Countdown to Armageddon - A timeline based on the bible...
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Daniel's 70th Week

The events leading up to Armageddon were revealed to Daniel as 
taking place in a prophetic time frame referred to by Christians as 
the Tribulation, or Daniel's 70th Week. The book of Daniel contains 
a prophetic timeline that is to be taken literally (8:26). The 
accuracy of the timeline derived from Daniel's prophecies is proven 
by it's complete correspondance with God's prophetic feast days.

 Return to Biblical 360 day year

Although the modern Jewish calendar roughly parallels the 365 day 
solar year, the events of Daniel's final week of years, the 
tribulation, shall be fulfilled with 360 day Biblical years. "And he 
shall confirm a covenant with many for one week (7 yrs) and in the 
midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to 
cease: and on a corner of the alter desolating abominations even 
until the end." The seven year treaty of Daniel 9:27, signed between 
Israel and the Antichrist, allows that the temple be rebuilt. This 
will necessitate not only a revival of tradition with the temple 
sacrifice, but the reintroduction of the 360 day year in which to 
celebrate their feast days. The shortening of the length of years 
will fulfil the prophecy of Matthew 24:22, "those days will be 
shortened for the sake of the Elect." The reversion of the modern 
Jewish calendar to the ancient Biblical, is focal in the fulfillment 
of the end time events. Daniel 7:25 shows the Antichrists' power 
over the nations will last three and one-half years .Rev.13:5 &11:2 
further describes this power over the nations as consisting of 
forty-two months of thirty days each, a total of 1260 days. 

And he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week (7 yrs) and 
in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the 
offering to cease: and on a corner of the alter desolating 
abominations even until the end. Daniel 9:27 

 Date Setting: simple addition and subtraction 

Since Daniel's 7 yr. treaty equals 2,520 days, the "midst" of that 
period falls on day 1260. Daniel 12:11 further describes the 
tribulation time line, 

"And from the time the regular sacrifice shall be taken away, and 
the abomination that makes desolate set up, 1,290 days shall occur." 

This adds 30 days to the end of the seven years.

"How long is the vision, the regular sacrifice, and the desolating 
transgression, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be 
trampled?" 

That is, what is the combined duration for both the regular 
sacrifice and the period of desolation? 

The answer, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings, (a Jewish day begins 
at sundown, an evening and a morning are parts of one day), then the 
sanctuary will be vindicated."                                

How long, then, is the regular sacrifice? 

We know the length of the abomination of desolation, 1,290 days, and 
that it will commence from exactly the mid-point of the 7 years. 
After 7 years, 30 days from the signing of the covenant the 
desolation ends, so that has to be the point from which 2,300 days 
are counted backwards. If the desolation period 1,290 days is 
subtracted from the combined length of the sacrifice and the 
desolation, 2,300 days, there are 1,010 days from start of sacrifice 
to its interruption. The period of temple sacrifice lasts 1,010 days 
until the day when the Antichrist stops the daily sacrifice and sets 
up the abomination, at the mid-point of the 7 year treaty, day 
1,260. 

This leaves 250 days from the start of the treaty of seven years, to 
the actual beginning of the daily sacrifice performed by the Levite 
priests.

Why would there be 250 days between the treaty allowing for the 
temple sacrifice, and the actual begining of the regular sacrifice? 

There are exactly 250 days between the feast of Passover, Nisan 
14th, and the feast of Dedication (Chanukah), Chisleu 25th, in a 360 
day year. Feast day typology points to Passover, Nisan 14, in the 
first month of the religious year, as the likely date of a treaty 
reestablishing temple sacrifice. 

Even though the Passover treaty allows eventually for the regular 
sacrifice to begin, The Levite priests cannot go up to the Temple 
Mount until Tishri 10, the Day of Atonement, to perform the 
necessary cleansing ceremonies according to Mosaic law. It must be 
remembered that this area has been defiled since the fall of 
Jerusalem in 70 AD. During the crusades the temple mount was 
actually used for a garbage dump! 

 Even when the area is cleansed and properly prepared by the 
priests, the daily sacrificing to God on the temple mount would not 
just begin on any day. Such a momentous event as the first temple 
sacrifice in nearly 2,000 years in Israel would appropriately begin 
at the feast of Dedication or Chanukah, just as Joseph Macabe did on 
that date the last time the temple was rededicated. This feast day 
falls exactly 250 after Passover. One has to marvel at Daniel's 
faithful writing of the prophecy he received, no wonder he did not 
understand the time line, the feast of Chanukah did not even exist 
in his day!

If the covenant of the Antichrist begins on Passover in the first 
month of the Jewish religious year, then according to Daniel, 1260 
days later, 3 and 1/2 years in the "midst" of the 7 year treaty, it 
would be broken on the feast of Tabernacles (Tishri 15th), in the 
first month of the Jewish civil year.

Daniel 12:11 "Even the time the regular sacrifice shall be taken 
away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, a thousand two 
hundred and ninety days shall occur. Blessed is he who waits and 
comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty five days." 

After the abomination of desolation is set up at the mid-point of 
the treaty, the prophecy of Daniel says that the vindication of the 
temple does not occur until 1290 days later. Then Daniel is told to 
wait to be blessed on a day 1335 days after the mid-point of the 
treaty. This adds an additional 45 days onto the end of the 7 years 
+ 30 days . 

If the religious year and the civil year are superimposed so that 
Passover in April, and the Day of Atonement start together, there 
are 75 days counted from the actual end of the 7 year treaty. 
Significantly, 75 days is the same amount of time between God's 
feast day of Atonement, when the high priest goes into the Holy of 
Holies, and the feast of Dedication, or Chanukah. 

Seven years after the covenant of the Antichrist begins, 2520 days 
after the signing, it is once again Passover. Prophecy tells us 
Jesus will return on that day, at the end of the battle of 
Armageddon (Zach 14:4), at the mount of Olives. 

 The Restoration of all Things

If the covenant of the Antichrist begins on Passover in the first 
month of the Jewish religious year, then 1,260 days later in the 
"midst" of the treaty, it would be broken on the eve of the Feast of 
Tabernacles (Tishri 14th), in the first month of the Jewish civil 
year. 

Typically, the number six represents the imperfection of man. The 
fact that the religious and civil years of Israel are separated by 
this number of months demonstrates, symbolically, the present sinful 
state of the world separated from God. When the prophecy of Rev 21:3 
is fulfilled, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men", this 
division will end. The world's civil and religious rulership will be 
united by Jesus as He rules the nations from Jerusalem in the 
millennium with a rod of iron. 

 The 75 days after Armageddon demonstrates the restoration of all 
things. Where before the Jewish calendar was divided and the 
religious new year was separated from the civil new year by six 
months, God will at last fulfill the feast days and bring the 
religious new year and the civil year together. This combination 
time line of the Religious year and the Civil year is shown below.

The prophet Joel explains that God will one day bring the former and 
later rains together.

The former rains fall at the start of the religious year in Nisan 
and the later rains at the start of the civil year in Tishri. At the 
end of the tribulation, God will restore the years and the rains by 
bringing them together. By returning and destroying the forces of 
the Antichrist at Armageddon, Jesus will have made "atonement for 
iniquity (Daniel 9:24)" and fulfilled the prophetic feast day of 
Atonement. Significantly, this is the only day of the year the high 
priest may enter the Holy of Holies (Lev. 23: 26 ). Jesus is the 
high priest. The 75 days after Armageddon demonstrates the 
restoration of all things.