The Seventy Weeks Telescopic Prophecy
by Multi-Part Man
The graphic above pictures my interpretation of the “seventy weeks” prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27, informed by relevant Scriptures; it is reasonably straightforward, so just a few observations:
The Seventieth Week is a Prophetic Week for both The Christ and the Antichrist.
The end of the 69 weeks and the beginning of the 70th week is the start of The Christ’s ‘week’. The Antichrist’s ‘week’ begins seven years before the return of The Christ. The Christ’s week is a ‘telescopic’ week while the Antichrist’s weak is a ‘continuous’ week.
Both The Christ and the Antichrist are assassinated and resurrected in the middle of their ‘weeks’. Before the assassination the Antichrist he is the seventh king and after his resurrection he is the eighth (Rev 17:11). Antiochus Epiphanes, the OT Antichrist and the eighth king of the Seleucid dynasty provides a type for the Antichrist/Beast.
The first half of each week is a time of relative peace, while the second halves are characterised by war. Joshua, son of Nun and the conquest of Canaan provides the ‘type’ for Joshua, Son of God in His conquest of the world. The battles of Jericho and Jerusalem are the initial battles respectively and the northern coalitions of Jabin and Gog are the final major campaigns respectively - but there is still a lot of conquest to follow. The setting up of the tabernacle at Shiloh then provides the type for Ezekiel’s temple.
From Daniel 7 a ten-king kingdom will appear out of the old Roman Empire. The little horn/Antichrist will come up amongst the ten kings and became the leader toppling three of these kings (Da 7:24), presumably replacing them with his own appointments.
The beginning of the Antichrist’s week begin with a covenant with the Jews (Dan 9:27a), which appears to involve the building of a Temple. An earthquake in Jerusalem similar to the “earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah” (Zec 14:5) may level the Muslim buildings on the Temple Mount to facilitate the building project.
The covenant will be broken with the assassination of the Antichrist, by a Jew? to fulfil typology, and then the sacrifice and the oblation will cease (Dan 9:27) and the persecution of the Jews will begin and this will continue for “a time and times and the dividing of time” (Dan 7:25).
“Telescoping: The leaping of a prophecy from a near to far horizon without the notice of intervening mater” (J. Barton Payne, Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy, p.xviii).
Both the image of Daniel 2 and the Beast of Daniel 7 are telescopic in that there is a time gap between the kingdom of iron and the kingdom of iron and clay/ the kingdom of the fourth beast and the kingdom of the ten kings.
With Titus and Hadrian the Jewish state came to an end and the qualifications to be a part of the image, from the Jewish perspective, was over. It was not until the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 that the requirements to be part of the image could begin to be fulfilled.
During the first half of Christ’s prophetic week He raised up, or laid the foundation, of Israel the Church and commissioned it go and teach all nations (Mt 28:19-20). In the second half of His week He raises up Israel the Kingdom and commissions it to be “a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth” (Isa 49:6). While this Scripture is written from the ‘principal’ perspective the fulfillment is by the “agent” — compare Paul’s application of this Scripture in Acts 13:47.
At the end of the first half of Christ’s prophetic week He returned to the higher realm of heaven; after His second half He returns to the lower realm of heaven, with the Saints, and rules the earth from the heavenlies recently vacated by Satan and the demons.
The Seventy Weeks ends when Christ takes up residence in the Messianic Temple just as he had taken up residence in the Mosaic Tabernacle and Solomonic Temple. The graphic below pictures the fulfilment: “And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever (Eze 43:7a).
10 comments:
I thought we were here to roast Armstrongism. If I wanted to hear someone’s pet theory I’d go on The Journal to find out which brand of aluminum foil would protect me from 5G.
This kind of content is the antithesis of what I’ve seen this blog be about.
We don’t need predictions procured from the posteriors of pompous profligate prophets.
OR, a postulated scenario........
The 70 weeks (a week is time that is "sevened", that is, has a number of units of time divisible by 7, or has 7 parts) are all the time from Cyrus' command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (Isa 44:28; 45:13) to Jesus' second coming.
Seven weeks....133 years of 7 19-yr cycles with 7 13th months each, 535 BC to 402 BC.
Sixty-two weeks.......7 years each, 434 years, from 402 BC to 33 AD. No 0 BC or AD.......62 weeks distinguished from 7 weeks.
33 AD.....the crucifixion. The 3 "hemeras" and 3 "nuxs" (Greek for days and nights) in the grave are not always 12 hours, are Nisan 14,15,16 and a few minutes of darkness Friday afternoon (Luke 23:44,54), Fri nite, Sat nite.
One week.....Sat nite or Sunday morning in 33 AD to any future Sat nite or Sunday morning - Pentecost? In the first half ("midst") of the week the sacrifices cease with the destruction of the temple by Titus the prince in 70 AD. In this week the resurrected Jesus confirms the new covenant with many (Heb 8:6; 9:15-17).
Roast? That's what comedians and entertainers do to each other as a form of 'patting each other on the back' status achievement. Is that all you've got 'roasting armstrongisim' these days? Wow how the mighty have fallen.
I for one liked the post. Ha!
It is easy to bash and roast the stupidity and foolish conduct and claims of Armstrongism past and present, but a little more difficult to dismiss their systematic theology without presenting valid scriptural objections of your own.
Personally, I appreciate the thought provoking posts and comments by multi-part man, Scout, Lonnie, Byker Bob, John and others, whose theological presentations I may not always agree with, but definitely find them food for thought and inspirational for further research.
this is the problem with these deliberations some get 33 AD, or 30AD, or a date of April 32 AD when Jesus was said to ride in on the donkey on his triumphal entry. We don't really know
Berties big backside bested all babbling bible bashers
The words of a powerful song come to mind.
"Well I'll be damned! Here comes your ghost again!"
There's always someome who persists in ghosting HWA for us, resurrecting and "improving" upon the failed teachings of the dictatorial know-it-all, the spiritual oligarch who totally messed up patches of all of our lives.
BB
Nah, I left one cult, dont need another.
Your hypothesis is wrong.
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