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).
