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What a difference “HE” makes in Daniel!
October 12, 2010
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A “HE” MAKES IN DANIEL 9:27
November 5, 2009
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While the vast majority of prophetic buffs on television, turning out books faster than “Jack be Nimble, Jack be Quick, Jack jumped over the Candle Stick,” are still assuring believers there will be 1260 days of a peace treaty with the Antichrist prior to 1260 days of “Great Tribulation,” we are headed for a war which will not be preceded by 1260 days of peace. It is very likely to begin at some point in time between 2010 and 2015 when Islamic forces attack Israel and the clock begins to suddenly tick off the last 1335 days of Daniel’s 70th Week remaining in Daniel 9:27. Read the following Excerpts from today’s November 5th collection from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert, and ask yourself how any form of a peace treaty could come out
of what has developed in the Middle East during the last 61 years. Because of the huge percentage of prophetic teachers who taught there would be 1260 of peace, I tried up until now to cling to a brief peace period of perhaps 75 days before Israel was attacked, to at least attempt to not violently be in opposition to this teaching, but the time is short, and I am standing up now to what I am convinced is the case – There will not be a peace treaty with the man of sin prior to
the attack against Israel. There are only 1335 days remaining to be fulfilled in Daniel’s 70th Week of Years, and I believe his clock will start to tick again when Israel is attacked at some point in time from 2010 to 2015.
Please take the time to read the 6 Excerpts and My comments which follow them.
Begin Series of Excerpts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
Excerpt 1 from AP
3,000 Missiles Found on Seized Arms Ship – Aron Heller
At least 3,000 missiles were on board the Francop, a vessel stopped by Israel off the coast of Cyprus and towed to the port of Ashdod. Containers with dark green missiles inside bore writing in English that said “I.R. Iranian Shipping Lines Group.” Israel alleged that the shipment of hundreds of tons of rockets, missiles, mortars, grenades and anti-tank weapons – the largest it ever seized – was headed for Hizbullah in Lebanon. The ship had departed an Iranian port for Syria. Deputy Israeli navy commander Roni Ben-Yehuda said the ship carried ten times as many weapons as the Karine A, a weapons ship captured by Israeli forces in the Red Sea in January 2002. (AP)
Excerpt 2 from MEMRI
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Training Yemen Rebels
The Saudi daily Al-Watan reported on Oct. 31 that Yemen had captured an Iranian ship smuggling armor-piercing weapons to the Houthi rebels. The sixth war between the Yemen military and the Houthis broke out about ten weeks ago.
Senior Yemen officials say Iran is finding more and more ways of supporting the Houthis – through funds, weapons, and media support.
Al-Watan reported that the Yemen government has information that “there are Houthi training camps in Eritrea, and in them there are units of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC); it is assessed that they are training the rebels and equipping them with weapons via the Eritrean port of ‘Asab. [These units] are facilitating rebel movements from ‘Asab port to Maydi port in Yemen – a distance of only a few kilometers.” One Houthi commander, Sheikh Abdallah Al-Mahdoun, said in a newspaper interview that “the Houthis had received unlimited help in arms and supplies, under the oversight of the IRGC and also of experts from Hizbullah.” (MEMRI)
Excerpt 3 from New York Times
Dissidents Mass in Tehran to Subvert Anti-U.S. Rally – Robert F. Worth
Tens of thousands of Iranian opposition protesters braved police beatings and clouds of tear gas on the sidelines of a major, government-sponsored anti-American rally on Wednesday. The protests in Tehran and other cities were the opposition’s largest street showing in two months and came on the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Iran. Protesters declared their impatience with President Obama’s policy of dialogue with the Iranian government. Many could be heard chanting, “Obama, Obama – either you’re with them or you’re with us,” witnesses said. (New York Times)
Excerpt 4 from Ynet News
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Behind Seized Arms Shipment – Hanan Greenberg
The IDF believes the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is behind the arms shipment intercepted by the Israel Navy. Military personnel are still unloading the thousands of rockets, shells and munitions stashed away in the Francop.
Many of the crates contained rockets, some with markings distinctive to Iranian munitions and others bearing the markings of Chinese and Spanish manufacturers. Israel hoped the operation will deter shipping companies, European harbors and insurance companies from doing business with seemingly innocent Iranian vessels which can blow up at any time. (Ynet News)
Excerpt 5 from Jerusalem Post
Netanyahu: Ship Proves Iran Supports Terror – Yaakov Katz and Tovah Lazaroff
Prime Minister Netanyahu said Wednesday: “Iran is sending these weapons to terror organizations to harm Israeli cities and kill its citizens….The time has come for the international community to exert real pressure on Iran to stop this criminal activity and to support Israel when it defends itself against these terrorists and their patrons….Whoever still needed decisive proof that Iran continues to send weapons to terrorist organizations received it today in a very clear and unequivocal way.” (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpt 6 from Haaretz
An Early Win in the Next War – Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff
Senior Israeli navy officers say the seized shipment – destined for the Syrian port of Latakia – contained enough armaments to last Hizbullah for a month of fighting against Israel. The amount of weapons captured suggests an army, not a terrorist organization. Israel’s naval operation was not routine: The commandos boarded the vessel amid stormy seas and high winds – but they knew what they were looking for thanks to detailed intelligence. (Ha’aretz)
International Pressure on Tehran Is Having an Impact – Yossi Melman
The containers on the ship Francop were marked with the acronym IRISL, a state-controlled company listed by the UN Security Council in its sanctions resolutions against Iran due to its role in transporting equipment for Tehran’s nuclear and missile programs. The fact that Iran is trying to ship arms under the guise of civilian cargo suggests that the pressure exerted by the international community is having an impact. (Ha’aretz)
End 6 Excerpts
Begin My Comments
What a Difference a “HE” Makes!
More than 36 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. During all my research I discovered that before 1740 Bible expositors believed the “HE” in Daniel 9:27 was not the antichrist, but the true one, Jesus Christ. This correlated with what I had been taught early in life, and I became convinced they were correct.
BEGIN EXPOSITION 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 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 believed the Seventh Trumpet position since 1982, and that the “HE” of Daniel 9:27 was 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 likely 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 waiting 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 Prophecy Archives in Prophecy Updates 55, 56, 57, and 58, but I will, in this Update, exposit on verse 27 as it relates to Christ.
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 actually trusts in its own power and might, having defeated Islamic forces in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, and two Lebanese encounters, to be able to maintain their own “peace and safety.” God will humble Israel in the Negev Wilderness when they are driven into the Negev and remain there for 1260 days. I believe it will take the Islamic forces some 75 days or two and one-half prophetic months to drive Israeli forces into the Negev.
Continuing to exposit on Daniel 9:27:
“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 day
s remain. When the Israelis actually believe they have “peace and safety” enough to actually “say” it, then the clock will start to tick again, and they will thereafter be attacked some 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.
Revelation 11:2 – But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Revelation 13:5 – And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
I have been astounded to discover how much of our prophetic teaching about the antichrist’s reign, the tribulation period, the time of the rapture, and a multiplicity of all things related to prophecy, are all tied primarily to the interpretation that the “he” of Daniel is the antichrist. I have made my choice – I believe the majority of the prophetic teachers before 1740 were correct – I believe the “he” is Jesus. This has been a hard choice for me to make because of my very human desire to be accepted by my peers – what a difference a “he” makes!
END EXPOSITION OF DANIEL 9:27
Begin Excerpt from Arutz Sheva
Clock Ticking Away against Obama’s ‘One Year Peace’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
October 12, 2010
The Obama administration is sticking to its hope that the Palestinian Authority and Israel can reach a peace agreement in one year, although both sides in the past week have ignored the clock and drifted out of the time zone.
Reporters in Washington have increasingly questioned the feasibility of U.S. President Barack Obama’s goal, set by him and his administration on September 1, when he brought Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas together for the first official face-to-face talks in nearly two years in a high-profile ceremony.
Since then, Abbas has refused to enter talks without the pre-condition that Prime Minister Netanyahu extend the same building freeze that was established last year to satisfy his pre-condition for direct talks. With one month left in the 10-month freeze, he finally agreed to talks and began calling on Israel to extend it while refusing Israel’s demand that he recognize the country as a “Jewish” state.
After U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley reiterated the one-year goal in a press conference last week, one reporter asked, “No, no, wait. I just want to make sure I have something clear. You said in response to a question a little while ago that your hope remains that you can – that if you can get through this deadlock, you can still get some kind of an agreement in 12 months, a year. But you – is it still 12 months or is it now 11
? We’ve already had a month of this, so are you giving yourself an extra month here already?”
Amid laughter from his colleagues, the journalist added, “Has it already been extended? It was really a 13-month process and not a year?”
Crowley, caught off balance for a couple of seconds, regained his posture and replied, “It’s a fair question. At the start of these direct negotiations, it was our view and it remains our view that we can be successful in 12 months. If we get into next year successfully, whether it’s 12 months and one day, 12 months and one week, but it would – on the clock that was started here in Washington in late August, we are now one month into that process.”
The spokesman tried to change the subject, but another reporter cut him off and asked, again amid laughter, “Is it accurate to say that you’re still trying to get over the current hurdle in negotiations by getting an extension of the moratorium? And if that is still the plan, what does it say about the prospects for reaching an agreement within 12 or 13 months if the Israelis aren’t willing to make that gesture and you are not willing to – or you’re not able to break the deadlock?”
Crowley fell back on the Obama administration’s repeated optimism that “if we’re able to encourage successfully the parties to remain in the direct negotiations, that gives the process a boost. That demonstrates that both of them are willing to take the difficult political steps and stay committed to the process. So that is our goal.”
Journalist Jackson Diehl wrote in the Washington Post Monday, “Is it possible that Netanyahu and Abbas can agree on the borders of a Palestinian state in less than 60 days and end the settlement debate? No. But then, what will happen when the next deadline arrives? Discussion will be forced on yet another timetable… Yet in the Obama administration, the timetable is becoming an end in itself. It reflects a president who is fixed on disposing of foreign policy problems — and not so much on solving them.”
Other pundits have charged that the president wants a “peace act,” regardless of whether there is peace.
The Netanyahu government is far from optimistic. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman stated last month that it will take “decades” before the Palestinian Authority can reach a peace agreement with Israel.
Another senior Cabinet member, Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya’alon of the Likud party, said Tuesday, “There is no chance in the coming years for a peace agreement with the Palestinians.”
“In the eyes of the Palestinians, the ‘occupation’ started in ’48 and not in ’67. It is not only Hamas that thinks this way, but also [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas]. They need to be released from this delusion, from not recognizing Israel as the home of the Jewish people. They have no interest in having Israel as a neighboring state.”
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