Revelation 11 takes us to a Temple in Jerusalem.

Jews are carrying on Old Testament sacrifices just like Jesus, Daniel, Paul, and now John promised it would be.

If this is the church, and it is one in Christ, why are Jews and Gentiles segregated?

And how is it that the worldwide church is localized to Jerusalem?

And why are we back at a temple and altar?

No, it is a future event, as Chapter 11 opens in Jerusalem. Something has happened that would start a World War if it happened this week.

Daniel said so: Open with me to Daniel 9!

The Book of Daniel is actually one of the most authenticated books of the Old Testament, historically and archaeologically, but this is a convenient shortcut for our purposes here. It is critical to realize that the Book of Daniel existed in documented form almost five centuries before Christ was born.

Daniel, originally deported as a teenager (now near the end of the Babylonian captivity), was reading in the Book of Jeremiah. He understood that the seventy years of servitude were almost over and he began to pray for his people. The Angel Gabriel interrupted Daniel's prayer and gave him a fourverse prophecy that is unquestionably the most remarkable passage in the entire Bible: Daniel 9:2427. These four verses include the following segments:
9:24 The Scope of the entire prophecy;
9:25 The 69 Weeks;
9:26 An Interval between the 69th and 70th Week;
9:27 The 70th Week.

THE SCOPE

9:24: "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy Place."

The idiom of a "week" of years was common in Israel as a "sabbath for the land," in which the land was to lie fallow every seventh year. It was their failure to obey these laws that led to God sending them into captivity under the Babylonians. When did the Messiah present Himself as a King? On one specific day, Jesus arranges it! Note that the focus of this passage is upon "thy people and upon thy holy city," that is, upon Israel and Jerusalem. (It is not directed to the church.) The scope of this prophecy includes a broad list of things that clearly have yet to be completed.

THE FIRST 69 WEEKS

A very specific prediction occurs in 9:25: "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times." This includes a mathematical prophecy. The Jewish (and Babylonian) calendars used a 360day year; 69 weeks of 360day years totals 173,880 days. In effect, Gabriel told Daniel that the interval between the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem until the presentation of the Messiah as King would be 173,880 days. The "Messiah the Prince" in the King James translation is the Meshiach Nagid, "The Messiah the King." (Nagid is first used of King Saul.)

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