Logical Paladin

I am writing this to convey an interpretation of the prophecy of the seventy sevens in the book of Daniel. It is not the same as what you have seen beofre. The interpretation of this prophecy has been referred to as the dismal swamp of eschatology. Well, I believe I have found the light.

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 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. I am here to tell you that this is not what this passage says. There is a much better explanation, and that explanation fits with what we see in the world today in a shocking and perfect fit. Let me emphasize perfect fit. Let me show you how I break it down.

In verse 25 we see that the seventy sevens are broken down into two time periods. There are seven sevens and sixty two sevens. That leaves one seven unaccounted for until later. The 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 assume that one period is to the coming of one of the people and the other period of time is to the coming of the other. The earliest copies of these scriptures had a punctuation mark between the periods of time that indicated they were completely separate and should not be added together nor spoken in sequence as if they were sequential. That makes sense if one of them is to the coming of the Anointed One and the other is to the coming of the ruler. You would also need two decrees if that is accurate. The verse tells us that there will be a decree to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem. Those sound like kind of the same thing but when you think about it, they are very different. I will have more about that later, but the point is that there are two different decrees issued, one to rebuild and one to restore.

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.’

The mainstream interpretation says that Jesus is both the ruler and the Anointed One. But in verse 26 we see this statement: "The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary." Verse 27 continues speaking of "he", referring to the ruler. "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". It is the ruler who confirms the covenant and sets up the abomination. That cannot be Jesus. We also see that it says, "the ruler who will come". That would indicate that it is indeed true that this prophecy is also about the coming of the ruler, a separate person with a separate coming.

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

How do we know which period of time is to the coming of which person? The first part of verse 26 answers that question.
26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.

The coming of the Anointed One is 62 sevens after a decree to restore Jerusalem. After he comes, he will be cut off. That means that the coming of the ruler is after the seven sevens started by a decree to rebuild Jerusalem.

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. 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. It's like if I said that my friend Tom is coming to my house on Monday, and after that we are going to Disneyland. Did I say we are going to Disneyland on Monday? No, I did not. We could go to Disneyland any day after Monday.

You can’t deny that it tells us about the coming of two different people in the whole of this prophecy. If you believe that the Abomination of Desolation is set up by the Antichrist, then this prophecy is definitely about two people. If the “He” that starts verse 27 is a normal reference to the antecedent “the ruler who will come” in verse 26, then we have that ruler identified as the Antichrist. If that is true, why would "the ruler" in verse 25 not be the same person? Both are said to come. What was the coming of Jesus? His birth was his coming.

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”).

So, God was with us from conception. Jesus came when he was born. But was there a period of 62 sevens before his birth that started with a decree to restore/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 the 433BC era. The exact date is not recorded but the fact that he restored the city with a decree to do so cannot be denied. 62 sevens works out to days 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. That means that Jesus would have been born around 5BC, exactly the time when most non pre-trib scholars say he was born. The pre-trib people have their own timeline to fit 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. The 62 sevens are in the past and started with a decree to restore Jerusalem and ended with the coming of Jesus. The seven sevens are 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 we will know the date for his coming, 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.

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE NUMBERS

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. 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. 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 basis for the breakdown of the sevens in the prophecy we are studying. It is also the reason that even though the 62 sevens come first in the order of fulfillment of this prophecy, the seven sevens are listed first because they occur first on the annual festival calendar. 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 62 sevens count. Remember that he said about himself, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days".

I believe what I have just showed you is the purest way of dissecting the verse. But I knew when I saw it that it would be a tough sell. At that time, I just put my hands on my bible and looked up to God and asked him for a sign so that I would know if it was true. I said it would be difficult to convince people that what they were teaching was wrong. And I said I don’t want to bring a message to anyone that isn’t correct, especially something this important.

Immediately I was caught up and in darkness. Then I saw a city below me. It was NYC. A voice in my head said “Very soon there will be major terrorist attacks on NYC and Washington DC. Also, in one smaller out of the way place that won’t amount to as much”. I asked what the attack would be. He said, “it will not be nuclear, biological or chemical.” He said, “it will be something you haven’t seen before.” I could see two glowing spots down between the buildings on one end of Manhattan the whole time he was speaking. Then, when he finished speaking, I could see a different view. Much lower and in the daytime. I could see great clouds of smoke billowing between the buildings. I could see people running and the smoke overtaking them. I cringed in fear thinking that the smoke was hurting them, that the smoke was the weapon. He sensed what I was thinking for he said, “the smoke isn’t hurting them.” Then I was back at my desk with my hands on my Bible. I was stunned to say the least. I told my wife all about it. I told my parents too. I am ashamed to admit that I was scared, even after all of that, to really tell what I saw. I hinted around about it hoping that would be enough with some coworkers. Only my wife and parents got the full story. That day was Sept 6, 2001.

Now that I have given you the interpretation of the prophecy of the seventy sevens in Daniel, I would like to explain how I have applied this understanding. Because of the pre-trib rapture theory, many Christians have adopted the notion that we cannot know anything about the timing of the end times events. They believe we will just be suddenly caught up without warning. They believe the final seven years will start with the rapture and that the other 69 sevens are all already in the past. I have already shown why I believe that interpretation of the seventy sevens is incorrect. Now we need to rid ourselves of the rest of the baggage that comes with it. That baggage includes the idea that Jesus forbid discussion of it and that Paul and Peter backed up that command in the New Testament. The pre-trib proponents also say that the parables Jesus used about the end of the age are all rock-solid proof that we aren’t allowed to know anything in terms of the timing of it. That whole notion is based on their misunderstanding of the seventy sevens. Now that the misunderstanding has been corrected, hopefully, we can look at what was said by Jesus and see if that was what he meant. I am going to interpret the words of Jesus through the lens that my interpretation is correct, and that Jesus shares this knowledge. How would he not? In no way have I tried to determine the day or the hour of his return. There is so much more to be known than just that time. I agree that even Jesus did not have that information, at least not while he was operating as a human on Earth. In fact, my interpretation would indicate that it was impossible for anyone to know when the count of the seven sevens would start until the decree to rebuild Jerusalem was issued. While Jesus was walking the Earth, and afterward when Paul and Peter wrote their epistles, Jerusalem was still standing and in the hands of the Jews. They knew that it would have to be torn down and the people taken away into exile for a time and then the decree to rebuild would be issued after that. Following the decree there would be almost 49 years before the prophesied coming of the ruler, who is the Antichrist. All of them knew that it was too far into the future to be of any immediate concern. Virtually no adult alive at the time of Pentecost could have lived long enough to see all of that occur in their lifetime. Let’s start there, just before Pentecost.

Acts 1:4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Jesus did not forbid the discussion of times and dates. He answered a direct question with a direct answer. This answer was far from a condemnation of discussion of the timing of his return. His statement that it wasn't “for you to know” was specific to them. He had a different plan for them. They were about to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and sent out as workers into the field. I believe that his statement that it wasn’t for them to know left open that idea that it was for others to know. Who would that be, if true? It would be the people alive when the decree to rebuild Jerusalem is issued. The ones who are wise enough to interpret the seventy sevens correctly and apply them to the real situation in the world at the time. This passage at the end of Daniel, spoken by Jesus himself, backs that up.

Daniel 12:8 I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?” 9 He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand. 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. 13 “As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.”

Who is Daniel’s Lord? Not Gabriel. It was Jesus who was speaking. Jesus said that it was too far in the future for Daniel to be concerned with it. He also said that the wise at the time of the end will understand it. He then gave even more timing and day counting prophecies. If it is forbidden, why does Jesus give the information on the number of days after the abomination? It is for those alive at the time of the end. That answers the question as to why Jesus would tell the Apostles that it was not for them to know the times and dates regarding the end of the age. Paul echoes this understanding in 1 Thessalonians.

1 Thess 5:1 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Here we see Paul refer to the coming of Jesus as “the day of the Lord”. He says he does not need to write about times and dates to the brethren regarding this coming because it will come like a thief in the night. We hear this phrase all the time in defense of the surprise rapture theory, known as pre-trib. We are told that since the coming is going to be a surprise like a thief in the night, that means that we cannot know it is at hand, that we cannot know anything about the timing of the events of the end of the age. What does the very next verse say?

4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. 5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

“This day” in verse 4 is also a reference to the day of the Lord. Paul teaches us that the day of the Lord is when Jesus will return and surprise unbelievers like a thief in the night, but since we “are not in darkness”, we are told this day will not surprise us. Paul further clarifies his teaching in his second letter to the Thessalonaians.

2 Thess 2:1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?

Paul says that Jesus will come and gather us at the day of the Lord. He then reminds the Thessalonians of what he has taught them before. He says that the day of the Lord will not come until there is a rebellion, or falling away, and that the man of lawlessness has come. I have already shown you in my interpretation of the seventy sevens that the man of lawlessness, the Antichrist, comes at the end of the seven sevens. If he has been teaching them these things before, we can safely assume that he has told them that the coming of the ruler, (also another name for the Antichrist) in Daniels seventy sevens will be seven sevens after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem. When he wrote this letter to the Thessalonians, Jerusalem was still standing. That means Paul had shown them that Jerusalem was going to be destroyed and the people taken into exile and the city would lay waste for an unknown period, then there would be a decree to rebuild it that would start the seven sevens. This is why, in 1 Thess 5:1 he said “Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you”. It is also why Jesus told his disciples that “It is not for you to know the times and dates set by my Father”. The end was too far away for them to be concerned with it or to be able to know the times and dates. Jesus could have said it was never to be known, or that it wasn’t knowable. Instead, he said it wasn’t for them, specifically, to know. Why does Jesus, when asked what will be the sign of his coming and the end of the age, point us to the prophecy of the seventy sevens? Why do he and Gabriel both say we should understand the seventy sevens? Why does Paul tell us that we won’t be surprised by the day of the Lord? There is a common theme here. The people alive in the first century were shielded from this information. In fact, Peter addresses this same idea.

1 Peter 1:10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

The information about the time and the circumstances was withheld from the prophets and even the angels. They were not forbidden from searching for it. Their queries were answered the same as the Apostles before Pentecost, the same as Daniel at the end of his writing, the same as the Thessalonians. This will be revealed in it’s proper time. It is also of huge importance to understand the day of the Lord. It keeps coming up as the time when Jesus will return, gather his elect and pour out his wrath on the world. Paul sums it up nicely here in his second letter to the Thessalonians.

2 Thess 1:3 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. 4 Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring. 5 All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.

“On the day...” That day is the day of the Lord. Paul says that Jesus will punish the unbelievers on the same day that Jesus comes to be glorified and marveled at by all those who believe. That is when God’s wrath is poured out, at the day of the Lord. We already saw that when Jesus told the Apostles that it was not for them to know the times and dates, he told them to gather in Jerusalem and await the Holy Spirit. They gathered in the upper room on Shavuot, or Pentecost. That day marked the end of the annual and biblically mandated counting of the seven sevens known as the Counting of the Omer. That was a remarkable thing to have happen, in that it foreshadows the future counting of the seven sevens to the coming of the Antichrist and the confirmation of the covenant. In fact, the counting of the Omer is the basis for the seven sevens. After the Holy Spirit had fallen on them, Peter rose to speak. This is one of the most pivotal moments in the history of mankind and the establishment of the New Covenant. Here is the very first thing that Peter, moved by the Holy Spirit, had to say.

Acts 2:14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. 15 These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! 16 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

17 “‘In the last days, God says,
    I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
    your young men will see visions,
    your old men will dream dreams.
18 Even on my servants, both men and women,
    I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
    and they will prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in the heavens above
    and signs on the earth below,
    blood and fire and billows of smoke.
20 The sun will be turned to darkness
    and the moon to blood
    before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
21 And everyone who calls
    on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Not only were the Apostles baptized in the Holy Spirit, but this event also foreshadows the end of the age, which he again called the day of the Lord. Peter also said, by quoting the prophet Joel, that certain signs would precede the coming of the day of the Lord. “The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.“ Is there any other place that mentions the coming of Jesus at the day of the Lord being preceded by these signs? Let us go back to Matthew 24 and the Olivet Discourse. Jesus was asked “what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age”. He gave quite a bit of information, some of which we have already discussed. Here is where we left off.

Matt 24:9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

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. 18 Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. 19 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 20 Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.

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.

26 “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. 27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28 Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

29 “Immediately after the distress of those days

“‘the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’

30 “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Prior to verse 9, where this quote started, Jesus tells us about the beginning of birth pains and what that will entail. Then in verse 9, he says that there will be a time of intense persecution and a great falling away. Then the Abomination of Desolation will take place. This mirrors what Paul said in 2 Thess 2. Then Jesus tells us that the distress of the days that follow the Abomination will be the worst in the history of the world, including the future. That takes us to verse 29. He says that the time of distress will immediately be followed by the same signs from Joel that Peter spoke about at Pentecost (Shavuot). Joel, and by extension, Jesus and Peter are telling us that these signs will immediately precede the day of the Lord. Remember what Paul said in 2 Thessalonians;

God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.

These are not idle words. Nor are they esoteric. He means EXACTLY what he says. The other signs that precede his coming are the great falling away, or rebellion, and the Abomination of Desolation. That is what Paul told us in 2 Thessalonians 2 and it is what Jesus said in the Olivet Discourse in Mattew 24. There is zero mention of a separate, secret rapture before any of the other things happen. In fact, Paul said that the gathering at the day of the Lord includes you. There are multiple witnesses in scripture saying exactly the same thing and all of it fits perfectly with my interpretation of the seventy sevens. None of it fits with the pre-trib rapture theory. Zero.

When Jesus finished giving the sign that would indicate his coming, namely the signs in the sun and the moon that Joel and Peter spoke about, he switched gears and spoke about Noah.

Matthew 24:36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

42 “Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

This section is used to back up the pre-trib theory because they say it will be just like what happened to Noah AND that it will be like a thief in the night. Let’s take a look at the story of Noah. God told Noah that he needed to build an ark because he was going to bring the living things of the world to an end, all except for what was on the ark. The entire time Noah was building the ark, he did not know the day or time when the flood was coming. All he knew was that it was coming, and he needed to be ready. Then we read this:

Genesis 7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark....Then the Lord shut him in.

So we see that God told Noah seven days in advance when the rain would come and the door would shut. God did not tell him way in advance. He left him to prepare without knowledge of the exact day. Then God told him seven days in advance. The flood and the closing of the door did not surprise Noah or his family. They knew exactly when it would come and that they had better be in the ark. Notice that God did not speak to him again on the day the door was closed. Noah had already been clearly told and would have been shut out had he disobeyed and not been inside when the door was shut. This is not a parallel to a pre-trib rapture. This is a parallel to the interpretation I am giving you. When Jesus said “For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.”, was he talking about everyone? No, clearly not. Noah and his family knew. Just like the description of the day of the Lord, the unbelievers didn’t know, but the believers will not be surprised by it. Now consider this passage in light of everything we have discussed. ““Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.” It is true that we do not know when Jesus will come. Not on what day. Even at this time, most people have no idea that the seven sevens are almost to the end of their countdown, as I will show you in a minute. At the time that Jesus spoke these words, the information about the timing of events was not available. Jesus tells us to keep watch so that we will not be surprised by his coming. Keeping watch means understanding the prophecies and applying them correctly so that you will know at what hour the thief will come and not let your house be broken into. In this scenario, I believe the thief is the devil. But it really works either way. Knowing the timing of the seven sevens will let you know when the Antichrist will confirm the covenant, when false believers will fall away and turn in their brothers to death and when Satan and his angels will be cast down and wage was against the saints, There is no information that will tell you the hour when Jesus will return. That is why I don’t think this passage is referring to him as the thief. He is definitely referred to as a thief in the night in other passages. Here we are told to be the owner of the house who knows the hour when the thief will come so that our house will not be broken into. Most Christians, if asked, would say that they would definitely be able to discern that the final seven-year covenant was confirmed if they witnessed it. I have written a page on this subject called “The timing of the martyrdom of the saints is not what you expect”

The timing of the martyrdom of the saints is not what you expect | Theseventysevensofdaniel.com (logicalpaladin.com)

Here I will just say that if it is going to be so easy to spot, why is there a great falling away and a deadly treachery among the brethren? Even after the Abomination, which every Christian would say they could easily identify, we hear from Jesus that the elect will be up for deception. Hard to believe that all of these believers know what time it is and yet still rebel and are deceived.

As we saw in Daniel, the timing of the end of the age is clearly spelled out in the prophecy of the seventy sevens. 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 seventy sevens is something we can understand and that we are instructed to understand it. In that light, let us move forward with the application of the seventy sevens.

In the prophetic verses regarding the end of the age, we see equivalence given between three time periods. Those three are 42 months , 1260 days and 3 ½ “times”. All of the references to these times are references to the second half of the final “seven”, also known as the Great Tribulation.

Revelation 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. 2 But 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. 3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

Daniel 7:23 “He gave me this explanation: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. 24 The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. 25 He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.

Daniel 12:5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank. 6 One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?” 7 The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.”

Rev 12:13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.

The understanding of the times is that since each of these references is to the Great Tribulation, which is the second half of the final seven year covenant, then they are all the same number of days. If the number of 1260 days is equivalent to 42 months, as we see in Revelation 11, then each month would have 30 days. If each 1260 days is half of the final “seven”, then each “seven” must be 2520 days. These are not seven year periods, as we count years. God is using an unmistakable way of counting by using days. Anything else would be ultimately confusing and inaccurate.

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. 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 as correct. I was born in 1967 and am 57 now. The time for even the final seven has come and gone, showing that decree was not the correct one. So we come to the only decree issued to rebuild Jerusalem in current existence, The Jerusalem Law of 1980.

The Jerusalem Law July 30, 1980

Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel.

Seat of the President, the Knesset, the Government
and the Supreme Court

Jerusalem is the seat of the President of the State, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court.

Protection of Holy Places

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 years. That date has some remarkable facts associated with it. Let us take a look at those and see if we can confirm the date as significant. Not just that date, but all of the dates on the timeline that started in 1980. The dates on my timeline are the end of each seven as well as the mid point of each. I believe that we are close enough to 2028 that we should be able now 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 the Pope. He is all in on the WEF and the UN Climate Change Agenda. He released his encyclical on Pentecost 2015. A very wise man pointed out to me that while Pentecost and Shavuot happened on the same day in the book of Acts, they are not calculated or counted from the same starting point today. Pentecost is 50 days after Easter and Shavuot is 50 days after Passover. The early church was often determined to separate themselves from Judaism. So, I am making every effort to differentiate the two. Both are related to the timeline but in very different ways. I do go to Church on Easter for the same reason I celebrate Christmas. In truth I celebrate neither. Rather I am celebrating the birth of Jesus into this world at Christmas regardless of what else was celebrated on that day in the past or present. At Easter I celebrate the Passover and the deliverance from bondage that I found myself in before I was part of the body of Christ. The deliverance of Israel, the Exodus, the parting of the Red Sea, the pillars of fire by night and smoke by day, the giving of the law at Sinai; these mirror the path that we all took to get here. No one starts their journey at Sinai. And you can't make it to the promised land in unbelief.

1Col 2:3 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

Ok, back to the pope. 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. His seven-year plan ends on the exact same day my timeline says the final seven years will begin. That means he will be ready for a new plan (maybe of seven years again) on the same day that the final seven years begins. More about the Pope later.

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. I believe Agenda 2030 is the basis for the covenant that will be confirmed to start the final seven years. 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. Agenda 2030 was passed in 2015 on the first day of The Feast of Tabernacles and as the fourth blood moon of the 2014/2015 tetrad rose. 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 Summit and Agenda 21 in 1992 started on the 3rd of June and ended on the 14th. Pentecost (while not a Jewish holiday, it still celebrates the Passover and the Exodus and so forth) was on the7th. The Paris Climate agreement was declared during Hannukah 2015. It goes on at length, but we will leave that for later.

Back to what the Pope is up to. 1260 days before the final seven years begins on Nov 14, 2028, is June 8, 2025. The Pope has put together some very special plans for that day and that year. June 8 just happens to be Pentecost. That is correct. 1260 days before the final seven years begins is the day of Pentecost. The Pope has declared 2025 a Special Jubilee Year and is having a first ever, online meeting called the “General Assembly and Global Encounter”, to help bring the Church into compliance with Agenda 2030. A “Pentecost of Evil”, if you will. Remember that he released his encyclical on Pentecost as well and it was early in the same year that Agenda 2030 was passed on Tabernacles. Of course, the Pope does not celebrate Shavuot. That is too Jewish for his taste.

The New Age Movement has been waiting 80 years for 2025. They believe a group of spirit beings, known as "The Masters of Wisdom" are ruled by an elite group known as “The Hierarchy”. The new agers believe the Hierarchy will make themselves known during the year. Their biggest festival is a pagan version of Pentecost and requires a General Assembly of believers. It starts at sundown on June 8th, which is Pentecost. They believe that in 2025, the spirits will declare a date for their physical manifestation, known as "The Externalization of the Hierarchy". One of their leaders made this prediction in 1945 as the second World War wound down. I think these demon worshippers have a connection with their masters that goes beyond our understanding. The "Masters of Wisdom", as they are known, will have certainly figured out all of the things I have told you. They knew that not long after Israel would be reborn as a nation, the count of the seven sevens would begin again. There were quite a few people working on that well before the war ended and even before the war even started. They had the Balfour Declaration of 1917. On top of that they always hedge their bets when they make predictions. Unlike God's prophetic action, the New Age leaves wiggle room. So, it was a safe bet for them to make the prediction that the count of the seven sevens would begin within 80 years. They gave themselves all the way to 2025. The count started in 1980. It would seem likely that they would have known that 80 years would put them very close to the end of the count. The truth is that the Pope and the New Age are doing almost the exact same thing at the exact same time, 1260 days before the final seven years starts. And both of them are focused on restoring the Earth through the manifestation of spiritual realities. The evil that the pope brings to bear is all centered around "Mother Earth". It's just good old pagan earth worship dressed up in a robe and a big hat.

The abomination that causes desolation will be set up in the Third Temple 1260 days after Nov 14, 2028. That day is April 29th, 2032. It is also 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 death that saw an ancient Rabbi lose 2400 of his students and/or the life/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. 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 3rd 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. Keep that in mind as Daniel describes the event known as the Abomination of Desolation. Please also keep in mind that I am not blaming the Jews for the death of Jesus. It is true that Jews as individuals can be quite opposed to the Lordship of and title of Messiah being given to Jesus. That is in God's hands. It is the responsibility of every Christian to show love and respect to the Jewish people. I pray that Hashem make his face shine upon them. I pray that he lift them up and place them firmly in Zion where no harm will come to them forever more. They are the natural part of the olive tree and we are the wild olive branches that were grafted in. This is shown in parallel to the building of the booths for the feast of Tabernacles, called Sukkot by the Jews. They are instructed to use both cultivated and wild olive branches in the building of their booths.

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?

Both the Jews and the Church will be in rebellion against God at that time. I believe that these 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?” The foolish virgins. Again, I want to point out that only those who can't discern that the seven years has started will be caught off guard at the time of the abomination. Once it starts, we will undoubtedly be hearing from the two witnesses and we will be seeing their miracles. If you can't discern it 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.

Let’s keep going. 1260 days after the Abomination is October 11, 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. That is correct, starting from the Jerusalem Law of 1980, the end of the final seven years and the day the two witnesses will be raised is on 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.

Part of the reason that I believe the rapture will not have happened yet is what it says in verse 13. The survivors gave glory to God. Those must be saved people. Contrast that with what it says in the bowl judgements.

10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony 11 and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.

If you count forward from the Abomination of Desolation 1290 days, as Jesus pointed out to Daniel in the 12th chapter, 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. I believe that the Day of the Lord will have begun and the 144,000 will follow Jesus across the Jordan River on that day but that's just a guess. If you count forward the 1335 days, you come to Christmas Eve 2035. The next day, on Christmas day at sundown, Hannukah begins. Maybe God doesn't hate Christmas completely. We almost certainly have the date wrong for the birth of Jesus. It was probably chosen as the date for the wrong reasons but if you believe that you are celebrating the birth of Jesus, I believe God will honor your intentions.

Rom 14:44 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand. 5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. 10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written:

“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’”12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.

There you have it. My interpretation AND the application of the interpretation.

Counting the Days

Now I would like to show you some of the other things that I have learned as a result of my search.

Ok, these are all big, but this one is very big. The final seven years starts Nov 14, 2028. If you count back exactly one seven (2520 days), you come to December 21, 2021. Several things happened that day. It was the beginning of the seventh seven. It was the winter equinox. Covid was raging with the Delta variant, but on that day the Omicron variant took over and the nation was spared from further suffering from the harsh Delta variant. And, at a little Church in Texas, the announcement was made to the world that 21 red heifers that had been approved by Jewish Rabbis for the purification of the Third Temple were being sent to Israel. One of the cows was even present for the announcement. Then, in 2023 we saw Gazans invade Israel on Oct 7th. It has been noted that Hamas leaders have said that they were well aware of the red heifers and the attack of Oct 7 was largely in response to “the bringing of the red cows”. Exactly six months later the IDF pulled out of Gaza. The very next day, a total solar eclipse passed directly over the farm in Texas where the cows were raised and the church where the announcement was made.

Hiter and Goebbels killed themselves within 24 hours of each other. That occurred on Lag Ba’Omer, April 30, 1945. 1260 days later the first Yom Kippur in reborn Israel was celebrated in 1948. Sort of a reverse Abomination of Desolation.

Israel was reborn on May 14, 1948. The day I have for the Abomination and the implementation of the Mark of the Beast is April 29, 2032. That is 30,666 days! If the 666 represents the mark, what does the 30,000 represent? The sons of Eli served in the Temple and were called “scoundrels” by the Lord. Eli knew of their evil but did nothing. As a result the worship in the Temple was compromised and God was not having it.

1 Samuel 3:11 And the Lord said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle. 12 At that time I will carry out against Eli everything I spoke against his family—from beginning to end. 13 For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God,[a] and he failed to restrain them. 14 Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, ‘The guilt of Eli’s house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’

So, God allowed the slaughter of 30,000 Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem, allowed the priests including the sons of Eli to be put to the sword and allowed the capture of the Ark of the covenant by the Philistines. He also allowed the death of Eli and the death, in labor, of the wife of one of Eli’s sons. This allowed Samuel to take over as High Priest. I believe that this entire event is a foreshadowing of the Abomination of Desolation, and the takeover of the Temple Mount by the Two Witnesses. Day number 30,666 tells us to expect the Mark of the Beast and the fall of Jerusalem with the (possible) slaughter of 30,000 Israeli soldiers. But we should also expect a doubling of Samuel’s efforts with not one, but two prophets anointed by God.

The 30,666 has another possible meaning. That period of time is roughly 84 years. It was also 84 years from the time when Ezra purified the temple in 516BC, to when Nehemiah restored Jerusalem in 433/432BC. If you take the exact date of April 21, 516 and count forward 30,666 days you come to April 6, 432BC. That is during Passover week. I can't say with certainty that this date is correct. But God does repeat patterns and use the same exact numbers when he does it, over and over again. IF that date is accurate, then Jesus would have been born Jan 9, 4BC. That date is the tenth of Tevet. It is the day that the Jews remember as the first day of Nebuchadnezzar's assault on Jerusalem. That assault ended with the First Temple destroyed and the people in exile in Babylon for 70 years. Daniel's prophecy of the seventy sevens was given at the end of those seventy years. If Jesus was born then, he would have been 33 years and 3 months old on Passover in 30AD. Can't prove it but it's not integral to the interpretation. It's also interesting to note that if he was indeed born at that time, he would have been conceived right around the time of Passover the previous year. The fact that Jesus is aligned with the 62 sevens tells us that the Temple and it's destruction is part of who he is. Tisha Ba'av was close to his heart. If you combine the 62 sevens with his birth being on the Tenth of Tevet, then you would have no doubts or misunderstanding when he said, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”

Israel was reborn on May 14, 1948. It will turn 80 in 2028, the year when the final seven years starts. Psalm 90:10 Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. And Jesus said: 32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it[e] is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. If it all comes to pass in 2028 that will be within a lifetime of the rebirth of Israel.

The final seven years starts Nov 14, 2028. If you go back 62x360 days from there (62 prophetic years) you come to the first Rosh Hashanah in re-born Jerusalem in 1967.

The final seven years starts Nov 14, 2028. That is 33 days after Shmini Atzeret, the Eighth Day of Assembly. That’s the holiday that the Oct 7th attacks occurred on in Israel. 33 is a recurring number in this timeline. It is the Devil’s number in numerology. I am not nor will I ever use numerology. I only point it out because it is something the enemy highly esteems. It will be used to make their plans. The Pope started his seven-year plan on the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary time on the Catholic Calendar. Lag BaOmer is the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer and is the day of the Abomination of Desolation. The UN Climate Conference that will confirm the covenant that starts the final seven years in Nov 2028 is called COP33. It is the 33rd Conference of the Parties and it will be held in Mumbai, India. PM Mohdi is very onboard Agenda 2030. 33 is the highest level in the Masonic Order. The Masons are dedicated to rebuilding the Temple.

The decree known as The Jerusalem Law of 1980 started the count of the seven sevens down to the final seven. It was issued 8 days after Tisha Ba’Av and 70 days after Pentecost.

The next Shmitah year starts just before Nov 14, 2028. Rosh Hashanah 2028 is Sept 21. That makes the first year of the final seven years a shmitah year, exactly as most scholars expect. It also means the final seven years on my timeline coincide with the seven year Shmitah Cycle, 2028-2035.

As I mentioned earlier, Agenda 2030 was passed during the fourth blood moon of the 2014/2015 tetrad on the Feast of Tabernacles. Blood moon tetrads are pretty rare. Thats when there are two consecutive years containing four blood moons in a row with two blood moons each year. The last one was in 2014/2015 and the next Tetrad is in 2032/2033. The first blood moon in 2032 falls 3 days before the Abomination of Desolation. That is the 30th day after Passover and is celebrated in Israel as Pesach Sheni, or Second Chance Passover. It is Passover for those who were ceremonially unclean at Passover and were thus not able to take part. The second blood moon will fall on Oct 18, 2032. That is also one month after a festival, namely Sukkot. In 2033, the two blood moons fall on Passover and Sukkot, without the one month offset. So we have the time from the passing of Agenda 2030 to the Abomination of Desolation marked by the blood moon tetrads. The last moon of the last tetrad and the first moon of the next one, to be precise.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been working in seven year cycles. Not precisely seven years but it’s a framework. They are currently in their seventh cycle (7x7). “Looking ahead, IPCC-57 agreed that the next assessment cycle should start in July 2023 and set its length to five to seven years, keeping the door open for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) to feed into the second Global Stocktake in 2028.” The seventh cycle started on Tisha Ba’Av in July 2023. If it does indeed end at the second Global Stocktake, then it will end in Nov 2028. In other words, my timeline has seven sevens ending Nov 2028 and then expecting a new seven-year agreement, and their timeline has seven cycles, mostly of seven years, and ends Nov 2028 and is expecting an all-encompassing agreement on all areas of life to be finalized, namely Agenda 2030.

The Global Climate Countdown Clock, in it’s current iteration in NYC was started on Rosh Hashanah Sept 19, 2020. They say it’s an estimate of the amount of time we have left before warming 1.5 degrees C. At least that is what they say. The current end date of their clock is July 21st, 2029, which is also Tisha Ba’av. The amount of time has changed every so often. On Sept 20, 2021, the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles and the same holiday that saw Agenda 2030 passed in 2015, they had set the clock to expire on July 28, 2028. That is three days before Tisha Ba’av. No wonder they changed it. On July 22nd, 2024 they will be holding a ceremony to mark less than five years to go on the clock. That is the 16th of Tammuz. The next day Israel will mark a fast commemorating the breach of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Temple in 70AD. It also marks the three weeks of mourning leading up to Tisha Ba’av. Seems like the Climate Clock is bent on destroying the Third Temple.

At the exact middle day of the seven sevens, Sept 21, 2004, Geroge Bush gave a speech to the UN General Assembly. Among other things he said this:

“Israel should impose a settlement freeze, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people and avoid any actions that prejudice final negotiations. And world leaders should withdraw all favor and support from any Palestinian ruler who fails his people and betrays their cause.”

I believe this mirrors the Abomination of Desolation when Judea and Samaria will be declared part of a Palestinian state.

September 11, 2001 was not on my timeline. I did check to see what, if anything happened on a timeline with that date on it. I found some amazing things. Exactly 2520 days (one seven) before Sept 11 was Oct 18, 1994. On that day,

“President Bill Clinton took the podium on October 18, 1994, with a speech that reads like a sigh of relief—the announcement of a landmark nuclear agreement between the United States and North Korea. “This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world,” he assured the nation. Called the Agreed Framework, it was designed to put the brakes on North Korea’s nuclear program, and it promised to put an end to years of increasing nuclear tension, including a near war, to a halt.”

After the Sept 11 attacks, Wall Street trading was halted until the following Monday. Sept 17, 2001 was a Monday and also Rosh Hashanah. The Stock market dropped 7 percent on the busiest trading day in it’s history. Seven years later, on Sept 29, 2008, the stock market dropped 777 points, again on Rosh Hashanah.

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