"And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days."The common assumption among my fellow Futurists is that both the Sacrifice being taken away and the Abomination of Desolation being set up occurs at the beginning of this time period. Pre-Wrath needs this to some degree for their view on the Bowls. And it's been a part of many of my past studies.
The problem is it doesn't tell us what marks the end of this period. It's a useless Prophecy to say was proven true if we don't know what is supposed to happen at the end of this time we're keeping count of.
The Hebrew Grammar, and also the English when you read it carefully, is actually intending to tell us that there would be 1290 days from the Sacrifice being taken away until the Abomination of Desolation set up. It's the very problematic Septuagint rendering adding the word "when" that is the source of this common error.
We keep assuming that clearly those events must be at the same time. But neither Jesus in any account of The Olivite Discourse, or Paul in II Thessalonians 2, or Revelation in Chapter 13 tell us a taking away of Sacrifice occurs when The beast deifies himself and the False Prophet sets up his Image. Revelation 11 clearly has The Temple standing during the first half, but I must now admit it says nothing to verify Sacrifices being carried out. Jerusalem is trodden under foot of The Gentiles.
In the case of the near fulfillment linked to Antiochus Epiphanes they did happen at the same time, roughly. But double fulfillment prophecies often have differences in how they're fulfilled. And at any-rate Antiochus's had a different time period linked to it in Daniel 8, 23000 Mornings and Evenings (1150 days, or 37 months on a lunar calendar).
Many Preterists view the 1290 days this way. But their interpretation of what sacrifice is taken away is clearly not the intent of Daniel. They think it refers to sacrifices being made in honor of Caesar being stopped at the start of the First Jewish-Roman War.
Chris White even argues in his Mystery Babylon Theory, that I have objected to for many reasons, but now I'm rethinking some of those. That the Temple services will be carried out (in worship of The Beast) during the second half after the Abomination is set up.
The Seventieth Week Prophecy says in Daniel 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."
First note, the "he" after Abomainitons isn't in the Hebrew text. More importantly for this however, the word translated "midst" is also translated elsewhere "half". So it could be valid to render it as "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and for half of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease". And that the Abominations are defining the second half.
A note I want to add. When this happens, who it appears to the world, (and to believers who don't put enough thought into it) is responsible for the Sacrifice ceasing may not be who God actually blames. I say this because of my belief that there could be a Decoy Antichrist(s). We're likely to think of it as the person who by force says "I won't let this go on anymore", but that may not be who God considers ultimately responsible.
Going back to Daniel 12, this allows us to make more sense out of the 1335 days. That is what is meant to equate to the second half. Rather then usually seeing it as some kind of extension to the 1290 days. This could add to/adjust what I argued here.
"Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days." I'm now thinking could be further proof of a Mid-Seventieth Week Rapture. Because that event is what we're supposed to be waiting for. So maybe The Rapture is about where the 1335 days begins.
We do return to what the old 1290 days assumption left us with. Some implied time after when the 1260 days Israel hides and 42 months The Beast rules the World ends. Once again I think that could include Israel as a nation celebrating a Second Passover. And then The Millennium is formally instituted.
The most telling thing this conclusion of mine tells me is that it backs up my reasons for thinking that part of the End Time deception will be trying to pass off the First Half of the Week as the second. With the way Pre-Wrathers and Post-Tirbbers have the 6th Seal and Trumpets and the Two Witnesses all in the second half while the more plain reading of Revelation clearly says they're the first half.
So if the Sacrifice and Oblation is made to cease when it starts. And they pass something else off as the Abomination, like an allegorical interpretation of it. Or just the Decoy Antichrist being really arrogant while in The Temple but falling short of what Paul describes. Then that can make that deception fit together.
Revelation 11 is also dealing with the time periods of the first half of the week.
The 42 months the outer court is trodden under and the 1260 day ministry of the Two Witnesses are basically the same time period I believe, but possibly with slight variation. For one thing the 42 months I don't think needs to be calculated to the day, in fact I think based on the Hebrew concept it's drawing on that it could only mean 42 New Moons transpire during the period, and thus could hypothetically be barely more then 41 months. During a period of 1290 days there would be at least 43 New Moons and maybe even 44.
The 1290 days most likely begins rather then ends at the same time as the 42 months, since Jerusalem would have been trodden underfoot if the Sacrifices are stopped by force. And the wording in Daniel 12 could allow the Sacrifices to be restored before the 1290 days are entirely over. And on the other hand there is no guarantee the Sacrifices would be restored right away when the gentile presence is removed since Revelation 11 doesn't address sacrifices at all.
It could be the Beast after his resurrection liberates Jerusalem and waits a month or so before actually performing his Abomination. I used to be set on seeing the AoD as the same day as his resurrection, but now I'm not so sure. Or it could be the actual Image of Revelation 13 is set up sometime after he does what II Thessalonians 2 describes. Or a combination of both.
The Ministry of the Witnesses ends with their Martrydom, which I still feel instinctively is likely to be the same day as the II Thessalonians 2 Abomination event. It must be after his resurrection since he's ascended form the Pit. Matthew 24:15 I believe is not about the actual Image of Revelation 13 but the II Thessalonians 2 event. Three and a half days latter they are Resurrected and Raptured and Jerusalem repents.
Some Calculations I have done on how things could work out.
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