Daniel 9:27 (HCSB)
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27 [/SUP] He will make a firm covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week
(3.5 YEARS INTO THE PEACE TREATY WITH ISRAEL) hewill put a stop to sacrifice and offering. And the abomination of desolation will be on a wing of the temple until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.”
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Dan. 9:27a. This verse unveils what will occur in the 70th seven years. This seven-year period will begin after the Rapture of the church (which will consummate God's program in this present Age). The 70th
"seven" will continue till the return of Jesus Christ to the earth. Because Jesus said this will be a time of "great distress" (
Matt. 24:21), this period is often called the Tribulation.
A significant event that will mark the beginning of this seven-year period is the confirming of
a covenant. This covenant will be made
with many, that is, with Daniel's people, the nation Israel. "The ruler who will come" (
Dan. 9:26) will be this covenant-maker, for that person is the antecedent of the word
he in
verse 27. As a yet-future ruler he will be the final head of the fourth empire (the little horn of the fourth beast,
7:8).
The covenant he will make will evidently be a peace covenant, in which he will guarantee Israel's safety in the land. This suggests that Israel will be in her land but will be unable to defend herself for she will have lost any support she may have had previously. Therefore she will need and welcome the peacemaking role of this head of the confederation of 10 European (Roman) nations. In offering this covenant, this ruler will pose as a prince of peace, and Israel will accept his authority.
But then
in the middle of that "seven," after three and one-half years,
he will break the covenant. According to
11:45, he will then move from Europe into the land of Israel.
This ruler will
end... sacrifice and offering. This expression refers to the entire Levitical system, which suggests that Israel will have restored that system in the first half of the 70th "seven." After this ruler gains worldwide political power, he will assume power in the religious realm as well and will cause the world to worship him (
2 Thes. 2:4;
Rev. 13:8). To receive such worship, he will terminate all organized religions. Posing as the world's rightful king and god and as Israel's prince of peace, he will then turn against Israel and become her destroyer and defiler.
Dan. 9:27b. Daniel was told that "the ruler who will come" (
v. 26)
will place abominations on a wing of the temple. Christ referred to this incident: "You [will] see standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation" (
Matt. 24:15). John wrote that the false prophet will set up an image to this ruler and that the world will be compelled to worship it (
Rev. 13:14-15). But then his end will come (
the end that is decreed is poured out on him). With his false prophet he will be cast into the lake of fire when Christ returns to the earth (
Rev. 19:20; cf.
Dan. 7:11,
26).
This covenant could not have been made or confirmed by Christ at His First Advent, as amillenarians teach, because: (a) His ministry did not last seven years, (b) His death did not stop sacrifices and offerings, (c) He did not set up "the abomination that causes desolation" (
Matt. 24:15). Amillenarians suggest that Christ confirmed (in the sense of fulfilling) the Abrahamic Covenant but the Gospels give no indication He did that in His First Advent.
As stated, the Antichrist will break his covenant with Israel at the beginning of the second half of the 70th "seven," that is, it will be broken for three and one-half years. This is called "a time, times, and half a time" (
Dan. 7:25;
12:7;
Rev. 12:14). The fact that this is the same as the three and one-half years, which in turn are equated with 1,260 days (
Rev. 11:3;
12:6) and with 42 months (
Rev. 11:2;
13:5), means that in Jewish reckoning each month has 30 days and each year 360 days. This confirms the 360-day Jewish year used in the calculations in the chart, "
The 483 Years in the Jewish and Gregorian Calendars" (near
Dan. 9:26a). Since the events in the 69 sevens (
vv. 24-26) were fulfilled literally, the 70th "seven," yet unfulfilled, must likewise be fulfilled literally.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures
by Dallas Seminary Faculty.
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Revelation 12:5-6 (NASB)
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5 [/SUP] And
she (ISRAEL) gave birth to a son, a male
child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child
(JESUS CHRIST) was caught up to God and to His throne.
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6 [/SUP] Then the woman
(ISRAEL) fled into the wilderness where she *had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days
(3.5 YEARS).
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12:5 a male Child. Jesus Christ in His Incarnation was of Jewish descent (
Matt. 1:1;
2 Tim. 2:8). Despite Satan’s efforts to destroy Israel and the messianic line, Jesus’ birth took place as predicted by the prophets (cf.
Isa. 7:14;
9:6;
Mic. 5:2).
rod of iron. This describes Jesus’ coronation as King over the nations of the world (cf.
11:15;
19:15;
Ps. 2:6-9).
her Child was caught up to God. Christ’s Ascension is in view (
Acts 1:9;
2:33;
Heb. 1:1-3;
12:2).
12:6 wilderness. God will protect Israel from Satan by hiding her in the wilderness, perhaps in the regions of Moab, Ammon, and Edom, east of Palestine. Interestingly, those countries will be specifically spared from the Antichrist’s attack against the Holy Land (cf.
Dan. 11:41).
one thousand two hundred and sixty days. At the mid-point of the Tribulation, the Antichrist breaks his covenant with Israel, puts a stop to temple worship, sets up the abomination of desolation (
Dan. 9:27;
Matt. 24:15), and devastates Jerusalem (
11:2). At that time, many Jews flee for their lives (
Matt. 24:16ff.). God will preserve them during the last 1,260 days (forty-two months; three and one-half years) constituting the Great Tribulation.
See notes on 3:10; 6:1, 9.
The MacArthur Bible Commentary.
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Zechariah 14:1-9 (HCSB)
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1 [/SUP] A day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
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2 [/SUP] I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
(Antichrist's Seven Year Covenant Treaty with ISRAEL Expires, which he actually broke at the mid point of the Covenant.)
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3 [/SUP] Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations as He fights on a day of battle.
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4 [/SUP] On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south.
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5 [/SUP] You will flee by My mountain valley, for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come
and all the holy ones with Him.
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6 [/SUP] On that day there will be no light; the sunlight and moonlight will diminish.
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7 [/SUP] It will be a day known ⌊only⌋ to Yahweh, without day or night, but there will be light at evening.
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8 [/SUP] On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea, in summer and winter alike.
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9 [/SUP]
On that day Yahweh will become King over all the earth—Yahweh alone, and His name alone.
AND ONCE AGAIN YOU REJECT WHAT THE BIBLE ACTUALLY SAYS, WHILE WE LITERALLY BELIEVE IT.
NO, I am not trying convince YOU. I am protecting the Lambs from a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Acts 20:28-31 (NRSV)
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28 [/SUP]
Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
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29 [/SUP] I know that after I have gone,
savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
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30 [/SUP]
Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them.
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31 [/SUP] Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to warn everyone with tears.
