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“He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. ~ Daniel 9:27 (NIV)

The dispensationalist view and interpretation of this single verse or what I like to call misinterpretation of this verse has been causing much confusion, childhood trauma, and division in The Body of Christ since its birthing and mass printing press distribution.

Also, keep in mind that their interpretation of this verse is only as old as the 1860’s, and no similar view of this passage would have even existed before this new and strange interpretation that has made its rounds all over the planet with the help of more recent inventions like the printing press, T.V. movies and so on…

Let’s first take a look together at an easy way to understand the dispensationalist’s interpretation of Daniel 9:27.

He (the Anti-Christ) will confirm a covenant with many (a modern-day peace treaty that will be made with unified European nations) for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ (7-year tribulation) he (The Anti-Christ) will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple (a 3rd temple that presently does not exist but some orthodox Jews, zionists and far-right evangelicals are presently working hard to have built) he (The Anti-Christ) will set up an abomination that causes desolation, (that being himself (The Anti-Christ) sitting in that new temple claiming to be God and casting a deceptive spell over the whole world so strong that even God’s elect will be deceived (also referred to as “The Apostasy” or “The Great Falling Away” as mentioned in 2nd Thessalonians 2:3)) until the end (The total destruction of the earth by fire) that is decreed (by Peter in 2nd Peter 3:7 and Jesus in Matthew 24 and 25, Mark 13 and Luke 21) is poured out on him (The Anti-Christ).

So that is the dispensationalist’s interpretation of Daniel 9:27.

I’m sure many of you are familiar with this.

Now let’s look at the historical way to view this same verse.

He (Jesus) will confirm a (new) covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ (years) he (Jesus) will put an end to sacrifice and offering (The Crucifixion) And at the temple (the 2nd temple) he will set up an abomination that causes desolation until the end that is decreed is poured out on him (or it.)

(Note, most of our English translations of the bible that support the dispensationalist view say “him” about this antichrist but it is more correctly translated word for word in Hebrew in our KJV, NKJ, and American Standard as “It.”)

So if it’s not him (The Anti-Christ) then what is “it?”

What I love about this is that Jesus himself clearly reveals what “the abomination of desolation” is in his own words in Matthew 24:15-16 and Luke 21:20.

Let’s take a look at that together.

“So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ as spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ” ~ Matthew 24:15 (Jesus spoken in 30 A.D.)

Now dispensationalists will tell you that this means when we see The Anti-Christ sitting in the new temple that has yet to be rebuilt claiming to be God working false miracles and deceiving the whole planet we should all be ready for the rapture and God’s wrath to come down in fire on the planet and all else who are left behind.

but Jesus clearly tells his disciples in 30 A.D. just before he is crucified what “It” actually is when he says:

“When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near.”

~ Luke 21:20

“It’s Desolation” is about the desolation of Jerusalem.

Not our God-created and graciously given beautiful planet.

That’s just the strange fiction and skewing of Hal Lindsey who wrote “The Late Great Planet Earth” in 1970 that went on to sell over 100,000,000 copies…

Another thing to note is the previous verses leading up to this horribly misinterpreted and so wrongly taught verse.

The Prophetic timeline and clock that gets started and set into motion with Daniels’s prophecy of the seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens’” has to be understood on the proper historical timeline to see the mind-blowing and pinpoint accuracy of this amazing and true biblical prophecy!

Let’s take a look at Daniel 9:24-25 as it should be understood.

Seventy ‘sevens’ (490 years) are decreed for your people (Israel) and your holy city (Jerusalem) to finish transgression, to put an end to sin (The Law), to atone for wickedness (make amends) and to bring in everlasting righteousness (Our Right Standing with God), to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy One.” (Jesus)

(Note again, most of our English translations of the bible that support the dispensationalist view of this passage say “the most holy place” but it is more correctly translated word for word in Hebrew in our KJV, NKJ and American Standard as The Most Holy One.)

“Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (decreed by Artaxerxes in 457 B.C.) until the Anointed One (Jesus The Messiah) and ruler, comes there will be seven ‘sevens,’ (49 years) and sixty-two ‘sevens’ (434 years).”

Now dispensationalists have been saying since I was a small child that the 490 years minus (one seven) equalling 483 years leads right up to Christ’s Triumphal Entry on Palm Sunday when he humbly comes riding into Jerusalem on that donkey amidst the divided crowds to which some met him with Praise shouting “Hosanna in The Highest” recognizing him as the prophesied anointed one to come while others siding with the Levitical Priesthood met him and his supporters with self-righteous indignant sneers.

Dispensationalists end the 483 years of Daniel’s prophecy here at Palm Sunday and then take that last unaccounted-for 7 years (one seven) and turn it into the 7-year tribulation (which there is no mention of in the bible) and place those last 7 years all the way out into our own present-day and age saying that “The End of the planet” that Hal Lindsey speaks of (not Daniel) has yet to happen (or that we are presently in “it”).

Thus, all of this end-time rhetoric that keeps getting perpetually hung over every next up and coming generation’s head.

At least since the printing press and T.V. has propagated this view.

I know because I was a child born in 1976 being taught this kind of end-of-the-world, premillennial rapture theology.

The problem they keep having with this timeline and why I sincerely believe so many of my dear brothers and sisters in Christ cannot see the real and beautiful Good News revealed in this passage is because they still have Jesus’s crucifixion dated wrong and they do not know where to end that prophetic clock from Daniel correctly.

To understand the next thing I am going to show you here you have to understand that Jesus was not born in year zero and that he was not crucified in 33 A.D..

Jesus was crucified when he was 33 years old in 30 A.D..

Not knowing this truth knocks their whole timeline off by 3 years in their interpretation of this passage.

Jesus was born between 3-4 B.C. during The Reign of King Herod The Great who history records as dying between 3-4 B.C.

He was crucified when he was 33 in 30 A.D..

That has to be understood (let the reader understand) to understand where we are to correctly begin and end Daniel’s prophetic clock and timeline.

Now, let’s look at Daniel 9:25-26.

“Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (decreed by Artaxerxes in 457 B.C.) until the Anointed One (Jesus The Messiah) and ruler, comes there will be seven ‘sevens,’ (49 years) and sixty-two ‘sevens’ (434 years).” “It (Jerusalem) will be rebuilt with streets, (KJV also says a wall) and a trench, but in times of trouble (See Nehemiah and the tense time it was rebuilding the wall that was destroyed with Solomons’s temple in 586 B.C. by The Babylonians). After the sixty-two ‘sevens (483 years),’ the Anointed One (Jesus The Messiah) will be put to death and will be cut off (The Crucifixion in 30 A.D.). The people of the ruler (Roman Emperor Vespasian between 66-70 A.D) will come and destroy the city (Jerusalem) and the sanctuary (The Temple) and the end (Rome’s Siege and total desolation of Jerusalem and the temple) will come in like a flood: War will continue until the end and desolations have been decreed.”

The end spoke of here was the end of that age, the end of temple worship, the end of the temple tax, the end of animal sacrifice, the end of The Old Covenant of law and punishment, and the end of the teachers of the law who not only crucified Jesus but who were still holding those tablets of stone like rocks in their merciless judging and continually holding the Israelites trespasses against them.

Let alone having Christians hunted, arrested and killed for the next 40 years between 30 A.D. (The Crucifixion) and Rome’s final destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in 70 A.D..

Now, when we have it dated correctly, the time the decree was given in 457 B.C. to restore and rebuild Jerusalem till the coming of The Anointed One (The Messiah) Jesus!

We have that 483 years accounted for ending us 3 years earlier than what most dispensationalist theology has been telling many of us our whole lives…

Daniel’s seven ‘sevens,’ (49 years) and sixty-two ‘sevens’ (434 years) equalling 483 years minus that last “week” (7 years) actually ends us at the beginning of Christ’s earthen ministry in 27 A.D. when He is anointed by The Holy Spirit and baptized by John The Baptist.

Now, add that last week (7 years) to that and we have the 1st martyred follower of Jesus, Stephen being stoned to death as recorded by Luke in Acts chapter 7.

A timeline that works is from the time of the decree by Artaxerxes in 457 B.C. to restore and rebuild Jerusalem to the beginning of Christ’s earthen ministry in 27 A.D. was exactly 483 years and from the time of the beginning of Christ’s earthen ministry in 27 A.D. to the time of Stephen’s stoning at the temple was exactly 7 years…

… and in the middle of that 7 years, within one week… What we honor as Holy Week.

Jesus confronted the priesthood, flipped tables, sharply rebuked them as hypocrites, prophesied them and their temples end, inaugurated The New Covenant with his disciples at the last supper, was crucified by Rome and on that day at Golgatha he yelled out from The Cross “It is Finished…”

Rightfully putting an end to transgression, sin and the law, making atonement for the people’s wickedness and ushering in our present everlasting right standing with God.

Holy week, was that one week within that last 7 years of Daniel’s 490-year prophetic clock…

That was the week Jesus decreed a series of desolations that historically unfolded over the next 40 years that ended up in the final removal of The Temple, The Law, and The Priesthood that not only crucified God’s son but was then going after his followers with the law damning and holding their trespasses against them…

Jesus came to remove all that was coming between us and The Father so that we could know him as He does..

He not only made a way…

He is The Way.

“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” ~ John 1:29 (John The Baptist at Christ’s baptism in 27 A.D.)

Happy Holy Week Everyone!

I hope this helps, Stay in Love