XXVIII: TIMELINE FOR REVELATION

CONNECTION TO 70TH WEEK

In which we discover how Daniel’s vision and John’s Revelation work together

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TIMELINE FOR REVELATION’S NARRATIVE

I maintain that the events in Revelation

Chapters 5-13, as presented in the text, do NOT

roll themselves out in neat story order.

Nonetheless, there exists a timeline along which

these events play themselves out. In an effort to

bring this timeline into play, I will make use of

Sir Robert Anderson’s excellent(!) presentation

of Daniel.

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DANIEL’S 70 WEEKS

Daniel 9:24– “Seventy weeks have been decreed

for your people and your holy city, to finish the

transgression, to make an end of sin, to make

atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting

righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and

to anoint the most holy place.”

There exists a biblical basis for considering that this ‘week’ or ‘seven’ will last for 7 years of 12 months of 30 days each:

Jews use a lunar calendar in which a year consisted of 12, 30 day months.

Example: Genesis 7: 11+24, 8:3+4

There exists a biblical basis for considering that this ‘week’ or ‘seven’ will last for 7 years of 12 months each with 30 days:

Jews used a lunar calendar in which a year consisted of 12, 30 day months.

Example: Genesis 7: 11+24, 8:3+4

GENESIS

7:11–Flood begins on month 2, day 17

7:24–Water ‘prevails’ for 150 days

8:3 –Water ‘recedes’ after 150 days

8:4 –The ark rests on month 7, day 17

Do the math: a 150 day interval of 5, 30-

day months fits perfectly into the formula.

THE FIRST 69 WEEKS

Daniel 9:25. “So you are to know and discern that

from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild

Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven

weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with

plaza and moat, even in times of distress.”

This period of 69 prophetic weeks has a distinct starting point, a point known to history!

The Start

THE FIRST 69 WEEKSDaniel 9:25. “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to

restore and rebuild Jerusalem* until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks

and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of

distress.

* Nehemiah 2: Artaxerxes issues this decree to please his cupbearer, Nehemiah on 14th March in the year 445.

Sixty-nine weeks of 360-day years = 173,880 days

Reckoned from the 14 March 445, we arrive at 6 April A.D. 32

On 6 April A.D. 32, Jesus’ Triumphal Entry occurs. Only then did the crowds proclaim our Lord “Messiah the Prince, the King, the Son of David.”

AND JUST WHERE DID THOSE CALCULATIONS

COME FROM? HUH?

THE COMING PRINCEBy Sir Robert Anderson (1895)

A Classic With Few Equals!

THE END OF WEEK 69

Daniel 9:26–“Then after the sixty-two weeks the

Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the

people of the prince who is to come will destroy the

city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a

flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations

are determined.

The Protagonist . . .

The Protagonist . . .

THE 70TH WEEK

Daniel 9: 27 “And he will make a firm covenant with

the many for one week, but in the middle of the week

he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and

on the wing of abominations will come one who

makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one

that is decreed, is poured out on the one who

makes desolate.”

DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK

Daniel 9: 27 “And he will make a firm covenant

with the many for one week, but in the middle of the

week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering;

and on the wing of abominations will come one who

makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one

that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes

desolate.”

The Start

DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK

Daniel 9: 27 “And he will make a firm covenant with

the many for one week, but in the middle of the week

he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and

on the wing of abominations will come one who makes

desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is

decreed, is poured out on the one who makes

desolate.”

The Duration

DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK

Daniel 9: 27 “And he will make a firm covenant with the

many for one week, but in the middle of the week

he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and

on the wing of abominations will come one who makes

desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is

decreed, is poured out on the one who makes

desolate.”

The Crisis Point

DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK

Daniel 9: 27 “And he will make a firm covenant with the

many for one week, but in the middle of the week he

will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering;

and on the wing of abominations will come one who

makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one

that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes

desolate.”

The Crisis Event

DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK

Daniel 9: 27 “And he will make a firm covenant with

the many for one week, but in the middle of the week

he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and

on the wing of abominations will come one who makes

desolate, even until a complete destruction, one

that is decreed, is poured out on the one who

makes desolate.”

The End

There exists a biblical basis for considering that this final ‘week’ or ‘seven’ will last for 7 years of 12 months each with 30 days:

The 70th Week’s divisions repeatedly involve clean divisions of 7 years of 12 months each with 30 days.

Example: Bible’s treatment of second half of 70th Week gets described variously as 1260 days, 42 months, time, times and half-a-time.

These time units mathematically match 1/2 of a period reckoned as 7 years of 12 months each with 30 days.

There exists a biblical basis for considering that this ‘week’ or ‘seven’ will last for 7 years of 12 months each with 30 days:

Jews used a lunar calendar in which a year consisted of 12, 30-day months.

The 70th Week’s divisions repeatedly involve clean divisions of 7 years of 12 months each with 30 days.

Example: Revelation’s treatment of Beast, witnesses, nations, Israel(the woman) etc

Dan 7:25–Fourth Beast blasphemes for ‘time,

times and half-a-time.

Rev 12: 6+14–The Woman (Israel) protected

for ‘time, times and half-a-time AND 1260

days.

Rev 11:2+3–Nations trample the temple for 42

months while 2 Witnesses operate for 1260

daysRev 13:5–Beast blasphemes for 42 months.

7 Years make up Daniel’s 70th Week . . . Its second half receives the focus of the Bible’s attention . . . that’s 3 1/2 years of The Great Tribulation, as Jesus in Matthew 24:21 puts it.

3 1/2 years, time, times and half-a-time,

1260 days and 42 months all mean the same thing if you figure a month always has

30 days.

7 Years make up Daniel’s 70th Week . . . Its second half receives the focus of the Bible’s attention . . . that’s 3 1/2 years of The Great Tribulation, as Jesus in Matthew 24:21 puts it.

At least that’s what I remember

learning back there in Pilgrim Sunday School. Math never was my strength,

you know!

So, here’s the timeline so far: a line representing seven years with a beginning point, an end point and a crisis-filled mid point.

On this backbone will we deploy Revelation’s visions and calamities.

The Prince who is to come makes a firm

covenant.

The Prince who is to come breaks the

covenant, perpetrates the Abomination That

Makes Desolate

The Prince who is to come gets totally

destroyed.

Revelation 19:20–

and the Beast was

seized, and with him

the false prophet . . .

Jesus in Matthew 24:21 describes the second half of the 70th Week in these terms: “For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.”

“A” (The) Great Tribulation

Revelation’s Mother-Lode of Info

OUR NEXT FOCUS . . .

Seals, Trumpets and BowlsHow do these three judgments relate to one

another sequentially? I will depart from the

traditional view that one set of seven gives way to

the next set of seven. More importantly, I shall

explain why I do so!

Next: XXIX: Timeline of Revelation

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