In the Bible, the prophet Daniel warns us that the Antichrist will be
revealed to the world in the middle of the final seven years of human
history. Many would describe this as “42 months into the seven year
tribulation,” when they expect the Antichrist to break his covenant with
the Jews, enter a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem, and proclaim himself to
be God. Before this date, the Antichrist is just a popular and powerful
politician – his behavior is still restrained and he has not claimed to
be God or shown his true nature as the Antichrist. But one day, 42
months into the seven years, his restraint is removed and the entire
world will know him for what he truly is.
The research for my previous book (End Times and 2019)
leads me to conclude that the first three and a half years, although
full of problems like earthquakes and wars and rumors of wars – will not
be intense enough to make anyone assume the world is ending. Only the
second three and a half years will clearly be “great tribulation.” That
being said, the final seven years already began on December 21, 2012 –
when plans were made for the “Covenant of Peoples” tour in Israel and
the Mayan Long Count ended. When Daniel talks about a midpoint halfway
through these seven years, I believe he is referring to June 2016. The
duration of his first time period is repeated often using different
phrases to avoid possible misinterpretation. “Time, times, and half a
time” are considered to be three and a half years, or 42 months, or
“1260 days” using 42 months of 30 days each. Adding Daniel’s next
number of “1290 days” gets us within a few days of an exact seven years
in total – but it still leaves us with an extra 3 days of darkness to
add to each half to reach an exact seven years. The two witnesses will
lie dead in the street for three days at the end of the second half. I
believe the extra 3 days at the end of the first three and a half years
can be explained by an assassination attempt on the Antichrist exactly
1260 days into Daniel’s 70th week on June 3, 2016. He will appear to be
mortally wounded at first, but in a tragic mockery of Christ’s
resurrection, he will rise fully healed 3 days later, and present
himself at the site of the Temple in Jerusalem as God on earth on June
6, 2016.
As on earth, so it is in heaven: when the Antichrist enters the
Temple, Venus appears to enter the Sun. The Morningstar
(Lucifer/Antichrist=Venus) enters the Temple (goes directly behind the
Sun/altar of fire in the Temple.) As the Sun also represents Christ,
and Venus is on the opposite (anti-) side we have our astronomical
Anti-christ in the right position. This is a rare event that happens on
just 9 days every 105 years… And even the date fits activity for the
Antichrist – the sixth day of the sixth month of a year ending in six –
the only 6-6-6 date during the entire tribulation.
The odds of Venus going behind the sun on any given day are about
9/(105*365.25) – about 1 in 4261 odds. It only happens on a 6-6-6 date
one day out of every 15,563,302 days. That means on average it would
not happen again like this for about 42,611 years. It is a VERY rare
sign.
There are many other clues pointing to this date which require a more
detailed explanation. The easiest one to explain in this short article
is the JUBILEE.
In the Old Testament, God commanded the Israelites to let the land
rest every 7 years and have a Sabbath year. After 7 Sabbath years, they
were also told to celebrate a jubilee year. Every 49 years, debts were
forgiven, slaves were freed, and land which had been “sold” (leased
really, the prices were even based on how many years were left before
the next jubilee) reverted back to its original owner. This was to
remind them that GOD owned the land and the people.
What better date could be chosen by someone standing at the temple in
Jerusalem claiming to be God – than the date exactly one jubilee after
the Israeli army liberated East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount? The
Israelis entered East Jerusalem on June 6, 1967, and by morning had
taken back the entire city, including the Temple Mount. Forty-nine
years later we have June 6, 2016, when the Antichrist will try to mimic
Christ and claim that it is time for possession of the land and the
people to revert back to him. Many Christians expect the Second Coming
at the end of a jubilee cycle, and notice that Daniel’s 70 sevens of
years (490 years as described in Daniel 9:24-27) equals ten jubilee
cycles and would end with the tenth jubilee. In the Jewish commentaries
known as the Talmud, Elijah says “on the last Jubilee the Son of David
will come.” (Sanhedrin 97b) Though the Antichrist will show up in the
middle of Daniel’s final week of years, and not on a biblical jubilee –
he will try to claim that he is our Messiah and that he fulfills this
prophecy – on June 6, 2016.
My last book briefly addresses this date as the midpoint of the final
seven years, but the focus of that book is really on the final events
of December 2019. For more details on the events of June 6, 2016 –
including the identity of the Antichrist – please watch for the release
of my next book on the Antichrist, which will focus more on events just
two years away in 2016.
— contributed by David Montaigne, author of End Times and 2019 and Antichrist 2016-2019
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