God’s MasterPlan

We are washed in Christ’s Redeming Blood and must Trust in HIS WORD and not the failings of man. Read REVELATION Chapter 4 and try to interpret a countless number of Raptured Saints in that scene that John records—then go to Chapter 7:9 and read it. They are clearly wrong when they claim chapter 4 over 7. They had to do this because a few scholars decided to change the interpretation of Daniel 9:24, and to count Daniel’s 69 weeks or 483 years in 360-day years and then flip them over to solar which shortens the timeline from 483 solar years to 476 solar years (when God intended for us to count the exact number of 483 years relayed by Gabriel to Daniel). This generated a change from Ezra to Nehemiah, and from Christ’s Glorious Baptism (as His official Appearance)—-to man shifting His Appearance to the end of His Ministry 4 days before the Cross.

The timeline flip allowed them to promote a full 7 years for the Wrath of God when God intended it to be only 3.5 years as stated in Daniel 3 times and in Revelation 4 times. God never uses the phrase 7-year Wrath but He does state that it is a 1260-day timespan during which the Anti-Christ has authority! Read the book Dark Sky of Prophecy to get all the details.

Epic Mistake Made in the Interpretation the Bible’s Greatest Prophecy

The Incredible Interpretation of Daniel’s 70-Weeks Prophecy:

Peter hofmann

Darby’s ideas never did fit the picture that God gave us. God’s inherent message was always about the Anointed One who would Redeem mankind, yet Darby and others were was willing to flip the obvious “God Standard” or Scarlet Thread and replace Christ with the Anti-Christ in the key pivotal verse in the Book of Daniel – this is verse 9:27 which defines the “He” in verse 26 and thus the main subject in Daniel’s 70-Weeks Prophecy given to him by Gabriel who was God’s messenger to announce the Coming of the Messiah? So why did Darby and others flip the “he” to the “ruler” or the Anti-Christ? This is an inferior translation that requires a misuse of Hebrew translation and exegetic interpretation. The formula below is simple Math given to us by God –part of His Cosmic Order. A dark cosmic change was forced upon Gabriel’s message when man twisted the meaning of Hebrew Words such as Gabar from “Firm, Strong, or Prevail” to confirm. It demotes the action from one between God and man to one a convenant made between two failed humans- one the Anti-Christ and the other Israel’s deceived leader.

Underlying this problem is the numbers. After digging deep into theology and all the nuances of flipping Hebrew. switching nouns, pronouns, singular and plural; and interpreting a “wing of abomination” & “the desolator or being made desolate,” it comes down to a simple calculation and not just words. the wrong Numbers tell the story of why people sought to change the Hebrew and remove Ezra and Jesus’s 3.5 year ministry to Nehemia and a 7-year Wrath of God.

This is probably why theologians and scholars were baffled and were convinced that this “ruse” was the answer. The numbers dictated their reasoning as to why Christ was not the one “made desolate”, nor the one who made a firm (strong) convenant (the New Covenant). Ironically Jesus was also the “desolator” because He willingly made Himself desolate on the Cross and in the eyes of God as He took upon himself the sins of the World. Christ was made desolate on the “wings of abomination.” This is the true translation of the Hebrew while He was made desolate. What Have They Done? Note the #1 equals the need to add one year when crossing over from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. —this is one year of time that is not in simple added time from B.C. to A.D. – for instance B.C 5 to 5 A.D. is not 10 years — it is actually 11 years of time.

THE GOD FACTOR = 1 + x = PROPHECY CONSTANT 483 – Z (B.C.)

G = 1 + X (A.D.) = 483 – Z (YEAR in B.C.) for instance, if Z = 457 B.C.

G = 1 + 26 (A.D.) = 1 + 483 – 457 = 1 + 26 = 27A.D. = The God Factor = G

The God Factor is the date in which the Anointed One Appears in 27 A.D. and was Baptized in public by John the Baptizer, the son of one of the “High Priests” of Israel. God declares from heaven that Jesus is “His beloved Son for whom He is well-pleased.” And the Holy Spirit come upon Him after John declared Him the Lamb of God to the many faithful gathered at the Jordan.

This Glorious Moment begins the 70th Week of Daniel and ends the 483 years as shown in the formula above. This Solution is the whole Mystery Puzzle that has baffled theologians for over two centuries. There was no need for conversions nor multiplication. God made it all simple for us – the 490 years are measured in solar years not 360-day years as was promoted by Darby. God told us to use 360-day years only during the Wrath and during Noah’s Flood Judgement.

This was God’s way of saying “I AM in control of time during the Judgment–no need for recording history perfectly accurate according to man’s perspective. The sun He created sets the day, month, & year for historical purposes and during the rest of the 490 years . The last 3.5 years will mark His 2nd Coming and His Judgment. End will be at hand and God takes control.

AS STATED: The correct calculation shows that the date of the Appearance of the “Anointed One” is 27 A.D. when Jesus was Baptized and John the Baptizer called Him the Lamb of God, the Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove, and God spoke from heaven, “This is my Beloved Son in whom I AM well pleased.” This is the Scarlet Thread for Christ is at the center and links the entire 7 years with the Church Age becoming part of the last 7-years.

By knowing this, all the translations and interpretations fall into place, and the stats and facts start making sense as this book and study on the Dark Sky of Prophecy has proven. The First Law of Prophecy Dynamics is KISS: or Keep It Simple Student. By doing all the conversions eschatology has been thrown for a loop and now needs to regain its proper footing in the halls of Christendom. The equation below shows what happens when a conversion is forced (Chapter 8). It creates 476 years when God’s design was for 483 years *(7 weeks + 62 weeks= 483 years and not 476 years):

X = 1 + 32 (A.D.) = 476 – 444 + 1 = 1 + 32 A.D. = 33 A.D. = Futurist view which led to choosing Nehemiah, the Triumphal Entry, and a 7-year Wrath. This erroneous calculation says that The Appearance came after Jesus’ Ministry and thus the full 7 years is appropriated for the Wrath of God sometime in a disconnected future. Why would Gabriel waste God’s time announcing the danger of a future “ruler” 2,500 years later ignoring their immediate need for Hope in the soon come Messiah during the trials ahead and 400 years of silence?

The Book will tie everything together and answer the mysteries and loose ends that are left when one ignores Jesus Christ in Daniel 9:27; His Ministry and the blessings that Israel received when the nation was birthed in 1947-48, (which was a great Blessings — one that Darby says will not come to Israel until the Wrath.}

Dark Sky of Prophecy: What Have They Done (quick summary)

Spotlight 1: Did Darby’s Theory Fail?

Darby’s most famous teaching concerns Daniel’s first “69 Weeks” being totally separated in time from the 70th week. Darby’s view is: 1) Weeks 1–69 ended with Christ’s entry into Jerusalem. 2) At this key point prophecy concerning Israel ends until the final 7 years. 3) A new dispensation called the Church Age begins. 4) The end of the Church Age was unknown to Daniel and to us today. 5) Only after the Church is raptured does God resume His dealings with Israel in the seventieth week.

However, history did not happen the way he predicted. Israel was reborn in 1948 and his interpretation ignored Christ’s ministry. His gap theory between the sixty-ninth and seventieth weeks was a defining feature of classic dispensationalism which has failed. Like the great idol to Dagon it fell flat on its face. God has continued to Bless the nation of Israel and the Jewish people. Darby was wrong.

Darby noted that Israel was sanctified by God with earthly promises, an earthly kingdom, literal land, and the Davidic kingdom. What he did not see was its rebirth, the regathering of the people, and Israel’s permanent ownership of the land and Jerusalem. Nor did he see that God would bless Israel outside the last 7-years. This was in Ezekiel’s prophecy of the dried bones 35:11- 14: “I will bring you back to the land of Israel….to your own land.” He failed to realize that Israel and Jerusalem “will be a heavy stone for the whole world.” We can see how Israel is a burden for the whole world. The wars we see now are a burden. And these trials along with the nation Israel will probably last longer than even America.

The Church has a heavenly inheritance, composed of the Body of Christ on earth, and in heaven the Bride of Christ. However, Darby described this “Body” as two distinct peoples with different destinies, though both are saved by grace through faith. His Dispensationalism leaves out the promises of God and His steadfast love for His Chosen people. The fact is God blesses many Jews in Israel with the 3.5-year Ministry of Jesus Christ and the Great Commission. Darby witnessed the persistent persecution and defamation of the Jewish people in his time and may have seen that as God’s judgment. Most futurists agree that Darby’s dispensational theololgy as it stands failed to account for God’s blessings for Israel that occurred: 1) The rebirth of Israel, 2) Israel’s prosperity 3) The power of the Holy Spirit in bringing thousands of Jews into the kingdom in the last two centuries, 4) And the Church working alongside the nation of Israel. But there is another much bigger problem.

Spotlight #2

Darby helped convince Moody and others to accept the 7-year Great Tribulation (Wrath of God) as an outlier event that requires the raptured Saints to appear in Revelation Chapter 4 and a Temple to be rebuilt in Jerusalem along with an Abomination of Desolation. This has become the standard taught in most non-Catholic/Preterist pulpits throughout America. It is so ingrained that few have thought to investigate its foundational weaknesses.

There are 3 KEY problems: 1) In how it originated–did someone or some committee decide that when God told us to count the 1260 days in the Wrath of God –that He intended to apply the same count to every day in the 490 years given in the epic 70-Weeks Prophecy? God HOWEVER told us 7 TIMES (4 times in the book of Revelation and 3 TIMES in the book of Daniel) to only count 1260 days or 42 months, or “a Time, Times, Half-a-time” in that unique 360 day/year count. This is very important—and it makes sense—since this short period is a time a chaos under God’s control for judgment—HIstory or a calendar-measured time is NOT necessary since it will be quickly followed by the Millennium. This is also the reason why God counted the months during Noah’s Flood in the same 30-day/month count. History was not being recorded day by day—-And it was a time of God’s divine Judgment.

Spotlight #3

By ignoring God’s command and counting all 490 years as 360-day years they converted God’s direct prophetic directive given to Daniel as 483 years into a 476 period. What they did was not only count the 3.5 years but also all the other 479.5 years in the shorter day count. This upended the timeline to where they agreed to choose Nehemiah over Ezra. Ezra was a descendant of the Aaronic Priesthood – a scribe- and an anointed leader who trusted in God and not on an armed guard “in a time of trouble”- to rebuild homes for priests, singers, servants among those thousands who traveled with him 13 years earlier than Nehemiah. Nehemiah was decreed to rebuild only the city walls.

This change in time span also forced them to discount the earlier Appearance of Jesus at this Baptism where 1) Jesus had the Holy Spirit come upon him, 2) John the Baptizer declare him the Lamb of God, and 3) God from Heaven declare ” This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matt. 3:17).” By discounting this earlier Appearance they had to discount the 3.5 years of Jesus ministry which fulfilled the first half the 70th year of the Daniel 70-weeks prophecy. Hence they had to extended God’s 3.5 year Wrath prophecy to a 7-year prophecy, change Christ’s Appearance from His Baptism to his Triumphal Entrance and then flip the meaning of Daniel of 9:27 to where the “covenant” is not the New Covenant given to us as He conquered death, sin and Satan on the Cross–when He was made “desolate” on the “wing of abomination.” HERE is the saddest translation mistake—-as it flipped Gabriel’s announcement to the exiled nation –that there Messiah was about to appear —a message of HOPE for them during the coming 400 years of silence! Darby inserted the obscure “ruler” in place of the Messiah. This ruler would be interpreted as the Anti-Christ —and KEY Hebrew words meaning “DESOLATE OR MADE DESOLATE” were flipped to “destroy”or “destruction” and “wing of abomination” flipped to “overspreading…..”

Spotlight #4

ALL of this is a quick summary of what happened in history– to throw off the Prophetic Calendar—-and therefore the study and teaching of Revelation—-no where in Chapter 4 do you see the billions of raptured saints but you do see it in Chapter 7 which fits the 3.5 year Wrath of God that God directed. Nowhere is Revelation do you see a literal Temple—-you would think it would be mentioned as being a place that the 2 Witnesses would be preaching—and where they would have died and resurrected. But there is NO TEMPLE because Daniel 9:27 was adjusted with different Hebrew interpretation to compensate a change from Jesus Christ—-to the Anti-Christ (which should have sent up all kinds of alarms—since Gabriel was sent to announce the Coming of Messiah not the future coming 2,500 years later of an obscure ruler who would receive the title of Anti-Christ. God has warned us that if we add or subract from His last prophetic declaration and panoramic visual presentation of what is to come —we will receive the curses “in this book.”

The book of Revelation is a clear visual explanation of events—–and JOHN sees a number too big to count of saints from every tribe, nation, language and people in Chapter 7 of Revelation—–the book goes into detail to explain why this cannot be those killed prior to the Trumpet judgments as the Darby/futurist system claims. I will say that I do believe in the general futurist viewpoint as it holds to a pre-trib rapture…this is true but the timing and length of that Wrath has to follow what the Word says –as stated 7 times in Daniel and Revelation and not as construed by Darby and those who followed his theory.

Did Darby Discriminate against Israel?

Darby’s most famous teaching concerns Daniel’s first “69 Weeks” being totally separated in time from the 70^th week. Darby’s view is: 1) Weeks 1–69 ended with Christ’s entry into Jerusalem. 2) At this key point prophecy concerning Israel ends. 3) A new dispensation called the Church Age begins. 4) The end of the Church Age is unknown to Daniel and to us. 5) Only after the Church is raptured does God resume His dealings with Israel in the seventieth week.

The Church has a heavenly inheritance, composed of the Body of Christ on earth, and in heaven the Bride of Christ. However, Darby described this “Body” as two distinct peoples with different destinies, though both are saved by grace through faith. His Dispensationalism leaves out the promises of God and His steadfast love for His Chosen people. The fact is God blesses many Jews in Israel with the 3.5-year Ministry of Jesus Christ and the Great Commission. Darby witnessed the persistent persecution and defamation of the Jewish people in his time and may have seen that as God’s judgment. He and DL Moody failed to see God’s blessings to come: 1) The rebirth of Israel, 2) Israel’s prosperity 3) The power of the Holy Spirit in bringing thousands of Jews into the kingdom in the last two centuries, 4) And the Church working alongside the nation of Israel.

Should we Call This The 2nd Law of Prophecy Dynamics:

Spotlight #1 The 2^nd Law of Prophecy Dynamics:

Einstein of Theology but not E = MC²

Darby’s ideas never did fit the picture that God gave us. God’s inherent message was always about the Anointed One who would Redeem mankind, yet Darby and others were willing to flip the obvious “God Standard” and switch everything to an inferior translation or to the opposite subject—and what could get more opposite than choosing an Anti-Christ over Jesus Christ?

It is all in the numbers. After digging deep into theology and all the nuances of flipping Hebrew. switching nouns, pronouns, singular and plural; and interpreting a “wing of abomination” and “the desolator or being made desolate,” it all came down to a simple calculation and not the language. In the end it is Numbers that tell the story not the Hebrew nor the Greek. This is probably why theologians and scholars were baffled and never figured out the simple answer as to why Christ is Daniel’s Desolator, the one who was made desolate on the wing of abomination. What Have They Done?

THE GOD FACTOR = 1 + x = PROPHECY CONSTANT ( Y) – Z (B.C.)

E = 1 + X(A.D.) = 483 – Z (YEAR in B.C.) for instance, if Z=457 B.C.

E = 1 + 26 (A.D.) = 1 + 483 – 457 = 1 + 26 = 27A.D. = The God Factor

The God Factor is the date in which the Anointed One Appears and is the Solution to the whole Mystery Puzzle that has baffled theologians for over two centuries. There was no need for conversions nor multiplication. God made it all simple for us – the sun He created sets the day, month, & year. The reason He uses 360-day years is to accent His Judgment- a time when He is controlling the clock and the knocks. Just as in Noah’s flood there is no purpose for mankind to record events, the end of time is at hand.

By knowing this, all the translations and interpretations fall into place, and the stats and facts start making sense as this book and study on the Dark Sky of Prophecy has proven. The First Law of Prophecy Dynamics is KISS: or Keep It Simple Student. By doing all the conversions eschatology has been thrown for a loop and now needs to regain its proper footing in the halls of Christendom. Below is how the mistake happened as shown in Chapter 8.

The conversion created 476 years when God’s design was for 483 years:

X = 1 + 32 (A.D.) = 476 – 444 + 1 = 1 + 32 A.D. = 33 A.D. = Man’s Mistake

which led to choosing Nehemiah, the Triumphal Entry, and a 7-year Wrath.

A Huge Error made in the Mid-19th Century that Affects Us Today

Isaac Newton had approached Daniel’s seventy weeks as a historic and scientific chronology which would remain aligned with the solar year. He had seen the danger in compressing the 490 years into fixed 360-day units. Writing more than a century before Darby and later dispensational scholars, Newton, the lauded physicist, was not impressed with the idea of calendar conversions and prophetic adjustments that would require a shift in dating the start and end of Daniel’s Messianic prophecy. He connected the 483 years to the Baptism of Christ rather than the Triumphal entry. Scholars should have paid more attention to Newton’s determination to honor God’s scarlet thread and divine intention.

In changing the timeline, futurists change Gabriel’s message in verse 27 to focus on a dark figure to appear 2500 years in the future instead of the fast-approaching appearance of the Messiah. They put a spotlight on the Anti-Christ instead of Jesus Christ. They use a converted 476-year period to focus on the wrong “appearance,” so that Christ’s supernatural baptism and ministry will be outside God’s final prophetic week. They also ignore the work and writing of the anointed scribe Ezra. The wrong story is being promoted so that the converted timeline will fit. The Word reveals the faithful Ezra traveled without soldiers in the time of trouble 13 years before Nehemiah with 1,496 Levites, temple servants, and singers who would need homes for their families. Refer to Figure 4, for the map showing how large the Temple area and Ophel were. Their work did more to rebuild the Holy City than any other mission.

Why have futurists been willing to replace Jesus Christ with Satan’s main-man the Anti-Christ and stick with it? Darby and others may have felt threatened by the rising popularity of Darwinian evolution and other philosophies. But why keep up the theory? Keeping a complete 360-day count while allowing for the conversion to 476 solar years might appeal to the science minded. The futurists may have felt that they could not change back to God’s original Solar Count since the “converted solar years” were so well accepted. This allowed them to keep Darby’s whole timeline and the meaning of Daniel 9:27. They created an exegesis that would use Nehemiah’s decree instead of Ezra’s. But why would they make such a drastic move away from the Messianic interpretation?

Letter to the Saint

[Is the count of Time or the method of counting time Important? Whose idea was it to determine that all 490 years of Daniel’s 70-weeks Prophecy must be counted in 360-day years? God explicitly said 7 different times in the key prophetic books of Daniel and Revelation to only use that short count for the last 3.5 years of this epic prophetic message. Why would God have us use an impractical 360 day per year count throughout history when all calendars are based on 365-day solar years? History will not be recorded in the final 3.5 years ….. the days and years of God’s Wrath.]

Why did so many scholars choose to use 360-day years to measure time in Daniel’s 490-year prophecy? It allowed them to flip Ezra’s decree to Nehemiah’s decree and to bypass Jesus’ Baptism in favor of Christ’s final entry into Jerusalem right before his death. Why did they ignore God’s natural method of measuring time in 365-day solar years. And why did they ignore the strong implication given by God in Revelation and Daniel that only the 3.5-year Wrath qualifies for a 360-day count?

This study has shown that God divided the final week of 7 years into two 3.5-year periods for many reasons. The most important one is that He chose to measure the first half or the first 3.5 years in solar years and the second half in 360-day years. God intentionally measured the entire 483 years in solar years, and the final week of 7 years would naturally follow this progression. However, God told both Daniel and the Apostle John that His Wrath or the second half of the week would be different. His righteous judgment would be measured in prophetic 360-day years and not in solar years. Maybe God did this because prophetic 360-day years are shorter and God wants to express His Mercy and Justice under a unique prophetic light. In the days of Noah God also judged the earth in a 360-day year count. And He repeats this count for His final Judgment.

Like with Noah God provides an Ark to save mankind. This Living Ark replaces the Arc of the Covenant. Jesus Christ is the New Covenant, a Living Covenant, and as Paul puts it a mystery, “Christ in us, our glorious Hope,” (Col. 1:25-26). God prepares the 2000+- year Church Age for His Great Commission. His plan began with the Patriarchs followed by Jacob, the Judaic period and then the Baptism of Jesus Christ. Christ’s 3.5-year saw the sick healed, the meek encouraged, the captives set free, Satan and his “seed” squashed, sin and death defeated, and Heaven’s door opened. The Church with the Gospel of Christ carries the scarlet thread for 2000 years with Jesus declaring: “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

At the same time God will bless the nation of Israel in 1947-48 when He opens the secret of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the world verifying the authenticity of Old Testament Scripture (including the highly critizied book of Daniel), helped Israel defeat the invading Arab armies, and guided the League of Nations and President Truman to establish the nation of Israel. Before the Church Age ends God will rapture the Church and soon afterwards the 3.5-year Wrath of God period follows, but it is a 1260-day Wrath that will judge the world and sin. This will mark the end of man’s crowns and kingdoms and the beginning of God’s Kingdom in the Millennium as Satan and the beasts are defeated. A 365-day count is not necessary since God’s Judgment will be recorded in Heaven and not on earth. Jesus’ Return and Rescue of Israel will be celebrated in Heaven just as the rapture was. There is no purpose in measuring the world’s historical events after the rapture -except to mark the beginning and end of the Wrath.

By the end of the Judaic kingdom the Jews had repeatedly failed to obey God’s command to leave their fields fallow every 7th Year. The fall and 70-years that followed was a test of their faith and likewise we are being tested during this final “week” of God’s Promise. Seven times in Daniel and Revelation God defines the Wrath as being 1260 days, 42 months, or “a time, times, and half a time.” All of these add up to a 360-Day count. But nowhere in scripture does God say that the first half of Daniel’s “last week” year should be measured in 360-day years. God declared that the revealing of His Son in the first 3.5 years followed by the mystery of “Christ in us” were reasons for counting time differently. Where does Scripture itself require us to impose the 1,260-day measurement upon Christ’s first 3½ years? Why have we done it? Most important why have we imposed a 1,260-day count for the 483 years? These are historical years measured by calendars and measured in detail by Daniel’s account in Chapter 11. By imposing this count — Darby and others forced a change in the timetable — 1) switching Ezra’s decree to Nehemiah 2) the “appearance” of the Anointed One to the year of Christ’s death instead of His glorious Baptism 3) connected two uniquely divine 3.5-year periods into one 7-year period 4) and making major changes in the meaning of Daniel 9:27 and the deeply prophetic meaning of “mid-week,” “desolate,” “abomination” and “sacrifices and offerings.”

Time measured in solar years will record the birth, ministry and death of Jesus whereas the 3.5 years of God’s Wrath does not need to be recorded for posterity nor for the Millennium. Jesus’ ministry in the first 3.5 years unfolded in ordinary historical time, whereas God explicitly said the Wrath would unfold in 360-day years. This reinterpretation of the book of Daniel and of Revelation will force the futurist to add —to the Word of God and sadly to the book of Revelaton—-for nowhere in chapter 4 is there a mention of the raptured saints and likewise in Chapter 7 —God has made it obvious that these are the countless raptured saints during the long 2000+or minus Church Age.

God’s Prophetic Timeline (not including the 483 years leading to Christ’s Baptism)

This is basic timeline showing God’s Great Mystery which is Christ in us accomplished by Jesus’ 3.5 year ministry and mission teaching and healing and then paying the ransom for our sins on the Cross. The mystery flows into the 2000+ year Church Age and rapture followed closely by the 3.5- year Wrath that will close out the prophetic 70th week of Daniel’s 70-weeks Prophecy. The Church Age thus begins with God expressing His Steadfast Love and Long Suffering then ending with His Divine Justice and Mercy—as He saves many faithful Jews and fulfills His Promise to Israel. The rest of God’s Prophetic timeline is fulfilled with the 1000 year Millennium where Christ rules from “David’s throne” in Jerusalem. There will not be a Temple, for Jesus himself says that He is the Temple.

Draw Near to God & He will Draw Near to You

If you study the Word of God, obey God, turn from your sin, and run from temptation you will come close to God or better yet God will be able to reason with you-and you will be blessed –for God is great at solving puzzles….and revealing the truth behind the biggest puzzles. “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands… and purify your hearts.” (James 4:8)

The Word of God is Holy…..but what if a version of the Bible has been altered?

Isaiah 66:2 says, “All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.” God’s Word has power–“for it is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart,” Heb. 4:12.

This is why we must be very careful in any kind of interpretation – especially if we try to add something that is not there. Darby and others decided that because God told us to count His Wrath in 360-day years that the entire 490 year prophecy should therefore be converted into those shorter years. However, the fact that God specified only these 3.5 years to be counted by prophetic years should be a warning to us. He is saying these are special years that He will shorten for a reason. He does NOT want us to alter the other much longer part of Daniel’s prophecy.

But Darby did it and therefore had to change the dates of the beginning decree from Ezra to Nehemiah, and had to change the end date from the glorious baptism of Jesus Christ to the Triumphal Entrance. This also caused him to declare a dispensational separation of the Church Age and of a 7-year Wrath of God when in reality God clearly declared that His Wrath would last only 3.5 years, or 1260 days, or 42 months, a Time-Times-Half-a-Time.

What Happend in History to allow the Great Darby Blunder?

Gabriel first appeared to Daniel in Chapter 9 to share a Glorious messsage with Daniel and the entire world that the Messiah was coming and He would Appear on an exact date not too far in the future (Dan. 9:24-27). His ministry and mission would end the need forTemple offerings and sacrifices and would usher in a New Covenant of Grace:

The book focuses on 3 epic moments in history: 1) The Prophet Daniel on his knees in sackcloth being visited by Archangel Gabriel—“you are greatly beloved, Daniel.”2) The Appearance of the Messiah 483 years later at his Baptism: 3.5 years earlier than what has become accepted dogma in most seminaries – due to tainted calculations done by an obscure man named Harold Darby in mid-19th century and probably by many other scholars at his time. God, however, declared that a 360-day year count must be used to define only His 3.5 “Wrath.”

Could this be the Proverbial Apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? Have we consumed a lie and ignored God’s method to define time in exchange for man’s desire to impose his own erroneous timeline? God instituted the 365-Day year for a reason; and it might be because it goes with His natural order for Signs and Seasons. God never said to start with 360-day prophetic years, then convert to 365. He just told us see His Wrath as lasting 1260-days. Knowing this requires seeing God’s prophetic purpose in announcing the Coming of the Messiah. The timeline that follows this understanding emphasizes Ezra’s decree, the Baptism of Jesus Christ, and in Daniel 9:27 Christ making the New Covenant and ending sacrifices and offerings—and He was the one made desolate on the wing of Abomination.

When Darby forced the conversion of four hundred and ninety 360-day years to 365-day years, he changed both the starting point and the end point of Daniel’s 70-weeks Prophecy. The conversion was not necessary since all 490 years were already in solar years. But the scholars in his day determined that God ordained 360-day prophetic years for the entire 490 years. “The world through its wisdom did not know God,” Cor. 1:21. On one hand they honored the ideal of “holy” 360-day years but on the other hand they would dishonor God by failing to see with eyes that see.

In making this conversion Darby and others shortened the 483-year span to 476 years and thus had to demote Ezra’s decree and replace it with Nehemiah’s which would occur 13 years later. He also eliminated Jesus’ ministry from the timeline and added those 3.5 years to the Wrath of God. God’s 483-year span had fit perfectly with 457 B.C. and 27 A.D. (plus 1 year for the 0 year) to equal the time of Jesus’ Baptism. The wrong thinking reigned over God’s directive to only count the last 3.5 years in 360-day years.

Ezra’s decree and noble mission to rebuild the spiritual nature and buildings in Jerusalem was replaced by Nehemiah who journeyed 13 years later and who rebuilt the walls around the city. Ezra acted as a scribe, priest, and leader of the Torah reading during the dedication ceremony. Nehemiah on the other hand was an enforcer who commanded the armed men and builders of the wall and who beat up those who did not obey the commands of the Law. Darby flipped the significance of these two men and their missions and declared that the prophetic 388 years began with Nehemiah and not Ezra. He also switched the end date from the Baptism of Jesus Christ to the Triumphal entrance. This allowed him to separate a 7 year period which he called the Wrath of God that would bring an end to his Church Age dispensation. The truth is Jesus Christ fulfilled the first 3.5 years and according to the Word of God the Wrath of God is only 3.5 years measured in 360-Day years and therefore separate from the first 3.5 years that are measured in solar years and occur at the beginning of the Church Age. God told us in the books of Revelation and Daniel 7 different times that time measured in the Wrath only is to be counted as 1250 days, 42 months, and Time-Times-Half-a-time or as half a week separated by Christ’s supernatural ending of sacrifices and offerings.

All this “discovery” by Darby happened during an enlightenment period in his area of Europe that also saw the rise of Marxism, Materialism and Evolution. After those first 3.5 years of ministry, the Messiah fulfills the Message given to Daniel by Gabriel as recorded in Daniel 9:27. Darby retranslated 9:27 to mean a time when the Anti-christ deceives Israel and places an Abomination of Desolation in a Temple that is not mentioned even once in Revelation. Original Hebrew shows that “He” from verse 26 is the “Anointed One” and not the plural “people of the commander” which Darby insists is a future Anti-Christ who makes a covenant with Israel.