By Yedidah, August 8, 2007.
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As is usual with most Scriptural prophecy, it is on at least two, and usually three levels—past, present, and future. So it is with Daniel 9:24-27.
In Evangelical traditional teaching, it has always been taught that this prophecy pictured the coming of Messiah the first time, and that the “seventieth week” of Daniel pictured the last seven years before His second coming, including “the tribulation” and the rise of anti-messiah, and his doom.
Now, because the seals are off of the book of Daniel, we see that this prophecy is in three layers. The traditional Evangelical teaching has validity.However, it has been found, through a study of the Hebrew text, that part of what we attributed to anti-messiah was really talking about the Messiah.In this article, I briefly want to go over all three levels.
In outline form
- In the traditional level, the “weeks” are “heptads”, or seven times seven. From Wikipedia Encyclopedia: “A heptad is a group or a series of seven items”. In this case the “items” are weeks. Thus from the going forth to rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah entered Jerusalem and was “cut off”—in 26CE—was 7X69 weeks or 483 years. The beginning year is determined from the starting point—most commonly the starting point is from Ezra’s return (Ezra 7:9—Aviv 1, 457 BCE), with the decree signed by Artexerxes. But, some gage the return from Nehemiah’s time when Artexerxes signed a decree for him to return (Nehemiah 2--Aviv 1, 445 BCE—making Messiah’s last week in 32CE). The Nehemiah date rendering is figured in Hebrew years. Daniel 9:25 tells us that the dating starts “when the command” went forth to return. In the traditional teaching, the 70th week, or last seven years, is yet to come—the last 3 ½ years being “the tribulation” time, beginning with anti-messiah’s appearing.
- The second level teaches that during the week of Passover in which Messiah died and was raised up, Messiah fulfilled Daniel 9:24, 26-27 on one level, foreshadowing the “70th week”, which involves anti-messiah in the future, making Daniel 9:26 and 27 on two levels—past and future. This is most fascinating and very realistic.
- This level teaches that instead of 70 weeks of years—they are 70 Feasts of Shavu’ot—or seventy years--putting the beginning of the fulfillment of the prophecy on November 29, 1947, when the United Nations made the decree that the Jews could return to their homeland, and the ending in 2017 at Yom Teruah.
It is very interesting that all three of these levels puts Messiah’s second coming within a very short time-frame—between 2014 Yom Teruah and 2017 Yom Teruah. Yom Teruah being the Jubilee—the year of release of all debts and all slaves. (Leviticus 25)
Then there is the possibility that Planet X will cut time short if it does make its predicted approach of earth in 2012. And if the Mayan calendar really is correct, it puts the end of time, as we know it, on December 21, 2012. However, the accuracy of the Mayan calendar, used by the New Age movement to predict their “Age of Aquarius” is very questionable, and certainly Scripture gives it no credence.
From what I believe the Father has shown me, His return would be at the Feast of Trumpets—Yom Teruah—2014 (Roman calendar), going into 2015 on the Tishre creation calendar.
However, the calculations of others with different dates are very impressive. I DO NOT set dates. However, we are “in the dark” as to timing, and once the anti-messiah sits on his throne, the Scriptures tell us we have 3 ½ years—or 1, 260 days. As we approach, He will let us know His timeframe most clearly. Then we can be dogmatic. He tells us, however, that we are fools if we can’t determine the times and seasons. Therefore, we must study with the Author of the Word to teach us.
Luke 24:25, as the men on the road to Emmaus, who did not recognize Messiah, were relating to Him about His death, He said this to them: “O fools! Slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!…”
Matthew 16:2-3: “When it is evening, you say it will be fair weather, for the sky is red. And in the morning, you say it will be foul weather because the sky is red and overcast. O hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times?”
I Thessalonians 5:3-5: “For when they shall say, `Peace and security’, then sudden destruction comes upon them as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. BUT YOU BRETHEN, are not in darkness that the day should overtake you as a thief. You are all the children of light and the children of the day. We are not of the night, nor of the darkness”.
Revelation 3:3, letter to the assembly of Sardis: “Remember, then, how you have received and heard. And watch and repent. IF, then, you do NOT wake up, I shall come upon you as a thief and you shall not know at all what hour I come to you”.
It is obvious that if one lives a life of repentance and obedience, and is watching for His coming with joy and expectancy, that He will let us know when He is coming. That is why this study is so wonderful—He is letting us know what “ball park” we are in now. More details will come as we need them. But, He is revealing His timeframe now, and this is awesome!
John 16:13—We have been given the Ruach to tell us of things to come: Messiah says: “And when He comes, the Spirit of Truth, He will guide you into all truth, for He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever he hears He shall speak, and HE SHALL ANNOUNCE TO YOU WHAT IS TO COME”.
Yet, most Christians, who are too lazy to study the Word and let the Author, the Teacher, the Ruach Yahuweh, teach them, mouth such terms as “No man knows the day and the hour”. Notice the words “day” and “hour”—that means that we can know within two days. This is foolish irresponsibility.
Many are running to human teachers without consulting the Ruach Yahuweh—thus some are off in a ditch, believing deceptions, heresies, and lies.
That term, “no man knows the day or the hour” in Hebrew context has to do with the forty-eight hour period before the first sighting of the new moon—giving us exactly within two days the time of the coming of Messiah at a Tishre 1, Feast of Trumpets.
We also know that the anti-messiah will rule for 1, 260 days—three and a half years. (Daniel 12:11; Revelation 11:3; 12:6) Once the lawless one sits down and begins his reign, we can count off that time period, and come to within 2 days of the coming of Messiah at the Feast of Trumpets. The Messiah fulfilled the first three of YAHUWEH’S FESTIVALS in His death, burial and resurrection, and His giving of Yahuweh’s Ruach to His Apostles on the day of Sha’vu’ot—Pentecost. He will fulfill the remaining three festivals to the second, as He fulfilled the first four. Therefore, He can only come on a Yom Teruah—the day of trumpet blowing—the Feast of Trumpets—which occurs on a Tishre 1 (September or October Roman calendar). He does nothing sporadically—He is always to the nano second in His timing—notice the universe!
Amos 3:7: “SURELY, Yahuweh Elohim will do NOTHING UNLESS HE FIRST reveals His secrets to His servants, the prophets”.
This means that His trusted set-apart ones who hear from Him, will know the timing—within the two days prior to Tishre 1—when during the dark of the moon, two witnesses wait for the first sighting of the first sliver of the new moon, to announce the new month. This forty-eight hour “watch” is called “the day and hour that no man knows”, because they are watching for one of the two evenings to manifest a new moon. As the two witnesses are called by the High Priest (“Come up hither”--notice Revelation 4:1), they confirm the sighting, the shofar is then blown, and the new month declared, and at the time of Messiah’s return, the doors of heaven will open (Revelation 19) and He will descend to take His throne in Jerusalem. No man knows the day or hour of the blowing of the “last trumpet” (I Corinthians 15:51-58; Revelation 11:15-19). The “seventh trumpet” is the last trumpet.
In Matthew 24:31, the Messiah comes during the blast of the shofar: “And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds…”
Leviticus 25:8-9: “And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. You shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day of the seventh month--on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) you shall cause the ram’s horn to pass through all your land. And you shall set the fiftieth year apart and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Jubilee for you…” (Italics mine)
Keep focused on this! We are to “watch” above all things—for we are watchmen—we are witnesses—and we are called to watch. (Mark 13:32-37) Right now, through hundreds of verses in the Scriptures, He is giving us signs and instructions of what to watch for and what to do, regarding His return.
These signs will all come together in a generation that is able to fulfill the signs—only our generation can do that. The starting point: November, 1947.
THE SCRIPTURE:
Daniel 9:24: “Seventy weeks are decreed upon your people and for your set-apart city, to put an end to 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 Set-Apart”.
Daniel 9:25a: “Know, therefore, and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince is seven weeks and sixty-two weeks”--(49 years and 434 years = 483 years). The restoration and rebuilding was 49 years. Each “week” is seven years (a day for a year is the standard measurement of time in prophetic Scripture). Seventy weeks, therefore, are 490 years.
Daniel 9:25b: “It shall be built again, with streets and a trench, but in times of affliction”--(troublesome times).
Daniel 9:26: “And after the sixty-two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off and that not for Himself. [And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the set-apart place. And the end of it is with a flood. And wastes are decreed, and fighting until the end”]. The expression “cut off” is a covenant term meaning to cut flesh and pass around the pieces. Messiah said in Matthew 26:26: “And as they were eating, Yahushua book bread and having blessed it, broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said: `Take eat, this is My body.’ ”
In I Corinthians 11:23-25, Rav Sha’ul (Paul) puts it like this: “…the Master Yahushua, in the night in which He was betrayed, took bread, and having given thanks, He broke it and said: `Take eat, this is My body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me’ ”. The cup, He says, “is the renewed covenant in My blood”.
I put the information on the “coming prince” in brackets, which I will explain later. Obviously, that passage is parenthetical--speaking about the anti-messiah—“a coming prince” will be from the people who would destroy the city and Temple--which the Roman, Titus, did in 70CE. Therefore the “coming prince”—the anti-messiah—will come from Rome.
Picking up the dialogue regarding Messiah: Daniel 9:27a: “And He shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. And in the middle of the week, He shall put an end to sacrifices and the meal offering.” (The word “confirm” means to agree with an existing covenant).
Daniel 9:27b: Picking up on the anti-messiah: [“And on the wing of abominations (mentioned in Daniel 9:26) he shall lay waste, even until the complete end, and that which is decreed is poured out on the one who lays waste”]. (Italics mine) This puts a whole new revelation on the “middle of the week”.
Matthew 12:39-40: “…there shall no sign be given but the sign of the prophet Jonah, for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the fish’s belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”.
This prophecy foretelling His being three days and three nights in the heart of earth is the most often-repeated prophecy in the Bible. That’s seventy-two hours--He arose on the third day! He went into the ground close to sunset on Wednesday evening, just before the High Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread was to begin, and He came out of the grave just before sunset on Shabbat evening. Remember Yahuweh’s days begin at sunset and end at sunset—Genesis 1:5 and etcetera. During those seventh-two hours, thirty prophecies were fulfilled!
Messiah Yahushua, our Savior and Redeemer, did indeed put an end to animal sacrifices for the remission of sins. (Hebrews 9) He did indeed confirm the Covenant of Yahuweh with many, in His own blood. He did indeed put an end to transgressions and put an end to sin, and did indeed make reconciliation between the sinner and Yahuweh, and He did indeed bring in everlasting righteousness! HalleluYah!
It is very exciting that from the time of Yahushua’s mikvah (baptism) by John in the River Jordan, and the announcement of His being “the Lamb of Elohim”, John 1:29, until He sent us the Ruach Yahuweh fifty days after His resurrection, is exactly 490 days. His ministry was only one year—From Passover to Passover. That’s another topic, but it can be proven, by correcting translation errors in the Messianic Writings.
Don Esposito, in his teaching “Signs in the Heavens”, gives us another 490-year cycle, which also fits in with the wording of Daniel 9:25. In 1517 the Turkish Ottoman Empire conquered Jerusalem and built the walls and gates “in troublesome times”, just as Nehemiah re-built the walls and gates of Jerusalem “in troublesome times”. The British took Jerusalem in 1917, running out the Islamic Arabs. But, the walls built by the Ottoman Empire still stand. Add 490 years to 1517 and you get—2007! The year 2007 is the peak year of the end of Ephraim’s punishment (from 722BCE) and the end of Judah’s punishment of forty years, then it is very possible that Luke’s prophecy will begin to be fulfilled, or at least the “times of the gentiles” will peak, in 2007. (Luke 21:24) At least the judgment on the gentiles (nations outside the covenant of Yahuweh) is beginning—that is something most all can see clearly.
Why did Yahuweh send the house of Judah into captivity into Babylon for seventy years? II Chronicles 36 20-21: “And those who escaped from the sword he (Nebuchadnezzar) exiled into Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the reign of the of reign of Persia, IN ORDER TO FULFILL the Word of Yahuweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay waste she kept Shabbat, until seventy years were completed”. (Italics mine)
At the end of every seven years, Yahuweh commands that His people let the land rest—it is a “Smittah year”—the year of land rest. (Exodus 23:10-11)
Because they did not let the land rest for 70 7’s, or 490 years, they went into captivity for every land-rest year that they worked the land and did not let it rest. Yahuweh is serious about His instructions and teaching—the Torah! (Jeremiah 25:11) Yahuweh is very serious about His Land – Deuteronomy 11:11-12—He keeps His eyes on it 24/7.
THE THREE LEVELS DISCUSSED:
The Traditional Level: The 483 years is determined by “heptads” each week being seven years—beginning with the signing of the FIRST DECREE to return and re-build Jerusalem of Artexerxes to Ezra (457BCE), until Messiah came into Jerusalem on the 10th of Aviv, 26CE, as the Lamb of Elohim, following the Passover scenario of Exodus 12. Following the Exodus 12 details, Messiah was put on the stake and died before sunset on the 14th of Aviv, rising from the dead at the end of the 17th of Aviv—a full three days and three nights in the grave. Nehemiah came and built the walls in troublesome times 12 years later, by decree, also from Artexerxes of Persia (45BCE). Adding 483 years to 457 BCE we come to the year 26 CE, when Messiah was “cut off”, on a Wednesday—in the middle of week. In the middle of the week, He stopped animal sacrifices by being the final Lamb of Elohim, who takes away the sin of the world. (Hebrews 9:11-28) At that time, He put an end of transgressions and sins, and brought in everlasting righteousness, confirming and renewing the Covenant of Yahuweh with many during that Passover week.
During the first 49 years—the 7 weeks--the Temple and the walls were restored. It was a time of turmoil, as neighboring rivals tormented and tried to stop the work. Reading Nehemiah gives us a picture of the “troublesome times”. Ezra was also present to teach the people the Torah and to re-establish Temple worship. The other 434 years brings us up to 26 CE.
It is most probable that the starting date for the 483 years was from the time that Ezra received the decree to return—thus ending, officially, the Babylonian captivity. First the temple was restored, then the walls of the city. That’s Father’s order—first His business, and then natural business!
The anti-messiah, who is discussed within the brackets that I put in the Scriptures above, is from Rome—from the same people who destroyed the City of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70CE. The end of him is surrounded by wars and waste and destruction. And he shall set up abominations in the place of Yahuweh—putting himself on the throne to be worshipped as “God”. (II Thessalonians 2) But, that which is decreed by Daniel (chapters 2, 7, 8 and 11) will come to pass as the anti-messiah is laid waste and cast out (Revelation 19:20).
The Second Level: The week of Passover 26 CE and the 70th week of Daniel:
Here we have two layers: First, the final seven years--or Daniel’s “70th week”-- began immediately at the end of the 483 years. Messiah fulfilled His final week—which pictures the week of last seven years before His second coming.
I believe that the 70th week of Daniel’s prophecy, the last seven-year cycle, is beginning at sunset this September 12th/13th, at the Feast of Trumpets, 2007.
(If you do not have my article The Forty-Eight Hour Transition, please ask for it—for it goes into this in detail.) I believe that in the middle of the seven years, anti-messiah will be enthroned, and sometimes after that the “day of Yahuweh” will come, ending with the final wrath being poured out at the return of Yahushua.
NOTE: I say: “I believe”. I do NOT say: “Thus says Yahuweh”, nor do I say: “This is the way it is--embedded in concrete”. I am reporting as the Ruach gives me clearance to do so. At this point, this is the way I see it, and I have peace about it. More light will come for us all, as we pursue our passion for Truth, as taught by Him. I am definitely not alone in this belief—many who have searched the Scriptures to find His Truth are seeing that we are entering into the final days before Messiah’s return. Surely, by calculations from Ezekiel 4:4-6 and Leviticus 26:14-15, 18, 21, 24, 28, 33-35 and from the cycles found by Jewish sages 400 years ago—and “signs in the heavens and on earth”, all point to one year--2007 CE.
I am very cautious of prophecies by Christians because most of their frame of reference is usually not Scripture-based from the Hebrew standpoint, but based on man’s Greco/Roman concepts: HOWEVER, a prophecy by a Christian man was sent to me, and I can’t get the prophecy out of my mind. His interpretation was typically American, but the actual vision has been confirmed by many. Note: We must never put our “spin” on what He reveals to us!
This man received the vision on March 3, 2007 while walking out in his fields. Bottom line is this: He was shown in vision some of the troubles to come, and in the midst of it, the Father showed him the date in the vision: September 12, 2007. When he returned to his house, the Father instructed him to write: September 12, 2007, 12:00AM Israel time. That is midnight, Roman timing.
I strongly believe that at midnight, going into the morning by the Roman calendar, of the 13th—that the end of Ephraim’s punishment is not only finished on the Hebrew calendar (whose days begin at sunset), but on the Gregorian calendar of the world system! I believe Father is giving a double-emphasis—both to His set-apart ones who guard His calendar, and to the nations who use Rome’s calendar! Now that the punishment is over by His Word, He can begin to bring His punishment on the world. Now, the remnant of all the tribes of Jacob—a remnant of all of His people—can come back to His Torah and to Him, and thus not be judged with the world! We are entering a smittah year—the year of Yahuweh’s release!
During the Passover week, which began with Messiah entering Jerusalem on that “day of triumphal entry”—Matthew 21. He was “inspected” by the High Priest for four days, and He was found “blameless”—“perfect”. On Tuesday evening He had a “last supper” with His disciples. It was not the Passover. Number one, He offered the disciples leavened bread. Number two, Judas was sent out by Messiah to go and do his dirty deed of betrayal, but the disciples thought he was going out to buy things for Passover. If it were Passover evening, no stores would be open to buy anything. (John 13:29) Number three: John 18:28: the High priest and other priests would not go into Pilate’s hall to watch the interrogation of Yahushua, “lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover”. If the Passover Seder had been the night before, this would be a silly verse.
He was inspected from after midnight on until the next morning. By early morning, he was sentenced to death on the stake. By 9:00AM, He was put on the stake (“Stauros” in Greek: a pole, stake or tree trunk). In the Temple, the lambs were being killed for the Passover Seder that night, which would begin the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days. At sunset, a high Shabbat would begin.
Before sacrificing the last lamb, at the end of the day, the High Priest would declare: “I thirst”. At the same time on the stake, Messiah said: “I thirst”. Then, about mid-afternoon-sunset, “between the evenings”, the High Priest would take one lamb, which would represent the nation of Israel, and before cutting its throat, he would loudly proclaim: IT IS FINISHED! On the stake, Messiah, at the exact same moment, loudly cried out as He gave up His spirit to the Father: “IT IS FINISHED”. He fulfilled Feast number one (Exodus 12)—Passover—to the second.
John 11:49-52: “…and Caiphas, being High Priest that year, said to them (a counsel of priests, gathered to determine whether to have Yahushua killed or not) `You know nothing, neither do you consider that it is better for us that one man die for the people than that the entire nation should perish.’ But, he did not say this from himself, but being High Priest that year he prophesied that Yahushua was about to die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to gather together into one the children of Elohim who were scattered abroad”. The ones scattered abroad were the ten “lost tribes” of the northern “house of Israel”—scattered into all nations AMONG the gentiles between 1000-722BCE. Their punishment is over—September 12, 2007, sunset).
NO Scripture refers to Yahuweh’s people as “gentiles”—He always makes reference to them being “AMONG” the gentiles. He made no covenant with gentiles—for a “gentile” is a “pagan, barbarian, heathen, alien, foreigner, and stranger” (Ephesians 2).
Messiah was in the grave three full days and three full nights, coming out of the grave just before sunset on Saturday night—the 17th of Aviv. It began another high Shabbat—the Feast of First Fruits. This began at sunset going through sunset--on a Sunday. Thus He fulfilled the “sign of the prophet Jonah”.
I Corinthians 5:7-8: “Therefore, cleanse out the old leaven, so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Messiah our Passover was offered for us. So then, let us keep the Feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth”. (Leaven is a picture of sin. Thus during the seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, matzo is eaten).
I Corinthians 15:3-4, 20, 22-23: “For I delivered to you at the first that which I received: that Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised THE THIRD DAY, according to the Scriptures…Now Messiah has been raised from the dead, and has become the first fruit of those having fallen asleep (who have died)... For as all die in Adam, so also all shall be made alive in Messiah, and each in his own order: Messiah the first fruit then those who are of Messiah at His coming”. (Italics mine)
So, from Messiah’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Aviv 10, until His resurrection on Aviv 17, we have a type of Daniel’s 70th week. In the “middle of the week” (Daniel 9:27) the laws of animal sacrifices were stopped, sin was judged, and everlasting righteousness was brought forth for those who would receive Him. He fulfilled the “torah”—the instructions and teachings of animal sacrifice. (Hebrews chapters 9-11) He is the final “Lamb of Elohim”, whose sacrifice has the power to TAKE AWAY sin. (John 1:29)
The Jewish Messiah’s sacrifice and resurrection had nothing to do with the “venerable day of the sun”—Sunday—day of sun god worship among pagans--and many pastors and teachers who now realize that Messiah died on Wednesday are even having to give up their church positions, because in all honesty they can no longer observer the pagan festival of “Easter”—the “queen of heaven”.
According to this two-level interpretation, the seven days of the last week of Messiah on earth, pictures the 70th week of seven years, which is still to come.
Three and one half years into the last seven-year cycle, one called “anti-messiah”, or the “lawless one” or “the man of sin”, will sit on the Temple Mount in the place of Messiah. The expression “anti-messiah” doesn’t mean one that is against the real Messiah as much as it means a “counterfeit”—one that sits IN THE PLACE OF MESSIAH. The Apostles said that this “mystery of iniquity” was already at work in their day. In Galatians 1, Rav Sha’ul warns of “another Messiah” that was being touted in the name of the true One. By the mid-first century, the Greeks had created a new sun-god religion, based on Gnostic and philosophical Platonic teaching, using the Jewish Messiah as a role model, but departing from the teachings of the Torah-observant Apostles and substituting Yahushua with a counterfeit—a Greek-type god who later was institutionalized by Rome—Iesous—transliterated into English as “Jesus”. (Remember the “J” in the English language is only about 500 years old). We must not use this counterfeit name, if we want to be in the “good graces” of the coming Jewish Messiah, whose Name is connected to His Father’s Name—YAH___.
In Latin, the one who sits in the place of Messiah is called: The “Vicar of Christ”. That is a title of the Roman Catholic Pope. In order to mock Messiah Yahushua, the coming anti-messiah will also appear on the 10th of Aviv, coming into Jerusalem in his “triumphal entry” before the world. After all, Lucifer (Satan in disguise) wants to upstage Yahushua. He is a counterfeiter.
In the “middle of the week” (a 7-year week), he will stop the sacrifices and set himself up as god to be worshipped, beginning the last 3 ½ years of the seven year period. I believe that we are entering the 70th week of Daniel—thus the 3 ½ years of the “tribulation”—the pressure that He puts on His wheat, so that the chaff is broken off and blows away, await us soon. Do not fear the “tribulation”—fear Yahuweh—and be found in His favor!
The anti-messiah is known as “the lawless one”--the one “a nomia”—Greek—which means the one without the Torah of Yahuweh. Notice that in Matthew 7:21-23, the ones who are before Messiah supposedly as His ministers, are rejected from entering His Kingdom because they are “a nomia”—without the Torah—lawless. The lawless one may stop sacrifices going on by Jews. But, as one teacher has suggested, at this point, he may outlaw anyone who puts faith in Messiah’s blood for redemption as the “only way”, and declare that he alone is “God”. He will at least attempt to stop what Messiah set in motion—the eternal salvation of His people.
It is against world law to say that your way to “God” is the only way. Under President Reagan, the “Genocide Laws” were signed, which outlaw in America, anyone saying that their way is the only way. Some have already been arrested for witnessing to the “ONLY WAY” of our Messiah. It is also against the “one world religion” that is now set up, under Rome. Therefore, this interpretation is very valid for our consideration. In the next seven years, I believe, we will see the rise of anti-messiah for 1, 260 days—3 ½ years. During this time, the seals, the trumpets, and the vials of Revelation will be poured out upon the earth in stages, as He decrees. Our resurrection is near.
We must make preparations to be found in Him, without spot or blemish, blameless, obedient, contrite, walking in His nature, knowing His nature and His ways, and loving Him with all of our heart, mind and strength, fearing Him (not anti-messiah or his agents) with much fear—for He is coming as a “consuming fire”. (Hebrews 12:25-29)
The Third Level of Daniel 9: The seventy years are seventy years only
The word “seventy” in Daniel 9:25 is: “shib’iym”—“seven”, also a multiple of #7651. Number 7651 is: “she’ba” meaning “seven times—multiples of seven
(heptads)--a week, to complete to the full”. Thus seven is considered throughout Scripture to be the number of final completion. Very interesting: Read Ezekiel chapter 7: “The end has come!”
The word “Shavu’ot” is the word for “weeks”. Another name for “Pentecost” or “Shavu’ot” is “The Feast of Weeks”. It is determined by counting seven weeks from the day of First Fruits, and on the fiftieth day (“Pentecost” in Greek means fifty) the Ruach Yahuweh was poured out upon Messiah’s disciples (Acts 2; Leviticus 23:15-17) Thus the Feast of Shavu’ot comes fifty days after Messiah’s resurrection. It is the fulfillment of Jeremiah 31:31-34, in which He writes the Torah on the heart of those who receive Messiah as Redeemer.
Shavu’ot comes once each year--on the 50th day after First Fruits—therefore, seventy Shavu’ots are seventy years.
Using this interpretation, Pastor Drewy Bruton, of Torah Restoration Ministries, came up with a totally different view of Daniel 9:24-27. At first, upon recently watching his presentation on DVD, “Daniel’s Timeline”, from January 2005, I thought: “this guy’s got a lot of good calculations, but his foundation is wrong—it is 70 heptads, nor 70 Shavu’ots”.
Then, I was listening to another very astute teacher from Israel, saying that it could be interpreted by years, and not heptads. He also was referring to the three levels of interpretation. Also, upon listening to a cassette tape by another good researcher in Israel, who was talking on the same things, he mentioned that in Daniel 9:26 and 27 that it was Messiah who put an end to the sacrifices in that context.
I very rarely go out looking for reference material. I study with the Ruach Yahuweh as my Teacher, in the Word. Then He confirms what He has taught me by others who also study the Word. In the last week, I have had so many confirmations from good Bible scholars who obey the Torah and love Yahuweh and Yahushua, of things that the Ruach Yahuweh has taught them and taught me, I am literally mind-boggled. Truly, He does nothing except that He first tells all of His servants who love the Truth, what He is doing. He wants us to know! I did not want to see Daniel’s Timeline, but the Ruach impressed upon me that I should watch it. I am appreciative to the Ruach, who definitely knows more than I do!
This confirmation has also come regarding this September 11th, 12th and 13th in Jerusalem, and even regarding the planetary configurations that will be in the heavens beginning before Yom Teruah, in August. (See Appendix B of “The Forty Eight Hour Transition”.) These planet/star/sun and moon configurations were also in the heavens at creation, and on the night of Messiah’s birth. This is not astrology—but actual astronomy. (I recommend that you watch Michael Rood’s The Secrets of Solomon’s Temple-in DVD #2--he shows the configurations in line with the Revelation 12 configuration).
I didn’t go looking for the confirmation—it came to me, via things others felt “led” to give things to me. I only consider what is directed by the Ruach, otherwise information can be a mixture of good and bad—right and wrong, truth and error. We have a built-in lie detector in our spirit, if we are sensitive to His Spirit and know His Word and His nature. I don’t want any mixtures in my life, or in my teaching. If I am not totally convinced of something, but almost, I might say: “I believe” this or that. But, I will not say: “Thus says Yahuweh”, unless it is “Thus says Yahuweh”.
The problem with prophecy is that you don’t know for sure the total fulfillment, until you look back on it. We now know that Matthew 24:32-34 talks about the “fig tree”—Israel. This restoration of the fig tree happened May 14, 1948, but we didn’t realize that it was fulfilled then until we looked at it much later.
Now, I will give you as simply as possible a little of what is given in “Daniel’s Timeline”. Bruton says that “Weeks” (Shabu’ah) stands for seventy Shavu’ots. “Shabu’ah” (#7620) is the past participle of #7650, #7651--meaning “sevened..ie.: one week, specifically years”.
Using seventy years as the standard, and beginning with November 29, 1947, when the United Nations made a resolution to create the state of Israel for the Jewish people, we see that the Jews began to return in large numbers during very “troublesome times” to rebuild and restore the City, the walls, and the whole land.
He adds seventy years to 1947 and comes up to the year 2017 Yom Teruah as the time of Messiah’s return. He says that the 10th of Aviv is on March 21st, 2013--the time of the arrival of anti-messiah in Jerusalem to mock Messiah’s coming on the 10th of Aviv.
He stresses many good points, and has pinpointed events at certain festivals.
I was a total skeptic. People, for at least three years, had been trying to get me to watch “Daniel’s Timeline”, and I said, “No, I’ve taught on Daniel since 1963, and I don’t need someone else’s opinion”. Father must have smiled on that one. But, there is His perfect timing for us to receive what He wants to show us. So, in Louisiana this June, someone led by the Ruach gave me a copy of it, and I took it, thinking that maybe this was the time I should see it—and it was. I saw it just 2 weeks ago, and it added to my education greatly. While I question the conclusion of his calculations, being 2017 Yom Kippur, they are impressive—so study, study, study. We are in His ballpark, moving rapidly forward to His return. Keep your eyes fixed on eternity, and this world will fade away and not be so important anymore to you.
Pastor Bruton brings out some astounding facts. He gives the Scriptures talking about the moon turning to blood and the sun not giving its light “before that awesome and terrible day of Yahuweh”. (Joel 2:31)
Also, he quotes Matthew 24:29-31: “The moon shall not give her light”, saying that the dark of the moon ends the time of tribulation, as the two witnesses watch for the first sliver of the new moon, thus announcing Tishre 1, Yom Teruah, and the return of Messiah. He said that in 2016 there would be a solar eclipse on September 1, a lunar eclipse on September 10th, and another solar eclipse on October 3rd. Yom Teruah that year is October 3rd--beginning the year of 2017 on the Hebrew calendar. October 1st and 2nd would be the dark of the moon—the sun would be darkened (solar eclipse) and the moon would not give its light (dark of the moon). This is something to take note of.
Matthew 24:29-31: “And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from heaven (meteor shower, comets?), and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then the sign of the Son on man shall appear in the heavens and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and much glory.” (Italics mine)
“Sign” is #4592 in the Greek, meaning: “supernatural or natural indication, miracle, sign, token, wonder”.
He shows that from the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE to 2017 is 1,947 (1947) years—making 1947 the beginning of the 70 years. Abraham was conceived in 1947 BCE and born in 1948 BCE. From 1947 BCE until the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE is 2,017 (2017) years. Isn’t this remarkable!
Please study these things with the Ruach to guide your understanding, because knowledge for knowledge sake can be just what “knowledge” is in the Greek: “Gnosis”—the knowledge of the tree of good and evil. To know His Knowledge—the Tree of Life, we must be astute to study the Word with Him, and obey it! First century Greeks who created the new religion of “Christianity”, taking their name from the worshippers of Serapis in Alexandria, Egypt, by the second century were calling themselves “Gnostic Christians”. Gnosticism is basic New Age teaching—“DiVicni Code” lies and deceptions about the true Messiah, and in general the teachings of Lucifer that he gave to Eve in the Garden of Eden—“you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil”. It is this mixture of good and evil that has brought the confusion to the world—everyone having their own mixture, except a remnant—of Yahuweh’s obedient set-apart ones! Yahuweh hates a mixture—note Revelation 3:15-16.
I have given you only a taste of these levels of understanding. Because the seals are now off of Daniel—because it is the time of the end—we must be in the Word with the Teacher invited to teach, and making priorities that are anti-world system, and pro-Yahuweh.
II Timothy 3:6-8: From the last words of Rav Sha’ul: “I am already being poured out, and the time of my departure has arrived. I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have guarded the faith. For the rest, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Master, the righteous Judge, shall give to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all who love His appearing”.
Blessings to you with much joy and peace and excitement!
Yedidah
August 8, 2007
NOTE: My sources have been, first of all and primarily, the Word of Yahuweh and the teaching of the Ruach Yahuweh, but also I appreciate the confirmation I received from Michael Rood’s DVDs, “The Jonah Code Live” and “The Secrets of Solomon’s Temple”, Don Esposito’s cassette, “Signs in the Heavens”, and Pastor Bruton’s “Daniel’s Timeline” presentation (DVD).
