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About 607 B.C. Daniel said 70 Weeks
(before the Window closes for the Jews)

As we know, the "Lost Sheep of Israel" was their Messiah's (Mashiach ben David) main focus/ministry. 

After 490 years exactly to the day, the Gentiles became the main focus because the Jews had missed the time of their own visitation.
 


If only the First Century Jerusalem Jews had studied their own Scripture, and recognized the "day of their visitation" of their own Messiah, history may have been very different.

Writing in about 607 BC, the Prophet Daniel prophesized the exact date the Messiah (Jesus) would ride into Jerusalem on a colt.

Who else claiming to be the Messiah, and doing many wondrous miracles rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey  on Palm Sunday, April 6, 32 A.D.?

This was a very singular moment in the history of Israel. I do not know if you are aware of this, but when our Lord was riding down that mountain on a donkey into the city of Jerusalem, it was an historic event, in fulfillment of several prophecies of the Old Testament.

According to the reckoning of Sir Robert Anderson, former head of Scotland Yard, an English layman with a great knowledge of the Bible, the precise date on which Daniel's prophecy was to be fulfilled was this day.  According to the actual time which had elapsed, if Israel had been aware of it, this was the predicted hour, to the very second, in which our Lord was to present himself as King to Israel.

The 70th weeks of Daniel Delusion - A prophecy that Jesus already fulfilled.

We at Bible Probe believe that the 70 weeks of the Daniel Prophecy have nothing to do with tribulation and the antichrist. There is no text in the Bible that teaches a 7-year tribulation. Daniel 9:27 speaks of nothing to do with an antichrist, a rebuilt Jewish Temple, or even tribulation. Nothing!  That's because it is all about Jesus Christ, the Messiah AND the Jewish people. And it does not speak of an Antichrist making or breaking a covenant. It speaks of Jesus Christ confirming the covenant or "the promises made to the fathers (see Romans 15:8 and Galatians 3:17). Jesus said, this is My blood of the new covenant. During His 3.5 years of ministry Jesus was Himself focused on saving "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 10:6).

This accounts for what we (Gentiles) often think strange --that is that the Lord was adamant in His saying basically ---His work was with/for the Jews who were treating him badly, and not for Non-Jews.

Daniel 9:27 says; "He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease".

We believe that many (especially Evangelicals) have wrongfully applied this somehow to the coming Antichrist, when in reality, Daniel is speaking of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This misinterpretation goes back to erroneous teachings of the Christian Church about the end times --back at least 300 years.

The Antichrist is an altogether different matter addressed in Revelation. 

By offering Himself as the perfect sacrifice, Jesus put an end to the Levitical sacrifices --which ceased to be pleasing to God the moment Jesus died on the cross and the veil in the Jewish Temple was torn (Matthew 27:51).

One week refers to seven years in bible time. This seven weeks was 3.5 years given to the Jews during Christ's earthly ministry. and 3.5 years after His crucifixion.

Many Evangelicals and other Christians and Christian book writers are also deluded to think the 70th week of Daniel went on hold for 2000 years. When in fact it happened just like clockwork and ended when Stephen (the first martyr) was "officially" stoned by the direction of the Jewish Sanhedrin at the end of the 70th week (3.5 yrs after Christ's crucifixion).  This is the 7-year period spoken of. 

Gabriel's message to Daniel the prophet subdivided the period into three smaller periods of seven weeks (verse 25), sixty-two weeks in verse 25, and one week (in verse 27). So, 7+62+1=70. This has caused much confusion since verse 26 tells us the Messiah was to be cut off in the 69th week (483 years from the starting point). So, what happened to the 70th week? There simply is no precedent for extending the 69-70th week over 2000 years as a lot of Christians and rapture promoters do. There is no example in Scripture of a stated time period starting, stopping, and then starting again.


GOSPEL SWITCHES TO THE GENTILES AFTER 70th WEEK OF DANIEL

"National Rejection"
The second 3.5 years of the "70th week" was also given to the Jews as a second chance (Acts 1-6), but this 7 years of ministry officially ended when the Jewish Sanhedrin (highest Jewish office) rejected Jesus and His Gospel a second time and they stoned Stephen. Immediately the 70th week ended, and the Gospel then went to the Gentiles. You will recall also, that the great Jewish man named Paul was "recruited" at the end of this 7 years to minister to the Gentiles. His name was changed from the Jewish Saul to the Gentile Paul (Romans 11:13) which signified the new focus.  Also, at this time God gave Peter a vision indicating it was now time to preach to the Gentiles (Acts 10:1-28)

Regarding the "abomination of desolation". Jesus was either speaking of the time in 70 AD when his followers were to flee Jerusalem, because the Roman armies under Titus would attack Jerusalem and destroy the 2nd Temple. In Matthew 24:15 Jesus told His followers, "When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies (Roman armies) then know that its desolation is near".  Why did this happen? In Matthew 23-38 Jesus told the Pharisees:  "See! Your house is left to you desolate". That's because of  the "abominations" of the Pharisees.  Interesting enough, we know from history that Christians took the Lord's advice and had left the city.  1 million Jews were massacred in Jerusalem under Titus.  But no Christians were killed there.  Or, a better candidate for this is that Jesus was speaking of the pagan monstrosity that sits atop the top of the Temple Mount even today.  Of course I am speaking of the Dome of the Rock and , built during the 685 to 705 AD period .  Jewish Rabbis know this structure makes the temple mount desolate.

See reference for the below paragraph, here:
An "abomination" is a sin committed before the face of God that causes God to spew the sinner out of His presence. Abominations can only be committed by those who have near access to God, particularly priests but more generally the whole of Israel as the priestly people. When Israel is guilty of "abominations," they are in danger of "desolations." Pharisees and scribes had been putting stumbling blocks ("scandals") in the way of the "little ones" of Israel. The Pharisees were guilty of mocking Jesus and His teachings.  Though the Pharisees try to make themselves appear righteous before God, they are in fact abominable.  Addressing His disciples, Jesus warns them in very strong terms not to follow their example: Better that they were drowned in the sea, than to cause one to sin.


JEWISH SCHOLARS FAILED MISERABLY IN THE 1st CENTURY:
They failed to see that Jesus Christ was the one predicted by Daniel and He would die in the middle of the 70th week, per Daniel 9:27.  

The challenge to us right now, is the same challenge the 1st century Jews had in vis-à-vis the coming of the Messiah.  In retrospect, we wonder how the devout leadership of Israel could have missed these clear signs from prophecy, especially Daniel's prophecy.  Yet they did. It wasn’t that these Jews were not on the lookout and watching for the signs given in Torah.  They were just looking for the wrong kind of signs.  They thought there would be something sensational.  The Jews of this time wanted a sign from Heaven.  What they got was the Word of God, the 2nd person of the Triune God, the builder of heaven and earth Himself.

THE BOOK OF DANIEL IS AWESOME!  It was written by Daniel from a prophecy the angel Gabriel gave him while he and the Jews were undergoing their exile in Babylon. It tells the Jews that God had given them a second chance to return to Israel and  rebuild their Temple to get ready to ultimately receive their Messiah (Jesus Christ). It is an actual blueprint to the day Jesus would ride into Jerusalem on a donkey, and the first day (Psalm Sunday) Jesus (a son of David) would allow them to proclaim Him King -- the actual day He would die on the cross - to the actual day (end of 70th week-3.5 years after His crucifixion) that the door would slam shut on the Jews.

DANIEL 9:24-27:

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. 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.  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. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the 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 desolate.

According to Sir Robert Anderson this edict to rebuild Jerusalem was issued on March 14, 445 BC by Artaxerxes Longimanus of Persia. Exactly 173,880 days later Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. This was the first time Jesus allowed Himself to be publicly proclaimed as the Messiah and King. As you will recall, prior to this Jesus was always saying go and tell no one (about his miracles).  He was afraid that the people would believe Him only for His signs/miracles.  A week later Jesus was "cut off" or crucified.  We know that this happened between 445-444 BC

This prophesy refers to weeks of years, or 483 biblical years. Beginning with the exact day on which Persian King Artaxerxes gave the decree to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem (March 14, 445), exactly 173,880 days later--Palm Sunday, April 6, 32 A.D. This is the precise number of days spanning 483 biblical years, which were then measured as 12 months of 30 days each.

Old Testament prophecies were given in old testament years, which had 360 days. 

The formula for this is converting Old Testament years into what we are
on (solar years-or 365.24 days) is this:

OT prophetic years of 483 times .9857 = 476 solar years
Artaxerxes' decree in 444 BC + 476 years would mean the Messiah would be "cut off" in 32 AD, but not later than 34 AD.

The prophet Malachi wrote the last Old Testament book in about 396 BC.  This completed the Old Testament to the Jews.  From 396 BC till the arrival of Jesus the Jews would not be in communication with God.  One Jewish Rabbi said in 200 BC; " The Holy Spirit has departed from Israel".  Romans 11:8 says that God blinded the Jews' eyes so that they would not recognize their own Messiah (Yeshua).  They have been spiritually blinded ever since 396 BC.

Daniel's prophecy is based on seventy (70) periods of seven year cycles. Literally, the Old Testament called for the land in Israel to lie idle every seventh year. "Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, but during the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbath rest, a Sabbath to the Lord. . . . the land shall have a sabbatical year" (Lev. 25:3-5).

Keeping the seven year cycles in mind, Daniel's prophecy reveals that seven "cycles of seven years" would be counted to start the prophecy, which equals 49 years. So the first segment of Daniel's "time-oriented" prophecy culminated in a year of Jubilee, the 50th year.  The second time span in Daniel's prophecy calls for a period of sixty-two (62) "cycles of seven years," which equals 434 years. Adding the initial 49 years to the 434 years equals 483 Old Testament years.

According to Daniel's prophecy, the Messiah was to be killed in Jerusalem 483 Old Testament years after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem.

Let's multiply the 483 years by the number of days in a year. Our solar calendar has 365¼ days each year. The Hebrew lunar calendar contains 354 days in a normal year or 383 days in a leap year. Which length is correct? Let's assume that the length of a year revealed in the Bible is correct. What will we find?

When Jesus was asked if one should forgive their neighbors 7 times --don't you find Jesus' answer prophetically curious?  His answer; no forgive them 70 times 7 (=490) prophetical vis-à-vis Jesus knew that from the prophecy of Daniel that God had given the Jews only 490 years (483 from decree to rebuild Jerusalem + 7 more yrs) to recognize and accept their Messiah.

The Bible uses 360 days for a biblical year. We find the 360 days in the books of Genesis [Noah], the Torah [Moses], Daniel, and Revelation. Consider the 360 day year found in the book of Revelation. They [Gentiles] will trample on the holy city for 42 months. And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth (Rev. 11:2-3).

By this verse, 1,260 days equal 42 months. We divide the 1,260 days by 42 months to arrive at 30 days in a month.

Since there are 12 months in a year, we multiply 30 x 12 to equal 360 days in a year.

Now we can get the exact length of Daniel's time line. We must multiply 483 years by 360 days in a year to get 173,880 days.

The prophet Zechariah wrote in about 520 BC (Zechariah 9:9) :
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

Daniel 9:25
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 (69 weeks = 483 yrs x 360 days = 173,880 days): the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.  We know that Nehemiah had a terrible troubling time rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem (see Neh 4:1-23).

Daniel also says below that two startling historical things would follow Messiah's appearance. First, Messiah would be cut off. Second, the city of Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed shortly thereafter. The Romans "flooded" into Jerusalem and massacred hundreds of thousands of Jews.  See Josephus' "Antiquities" for details on the Romans "flooding" into Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:26
(Speaking of the first Prince-Jesus) And after threescore and two weeks (32 years - the age Jesus was) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: (speaking of the second "Prince" Romans) 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.

I think reading into anything the Jewish prophets said as somehow having anything to do with anything other than Israel is wrong. The prophets were focused on Israel and most often, Jerusalem, specifically. Revelation and the Antichrist is a different matter/focus altogether.


1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 is probably speaking of the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

Dome of the Rock is the "Abomination of Desolation"

What to do with Daniel 12:11-13's 1290 days and 1335 days?

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. 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.


1290 & 1335 days of Daniel


The "abomination of desolation" already happened exactly on schedule (Daniel's 1290 day prophecy).  When the pagan Islamic Dome of the Rock and the al-Aksa Mosque were built on the temple mount, it made the temple mount "desolated" or contaminated.  This was built during the 685 to 705 AD period.  During Daniel's day, we know that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the First Temple in 586 BC.  We also know from Jeremiah that sacrifices occurred on the temple mount for a year or so after it was destroyed.

Jeremiah 41:5: That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.


So what happened 1290 old testament years in a period of several years surrounding 586 BC?  The Muslim Dome of the Rock was built on the Temple Mount!

This abomination was built during the 685 to 705 AD period. During Daniel's day, we know that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the First Temple in 586 BC. We also know from Jeremiah 41:5 that sacrifices occurred on the temple mount for a year or so after The first Jewish Temple it was destroyed.

The formula for this is converting Old Testament years (360 days a year) into what we are on (solar years-or 365.24 days) is this:

OT prophetic years of 1290 times .9857 = 1271 solar years.

Take 705 AD as the year for the Dome of the Rock and add 586 and you get 1291. That's Exactly as Daniel said when you add the short time Jews visited the mount to make sacrifices after it was destroyed.

1335 - the "double check" number:

It gets even better than this.  The Prophet Daniel gave us another number that when added with the same formula, takes us exactly to 1948 --when the Jews were restored to the land.  Remember 1948 was their Independence Day when they officially became a nation again after 2500 years.

1335 times .9857 = 1316.  1948 (when Israel became a nation) minus 1316, brings us back to another date the God of prophecy wants us to be mindful of.  That equals 632 AD, the date that Muhammad of Islam died.


 

Summary

A chronological summary of Daniel 9:24-26

1. There would be a decree to rebuild Jerusalem.
 

2. Jerusalem and the Temple would be rebuilt.
 

3. Then an anointed one (messiah) would be enter Jerusalem as king, and then "cut off" (an idiom for "rejected" or "killed").
 

4. Then Jerusalem and the Temple would be destroyed again.
 

What Happened

All of these events later happened, in the same order in which they are described in Daniel 9:24-26:

1. After the Medo-Persians had conquered the Babylonian empire about 2540 years ago, they ruled a vast empire that included the land of Israel. About 445 BC, Persian king Artaxerxes gave permission to the Jews to rebuild Jerusalem, which was still in ruins after having been destroyed earlier by the Babylonians.

2. The Jews rebuilt the Temple and the city of Jerusalem.

3. Then, in about 32-33 AD, Jesus entered Jerusalem as the Messiah on the
173,880th day.  That day (Psalm Sunday) was the first time Jesus ever allowed anyone to address Him as king.  This was the Messiah (Mashiach ben David), who had been promised by Old Testament prophets. But, many people rejected Jesus as the Messiah and He was crucified by the Romans.  But death could not contain Him. He rose and was witnessed by many.

4. About 40 years after Jesus was crucified, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple. The Romans flooded in, murdering hundreds of thousands.  The Temple has not been rebuilt since then.

History:

Jews were commanded in Leviticus (Leviticus means "The Law") 25:1-7 to let their land lie unused every seventh year.  These Jews honored their sabbatical days - by not working or plowing on the Sabbath day.  But because their hearts were greedy and not right or believing - they decided to plant and harvest even on this sabbatical year (7th year).  God, acting like a Father who still loves the Jews - chastised the Jews of that time by sending them into bondage in Babylon for 490 years - the exact amount of time they ignored God's sabbatical years Law.  Astonishing enough - God's prophet Jeremiah warned them of this in Jeremiah 25:9-11 which reads in part:            

Behold, I will send and take all families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations round about......

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

 Toward the end of their captivity in Babylon, some Jews visited Israel and found it in desolation.  They requested of the King of Babylon that they be helped in rebuilding Jerusalem, including its wall.

Speaking of the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the prophet Nehemiah 2:1 says; "And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king....."  Note: No exact day in the month of Nisan was given.  But according to Jewish tradition - when no exact day is given the first day of the month is assumed (the first day of Nisan would be March 14, 445 B.C.).

Artaxerxes came to power in 465 B.C., 20 years later would make this 445 B.C., or March 14, 445 B.C.  So, on March 14, 445 B.C. the rebuilding of Jerusalem began.

It took "Seven weeks (or 49 years)" to rebuild Jerusalem and its walls.

Daniel also said Messiah would be cut off and the city of Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed shortly thereafter.

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.

Jesus Comes from Galilee and teaches in Caparnum

Isaiah 9:1-2 (written: 712 BC Before Christ)
"Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.  The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."

Jesus Teaching in Capernaum:

Matthew 4:12-16 "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; And leaving Nazareth he came and dwelt in  to Galilee. Leaving Nazareth, he went and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zebulon and Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."

The first time Jesus ever allowed his apostles or the Jews to call Him King was the day He rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey.  This was Psalm Sunday, April 6, 32 A.D., exactly 173,880 days  (69 weeks = 483 yrs x 360 days = 173,880 days) after the command to rebuild Jerusalem.

Zechariah wrote in about 520 BC (Zechariah 9:9):
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

Speaking of the Psalm Sunday Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey:

John 12:13-15 [they] Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. And jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

Messiah will be Rejected in Israel:

Isaiah 8:14 (written: 742 BC Before Christ)
"And he shall be a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem."

Isaiah 53:3 (written: 712 BC
Before Christ)
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Psalm 118:22-23 - The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

Isaiah 28:16 - Therefore thus saith the LORD GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Jesus bears our sins at Calvary...
Isaiah 53:4 (written: 712 BC
Before Christ)
"Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted."


Isaiah 53:5 (Suffering Servant Passage) (written: 712 BC
Before Christ)
"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

being crucified....nailed to the cross
Psalm 22:16 (written: 1018 BC
Before Christ)
"For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet."
 

Psalm 22: 14-19, written 1018 BC - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

being included with sinners....and prayer for
his enemies...

Isaiah 53:12 (written: 712 BC
Before Christ)
"Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
Matthew 27:38 "Two robbers were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left."
The Jewish Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 43a) from the Tannaitic Period recorded: "On the eve of Passover Yeshu was hanged"....
 
Coincidence? 
 
* A pagan historian by the name of Thallus, who lived shortly after the resurrection of Christ.  In  about A.D. 52 he wrote concerning a miraculous darkness that covered the earth at the Passover of A.D. 32 and attempted to explain it as an eclipse of the sun. Julius Africanus, a Christian teacher in North Africa in A.D. 215, wrote concerning this historian's assertions, "Thallus, in the third book of his histories, explains away this darkness as an eclipse of the sun - unreasonably as it seems to me." Julius contends, and modern astronomers confirm, that the Paschal full moon in which the Passover occurred (the Passover in which Christ was crucified) could not have been eclipsed. Thus, no known natural explanation can be presented to explain the darkness referred to in the Bible as occurring during Christ's crucifixion.

The Father turned His face (probably in great discomfort) as His Son Jesus took our sins fully upon Himself:

Matthew 27:45-46:

45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.  46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli,  lama sabachthani?  That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me

Read the words of Psalm 22, written by King David, one of Jesus' ancestors: "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" This psalm is a clear prophecy of the death of Christ, written hundreds of years before His birth. They were the last recorded words that He spoke before he died, nailed to the cross.

Matthew 27:50-54

50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.  51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared to many. 54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

Luke 23:45-46 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. 46 And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, he said, Father into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

 

HaYehudim W'Melech HaNazarei Yeshua

(Jesus the Nazarene and King of the Jews)
 

Read the above in Hebrew from right to left. Above acrostic spells the Tetragrammaton: YHWH, the distinctive personal name of the God of Israel

When Jesus was crucified, Pilate wrote the formal epitaph that was nailed to the cross.  This particular wording he chose displeased the Jewish leadership, and they asked him to change it.  Pilate refused.

above acrostic is quoted from the book;  "The Genesis Factor", by Messianic Jewish pastor Yacov Rambsel

genesis factor

John 19 19-22: 
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. 21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. 22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

At this time there appeared Jesus, a wise man. For he was a doer of startling deeds, a teacher of the people who receive the truth with pleasure. And he gained a following both among many Jews and among many of Greek origin. And when Pilate, because of an accusation made by the leading men among us, condemned him to the cross, those who had loved him previously did not cease to do so. And up until this very day the tribe of Christians, named after him, has not died out. [Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 18.63-64]

[The Roman governor] Festus was now dead, and [his successor] Albinus was still upon the road. So [the high priest] Ananus assembled the Sanhedrin of judges, and brought before them the brother of that Jesus who was called Christ, whose name was James, and some of his companions. And when he had formed an accusation against them as breakers of the law, he delivered them to be stoned.  [Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 20.200]

 

He's the Jewish "Mashiach ben David" and the Christian Lord and Savior .



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The Dome of the Rock is the "Abomination of Desolation" of the prophet Daniel's 1290 "day" prophecy.  When the pagan Islamic Dome of the Rock and the al-Aksa Mosque were built on the temple mount, it made the temple mount "desolated" or contaminated.   During Daniel's day, we know that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the First Temple in 586 BC.  We also know from Jeremiah that sacrifices occurred on the temple mount for some years after it was destroyed.
 

1290 & 1335 years

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."  This points to the Dome of the Rock and  the al-Aksa Mosque  as the "abomination of desolation" to the exact day they were built.  In the next verse, the Prophet Daniel, writing in about 550 BC gives as a Checksum.  It was so important that the True Creator God who can foresee the future - gave us a double check figure.   Daniel 12:12 says; "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

The next verse says; 13 "But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days."


The "abomination of desolation" already happened exactly on schedule (Daniel's 1290 day prophecy). When the pagan Islamic Dome of the Rock and the al-Aksa Mosque were built on the temple mount, it made the temple mount "desolated" or contaminated. This was built during the 685 to 705 AD period. During Daniel's day, we know that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the First Temple in 586 BC. We also know from Jeremiah that sacrifices occurred on the temple mount for a year or so after it was destroyed.

Jeremiah 41:5: That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

So what happened 1290 old testament years in a period of a year or so surrounding 586 BC? The Muslim Dome of the Rock was built on the Temple Mount!

This abomination was built during the 685 to 705 AD period. It took that long to build. During Daniel's day, we know that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the First Temple in 586 BC. We also know from Jeremiah 41:5 that sacrifices occurred on the temple mount for a year or so after The first Jewish Temple it was destroyed.

The formula for this is converting Old Testament years (360 days a year) into what we are on (solar years-or 365.24 days) is this:

OT prophetic years of 1290 times .9857 = 1271 solar years.

Take 705 AD as the year for the Dome of the Rock and add 586 and you get 1291. That's Exactly as Daniel said when you add the short time Jews visited the mount to make sacrifices after it was destroyed.

1335 - the "double check" (CheckSum) number:

It gets even better than this. The Prophet Daniel gave us another number that when added with the same formula, takes us exactly to 1948 --when the Jews were restored to the land. Remember 1948 was their Independence Day when they officially became a nation again after 2500 years.

1335 times .9857 = 1316. 1948 (when Israel became a nation) minus 1316, brings us back to another date the God of prophecy wants us to be mindful of. This figure plops exactly onto the year Muhammad of Islam, the False Prophet died and was lowered into a grave in Medina.  In 642 A.D., Muhammad died in the house of his wife A'isha who he married when she was 6 years old - when he was in his 50's.  He had sex with her when she was 9.

We know from Muslim historians themselves that any Muslim claim to anything in Jerusalem is made up.

Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiya (638-700 AD), a close relative of Muhammad, is quoted denigrating the notion that Muhammad ever set foot on the Rock in Jerusalem; "these damned Syrians," by which he means the Umayyads, "pretend that God put His foot on the Rock in Jerusalem, though [only] one person ever put his foot on the rock, namely Abraham."

For Christians. If you are having a problem with Daniel's prophecy of the "abomination of Desolation" vis-à-vis our dear Lord's Olivet discourse in Matthew 24, see the 80 year old author's (Ellis Skolfield) excellent answer at his web site: here

Read online: "The False Prophet"


Read about the Christian & Jewish Martyrs crying out to the Lord for Justice: here

Read "Muhammad, Terrorist or Prophet?"

 

 

 

 

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