to seal up the vision and prophecy
Many books about Daniel and the 70 weeks tell us there are at most six conditions to be met in Daniel 9:24. There are actually seven requirements (to complete the 490 years upon Israel )
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city,
1) to finish the transgression, and
2) to make an end of sins, and
3) to make reconciliation for iniquity, and
4) to bring in everlasting righteousness, and
5) to seal up the vision and
6) prophecy, and
7) to anoint the most Holy.
And why does it matter? why is this important to understand?
“to seal up the vision and Prophecy” is usually expressed as if being a single mechanism of his communication, but anyone having experienced the difference between a vision and witnessing the fulfillment of what is written would understand how the information in these formats are separate, it helps us to properly divide the structure of his work as it becomes revealed to believers whether being in the flesh or being in the spirit, and further toward who it is that is being addressed, and once we’re aware of how they are different, it becomes a valuable help to consider what is being presented. We have imagery presented in Zechariah, Ezekiel, Daniel and elsewhere with almost the entire book of Revelation in the form of a vision, rendered into signs by none other than Jesus himself and presented to John. However we must also consider that it can be personal imagery revealed by the Holy Spirit, to help guide us as individual believers, whereas prophecy as its written in (as Gabriel called it) “the scripture of truth,” is matter of fact in word, very much like a legal document, accessible to all and to be met unconditionally. Satan can quote scripture as well as we can, but he does not have access to our visions and dreams, this is direct communications to us,
There are many mainstream Churches and well meaning organizations and even popular online web posting boards, that will all but disparage this gift of the Holy Spirit, his giving of dreams and visions and the pouring out of his spirit in these last days for our edification is dismissed as almost foolishness, and while they would have the appearance of following him, they deny this power merely because of the effort it would require to discern the truth:
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:” 1 John 4:1-2
They may have all manner of appearances of serving him, but can they perceive all he has to say without oil in their lamps, and if they have the oil, his light will shine in the Temple, and they will hear his voice and look for his coming,
“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 2 Timothy 3:5
Dreams and visions can provide more information in the way a photograph can express more than words alone, but just as easily a photograph without a description or point of reference can present an even greater mystery, visions and prophecy work together, but the imagery is the manner in which he can reveal much more, and it can also be by his power tuned to our individual experiences and perspectives, like the hidden manna raining down for our understanding and learning, and this manner is promised to be increased as the end approaches,
“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” John 16:13
We walk not in darkness that the day of the Lord should overtake us like a thief as Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians, and neither will you see it unless you look, and only those earnestly looking for him, with their lamps full of oil, as a bride anxiously waiting for her bridegroom will see him in the day he is revealed,
“All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” John 16:15
1) to finish the transgression, Israel is the transgressor and having now been restored the second time from the diaspora is ready to complete the law upon the Earth, this is not for his Church, this is about his promises to be kept to David, to Israel, for his Holy Name.
“When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.” Deuteronomy 4:30-31
“In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.” Jeremiah 50:20
2) to make an end of sins. Jesus did this on the cross for us, those that willingly receive it are covered and are already written in the Lambs book of life written before the foundation of the world. Sin exists in the world, but the remedy has been freely provided to overcome it forever,
3) to make reconciliation for iniquity, Jesus did this on the Cross for us, he became sin to make reconciliation under the Holy structure which he himself provided, he then provided himself becoming a Son of Man, a kinsman of Adam, being now eligible to redeem us, because it could only be a man, and he made restitution before our Father forever. We can now come boldly before the throne because the one who purchased our strength to stand and by his own hand bought our salvation, promises he will confess our presence before the throne and to all the host that stand about it. For those willingly uncovered the lake of fire will be their reconciliation,
“To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:19
4) to bring in everlasting righteousness, Jesus did this as he ascended into the spirit 40 days after the Resurrection, and ten days before Pentecost, but not yet on the Earth until he returns, providing the comforter to believers and in doing so convicted the world and that the prince of this world will be judged, as we’re told in John Chapter 16,
5) to seal up the vision as shown in many books including Daniel and Revelation, God can place a seal upon his own, something Satan is counterfeiting at the time of the end, and I believe that Satan does not have access to our own dreams and visions, and it’s in this manner that God can communicate with believers individually showing us things to come. Not merely for his plan to the world in what is written in scripture, but in the world of our own within our dreams, for reproof. We are being “helped with a little help” as its written in Daniel,
6) and prophecy, All that has been written in the Prophets and in the Psalms will be fulfilled. Satan can quote scripture and understand what is clearly presented and especially what remains to be done, which will bring his end, so he seeks to change these times and seasons, interrupt the laws and ordinances and hinder what has already been decreed. Its this effort that brings the Judgement upon the whole world, they divide Jerusalem, they part his land at the time of the end.
7) to anoint the most Holy. Jesus is the anointed one, the holy one of Israel, who came to us as the Son of Man, to provide the price of redemption that no man could meet, he came not in his own power, and not to perform his own will, but to do the will of his father only, and in so doing was anointed to receive the spirit without measure. When the fulness of times and seasons are completed upon the flesh (the Earth) he will come in his own power, as title deed owner, the second Adam of the redeemed land for which his own hand upheld him. Jesus then returns as Lord of Lords and Kings of Kings over the Earth and over all of creation, to claim it forever and undoing hell and Death to as many as would receive him,
So the 1) mechanism of his Holy Law 2) manner of its fulfillment 3) harvest cycles, 4) visions, 5) prophecies, 6) psalms, 7) Holy Feast Days and convocations and for the Church, 8) the wedding ceremony for the Bride are all being presented as a pattern of events, and specific times, and counted to specific days known only to God, hidden from Satan’s direct knowledge and revealed as a cloud to those with his spirit of understanding, overlaid with prophetic events coming to the full upon the physical earth, with ongoing warfare in the angelic realm ruling over the Earth, against the spirit of God upon the Earth (the Church) and not over any physical kingdom or nation, (Satan already has them all) except for restored Israel, brought again to complete the laws and ordinances for the redemption upon the physical Earth, but which will be deceived into a covenant with death with this world system under Satans authority, and Israel having now been restored as promised for the appointed time of the end, after which the transgressors will be come to the full for that which is determined to be poured out as Daniel Chapter 9 completes with,
“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 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 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.”
Daniel 9:25-27
Counting from the mid-point of a 7000 year (week) pattern:
|Sunday|Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday|Saturday|
|–1000–|–1000—|–1000–|—-1000—-|—1000—|–1000–|–1000–|
|–———–3500 years———-| March 14th, 445 BC
March 14, 445 BC, as the starting point of the 490 years (or 70 sevens) determined per Daniel Chapter 9:26, is 69 sevens (x360 days) or 173, 880 days exactly counting to April 6th, 32 AD, while September 27, 2 BC is precisely 11, 880 days to the same day.
March 14th, 445 BC |—-483 years—-| April 6th,32 AD
September 27, 2 BC |33 years| April 6th,32 AD
Of the 70 Weeks or 490 years determined per Daniel 9:25,
|-49-|–434–| = 483 years total to April 6th, 32 AD, and 49 years of this total, with the Jubilee as Jesus quoted from Isaiah Chapter 61, which was rejected and fell upon the Church, upon gentile believers, providing the good news to as many as would receive it, the kingdom in the spirit and not upon the physical Earth, except in us as we are in him as his body, the Temple, and leaving 56 years remaining of the 490 when Messiah was cutoff or |-49-|-7-| = 490 years
The timing to complete the 490 years (7×70) determined upon Israel as Daniel was told in Chapter 9 is counting from two very specific requirements that had been met in March of 445 BC, counted, rejected, cutoff at 62 weeks (434 years) and now, I would conjecture continuing, as wheels within wheels, (with eight weeks, 56 years remaining) having never been slowed or halted, but moving seamless between the flesh to the spirit, where a thousand years equals one day, whereby it had the appearance of providing additional time, the fullness of the Gentiles must be come in, and time for this world to come to a greater saving knowledge of his work or it would have been convicted long ago with the Temple (Jesus) desolation in 32 AD and then for Israel completely at the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. That flood upon Israel has moved past, now the world with the Great Tribulation will face the same desolation in fire as Jerusalem,
“For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.” 2 Peter 3:5-7
Jesus spoke in parables to Israel, so “hearing they would hear not, and seeing they would see not” or they would have been held to a higher standard of accountability, they would have come to their complete end, much more than only being driven from the land and into the years of the diaspora until being restored the second time in our day, there is only the second time to be restored,
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people,” Isaiah 11:11
The two requirements to begin the counting of days per Daniel Chapter 9 occurred the first time in March of 445 BC, and did not occur again until June of 1967, with the restoration of Israel and Jerusalem being separated in the exact same accounting of days as when Israel first went into captivity under Nebuchadnezzar and then 19 years later with Jerusalem and the Temple being destroyed in 587 BC.
The same conditions, using the identical interval accounting of days are met again:
1. ‘thy people’ Israel restored – May 14th, 1948
2. ‘thy holy city’ Jerusalem restored – June 7th, 1967
Jerusalem Restored |——49 years——|Yom Kippur 2015
Jerusalem Restored |——49 years——|–2520–|-–40–|Rosh Hashanah 2022