Logical Paladin

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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 a few 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. I am not here to tell you that other interpretations of the seventy sevens are wrong, although I do raise a point or two that is saying something else is wrong, but that is not what this is about. Other interpretations are not for me to sort out. The length and breadth of this topic should humble anyone speaking of it, in my opinion. Please let me show you what I have found.

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 an astounding interpretation that differs from that one. This one fits with what we see in scripture and in the world today.

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. This is the key to understanding the whole thing. This is a prophecy about lengths of time from a decree to the coming of a person. It also gives us a very brief description of the outcome of the coming. In other words, it's what happened after the person came.

25...."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."

There are two people mentioned along with the two periods of time. The two people are the Anointed One and the ruler. The ruler is the Antichrist and the Anointed One is Jesus. This is a prophecy to their coming, not to their deaths or anything else. That is key to understanding this prophecy. People are often confused by the following statement:

26 “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. Once you have that in your mind, it is much easier to understand this prophecy. The prophecy states right up front that the time periods are to the coming.

25...."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."

If the decree is to his coming, then why state that he will be cut off after 62 sevens? It is because God does not want us to think that this coming is for the setting up of the Kingdom of God on earth and the Millennial Reign of Christ. This coming is for his sacrifice to atone for our sins. It is a very important distinction, obviously. It is prophesied in several places in the Old Testament that the Messiah would come and give his life for our sins, to reconnect us with the Father. It is also stated multiple times in the Old Testament that the Messiah will come and set up a kingdom on Earth that will never end. God doesn't want any confusion about the purpose of this coming. The cutting off of the Anointed One is both the purpose and the outcome of his coming.

The very next thing it tells us is what the outcome of the coming of the ruler will be.

“26 ....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.”

Notice that when it identifies him it calls him "the ruler who will COME". Another clear reference to the initial statement of this prophecy that the time periods given are to the coming of the person. The fact that it now identifies them separately is a very clear indication that they are two different people. That means that the opening verse spoke of them both even though it kind of sounds like the Anointed One and the ruler might be the same person. People will often say that "the Anointed One, the ruler" just means that the Anointed One is a ruler. If that were true, then they wouldn't be spoken of separately just one verse later. If the ruler were Jesus, then it would be Jesus who sets up the Abomination of Desolation in the temple. That is a major contradiction with many other scriptures including the word of Jesus himself in Matthew 24 and Paul in 2 Thessalonians, not to mention, just plain common sense. What is an abomination? Not something Jesus does.

The prophecy does not directly state what period of time is between the decree and the coming of the ruler. It has to be deduced by process of elimination. If the seven sevens and the 62 sevens are to the coming of the Anointed One and to the coming of the ruler, AND the Anointed One is identified with the 62 sevens, then it is very clear that the ruler comes after the seven sevens. What other option is there? The mainstream interpretation will tell you that while the ruler does come, he does not come after either the seven sevens or the 62 sevens. He comes after an unknown period of time. Not only unknown but unknowable. They also say the Anointed One comes after BOTH the seven sevens and the 62 sevens. They just add them together. The prophecy is not written that way at all. The two time periods are written in the original Hebrew with a mark between them that indicates they are not to be added together nor spoken as if they were. The mark is called an atnah. It tells the reader that the two time periods have distinct markers for the start and finish of each. It is why the text doesn't just say 69 weeks.

You would need two decrees if this interpretation is accurate. Two decrees separated by thousands of years. Why is that? Because Jesus and the Antichrist come thousands of years apart from each other. There is no doubt about that. 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, one to restore and one to rebuild Jerusalem. Notice too how this prophecy revolves around the city of Jerusalem and not the temple or the nation as a whole. It is just the city of Jerusalem.

If this interpretation is accurate, there should be a decree to either restore or rebuild Jerusalem that is made 62 sevens before Jesus comes. Let's look and see what we find.

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. The infant John the Baptist was even able to recognize him and worship him while both were in the womb. But was there a period of 62 sevens before his conception that started with a decree to restore OR rebuild Jerusalem? Indeed, there was. But the dates are in dispute and are not widely agreed upon.

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 sometime between 433BC and 430BC. 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. He was a contemporary of the prophet Malachi. Most Bible scholars place the prophecies of Malachi in 430BC. Let us see where the 62 sevens take us from those two dates and maybe we can see something that will sway our opinion one way or the other.

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 many scholars say he was born. Many scholars will also tell you they believe he was crucified in 28AD on the Wednesday Passover, which was April 28, 28AD.

If we use the 430BC date we get a much more interesting set of matches. It pushes his birth to 2BC and his crucifixion to April 25, 31AD, also a Wednesday. These are two of the main views of Bible scholars and I cannot argue with that. I know that many churches teach that Jesus was crucified on a Friday. That is easily proven false. When he was laid in the tomb they said it was almost the Sabbath. Jesus died on Nisan 14. The 15th is ALWAYS a High Sabbath. Yet people still assume that it must have been a Saturday Sabbath that was spoken of. Scripture is clear that the 15th is a High Sabbath. Look into it. Three days and three nights cannot start on a Friday at sundown and end on Sunday. A Wednesday crucifixion is the only one that can go three days before Sunday.

Let's look at the 430BC date for a minute. The first time scripture mentions the number 430 is when Eber, the great great grandson of Noah, gives birth to his son, Peleg. Peleg means division. Eber was a descendant of Shem, which is where we get the term Semite (Shemite). Eber is father of the Hebrews and where we get the term Hebrew (Heber). After he gave birth to Peleg, or division, he lived 430 years. These men are all listed in Matthew as being in the lineage of Jesus. Eber was the triple great grandfather of Abraham. Abraham entered into covenant with God exactly 430 years before the Passover Exodus. On that very day, the Israelites marched out of Egypt. The prophet Ezekiel laid on his side for 430 days while in captivity in Babylon to represent the 430 years that Israel would be punished for her sins. This was after the 430 years of slavery in Egypt, so it wasn't referencing that. It was referring to a future period of 430 years where God would turn away from Israel. This was in approximately 580BC. What 430 years was he referencing?

The restoration of Jerusalem by Nehemiah and Malachi and others occurred in or around 430 BC. That began "the silent years". God did not speak to his people for 430 years. That view is widely held as the amount of time between the testaments. This seems like the most likely 430 years that Ezekiel was speaking of. The fifth chapter of Micah gives us some insight into this.

Micah 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
    though you are small among the clans of Judah,
out of you will come for me
    one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
    from ancient times.”

³Therefore Israel will be abandoned
until the time when she who is in labor bears a son,
and the rest of his brothers return
to join the Israelites.

⁴He will stand and shepherd his flock
    in the strength of the Lord,
    in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
And they will live securely, for then his greatness
    will reach to the ends of the earth.

So there have been three 430 year periods that were lived through by the Hebrew people. The life span of Eber, the original Hebrew, after his son Peleg was born, the 430 years of Egyptian captivity and the 430 silent years between the Old and New Testaments. Those three 430 year periods, when added together, equal 1290 years. I believe very strongly that this is an allusion to the 1290 days of Daniel 12. The Great Tribulation is the modern punishment of Israel. It lasts 1260 days. Jerusalem will be trampled under foot for 42 months, until the times of the Gentiles has been fulfilled.

Rev 11:1 "I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. ²But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. ³And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

You can see both the 1290 days, and the 2300 days revolve around the Abomination of Desolation. The 1290 days starts there but the 2300 days starts earlier and is nearly seven years long. It encompasses the start of sacrifices in the Third Temple during the final seven.

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.

Daniel 8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot of the Lord’s people?” 14 He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”

So, the third 430-year period of punishment for Israel ended with the birth of Jesus. Each of those periods were brought about by the sinful attitudes of the Israeli people towards one another. God describes this in detail through the OT prophets. The division started with Peleg, which means division. It continued as the brothers of Joseph sold him into slavery out of jealousy. It continued even through captivity and the return. The people were not unified under the Law of Moses. Nehemiah remedied that with a decree to follow the Law and a big ceremony to seal the deal. It is recorded in Nehemiah 12 and 13. That began not only the 430 years of silence, but it also began the 62 sevens, or 428 years, to the birth of Jesus. That is the largest portion of the seventy sevens of Daniel 9.

If his birth came 428 years (62 sevens) after restoration of Jerusalem by Nehemiah in 430BC, then he was born in 2BC. He and his family fled to Egypt before his second birthday. Herod inquired of the wise men as to the time of the star and ordered the death of all male children in Bethlehem under 2 years of age. This would tell us that Jesus was not two years old when this occurred. They waited until Herod died. So, Jesus came out of Egypt right around the time that he turned two and BC turned to AD. That would mean that 430 years after the covenant was confirmed by Nehemiah and the decree to restore Jerusalem, Jesus came out of Egypt.

Hosea 11:1 “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son."

He did it just like how the Israelites came out of bondage in Egypt 430 years after Abraham entered his covenant with God. The Abrahamic Covenant was made exactly 430 years before the first Passover. That also tells us that Abraham entered his covenant on Nisan 14, the same date as Passover. The parallels are striking.

Many people believe Jesus was born on Passover. Maybe Jesus was born on Passover, maybe not. It seems very likely though that it was the day he came out of Egypt. But why not both? He could have been born on Passover in 2 BC, fulfilling the 62 sevens, and then came out of Egypt on Passover two years later. That would fulfill both the 62 sevens of 428 years and the 430 years of Ezekiel and Abraham and Eber.

If Jesus were born on Passover, what would be the likely date for his conception? It is almost exactly nine months from Tisha Ba'Av to Passover every Hebrew leap year. On the Hebrew calendar they run a 19-year cycle with the same seven years always marked as leap years with an extra month inserted to keep the seasons in correlation with their calendar. In 3BC Tisha Ba'Av was on July 21. In 2BC Passover was on April 18. That is almost exactly nine months. Jesus was the living embodiment of the temple. He said, "destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days". It would make all the sense in the world for him to be conceived on Tisha Ba'Av and born on Passover. Tisha Ba'Av is the day the first and second temple were both destroyed. If he was born on Passover, he died on his birthday.

We could go on about that subject for quite a while, but we aren't here to discuss that specifically, so I will leave it there.

The pre-trib people have their own timeline that fits their interpretation, and they have him being born 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 also explained why he could not be crucified and die on a Friday, and scripture makes that pretty clear with a little bit of study. I hope that makes sense to you.

The Two Sabbaths of Passover will help explain the Wednesday crucifixion.

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 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 then 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. In fact, we would know the dates of each seven's beginning and ending as well. 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 that will tell you when Jesus returns. Even knowing the start date of the final seven will not tell you that. 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, even if you were "left behind". 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 ahead of time. 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. We are not warned by only seven times, but by seven times seven.

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 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 Daniel's prophecy. That is where the numbers 49 and 62 came from. Passover and Pentecost occurred long before our Savior gave his life on Passover. The pattern and the timing were set centuries before Jesus came. Jesus is the living Temple of God. This is why he is associated with the 62 sevens and the destruction of the Temple. His death was a more real version of the Temple of God being destroyed than when the physical temple was destroyed in 70AD.

The seven sevens count ends with the coming of the Antichrist and the start of the final seven. I do not know why the Antichrist is associated with the seven sevens. Perhaps it is a perfect period of time. It gives us a perfect warning. Perhaps it is something specific about him that we will see when he comes. Perhaps it indicates his pretend status as a man of God. 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 periods of sevens and is consistent with not adding the two together.

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 coming 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 not to 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 and the Temple Mount 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.

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’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.

It is very simple from this point to check the results. July 30, 1980 plus 17,640 days(7x7x360) 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. The Catholic Church also has a synodial process that they have been working on for years. They have been taking meetings with the lay people and the clergy to determine the path the church should take going forward. It's a bottom-up approach to leadership that turns the Catholic way of thinking on its head. My whole life they have taught that a lay person is to accept and trust in the leadership of the church. They are told not to interpret scripture for themselves. Now they have formed many small groups with absolute secrecy as to who said what in the meeting. Only the recommendations of the group as a whole will move forward. Many Catholic faithful have been upset by this. The church will adopt the new principles in Oct 2028, just a couple of weeks before the start of the final seven. There will be no way to independently verify that what goes into effect was the majority opinion. Not that a church should even operate that way, but it is far worse to pretend to do that while bringing in new theology that few have agreed to or recommended. It has been reported that they will accept homosexuality as equal to heterosexuality, including in marriage.

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.

Donald Trump confirmed phase two of his 20 Point Peace Plan with 8 Islamic countries on Nov 14, 2025. That is a foreshadowing of how the final covenant, and its confirmation will look. It even mirrors what it will be about, namely the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians/Islamic world. He posted it on the White House website if you would like to see it. The UN approved the plan a couple of days later. The membership of nations to the Board of Peace is set to last 3 years, putting the renewal date right on top of our date in 2028.

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. Many scholars teach that 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 the Beast will take it from them on the middle of the next period of seven, which is when the Abomination of Desolation takes place. In my opinion, the conference is a foreshadowing of what will happen in Israel when the Abomination is set up in the Temple. The West Bank and Jerusalem will be overrun.

The Abomination of Desolation will be set up in the Third Temple 1260 days after Nov 14, 2028. That day is April 28th, 2032. Remember that, according to my interpretation and that of many scholars, Jesus was crucified on April 25, 31AD. That means he was raised on the 28th. Those two days, April 25 and 28, figure very large in this interpretation. There will be the first blood moon of the next tetrad on April 25, 2032, which is Pesach Sheni, Second Chance Passover. It is a Biblically mandated date of observance of Passover for all those who were unclean at the first Passover. That's just chock full of meaning. That is 3 days before the abomination on the 28th. This mirrors exactly the dates of the crucifixion and resurrection!! It will have been exactly 2001 years since his sacrifice for our sins. April 28, the date of the Abomination of Desolation, is also the day Lag Ba’Omer begins at sundown, the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer in Israel. There is some very interesting information about Lag Ba’Omer online.

The Byzantine Prehistory of Lag ba-Omer – Tradition Online

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 is it likely to 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.

¹⁵The 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.”

¹⁶And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷saying:

“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.
¹⁸The 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.”

¹⁹Then 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. 12Blessed 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 will 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. It is also the day the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe fell in 1989. The Iron Curtain held more than a million Jews from returning to Israel after World War II. It is called "World Freedom Day".

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.

I referenced Micah 5 earlier. One more thing I would like to point out there.

Micah 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
    though you are small among the clans^[b] of Judah,
out of you will come for me
    one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
    from ancient times.”

³Therefore Israel will be abandoned
until the time when she who is in labor bears a son,
and the rest of his brothers return
to join the Israelites.

I believe that verse 3 is a reference to the split of the seven sevens from the 62 sevens. Israel was abandoned for 430 years, roughly correlating with the 62 sevens of 428 years. Then there is a second abandonment in 70AD. That ends when Israel returns as a nation and the Jews return to the land. That was fulfilled in 1948, 1967 and with the final decree issued in 1980 to take full control of Jerusalem for the first time since 70AD. Every year as part of their Passover celebrations, Jews will use the phrase "next year in rebuilt Jerusalem", as a way of reminding each other of the hope they have for the future. It is also commonly said at Rosh Hashanah. It became part of the Passover Haggadah. The decree to rebuild Jerusalem was given on July 30, 1980. It was the end of a thousand years of prayers for that decree. Even though they knew not the exact details of what they prayed for, God did. I believe he laid it on their hearts to make this prayer and public statement of it.

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. Prepare yourself as the Lord leads you to.

Interesting Facts

I have spent more than 20 years studying this topic. I have found many interesting things that relate to the timeline and would love to share them with you. I hope you find these things as interesting and faith building as I have. I could go into much more detail about why many of these things are important and the many layers of meaning behind them, but I want to keep it brief. Feel free to email me any questions or responses. These are in no particular order. Please do not read into why I am posting some of these things. I am not making any statements of belief tied to them. I am just presenting the facts. I believe these things serve as solid proof that the timeline is accurate and that the Bible is accurate in it's predictions, proving that God is real and is in control of the affairs of this world.

If Jesus was born on Nisan 14, when the Passover lamb is slain, he would be circumcised on the last day of Passover.

July 4, 1776, was Tzom Tammuz, the day Jews mourn for the breach of the walls of Jerusalem in 70AD

Every US President is sworn in between the dome of the Capital Building and the obelisk of the Washington Monument, on Jan 20, which is 1260 days before the Fourth of July in his final year of the term. For Trump this will be the Fourth of July in 2028, the last before the final seven begins, celebrating the 252nd year of America. One seven contains 2520 days (252 times 10). The dome and obelisk represent the Egyptian deities Osiris and Isis. The same setup exists in Vatican Square and other places. The first term of Trump saw the Fourth of July in 2020 as the 1260th day of his term. On that day BLM protestors tore down the statue of Christopher Columbus in Baltimore and threw it into the sea.

Adolph Hitler was born on April 20 and died on April 30, 1945. The day he died was Lag BaOmer. The Abomination of Desolation occurs on the eve of Lag BaOmer in 2035. 4/20 and 4/30 are the dates of his life. He ruled the Third Reich. 420 three times is 1260, the duration of the rule of the Beast and the Great Tribulation. 430 three times is 1290, mirroring the 1290 days of Daniel 12. Hitler died in 1945, or 45 for short. 45 days after the 1290 is the 1335th day. 1263 days after his death was the first Yom Kippur on Oct 13, 1948, in newly reborn Israel. 1263 days after the Abomination of Desolation in 2035 is Yom Kippur, Oct 13, 2035, the day the two witnesses will be raised. All of the dates and durations of the timeline of the final seven are represented. the 1290th day on my timeline is Nov 9, 2035. It is the day the Holocaust began with Kristallnacht.

Columbus landed in "America" on Oct 12, 1492. The following Passover was accompanied by the first blood moon of a tetrad. When Israel was founded in 1948, the following Passover, the first in Israel since 70AD, was accompanied by the first blood moon of a tetrad. Columbus was seeking treasure to finance a campaign to take Jerusalem by force and build the Third Temple.

There were 56 blood moon tetrads between Abraham and Jesus and there were 56 blood moon tetrads from Jesus until now. There are 56 years (360 days each) in the seven sevens and the final seven combined (49+7=56). The next blood moon tetrad begins on April 25, 2032, which is Pesach Sheni (second chance Passover). It is also the date Jesus was crucified in 31AD (if he was born in 2BC). He rose three days later on April 28, which is the date of the Abomination of Desolation on my timeline, when the Antichrist will enter the temple and proclaim himself God. On Donald Trump's 56th birthday (49+7), an asteroid (2002MN) passed between the earth and the moon at one third the distance to the moon. The two thirds is 66.6%. The asteroid was traveling at 23,666 mph.

Each of the seven sevens starts on a specific date. The first was July 30, 1980. That was also the day the New York Declaration was announced as being passed by the UN in 2025. It directly opposes the Jerusalem Law and seeks to overturn it. June 22 was the start of the second seven. Trump rolled out his "Peace to Prosperity" plan, phase one, on that day in 2019. The third seven started on May 17 and was Pentecost. The fourth was April 10 and Passover. The fifth was March 3. Purim in 2026, when we attacked Iran, was on March 3. The sixth was Jan 28. That's the day Trump rolled out "Peace to Prosperity" phase two in 2020. It is the start of what turned into his 20 point peace plan for Gaza, which he revealed on Rosh Hashanah 2025 at the UN. The seventh seven began on Dec 21, 2021. On that very day the first red heifers in several millennia, 21 of them. were revealed to the world by Rabbis of the Temple Institute at a ceremony in Texas. The eighth seven will begin on Nov 14, 2028. Same day the seven-year SDG Agenda 2030 plan of Pope Francis ends. Trump issued a statement on Nov 14, 2025, declaring agreement between he and 8 Islamic nations that the Gaza peace plan and the Board of Peace should move forward. Membership to the board is set up for 3 years, ending Nov 14, 2028. Nov 14, 2028, will be King Charles' 80th birthday. The final seven ends on Oct 10, 2035. Trump reached the cease fire with Hamas on Oct 10, 2025, which caused the release of the hostages. The two witnesses will be raised on Oct 13, 2035, Yom Kippur. Trump signed the Gaza Peace Deal in Egypt on Oct 13, 2025, on Simchat Torah, the same holiday as the Oct 7 attack by Hamas.

Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946, during a blood moon. Israel was reborn on May 14, 1948. Trump was 700 days old that day. A month later he turned two years old, same age as Jesus when the 430 years ended and he came out of Egypt, likely on Passover. It was June 14, 1948, and it was Shavuot! First Shavuot in Israel since 70AD. In 1967 Israel retook the Temple Mount and Jerusalem on June 7. A week later Trump turned 21 on Shavuot. He turned 40 in 1986, again on Shavuot. His next birthday on Shavuot will be the last Shavuot of this age in 2035. He was sworn in at 70 years, 7 months and 7 days of age in 2017. in the leap years 2028 (the final seven begins) and 2032 (the abomination of desolation), June 14th is the 166th day of the year.

The Stars and Stripes was adopted as the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777. Trump was born on the 169th anniversary. There are 69 of the 70 sevens complete when the Antichrist takes power. The US military was also born on June 14 in 1775. June 14 was named Flag Day on Aug 3, 1949, which was Tisha Ba'Av, the day the temples were both destroyed. It was also 66 days before the second blood moon of a tetrad that began on the first Passover in Israel since 70AD.

Daniel 8 describes the American war on Iraq and Iran, in my opinion, that has now spanned 23 years. The goat is America and the ram is Iraq and Iran. The invasion of Iran began on Feb 28, 2026. It was Shabbat Zachor, the Sabbath before Purim where the Torah portion declares the necessity of destroying Amalek. Purim celebrates the victory of the Jewish people in Persia (Iran). Purim was on March 3, which is the same date as the start of the fifth seven. It was also the day that the US bombed the HQ of the Twelvers in Qom. The invasion of Iraq began on March 20, 2003. March 20 is Barron Trump's birthday. Tiffany Trump was born Oct 13, the date the two witnesses will be raised on Yom Kippur at the end of the age. A year and a day earlier, on Feb 27, 2025, a golden goat covered in $100 dollar bills bearing Trump's face and the motto "In Trump We Trust" was sold at a charity auction at Mar-a-Lago.

On Oct 13, 2015, Iran confirmed the nuclear deal with the US and UN. That day was exactly seven sevens from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem issued on June 28, 1967. That decree was enshrined in the text of the Jerusalem Law of 1980, which began the seven sevens. The deal was set for ten years. 10 years later, on Oct 13, 2025, on Simchat Torah, Donald Trump signed the Gaza peace deal in Egypt. 1260 days after Oct 13, 2015, Trump signed the Golan Heights decree on March 25, 2019. 1263 days later the Queen of England died, making Charles the King. 1290 days was Yom Kippur in 2022. Tiffany Trump was born Oct 13, the date the two witnesses will be raised on Yom Kippur at the end of the age. Oct 13 is a recurring date in this timeline and the history of Israel. All of these things happened or will happen on Oct 13: The first Yom Kippur in Israel since 70AD. The first Yom Kippur in Jerusalem since 70AD. The 2005 Yom Kippur when Israel disengaged from Gaza, the Israeli invasion of Gaza, the Gaza peace deal, Yom Kippur and the raising of the two witnesses in 2035.

Pope Francis started a seven-year plan on Nov 14, 2021 to bring the church into alignment with the SDG goals of the UN. It was under his Laudato Si encyclical released on Pentecost in 2015. His plan ends on the exact same day our final seven begins. The exact middle day of his seven years was May 14, 2025. That was Israel's 77th birthday and it was the day Trump signed his cooperation pact with Qatar. Qatar then mediated the Gaza peace deal, bringing it to fruition on Oct 13, Simchat Torah.

The 40th anniversary of the Jerusalem Law was on Tisha Ba'Av. On the 45th anniversary the UN passed the New York Declaration, the only purpose of which is to overturn the Jerusalem Law.

The G7 was formed Nov 15, 1975. On the last day of a 50-year span, Trump signed his Board of Peace agreement on Nov 14, 2025, with 8 Islamic countries. The Board of Peace has seven council members with Trump as the president and eighth member. That is exactly three years before the Antichrist confirms a very similar agreement to begin the final seven on Nov 14, 2028. Board membership by the nations is set for three years.

The G77 group of nations was formed on June 15, 1964, the day after Trump's 18th birthday. The very first meeting of the G77 was on Oct 10, 1967. Same day as the end of the final seven in 2035 when the two witnesses will be killed. 3 days later was the first Yom Kippur in Jerusalem since 70AD, and it's on the same day, Oct 13, that the two witnesses will be raised. The G77 met in Tehran 21 days before 9/11.

After 9/11, Rosh Hashanah, Sept 17, was the day the stock market reopened and experienced a 7% drop. Seven years later on Sept 29, 2008, again on Rosh Hashanah, the stock market lost 777 points. This led to the election of Barack Obama, according to most pundits.

If you count the days from the birth of Israel to the Abomination of Desolation you get 30,666 days. It is the day the mark of the beast will begin.

On the exact middle day of the seven sevens, Sept 21, 2004, George Bush gave a speech at the UN where he was the first US president to tell Israel to end settlements in the West Bank and "end the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people."

If you start at the 1290th day of the timeline and count backwards 2300 days you come to Tisha Ba'Av in 2029. Both of those day counts are from Daniel. According to Daniel 8, there will be 2300 days that include the sacrifices in the temple, the rebellion of the people, the abomination of desolation and on the last day the sanctuary will be reconsecrated. Daniel does not tell us what happens at the end of the 1290 days, but it does say it begins at the Abomination of Desolation. They undeniably cover the same ground. The Temple Institute has a whole page dedicated to their desire to begin the sacrifice system on the same day it sopped both in the first and second temple. That day is Tisha Ba'Av. The Global Climate Countdown Clock is counting down to that day in 2029, just after the start of the final seven. I write more about this in my second essay. It is a strong indicator of the day when America will face judgement.

The 2005 Gaza disengagement plan was passed by a Knesset vote on Oct 25, 2004. Three days later, on Oct 28, there was the fourth blood moon of the 2003/2004 tetrad. In 2005 Trump turned 59 on Shavuot in June. The day after Tisha Ba'Av, the Israeli government began a forced removal of Jews from Gaza, just like the Romans did in 70AD after they destroyed the Temple on Tisha Ba'Av. They continued the evacuation until Sept 11.

Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister of the UK and became the head envoy and negotiator for the Quartet on June 27, 2007. That was the final day of a 40-year span after the June 28, 1967, decree to rebuild Jerusalem that was enshrined in the text of the Jerusalem Law which began the seven sevens. He holds one of the seven executive spots on the Board of Peace.

I can be reached for comments or questions at logicalpaladin@gmail.com

I would appreciate corrections! I am not here to tell you I am right. This isn't about me. I am sharing what I believe God has shown to me. It is part of the deal of being a Christian. We are to share what we find. We are to put on the whole armor of God and God says "Come, let us reason together".

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