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The seventy weeks prophecy is found in Daniel 9:24-27. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people
and upon thy holy city, to FINISH TRANSGRESSION, and to make an END OF SINS, and to make RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY, and
to BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS, and to SEAL UP THE VISION AND PROPHESY, and to ANOINT THE MOST HOLY.
From
the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, the streets and wall shall be built in difficult times over seven
weeks, then Messiah shall come after sixty two more weeks Dan 9:25.
Each week is of seven days; so seven
weeks is forty nine days and sixty two weeks is four hundred and thirty four days. Each day representing one year,
so then the city would be built in forty nine years, then Messiah would come in another four hundred and thirty four years.
Indicating that Messiah would come four hundred and eighty three years after the commandment to rebuild the city was issued.
And after the four hundred and eighty three years Messiah shall 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 Dan 9:26.
Messiah had no sin and did not die for His own sin but
for the sins of mankind. AFTER His death and resurrection, Judah rebelled against Rome and was destroyed, Jerusalem
falling in 70 AD.
And He shall CONFIRM A COVENANT for one week: and in the midst of the week He shall cause the
sacrifice and 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 desolator Dan 9:27.
Notice the time-line. The seventieth week,
of seven years does not begin until AFTER the destruction of Jerusalem! Then He, Jesus Christ, PERSONALLY, not some
apostle or disciple, shall confirm a covenant for seven years, or one prophetic week. In the midst of the week, after three
and one half years and before the final three and one half years He shall cause the daily sacrifice to stop. Clearly
He is not stopping the sacrifice because of those that He is confirming the covenant with, it is stopped for the overspreading
of abominations of the citizens of Judea and the Ten Tribes at this later day! He will stop bearing their
sins and will give them over to desolation for the second half of the week. And they will remain desolate until the consummation
of the age! Then the punishment which has been predetermined shall be poured out upon the desolator, the destroying
beast emperor!
What covenant is being confirmed? The ONLY covenant mentioned in scripture to exist
after the resurrection of Christ, THE NEW COVENANT, between Christ and those called out of season as a kind of firstfruits
of the NEW COVENANT! What does confirmed mean? To fulfill, to make sure. What is this covenant?
A marriage agreement to PROTECT, NOURISH and CARE FOR His espoused bride, those who KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS!
Where
in the scripture, is the nourishment, protection and careing of those who keep God's commandments mentioned,
in the context of two halves of a week? Remember that one half of a week is three and one half days, which is three
and one half years or forty two months or 1260 days. The explanation is found in the twelfth chapter of Revelation!
A woman clothed with the sun (the power of LIGHT), and the moon under her feet (the power of the night, darkness) and wearing
a crown of twelve stars (a Queen) brought forth a man child who was to rule all nations (Christ). She fled into the wilderness
where she was fed (nourished) by God for 1260 days. Later there was war in heaven and satan was cast out (triggering a great
time of trouble Dan 12:1) and he went to persecute that same woman, who again fled, INTO HER PLACE, where she is again nourished
for a time, times and half a time (the times of the gentiles Dan 12:7) or 1260 days. The woman is the faithful who KEEP
THE COMMANDMENTS, HAVING THE LAW OF GOD WRITTEN IN THEIR HEARTS Heb 8:10. And the nourishing for these two halves of the week,
is the confirming of His part of the New Covenant by Jesus Christ!
In history, the saints fled from Jerusalem and
Judea to Pella in modern Jordan about 69 AD after receiving a supernatural warning. This was the first half of the week,
as Jesus Christ preserved His people, His bride. This was just before the city was destroyed in the Jewish-Roman wars.
See: Josephus, Wars of the Jews, the Fall of Jerusalem. The saints of God are now about to flee to their place of nourishment,
before the fall of the nations of Israel, once again. The Daily Sacrifice; which is symbolic of the bearing of the sins
of our nations, will be stopped by Jesus Christ, because of the overwhelming abominations of the Israelite peoples. Individual
sacrifices represented the bearing of an individual's sins. The Daily sacrifice was offered on behalf of the entire nation
and represents the bearing of the national sins of the entire nation! When this bearing of the nation's sins is stopped,
as Jesus Christ stops His intercessary work, for all the nations descended from Jacob, they will be allowed to
fall into a final captivity for 1260 days (42 weeks) or for the second half of the week. During this time, those of
God's people who respond to the warning will be cared for in the place that God has prepared. See the EZEK 4 AND
THE DAILY SACRIFICE page for more on the meaning of the daily Sacrifice.
YES, when our Lord ceases to bear and
endure the sins of the nations He will still KEEP His part of His covenant with His people. He WILL NOT destroy the
righteous along with the guilty. He WILL NOT destroy those who LOVE HIM and KEEP HIS WORD along with those who despise
Him. As He delivered Lot from the destruction of Sodom and as He delivered Noah from death, so will He deliver His beloved
from the evil to come. SEEK THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEARTS, TURN YOUR HEARTS TO HIM AND HE WILL DELIVER YOU,
FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM ARE HIS PRECIOUS AND CHERISHED POSSESSION. He is a RIGHTEOUS GOD, who KEEPS HIS COVENANTS,
He will fulfill His role as a loving husband to a faithful wife. YES, CHRIST LOVES HIS BRIDE as only He can LOVE, therefore,
FEAR NOT and HOLD YOUR HEADS UP, YOU WHO LOVE YOUR GOD AND DO HIS WILL Luk 21:28 FOR YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWS NEAR. BE
STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE, BE ZEALOUS FOR THE THINGS OF YOUR GOD! BE FILLED WITH HIS FAITH! DELIVERENCE IS AT HAND!
THIS WORLD IS ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH TO A NEW AGE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!
And finally, What place? The phrase; her
place Rev 12:14 appears to indicate that she will return to the same special place that she went to the first time.
It is quite possibly in Moab Isaiah 16:4, Dan 11:41. God will reveal this in due time, when He sends the
two eagles wings (empowers His two prophets) to deliver His people into their place Rev 12:14, Rev 11:3-13.
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