Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Catholic Defender: Heaven Is Counting On You

Daniel 9:24-27:
"Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and for your holy city:

The transgression will stop and sin will end, guilt will be expiated,
Everlasting justice will be introduced, vision and prophecy ratified and a most holy will be annointed.

Know and understand this:

From the utterence of the word that Jerusalem was to be rebuilt
Until one who is anointed and a leader, there shall be seven weeks. During sixty-two weeks it shall be rebuilt, With streets and trenches, in time of affliction.

After the sixty-two weeks an anointed shall be cut down when he does not possess the city;
And the people of a leader who will come shall destroy the sanctuary.

Then the end shall come like a torrent; until the end there shall be war, the desolation that is decreed.

For one week he shall make a firm compact with the many;
Half the week he shall abolish sacrifice and oblation;

On the temple wing shall be the horrible abomination until the ruin that is decreed is poured out upon the horror."

The above is a prophecy that presents a very important time-table to very key events concerning Christ.

I want to begin that seven is regarded as the perfect number of Christ. Seven represents God's action in the things He has made.

It has symbolic meaning throughout scripture. In the above scripture, what is factored in is that every seventh year on the Hebrew calender was a sabbatical year.

After every seventh set of seven years there would be a year of Jubilee (read Leviticus 25:1-17).

Daniel's prophecy will focus around the seventy sets of seven.

In Hebrew, shabua is the word for seven. This calculates to dozens which is best understood as "times" or "times periods" or seasons.

To the Jews of Daniels time, this would be easily understood. The groups of seven are refered to as "weeks".

The seventy weeks that Daniel referes to is then seen as seventy weeks. In this prophecy of Daniel, the sevens appear four times.

In this text, a week is viewed as a decade representing ten years. The sixty-two weeks in this context is seen as 430 years. The whole complete prophecy of Daniel then covers 490 years. This covers:

604 B.C. Daniel is deported to Babylon
539 B.C. Babylon conquered by Medo-Persian empire
457 B.C. Persian decree to rebuild Jerusalem
444 B.C. Nehemiah begins the rebuilding
167 B.C. Greek Antiochus desecrates the Temple
142 B.C. Jews win independence
54 B.C. Roman Pompey sacks Temple
10 B.C. Herod's Temple completed
4 B.C. Incarnation, the birth of the Lord
30 A.D. Passion of the Lord
64 A.D. Nero torches Rome
67-70 A.D. Titus destroys Temple
136 A.D. Jerusalem destroyed
476 A.D. Rome fell
David B. Currie Historical Timeline (taken from his book -
Rapture: The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind


This is very important because this covers from Daniels deportation to Babylon to the fall of the Temple of Jerusalem. That is the seventy-weeks predicted by Daniel at great accuracy.

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and for your holy city:
This is the Jews under the Covenant and the Holy City is Jerusalem.

The transgression will stop and sin will end, guilt will be expiated, Everlasting justice will be introduced, vision and prophecy ratified, and a most holy will be anointed.
This is the ministry and coming of Jesus Christ, "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world".

From the utterence of the word that Jerusalem was to be rebuilt Until the one who is anointed and a leader, there shall be seven weeks.
From Daniel to the rebuilding of the Temple (604 B.C. to 444 B.C.) Jesus is the anointed one. This will be seven weeks.

During the sixty-two weeks it shall be rebuilt, with streets and trenches in time of affiction.
This takes us from Nehemiah rebuilding the Temple in 444 B.C. to Antiochus who desecrates the Temple 167 B.C.
After the sixty-two weeks an anointed shall be cut down when he does not possess the city;
Jesus has arrived in the first advent and his entry into Jerusalem will end with his death. This is marked 33 (April 3) A.D. for His passion.

And the people of a leader who will come shall destroy the sanctuary.
This is when Titus destroys the Temple in between 67-70 A.D.

Then the end shall come like a torrent; until the end there will be war, the desolation that is decreed.
With the destruction of the Temple came the fall of Jerusalem. The war lasted three and a half years bringing great anguish on the Jews.

For one week he shall abolish sacrifice and oblation;
Jesus ends the Old Covenant's animal sacrifice as His sacrifice begins a New Covenant in His blood (Matthew 26:26).

On the Temple wing shall be the horrible abomination until the ruin that is decreed is poured out upon the horror.
The Jews are then scattered and the Romans set up their eagle over the ruins of the Temple.

As the Old Testament is being literally destroyed by the Roman army, the Catholic Church had survived the Great Tribulation. Remember Our Lord warned His people to take flight and so the Church was not in Jerusalem when it fell. The Catholic Church moved out setting up it's headquarters in Rome! Wow! Now this is going to be fascinating!!!!

From Rome, the Catholic Church begins a spiritual rule that will reign until Jesus returns. Those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith continues to pray to God for the Church."Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God".

Notice the "Great Cloud of Witnesses", these are the ones who were great in faith. Hebrews 11 is known as the "faith" chapter. Many of these were raised from the dead at the Resurrection. They are not oblivious to what is going on today. They are pulling for us, they are praying for us, they are with us.


"And when he (Angel) had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints; and they sang a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open it's seal, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they reign on earth".


Notice that Jesus established a kingdom with priests who are empowered on the earth. This is the Catholic Faith. Also notice the incense and the prayer of the saints. This is a heavenly vision, yet this is happening on the earth as well. The Mass recieves that spiritual benefit of the heavenly worship and through it we are connected with the Saints in heaven.

"When the Lamb (Jesus) opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer; and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne; and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God".

Notice the incense, the prayer coming from the saints upon the altar before the throne of God. The Saints intercession to God on mankinds behalf. It is here that angels always behold the face of Our Father on our behalf. That is a great reason why you do not want to despise one of the Lord's children and cause them to sin. Unrepentant sin will be brutally punished.

The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ whom Daniel so clearly outlined the Lord's coming. Knowing this, let us follow the teachings of the Catholic Faith knowing full well that Jesus is speaking through the "Bark Of Peter"

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