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NASB | Revelation 11:3 "And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 11:3 "And I will grant authority to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days (forty-two months; three and one-half years), dressed in sackcloth." [Deut 18:18; Mal 4:5; Mark 9:4] |
Subject: "Two witnesses." When? Who? |
Bible Note: Greetings Stokeyhk! Sorry about that, I meant to say the city, but I said the Temple! :-) Let me touch briefly on your numbered points! 1) Dan. 9:27 says that he will confirm a covenant for one 'seven', but from Dan. 9:26 it would appear that the Annointed on had already been cut off prior to the last 'seven'. 2) But, Dan. 9:26 says that this ruler will destroy the city and the temple, then he will make a covenant, and then he will cause the sacrifices to cease. If the "he" here is Christ, then He died, by dying He cause the sacrifices to cease, and then the city was destroyed 40 years later. That seems to mix up the sequence quite a bit. However, if the 'he' of Dan. 9:27 is the anti-christ, then the city is destroyed, later rebuilt, he makes a covenant with Israel for 7 years, and then in the middle sets up the Abomination. This would seem to fit the sequence of Dan. 9 better (IMHO)! :-) 3) This one seems pretty clear. Here are some representative translations of Dan. 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 consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." KJV "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate." NASB "He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” NIV All of these seem to indicate that the Abmonination is part of the events which occur in the middle of the week. 4) Luke 1 and Gal. 3 never say that the Abrahamic covenant was fufilled by Christ during His first advent, but they say that God remembered His covenant. 5) I'm not sure what you were trying to say with your last paragraph my friend. To which philosphical argument were you referring? And, which Bible verse provides us with the B.C. date of Artaxerses rule? ;-) The dates that historians have guessed at our not Scripture! :-) This is an interesting discussion! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |