“And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: . . ” Daniel 9:26
62 weeks, 434 years,
It is commonly conjectured by most when outlining Daniels 70 weeks, that 69 of those weeks (or 483 years) were fulfilled at the cross, leaving only the the final 70th week (7 years or 2520 days) to complete the 490 years determined upon Israel (see Daniel Chapter 9) where the count begins with the fulfillment of two very specific conditions:
1. upon Israel (thy people) and 2. upon Jerusalem (thy Holy city)
For which that future week of years is waiting only for some unknowable moment before it can continue, waiting as if the interval in between has been stopped or halted in some manner, and so today we have 2000 years unaccounted,
From my earliest understandings, I’ve found the idea of the prophetic ‘clock’ being stopped to be wrong. And after numbering the days (per Psalm 90) and considering the ‘times and seasons’ and counting the intervals between significant related events: the Babylonian captivity, the first Temple desolation in 587 BC, the first restoration of Israel, the decrees of Cyrus and Artaxerxes which started the 490 year count outlined in Daniel Chapter 9, to the coming of the Messiah officially in 32 AD, then to the Cross, the Resurrection, Pentecost in 32 AD, the second Temple desolation in August of 70 AD, the second restoration of Israel (thy people) in May 1948, and finally the second restoration of Jerusalem (thy Holy city) in June of 1967 – where both conditions to count are now met for the second time.
I (to my own satisfaction at least) perceive a structure to conjecture that it did not stop, that is to say, the prophetic age, the biblical accounting for time never ceased to move forward, instead it changed, as wheels within wheels, shifting from an accounting in the flesh for Israel, beginning immediately when the two conditions were applied the first time (March 14th, 444 BC) and then continuing to the arrival of the Messiah (precisely as promised on April 6th, 32 AD) where Israel chose to reject their promised visitation, to the ‘times of the gentiles,’ coinciding with the Kingdom of God, the spirit, where the Church beginning at Pentecost resides today (and forever) and where a thousand years is as one day, and where we (the Church) pray, ‘thy kingdom come’ to be done on the Earth (in us, in this Earth, our bodies) until his authority, having been granted in the spirit under the provisions of the Law which Israel rejected, is acknowledged by Israel on the Earth (flesh) and finally completed fulfilling the Law and the Prophets after their (Israel’s) diaspora for the transgression,
” But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” 2 Peter 3:8
The consideration of Psalm 90, which Peter is also quoting above, is that we could ‘number our days’ and then what we may come to understand, knowing that God promises to do nothing unless it is told to us in advance, the mysteries Jesus himself revealed in the Kingdom parables and where Paul tells us that he was given the unique honor to reveal the most profound mystery of all, the coming of the Church, being his body on the Earth, in his Spirit, while we being sons of Adam on the Earth, he made us as he is, not under the Law, rather we are his virgin bride being grafted in by grace under the very provisions Israel rejected, betrothed to the coming King, and he is now our High Priest making intercession,
The Church has been granted authority above all ‘principalities and power’s’ on the Earth, but these same spirits also have their authority granted to them over the flesh, the Earth, willingly granted to them by its current legal owner (Adam and his descendents) until all of the provisions accounting for the Jubilee redemption and the time of the transgressors are fully met, and then finally to be completed upon the only people (Israel) singled out by the faith of their ancestors to provide the means to accomplish in the flesh what was impossible for men. Don’t be harsh too on Israel, as our (gentile) ancestors never had the necessary faith to be given the promise to even attempt the enacting of such conditions upon the Earth, that is, to provide the means (even through transgression) to allow God the opportunity within a fallen creation to ultimately redeem us all,
God will act directly on the Earth as outlined at the time of the end. Coming with anger and wrath, why? because as we’re shown, Satan violates the Law, causing those on the Earth to break the Everlasting Covenant, which God has steadfastly required to be maintained allowing for his Holiness to redeem all of the physical creation. The Covenant that is broken and his wrath being poured out is not upon believers, the Church is forever covered under the fulfillment of the Jubilee release of the Gospel, the new Covenant (testament) which Jesus made ‘with the many’ when he took that cup and drank and the coming of the Kingdom of God being preached only after the work of the old Covenant with John the Baptist. He came not to do away with the Law, but to fulfill it,
“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” Matthew 11:11
“For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” Matthew 26:28
“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 9:27
It is not Antichrist, it is the spirit of Antichrist which caused this event, Messiah was cutoff (in the midst of the week) in the middle of a week of days, on a Wednesday of a much larger timeline but also on a Wednesday of a weekday (April 9th, 32 AD) but not for himself, and for that reason, because Israel did not know the time of their visitation their house was left desolate just as Jesus foretold. Jerusalem and the Temple of stone were destroyed in August of 70 AD and not one stone was left upon another, all were cast down to the ground. The Temple was made flesh and ‘the sacrifice and the oblation’, ‘the First and the Last’, ‘the Alpha and the Omega’ were fully come with the sacrifice on the Cross. What remains now is for the transgressors to come to their full, that is for Israel to be restored, then Satan, for this reason knowing he has only a short time, will seek to change the ‘Times and Seasons’ to prevent the fulfilling of Gods Ordinances upon the Earth,
Is it the Flesh or the Spirit that matters here? Josephus records that Titus Vespasian with the 5th, 10th, 12th and 15th Roman Legions destroyed the city and the Sanctuary on August 10th, 11th and 12th of 70 AD, so prophecy scholars presume much from this physical act, but who does Jesus tell us is actually responsible for this desolation:
“And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.” Luke 19:44
“And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?” Luke 23:27-30
At the time of the end, when the transgressors are come to the full, (that is, Israel, the only ones operating under the promise who could have transgressed, and who were prophesied to do so, warned of the penalty and restitution, when they reach the fullness of time, to accomplish as it is written ‘to scatter the power of the holy people’ (as recorded in Daniel Chapter 11) Satan will in some way encumber the flesh (Israel) and the physical Earth by dividing the restored Israel with an agreement, breaking the Everlasting Covenant (Isaiah calls it a covenant with Death) which he (Satan) intends to change the provisions under the Law that God has been faithfully maintaining, and for which even provides that he continue to be acknowledged to stand in Heaven to accuse believers because they operate within his allowed dominion,
Jesus is now sitting at the right hand of the Father, on his Fathers throne, as a man, the seed of a woman, and it is this division of the restoration that comes fulfilling the penalty of the transgression, it is why the wrath of God is poured out on the Earth, its how and why the end comes when it comes.
Satan understands these provisions, he understands they are almost complete and the ‘times and seasons’ of God under a Holy Law fully enacted upon the Earth will mean his lawful end, this is why he breaks the Covenant and this is why he is thrown out of Heaven by the Archangel Michael. The gentiles have their time, and Israel has their time, and now they have a day to complete as the transgressors, and once they complete that accounting and are returned to their Land (as they have since 1967) what will follow is the veil is then lifted, they will then recognize their Messiah, they will perceive the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel, that is they will ‘understand’ and then the believing remnant that now perceives the truth, understand they have full legal authority on the Earth to call for the return of Messiah, and this is why Satan will embark on his most desperate attempt to destroy the power of the holy people (Israel) as prophesied for the time of the end, beginning what Jesus called ‘the Great Tribulation’ and for which the book of Revelation tells us is so grievous that it will only last 1260 days on the Earth and it will be in some manner ‘cut short’ or no flesh would remain alive,
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” Psalm 2:1-8
“The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” Psalm 110:1
“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.” Zechariah 12:10
“Look, he is coming with the clouds,” and “every eye will see him, even those who pierced him”; and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.” So shall it be! Amen.” Revelation 1:7
The Messiah will sit on his own throne, the throne of David, as a man forever, where it is with the receiving of this authority on the Earth being shown to us in the book of Revelation beginning at Chapter 4 and continuing until the the physical return (bodily) to the Earth in Chapter 19. Jesus is now coming in his own power and authority, as lightning shining from the east to west, with the clouds of Heaven (believers) and every eye will see him and every knee will bow. Satan’s authority is being thrown down by the sword of his mouth,(by the word itself) by the Law, as truth and Holiness that cannot be denied, with everlasting righteousness being established on the Earth,
“For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” Matthew 23:39
And if you know this, then the time accounted for under the Law with the conditions being met whereby the court sits in Heaven will begin to become visible, we need those two conditions to be met, and then we need a Jubilee distance, under the Law, requiring 49 years, and then to be acknowledged in Heaven as ‘the acceptable year of the Lord’
If it is as conjectured here, 62 instead of 69 weeks having passed, with seven years only remaining, and that Israel instead has seven weeks (49 years – a Jubilee distance) and then one week (7 years) or 56 years total from the Cross remaining, meaning that we don’t have a short time frame (2520 days) to come upon believers suddenly, instead we have an entire generation to see these prophesied events coming to their full, occurring in the lifespan of those conscious of the division between flesh and spirit and with understanding of where the Laws and Ordinances apply, not to the Church, but to the Earth, the flesh, to Israel, who rejected the fulfillment of them and went into the long years of penalty until the transgression was accounted for under the same provisions which brought them the flood. They erred in not knowing the timing, and as we’re told we would see that day approaching, just as Israel should have seen that day and even later the accounting to what followed in 70 AD when the end did come ‘like a flood’ upon the transgressors, and then at the time of the end, a final week will come, for the world instead of for Israel alone, to be poured out in wrath. The Great Tribulation, culminating with the Bowl judgements and his return as King of Kings and Lord of Lords,
The remnant will understand with the work on the earth of the 144,000 sealed out of every tribe, the Church is now away with the harvest (Barley harvest – first fruits, Jesus being the first-fruits of them that slept) then the wheat harvest where the chaff is separated and lastly the grape harvest at the very end, where the returning Messiah, with the Jubilee, the year of his redeemed has now come, where he will tread the wine press of the wrath of God alone,
“Why is Your apparel red,
And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?
“I have trodden the winepress alone,
And from the peoples no one was with Me.
For I have trodden them in My anger,
And trampled them in My fury;
Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,
And I have stained all My robes.
For the day of vengeance is in My heart,
And the year of My redeemed has come. ” Isaiah 63:2-4
in Revelation when the Angels hold the wind from the four corners, its as the winnowing of the wheat harvest, they’re holding until the 144,000 are sealed and ready, it brings to consideration the same way in which wheat was placed on a sheet and tossed into the wind to separate it from the chaff,
“Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you.” Zephaniah 2:2
We meet the Lord in the air, I conjecture this is simply because he has no authority on the Earth (just yet) which tells us something about the timing of this event, it occurs before, or coincides with the opening of the seals, where he has just been acknowledged by the Court (the 24 elders) sitting before the throne, establishing his legal authority over all of creation, having met the strict conditions for the kinsman redeemer provisions under the Law enacted upon the Earth,
“Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.” Zephaniah 2:3
The appearance becomes, the accounting for time went from the flesh, accounting for Israel, to the spirit, being the Kingdom of Heaven, where it flows in Gods dispensation of ages very differently than it does for those ‘dwelling’ on the Earth, as those without understanding are referenced in the book of Revelation, Earth dwellers.
“The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.” Psalm 110:2-7
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