During the last seven years, who makes what covenant?
Is it the Antichrist, during the last seven years before Christ returns, or Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago, confirming God’s covenant with Israel?
Is it the Antichrist, during the last seven years before Christ returns, or Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago, confirming God’s covenant with Israel?
In some translations, a desolator will be destroyed. In others, the desolated is destroyed. The poetic pattern provides the answer.
The prophecy is a poem, alternating between two foci: Jerusalem and the Messiah. The events of each are in chronological order, but the entire prophecy is not.
The Cross did not end God’s covenant with Israel. After Jesus died, God sent the Holy Spirit with power, but only to Israel, calling Israel to repentance.
The covenant unites prayer and prophecy. Daniel’s prayer asked God to renew His covenant with Israel. Through the 70-week prophecy, God renewed His covenant.
The 490 years began with a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. Which decree restored the city, allowed rebuilding, and fit the time of Christ?
Israel was in captivity; Jerusalem was in ruins. Daniel 9 promised Israel 70 weeks, but to fulfill six goals. Overview of the prophecy and four interpretations
INTRODUCTION The fourth-century Arian Controversy That was a controversy over the nature of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It
Daniel 2 is an amazingly accurate outline of world kingdoms, from the time of the ancient Babylonian Empire, 600 years before Christ, until Christ’s Return.
In the Roman Empire, all Romans were Church members, and the Emperor was the Head. After the Empire fragmented, the Roman State Church became the Roman Church.