2300 days
The 2300,1150,1260,1290 and 1335 days and 70 weeks are in direct relationship with one another!
Jesus pointed forward when he said 'when you see the abomination of desolation come, study Daniel's prophecy' (Matthew 24:15) and when you do this, you will see in Daniel 8:13 the question asked of how long this abomination would last. In Daniel 8:14 the answer was given: 'unto 2300 days and then will the sanctuary be cleansed' or justified, speaking of judgment. According to Ezekiel 4:6 a day in prophecy stands for a year, which makes it the longest time prophecy of 2300 years. Our Lord's prophetic time table and the ultimatum for the Jews in the next chapter only work when you convert the days into years and both prophecies go together. Some modern translations have 1150 days (all the ones from the Bible society) and a catholic version has 2400 days. But Protestantism as a whole has always believed in the year day principle of prophetic interpretation as actual 2300 days of years.
We definitely can see, that Jesus is here speaking of the destruction of Jerusalem and its sacred Temple and far beyond. Therefore, this can only be the heavenly Temple of GOD referred to here, that needed cleansing/justification at the end of the 2300 days of years, since the earthly temple is still in ruins today. JESUS was answering a double question in Matthew 24 that His disciples had asked.
Cleansing the Temple is known as Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and judgment. Here the final removal of sin takes place. It is the final proclamation of the gospel, saying that GOD'S hour of judging has arrived now [see Revelation 14:6-12].The Roman Counter - Reformation doctrine of Pretorism which now has been widely accepted by Protestants, claims that the abomination of Anti-Christ was a Persian Ruler by the name of Antiochus Epiphanes who lived before the time of Christ and so with contradicting Jesus. ( see Daniel 7:25; 12:7 Rev.11:3; 12:6,14; 13:5) The Hebrew Calendar has 360 days in a year. A 'time' is considered a year, 'times' is 2 years and 'half a time' =1/2 a year. ie. 360 + 720 + 180 = 1260 and so is 42 months. All of Daniel's prophecies are said to be given for the 'end' of time, our time. It is not the defilement of the earthly by offering a pig, but by attacking the heavenly Temple that is the greater abomination.
Q. How do we know that the 2300 days of years refers to the heavenly sanctuary temple only? A. The earthly cleansing of the sanctuary took place every year, but the heavenly only once and for all. Secondly, the prophet Daniel was told to seal the vision [Dan. 8:26; 12:4] until it would be unsealed at the time of the end. Not the end-time. This would happen when travel and knowledge would increase. Known today as the industrial Revolution in the 1800's when scientific knowledge brought inventions to speed up travel and made life easier with light bulbs, washing machines and steam engines.
Unfortunately, Christian denominations were locked into creeds and did not allow for any new discovery in biblical prophecies such as the 2300,1150,1260,1290, 1335 days of years prophecies of Daniel and therefore could not benefit from it.Rome not only changed the 10 Commandments under the mercy seat of GOD, causing all to sin, but also God's time, according to Daniel 7:25, from sundown to the darkest hour of midnight and Saturday to Sunday.
The 1260 years ended with Napoleon's army entering Rome in 1798 A.D. and removing the Bishop of that city.
2300 Days
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Q.: Why would Jesus single out the 2300 days of years prophecy out of so many?
A.
Because the 2300 days shows His office and work as our great high Priest
and Intercessor above. It is also of greatest importance that we see
that on judgment day, the nations are angry when they see the Temple in heaven
open and the ark with the Ten Commandments.---Revelation 11:18,19 compare 1.King
8:9
The abomination of desolation does not refer to the Mother of Babylon
alone, because she has daughters that also deny CHRIST's work in heaven for the
salvation of His people. [Revelation 17]. Daniel speaks of more than one
abomination, namely, abominations [plural], see 9:26b.
In Daniel 9:21 it is explained that the angel Gabriel returned to give Daniel
understanding and skill concerning the vision he had seen earlier.
Which vision? It can only refer to the one in Daniel 8 [the previous
chapter] of the 2300 days, where Daniel was also shown the tortures that Rome
inflicted on GOD's people -- like the rack and the stake -- and fainted.
In 9:23, Gabriel does not introduce a new vision, but has come to explain the
70 weeks or 490 years as part of the first vision, namely, to finish with
transgression and sin [Daniel just finished a long prayer for the sins of his
people 9:1-21] , ....and to anoint the most Holy [place] or sanctuary where GOD
deals with salvation from sin at the end of the 2300 days of years.
Daniel 9:26 explains that because GOD foresaw that the Messiah would be rejected
by His people and be crucified, GOD's new people, the people of the
prince, the Gentiles, would destroy the city and sanctuary [v.26] and this
earthly sanctuary desolation determined, i. e. never to be activated again. The
Roman Prince told his soldiers not to touch the sacred sanctuary, but they
disobeyed and burned it.
The abomination of desolation JESUS referred to in Matthew 24 is when pagan
Rome turned into papal Rome and instituted an old testament priesthood claiming
that only through their priesthood and their daily sacrifices of the Mass
could a person be saved. This is not all. Rome's counterfeit priesthood does not
deny CHRIST directly, but put Mother Mary on the same level:
Note the following quotations from the Vatican II
Council: "As St. Irenaeus says, she being obedient, BECAME THE CAUSE OF SALVATION for herself and for the whole human race. Hence not a few of 'the early Fathers' gladly assert with him in their preaching ... 'death through Eve, LIFE THROUGH MARY.' This UNION OF THE MOTHER WITH THE SON IN THE WORK OF SALVATION is made manifest from the time of Christ's virginal conception up to his death" (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, chap. 8, II, 56, pp. 380-381).
This clearly undermines CHRIST'S heavenly
ministry.
This claim has not been relinquished by the Vatican Council II where the sheep's
clothing has been perfected over the wolf, ready to deceive and persecute again.
Only as we combine Daniel 7 - 9 can we see the relation of the little horn power
destructing from CHRIST'S heavenly priesthood and the work and fulfilment of the
2300 days prophecy. In Daniel chapter two, we see the great metallic image
showing the successive world empires and how they relate to the persecution of
GOD'S people. Remember that Daniel's prophesy was not for his time but for the
present. Ancient Babylon was the principal oppressor of GOD'S saints and
therefore the book of Revelation speaks of modern spiritual Babylon doing the
same, to which we will refer later.
With this in mind, let's see how CHRIST'S heavenly intercession for us and in
our behalf is further supplanted by the Papacy speaking of Mary:
"Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving
office but BY HER MANIFOLD INTERCESSION CONTINUES TO BRING US THE GIFTS OF
ETERNAL SALVATION. By her maternal charity, she cares for the brethren of her
Son, who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and difficulties, until
they are led into their blessed home. Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in
the Church under the titles of ADVOCATE, HELPER, BENEFACTRESS, and MEDIATRIX"
(Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, chap. 8, II, 62, pp. 382-383).
Most opponents of the 2300days of years found in Daniel 8:13,14 are quoting form
the Maccabees. What is even more disturbing, is the fact, that many opponents of
the 2300 days prophecy alter the word of GOD by halving the days to 1150 to
better fit the little horn to the 2300 days period. We are not at liberty to do
this. GOD says that an evening and a morning constitute a day [Genesis 1:5].
GOD Himself says: " I have appointed
each day for a year".---Ezekiel 4:6b
In Daniel 7:11, the little horn is also referred to as the Beast that was slain
and given to the flames. This cannot apply to Antiochus but to Revelation 17:16;
19:20 ; 15:13 where fallen Protestantism is the false prophet united with papal
Rome and spiritualism which provides the deception of miracles from the occult
in Christian garments.
Confusion also resulted from the translators of the Bible who supplied the word
'sacrifice' in Daniel 8:13. Then they misinterpreted the word "daily" which in
the original means "continual, regular".
Daniel chapter 7 is a picture of JESUS
second coming! All our opponents fail to see that Daniel was especially written
for our time when "Knowledge and Travel" increased [ Daniel 12:4; 8:26].
Contextual evidence clearly
supports the view that Daniel 7:10, 22 refers to the last judgment and therefore
the Three Angel's Messages in Revelation 14:6-12.
Evidence suggests that the pollution of the earthly sanctuary did not end with
the death of Antiochus Epiphanes, but 20 years later when Simon the high priest
drove out the heathen who had polluted the Sanctuary and the Holy Place.---1
Meccab.XIV.36
The Prince of princes against whom the little horn acted, was the Messiah [Daniel
8:25] because Antiochus died before CHRIST was born. The sooner Christianity
sees the real antichrist working against CHRIST and passes this on to her
Protestant Daughters, the sooner JESUS can finish the work of cleansing the
heavenly and earthly sanctuaries [us] and we all can go home.
The prophet Daniel saw the heavenly judgment since 1844:
"I watched till thrones were put in place, and the Ancient of Days was seated;
His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool. A
fiery stream issued from before Him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood
before Him. The court was seated, and the books were opened."---Daniel 7:9,10
From Revelation 11:18 we can see that those thousands standing before the
judgment seat were not standing there in person. They were dead. Soon as God is
finished judging the dead since the time of Adam, He will start with the living
Saints.
The bulk of Christianity is very strongly opposed to the remnant church of Rev.12:17 and 14:12, the commandments of God and the Sabbath of Christ (Mark 2:28,27).
Isaiah also cried out concerning Israel, though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.---Romans 9:27
Even so, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. ---Romans 11:5
And the Dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.---Revelation 12:17. The testimony is the spirit of prophecy (Revel.19:10) and there we find Jesus on a white horse of purity making war in righteousness and judgment. The end of the 2300 days prophecy is the beginning of the day of Atonement or Judgment, the vindication and cleansing of the heavenly Sanctuary Temple by Jesus.
When
the 2300 days of years ended in 1844 AD, Jesus not only changed office, but
made sure the first angel of Revelation (Apocalypse) started to sound with a
loud voice.
This message is the Gospel announcing the judgment as well as the Sabbath of
Christ.
When the seven last plagues have fallen and Jesus returns, the executive
judgment takes place and the good news is for the saved only at that time in the
sense of being vindicated and victorious over sin (the mark of the beast). (see
Revel.14:6,7)
At this
stage however, while the investigative judgment is in session, the Gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ is still being proclaimed by us and the free gift available to
all.
Hebrews 10:25 says: "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the
manner of some is, but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see
the day approaching." Here the word "day" is "Yoma" the day of Atonement and
judgment.
The 2300 days of years cleansed {KJV]. The word 'Nitsdaq' means cleansed or
vindicated, restore, to set right, to restore to original function, vindicate,
to set right. All these terms fits the day of atonement. The New Testament book
of Hebrews is not manipulating the features of the heavenly sanctuary. Hebrews
8:3-5 shows the reality of Jesus and His sanctuary as a pattern and copy.
The old testament book of Numbers shows that the inauguration ceremony of the
sanctuary took place within the veil in the Most Holy Place and Exodus describes
the inauguration of the High Priest.
Nothing to do with an earthly Temple
The old testament model teaches not only the full plan of salvation, the everlasting Gospel, but also what Jesus is doing now. Cleansing, vindicating and justifying are legal terms referring to the day of Atonement, the highest day of the Jewish Economy. No Jew will miss out on 'Yom Kippur', ask him.
I do not want to miss out on what Jesus is doing for me now and neither should you. When you have the great High Priest and Lawyer and Advocate on your side, you cannot go wrong. But He cannot represent us unless we are willing to be cleansed from sin. The new theology is trying to tell us that sinning is O.K. until Jesus returns.
Jesus said
to Mary go and sin no more. They say to Mary, go and sin a little less. Jesus
cannot clean or represent you if you belong to this new theology of 2.Thess.2
where Antinomianism (lawlesseness, sin) is advocated and promoted. Necromancy (
talking to supposed dead loved ones ) is an abomination condemned in the Bible.
No Protestant Reformer accepted this unmeaning gibberish that is passed as
"speaking in tongues" today, not to mention the worldliness that has replaced
godliness since 1844.
Baptism is a vow to finish with sin [Rom 6] and the
disciple of love says, "He that commits sin is of the
Devil...............Whosoever is born of GOD does not commit sin.....[1 John
3:7,9].
JESUS CHRIST does not save in, but from sin [Matthew 1:21] and only His people, i.e. you must belong.
The desecration of the heavenly Temple by Christians is bad enough, but their own Temple is fed with garbage as well as from T.V. instead of the Bible in many instances. No Reformer ever promoted the secret Rapture, tongues, dispensationalism of any kind let alone the Counter-Reformation teachings of the Jesuits in Rome such as Pretorism and Futurism as it is done today by Protestants.
The war of Armageddon is over the commandments of God as can be seen from Rev12:17 to 14:12 where the mark of the beast 666 and the seal of God is in between.
Christ's seventh day Sabbath is being verbally and physically dishonoured and abused by those who profess to follow Him instead of keeping it holy (Mark 2:28). Every effort is made to exalt the day of the sun which is still being called by that title and rests solely on the authority of Rome.
1.Corinthians chapter 10 tells us that the wilderness experience where GOD'S Sabbath and the vegetarian diet was rejected, is an example of the end of the world to come.
Roman Catholic church leaders became Protestants when they protested against the Protestant Reformers in the Council of Trent, because they professed to base their faith on the bible alone, yet accept the unbiblical day of worship from them they called Antichrist.
Now the Augsburg confession of faith tells us that the Bishops appealed like no other case and urged consistently as the change of the Sabbath.---p.50,1980 ed. quoting Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologica,II,p.122,a.4 ad 4.
This confession was written to His Imperial Majesty Charles V in the year 1530 and they gave him this confusing advice on page 55 : Sunday must not be kept as of divine obligation, it must nevertheless be kept as almost of divine obligation.-unquote.
Only by changing God's law (Dan.7:25) could it be said that the Papal Power put itself above God. Antiochus Epiphanes II did no such thing.
Another compelling evidence is the fact that the little horn of Daniel 7:25 refers us to the New Testament worshippers that it murdered as "Saints". Bible Believers in the New Testament are called "Saints" by virtue of "Christ's righteousness" accredited to them and not by a Church conferring such a title to certain selected people only.
For a 1000 years the Waldensees denied and resisted the supremacy of Rome, rejected image worship as idolatry and some kept the true Sabbath. Though gashed by the Savoyard spear, and scorched by the Romish fagot, they stood unflingingly for God's word and His honor suffering papal persecution.
The expression "the transgression of desolation" covers both pagan and papal systems in conflict with the religion of God.
The special characteristic of the "BEAST", and therefore of his image, is the breaking of the commandments of God (Daniel 7:25; Revelation 12:14,17; 13:15).
1260 symbolic days and the Papacy
At the breaking up of the Roman Empire, Constantine had moved his seat to the east (Turkey), and the west was left to Emperor Justinian to defend against the Ten royal tribes: Anglo-saxon, Franks, Suevi, Visigoth, Burgundians, Alemannis, and Lombards. The other three had invaded Italy itself, the Ostrogoth, the Herulis and the Vandals.
Now the Bible says that three were plugged up by the roots ( Daniel 7:8,20,24) and a little horn grew in its place and became exceedingly great. Emperor Justinian in 533a.d. gave the decree or edict that placed the Bishop of Rome as the head of all churches. He recalled generalissimo Belisarius from Africa with his roman legion to free the city which was achieved in 538
From this date, we can say with certainty, that the biblical period of the 1260 symbolic days or 1260 literal prophetic years began. The ram is said to grew great, and the he goat, which represented Greece and Alexander the great, very great. The little horn ( the Papacy) grew exceedingly great. Antiochus never ruled more than one forth of the Greek empire.
The closing of God's prophetic time for the 1260 years occurred when Napoleon,s army with general Berthier entered Rome and took the Pope prisoner in 1798 A.D.. Up to this time the Roman Catholic church was really the universal church.
This deadly wound by Napoleon is also recorded in Revelation 13, Napoleon was actually crowned by a pope but with the back towards him to show his disrespect and disgust. The little horn had grown so powerful that it installed and un-installed catholic royalty in most countries of roman jurisdiction.
The 1260 years are also put in other forms such as time ( a year ), times ( two years ) and a half or dividing making up three and a half years or 1260 days ( Daniel 7:25; 12:7; Revelation 12:7). Or as 42 month ( Rev.11:2 ) and again as 1260 days in Rev. 11:3; 12:6 and 13:5 showing us the New Testament importance.
The rise of the little horn
Someone may object and say that the little horn in Daniel seven grew in place of the uprooted three, Ostrogoth, Herulis and the Vandals, but in Daniel eight indicates a growing out of one of the horns of the Greek empire. This is correct because Rome had no culture of its own and borrowed from the Greeks. This explains why the Roman Catholic church taught Greek philosophy also. For more studies, see the Apocalyptic pages. In actual fact it grew out of the four winds, meaning the four direction of the earth when Rome took over from the Greeks.
The year/day principle of prophetic interpretation used by Protestantism and Sir Isaac Newton is certainly biblical. Ezekiel the prophet, was a contemporary of Daniel and we also can trust the number game from Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6.
Most commentators assume that the little horn
came out of one of four horns, but Hebrew grammar implies something else, that
the "little horn" power came from one of the "winds of heaven", not from the
four horns.
The last part of Daniel 8:8 says, "four notable ones came up towards the four
winds of heaven." Thus the phrase "the four winds of heaven" is the
nearest antecedent to "one of them", not "the four horns". The little
horn, therefore comes out of the four winds [the directions of the compass]
rather than from one of the four horns.
Furthermore, the little horn grows toward three geographic entities, "the south," "the east", and the Glorious Land. From history we know that the power that came after the four Grecian empires was Rome, which arose from point westward of these empires.
The crucial point to remember is that, in Daniel, not a lot of distinction is made between pagan and papal Rome. Pagan Rome rose after Greece and still exists now, though, in the papal phase.
The activity of the little horn
1.) It grew, cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground and stomped on them. 2.) He magnified himself and took away the daily sacrifice of the heavenly sanctuary, cast the sanctuary down, cast truth down.
Notice, first of all, the spiritual nature of the little horn's attack. He goes after " the host of the heavens" [v.9 NIV]. In fact, he casts truth to the ground.
What are the objects under attack by the little horn?
The "Prince of the host." In Joshua 5:14 the Prince is Christ. The Prince of the host of GOD'S people must be the One called "Messiah the Prince" [Dan.9:25] and "Michael.....the great Prince who stands watch over the sons of your people, or CHRIST. CHRIST has been replaced by Mother Mary and Saint worship.
The "daily". The Hebrew word "Tamid" [continual, perpetual, or daily] appears 103 times in the Old Testament. It is frequently used in connection with the "daily" services in the sanctuary. This text shows that CHRIST'S daily ministry is coming under attack by the little horn:
By placing the intercession for humans into the hands of the priests through the confessional and by sacrificing CHRIST anew "daily" in the blasphemous Mass, the papacy has removed CHRIST'S heavenly ministry from the thinking of humanity.
The place of His sanctuary is cast down. There are two sanctuaries in Scripture. The earthly [Ex.25:9,40] and the heavenly [Hebrews 8:1-6; and in Revelation]. In the Old Testament, the sanctuary had an "army" of ministering Levite priests. The little horn has its own army of ministers who serve the system. Instead of relying on CHRIST and on what He has done for us, believers are taught to depend upon a church as the vehicle through which everything that CHRIST offers us is dispensed.
The duration of the little horn!
As we have already shown, 1260 days of years, from 538 A.D. to 1798 A.D. was the absolute power and control of the horn [leadership]. Then the Papacy received a deadly wound, meaning that the absolute control of power had ended, but it would continue to survive and heal again [Revelation 13].
Daniel the prophet said that this little
horn which uprooted three others, changed GOD'S time and laws, would continue to
live unto the day of GOD'S judgment [Dan.7:9, 21,22,26], and this could never refer to
Antiochus Epiphanes, no matter how much they screw the Scriptures. He is
not alive today, nor has he changed any of GOD'S law and times, uprooted three
horns to gain power as did the man of sin in Rome, the real Anti-Christ.
The little horn as well as the ten horns are part of the fourth beast, which is
indisputably the Roman Empire. Antiochus Epiphanes II was a Persian King.
Here are the parallels between the little horn of Daniel 7 and the little horn
of Daniel 8 that they are the same:
1.] Both are described by the same symbol: a horn.
2.] Both are persecuting powers. See 7:21, 25; cf. 8:10,24.
3.] Both are self-exalting and blasphemous. See 7:8,20, 25; cf. 8:10, 11, 25.
4.] Both target God's people. See 7:25; cf. 8:24.
5.] Both have aspects of their activity delineated by prophetic time: See 7:25;
cf. 8:13,14.
6.] Both extend to the time of the end. See 7:25,26; cf. :17,19.
7.] Both will be supernaturally destroyed. See 7:11,26; cf. 8:25.
Roman Catholic Arch-Bishop Eberhard interpreted the Papal system as Little
Horn
Eberhard II archbishop of Salzburg
[1200-1246], chief spokesman for the Emperor Frederick among the German speaking
bishops, openly called the pope a wolf in shepherd's garb, the Son of perdition,
and Antichrist, also gave his revolutionary exposition of the pope as the Little
Horn of Daniel 7.---Prophetic Faith of our Father's. Vol.1, p.798 [Around 300
years before Luther].
The 1290 days
To determine the period of the 1290 days, a starting point has to be found.
Daniel 12:11, together with the year day principle, provides a point of contact
with the period of the 1260 years. The text "from the taking away of the first
abomination, which may be properly called 'the daily sacrifice of abomination',
to the end of the last abomination that maketh desolate, should be 1290 years.
[Keep in mind here that pagan Rome became papal Rome]. The termination of
the last abomination, papal Rome, had already been established on the basis of
the 1260 days. So, the termination dates for 1260 and 1290 days were identical
--- 1798 A.D.
By subtracting 1290 from 1798 came to 508 as the commencement of the 1290 years,
when the daily abomination, pagan Rome, was taken away. The difference between
the 1290 years and 1260 years was a period of thirty between the time that pagan
Rome was destroyed in 508 and papal Rome was set up in 538 A.D.
Clovis I., king of the Franks [France today], was one of the ten northern
European kings declaring himself of the Roman Catholic faith in 508 A.D. and
starting to turn against the other nine in favour of the Papacy. In 533, Emperor
Justinian decreed that the Bishop of Rome should rule, but that could not be
achieved until 538 when General Belisarius recalled from Africa freed the city
of Rome and the three tribes, the Ostrogoth, the Herulis and the Vandals
disappeared from history fulfilling Daniel 7:8,24 uprooting three horns. The
most remarkable thing is that a king of the Franks helped the papacy to get to
the throne of the Roman Empire and it was a king of the Franks [Napoleon's
via general Berthier] that took the papacy of the throne again in 1798.
1335 days
According to Daniel 12:12, what is the blessedness for those who arrive at the
end of the 1335 days? Can we tell when this period begins and ends? The only
clue we have to the solution of this question, is the fact that it is spoken of
in immediate connection with the 1290 years, which began in 508 as shown above.
So with the same starting date of 508 A.D., 508 plus 1335 and we arrive at the
date of 1843. What happened in 1843? The unsealing of the book of Daniel not
only showing the work of JESUS in heaven, but the book of Daniel also helped us
to unlock the Revelation of JESUS CHRIST, the last book of the Bible, as shown
on this website and the sounding of the three angels of Revelation 14.
Daniel stands in his lot [Daniel 12:13] in the person of his Advocate, our great
High Priest, as He [CHRIST] presents the cases of the righteous to His Father in
this great day of the final atonement. The word here translated lot, does not
mean a piece of real estate, a lot of land, but the decisions of chance, or the
determinations of Providence. At the end of the days, the lot, so to speak, was
to be cast. In other words, a determination was to be made in reference to those
who should be accounted worthy of a possession in the heavenly inheritance. And
when Daniel's case comes up for examination, he is found righteous, he stands, a
place assigned him in the heavenly Canaan. Does not the language of the psalmist
have reference to this time, when he says, Psalm 1:5, "The
ungodly shall not stand in the judgment" ?
The 70 weeks
If you have clicked on the thumbnail image above and studied the chart, you
will have seen the overall view of the entire prophecy of Daniel of which the
2300 days of years are by far the longest in the Bible spanning from the decree
of Artaxerces in 457 B.C. when the prophet was in Babylon to our day when GOD
chose to call fallen Christianity by the same name of spiritual Babylon in 1844
when the first of the "Three Angel's" of Revelation 14 started to sound the
warning.
The churches of Christendom have now decided to follow the lead of the church of
Rome and extend the 70 weeks to the very end of time lengthen it by another 2000
plus years. Yet the prophecy of the 70 weeks or 490 literal years are said to
just that, namely, 490 literal years and not 2490 years as the Jesuit scholars
would have it.
The angel Gabriel told Daniel that the prophecy for his people, to seal up the
vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy [Daniel 9:24].
Now the Hebrew phrase qodesh qadashim here translated "Most Holy" is a term used
freely through the Levitical books to characterize things and places,
but is nowhere applied to persons. So here the anointing of the Most Holy
place of the Sanctuary Temple is meant. As soon as JESUS would come and die for
us, the heavy curtain dividing the holy from the most holy place was torn in two
by divine hands [Matthew 27:51] indicating that the sacrificial system on earth
had come to an end and that CHRIST the supreme sacrifice had been offered for
once and for all.
GOD tells us via Hosea that the kingdom of the house of Israel is to cease
because of her whoredoms, yet the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the
sea [Hosea 1:2,4,10] and again by Jeremiah, "If those ordinances depart from
before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a
nation before me for ever." [Jer.31:36].
Those ordinances according to Ephesians 2:15 and Colossians 2:14 were nailed to
the cross and the word Israel means an overcomer as a prince with GOD. So JESUS
promised all overcomers to have eternal life and be with Him on His throne.
Since CHRIST the real Messiah has come, Christianity is now the new and
spiritual Israel.
"Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances
of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary......which stood only in meats and
drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the
time of the reformation. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to
come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to
say, not of this building;".
Hebrews 10:1,10,11.
70 weeks
Seventy literal weeks do not reach to the Messiah the Prince [CHRIST] from
Daniel, the old testament prophet’s day. [Daniel 9:24-27] It is the greatest
proof Christianity has. But the 70 weeks are prophetic years, fit exactly into
490 years to reach from Daniel in Babylonia to CHRIST in Roman time.
The prophecy was to seal up the vision. When you finish something and do not
want any one to temper with the product, you seal it [v.24b]. The Jesuits of the
Roman counter-reformation in the 16th century Francisco Ribera [1537-1591]
tempered with the seal and claimed that the last half of this prophetic week of
seven years and in an amazing stunt transports it to the end of the world,
inserting more than 2 000 years into it. This is most demonic as can be seen
from 1.Timothy 4:1-4 that tells us that the celibates would do demonic
doctrines.
The prophecy would also reach to anoint the most Holy [v.24]. JESUS would become
our great high priest in the heavenly most Holy to intercede for us.
Roman Catholic author G. S. Hitchcock summarizes the genius of futurism and
pretorism as follows:
The Futuristic School, founded by the Jesuit Ribera in 1591, looks for
Antichrist, Babylon, and an rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, at the end of the
Christian dispensation. The Praeteriat School, founded by the Jesuit Alcazar in
1614, explains the Revelation by the fall of Jerusalem, or by the fall of Pagan
Rome in 410 A.D.---G.S.Hitchcock, The Beasts and the Little Horn,p.7
The little horn of course he explained to be Antiochus Epiphanes instead of the
Reformers pointing to the Papacy being the little horn of Daniel 7& 8.
The R.C.C. invented a counterfeit priesthood that would cut us off from CHRIST
as Intercessor. In 1898 English Protestant author Joseph Tanner made these
observations on the beginnings of “Futurism” and “Pretorism” :
Accordingly, towards the close of the century of the Reformation, two of her
[Rome’s] most learned doctors set themselves to the task, each endeavouring by
different means to accomplish the same end, namely, that of diverting men’s mind
from perceiving the fulfilment of the prophecies of the Antichrist in the Papal
system.
The Jesuit Alcazar devoted himself to bring into prominence the Preterist method
of interpretation, and thus endeavouring to show that the prophecies of
Antichrist were fulfilled before the Popes ever ruled at Rome, and therefore
could not apply to the Papacy. On the other hand the Jesuit Ribera tried to set
aside the application of these prophecies to the Papal Power by bringing out the
Futurist system, which asserts that these prophecies refer properly not to the
career of the Papacy, but to that of some future supernatural individual, who is
yet to appear, and to continue in power for three and a half years. Thus, as
Alford says, the Jesuit Ribera, about A.D. 1580, may be regarded as the Founder
of the Futurist system in modern times.---- Joseph Tanner, Daniel and the
Revelation [London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1898], pp 16,17.
Futurism enters English Protestantism
Futurism first entered Protestantism in nineteenth century England by two
seemingly widely separated developments.
1.] The first was the appearance of a Romanizing tendency in the Church of
England. Briefly, the development was as follows:
a. Dr. Samuel R. Maitland [1792-1866], curate of Christ Church at Gloucester and
later librarian to the archbishop of Canterbury, was the first notable
Protestant Scholar to accept the Riberian interpretation of antichrist. Maitland
held the Reformation in open contempt and freely admitted that his view of
prophecy coincided with Catholic interpretation. His views were first published
in 1826 and received widespread study and interest.
b. James H. Todd [1805-1869], professor of Hebrew at the University of Dublin,
studied and accepted Maitland’s futuristic views. He strongly attacked the
Reformer’s historical system of prophetic interpretation. Todd’s views were
published and widely circulated among the theologians of his time.
c. John Henry Newman [1801-1890], famous High Church Anglican who was converted
to Rome and became a cardinal, was one of the leading spirits in the renown
Oxford, or Tractarian, movement. Five years before he joined the church of Rome,
Newman advocated Todd’s futurism in a tract called The Protestant Idea of
Antichrist . Newman wrote: We have pleasure in believing that in matters of
Doctrine we entirely agree with Dr. Todd……The Prophecies concerning Antichrist
are yet unfulfilled, and that the predicted enemy of the church is yet to come.
TWO OUTSTANDING DEFENDERS OF THE PROTESTANT METHOD OF PROPHETIC EXPOSITION
When these developments in England were seriously eroding the historical, or
Protestant, system of prophetic interpretation, two great opponents of futurism
arose:
1.] Edward Bishop Elliot [1793-1875], graduate of Cambridge in 1816, produced a
most elaborate work of 2 5oo pages on the Apocalypse. He exposed the fallacious
interpretations which involved abandonment of the Protestant position on
antichrist, and attacked the Romanizing tendencies in the Tractarian movement.
It was Elliot who presented a thorough, documented history of the rise of
futurism and preterism from Jesuit sources.
2.] Dr. Henry Grattan Guinness [1835-1910] of London published nine major works
on prophecy between 1878 and 1905. Alarmed by the inroads of the futurist school
of counter interpretation stemming from the Jesuits, Guinness mounted a
tremendous defence of the historical school of Protestant view, which holds to
the progressive fulfilment of prophecy from John’s time to the second advent.
SUMMERY
In the last hundred years the Protestant movement has abandoned the prophetic
convictions of historic Protestantism and has opted for theories which have
their origin with the Jesuits. The liberal wing of the Protestant movement,
often denying the inspiration of the Bible or spiritualizing away its most
pointed truths, have adopted the preterist view of prophecy, first espoused by
Jesuit Alcazar. But the right wing of Protestantism, espousing an extreme
literalism in reaction against the liberals, have taken over Ribera’s futurism,
and in some circles they have made it a part of “evangelical orthodoxy.” This
represents a remarkable triumph of the theories of Rome’s Counter Reformation.
As long as you believe "The 70 week prophecy can NEVER be literal days, thus the
2300 day prophecy can NEVER be literal days" you will NEVER be able to
understand the final interpretation of the 70-weeks.
1260 days of years in the New Testament
Revelation 11:2,3; 12:6,14; 13:5 also contains the 1260 days, 42 month or
time, times, and a half. Let's examine these texts. These can never refer to
Antiochus Epiphanes because Revelation 11:2 says that the Gentiles or non - Jews
would trample only the outer court of the temple under foot while Antiochus
trampled the whole temple. During this same time the two witnesses prophesied
[v.3]. [We have a complete page on the two witnesses].
It is not a literal trampling under foot because the Bible speaks of:
"Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who has
trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant,
wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the
Spirit of grace?"---- --------Hebrews 10:29
Since the professors of Rome and others have halved the 2300 days into 1150 and
say that this is the period of Antiochus, therefore they should not subscribe
the 1260 literal days to him also. Let's examine the next passage of Revelation
12:6 where we have the woman or church flee into the wilderness for the 1260
days of years or for a time, and times, and half a time, as seen in Revelation
12:14 speaking of the same event. The church during Antiochus Epiphanes time did
not flee into the wilderness for that time period, but the pure New Testament
church did flee from papal persecutions to avoid the rack and the burning at the
stake.
Revelation 13:5 tells us of the papal beast in 42 month or 1260 days in Jewish
reckoning blaspheming GOD'S tabernacle temple or dwelling place from 538 A.D to
1798. Daniel 12:7 says that after a time, times, and a half, when "HE' [the
little horn power] shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the people,
all things shall be finished. So we can safely count the 1798 A.D. the deadly
wound of the papacy by Napoleon as the time of the end, not the end of time.
When Revelation 10 speaks of that time should be no longer, we understand that
after 1844, the end of the 2300 days of years, there would be no prophetic date
set any longer.
Let us notice a very important point here. The Judgment scene in Heaven is seen in Daniel 7:9,10 where we all stand before the Father together, not separately. The books were opened but we do not stand there in person. We are either represented by our Savior and Lawyer Jesus Christ or not at all. And we notice that the Son of man (Jesus) is being brought before the Father. If our Lord Jesus our great High Priest was already with the Father, this would not have been given a special mention (Dan.7:13).
Here we have the absolute proof that the old testament imaginary applies to the day of Judgment above. God does not use one here to give us an idea and than use another later on or changes His mind. The day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) when the Sanctuary of God above get cleaned out from our sins of ignorance (see Hebr.9:7) this is good news indeed. This is what the first Angel of Revelation 14:6,7 sounded in 1844 A.D. at the end of Daniel's 2300 days of years prophecy by fearing God and giving Him all the glory.
What is God's glory?
It is called the Shikinah, the brilliant light that surrounds Him and also His holy character. By praising God with words and songs (hymns) and building a new holy character by God's Holy Spirit of truth.
The Sanctuary/Tabernacle/Temple of God consists of the 'holy' and the 'most holy places'. The very moment Jesus died on the cross, the great curtain that separated these two places was split from top to bottom to show us that the ceremonial system ended at that very moment and the Priest cried out that the glory of God had departed. But soon as Jesus rose back to heaven again, He became our great High Priest of the heavenly Sanctuary/Tabernacle/Temple services according to Hebrews 8:1-5 fulfilling all the imaginary the old had pointed to.
Because the 2300 days of years tell us the final Atonement of Jesus our great high Priest has entered His final phase of His ministry just as the earthly high Priest had done at the end of his ceremonial year. Protestantism insist that the Atonement at the cross is final when JESUS cried out, it is finished. But the Sanctuary services above teaches the everlasting Gospel in more details when JESUS our great high Priest cries out a second time "It is done" [Rev.21:6] at the end of His Intercession of the final Atonement. Romans 5:10 tells us that we were saved by the death of GOD'S Son, but "much more by His life", and this is His earthly exemplary life written to our credit when we accept JESUS, and His Intercession now above in the final day of Atonement as taught by the Old Testament imaginary.
Special note: One could easily be mistaken to
think that God's ultimatum to the Jews, would end at the cross of our Lord
Jesus, but God allowed another three and a half years of preaching that
wonderful Gospel to His own people that rejected His Son in order to give them
another chance.
After the final week of the 490 years, in 34 A.D., after the stoning of
Stephen and the persecution began [Acts 7], the new covenant promises
[Jer.31:31-34] compare [Hebr. 8:8-13; 10:15-20] went to church of the new
Israel, which--composed of Jews [the natural branches] and Gentiles [wild olive
branch grafted in]---became an extension of Israel [Rom.11:17-21] and continued
with the work of teaching the world about the true GOD, the Creator of the
Universe and Redeemer.
The 2300 days of years is God's final warning to us today
that we are to get ready for His final judgment day and the vindication of His
people.
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