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I want to share an interpretation of the prophecy of Daniel’s seventy sevens that I have found. It’s probably not one you’ve seen before. I say that because I have been researching this for over 20 years and I haven’t found more than one or two people who saw it this way and they seemed to have abandoned it when it didn’t turn out like they thought it would. Well, I applied it a little differently than they did and it has turned out to be way more than I ever imagined it would be. Let me get to the prophecy so I can explain how I break it down and then we can look at the application of that break down.
Daniel 9:22 He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. 23 As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:
24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out (Decree issued) to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
If you have studied this passage at all, or have heard it discussed, you have likely heard the mainstream interpretation. That is that there was a decree issued to rebuild Jerusalem and then 69 sevens passed and then Jesus was crucified at the end of the 69 sevens. The final seven is in the future and is awaiting confirmation of a covenant and that confirmation will trigger the rapture at the start of the final seven years. In my opinion there is a much better explanation, and that explanation fits with what we see in scripture and the world today. Please let me show you.
In verse 25 we see that the seventy sevens are broken down into three time periods. There are seven sevens and sixty-two sevens, leaving one seven that it covers later in the passage. The first two periods of time are said to start with a decree to rebuild or restore Jerusalem, and end with a coming. There are two people mentioned along with the two periods of time. The two people are the Anointed One and the ruler. Since there are two people and two periods of time it is reasonable to think that maybe one period is to the coming of one of the people and the other period of time is to the coming of the other. If that's true, then we need to know which period of time is associated with which person. Verse 26 answers that question as it says that the Anointed One will be cut off after the 62 sevens. Since he is cut off after the 62 sevens, it is safe to assume that he comes when the 62 sevens end. That leaves the seven sevens to indicate when the ruler, or Antichrist, will come. With that being said we can see that the passage is written in a chiastic structure that is common in the Old Testament. The sequence goes like this, ABBA.
“From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until
A. the Anointed One,
B. the ruler,
comes, there will be
B. seven ‘sevens,’
A. and sixty-two ‘sevens.”
The two things in the middle go together, that is the two B’s. The two things on the outside go together, that is the two A’s. That means the seven sevens would be to the coming of the ruler and the 62 sevens would be to the coming of the Anointed One. Again, this idea is confirmed in verse 26 where it says
“After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.”
That is the outcome of the coming of the Anointed One. The 62 sevens are to his coming as stated in verse 25, not to his being put to death. Jesus came when God placed him inside Mary’s womb.
The very next thing it tells us is what the outcome of the coming of the ruler will be.
“The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”
So there we see what happens with the final seven. The ruler comes seven sevens after a decree to rebuild Jerusalem and then he confirms a covenant with many to start the final seven.
You would also need two decrees if that interpretation is accurate. Verse 25 tells us that there will be a "decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem". Restore and rebuild sound like kind of the same thing but when you think about it, they are very different. I submit to you that they are two different decrees separated by thousands of years. How do we know that? Because the coming of the Anointed One and the coming of the Antichrist are separated by thousands of years.
The mainstream interpretation tells you that the periods of time are added together into 69 sevens and that the seven sevens comes first and then the 62 sevens are sequential after that and end with the crucifixion of Jesus. They base that last part on verse 26 shown above. Remember though that verse 25 tells us that the time periods are to the coming of the person, not to a crucifixion or anything else. Verse 26 is saying that '"after" the 62 sevens the Anointed One will be cut off. It does not say that he will be cutoff as the 62 sevens expire. Verse 26 is just giving us the outcome of the coming of the Anointed One.
“From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, COMES, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’”
Matthew 1:18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. 20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
God, in the form of Jesus, was with us from conception. Jesus came when he was conceived. But was there a period of 62 sevens before his conception that started with a decree to restore OR rebuild Jerusalem? Indeed, there was. In the book of Nehemiah, we see that the city had been rebuilt, and the wall was also. Then Nehemiah dedicated the wall and the city and RESTORED the whole of it to the service of God. He instituted the Law of Moses with a huge ceremony in 433BC. The exact date is not recorded but the fact that he restored the city with a decree to do so cannot be denied. His reforms and restoration of Jerusalem are known as the Code of Nehemiah. To calculate the amount of time of the 62 sevens we need to be aware that the prophecy does not use the word years. In fact, it refers to the Abomination of Desolation as being in the middle of the final seven. We know from many other scriptures that the Abomination of Desolation starts the Great Tribulation, and the Great Tribulation lasts alternatively 1260 days or 42 months or times, time and half a time depending on which scripture you look at. For all of that to be consistently true a seven would have to be 7x360 days. 62 sevens calculates to days then in this manner: 62x7x360. That comes out to 156,240 days. When you convert that to our solar years it comes out to 428.05 years. Starting at 433BC and going forward 428 years you come to 5BC. That means that Jesus would have been born around 5BC, exactly the time when most scholars say he was born.
The pre-trib people have their own timeline that fits their interpretation, and they have him being born much later, so that their 69 sevens end on what they think is the date of his crucifixion. I showed you why the prophecy is not a counting to his crucifixion, but rather to his coming. I also showed you why the prophecy doesn't add the two time periods together. I hope that makes sense to you. The 62 sevens are in the past and started with a decree to restore Jerusalem and ended with the coming, or conception, of Jesus. The seven sevens will begin at some point in the future from there and will start with a decree to rebuild Jerusalem and will end with the coming of the ruler, the Antichrist. We just need to find the right decree and we will know the date for the coming of the Antichrist, the date for the Abomination of Desolation and the date for the end of the final seven. None of that will tell us the date or the hour of Jesus' return, although you can bet that it will be very close to the end of the final seven. There is no place in scripture, even if you know when the seven years start and end, that will tell you when Jesus returns. Certainly, once the final seven years starts, assuming you can discern it has happened, you will know the exact date of the Abomination of Desolation and the end of the final seven. But that still won’t tell you when Jesus will appear. Everyone alive at the start of the final seven will have the opportunity to know these dates, if they understand prophecy. What I am telling you that you probably haven't heard before is that you can know when the final seven will begin well before it begins. It is the same thing that happened with Noah and the ark. Noah was told to build the ark because a great flood was coming, but he wasn't told when it would come. He spent many years building the ark not knowing when the flood would come. Then as the time drew near and the ark was completed, God told him that the rain would start in seven days. In the instance of the start of the final seven, we are told seven times seven in advance when the final seven will begin.
THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE NUMBERS 62 AND 49
Every year, on the Jewish calendar, Passover occurs in the Spring. Then the biblically mandated "Counting of the Omer" starts the day after Passover. That count is seven times seven, or 49 days. This is a remembrance of the time from the Exodus from Egypt to the day when God gave the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai. The day the Ten Commandments was given is called Shavuot. Christians call it Pentecost, but we celebrate Pentecost on a different day than the Jews do. Pentecost means fiftieth day. The day after Pentecost starts a count of 62 days to Tisha Ba'Av. That is the day on the Jewish calendar that both the first and second Temples were destroyed. This is the spiritual and symbolic basis for the breakdown of the sevens in the prophecy we are studying. Passover occurred long before there was a Temple in Jerusalem. Then, after many years, both the first and second Temples were destroyed on the same day on the calendar, which is Tisha Ba'Av. Daniel's prophecy lists them in that order as well. However, they are fulfilled in reverse order. First the 62 sevens count occurs ending with the coming of Jesus, who is the Temple of God. Then the seven sevens count occurs ending with the coming of the Antichrist and the start of the final seven.
Daniel 9:25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’
It is important to note that Pentecost is a stand alone day and is not part of either count. This parallels the gap in time between the two time periods and is consistent with not adding the two together. It is also interesting to note that Jesus is associated with the destruction of the temples by his coming being after the 62 sevens count. Remember that he said about himself, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days". The counting of the days after Pentecost to Tisha Ba'av, the destruction of both Temples, is 62 days.
I believe what I have just showed you is the purest way of dissecting the prophecy. What did Jesus have to say about that prophecy, if anything?
Matthew 24:15 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house.
He pointed us to the prophecy of the seventy sevens and said, “let the reader understand”. Remember that when Gabriel gave the prophecy, he started by saying “Know and understand this...”. It is very clear that the prophecy of the seventy sevens is something we can understand and that we are meant to understand it. In fact, when Jesus made the statement recorded there in Matthew 24:15, he was answering the question, “what will be the sign of your common and of the end of the age?” Notice that he didn’t say that there would be no way to tell when he was coming or when the age was ending. He didn’t say that’s date setting and I won’t engage in it. He said to go to the prophecy of the seventy sevens and understand it and then you will have your answer. “let the reader understand”.
In that light, let us now move forward with the application of the counting of the seven times seven, now that we know how much time we are talking about.
Let me show you what I have found regarding the decree to rebuild Jerusalem. Israel was reborn as a nation in 1948 but the city of Jerusalem was under a partition plan. No decree to rebuild it was given at that time. Even if it had been, it has been way longer than seven sevens since then. We need a decree that was given less than seven sevens ago. In 1967, the Six Day War saw the city largely fall into Jewish hands for the first time in nearly 2000 years. On June 28, 1967 the Israeli Knesset issued a decree regarding Jerusalem. But it has also been too long since that decree was issued for it to be considered the correct one. So, we come to the only other decree issued to rebuild Jerusalem in current existence, The Jerusalem Law of 1980. Here is the text of that decree.
The Jerusalem Law July 30, 1980
Jerusalem, Capital of Israel
1. Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel.
2. Jerusalem is the seat of the President of the State, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court.
3. The Holy Places shall be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings towards those places.
4. Development of Jerusalem
(a) The Government shall provide for the development and prosperity of Jerusalem and the well-being of its inhabitants by allocating special funds, including a special annual grant to the Municipality of Jerusalem (Capital City Grant) with the approval of the Finance Committee of the Knesset.
(b) Jerusalem shall be given special priority in the activities of the authorities of the State so as to further its development in economic and other matters.
(c) The Government shall set up a special body or special bodies for the implementation of this section.
5. Area of the jurisdiction of Jerusalem (Amendment no. 1)
- The jurisdiction of Jerusalem includes, as pertaining to this basic law, among others, all of the area that is described in the appendix of the proclamation expanding the borders of municipal Jerusalem beginning the 20th of Sivan 5727 (June 28, 1967), as was given according to the Cities' Ordinance.
6. Prohibition of the transfer of authority (Amendment no. 1)
- No authority that is stipulated in the law of the State of Israel or of the Jerusalem Municipality may be transfered either permanently or for an allotted period of time to a foreign body, whether political, governmental or to any other similar type of foreign body.
7. Entrenchment (Amendment no. 1)
- Clauses 5 and 6 shall not be modified except by a Basic Law passed by a majority of the members of the Knesset.
MENACHEM BEGIN
Prime Minister
YITZCHAK NAVON
President of the State
Section 4 titled “Development of Jerusalem” would constitute a decree to rebuild. Not only is it a decree to rebuild, but it also places Jewish sovereignty over the city and the Temple Mount and prohibits future governments of Israel from giving away that sovereignty to a foreign entity. Section 5 incorporates the decree that was issued regarding Jerusalem after the Six Day War in 1967.
It is very simple from this point to check the results. July 30, 1980 plus 17,640 days(7x2520) comes out to Nov 14, 2028. If my interpretation is correct, this would be the end of the seven sevens and the start of the final seven.
That date of Nov 14, 2028 has some remarkable facts associated with it. Let us take a look at those and see if we can confirm the date as significant. I believe that we are close enough to 2028 that we should now be able to see something happening if it is indeed building in that direction. I have found so many things that point to that time that it’s been stunning.
Let’s start with Pope Francis. He was all in on the WEF and UN climate change Agenda 2030 and his successor has vowed to maintain the climate agenda established by Francis. He released his encyclical, Laudato Si, on Pentecost 2015. The name of his encyclical is “Laudato Si”, which means care for our common home. Alongside that encyclical, he released a seven-year plan to bring the Church into compliance with Agenda 2030. He began his seven-year plan on the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time. That was on Nov 14, 2021. The 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time is a day when the Catholic Church focuses on the end of the world and the return of Christ. This is a reminder to prepare for what is to come. His seven-year plan ends on the exact same day my timeline says the final seven years will begin. That means the church will be ready for a new plan (presumably of seven years again) on the same day that the final seven begins.
Bill Gates has his 50in5 plan that is set to bring digital ID and banking to 50 countries in 5 years. In my opinion, this will create a fully functioning system ready and capable of serving as the mark of the beast. His plan was announced Nov 8, 2023. It will end on US Election Day, Nov 7, 2028, exactly one week before the start of the final seven years.
The United Nations Agenda 2030 has had a bunch of different groups on different tasks, all operating on their own parameters and timeline. There is a major push underway now to bring them all together into one timeline and plan. Their efforts at unity of purpose have focused on Nov 2028 as well. They already have scheduled the second Global Stocktake for November 2028, although they don’t set the exact day this far in advance. This all revolves around Agenda 2030. It is truly an all-encompassing agreement. It aims to end poverty and hunger and bring in world peace as facets of an overarching shift to green energy. One of the chief ways of doing that is to make digital ID for everyone on the planet a reality.
Our Common Agenda is a United Nations (UN) report that was passed on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations on Sept 21, 2020. Rosh Hashanah was marked on the 19th and 20th, which was Saturday and Sunday. So this decree was passed the next day on Monday. It includes several goals and recommendations for 2028, including:
Gender parity
The UN will achieve gender parity at all staff levels by 2028.
Declaration on Future Generations
A high-level plenary meeting will be held in 2028 to discuss the Declaration on Future Generations.
Pact for the Future
A Heads of State and Government meeting will be held in 2028 to review the Pact for the Future.
The 2023 SDG Summit was held Sept 18-19, 2023. Several programs came out of that meeting including, "The Road to 2100', "Unlock the Future" and "Our Future Agenda". All of these came about in 2023, and they all feature five-year action plans. That means they all are aiming at 2028 as the year of implementation. By the way, the Summit was held the day after Rosh Hashanah again.
Agenda 2030 was passed on Sept 25, 2015, in the five days between Yom Kippur and the first day of The Feast of Tabernacles. The first day of the Feast of Tabernacles was accompanied by the fourth blood moon of the 2014/2015 tetrad. Many Christians were expecting a major end times development at that time and we got one. The sad part is most of us didn’t even realize what happened and still don’t recognize the importance of what took place at that time. Many of the UN meetings and declarations come on Jewish holidays. The first Global Stocktake in 2023 was the day after Rosh Hashanah. The Rio Earth Summit and Agenda 21 in 1992 started on the 3rd of June and ended on the 14th. Shavuot was on the 7th. That Shavuot was on the 25th anniversary of the day Israel retook the Temple Mount on June 7, 1967. The Paris Climate agreement was declared during Hannukah. There are quite a few more like that.
The seventh seven, which is the seven we are currently in, began on Dec 21, 2021. Something big happened on that day that had a major impact on the world, yet few people even knew that it happened. Rabbis from The Temple Institute in Jerusalem made the declaration that they had certified 21 red heifers as meeting the requirements to be used in the ceremony to spiritually cleanse the builders of the third temple. In fact, without a perfect red heifer that meets all the requirements found in scripture, the temple cannot be built. How did this affect the world, you might ask. When Hamas was asked why they unleashed what they called the Al Aqsa Flood on Oct 7, 2023, they said, among other things, that it was in response to “the bringing of the red cows” to Israel. The red heifers were raised on a farm in Texas specifically for this purpose. Hamas knows the significance of the ashes of the red heifer. It means the building of the temple next to, or in place of, the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount is near.
1260 days before the final seven years begins on Nov 14, 2028, is June 3, 2025. That was the halfway point of the seventh seven. Remarkably, it was also Shavuot. Even more remarkably, the United Nations had scheduled a conference titled;
"High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution" which will be held in New York City June 2-4, 2025
They planned to force a peace treaty and two-state solution onto Israel exactly 1260 days before the final seven begins. They held a pre-planning meeting to set up the June conference. That meeting was held on April 12, 2025. That day was also the Hebrew Passover. That means they planned to enforce the handover of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, to the Palestinians and they held meetings, or at least planned to, on Passover and Shavuot. The time between those two holidays is seven sevens just like the prophecy from Daniel indicates will be to the coming of the Antichrist. They targeted the middle of the seventh seven for their attempt to take the Temple Mount from Israel. What's really interesting about that is that they will take it from them on the middle of the next period of seven. In my opinion it's a foreshadowing of what will happen at the middle of the final seven.
The abomination that causes desolation will be set up in the Third Temple 1260 days after Nov 14, 2028. That day is April 27/28th, 2032. It is also the day before Lag Ba’Omer, the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer in Israel. There is some very interesting information about Lag Ba’Omer online. Modern Jews say they are celebrating the end of the streak of deaths that saw an ancient Rabbi lose 2400 of his students to mysterious sudden deaths. Others say it's remembering the life and death of the Rabbi who brought the Zohar and Kabbalah to the Jews. Let me just say that I love all Jews and Israel with all of my heart. I really mean that. They will NEVER cease to be a people before the Lord. Not until the sun and Earth passes away. Further research, however, has shown a much different origin story for Lag Ba’Omer than what is currently being promoted. In 363AD, the Roman Emperor Julian took sides with the Jews against Christianity. He thought that having the Third Temple rebuilt would prove Jesus wrong and defeat the faith once and for all. The Jews were very excited to hear this and made all kinds of preparations for the work. Julian allowed them to pick the date that the construction would start. Reportedly, they picked the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer specifically to thumb their noses at the Christians and boast that they had killed Jesus at the age of 33. They believed that a man whose life was cut short had been shown to be an evil man. They also believed he was buried in a tomb in Meron. From the very first Lag Ba’Omer, it was a celebration of the death of Jesus complete with the 4th Century Jews dancing on his supposed grave. The day the construction started, there was a severe earthquake, and flames were reported coming from under the stones and burning the tools. Don't ask me how but modern geologists have confirmed that there was a large earthquake in that area at that time. A month later, Julian was killed in battle and the whole attempt ended abruptly. It seems to me that this is the only Jewish holiday that is based in rebellion. That rebellion doesn’t even rely on the story of Julian because most modern Jews are celebrating the Zohar and the Kabbalah on Lag Ba’Omer. That is open rebellion in and of itself. Keep that in mind as Daniel describes the Abomination of Desolation.
Daniel 8:9 Out of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land. 10 It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them. 11 It set itself up to be as great as the commander of the army of the Lord; it took away the daily sacrifice from the Lord, and his sanctuary was thrown down. 12 Because of rebellion, the Lord’s people and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.
But is that the only rebellion that happens at that time?
2 Thess 2:1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God
Both the Jews and the Church will be in rebellion against God at that time. I believe that these who fall away are the people who don’t recognize that the final seven years have started. They have lost their faith and turn away because they don’t understand the times and dates. “Where is this coming that he promised?” Many people have based their faith on the incorrect notion that if they serve God that he will protect them from harm. It is why so many people have a crisis of faith when great difficulties arise.
Again, I want to point out that only those who can't discern the correct day that the seven years has started will be caught off guard at the time of the abomination. That may well include those who have incorrectly interpreted the seventy sevens in Daniel. Once the Abomination of Desolation happens, we will be hearing from the two witnesses, and we will be seeing their miracles. If you can't discern the times then, you may be one of the elect who is deceived by the miracles of the many false prophets that will come out of the woodwork after the abomination.
Matt 24:22 “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. 23 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you ahead of time.
1260 days after the Abomination is October 10, 2035, during the Days of Awe. That is the day that the two witnesses would be killed. 3 ½ days later they would be raised on Yom Kippur, Oct 13, 2035. That is correct, starting the count from the Jerusalem Law of 1980, to the end of the final seven and then to the day the two witnesses will be raised takes you to Yom Kippur. What a coincidence!! That must not be the day that Jesus returns in the clouds because we have that date on our timeline. Nor can it be after he returns, for in that case the two witnesses would have been left out. It has to be some time after that. Here is what the Bible says about that time.
Rev 11:7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. 8 Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
11 But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.
13 At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
The very next few verses cover the seventh, or last, trumpet to sound.
15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:
“The kingdom of the world has become
the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,
and he will reign for ever and ever.”
16 And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying:
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
the One who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
and have begun to reign.
18 The nations were angry,
and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
and for rewarding your servants the prophets
and your people who revere your name,
both great and small—
and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.
I think it is very obvious that this is when the second coming will occur. Is it the same day that the two witnesses are raised from the dead? Is it that very same day which is also Yom Kippur? Or is it five days later when the Feast of Tabernacles begins? Who can say? Scripture just does not say.
Next is the 1290 and 1335 days spoken of later in Daniel, in the 12th chapter.
Daniel 12:11 “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. 12 Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
If you count forward from the Abomination of Desolation 1290 days you come to Nov 9, 2035. That is the day that Israeli school children celebrate the crossing of the Jordan river by the nation of Israel under Joshua. It is also the 97th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the beginning of the Holocaust. He doesn’t say what will happen when the 1290 days ends.
If you count forward from the Abomination of Desolation the 1335 days, you come to Christmas Eve 2035. The next day, on Christmas Day at sundown, Hannukah begins. That would very likely be the end of the age and the start of the millennial reign of Christ.
It’s important to note that anytime you are counting days, there is a bit of uncertainty on the exact day that is the result of the count. You have to ask if the count includes the first day and the last day or is it the days in between? Is it counting to the start of the event or the end? Is the count signifying how many days will pass before the event occurs or is it saying the event will occur on the last day of the count? Also, it is always two different dates on earth at the same time. So at any given spot in time, depending on where you are standing it could be one of two days.
Well, that’s the whole of the interpretation of the seventy sevens and the timeline associated with it. What’s the point, you might ask. The point here is that God is signaling us what is coming so that we can prepare for the worst time in human history. He wants us to be able to respond with the truth so that we can assist others and turn our brothers away from deception. God bless you and please reach out to me with questions or comments! I would really like to hear what you all have to say about this.
I can be reached for comments or questions at logicalpaladin@gmail.com