"About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition."

Sir Issac Newton 1642-1727

In Chapter 1 we took a journey through the Bible to understand how God’s Plan unfolded through history. In Chapter 2 we took a look at the declared purposes of God’s Plan. In Chapter 3 we came to understand the prophetic significance of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

God’s Master 7,000-Year Timeframe

In the very beginning chapter of the Bible, God revealed to mankind the highlights and duration of His plan. Then God blessed it establishing an Everlasting Covenant. The Sabbath was a sign “for ever” of this covenant. The Sabbath was called the sign of the ‘Everlasting Covenant’ for a reason. This covenant was established to continually remind us throughout history of the coming of the Millennial Reign in the 7^th millennium. By keeping the Sabbath, we are keeping alive the knowledge of the return of the king.

The Sabbath is His sign or signature of sanctification and timing of the Millennial Reign. It is the Almighty's badge of ownership on the true believer's mind; a memorial symbol that the God of Israel is setting that person apart for Himself. Sabbath observance identifies the true Israelite.   The Sabbath is the everlasting sign of the everlasting covenant. It will be kept throughout eternity by the redeemed host. That is what the scriptures teach.

Exodus 31
16: Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17:It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Isaiah 55:3,5
Come to Me, hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. ..nations will be called whom you do not know...

Understanding the Sabbath Everlasting Covenant

God reveal the major goals of His ‘predestined’ plan to man in the first few pages of Genesis. In these first pages of Scripture, God also revealed to man the ‘Everlasting’ Covenant of the Sabbath. This was the first covenant made with man preceding all other covenants. This covenant was made with man as a portrait of a greater truth and to establish the overall timeline of God’s plan for man. In the first few pages of the Book of Genesis, God reveals His complete plan. That Plan is laid out in Genesis as follows:

1. God’s timeline for His Plan – The Everlasting Covenant
(Genesis Chapter 1) - the 6 days of creation and then in Chapter 2 the Seventh day rest, called the Sabbath was established as an Everlasting Covenant. This is the 6 thousand year reign of sin and the thousand-year reign of the Messiah defined in 2 Peter 3.

2. God’s Plan Revealed – Training His Everlasting Government
(Gen 1:26-27) “Made man in His image to rule” referring to God’s purpose in revealing His sons and train them to rule with the Messiah for 1,000 years and beyond in the eternal state.

3. The Prophecy of Judgment and the System of Training
(Gen 2:16,17) “Eat and Die” - Establishing the system by which we will be taught, the penalty of disobedience, and the need for a savior to deliver us from the second death.

4. The Prophecy of Messiah ben Joseph and Yahshua’ Death
(Gen 3:15) “you shall strike His heal”, referring to the coming suffering servant, Messiah ben Joseph, and Satan’s attempt to stop God’s plan through the crucifixion.

5. The Prophecy of a Messiah ben David and Satan’s Ultimate Defeat
(Gen. 3:15) “He (the Messiah) shall crush your head”, refers to the coming conquering king, Messiah ben David. Yahshua conquering the power of sin and death, releasing the Elect from the power of Satan to hold God’s People in the grave.

Understanding these first few prophecies requires the full revelation of God in the Bible to compliment and shed light on the book of Genesis. Specifically, “how do we know the Everlasting Covenant of the Sabbath represents God’s 7,000 year plan for man?”

The Everlasting Covenant Points to the 7^th Millennium

Our goal here is to understand and piece together the Biblical timeline. We must first firmly establish the basic foundation and duration of God’s Plan for Man. That basic foundation is that God’s Plan from Adam until the end of the Millennial Reign is 7,000 years.

I will demonstrate in this chapter that Yahshua was to come as the Messiah ben Joseph, suffering servant, around the 4,000^th year. Daniel prophesied this event to the day and it was fulfilled accordingly. And we know from prophecy that Yahshua returns as the Messiah ben David, conquering king, around the 6,000^th year and reigns supreme for the last 1,000 years. That is the basic foundation of God’s Plan.

The key to the overall timeframe of God’s Plan for Man is the Sabbath. God established a covenant with man from the beginning of this “age” that is called the “Everlasting Covenant”. The sign of this covenant is the Sabbath. The Sabbath Covenant was given to man in the form of 6 days of work and a 7^th day of rest. The Sabbath covenant is truly EVERLASTING. It was never nullified or made void by any of the covenants God made with man that followed. The Sabbath was in effect through the Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, and Davidic covenants.

This Everlasting Covenant was confirmed by Yahshua and holds true even now in the New Covenant of Yahshua the Messiah. Yahshua kept the Sabbath and was called the ‘Lord of the Sabbath’:

Luke 6:5
⁵ And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.

The reason this covenant is special and was never made void is because it represents God’s timeline during which He will execute His Plan for Man. It represents 6,000 years of “labor” whereby man would be under the curse of Sin and self-government; then 1,000 years of “rest” whereby man would be released from the curse of Sin and be under the divine government of the King Yahshua the Messiah.

God’s people are commanded to keep the Sabbath Covenant because by doing so, we keep the knowledge of God’s timing alive, we continually celebrate the Second Coming, and we honor the blessings of God to enter into the rest of the 7^th millennium.

Exodus 31
16: Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17:It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

The question is: “Where in scripture are we told specifically that the covenant of the Sabbath represents 7,000 years and points to the second coming?”

The Millennial Scale of the Everlasting Covenant

Prophecy tells us over and over that God’s Plan is 7,000 years. We know that God intervenes every 2,000 years until the Millennial Reign:

· 2,000 years after Adam God destroyed the Earth due to sin with the flood of Noah.

· 2,000 years after the flood of Noah God redeemed man from Sin through the Messiah ben Joseph.

· 2,000 years from the crucifixion of Yahshua the Messiah God redeems the Earth from Sin through the Messiah ben David.

The prophets of God confirmed the 7,000-year scale; with Israel being reborn and Yahshua returning after 6,000 years from Adam (2,000 years between the two advents of Messiah ben Joseph and Messiah ben David). King David saw a vision of God’s Plan. He appealed to “all generations” to remember the Everlasting Covenant of creation in order to know the time when God would “turn man to destruction” in the Great Tribulation and then call the Elect to rest in the Sabbath Millennium:

Psalms 90:1-4
¹ Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world (creation), even from everlasting (past) to everlasting (future), thou art God. (Referring to the Everlasting Covenant of the Sabbath in Genesis established at creation. The boundaries of this Covenant are “everlasting past to everlasting future” )

³ Thou turnest man to destruction;(a reference to the Great Tribulation) and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. (‘6,000 years’ is the sign “a watch in the night” as Yahshua promised the Saints would NOT be taken like a thief in the night).

Hosea was also given a vision of God’s Plan. Hosea saw a period of time Israel would cease to be a nation and remain a footnote in history until the End Times (latter days):

Hosea 3:4-5

⁴ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king (referring to the destruction of Israel after the Messiah King is cutoff), and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

⁵ Afterward (after the Messiah is cutoff) shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

We see from Hosea 3:4-5 that after the Messiah is cutoff, Israel will abide “many days” or more than 1,000 years then afterward “in the latter days” the children of Israel returns (1948). Then Hosea clarifies that the time when Israel will once again be a nation is “after 2 days/2,000 years” keeping in mind that God declared a day = 1,000 years. This is the Church Age or Messianic Age.

Then Hosea prophesies the first resurrection will occur at the beginning of the 3^rd day/3,000^th year since the destruction of Israel… “in the third day he will raise us up”. This is the Kingdom Age or Millennial Reign or Sabbath Millennium. Then Hosea confirms that He, the Messiah, shall come twice according the Feast Cycle (former rain is the Spring Feasts, the latter rain is the Fall Feasts):

Hosea 6:1-3
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.

³ Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

So clearly, the 7,000-year plan of God is depicted over and over again in Biblical prophecy as God gave His prophets insight and vision.

I want to further demonstrate this fact in 2 Peter 3. Interestingly enough, even the numbering scheme of 2 Peter 3 points to the timing of the rebirth of Israel and the Second Coming. Israel is reborn and Yahshua returns again after 2 millenniums in the 3^rd millennium after His first coming… 2 Peter 3.

Peter’s Vision of the Everlasting Covenant

We’ve all heard this quote before:

2 Peter 3:2-18

“But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

Many times this is MIS-quoted to mean the 7 days of creation are not literal “days” but rather “unknown periods of time”. NOT TRUE. That is not at all what 2 Peter 3 is about.

This scripture is referring to the END TIMES and the timing of the Second Coming… not creation.

The truth of creation being “literal days” in Genesis is another story all together. God goes to great lengths to establish He re-created the Earth in 6 literal days after He destroyed the Earth as a result of the fall of Lucifer. But that is prior to this “Age” which begins with Adam and not within the scope of this book. I just want to make that clear that 2 Peter 3 has nothing to do with the duration of creation days. That is clearly established in Genesis.

2 Peter3 is not referring to the length of days in creation, but rather confirming that the Everlasting Covenant represents 7,000 years and that the Second Coming occurs after the 6,000^th year. In context, 2 Peter 3 is discussing the TIMING OF THE SECOND COMING… not creation.

We have seen that David and Hosea saw visions of the Everlasting Covenant. I want to provide a detailed commentary on 2 Peter 3 to firmly establish that Peter too saw a vision of the 7,000-year Plan of God. We will discover that Peter is telling his audience that:

1. God’s plan and timeline can be known by studying prophecy.

2. The context of discussion is the timing of the Second Coming.

3. This “age” began with Adam and ends 7,000 years later after the Millennial Reign.

4. The Everlasting Covenant of 6 days and a 7th day is a millennial portrait.

5. The Second Coming is PREDESTINED to occur after 6,000 years.

God’s Plan can be Known in Prophecy

Before Peter even begins, he again reminds his reader that God’s Plan can be known by studying the Holy Prophets and words of the Apostles and the Lord Yahshua the Messiah.

2 Peter 3
1“Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder),² that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior,

The Context of This Chapter is the Second Coming in the Last Days

^{Once reminding us to study prophecy, Peter says that we should know that in the LAST DAYS people will scoff and make fun of those who believe in the literal fulfillment of scripture and the return of the Messiah on schedule.}

^{2 Peter 3}

³ knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,

⁴ and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation."

Verse 3 establishes the context of this scripture is the LAST DAYS. Verse 4 establishes that in context of the last days the subject is the timing of the SECOND COMING. So we know that in context of the subject of this Scripture, Peter is not referring to the length of days in creation, but rather referring to the 6 creation days as the length of time prior to the second coming! Big difference.

Peter is saying that over the years between the first and second coming, false prophets will predict an immanent return (rapture) causing people in the last days (End Times) to mock the entire concept of a Second Coming because expectations over the ages for an immanent rapture have all been untrue and time just kept going on and on... These false prophets and “mockers” are willingly ignorant of the Everlasting Covenant! No one would ever mock the Second Coming if they studied prophecy that clearly states Yahshua returns after 6,000 years. In the “3^rd day” after the first coming.

Peters Refers to the Everlasting Covenant and Establishes the Boundaries of this “Age”

^{Now that Peter has reminded his reader to study prophecy so that we are not ignorant of the timing of the Second Coming, Peter CONFIRMS the Everlasting Covenant. Saying that the “scoffers” willingly overlook the obvious portrait of creation:}

^{2 Peter 3}

⁵ For this (the Sabbath Portrait) they (scoffers) willfully forget: that by the word of God (creation) the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water (the Earth was flooded due to the Sin of Lucifer),

⁶ by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.

⁷ But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word (this Present Age), are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

In verse 5 Peter indicates that the people of the last days will “willfully forget” the portrait of the Sabbath Everlasting Covenant. In verse 5 Peter directs our attention to the story of Creation, in which God gave us the Everlasting Covenant of the Sabbath.

Peter refers to the first flood in Genesis when God destroyed the Earth due to the sin of Lucifer who was given dominion over the Earth and those who inhabited it (pre-Adamite world). We know this is not the flood of Noah because in verse 6 Peter clarifies this flood as being the first flood that destroyed the previous age “world that then existed perished” and refers to this Present Age which began with Word of God… “Let there be..”. The “world” or ecosystem in Noah’s flood was preserved in the Ark and the heavens and earth were not recreated. So Noah’s flood is out, Lucifer’s flood is the correct reference. And then in verse 7 Peter confirms that the flood in question is the flood prior to Adam because it is this Present Age (Adam until the end of the Millennial Reign) that was established by His words “let there be light” etc.

Peter refers to the 6 days of creation “the heavens and earth which are now (as apposed to the previous age that just perished) preserved by the Word of God and reserved for fire at the Day of Judgment” to establish the boundaries of this Age.

NOTE:
The flood prior to Adam is the only flood that could fit in context of Peter’s discussion. He was establishing the boundaries of God’s Mater Plan and those boundaries did not begin with Noah but began with Adam. The floodwaters in the days of Noah naturally receded; they did not recede upon the command of God as did the waters after the original flood prior to Adam. And the heavens and earth were not recreated in the flood of Noah. The command of God was given to recreate the heavens and earth in the flood prior to Adam. And the Word of God was given to the flood waters to recede only in the account of creation in the first few chapters of Genesis when God established the Everlasting Covenant.

Unfortunately most people have never heard of the fact that two floods destroyed the Earth. Science, however, widely acknowledges this fact. Another failure of the church leaders and worthless shepherds to teach us the truth found in the Word of God. The Bible clearly depicts that the Earth was created untold ages ago and inhabited as Lucifer ruled over it. Lucifer then rebelled against God and led the “nations” in rebellion causing God to destroy the world that then existed with the first flood prior to Adam. This fact reconciles the Bible with science and the fossil record. Explains the fate of the dinosaur, prehistoric man, etc. But again that is outside the scope of this book.

In Verses 6-7, Peter establishes the boundaries of this “age” represented by the Everlasting Sabbath Covenant. The boundaries are from the creation of Adam (when the Earth was destroyed due to the rebellion of Lucifer) through the end of the Millennial Reign when the Earth will be destroyed by fire. Next, Peter defines the millennial scale.

Peter Defines the Duration of this “Age” to be 7,000 Years

Now, having redirected our attention to the 6 days of creation and 7^th day of rest (the Everlasting Covenant of the Sabbath) and establishing the boundaries that this covenant covers as being from the creation of Adam through the end of the Millennial Reign… Peter then defines the duration of God’s Plan for Man (not the duration of a creation day as some wrongly teach).

^{2 Peter 3}

⁸ But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Peter has now said that in the last days people will willfully forget the Sabbath Covenant, which clearly defines the duration of God’s Plan for man from Adam until the end of the Millennial Reign to be 7,000 years.

That in regards to the Lord’s return a day is a thousand years. A millennium for each of the days in the portrait of the Everlasting Covenant. With the 7^th day, the Sabbath, representing the 7^th millennium or the Millennial Reign of Yahshua the Messiah.

Peter Reminds Us that the Second Coming is Predestined

After having establishing that God’s Plan is 7,000 years and knowing that Yahshua reigns for the last 1,000 years… Peter drives the point home that the Lord IS NOT slacking concerning His promise to return. Because Yahshua is not due back until after 6,000 years as predestined by God to allow the fullness of the harvest to come in!

^{2 Peter 3}

⁹ The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Verse 9 is confirmation that 2 Peter 3 is defining the duration of time prior to the predestined return of the Yahshua the Messiah. This is 100% consistent with the entire picture of God’s Plan portrayed in the Old Testament and New Testament through the timeline laid out in Daniel and the prophets.

Summary

2 Peter 3:2-18 is one of the most vivid explanations of God’s Plan shedding light on the rest of the Bible’s references to the 6/7 Plan. This scripture tells us to:

 “Study God’s prophetic words concerning Yahshua second coming, do not listened to the scoffers of the last day that say don’t pay attention, who hope for a premature rapture, claim no one knows the timing of His return, or that time will just go on as it always has. It tells us that God’s Plan began after the Earth was destroyed by a flood in judgment of Lucifer’s fall resulting in the creation of Adam. And this Age ends when this current age is destroyed by FIRE after the 7^th millennium. It defines God’s timeline of 6 thousand years and a thousand year Millennial Reign. And then in verse 9 it tells us that all this is talking about the return of the King and that return is predestined to occur ON TIME.”

Biblical Portraits Point to the 7,000-Year Plan

Studying prophecy reveals without a doubt that God’s Plan is 7,000 years long. As I just demonstrated, King David, Hosea, Peter, and many others saw visions of and understood the portrait of creation and the Everlasting Covenant of the Sabbath as the foundation of God’s Plan. But creation is not the only portrait that God gave us to demonstrate that His plan is 7,000 years in length. God gave us many portraits:

· The 7 days of Creation

· The 7^th day of the Sabbath

· The 7^th Sabbath of the Feast of Weeks

· The 7^th Year of Forgiveness

· The 7^th set of 7-years, the Jubilee

· The 7^th day opening of the Temple for worship

· The 7^th month and the 7 trumpets of the Feast of Trumpets

· The 7^th month and the Day of Atonement

· The 7 animals in the Animal Sacrifice Portrait

· The 7^th Day King Portrait

Each one of these portraits pointed to the 7^th millennium. Let’s take a quick look at each of these portraits that were given by God to man to illustrate the 7,000-year timeframe.

7 Days of Creation Portrait

In the story of creation, God shows us the first portrait of the 7^th millennium. After 6 days of work, God rested on the 7^th day and then blessed it as holy.

Genesis 2:1-3

“ ¹ Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

² And on the seventh day God ended His work, which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work, which He had done.

³ Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”

The 7^th day of the Sabbath Portrait

The Sabbath is a picture of God’s rest. It is a sign between God and those whom He sanctifies. Every 7^th day, mankind celebrates the coming millennium as a sign or covenant of salvation in the form of the Sabbath day.

Ezekiel 20:12
¹² "Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

The 7^th Sabbath of the Feast of Weeks Portrait

Leviticus 23:15-22
"From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. Count off 50 days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD."

The 7^th Year of Forgiveness Portrait

Every 7 years we are commanded to “forgive” all debts.

Neh 10:31
³¹ And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the forgiveness of every debt.

The 7^th Sabbath was also a time to rest the land:

Lev 25:4

⁴ But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land, a Sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

The 7 sets of 7-year Jubilee

Jubilee provisions exceeded those of Sabbath. Land was allowed to rest but it was also redistributed. Slaves were released, debts were remitted and the gap between rich and poor was eliminated. Everyone was once again on a equal footing. Jubilee was a new vision for society, a profound reform to address the wrongs of previous times. This vision was inspired by the conviction that God is at work in history and that God will be at work in the accomplishment of the vision in the 7^th millennium.

Lev 25:8-10
⁸ And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

⁹ Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

¹⁰ And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

The 7^th Day Opening of the Temple for Worship Portrait

Temple worship was ordered by God in such a way as to demonstrate the 6,000 years of sin and the Millennial Reign:

Ezekiel 46:1
¹ 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened,”

The 7^th Months and Trumpets of the Feast of Trumpets Portrait

The Feast of Trumpets in the 7^th Holy Month was a portrait of Yahshua gathering His elect. It is the first Fall Feast and beginning of the Jewish New Year. Yahshua returns on the Feast of Trumpets and used a Hebrew/Jewish Idiom to confirm His arrival on the Feast of Trumpets in the year of completion (more on that later) in Matthew 24.

· The 120 Trumpeters in the dedication of Solomon's Temple in the Feast of Tabernacles (2 Chronicles 5). The true dedication of the Church at the end of the age.

· The 7 Priests ... 7 trumpets ... at the fall of Jericho (Joshua 6; Revelation 11:15).

· The opening of the Book in the Feast of Trumpets (Deut. 31:9-13; Ezra 3; Neh. 8; Rev. 4,5; Isaiah 29:11-12).

· The Day of the Lord... the Second Coming (Zephaniah 1:14-18; Matthew 24:31; 1 Cor 15:52; 1 Thess 4:16).

· The Anointing of the King of Kings (1 Kings 1:32-40; 2 Kings 9:11-13).

The 7^th Month of the Day of Atonement Portrait

The Day of Atonement in the 7^th Holy Month again is a portrait of the final atonement of sin at the beginning of the Millennial Reign in the 7^th Holy Month of the 7^th year of the 7^th millennium.

Lev. 23:27-32, the 10^th Day of the 7^th month is the Day of Atonement

The 7 Animals of the Animal Sacrifice

The number and order of animals sacrificed to God were a portrait of the 6,000 years of sin/human government and the 1,000-years of divine government.

Ezek 46:3-4

³ "Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entrance to this gateway before the LORD on the Sabbaths and the New Moons. ⁴ "The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;

The 7^th Day King Portrait

Yahshua not only confirmed the Sabbath, He kept the Sabbath. Yahshua was also the King/Lord of the Sabbath. The Sabbath points to His Second Coming and is called a “shadow of things to come” which will be fulfilled when Yahshua returns in the prophetic Sabbath (7^th millennium).

Mathew 12:1-8 - Yahshua is the Lord of the Sabbath, or King of the Millennium

Mark 2:27 - Yahshua is Lord of the Sabbath, and the Sabbath was made for man

Col 2:16-17 - The Sabbath is a “shadow” of things to come and the substance of the Messiah

Heb 4:2-6 - Refers to the Millennial reign as the 7^th day when those in the Messiah will enter into His rest.

Heb 4:9 - There remains a day of Rest coming

We have explored the prophetic meaning of the Sabbath Everlasting Covenant and the Biblical Portraits that point to the 7^th millennium. Next, we will explore the perfect number of completion 777. The date the Prophetic Sabbath or Millennial Reign begins.

777 the “Key” to Eschatology

Now that we have explored the portraits of “7” in the Bible:

· The 7 days of Creation

· The 7^th day of the Sabbath

· The 7^th Sabbath of the Feast of Weeks

· The 7^th Year of Forgiveness

· The 7^th set of 7-years, the Jubilee

· The 7^th day opening of the Temple for worship

· The 7^th month and the 7 trumpets of the Feast of Trumpets

· The 7^th month and the Day of Atonement

· The 7 animals in the Animal Sacrifice Portrait

· The 7^th Day King Portrait

Let’s take a look at the perfect number of completion 777.

7 is the number of God.

777 is the PERFECT number of COMPLETION representing the YHWH who is God the Father (7), Yahshua the Son YHWH (7), and the breath of YHWH called the Holy Spirit (7).

This number represents the plan of salvation…. YHWH (God) sacrificed His Son (Yahshua) and breathes life into His sons (Holy Spirit).

This number is also the number that points to the actual date the Millennial Reign begins. September 13, 2007. The 7^th Holy Month of the 7^th Year of the 7^th Millennium. 777. It was this date that Yahshua prophesied His return as will see.

The “Measuring Rod” Defined by Daniel

God reveals His plan throughout the Bible in prophecy. In the Book of Daniel God laid down a detailed timeline for human history from the time of Daniel until the end of Millennial Reign. Daniel foretold the exact timing of Yahshua First and Second Comings, as we will prove. Daniel identifies major milestones and from them he gives us specific days in a dramatic countdown to the Second Coming. I call this God’s Measuring Rod.

This “Measuring Rod” of history in the form of the Nation of Israel delivers a stunning timeline of the End Times. We will develop this timeline step-by-step proving we are in fact living in the Tribulation.

The Measuring Rod in Daniel is defined in terms of 70 markers (70 sets of 7-year periods) relative to the Nation of Israel whereby we can know the times in which we are living as well as a timeline for future events. Daniel prophesied all the major human dynasties painting a picture of human government (of a man whose number is 6) that would be crushed by the return of the Conquering King (whose number is 7) to establish His divine government. This picture of human government was described in Daniel as a statue:

History has proven that Daniel accurately predicted the rise and fall of every major human dynasty. The final dynasty prophesied by Daniel was 10 toes of the statue or the Revived Roman Empire… God has fulfilled this prophecy in 1993 with the European Union. The same year the End Times began.

Daniel then gave us the 70 Weeks (of years) from which to discern the times of the Earth. Specifically these markers in Daniel were given to pinpoint the first and second coming of the messiah. The 70 sets of 7-year periods (490 years) were not prophesied to be concurrent. They are 70 sets of “MARKERS” from which we can measure the time from Daniel until the coming of the Messiah the first time and then the return of the Messiah the second time.

Daniel defined 3 unique sets of these markers (7-year periods called weeks of years).

First: Daniel prophesied 7 “weeks of years” or 49 years before Artaxerxes would give the decree to rebuild the Temple. 49 years later Artaxerxes gave the decree and the temple was rebuilt in preparation for the Messiah’s coming.

Second: Daniel prophesied 62 weeks from the date Artaxerxes gave the command to rebuild the temple. At the end of this 69-year period (7 + 62) the Messiah would come. The Messiah, Yahshua, came exactly when Daniel prophesied riding in on a donkey on Palm Sunday.

Third: Daniel prophesied one more “week of years” as a final marker to end events. Understanding prophesies of Hosea, David, Peter, Yahshua, Jeremiah that God’s Plan is 7,000 years and Yahshua returns around the 6,000^th year or year 2000… we can look for the last MARKER of 7-years around the year 1993.

In fact, Daniel tells us the third marker, the 70^th and final marker, merely marks the beginning of the 14-year period known as the End Times and then proceeds to reveal a very detailed timeline of end events from the beginning of that last week of years (70^th Week of Daniel).

We are going to begin with Daniel’s prophecy of 70 weeks of years and then work out this timeline of events in detail. We will Confirm and cross-reference the timeline with Scripture and current events. Proving we are living in the Tribulation.

Daniel’s Prophecy of 70 Weeks

First let us review the prophecy in question. This prophecy by Daniel is one of the most profound and misunderstood prophecies in the Bible:

Dan 9:24-27 (NKJV)
24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.

First we see that 70 “weeks” or 7-year periods have been “determined” or predestined by God. This period of time was determined to bring an end to the 6,000-years of human government and to introduce the world to the everlasting righteousness of the Divine Government under King Yahshua the Messiah.

Now we see the 70 weeks divided into 3 unique markers. We see seven weeks until the command is given to rebuild the temple, and 62 weeks later the Messiah comes the first time:

25 "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times. 26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

From this prophecy so far, we know that a command will be given in 49 years and that the Messiah will come in 483 years. We also learn that the Messiah will be “cut off” or put to death. We also see that the “people of the prince who is to come” referring to the people of the future False Messiah will destroy the city of Jerusalem and the Temple. Then Daniel continues:

The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;

Now we learn that the End Times will come with the flood of war. And until the end of this war desolations are determined over Jerusalem. And then Daniel tells us that the beginning of the End Times will be marked by a “covenant with many for one week” of years or a 7-year peace treaty.

But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. 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."

Now Daniel tells us that in the middle of this 7-year peace treaty, the sacrifice and offering (oblation) will be stopped launching a series of abominations on the Temple Mount. At the highest point or pinnacle of these abominations “wing of abominations” will come the false messiah. He will commit the Abomination of Desolation.

This section in Daniel refers to 3 unique timeframes that are disconnected from each other but together make up the 70 weeks of Israel and the consummation of the 6/7 Plan of God. The common link to all three timeframes is Jerusalem and the abominations on the Temple Mount:

1. 7 weeks (49 years) – This timeframe began with the decree of King Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem after it was destroyed by the Babylonians. EZR 6:3-5

2. 62 weeks (434 years) – This timeframe ended with Yahshua riding into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday being proclaimed as the King of the Jews.

3. 1 week (7 years) – This is the LAST week that marks the end of God’s 6,000-year plan and the transition to the 7^th millennium. It is marked by a 7-year peace treaty.

Daniel Prophesied the Coming of the Messiah

Keeping in mind that God’s timeline is based on the 360-day year Hebrew/Jewish Calendar we must calculate these prophesies accordingly.

The prophecy declares that Daniel should "know and understand" that from the going forth of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah the Prince comes, that there will be sixty two sets of sevens of years. Therefore 69 sevens is 483 years (69 x 7 = 483 years).

Scholars understand that for prophetic calendars the Jews used a 360-day calendar year. The 360 days per calendar year by the 483 years gives us 173,880 days. So the Angel Gabriel was telling Daniel that 173,880 days after the command is given to "restore and rebuild Jerusalem " the Messiah would come. Remember, at the time this prophecy was given, the city of Jerusalem was desolated. Is there a record of a command such as this recovered anywhere in history?

Yes!

EZRA 9:9
"For we were slaves. Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage; but He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia (Artaxerxes), to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem."

In the 2nd chapter of the book of Nehemiah it states:

"in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before. Therefore, the king said to me "why is your face sad, since you are not sick?""

The 1990 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica states that Artaxerxes Longimanus ascended to the throne of the Medo-Persian empire in July 465 BCE. By Hebrew tradition, when the day of the month is not specifically stated, it is given to be the first day of that month. So, the day of the decree by Artaxerxes was the first day of the Hebrew month Nisan 445 BCE. The first day of Nisan in 445 BCE correspond to the 14th day of March. This was certified by astronomical calculations at the British Observatory and reported by Sir Robert Anderson.

Remember that the prophecy states that 69 weeks of years (173,880 days) after the command goes forth to restore the city of Jerusalem the Messiah will come. Count 173,880 days forward from fourteenth of March 445 BCE. And we come to April sixth 32 CE. Again this date was verified by the British Royal Observatory.

Here are the calculations:

March fourteenth 445 BCE to March fourteenth 32 CE is 476 years.
(1 BC to 1 CE is one year. There is no year zero

476 years x 365 days per years = 173,740 days
Add for leap years = 116 days
March fourteenth to April sixth = 24 days
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Total 173,880 days!

What happened on April sixth 32 CE? According Sir Robert Anderson's calculations:

A humble carpenter rode into the east gate of Jerusalem on a donkey while the crowds cried "Hosanna! Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the L-rd!

This man's name was Y'shua of Nazareth (Yahshua) and this was the first day that he allowed his followers to proclaim him as their Messiah! He had previously told them that his day had not yet come.

History has proven the first two markers to be 100% accurate. The first marker, 7 weeks of years, until the decree to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and the second marker, 62 weeks of years, until the Messiah’s first appearance officially as the Messiah!

Understanding God’s Plan is 7,000 years long and Yahshua reigns for the last 1,000 years; we should be looking for the End Time period around the end of 6,000 years. Further understanding the Year of Completion (777) and the prophecy of the Fig Tree we discern the End of the End Times is September 13, 2007.

Next we will assemble the timeline of the End Times described in Daniel. To see if in fact looking back in history that KEY end events were fulfilled according to prophecy to CONFIRM the date September 13, 2007.

Transgression of Desolation and the Abomination of Desolation… the Truth

Transgression Definition:

Main Entry: trans·gres·sion
Pronunciation: -'gre-sh&n
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
: an act, process, or instance of transgressing : as a : infringement or violation of a law, command, or duty

Abomination Definition:

Main Entry: abom·i·na·tion
Pronunciation: &-"bä-m&-'nA-sh&n
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
1 : something abominable
2 : extreme disgust and hatred :

Transgression of Desolation is the reason for the Great Tribulation but is NOT the Abomination of Desolation

Daniel 7

²¹As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them⁽⁷⁾

²⁵And he shall speak words against the Most High [God] and shall wear out the saints of the Most High and think to change the time [of sacred feasts and holy days] and the law; and the saints shall be given into his hand for a time, two times, and half a time [three and one-half years].⁽⁸⁾

Why is are the sacred feasts, holy days, and the Saints of God GIVEN BY GOD over to the hand of the anti Messiah for judgment for 1,260 days?

Daniel 8

¹⁰And [in my vision this horn] grew great, even against the host of heaven [God's true people, the saints], and some of the host and of the stars [priests] it cast down to the ground and trampled on them,
¹¹Yes, [this horn] magnified itself, even [matching itself] against the Prince of the host [of heaven]; and from Him the continual offering [regular sacrifice] was taken away and the place of [God's] sanctuary was cast down and profaned.
¹²And the host [the chosen people] was given [to the anti Messiah] together with the continual burnt offering because of the transgression [of God's people--their abounding irreverence, ungodliness, and lack of piety]. And righteousness and truth were cast down to the ground, and it [the wicked horn] accomplished this [by divine permission] and prospered.
¹³Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one that spoke, For how long is the vision concerning the continual offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of both the sanctuary and the host [the Saints] to be trampled underfoot?^(4)
14And he said to him and to me, For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be cleansed and restored.

The Transgression of Desolation leads to the Abomination of Desolation at the End of the Great Trib

Daniel 8

²³And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors [the apostate people of God] have reached the fullness [of their wickedness, taxing the limits of God's mercy], a king of fierce countenance and understanding dark trickery and craftiness shall stand up.

It is due to the Transgression of Desolation that Jerusalem finally falls at the LATTER END of the Great Tribulation to the anti Messiah. And THEN he shall stand up…

Daniel 11

³¹And armed forces of his shall appear [in the holy land] and they shall pollute the sanctuary, the [spiritual] stronghold, and shall take away the continual [daily burnt offering]; and they shall set up [in the sanctuary at the latter end of the 4^th kingdom] the abomination that astonishes and makes desolate [probably an altar to a pagan god].

Now we see the Abomination of Desolation occur at the END. VERY different from the Transgression of Desolation which is the reason for the Great Tribulation. The Abomination of Desolation occurs at the LATTER END of the kingdom of the anti Messiah! It is the Transgression of Desolation perpetrated by the Holy People that cause the Great Tribulation and fall of Jerusalem resulting in the Abomination of Desolation…

Daniel 11

⁴⁰And at the time of the end [of the Great Tribulation] the king of the South shall push at and attack him, and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass through.
⁴¹He shall enter into the Glorious Land [Israel] and many shall be overthrown, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the main [core] of the people of Ammon.
⁴²He shall stretch out his hand also against the [other] countries, but the land of Egypt shall not be among the escaped ones.
⁴³But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver and over all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall accompany him [compelled to follow his steps].
⁴⁴But rumors from the east and from the north shall alarm and hasten him. And he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.
⁴⁵And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the seas and the glorious holy Mount [Zion]; yet he shall come to his end with none to help him.⁽²⁾

Daniel defines the duration of the Transgression of Desolation as being 1,260 days:

Daniel 12

⁷And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right and his left hand toward the heavens and swore by Him Who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half a time [or three and one-half years]; and when they have made an end of shattering and crushing the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

Then Daniel describes the distance between the beginning of the Great Tribulation and the Abomination of Desolation as being 1,290 days.

Daniel 12

¹¹And from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.⁽⁶⁾

Then Daniel gives the duration between the beginning of the Great Tribulation and the beginning of the Millennial Reign as 1,335 days.

Daniel 12

¹²Blessed, happy, fortunate, spiritually prosperous, and to be envied is he who waits expectantly and earnestly [who endures without wavering beyond the period of tribulation] and comes to the 1,335 days!

Conclusion…

The Transgression of Desolation is caused by the rebellion of the Holy People and defined as 2,300 “mornings and evenings” or rather 1,150 days which causes the Holy People to be given over to the anti Messiah during the great trib which is defined as 1,260 days. This is the reason the two witnesses speak out for 1,260 days against the Holy People for their rebellion.

The Abomination of Desolation is committed at the End of the Great Trib 1,290 days after the Great Trib begins. Prompting Yahshua immediate response (Second Coming).

This is confirmed by Yahshua in Matthew 24

In Matthew Chapter 24, Yahshua gives the progression of End Events as follows:

Kingdom will rise against kingdom

Wars and rumors of war

Earthquakes

Tribulation and persecution of the Saints… mass martyrdom

Great Apostasy, Lawlessness and Iniquity (Transgression of God’s Laws… Transgression of Desolation)

He who endures ‘till the VERY END will be saved

The Good News will be proclaim to all nations (The Two Witnesses witness for 1,260 days)

THEN THE END COMES….

The End marked by the following prophecy…

The Abomination of Desolation!

Which causes the prompted return of the King, Armageddon, and the desolation of the planet.

Yahshua is asked the sign of His Second Coming in vs. 3, and after giving details the question is finally answered in vs. 15 with The Abomination of Desolation. Therefore, the Abomination of Desolation is listed as the final sign that brings Yahshua back to Earth.

Matthew 24

³While He was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and said, Tell us, when will this take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end (the completion, the consummation) of the age?
⁴Yahshua answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error].
⁵For many will come in (on the strength of) My name [^[2] appropriating the name which belongs to Me], saying, I am the the Messiah (the Messiah), and they will lead many astray.
⁶And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened or troubled, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
⁷For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place;
⁸All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the ^[3] birth pangs [of the ^[4] intolerable anguish].
⁹Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake.
¹⁰And then many will be offended and repelled and will ^[5] begin to distrust and desert [Him Whom they ought to trust and obey] and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred.
¹¹And many false prophets will rise up and deceive and lead many into error.
¹²And the love of ^[6] the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity,
¹³But he who endures to the end will be saved.
¹⁴And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end. (The End, or Second Coming occurs because of vs. 15)
¹⁵So when you see the appalling sacrilege [the abomination that astonishes and makes desolate], spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place--let the reader take notice and ^[7] ponder and consider and heed [this]--^(1)
16Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;

Now that we see that Yahshua specifically stated and agreed with Daniel that the Abomination of Desolation occurs at the very end, then why do most scholars teach the Abomination of Desolation occurs 3.5 years BEFORE the End? The reason is that Daniel was SEALED and scholars did not “see” the Transgression of Desolation. Furthermore, scholars made the WRONG assumption concerning what is “taken away”. Inserting “sacrifices” where the “defense” of the holy people was implied.

Hebrew/Aramaic Scriptures vs. English Translations

The Meaning of Italics in the English Translations of the Bible

When the original Bible was translated from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek; the challenge for the translators was to correctly translate these languages into an English equivalent and make judgment calls when God made implications.

Simply put, there was a need to ADD English words to the original texts in order to complete the meaning in English that was implied in the original text. Words were added where the original text made IMPLICATIONS.

Therefore, when the original text IMPLIED a meaning, the translators had to make a judgment call as to the implication and ADD the English word that they believed the original text was implying.

As I will demonstrate, these translators did not always make the correct assumptions.

English Words ADDED to the Book of Daniel

In the book of Daniel, the word “sacrifice” was added to the King James Version in VERY important scripture which define the signs of the Great Tribulation and the duration between major end events.

“Sacrifice” was added after the word tamiyd which was translated “daily”. The original text did not specify what was implied by the word tamiyd (daily) so the English translators assumed the original text was implying “sacrifice”.

Below are the scripture where the word tamiyd “daily” was used and the word “sacrifice” was added by the English translators assuming the “sacrifice” was the proper implication. NOTE: the word “sacrifice” is in ITALICS which means the word was added and not originally in the text:

Daniel 8:11-14

¹⁰   And it (the anti Messiah) waxed great, even to the host of heaven (angelic realm); and it cast down some of the host (saints of God the Holy People) and of the stars (angles) to the ground, and stamped upon them.
¹¹   Yea, he magnified himself (matching himself) even to the Prince of the host (Michael the Archangel), and by Him (God) the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the sanctuary was cast down.
¹²   And an host (saint, the Holy People) was given (by God to) him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression (of the Holy People), and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
¹³   Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
¹⁴   And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

Daniel 11:31

³¹   And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

Daniel 12:11

¹¹   And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

Hebrew Word translated “Daily”

In the above scriptures, only the word “tamiyd” occurred in the original text. The word is translated “daily” and the word “sacrifice” was added in English to try and clarify what God implied.

Below is the actual word translated “daily” from the Strong’s Concordance:

8548

tamiyd taw-meed'

from an unused root meaning to stretch out; properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly);

So the word “tamiyd” is an adjective used to modify a noun. The word means to stretch out properly, stretch out continually or constantly.

The key is to try and determine “what noun” was implied by God when He used the adjective “tamiyd”. Was it the “sacrifice” that was implied as the English translators assumed? Or was it something else? Possibly the DEFENSE of the Holy People namely Michael the Archangel?

The translators determined it was the “sacrifice” based on Daniel 9:27. However, Daniel 9:27 was referring to the mid-point of OSLO, the 7-year treaty, known in prophecy as the 7-Good Years of Joseph. Daniel 9:27 WAS NOT referring to the mid-point of the Tribulation (7-Bad Years of Jacob) when the Great Tribulation begins. Therefore the implication of “sacrifice” is INCORRECT.

Proper Implication of “Tamiyd”

EVERY verse listed above in context is speaking of the Archangel Michael, the Prince of the Angelic Host, the Commander of the Angelic Host, being taken away by God as a result of the Transgression of Desolation. The Transgression of the Holy People against the laws, feast, and covenants of God.

Therefore, the proper implication is that the “daily defense” of the Holy People provided by Michael the Archangel will be “taken away” not the sacrifice.

Daniel 12 specifically answers this question and identifies that it is Michael that is taken away. Paul confirmed it was Michael (the restrainer) that it taken away in 2 Thessalonians. John confirmed it is Michael that is taken away in Revelation 12.

Paul makes reference to Michael the Archangel being Taken Away

In 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12, Paul describes the beginning of the Great Tribulation. Paul agrees with Daniel and John in Revelation 12 that the Great Tribulation begins when Michael, the restrainer/defender of the Holy People) is taken away by God due to the Transgression of Desolation (transgression of the Holy People against God).

2 Thessalonians 2:7-12
7 For the mystery of lawlessness (disobedience) does already work (mystery began just before the sacrifice of Messiah Yahshua). Only there is one (Michael) who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way (reference Daniel 12:1 and Revelation 12).

8 Then will the lawless (disobedient & without Love) one be revealed, whom the Kurios (Links in green) will kill with the 'Spirit of his Mouth' (Knowledge of The Truth), and bring to nothing by the brightness (Righteousness) of his coming;

9 even he (the "Make Believe" messiah - IHS) whose coming is according to the working (deception) of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 and with all deception of wickedness for those (The Many) who are being lost, because they (The Many) didn't receive (by freewill choice) the love of the truth, that they might be saved (with The Few / Matthew 20:16).

11 Because of this ("Error" in unrighteous judgement), G_d sends them (allows them to have) a working of error (false belief in deception or fables), that they should believe a lie (follow Satan's false Messiah - IHS / mystery began just before the sacrifice of Messiah Yahshua);

12 so that they all might be judged who didn't (choose to) believe the truth, but had (taken) pleasure in unrighteousness.

Daniel 12 and Revelation 11

Now that we have established that the English word sacrifice was inserted mistakenly and defense more accurately reflects what is clearly identified is taken away… Michael, the daily defense, we can better understand the timing of the Abomination of Desolation. Which was prophesied by both Daniel and Yahshua to occur at the very end prior to the Second Coming.

This Scripture answers the question left by Daniel 9:27. Understanding Yahshua prophesied His return on September 13, 2007 and that Yahshua and Daniel declared the Abomination of Desolation is what brings Yahshua back, and we know that the Abomination of Desolation occurs at the end of the False Messiah’s 42 month reign of 1,290 days. We now can simply count back 1,290 days to know when Michael the Archangel is “taken away” and stands down from the defense of the Holy People beginning the Great Tribulation and war on the Saints:

Daniel 12:11-13
¹¹"And from the time that the daily defense is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.¹² "Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. ¹³ "But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days."

This prophecy again has 3 very distinct parts to it:

Part 1

And from the time that the daily defense of the Archangel Michael is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.

Simply stated, from the time Michael is taken away there will be 1,290 days of Great Tribulation before the Abomination of Desolation brings Yahshua back to reclaim His throne, the Temple Mount. Understanding that in Matthew 24, Yahshua gave the Abomination of Desolation as the KEY event to His Second Coming. The Second Coming is prophesied to occur on September 13, 2007, therefore Michael is taken away in March 2004. 1,290 days later the Abomination of Desolation occurs and Yahshua returns.

Part 2

Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

This part gives us a clue as to the timing of the beginning of the Millennial Reign. In verse 11, we see a 1,290 day period is reserved for the Great Tribulation, but that we should hang in there for 1,335 days. This creates a 45 day period where the Messiah says be VIGILANT and keep your candles lit looking up because at any moment the Messiah will return, liberate Jerusalem, destroy the armies of the False Messiah, purge the wicked from Earth, dine with His Bride, and inaugurate His Kingdom. The sign of the Son of God will be in the sky to warn the inhabitants of Earth that the King is returning. I believe the 1,335 days expands out to the beginning of the Millennial Reign of the Messiah.

Part 3

But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.

This part confirms that the 1,335 day reference is truly speaking about the beginning of the Millennial Reign by instructing men across the ages to relax, that these events will occur around the 6,000^th year and that when they are over, we will be given our inheritance as Children of God after the 1,000 year Millennial Reign. That is, unless we die during the Great Tribulation and reign with the Messiah.

Cross-referencing with Revelation 11 we see the holy city being “tread under foot” for 42 months (1,290 days) as the outer court has been given to the “nations”.

Revelation 11
¹   Then there was given me a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, "Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it.
²   "Leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months.

Isaiah – The War on Terror

Next, we cross-reference with Isaiah as he too spoke about this 7-year peace treaty (covenant) Israel was commanded NOT to make.

^{Isaiah 28:15-20
15} Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge (of war) passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves."

^…

¹⁸ Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge (of war) passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it.

¹⁹ As often as it goes out it will take you; For morning by morning it will pass over, And by day and by night; It will be a terror just to understand the report."

²⁰ For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.

Isaiah 28:15-20 tells us that this 7-year peace treaty spoken of by Daniel will be a time of false peace that would be annulled leading to the overflowing scourge of war. Then in verse 19, Isaiah refers to this war as a war on terror. Cross-referencing with Matthew 24:6-7 the end of the peace treaty launches the world into the 3.5 year period of Wars and Rumors of War that Yahshua said MUST take place prior to the Great Tribulation.

Matthew 24
⁶ And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
⁷   For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.