The year of the second coming of Jesus Christ was known but not the day and the hour of that year. He started preaching in the synagogue with the prophecy …the spirit of the Lord is upon me to preach the good news to the poor … and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God…’ according to St Luke Gospel chapter 4.
Therefore the Messiah was to come and announce the acceptable or approved year and the day of Vengeance of our God. Now the question is when was that year? Jesus read and understood the prophecies of the prophets regarding the assignment of the Messiah which he had come to fulfill and he put more weight on the prophecy of Daniel chapter 9 regarding the 70 weeks of years counting from the year Nehemiah was to build the temple of Jerusalem and counting from that year the wall of Jerusalem was build, it was 483 years later being the year the Messiah was crucified on the cross for the remission of sin and for reconciliation and the 490 years will bring about the age of everlasting righteousness when the Messiah being cut off will return from heaven.
A week is 7 years. Jacob served his master Lebam for one week which is seven years for Lea instead of Rachael his choice and would serve for another one week making a total of two weeks which is fourteen years (Genesis chapter 29). The king of Babylon was in the forest for one week which is seven years (Daniel chapter 5).
Therefore according to the prophecy of Daniel, the 70 weeks of years mentioned in the book of Daniel was 490 years (70X 7 = 490) of which already 483 years was fulfilled upon the dead and resurrection of the Messiah counting from the time Nehemiah built the wall of Jerusalem. About the dating of the end of the world Jesus relied much on the prophecy of Daniel regarding Jerusalem desolation immediately after the Messiah was cut off or ascended into heaven and to return to fulfill the 490 years of Daniel to begin the age of everlasting righteousness.
Therefore counting from the time he was cut off, it will remain just seven years for him to return from heaven to begin the age of everlasting righteousness.
Now according to the prophecy of Daniel, in the middle of the seven years which is three and half years later after he was cut off into heaven, Jerusalem shall be destroyed; then at the remaining three and half years, the Messiah shall return from heaven. Therefore from the time Jerusalem shall be destroyed to the time of the second coming of the Messiah at the end of the remain three and half years is known as the gentile times. Evidently Jesus mentioned about this gentile times in Luke chapter 21 before his return from heaven
Therefore, the 490 years of Daniel was the long count of the prophetic calendar drawn by Prophet Daniel which Jesus was depending upon throughout his teachings. Therefore from the year of his dead and resurrection, which is the 483 years it was quite possible to know the year of his return to complete the 490 years of Daniel but could not know the exact day and hour of that year. Evidently, when he told his disciple about the signs of the end-time he categorically told his disciples that when they shall see the abomination spoken by prophet Daniel standing in the holy place(holy of holiest)let the reader understand (Mat. 24: 15); implying that they should begin to count the remain three and half years which is the gentiles times.
Before his dead, he told his disciples that some of them will not see dead until he reruns, that generation will not pass away and all these things will come to pass (Mat 16:28 and Mat. Chapter 24). In that case, after his dead and resurrection,if Apostle Peter was 50 will be 57 years old when he will return from heaven. Now the real calculation is that as Jesus was cut off or crucified when he was 33 years of age, he will return from heaven at the at the age of 40 to begin the age of everlasting righteousness based on Daniel’s end of the world calendar prophecy just as we are counting on the Mayan calendar of today for the world to end in AD 2012. Therefore it was clear that Jesus was to return in AD 40 but the day and the hour of that year was not known except his father only according to his statement in Matthew chapter 24. Having that in mind, he told the High Priest during his arrest that here after you will see the Son of Man coming with Power and great glory and the High Priest rent his cloth. Also it was believed among his disciples that Apostle John whom Jesus loved will not see death until he returns when Apostle Peter questioned him about the disciples which Jesus Love (John chapter 21)
Based on that calendar, the followers of the Apostles sold off all their properties and brought it to the Apostle's feet and Sapharia and Ananias faced death penalty for withholding part of the land they sold just as the people of today begin to close their bank accounts and sold off their properties as a result of the end of the world Mayan prophecy (Acts chapter 5). All these happened because they were very sure of his second coming from heaven in AD 40 based on Daniel’s Calendar. As you can see, AD 40 was a very significant year. Moses began his ministry at the age of 40; he was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights, Elijah went to Mount Horeb taking a journey of forty days and forty nights, Jesus fasted for forty days and forty night, Noah world ended up with forty days and forty night heavy rainfall just as the year 2012 look very significant to so many religions with divers interpretations about the end of the world.
You can now see that prophecy cannot in all cases fulfill exactly but some give you a clue of what may likely occur in future like most other prophecies in the bible and prophecies of others like that of Nostradamus. Similarly, the temple was destroyed in AD 70 and not in AD 36 which should have been about the middle of the seven years. Based on the prophecy of Daniel, the year of the messiah’s death was accurate which is the 483 years later but does not follow up to the last seven years as changes occurred. To the Jews is a sign that Jesus was the real Messiah whose dead fulfilled the 483 years of Daniel and whose religion called “ CHRISTIANITY" IS THE WORLD LARGEST RELIGION AND WHOSE PILGRIMS ARE MAKING ISRAELI GOVERNMENT RICH EVERY YEAR IN TOURISM AND THERE IS NO OTHER PROPHET LIKE HIM IN ISRAEL THAT IS MAKING THEM SO RICH IN TOURISM INCLUDING MOSES AND ELIJAH AND ALL THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL JOIN TOGETHER.
Therefore the last seven years of Daniel which include the gentile time of the last three and years was cut off and Jerusalem and her temple was burned down to the ground to fulfill the prophecy of Jesus Christ. However, the last seven years of Daniel is to be fulfilled during the arrival of the two witnesses and the Antichrist in the end-time on a world level and no longer a Jewish matter. The gentile time becomes the period of the antichrist during the last three and half years. Since no prophet shall arise out of Israel, the last biblical prophet to release the biblical power of Moses and Elijah shall be clothed in sack cloth meaning to appear in the skin of the blacks as a black Jew on exile. Therefore in the book of Revelation chapter 10 to 11, the two witnesses are given the first three and half years calculated in days which is 1260 days while the antichrist is given the last three and half years calculated in months as forty-two months which is the global gentile time to test the believers with the mark 666. However there could still be some changes in the future as the end-time events are unfolding. Read the article “EVENTS WITHIN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS OF DANIEL”
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