In the
original Hebrew "Jesus Christ" is Yahushua Ha
Mashiyach and is interpreted as "Yah who is Salvation, the Anointed
One." Yah is short for the Holy Name of YHVH, which itself means "He who was,
who is, who is to come", thus "the Eternally Existent One." So, the full title
of the Mashiach is "The Eternally Existent Saving and Anointed One."
To be
"anointed" in ancient Hebrew culture meant to be chosen as the rightful heir
to authority, either as a priest or king or both. It was a rite of special
consecration to have oil poured upon one's head from a ram's horn by a
previously chosen servant of G-d. Several kings and priests of Israel received
this rite, most notably King David, who was himself called "mashiach," an
anointed one. It was prophesied that a son of his would one day come to rule
perpetually. This son came to be known as the promised Mashiach, who would
rule the world from the throne of David.
The
prophets said David's son would be more than a mere man (Micah 5:1,2) since He
would rule forever. The record also shows that G-d Himself promised to come
and rule the world from Israel (Zechariah 14), and that He alone was to be
Israel's King. Thus, the prophets foretold that Mashiach must be a kind of
being that was unknown on the earth, both a son of David and G-d Himself.
Many foreign cultures and pagan religions adopted their own version of this,
and through fables and folklore they speculated on His being, albeit in error.
The
prophets also declare that Mashiyach had two great missions. First, He had to
provide deliverance from sin on the earth. Second, He had to take up His royal
throne on the earth.
In the
first mission Mashiyach would have to be most notably a perfect man, since He
would have to die as the sinless (spotless) sacrifice in substitution for the
sins of the world (Isaiah 53). In the second mission Mashiyach would have to
be most notably G-d Himself, since he would have to put all enemies of
rigtheousness under His authority. Because of this duality of purpose many
have stumbled over the concept of Mashiyach, and some have surmised that there
must be two mashiachs. They did not consider the event of the resurrection.
The prophets tell us that Mashiyach would not remain dead, but would somehow
rise again. It is after this resurrection that Mashiyach would rule.
The
record shows that Yeshua of Natzeret Israel (cir. 6 BCE - 27 CE) fulfilled the
first mission perfectly by dying as the spotless Lamb of G-d and then rising
from the dead, as the feasts and prophets of Israel foretold He would. He did
not come to start a new religion, but to bring all who would trust Him into
personal covenant with G-d. There is a real experiencial new creation of the
human spirit when one trusts with the whole heart that He is the Mashiyach and
has taken our sins on Himself and has risen from the dead! This new creation
of the human spirit works toward the eradication of sin in our lives, thus the
fulfillment of the first mission.
After
His resurrection Yahushua ascended back to Heaven, but before He did He
promised to return in power and great glory to defend Israel against all the
aggressing nations of the world. In that day He will again raise up the throne
of His father, David. He will fulfill His second mission as Mashiyach. Then,
He will be revealed as the Eternally Existent One, G-d, YHVH Himself. All who
trust Him and try to follow His Teaching (Torah) now will be saved; all who
deny Him will be in danger of destruction at that time, since they have no
blood covering their sins. However, He is the only judge and arbiter of who
will be preserved. The judge of the earth will do rightly.
Let
all who are called, chosen and faithful keep the testimony of Yahushua and the
commandments of YHVH. Even so, come quickly Adonai
Yahushua
Prophecies of the OT
Fulfilled in Yahushua Ha Mashiyach and His church a total of 1,093. 50
Specific Prophecies Fulfilled in Yahushua.The Jewish Mystery and
More.
There have been described in the Old Testament 300 prophecies of
the first coming of the Messiah and 500 of the second coming, all of then made
hundreds of years before the birth of Yahushua and fulfilled to the letter
in Yahushua Ha
Mashiyach.
George Heron, a
French mathematician, calculated that the odds of one man fulfilling only 40 of those
prophecies are 1 in 10 to the power of 157. That is a 1 followed by 157
zeros. Compare it to this; your odds on winning the state lottery are 14
followed by 6 zeros.
Another mathematician, Dr.
Peter S. Ruckman, claims the odds
of being fulfilled only 60 of them
by the only person who claimed to be the Son of God, and who died on a "tree"
on Calvary, and who rose the 3rd day are astronomical!... not just one in one
trillion, but one out
of ten to the 895th power. That is a one over a one followed by 895
zeros.
And
still more, because every page of the Old Testament talks and prophecies and
characterizes the coming of the Yahushua
HaMashiyach in
Greek... so, there are actually thousands of prophecies on the coming of
the Mashiyach, all of
them fulfilled to the letter in Yahushua
HaMashiyach and His Church as they
are shown in this site.
Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the
one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also
wrote--Yeshua of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. (Jn.1:45) . If you
believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me (Jn.5:46).
And beginning with Moses and all the
Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning
himself. (Lk.24:27) . He said to them, This is what I told you
while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about
me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.
(Lk.24:44). He told them, This is what is written:
The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
(Lk.24:46).
Daniel 9:25-27 and Messiah the
Prince
“Which of the following statements (if any) are FALSE?”
1. Daniel’s 70 Weeks consists of a total of
490 years ... (70 x 7) = 490 years
2. Daniel’s Prophetic Time Clock regarding
the Messiah’s appearing recorded a full 69 Weeks had been fulfilled ... (69 x
7) = 483 years
3. Daniel’s Prophetic Time Clock of 70
Weeks did not Stop until after the Messiah was crucified (Cut Off)
4. The Messiah was not Cut Off until after
691/2 Weeks – 69 Weeks UNTIL He came plus His ministry of 31/2 years ... (69 x
7) + 3.5 = 486.5 or 4861/2 years
5. Therefore, (490 - 486.5) = 3.5 or 31/2
years remaining of the 490 original years of Daniel’s 70
Weeks
In
light of the above, how can it be mathematically possible for there to be a
full 7 years (1 Week) of Daniel’s 70th Week remaining to be fulfilled in
respect to the two following Scriptures?
Daniel
9:25
Know therefore and understand, that from the going
forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto (until)
[Strong’s Hebrew 5704 - `ad] the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and
threescore and two weeks...
Strong’s Hebrew 5704 - `ad
properly, the same
as '`ad' (5703) (used as a preposition, adverb or conjunction; especially with
a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or
time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with):--against, and, as, at,
before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-)to, + how long, into,
as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, (+ as)
yet.
Daniel
9:26
And after [Strong’s Hebrew 310] threescore and two
weeks shall Messiah be cut off...
Hebrew
310, Strong’s - 'achar
from Hebrew 309 ('achar); probably the hind part;
generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses) :- after
(that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by,
follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over)
live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence
[-forth], when, with.
Therefore, if it was 69 full Weeks UNTIL the
Messiah came, and as history records He ministered 31/2 additional years AFTER
the 69 Weeks, then how could He have been ‘Cut Off’ at the exact ending of 69
Weeks. To this end, if His ministry surpassed in any length of time 69
Weeks then He had automatically entered into Daniel’s 70th Week. That
being said, then how could there be a full 7 years of Daniel’s 70th Week
remaining to be fulfilled?
To
reiterate, how could the Messiah not have come on the scene UNTIL 69 full
Weeks had expired, ministered 31/2 years, then been ‘Cut Off’ AFTER 69 Weeks,
without entering into Daniel’s 70th Week. Where is the logic?
In
summary, it is mathematically impossible for the Messiah to have come after
the completion of 69 Weeks, ministered 31/2 years, and then been cut off at
the ending of 69 Weeks. He would have had to come and died immediately
upon arrival to fulfill this theory.
Additionally, another question of concern is “Can
we be sure that the ‘HE’ referred to in Daniel 9:27 is actually the man
Antichrist?” Besides Daniel 9:27 there are NO other Scriptures
throughout the entire Bible that suggests a Seven (7) years Tribulation, Seven
(7) years Pre-Tribulation Rapture or a Seven (7) years reigning man Antichrist
– by contrast all other eschatology purports only 31/2 years.
Therefore, we hereby suggest that it is Yeshua
Jesus the Messiah that is referenced as the 'HE' in Daniel
9:27.
Messiah the Prince (Yahushua) came to fulfill the
Abrahamic Covenant with the Jews first, and thus by His ‘Cutting Off’ death He
did also by de facto means ‘Cut a Covenant’. The essence of the Hebrew
word Karath is the ‘cutting off/cutting down of the life of the sacrificed’,
in the making of a New Covenant.
karath, Hebrew 3772, Strong’s
karath,
kaw-rath'; a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication to
destroy or consume; specifically to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or
bargain, origin by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces) :- be chewed,
be con- [feder-] ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be
freed, hew (down), make a league ([covenant]), × lose, perish, × utterly, ×
want.
This
is exactly what Yahushua did by shedding His own Blood in fulfillment of the
eternal Abrahamic Covenant (the coming Promised Seed) to the Jews.
Mark
14:24
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which
is shed for many.
Moreover, Daniel 9:26 reveals the Messiah would
be 'Cut Off' but not for Himself: however, this is NOT transliterated
correctly in the KJV. The 'but not for himself' in the actual Hebrew
texts reads v'ayn lo, and literally means "he has nothing" or "he shall have
nothing". This prophecy reveals that the Jews would reject their Messiah
and His offer of Eternal Salvation rendering His ministry to them in
vain. Scripture reveals,
Isaiah
53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we
esteemed him not.
Matthew 21:42
Yahushua saith unto them, Did
ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the
same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is
marvellous in our eyes?
Luke
9:22
Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of
the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the
third day.
John
1:11
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
In
addition, the Hebrew word for Confirm 'gabar' further reveals personal
characteristics of Yahushua in its meaning which suggests the coming Messiah
would be a strong, brazen 'Insolent' individual who would 'Strengthen'
through His utilization of the forceful power of the Holy Spirit the Abrahamic
Covenant. When we review some of the statements that Jesus declared to
both the Sadducees and the Pharisees we see His insolent character and disdain
for traditionally held Jewish beliefs.
Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can
ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh.
Matthew 23:33
Ye serpents, ye generation of
vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Mark
7:13
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which
ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Going
forward, there appears to be a clear conflict between suggesting that the ‘he’
of Daniel 9:27 is referring to a seven (7) years Antichrist, whereas in
Revelation chpt. 13, it is recorded that the Antichrist will exist for only a
period of 31/2 years.
I
suggest that Yahushua Himself fulfilled the first half of Daniel’s 70th
Week whenever He was ‘Cut Off’ in the Middle of the Week, from among the
living, following His 31/2 years ministry to the Jews and His subsequent
crucifixion. Following His death AFTER Daniel’s 69th Week, at 691/2
Weeks Daniel’s, prophetic time clock stopped with the remaining 31/2 years to
start again at the beginning of the ‘Great Tribulation’ following the
‘revealing’ of the man Antichrist as stated in 2 Thes. 2:3.
Meanwhile, after Yahushua was ‘CUT OFF’ in the
Middle of the Week at the behest of His own people (the Jews), experiencing
crucifixion He fulfilled the Mosiac Covenant and thereby brought to an end
God’s required necessity of a Holy Temple and a Daily Sacrifice.
To
this end, in Daniel 9:27 it reveals the reason Yahushua ended the Mosiac Law
was because “...of the overspreading of abomination(s) he shall make it
desolate...” As such, we must NOT confuse the ‘abomination(s)’ of Daniel
9:27 with the ‘abomination that maketh desolate’ of Daniel 11:31, 12:11 and
Matthew 24:15. The former is referring to pluralistic sinful behavioral
actions by the Jews while the latter refers to a singular pagan idol object
that was placed in the Temple during the reign and invasion of Jerusalem by
Antiochus IV Epiphanes. However, this event prophetically will once
again take place, as prophesied by Yahushua in Mat. 24:15, when a newly
created idol god of the Antichrist's choosing will be erected in the rebuilt
Jewish Temple.
Nonetheless, the Jews unyielding sinfulness and
baseless traditions had turned the added Mosiac Covenant into continual acts
of abominations in a flagrant affront against God’s commandments.
Angrily, Jesus declared when entering the Holy Temple,
Matthew 21:13
And said unto them, It is
written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a
den of thieves.
Matthew 23:37-38
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou
that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how
often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left
unto you desolate.
Luke
19:44
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within
thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou
knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Thus,
as stated earlier, Yahushua’ death ended the Mosiac Covenant (Not the eternal
Abrahamic Covenant of which we ourselves are heirs) and the necessity of the
Daily Sacrifice. The only thing left for God to then do was to ‘destroy
the unnecessary Temple’ – “even until the consummation, and that determined
shall be poured upon the desolate.” This was accomplished following the
Jewish Revolt in 67 A.D. against the Romans, resulting in Titus Caesar
destroying both Jerusalem and the Holy Temple in 70 A.D.
We
must understand the future pagan Temple that will be rebuilt for the
Antichrist by the Jews in Jerusalem before the Great Tribulation begins (last
half of Daniel’s 70th Week) will be repugnant to God and an affront to the
finished work of the Cross of Christ. Therefore, neither God nor
Yahushua will have any part in the Jews misguided attempts to reinstitute the
finished Mosiac Covenant and the Temple’s Daily Sacrifice.
Once
again, the Messiah’s ‘Cutting Off’ in the middle of Daniel’s 70th Week
‘Stopped’ the prophetic clock, which will not restart again until the
beginning of the eschatological ‘Great Tribulation’ as described in the Book
of Revelation – the last 31/2 years of Daniel’s 70th.
The
start of the last half of Daniel’s prophetic Week will resume with Jesus once
again ‘CONFIRMING’ the Abrahamic Covenant with the Jewish people for the very
last 31/2 years prior to the battle of Armageddon. This confirmation
will be fulfilled and ratified by the ‘Two Witnesses’ in Jerusalem during the
Great Tribulation while the beloved Holy City is being trodden under foot by
the Gentiles.
Rev.
11:2-3
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it
not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread
under foot forty and two months. [3] And I will give power unto my two
witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days,
clothed in sackcloth.
A note
of caution, we must be careful as to the prophetic placement of these ‘Two
Witness’ and not place their ministries outside the construct of the last half
of Daniel’s 70th Week in order to suggest a ‘seven (7)’ years
Tribulation. These two men will be given extraordinary powers to Confirm
the Abrahamic Covenant (for which Jesus was the Promised Seed to come) with
Jerusalem’s Jews and resist the Beast/Antichrist. Meanwhile, their
safety and protection will be guaranteed by Yahushua until they have finished
their 31/2 years ministry – “And I will give power unto my two
witnesses...” To this end, John the Revelator was told that the ‘Spirit
of Prophecy’ is none other than,
Rev.
19:10
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou
do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony
of Yahushua: worship God: for the testimony of Yahushua is the spirit of
prophecy.
Moreover, the Confirmation of the Abrahamic
Covenant to the eschatological Jews does not limit itself by no means to the
Two Witnesses in Jerusalem only. There is a far more important group of
Jews who will be directly under the Divine support and protection of
God/Yahushua/Holy Spirit Themselves – the Woman (national Israel) who will
flee the Dragon into the wilderness for the final half of Daniel’s 70th
Week. It is here that the Confirmation of the Abrahamic Covenant
declaring Salvation to the Jews by and through the Blood of the ‘Promised
Covenant Seed’ Yahushua will have its greatest impact.
Can we
honesty imagine that God/Yahushua will personally and divinely cloth, nourish
and protect these ‘Remnant Jews’ for 31/2 years without declaring Yahushua as
the Confirmed Abrahamic Seed unto them?
Romans
15:8
Now I say that Yahushua Hamashiyach was a minister of the
circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the
fathers:
Mark
14:24
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which
is shed for many.
If as
Isaiah suggests, that perhaps as many as 1/3 of all the Jews will flee from
the Dragon Satan and the Beast/Antichrist into the wilderness seeking God’s
Divine protection, then that could reach a conservative estimate of nearly 1
to 2 million Jews – What a Revival!!!
Of
course, we (the Church) will not be here to see this because of our previous
‘Pre-Great Tribulation Rapture’ marking the onset of the last half of Daniel’s
70th Week.
In
addition, the Book of Revelation is NOT predicated upon seven (7) years, but
rather to phases of time with one being unspecified and the other being
specific. The former unspecified is comprised of a number of Seals
broken and Trumpets blown and the latter a distinct and specific 31/2 years
hence, last half of Daniel’s 70th Week.
Therefore, we cannot be certain as to the amount
of time for which the first phase of the Trumpets and Seals exists, we do not
know when or if the four angelic horseman of Apocalypse has/will roll
out. Thus, we cannot with any degree of accuracy suggest a seven (7)
years Tribulation, etc, etc. We are therefore left to ‘Watch’ for the
Signs, the opening Seals and the blowing Trumpets.
Thus,
when we view the Messiah and the complete fulfillment of the Mosiac Law (NOT
the eternal Abrahamic Covenant) as the focus of Daniel 9:24-27, it makes more
sense than to project some 2000 years into the future, and interject an
Antichrist at this particular point.
As a
fervent student of Bible Prophecy, I cannot stress enough, upon the correct
transliteration of this ONE (Daniel 9:27) Scripture hangs all the doctrine of
‘a seven (7) years Tribulation, a Pre-Tribulation Rapture, and a seven (7)
years reigning man Antichrist.’ Whether we are right or wrong as to the
proper transliteration regarding these concerned Scriptures makes no
difference as to our Eternal relationship with Yahushua, but to be wrong here
and misinterpret these two Passages is to forfeit a true understanding of
Biblical eschatology. Are there any other Scriptures throughout the
entirety of the Bible that suggests a 7 years Tribulation, etc,
etc?
I too
once, not long ago, believed in a seven (7) years Tribulation, etc, etc., and
published and taught as much. However, while I know it is meaningless to
others, were it not for a brief eschatological dream I too would have never
questioned this wide spread traditional view and began to search the
Scriptures to find true validity. The illusion of the seven (7) years
Tribulation, etc., etc. is so well disguised; unless one becomes as the
Bereans and searches the Scriptures you will never see it, and this doctrine’s
confrontational foundation is rooted in the unfortunate mistranslation of
Daniel 9:26-27 and mainly the precise usage of the word Prince or prince.
Here
is a bit of food for thought. There will never be another event that
will ever grab ‘Global’ attention like that of the Resurrection of the Dead in
Christ and the Rapture of the Church. When people see their loved ones
vanish in front of their own eyes, and graveyards look like a proverbial war
zone, SOMEONE with enormous powers of deception will have to IMMEDIATELY (not
some 31/2 years latter) step onto the global scene to explain with power to a
frantically panicked public what has just happened. Enter the massive
delusional powers of Dragon Satan and his cohorts cast out of heaven unto the
earth, the Beast released from the Abyss, and the man Antichrist.
Matthew 24:24
For there shall arise false
Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch
that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Once
again, in summary Yahushua did indeed come to ‘Confirm – strengthen/ratify’
the eternal Abrahamic Covenant with the Jews for a final Week but was Cut Off
in the Middle of that Week. As a result, His work of the Cross fulfilled
the Mosaic Law (Old Covenant) and the Daily Sacrifice and Oblation as
prescribed under the Mosaic Covenant came to a completed end.
Romans
15:8
Now I say that Yahushua Hamashiyach was a minister of the
circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the
fathers:
Hebrews 10:12
But this man, after he had
offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of
God;
Matthew 9:13
But go ye and learn what that
meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the
righteous, but sinners to repentance.
As
stated above, Yahushua Confirmed in a bold way the Abrahamic Covenant with
many Jewish people for the 31/2 years of His ministry.
Matthew 15:24
But he answered and said, I am
not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Galatians 3:15
Brethren, I speak after the
manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no
man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
Galatians 3:17
And this I say, that the
covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Mashiyach, the law, which was
four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the
promise of none effect.
Hebrews 8:6
But now hath he obtained a more
excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant,
which was established upon better promises.
Hebrews 8:7
For if that first covenant had
been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Hebrews 8:8
For finding fault with them, he
saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Matthew 26:28
For this is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Mark
14:24
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which
is shed for many.
In
closing, Yahushua will resume to Confirm the Abrahamic Covenant with the Jews,
following the coming Rapture event with the 144,000 Jews as the
Firstfruits of the Rapture. During the Great Tribulation, last 31/2
years of Daniel’s 70th Week, Yahushua will confirm the covenant with the Woman
who flees into the wilderness (Israel) (Rev. 12:6). In addition, as
stated earlier, He will continue the proclamation of God’s plan and the
Abrahamic Covenant to the remaining Jews in Jerusalem/Israel that will be
proclaimed by His ‘Two Witnesses’ (Rev. 11:3).
To
this end, I suggest there cannot be a ‘Seven Years Tribulation nor Seven Years
Antichrist’, which only exists as a result of an unfortunate misinterpretation
of Daniel 9:27, and has no other Scriptural support, but rather the last 31/2
years of Daniel’s 70th Week yet remains to be prophetically
fulfilled.
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