Eternal Judgment: As taught by Jesus

Preface: From the Jewish perspective the teachings of Christ were always based on Old Testament records which literally came through the Jewish nation and Jewish men of God. Within these records we have:

1. The Torah (Law and 613 commandments) (First 5 books)
2. The Prophets
3. The Psalms

The teachings of the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms were confirmed by the words of Christ in the four Gospels.

1. Matthew
2. Mark
3. Luke
4. John

The subject of Eternal Judgment from the Old Testament is remarkably interesting yet very vague unless one studies the Old Testament in detail.

Life beyond the grave is the Eternal picture of an unseen world and spiritual abode of the dead. Within this Eternal and unseen world, you have reward and punishment; spiritual life and death; and body resurrection. All of which were opinionated even documented by the mysticism of Talmudic teaching and/or other doctrines of Jewish men that are not scripturally based.

If we examine the teachings of Christ who was considered a teacher at the age of twelve, even teachers of the Sanhedrin were amazed at how this boy Jesus knew God’s Word.

• Luke 2:46-47… And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. hearing them and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
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At the age of 30 Jesus according to Law Jesus was legally allowed to teach in the Jewish Temple and customarily allowed to teach in the synagogues. Behind the scenes of man’s Law Jesus, the Messiah and son of God was actually the author of God’s moral Law for Israel.

• John 1:1-2…In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

• John 1:14… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,

Jesus taught and elaborated on “Abrahams Bosom” a Jewish perspective on the unseen world and spiritual abode of the dead. Abraham’s Bosom was an Eternal place for God’s punishment or God’s reward.

• Luke 16:22-23… And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Jesus taught Abraham’s Bosom was a place of Eternal Judgment. It was recognized as a place of Eternal Life known as Heaven or Eternal punishment known as Hell. Heaven and/or Hell was the picture of Jesus’ teaching of Eternal life with the Father in the unseen world and the spiritual abode of the faithful in God. Jesus said:

• John 14:2-3… In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Even though Jesus (God in the flesh) was born and lived as a man for 33 years He knew the “moral righteousness of the Law for humanity” and taught it. Moral righteousness is what saved the Jewish man from an adverse “life beyond the grave” called Eternal Damnation.

• Mark 3:29… But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:

Jesus a Jew and teacher of Judaism taught Eternal punishment from the Jewish perspective.

 

• Matthew 25:45-46… Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

During Jesus’ earthly ministry He taught consequences as well as rewards of Eternal Judgment. Consequently, He taught more about Hell and Hell’s damnation and fire more than He did Heaven.

• Mark 9:43… And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

• Matthew 23:33… Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Within the realm of Eternal Judgment inside the Old Testament and teachings of Christ - you also had the subject of body resurrection. Body resurrection is the union made between body and soul, beyond the grave.

• John 5:28, 29… Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

• Matthew 22:31, 32… But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

At the crucifixion of Christ Jesus spoke of life beyond the grave in a glimpse of the spiritual abode of the dead. As He spoke to the two thieves, He mentioned the condemnation and reward. He termed the reward as “Paradise” where they would make their abode together in Heaven (Abrahams’s Bosom).

• Luke 23:39-43… And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Hebrews 6:1-3

Therefore 

1. Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ. The principles of the doctrine of Christ were the teaching of the Law of Moses. Christ was born under Law; Grew up under Law; practiced the Law to the letter; taught the Law; died on the cross to abolish the Law and became God’s sacrificial Lamb to bring in the everlasting Grace Covenant we now live under. 

2. Let us go on unto perfection. Perfection was the product of the Grace of God that flows from the cross at Calvary and is ministered to the believing soul by the power and omnipresence of the Holy Spirit. 

3. Not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works. Repentance under the Law of Moses required a man to bring sacrifices to the Priest and do as Moses commanded. Old Testament repentance makes a reference to obeying the Law of Moses and keeping it. Constant repentance without peace with God was the picture. 

4. And of faith toward God – The faithfulness of the Old Testament Jew was to hear, learn, and practice the ordinances and teachings of Moses and Levitical Law. Under Law men struggled to learn and keep the Law and 613 commandments. Struggle alone was enough to cause men to miss God and thus becoming unfaithful. Under Grace the sacrifice of Christ took away human struggle and allowed man to receive an “inner moral work of the Holy Spirit”. Salvation and redemption were produced by such Grace that flows through the ministry of the Holy Spirit from the sacrifice of Christ at Calvary. 

5. Of the doctrine of baptisms – Many ceremonial baptisms and not necessarily body immersion in water, many various washings of Levitical instruments, sprinkling of the blood and water with Hyssop as means of atonement. Dipping. These practices with water and blood of animals were many according to Jewish Law. Some baptisms were even customary by Jewish elders and teachers and not actual scriptural practice according to Law. Traditional influence and Talmudical based. 

6. And of laying on of hands – Due to Christ’s atoning sacrifice and Israel’s final sin offering Great Grace and the ministry of the Holy Spirit birthed the Church upon humanity. Not for Jews only but also for the Gentiles. Impartation of sin with the laying on of hands by a Levitical priest was ministered upon sacrificial goats, lambs, turtledoves, pigeons etc. This method of impartation of sin to an animal sacrifice as a means of yearly atonement for faithful Jewish families in Israel was no longer needed. 

7. And of resurrection of the dead – Resurrection of the dead has always existed in Biblical perspective. Body resurrection (raising from the grave) is the God given form of Eternal Blessing or Eternal Punishment and deals specifically with the physical make-up of the human being. The Pharisees and Sadducees were divided on the scriptural doctrine of resurrection of the body which is very vague in Old Testament records. Resurrection of the dead was proven to be realistic and actual through Biblical records of the resurrection of Christ. The resurrection of Christ was the greatest of blessings in Biblical history. Today under Grace in the Church the body of Christ resurrection power is what morally and spiritually changes the sinner into a child of God. The actual body (physical) resurrection will unite with the redeemed soul in the Rapture of the Church. 

8. And of eternal judgment – The Bible says Christ will come (again) in flaming fire taking vengeance upon those who obey not the Gospel. Jewish and Hebrew people of faith know the Messiah came the first time at Calvary - in suffering, death on a cross, and resurrection from the tomb. God’s determination of Judgment took place at that time and will not be a flood like the days of Noah but with fire from Heaven unlike anything known to human comprehension. Tribulation will take place after the Rapture. God’s wrath will be unleashed for seven years beginning in Jerusalem. Judgments will take place at the end of the great Tribulation and at the end of the 1000-year reign of Christ on planet Earth. The final Judgment of the Great White Throne will take place at the end of the 1000 years as Hell, and death, and the Devil himself are cast into the lake of fire and experience the “second death”. 

9. And this will we do if God permit.

Tithing in relation to the Grace of God

•  Acts 17:11… These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 

 

Tithing 

The subject of Tithing is so misunderstood today in our modern religious world and so many numerous misconceptions have formed throughout the Ages. Reasons for these misconceptions are many. Certain reasons surface such as paying Tithe out of fear in order to get blessed. Or paying Tithe as a means of good works based merely to find favor with God or everyday Salvation. Or paying Tithe out of obligation to Law of Moses while living under Grace. And many other reasons come to mind but are not worth mentioning in this discourse for clarification sake. 

To understand Tithing more in depth one must study the Bible from a dispensational perspective and see how Tithing applied at certain periods of time and at certain ages such as in the days of Abraham before the Law was given on Mt. Sinai. Or in the days of Moses after the 613 Laws and Commandments were given to Israel. Or under Grace now in the Church Age, the body of Christ where “giving more than” a Tithe takes place today in the form of giving or as a love offering for the furtherance of Christ. Much depth and deep definition pertain to the subject of Biblical Tithing and must be considered – especially within this Church Age and this point of time where we live in today as members of the body of Christ.  

At the creation of humanity – the Law of God was between man and God and was revealed through nature’s evidence, to the human conscience and God’s spoken word. There were no 613 Laws, no 10 commandments, only spoken moral standards given from God for man to follow. Continuity between man and God was maintained by faith in and obedience to God the Creator. Righteousness was imputed to men of God who were faithful and obedient to God in the period of time before Law was given to Israel. The Bible terms these unforgotten men as the great cloud of witnesses in Hebrews 12 and stems back to righteous Abel, Noah a preacher of righteousness, and righteous Abraham who “gave” a Tithe before the Law of Moses was ever given as a moral standard in Israel. Abraham’s faith in God brought righteousness a desire to Tithe, before the Law of Moses was given.

• Genesis 15:6… And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
• Genesis 12:20… And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

Scriptures indicate Abraham “gave” a Tithe as a result of faithfulness to God and did not pay a tithe out of obligation to the Law of Moses. Reason? Abraham’s period of life was 430 years before the Law and Commandments were given to Israel as a moral standard. That particular point about Tithing is the fact that Abraham “gave a Tithe out faithfulness to God” and did not “pay a Tithe out of obligation to the Law and Commandments” that were not yet given. 

During the dispensation of the Law and commandments given to Israel Tithing was ordained of God. The Tithe under Israel’s Law consisted of a tenth or 10 percent of worldly wealth and assets. Land, livestock, offerings. etc. 

• Deuteronomy 14:22, 23...Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

Under the Law of Moses Israel was only blessed if they kept the whole Law in its entirety. Deuteronomy 28 teaches the blessings of keeping the whole Law and the curses of violating any of the the Law of Moses. Even Saint James the Lord’s true blood brother documented the following about keeping the Law of Moses: 

• James 2:10… For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Tithing within the dispensation the Law of Moses was a requirement to God’s civil standard and moral Law. Israel merely kept the Law of Moses and Tithed to be blessed, they did not keep the Law because they were blessed like we are blessed within the New Testament of God’s Grace in the Church the body of Christ. We today – Christians under Grace are not required to keep the Law to be blessed we are blessed and therefore obedient to God because we accepted Christ as our personal Lord, Savior, and Redeemer. 

In the Church world, the spiritual body of Christ which consists of many different members (including you and I) the ministry and work of the Holy Spirit is a far greater blessing than human struggle to keep the Law of Moses. This blessing received under the New Testament is termed as the blessing of the Holy Spirit upon the Gentiles – given through the promise God gave Abraham in the book of Genesis.

• Genesis 12:2, 3…And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 
• Galatians 3:8,9… And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 
• Galatians 3:19… That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 

The New Testament records of the Bible – after the death of our Savior – within this Grace Age we now live in – no longer requires members of the body of Christ to do works to be blessed. We today unlike men of God under Law are blessed and do good works as a result of God’s Grace within our hearts. The good works of a child of God under Grace include giving, making love offerings, and helping the needy. These blessings are not out of requirement to keep the Law of Moses, but out of heartfelt love for humanity and for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ. New Testament believer’s have in the heart the moral standard of God’s Grace – not the standard and human way of life of keeping of the Law of Moses which were actually 613 Laws – not just the 10 commandments. 

So many teachers of erroneous doctrine today demand Tithing as an ordinance of the Law of Moses, or as a requirement or obligation out of fear toward God if you don’t, or simply as a means to generate revenue like businesses generate revenue, or just merely to supply large sums of money to certain prosperity movements. None of these reasons of Tithing put a man in better standing with God. Only the pure heart cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ through the power of God’s Grace can give or help others – out love or perhaps even more to help the needy, the fatherless, or the widow. Christians give because they are blessed – not to be blessed. Examine the following words of Christ. 

• Acts 20:35…I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Christians need to realize – after passing from glory to glory (from Law into Grace) – the Bible teaches the Law of God is written in the tables of our heart by the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Moral transformation takes place. Giving is a New Testament subject taught far more than the subject of Tithing. The subject of Tithing was not taught by the apostles Paul, Peter, John. The writer of Hebrews did teach that Abraham gave a Tithe before the Law but did not pay a Tithe. Paying and giving are two different things and one must remember Abraham did not pay a Tithe but gave a Tithe – and done such before the Law of Moses was ever given. Read Hebrews 7. 

Giving is the picture of God’s love and never expects a reward of anything in return. Giving without expectation of something in return is a product of who you are in Christ as a result of God’s Grace. God knows you, what you give, and what you do. Nothing done to find favor with God but everything done because you received God’s Grace and love in your heart. No obligation! No fear! No format! No better than! No less than! Only right-standing and love. 

In the Spirit (now in the Church Age) – people give more or less than a Tithe (10 percent) because they love God and they love humanity. Giving, helping, and charity comes from the goodness of a man or women’s heart. What a beautiful blessing for the cause of Christ! No fear, no obligation, never expecting anything in return. Just a plain old love offering in the name of Jesus. 

Offerings and giving were the biblical terms used in the New Testament. Not Tithing! 

At the point of death...

At the point of death the soul of man goes to the spiritual abode of the dead. Eternal life or Eternal damnation. Old Testament picture of “Abraham’s bosom”.

Draw a circle and draw a line through the middle. The picture is Paradise which is divided into Heaven or Hell. The unseen world.

Redeemed saints receive Heaven’s Bliss. Those lost men and women are without redemption receive Eternal Damnation like Jesus spoke of in Luke 16 concerning Lazarus and the rich man.

The physical bodies of the redeemed or lost always go to the grave (a place and physical abode of the body until it returns to dust).

The word Hell in the Old Testament (Sheol) is often interpreted the grave (where the physical body is placed) and what takes place at the point of death.

Great Grace

The great Grace of God that saves the soul – from the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ is MUCH MORE of a blessing than blessings under law. Jewish men struggled to keep Law receive such blessings. Under Grace Christ on the cross took that struggle away and blessed men with the work of the Holy Spirit that gives (without human struggle). Grace freely given from God is so MUCH MORE that what man can struggle to achieve. Even the Apostle Paul, a Jew with strong Jewish background was able to grasp – this great revelation and Christian experience. MUCH MORE is the Biblical picture of God’s profound Grace that saves, redeems and supplies Salvation of the human soul. 

1.  Romans 5:9…MUCH MORE then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
2. Romans 5:10…For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, MUCH MORE, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
3. Romans 5:15… But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, MUCH MORE the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
4. Romans 5:17… For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; MUCH MORE they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
5. Romans 5:20… Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did MUCH MORE abound:

Joy and Rejoicing in the Epistle to the Philippians

Paul was always happy with Christ regardless of life’s circumstances. With joy he always knew the fruit of preaching Christ was imparted to Church members. Joy and rejoicing is the inward fruit of the gospel outwardly expressed.

1. Philippians 1:4… Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

2. Philippians 1:18… What then? Notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice

3. Philippians 1:25-26… And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; that you’re rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

4. Philippians 2:2... Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

5. Philippians 2:16… Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

6. Philippians 2:17-18… Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me..

7. Philippians 2:28-29… I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

8. Philippians 3:1… Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

9. Philippians 3:3…For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

10. Philippians 4:1… Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

11. Philippians 4:4-5… Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men.

12. Philippians 4:10… But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

“Better’s” in the Epistle of Hebrews

Christ (God in the flesh) - was made BETTER than Angelic hosts. Supremacy of Christ. Salvation by Grace so much better (and easier) than Salvation under Law. No contradiction in the fact that Grace was so much BETTER than the Law of Moses. BETTER hope, better relationship between God and man. BETTER Testament (New under Grace) than the Old Testament (during the Law of Moses and before). Jesus was the mediator of the New Covenant a BETTER covenant and Israel’s final sin offering. What made the New covenant BETTER was it was after a pattern established in Heaven and Christ was the prophetic Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world. A BETTER and more vivid picture of Heaven from which Christ stepped down from when He was clothed with humanity. The BETTER resurrection was the Rapture of the Church (dead in Christ). The blood of Christ spoke pardon to every human being that accepted Christ – BETTER than the blood of Abel that spoke guilt to the human family. Unlike Levitical Law and animal sacrifice - the sacrificial offering of Jesus became the mediator of the New Covenant and blessing of the Church, the body of Christ.

1. Hebrews 1:4…Being made so much BETTER than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
2. Hebrews 6:9…But, beloved, we are persuaded BETTER things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
3.  Hebrews 7:7…And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the BETTER.
4. Hebrews 7:19…For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a BETTER hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
5. Hebrews 7:22…By so much was Jesus made a surety of a BETTER testament
6. Hebrews 8:6…But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a BETTER covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7. Hebrews 9:23…It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with BETTER sacrifices than these.
8. Hebrews 10:34…For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a BETTER and an enduring substance.
9. Hebrews 11:16…But now they desire a BETTER country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
10. Hebrews 11:35…Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a BETTER resurrection:
11. Hebrews 11:40…God having provided some BETTER thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
12. Hebrews 12:24…And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh BETTER things than that of Abel.

(5) Much More’s – Roman Epistle chapter 5

1.    Romans 5:9…MUCH MORE then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

2. Romans 5:10…For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, MUCH MORE, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

3. Romans 5:15… But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, MUCH MORE the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

4. Romans 5:17… For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; MUCH MORE they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

5. Romans 5:20… Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did MUCH MORE abound:


· Forgiveness and cleansing from sin through faith in the sacrifice of Christ
· Great Grace - abundant Grace - Gift of righteousness - Power that morally changes man’s make-up
· Saved from Judgment and the condemnation of Hell’s damnation
· Reconciliation - united with Christ in the Spirit. Guilt freedom - sin’s dominion broken.
· The Offence of Adam result of the curse - divine nature lost - carnal nature passed into humanity
· Supremacy of Christ from the atonement of Calvary to His enthronement in Heaven
· Reign of death - Universal separation from God passed into humanity - resulting from Adam’s sin
· Law of Moses given to help man to recognize sin - showed the offence


Salvation offers forgiveness for all past sins. Salvation offers holiness of heart and conduct in this present life. The first man Adam at the Fall was a small picture if the divine nature (lost) – the second man Christ at the crucifixion made an atoning sacrifice and projects the HUGE PICTURE of God’s abundant Grace – Greater than the Law of Moses. Reason? Abundant Grace provides victory over sin’s dominion. Man struggled to keep the Law of Moses. Abundant Grace is freely given to make man a new creation - provides the believer with a clean heart and right life - results in the righteousness of God granted to the heart of a believer. Christ abolished the Law and thus took away the human struggle to achieve right standing in the eyes of God - at Calvary leaving us with these words, “It is finished”. MUCH MORE is the great picture of abundant grace projected in Romans 5. The free gift of Salvation given from Christ and so much more has replaced with magnitude - what Adam lost at the curse of the Fall.

Daniel’s 70 week prophecy

Daniel 9:24-27…*Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks*, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 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.

70 weeks determined in Daniel’s Prophecy

7 years = 1 week

70x7 = 490 years

7 weeks = 49 years (From commandment to rebuild the wall)

Commandment to build the wall took - 46 years (John 2:20)

3 years of Christ’s earthly ministry – until Jesus entered Jerusalem on the colt of and ass

46 years + 3 years = 49 years

490 years – 49 years = 441 years

(After - Three score two weeks (62 weeks) the Messiah would be cut off= 434 years)*

441 years – 434 years = 7 years

7 years = 1 week

62 weeks + 7 weeks = 69 weeks of Daniel’s Prophecy

1 week to confirm the covenant (unfulfilled Prophecy) = 7 year Jewish Tribulation*

1 week + 7 weeks + 62 weeks = 70 weeks

70 weeks were determined

In the 490 year prophecy you had:

A 483 year prophetic picture

434 years until the rebuilding of the wall

49 years – 46 years to rebuild + 3 years of ministry until the crucifixion

7 years (1 week) unfulfilled prophecy left over – Tribulation period

Romans 6