In the ninth chapter of the Book of Daniel we find a prophecy, commonly referred to as "Daniel's 70th Week", which has become a corner stone and foundation of "Futurism". By taking the Scriptures out of their context to make them a pretext, the "Futurists" tell us that this prophecy foretells the coming of a one-world dictator, the Prince of the Prophecy, who will make a Treaty or Covenant with the Jews, break it after three and a half years and sit enthroned for worship in a rebuilt Jewish Temple, from which he will impose the "MARK OF THE BEAST" and unleash the horrors of the "GREAT TRIBULATION". To call this interpretation fanciful would be kind, to call it downright deception would be more accurate. Let us now examine the "Seventy Weeks Prophecy" and see for ourselves. Stop buying book's about what's to happen after Jesus comes again. Save some money.
In the Book of Daniel we read these words:
"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, Jerusalem.
"1" to finish the transgression,
"2" and to make an end of sins,
"3' and to make reconciliation for iniquity,
"4" and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
"5" and to seal up the vision and prophecy,
"6" and to anoint the most Holy."
DANIEL 9:24 The people of the prophecy were Daniel's people, the Judah section of the Israel nation. The holy city referred to was undoubtedly Jerusalem. The time-factor given is "Seventy Weeks". Now we need to determine how long this would be, using the prophetic time-scale of a year to a day.
70 WEEKS 490 YEARS
We must now go on to determine the starting point when the Seventy Prophetic Weeks or 490 Years began, and so we read:
"seven weeks and three score and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself" - DANIEL 9:25-26 The starting point is the Decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. This came about in 457 B.C. under the Medo-Persian monarch Artaxerxes. The people were then to spend 7 WEEKS or 49 YEARS BUILDING
62 WEEKS or 434 YEARS - AWAITING MESSIAH
Sure enough, 483 years after the Decree of Artaxerxes, in 27 A.D. (allowing one year for the crossing over from B.C. to A.D. as there is no year 0 between 1 B.C. and 1 A.D.) the Lord Jesus Christ was baptized by John in the waters of the River Jordan, being declared to be the Son of God with power, when the Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove and the voice from heaven proclaimed:
"This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." - MATTHEW 3:17
As Paul so aptly puts it in GALATIANS 4:4
"But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son…"The Daniel prophecy goes on to tell us that this Lord Jesus the Messiah would accomplish some six things during the course of His Ministry:
1. Finish Transgression
2. Make an end of sins
3. Make reconciliation for iniquity
4. Bring in everlasting righteousness
5. Seal up the vision and prophecy (Seal up does not mean to hide it.= Finish Transgression
6. Anoint the most Holy= Jesus 70 WEEKS----------490 PROPHETICAL DAYS------------490 YEARS-All this our Lord accomplished."…shall Messiah be cut off but not for Himself." - Daniel 9:26
Reading on into verse 27, we find these words:"And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week Below is said to come to pass after Jesus comes back.
Notice below.
The "Futurists" try to tell us that the "he" in this verse refers to a future Anti-Christ, the Prince of verse 26, who having made a treaty or covenant with the Jews, breaks it after three and a half years, and causes the sacrifices and rituals of the rebuilt Temple? to cease or be discontinued. However, this is a blatant example of taking a text from its context and making it a pretext to substantiate error and false doctrine.
Whom therefore is this prophecy referring to? What is the Covenant that is made? And how was the Temple worship and The "He" is Messiah the Prince, the Lord Jesus Christ.
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel…..
After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." - JEREMIAH 31:31-33"
This Temple is in their Hearts or bodys. And theres only one New Covenant.
And He (Jesus) took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my Blood of the New Testament (Covenant,) which is shed for many for the remission of sins- MATTHEW 26:27-28
The Lord Jesus by His once for all atoning sacrifice at Golgotha, instituted the New Covenant. The old Covenant was Gone with the wind when Jesus rose from the dead.
"Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost (died). And, behold, the veil of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom;" - MATTHEW 27:50-51
No Jewish priest was needed any longer to take the blood through the veil, once a year into the Holy of Holies. Christ, our great High Priest, had completed the work of sacrifice and atonement. Now you may well be asking, if this is so, who is the Prince that shall come and destroy the city of Jerusalem and its sanctuary, as we read in the remainder of the Daniel Prophecy:"…and the people of Rome 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 for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.> "The Jewish people AD 70- DANIEL 9:26-27
Could all this happen after Jesus comes back again? It happened when he was here in the flesh.
Daniel's 70th Week ended in 34 A.D. with the martyrdom of Stephen and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the household of Cornelius. For some forty years after the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus - a Bible generation of testing, trial and probation - the Jews refused, resisted and opposed the proclamation of the New Covenant Gospel of Salvation. In 67 A.D. they rebelled against the might of Imperial Rome, and a three year conflict commenced. The climax of these events came in 70 A.D. when the armies of the Roman Prince Titus son of the Emperor Vespasian, laid siege to Jerusalem. The Jewish historian Josephus records the horrors of the siege in graphic detail. One million Jews perished by famine and the sword, some ninety thousand being sold into slavery when the Romans finally captured the city.
The remaining Jewish Zealots had sought refuge in the Temple precincts and so the Romans launched a final assault during which a soldier threw a piece of burning wood into the inner sanctuary and soon the magnificent building was ablaze. Titus then marched into the sanctuary ruins, set up the Roman standards and offered the traditional sacrifice of an ox, a sheep and a pig. "Matt 24 the abomanation that makes desolate" He subsequently ordered the systematic destruction of the city and the levelling of the Temple site to the ground (i.e. to its base or platform). Thus was the remainder of Daniel's Prophecy fulfilled by Titus the Prince, and by his people, the soldiers of Imperial Rome.,
ANTI-CHRIST TO SIT IN A REBUILT JEWISH TEMPLE RECEIVING WORSHIP??????
The "Futurists" make much of the Scripture which states:
"…and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." - II THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
On the basis of this verse they go on to proclaim that their coming one-man Anti-Christ, the future superhuman, world dictator will be enthroned in a rebuilt Jewish Temple at Jerusalem to receive worship and adoration. This overlooks three very important facts:
1. Anti-Christ is not an open enemy or opponent of Christ, but rather a counterfeit or usurper who takes the place, titles and dignities of Christ. The Greek word "Antichristos" always denotes a "Vice-Christ"or a "substitute Christ". The following are some examples of the way in which Greek writers of the Biblical era would have used "ANTI" to mean a substitute rather than an open opponent.
2. A} ANTI-BASILEUS - A VICE-KING or VICEROY
3. B} ANTI-DIAKONOS - A VICE MINISTER
C} ANTI- DOULOS - A SUBSTITUTE SLAVE
D} ANTI-DEIPUOUS - A SUBSTITUTE GUEST AT A BANQUET
These are sufficient to illustrate the point.
4. Anti-Christ refers not to one man at the end of the age, but to a whole dynasty of "substitute Christs" down the centuries i.e. "THE PAPACY". The "Futurists" insist that Paul's use of the singular term "Man of Sin" substantiates their theory, but by comparing Scripture with Scripture we find that this not the case. In the Epistle to the Hebrews, we find the whole dynasty of High Priests in Israel referred to as "One Man" (HEBREWS 9:7). Again we are told that the entire company of believers in all ages is but "One Body",
(I CORINTHIANS 12:12). Similarly the whole line of believers is referred to as "One New Man (EPHESIANS 2:15).
When we look back to Daniel's vision of the various Beasts, he is actually describing the entire ruling dynasties of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome as being "four kings", one king in each case symbolising or standing for a dynasty."
The Greek wording in II THESSALONIANS 2:4 refutes any idea of Anti-Christ sitting in a literal, physical Temple at Jerusalem. If Paul had wanted to state that the "Man of Sin" would be seated in a rebuilt Jewish Temple, receiving worship, he would undoubtedly have used the Greek word "HIERON", which is used on some twenty five other occasions to describe the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem. Instead Paul uses the Greek word "NAOS", which according to Young's Analytical Concordance, means a "dwelling place" or "inner sanctuary". When the Lord Jesus used this same word "NAOS "in JOHN 2: 19-21, He used it to refer not to a building in Jerusalem but to His own body:"Destroy this temple (NAOS) and in three days, I will raise it up...... He spake of the temple (NAOS) of His body."
In the other Pauline Epistles, the word "NAOS" has a definite meaning other than the building in Jerusalem.
"And what agreement hath the Temple (NAOS) of God with idols? for ye are the Temple (NAOS) of the living God;" - II CORINTHIANS 6:16 "Ye are the Temple (NAOS) of God. If any man defile the Temple (NAOS) of God, him shall God destroy; for the Temple (NAOS) of God is holy, which Temple (NAOS) ye are." - I CORINTHIANS 3: 17 "In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy Temple (NAOS) in the Lord;" - EPHESIANS 2: 21 (This is the Church) No rebuilt temple.
POPE JOHN PAUL II HAS FREQUENTLY PREACHED TO THE CROWDS BELOW HIM FROM THIS WINDOW IN THE VATICAN'S PAPAL APARTMENTS
To further illustrate this point we quote from the Roman Catholic newspaper, "The Universe" in its edition of June 27th 1846, which gives a vivid description of the ceremony of the installation of the Pope. As you read this account, bear in mind the wording of II Thessalonians chapter 2 - out of their own mouths they stand condemned."He (the Pope) is borne in the Pontifical Chair, and is placed on the High Altar, a spot consecrated by the actual presence of the body, blood, soul and divinity of the living Christ. He sits on the High Altar using it as his footstool, and enthroned as King, he is adored as God, in the same manner as the consecrated wafer, adored by the Cardinal Princes, who kiss his feet which rest on the Altar of the Supreme. HE SITS IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD SHOWING HIMSELF AS IF HE
WERE GOD."
EZEKIEL'S TEMPLE
In their desire to establish some sort of Biblical support for their idea of a reconstructed Jewish Temple, the "Futurists" place great emphasis on the record given in the last nine chapters of Ezekiel's prophecy (chapters 40 -48), which give a detailed description of a future Temple. In what circumstances, however, was Ezekiel writing and to what does this detailed Temple vision refer? The Book of Ezekiel contains some thirteen visions and revelations given to the prophet over a period of over twenty-five years of exile in Babylon. Each of these thirteen documents is carefully dated, but the documents have not been arranged in chronological order, as the Book of Ezekiel is set out in our Bible. So whilst it appears that the Temple vision of the last nine chapters was God's final revelation to Ezekiel, the fact is that these "final" chapters should actually be placed much earlier in the book. The prophecy has nothing whatsoever to do with a rebuilt Temple in the modern Zionist State but rather was a vision, given by God to Ezekiel in 574 B.C., of a last offer of mercy and forgiveness to the Ten Tribed House of Israel, taken into the Assyrian captivity some one hundred and fifty years earlier, and a section of whom were still dwelling in the province of Ecbatana in Media. Ezekiel was sent to offer them a written scheme for national restoration which would embrace a new division of the land of Palestine, a reformed priesthood and a rebuilt and remodelled Temple. Furthermore, Ezekiel's offer was to embrace all Twelve Tribes of Israel, whilst the present day Zionist State contains only a remnant of the Tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi, outnumbered by Edomite and Khazar Jews, who, whilst practising the Jewish religion and adhering to the creed of political Zionism, are not true Israelites.
Therefore, Ezekiel's temple vision does not support or substantiate the "Futurist" concepts. After Jesus comes.
TEN KINGDOMS:
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We find in DANIEL chapter 2 that the ROMAN EMPIRE is represented by LEGS OF IRON symbolising unity, strength and power, but upon its break-up and collapse, there emerge feet and toes whose division and lack of cohesive unity is perfectly predicted in the following verse:-
"And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." - DANIEL 2: 43-44
Will the Roman Empire be resurrected in all its old strength and reunited under one head?
The "Futurists" say YES, the Bible says NO. The old Empire of the Caesars was broken up in 476 A.D. and remains broken until this day. It is part iron, part clay, partly strong, partly weak, partly democratic, partly dictatorial, partly socialist, partly capitalist; it will not be joined together.
Down the centuries Roman Catholicism, working with and through the prevailing political philosophies which have risen and fallen in Europe, has attempted to perform this impossible task of reviving and reuniting the old Roman Empire and creating a Europe, Roman Catholic from the Atlantic to the Urals. We see on the stage of European history, Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire, we see the might of the Hapsburgs in the era of the Counter Reformation, Louis XIV, the Sun King of France, Napoleon, the Kaiser, Hitler and Mussolini with their Rome-Berlin Axis, and now the EC. All have failed and will fail. Yet in spite of both the evidence of history and in defiance of the plain words of prophecy, "Futurism" still awaits its revived Roman Empire and its personal Anti-Christ receiving worship in a rebuilt Jewish Temple at Jerusalem.?
Jesuit inspired "Futurism".1. ANTI-CHRIST has already come in the PAPACY.2. Europe will remain divided, the ROMAN EMPIRE will not be revived.
3. The Temple area with its Moslem Mosques will remain until the LORD JESUS CHRIST returns.
4. There will be no rebuilt JEWISH TEMPLE.
5. Rome has a wounded head and will soon die with the Roman Catholic destined for destruction When Jesus comes. What then is the ultimate destiny of Jerusalem? For the answer we must now turn in our Bible to Zechariah chapter 14. There we find that as a result of the final BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY, and the massive earthquake which will accompany CHRIST'S RETURN to the Mount of Olives, ZECHARIAH 14: the present city of Jerusalem, the centre of Apostate Judaism, Islam, Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism is destined for destruction. The entire topography of the area is to be changed dramatically, and the NEWLY REBUILT JERUSALEM OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM AGE is destined to be a warm water port and the centre of universal worship for the LORD JESUS who shall reign as KING OF KINGS and
LORDS OF LORDS, ruling the nations with a rod of iron.
Here is the Biblical record of these future events:-
"Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the East, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the East and toward the West, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the North and half of it toward the South And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord and His name one. All the land shall be turned as a plain….south of Jerusalem…there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited…..And it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem, shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles." - ZECHARIAH 14: 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ." : and in the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease…" "Forever", and in the middle of the final week of seven years, or exactly three and a half years after His baptism: sacrifice made to cease? The Covenant spoken of is the New Covenant, signed and sealed in His own blood at Calvary, by which Redemption and remission of sins was made available to the House of Israel, and whosoever will repent and obey the Gospel. For evidence let us read the following Scriptures:
New Covenant and made the rituals and the animal sacrifices of the Jewish Temple to become obsolete and ultimately to cease, as we have read.
Holy Roman church ruled Ten Kingdoms
GOTHS > The works of Isidore of Seville hold the belief that the term 'Goth' is derived from the name 'Gog', in allusion to the Gog and Magog of Jewish antiquity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths
OSTROGOTHS > The Ostrogoths established the Kingdom of Italy, a relatively short-lived successor state of the Western Roman Empire.
VISIGOTHS > Visigoths first emerged as a distinct people during the 4th century, initially in the Balkans, where they participated in several wars with Rome.
LOMBARDS > The Langobards (or Lombards) were a Germanic tribe that began in southern Sweden and worked their way down into Italy by the 6th century. There they established permanent German rule in Italy,
ALANS > The Alans or Alani (occasionally termed Alauni or Halani) were a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language which derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian
SUEVI >The Suevi were a confederation of Germanic peoples which included the tribes of the Marcomanni and Quadi, the Hermunduri, Semnones, the Langobardes (Lombards), and the Alemanni.
BURGUNDIANS > The Burgundians, East German tribesmen, were great allies of Rome. In the Battle of Chalons (451 AD), they fought on the side of Aetius, a Roman war hero, the Visigoths, and other Germanic peoples against Attila and the Huns. So much the Roman allies, the Burgundian kings were given the title of Master of the Soldiers. Burgundians sought their place in history through military alliances. The rise of the Franks under Clovis committed the Burgundians as allies to the Franks in which they helped Clovis to defeat the Visigoths in 507 AD
FRANKS > The Franks (Latin: Franci or gens Francorum) were a West Germanic tribal confederation first attested in the third century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul.
BAVARIANS > The history of Bavaria stretches from its earliest settlement and its formation as a stem duchy in the 6th century through its inclusion
Roman Empires to its status as an independent kingdom and, finally, as a large and significant Bundesland (state) of the modern Federal Republic of Germany.
ALLEMANI > In English, Alemania refers to Alamannia, i.e. the land occupied by the Alemanni, a Germanic tribe, and/or the area where Alemannic German is spoken by their descendants.
Their story and the stories which involve them are told in the , Shadadarach, Meshach, and Abednego (sometimes referred to collectively as The Three Young Men) were three friends of /Daniel in the Bible whose Hebrew names were Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, respectively.Daniel, they were youths from the Jewish nobility. At the first deportation of the Jews by Nebuchadnezzar (the kingdom of Israel 10 tribes had come to an end nearly a century before at the hands of the Assyrians), or immediately after his victory over the Egyptians at the second battle of Carchemish, in the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim (606 BC), these three and Daniel were among the Jewish young nobility carried off to Babylon (probably as hostages to ensure the loyalty of Judah's king and advisors), along with some of the vessels of the temple. They were subsequently evaluated and chosen for their intellect and beauty, to be trained as Chaldeans (members of the class of the magi: astrologers, sorcerers, enchanters and magicians), who constituted the ranks of the advisors to the Babylonian court. Book of Daniel. dillmunsell@yahoo.com Study with us Wed. 6:30 Who was the 4th man in the fire? Thank you. Dillard
