“Prepare the way …”

The end of the our age, the Seventh week of Enoch’s vision has now been made clear through the revelations given to Daniel and John the Apostle. For the first time these end time prophecies are unsealed.

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The key to unlocking the mystery of the ages lies in understanding the revelations that were at first given to our father Enoch, and then later to Daniel, and finally to the Apostle John. However, all of these things had been sealed up until the time of the “second end” — our time.

In this post and the next I will show the map of the events that bring us to the end of our age and the start of the Eighth age. This is a fascinating study, particularly because this subject has been a target of mindless speculations and traditions.

Enoch’s Calendar the Key to Prophecy

Some chafe at the idea that Enoch, the father of us all, could have any importance during our time. The desire for religious dominance over the mind of the masses has stupified the people into thinking that Enoch was “done away” because he was not part of the “Canon.” But Enoch prophesied that his words would be a part of understanding at this time in history. The key to prophecy is the 364 day calendar revealed to Enoch by the Messenger from Elahim, Uriel. This calender always starts on the fourth day of the week and on the spring equinox, the day when the length of the day is the same as the length of the night. The calendar has four quarters of ninety one days which is the same as thirteen weeks. Thus all quarters start on the fourth day of the week. To make this work out nicely, the last month in each quarter has thirty one days. The first and second months of the quarters have thirty days each.

Only 360 days of each year are to be counted. The last day of each quarter is not included in the counting as we shall see.

I explained in prior blogs how the earth’s year length was changed to 365.242 days, not by getting struck by a comet and slowing down the orbital speed (Velikovsky’s idea). But rather a change in the atmosphere caused the earth’s rotation speed to increase by a small amount. Up until the 1930’s scientists assumed that the earth’s rotation speed was an unchangeable constant, but that proved to be false. Today NASA and other scientists keep track of the changes of rotation speed and found that weather can either speed up or slow down the rotation. This continual observation is needed for calculating trajectories required for space exploration.

The change happened as a result of the great flood when the “waters above” the troposphere came back down to the earth, and like an ice skater pulling her arms in while doing a piroette, the earth rotated faster. We now have another intercalary day of 1.242 days at the end of Enoch’s year, but each yeaer still starts on the spring equinox whether we believe or not.

Daniel’s Messages from Gabriel

Like Enoch, who received the calendar from Uriel, Daniel, from the messenger Gabriel, received periods of time expressed as days. Daniel was given these messages:

The first message sets the context and then jumps to the time of trouble at the end of our age:

Out of one of them came another horn [kingdom], which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land [Israel]. It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them. It set itself up to be as great as the Prince of the host. It took away the daily sacrifice from him, and the place of his sanctuary was brought low. Because of the rebellion, the host [armies] of the chosen and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.

Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled — the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host that will be trampled underfoot?”

He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings, then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”

Evening and morning is the same as one day as we learn from Genesis 1 where the very same expression in the Hebrew is used. Now for those who want to convert these to year: hold off. No where was Daniel told to count “a day for a year.” Ezekiel was because he was instructed to act out something and each day of his duty was to count for one year of actual time. For those who have my book, I am making changes now to make this clear. It was this “day for year” misapplication of the 2,303 evenings and mornings that led some to think that “a rapture” was to happen on June 12. Sometimes people go to great lengths to deceive themselves.

As we shall see, the expression “evening and morning” is an actual day in time on Enoch’s calendar. The difference is that it includes the intercalary days which are not counted other wise. The daily sacrifice was to be carried out for each day regardless of its place on the calendar. These then are actual days as counted by sunsets and sunrises as opposed to calendar days that only count 360 days per year.

While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man. And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai [river] calling, “Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.”

As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”

As noted, many mistakes in understanding resulted from trying to “understand” this vision by converting the 2,300 evenings and mornings to years. We are not going to make that mistake, because this vision concerns our time and the end of our age.

He [Gabriel] said, “I am going to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end.”

“The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia [Iran]. The shaggy goat is the king of Greece, and the large horm between his eyes is the first king [Alexander]. The four horns that replaced the one that was broken off represent four kingdoms that will emerge from his nation but will not have the same power.”

This sets the context but not the time. The four kingdoms are the Seleucid empires that took over that region after Alexander. The presence of the four kingdoms has remained. And the vision now jumps to our time:

“In the latter part of their reign, when rebels have become completely wicked, a stern faced king, a master of intrigue, will arise. He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men [armies] and the holy [chosen] people. He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they [the rebels] feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed but not by human power.

“The vision of the evenings and mornings that has been given to you is true, but seal up the vision for it concerns the distant future.” Daniel 8 NIV

That “distant future” is now.

This is the first time period that will become part of the end-time schedule. The others follow.

Daniel 9: The End of the Sixth Age

Enoch wrote the Sixth Age:

And after that in the Sixth Week all who live in it shall be blinded. And the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom. And it it a man shall ascend. And at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire, and the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.

The ninth chapter of Daniel concerns another time of the end: the end of the sixth age. This ninth chapter has been mistakenly used to point to the coming of Jesus. However, once again, the truth has been set aside for tradition and fables. Daniel was never told that the seventy weeks were to be expanded to 490 years. Instead, the Hebrew says that the weeks were to be divided up, intersected, or parsed to fit events. It serves as an example of how Daniel’s other visions were to be used.

Briefly, Agrippa was the one who made an agreement or covenant with the mighty, the Romans. They then laid seige against Jerusalem and a war started that was to last for seven years. During the midst of that seven the sacrifices ceased and the temple was burned to the ground. After the seven years war ended, for sixty-two years the Romans occupied Jerusalem. They made it into an army camp complete with “ditches” or latrines.

Near the end of the sixty-two weeks, a “messiah” came on the scene and began a rebellion of the Jews against the Romans. Rabbi Akiba called the man, Simon Bar Kochba, the “Son of the Star” and declared him to be the promised messiah. For three and one-half years they fought against the Romans making the Roman occupation miserable. But the Romans prevailed and defeated the rebels and the Jews suffered huge losses. Bar Kochba was cut off in the “middle of a week” of years and found hiding in a cave in En-Gedi with no one to help him. At the end of 69 of the 70 weeks, it was over. The people of the Jews were dispersed and forbidden to enter Jerusalem and were “encouraged” to flee the country. The sixth age ended as Enoch and Daniel saw in their visions and recorded for our day.

Daniel 12: The End of the Age Prophecies

Along with Zechariah 14, Daniel 12 is one of the most direct prophesies about the end of the age, our age. The information in this chapter needs to be combined with the information of the eighth chapter and with some material from John’s visions. With that we can create the time line of end time events.

There is some confusion about the remaining week of Daniel 12. Some call what I am about to write, the “lost week theory.” Those who object to this are usually the same who defend the “day for a year” notion of Daniel 9 to try to make it point to Jesus. But Daniel’s vision of the weeks is clear in stating that the “70 weeks” must be intersected or divided up as the Hebrew word explains. No expansion is even suggested. Instead it is only assumed. In fact, there is little hard evidence even from the New Testament as to how long Jesus’ ministry was. Was it one year - from Passover to Passover - as John seems to suggest? Or could it have been three and one half years as some say Daniel 9 means? But then that cannot be substantiated either, and when we apply that “theory” we have the tail wagging the dog.

For our purposes here, we can use the one week that was “cut out” or “divided” from the other weeks and apply it to our time. After all, the weeks of Daniel 9 were to be applied to the People, and not to an individual. The gospel writer said concerning Daniel, “Let the reader understand.” And so we will.

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Dr. Timothy J. Sakach, Ph.D.
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