Colossal Golden Image & A Red Hot Furnace-Daniel 3-last part-Part 4

Please read parts 1-3 if you haven't!
   King Nebuchadnezzar just asked the three Hebrews to come out of the fire!  At precisely the right time, Jesus will call you out of your trial.  He is with you in it, and is seeing you through it, and will lead you out of it! 
  They came out, and the king's high officials, governors, and advisors all crowded around them. The men were not burned, their hair wasn't scorched, and their clothes didn't even smell like smoke. God will use your circumstances to bring honor to His name!
  King Nebuchadnezzar said:
   Praise their God for sending an Angel(Jesus) to rescue his servants! They trusted their God and refused to obey my commands. Yes, they chose to die, (if they had to), rather than to worship or serve any god except their own. And I won't allow people of any nation or race to say anything against their God. What relevance do you think the golden image had at this point?  Would you have gone home in awe of the beautiful gold image, or expressing the awesome miracle of God's power that you, and thousands like you, had just witnessed!  The golden image was shown to be useless that day! 
  So the king spoke, "So I now give this command: Anyone from any nation or language who says anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be torn apart and have his house turned into a pile of stones. No other god can save his people like this."After this happened, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to even higher positions in Babylon Province."Wow, so these three Hebrews who loved God enough to die for Him were promoted higher in the government! 
  Do you love God enough to stand with Him no matter what?  Would your faith remain strong, or would you run in fear?  Faith is a girt, you know.  Would you complain and start wavering in faith?  Our natural, sinful inclination is to run in fear, complain, doubt and question God.  It's not wrong to ask why as long as you still trust that God knows best, and agree to His will in your life.  I have asked why, and have gone through battles of faith.  We all do, because there is an enemy of our soul, Satan, that wants us to blame God instead of himself.  He paints God as some tyrant that is waiting to condemn us, that will torture people in fire forever.  Is that the picture of God that you get from this story?  God allowed this trial to bring many heathen people into a relationship with Himself, because they saw His power!  Every seeming impossibility is an opportunity for a miracle from God!
  Psalm 13 is a picture of David's struggle with suffering, and then His praise to God because He trusts Him!  "How long will you forget me, Lord? Forever?  How long will you hide from me?
How long must I worry and feel sad in my heart all day?  How long will my enemy win over me?
Lord, look at me.  Answer me, my God; tell me, or I will die.
  Otherwise my enemy will say, "I have won!" Those against me will rejoice that I've been defeated.
I trust in your love.  My heart is happy because you saved me.  I sing to the Lord
because he has taken care of me."  David KNEW that God had delivered him through many trials before.  God is faithful.
  Spend time in the Bible, and ask the Holy Spirit to lead you into a close bond with Jesus, and He will.  You can trust God much more than you trust those you are closest to.  This is a lifelong learning process:-) 
  This story is also a picture of the last days.  Spiritual Babylon will come against God's commandment keeping people, trying to cause them to worship against the dictates of their conscience.  They will be threatened with death.  Many are being martyred now, but then spiritual Babylon will make it much more intense.  God will be with His people, and then Jesus will come to deliver them!!!!!!!
  In my next post, I will go over Daniel 4.  Some great Bible study websites are:
www.biblos.com  www.biblegateway.com  www.esword.com
  God B in U & through U,       Joy J

A Colossal Golden Image & A Red Hot Fiery Furnace-Daniel 3-Part 3

This event happened in 584 BC.
  The king had just yelled in a rage to the three young Hebrews saying, "There is no god who can save you from me!"  Isn't this what Satan tries to tell us every day?!  The roaring lion, Satan, yells in our mind, you aren't forgiven!  You're not good enough.  God isn't there.  God is harsh, and He condemns you.  God doesn't love you.  You've already messed up, so go ahead, just this one time!"  He tries to make us look at ourselves instead of Jesus, which makes us feel hopeless.   He tries to make us believe that he has more power than God.  But, faith is not a feeling, it is a choice to believe God does what He says He will do, in His word!  The young Hebrews knew God, so naturally, they believed His word!  What did the young men do next?
  Daniel 3:16-30,
"The three men replied, " Your Majesty, we don't need to defend ourselves. The God we worship can save us from you and your flaming furnace. But even if he doesn't, we still won't worship your gods and the gold statue you have set up."
  The young men knew the old testament promise from God in Isaiah 43:2, "When you cross deep rivers, I will be with you, and you won't drown.  When you walk through fire, you won't be burned or scorched by the flames." They were hanging with all the faith God had given them, that God would deliver them!  If He had chosen to do it differently, they knew that they would see Jesus at His second coming, when they would be resurrected to go to heaven with Him!
    Nebuchadnezzar's face twisted with anger at the three men. And he ordered the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than usual."  The more your trials heat up, the greater the miracle in God's deliverance! 
  The king was trying to force worship.  That always brings trouble, anywhere.  I'm thankful to God that in America, we still have freedom to worship the way we choose, but prophecy says that will change too.  The stories of Daniel are for those of us living in the last days, before Jesus comes!  They are to inspire us with faith in God!
  "Next, he commanded some of his strongest soldiers to tie up the men and throw them into the flaming furnace. The king wanted it done at that very moment."  So, what is it that has you feeling bound in ropes you are helpless to break free from today?  There is absolutely nothing that God cannot set you free from, today!  God specializes in removing your chains, my chains.  Luke 1:37 says, "The things that are impossible with humans are possible with God!"
So the soldiers tied up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and threw them into the flaming furnace with all of their clothes still on, including their turbans. The fire was so hot that flames leaped out and killed the soldiers."
  This is a picture of what will happen to Satan and his host at the end.  As the wicked soldiers were destroyed by the flames, so will Satan an his angels be, along with the wicked.  They will be burned up.  The wicked will NOT be tortured forever and ever!  More on this later...
    Suddenly the king jumped up and shouted, " Weren't only three men tied up and thrown into the fire?"
   " Yes, your Majesty," the people answered.'
    " But I see four men walking around in the fire," the king replied. " None of them is tied up or harmed, and the fourth one looks like the Son of God."  Nebuchadnezzar went closer to the flaming furnace and said to the three young men, " You servants of the Most High God, come out at once!" Now, Nebuchadnezzar was acknowledging the One True God Most High!  He had never in his life witnessed such a miracle of deliverance!  Imagine all of the thousands of people in the crowd, that had bowed to the colossal golden image, that day!  What would you be thinking in that audience?!  I would be wanting to know this Most High God!  Jesus says in Hebrews 13:5, last part, "The Lord has promised that he will not leave us or desert us."  Jesus will never abandon you to the enemy!  He says in John 10:28, "I give them eternal life, so that they will never be lost. No one can snatch them out of my hand."  Just call out to Jesus, and He immediately responds!  He prompts you and I to ask for help.  He's ready and waiting.  Sometimes He says no, yes or wait awhile.  He is never too early or too late, but right on time!  Jesus walks through the fire with us, always.  He gives peace and strength as needed. In Isaiah 9:6, God speaks, "A child has been born to us; God has given a Son to us. He will be responsible for leading the people. His name will be Wonderful Counselor, Powerful God, Father Who Lives Forever, Prince of Peace."  He faced hell for us, overcame the grave, faced the fire and come out for you and I.  Nothing is impossible with God! 

  God's best 2 U,       Joy J

The Golden Image & Redhot Furnace-Daniel 3-part2

The colossal golden statue of Daniel 3 was built around 556 years before Christ.
  Daniel 3:7-15, "The band started to play, a huge band equipped with all the musical instruments of Babylon, and everyone—every race, color, and creed—fell to their knees and worshiped the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
^8-12 Just then, some Babylonian fortunetellers stepped up and accused the Jews. They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "Long live the king! You gave strict orders, O king, that when the big band started playing, everyone had to fall to their knees and worship the gold statue, and whoever did not go to their knees and worship it had to be pitched into a roaring furnace. Well, there are some Jews here—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—whom you have placed in high positions in the province of Babylon. These men are ignoring you, O king. They don't respect your gods and they won't worship the gold statue you set up." 
  The Hebrew names of these three Hebrew young men, when they were taken captive by Babylon, were Hananiah, meaning "God is gracious", Misha'el, "Who is like God?" and it also means to feed or provide as a husband for his family.  Azariah appropriately means, "God has helped."  Their Hebrew names all proved God true in God's deliverance for them!  The Babylonian names given them were to try to make them forget about the One True God, and to be reprogrammed to worship the gods of Babylon.  The three Hebrews were renamed after Babylonian gods.  Hananiah was renamed Shadrach meaning, "Command of the moon god," Meshach meaning, "Who is like moon god?" and abednego meaning, "Servant of Nebo."  Nebo was one of the main gods in the Babylonian heathen culture.  Ever notice how the culture around you tries to reprogram you to believe there is no God, and draws your mind through movies, music, books, ect... 
^13-15 Furious, King Nebuchadnezzar ordered Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to be brought in. When the men were brought in, Nebuchadnezzar asked, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don't respect my gods and refuse to worship the gold statue that I have set up? I'm giving you a second chance—but from now on, when the big band strikes up you must go to your knees and worship the statue I have made. If you don't worship it, you will be pitched into a roaring furnace, no questions asked. Who is the god who can rescue you from my power?"
We'll go over the red hot furnace in the next post...

God B in U & through U,       Joy J

Understanding Daniel 3-Part 1

In this post, I am focusing on the golden image, and the circumstances surrounding the worship of the image. 
  If you read my posts on Daniel 2, you remember the image in king Nebuchadnezzar's dream.  Daniel, through info God had given him, told Nebuchadnezzar that his kingdom, Babylon, was represented by the head of gold, and that Babylon would fall to a weaker kingdom, Medo-Persia. 
  In Daniel 3, king Nebuchadnezzar rebelled against the word of the one true God, and perverted the message from God, and built an image of all gold, representing that Babylon would never fall to another kingdom.  The king then demanded worship for what he considered his kingdom.  Daniel 3:1, "Nebuchadnezzar the king [caused to be] made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits or ninety feet and its breadth six cubits or nine feet, 60 by 6. He set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon."  The number 6 was a heathen symbol that Babylon used. 
  Have you ever tried to change something God says to you about your life?  "Well, maybe He won't mind if I do this instead..." as we make excuses for our priorities.  Sometimes, I have tried to fit God into my plans, and all too soon I realize what a mess I have made of my life.  God cannot fit into our plans.  He is all knowing, and our little plans must fit into His.  With some, it is outright rebellion against God's word.  It always leads to an unhappy conclusion, but God forgives and heals.   
  Daniel 3:2-4, "and he commanded his governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, and his other officials to come from everywhere in his kingdom to the dedication of the statue.  So all of them came and stood in front of it.
 Then an official stood up and announced:
People of every nation and race, now listen to the king's command!  Trumpets, flutes, harps, and all other kinds of musical instruments will soon start playing. When you hear the music, you must bow down and worship the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.  Anyone who refuses will at once be thrown into a flaming furnace.
  As soon as the people heard the music, they bowed down and worshiped the gold statue that the king had set up.
  I will stop here and focus on the power of music and media to facilitate false worship.  Please carefully listen to the following video with an open heart.  This is part 1 of 9 parts.  If you like part 1, please continue watching the rest on you tube.  Scott Mayer, Battlefield Hollywood, part 1

Escape From The Black Hole

Ivor has an incredible testimony of God's power in his life.  He was in the hip hop group Boogiemonsters, when He and his brother were called by God, and they walked away from a big music contract to serve the Lord!
  I am sharing this again because it is powerful! 
  1 Peter 2:9, "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;"


 

God's 10 Commandment Law Reveals His Character-Part 3

Here are a few comparisons of God's character to His holy 10 commandment law, outlined by God Himself in His Holy Bible.
  Romans 7:12, "Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good."
  Psalm 99:9, "Exalt the LORD our God, And worship at His holy hill; For the LORD our God is holy."
He is holy.
  Psalm 111:7, "The works of His hands are verity and justice; All His precepts are sure."
He is just.
  Psalm 33:5, "He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD."
He is good.

  Psalm 119:142, "Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth."
  Psalm 119:144, "The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; Give me understanding, and I shall live."
 
   Psalm 19:7, "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;"
  Matthew 5:48, "Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
   God B in U & through U,       Joy J

 

 




 

God's 10 Commandment Law Reveals His Character-Part 2

In Exodus 34, Moses was on Mt. Sinai meeting with God, and receiving the second copy of the 10 commandments. 

Exodus 34:1-7 says, "And the LORD said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.  So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain.  And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”
  So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
  Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.  And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,  keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”   The underlined part is God quoting His name, or character to Moses.  He was actually quoting right out of the 2nd commandment of the 10 commandments which states, Exodus 20:5 & 6, "you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,  but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. 

  In the Bible, name means character.  The name Jacob means deceiver, so, God proclaimed His name or character to Moses, and wrote it in stone.  If the 10 commandments could be summed up in one word, I believe it would be LOVE. 

  If you jump to Revelation 14, it says in verse 1, "Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads."  It means that the people mentioned in verse 1 have chosen in their minds to keep the commandments or the character of God.  Jesus came to give us His perfect keeping of the law, His  righteous character and name.   

  In the next post, I will show you some comparison verses about the law of God, and the character of God.   

  God B in U & through U,       Joy J
  

God's 10 Commandment Law Reveals His Character-Part 1

After this series, I will be switching back to the books of Daniel & Revelation.  We will look at Daniel 3 next:-) 
  God's 10 commandment law has always been and always will be, as everlasting as God, for it is the character of God, written in stone.  It spells out love, love to God first, and then to those around us.  It is the foundation of His throne.  It sits in the original ark of the covenant in heaven, in the Most Holy Place in the heavenly sanctuary.  It sits below the mercy seat where God dwells in light unapproachable, between the cherubims.  Revelation 11:19, "Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail."  1 Timothy 6:16, "who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen."  Isaiah 37:16, "“O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth."
   It does not honor God to say His law was done away with at the cross, for in so doing, man is declaring a lack of understanding about who God is.  Psalm 119:142 & 144, "Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
And Your law is truth.

The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting;
Give me understanding, and I shall live."  God's righteousness is everlasting and His testimonies or law, is everlasting.  So, God's law is truth, and everlasting like His righteousness, sounds pretty important to me.  I like to know what the truth is, so that I won't believe a lie.  We must have understanding from what God has spoken in His word about Himself and His law.  So, let's go there:-)
  Man is so finite, but God is infinite.  We only know a fragment of a drop of water in His ocean of knowledge. Like a mirror to our lives, God's law points out sin, but Jesus saves us from that sin.  Romans 7:7, "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”  So if you believe God's law is done away with, then what standard do you judge by?  How do you know what sin is? 
  Romans 7:12, "Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.  God is holy, just and good!
  More in my next post!
  God B in U & through U

Ivor Myers Testimony-Escape From The Black Hole-Part 1

This is an amazing testimony to God's grace! 

  Listen & enjoy!  The next few posts will contain info on the 10 commandment law and how it is God's character.   

  1 Corinthians 10:31, "The answer is, if you eat or drink, or if you do anything, do it all for the glory of God."

  God B in U & through U,       Joy J

          

  

War In Heaven-Part 5

The law of God is unchanging.  The law of God cannot be altered, that's why Jesus came.  When He died on the cross, He was lifting the law of God up high, for all to see, for it is about love first to God, and those around us.
  Text from God, John 14:15. "If ye love me, keep my commandments."
  In my next post, I will show you that God's 10 commandment law is actually a transcript of His character. 
  God B in U & through U,       Joy J
 

War In Heaven-Part 4

If you have been listening to this series, you now know why there is evil in this world, and where the battle started, and that it won't go on much longer!  This is part 4 of 5. 
  I love the text(promise), from God, in 1John 4:4. "My dear children, you belong to God and have defeated them; because God's Spirit, who is in you, is greater than the devil, who is in the world."
  Leave me a comment:-)
  God B in U & through U,       Joy J

War In Heaven-Part 3

To all of my friends around this planet,
  I hope you are enjoying this short series!  This is a subject ever person on this planet needs to understand!  Thank you for watching! 

God B in U & through U,       Joy J\

War In Heaven-Part 2

Please keep watching this short series!  You will NOT be sorry! 
  God B in U & through U,       Joy J

War In Heaven

To all of my friends around this planet,
  Text from God, Revelation 12:7-9, "Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against this dragon. This animal and his angels fought back.  But the dragon was not strong enough to win. There was no more room in heaven for them.  The dragon was thrown down to earth from heaven."
  Check out Ivor Myer's War In Heaven part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=itock5Sygzw#t=1s 

God B in U & through U,       Joy J

Thrilling 70 Week Or 490 Year Prophecy, Proves Jesus Is Messiah!-Part 3

To all of my friends around this planet,
  I hope you are enjoying a deeper understanding of Bible prophecy!  God bless you!
  God B in U & through U,       Joy J

7 Years of Tribulation? Part 2

by Steve Wohlberg
Prophecy-minded Christians all over Planet Earth often engage in a fierce debate about whether Jesus Christ will return for His Church before the seven years of tribulation (the “pre-trib” view), in the midst of the seven years (the “mid-trib” view), or at the end of the seven years (the “post-trib” view). Yet by far the most explosive question few seem to be asking is: Is an end-time "seven-year period of tribulation" really taught in the Bible in the first place?
In 1945, after months of agonizing deliberation, U.S. President Harry Truman finally issued orders to drop two atomic bombs upon Japan in an attempt to end World War II. On August 6, the “Little Boy” fell on Hiroshima. Three days later, the “Fat Man” was released over Nagasaki. Approximately 130,000 people were instantly vaporized. Many heated discussions have occurred as to whether or not it was the right thing to drop those bombs. One thing’s for sure, in the minds of those who made that fearful decision, they believed it was for the ultimate good of America.
Dear friend, it is for the benefit of Christians everywhere that God’s bomb of truth should now be released over what I have come to call, “The 70th week of Daniel Delusion.”
As we have seen, the entire 7-year theory is based on Daniel 9:27, which says:

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… (Daniel 9:27 KJV ).

This may shock you, but historically, the vast majority of well-respected Bible scholars have not applied Daniel 9:27 to a seven-year period of tribulation at all. Neither have they interpreted the “he” as referring to a future antichrist (as many do today) . Instead, they applied it to Jesus Christ.
Notice what the world-famous Bible commentary written by Matthew Henry says about Daniel 9:27: “By offering himself a sacrifice once and for all he [Jesus] shall put an end to all the Levitical sacrifices.”(1) T hus Matthew Henry applied Daniel 9:27 to Christ, not antichrist. Another famous commentary written by British Methodist Adam Clarke says that during Daniel 9:27’s “term of seven years,” Jesus Himself would “confirm or ratify the new covenant with mankind.”(2) A nother dusty Bible commentary reveals: “He shall confirm the covenant—Christ. The confirmation of the covenant is assigned to Him." (3)
Here’s one more statement from a book called, Christ and Antichrist, published in 1846 by the Presbyterian Board of Publication in Philadelphia. On page 2, under Recommendations, are endorsements from many Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist ministers, including an official representative of the Southern Baptist Convention. (4) Commenting on the final week of Daniel 9:27, that ancient volume states:

…sometime during the remaining seven, he [the Messiah] was to die as a sacrifice for sin, and thus bring in “everlasting righteousness.” Here are allusions to events so palpable, that one would think, the people among whom they occurred, could not possibly have misapplied the prophecy. (5)

Okay, here we go. The following ten points provide logical and convincing evidence that Daniel’s famous 70th week has no application to any future seven-year tribulation at all. Rather, this great prophetic period was definitely fulfilled nearly two thousand years ago.

1. The entire prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 covers a period of “seventy weeks,” or 490 years. Logic requires that “seventy weeks” refers to one consecutive block of time, in other words, to seventy straight sequential weeks. There is no example in Scripture (or anywhere else!) of a stated time period starting, stopping, and then starting again. All biblical references to time are consecutive: 40 days and 40 nights (see Genesis 7:4), 400 years in Egypt (see Genesis 15:13), 70 years of captivity (see Daniel 9:2), etc. In Daniel’s prophecy, the “seventy weeks” were to begin during the reign of Persia and continue to the time of the Messiah.
2. Logic also requires that the 70th week follow immediately after the 69th week. If it doesn’t, then it cannot properly be called the 70th week!
3. It is illogical to insert a 2,000-year gap between the 69th and 70th week. No hint of a gap is found in the prophecy itself. There is no gap between the first seven weeks and the following sixty-two weeks, so why insert one between the 69th and 70th week?
Note: If you told your child to be in bed in 70 minutes, you obviously would mean 70 consecutive minutes. What if five hours later your fully awake son said, “But dad, I know 69 minutes have passed, but the 70th minute hasn’t started yet!”? After receiving an appropriate punishment, he would be swiftly sent to bed.
4. Daniel 9:27 says nothing about a seven-year period of “tribulation,” a “rebuilt” Jewish temple, or any “antichrist.”
5. The stated focus of this prophecy is the Messiah, not the antichrist. After the Messiah is “cut off” (referring to Christ’s death), the text says, “And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.” I n the past, this has been consistently applied to the destruction of Jerusalem and the second temple by Roman armies led by Prince Titus in A.D. 70. 11
6. “He shall confirm the covenant.” Paul said “the covenant” was “confirmed before by God in Christ” (Galatians 3:17). Jesus Christ came “to confirm the promises made to the fathers” (Romans 15:8, emphasis added). In the King James Version, Daniel 9:27 doesn’t say “ a covenant” or peace treaty, but “ the covenant,” which applies to the New Covenant. Nowhere in the Bible does the antichrist make, confirm, or break a covenant with anyone. The word “covenant” is Messianic, and always applies to the Messiah, not the antichrist.
7. “He shall confirm the covenant with many. ” Jesus Christ said, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many… ” (Matthew 26:28). Behold a perfect fit! Jesus was quoting Daniel 9:27 specifically.
8. “In the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.” After exactly three and a half years of holy ministry, Jesus Christ died on the cross, “in the midst of the week [in the middle of the seven years].” At the exact moment of His death, “the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom…” (Matthew 27:51). This act of God signified that all animal sacrifices at that moment ceased to be of value. Why? Because the Perfect Sacrifice had been offered!
9. “For the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate.” “The abomination of desolation” (see Matthew 24:15) is not a simple subject, yet we know that Jesus clearly applied this event to the time when His followers were to flee from Jerusalem before the destruction of the second temple in A.D. 70. In a parallel text to Matthew 24:15, Jesus told His disciples, “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies [Roman armies led by Prince Titus], then know that its desolation is near ” (Luke 21:20, emphasis added). The disciples did “see” those very events. Because of the “abominations” of the Pharisees, Jesus told them, “See! Your house is left to you desolate” (Matthew 23:38). Thus Gabriel’s statement in Daniel 9:27 about Jerusalem becoming “desolate” was perfectly fulfilled in A.D. 70.
10. Gabriel said that the 70-week prophecy specifically applied to the Jewish people (see Daniel 9:24). During the period of Christ’s public ministry of 3 1 / 2 years, the Master’s focus was largely upon “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 10:6). After His resurrection and then for another 3 1/2 years, His disciples preached mostly to Jews (see Acts 1-6). After that second 3 1/2 -year period, in 34 A.D., the bold Stephen was stoned by the Jewish Sanhedrin (see Acts 7). This infamous deed marked the then-ruling Jewish leaders’ final, official rejection of the gospel of our Savior. Then the gospel went to the Gentiles. In Acts 9, Saul became Paul, the “apostle to the Gentiles” (Romans 11:13). In Acts 10, God gave Peter a vision revealing it was now time to preach to the Gentiles (see Acts 10:1-28). Read also Acts 13:46. Thus approximately 3 1/2 years after the crucifixion— and at the end of the 70-week prophecy given f or the Jewish people—the gospel shifted to the Gentiles exactly as predicted in Bible prophecy.

The explosive evidence is overwhelming! Point by point the events of Daniel’s 70th week have been fulfilled in the past. These eight words found in Daniel 9:27: “confirm…covenant…many…midst…sacrifice…cease… abominations…desolate” all find perfect fulfillment in Jesus Christ and early Christian history.
In the words of that 1846 Presbyterian publication,

The seventy weeks of Daniel therefore, have certainly ended many centuries ago. We are not to look to the future for the fulfillment of these predictions. We must look to the past. And if to the past; where is there one who can have any adequate claims to being the subject of these prophecies, but Jesus? He, and he only can claim them; and to him they most certainly refer. (7)

…one would think, the people [the Jews] among whom [these events] occurred, could not possibly have misapplied the prophecy. (8)

But they did. In fact, one major reason why the Jewish nation as a whole failed to receive its Messiah was because its scholars misinterpreted Daniel 9:27. They failed to see Jesus Christ as the predicted One who would die in the midst of the 70th week! Amazingly, the exact same thing is happening today. Sincere Christian scholars are now misapplying the very same prophecy.
The entire “seven-year period of tribulation” theory is an end time delusion, a massive mega-myth. It may even go down in history as the greatest evangelical misinterpretation of all time. The whole concept is like a gigantic bubble. Once Daniel 9:27 is correctly understood and the sharply-pointed pin of truth is inserted, “Pop goes the seven years!” It’s a fact: There is no text in the Bible which teaches a “seven-year tribulation.” If you hunt for it, you’ll end up like Ponce de Leon searching for the mystical Fountain of Youth, but never finding it.
The current debate and tremendous confusion over pre-trib, mid-trib, or post-trib is really a smoke screen of the enemy to hide the real issue. What is the real issue? We’ll find out when we study what the Book of Revelation truly teaches about Israel, Babylon the Great, and Armageddon.
Taken from Chapter 5 of Steve Wohlberg's newest book, End Time Delusions: The Rapture, the Antichrist, Israel, and the End of the World.

References:

1. Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. IV—Isaiah to Malachi, Complete Edition, (New York, NY: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1712) 1094-1095, notes on Daniel 9:27.
2. The Holy Bible with a Commentary and Critical Notes by Adam Clarke, Vol. IV—Isaiah to Malachi, (New York, NY: Abingdon-Cokesbury, written about 1825) 602, notes on Daniel 9:27.
3. Rev. Robert Jamieson, Rev. A.R. Fausset, and Rev. David Brown, A Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Complete Edition, (Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton Company: 1871) 641, notes on Daniel 9:27.
4. Rev. Samuel J. Cassels, Christ and Antichrist, (Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1846; Reprinted by Hartland Publications, Rapidan, VA)
5. Ibid., 47.
6. See notes on Daniel 9:26 in commentaries by Matthew Henry (p.1095), Adam Clarke (p.603), and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown (p.641).
7. Cassels, Christ and Antichrist, 49.
8. Ibid., 47.

Thrilling 70 Week Or 490 Year Prophecy, Proves Jesus Is Messiah!-Part 2

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7 Years of Tribulation? Part 1
by Steve Wohlberg

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake. -Confucius (551-479 B.C.).

The concept of a seven-year Tribulation is the underlying foundation of the entire Left Behind scenario (and all other pro-rapture books and movies). The theory is: rapture first, then seven years of horror.
Book Two of the Left Behind novels declares, “The disappearances have ushered in the seven year period of Tribulation” (The Tribulation Force, inside cover). Book Three reveals, “…the seven-year Tribulation is nearing the end of its first quarter…” (Nicolae, inside cover). Book Six tells us, “It’s the midpoint of the seven-year Tribulation” (The Indwelling, inside cover). Book Eight begins with, “…the dawn of the second half of the seven-year Tribulation” (The Mark, inside cover). Book Eleven opens “six years into the Tribulation, two and one-half years into the Great Tribulation” (Armageddon, p. vii). Thus this New York Times, USA-Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling series of end times, prophecy books, endorsed by well-respected church leaders worldwide, is built entirely around this seven-year framework.
Where does this “seven-year” concept come from anyway? It may shock you, but if you look for “seven years of tribulation” in any concordance, you won’t find it. The truth is, from Genesis to Revelation, there is no exact passage that specifically mentions a seven-year period of tribulation at all. Amazingly, the entire theory is really based on a rather speculative interpretation of two little words in one single verse. The text is Daniel 9:27; and the two words are, “one week.” Let me explain.
The Book of Daniel was written while the Jews were in Babylon—in exile because of their sins. Daniel 9:24-27 contains a prophecy from the angel Gabriel to encourage the Jewish people that they would be given a “second chance” to return to Jerusalem, rebuild their temple, and ultimately, receive their Messiah (Jesus Christ). This highly controversial prophecy literally reads:

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks [62 weeks]: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 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 out upon the desolate (Daniel 9:24-27 KJV).

Thus we have a prophecy about “seventy weeks.” Gabriel then subdivides the period into three smaller periods of seven weeks (verse 25), sixty-two weeks (verse 25), and one week (verse 27). 7+62+1=70.
Seventy weeks = 490 days. A day in prophecy represents a year (see Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6). Thus 490 days are really 490 years. Without going into all the chronological details here (I will get more specific in a later chapter), the prophecy starts with a direct “commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem” (verse 25) after the Babylonian captivity and reaches down to the first coming of Jesus Christ. After 69 weeks (after 483 years), “shall Messiah be cut off” (verse 26). All Christian scholars apply this to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. After our Lord’s agonizing death, “the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary” (verse 26). While there are differences of opinion as to who “the people of the prince” refers to, the majority of scholars nevertheless apply the destruction of “the city and the sanctuary” to the second destruction of Jerusalem and its rebuilt sanctuary by Roman armies under Prince Titus in 70 A.D.
So far, we have seen 69 weeks fulfilled. That leaves “one week” left, otherwise known as the famous “70th week of Daniel.” Again, that highly controversial text literally says:

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… (Daniel 9:27 KJV).

Based on the day-year principle (which is valid), the “one week” remaining in this prophecy must refer to a period of seven years
Rapture teachers interpret Daniel 9:27 as follows:

(1) “He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week.” “He” is the antichrist who will make a covenant (or peace treaty) with the Jews during the seven years of tribulation.
(2) “In the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease…” In the middle of the seven-year tribulation, the antichrist will break his covenant, turn against Israel, and stop their animal sacrifices.
(3) The phrase, “he shall cause the sacrifice…to cease” is viewed as irrefutable proof that a Jewish temple (which includes sacrifices) must be rebuilt on the Temple Mount inside Jerusalem.

Bestselling author Hal Lindsey in his The Late Great Planet Earth reflects this current view when he writes about “God’s last seven years of dealing with the Jewish people before the long awaited setting up of the kingdom of God (Daniel 9:27).” (The Late Great Planet Earth, p. 46) According to Mr. Lindsey, during those seven years “ ‘the Antichrist,’ breaks his covenant with the Jewish people and causes the Jewish temple worship, according to the Law of Moses, to cease (Daniel 9:27)…We must conclude that a third Temple will be rebuilt upon its ancient site in old Jerusalem.” (Ibid.)
Therefore, according to countless modern interpreters, Daniel 9:27 is applied to a future antichrist, a future peace treaty made with Israel, a future seven-year tribulation, and a future rebuilt Jewish temple inside Jerusalem. And all of this will supposedly start with the rapture. Honestly, that’s a lot to interpret from that single verse, especially when Daniel 9:27 says absolutely nothing about any seven-year tribulation, antichrist, or rebuilt Jewish temple!
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You’ll find out in the next chapter.
Taken from Chapter 4 of Steve Wohlberg’s book, End Time Delusions: The Rapture, the Antichrist, Israel, and the End of the World.
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Thrilling 70 Week Or 490 year Prophecy, Proves Jesus Is Messiah!

This 70 week or 490 year prophecy is the first part of a longer time prophecy called the 2300 year prophecy!  The 70 week or 490 year prophecy proves Jesus is Messiah, straight from the Bible itself!  The only way to truly understand the Bible is to let it interpret itself!  So, I am excited to embark upon this awesome adventure with you! 
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