Before
getting into Daniel 10, we will take a short look at the period of tribulation
of
God
tells us the very start and length of the tribulation upon
2Chr 36:17 Therefore (as a result of the
sins of Judah and Jehoiakim covered in earlier verses prior to this verse)
he (God) brought upon them
the king of the Chaldees {THE START OF THE TRIBULATION –Nebuchadnezzar,
the King of the Chaldees,--in his first year Dan 1:1-7- 606 B.C. which was the
3rd year of Jehoiakim--besieged Jerusalem and God gave Jehoiakim into
Nebuchadnezzar’s hand and he carried away Daniel and compatriots and vessels of
the temple, etc. to Babylon, thereby depicting the very start of the desolation
of abomination in the Holy Place by Satan and was continued until
Nebuchadnezzar’s 23rd year in 583 B.C. when he carried away his
final captives to make his total captives 4600 (2300 x 2), Jer 52:30. This period
of 23 years of desolations upon Judah with “2300 x 2” captives taken parallels
the first 2300 days of the Great Tribulation as described in Daniel 8:10-14
upon the churches represented by the number two}, who slew their young
men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon
young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them
all into his hand. 18
And all the
vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of
the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these
he brought to Babylon. 19
And they
burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of
As
we will see from our study of Daniel 10, we will find very important time paths
employing 536 B.C. as the starting point that bracket the start and
end of the GT from 1988 to 2011 and also hit certain significant
milestones within the 23 years of Great Tribulation! Hence, this year of
536 B.C. is a very important milestone to God and thus He marks it in His word
for our benefit.
Now,
we will continue with the main study:
In
Daniel 10, we read and comment as we go along:
1
¶ In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia (The end of the tribulation on Judah of 70 years in 536 B.C. see
page 26 of
The Biblical Calendar) a thing was revealed unto
Daniel,
whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was
long (it was a long time to the GT that this 70
years was typifying—the actual time being from 536 B.C. to 1988 A.D. or 2,523
actual years to the start of the GT and 2,546 actual years to the end of the GT
in 2011!):
and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. {long:
Heb. great}
2
In those
days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks (A
portrait of the true believers mourning during the GT [Joel 1:9-10]. The three
full weeks are a portrait of the length of the GT and comprise 21 days or 504
hours [504=84{the GT} x 2 {upon the churches} x 3{is the will of God}]). {full…:
Heb. weeks of days}
3
I ate no
pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint
myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled (no true gospel—the pleasant bread
is available to be eaten by the elect in the churches during the GT, also no
wine—no salvation in the churches as there is no wine [blood] or flesh of
Christ-John 6:54).
4
And in the
four and twentieth day of the first month (the GT of symbolic 21 days or 504 hours now
ended), as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel (the 3rd great river in Eden
before sin entered the world, Gen 2:14, indicating that the time according to
God’s will for the elect’s salvation to be completed when they are again
without sin is at hand at the end of the GT);
5
Then I
lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen,
whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz
(Christ--The
sign of the Son of Man in heaven is now visible and the elect lift up their
heads and behold Him knowing that their redemption draws nigh): {a…: Heb. one man}
6
His body
also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning,
and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like
the voice of a multitude (description of Christ coming in the clouds
when every eye shall see Him and this event is after the GT!).
7
And I
Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision (the
vision is sealed to the unsaved, they have no inkling until the fulfillment
comes upon them as a thief); but a great quaking fell upon them, so
that they fled to hide themselves (judgment upon the unsaved starts immediately
after the GT of 21 days just as the sixth seal indicates that they flee and try
to hide from the face of Christ and His wrath—Rev 6:12-17!).
Dan 10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia
withstood me one and twenty days (During the GT, Satan represented by the
prince of Persia is able to withstand the elect within the external church even
as he is reigning in the temple-2 Thes 2):
but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me (Christ
comes to the aid of the elect to take them out of the influence of Satan at the
end of the GT); and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
14 Now I am
come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: (only
the elect will understand what is presently happening with them spiritually at
this time in the latter days during the GT) for yet the vision is
for many days (this vision which came at the very end of
the 70-year tribulation of Israel and lasts for exactly 21 days will not be
fulfilled until many days after 536 B.C. until 2523 years later in 1988):
The
2523 actual years to the start of the GT at the very end of the church age
factors to 3x29x29. The number 3 speaks of God’s will and purpose even as Jesus
prayed three times about the cup being removed but that His Father’s will be
done (Matt 26:42-44). The number “29” signifies the elect being born into the
world being the gold offering of God which were made into the vessels of God
for the service of God in this world and who ultimately become kings of heaven
and reign with Christ as their inheritance based on the following passages
where this number is used in the Bible:
1. The
elect being born into the world:
Ge 11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and
begat Terah:
2. The
elect are the gold offering of God:
Ex 38:24 All the gold
that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the
gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents,
and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
3.
The elect are the silver vessels of God used in His service in this world:
Ezr 1:9
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a
thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
4.
The elect are kings of heaven and reign with Christ:
2Ki 14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in
2Ki 18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in
2Ch 25:1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned twenty and nine years in
2Ch 29:1 Hezekiah began to
reign when he was five and twenty years old, and
he reigned nine and twenty years in
5.
The elect receive their inheritance in heaven:
Jos 15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are
twenty and nine, with their villages:
Thus the 2523 years points to the purpose of God
in saving elects in the churches (indicated by the 29 appearing twice for
double emphasis—the number 2 also signifying the witness activities of the
truly saved of the churches, Rev 11:3) and these elects will receive eternal
inheritance and reign as kings with Christ.
The 2546 years (from the end of the 70 years of
judgment upon
De 2:14
And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea,
until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years;
until all the generation of
the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them. {brook: or, valley}
Here,
it signifies the judgment of God upon the churches causing the tares to be
wasted out from wheat (even as God wasted out the unsaved amongst Israel in the
wilderness) finally at the end of the GT in 2011,
thereby indicating the physical separation of the elect from the unsaved at the
end of May 21, 2011 into the start of May 22, 2011.
But, like the number 5, the number 38 also features salvation:
Joh 5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an
infirmity thirty and eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had
been now a long time in that case, he saith
unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is
troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. 8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up
thy bed, and walk. 9 And immediately the man was made whole, and
took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
It is therefore indicative of the elect being saved out of the
judgment of the infirmity of their sins.
The number 67 points to the completion of salvation when all the
elects as priests of God receive their glorified spiritual clothing (spiritual
bodies—garments):
Ne 7:72 And that which the rest of the people
gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of
silver, and threescore and seven
priests’ garments.
Thus the 2546 years to 2011 from 536 B.C. also points to the
completion of salvation of the elects from the infirmity and presence of sin in
their mortal bodies and their clothing by God with their immortal spiritual
bodies in the year 2011 and it is also this time that the unsaved will be
wasted out under the judgment of God!
Additionally, the number 38 is also factorable as 19 x 2. The
number 19 is used by God only in the following verses:
Jos 19:38 And Iron, and Migdalel,
Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen
cities with their villages.
39 This is
the inheritance of the tribe
of the children of Naphtali according to their
families, the cities and their villages.
2Sa 2:30 And Joab returned
from following Abner: and when he had gathered all
the people together, there
lacked of David’s servants nineteen men and Asahel.
So
the number “19” points to inheritance in the land of Canaan (a portrait of the
inheritance of the saints in heaven) and it also points to God’s judgment of
those who were servants in Christ in external churches even as they were
unsaved and yet joined up with Christ in His war against sin and Satan. These
are the folks about which Christ makes the following declaration:
Mt 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy
name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me,
ye that work iniquity.
So 2546
representing the number of years from 536 BC to 2011 AD also factors to 19x2x67
and spiritually shows the judgment of the unsaved from the churches (the number
2 signifying the churches in external witnessing even as they were sent two and
two by Christ, Luke 10:1) and the inheritance in heaven by those saved in the
churches (the true two witness of Rev 11:3-11) of which includes their immortal
spiritual bodies all occurring within the year 2011 AD!
Of course
these dates are all projections that are based on the faithfulness of the
underlying Biblical Calendar and also subject to one’s hermeneutics and
eschatology.
This chart (See:
“Chart
illustrating Matthew 24:22”) illustrates some of the time paths covered in
this study and also indicates the shortening of the GT
according to Christ’s directive:
Matt 24:21 For then shall
be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this
time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be
shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days
shall be shortened.
An
Additional Timepath utilizing the number “67”
This
timepath was heard on a Christian discussion program. The period of time from
Israel coming into the Land of Canaan in 1407 BC (see Biblical Calendar,
Page 15) to 2011 A.D. is exactly 3417 years (there being no
year zero) which factors to 3x17x67!
This timepath illustrates that even as
the nation of Israel came into Canaan (spiritually depicting coming into
Heaven, Exo 3:8,17) in 1407 BC by the will and
purpose of God, so it is also the will and purpose of God (3,
Exo 34:23, Exo 23:17) for
the nation of elect believers to enter eternal Heaven and reign as kings (17,
Jer 32:9, 1 Kings 14:21 ) and receive their priest
garments of clothing from God which is their immortal spiritual bodies (67,
Neh 7:72) in the year 2011!
THE END
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