2027 AD: Part 5

2020 A.D. Part 5: Edited 4/15/20. 

Parts 1-2-3-4 can be found in the left hand column under the title of 2020 A.D. 

In this post we will cover Daniel 12:11-12-13. Before we move ahead, keep in mind, these verses are written for Daniel’s people the Jews, not for the church. Also, every bit of information we get from Daniel’s book, is to fit within the time frame of Nebuchadnezzar’s image found in Daniel 2. From the head of gold, 605 B.C. to the feet of iron and miry clay. Today, the world is standing in the shoes of the image’s feet of iron and clay. And from 605 B.C., to this day, over 2600 years have passed.

Daniel 12:11, “And from the time (appointed time) that the daily sacrifice (which was to be a perpetual sacrifice) shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.”

Verse 12-13, “Blessed is he that waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou (Daniel) shalt rest (die), and stand (be raised) in thy lot at the end of the days.”

The word “days” in the above verses is the Hebrew word “yom.” We must be careful how the word is understood. The Jews were particular in defining time. When the word “day” or “yom” was used with an adjective, as in, one day, or the second day, it meant from sunset to sunset (24 hours). If there is no adjective, the time is then uncertain, and the event or context that it’s written in must explain it.

As far as I can see, the text sits within the context of a long period of time, from the head of gold to the feet of iron and clay. The daily sacrifice which was to be a perpetual sacrifice, and a perpetual fire in the brazen altar was never to be extinguished, but both were taken from the Jews authoritatively by God when He sent king Nebuchadnezzar armies to remove the sacred vessels, including the ark of the covenant and the mercy seat from the Temple to Babylon, the year, 598 B.C.

Jeremiah 25:9, “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land (Israel),”

2 Chronicles 36:17, “Therefore he (the LORD) brought upon them (the Jews) the king of the Chaldees (Nebuchadnezzar), who slew their young men —- Verse 18, “And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, —– all these he (Nebuchadnezzar) brought to Babylon.”

2 Kings 25:13, “And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD (temple), and the bases, and the brazen sea (meaning the great bronze laver in the temple) that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces and carried the brass of them to Babylon.”

The following year, in 598 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar returned to Israel and took captive king Jehoiakim, see 2 Chronicles 36:6.

Hosea 3:4-5, “The children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, (meaning Jesus Christ) and without a sacrifice (no Temple)… Afterward (in the latter days) shall the children of Israel return (May 14, 1948), and seek the LORD their God (after the tribulation), and David their king (symbolic of Christ); and shall fear (seek after) the LORD and His goodness in the Latter days (last days).”

The Jews may have continued on with the daily sacrifice after Nebuchadnezzar removed the sacred vessels, but, without the ark, the mercy seat, the brazen altar and eternal fire, their offerings were of no value to God, therefore simply ritualistic.

It’s even more obvious that the LORD was dissatisfied with this people when he speaks of them as “Daniel’s people,” and of Jerusalem as, Daniel’s “holy city,” not saying, “my people, or my holy city.” We see it written this way in Daniel 9:24, 12:1 and in other verses.

Hosea 1:9, “for you are NOT my people, and I will not be your God.”

Now let’s examine, Daniel 12:11, “and from the time the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set-up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.”

God has given to us a specified period of time, 1290 years between the daily sacrifice being taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up. Two questions pop up.

First, what is the “abomination that makes desolate?” Secondly, when was this abominable that makes desolate set up?

We do have our start point, the year 598 B.C. when the “daily sacrifice” was taken away, and all the treasures of gold, silver, and bronze of the Temple were removed to Babylon.

To be set up means, something is to be set in place, a thing established. I would have to say this thing has to be obvious to the world so God can be glorified in these prophesies. Following is an example in scripture of something being set up, or set in place:

Genesis 1:17, “God set them (sun and moon) in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,”

1 Kings 6:19, “to set there (in the Temple) the ark of the covenant of the LORD.”   

Now, what is meant by “to be made desolate”? It will be something that will be set in place where once the Holies of holies was built in Solomon’s temple, and where the daily sacrifices were made and presented to the LORD.

It was the room where the LORD showed himself once a year over the mercy seat, communicating with the high priest from within the Holy of Holies; or concerning the “daily sacrifice” (two times each day), God would communicate with the priests. God on the inside of the curtain that hung in front of the Holy place, and the priest making his offering on the outside of the curtain.

But, because of the idolatry of the Jews, in His anger, the LORD had the Roman armies come in, destroy Jerusalem and the temple completely in 70 A.D. And today, atop Mt. Moriah sits Islam’s Dome of the Rock, an abomination unto the LORD, a thing for all the world to see.   

Many commentators claim it was the altar, or the idol which Antiochus IV Epiphanies erected in the temple in 145 B.C. Now, Antiochus’s actions may have served as a type, but as far as I can make out in the verse, the abomination was still far into the future, well beyond the years of Antiochus the 4th.

So, in the year 691 A.D., Islam’s Dome of the Rock had been started, and finished in 692. “The abomination that makes desolate,” established upon God’s holy Mountain; the very place king David purchased for the house of the LORD, and where Solomon had built the Temple.  

This parcel of land was purchased by king David about 974 or 973 B.C. during the Philistine wars, purchased with 600 shekels of gold by weight. The sole purpose of the purchase was to build the house of God. And because of the idolatry of the people, God threw the Jews out, had the Temple destroyed, and temporally gave the Temple Mt. over to the Gentiles. For how long?

Luke 21:24, Jesus is speaking to certain scribes when he said, “and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” Compare with,

Daniel 9:27, “And he (Jesus) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice (animal sacrifice) and oblation (gift offering) to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation and the determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

As I said above, “their daily blood sacrifices and offerings were of no value to God, therefore, having only a ritualistic and ceremonial value, and even these ceremonies were stopped when the Temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.  

So, we know what the “daily sacrifice” was, and when it was taken away in 598 B.C., and we also know what the “abomination that makes desolate is. It’s the Dome of the Rock also known as, Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah. Lastly, we know when this abomination was set up and established, the year, 692 A.D. It’s revealed in Daniel there would be a long period of time between these two events, the daily sacrifice taken away and the abomination of desolation set up; exactly, 1290 years, not days according to the evidence provided in the context.  

So, let’s do a little math, 598 B.C., when the daily sacrifice was taken away. Then come forward in history 1290 years and we come to the year, 692 A.D., hmmmm! It’s the same year the Dome of the Rock was built.  

Now there are those who study end time prophesy that teach the 1290 days actually means 1260 days + an additional 30 days. If you ask them, “what’s the extra 30 days for?” they have NO answer, none! It doesn’t work that way! If God meant 1260 or 3 ½ years, he would NOT have had Daniel write 1290. God is not the author of confusion or of maybes.

John wrote 1260 days in Revelation 11:3; 12:6, some 700 years after Daniel wrote. I’m sure if the Lord had meant 1290 days, He would have had John clarify it, but he didn’t, John wrote, 1260, or 3 ½ years.  

Daniel 12:12, “Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days (1335).”

Michael gave Daniel two sets of numbers, 1290 and 1335? Because there were to be two specific events at two different specified times. Both numbers combined would bring us to the end of 2625 years, beginning from 598 B.C.

Questions concerning the 1335 years. To “wait from when to when? and for what?” The 1335 years has to begin from the last day of the 1290 years, 692 A.D., then the count continues into the future.

Second question, “cometh” to what? Answer, to the end of the 1335 years, or Daniel 12:13, “the end of days.” I will use the same reasoning I used for the 1335 days that I used for the 1290 days. The context the number 1290 and 1335 sit in dictate years, not days.  

So, when the daily sacrifice ended in 598 B.C., to the time the Dome of the Rock was built in 691 A.D., 1290 years had passed. Now we can continue another 1335 years into the future.

So, where’s that take us? From 692 A.D., the first year ending in 693, we move forward 1335 years and come to the year 2027 A.D. The year 2027 ends in September according to the Jewish calendar.

Or we can begin from 692 A.D. when the Dome was completed and add 1335 years, we come to 2027 A.D, which according to the Jewish calendar begins September 13th. This may possibly be the day Jesus begins to set up the kingdom.

Daniel 12:10 is speaking to the Jews after the great tribulation is over. “Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand: but the wise shall understand.”

The word “purified” in the Hebrew means to be purged from the defilement of idolatry and sin, to be reformed.

During these 7 years of Tribulation, many Jews will call on the name of the Lord Jesus. And in so doing, will reject the mark of the beast, but will have to sacrifice their lives. And when the tribulation is finished, they will be a raised to life, Revelation 20:4. 

All this can be avoided if they receive Jesus now as their Messiah before the body of Christ is caught up to meet the Lord in the air, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.

To be “made white.” Let’s look at a few other verses that clarify its meaning.

Revelation 3:5, Jesus is speaking, “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white rainment–.”

Revelation 6:11, “And white robes were given unto every one of them;”

This is speaking of the end of the tribulation when,  Revelation 20:4, John writes, “I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived (were resurrected) and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”

Well, each of you can examine the evidence put forth, and compare it with the other 5 posts I’ve written.

My next post will concern Hosea 6, same results.

Phillip LaSpino   www.seekfirstwisdom.com