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Revelation Introduction Part One Introduction Seven Spirits Of God Walking Amidst The Candlesticks The Seven Angels - A Mystery A Sharp Two Edged Sword The Little Horn And The Synagogue Of Satan The Throne Of God The Lamb Of God Part Two Introduction The Seals - Shifting Identity The Tail Of The Dragon Is Constructed The Removal Of The Restrainer Behold A Pale Horse Last Three Seals - Alignment The Last Three Seals - The Resurrection The Last Three Seals - Triune Part Three Introduction The Trumpets - Shifting Octal Subgroups The First Trumpet The Second Trumpet The Third Trumpet The Fourth Trumpet Wormwood = 'Death' Part Four Introduction The Fifth Tumpet The Sixth Trumpet. Why Serpents, Why Not Just Scorpions? Seven Angels And Seven Candlesticks The Angel Of The Church On The Earth And Sea Witnesses To Left And Right The Two Witnesses The Trumpets Rest Part Five Introduction The Woman Clothed With The Sun The Dragon War In Heaven The Angel's Mechanism To Salvation God's Sovereignty Questioned Michael Fights Back With His Angels Time No Longer The Dragon Defeated Jesus' Epistle To Satan The Flood From The Dragon The Beast From The Sea The First Beast Explained The Beast Come Up From The Earth Part Six Introduction Life To The Image I Life To The Image II Life To The Image III Life To The Image IV Life To The Image V The Three Angels To The Right And Left The Wrath Is Come Part Seven Introduction The Wrath Poured Out - Part I The Wrath Poured Out - Part II The Wrath Poured Out - Part III Three Unclean Spirits Like Frogs I Come As A Thief Mystery, Babylon The Great The Woman Riding The Beast Explained The Angel Of The Church Overcomes Laodicea The Smoke Of Her Burning Part Eight Introduction The Victor The Spoils The Lake Of Fire Does Not Equal Reign One Thousand Years The Millennial Reign? A Caveat The Second Coming Is When? The Judgement The More Sure Word Of Prophecy Part Nine Introduction A New Earth The River Of Life The Final Promises Redux Introduction Section One Static Subgroups Spirits, Candlesticks And Stars A Sharp And Two-Edged Sword The Lord's Bow, The Elders, The Four Beasts The Book, The Lamb, The Right Octal Reversals, Alignments Horses, Bows, Crowns, Swords And Balances Death, Hell And The Earth Section Two The Altar - Two Parts Cut Off The Sun, Moon And Stars Of Heaven Mountains, Islands, Blood And Trees The Four Winds Of The Earth The Blood Of The Lamb The Censer And Prayers Of The Saints Hail And Fire Mingled With Blood Section Three The Third Part Of... Voices, Thunderings, Lightnings And Earthquakes Flying Through The Midst Of Heaven The Bottomless Pit Smoke, Locusts, Green Things Tormented Five Months The Appearance Of Locusts Section Four The Great River Euphrates The Army Of The Horsemen And The Rest Of The Men The Little Book Power To Tread On Serpents And Scorpions The Reed, Rod and Temple Witnesses And Olive Trees Rain, Waters Into Blood, Plagues On The Earth Section Five The Beast That Ascendeth Overcome -The Great City The Spirit of Life, Clouds And An Earthquake The Tenth Part The Kingdoms Of Our Lord Wonders In Heaven The Beast Risen Up From The Sea Section Six Worshipping The Dragon The Beast Coming Up Out Of The Earth The Last Trumpet Six Hundred Threescore And Six The Mark, Number And Name Of The Beast Stood On Mount Zion The Harvest Of Sharp Sickles The Temple Filled With Smoke Section Seven The First Vial Of Wrath The Second Vial Of Wrath The Third Vial Of Wrath The Fourth Vial Of Wrath The Fifth Vial Of Wrath The Sixth Vial Of Wrath The Rest Of The Wrath Section Eight Divided Into Three Parts The Judgement Of Babylon The Beast That Was, And Is Not The Beast Dissected The Beast Rebooted Babylon The Great Is Fallen Death, Mourning And Famine Section Nine It Is Done The Sabbath Continues After The Wrath The Word Of God Predestination And Deliverance The Last Day Burn In Hell? The Tabernacle Of God With Men The City Descends The Final Word Sayings Faithful And True Structure, Sequence and Segue Introduction The Seven Letters In Ephesus In Smyrna In Pergamos In Thyatira In Sardis In Philadelphia Of Laodicea Seven Thunders Uttered The Seven Trumpets The Seals - Loosed Restraint The Seals Opened On The Earth The Seals Opened In Heaven What Or Whom Is Being Restrained? The Seventh Seal Of Rest The Trumpets And Viols The Trumpets - In Or Out? Overcoming In Stages - Treading The Winepress The Alignment Of Trumpets To Viols The Completion Of The Viols Is The Wrath In Reversal? The Scope Of Wrath The Peculiar Structure Of The Viols. Sequence Within Segue Wonders In Heaven The Burning Of Babylon The Descent Of New Jerusalem Gathered Together To Armageddon Alignments In The Sequence Sequence Completed Babylon Fallen No Millenium Those That Have The Victory The Book Of Daniel I Introduction An Opening The Statue Dream The Matter Gone A God That Reveals Secrets The Dream And It's Interpretation The Dragons Tail Revealed The Image And The Fiery Furnace Imitating The Kingdom Of God Falling Down - Instruments Of Ishtar That God That Shall Deliver The Tree Dream Nebuchadnezzar's Dream Daniel's Interpretation Is Not This Great Babylon? Babylon The Great Is Fallen The Party To End All Parties Daniel Interprets The Writing The Kingdom Is Taken Daniel In The Lion's Den Working In The World Daniel Breaks The King's Decree Interred To Be Devoured Delivered From Evil The Four Beasts Racing The Restrainer The Four Beasts The Ancient Of Days Did Sit The Fourth Beast Explained The Book Of Daniel II Introduction The Ram And He-Goat Greece Subdues The Medes And Persians The Little Horn The Interpretation In Summation Daniel's Seventy Weeks Daniel's Prayer Seventy Weeks Determined Skill And Understanding A Matter Of Timing? The Kings Of The North And South I Daniel's Revelation Of Christ To The End Of Persian Rule The 1335 Days - The Power Of The Arm The 1290 days - The Abomination Identifiers In The Text The Abstraction Of Daniel's Vision The Kings Of The North And South II The South Establishes His Kingdom His Sons Stirred Up Casting Up A Mount The Strength Of The Kingdom A Raiser Of Taxes The Kings Of The North And South III A Vile Person Stands Up Stirring Up His Power And Courage Lies At One Table The Kings Of The North And South IV The Restrainer Removed The Ships Of Chittim The Abomination - A Little Help Given That That Is Determined Shall Be Done At The Time Of The End The Final Clash Made Succinct The Conclusion - The People Are Tried	Seventy Weeks Determined Gabriel comes swiftly to Daniel to give an answer to him concerning the vision, and with a message for Daniel's people to expect the cleansing of the sanctuary by Jesus Christ. -- Click To Expand/Collapse Bible Verses -- Dan ch9:v20-27 Dan 9:20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; Dan 9:21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. Dan 9:22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. Dan 9:23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (KJV) Daniel's prayer was for both the people of Israel and the temple of God to come, to be built upon the holy mount in Jerusalem. Gabriel answers this prayer to give him "skill and understanding". Gabriel brings Daniel the news that from the throne of God "The commandment" was issued - an answer to Daniel's prayer. Daniel is to understand the vision which gave him such trouble. Gabriel speaks of seventy weeks put before the people of Israel, (c.f. the giving of an open door to philadelphia) in order for them to put an end to the period of 2300 days of transgression by the host given Antiochus against the daily sacrifice (culminating in the coming of Christ). I.e. to either make the people Israel wholly under God , or for them to be scattered amongst the Greeks, and not of Israel. To make an end of sins and reconciliation for iniquity refers to the future ministry of Christ preceded by John the baptist - to accept Christ and "bring in " everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision (Write the scriptural canon preceding and of the NT, by their own account) and lastly to anoint the most holy. This "anointing" of Christ is as the realisation that Christ is not the "Prince of the host" but is God "Most High" - In doing so the mystery is complete and the sanctuary cleansed. The temple is then spiritual and not physical. Gabriel then delivers the prophecy of the 70 weeks. From the issuing of the commandment to restore and build the temple until the coming of the Messiah shall be seven weeks and then 62 weeks. Following this is one last week during which Messiah is "cut off" whereafter the land of Israel as a physical nation comes to an end. Messiah (Christ) confirms the covenant he mediates for one "week", causing the sacrifice to cease and for the offerings to become desolate after His own sacrifice once for all; even allowing the desolations to continue until the consummation found in the coming destruction - (the reward for the desolation) that is therefore justly determined - by time. The question remains then,.. what is a "week"? It is commonly asserted that a week of seven days is a "week of seven years" and that from the moment the commandment went forth to rebuild Jerusalem there would be a minimum 483 years until the coming of Christ (as at some point in the last "week"). This would place the beginning of the period of seventy weeks (working in reverse from 33AD at the time of the cross) between 458 BC and 451 BC. We know from the book of Ezra the verse where the commandment to build the second temple is issued; Ezr 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Ezr 1:2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. (KJV) In the reign of Darius the temple was finished after opposition before the king, (which was later cleared up) - yet later in the reign of Artaxerxes the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem itself is issued, in the form of the king issuing a decree to fund the sending of a great company of Israelites back to Jerusalem with Ezra the scribe. The temple already finished, and the wall later to be built (in the book of Nehemiah). This was to be a period building the city itself - so funding it was part of the decree of Artaxerxes. Artaxerxes decree (found in Ezra Chapter 7) was issued in 457 BC - Right bang on the period of the seventieth week! It is plausible that the period between the commandment and the going forth to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem is given by Gabriel (from the account of Nehemiah, Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem in the 20th year of the king's reign, around 445 BC.) We my assume that the walls took some years to rebuild, possibly the separation could be as much as 49 years, the end of the initial period of "seven weeks" from Gabriel's answer to Daniel. That leaves 434 years after the period of rebuilding ceases until the arrival of Christ. The 62 weeks end with one last "week" in which Messiah is cut off - (In being crucified alone - as the first-born of the resurrection to prove Himself blameless and the new covenant then in effect as truth to us - not for Himself.) The people of the prince to come are the Romans under Titus that ploughed flat the city of Jerusalem. Then end of the physical temple will be with a flood - a sudden destruction, (at the hands of Titus) The attempts of Daniel's people to continue to sacrifice in their sins rather than anoint the Most High, are fruitless to prevent the end of the war - the daily sacrifice of the old covenant will have passed away. God will not hear them for their desolations of sacrifices. There is no sense of the last half of the seventieth week being postponed into the future. Christ's work on the cross was completed and finished within the expected time period. The one episode that could be considered a further confirmation is when the spirit was poured out on the gentiles, after that there is nothing new except the compilation of the scriptural canon. Continue To Next Page Return To Section Start Return To Previous Page