Yeah, you were clear about that with one statement, but then you made another statement that seemed to contradict that. Can you not understand why I saw it that way?
What does that have to do with the 70 weeks? I'm just trying to talk about the 70 week prophecy. No need to bring something else into the picture to make things confusing.
What does that even mean and what does it have to do with the 70 week prophecy?
How do you come to this conclusion?
How do you come to this conclusion?
I don't believe any of the time periods given in Revelation are meant to be understood literally, so I disagree with taking that as a literal 1260 days.
God's people are those who belong to Christ (Galatians 3:26) and none of them are blind. Blindness has been removed from Israelite people over the past almost 2,000 years starting with some of those in Paul's day who had their blindness removed thanks to Paul's preaching (Romans 11:11-14).
To be candid, I do feel that I’ve taken the time to lay out a fairly complete framework. At the same time, it seems there’s a reluctance to consider that prophecy—especially in Daniel and Revelation—often involves more than one layer of meaning or fulfillment.
One of the key things I’ve come to appreciate is how closely Daniel and Revelation are connected. It’s very difficult to interpret Revelation well without first working through Daniel, because Daniel identifies many of the key patterns—timing, actors, and structures—that are later presented symbolically in Revelation.
When you ask how I’ve arrived at these conclusions, the honest answer is that it came from spending 7 years working through Daniel carefully. What I found is that very few verses in Daniel stand alone. The early chapters connect with the later ones, and the book as a whole ties into the Gospels and Revelation. It really functions as an integrated system rather than isolated statements.
I also agree with you that Revelation is largely symbolic. But that doesn’t separate it from Daniel—it actually reinforces the connection, because many of those symbols appear to build on what Daniel already introduced.
To give you an example, when I worked through Daniel 9, I initially thought I had a solid understanding of the seventy weeks. But the more I looked at it, the more questions remained: Why does the timeline begin where it does? Why does the Messiah’s ministry appear to stop at the midpoint of the final week? How do we account for the remaining portion of that week? And how do these elements connect to what we see later in the Gospels and Revelation? Is there a true "gap" which just about everyone believes - whether the remaining 3.5 years or the entire 7 year period - last week have been thrown into the end times. And if so, does that mean that Jesus failed to complete all of 9:24? Everything in Daniel is connected, yet almost all interpret Daniel in a "historical" manner - how can we match these events and actors in Daniel to our history books. God is not writing a history book.
Let me ask you a quick question that arose during the same study on chapter 9 and the remaining 3.5 years of the final week.... can you tell me why the Messiah went to the cross at the 3.5 year marker? Why didn't He continue to the end of the final week? Can you find that answer in Revelation - NO, can you find that answer in the Gospels - YES. But again, unless one is willing to TRY and ensure there are no "hanging chads" if you will - either on the front or back end of the interpretation, you will usually not come to the right interpretation.
So, how do I come to these conclusions? But confirming that the interpretation is supported by the previous prophetic verses given to us and they fit in very well with the latter prophetic verses - like the 3.5 years or 1260 days in Revelation.
