Bible Prophecy

A COMING PEACE PLAN

FOR ISRAEL

 

“THE 70th WEEK”

OF DANIEL

PROPHECIES

 

“When I heard,
My belly trembled;
My lips quivered at the voice:
Rottenness entered into my bones,
And I trembled in myself,
That I might rest (escape)
In the Day of Trouble.”
(Habakkuk 3:16)

 

A “Peace Plan” will one day be enforced upon Israel

That will change the world … FOREVER!!!

 

 

 

The Coming Apocalypse

 

“For then there will be Great Tribulation,
such as has not been since
the beginning of the world until this time,
no, nor ever shall be.
And unless those days were shortened,
NO human being on Earth (flesh) would be saved”
(Matthew 24:21-22)

 

“I (God) will utterly
sweep away everything
from the face of the Earth,”
declares the Lord.
I will cut off Mankind
from the face of the Earth
declares the Lord.”
(Zephaniah 1:2-3)

 

“Disaster shall go forth
from nation to nation.
And at that Day
the slain of the LORD
shall be from one end
of the Earth
even to the other end”
(Jeremiah 25:27-38)

 

The Apocalypse Begins

 

The Bible warns of a coming “week of years” (a 7-year period of time) during which most living creatures on Earth will be destroyed. Many call this prophetic 7-year period the Apocalypse. This is because the book we now know in English as “The Revelation” of Jesus Christ was first entitled “The Apocalypse” in the original Greek, and the book of Revelation describes in great detail the cataclysmic events which will come upon the Earth during this final “week” of 7-years.

What many people don’t realize is the Bible warns this coming 7-year period of the Apocalypse will start with and will be defined by a coming Peace Plan (“Covenant”) which will one day be enforced upon nation Israel by a coming World Leader (the Antichrist). We are also told the Antichrist will first rise over a group of nations which were once part of the Roman Empire.

The book of Daniel contains some of the most remarkable prophetic passages found in the Bible, and these following verses from Daniel 9:20-27 contain several important prophecies, including the prophecy of a coming Peace Plan (“covenant”) with nation Israel which will signify the very day on which the coming Apocalypse (the final “70th Week” of years) will begin …

 

 

The Amazing Prophecies of Daniel

 

 

Daniel’s Prayer and Introduction (Daniel 9:20-23) …

 

“Now while I (Daniel) was speaking, praying,
and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel,
and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God
for the holy mountain of my God,
yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel,
(this same angel was sent to Mary in Luke 1:26-38)
whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning,
being caused to fly swiftly,
reached me about the time of the evening offering.
And he informed me, and talked with me,
and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth (from God)
to give you skill to understand.
At the beginning of your supplications
the command (from God) went out,
and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved;
therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision:

 

 

The 70 Weeks Prophecy (Daniel 24-27) …

 

“Seventy weeks are determined   (“Weeks” of years)
For your people (Israel)
and for your Holy City (Jerusalem),

To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up (complete) vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy. (Messiah … King of kings)

“Know therefore and understand,
That from the going forth of the command
To restore and build Jerusalem
Until Messiah the Prince (“King”),
There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; (= 69 weeks of years)
The street shall be built again,
and the wall, (See Nehemiah 2:2-9)
Even in troublesome times.

“And AFTER the sixty-two weeks
Messiah shall be cut off, (Executed!! … “karath”)
but not for Himself; (For no crime He committed)
And the people (Romans) OF the prince who is to come
(the Antichrist will rise out of the Roman Empire)
Shall destroy the City (Jerusalem)
and the Temple (‘Sanctuary’).
(Messiah had to be executed before Rome destroyed the Temple in 70 AD)
The end of it shall be with a flood,
And till the end of the war
(or ‘to the end there shall be war’ against Israel)
desolations are determined (upon Israel).

THEN, he  (‘the prince who is to come’… the Antichrist)
shall confirm (enforce) a covenant with the many (in Israel)
(a coming peace plan, treaty, or resolution)
FOR ONE WEEK; (The final 7 years … the 70th Week!!!)
(Israel has to be back as a sovereign nation for this to be enforced)
But in the middle of the week (3 ½ years – 1260 days)
He (the coming Antichrist)
shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
(A new Jewish Temple will be built in Jerusalem)
And on the wing of abominations
shall be one who makes desolate,
Even until the consummation, which is determined,
Is poured out on the desolate.”
(The final Battle of Armageddon … the end of human history as we know it.)
(Daniel 9:20-27)

 

 

This Prophecy Has Three Distinct Parts

 

 

Daniel’s “Seventy-Week Prophecy” includes several different prophecies and can be divided into three separate and distinct parts …

 

 

PART 1: The First 69 Weeks

 

This first 69 Weeks is a mathematical prophecy which tells us when the Messiah would be revealed to Israel (and the world). It tells us a “commandment” would one day be issued to rebuild Jerusalem and its Wall. The prophecy states that from the date of this commandment it would be exactly 69 weeks of years (7+62) until the Messiah would be revealed to Israel (and to all Mankind.) This commandment was later issued on Nisan 1, 445 BC by King Artaxerxes (see Nehemiah 2:2-9) and the prophecy was fulfilled exactly 483 years (173,880 days) later on Nisan 10, 32 AD (Palm Sunday), which was the only day Jesus ever allowed Himself to be worshiped as Messiah and King. We will review this prophecy in the “Prophecies of Messiah” chapter.

 

 

PART 2: An Interval (or a Gap) Between the 69th and 70th Weeks

 

 

A prophetic interval (or pause or gap) between the 69th Week (when Messiah would first be revealed) and the final 70th Week (the coming Apocalypse, also called the “Day of Vengeance,” “the Time of Jacob’s (Israel’s) Trouble,” “the Day of God’s Wrath,” and the “Great Tribulation”) is revealed in these verses. This prophetic interval is also hinted at in the book of Luke when Jesus stopped His reading and closed the book of Isaiah at a very significant place in the text …

 

“And He (Jesus) was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah.
And when He had opened the book,
He found the place where it was written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me (Messiah means “Anointed One”)
To preach the Gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
(This prophecy continued on in the book of Isaiah)
Then He closed the book,
and gave it back to the attendant and sat down.
And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue
were fixed on Him.
And He began to say to them,
“Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
(Luke 4:17-21)

 

The point at which Jesus ended His reading that day separates the prophetic role He (Messiah) would fulfill during His first (69th Week) coming (as “Savior” and “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World”), from the prophetic role He will fulfill when He returns at His second (70th Week) coming as the “Lion of the Tribe of Judah” and “King of kings and Lord of lords,” when He will take vengeance upon all His enemies, and will save a remnant of Israel from the armies of the world.

 

Let’s read the full prophetic passage in Isaiah which Jesus was reading from that day

to see what now lies ahead for Israel (and all Mankind) in God’s Plan …

 

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
(this is where Jesus stopped … now let’s see what still remains)
And the Day of Vengeance of our God.”  (The Apocalypse … This still lies ahead!)
(Isaiah 61:1-3)

 

This prophetic interval or gap of time between the 69th Week (when Messiah would be revealed) and the 70th Week (when He will return) can be accurately understood from Daniel’s prophecy because in Daniel 9:26-27 he tells us of at least three events that must happen between the 69th Week and the 70th Week (all these prophecies were fulfilled after Messiah was “executed”) …

 

1. Messiah would be executed after He was revealed
(This took place upon the Cross … 4 days after Messiah was revealed on “Palm Sunday”)

 

2. The Temple would be destroyed after He was revealed
(The Temple was destroyed by Rome in 70 AD … 38 years after Messiah was revealed)

 

3. Israel would have to become a sovereign nation once again (for a Treaty to be enforced)
(This prophetically took place on May 14, 1948 after almost 2,500 years)

 

Then, in the New Testament, we are given additional prophecies that must be fulfilled before the final 70th Week (the “Apocalypse”) begins, including …

 

 

First, the Gospel must be carried “To the end of the Earth”

 

 

“Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary
for the Christ (Messiah) to suffer
and to rise from the dead the third day,
that repentance and remission of sins
should be preached in His Name
to ALL nations,
beginning at Jerusalem.”
(Luke 24:46-47)

 

“But you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
and you will be My witnesses
in Jerusalem
and in all Judea and Samaria,
AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH.”
(Acts 1:7-9)

 

And now today, the World’s Calendar is based on “The year of our Lord,” Anno Domini (AD).

 

 

 

 

PART 3: The Coming Peace Plan

 

The Apocalypse Begins

 

The Bible warns the coming Apocalypse (the “70th Week” of Daniel), will be the final 7-year period of time which has been “determined” by God upon the children of Israel and upon the whole World!

 

This final 70th Week of years be defined by and will start with a peace treaty (“covenant”) which will one day be enforced upon the tiny nation of Israel …

 

“Then, he (‘the prince who is to come’… the coming Antichrist)
SHALL CONFIRM A COVENANT
(a coming peace plan, treaty, or resolution for nation Israel)
with the many (in Israel)
FOR ONE WEEK; (The final 7 years – the 70th week)
(Israel has to be back as a nation for this to happen)
(Daniel 9:26)

 

As noted earlier, this coming 7 years or “one week of years” which was first revealed in the book of Daniel was later outlined and detailed in the book of Revelation. The book of Revelation expands this prophecy and provides the prophetic details of the terrifying events which will take place on Earth and in Heaven during this time.

 

In both Daniel and the book of Revelation we are told this coming 7-year period will be divided in half … into two 3½ Year periods. The first half will see a false peace and the rise of the coming Antichrist … and the second half is that time Jesus which calls the “Great Tribulation,” which is also called “The Day of the Lord,” “the Day of God’s Wrath,” “that Day,” and “the Time of Jacob’s (Israel’s) Trouble.”

 

“But in the middle of the week (3½ years – exactly 1260 days)
He (the coming Antichrist)
shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
(A new Jewish Temple will be built)
And on the wing of abominations
shall be one who makes desolate,
Even until the consummation,
which is determined, (upon Israel … and all Mankind)
Is poured out on the desolate.” (The final 3 ½ years)
(Daniel 9:27)

 

 

The “Abomination of Desolation”

 

In these verses, the Bible warns exactly 3½ years (1,260 days) after this “peace” is enforced, the peace plan (“covenant”) will be annulled by this coming world leader (the Antichrist) when he addresses the world from a new Jewish Temple which will one day be built in Jerusalem. It will be this address (probably televised), when the Antichrist will declare to the world that he is to be worshiped as “he seats himself as God” in the most Holy Place of a newly built Jewish Temple.

 

This blasphemous event called the “abomination of desolation” which will trigger the wrath of God and all the terrors which will come upon planet Earth the last 3½ years of the 70th Week is described in more detail by the Apostle Paul …

 

“The Son of Perdition, (another title of the Antichrist)
who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called God or that is worshiped,
so that he (the Antichrist)
sits as God in the Temple of God, (a new Temple will be built)
showing himself that he is God.”  (He will demand to be worshiped as God)
(2 Thessalonians 2:4)

 

This event is the “abomination of desolation” which Jesus Christ tells us will trigger the final 3½ year “Great Tribulation”!!

 

Jesus Christ warns that never in the history of Mankind

has there ever been anything as terrible and deadly

as the coming “Apocalypse”…

 

“Therefore, when you SEE
the ‘abomination of desolation,’ (this will probably be televised)
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, (Daniel 9:27 and 2 Thess 3-4)
standing in the Holy Place (of a new Jewish Temple)
(whoever reads, let him understand),
then let those who are in Judea
flee to the mountains.
Let him who is on the housetop
not go down to take anything out of his house.
And let him who is in the field
not go back to get his clothes.
But woe to those who are pregnant
and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
And pray that your flight
may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
For then there will be Great Tribulation,
such as has not been since
the beginning of the world until this time,
no, nor ever shall be.
And unless those days were shortened,
NO human being on Earth (flesh) would be saved”
(Matthew 24:15-22)

 

“I (God) will utterly
sweep away everything
from the face of the Earth,”
declares the Lord.
I will cut off Mankind
from the face of the Earth
declares the Lord.”
(Zephaniah 1:2-3)

 

“Disaster shall go forth
from nation to nation.
And at that Day
the slain of the LORD
shall be from one end
of the Earth
even to the other end”
(Jeremiah 25:27-38)

 

God then told the prophet Daniel to “seal” these prophecies UNTIL …

 

“But you, Daniel,
shut up the words,
and seal the book
UNTIL the time of the end;
many shall run to and fro, (when travel would increase significantly)
and knowledge shall increase.” (when knowledge would increase significantly)
(Daniel 12:4) (Never in History has travel and knowledge increased as in these last 70 years)

 

 

God warns that none of the wicked will understand,

but the wise will understand …

 

“And he (the angel) said,
“Go your way, Daniel,
for the words are closed up and sealed
UNTIL the time of the end.
Many shall be purified, made white, and refined,
but the wicked shall do wickedly;
And none of the wicked shall understand,
But the wise shall understand.”
(Daniel 12:9-10)

 

 

The Bible also warns to beware of “Peace” Movements …

 

“For you yourselves know perfectly
that the Day of the Lord (the coming “Apocalypse”)
so comes as a thief in the night.
For when they say, “Peace and safety!”
then sudden destruction comes upon them,
as labor pains upon a pregnant woman.
And they shall not escape.
But you, brethren, (believing Christians)
are not in darkness, 
so that this Day (the coming ‘Apocalypse’)
should overtake you as a thief.    (Christians are warned to know the prophecies and to “Watch!”)
You are all sons of light and sons of the day.
We are not of the night nor of darkness.
Therefore let us not sleep, as others do,
But let us watch and be sober.”
(Learn the Bible Prophecies and then watch the World News!)
(1 Thessalonians 5:2-10)

 

Now, just slowly consider each small piece of this amazing prophecy (1 – 2 – 3) from left to right.

 

 

 

Grace and Shalom