The time is coming when the Land will be prosperous, My people will live in their own Land, eating and drinking the abundant produce. They will never again leave the Land that I, the Lord, have given to them. Amos 9:13-15
What have you to do with me McKeras?
What's all this Amos about?
Have you come to disrupt me before the appointed time?
It looks to me like you're mixing up the OT end times with the NT end times, and mixing up Day of the Lord Prophecies with Apocalyptic Prohecy.
Is it an anomaly?
Or was it baked in the cake to be?
Can we harmonize the OT end times, with the NT end times?
There are five different types of Bible Prophecy.
Each of these five types have different qualities and are sometimes written in a different architecture.
1) Local Prophecy
This would include things like Noah's flood, or Jonah's visit to the people of Nineveh. Or that King who wanted to live awhile longer and saw his shadow move backwards.
2) Messianic Prophecy
These had to do with Jesus' first Visitation. Like Isaiah 52 He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions. 13Behold, my servant shall act wisely;b he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.
Kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for that which has not been told them they see,
and that which they have not heard they understand.
3) Day of the Lord Prophecy
Very peculiar in their structure. Like Isaiah 13. John MacArthur calls them near / far prophecies. In a Day of the Lord Prophecy the Prophet can begin in an ancient Day of the Lord event pertaining to the Babylonians, and then can seem to peer down through the millennia to the final and ultimate Day of the Lord that will include all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
4) Judaic Prophecy
These were CONDITIONAL prophecies that pertained to ancient Israel.
If you do this, then I will do that.
If they put away the bodies of their dead kings, THEN show them the plan of the Temple.
IF you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands, I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
All these blessings will come on you and accompany you
IF you obey the Lord your God:
5) Apocalyptic Prophecy
Apocalyptic Prophesy has unique characteristics. These Prophecies are separated by chronological order. Each of these have a beginning point in time, and an ending point in time. There are 17 Apocalyptic prophecies, and 18 prophetic time periods, in the Books of Daniel and Revelation.
Jesus said in Mark that:
“The TIME is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
The TIME is fulfilled.
What TIME was He talking about?
The Daniel 9 Time.
To Seal Both Vision and Prophet.
God had three prophets in operation at the same time. Daniel, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. Three prophets, but He was giving them two different end time narratives. Everything hinged on Israel's behavior during the 70 weeks. 70 weeks were determined, 70 weeks were chawthak or cut off. It really was old Israel's one last and final chance:
- to finish the transgression,
- to put an end to sin,
- and to atone for iniquity,
- to bring in everlasting righteousness,
- to seal both vision and prophet,
- and to anoint a most holy place.
The Kingdom of God was in their midst. All that they would have had to do was to accept their Messiah. It's why John the Baptist was always saying that the Kingdom of God was at hand. Because it really was at hand right then and there. If the Old Time Jews would have cooperated and accepted their Messiah it would have been a completely different world right now. Daniel would have remained forever sealed, Revelation would have never been written. We would have built Ezekiel's Temple sometime in the middle ages.
The original plan was for the Jews to accept their Messiah, how Jesus would have loved to gather them as a hen gathers it's chicks. Then Jesus would have began the Kingdom of God on earth right away because it really was "at hand" at that time. John the Baptist would not have died the way that he did, "lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction". Jesus would have sent disciples out from Jerusalem to invite anyone who wanted to be a part of the Kingdom, and be saved, to come and live there in the Kingdom of God in the 1st century. Jerusalem would have eventually grown to such a huge population that it's walls could no longer contain it.
Then, after some time, Lucifer in the guise of Gog Magog would attempt to attack the unwalled Holy City, but Jesus would destroy him and his army where they stood and we would spend the next seven years burying them and burning their wooden weapons. And the wolf would lay down with the lamb and we could watch an infant stick his hand into a viper's den while we built Ezekiel's Temple.
But they missed the TIME of their Visitation. So now instead, Paul gets knocked off his horse, the NT gets written, Daniel gets unsealed for the final generation, we get an end time Babylon, an end time Antichrist, mark of the beast, two witnesses and 144,000, Jesus makes His second Visitation and we have a brand New Jerusalem with an end time variation on Gog Magog after the 1000 years.
Does this describe how the crucifixion occurred?:
Him Whom They Have Pierced
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.
Or is this describing the original method of how Jesus would have been sacrificed if humanity had not turned Him over to the enemy?
It's looking to me like everything that has taken place in the world since 1535 has been so that Israel would become a nation again in 1948. The Ottoman empire, WW1, WW2, 1948 and all the trees. But the one and the only reason for all this to happen was so that Israel could capture Jerusalem and then in 1969 create a reason for the Knesset to make an official decree to "restore and build Jerusalem".
"Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks.
This was written 2600 years ago and at that time there may not have been a second coming required. The Jews might have redeemed the 70 weeks in the first century. Jesus would have come one time only and never ascended back to heaven, making a second coming unnecessary. Daniel 9 had to be written in such a way to include both the primary visitation of Jesus AND the possibility of a secondary visitation in a compact and simultaneous fashion.
[there will be seven 'sevens,'] and [sixty-two 'sevens.']
Primary Visitation [and] Secondary Visitation.
"And in January 1969 the Company was established.
"Now let them put away their harlotry, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
(What IF they don't put away the bodies of their dead kings, do they still get the plan of Ezekiel's temple?)