The 70 Weeks Prophecy - The Ezra 6:14 Challenge

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Jay Ross

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All these facts must be addressed and properly explained by any interpretation of the 70 Weeks. This is all part of the Ezra 6:14 Challenge.

From your perspective and interpretation of the 70 weeks, you feel that the 8 points need to be addressed.

From my perspective and interpretation of the 70 weeks, the 8 points that you have listed I do not have to be able to answer as all the points have no bearing on the Interpretation that I have provided since none of the five independent prophecies are connected time wise with each other.

My chronology of the Old Testament is not linked to the understanding that a day of the Lord is exactly 1,000 years in duration. My understanding is that a day of the Lord is the same as the number that can be countered on the ten digits of "those hand" which when said very quickly sounds very much like the number of 1,000.

Since my understanding of when Adam was created is around 4,100 BC, there is approximately a 100-year error as to when Christ was actually born based on the premise that Christ was born in the year 4 BC.

Since the time stamps of events in the OT is based on a flawed chronological assumption, I have great trouble in adopting the claimed timestamps that you are relying on for your theory to work.

Oh well, so be it. Having agreement on the 70 weeks of years prophetic arguments is not paramount for our salvation and as such as long as we focus on what is important for our salvation, then whether on is right or wrong in their respective understanding is really irrelevant in MHO.

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You are analyzing the tail of the dog (what did you hope to find?).

either a flea or a tic which are both parasites for the dog. One tic can kill the dog if left, whereas it requires many fleas to become a great irritation for the dog.
 
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Well, if you were going to have respect for the discussion you would read the through the thread so you can give useful answers. The posts at the beginning explain the topic in detail. This post gives an overview. - The 70 Weeks Prophecy - The Ezra 6:14 Challenge
Well apart from your accusation of me not having respect I will endeavor to read your first post and see what is in it and whether or not it conflicts with standard eschatology.
 

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He is stuck.

Dan 9 speaks of the command to restore JERUSALEM (the city)

Nothing in his ezra challenge shows anything about any command to restore the city. The only command is to restore and rebuild the temple. Which does not fit the Dan 9 command.

But he won;t acknowledge this fact. or acknowledge it destroys his theory. He will just attack and say no one can refute him.
This turns out to be a very simple matter then. Interesting!

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This turns out to be a very simple matter then. Interesting!

Much love!
Actually NO ONE has even looked into the Ezra 6:14 Challenge. Not a single solitary person. They just make wild and crazy statements that have no basis in fact. I'm waiting for someone to actually take it seriously
 

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Actually NO ONE has even looked into the Ezra 6:14 Challenge. Not a single solitary person. They just make wild and crazy statements that have no basis in fact. I'm waiting for someone to actually take it seriously
I'm waiting for you to take this discussion seriously.

Do you have any comment to make regarding the difference in the two passages?

Much love!
 
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I'm waiting for you to take this discussion seriously.

Do you have any comment to make regarding the difference in the two passages?

Much love!
This thread is about meeting the Ezra 6:14 Challenge. It is up to YOU to weigh your interpretation against the 8 points. Anything that has been suggested that whatever whatever doesn't talk about Jerusalem is someone's misunderstanding and false statements. He hasn't even met the challenge himself or properly understood what it's all about. I'm just ignoring him.
 
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No one will be able to meet the Ezra 6:14 Challenge. It separates out all the wrong interpretations. There is no interpretation except for the one correct one that identifies where God Himself gave the command to "rebuild" and "restore" Jerusalem. To "sub" and "bana". It truly is the secret that everyone has missed for centuries. It explains the reason for the start and end for all 3 of the periods of Weeks.
 

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Is there anyone here that believes the 70 weeks have already been fulfilled I.e. there is no 2000 year gap between the 69th and 70th week?
Most certainly. The entire historical true Christian Church prior to the 19th century.

You're in great company.
 
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But you haven't. :laughing:
No, I've been able to determine where much error has occurred. This is by much study and not assuming anything but the correctness of the original text of God's word. Once you have the courage to follow where this path leads, many things become clear and things that seem confusing become clear.

1. Restoration of the proper jewish calendar method in use during Biblical times. This is probably the MOST important thing.
2. Proper understanding of exactly when the crucifixion happened. On Wednesday, April 25, 31 AD. It was NOT on Good Friday. It was NOT in 30 AD or 33 AD.
3. Proper understanding of the 70 Weeks Prophecy. The Ezra 6:14 Challenge outline 8 FACTS which the proper interpretation meets and which no other interpretation meets.
4. The realization that the majority of the New Testament was written to Jewish believers - people who did not speak Greek as their main language. They spoke Aramaic. What this leads to is that the strange passages in the Greek text are easily explained by the fact that the Greek was a translation of the Aramaic and the translators didn't get everything correct. That's why there so very many variations across all the Greek manuscripts. The Aramaic Peshitta is the best preserved text of the original language.

These four things go against long held Church tradition. Church tradition is wrong. And not many people will realize this - it's part of the great deception of the Last Days.
 

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No, I've been able to determine where much error has occurred. This is by much study and not assuming anything but the correctness of the original text of God's word. Once you have the courage to follow where this path leads, many things become clear and things that seem confusing become clear.

1. Restoration of the proper jewish calendar method in use during Biblical times. This is probably the MOST important thing.
2. Proper understanding of exactly when the crucifixion happened. On Wednesday, April 25, 31 AD. It was NOT on Good Friday. It was NOT in 30 AD or 33 AD.
3. Proper understanding of the 70 Weeks Prophecy. The Ezra 6:14 Challenge outline 8 FACTS which the proper interpretation meets and which no other interpretation meets.
4. The realization that the majority of the New Testament was written to Jewish believers - people who did not speak Greek as their main language. They spoke Aramaic. What this leads to is that the strange passages in the Greek text are easily explained by the fact that the Greek was a translation of the Aramaic and the translators didn't get everything correct. That's why there so very many variations across all the Greek manuscripts. The Aramaic Peshitta is the best preserved text of the original language.

These four things go against long held Church tradition. Church tradition is wrong. And not many people will realize this - it's part of the great deception of the Last Days.
The oldest NT manuscript is Greek, not Aramaic. There is no NT Aramaic manuscript which pre-dates the oldest NT Greek manuscript.

The NT authors wrote in Greek, not Aramaic.

Meanwhile, you haven't passed the basic grammar antecedents/referents tests in Daniel 9:25-27.
 
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The oldest NT manuscript is Greek, not Aramaic. There is no NT Aramaic manuscript which pre-dates the oldest NT Greek manuscript.

The NT authors wrote in Greek, not Aramaic.

Meanwhile, you haven't passed the basic grammar antecedents/referents tests in Daniel 9:25-27.
Yup, that's following good church tradition. If you can't even get past this first step, you just won't get it. That's the way it is.
 

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Yup, that's following good church tradition. If you can't even get past this first step, you just won't get it. That's the way it is.
Yes, Greek didn't exist until the church invented it. :laughing:

Yes, grammar didn't exist until the church invented it. :laughing:
 
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@covenantee It's obvious the only thing you got is to mock and ridicule. You haven't even done any simple research. And you keep on harping on supposed "errors" that you don't even understand what you are saying. It's all just so expected from you.