Daniel had a vision of 70 weeks. But, is there anywhere that at the very end of the 70th week it is prophesied that will be the day Christ returns?
Dear Brother
Nathan, I do not mean to further add confusion to the mix, but the following scriptures & comments are the foundation of my thoughts on the matter.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no
man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe
were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:40 Then shall
two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
This taking away is to await judgment of unbelievers prior to the millennium, and Mat 24:42 further warns them on the earth at that time “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”
Mat 24:43. If the good man of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up." Readiness for His coming is the absolute requirement to escape from judgment. The Son of Man is coming in such an hour as men think not. They will not believe His word; therefore they will not be looking for Him. Judgment will surely come upon them.
The Tribulation
The Last week of Daniel
Notice, this isn’t the 70th week of Daniel which was complete in 40 AD. This is the last week of Daniel of (Dan 9:27).
All seven years is the
Hour of Temptation which shall come upon all the world ( Rev 3:10).
The second 3 1/2 years is
the Great Tribulation (Matt 24:21). It will be limited mainly to Palestine.
During the first 3 1/2 years of this tribulation, there will be translations of different ranks of believers (1Cor 15:41-42)
that were not full overcomers and
were not kept from the hour of temptation as the Philadelphia church was promised in (Rev 3:10). Read of the different rewards of the churches dependent on their obedience and love of the Lord and the faults Jesus describes of some of them in the 2nd and 3rd chapters of Revelations. They will not precede those being resurrected of their same rank of believers whose physical bodies are asleep, but alive and present in soul and spirit with Christ (2 Cor 5:8). God will bring them with Him to meet their rank in the air (1 Thes 4:14-17).
This is The day of the Lord when Jesus takes His throne (Rev 4:2). This day will last 1000 years (2 Pet 3:8).
Until this time, all authority and power was given to Jesus, but He had not taken it. This is the time He takes that authority. See (Matt 28:18), (1 Cor 15:28), (Heb 2:8) and (1 Pet 3:22).