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The language of prophecy wherein we calculate "each day for a year" was well known by those of "the former age" and their fathers, and this method repeatedly confirms that we may indeed be living in the end times.
Ezekiel 4:6: And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
The mathematics combined with the application of sound hermeneutic rules further advances this textually sound conclusion. Let's explore some examples employing the uniform application of these principles.
The following is a study of just 7 of the problems from Daniel and Revelation employing the language of prophecy wherein we count "each day for a year".
A SAMPLE OF JOHN'S MATH
1. How about a problem that a 10 year old could solve:
Revelation 12:6: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days.
Many will agree that Israel is the "woman" in the context of this verse. If we start with a presumption that the end of the 1260 days was when Israel came out of "the wilderness" or out from among the nations, returning home and declaring her independence in 1948, and subtract 1260 years ("each day for a year"), we arrive at 688. This is commonly understood to be the founding year of the Islamic mosque, the Dome of the Rock.
2.Let's try another:
Revelation 13:5: And there was given unto him [the LBL beast] a mouthspeaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty [and] two months.
The LBL Islamic beast "continued" in Jerusalem until the Israelis retook the Holy City in 1967, governing there again for the first time in 2573 years. There is an average of 30.44 days in a month, multiplied by 42 months = 1278.5 days (as years). Subtracting this from 1967 we arrive at …. 688.5. Once again, the Dome of the Rock.
A SAMPLE OF DANIEL'S MATH
In this first problem alone we will find that in 3 consecutive verses Daniel pegged, exact to the year, the relationship of 2 separate events, spanning 483 Hebrew years, that were both in his future, but came to pass just as he prophesied.
3. Is Jesus the Messiah?
Daniel 9:24-26 (KJV): Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the 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 prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 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. 26 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.
Almost 100 years after Gabriel spoke to Daniel, a special decree was granted by Artaxerxes I to Nehemiah (444-445 BC). This is the ONLY decree recorded in the Bible that gave the Jews permission to "restore Jerusalem and rebuild its walls". The Messiah, Jesus, was "cut off" or crucified in 32 or 33AD. But are those 69 weeks 69 sevens of years? If so, then we have 69 x 7 or 483 Hebrew years. Using a multiplier of .9857 (360/365.24), to reconcile Daniel's Hebrew year "language" with the solar year units of our modern historical record, yields: 483 x .9857 = 476 solar years. Artaxerxes' decree in 444 BC + 476 years = 32 AD, the cross right to the year.
4. Maybe another Old Testament problem is in order:
Daniel 12:11: And from the time [that] the daily [sacrifice] shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, [there shall be] a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Sacrifices were suspended three times in the Old Testament: once before Daniel (Chronicles 28:24-25), once during the Babylonian captivity in 583 BC (Chronicles 36:19 and Ezra 3:6), and once, about four hundred years later, by the Greek king Antiochus Epiphanies. So to which event do you suppose the Lord might be referring? Well, to whom was this prophecy given? To Daniel. Result: we have every reason to believe that the Lord was referring to sacrifices that were abolished during Daniel's own lifetime: to an abolition of sacrifices to which Daniel could relate!
These Old Testament day/years would also be something that Daniel could relate to or 1290 - 360 day - Hebrew years, each year being equal to .9857 solar year. 1290 x .9857=1271.5 solar years. Subtracting 583 (because it is BC) we get .... 688.5 AD. A quick Yahoo search confirms that this was the year that construction began on the Dome of the Rock.
Bishop Sophronious may offer some additional insight: "When Khalifah Omar entered Jerusalem in 639AD, he was met by Sophronius, Bishop of the Jerusalem Church, who showed him around the city. Seeing the temple mount (then in rubble), Omar declared that he was going to build a memorial to Muhammad on the original site of the temple of God. Sophronius exclaimed in horror, "Verily, this is the Abomination of Desolation as spoken of by Daniel the prophet", and it now stands in the holy place. Though Sophronius was a very old man of about 80, Khalifah Omar put him in prison and to forced labor, the severities of which killed him."
5. Let's try the very next verse:
Daniel 12:12: Blessed [is] he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
1335 x .9857 = 1315.9 - 583 (BC) = 732.9 AD Rounding down we get 732 AD. A quick Yahoo search determines that this was the year of the Battle of Tours, France. This is considered by many to be the most important battle, for Christianity, of the entire Christian era. Charles "Martel" (the hammer), against the odds, repelled and defeated the spread of Islam in its conquest of the world, as it headed up through Europe. This battle was the turning point in the onslaught of Islam delivering the mortal head wound to their advance, and killing the literal head of the advancing army Emir Abd er Rahman. "Without his leadership and guidance, the other commanders were unable to even agree on a commander to lead them back into battle the following morning. The effect of the death of Abdul Rahman on both Islamic and world history was profound." ".... according to one unidentified Arab, 'That army went through all places like a desolating storm.' sacking and capturing the city of Bordeaux, and then defeating the army of Duke Odo of Aquitaine at the Battle of the River Garonne — where the western chroniclers state, 'God alone knows the number of the slain' and Odo fled to Charles Martel, seeking help."
It wouldn't be until well over a millennium later, that Western oil wealth would heal the wound of the leopard-bear-lion beast so that its image could begin the second Jihad, in the mold of the first Jihad. Daniel's successive kingdom beasts of lion, bear and leopard (which Bible scholars recognize as Babylon, Medo-Pursia, and Greece) are today united in antichrist, as the composite leopard-bear-lion - BEAST - we find in Revelation 13. This same geographical region today is occupied by Iran, Iraq, and Syria/Lebanon. Mathematically and textually this verse works perfectly.
These last two problems launch from the very same date and pin the Battle of Tours and dome of the rock, both over a thousand years after the prophecy, and at the same time unite the books of Daniel and Revelation to the year 688, the Dome of the Rock - the abomination of desolation - God's symbol in prophecy for Isalm.
MORE FROM JOHN
6. This is perhaps my favorite verse: Revelation 11:2: But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months.
Again the city of Jerusalem was trodden by, or controlled by, Gentiles until the Israelis retook the city in 1967. Again 30.44 days in a month, multiplied by 42 months = 1278.5 days (as years). Subtracting this from 1967 we arrive at … 688.5.
Further study of the above verse may well demonstrate God's wonderfully wry sense of humor. The Solomonic Temple was built over a threshingfloor, and on that bedrock the Arc of the Covenant, or Holy or Holies, was kept. It is obvious that this stone, in the Dome of the Rock, would never have served as a threshingfloor as recovery of grain would have been impossible.
Today the little gazebo aptly named the Dome of the Tablets, or Dome of the Spirits likely covers the smooth flat threshingfloor of the old Temple site.
The Solomonic Temple - "Court of the Gentiles" where even unwashed slaves were allowed - is where the Dome of the Rock was constructed. The old Eastern Gate lines up perfectly with the little "dome of the tablets".
In other words the Dome of the Rock was built in the court outside of the Solomonic temple site, that was given to the Gentiles! The Muslims built the Dome of the Rock over the wrong rock! Does God have an awesome sense of humor or what?
7. Revelation 11:3: And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
1948 - 1260 = 688 .... the Dome of the Rock.
The Bible defines the two witnesses as the Jewish and Christian church, who were religiously exiled from Israel by Islam, marked symbolically, specifically, and repeatedly above, by the Dome of the Rock. Employing the scriptural adjacency rule of hermeneutics we learn:
Rev 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in My right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
Rom 11:24 For if thou [the Gentiles] wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree [the Jews]: how much more
shall these [the Jews], which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Many of the "former age" understood this interpretation of the two witnesses:
Matthew Henry: "Some think these two witnesses are Enoch and Elias, who are to return to the earth for a time: others, the church of the believing Jews and that of the Gentiles ... "
Or more recently Jamieson Faucett and Brown "..., I think the twofold Church, Jewish and Gentile, may be meant by the two candlesticks represented by the two witnesses ... "
1948 may well have marked the end of the Christian era, and entry into the era of the "time of the end". Few would argue that the Church and society have gone evermore rapidly downhill ever since. The end of the Christian era is studied more thoroughly at this link.
To see this view in more detail may I suggest one do a google search for “the False Prophet a free online book”
Are the math problems above and their solutions merely a series of accidents or flukes?
NOTES ABOUT MULTIPLIERS:
You can Yahoo the fact that a common understanding of the average number of days in a year is 365.24. Dividing this number by 12 we get 30.436666. If we round this number shorter we can arrive at the 30.44 average days in a month used above.
In regard to the multiplier for Hebrew to Solar years, taking the 360 day Hebrew year, and dividing it by the same 365.24 average days in a solar year above, we get .9856532. Rounding this number shorter we arrive at .9857 which is the multiplier we used above to convert Daniel's Hebrew years to the solar years of our historical record.
Beyond these adjustments the rest of the math above could be performed by a child.
Ezekiel 4:6: And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
The mathematics combined with the application of sound hermeneutic rules further advances this textually sound conclusion. Let's explore some examples employing the uniform application of these principles.
The following is a study of just 7 of the problems from Daniel and Revelation employing the language of prophecy wherein we count "each day for a year".
A SAMPLE OF JOHN'S MATH
1. How about a problem that a 10 year old could solve:
Revelation 12:6: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days.
Many will agree that Israel is the "woman" in the context of this verse. If we start with a presumption that the end of the 1260 days was when Israel came out of "the wilderness" or out from among the nations, returning home and declaring her independence in 1948, and subtract 1260 years ("each day for a year"), we arrive at 688. This is commonly understood to be the founding year of the Islamic mosque, the Dome of the Rock.
2.Let's try another:
Revelation 13:5: And there was given unto him [the LBL beast] a mouthspeaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty [and] two months.
The LBL Islamic beast "continued" in Jerusalem until the Israelis retook the Holy City in 1967, governing there again for the first time in 2573 years. There is an average of 30.44 days in a month, multiplied by 42 months = 1278.5 days (as years). Subtracting this from 1967 we arrive at …. 688.5. Once again, the Dome of the Rock.
A SAMPLE OF DANIEL'S MATH
In this first problem alone we will find that in 3 consecutive verses Daniel pegged, exact to the year, the relationship of 2 separate events, spanning 483 Hebrew years, that were both in his future, but came to pass just as he prophesied.
3. Is Jesus the Messiah?
Daniel 9:24-26 (KJV): Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the 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 prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 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. 26 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.
Almost 100 years after Gabriel spoke to Daniel, a special decree was granted by Artaxerxes I to Nehemiah (444-445 BC). This is the ONLY decree recorded in the Bible that gave the Jews permission to "restore Jerusalem and rebuild its walls". The Messiah, Jesus, was "cut off" or crucified in 32 or 33AD. But are those 69 weeks 69 sevens of years? If so, then we have 69 x 7 or 483 Hebrew years. Using a multiplier of .9857 (360/365.24), to reconcile Daniel's Hebrew year "language" with the solar year units of our modern historical record, yields: 483 x .9857 = 476 solar years. Artaxerxes' decree in 444 BC + 476 years = 32 AD, the cross right to the year.
4. Maybe another Old Testament problem is in order:
Daniel 12:11: And from the time [that] the daily [sacrifice] shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, [there shall be] a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Sacrifices were suspended three times in the Old Testament: once before Daniel (Chronicles 28:24-25), once during the Babylonian captivity in 583 BC (Chronicles 36:19 and Ezra 3:6), and once, about four hundred years later, by the Greek king Antiochus Epiphanies. So to which event do you suppose the Lord might be referring? Well, to whom was this prophecy given? To Daniel. Result: we have every reason to believe that the Lord was referring to sacrifices that were abolished during Daniel's own lifetime: to an abolition of sacrifices to which Daniel could relate!
These Old Testament day/years would also be something that Daniel could relate to or 1290 - 360 day - Hebrew years, each year being equal to .9857 solar year. 1290 x .9857=1271.5 solar years. Subtracting 583 (because it is BC) we get .... 688.5 AD. A quick Yahoo search confirms that this was the year that construction began on the Dome of the Rock.
Bishop Sophronious may offer some additional insight: "When Khalifah Omar entered Jerusalem in 639AD, he was met by Sophronius, Bishop of the Jerusalem Church, who showed him around the city. Seeing the temple mount (then in rubble), Omar declared that he was going to build a memorial to Muhammad on the original site of the temple of God. Sophronius exclaimed in horror, "Verily, this is the Abomination of Desolation as spoken of by Daniel the prophet", and it now stands in the holy place. Though Sophronius was a very old man of about 80, Khalifah Omar put him in prison and to forced labor, the severities of which killed him."
5. Let's try the very next verse:
Daniel 12:12: Blessed [is] he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
1335 x .9857 = 1315.9 - 583 (BC) = 732.9 AD Rounding down we get 732 AD. A quick Yahoo search determines that this was the year of the Battle of Tours, France. This is considered by many to be the most important battle, for Christianity, of the entire Christian era. Charles "Martel" (the hammer), against the odds, repelled and defeated the spread of Islam in its conquest of the world, as it headed up through Europe. This battle was the turning point in the onslaught of Islam delivering the mortal head wound to their advance, and killing the literal head of the advancing army Emir Abd er Rahman. "Without his leadership and guidance, the other commanders were unable to even agree on a commander to lead them back into battle the following morning. The effect of the death of Abdul Rahman on both Islamic and world history was profound." ".... according to one unidentified Arab, 'That army went through all places like a desolating storm.' sacking and capturing the city of Bordeaux, and then defeating the army of Duke Odo of Aquitaine at the Battle of the River Garonne — where the western chroniclers state, 'God alone knows the number of the slain' and Odo fled to Charles Martel, seeking help."
It wouldn't be until well over a millennium later, that Western oil wealth would heal the wound of the leopard-bear-lion beast so that its image could begin the second Jihad, in the mold of the first Jihad. Daniel's successive kingdom beasts of lion, bear and leopard (which Bible scholars recognize as Babylon, Medo-Pursia, and Greece) are today united in antichrist, as the composite leopard-bear-lion - BEAST - we find in Revelation 13. This same geographical region today is occupied by Iran, Iraq, and Syria/Lebanon. Mathematically and textually this verse works perfectly.
These last two problems launch from the very same date and pin the Battle of Tours and dome of the rock, both over a thousand years after the prophecy, and at the same time unite the books of Daniel and Revelation to the year 688, the Dome of the Rock - the abomination of desolation - God's symbol in prophecy for Isalm.
MORE FROM JOHN
6. This is perhaps my favorite verse: Revelation 11:2: But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months.
Again the city of Jerusalem was trodden by, or controlled by, Gentiles until the Israelis retook the city in 1967. Again 30.44 days in a month, multiplied by 42 months = 1278.5 days (as years). Subtracting this from 1967 we arrive at … 688.5.
Further study of the above verse may well demonstrate God's wonderfully wry sense of humor. The Solomonic Temple was built over a threshingfloor, and on that bedrock the Arc of the Covenant, or Holy or Holies, was kept. It is obvious that this stone, in the Dome of the Rock, would never have served as a threshingfloor as recovery of grain would have been impossible.
Today the little gazebo aptly named the Dome of the Tablets, or Dome of the Spirits likely covers the smooth flat threshingfloor of the old Temple site.
The Solomonic Temple - "Court of the Gentiles" where even unwashed slaves were allowed - is where the Dome of the Rock was constructed. The old Eastern Gate lines up perfectly with the little "dome of the tablets".
In other words the Dome of the Rock was built in the court outside of the Solomonic temple site, that was given to the Gentiles! The Muslims built the Dome of the Rock over the wrong rock! Does God have an awesome sense of humor or what?
7. Revelation 11:3: And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
1948 - 1260 = 688 .... the Dome of the Rock.
The Bible defines the two witnesses as the Jewish and Christian church, who were religiously exiled from Israel by Islam, marked symbolically, specifically, and repeatedly above, by the Dome of the Rock. Employing the scriptural adjacency rule of hermeneutics we learn:
Rev 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in My right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
Rom 11:24 For if thou [the Gentiles] wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree [the Jews]: how much more
shall these [the Jews], which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Many of the "former age" understood this interpretation of the two witnesses:
Matthew Henry: "Some think these two witnesses are Enoch and Elias, who are to return to the earth for a time: others, the church of the believing Jews and that of the Gentiles ... "
Or more recently Jamieson Faucett and Brown "..., I think the twofold Church, Jewish and Gentile, may be meant by the two candlesticks represented by the two witnesses ... "
1948 may well have marked the end of the Christian era, and entry into the era of the "time of the end". Few would argue that the Church and society have gone evermore rapidly downhill ever since. The end of the Christian era is studied more thoroughly at this link.
To see this view in more detail may I suggest one do a google search for “the False Prophet a free online book”
Are the math problems above and their solutions merely a series of accidents or flukes?
NOTES ABOUT MULTIPLIERS:
You can Yahoo the fact that a common understanding of the average number of days in a year is 365.24. Dividing this number by 12 we get 30.436666. If we round this number shorter we can arrive at the 30.44 average days in a month used above.
In regard to the multiplier for Hebrew to Solar years, taking the 360 day Hebrew year, and dividing it by the same 365.24 average days in a solar year above, we get .9856532. Rounding this number shorter we arrive at .9857 which is the multiplier we used above to convert Daniel's Hebrew years to the solar years of our historical record.
Beyond these adjustments the rest of the math above could be performed by a child.
