70th week of Daniel timelines

 

360-day year in prophecy

Is there any significance to the number of days for the year of the flood being 360 days, when you add up all the days given in Genesis? I think the great tribulation period or the 2nd half of the "Week" is simply based on a 360 day year (from the middle of the Week to the end of the Week is 1260 days). Whether the rest of the 70 Weeks are 360-day years, or 365+-day years, only matters if you're trying to come up with what decree began the 70 weeks prophecy.

If the 2300 mornings and evenings of Daniel 8 don't apply to Antiochus IV (1150 mornings and 1150 evenings combined from his desecration of the temple to its restoration) but the 70th Week, then it must be from the middle of the Week (the Antichrist's AOD) to the anointing of the Millennial Temple.

Forgiveness but consequences

 When it comes to forgiveness, I think it is best to deal with the offense as soon as possible. We should be forgiving type people.

Probably what's difficult is the nature of the offense and the consequences attached to it. When it comes to forgiveness, what consequences are we responsible to not hold the offender for?

It seems people can say they forgive someone, and yet they exercise consequences on the offender. That's where it gets difficult. You can say you forgive someone, but the relationship is not the same, because you don't trust them or are more cautious around them.

It may take a wise person to sort out what is being forgiven and what consequences remain from the offense.

There is a conditional aspect of forgiveness with God, for until we acknowledged our sin to God, fellowship can't continue as before. That seems true in human relationships, because one can choose to continue to be friendly with someone who offended them, but the failure of the offender to acknowledge what they did will affect the relationship.

I had someone tell me that another person would not even acknowledge something offensive they said to a third party. The offended person was very upset, and told me they would still be the offender's friend, but couldn't trust him around the third party, and so would avoid inviting him to events involving the third party. It's an unfortunate situation. So the forgiveness is kind of limited because of the consequences are ongoing.

fathers, young men, and children in First John 2:12-14

 ¹² I write to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake. ¹³ I write to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, Because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, Because you have known the Father. ¹⁴ I have written to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, Because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, And you have overcome the wicked one. 1 John 2:12-14

The writer gives 3 or 4 physical stages of a man as a kind of representation of their spiritual assets (“little children” translate 2 different Greek words). The way the stages and assets are given suggest that these are not different stages of growth within the readers—some are this, and some are that-- but assets they have in their lives—maybe contrary to the claims of others. All assets describe where they are spiritually and relate to the issues already addressed, though the “young men” related assets deal with their adversaries in what follows in the letter.

There may be some correlation between the physical aspect and its representation and the spiritual asset that is ascribed to it (an asset is a quality that is beneficial). The little children are actually a different Greek word in each use, the second one is of maybe a little older age. The first use of children is about forgiveness of sin, and the second is about knowing the Father. The Father reference is about knowing God--both times. And the young men overcoming Satan, and being strong and the word abiding in them. All these things are things true about them.

He uses three titles to recognize three spiritual assets. These are not three levels of maturity in the assembly, but three assets they possess. Children, fathers, and young men do represent 3 levels of natural maturity or development, and that does correspond to the spiritual asset represented, but all three coincide in the individual. The natural maturity/ development corresponds to each spiritual asset as each has developmental progression to it.

Children and Fathers come before young men because they correspond to what John has already covered.

Children correspond with the forgiveness of sins, in both salvation and fellowship. Fathers correspond with knowing God as to His character and moral will. Young men correspond to that which hasn't been covered yet, but probably recognizes spiritual victory they have had in spiritual conflict, and it is that aspect of their spiritual character that continues to do battle by the word of God and the qualities of being Children and Fathers.

Concerning “knowing God,” I think two aspects are seen here; the one as with children with reference to the remission of sins and the new covenant, and the other as with fathers in coming to Know God in His character and will (getting to know God).

By the spiritual assets, they will overcome their adversaries.

The end of sacrifices, the abomination of desolation, and Preterism

 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.

Many—particularly those called “preterists”--believe Daniel 9:27 was fulfilled by Christ. The first half of the "70th Week" (being a 7 year period) was fulfilled by Christ in his ministry ending in the middle of the "week" by His death by which came the end of the sacrifice and offering.

The second half of the “week” was fulfilled by His disciples ministry. Some (preterists) believe there is a gap in the 70th Week of about 40 years: the first half fulfilled by Christ, while the second half fulfilled in the events of AD 70 with what happened in Jerusalem with its destruction and the temple.

I believe Daniel 9:27 was not fulfilled by Christ and his disciples or in the events of AD70.

I believe Jesus was referring to Danel 9:27 when He said, Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains ... For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. Matthew 24:15-16, 21.

The Septuagint (LXX) is used by Christ and the New Testament in quotes of the OT. The reference to the Abomination of Desolation spoken by Daniel standing in the Holy Place comes from Dan 9:27 in the LXX.

The LXX reads:

And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the midsts of the week my sacrifice and drink offering shall be taken away:

and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of the time an end shall be put to the desolation.

The abomination of desolation, according to Christ, is followed by Great Tribulation, which is followed by the second coming.

The 42 months and 1260 days referenced in Revelation would correspond to that second half of the 7 years of the 70th Week, being 3 1/2 years (42 months, or 1260 days).

Those time references cover the Great Tribulation period that follows the Abomination of Desolation (AOD) which is brought to an end by the coming of Christ.

The wording of Daniel 9:27 is similar to other references in Daniel concerning the taking away of sacrifices and the abomination of desolation. There are 4 places in Daniel (8.13, 9.27, 11.31, 12.11) that speak of the daily sacrifice being taken away and the AOD being set up.

A few of them were fulfilled by Antiochus Epiphanies IV, but the others refer to the prophecy of Daniel 9:27 in which we have the time frame for complete restoration of Jerusalem and Israel (Daniel 9:24).

Daniel 8:11: (NKJV) "He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host; and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down."

Daniel 8:13: "(NKJV) “How long will the vision be, concerning the daily sacrifices and the transgression of desolation?"

Daniel 9:27: (LXX) "and in the midsts of the week my sacrifice and drink offering shall be taken away: and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations"

Daniel 11:31 "(NKJV) And forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation."

Daniel 12:11: "(NKJV) “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days."

Those who believe the AOD took place in AD70 are usually anti-futurists. "Preterism" is the view that most prophecy has been fulfilled in the past, mostly in the events of AD70 with the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. They would argue that the temple cannot exist in the future since Israel was judged and the Church and New Covenant replaces Israel, the Law, and the Temple.  Therefore, there can't be any Divine approval for a restoration of sacrifices that will be stopped. 

The reference in 2 Thesalonians 2:4 to the “temple” has to be the Church and not the Jewish temple according to Preterism: the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

They would not correlate the holy place of Daniel's prophecy (referenced by Jesus) with Paul’s reference in 2 Thes 2:4 to the temple—Daniel’s and Jesus’ references were fulfilled in AD70, and Paul’s reference in history by maybe the Pope. Though those who believe the disciples fulfilled the second half of the "Week" can't believe Dan 9:27's "desolation" was fulfilled in AD70; Jesus' reference to Daniel's prophecy has to be a different from a different text and time, unrelated to Daniel’s 9:27 taking away of sacrifices and AOD.

Yet if an AOD could happen 40 years after the Church began--as some preterists believe, who believe the second half of the “Week” was fulfilled in AD70 and not by the ministry of the Disciples of Christ, then, likewise, it could happen in a future temple in Jerusalem during the existence of the Church.  For if the sacrifices were stopped in AD70, and this is considered part of the AOD, 40 years after the Church began, then why couldn’t the futurist view work the same way, being a future AOD in a future Jewish Temple during the Church age? Preterists have to have gaps just like futurists (between 69th and 70th Week), because of those 2 things, if the end of sacrifices was by the death of Christ and the AOD was during the events of AD70--about a 40-year gap. If any Preterists say all of the prophecy happened in AD70, what was the first half of the 70th Week about, and what is the second half of the Week about?

2 Thesalonians 2:1-4 corresponds to Revelation 13.3-8 and Matthew 24:15-22 concerning the “Great Tribulation.” Revelation 13:5 has 42 months and Daniel 7:25 has time, times, half a time with reference to persecution of the saints: Rev. 12:14 has the same time reference, and Rev. 11:2,3 has 42 months and 1260 days, and Rev 12:6 has 1260 days. Daniel chapter 12 speaks of the unparalleled affliction/ tribulation, "time of the end," a "time, times, and half a time," and the "power of the holy people" being "completely shattered." The correlation is 3 ½ years of the Second half of Daniel’s Week.

Savoies and Acadia

 From the Acadian Expulsion in 1755 to 1763, some of the fourth generations of Acadian Savoies remained in exile or were held in prisons in Halifax. Many died from diseases and heartbreak. 

Francois Savoie was my 10th great grandfather, and he is the genealogical dead end for the Savoies.  He came from France to Acadia, Canada, married Catherine LeJEUNE, and had 9 children.  His parents are unknown.

Francois Savoie is said to be the progenitor of all the Savoie /Savo/Savoy/Savoye/Savois families in Southwest Louisiana.  Though I am a descendant of Francois' son Germain, my line of descent did not end up in Louisiana.

The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the descendants of 17th and 18th century French settlers in parts of Acadia (French: Acadie) in the northeastern region of North America comprising what is now the Canadian Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the Gaspé peninsula in eastern Québec, and the Kennebec River in southern Maine.  Wikipedia

The British first deported Acadians to the Thirteen Colonies, and after 1758, transported additional Acadians to Britain and France. In all, of the 14,100 Acadians in the region, approximately 11,500 were deported, at least 5,000 Acadians died of disease, starvation or shipwrecks. Men, women and children were forcibly removed from their homes and their land, which they had farmed for a century. Their houses were burned and their land given to settlers loyal to Britain, mostly immigrants from New England and then Scotland. The event is largely regarded as a crime against humanity, though modern-day use of the term "genocide" is debated by scholars. A census of 1764 indicates that 2,600 Acadians remained in the colony having eluded capture. Wikipedia

Without making any distinction between the Acadians who had been neutral and those who had resisted the occupation of Acadia, the British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council ordered them to be expelled.[e] In the first wave of the expulsion, Acadians were deported to other British North American colonies. During the second wave, they were deported to Britain and France, and from there a significant number migrated to Spanish Louisiana, where "Acadians" eventually became "Cajuns". Wikipedia

From the Acadian Expulsion in 1755 to 1763, some of the fourth generations of Acadian Savoies remained in exile or were held in prisons in Halifax. Many died from diseases and heartbreak.  Among the few who survived the British exile was Charles Savoie, who is assumed to have died later in New York. The rest of his large family is buried in scattered places in New Brunswick and Quebec. Among the Savoies later found in Louisiana were...From this family came another Francois Valcour Savoie, who is the ancestor of the Southwest Louisiana descendants.

I'm a descendant through a different son of Germain Savoie, but this is interesting: “After Germain Savoie died,” wrote Harry J. Savoy, “most of his sons moved north across the Bay of Fundy to what is now New Brunswick. Four of them evaded capture and deportation during the Canadian Expulsion, although the rest were deported. Germain’s youngest son, Charles Savoie, and his family of eight children were exiled to New York. His eldest son, Francois Savoie, was separated from the family and sent to Georgia.

Francois Savoie's 3rd great grandson left Canada and settled in Kansas, and after that, 2 generations later, John (Jean Baptiste) Savoie settled in Illinois.  His son, John Francis Savoie, settled in Albion, Indiana.  He was my great grandfather.  He was a farmer and owned a hotel in Albion (the "Savoie Hotel").  My great grandfather's family was recorded to be a French-speaking family.  That seems amazing after so many generations.  I've read that my grandfather was a French interpreter during World War One.   My grandfather died when I was about 5 years old, so I vaguely remember him.

Does God have emotion?

 Classical theism famously insists that God is simple or non-composite, impassible, immutable, eternal in the sense of atemporal, omniscient in a sense that entails complete knowledge of the future, and omnipotent in the sense that there can be nothing that exists or occurs independently of his causal power. Classical theists hold that these attributes follow from God's being the ultimate reality in the order of being and the ultimate explanation of things in the order of discovery. Hence, it is claimed, to deny any of them is at least implicitly to deny God's ultimacy.                                                                                                          by Chris Morrison (Facebook Friend)

Immutability and Impassibility are key, historic attributes the church has confessed, attributes that distinguish the infinite and eternal Creator from the finite and temporal creature. Immutability means God does not change in any way; he is unchanging and for that reason perfect in every way. Impassibility, a corollary to immutability, means God does not experience emotional change in any way, nor does God suffer. To clarify, God does not merely choose to be impassible; he is impassible by nature. Impassibility is intrinsic to his very being. Impassibility does not mean God is apathetic, nor does it undermine divine love. God is maximally alive; he is his attributes in infinite measure. Therefore, impassibility guarantees that God’s love could not be more infinite in its loveliness. Finally, impassibility provides great hope, for only a God who is not vulnerable to suffering in his divinity is capable of rescuing a world drowning in suffering.                                                                                                   by Matthew Barret

I don't know how classical theism works with human free will, but I believe that somehow free will is figured into what will come to pass.

Setting free will aside, how should one understand those references to God's emotion, such as wrath or sorrow or jealousy? These are different than things like love or mercy, because the former are temporal emotions and the later are the nature of God. Some believe God has emotions and others say that they are anthropomorphisms or anthropopathisms. Some say God is impassible and does not experience emotional change. But others would disagree.

Anthropomorphisms are human characteristics ascribed to God. God doesn't have an arm, but if Scripture speaks of the arm of God, we know it represents something about him, though he doesn't really have an arm. But when Scripture speaks of God's wrath, what does it represent? Maybe it is using a human emotion to represent God's disapproval. Jealousy represents the fact that God will not share his glory or his creation with another. God is just and disapproves of injustice. God desires to show mercy. Whether these are actual emotions on God's part or words to represent what is true of his nature, it seems either way we know something about him and what he expects from his creation. God is just, and he disapproves of injustice. God is creator, and he does not share his glory and creation with that which is not God, therefore he is a jealous God.

Anthropopathism : Attribution of human feelings to things not human, such as inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. The ascription of human passions to supernatural beings, especially to the Supreme Being.

Anthropomorphism: Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. The ascription of human attributes to supernatural or divine beings; in theology, the conception or representation of God with human qualities and affections, or in a human shape

When Lust is fulfilled

 It seems lust becomes sin when it is "fulfilled."

There must be a point when the lustful thought reaches the "fulfilled" stage, for it is that stage that walking in the spirit keeps you from: "I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." Galatians 5:16.

So maybe one can sense the lustful inclination, but you don't act on it in your imagination or behavior, if walking in the spirit. 

Walking in the spirit must involve taking every thought captive in obedience to Christ  (2 Corinthians 10:5) and being energized by a renewed mind (Ephesians 4:23) in the truths of one's salvation and the glory of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18).

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, ⁵ casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

That you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 4:22-24

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:18

A "70th Week of Daniel" timeline

My timeline chart on Facebook...

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Private Property will exist in the Millennium ...

so private property is divinely recognized and sanctioned.

​¹ Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the LORD's house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And peoples shall flow to it.
² Many nations shall come and say,
"Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths."
For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
³ He shall judge between many peoples,
And rebuke strong nations afar off;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.
⁴ But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree,
And no one shall make them afraid;
For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken. Micah 4:1-4

God created them Male and Female

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Carbon Dioxide levels and Greenland

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The Prophet's line of vision of near and far events

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Is Trump the AntiChrist?

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Prophetic Parallels of Jesus and Paul

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THE QUESTION: “What must I do to be saved?’

 THE ANSWER: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.” Acts 16.31

That answer to the question is the information that one needs to have for faith and to be saved.

The word “saved” (or “salvation”) is used with the understanding that one is not right with God and in eternal peril and needs deliverance. The word "saved" simply speaks of “deliverance.”

So the question is seeking the solution to one's present dire situation of not being right with God with a destiny of eternal peril or destruction (in a place called “Hell”).

The answer tells one how to be saved, that is, how to have deliverance from not being right with God and a certain destiny of eternal peril.

The answer is that one is saved by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ for that salvation.

This is the word of God and the promise of God. This word and promise connects the salvation that is sought by believing in Jesus Christ for that salvation.

Faith is the assurance of what is said and promised. Faith is taking God at His word.

Whatever one may believe up to this point can not deliver from eternal peril until he or she comes to know and believe this answer to the question of “how can I be saved?”

This is the final piece of information: God saves those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.

“Sin” is of course the big problem as to why one is not right with God and faces eternal peril. The issue with sin is that it is a violation of God’s nature and moral law.

Sin is subject to penalty or consequence—the consequence has already been stated as not being right with God and a certain destiny of eternal peril.

Salvation can also be understood as the "remission of sins."

"To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins." Acts 10:43

“Remission of sins” speaks of being released from the consequence of sin: this is “salvation” from sin. This remission of sins is the result of believing in him, that is, Jesus Christ. This is attested to by “all the prophets.” It is according to God’s word; it is God’s promise.

The reason that remission of sins is connected with Jesus Christ is because He died for those sins in the place of--as the substitute for--all people, who have sinned.

“All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3.23

The death that Christ died on the cross was to bear the “wages” of sin, that is, the consequence of sin.

“The wages of sin is death.” Romans 6.23

"Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree [the cross]." 1 Peter 2.24

This death of Christ was how God loved the world and gave His son.

It is because of the death of Christ for our sins that we can have everlasting life.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

Because of what Christ did, God can give everlasting life to those who believe in Jesus for everlasting Life. Everlasting life is salvation, because the alternative is to “perish.”

The word “perish” means “destruction”: this is that condition of not being right with God.

(The New Testament was originally written in Greek, and the Greek word for "perish" is the same as "destroy.")

It is ultimately being assigned to eternal peril in that place called “hell.”

Jesus said, "do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10.28

Why must it be this way? It is because God created man with a certain measure of free will. The outcome of free will was disobedience to God and the result was separation from God.

Yet God made provision for this at His own great sacrifice through the death of Christ for our sins. One can’t completely fathom the depths of this sacrifice, for it was not merely a physical death that Christ suffered, but a spiritual death, which is separation from God.

While on the cross, Jesus cried out: "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me ?" Matthew 27.46

Yes, we did not choose to come into this world, a world of this arrangement. Consider that we did not choose our parents, and yet our parents usually love us and want a relationship with us, and us with them. The situation is similar with God, but God is without moral failure, unlike our parents. Most people want to live, enjoy life, and have meaningful relationships. These things are fulfilled by God through that salvation which is through faith in Jesus Christ for salvation.

Jesus said: “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

This life and salvation is the possession of those who believe in Jesus Christ for it. This answers the question as to how to be saved. It is the final piece of information to be understood and believed for salvation to take place.

"That whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” The words of Jesus, the Gospel of John 3:15

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