Thoughts on the covenant in Daniel 9
2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
According to Daniel the 70th week starts with the covenant being confirmed with the many by a man who we infer is the Antichrist. We consider this very important because it will tell us exactly when the 7 years of tribulation will take place.
So then, what do we know about it?
1. It can be described as a conspiracy to defraud. When you confirm a covenant with many that results in someone being defrauded it is by definition "a conspiracy to defraud". In the same verse where Antichrist confirms the covenant it also says that three and a half years later he causes the oblation and sacrifice to cease and sets himself up in the temple of the Jews. They got defrauded. However, it doesn't say that he breaks the covenant, so I don't believe the covenant was to give the Jews the right to worship their God, or to build their temple. The 70 weeks begins with the decree to return and rebuild Jerusalem and the temple. There is no second decree to do that.
2. Reading Revelation and Thessalonians we discover that we know a lot about what happens, there are many more puzzle pieces like Peter says, no prophecy is of its own interpretation.
They will be saying "peace and security" then "sudden destruction comes". It comes like a thief in the night. We can compare this to Judas coming to Jesus like a thief in the night, kissing him, and then He gets arrested. We know that this happens after the rapture, after the Holy Spirit who has been restraining Antichrist, is taken away.
We also know that at the same time that the rapture takes place the Lord judges the apostate church. I suspect the numbers will be the same. By that I mean if 100 million are raptured worldwide (ten thousand ten thousand who return on horses) then another 100 million will be killed by fire at the same time. The numbers are simply a hunch to give us an idea of the scale of what is about to take place. The fact that the two events happen at the same time is confirmed by many, many witnesses, prophecies, and Bible verses. I think a very strong case from the Bible can be made that the bulk of this judgement will fall on the US which is called "the Great Babylon" and their judgment will come in one hour. If the US loses the majority of this 100 million killed and 100 million raptured, then the US as a power would cease to exist. That will be devastating to the world's economy in so many ways that you can understand the need to declare "peace and security" and you can understand why people around the world would hand over significant power to this leader in exchange for peace and security.
We also know that the power they hand over is for a world wide currency that the Antichrist can control so tightly that he can decide who can buy or sell and it is only those who worship him by taking his mark on their hand or forehead. This brings us back to Daniel 9. This would certainly "strengthen" a covenant that people have made but are not keeping. If the covenant involves what you can buy or sell, as Agenda 2030 does concerning climate change, then agreeing to this for seven years would certainly strengthen that covenant. The only reason people would agree is they felt it was a matter of life or death.
This covenant gives Antichrist the power to decapitate those who refuse to take the mark beginning with Christians but three and a half years later moving on to Israel. This is all about power and worship. They give Antichrist the power and he demands the worship.
2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
According to Daniel the 70th week starts with the covenant being confirmed with the many by a man who we infer is the Antichrist. We consider this very important because it will tell us exactly when the 7 years of tribulation will take place.
So then, what do we know about it?
1. It can be described as a conspiracy to defraud. When you confirm a covenant with many that results in someone being defrauded it is by definition "a conspiracy to defraud". In the same verse where Antichrist confirms the covenant it also says that three and a half years later he causes the oblation and sacrifice to cease and sets himself up in the temple of the Jews. They got defrauded. However, it doesn't say that he breaks the covenant, so I don't believe the covenant was to give the Jews the right to worship their God, or to build their temple. The 70 weeks begins with the decree to return and rebuild Jerusalem and the temple. There is no second decree to do that.
2. Reading Revelation and Thessalonians we discover that we know a lot about what happens, there are many more puzzle pieces like Peter says, no prophecy is of its own interpretation.
They will be saying "peace and security" then "sudden destruction comes". It comes like a thief in the night. We can compare this to Judas coming to Jesus like a thief in the night, kissing him, and then He gets arrested. We know that this happens after the rapture, after the Holy Spirit who has been restraining Antichrist, is taken away.
We also know that at the same time that the rapture takes place the Lord judges the apostate church. I suspect the numbers will be the same. By that I mean if 100 million are raptured worldwide (ten thousand ten thousand who return on horses) then another 100 million will be killed by fire at the same time. The numbers are simply a hunch to give us an idea of the scale of what is about to take place. The fact that the two events happen at the same time is confirmed by many, many witnesses, prophecies, and Bible verses. I think a very strong case from the Bible can be made that the bulk of this judgement will fall on the US which is called "the Great Babylon" and their judgment will come in one hour. If the US loses the majority of this 100 million killed and 100 million raptured, then the US as a power would cease to exist. That will be devastating to the world's economy in so many ways that you can understand the need to declare "peace and security" and you can understand why people around the world would hand over significant power to this leader in exchange for peace and security.
We also know that the power they hand over is for a world wide currency that the Antichrist can control so tightly that he can decide who can buy or sell and it is only those who worship him by taking his mark on their hand or forehead. This brings us back to Daniel 9. This would certainly "strengthen" a covenant that people have made but are not keeping. If the covenant involves what you can buy or sell, as Agenda 2030 does concerning climate change, then agreeing to this for seven years would certainly strengthen that covenant. The only reason people would agree is they felt it was a matter of life or death.
This covenant gives Antichrist the power to decapitate those who refuse to take the mark beginning with Christians but three and a half years later moving on to Israel. This is all about power and worship. They give Antichrist the power and he demands the worship.