I was new to this site, on which, I attempted to post a reply in comment form back in 2017. Today I share these thoughts with you. The comment was long but not nearly so long as others made online there, and not nearly as long as the post on which I was commenting.

I am not sure about the reason as to why the comment was not allowed at the time, but I have attempted to add it again, so you may find it there hopefully along with a response?

I have spent a good deal of time reading these blog comments to your post re: Daniel’s 70 week prophecy. These are my observations comments and yes, my questions.

1. It is obvious as I had before concluded that much of this prophecy is already fulfilled in Israel’s history.

2. What might still be future is still disputed. But one thing is certain. The 70th week remains unfulfilled in some areas; for it brings Israel back into God’s Olive Tree where we and her remnant now reside. When that day comes sin will have been destroyed: Daniel 9:24 “Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place. (NET)

3. I have decided that we can expect history to repeat itself based solely on history repeating itself, and in the case of prophecy it must occur as written. Therefore we probably will see Israel (Jerusalem) once again under siege for the 1260 days of Jacob’s trouble leading to that future salvation of Israel. For that event did not occur in 70 AD.

4. Another observation: If as some teachers say the church and we individually a part of her are the temple referred to by Paul in 2 Thess. 2. And if the man of sin sets himself up as God (in us) rather than in Israel’s Temple Building; then is that not the end of God’s church on earth? That would require that Satan has replaced God indwelling the Church instead of Christ?

5. Does scripture not imply in Romans chapters 9-11, that Israel the nation will be added back into the olive tree once the last of the Gentiles is saved? Is this not confirmed by Zach. with the refining of her remnant as purest gold. That remnant being the 1/3 who will remain in the end. I’m trying to look at the big prophetic picture here.

6. Are Gods called out ones, His elect, His body, His bride, those of faith, etc not “all” also in His olive tree– the Israel or people of God?

7. Jesus says immediately after the tribulation of those days that the sun, moon and stars event will happen and then the sign of the appearing. There seems to be yet another great tribulation beyond Israel’s destruction in 70 AD; for the temple event certainly has not yet occurred — history repeats itself; prophecy must be fulfilled.

8. At Daniel’s time the Temple and the abomination of Desolation, would have represented an actual Temple. Many of us seem to imply the need for a miracle in order for there to be a rebuilt temple. God is in the miracle working business. The rebuilding is being pursued.

9. In my book AND THEN THE END SHALL COME, I question the 2000 year gap theory, I suggest that the 70th heptad or seven, which is actually any integer or number divisible by seven could (since it is about Israel’s history — Daniel’s people) could actually span the entirety of their history since the time of Abraham until the Second coming of Messiah.

In the book, since this consideration was made in an appendage, I did not set out to prove what is currently unprovable. Neither am I attempting that here. But I expect it to work out that way in the end.

10. Why does it seem unreasonable to see the 1260 days of Revelation as the time of the consummation of this present age?

11. How do we explain the fact that the Lord made it clear through Daniel to us, who have actually seen one very important sign given to Daniel, that that sign must be for the people of our general time? The sign given him for the last days was men running to and fro, and knowledge greatly expanding. I mean Planes; AI, what more do we want?

12. How do we ignore the sign given by Paul to us that the man of sin setting himself up as God in the Temple of God is a sign of the coming day of the Lord? If this is a sign of the man of sin setting himself up in you and I as Believers, then who else other than us is that sign for? — since all who then qualify as this temple would be given over to deception, and there would therefore be no temple — no true believer left. This is the logical conclusion of that passage given the Church as God’s Temple in this prophecy. Even though I agree with much of what is taught and shared by those who believe other doctrine. Example, we can still learn some things from even the pre-Trib dispensationalist. This understanding of the Temple, as a real structure, I think being one of those things that we can learn.

13. One writer states that Jesus did everything that was required of Daniel’s 70 week prophecy when He died and rose again, but I find it hard to believe that nothing is left for Jesus to do at His second coming except to come. For example the Seventy sevens are said to make an end of sin. This will not occur until He returns, and depending how we understand mortality during the millennium, it possibly will not end until after the one thousand year reign of Christ itself. I am still inclined to include all of Israel’s history at least her history as a nation within the 70 weeks, which in Hebrew are weeks evenly divisible by 7. Would that time even include the millennium? Seems that it could?

14. Are the Seventy weeks representative of 490 consecutive weeks? The original shavuim (weeks, sevens, or besevened), seems to allow for the weeks to be computed by sevens, an integer multiply of seven. This based on E.J. Young’s The Prophecy of Daniel.

15. Susan says in a 1/3/14 post concerning the destruction of Jerusalem — “Consider this – The greatest calamity of Israel’s history was about to happen. Realize what this meant. It was the end of the Jewish nation. It was the end of the Jewish religion. It was the end of Jerusalem and the Temple. It was the end of the entire O.T. System of sacrifices. It was the end of the feasts. All of it was about to be destroyed”. So was it the end or rather a new beginning to create a nation of sons of God. I believe that we need to consider that God has not established two competing religions, but that The Christ was to fulfill the Old; therefore the Jewish religion did not end. The new covenant is Jewish. The Messiah is Jewish. The feasts have not ended, they are celebrated and will again be established in the millennium. Zechariah 14:16 And it shall come to pass that every one who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem, shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles (Zechariah 14:16). I speak of why this is necessary in my book spoken of earlier. Even though I agree with the fact that much of Daniel is fulfilled, Israel is not finished in God’s plan. Brings me to 16.

16. Paul says then all Israel will be saved. Romans 11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? (KJV). This verse in context of the surrounding verses and chapters will indicate that once the final remnant of Israel is returned to God even as we are through Jesus the root of this tree representing God’s people; that then life from the dead will occur (the first Resurrection). When will this happen? Hosea 5:14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. (KJV). Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (KJV). (Recently subsequent to this comment, I had posted an article I’ll reference here. It can add further clarity to our thinking: https://raptureonline.blog/2022/10/14/the-jesus-days-is-there-some-message/ But these verses I see as clarification with regard to God’s intent for the Nation Israel. The article will help you understand why.

Here is the site concerning which I make reference. MidnightWatcher’s Blogspot

1 Thess 5:6, “Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch …”

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