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)
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.
This link will give you a good understanding of the environment that motivated the radical change in how both Daniel and Revelation were reinterpreted:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-happened-we-seeing-eyes-see-peter-hofmann-u1o4c
Gabriel first appeared to Daniel in Chapter 9 to message Daniel and the entire world then and now that a Glorious Appearance would happen (Dan. 9:27) that would end the need for Temple offerings and sacrifices and would be the New Covenant of Grace:
The big question to the Church is; Was Darby a pawn of nefarious forces or was he just a willing intellectual trying to modernize Christian thinking? The author realizes that this subject may seem dry or overly theological, but it is not. This is a mystery-thriller involving real historical figures and the failure of stoic leaders to uphold the integrity of the Scripture. The error or ruse has affected the core message and timing of Biblical Prophecy, and a supernatural power may have been responsible. Is a supernatural conflict taking place now as wars rage and as we dive into a Biblical intrigue between angels, demons, and humans who have fallen for man’s philosophies, religious constraints, and denominational myopia? This 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 and 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. 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 big question to the Church is: Was Darby a pawn of nefarious forces or was he just a willing intellectual trying to modernize Christian thinking? The author realizes that this subject may seem dry or overly theological, but it is not. This is a mystery-thriller involving real historical figures and the failure of stoic leaders to uphold the integrity of the Scripture. The error or ruse has affected the core message and timing of Biblical Prophecy, and a supernatural power may have been responsible. Is a supernatural conflict taking place now as wars rage and as we dive into a Biblical intrigue between angels, demons, and humans who have fallen for man’s philosophies, religious constraints, and denominational myopia?
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 and 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. God’s declared that a 360-day year count must be used to define His 3.5 “Wrath.” He did not say to extend it to all the years in Daniel’s 70- week prophecy. It seems clear that God purposefully kept the other 66.5 weeks of years under the solar-year count. By converting the entire 490 years into a 360-day count the prophetic timeline is severly affected.
Ezra’s decree and noble mission to rebuild the spiritual nature and buildings in Jerusalem was replaced by Nehemiah who journeyed 12 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.
Darby 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.
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. A new book is exposing a Truth hidden by years of dogma and confusion: that Darby was influenced by the intellectual movement in his time and the motive may have been to appease the logic of science (using 365-day solar years verses the non-scientific 360-Day years) and thus glorify the “new practical thinking spreading in Europe and America” verses God.
SCREEN PLAY: THE DARK SKY OF PROPHECY: WHAT HAVE THEY DONE? can be seen here as a short: THE DARK SKY OF PROPHECY —– just paste it to your browser: https://youtu.be/6csUGwACGZU?si=J7dN4GInzeKDVvy3
What Have They Done?
OPENING SEQUENCE — THE MESSIAH
VISUAL
Dark background. Jesus emerges from the darkness.
The opening immediately establishes that the subject of Daniel’s prophecy is not merely chronology, kingdoms, or prophetic speculation.
It is the Messiah.
NARRATION / ON-SCREEN MESSAGE
The seventy weeks point forward through history to the appearance of the Messiah.
TRANSITION
Dissolve from Christ to Scripture and the written prophetic record.
SCENE 2 — DANIEL’S PROPHECY
VISUAL
Close views of an open Bible.
Daniel’s prophecy comes into view.
Pages and passages are photographed cinematically, emphasizing that the investigation begins with the biblical text.
NARRATION
Daniel is praying, “we have sinned …now therefore…O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant”….(Silence as the lamp flickers.)
CAMERA
Slow movement across the biblical text.
The Angel Gabriel appears in same royal Chamber:
“Daniel I have come to give you wisdom and undertanding…thou art greately beloved. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people….and to your Holy City, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness….”
SCENE 3 — THE CENTRAL QUESTION
VISUAL Jesus on the Cross appears soon after the scripture below is scrolls through
DANIEL 9:27 is revealed on the scroll…”He shall make a covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week He will cause offerings and sacrifices to cease. He shall be made desolate on the wing of abomination….until the consummation of the desolate is complete.”
NARRATION
The investigation asks whether commonly accepted prophetic assumptions actually arise from the biblical text itself as the words change into another interpretation: “and on the wing of abominations shall come one who destroys and even unto a complete destruction until the decreed end there shall be war, desolations are decreed.
What does Daniel actually say? The film begins raising the question of how Daniel’s prophecy has been interpreted that the word “destroy” was used to replace “desolate” which have two completely different meanings….Jesus cannot be destroyed but He was made desolate in every possible way as he took upon himself the sins of the world.
SCENE 4 — THE CROSS
VISUAL
Calvary.
Three crosses against the setting sun.
Christ hangs upon the central cross.
Figures stand below.
JESUS
“It is finished.”
SOUND
Music falls back.
Allow Christ’s words to stand with little or no competing narration.
TRANSITION
Hold briefly on the Cross before returning to Daniel.
SCENE 5 — DANIEL AND THE SEVENTIETH WEEK
VISUAL
Bible opened to Daniel.
Relevant portions of the prophecy are emphasized.
NARRATION
The film begins examining the remaining portion of Daniel’s prophetic timetable—the final week and particularly its division into halves for God is clear that each 3.5 year period is to be measured in 360-Day years. Seven times God repeats that 3.5 years is equal to 1260 days or Times, Time, half a Time. 7 Times God warns us not to use 365-Day years. Yet we disobeyed God and did exactly that. Jesus fulfilled the first half week by ministering for exactly 3.5 years fulfilling the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree- which can be read outloud as the the film focuses on the Landowner and the farmer discussing whether to chop down the Fig Tree representing Israel.
The question becomes increasingly focused:
What happened to the rest of the seventieth week?
TITLE REVEAL
VISUAL
The principal artwork appears.
Two prophetic figures.
The clock.
The divided cities.
The cross of light.
The dark prophetic sky.
TITLE
THE DARK SKY OF PROPHECY
WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?
SUBTITLE
A Biblical Warning. A Prophetic Question. A Final Hour.
MUSIC
Full thematic statement.
Then gradually diminish beneath the next narration.
SCENE 6 — RETURN TO THE TEXT
VISUAL
Daniel again.
Light passes over the pages of Scripture.
NARRATION
The viewer is invited to reconsider Daniel’s seventy weeks—not as a confusing calculation centered upon fear and the Antichrist, but as a revelation leading toward Jesus Christ.
TRANSITION
Daniel dissolves into the Gospel of John.
SCENE 7 — THE LAMB OF GOD
VISUAL
Bible opened to John.
Warm light illuminates the page.
SCRIPTURE / NARRATION
“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
— John 1:29
VISUAL INTENTION
This is an important theological anchor for this is the end of the 483 years in Daniels 70-weeks Prophecy….or the end of the 69 weeks marking the Appearance of the Messiah.
The prophetic calculation is beginning to move away from speculation and toward the person and mission of Christ.
SCENE 8 — THE FUTURE-TEMPLE QUESTION
VISUAL
Contemporary imagery suggesting the world, Israel, and modern prophetic interpretation.
NARRATION
The film introduces a teaching that Daniel’s abomination must occur in a future rebuilt Temple even though Jesus says that He is the Temple and no Temple is mentioned in the entire book of Revelation.
EDITORIAL NOTE
This is a question to be investigated, not merely as an accusation.
The audience is allowed to examine the evidence.
SCENE 9 — DANIEL IN SUPPLICATION
VISUAL
Daniel is now seen as an elderly man.
He wears rough clothing—sackcloth.
Ash marks his face.
He is bowed in humility and grief.
NARRATION
Wearing sackcloth and ashes, Daniel confesses the sins of his nation and pleads for God’s mercy.
CAMERA
Remain close enough to feel Daniel’s anguish, but do not require visible lip movement.
His posture communicates the prayer.
LIGHTING
Subdued.
The room should initially feel heavy with sorrow and judgment.
SCENE 10 — THE INVESTIGATION
VISUAL
Modern investigative imagery.
A wall covered with documents, photographs, timelines, notes, connections, and questions.
NARRATION
The investigation examines Daniel, Revelation, the rapture, Israel, the Temple, and the final years of human history.
EDITORIAL NOTE
This sequence establishes the film as an investigation.
The Scriptures—not the investigation board—is the ultimate authority.
SCENE 11 — DANIEL 7
VISUAL
Return to Daniel.
Light across the biblical page.
NARRATION
The investigation contrasts interpretations centered upon fear and the Antichrist with a reading that leads directly toward Jesus Christ.
TRANSITION
Slow dissolve.
SCENE 12 — THE SEVENTY WEEKS ARE ALMOST FULFILLED
VISUAL
Open Bible.
Daniel’s prophecy fills the frame and the 2000 Church Age appears with the saints being filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and spreading throughout the world to share the Gospel. But there are trials and tribulation…..with many martyrs showing that this is the Great Tribulation.
NARRATION
Daniel’s seventy-weeks prophecy is almost fulfilled.
What remains is the rapture—and the remaining 3.5 years to complete the final last week or 7-years of Daniel’s 70-weeks Prophecy.
SCENE 13 — RETURN OF THE TITLE / CENTRAL THESIS
VISUAL
The principal Dark Sky of Prophecy artwork returns.
PURPOSE
The film is moving from presentation of the problem toward its central argument.
SCENE 14 — THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK
VISUAL
The Cross.
Christ is shown in isolation against the sky.
NARRATION
In the middle of this prophetic seventieth week, He makes the New Covenant, is cut off—
made desolate—
on the wing of abomination.
The imagery should slow down here.
Do not bury the statement beneath excessive music or visual movement.
This is where the audience needs to understand that the “He” of Daniel 9:27 is Jesus Christ and not the Anti-Christ.
SCENE 15 — THE FOG
VISUAL
A lone figure walks through dense fog.
Visibility is limited.
NARRATION
Its purpose is to remove the fog of confusion.
VISUAL METAPHOR
Confusion gives way to clarity.
This motif could recur throughout the finished film.
SCENE 16 — OPEN THE SCRIPTURES
VISUAL
A Bible is opened.
Hands carefully approach the text.
NARRATION
The invitation is simple:
Open the Scriptures.
Examine the evidence.
Ask the question: why did Darby remove Jesus Christ from this pivotal verse and put the Anti-Christ here. Was it to accommodate the trend towards science and pragmatism—to appeal to the human mind and the new science of using math and correct measurements such as solar years instead of Prophetic 360-day years. The choice forced the change of the timeline, the elimination of Jesus’ 3.5 year ministry and replaced Ezra’s decree with that of Nehemiah’s.
EDITORIAL PRINCIPLE
This is the governing method of the documentary:
Show the evidence rather than merely tell the audience what to believe.
SCENE 17 — THE EARTH AND THE PROPHETIC SYSTEM
VISUAL
A person holds an image of the earth.
NARRATION
The earth shakes, yet many modern prophecy movements cut the sacred thread.
TRANSITION
Move from the global imagery toward Israel.
SCENE 18 — ISRAEL
VISUAL
Israeli flag.
NARRATION
The film affirms God’s continuing covenant purposes concerning Israel by showing the blessings that God has given the new nation of Israel and its great achievements.
EDITORIAL NOTE
This distinction is important.
The argument should not be presented as Israel versus the Church.
The question is how Scripture itself relates Israel, Messiah, covenant, judgment, and redemption.
SCENE 19 — THE QUESTION THAT HAS LASTED GENERATIONS
VISUAL
The principal title artwork returns.
NARRATION
What if one of the Bible’s most important prophecies has been misunderstood for generations because of a false reinterpretation.
PAUSE
Let the question remain unanswered for a moment.
SCENE 20 — THE MINISTRY OF JESUS
VISUAL
Jesus ministers among the people.
The sick, blind, suffering, and oppressed come to Him.
NARRATION
Jesus heals the sick, the blind, and the demon-possessed for half a week.
VISUAL PURPOSE
The prophetic number is no longer merely mathematics.
It becomes the living ministry of Jesus Christ.
SCENE 21 — EVIDENCE AND INVESTIGATION
VISUAL
Return to investigative materials, timelines, historical evidence, and visual connections.
NARRATION
Throughout Scripture, historical investigation, dramatic reenactment, visual timelines, and careful comparison, the evidence is examined.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Keep returning from research to Scripture.
SCENE 22 — THE MEN WHO SHAPED MODERN PROPHECY
VISUAL
Christian historical imagery.
Bible study.
Cross.
Teachers and theological movements are introduced.
NARRATION
John Nelson Darby, D. L. Moody, C. I. Scofield, and later prophecy teachers have shaped what millions of Christians now believe.
EDITORIAL NOTE — IMPORTANT
Darby who came up with the whole theory was an obsure scribe who lived in the middle of mainland Europe near Germany where intellectuals were debating Marxism, Materialism, and Darwins Evolution. Show the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and how these philosophies had roots in the culture at that time and the seeds of evil were being sown among many who may have influenced Darby. Darby then traveled to America and influenced Moody, and Scofield.
Historical claims should be documented on screen or in the film’s source notes as America had just gone through the civil war, was looking for growth in its industry and world trade through pragmatism, science, and inventiveness.
END OF RECONSTRUCTED OPENING SECTION
FILMMAKER’S GUIDING PRINCIPLE
Throughout the reconstruction, ask:
CAN WE SHOW THIS INSTEAD OF EXPLAINING IT?
When Daniel speaks—show Daniel.
When Scripture speaks—show Scripture.
When history matters—show the historical evidence.
When Christ fulfills the prophecy—show Christ.
When two interpretations differ—place the texts beside one another and allow the audience to see the difference.
The Bible remains the principal witness.
NEXT RECONSTRUCTION PASS
The next editing pass should recover the narration more precisely from the finished soundtrack— divide the film into exact screenplay scenes with:
SCENE NUMBER
TIME CODE
INT./EXT. LOCATION — TIME
VISUAL / ACTION
DIALOGUE / NARRATION
SCRIPTURE
MUSIC / SOUND
TRANSITION
FILMMAKER’S NOTE
Do you ever research things or do you just take it for granted that the “authorities in that area” are telling the truth and the whole truth? This Epic failure in judgment by Church leaders especially in America who accepted Darby’s radical concept with open arms even though he had been rejected in most of Europe: this is the topic of a new study called Dark Sky of Prophecy: What Have They Done? Go here to see it: https://youtu.be/6csUGwACGZU?si=hp2jHZRlJmgjvq2t
If God sent were to send the Archangel Gabriell back to us, he would say I gave you the LORD’s Word clearly, yet you have changed its meaning so much that I cannot call it the message that my LORD has shared with you. Seek God’s Heart with all your heart, soul, and spirit. God is warning us, “Do not be brainwashed.”
When Darby and all his millions of followers digress from God’s heart they are accountable to those eagerly listening for Truth, encouragement and direction. Don’t you agree? God has made a lot promises and yes, we should know how He is answering them. Most of those promises are in the form of prophecies. In fact almost 1/3 of the Bible relates to prophecies made by prophets guided by God’s hand; and God is answering some of those right now. If you doubt this please take time to read my new book “Dark Sky of Prophecy” that will open up the Heart that God has for you. You see those promises reveal what God is doing and will do to not only save you and your family, but also a large remnant of the Jewish people.
This book reveals an antisemitic bent in the futurist and the preterist schools— which is a result of Augustinian and Darby’s influences. These influences remove the heart of God’s plan for the Church and His people and replace it with dogma and falsehoods. Darby’s dispensational viewpoint and the Replacement theology coming from Reformed theology are in error and that is why there is a general fog in the minds of those who have to listen to it over and over again. Note that God warns that those who add or subract from his warnings and revelation in the Book of Revelation will be cursed—–maybe that mental fog is protecting people !
This post also addresses the failure of Jewish leaders who have accepted Jesus as their Savior to confront the major errors in the Futurist/Darby school of prophecy that dominates all prophecy teaching in mainline Protestant Churches. There are many Messianic Jewish leaders who should know that Darby’s Dispensationalism and his school of thought in regards to Daniel’s 70-weeks propchecy was and is antisemitic—-he flipped it away from the anointed Ezra and the Baptism of Jesus Christ and then used his dispensationalism to omit Israel from the Church Age!! Do you comprehend this? Darby did not know that God would Bless Israel by reconstructing the Nation in 1948—the “Dry Bones Prophecy” was fulfilled! Yet all these Rabbi’s ignore this and likewise authors like Jonathan Cahn. Do you not realize that Darby’s futurist point of view states that there will be “suffering like never before” in Jerusalem in the end time despite the 2 Witnesses and the 144,000 sealed Jewish saints?–have you studied Daniel 9:26-27 and how Darby broke proper grammar and Hebrew lexical common sense by transforming the “he” to the anti-Christ when the HE is clearly Jesus Christ? Wake up! You are being blinded!
“For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” I Sam. 16:7
Helping God’s Light Push Back Darkness:
The book of Revelation does not support Darby’s supposition concerning the Temple, the Abomination and the timing of the Rapture; and the correct translation of the book of Daniel does not support his re-interpretation of 9:27. Why has most of the Church concluded that Darby & Futurism are right?
Is this the Proverbial Apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? Have we surrendered God’s divine tool to measure time in exchange for man’s scientific need to comprehend and measure time at a different prophetic level? God instituted the 360-Day year for a reason, and He does not have to tell us why. We should trust that during the prophetic 3.5 years God, is going to measure time differently for a special reason. Maybe to purposefully confuse us.
The Jew was told to add one month every 8 years. Maybe the key 3.5-year period occurs within those 8 years. We are arrogant to think that Christians today are superior to those long ago who trusted in the purity of God’s Word. Seven times in Daniel and Revelation God defines 3.5 years as being 1260 days. This means that His Prophecy is to be measured based on a 360-Day Year and not on our human based man-directed system of measuring the 3.5 year time span. The major prophecies in both Daniel and Revelation are based upon the dynamics and application of this divine measurement and timeline.
When Darby forced the switch away from the God directed 360-day year to the man directed 365-day year, he changed both the starting point and the end point of Daniel’s 70-weeks Prophecy. To make this switch he had to demote Ezra’s decree, replacing it with Nehemiah’s which came 13 years later. He also had to eliminate Jesus’ ministry from the timeline and add the 3.5 years to the Wrath of God. He switched the 483 years measured in 360-day years to a new timespan of 476 years measured in solar years, Darby changed Gabriel’s message to focus on a dark figure to appear 2500 years in the future instead of on the fast-approaching appearance of the Messiah. He linked the 476 years to the Triumphal Entrance in 33 A.D. In doing this he ignored Christ’s supernatural and Glorious Baptism and the ministry that followed.
How was Darby able to switch Jesus Christ to Satan’s main-man the Anti-Christ and get away with it? This may say a lot about the effect that industrialism, the new wealth class, and intellectualism had on the minds of educated Americans and Europeans. The doubts planted by the Darwinian evolutionists helped to propel Darby’s redefinition and reinterpretation. It motivated leaders of the Church such as DL Moody and Scofield to rethink the awkward use of 360-day years. For the sake of pragmatism and “New-think” they surrendered the Glory of Jesus Christ’s Baptism, mission, and ministry. The focus was on science and social pragmatism. They severed the Scarlet Chord and replaced it with the serpent tongue from the Garden of Eden.
The evidence has been presented. We must now correct one of the biggest blunders ever in history of the Church. It will not be easy for 90% of Prophecy books, lectures, sermons, media tools, and lesson plans are anchored on Darby’s errors. Eccl.10:5: “There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler.” Let’s correct it before it is too late!
Has Darby’s re-interpretation of God’s Word led to failures we see in the Church? Most Evangelical, Charismatic and Baptist pastors follow his theory. Churches have a flood of entertainment but a drought in heart strengthening studies. They ignore diving deep into God’s Word to uplift the heart; and completely ignore studies related to Eschatology. The Church is not aware how this failure has negatively impacted the image the Church projects. Darby’s lies may have led to the death of missionaries in Islamic countries. Could this also be one reason for the breakdown in the longevity of pastorships, marriages and families? Could this feed the collapse of morality and stability among single adults and teenagers in general?
The Book of Revelation reveals who the real Jesus Christ is. He speaks and the enemies of the entire world are defeated in a Word (from Revelation). Cults do not dare read Revelation for in this book he is declared King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, and the Alpha and Omega. By changing Revelation we are grieving the Holy Spirit and the King of Kings. Note that the Author of this Article is a scientist who practiced in the medical sciences for 44 years and whose heart was changed by God in 1983–saving his soul and life. “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Prov. 4:23. “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart… For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts…” Matthew 15:18-19. “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you…” Ezekiel 36:28-29.
SECTION 1
DO YOU TRUST THAT GOD’S WORD IS INNERANT? It is! Now open YOUR BIBLE to the book of REVELATION:
Darby’s Hebrew Translation of Daniel 9:27 is a misinterpretation. He and others altered the original Hebrew to fit a false narrative to use solar year calculations and Nehemiah’s decree instead of Ezra’s. This book will show evidence of this gross misconception and others which affect all modern Darby-Futurist prophecies and the prevalent view today.
This was a copy taken from my new book not yet published called the Dark Sky of Prophecy- but transferring the formatting changed the structure in one area
Are you struggling with your writing or with taking captive your thoughts?
Writing is very interesting… I feel like I am trying to expose the dragon for what it is – sometimes the dragon that is in the air, but other times the dragon that seems to hide in our minds. That brings up the best struggle that is actually a blessing — the defeat of the dragon that wants to seek us out like that roaring lion. That is why we must take captive every thought to the Glory of God.
The following is a copy of Chapter 1 in my new book “The Dark Sky of Prophecy: What Have They Done?“
Chapter 1: God is Near
In the sixty-six books of the Bible, God gives more than 8,000 promises and over 3,000 prophecies. Seven hundred passages reveal who God is through His Name. For instance, the Word reveals that Jesus is Creator of everything:
“For by Him all things in the heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether they are kings, lords, rulers or powers. All things have been created through him and for him. He himself existed before anything else did, and he holds all things together,” Col. 1:16-17.
Since Jesus Christ created everything, it would make sense that he has control over the deep mysteries of both science and non-science. Does this include control of time and events? The Word has two good examples: When King Hezekiah was sick, God gave him 15 extra years of life and at the battle in Gibeon, Joshua needed more daylight to secure the victory and so after he boldly prayed, God commanded the sun to stand still.
These miraculous responses, divine proclamations, and other deeply profound messages in the living Word portrays a broad and beautiful picture of who God is. He is beyond words and knowledge, for we still cannot fully explain the Trinity and the idea that God is three persons in one. Jesus said, “I and the Father are One.” He is Sovereign and our Creator, who is full of Grace, steadfast in Love, eager to uphold justice, abundant in forgiveness, merciful, and open to fellowship and dialogue as he takes interest in us.
When Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they were cast out of the Garden of Eden. God did not want them to live forever in their state of sin. Tempted by the Serpent they doubted God’s Word choosing to follow the Serpent’s lie and their own will and desires.
In Genesis 3:15, God tells the Serpent and Eve that their seed will be at war, and the seed of the Serpent will strike her Seed, but her Seed will crush the head of the seed of the Serpent. This first prophecy introduces the central theme of God’s Word: War between good and evil, redemption through Jesus Christ, the defeat of Satan, and God’s final judgment upon sin and rebellion, the Anti-Christ (an evil seed), and the false Prophet.
Genesis continues by revealing a series of covenants and promises that God made through Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. Then eight hundred years later during the fall of Israel God’s prophets receive more detail about God’s plan to save the Jewish nation and the world. Eight hundred years later Jesus Christ fulfills almost all those promises and covenants. On the Cross, He defeats the “seed of the serpent.” He declares, “It is finished.” The Temple veil is torn from top to bottom and Heaven’s Door is opened to all who place their trust in Him. Jesus the “Door,” is the Lamb of God that gives access to God’s throne at any time, Hebrews 4:16.
John the Apostle, adds to Jesus Christ’s divine biography by stating, “In the beginning the Word existed, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God,” John 1:1-2. Yes, this boggles the mind but in essence the Word of God which “is living and active” is Jesus Christ. Jesus, the Word, was with God the Father in the beginning. This powerful verse illustrates why the Bible is hard for the unbelieving mind and heart to grasp. Jehovah’s Witnesses change this verse to say, “In the beginning the Word existed, the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.” They have changed it because they do not believe Jesus is God.
Jesus Christ is not just a “divine recording” of the past but is living and active now in both the Word and in us through the Holy Spirit. In the prophetic book of Revelation 1:8, he declares, “I AM the Alpha and Omega, who is, who was, and who is coming, the Almighty.” In the Gospels Jesus states, “The Father and I are One,” and comforts his disciples by promising that the Holy Spirit, the “Helper,” will come upon them when he leaves.
The mystery and power of the Holy Spirit points back to the Baptism of Jesus by John. Jesus “emptied himself of the Godhead by making himself a servant,” and “He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,” Phil. 2:7-8. Jesus set the example for the 2000-year long Church Age and what it means to be a humble servant of the Lord. We will see how all this fits into the dynamic of Daniel’s divided 70th week prophecy.
Genesis 1:2 reminds us that from the beginning the Trinity involves the Father, the Son Jesus, and “the Spirit of God who hovered over the waters of the earth”- while the “earth was desolate, unformed, and shrouded in darkness. God’s Spirit generated life that formed in water and later the land. A divine parallel is Jesus who was made desolate and shrouded in darkness on the Cross. Ironically, He is the Author of Life” who conquered death and sin so that we might live. He, the Father and Spirit existed before time began, before the sun, moon and star. He is three persons-in-one being of one divine nature dwelling together in eternal love, joy and fellowship.
The mystery of the Trinity is the mystery of the Church and what separates Christianity from all the gods, cults, and religions of the world. History clearly shows that the Bible or Word of God is the only book that gives a trustworthy account of historical events, people, and places in the past, present, and future. And it reveals an incredible cosmic rescue plan:
| “God has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of the Son whom he loves, through whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins,” Col. 1:13. |
Sin condemns mankind and death is its consequence. God created man and gave him the opportunity to choose good from evil and placed a spirit, soul, and conscience in his heart. Adam, however, chose to disobey God opening the pathway to the Knowledge of Good and Evil and a permanent separation from God called “sin.” So, God became “man” to reverse what Adam did and Redeem humanity. This is a true Cosmic rescue story.
The seven-day Creation message reveals a historic event, a wonder of science, and a series of promises from God’s heart. Those promises are both physical and spiritual and involve both Laws of Thermodynamics and the “law” that God placed in the heart of all Creation. God’s power holds atoms together and each layer above or beyond was divinely designed for life and our enjoyment. Despite our great progress in biology, physics, and astronomy we are still unable to generate the “spark of life.” And we still do not know how light from distant stars fits the constraints of the historical Creation timeline. But God can do anything including project or expand time, space, and light. On Day 4 of Genesis the Word reveals the purpose of God’s design for the heavenly lights was:
“To separate day from night and as signs (Mo’adim) for appointed times.” The same word mo’adim is used in Levitus for “appointed festivals.”
Mo’adim means “Signs” and not seasons, yet most Bibles prefer “seasons” instead of “signs.” Yes, the sun was used for seasons, but most lights, the stars and planets, were set in place as Signs for appointed times. The light from stars, moon, and wandering planets would announce the birth of Christ and the Great Sign of Revelation 12. This is Prophecy Alert #1
This alert is of critical importance because most Bibles include the word “seasons” but omit “Signs for appointed times.” This is an example of omitting the correct Hebrew translation and it blinds people to the fact that God puts signs in our path to get out attention and “rescue us.”
The sun and moon have been used for Signs in the sky during eclipses, blood moons, and dark suns. The Great Sign of Revelation 12 is a warning sign of a time or paradigm when Satan is permanently cast down from heaven and will then try to destroy the “Woman” or Jewish nation. He will fail as God provides the “wings of an eagle” to carry Jews to safety in the wilderness of Jordan. God protects these “saved Jews” during the entire 3.5 years of His Wrath. Again, this is a reminder that God still loves and cares for Israel’s people. This fact is a centerpiece of God’s Promise. Meanwhile Satan is doing all he can to destroy the Church and Jews around the world.
God declares Day 7 a “day of rest” reserved for worship and to recharge the soul. Those 7 Creation days also reflect seven thousand years of His cosmic timeline fulfilling 2 Peter 3:8, “With the Lord one day is as one thousand years.” Each Day of Creation is declared “good” by God, sealing His stamp of approval. It is a sampling of his sovereign power and will help us know that he has a “Good” plan for both the nation of Israel and for the Church. His promises and prophecies are Good for all time and for situations.
| “The Resurrection and the Life. The person who believes in him, even though he dies, will live,” John 11:25. |
God appointed faithful people to record, teach, and declare His promises and prophecy. This included scribes, priests, soldiers, and even zealots, fishermen, and a tax collector. At Pentecost the fire of God’s Spirit came alive in believers. This Holy Spirit acts as our guide, helper, revealer and convicts us of our sin. He reminds us that Jesus is:
“The Resurrection and the Life. The person who believes in him, even though he dies, will live,” John 11:25.
To find Truth one must go to God for he is our Rest and Refuge and is Near to those who love him. God promised Abraham that his seed would bless all the nations; and that seed is being sown in hearts with the Word recorded in Ram drives, remote projection, television, radio and Apps. His promise echoes throughout time and in scripture from Abel’s sacrifice to Isaac who was a type of Christ 2000 years later, and then another 2000 years beyond that to the Cross. Noah’s Ark and the Cross “were and are” God’s provision and promise for eternal rescue or Salvation. Figure # 1 below explains this historical timeline with the 70th week of Daniel and the Millennium also illustrated:
The illustration here cannot be transfered (sorry) you will need to read the book
After the 2000-year Church Age, the rapture will happen, ushering in a three-and-a-half-year period of Wrath followed by the Millennium. Jesus will return in all His Glory at the end of the Wrath to defeat Satan and the Anti-Christ. Our present “Church Age” is the mystery sealed for our time as stated to Daniel in 12:4: “roll up your scroll and seal your words until the time of the end. Many will rush around while knowledge increases.”
The Church Age is sandwiched between two 3.5-year periods that add up to Daniel’s 70th week: 3.5 + Church Age + 3.5 years = 7 years. It is a time of sanctification like the 10 Days of Awe in the Temple when a “divine window” outside ordinary time was opened. The 10-Days-of-Awe were only 7 twenty-four hour days. The Church Age surrounded by a special “7-year Spiritual Week” reflects the supernatural quality of the 7-day spiritual week in the Temple that was 10 days long! Both act to purify God’s “priesthood” The “10” days of Awe were for purification primarily and the 2000-year Church Age is for sanctification of believers; the priesthood of God.
A Christian also has a supernatural quality in that he or she is the Temple of the Holy Spirit. All believers are part of the “priesthood of God” and are being purified by God, under constraints of time yet anchored eternally.
Because God is faithful and just, this author believes Scripture teaches that Christians will be removed before the outpouring of God’s Wrath. From Genesis to Revelation, from Enoch’s life to the “obedient Church of Philadelphia,” God declares that He will “snatch away” his own before the Wrath of God comes. God’s Wrath is half the length that Futurism promotes. Below is just one of at least ten powerful “rapture” scriptures in the Bible:
“With a shout of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of God’s trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever,” I Thess. 4:16-17.
In the Second Coming, when Jesus Christ defeats the forces of the Anti-Christ, he sets foot on the Mount of Olives and parts it in half so that those in Jerusalem can flee to the Jordan River. In the rapture the saints “meet the Lord in the air,” and return with Jesus later. Those are clearly two separate events. If you do not believe in God’s Rapture, how can you explain that difference? Jesus Christ’s return with the raptured saints to rescue millions of Jews in Jerusalem and Judea is described in Zechariah 14:4:
| “On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.” |
There is no massacre of Jews. Jesus gathers the refugees from Jerusalem and leads them south towards Bosra in Jordan. This is the 2nd Coming of the Lord when the Jews see the Lord and declare, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.” They Believe in their Messiah and then He defeats all the enemy forces. Note this great victory and rescue by the LORD, as this is key to the debate on whether extreme “suffering” happens in the future city of Jerusalem. Jesus says to all who believe in Him,
| The Word and the Holy Spirit are our divine connection to the Lord. |
“Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age,” Matthew 28:20.
Jesus may be in Heaven but there really is no separation. The book of Joshua 1:8 reminds us to meditate in God’s Word “day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it.” God does not want us to ignore the writings of the prophets and especially the Books of Daniel and Revelation. These are key books revealing history and the world’s condition, God’s plan for us, and details of events that will soon happen. The Word says that if you seek Jesus with all your heart you will find Him.
Misrepresenting and misinterpreting the Word of God has set the Church on a wrong trajectory concerning prophecy. God warns, “He who loves money will not be satisfied with money.” Prophecy speakers and authors have invested their reputation on publications or programs predicting wars or events based on incorrect analysis of scripture. Are they willing to admit their errors and maybe lose some credibility and prestige? Are they willing to admit that some of their past sermons or writings were incorrect and warn others? God wants us to be 100% truthful, honest and humble. Store your treasure in heaven, the rewards are much greater. God exhorts:
| “Do not be conformed to this world but continuously be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God’s will is—what is proper, pleasing, and perfect,” Romans 12:2.
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The Evangelist Greg Laurie has stated:
| “The Bible is a package deal, it does not change, and it is not a salad bar for you to pick and choose what you like or don’t like.”
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God gives us a choice to follow him and His Spirit or to follow the world and its darkness. Jesus said, “I have come that you might have Life and have it more abundantly,” John 10:10. Darkness and the world says, “My body, my Choice!” or “I feel different, I am no longer a man.” Jesus Christ says, “You were fearfully and wonderfully made by me.” Craig Laurie sums it up:
If you ignore prophecy because you do not understand it, keep reading, invite the Holy Spirit to guide you, and you will be blessed as the fog in your mind disappears. This author remembers when he could not “see” what a certain pastor or a book was teaching until he studied it, prayed about it, and asked the Holy Spirit to give him discernment. Be an astute consumer.
God is not distant. He wants to meet with you and interact with your thoughts and ideas. He is not merely the God of prophecy, history, and Creation. He is near to those who seek Him. The same God who created the stars, fulfilled thousands of promises, and revealed the future through His prophets invite us into a personal relationship through Jesus Christ. Jesus
| The Word became flesh and lived among us. John 1:14 |
Christ is the eternal Word that will not return void:
The Word became flesh and lived among us. John 1:14
He walked with us, talked to us, healed hundreds just by his touch or a word, calmed the storm, multiplied food, set captives free, and defeated death and the supernatural all for us. His Word is near. His Spirit is near. His promises are near. And soon, He will return.
In the next Chapter we will delve into the biggest controversy in Prophecy. To start we should introduce the man who announced Jesus’ arrival since he plays a pivotal role. Jesus says that “among men born of a woman there is no one greater than John the Baptist.” God points to John the Baptist because He wants us to see the key role he plays in Prophecy! Yet his God directed role is completely diminished in the futurist’s prophetic scheme. We will see that this is the same error made in choosing Nehemiah over Ezra when determining the Appearance of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. This is Prophecy Alert #2 and will be expanded more in this discourse.
The futurist and all the millions who follow them like pied pipers are led to believe that the historical “appearance of the anointed One” occurs near Christ’s death on the Cross. They believe and teach that the “Triumphal Entrance” represents His first “appearance,” and not Christ’s super-natural baptismal announcement by the Holy Spirit and God’s voice from Heaven.
| “Abstain from every form of evil. Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it,” I Thessalonians 5:22-24.
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So, the author asks you to digest and measure the entire message of the Gospels. Why would God diminish 98% of Christ’s ministry and mission to leap forward into His final four days? Why would God ignore the Words and Testimony shared by Jesus Christ during his 3.5 year walk and face-to-face ministry and mission among the people. He met the needs of the people and answered their deep theological questions; He does the same for us. Are you now ready for a true adventure into His Word? One of hundreds of Christ’s life’s lessons shared through Paul is written below:
“Abstain from every form of evil. Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it,” I Thessalonians 5:22-24.
The backlash against Trump may usher in the Anti-Christ. The President has built up so much angst that irrational behavior follows in his wake. When truth impacts society so greatly with change and hope there will be ever stronger forces attempting to push against it. Every year these forces have grown darker and deeper and more irrational. We now have an Islamist, a Pope and a Jew in seats of great power opposing the effort by one man to stop nuclear holocaust. The Jew represents the fallen materialistic Jew in America and the worldly flesh who have sold their soul to Baal and idol worship. The Pope represents a false works-based Babylonian religion, and his background is no less antithetical. Ironically both are heavily Anti-Israel and Anti-God. The Islamist is ole Hakime Jeffries who loves calling Trump names and threatening him at every turn. This guy is a real nut case and pure anti-God, anti-Israel, and anti-goodness. He is probably the most irrational and toxic of the three. This evil trinity represents seats of power full of pride and corruption seeking self glory and the destruction of the American system of checks and balances for a dictatorship of a few.
As Cardinal the Pope represented one of the most corrupt cities in America, Chicago. It has the highest murder rate and the most corrupt political machine in the world. The city and the man represent the darkened heart of America. The Jew is the past leader of the Senate that tried to incarcerate the present President of the United States. He represents all the lies and deceits that have been concocted from the dark corners of Washington D.C. He and his cohort in the House of Representatives organized a nest of corruption that controlled the weakest President in the history of the nation. Jeffries is true disrupter with little virtue or character, a man willing to destroy the people who truely make this nation great.
They almost destroyed the nation by opening all our borders and boundaries, inviting our greatest enemies in infiltrate every section and level of society. Like a virus it affected the soul and spirit of our nation to where we were no longer respected around the world. This invited Russia to attack Ukraine, China to threaten Taiwan and the Philippines, Islamic forces of ISIS to take over nations all over Africa, and the Ayatollah to coerce and control the nations of the Middle East. Europe was weakened by loss of will power and infiltration of Islam. The Western powers were at the brink of an economic collapse while the power and influence of the BRIC nations and their growing coalition were filling the void.
The leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran have promised to destroy America which they call the “Great Satan.” And they promise to “push Israel into the Sea” after calling it the “Little Satan.” Yet the blind and corrupted media ignores the “Death to America” chants coming out of those Islamic cults and their leaders. Their eschatology calls for chaos which they believe will welcome in the 12th Imaan who will then destroy all the “Satanic powers.” Ironically all three of this “crackpots” have chosen this Islamic cult over the leader of the free world!
Cosmic Crossroad Recount: God is Near: Hallelujah!
The Son of God gave up Heaven’s throne and breathed his first breath in a dusty feeding troth in Bethlehem. As Creator, the Beginning and End, He had made man from the dust of the earth. Could that be why He used mud to heal the man born blind? Why would he step down from Heaven to experience our frailty? He knows that we are weak and easily tempted. Obviously, He knew how much we need Him, so he became one of us and paid for our sins. That is the greatest Gift ever given. The Life, Death, Resurrection and Return of Jesus Christ are God’s plan for eternal redemption for all who believe and trust in Him.
Jesus declared himself “Living Water” and said that “anyone can drink of it.” He declared, “I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life,” John 8:12. He gave us the Holy Spirit so that we will not walk in darkness. The Great Mystery is that God’s Spirit is sealed in all who believe in Him, guaranteeing eternal fellowship and life with Him. And Jesus Christ who is the Word (John 1:1) is “living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the ideas and thoughts of the heart,” Heb. 4:12. God moves in us through the Holy Spirit which helps us understand everything including prophecy and other profound Truths in the Word.
It is important to comprehend what is true or false and to never give up seeking the Truth. Jesus called Satan the Father of Lies and warned us concerning the last days that “no one deceive you.” Deception comes in many forms including saying that Jesus Christ is just an angel. There are other more subtle ways to deceive and that is why adding or subtracting to God’s Word or changing its translation and interpretation is dangerous. Since the Church was formed there have been heresies, false Christs, and misplaced prophecy. We must see with eyes that see.
Ephesians 1:13-14 states, “You, too, have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed in Jesus Christ, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until God redeems his own possession for his praise and glory.” Spreading the Gospel of salvation to every nation and tribe is the commission given by Jesus Christ just before He ascended into Heaven. Satan wants to stop it and will do anything to deceive those seeking God or who are lost in sin. As Jesus said, he has come to set the captives free and give sight to the blind. Jesus accused the Pharisee’s of not seeing with eyes that see and failing to see the Signs of the time. Ironically, we are now in an era where a prevailing system of prophecy is dictating the truth while not having eyes that see. They have failed to see the Signs of the time while blindly suppressing all other viewpoints.
The Apostle John who wrote Revelation states, “In the beginning, the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He existed in the beginning with God. 3 Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life brought light to humanity. And the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out,” John 1:1-4. This not only sums up the Gospel but also the Character of Jesus Christ, Creator and Sustainer despite darkness. Satan can deceive and lie but God’s steadfast love and truth will prevail. This is why God established a 2000-year Church Age prior to completing His Plan for the Ages. He has been and will be near us during this wilderness period where the Church is tested and strengthened.
Presently God is near to all those seeking Him. In the book of Revelation John declares, “He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him-even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be. Amen,” Revelation 1:7. People will mourn because of past unbelief and failure to see with eyes that see and hear with ears that hear. It is important to understand prophecy so that you will see the signs and know how God intends to fulfill His promises and prophecies. You do not want to be like the blind guides who give false knowledge and views dependent on false interpretation of key prophecies such as Daniel 9:24-27. Listen and see the God that is near you. To the believer He is in you guiding you and sustaining you. Seek Him out.
John ends his Gospel by saying, “these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through me,” John 14:3. Throughout His ministry beginning with His Baptism we discover that “his name” is “Wonderful Counselor, Bread of Life, the Living Water, Resurrection and the Life, Great Physician, The Lamb of God, and dozens of others. They reveal the Heart of God and why He wants to have a relationship with you. He was also called “Good Teacher” and He greatly desires for you to know the Truth so that you can grow close to Him. Hell is the only place in the Universe where God is not Near. Presently Jesus is very near to all those seeking Him. Psalm 108, tells us that He is “slow to anger” and does not deal with us “according to our sins, nor repay us according to our inequities.” His anger falls on Jesus. “The steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him,” Ps. 103:17.
His “Name” proclaims who He is and how He upholds and protects us. The incredible Truth is Jesus Christ is not only near but is literally in our heart. The Word gives us clear hard Truth to guide us, comfort us and most of all fulfill our greatest needs. He is the Beginning and the End and therefore gives us a look into the future. He is the Author of Life and of the Future and therefore the time he gave us, the 3.5 years of His ministry, is the foundation of the Prophetic 7-year Timeline that completes history and crowns God’s mission to save mankind. Unfortunately, this is not what you will hear from the typical pulpit. The worse thing that you can do is to stop seeking Truth.
God protects us with His prophetic commands: 1.) “Come and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool,” Isaiah 1:18. This fatherly command requires both faith and trust- a willingness to reason and walk with God in obedience. 2.) “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,” Mark 16:15.” Again, have faith and trust to share the Gospel. 3.) Concerning the Book of Daniel Jesus commands, “whosoever reads it, let him understand.” God wants us to study and discern the truth so that we can prepare for His Return. 4.) In that walk to Emanus Jesus scolded them “Oh fools, slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.” God wants us to see with eyes that see. 5.) In the book of Revelation, Jesus declares, “Blessed is the one who reads this message, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things that are written in it; for the time is at hand,” Rev. 1:3. God will bless those who commit to reading and understanding His Promises, His Signs, and His Warnings because the “time is at hand.” He wants us to understand and decipher the signs of the time and the profound Truth in the Word so that we can pray in the Spirit for direction and discernment.
During Israel’s 70-year captivity God spoke to and through the Prophet Daniel. Some say he was a type of Christ, because his prophecies had a direct connection to the coming Messiah. In prayer and fasting Daniel interceded for the nation and received visions and a powerful message from the Archangel Gabriel. The most consequential is recorded in Daniel 9:24-26: “Seventy sevens are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.” Verse 25: “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,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. Verse 26: “After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.” The puzzle of words and phrases above is God’s prophetic timeline for the Ages. Verse 27 is not quoted because it will be discussed in the next Chapter because it is even more confusing.
This announcement by Gabriel points to more than birth but also the Life, Resurrection and Return of Jesus Christ. The timeline spans over 2500 years from 457 B.C. to the Millenium period. The first period involves 49 years (7 weeks) to rebuild Jerusalem, then 434 years (62 weeks) until the Anointed Prince, Jesus Christ appears. The last Week or 7 years begins with the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. The first half ends with Jesus putting “an end to sin, atoning for wickedness and bringing in everlasting life.” The 2nd half of the 7 years begins with the Wrath of God and ends with the Millenium. Between the two halves of the Week is the Covenant period of Grace given to mankind for Salvation to all who believe. The Rapture of the Church will rescue believers before the final 3.5-year Wrath begins. There is no 7-year Wrath of God. One must keep seeking the Truth to be prepared.
Unfortunately, as time has passed some key verses such as those in Daniel have been reinterpreted and poorly applied. What was accepted by early Church fathers has been twisted into one 7-year Wrath of God that omits the severe trials that the disciples were about to go through. It seems clear that Jesus was giving them the warning in the Olivett Discourse, after all He mentions “them” and “you” twenty-four times in that discourse.
This book will give an accurate, biblically centered explanation that fits the spirit of the Word. It recognizes that the nation of Israel was formed in 1948 fulfilling God’s Promise. Knowing this will help you understand prophecy and thus discern truth. The Holy Spirit will reveal to you God’s heart for Israel. In Jeremiah 31:3, God states, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore, with lovingkindness I have drawn you.” This is just one of dozens of promises that God has made to Israel. God is drawing both Jew and Gentile to Him and declares, “All those led by the Spirit of God are Sons of God,” Romans 8:14. Jesus Christ wants us to know that He is not only God’s Son but also Lord and Lord of Lord’s. Our faith will grow as our understanding grows and as we share this Gospel to both Jew and Gentile. He helps, guides, and protects us and declares: “I will never leave you nor forsake you,” Heb. 13:5.
God literally walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. And He warned them and the Serpent about a future battle between their ancestor (Jesus Christ) and the Serpent’s seed (the Anti-Christ). Throughout His Word he reveals thousands of prophecies that light up our past and illuminate our future. They expose darkness, for He is a “lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path,” Ps. 119:105. Below is a simple outline of one of the most important unanswered prophecies in the Word of God. This is Daniel’s 70-Weeks Prophecy quoted earlier and spoken by Gabriel. Sixty-nine and a half of the 70 weeks have been fulfilled but the last portion of the final week carries with it the prophetic era of Salvation and rebirth that was spoken of by the prophets.
As we walk with Him through time we will see and experience His Steadfast Love. We will see a unity of Spirit and Truth that holds the message together and carries God’s Spirit into our heart and not just our mind. This is not an Academic study but is a dive into the heart of God and the trust and obedience that comes through Him.
There is no confusion nor doubt when one discovers God’s profound Truth and Love for us. In His steadfast love we find hope for our present predicament and future trials. God restores us and reverses our circumstance. His steadfast love endures forever and is expressed in redemption, sanctification and by His “great wonders” (like parting the Red Sea). He is our daily Good Shepherd that will help us learn and grow in Him (sanctification). There are other profound truths mentioned in the outline that will be discussed. So, hang tight and allow the Spirit of God to touch and teach your heart and mind as you read the next Chapter.
Note that now more than ever the “weeds or tares are growing ever bigger along the fruitful grain,” Matt. 13:30. North Africa, Constantinople, and Egypt were completely Chrisian until the 7th Century. Revelation’s 7-Churches were Christian and now they do not exist, The Sancta Sophia was the largest Christian Church in the world – now it does not exist. In England girls are gang-raped and not prosecuted maybe because it has over 85 Sharia courts.
Do you remember what Jesus said concerning his execution: Jesus declared that he had 12 legions of angels at His disposal to rescue him? However, His plan was much greater, to be a sacrifice for the sins of the world. So where are those angels? Revelation states that thousands surround Heaven’s throne. However, Hebrews 1:13-14 states, “But to which of the angels did he ever say, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet? All of them are spirits on a divine mission, sent to serve those who are about to inherit salvation, aren’t they?” It is possible that those angels have been reassigned to protect Christ who is us. Therefore, they are helping those “inheriting” salvation. They play a part in the great 2000 year era of the Church. And prophecy concurs that the Church is upheld by God’s hand until the rapture. We can have hope even in a hopeless world.
In the Next Chapter we will delve into the center of a deep prophetic debate that will reveal profound Truth and shades of falsehood that have grown within Christian theology. We will see how the mistranslation of just a few words changes prophecy and creates a fog of confusion. These Prophecies are central to God’s heart and His promise to both Israel and the Church. The danger comes when we ignore the Spirit and heart in which certain words are used and override it with an Academic matrix of uninspired ideas to fit preconceived notions.
One notion is that Israel was permanently rejected by God when Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 A.D. by the Roman Empire. These “enlightened authors” and others within the last few centuries concluded that the New Covenant replaced the Covenant given to Israel, overriding key Promises made to Moses and other prophets. This rejection of Biblical truth and other dogma helped birth Nazism and the popularity of Islam in the West. Agnosticism and rejection of good theological truth has grown in popularity with each generation feeding antisemitism, transgenderism, homosexuality, angel worship, witchcraft, and very bad Eschatology (the study of Prophecy). These philosophers, often under the guise of Christianity, undermined the heart of God’s message to our generation. It has become an intellectual trap like a modern-day “Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.”
We are witnessing how bad dogma affects political movements and policy throughout the world. People do not realize that it is setting the stage for the Anti-Christ and the coming Wrath of God. Just remember that Christ is Near and promises, “My Grace is sufficient for you, My Strength is made perfect in weakness,” II Cor. 12:9.
As we jump into the next Chapter remember that God often speaks to us through prophets like Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah and many more including King David. “Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets,” Amos 3:7. Therefore, we must take care to accurately translate and understand truth that God conveys in His Word. He loves us and wants to strengthen us. This Psalm is for persecuted people under trial as Iranian Christians are and was sung by Priestly Sons of Korah. It reminds us that we are a Royal Priesthood (II Peter 2:9) and that we can approach Christ’s throne of Grace at any time, (Heb. 4:16). “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth give way,
though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,” Psalm 36:1-2.