THE
WORLD'S LAST 7 YEARS!-
Daniel chapter 9
is one of the most remarkable chapters in the entire Bible, containing some
of the most amazingly fulfilled time prophecies God ever gave, predicting in
about 538 B.C. (See verses
1-19) the exact
times of both the first
and second
coming of Jesus Christ! The chapter opens with Daniel desperately calling out
to God on behalf of his people Israel, who at this time were captive slaves
of the Persian Empire. He gets a special visit from the Archangel Gabriel who
shows him this vision. A bit later Gabriel gets permission from his overseer—Jesus?—to
give an explanation.
The time prophecy is in the verses Daniel 9:24-27.
A PREDICTION OF 49+434+7=490 YEARS.
24 "SEVENTY WEEKS are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy."
Long before it happened, Gabriel showed Daniel that "for his people and his holy city", a period of 490 years (or "70 weeks or sevens!") was ordained by God, before "an end of sins, everlasting Righteousness, and the fulfillment of this vision" would be established. He sub-divided this 490 year period into 3 periods:
one of 49 years,
one of 434 years and
one of the last 7 years!
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks (7) and threescore and two weeks (62): the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 "…Messiah shall 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."
THE FIRST—49 YEARS, would BEGIN with the commandment to rebuild the Jewish Temple and Jerusalem, and END with the completion of that reconstruction.
THE consecutive SECOND—434 YEARS, would END with the death of the Messiah and the destruction again of the Temple and Jerusalem! "Messiah will be cut off" and "the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary!"
THE countdown of the non-consecutive LAST—7 YEARS, would re-start with the "confirmation of the Holy Covenant" by the coming AC, which hasn’t happened yet!
THE CONFIRMATION OF THE COVENANT!
The first 49 year period of this 538 BC prediction, was fulfilled in 453 B.C., when Artaxerxes gave his order to rebuilt Jerusalem and the Temple, which work was completed on God’s schedule in 404 B.C!
The consecutive 2nd period of 434 years, was also right on schedule, when Jesus was crucified by the Romans for the Jews, in 30 AD! 40 years after that was Jerusalem and its temple razed to the ground!
The LAST SEVEN YEARS, are ABOUT to be started and fulfilled, when the "prince that will come", the Antichrist will rise and confirm the "Holy Covenant" with many for 7 years, and that will also end right on schedule with the Return of Jesus into the atmospheric heavens, to rescue His own children out of this world!
27 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.
In the "middle of the week", halfway the last 7 years, the AC will place the "Abomination of Desolation," that will last until the "consummation", whith the return of Jesus!
Do look into the finer details of this amazing, interesting subject of Bible prophecy about the "Last Seven Years", even though this chapter Daniel 9 is a bit tough! Don't miss it, but "CONSIDER THE VISION!"
