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| In Leviticus 26-24 Moses warned
"If you will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments... I will chastise you seven times for your sins... I will make your cities waste... I will scatter you among the heathen." ( Jews were chosen to be chastised seven times) |
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In the book of Daniel, chapter 12 verse 11, there is a reference to the Abomination of Desolation.
The Abomination of Desolation or the abominating actions, which caused the desolation of Israel, resulted in the conquest of Israel by a succession of foreign, non-Jewish empires.
This warning took effect for the first time about 676 BC during the reign of the evil Hebrew king Manasseh. He was the first Hebrew king who had challenged the religion of Moses and, in it's place, replace it with local pagan cults inside the Temple of Solomon where idols were worshiped and sacrifices were offered to pagan gods.
Among other abominations, Manasseh was also said to have allowed ritual
prostitution to be practiced inside the Holy Temple.
| Moses' prophecy quickly took effect when the Assyrians swept down from the north, conquered Jerusalem and King Manasseh himself was carried off in chains to Babylon. This was the beginning of the seven times era of subjugation foretold by Moses. |  |
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After the Assyrians, Israel was next conquered successively by the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire and the Greek Empire. In his book, the prophet Daniel refers to these foreign empires as beasts. Now first a little history of the destruction of Israel When Jesus wept over Jerusalem, He prophesied its coming destruction. In 66 AD the Jewish people started a war against the Romans. In the beginning the Jews were successful and the Romans were losing. The Jews were triumphant and thought God was helping them. But then, Rome sent a new army to destroy Jerusalem. Women and children were killed and hundreds of people were crucified. But the most significant event was the burning of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 AD The burning of this spiritual center of Jewish worship was the event that showed the end of the power of the Jewish Religion. Later another attempt was made by the Jews to overthrow the Roman Empire. A man called Bar Koshba proclaimed Himself to be the Messiah and told the people that it was His God-given mission to save the Jews from the Romans. Bar Koshba belonged to the priestly class. The Jews followed him blindly. They firmly believed in his promises. This time the Romans didn't just destroy Jerusalem. The Romans were really angry. This time more than half a million Jews were killed, thousands of villages wiped out, and entire cities burned. All Jews were cast out of Israel into exile. The country became a wasteland. The Jews were scattered throughout the Roman Empire and later the whole world. This period that the Jews were living outside of Israel is called the 'time of the Gentiles'. It wasn't until 1844 that the Jews were given the legal right to return to Israel. This then meant that the 'time of the Gentiles was fulfilled'.
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In Daniel 8:13 it asks how long will this abomination process last. Daniel answered that it would last for 2300 days. |
Before we can explain this 2300-day prophecy there are a couple of important
principles that we first must understand. First, in Bible
prophecy, days can equal years. (See Ezekiel 4 and Numbers 14.
".... I have appointed you each day for a year ".)
One good example of how this process works can be found in Daniel 9:24. Here
Daniel says that 70 weeks are appointed from the
giving of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem then shall Messiah be cut off.
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Lets do the simple calculation . . . ( 70 weeks) x ( 7 days in a week ) = 490 days. According to the statements found in Ezekiel and Numbers. . . 490 days can equal 490 years. |
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Now check the history . . . the decree to rebuild Jerusalem was given by a Persian king named Artaxerxes in 457 BC. If you add 490 years to 457 BC, you get the cutting off of the Messiah somewhere around 33 or 34 AD. This prophecy foretold the atoning death of Jesus. It also proves that days are equal years in Bible prophecy. How does this relate to the 2300 days prophecy? If we use the same starting point of 457 BC and count forward 2300 years . . . we get both the year of the end of the Abomination of Desolation and we get the year of Christ's return. (- 457 BC + 2300 years) = 1844. The 2300 day/year prophecy indicates the year 1844 AD. ( The year The Bab declared His mission 1844.)Referring back to the Leviticus 26 prophecy again we see that Moses said that this 'Abomination' and 'scattering among the Gentiles' time period would last for seven times. 7 Times or seven years of 360 days in a year 7 x 360= 2520 days or 2520 years. Moses' prophecy first took effect in 676 BC when King Manasseh was taken in chains to Babylon. ( - 676 BC + 2520 )= 1844 Again the same year as the 2300 day/year prophecy given by Daniel. Also ( 42 months) = ( 42 X 30 days ) = 1260
days and as 1260 days itself. The Jewish Prophet Daniel also refers to the 3
1/2 'times of the beast' in Daniel 12:7 & 7:25. Again
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This prophecy is stated as 3 and 1/2 years = ( 3.5 X 360 ) = also 1260 days . . . Again the same date but this time in Moslem calendar 1844 AD
The number 1260 is also repeatedly referred to in the Islamic religion as the time when the messiah will appear.
| What's fascinating about these '1260' prophecies is that the year 1260 AH of the Islamic calendar just happens to also be the exact same year 1844 AD of the Christian calendar. Can you see what this means? The '7-times' prophecy of Moses, the '2300 day/year' 'Abomination of Desolation' prophecy of Daniel (referred to by Jesus) all indicate the exact same year . . . the year 1844 AD. |  |
The 'Abomination of Desolation' ended in 1844 when the Edict of Toleration was signed by the Caliph of Islam allowing the Jews to return to Israel ending the 'times of the gentiles.'
| And even more importantly . . . this was
when the Baha'i Faith began. On May 23rd, 1844 the young 'Bab', the
forerunner of Baha'u'llah, announced to his first disciple that he was the
Promised One.
The Christ presence had returned as a thief in the night with a new name just as foretold in the old and New Testament. |
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Some of the above notes are selected from an article written by Joel Smith
and some other members of the Baha'i Faith , the opinions expressed in this
article constitute authors own personal understanding and do not necessarily
represent the official position of the Baha'i Faith .
