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Originally Posted By smaller,
The chart sequencing was actually quite good Os.
I would be interested to see where you pick up at the end of the chart. It seems a bit fuzzy from there.
Originally Posted By smaller,
I don't often write of them as they as those who work the comparative realms 'legitimately' are a rare find
Yes. I spent a lot of time and thought constructing an in-depth study on Daniel chapter 9 FOR THIS VERY FORUM with charts and diagrams - along with following Scripture meticulously from the Exodus to Christ - and presented it to this forum over a year ago. You can check it out at my personal 'dropbox link' below:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xrqkn93mw947llb/2bGxPgYo0n
If you read through that study carefully, you will see that I've spent many years studying and researching Daniel ch. 9.
However, you still haven't addressed ANY of the verses in my post. You act as if they do not even exist, yet they are the VERY MYSTERY of Paul's entire ministry!
If you've read my study on Daniel ch. 9, you should know that I do not need to be reminded of what is written there. So please, address these verses specifically, in detail, and explain what they 'specifically' mean Scripturally. We are not talking about Daniel 9 right now. We can discuss Daniel following this discussion. I ask that you address these passages - with no dodging:
- 1 Corinthians 3:16 "Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 3:17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are."- 2 Corinthians 6:16 "And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God."
- 1 Peter 2:5 "You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."
- Acts 7:47-48 "But Solomon built Him a house. However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands."
- 1 Corinthians 3:11 "For NO OTHER FOUNDATION CAN ANYONE LAY than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ."
- 1 Corinthians 3:9 "For we are God's fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building."
- Hebrews 8:4-5 "For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle."
- Revelation 3:12 "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God."
And,
- Romans 2:28 "For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh;
Romans 2:29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God."- Galatians 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
Address each passage, one by one, and tell me what they mean. Thank you.
All of the scriptures you quoted refer to the "Spiritual Temple" that we are as individuals who are born again.
Thanks smalls. There is more to the sequence, but I figured the 70 Weeks was enough to digest for this particular discussion. Unfortunately, I did that using MS Paint believe it or not. Since then, I've gotten a Mac and spent a year studying PHP, HTML, and CSS, and I'm thinking about giving that study a graphics overhaul. I'm an old guy, so I'm a late bloomer in the web design world, but I'm finally caught up.
Thanks smalls. There is more to the sequence, but I figured the 70 Weeks was enough to digest for this particular discussion. Unfortunately, I did that using MS Paint believe it or not. Since then, I've gotten a Mac and spent a year studying PHP, HTML, and CSS, and I'm thinking about giving that study a graphics overhaul. I'm an old guy, so I'm a late bloomer in the web design world, but I'm finally caught up.
THIS SITE TELLS THE STORY OF THE HOLY TEMPLE
Originally Posted By JLB,
How long is the pause between the seven weeks and the sixty two weeks.
25 "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;
What can be holy about a temple and its sacrifices? It would be the very essence of evil. Christ was/is the Lamb of God.
Over and over you say that temple is holy. God is not there what makes you believe that temple is holy? If you don't believe it is why do you repeat over and over that is "the holy temple?"
The fact that you are asking me this question tells me you did not read my study, because the answer is thoroughly and meticulously explained over and over in that study. I'll answer your question again here if you insist, but we have to get a few basic details covered first:
- Do you know what a "WEEK" is? Do you know what makes it "a week", and what the purpose is for "a week" and where in the Scriptures the entire concept of "a week" is discussed?
- Do you know what "A WEEK OF WEEKS" is? Do you know why a "week of weeks" is significant?
- Do you know what a "Jubilee Period" (cycle) is? Do you know why a "Jubilee Period" is significant?
- Do you know that "Jubilee Periods" have everything to do with the 70 Weeks?
- How would you know where you would start the count of the "69 Weeks" (483 Years)? How would you know "what year" in time marked the beginning of the counting of the 69 Weeks?
- Do you know "which of the four decrees" that were given to rebuild Jerusalem was the correct decree to begin counting the "seven weeks and sixty-two weeks?"
"Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.'" (Daniel 9:25)- Four decrees were issued for the restoration of Jerusalem. Cyrus gave the first decree in the Friday year of 536 B.C. (Ezra 1) Darius gave the second decree in the Monday year of 519 B.C. (Ezra 6) Artaxerxes gave the third and fourth decrees in the Sunday year of 457 B.C. and the Sabbath year of 444 B.C. (Ezra 7 and Nehemiah 2, respectively)
- Which decree was it? And why?
- Do you even know why God used the concept of "weeks" instead of "years" to indicate the synchrony of the 70 Weeks?
- Do you know why God separated the 69 weeks into two smaller pieces – and why the first piece was a Jubilee Period (7 Weeks)?
- Do you know why "Weeks" (Sevens) MUST begin with a "Sunday Year?"
- Do you know why "a Sunday Year" is significant when it comes to knowing where to begin the count of the 69 Weeks?
If you can't thoroughly answer the above questions (the basics) using the Scriptures, then you really don't have any business promoting your ideas regarding the 70 Weeks. You obviously do not understand what the 70 Weeks really are, and you are just repeating the indoctrination you have received by denominations and teachers who THEMSELVES have no idea what the 70 weeks really are, or what "a week", a "week of weeks", a "Jubilee Period" etc. even IS, or why the understanding of each and every one of these essential concepts is critical.
If you can thoroughly answer the above questions concerning "a week", "a week of weeks", "a Jubilee Period", "the Four Decrees issued to rebuild Jerusalem", "a Sunday Year", and "why God chose to use 'Weeks', and 'Weeks of Weeks' rather than Years" for the synchrony of time, then we can continue with "a serious, honest, scholarly discussion" about the 70 Weeks, including the "pause" you are proposing. If you can't answer, then it's obvious you aren't for real, and are just here to argue, rather than have a mature, honest discussion.
- Here is the link once again to my study JLB. All the Biblical (not man's theoretical) answers are there. If you read with an objective, open mind, I think you might actually enjoy it:
- https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xrqkn93mw947llb/2bGxPgYo0n
PS - Just in case you're wondering, I'm NOT a preterist. Though I believe futurists/dispensationalists promote false doctrine and are part of the harlot, Babylon (all denominations are), I do not subscribe to preterism either. Both preterism and dispensationalism/futurism are alternate, opposing eschatologies that are equally erroneous, and both only know Christ "after the flesh". Neither are "spiritually" discerned. They do not know the "IS, WAS, WILL BE" nature of Christ's Words. They know only "one-third" of Christ. Preterists only know the Past. Futurists only know the Future. What they both miss is the fact that the Spirit of ALL prophecy (which is "the testimony of Christ" - Revelation 19:10) is written to each and EVERY successive generation SINCE Christ! The "time is at hand" for ALL, at ANY time, who "keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book". These things that will "shortly come to pass" are for "every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book." Those who only know Christ "after the flesh" and discern the sayings of Christ using the wisdom of natural man, miss this entire profound truth - for it is "spiritually discerned."
Cyrus gave the first decree in the Friday year of 536 B.C. (Ezra 1) Darius gave the second decree in the Monday year of 519 B.C. (Ezra 6) Artaxerxes gave the third and fourth decrees in the Sunday year of 457 B.C. and the Sabbath year of 444 B.C. (Ezra 7 and Nehemiah 2, respectively)
Here is one of many All the Biblical (not man's theoretical) answers I enjoyed from the "scriptures" -Here is the link once again to my study JLB. All the Biblical (not man's theoretical) answers are there. If you read with an objective, open mind, I think you might actually enjoy it:
Where did you find that in the scriptures?457 was affirmed by the wise men shortly after Jesus was born.
Even on matters of calendars and time, as good as Osgiliath's chart is in the natural sense, the course of time is also layed out in 3 measures, as is the Kingdom itself, hidden in 3 measures.
In matters of time, Daniel delivers the course of the 3.
Time, Times and half or a dividing of time.
All of these matters are actually quite intimately overlayed, Temple, Babylon and TIMEs.
Trying to divide these matters on the calendar is interesting, but that is a natural understanding, and meant to be shown.
In matters of spiritual time however and how 'time' 'times' and 'the dividing time or halving of time,' are laid out, the natural calendar matters of understandings no longer mean much.
The Kingdom does not come by 'observations.'
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Is Daniel 9:26 referring to a "spiritual" temple or a natural temple?When speaking of futurism and the temple many try to look to these matters as external and a physical rebuilding in Israel with animal sacrifices, etc etc.