A Cat and Mouse Game that will lead to War before 2015
Between Ten Islamic Nations and the Nation of Israel,
Will also be the last war of the Age of the Gentiles!
The Middle East is headed for WAR, NOT PEACE!
Prophetic buffs do still wait for 3 and ½ Years
Of peace before war begins, BUT it will NOT
Happen, because the “he” in D ani
el 9:27
Is not the Antichrist, but Jesus Christ
And the “covenant” is not a Peace
TREATY with the N.T. Antichrist!
It’s the covenant of Abraham
FULFILLED by Jesus Christ
BEFORE he was cut Off
LEAVING 1335 Days
To End the Week!
March 12, 2010
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A PHRASE BY PHRASE EXAMINATION OF DANIEL 9:27
Daniel 9:27 – And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of
the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
I HOPE YOU WILL READ AND CONSIDER THIS EXPOSITION
EVEN IF YOU DON’T AGREE WITH ITS CONCLUSIONS
WE’RE NOW SOLIDLY FIXED IN THE END TIMES
YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT VAST MAJORITY
OF PREACHERS BELIEVED BEFORE 1740
AND I THINK THEY WERE CORRECT
YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT!
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A “HE” MAKES IN HOW ONE INTERPRETS END TIME PROPHECY – 1
What I am going to present to you in this Blog, I was exposed to about 64 years ago at the time I became a teenager in
the hills of northern Arkansas. When I hit age 38 God called me to preach, and I enrolled in, and graduated from, the Missionary Baptist Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas. I discovered all the teachers in the Seminary believed the three “he’s” in Daniel 9:27 represented the Antichrist, so I simply kept my mouth shut to avoid embarrassment for being a cluck. I learned what they taught about Daniel 9:27 and planned to teach what they taught if, and when, a church called me.
Some 35 years ago I accepted the Pastorate of Dardanelle MBC, while still a Seminary student. I attended the University of Arkansas in Little Rock and Arkansas Tech University during the summers of my time in Seminary because it did not offer summer courses. I graduated from the Seminary in 1975 while enrolled full time at Arkansas Tech University, from which I graduated and began teaching at Dardanelle High School in 1977. I have not changed my beliefs on any of the things I was taught in Seminary concerning salvation, security of the believer, the two church ordinances, or the local identity of the church. However, there are many things I once believed in prophecy that I am no longer able to teach with any conviction. I came to Dardanelle MBC like Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail, believing I was ready to teach prophecy. As I studied the doctrines of salvation, the church, and the church ordinances I discovered realms of Scripture to validate what I had been taught, but when I began to search for Scriptures that would fit all the diagrams from which I was teaching prophecy, I found very few I did not have to distort.
I retired as a synoptic analyst in the National Security Agency, and I know quite well how to put the pieces of a puzzle together to form a whole premise. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are called the Synoptic Gospels, and they can be pieced together synoptically into a Harmony of the Gospels. All the pieces of the salvation-church-ordinances puzzle came together and formed a perfect picture of conformity, but the many pieces of the prophecy puzzle simply would not mesh together, unless I symbolized or spiritualized to a massive degree. I found that in our work there was indeed agreement on the doctrines of salvation, the two church ordinances, and the church itself, but in prophecy I found “first of the weekers,” mid-tribbers,” “seventh trumpers,” “last of the weekers,” split rapturists,” and “progressive rapturists” – Or Pre, Mid, Seventh Trump, Post, Split, and Progressive positions. I knew there had to be a reason for these great divisions, and was hopeful that perhaps the answer might be found in a historical search to see if all of them have always existed and, if not, when did each one arise. What I found staggered me. Before 1827 only three positions were taught – The Last of the Week, the Seventh Trumpet, and the Mid-Tribulation positions – And the Mid-Tribulation position was born in 1788 (See Updates 74A and 73D). During all my research I also discovered something that shocked me down to my toenails – Before 1800 the majority of Bible expositors believed that the “HE” in Daniel 9:27 was not the antichrist, but the true one, Jesus Christ. I became convinced they were correct. I was even more shocked when, in my travels to more than 700 meetings across the earth, I searched through ancient archives in many Universities, Colleges, and Seminaries, but I was never able to find a single book or document that identified Daniel 9:27 as the Antichrist before 1740, nor was I able to find a single diagram with two 3 and ½ year boxes joined together, nor was I able to find any book with a rapture occurring at any time other than at the absolute end of the tribulation period or at the sounding of the last trump in a series of seven.
Daniel 9:27 – And HE shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week HE shall cause the sacrifice
and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations HE shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
I was fully aware of all this by 1992, but out of cowardice as to what I knew I would face from the bulk of my brethren, I would only teach it at the church I have pastored since 1974. My cowardice did not cause me to lie to the brethren – I simply stopped talking about the first three and one-half years of Daniel’s 70th week in my lectures, stopped presenting the worldwide antichrist empire that is taught today, and honed in on the last 1260 days of the tribulation period. I have been certain of the Seventh Trumpet position since 1982, and the “HE” of Daniel 9:27 as Jesus since 1992. Knowing that I must soon face my Savior, and give account of all I have taught from his Word, I decided to publicly declare what I believe about Daniel 9:27, for better or for worse. Many of the men who taught me prophecy, whom I love and deeply respect, may well denounce me and regret ever having known me, but I will one day stand before the judgment seat of Christ and, in all conscience, I cannot continue to keep this to myself. I was taught synoptic analysis in the AWS and NSA, and contextual analysis in Seminary. The synoptic subject of the contextual discourse in every verse of Daniel 9:24 to 27 is the Messiah the Prince, Jesus Christ. In verse 24 Jesus is “the most Holy” who is anointed. In verse 25 Jesus is “the Messiah the Prince.” In verse 26 Jesus is identified as “Messiah” who is cut off.
And in verse 27 Jesus is the “he” who confirmed God’s blood covenant at his death in the “midst” of the last week of Daniel’s 70 weeks of years. Jesus has already confirmed most of the first three and one-half of the last week of seven prophetic years. The prophet Isaiah, who wrote some 150 years before Daniel, whose writings were probably in Daniel’s possession when he wrote during Babylonian captivity, wrote of the one who would fulfill the “covenant” of Daniel 9:27.
Isaiah 42:6 – I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Simeon clearly revealed Jesus as the one who had come to fulfill the covenant to his people Israel, and as a light to lighten the Gentiles.
Luke 2:25-32 – And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. [26] And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. [27] And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, [28] Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, [29] Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: [30] For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, [31] Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; [32] A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
The word “he” in Daniel 9:27 does not refer back to the “prince that shall come” in Daniel 9:26 – That prince has already come, and the ones he led destroyed the temple and the city of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The “he” refers not to a coming antichrist, but to the contextual subject of each verse from 24 to 27 – Messiah the Prince, Jesus Christ. I am not wait ing for an antichrist to destroy a sanctuary that was destroyed
in Jerusalem more than 1900 years ago. I am waiting for the return of a Messiah who was cut off for my sins in the “midst” of Daniel’s last week after having fulfilled most of the first three and one-half years of it.
The covenant was finished when the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and a token sign of its fulfillment was manifested by resurrection of many of the Old Testament saints, who came out of their graves after his resurrection.
John 19:30 – When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Matthew 27:50-53 – Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. [51] And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; [52] And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, [53] And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
You will find a thorough verse-by-verse exposition of Daniel 9:24 to 27 in our Blog Archives in a series of nine expositions on June 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 27 and on July 1, 3, and 5 – 2009, or if you will give me your e-mail address I will send all of them as 10 attachments, so you won’t have to plow back through the Archive Blogs on our Web Site at:
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Daniel 9:27 – And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
“He” is used three times. In each case it pertains to Jesus the Messiah. ”He” began to “confirm the covenant” with the “many” who would believe he was the one sent to confirm it when he was baptized in water by John, and he completed the covenant when he was crucified in his baptism by fire at Golgotha in the “midst” of Daniel’s 70th week, some three and one-half years after his water baptism.
His water baptism pictured what would finish the covenant some three and one-half years later when he died, was buried, and then resurrected to complete the covenant. I am of the opinion he fulfilled the covenant during the first 1185 days of Daniel’s last week, and that the remaining 1335 days will begin when Israel is saying and crying for “peace and safety.”
“He” caused “the sacrifice and oblation to cease” being acceptable to his Father when he became the true sacrifice that made void all the offerings, which had only pictured what he would do to confirm the covenant.
“He” made the Temple and its offerings spiritually desolate because of “the overspreading of abominations” he had twice cleaned out of it. The Temple had become a den of thieves and those who ministered in it had turned into blind guides.
Matthew 23:37,38 – O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Matthew 21:12,13 – And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, [13] And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Matthew 23:23,24 – Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. [24] Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
“He” has made the Temple and all its sacrifices “desolate, even unto the consummation” of this present age. They will not be restored until Jesus returns at his Second Advent.
Matthew 23:38,39 – Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
The “consummation” of this present age will end when “that determined will be poured upon the desolate” men and women of this present age of the Gentiles who are spiritually desolate, having not the Spirit of Christ. And that determined will be poured out on the antichrist, who will be in a position where no one can help him, as well as his false prophet, and both will then be cast into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. The battle of Armageddon is the consummation of this age, and the last days of the tribulation period will see Michael the Archangel deal with the forces of evil during the pouring out of the vials of wrath.
Romans 2:28,29 – For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Matthew 24:21 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Revelation 19:19,20 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him
the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Daniel 7:11 – I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
Daniel’s 70 weeks of years clock stopped ticking when Jesus the Messiah was cut off in the “midst” of the last week. The Hebrew word “midst” in a seven year week could mean any time between the end of the third year and the beginning of the fifth year, in other words, at any time during the fourth year. I believe Jesus fulfilled the first 1185 days of the 2520 days in Daniel’s 70th week, and only 1335 days remain. When the Israelis actually reach their peak desire and cry for “Peace and safety,” the clock will start to tick off 1335 days, and they will be attacked 1260 days before the final battle of Armageddon.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Begin Excerpt from Asia Times On Line via World News
Iran and Israel play cat and mouse
By Mel Frykberg
March 11, 2010
RAMALLAH – Iran and Israel appear to be spoiling for a fight, going by recent belligerent statements emanating from several regional capitals.
Military movement on the ground is also lending credence to the idea that the mutual loathing and major ideological differences between the two countries could lead to vortex of violence capable of sucking the entire region into a new war.
“Diplomacy and sanctions are not going to work with Iran. Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is a messianic ideologue. He is a follower of the extremist Shi’ite cleric Mesach Yazdi, who even the late Ayatollah [Ruhollah] Khomeini rejected as too extreme,” says senior policy advisor Dan Diker from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
“Iran has been threatening Israel with destruction for a long time and this language needs to be taken seriously,” Diker told Inter Press Service.
“Furthermore, the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed recently what Israel has been saying for 15 years and that is the Iranian regime is hell-bent on acquiring nuclear weapons,” Diker added.
The Israeli media have reported that Syria, considered an Iranian proxy, has been transferring advanced weapons, of the type which it dared not to hand over before, to the Shi’ite resistance organization Hezbollah in Lebanon.
A senior researcher for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, that Syria had crossed a red line.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a conservative and pro-Israeli think-tank, reported, “Syria may have delivered to Hezbollah Russian-made shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles – the Igla-S [SA-24 by its North Atlantic Treaty Organization code] which could pose a threat to the Israeli Air Force’s [IAF’s] F-16 fighters.”
The IDF has further warned that since the second Israel-Lebanon war in 2006 Hezbollah has engaged in extensive activity, focusing on a military build-up in the south of Lebanon.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak stated recently that the size of Hezbollah’s missile and rocket arsenal stood at approximately 45,000 – much higher than previous assessments.
A further development that has analysts scratching their collective heads is Tehran moving its entire stockpile of low-enriched uranium above ground level. Any attack hitherto would have been dependent on the use of bunker-busting bombs to reach Iran’s underground nuclear complex.
Is this a move aimed at provoking an Israeli attack and challenging just how serious Israel is?
Iran argues that the enriched uranium will be used enhancing the capability of a small reactor in Tehran that is used to produce isotopes for medical equipment. Other experts claim Iran had run out of suitable storage containers for its enriched uranium, so it had to move almost all of it.
For several years Israel, too, has been upping the ante and the rhetoric by drip-feeding continuous statements to the media warning of the danger Iran allegedly poses and insinuating a possible preemptive strike on the country.
This rhetoric has come in conjunction with extensive diplomatic pressure for severe sanctions against Iran as well as dummy-run preemptive military exercises and home drills in the case of an attack.
Israel also has a history of actual military strikes on its neighbors. In 1981 the IAF bombed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear facility. In 2007 the IAF carried out a preemptive strike on an alleged Syrian nuclear site.
In addition to military movement, heated rhetoric emanating from Israel and its enemies in Iran, Syria and Lebanon are adding fuel to the fire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Tuesday compared Iran’s nuclear development to “a runaway train and the international community a car on the brink of collapsing”.
The Iranian leadership has likewise warned of Israeli aggression.
Last week Ahmadinejad opined that Israel was planning to attack Syria and Lebanon and vowed that Iran would stand by them.
Furthermore, senior Iranian, Syrian and Hezbollah officials have all recently commented extensively on the likelihood of a war with Israel.
This scenario was discussed extensively several weeks ago when Ahmadinejad met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
Assad also met with leaders from Hamas and Hezbollah. Hamas has acknowledged receiving military and financial support from Iran.
Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported that US National Security Adviser James Jones argued that Iran, “may try to divert international public opinion from the [Barack] Obama administration’s initiative to step up sanctions against it through an attack on Israel via Hezbollah or Hamas”.
The US, aware of the growing tension on Israel’s northern borders, has urged both Israel and Syria to avoid an escalation in the region.
US Under Secretary of State William Burns paid an unsuccessful visit to Damascus recently when he met with Assad and urged him to stop the weapons flow to Hezbollah. Assad denied that Syria was behind the weapons shipment.
Ha’aretz journalist and analyst Aluf Benn believes that both Ahmadinejad and Netanyahu are playing a game of brinkmanship and pondered what will happen if diplomacy and sanctions against Iran do not work.
Will Israel carry through with an attack on Iran or will it be forced to back down and admit that the Iranian threat has been exaggerated? asked Benn, who argues that both leaderships too were counting on only one of them surviving any future confrontation.
Diker refused to be drawn into a debate on a possible pre-emptive Israeli strike on Iran.
“However, many Arab officials who are also worried about Iran’s desire for regional hegemony have told me that the only way to deal with the Islamic theocracy is with militarily action,” Diker told IPS.
(Inter Press Service)
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