Prophetic

Cycles

By Bracy I. Greer with

Dwight Thompson

Copyright© 1990

Dwight Thompson World Outreach

Ministries, Inc.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction. ................................................................................7

Chapter 1 The Cycle of the Nations. .........................................11

Chapter 2 The Cycle of the Hebrew Nation. .............................19

Chapter 3 The Fulfilled Prophetic Cycles. ................................32

Chapter 4 Cycle of the Unfulfilled Prophetic Periods. ..............51

About the Author

Since his conversion on May 12, 1932, Bracy I. Greer has

fixed his heart on the pursuit of holiness and the study of God's

Word. Pastor Greer is approaching 60 years of full-time ministry

and is highly esteemed for both his disciplined study of

Scripture and his eloquent delivery.

As a pastor/teacher, Reverend Greer has devoted over 50

years to his research of Biblical Prophecy. In addition to his

keen interest in eschatology, Pastor Greer has developed a

devout prayer life and credits the Holy Spirit for his insights into

the interpretation of current world events in the "light" of both

Old Testament and New Testament prophecies.

One of Brother Greer's greatest pleasures in ministry is the

"brain storming/colleague" relationship that he enjoys with his

son-in-law, Dwight Thompson. Prophetic Cycles is a fruit of

their labor.

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Introduction

As the scriptures indicate in Ecclesiastes 1:4-7:

One generation passeth away, and another generation

cometh: but the earth abideth forever. The sun also ariseth,

and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he

arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about

unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind

returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run

into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from

whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

So God works in cycles. He sees the end from the beginning.

Everything proceeds according to a divine plan. The cycles

evolve around the city of Jerusalem, the nation of Israel, and this

nation’s Messiah, the Bridegroom of the Church, the Lord Jesus

Christ. Time is presently cycling back in favor of the nation of

Israel. “The time to favor Israel, the set time is come.” Psalms

102:13.

Therefore, the nations will cycle accordingly. History will

repeat itself, especially in regard to the revising of the Roman

empire into a modern version of a ten-nation alliance of Western

Europe. The fulfilled prophetic periods have cycled out with a

preciseness that assures us that the future prophetic periods will

be fulfilled with the same minute accuracy.

The fulfilling of the present cycle of the Church Age will

bring us to the last countdown when the future prophetic cycles

will be fulfilled climaxing in the coming of the Kingdom of God

upon earth. Then the whole world will be at peace because

Jerusalem is at peace, swayed by the scepter of the Prince of

Peace. This will set up a new cycle ending with the catastrophe

of Satan being loosed for his one last stand, resulting in his final

consignment. Then the Second Resurrection and the Great White

Throne Judgment will end this cycle. The ceaseless cycles of

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eternity will then begin to unfold, “and so shall we ever be with

the Lord” .

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and

knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and

his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of

the Lord? Or who hath been his counselor? Or who hath first

given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to

whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Romans 11:33-36

Rule of Interpretation

The first rule of interpretation of prophecy is that every

event of any nation that relates to the land of Palestine is

important. The nations are described in the Bible in the past,

present, or future, ONLY in this relationship. All of these events

of nations evolving around Palestine makes the capitol city of

Jerusalem the great time clock.

These studies will prove that God has dealt with Palestine

and the Hebrew nation in a precise time schedule. The great

clock has been rewound and is ticking again. Every flick of the

second hand is bringing us, first, to the midnight hour, when the

cry will be heard, “behold, the Bridegroom cometh;” second, to

the dark night of the great tribulation; and finally, to the

dawning of a new day when the Son of Righteousness will arise

with healing in his beams.

This rule of interpretation that all things appear in prophecy

only as they relate to Israel is applicable concerning affairs of

nations. It is also true concerning the Church. To fail to see the

Church and Israel as two separate entities leads to the errors of

Amillennialism which teaches that the prophecies made to Israel

is fulfilled in the Church, thus making the present age the

Promised Millennium. Israel and the Church are two separate

peoples not to be mingled or confused since God has two

separate programs: one for Israel, and one for the Church.

God’s program for the Church is to bring redemption to all

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nationalities by forming them into one international body. The

program for Israel is political. God will resume His theocratic

program with Israel through her ruling over nations of the earth

from a restored Davidic Monarchy in Palestine. There will be a

literal throne, a literal restoration of the millennium Temple, and

a literal restoration of the priestly order of the Old Testament

times; also a literal resumption of the sacrificial system. (The

relation of this sacrificial system to the death of the Lord Jesus

is commemorative, as the sacrament of the Lord’s supper is

commemorative, and not anticipatory as the Old Testament

sacrificial system that types in anticipation of His death.) In this

coming age, when all these systems are restored, all the Old

Testament promises to Israel will be literally fulfilled.

Prophecies concerning the nation of Israel are not, therefore,

fulfilled in the Church. The promise, “All Israel shall be

saved,” refers to the nation of Israel. This happens only after

“the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.” One passage refers to

the Church, and the other to Israel. This is typical of all the

passages of the Bible in their references to the Church and

Israel. References to the Church are being fulfilled in this

dispensation. The references to Israel are to be fulfilled in the

Kingdom Age. The Pre-Tribulation Rapture grows out of this

concept because the Tribulation period, or the 70th week of

Daniel, is a time determined upon Daniel’s people, the Jews, and

his holy city, Jerusalem (Daniel 9:24).

The Church must be raptured before the Tribulation, for it is

a time of Jacob’s trouble out of which the remnant of national

Israel that survives the Tribulation will be saved (Jer. 30:7;

Zech. 13:8, 9). With this remnant, Christ will reign in person

with His church, and will build the Kingdom Age. The Old

Testament prophecies concerning Israel will be fulfilled in that

coming age. The “true Church” as opposed to Christendom is

composed only of those who have been “born again.” Therefore,

this Church, in its true concept, relates to Israel in replacing her

for the Grace Dispensation period of time (Rom. 11:25). God’s

program for Israel will be resumed in the Kingdom Age (Rom.

11:12 15). The initial stages of this restoration will begin in the

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70th week of Daniel, the Great Tribulation Period. God will

have finished with the earthly program of the Church. He will

rapture the Church into His presence. The focus will then be

upon Israel.

Let us know the times! “It is high time to awake out of

sleep: for now is our salvation nearer that when we believed.”

Rom. 13:11. Let us be like the men of David’s army who had

understanding of the times and knew what they were to do (1

Chronicles 12:32)!

The purpose, therefore, of this book, is to learn the

preciseness in which God has fulfilled prophecy according to

schedule. Everything proceeds according to the divine plan. We

judge the future by the past. We can be assured that as God has

fulfilled His plan for the ages in the past, that He will continue

to do so in the present, and in the future.

This study is in four principal parts:

1. The Cycle of the Nations

2. The Cycles of the Hebrew Nation

3. The Cycles of the Fulfilled Prophetic Periods

4. The Cycles of Unfulfilled Prophetic Periods

Bracy I. Greer

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Chapter 1

THE CYCLE OF THE NATIONS

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The main stream of prophecy runs in channels of Hebrew

history. This is true of all revelation and becomes the first

principle of prophetic interpretation.

Let us apply this principle in regard to the nations in history,

in the present, and in the future.

The nations in the Bible, in each period, are described only

as they relate to the Hebrew nation. If the light of revelation

describes the political affairs of Gentile nations, it is because

Jerusalem was desolate and Israel was in exile. If indeed, the

spiritual blessings of the Gospel of Grace rests upon the

Gentiles, as in the present, God is visiting the Gentiles to take

out a people for his name. This is entirely temporary, for the

normal order of God’s dealings is for Israel to be restored.

“Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the

Gentiles be come in.” Romans 11:25. “There shall come out of

Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from

Jacob.” Romans 11:26.

So the fullness of the Gentiles is not to be confused with the

fulfillment of the times of the Gentiles in Luke 21:24. The first

reference is to spiritual blessings; the latter to earthly political

powers. Both of these time periods, however, run concurrently

in the time when Israel has been exiled from the land. Both

periods will be fulfilled when Israel is regathered to be again

dealt with as a nation in Jerusalem.

The spiritual blessing will climax with the completion and

catching away of the Church. The times of the Gentiles will be

fulfilled when Jerusalem becomes the capitol of a free nation,

independent of Gentile power, and the true Son of David comes

to claim the sceptre. Therefore, we will study the chart of The

Cycle of the Nations as their events relate to the Hebrew nation

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in the past, in the present, and in the future. Let it be

remembered that there is not any description of nations in the

Bible except as they relate to Israel and to the land of Palestine.

The entire history and the prophecy of the nations was given

to John in the Revelation, Chapter 1, 7:10:

And there are seven kings; five are fallen, and one is, and

the other is not yet come; and, when he cometh, he must

continue a short space.

This is history in a nutshell. The five kingdoms with world

dominion that had fallen in John’s day were: first, Egypt;

second, Assyria; then Babylon; succeeded by the Medes and

Persians; and finally, Greece.

The kingdom that was in power in John’s day was the

empire of Rome. This kingdom was identified as the sixth, or the

one that was currently in dominion contemporary with John. The

one to come would rise in the last days and have a vital

relationship to restored Israel when she dwells in her land. The

first of these kingdoms, Egypt, is mentioned in the Bible 731

times. As every student knows, this kingdom has had a vital

relationship to Israel in the bondage of the 430 years. Many of

the references to Egypt have a future fulfillment which indicates

this subjection being reversed in Israel’s favor.

Assyria was the second great empire to oppress Israel.

Founded by Nimrod in Genesis 10:8-12, it was a kingdom

inferior to Egypt for 1300 years. She rose to prominence and

oppressed Israel 175 years, and finally carried captive the

northern ten tribes of Israel in 725 B.C. Assyria or Assyrian is

mentioned in the Bible 175 times and always in connection with

Israel.

The word Babylon is used in the Bible 285 times and nearly

always in connection with Israel. Babylon, the third empire,

gave Israel a crushing blow from which she never recovered to

her former glory. This began the times of the Gentiles, because

Israel was completely eclipsed by the Gentile world powers. She

is just now emerging from these shadows. The repossessing of

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Jerusalem will mark the end of those times. Israel will arise as a

world power with a glory greater than Solomon’s.

Medo-Persia, mentioned 58 times in the Scriptures, plays an

important role in history in relationship to Israel. It was the

fourth of the five kingdoms that were. Medo-Persia oppressed

Israel for 100 years. This era produced the events recorded in the

book of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. The Feast of Purim, forged

by the oppressions of these days, is celebrated annually to this

day.

Greece was fifth in line of the world empires, third in line of

successive kingdoms in the book of Daniel. Due to the fact that

it existed between the Old and New Testaments, it is mentioned

only nine times in the Bible. Greece made a literary contribution

giving a universal language which facilitated the spread of the

Gospel. Those days proved to be especially difficult days for

restored Israel because of the arch-enemy Antiochus Epiphanes

who becomes the dark foreshadow of the persecutor of Israel in

the last days. Out of the crucible of these days of suffering was

fabricated the Feast of Hannakuk, which commemorates their

deliverance under the Macabees. Israelites celebrate the Feast of

Hannakuk today with a great deal of significance, for they see a

parallel of events. Greece was divided into four divisions. Two

of the divisions had a vital connection with Israel. They are

referred to in Daniel as the kingdoms of the north, and of the

south, that is, to the north and south of Palestine. They are

identified as Syria and Egypt. These two kingdoms are still

oppressors of Israel. They will have a prominent part in the last

day drama of events.

It is important to our study that we trace the historical

stream of these two kingdoms. They were, in fact, two of the

four divisions of the Grecian empire after the fall of Alexander

the Great. The 11th Chapter of Daniel outlines the history of

Syria and Egypt insofar as they affected the land of Palestine.

We cannot reiterate too frequently the importance of this rule of

interpretation. In prophecy, Palestine is consistently regarded as

the center of God’s dealings upon earth, and all other powers are

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viewed in relation to it. The two countries of Syria and Egypt are

consequently referred to as kings (or kingdoms) of the north and

south, since this is their geographical position of Palestine. The

Grecian empire was divided after the battle of Ipsus in 301 B.C.

From that date the Ptolemais Dynasty ruled Egypt, thereby

fulfilling the designation of the king of the south. The

designations are general expressions, and the terms are not to be

restricted to the first rulers of Egypt and Syria. After the battle

of Ipsus, in the reallocations of the divisions, historians say that

the greater portion was given to Seleucus, whose dynasty

fulfilled the designation of the kings of the north. His rule was

greater than Ptolemy’s rule. He was the ruler of the greatest

extent of territory after Alexander. The prophecy of Daniel 11:5

was, therefore, literally fulfilled: “And the king of the south

shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong

above him, and have dominion.” One of his own captains

became stronger and bore rule over a greater dominion. In fact,

Daniel, the 11th Chapter, is an explanation of the developments

of these kingdoms, and it is concerned primarily with the

intrigues, alliances and conflicts of these two kings. The events

are relevant to our day, for some of them describe the days

immediately preceding the tribulation period so graphically

portrayed prophetically in Daniel 12. (That is the Great

Tribulation period.) The revelation now made to Daniel in

Chapter 11 was to explain what would happen to his people (the

Jewish people) in the last days (Daniel 10:14). A large part of

the events in Chapter 11 have been accurately fulfilled, but the

complete fulfillment of the latter part of the Chapter is still to be

seen.

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—Chart 1—

Toes of the image (representing the ten federated kingdoms) extend over the

tribulation

Cycle of Nations in Symbolism

1ST SYMBOL—The dragon of Revelation 12 permeates all

human history, and leaves a trail like a serpent down through the

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centuries. He becomes the “god of this world,” working

invisibly behind the scenes. He influences the nations. His

diabolical reign will be more pronounced than ever in the last

domination.

2ND SYMBOL—The beast of Revelation 17 represents the

seven empires with world dominion. Five are fallen. Egypt,

Assyria, Babylon, Persia and Greece. One is—the Roman

Empire, contemporary with John’s day. The one to come is the

group of ten Federated Nations that will compose the last

kingdom of man upon earth. The scarlet clad woman riding the

beast symbolizes the religious system. This system with

different names has existed through the centuries contemporary

with the world dominions. It began in ancient Babel, this

mystery religion which centered in the worship of Semiramis

and Tammuz, the mother and the child. This religion spread

beyond Babylon to Phoenicia, where the names were changed to

Astaroth and Tammuz. Later the name was changed to Isthar,

from which we derive the word “Easter.” The Phoenicians,

being seafaring people, carried the religion to Egypt, where the

name of the mother and child were changed to Isis and Horus.

Later it was carried to Greece, where the names were changed to

Aphrodite and Eros. In Rome, the name of the mother and child

become Venus and Cupid. This religion has perpetuated into the

present. It will continue into the future, as an imitation of

Christianity in the world church system. It will finally be

destroyed by the man of sin, who will elevate himself as the only

deity to be worshiped.

3RD SYMBOL—The head of gold corresponds to the

winged lion and represents the Babylonian Empire. This

kingdom was finished in Daniel 5:25.

4TH SYMBOL—The breast of silver corresponds to the

symbolism of the bear and ram. It represents the Persian Empire

that developed into a dynasty of four kings, which succeeded

Darius the Mede and Cyrus the Persian. They were Ahasuerus,

Artaxerxes, Darius the Great, and finally Xerxes.

5TH SYMBOL—Thighs of brass correspond to the symbol

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of the leopard, the he-goat and the four-horned goat. These

represent the stages of the Greco-Empire, beginning with

Alexander the Great. Four generals succeeded him to reign over

the four divisions of his kingdom. This kingdom ended with

Antiochus Epiphanes, King of the Syrian division of

Alexander’s Empire. He was referred to as the “King of the

North” because of his kingdom’s proximity to the land of

Palestine. He was symbolized by the little horn extending from

one of the horns of the four-horned goat.

6TH SYMBOL—Legs of iron with the ten toes correspond

to the symbol of the terrible beast. This is Rome in its two

divisions of the past, and its revised form of ten nations in the

future. This last kingdom form will combine into itself all the

features of all the kingdoms of all ages and will be personified in

one man who is represented by the beast of Revelation 13. This

ten-horned beast with his co-regent, the Jewish King,

represented by the beast from the earth in Revelation 13 will be

the last rulers. They will be succeeded by the Kingdom of God,

represented by the falling stone.

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Chapter 2

THE CYCLE OF THE HEBREW NATION

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We will view the cycle of the Hebrew nation as it relates to

the Four Temples. Two of these have appeared in their past

history, and two are yet to appear. The appearing of one is very

imminent and has a significant bearing on the immediate future.

The First Temple

In the book of Genesis, God directs Abraham to sacrifice his

only son, Isaac, on a certain mountain (Genesis 22:2). This turns

out to be Mount Moriah, the very site of the later temples.

Presently, the Dome of the Rock houses the very spot on which

Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac.

Four centuries later Moses was preparing the nation of Israel

to enter the land. God gave Moses specific directions concerning

the first temple. “There shall be a place which the Lord your

God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there."

Deuteronomy 12:11. Israel conquered and settled Palestine; but

then followed the task of welding the nation before the temple

could be built. Israel worshiped their God, ever mindful that

somewhere in that land was the site of their temple.

Following the rule of the judges, there came the rule of the

kings. The nation was blessed with a succession of capable

monarchs, the second of whom, King David, captured the city of

Jerusalem from the Jebusites. Now the temple site is made

available. David made Jerusalem the capitol city and became

concerned about building God’s House. The Israelites had

continued their worship in a tabernacle, lacking a proper temple.

God revealed the actual temple site to David on the occasion of

making a sacrifice to “stay the plague” that was devastating the

land. David purchased the land from Araunah, and it became the

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temple site (11 Samuel 24:22-24).

David, before his death, gathered materials to go into the

temple, and instructed his son Solomon, as he assigned him the

task of building the edifice (I Chronicles 22:6-16). King

Solomon carried out the instructions. He adorned Jerusalem with

the Temple of God. The labor involved was tremendous. The

porch before the main structure rose 180 feet. Huge blocks of

solid stone were raised to the height of a 20 story modern

skyscraper. The entire structure in all its magnificence took

150,000 laborers seven years to accomplish. The temple was

dedicated (11 Chronicles 6:12-14). God accepted the dedication,

and “chose the place to Himself for a house of sacrifice.” The

first temple stood for centuries as a wonder of the ancient world.

However, four hundred years later, this temple was sacked

and burned to the ground. The Babylonians conquered Israel,

broke down the walls of Jerusalem, set a torch to the city, and

carried away the treasures of the House of the Lord (11 Kings

24:13-14). The cruelest blow of all, the destruction of the

temple, was completed to the extent that the 34 acre stone

quadrangle vanished without a trace.

The Second Temple

Now the main body of Israel was exiled in Babylon. The

date of Nebuchadnezzar’s first siege was 605 B.C. The Jews

were carried off in groups until 586 B.C. The schedule for the

time of the nation’s captivity was fixed as a period of seventy

years (Jeremiah 29:10-14). Daniel, one of the captives, was to

see the entire seventy years pass and to witness the return of

Jerusalem and the founding of the second temple. He saw

Babylon succumb to Persia during that period. Cyrus, the leader

of the Persians was sympathetic to the Jewish cause, allowing

them to return to their homeland and to rebuild their temple. The

reconstruction, according to Ezra, was under the direction of

Zerubabel, heir to the Jewish throne. He, with his contemporary,

Joshua, the High Priest, succeeded in rebuilding a smaller

temple, much to the disappointment of those who remembered

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the first temple (Ezra 3:11-13).

But the promise to the disappointed sages was that the glory

of the latter house (second temple), would be greater than the

glory of the former house (the first temple) (Haggai 2:3-9). This

promise was fulfilled centuries later when Herod spent 44 years

in remodeling and rebuilding the temple until it became truly a

marvel even among the magnificent architecture of that age.

This 500 year old structure, remodeled and practically rebuilt by

Herod, fulfilled the greater glory of the latter house of Haggai’s

prophecy. It was considered invincible.

Christ Jesus graced this temple with His presence. It was

also the setting for many of His teachings. The Lord Jesus did

not comment on the temple itself, except to prophesy its

destruction (Matthew 24:2). According to this prediction, the

catastrophe of the destruction of the second temple was almost

beyond imagination. Over one million Jews died in the five

months siege of Jerusalem by the Roman legions. Josephus, the

Jewish Historian, records that 600,000 starved in the streets.

Their bodies were thrown over the walls at the rate of 4,000 per

day. The temple was razed so thoroughly, that our Lord’s

prophecy was literally fulfilled. Not one stone was left upon the

other. Josephus discovered a remarkable fact that has been

substantiated by modern investigation: the first and second

temples were destroyed on the same day of the year. The date of

the destruction of both temples, 656 years apart, was the ninth

day of Ab in the Jewish calendar, corresponding to mid August.

Devout Jews continue to recognize this date of sorrowing.

Since that day, the Jewish temple site has been used for

pagan worship. Hadrian, one of the Roman Emperors chose it

purposely to build the temple of Jupiter. It stood squarely upon

the hallowed site and outlasted the Roman Empire. At some

point in the decline of Rome and the advance of Christianity the

temple was remodeled and used as a Christian church. The

Moslem Arabs took Jerusalem in the 7th Century. The present

building, the Dome of the Rock, dates from A.D. 691.

According to some scholars, the root of the present building

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is supported by the basic structure of Hadrian’s pillars that have

been standing for 1,800 years. The Moslems also have had their

troubles at the temple site. The Crusaders, during the crusades

from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, planted a golden

cross on the Dome that lasted for nearly a century. The

Crusaders thought the Dome was Solomon’s Temple originally,

and named it Templum Domini. They garrisoned the tough

Knights Templar in the Mosque to guarantee the passage of

European Christians who made pilgrimages to the holy site.

But the knights eventually lost the grounds to Moslems, and

from that time, the 14th century, the temple site has remained in

non-Jewish, non-Christian hands until the six day war of 1967,

when the Jews recovered the temple site and await the day when

they can rebuild their temple.

The Third Temple

The cycle of Hebrew history surrounding the temple remains

on schedule. The first two temples have come and gone

according to the prophetic schedule. So the third temple will be

realized according to the same prophetic accuracy. When the

Roman Prince breaks his covenant with the Jews, he will

overthrow the restored Jewish daily ritual of animal sacrifices

being observed in the rebuilt Jewish Temple (Daniel 9:26-27).

To those who say this prophecy was fulfilled when

Antiochus profaned the Jewish Temple of restoration, the Lord

Jesus is the authority to attest to the fact that this prophecy is yet

future from His day, and remains to be fulfilled in the future

when the third temple is established (Matthew 24:15-16).

The Apostle Paul also referred to this third Tribulation

temple in 11 Thessalonians 2:3-4, and said of the Man of Sin,

“that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself

that he is God.” John’s Revelation describes this rebuilt temple

in Revelation 11:1-2. So, we must have this third temple or these

prophecies would not be complete. Furthermore, we see this

temple, though desecrated, is nevertheless sanctioned as a

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temple of God. John is commanded to measure the temple of

God. It is clear that John’s reference to the temple combines

well with the other three references and pictures the same times.

The time and place is well defined. The time periods are

persuasive example of Bible consistency. This temple will also

be destroyed. This destruction may occur when the great

earthquake changes the entire topography of that whole land

area when the Lord Jesus sets his feet upon the Mount of Olives.

Will history repeat itself, that this third temple will fall on the

same day that the first two temples fell, the ninth day of the

Hebrew month of Ab? No one knows except that the Lord

fulfills his prophecies on a very precise schedule. We do know

that the day will come when this area will be prepared for the

building of the fourth temple, the Millennium temple that will

stand for a thousand years.

The building of the third temple is now controversial in the

minds of serious prophetic students. The prophecy does not

describe the rebuilding of the temple, but the rebuilding of the

Tabernacle of David (Amos 9:11 and Acts 15:14-16). The

Tabernacle of David stood on another site approximately one

mile south of the Dome of The Rock, in the old City of David,

the original city of Jerusalem that he took from the Jebusites. If

the rebuilding of the Tabernacle of David (not the rebuilding of

the Temple of Solomon) is indeed the fulfillment of the

prophesy of Amos 9:11; if that rebuilt structure would fulfill the

descriptions of the temple of God as given by Paul in II

Thessalonians 2:2-4 and of John in Revelation 11:1-2; if the

daily ritual could be restored at this tabernacle site fulfilling the

words of our Lord in Matthew 24:15-16; then this prophecy

could have immediate fulfillment, for the space where David’s

tabernacle once stood has been excavated and stands cleared and

ready for the building of a magnificent structure where the daily

sacrifice could be restored.

If the rebuilding of the Tabernacle of David, and not the

rebuilding of the temple, is actually the fulfillment of the

prophecy, then this would indicate the end of the Church Age

according to James’ words in Acts 15:14-16,

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God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a

people for his name, and will then turn and build again the

tabernacle of David, which is fallen down.

It is consistently taught in the scriptures that the Rapture would

end the Church Age. So the question naturally arises, “will the

restoration of the tabernacle or its successor, the temple, be built

before the Rapture transpires?” The answer to this question

depends on what is meant by the words of Paul in II

Thessalonians 2:7-8, “He that restrains will be taken out of the

way, and then that wicked one will be revealed.” If he (the

wicked one) is to be revealed immediately after the restrainer

(the Holy Spirit-filled Church) is taken out of the way, then it

would be necessary for the temple or tabernacle to at least be

under construction before the Rapture, otherwise there would be

no temple for “the wicked one” to sit in to usurp God’s position.

The Rapture ends the Church Age. The signing of the covenant

marks the beginning of the seven-year Tribulation period. If

there is a lapse of time between the Rapture and the covenant

signing, the temple, or tabernacle could be built in the time

lapse. In either case we can expect the Rapture to end the

Church Age momentarily, even before construction is begun.

But if construction is begun on either site, David’s Tabernacle

site or the temple site, this would signal for sure that the Rapture

of the Church is imminent.

The Fourth Temple

It is evident from Ezekiel 42:20 that the Millennium temple

will be six times larger than the whole of Jerusalem as it was in

the day when our Lord was upon the earth. The boundary of

Ezekiel’s temple will be 3-1/2 miles, while the boundaries of the

whole ancient city was about 2-I/2 miles. The Millennium

temple is of these proportions because it will accommodate

pilgrims coming from all over the earth to worship (Zechariah

41:16-17).

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Crisis

“Arab” is not an ethnic terminology; rather it describes the

Middle East nations who speak the Arabic language. These

nations once comprised the Ottoman Empire that stretched from

the borders of Hungary across the northern part of the continent

of Africa, including all the modern Arab states as well as

Turkey, Persia and Palestine.

This empire, with its capitol in Constantinople, prevailed in

prominence for seven centuries, from 1300 A.D. until the year of

1917.

During the first World War, this empire was attacked by the

British expeditions that brought their armies to the gates of

Jerusalem. These troops, under the command of General

Allenby, had the task of dispossessing the city of Jerusalem,

which at that time was a Turkish citadel.

Not wanting to devastate the city with its sacred shrines,

General Allenby was at a loss as to know how to attack, then he

was made to realize that he should make it a matter of prayer.

Arising from his knees he felt impressed to dispatch

reconnaissance planes to circle over the city.

These circling planes were innovative and strange. They

announced the fact that Allenby was at the gate. This

announcement struck terror in the heart of the Turks, for

Allenby, interpreted in their language meant “Allah-by”, or

“God is against us!”

In the midst of hysteria the Turks fled the city. It was taken

by the British without the firing of a shot. By these means the

“Holy City” was both delivered and preserved, thus fulfilling the

prophecy of Isaiah 31:5, “As birds flying, so will the Lord of

Hosts defend Jerusalem, defending He will also deliver it; and

passing over He will preserve it.”

Historians detail this event as happening on the 11th day of

November, 1917. It is strange, as is commonly known, that one

year later, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the

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eleventh month 1918 the Armistice was signed.

In Luke 21:24, the city of Jerusalem is described as a time

indicator! Could this strange sequence of elevens indicate that

God’s time clock had struck eleven o’clock?

The eventful hour of the fall of Jerusalem to Allenby was an

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epoch in the onward course of history. For from that day,

tremendous changes have transpired in Palestine which set in

motion fulfillment of prophecies that will continue unfolding in

rapid succession.

First, among those changes; Britain was given a mandate

over the land of Palestine. Because of this mandate the British

gave the Jewish people the right to rebuild their homeland!

In November 1917, the Balfour Declaration was addressed

to the Zionist Federation which read in part;

His Majesty’s government view with favor the

establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish

people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the

achievement of this objective....

Britain was true to her word given in this declaration, but

the establishing of that national home for the Jews set the stage

for the modern day conflict between the Arabs and the Jews.

The second change in Palestine took place when Britain

relinquished her mandate, giving the United Nations charge over

Palestine. The U.N., wishing to settle the dispute, partitioned off

the land of Palestine making boundaries between “Jew” and

“Arab”. This action incensed the wrath of the Arabs. War was

engaged against the Jews. The Jews emerged from this conflict

with more territory than was originally allocated to them. They

gained a prominence enabling Israel to become a sovereign

nation.

Please notice that each of these changes have fulfilled a

major prophecy. This development fulfilled the prophecy of

Isaiah 66:18, “Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one

day? or shall a nation be born at once?” With remarkable

accuracy in fulfillment, in one day, between sunset and sunrise

on May 16th, 1948 Israel was made a sovereign nation!

The third change in the land of Palestine happened in the

month of June 1967. The league of Arab states formed in 1948

amalgamated into the United Arab Republic. This giant

formation declared war on Israel, boasting that they would push

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her into the sea!

In what is now known in history as “The Six Day War,”

Israel miraculously emerged, victoriously extending her national

boundaries which she had not relinquished until the Egypt Sinai

Agreement. But she has not relinquished the west bank of the

Jordan, including all the city of Jerusalem. This is important to

prophecy.

Because Luke 21:24 was fulfilled on this date, marking the

close of the times of the Gentiles, the area of the west bank of

the Jordan, including the city of Jerusalem, becomes the bone of

contention for all nations because this prophecy is at stake. God

said, in Zech. 12:3:

In that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for

all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in

pieces. Though all the people of the earth gathered against it.

This area is the key to peace in the Middle East, and any

event affecting this territory would be of prophetic importance.

This land centering in the city of Jerusalem becomes the focal

point of prophecy. All major, significant fulfillments of

prophecy will transpire in this area.

The Western Wall is not a part of either Solomon’s Temple

or of The Temple of Herod. Some of the top stones of the wall

were laid by the Crusaders to retain the debris collected over

thousands of years on which the present Mosque is built.

Perhaps the rock it houses is the very peak of Mr. Moriah. It is

very likely that when excavations are resumed in the temple-

mound itself, the exact location of the temple will be discovered

—perhaps at the level of the top steps to the temple, which have

already been exposed and lie on the south coming up from the

City of David and the Pool of Siloam. When the actual site is

discovered, it is possible that the ancient ark will be recovered.

It is a documented fact that in Israel there are two schools being

conducted; one for the Lesser priests, and another for the Higher

priests who will administer the sacrifices in the daily rituals that

is foretold in the prophecies as being restored.

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When it is practiced at the site of David’s Tabernacle, the

daily ritual could be readily transferred to the temple site when it

is excavated and restored. The present government could

promote and expedite the restoral of the ancient sacrifice. This

would definitely be a fulfillment of the prophesy of Daniel 9:27,

28; Matt. 24:25. This would set the stage for rapid fulfillment of

the events as recorded in Rev. 1:12, 13.

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Chapter 3

THE FULFILLED PROPHETIC CYCLES

3

The cycles are four in number. On our chart we have titled

them as:

Abraham’s Prophetic Period—Gen. 15.

Jeremiah’s Prophetic Period—Jer. 25.

Daniel’s Prophetic Period—Dan. 9.

Hosea’s Prophetic Period—Hosea 6:1, 2; Pet. 3:8.

We will consider each of them in this order.

Abraham’s Prophetic Period

Abraham was given the prophecy concerning the future of

his nation in the 15th Chapter of Genesis (Gen. 15:13-16). This

prophecy is in two parts. First, after 400 years of affliction they

would be delivered, and second, in the fourth generation they

would enter Canaan, the land of the Amorites. In fulfillment of

the first part of this prophecy (the 12th chapter of Exodus), it

was accurately fulfilled on the last day of the first month (Nisan)

in the 430th year (Ex. 12:40). It is interesting to notice that

Joseph, who lived in the first generation, predicted the departing

of the Israelites and gave commandment concerning his bones

(Heb. 11:22). His faith in the prophecy of Abraham was

vindicated, and in Exodus his request concerning his bones was

realized. Ex. 13:18, 19,

... and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the

land of Egypt. And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him.

Those who believed in the prophesies of the exodus of God’s

people, according to Thess. 4:13-19 will also have their faith

vindicated although, like Joseph, they may not be alive at the

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time... they will participate in it when the dead in Christ shall

rise first. Our glorified bodies will be a bone and flesh

construction just as our Lord’s after His resurrection (Luke

24:39, 40; 1 John 3:2).

The second part of this prophecy was literally fulfilled when

the children of Israel were led back to Canaan by Moses who

was in the fourth generation; that is, Levi, Kohath, Amram, and

Moses. A possible interpretation of “Moses as a goodly child”

(Ex. 2:2), and “Proper child” (Heb. 11:23), could mean that

they saw in him what he actually became... a child of destiny!

Their insight was all based on the prophesy of God’s Word.

Those who read and believe the prophecies today will

certainly agree that, according to the prophecies, ours also is a

generation who has a date with destiny! Notice also in this

prophecy how God scheduled His program according to the

filling of the cup of the Amorites, the largest of the ten nations

of Canaan dispossessed by the invasion of the children of Israel.

God will not move against the world until they have filled their

cup full of iniquity; then He will recompense them accordingly,

and the cup which they have filled, He will return in like

measure of judgment (Rev. 18:6). God will reap when the world

ripens for judgment (Rev. 14:14, 15).

It is important to our study to notice previous to this period,

after the flood, that the streams of humanity began to branch out.

From Japheth flows the streams through Gomer, Magog, and

Meshech to form the people who were the ancient Scythians and

who became the modern Europeans. The continent of America is

peopled, for the most part, by the descendants of Europeans.

From Abraham and Lot there descended through Ishmael

and Esau, those who were welded through the marriage of Esau

to Ishmael’s daughter, producing the Edomites (Gen. 28:9). This

breed of people inhabited the land of Mt. Seir, which is modern

Jordan. This part of Jordan lies in ruins (Obadiah verse 10). The

descendants of Lot, who were Moab and Ammon, are now the

people of the nation of Jordan. Other nations of the Middle East

referred to as the Arabs (because they all speak the Arabic

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language) are the descendants of Ishmael. All of these streams of

humanity will flow into prophetic prominence in relationship to

the nation of Israel in the last days. (Refer to chart no. 5 on the

next page.)

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—Chart 5—

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Jeremiah’s Prophetic Period

As chart number 6 indicates, the captivity of Judea and the

fall of Jerusalem were in three stages. First, in the year 606 B.C.,

Nebuchadnezzer captured the city of Jerusalem after a brief

siege. He put Jehoikim in fetters with the intention of carrying

him to Babylon, but changing his mind, he left the king to rule

Judah as a tributary. The sacred vessels of the temple, however,

were carried off and dedicated to the service of Belus at Babylon

(2 Chron. 36:5-7). At the same time a few young nobles were

selected and also carried to Babylon to be trained in the wisdom

of the Chaldeans (Daniel 1:3-4). Learning of his father’s death,

Nebuchadnezzar left booty and the captives and returned to

Babylon to ascend the throne, before any rival arose. The

captives and the booty followed him later to Babylon.

In the third year of the reign of Jehoikim, the vassal king

rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar. As the chart indicates, he

subjugated the city the second time, in the year 598 B.C. At this

time, he put King Jehoikim to death, and set his son Jehoichin

on the throne in his place. Jehoichin’s reign lasted only three

months, in which he rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar. Provoked

by this new act of treachery, the King of Babylon again returned

to Jerusalem, overthrew Jehoichin and carried away captive all

but the very poorest of the land, as well as the remaining

treasures of the temple (II Kings 24 16). The empty throne was

then filled by Zedekiah, the 20th and last king of Judah. This

throne will remain empty until it is occupied by David’s

greater son, the Lord Jesus Christ (read Hosea 3:4-5 & Luke

1:30-33 together). Zedekiah had sworn loyalty to

Nebuchadnezzar, but proved unreliable by entering negotiations

with Egypt (II Chron. 36:13 & Jer. 37:5).

Consequently, again for the third time, Nebuchadnezzar

attacked the city of Jerusalem, and after 18 months it fell.

Zedekiah was captured, his sons massacred before his face, he

himself was blinded and thrown into a Babylon prison, where he

remained until his dying day (2 Kings 25:7) The chief priests

were slain. The temple and the city were destroyed, everything

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of value left in the temple was looted and carried away to

Babylon, with the exception of a few peasants. All the People

were carried to Babylon and the glory of the kingdom of Judah

was completely extinguished. The desolation of the land lasted

for seventy years, “until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths.” (II

Chron. 36:20-21 & Lev. 26:34-35).

Daniel’s Prophetic Period

The seventy weeks of Daniel has been called “the backbone

of prophecy.” Any teaching on the Second Coming of Christ

must be taught in relation to this time period, for it contains

certain indications, in a time element, that set a trend toward the

climax of His Second Coming. A proper interpretation of this

passage of scripture from Dan. 9:24-27 will help us to trace

these trends and indicate to us a very important time element in

regard to the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus.

The seventy years foretold by Jeremiah had expired, and

Daniel awaited the fulfillment of a promised restoration of his

people. But the message brought by the angel Gabriel was that a

further period of seventy weeks had been determined upon

Daniel’s people (the Jews), and upon his holy city, Jerusalem.

There has been controversy concerning the term “weeks,”

but most scholars agree that it is a term simply meaning

“sevens”. It could be translated “seventy sevens”. As we reckon

by tens, the Hebrews reckoned by sevens; the sabbatical year,

the jubilee, was seven times seven years. Laban required that,

after Jacob had served him seven years and received Leah as

wife, he should serve a “week” for the beloved Rachel, the week

being specifically stated as seven years (Gen. 29:27-30).

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—Chart 6—

Ezekiel provides a key to the correct interpretation, since the

basis of God’s dealing with him was a day for each year of his

people’s iniquity (Ezek. 4:4-6). We conclude then, that the

period of “seventy weeks” announced by Gabriel signified

seventy weeks of years or 490 years. In Jewish reckoning the

year was a lunar one of 360 days. For proof of 30 day month,

consider this; after the flood the number of the days in the five

month period from the 17th day of the seventieth month was

stated to be 150 days, or 30 days per month (Gen. 7:11; 8:3, 4).

Therefore, the 490 years of 360 days each, decreed on

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Daniel’s people and his holy city, were to see the achievements

of the following results as outlined in Daniel 9:24:

Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your

people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put

an end to sin and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting

righteousness, to seal both vision and prophecy, and to anoint

a most Holy place.

R. S. V.

Let us look with more detail at this verse:

1. The completion or finishing of the transgression or sins

would be brought to an end, through the propitiatory

sacrifice on Calvary’s cross. The verb used here is

“Kippur” meaning literally “to cover.” It is normally

used in the Old Testament for the making of the Messiah

by which sins are brought to an end.

2. Everlasting righteousness will be brought in. A

characteristic of the Messiah’s Kingdom is that vision

and prophecy would be sealed. When Messiah’s

Kingdom is set up, there will be no need for prophecy or

vision. All will have been fulfilled.

3. The Most Holy will be anointed. Some interpret this to

be the anointing of the Messiah, but in the era of

everlasting righteousness brought in at the close of the

490 years of which the context is speaking, there will be

a crowning, but no fresh anointing of the Christ. What is

portrayed here is consecration of the Millennium temple

(Ezek. 40).

The whole of the events have been summed up by Ironside

in the following words:

At the end of 490 years, Israel’s transgression will be

finished, and their sins brought to an end, for their Messiah

will have made reconciliation or atonement for iniquity. The

long period of Israel’s suffering under the heel of the Gentiles

will be completed, and everlasting righteousness will be

brought in.

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This refers clearly to the setting up of Messiah’s Kingdom.

All will be fulfilled so that vision and prophecy will no longer

be needed, and last of all, the most Holy will be anointed. This

must refer to the Shekinah glory returning to Israel when the

temple is rebuilt. The glory has been missing since Solomon’s

temple, and certainly will be missing in the dedication of the

Tribulation temple. It will return when the Millennium temple is

dedicated.

The seventy weeks were to begin with the decree to rebuild

and to restore Jerusalem. There were four decrees given, but the

only decree affecting the rebuilding of the city was the royal

communication given to Nehemiah in 445 B.C. by Artaxerxes,

which specifically mentioned the city (Neh. 2:5). Sixty-nine

weeks, or 483 years, ran from that moment, and is proven by the

following computation by Sir Robert Anderson, that the 483

years expired the very day our Lord made His triumphant entry

into Jerusalem (Mat. 21:1-11. Zech. 9:9).

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—Chart 7—

The 69 Weeks of Daniel’s Prophetic Period

Outlined

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A large part of the prophecies that this chart describes have

already been fulfilled, but the bottom part of Chart Number 8

describes a period that is yet to be seen. The top chart first

traces the four kings of Persia, then leaps over the years to the

rise of Alexander the Great. After his death at the age of 33, his

kingdom was left in confusion for 20 years until after the battle

of Ipsus. The great empire was divided between Alexander’s

four generals. This period of history, already fulfilled, is detailed

in the 11th chapter of Daniel.

Our purpose is not, however, to discuss the Grecian Empire,

but to deal with two of the four powers into which the empire

developed. We have outlined in the chart the history of Syria

and Egypt in so far as they affect the land of Palestine. In

prophesy, Palestine is consistently regarded as the center of

God’s dealings on earth, and all other powers are considered

only in relation to it. Syria and Egypt are consequently referred

to as the “kings of the North and South,” since this was their

geographical position to Palestine. We, therefore, chart these

two kingdoms in their intrigues, alliances, conflicts, and their

constant crisscrossing of Palestine in their attacks on each other.

Their conflicts were finally halted by the succession of Rome,

who are described as the ships of Chittim in Daniel 11:30.

Antiochus Epiphanes, the last king of Syria, upon his invasion of

Egypt, discovered that the ptolemies or kings of Egypt had

enlisted the help of mighty Rome. Humiliated in defeat, the

Syrian king withdrew his troops from Egypt. Chagrined, he

vented his wrath upon the land of Palestine by defiling the

temple in Jerusalem. The temple was finally rededicated under

the Macabees. The feast of rededication is celebrated by the

Jews until this day.

With the defeat of Antiochus, the prophecy broke off

abruptly (Daniel 11:35). Now a mysterious individual is

introduced under the term “The King.” It cannot be disputed that

many of the characteristics of this man was manifest by

Antiochus and many interpreters insist that it is Antiochus who

is described. But since it is made clear in verses 40-45 that the

king of the North would attack “The King”, the latter could

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hardly be identified with Antiochus who was himself the king of

the North. It is necessary to look for some other ruler to fit the

description. Daniel 11:40 states that he would be attacked by

both the king of the North and the king of the South. His

geographical location must be in Palestine. It is conclusive,

therefore, that the “Willful King” is the future ruler of Israel, the

worthless shepherd of Zech. 11:17 and described as the false

prophet in Revelations 19:20, and as the beast from the earth or

land (The Land of Palestine) in Revelations 13.

How the Sixty-Nine Weeks Have Been

Fulfilled

“The Messiah will be cut off sixty-nine weeks after the

commandment to rebuild Jerusalem.” Ninety years later such a

commandment was issued, in the form of a royal decree by King

Artaxerxes who gave permission to the governor Nehemiah to

restore the Jewish capital (Neh. 2:1-6).

We know the date of the benevolent proclamation: Neh. 2:1

sets it “in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes,”

which makes it 445 B.C.

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—Chart 8—

We should realize that Daniel’s weeks are actually seven-

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year periods. The Hebrew term used denotes “set of seven,” and

we know that years are meant since the restoration of Jerusalem

took exactly forty-nine years (finished in 396 B.C.) and this

corresponds with the prophet’s “seven weeks.” Also, it would

have been impossible to prophecy that a great city would be

rebuilt in just seven weeks’ time....

We should know that Daniel regarded a year as having 360

days, which was Jewish tradition for calculations. We can see

this in Revelation 11:3 where the three and one-half year

tribulation is given as 1, 260 days (Three and one-half years time

360 days per year.)

We can see at a glance that Daniel’s calculations are

accurate. His “sixty-nine weeks,” meaning sixty-nine sets of

seven years comes out to 483 years (360 day year). Since the

decree to rebuild Jerusalem came in 445 B.C., the projection

certainly puts us right in Jesus’ generation.

But Daniel was more precise than that, at least according to

the classic The Coming Prince, written by Sir Robert Anderson a

century ago.

Anderson showed in his remarkable work that Daniel was

accurate to the exact day! While Anderson’s proof does rest on a

number of reasonable assumptions, it is difficult to refute. It has

mostly been attacked on the grounds that it is “too perfect”. In

any case, it is a fascinating exercise to review and serves to

demonstrate that we might do well to take Daniel seriously. Here

are the results derived from Anderson’s calculations:

1. Daniel prophesied that the Messiah would come 173,880

days after Artaxerxes’ decree: 69 “weeks” = 483 years

(69 x 7). 483 years x 360 days (Jewish year in prophecy)

= 173,880 days.

2. The actual day of the decree was March 14, 445 B.C.

We know from Neh. 2:1-6 that the decree was issued

“in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of

Artaxerxes’ reign” (465-425 B.C.). We can assume that

it was dated on the first of Nisan because “The first of

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Nisan is a new year for the computation of the reign of

kings and for festivals” (Mishna, treatise “Rosh

Hashanah”). The first of Nisan, 445 B.C. fell on March

14 (Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England).

3. The actual day of the coming of the Messiah was April

6, A.D. 32. The “coming of the Messiah” was the day on

which Jesus made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem

and was proclaimed King by the Jews. This is given in

Zech. 9:9.

John the Baptist and Jesus began their ministries during the

15th year of the reign of Tiberis Caesar (Luke 3:1, 3, 21) whom

we know began his reign in A.D. 14. Thus our Lord started His

ministry in A.D. 29 and continued, as we know, for three years

before His triumphal entry: thus A.D. 32 was the year.

We have it from John 12:1 that the Lord went to Bethany, on

the outskirts of Jerusalem, “six days before the Passover,” and

from John 12:12 that the triumphal entry was the “next day.”

Passover is always celebrated on 14 Nisan, which was Thursday,

April 10, in A.D. 32 (Royal Observatory). So the Lord came to

Bethany April 4 (6 days before Passover), which was on Friday.

The meal with Lazarus at Bethany must have been a Sabbath

dinner. The next day could not have been Saturday (the Sabbath

still in effect, Jesus and the Jews would have rested) so the Lord

made His triumphal entry on Sunday, April 6, A.D. 32.

To recap, Anderson says (1) that Daniel foresaw that there

would be 173,880 days between the issuing of Artaxerxes’

decree and the coming of the Messiah; (2) that the decree was

issued March 14, 445 B.C.; (3) that the Messiah came officially

on April 6, A.D. 32.

If Daniel is correct of the exact day, there should have been

173,880 days between those two dates. Anderson works it out

this way: From March 14, 445 B.C. to April 6, A.D. 32 is 477

years and 24 days. But we must deduct one year because 1 B.C.

to A.D. is only 1 year. So we have 476 years and 24 days. 476

years x 365 days (in our Julian calendar) plus 24 = 173,764

days.

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That doesn’t quite do it. But peculiarities of our calendar,

the Julian calendar, must also be considered. We have leap year

every four years; therefore, there were 119 leap years during the

period (476 years divided by 4 equals 119). So, adding in the

extra 119 days - 173,764 + 119 = 173,883 days.

That’s too many days, But Anderson went so far as to

calculate the slight inaccuracy of our Julian Year as compared

with the true solar year. The figures from the Royal Observatory

show that our year is about 1/128 years on our calendar. Three

such leap years must be skipped during Daniel’s prophetic

period of 483 years. Thus we subtract 3 days: 173,883 - 3 =

173,880.

And we see that Daniel was accurate to the exact day. Our

purpose here is not to check Anderson’s arithmetic, but to

underline the very real accuracy of the prophet Daniel.

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—Chart 9—

Hosea’s Prophetic Period

Of all the Old Testament prophets, Hosea probably entered

into the heartbreak of God more than any other. Having been

estranged from his wife, Gomer, because of her unfaithfulness,

he dramatized God’s estrangement from Israel. He had the

insight to see the time period involving this estrangement. In the

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6th Chapter of his prophecy he speaks in the person of the

nation, and says, “after two days will He revive us, and the third

day we will live in His sight.” We know that there was no such

revival and reconciliation that brought Israel alive in God’s sight

in Hosea’s day who prophesied in 700 B.C.

From his day, instead of Israel reviving, it followed a path of

constant deterioration. We look in vain for any such national

quickening of Israel unless we apply the key to this prophecy

which is 11 Pet. 3:8. “A day in the sight of the Lord is as a

thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.” This, then,

directs our attention to the thousand year period in Rev. 20:4,

the thousand year reign of Christ. After two thousand years of

“breaking off” and “casting away” (Romans 11:15), Israel is

again revived and restored, both nationally and spiritually, and

truly lives as the valley of dry bones as the vision of Ezekiel

indicates in Ezek. 37:10; “So I prophesied as he commanded

me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood

upon their feet, an exceeding great army.”

After a time of testing and probation, Hosea was reconciled

to his wife, Gomer; likewise, God and Israel will be reconciled

after a period of two thousand years. It is this time period of two

thousand years that we study in Chart Number 10. During this

time period, Israel was cut off, because of unbelief, as branches

from the olive tree of salvation, and the Gentiles were grafted in

(Rom. 9:16-24). This becomes the age when, as Hosea

prophesied, those, who were not His people (the Gentiles) are

now called His people (Rom. 9:25).

This period is referred to with various terminologies as

indicated in Chart Number 10; but it is important to learn that it

is a definite time period. It has a beginning, and an ending. It

began with the descension of the Holy Spirit to formulate the

Church, and will end when the Holy Spirit transports that

Church, as a bride, to the bridegroom, into an eternal union in

the sky. This period is also referred to as the fullness of the

Gentiles; however, it is not restricted to the Gentiles, but

composed of both Jew and Gentile believers in one body—the

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Church. It began with 120 believers on the day of Pentecost, and

God has added to its number over these years, and will continue

until the fullness, or as the Greek word indicates, the “pleroma”

or the “very last count” has come in to complete the Church.

That is, to the very last member that closes the Church as an

entity distinct from believers of other time periods. Then this

time will close with the Rapture of this completed Church into

the presence of her Redeemer. Now comes into focus a short

dispensation, the 70th week of Daniel, of God’s dealings with

Israel to fulfill the time of Jacob’s trouble, out of which He will

be saved (Jeremiah 30:7). From this travail will be born a new

day, and a new nation, to fit that day. For a Redeemer shall come

from Zion and turn away Jacob from his transgression. The

conclusion of the Apostle is from this verse, “That all Israel

shall be saved” , entering the kingdom age to truly live in His

sight!

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All that we have studied in the previous charts will climax in

these periods that are now imminently prospective. As the rivers

run into the sea, so all the course of human history will find its

fulfillment and meaning in these periods.

The things portrayed in this section of our study will happen

when the nation of Israel is restored to her land, and to their holy

city (Jerusalem). Each event of the future will evolve around that

city, and there will not be any peace universally until Jerusalem

is at peace. “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for all shall

prosper who love thee.” Psa. 122:6.

The Yom Kippur war of 1973 was called the first television

war because scenes enacted were relayed by Israel’s own

transmitting satellite on the very day they happened. Cameras

will be televising events as they happen in the streets of

Jerusalem and on the hills and plains of Palestine. Prophetic

fulfillments will be seen literally before the very eyes of the

world, and each fulfillment will bring one step nearer the climax

of the ages.

The indispensable Hebrew nation that we have traced down

through history is summarized in three words: ELECTION

(Romans 9), REJECTION (Romans 10), and RESTORATION

(Romans 11). We are now in the beginning stages of Israel’s full

and final restoration. That restoration fully realized will mean

the restitution of all things (Acts 3:19). All nations will shine in

her light under the sceptre of the beloved King who will forever

occupy the throne of David. The nations that we have studied in

this chart in relation to the Hebrew nation will come with her

into a period of unprecedented travail (Rev. 3:10, Matt. 24:21, I

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Thess. 5:3). Only the Church, gathered out of those nations, will

escape (Rev. 3:10). But out of that travail will be born a NEW

AGE in which wars will cease from the ends of the earth.

Security and serenity in every possible phase that touches human

life will be experienced—individually, and universally. The

fulfilled prophetic periods in our chart are only a part of an over-

all program of God that will have its complete fulfillment in this

climactic age. Then, the divine design will present one beautiful

finished picture in which all the colors of human events will

have played a part. In the middle of these events stands the

MASTER ARTIST, our Lord Jesus, whose cross becomes the

implement to apply the brush strokes of redemption to complete

the grand production, and bring the grand finale, when the whole

earth will break into everlasting song.

Identity of the Woman

It is important to identify the woman upon the beast with

seven heads. She symbolizes a union that embraces all

counterfeit religion of all times.

In the book of Revelation, Christ is revealed as a judge.

Judgments are poured out on great earthly systems.

In the first two verses of Revelation 17, John is invited to

come and behold the judgment poured out upon a great religious

system that professes to be the bride of Christ, but which God

calls a “harlot”, a system that has usurped power, not only in the

religious realm, but in the political realm as well.

There are two symbols presented to us in the first verse—the

first is the symbol of “the great harlot.”

When harlotry is referred to in the Word of God in a

spiritual sense, it has reference to religion or a religious system.

In the Old Testament, in the prophecy of Hosea, the nation Israel

is called an “adulteress wife,” because as a nation she has gone

after false gods. When John refers to this system in these words,

he is referring to a religious system that professes to be the bride

of Christ, but which Christ repudiates as having any relationship

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to him at all.

The second symbol is that of the “many waters.” The many

waters are described to us in Revelation 17:15, “The waters

which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and

multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”

This is a reference to political power. We find that the harlot

is a political-religious system that has come to great power,

exercising authority over a very wide realm. In the name that is

written upon the forehead of this one, we have the clue to the

identification of that system about which John is speaking. He

refers to her as “mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of

harlots, the abomination of the earth.” If you turn to Genesis,

the 10th and 11th chapter, you will find that Nimrod founded a

civilization and built a tower in defiance of God. The city of Ba-

Bel, which later became Babel, was the seat of government, and

the tower was the center of a new religious system. This was the

first idolatrous religious system instituted upon the face of the

earth. Before the flood, there had been believers and

unbelievers, but there had never been a false religious system

instituted by men. But there, in that city which they named “Ba-

Bel,” the new “gate of God,” is a new government and a new

religion. It was at that point (verse 9) that God scattered them

and the name was changed to Babel, which means confusion.

A study of this religious system, which was instituted in

Babylon, will help us to identify the system of which John

speaks when he refers to the harlot as “mystery Babylon the

Great.”

Nimrod was known as “The Mighty Hunter,” a term which

described him as a great humanitarian. He protected the people

from the wild beasts that had ravaged them. According to

Babylonish legend, Nimrod became married to a beautiful

woman whose name was Semiramis. She conceived and bore a

son who was named Tammuz.

Going back to the promise of Genesis 3:15 where God said:

“I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy

seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise

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his heel,” Semiramis claimed she was the woman of promise

and that her son, Tammuz, was the seed of the woman.

Semiramis set herself up as the High Priestess of the Babylonian

religion. It was a religion that centered in the worship of the

mother and the child. The sign of the Babylonian religion was a

mother who held a child in her arms and was known as the

“mother-child cult”. Semiramis took for herself the name “The

Queen of Heaven,” and taught that access into the presence of

God was through her High priestess ministry. She became,

therefore, a mediatrix between God and man. This was a new

approach, not through the blood sacrifice that God instituted in

the garden after the fall of man, but through the priestly ministry

of the mother and child.

When Tammuz came to young manhood, according to the

Babylonian legend, he was slain while hunting a wild boar.

Semiramis gathered together a number of virgins who had been

set aside to this religion, and after a forty day period of prayer

and fasting, Semiramis said that Tammuz had been resurrected

from the dead. Therefore, that forty day period became an

annual time of mourning and sacrifice throughout Babylon. At

the conclusion of that forty day fast, a feast was observed in

honor to Semiramis and Tammuz. They made the egg the sacred

symbol of Tammuz, for it was symbolic of life out of death. In

the mid-winter on the celebration of the birthday of Tammuz,

they erected evergreen trees as the symbol of the eternal life of

Tammuz. This mystery religion which centered in the worship of

Semiramis and Tammuz, the mother and the child, was spread

beyond Babylon over to Phoenicia. In Phoenicia, the names were

changed to Ashtaroth and Tammuz, but the same religion was

carried on. The name Ashtaroth was changed to Isthar from

which we get “Easter”. From Phoenicia, the religion was carried

abroad by that seafaring people into Egypt, where the name of

the mother and the child were changed to Isis and Horus. It was

carried over to Greece, where the names were changed to

Aphrodite and Eros; and over to Rome where the names of the

mother and child became Venus and Cupid. In each place, it was

the same religion that had been instituted in Babylon, a salvation

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through the mother and child cults.

Thus mystery Babylon the Great has come up through the

centuries, contemporary with all seven great world kingdoms,

and continuing into the present. This mother and child cult has

been built into a great system expressing itself in elaborate

rituals. In the future, there will be an alliance of other great

religious systems that will form an ecumenical world church

whose unprecedented pre-eminence and power will be broken by

the world Prince who finds it a rivalry of his own religion, which

is the deification of himself.

Identity of the Beast Out of the Earth

Having identified the woman, let us return to identify the

Beast out of the Earth (No. 12 chart). In Daniel chapter 11, verse

36, we are introduced to a mysterious individual with the

terminology of “the King.” He is a last day king because he is

described in the context of the last days as recorded in Daniel

11:36 through Daniel 12:13. It cannot be disputed that many of

the characteristics of this king were manifested by Antiochus

Epiphanes, and many interpreters insist that it is Antiochus who

is described. But since it is made clear in verse 40 that the king

of the north would make an onslaught upon “the King,” the

latter could hardly be identified with Antiochus who himself

was the king of the North. IT IS, THEREFORE, NECESSARY

TO LOOK FOR THE FULFILLMENT IN ONE WHO IS YET

IN THE FUTURE.

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—Chart 11—

Revelation 13 refers to a beast arising out of the earth, or the

land, that is—the land of Palestine, or out of Israel, in contrast to

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the beast who rose out of the sea of troubled nations in the first

verse.

This second beast had two horns as a lamb, but spake as a

dragon. Combining the gentleness of a lamb with the subtlety of

satan, this beast bore the symbol of dual authority, secular and

religious. By his two horns he is portrayed as a religious leader

as well as a sovereign over a state. He is the co-ruler of the beast

of Revelation 13:1, who is the Roman prince of Daniel 9:26,

who arises from the western division of the revised Roman

empire. The second beast arises from the territory of the eastern

division of that revised empire. He is overshadowed by the

Roman prince who has world-wide authority, yet he occupies

personally, a position of great authority and political importance.

The king, the beast out of the earth, and the false prophet,

are all designations of the same man who loomed up before

Daniel long ago. Israel has already been established as a state.

The restoration of the Temple and the old system of ritual is

specifically described in the prophetic Scriptures (II

Thessalonians 2:4, Matthew 24:15, ff).

Soon Israel will turn from a democracy to imperialism with

its capitol in Jerusalem. THIS JEWISH KING WILL BE

RAISED UP TO REIGN OVER RESTORED ISRAEL. The rule

of this willful king and his federation, with the emperor of the

western nations, will prosper “until the indignation be

exhausted,” or until the time of “Jacob’s trouble” is completed.

Descriptions given of this king in Daniel 11:37-39 explain

that not only would he magnify himself above every god, but the

angel declared that he would not regard the God of his fathers,

the desire of women, or any god. This passage could only apply

to a Jew. The expression “the God of his fathers” is pre-

eminently Jewish. The phrase “the desire of women” does not

identify him as celibate, rather the intense desire of all Jewish

women was to be the mother of the promised Messiah. This

desire was fulfilled in Mary, who was hailed by the angel as the

favored one (Luke 1:28). The Messiah had long been promised;

Israel awaited, and still awaits the coming one—but this king

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pays no regard for the Messianic hope of promise. He magnifies

himself above the Christ of prophecy. He is the anti-Christ of I

John 2:18.

Having identified this second beast coming out of the land in

Revelation 13, we will trace his career as described in Daniel 11.

At this point let us refer to our chart number 8.

While verses 37-39 of Daniel 11 continue to describe him as

a king who would not regard deities of any kind, the scripture

declares that he would honor the God of strongholds. There

seems to be a contradiction of the statement that the king would

regard no God, but the word “mahuzzim” used here for

stronghold simply means “hidden forces”—being an allusion to

the forces of spiritism.

II Thessalonians 2:9 indicates that the apostate Jewish ruler

will be satanically inspired to work signs and wonders, and

further reference is made to his miracle-working power in

Revelation 13:13-15. The king will not merely dabble in occult

sciences, but will actually be indwelt by the evil one himself,

and will consciously pay honor to that unseen power.

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—Chart 12—

In Revelation 13:15 it is stated that the false prophet (the

same individual) would give breath to an image of the beast (the

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western or Roman emperor), thus enabling the image to speak,

and that he would also slay all who refuse to do homage to the

image. Therefore, it appears that this king, who, at that time will

have entered into a seven year’s alliance with the western

emperor (Daniel 9:27). He will seek divine honors, not merely

for himself, but for his confederate who “sitteth in the temple of

God, shewing himself that he is God” (II Thessalonians 2:4). At

the erection of his image in the Holy Place of the Temple, the

godly remnant in Judea will recognize the predicted sign and

will flee to the mountains as described in Matthew 24:15. Refer

to the chart number 12.

One of the purposes of the covenant between the western

emperor and the Jewish King will be to protect Israel from the

invasions of Syria and Egypt. These attacks will be made and are

described in Daniel 11:40 and 41, “And at the time of the end

shall the king of the South push at him: and the king of the

North shall come against him like a whirlwind...” At the end

time the king of the South (or Egypt) will launch an attack, not

upon Syria, his northern enemy, but upon the buffer state of

Palestine. The rising power of this Jewish king could provoke

this attack. Daniel 11:43 indicates Egypt, Ethiopia, and Libya

will be allied in a great North African confederacy of

considerable strength.

The invasion of Palestine by this southern confederacy will

provoke the northern kingdom of Syria, and in swift retaliation

he will sweep through the country like a whirlwind. The people

of the north (the satellites of Russia) will join Syria in this

attack. Like a flood the vast military and naval forces will pour

through Palestine (the land of beauty) taking into possession in-

transit, half of the city of Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:2).

Many countries will be ravaged in this attack, but the

prophecy declares that Edom, Moab, and the principal part of

the children of Ammon will be spared in this invasion. These are

identified as the modern Jordanians, and these three nations are

spared because Edom will be possessed by the fleeing Jewish

remnant (Amos 9:11, 12) who will be miraculously protected in

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the city of Petra (Rev. 12:1-4).

When the armies of the North sweep through Palestine to

scatter the invader, i.e., the Egyptian alliance, they and the

Jewish king will make an appeal for help from his confederate,

the western emperor, in response to which the hosts of the West

will pour over Europe and the Mediterranean to protect the

besieged Jerusalem (Revelation 19:19). His help will utterly fail.

Read Isaiah 28:14-21. By this time the king of the northern

confederacy will penetrate into Egypt and enjoy the spoils of

war (Daniel 11:42 and 43).

In addition to the western nations’ entrance into Palestine,

there will be a terrifying invasion from the east. The waters of

the Euphrates is dried up (Revelation 16:12) and the way is left

open for the vast hordes of the eastern races, to the extent of two

hundred million (Revelation 9:16), to pour into Palestine like the

hordes of Ghengis Kahn. These are the tidings out of the East

and the North that will trouble him. While the northern king is

ruthlessly plundering Egypt, rumors of these happenings will

reach him. Infuriated, he will return to Palestine, not knowing

that he is rushing into a trap set for him by the Almighty.

He will plant his pavilion with the tents of his armies in the

land between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is seen,

from these descriptions, that from all directions, armed forces of

the world will pour into the land of Palestine. The Valley of

Esdraelon, at the base of the hill of Armageddon, will become a

wine vat of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God, filled

with the armies of earth as grapes of wrath.

At that crucial moment a mighty Deliverer will come to Zion

to recompense his enemies (Isaiah 31:4-9 and 59:18-20). The

Lord will come forth from heaven to war in behalf of his people.

As he sets his feet on Mount Olivet the mountain will cleave in

two, leaving a great valley running from the east to the west, and

the panic-stricken people will flee as from a terrifying

earthquake (Zechariah 14:3-5). It should be kept in mind that,

while these things are happening, the believing Jews who have

taken warning and fled Jerusalem are sheltered probably in the

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city of Petra, 90 miles south of Jerusalem.

The scriptures everywhere declare that at His revelation

from heaven, judgment will fall. The western ruler and the

Jewish king will be snatched away for consigned punishment,

“cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”

Revelation 19:20 and II Thessalonians 2:8.

Imagine, if you can, all the armies of the earth mobilized in

the Middle East and spread out the length and breadth of the

middle of Palestine in the valley of Esdraelon. It is almost

impossible to imagine the magnitude of at least 300 million

soldiers poised for the most fierce and final battle. THEN IT

HAPPENS—THE LORD JESUS COMES AND FIGHTS

AGAINST THOSE NATIONS (Zechariah 14:12). No wonder

that Joel predicts that blood will flow as deep as the horse’s

bridle for 200 miles down the Jordan Valley (Revelation 14:20).

No doubt the armies of the United States will be represented

there as a part of the western confederacy. So great will be the

carnage of battle that it will take seven months to bury the dead

(Ezekiel 39:12). The fowls of heaven will be filled with the flesh

of fallen men.

Hal Lindsey says, “While this battle is raging, every city in

the world is going to be leveled by an earthquake.” Using the

Greek word “Seismos,” a great shaking, he interprets it to mean

a nuclear holocaust, caused by a full-scale nuclear exchange of

remaining missiles falling upon the cities. He says, “The world

will look just like you would expect the end of the world to

look.”

The Last 75 Days of This Age

After this final overthrow, there will be another period of 75

days. As Daniel 12:11 and 12 state,

“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. Blessed is

he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred

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and five and thirty days.

The period of the last half of the Tribulation has been

consistently indicated in various terms as 1, 260 days, or a time,

times, and half time (Daniel 12:7); but now we find an extension

of 75 days. During this period Israel will realize a final

regathering (Matthew 24). The sheltered Jews will be brought

from the city of Petra. The last-half Tribulation saints who

refused the mark of the beast will be resurrected from

martyrdom at this time (Revelation 20:4). There will be a great

outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon Israel as described in Ezekiel

36:24-29. What is left of the nations after Armageddon will be

judged in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, the valley between the

Mount of Olives and Jerusalem (Joel 3:2). The treatment of the

Jews that fled to Petra will be the criteria of judgment (Matthew

25:31). The sheep nations will be ushered as mortal beings, into

the Kingdom Age (Zechariah 14:16). The Church saints will be

delegated to rulership (Revelation 3:26-27).

Israel will be saved as a nation, fulfilling Romans 11:26:

“So all Israel shall be saved.” This reconciliation will evidently

happen at Petra. For Israel, the woman of Rev. 12 will flee to

Petra according to Amos 9:11-12, which explains the rebuilding

of the temple at which time Israel will “possess the remnants of

edom” . All that remains of Edom today is Petra, which was once

the capitol city. Notice the precise scriptural order in Romans

11:26, “the Redeemer will come out of Zion.” (Zion being

located in Jerusalem). He will come out of Zion, and will turn

away ungodliness from Jacob. The order then is: Christ will

have fought the last battle in the Plains of Esdralon. He will then

set His feet on the Mount of Olives, and walk into Zion in

Jerusalem. He will then go to Petra and reconcile Israel there

from the face of the beast. Then when they have been reconciled

in Petra, he will lead them out according to the descriptions

given in Isaiah the 63rd chapter. Then He will begin the

Kingdom Age.

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The Kingdom of God Begins on Earth

The land of Israel will be apportioned to the tribes of Israel

(Ezekiel 48:8-39). Jerusalem will be restored. The Millennium

temple will begin construction. A portion adjacent to the city

will be allocated to the Prince, and will become the camp of the

saints of the beloved (Revelation 20:9), or the headquarters for

all the ruling saints around the world. Jerusalem will be the

beloved city, the joy and capitol of the whole earth. The King

will be crowned universal, King over all the kings and priests,

the saints of the Church. The Old Testament saints, like Daniel,

will be raised from the dead, and stand in their lot (Daniel

12:13). THEN THE KINGDOM WILL BEGIN ON THE

1,335TH DAY.

The final period in our chart is the Kingdom Age. It is a

duration of 1,000 years. There will be beneficial changes in the

climate (Isaiah 30:26). Earth’s topography will be greatly

altered. Atmospheric modifications will allow the sun to shine in

all its brilliance without scorching plant, animal, or man (Isaiah

35:6-7). The arid places of the earth will become habitable and

fruitful (Isaiah 35:1-2). The animals will be tamed and all the

world will become a petting zoo (Isaiah 11:6-8, Hosea 2:18).

This age will end all disease and deformity (Isaiah 35:5-6).

Man’s life span will be greatly lengthened (Isaiah 65:22). A

sinner will die at 100 years of age, only because he is a sinner;

his days shortened by the strict rod of iron rule of judgment

administered by justice in those days. Universal peace and

justice will be administered by King Jesus through his saints,

described as a Kingdom of Priests (Revelation 1:5). This

administration is described in Isaiah 2:3-4. Poverty and

oppression will be eliminated (Isaiah 11:4-5). All the world will

be neighborly and friendly (Zechariah 3:10).

In the Millennium, people everywhere shall know the Lord,

from the least to the greatest. They will worship and adore him

(Malachi 1:11). Worshipers from all over the world will make

annual pilgrimages to the new temple in Jerusalem to make

offerings of praise and adoration (Zechariah 14:16).

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Jerusalem will become a city of unimaginable glory. It will

be the world capitol from which Christ rules, “The joy of the

whole earth.” Psalms 48:1-2. The “Shekinah light” of God’s

presence will shine from the temple, exceeding the days of

Solomon. Ezekiel closes his book with a description of the

future glory saying, “the name of the city from that day shall be

Jehovah Shammah or The Lord is there.” Ezekiel 48:35.

NOTE: From the setting up of the abominable image of the

beast in the temple to the end of the Tribulation period is 1260

days. Another 75 day period is added bringing us to the 1335

days when the Kingdom of God will begin on earth with Christ

Jesus as King. This proves positive that the Rapture could not

transpire either at the middle of the 70th week, which is 1260

literal days, after the covenant is signed with the western

emperor; neither could it transpire at the end of the Tribulation,

which is 1335 days later. From these dates we can trace the day,

and possibly the hour, for the Jewish day began at 6 o’clock in

the morning. Concerning the Rapture aspect of His coming Jesus

said, “that no man nor the angels in heaven would know the day

or the hour.” Matt. 24:36. Only the Rapture is concealed, to take

place sometime before the 1260th and 1335 day calculation,

which definitely places it before the Tribulation Period.

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—Chart 14—

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Document Outline

- Prophetic Cycles

- Table of Contents

- Introduction

- Rule of Interpretation

- 1 The Cycle of the Nations

- Cycle of Nations in Symbolism

- 2 The Cycle of the Hebrew Nation

- The First Temple

- The Second Temple

- The Third Temple

- The Fourth Temple

- Events Leading to Present Middle East Crisis

- 3 The Fulfilled Prophetic Cycles

- Abraham’s Prophetic Period

- Jeremiah’s Prophetic Period

- Daniel’s Prophetic Period

- The 69 Weeks of Daniel’s Prophetic Period Outlined

- How the Sixty-Nine Weeks Have Been Fulfilled

- Hosea’s Prophetic Period

- 4 Cycle of the Unfulfilled Prophetic Periods

- Identity of the Woman

- Identity of the Beast Out of the Earth

- The Last 75 Days of This Age

- The Kingdom of God Begins on Earth

Table of Contents

Introduction.

1 The Cycle of the Nations.

2 The Cycle of the Hebrew Nation.

3 The Fulfilled Prophetic Cycles.

4 Cycle of the Unfulfilled Prophetic Periods.

Prophetic Cycles

Table of Contents

Rule of Interpretation

Cycle of Nations in Symbolism

The Second Temple

The Third Temple

The Fourth Temple

Jeremiah’s Prophetic Period

Daniel’s Prophetic Period

The 69 Weeks of Daniel’s Prophetic Period Outlined

How the Sixty-Nine Weeks Have Been Fulfilled

Hosea’s Prophetic Period

Identity of the Woman

Identity of the Beast Out of the Earth

The Last 75 Days of This Age

The Kingdom of God Begins on Earth