Wow, thanks for reading.
You did a good job chopping up my note into quotes.
I stole it from an Eagles song;
"We may lose, and we may win.
But we will never be here again.
"So open up, I'm climbing in.
And take it easy.
"Like you said: "the Jews win, the Jews lose.
Or, you mean the part about two comings of Messiah concealed within the enigmatic language of Daniel.
There's more to it than the Isaac note, but it's controversial.
I think there had to be a provision for two comings of Messiah. The Old Time Jews might have redeemed the 70 weeks in the first century. They might not have rejected their Messiah.
In that case something different would have happened already.
We would be in the Kingdom of God by now.
It WAS in their midst.
A second coming would have been unnecessary.
I am aware of that.
And it's an excellent question.
But it's no worry, a year is still a year.
It still doesn't matter because we're counting weeks, not years.
I can count 7 sets of 70 weeks, 4,430 years, from the Exodus in 1437 BC, until 1994 when Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 sealed the deal by whacking into Jupiter 21 times over a six day period.
The weekly cycle has not been interrupted.
I haven't been at this for too long, but a heptad is still a heptad.
And the numbers add up.
490 years are 10 Jubilee cycles.
49+49+49+49+49+49+49+49+49+49=490 years.
The 50th year then becomes year number one for the next Jubilee Cycle.
It was the first time around.
But still, the clock starts from the going forth from the COMMAND, the decree, a governmental order, to restore and to rebuild.
The command itself is the important indicator, the main specification, that starts the clock ticking.
Going forth from the command.
"Know and understand this:
From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,'
New Living Translation
Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven will pass
from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until a ruler—the Anointed One—comes.
English Standard Version
Know therefore and understand that
from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks.
Some versions put a comma, and an AND.
Some versions start a new sentence.
But Newton's issue was that we are "doing violence to the language of Daniel" by adding the two numbers together.
Some think so.
Some think that this idea has fizzled.
Some people are trying to find another date based on inscriptions on the sabils built around Jerusalem.
Ha Ha, spellchecker doesn't know what a sabil is.
Because of what Isaac said in his note about the compass of a Jubilee, I think we still have to the end of January.
That "compass of a Jubilee" is the 49 years from 1969, that point to the 50th year which we have been in.
"Know also and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to cause to return and to build Jerusalem, unto the Anointed the Prince, shall be seven weeks. The former part of the Prophecy related to the first coming of Christ, being dated to his coming as a Prophet; this being dated to his coming to be Prince or King, seems to relate to his second coming. There, the Prophet was consummate, and the most holy anointed: here, he that was anointed comes to be Prince and to reign.
For Daniel's Prophecies reach to the end of the world; and there is scarce a Prophecy in the Old Testament concerning Christ, which doth not in something or other relate to his second coming.
"as the
seventy and the
sixty two weeks were Jewish weeks, ending with sabbatical years; so the
seven weeks are the compass of a Jubilee, and begin and end with actions proper for a Jubilee, and of the highest nature for which a Jubilee can be kept: - Isaac Newton.
Chapter 10. Of the Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks. by Sir Isaac Newton
I think that it should have happened about this time last year for another reason.
When the second coming occurs, the resurrection, the rapture that will happen, I think is a one time deal. We are waiting for our brothers, and fellow servants, to enter into the world.
We wait for the train to fill up.
Somewhere on earth, I think, that there's a pregnant woman walking around.
When it happens, her kid will be the last.
There will be no more delay.
I wouldn't be afraid to do that.
I'm not dogmatic over this material.
These are just my thoughts and working notes.
And as I get perilously closer to the failure date, I'm both anxious and afraid.
I still think it's uncanny to have those two historical decrees in both in 1535 and 1969.
It's like, how do you make that up?
If or when this fails, I wonder, were we supposed to add that single seven somewhere?
"And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolate.”
Does the covenant week also have a secondary application?
Another reason I post this is so other people can think about it and get an idea on it.
This young lady, I think she's 30, also got the two applications idea on Daniel 9.
She has an interesting twist on it from the Wiki link:
She wonders if the clock started between 1537 and 154, when the work was completed.
But I think it would not cooperate with the Knesset material from 1969.
She's a nice girl though.
Nope, this thing, the four blood moons, and specifications surrounding the Revelation 12 sign, 1290 days from the Abomination until the "darkened sun, 7 sets of seventy weeks from the Exodus, until the Comet and the Fig Tree Generation is enough events for me that seem to be irreplaceable in time.
After that I'm out of bullets.
And I'll be welcoming another summer coming around.
Peaceful Sabbath.