I’ve read Revelation so many times I’ve lost count. After reading this post, I’ll be reading Revelation again this afternoon and taking another look at it.

From Lauren @ RITA:

A 10½ YEAR COVENANT WITH MANY

THE COVENANT WITH MANY IS A 10½ YEAR TIME PERIOD

The timing of Daniel 9:27 has been mistakenly misunderstood as being SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION, but under close scrutiny we see the text clearly shows it covers TWO SEPARATE WEEKS and fulfills the time, times and half a time prophecies!

The purveyors of this confusion are the NASB and the NIV, with the NASB putting a coma (,) after “the many for one week, but in the middle of the week”. The NIV adds to the confusion by correctly putting a period but THEY WORD THE TEXT INCORRECTLY following the period. They transcribe, “He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven’. In the middle of the ‘seven’…”

The KJV didn’t really help the matter, they put a colon (:) after one week: and in the midst of the week…” this scribal error didn’t do anything for proper interpretation either!

Although the KJV and NIV came close the 1985 JPS TANAKH ‘THE HOLY SCRIPTURES’ interpreted it correctly.

Here’s the JPS Daniel 9:27 translation; “DURING ONE WEEK he will make a firm covenant with many. FOR HALF A WEEK he will put a stop to the sacrifice and the meal offering. At the corner will be an appalling abomination until the decreed destruction will be poured down upon the appalling thing”

This is the only way to interpret this text to fulfill Daniel and the book of Revelation prophecies.

The prophecy guru’s of the 70’s and 80’s not only had a problem of overlooking the colon or period, their interpretations KEYED OFF the AND the BUT in the NASB and KJV making the midst or middle of the week as HALF OF the one week then dealing with it as just ONE WEEK OF TRIBULATION.

This misinterpretation has put the ‘flock’ in jeopardy of having their oil lamps but ½ full or empty BECAUSE that overflowing scourge or ‘tempest of the Lord’ i believe scripture plainly shows is due between February 9, 2009 and April 9, 2009!

Here’s ONE OF THE MISINTERPRETED TEXTS from the KJV; Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: AND IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the total destruction, and that is determined shall be poured upon the desolate”.

BREAKING THE LOT OF GOD’S INHERITANCE

Reread the JPS version again, it simplifies the text and easily shows that it covers TWO SEPARATE WEEKS.

In reality Daniel 9:27 is covering a period of 10½ years that “the many”, the Arab league and the ‘quartet’ have been conspiring TO BREAK the “everlasting inheritance covenant” of I Chronicles 16:17-18 and DIVIDE GOD’S LAND with a “covenant of death and hell”, Isaiah 28:15.

We know that God will disannul it and send an “overflowing scourge’, Isaiah 28:18, on the United States and its President, Daniel 11:20, even telling us twice in Jeremiah 23:19-20 and 30:23-24 that we will “UNDERSTAND IT” in the last days.

This the “tempest of the Lord” is coming, remember Paul echoed this in 1 Thessalonians 5:2-5 telling us that when they are talking “peace and safety; the sudden destruction of the ‘day of the Lord’ will come upon them as a “thief in the night” and they shall not escape.

As children of the light and having our ‘oil lamps” full we can see by properly interpreting Daniel 9:27 it fulfills the time, times and half a time prophecies!

A TIME, TIMES AND HALF A TIME

Let’s take a look;

A TIME= March 28, 2002 until April 9, 2009 is the ‘first week’

The “covenant with many” is the Saudi Plan that was approved by the Arab League on Passover March 28, 2002, this was THE FIRST DAY of the “during one week” that WILL END ON Passover April 9, 2009.

TIMES= October 4, 2005 until September 17, 2012 is ‘another time’ the second week

The “For half a week” BEGAN half way between 2540 days of the ‘second week’ that began on Rosh Hashanah October 4, 2005 and ends on Rosh Hashanah, September 17, 2012.

HALF A TIME= March 27/28, 2009 until September 17, 2012

The ‘half a week of 2540 days’ or the FIRST DAY of 1270 days BEGINS ON March 27, 2009, that is within a day of being seven Gregorian years from the “Saudi Plans” approval by the Arab league on Passover March 28, 2002! We must remember that in Israel at 6:00 pm March 27th the next day, March 28th, begins!

A ‘SECOND WITNESS’

Daniel 12:11 and its 1290 day prophecy ‘second witness’ this March 27/28 timeframe, If we COUNT BACK 1290 days from Shemini Atzeret, the ‘eighth’ day ‘Feast of Tabernacles’, October 8, 2012, we will count back to March 28, 2009. Shemini Atzeret is the day the Torah Scroll is rerolled in the temple and the Genesis 1 Torah portion is read.

Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be 1290 days.

The “half a week” of Daniel 9:27 and Daniel 12:11 speak of the same event and begin ON THE SAME DAY, March 27/28, 2009.

TIME, TIMES AND HALF A TIME SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES

1.) Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

When Daniel 11:20 is fulfilled a “few days after” Obama is inaugurated, the antichrist will be revealed and start persecuting the remnant, Daniel 11:21 a day that I believe could fall anytime between February 9 and Passover April 9, 2009, then the antichrist will DIVIDE ISRAEL and parcel it out for gain, Daniel 11:39.

2.) Daniel 12:7 I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he raised his right hand and his left toward heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time; and as soon as they finish shattering the power of the holy people, all these will be completed.

This encompasses the whole timeframe of the Saudi Plan as a ‘covenant of death’ to “shatter the power of God’s people”, that began on March 28, 2002 and ends when the antichrist is thrown into the ‘lake of fire’ on September 17, 2012.

3.) Revelation 12:14 But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she was nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

This will be closer to Passover, April 9, 2009, when the “two witnesses” and Satan and his angels come to earth.

Read more below for a better understanding of the details of the 10½ year, “Saudi Plan” that will be “disannulled” by the “tempest of the Lord” and how it dovetails into the time, times and half a time scenario.

THE EVIDENCE has been presented, show yourself approved, 2 Timothy 2:15, and search the scriptures.

REPENT the Kingdom of God is at hand, giving Him the glory an Ezekiel 33:6 watching one

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WHY WE MUST UNDERSTAND THE “TEMPEST OF THE LORD”

WHY WE MUST UNDERSTAND THE “TEMPEST OF THE LORD”

This is a ‘promise’ given to us not once BUT TWICE in God’s infallible word and each start out with the word BEHOLD. But the majority of prophecy gurus of today are leading us astray, saying we will have peace and in the stubbornness of their own hearts are saying ‘no evil will come upon us’! Jeremiah 23:17

For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has seen and heard His word? Who has listened to His word and obeyed it? Jeremiah 23:18

“Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone forth has gone forth in wrath, even A WHIRLING TEMPEST: It will swirl down on the head of the wicked. The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart; IN THE LAST DAYS you will clearly understand it.” Jeremiah 23:19-20 and Jeremiah 30:23-25

The prophecy gurus mentioned above DID NOT stand in the LORD’S counsel or they would be announcing these words, this last day tempest, to their people and turning them back from their evil ways and deeds. In Jeremiah 23:28b..”but let him who has My word speak My word in truth”.

WHAT IS THIS “EVIL THAT IS COMING UPON US”

As we’ve discussed before, this could very well be the way the “after a few days he of Daniel 11:20, will be destroyed neither in anger or battle” is fulfilled? God uses and has used natural disasters as weapons of His indignation many times throughout history!

Isaiah 28:2 Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty {agent;} As a storm of hail, A TEMPEST of destruction, Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He has cast {it} down to the earth with {His} hand. 3 The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trodden under foot.

WHY IS IT COMING UPON US

Because Obama is the President with the “proud crown” that will be “trodden under feet”, he is the one who leads the “scornful men” that rule the people that is in Jerusalem with this ‘false Saudi peace’ plan. He has made lies his refuge and has hid behind falsehoods, as this WND article proves!

From WND’S Jerusalem bureau 1-27-2009 Aaron Klein ‘Obama hails ‘anti-Israel’ Arab plan’

JERUSALEM – Following SCORES OF DENIALS he would trumpet the plan, President Obama TODAY HAILED A SO-CALLED “Saudi Peace Initiative,” which offers normalization of ties with the Jewish state in exchange for extreme Israeli concessions. Defenders of Israel warn the plan would leave the Jewish state with truncated, difficult-to-defend borders and could threaten Israel’s Jewish character by compelling it to accept millions of foreign Arabs.

WHAT HE DENIED

Most DID NOT KNOW that Barack Obama had already made plans to base his peacemaking efforts on the above mentioned 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. A plan that calls for a full Israeli withdrawal from all territories taken in the Six Day War, including east Jerusalem, in exchange for normalizing ties with the Arab world. This from the Jerusalem Post – ‘Obama to endorse Arab Peace Plan’

HIS COVENANT WITH DEATH AND HELL WILL NOT STAND

He will pay for these “denials” in Isaiah 28:18 it says his covenant with death and hell will be disannulled when the “overflowing scourge” passes through saying “you (he) will be trodden down by it”.

WHAT IS THE “SAUDI INITIATIVE”

During the weekend of January 18-19, 2009, in Egypt, European and Arab leaders racing to consolidate a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas pressed Sunday at a summit in an Egyptian resort, agreeing that Israel needed to quickly pull its forces out of Gaza, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy saying, “There is NO OTHER SOLUTION TO ACHIEVE PEACE,”

King Abdullah of Jordan said an Arab peace offer dating back to 2002 must stay alive. “IF WE DON’T DO THIS IN THIS YEAR, we will be back meeting again in the very near future”

The Jordanian King was referring to the Council of the Arab League that adopted the ‘Saudi Plan’ on Passover March 28, 2002 in Berut, Lebanon http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/03/28/arab.league/index.html

TEN AND A HALF YEARS

The timing in Daniel 9:27 has been misinterpreted and misunderstood by many but the 1985 JPS TANAKH ‘THE HOLY SCRIPTURES’ simplifies the understanding and shows us how it covers two separate weeks!

Here’s the Daniel 9:27 translation; “During one week he will make a firm covenant with many: For half a week he will put a stop to the sacrifice and the oblation, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the total destruction, and that is determined shall be poured upon the desolate”.

The Saudi Plan was approved by the Arab League on Passover March 28, 2002, this was the first day of the “during one week” that will end on Passover April 9, 2009.

The “For half a week” that as a full week BEGAN half way between the 2540 days that fall between Rosh Hashanah October 4, 2005 and September 17, 2012 is 1270 days that falls on March 27, 2009, that is within a day of being seven Gregorian years from the “Saudi Plans” approval by the Arab league on Passover March 28, 2002!

We must remember that in Israel at 6:00 pm March 27th the next day, the 28th, begins! Absolutely amazing.

HE MAGNIFIED HIMSELF TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL

So Daniel 9:27 could very well come into play around March 27th, with the antichrist going into the Kotel area eliminating all the daily morning, afternoon and evening prayers then doing the ultimate against Israel, he will cast “truth to the ground” and tear down the western wall and set up the “abomination” and parceling out the land for gain.

If we count back 1290 days from Shemini Atzeret, the ‘eighth’ day after the Feast of Tabernacles, October 8, 2012 it brings us AGAIN to that March 28, 2009 timeframe.

This will be 12 days into the Messianic age, Ezekiel 37:24-28 and Isaiah 4:5-6

Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be 1290 days.

The “half a week” of Daniel 9:27 and Daniel 12:11 speak of the same event!

Note the word ‘league’ in this text, this in reference to the Arab league and its approval of the Saudi Plan on March 28, 2002! In Daniel 11:23 it says, “And after the league [alliance] made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.”

He has had his “quartet” working deceitfully with the Palestinians, “a small people” now for almost ‘seven’ years.

Keep your eyes and ears open the ‘storm of the LORD is coming forth in wrath’

Giving Him the glory an Ezekiel 33:6 watching one REPENT the Kingdom of God is at hand make your election SURE