this covenant gets the Muslims to allow the Jews to build their temple next door to the Islamic mosque. In Revelation 11 John is told to measure the temple. Verse 2, "But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given over to the Gentiles."
But here's my point. If you want to know when Anti-Christ is rising to power, watch the Jews and anyone able to bring apparent and seemingly lasting reconciliation between Israelis and Muslims. Everybody who's tried any version of reconciliation like this has failed so far. Someone who is able to make the Muslims friendly and actually make nice with the Jews while simultaneously making the Jews happy--that would be Anti-Christ.
Sincerely,
Marilyn