by Brett Jacobsen

 

The focus of this teaching is to promote the biblical truth that Christ’s Kingdom is active and increasing right now on this earth, in this age. Erroneous eschatology has detracted from this truth in many circles of the Christian faith.

All of the major eschatological (study of how things end) passages are covered but the end of the world is not the important issue and true eschatology is merely a means to an end- Christ Himself as King of kings. Though we will look at the glorious end of earthly history from time to time, we will more so continually use the scriptures to interpret the scriptures and arrive at the present victorious Kingdom of Christ.

For most Christians this teaching will challenge you deeply in your understanding of the New Covenant and Christ’s Kingdom as well as liberate you greatly in the truth of His Word.

The Abomination of Desolation and Daniel’s Seventy Sevens

 

Below are the scriptures that are in this teaching so you can read along: 

*The abomination in the temple is the sign

 

 

When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:) 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: (Matt 24:15-16)

 

But when you shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that reads understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: (Mark 13:14)

 

And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies [Abom of Des], then know that the desolation thereof is near. 21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. (Luke 21:20-21)

 

The abomination of desolation was-

(A.) The Roman armies (under Cestius Gallus) with their ensigns consisting of eagles and other images of the emperor, plus their shields on the wall across from the temple. See The Wars of the Jews - Josephus ii:xix:4-5 “the whole limit…” (Ezek 43:12)

 

(more precisely)- Jesus making the temple and its surrounds desolate by sending the Gentile army of their new idolatrous king (no king but Caesar) to desecrate it: their idol of the ages. - “and for the overspreading [kanaph- extremity, pinnacle, uttermost part] of abominations [shiqquwts- filthy, idolatrous][Ezek 24 temple=idol] he shall make it desolate [shamem], even until the consummation [kalah- completion],

-and that determined shall be poured [like the vials in Revelation poured out on the ge-land: of apostate Israel] upon the desolate” (Dan 9:27b)

 

 

 

- The Christians fleeing to Pella was almost certainly when Cestius Gallus and his army retreated for no apparent reason. The Wars of the Jews - Josephus ii:xix:6-7a

 

 

*Daniel’s Seventy Weeks Upon Israel and Jerusalem

v24

Seventy weeks [shabuwa- sevened, heptads. = 490yrs]

-are determined upon thy people [am- tribe, nation (Israel)]

-and upon thy holy city [Jerusalem],

-[1]to finish the transgression, and

-[2]to make an end of sins, and

-[3]to make reconciliation for iniquity, and

-[4]to bring in everlasting [olam- age] righteousness, and

-[5]to seal up the vision and prophecy, and

-[6]to anoint the most Holy.

 

v25 

-Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem [Artaxerxes 1’s decree to Ezra in 458B.C.(1)]

-unto the Messiah [mashiyach] the Prince [nagiyd] [his anointing at Jordan in A.D.26, Acts 10:38]

-shall be seven weeks [heptads – 49yrs],

-and threescore and two weeks: [heptads – 434]

-[in total 483years] (2)

-the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times(3).

 

v26 

-And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself [Christ’s atoning cross, April 7 A.D. 30 (3½ yrs after His Baptism)(4)]:

-and the people of the prince [nagiyd] [Jesus (Dan’s contextual stress is Messiah)] that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary(5);

-and the end [qets- an extremity, after, (utmost) border, [in-] finite, process] thereof shall be with a flood, (6)

-and unto the end [qets-the latter border and during the process] of the war [Jesus and His people against apostate religion Rev 2:9, 3:9] desolations [shamem] are determined [upon the apostates; this is Revelation’s and Matt 24’s main dealing].

 

v27 

-And he [“Messiah the prince”]

-shall confirm the covenant with many [in Israel](7)

-for one week [heptad – 7yrs](8):

-and in the midst of the week [A.D. 30]

-he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease [shabath- to fail, suffer to be lacking], [He made it obsolete by His “better sacrifice” Heb 9:23 – the cross ***]

-and for the overspreading [kanaph- extremity, pinnacle, uttermost part] of abominations [shiqquwts- filthy, idolatrous][Ezek 24 temple=idol] he shall make it desolate [shamem], even until the consummation [kalah- completion](9),

-and that determined shall be poured [like the vials in Revelation poured out on the ge-land: of apostate Israel] upon the desolate(10).

 

 

 

Notes

 

1. Not Cyrus in 538 (the year of Daniel’s prophecy), that decree was to encourage the return of the Jewish exiles to Palestine and authorised the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 1:1-4; Is 44:28). It did not mention the rebuilding of the city or its walls. That restoration came to pass only in the following century, in the reign of Artaxerxes 1 (465-424BC), under Nehemiah in 444BC. (Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy Payne p.387)

 

Major decrees issued, their start and 69th `week’ end points. Time units ordinary solar years of 365 days, unless otherwise indicated.
Decree	Start point (terminus a quo)	69th `week’ end point (terminus ad quem)	Comments
“first year of Cyrus” (2Chr 36:22-23; Ezr 1:1-4; 6:3- 5)	538/537 BC	54/55 BC	No “Anointed One, the ruler” (Dn 9:25) came in 54/55 BC.
“second year of Darius” (Ezr 4:24ff; 6:1-12. cf. Hag. 1:1ff; 2:10ff; Zech 1:1ff)	519/518 BC	36/35 BC	Merely a confirmation of Cyrus’ decree, above. No “Anointed One, the ruler” (Dn 9:25) came in 36/35 BC.
“seventh year of … Artaxerxes” to Ezra (Ezr 7:1-7, 11- 26);	458/457 BC	26/27 AD	Year of Jesus’ baptism/start of His public ministry (Mt 3:13-4:17; Mk 1:14-15)
“twentieth year of … Artaxerxes” to Nehemiah (Neh 2:1-	445/444 BC	39/40 AD	Too late for fulfilment in Jesus, who was executed 30 AD. No other “Anointed One, the ruler” (Dn 9:25) came in 39/40 AD.
“”	“”	360-day “prophetic years”: 32/33 AD	Still too late for fulfilment in Jesus’ coming 26/27 AD.
“”	“”	Sabbath-year cycles: 28-35 AD	Also too late for fulfilment in Jesus’ coming 26/27 AD, unless years were 27-34 AD.

Table from Stephen E. Jones study on Daniel’s seventy weeks- http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/dn924-27.html

 

 

2. Count back from A.D. 26 483 years to arrive at 458 B.C.

 

3. ‘the street and the wall being built again, in troublous times’ is in reference to 25a “the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem” which happened under Nehemiah. It is not referring to a future temple.

 

4. Handbook of Biblical Chronology- Jack Finegan p. 468-469.

 

5. This was fulfilled in A.D. 34. Firstly, “the prince that shall come” is Messiah/Jesus (see v25 Messiah the prince). “the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary”: these “people of the prince” are the NT saints. They destroyed the city (Jerusalem) and the sanctuary (temple) in a definitive sense in A.D. 34 when Stephen was martyred (for speaking against the temple Acts 7:48) and God persecuted and scattered the NT (primarily Jewish, and temple focused proselyte) saints away from the “sanctuary” and “city”. You could say that God removing His covenant remnant from the “city and the sanctuary” was the death certificate of Jerusalem and the temple. The majority had rejected Messiah (Matt 23:37) and now, first spiritually and covenantaly (which is definitive in God’s eyes), the city and sanctuary were definitively destroyed, albeit there material destruction was yet to come.

 

The squabblings of carnal theology has often overlooked how God views things. Heb 2:8-9 shows us that with God, what we are yet to see come to pass in a consummative, materialised manner is as definitive when done in the spirit as when it is fully final and accomplished in the natural. The point being – although Jerusalem and her temple was not destroyed in a consummative and physical manner till A.D. 70 the moment God expelled His covenant remnant from her in A.D. 34 (7years after Jesus anointing in Jordan) it was as good as done, she was ruined.

 

6. Better said: the utmost extremity of the process- the final result (of destroying “the city and the sanctuary”) “shall be with a flood” – this was the great tribulation from A.D. 66½ to A.D. 70. It was a flood-like desolating massacre.

 

7. This is who the prophecy is “determined upon”. Jesus was sent to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 15:24) and so were His disciples (Matt 10:5-7) until A.D. 34 and beyond.

 

8. One heptad of years: seven years, is the time from Christ being anointed in Jordan in A.D. 26 (when He was sent to the house of Israel to “confirm the covenant” Matt 15:24, then sending His disciples to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” Matt 10:5-7 to do likewise) until the spiritual destruction of the temple in A.D. 34 when God moved His covenant people out of the city and its temple.

 

9. “for the overspreading [kanaph- extremity, pinnacle, uttermost part] of abominations [shiqquwts- filthy, idolatrous] he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation [completeness]” - To put it another way: to make extreme (one might say magnify) that which is abominable and detestable (stale, apostate, Messiah rejecting religion), in order to render it completely desolate (Matt 23:38), more so as it reaches its consummation: ‘the great tribulation’ which ended in A.D. 70. Because he says “until the consummation” he shows that the destruction was sealed in A.D. 34 (finishing the seventy week/490year period) but the consummation (completeness) came materially at great tribulation A.D. 66½ to A.D. 70.

 

10. God’s final, consummative dealing with apostate Israel (thus, completing the agenda of the seventy week prophecy v24b) was the completeness (or final working) of His pouring out of wrath “upon the desolate”; it was the material destruction of the desolate city and its desolate people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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