Those  “Certain”   Years And Days  Of  ‘Daniel’s   People’

 

 

Part Three

 

 

 

“About the Times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.”

Sir Isaac Newton, 1643-1727

 

 

“And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”

Revelation 10:5-7  KJV

 

 

“And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.”

Revelation 11:7  KJV

 

 

“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.  And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.”

Revelation 11:15-17 KJV

 

 

“And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great;…..”

Revelation 11:18 KJV

 

 

“And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.”

Revelation 12:5 KJV

 

 

“And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life.....”

Daniel 12:1-2  KJV

 

 

“Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”

Daniel 12:12  KJV

 

 

“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection:….”

Revelation 20:4-6 KJV

 

 

“And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:”

Mark 4:10,11

 

 

 

As explained earlier, chapters 10 and 12 of Revelation enclose chapter 11, the MIDDLE chapter of the book.  And, by paying close attention to the progressive, unfolding order of the text as written by the Holy Spirit, the reader can be perfectly satisfied that the amazing and astonishing events revealed here are indeed occurring in the very MIDDLE of the Tribulation, at the END of the first 1260 days!  Note, that “all these things are finished” following the previous “hereafter” in 9:12, are occurring in the midst of 11:11, which says…”And after three days and an half” which follow after the  1260th day on which the Two Witnesses are killed and then raised from the dead on the 1263 ½  day.  From that point on, the text is again consecutively unfolding up until 15:5, which is the next “And after that”…..

 

 

Just in passing, isn’t it interesting that the phrase, “and after three days and a half” falls right at the time of “three years and a half?”

 

 

If you have become familiar with the passage in Isaiah 26:17-21, you will recognize the order in which it has been written.  Carefully notice the words….

 

“Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.  18: We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19: Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.  20: Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.  21: For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.”

 

 

The description of this ‘woman’ with child, near the time of her delivery, in pain and crying out in her pangs’…is definitely the picture of the same woman, Israel who is travailing in her pain and is about to deliver her ‘man child up to His throne’ in the MIDDLE of the Tribulation, on the 1260th day in Revelation 12:1-2.  The Old Testament term “my people”  refers to Israel, on the first level of interpretation, not to the New Testament Church. 

 

 

Next, comes a description by Isaiah,  FIRST of the resurrection of the righteous of ISRAEL,  “Thy dead men shall live,” in which he expected to participate…”together with my dead body shall they arise.”

 

 

Then, comes the invitation by the Lord extended to HIS people, the redeemed of ISRAEL, who are to enter “their chambers and shut the door behind them,” and hide for “a little moment until the indignation be overpast.”

 

 

Note the order…the “Woman” is delivered of her travail and birth pangs FIRST  (within the time of Jacob’s Trouble) and THEN after “her resurrection from the dead,”  she enters ‘the inner chambers’ of Heaven,  where she is protected ‘until the GREAT fury and indignation’ of the Lord upon the wicked passes over during the last half of the Tribulation!   Likewise, the living “Woman” of the Jewish remnant who remains on the earth is also protected from this GREAT Wrath, in ‘the cleft of the rock’…in the wilderness, in the Judean mountains and all over the world.

 

 

There are three texts in the Bible where the bodily resurrection of the saints is described in some detail.  In Isaiah 27, for Israel, in 1 Corinthians 15 for the New Testament Church, and in Revelation 11, again, obviously for Israel. 

 

 

A resurrection, of course, is implied in the text of Revelation 20: 4-6, as there is mention of ‘the first resurrection’ in connection with the rewarding of those “souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands.”   Of course, this can only be speaking of the Tribulation martyrs as their description is of being ‘witnesses of Jesus Christ’ who had not worshipped the beast nor received his mark!

 

 

There are 5 stages and 7 groups in the First Resurrection- Jesus being the first (1),  followed by the Old Testaments saints under Law who came out of their graves with Jesus,  who were the foreshadow of the resurrection of the redeemed Jews in the Tribulation (2), the New Testament Church (3), the Two Witnesses (4), and the Old Testament saints (5) and the redeemed Gentiles saved during the first half of the Tribulation (“them that fear thy name, small and great”), all on the 1263rd day (6), and the final stage- of the Tribulation martyrs at the end of the Tribulation (7).

 

 

[ From Scripture, we know there are two resurrections:  Jesus said this about the ‘second’ one in John 5:29….”And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.” In Revelation 20:6, this resurrection is called…”Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”]

 

 

Even Daniel 12: 2, refers to  two resurrections- separated by a period of time,  1,000 years, the Kingdom age….  “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life,         and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”

 

 

In the MIDDLE of the Tribulation, on or very near the 1260th day, here is a list of astonishing events that occur, from Revelation 10, 11 and 12:

 

 

1.         The angel appears with “the little book” from which John is commanded to “prophesy again,” to ‘the Goiim’…the Gentile nations

 

 

2.         The ‘uttering of the seven thunders’ of which John was commanded not to write down because of their seemingly awesome terribleness

 

 

3.         The angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven and said…” THAT THERE SHOULD BE TIME NO LONGER”

(Daniel 12:7)

 

 

4.         The prophecy of the Two Witnesses “is finished”

 

 

5.         The beast “ascends out of the bottomless pit and kills the Two Witnesses”

 

 

6.         After 3 ½ days, the Two Witnesses are resurrected and ‘hear a voice from heaven saying, ‘Come up thither’

                 

This would be the most logical day on which the Old Testaments saints are raised also, along with the Gentile saints who come to faith in the first half of the Tribulation, however, there very well could be a resurrection on the 1335th day itself, about  which the Bible makes no further comment.  Either way, God was very clear to give the Old Testament saints such hope for their  1335th day !

 

 

7.         “At that same hour there is a great earthquake in Jerusalem and 7,000 people are killed”

 

 

8.         “The seventh angel sounds”  … “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, WHEN HE SHALL BEGIN TO SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD SHOULD BE FINISHED, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets” (an obvious Old Testament reference)

 

 

9.         The antichrist has accomplished ‘the scattering of the power of the holy people, the Jews, and proceeds to break his covenant of false peace which he had offered to Israel under his false pretenses.

 

(Daniel 12:7)….” when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished”

 

 

The antichrist breaks his covenant with Israel at the end of the 490th year of Daniel’s ’70 Weeks.”

 

 

10.       Thou, Oh Lord  hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned”

 

                       

 

THE MILLENNEAL KINGDOM OPENS AND BEGINS IN HEAVEN, THE MOMENT Y’SHUA THE LORD, TAKES HIS GREAT POWER AND BEGINS TO REIGN… IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION

 

 

 

[ Notice, what Revelation 19: 6 says:  “And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.”  He already is reigning as King of Kings, and Lords of Lords, before He comes riding out of Heaven, in verse 11! ]

 

 

This is the end of the ‘6th Day,’   the end of the 6,000 years of the ‘time of man,’   the end of the time when “My Spirit will strive with man,” at the time “the mystery of God is finished, when time shall be no longer.”

 

 

(There is no mention in Revelation of any one coming to repentance in the last half of the Tribulation ! )

 

 

The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ;

 

 

Revelation 11:15…”And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”

 

[ from the Greek:  “are become”  is the prophetic use of the aorist participle, already a fact ]

 

 

The kingdoms of this world become “the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ,” at the time of the opening of the great ‘7th’ day, at the beginning of the 7,000 years of the Kingdom Age!

 

 

 

The Millennial Kingdom Age, the Kingdom of David begins IN THE MIDDLE OF SEVEN  in Heaven, but also at the end of 7th year, at the end of a 49th year and at the end of Daniel’s 490th year,

at the opening of the 50th year, in the nation of Israel’s Jubilee Year!

 

 

 

Jesus Christ roars out of Heaven in Revelation 19, already crowned ‘ KING OF KINGS’ !

 

 

 

11.       “…AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD, THAT THEY SHOULD BE JUDGED, AND THAT THOU SHOULDEST GIVE REWARD UNTO THY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, which is the resurrection of the Old Testament saints, as ‘thy people Daniel” (Daniel 12: 1-2,) and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great…”(the Gentile Tribulation believers).

 

 

 

12.       There is a war in heaven, and Satan and all his demons are cast down to earth

where they will be confined.  (There are 404 verses in the book of Revelation.  The MIDDLE verse is the 202nd verse….Revelation 12:8.  12:7-8 say this:

 

“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.”

 

 

13.       “The Woman” is delivered of the man child who has been delivered up to Heaven and to His Throne.   HER TRAVAIL HAS   CEASED   UPON HER ‘DELIVERY.’   She flees to the wilderness for her protection during the last half of the Tribulation. 

 

 

14.       Satan follows after the Woman but he is thwarted in his attempt…and “goes after the rest of her seed… “ to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ”

 

 

15.       The dragon gives his power to the beast, and the beast and the false prophet begin their authority for the last 42 months of the Tribulation.

 

 

16.       The ‘mark of the beast’ cannot be implemented UNTIL the beast and his false prophet are given their authority.  It cannot be forced upon the earth-dwellers  until the 1260th day, at the very least.

 

 

 

Next, comes the 1290th day…on which this occurs…..

 

 

1.         “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days

 

 

2.         “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)  Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains.” This is the second group of Jewish remnant protected during the last part of the Tribulation.

 

 

 

From the 1260th day, thru the 1290th day until the 1335th day….during these intervening 75 days…the following  horrendous things occur which  greatly affect “the rest of her seed” who are the Jewish believers in Y’shua, not hidden and protected either in the wilderness nor in the Judean mountains…..but who stay behind in Jerusalem and Israel to help the rest of the unbelieving of the nation, in order help them a little, to come to faith in Y’shua, their Messiah before it is too late!  These are called “they that understand among the people” in Daniel 11:33,35.  Many of these ultimately will be the Tribulation martyrs that are killed and beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus Christ, and are not resurrected until the end of the Tribulation.  See below……Daniel 11:31 thru 38…

 

“And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.  32: And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.  33: And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.  34: Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.  35: And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.  36: And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.  37: Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.  38: But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.”

 

 

In other words… by the arrival of the 1335th day, all  the believing remnant of Israel and all the believers of the Gentile nations who come to faith MUST either be protected from the beast and his mark either by physical death or by supernatural, physical  protection everywhere upon the earth.  It is obvious that no one will be allowed to be “out and about” without the application of the mark of the beast upon them, after the 1335th day!  In fact Revelation 14:13 says:  “And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.”

 

 

Jesus was addressing this dreadful time…from the 1260th day forward to the end of the Tribulation, in Luke 21.  He must have had in mind mainly the unsaved of Israel and the ‘Judean remnant’ up to the 1290th day, and the dear martyrs up to the 1335th day, who willingly gave up their lives in order to bring others to repentance:  notice what He said in these very ominous verses:

 

20: “And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21: Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
22: For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23: But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
24: And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”

 

 

WOE upon the unsaved of Israel, “this people”  who do not come to repentance and faith in Y’shua, their Messiah by the 1335th day!   There is a time coming just ahead which will be the pouring out of God’s Great Wrath upon them as well as all unbelievers on the Earth !

 

 

Again, it is at the MIDDLE of the Tribulation of which Daniel 12:1 speaks….”And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time  thy people  shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.”

 

 

Just a personal observation here…returning  again to the moving prayer of Moses for his own dear nation.  I cannot help but wonder if the Holy Spirit implanted this special thought in Moses’ heart  to make this particular plea to the Lord….Psalm 90:12-15:

 

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.  Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.  Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.”

 

 

Even though in Hebrew, the word ‘early’ has the meaning of  ‘at dawn,’  ‘in the early morning at sunrise,’  could it possibly have a further meaning, as indeed, the Holy One of Israel has heard and will answer this ancient prayer, by sparing His own chosen, believing Jewish people from the full, unrestrained, outpouring of  God’s wrath in that Great and Terrible Day of the Lord?   He has planned to ‘satisfy them early with His mercy!’

 

 

Remember what Daniel 12: 12 says about “thy people Daniel”:   “Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”

 

 

In Scripture, there are four individual groups that have been given the responsibility of delivering the message of God’s salvation to the people of the earth.  The first group was Israel, under the dispensation of Law.  The second group was the New Testament Church under the dispensation of Grace.  After the Church is taken out, the third group, the 144,000 will take over this responsibility to “deliver the gospel of the Kingdom” to the earth dwellers. When this is no longer possible up until the arrival of the 1335th day, because of  great peril and the threat of physical death, the angel is the last to deliver the gospel in Revelation 14:6:  “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.”  This event is that of which Jesus spoke in Matthew 24:14 when He said…..

 

“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

 

 

It is not the Church that delivers the “gospel of the kingdom” at the end as she will have been removed at least 3 ½  years before this time,  but to the angel of Revelation 14, is given this LAST responsibility of delivering the Gospel…  and.... THEN THE END SHALL COME !

 

 

But note this…there is NO mention of earth dwellers coming to repentance because of the preaching by the angel.  This occurs just before the full, unrestrained outpouring of God’s Great Wrath upon the earth.  Revelation 15:1 opens with the statement:  “1: And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.”   In fact…

 

way  back in Revelation 9:20 and 21, it says this:  “And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:  Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. “ Again, we see no evidence in Scripture of any soul coming to repentance after the 1335th day of the Tribulation!

 

 

In Revelation 15:7-8… just before the pouring out of the last 7 vial judgments, no man will be able to enter ‘the temple in heaven,’ which I personally believe will preclude any one from coming to salvation during that period….  “ And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.”

 

 

During this time, Revelation 16:9 says:  “And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory”…and this statement is repeated in verse 11…” And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.”

 

 

To summarize the important points of discussion thus far, about the MIDDLE of the Tribulation, in the MIDDLE of seven….

 

 

God superimposed the benchmark prophecy of ‘Daniel’s 70 Weeks’ upon the Sabbatical cycle of the nation of Israel, for its main thrust was to reveal to the Jews exactly when their own dear Messiah would come to them to make atonement for their sin, and the sin of all mankind.  He then so graciously guaranteed that benchmark dates would be historically preserved in order that the nation would again be able to ‘count their days.’ God went on to tell the Jewish believers in Him exactly how long they would have to wait until ‘all these things will be finished’ at the end of ‘time, times and half a time’ and ‘the end of their days.’   What He revealed clearly to the precious redeemed of Israel who were ‘thy people, Daniel’ was this:  that during the ‘time of Jacob’s Trouble,’ though it would be a very perilous and evil three and one half years, designed to take place again under the dispensation of Law, this time will be the last time ‘to try them, and to purge, and to make them white.’   Further, God revealed exactly when their arch enemy, the antichrist would break his covenant with the nation of Israel and stop the sacrifice and set up the abomination that desolates on the 1290th day.  God then concluded the prophecy with the revelation of the very day, when all the saints of the nation of Israel  would obtain their unique blessing and rewards and all their waiting would be over….by their 1335th day.   Messiah came exactly at the promised time and gave further warnings about when and where the Judean remnant was to flee on the 1290th day.  He then instructed them how to enter the Kingdom of God, before they could enter the Kingdom of Heaven, which will be their long-promised Kingdom of David set upon the earth with Messiah, their Redeemer as King and Priest.

 

 

Part Four, the final part, will attempt to show how Daniel’s certain years and days could begin to unfold with this coming spring, in 2005.

 

 

Miriam Howard

miriamhoward@bak.rr.com

November, 2004