This concept of "double fulfillment" sure is convenient isn't it?
I'm not sure "convenient" will prove to be the right word for the people at the end of the world.
No it wouldn't. All they needed was to make the Jews victims of atrocities.
After that it was a simple matter of converting that worldwide sympathy into a piece of property.
Like staging 911 so we could go to war in the middle east? Interesting, I wonder how they knew a sacrifice of six million people would generate enough worldwide sympathy to get their nation back?
Artaxerxes made a decree to rebuild Jerusalem in 458 BC. Exactly 490 years before Jesus was crucified.
Fits like a glove.
Excellent! The next fitment is almost here, we're just waiting for that "last" finger to go in but it's a big one. 434 years between decrees to rebuild Jerusalem are hard to come by and don't just grow on Fig trees.
1535<-------434------->1969
1969<-49->2018?
Did you also notice 1948 + the 70 year Psalm "generation" = 2018?
Daniel 9 has nothing to do with His return.
It was about his first coming only.
No double fulfillment.
No? No soup for me? I'm not sure dual or double are the best words to use here. Maybe a "simultaneous" prophecy or an "is what it is" prophecy is in order. It starts to look like if you can find the right decree to restore Jerusalem, adding seven weeks and sixty-two weeks should get you something very Big. What are the chances of that being accidental? After reading what Isaac Newton said, a quadruple or quintuple descriptor may be in order.
"Thus have we in this short Prophecy, a prediction of all the main periods relating to the coming of the Messiah;
- the time of his birth,
- that of his death,
- that of the rejection of the Jews,
- the duration of the Jewish war whereby he caused the city and sanctuary to be destroyed,
- and the time of his second coming:
and so the interpretation here given is more full and complete and adequate to the design, than if we should restrain it to his first coming only, as Interpreters usually do".
I'll post the quote from Isaac again but if it bothers anyone, they don't have to read it. When I first found it I couldn't make sense of it because I was trying to apply the 62 weeks by itself. Keep reading over what Newton says and then keep reading this translation of Daniel 9:25 with the "and":
"Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes,
[there will be seven 'sevens,'] and [sixty-two 'sevens.']
Try to keep in mind that this was written 2600 years ago and consider that at the time there may not have been a second coming required. The Jews might have cooperated and accepted their Messiah in the first century. Jesus wound have come one time and never departed to heaven, making a second coming unnecessary. Daniel 9 was written in such a way to include both possibilities in a compact simultaneous fashion.
I think there's still more going on here that has to do with Daniel 9 being a continuation of Daniel 8 which did concern our end times and would then lend support to Daniel 9 including information on a second arrival of the Anointed One. But for now I should content myself with how lucky we are to live in a "day" that Isaac Newton would have loved to see.
Sir Isaac Newton
on Daniel 9:
"The former part of the Prophecy related to the first coming of Christ, being dated to his coming as a Prophet; this being dated to his coming to be Prince or King, seems to relate to his second coming. There, the Prophet was consummate, and the most holy anointed: here, he that was anointed comes to be Prince and to reign. For Daniel's Prophecies reach to the end of the world; and there is scarce a Prophecy in the Old Testament concerning Christ, which doth not in something or other relate to his second coming."
"This part of the Prophecy being therefore not yet fulfilled, I shall not attempt a particular interpretation of it, but content myself with observing, that as the seventy and the sixty two weeks were Jewish weeks, ending with sabbatical years; so the seven weeks are the compass of a Jubilee, and begin and end with actions proper for a Jubilee, and of the highest nature for which a Jubilee can be kept: and that since the commandment to return and to build Jerusalem, precedes the Messiah the Prince 49 years; it may perhaps come forth not from the Jews themselves, but from some other kingdom friendly to them, and precede their return from captivity, and give occasion to it."
"Thus have we in this short Prophecy, a prediction of all the main periods relating to the coming of the Messiah; the time of his birth, that of his death, that of the rejection of the Jews, the duration of the Jewish war whereby he caused the city and sanctuary to be destroyed, and the time of his second coming: and so the interpretation here given is more full and complete and adequate to the design, than if we should restrain it to his first coming only, as Interpreters usually do. We avoid also the doing violence to the language of Daniel, by taking the seven weeks and sixty two weeks for one number. Had that been Daniel's meaning, he would have said sixty and nine weeks, and not seven weeks and sixty two weeks."
Notice also in the primary application of Daniel 9 the "seven" weeks seemed lost in significance occurring at the start of the countdown.
In the secondary application the period of seven weeks is the mirror image occurring at the opposite end.
Primary: 7 weeks and 62 weeks.
Secondary: 62 weeks and 7 weeks.
Primary: Artaxerxes (457) + 49 + 434 (-1 for the zero year) = 27
Secondary: Suleiman (1535) + 434 = 1969, The Knesset (1969) + 49 = 2018
Either way,:
"From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, [there will be seven 'sevens,'] and [sixty-two 'sevens.']
The odds of a 434 year gap between decrees to rebuild Jerusalem are probably fairly slim. If this secondary application is true, it is a monumental indicator that time is indeed very short and that anything can happen at anytime.
We shall soon see...
"The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
