COSMIC CROSSROAD COUNTDOWN & ANSWERS

Isaac Newton had approached Daniel’s seventy weeks as a historic and scientific chronology which would remain aligned with the solar year. He had seen the danger in compressing the 490 years into fixed 360-day units. Writing more than a century before Darby and later dispensational scholars, Newton, the lauded physicist, was not impressed with the idea of calendar conversions and prophetic adjustments that would require a shift in dating the start and end of Daniel’s Messianic prophecy. He connected the 483 years to the Baptism of Christ rather than the Triumphal entry. Scholars should have paid more attention to Newton’s determination to honor God’s scarlet thread and divine intention.

In changing the timeline, futurists change Gabriel’s message in verse 27 to focus on a dark figure to appear 2500 years in the future instead of the fast-approaching appearance of the Messiah. They put a spotlight on the Anti-Christ instead of Jesus Christ. They use a converted 476-year period to focus on the wrong “appearance,” so that Christ’s supernatural baptism and ministry will be outside God’s final prophetic week. They also ignore the work and writing of the anointed scribe Ezra. The wrong story is being promoted so that the converted timeline will fit. The Word reveals the faithful Ezra traveled without soldiers in the time of trouble 13 years before Nehemiah with 1,496 Levites, temple servants, and singers who would need homes for their families. Refer to Figure 4, for the map showing how large the Temple area and Ophel were. Their work did more to rebuild the Holy City than any other mission.

Why have futurists been willing to replace Jesus Christ with Satan’s main-man the Anti-Christ and stick with it? Darby and others may have felt threatened by the rising popularity of Darwinian evolution and other philosophies. But why keep up the theory? Keeping a complete 360-day count while allowing for the conversion to 476 solar years might appeal to the science minded. The futurists may have felt that they could not change back to God’s original Solar Count since the “converted solar years” were so well accepted. This allowed them to keep Darby’s whole timeline and the meaning of Daniel 9:27. They created an exegesis that would use Nehemiah’s decree instead of Ezra’s. But why would they make such a drastic move away from the Messianic interpretation?

[Is the count of Time or the method of counting time Important? Whose idea was it to determine that all 490 years of Daniel’s 70-weeks Prophecy must be counted in 360-day years? God explicitly said 7 different times in the key prophetic books of Daniel and Revelation to only use that short count for the last 3.5 years of this epic prophetic message. Why would God have us use an impractical 360 day per year count throughout history when all calendars are based on 365-day solar years? History will not be recorded in the final 3.5 years ….. the days and years of God’s Wrath.]

Why did so many scholars choose to use 360-day years to measure time in Daniel’s 490-year prophecy? It allowed them to flip Ezra’s decree to Nehemiah’s decree and to bypass Jesus’ Baptism in favor of Christ’s final entry into Jerusalem right before his death. Why did they ignore God’s natural method of measuring time in 365-day solar years. And why did they ignore the strong implication given by God in Revelation and Daniel that only the 3.5-year Wrath qualifies for a 360-day count?

This study has shown that God divided the final week of 7 years into two 3.5-year periods for many reasons. The most important one is that He chose to measure the first half or the first 3.5 years in solar years and the second half in 360-day years. God intentionally measured the entire 483 years in solar years, and the final week of 7 years would naturally follow this progression. However, God told both Daniel and the Apostle John that His Wrath or the second half of the week would be different. His righteous judgment would be measured in prophetic 360-day years and not in solar years. Maybe God did this because prophetic 360-day years are shorter and God wants to express His Mercy and Justice under a unique prophetic light. In the days of Noah God also judged the earth in a 360-day year count.  And He repeats this count for His final Judgment.

Like with Noah God provides an Ark to save mankind. This Living Ark replaces the Arc of the Covenant. Jesus Christ is the New Covenant, a Living Covenant, and as Paul puts it a mystery, “Christ in us, our glorious Hope,” (Col. 1:25-26). God prepares the 2000+- year Church Age for His Great Commission. His plan began with the Patriarchs followed by Jacob, the Judaic period and then the Baptism of Jesus Christ. Christ’s 3.5-year saw the sick healed, the meek encouraged, the captives set free, Satan and his “seed” squashed, sin and death defeated, and Heaven’s door opened. The Church with the Gospel of Christ carries the scarlet thread for 2000 years with Jesus declaring: “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

At the same time God will bless the nation of Israel in 1947-48 when He opens the secret of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the world verifying the authenticity of Old Testament Scripture (including the highly critizied book of Daniel), helped Israel defeat the invading Arab armies, and guided the League of Nations and President Truman to establish the nation of Israel. Before the Church Age ends God will rapture the Church and soon afterwards the 3.5-year Wrath of God period follows, but it is a 1260-day Wrath that will judge the world and sin. This will mark the end of man’s crowns and kingdoms and the beginning of God’s Kingdom in the Millennium as Satan and the beasts are defeated. A 365-day count is not necessary since God’s Judgment will be recorded in Heaven and not on earth. Jesus’ Return and Rescue of Israel will be celebrated in Heaven just as the rapture was. There is no purpose in measuring the world’s historical events after the rapture -except to mark the beginning and end of the Wrath.

By the end of the Judaic kingdom the Jews had repeatedly failed to obey God’s command to leave their fields fallow every 7th Year. The fall and 70-years that followed was a test of their faith and likewise we are being tested during this final “week” of God’s Promise. Seven times in Daniel and Revelation God defines the Wrath as being 1260 days, 42 months, or “a time, times, and half a time.” All of these add up to a 360-Day count. But nowhere in scripture does God say that the first half of Daniel’s “last week” year should be measured in 360-day years. God declared that the revealing of His Son in the first 3.5 years followed by the mystery of “Christ in us” were reasons for counting time differently. Where does Scripture itself require us to impose the 1,260-day measurement upon Christ’s first 3½ years? Why have we done it? Most important why have we imposed a 1,260-day count for the 483 years? These are historical years measured by calendars and measured in detail by Daniel’s account in Chapter 11. By imposing this count — Darby and others forced a change in the timetable — 1) switching Ezra’s decree to Nehemiah 2) the “appearance” of the Anointed One to the year of Christ’s death instead of His glorious Baptism 3) connected two uniquely divine 3.5-year periods into one 7-year period 4) and making major changes in the meaning of Daniel 9:27 and the deeply prophetic meaning of “mid-week,” “desolate,” “abomination” and “sacrifices and offerings.”

Time measured in solar years will record the birth, ministry and death of Jesus whereas the 3.5 years of God’s Wrath does not need to be recorded for posterity nor for the Millennium. Jesus’ ministry in the first 3.5 years unfolded in ordinary historical time, whereas God explicitly said the Wrath would unfold in 360-day years. This reinterpretation of the book of Daniel and of Revelation will force the futurist to add —to the Word of God and sadly to the book of Revelaton—-for nowhere in chapter 4 is there a mention of the raptured saints and likewise in Chapter 7 —God has made it obvious that these are the countless raptured saints during the long 2000+or minus Church Age.

This is basic timeline showing God’s Great Mystery which is Christ in us accomplished by Jesus’ 3.5 year ministry and mission teaching and healing and then paying the ransom for our sins on the Cross. The mystery flows into the 2000+ year Church Age and rapture followed closely by the 3.5- year Wrath that will close out the prophetic 70th week of Daniel’s 70-weeks Prophecy. The Church Age thus begins with God expressing His Steadfast Love and Long Suffering then ending with His Divine Justice and Mercy—as He saves many faithful Jews and fulfills His Promise to Israel. The rest of God’s Prophetic timeline is fulfilled with the 1000 year Millennium where Christ rules from “David’s throne” in Jerusalem. There will not be a Temple, for Jesus himself says that He is the Temple.

Isaiah 66:2 says, “All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.”  God’s Word has power–“for it is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart,” Heb. 4:12.

This is why we must be very careful in any kind of interpretation – especially if we try to add something that is not there. Darby and others decided that because God told us to count His Wrath in 360-day years that the entire 490 year prophecy should therefore be converted into those shorter years. However, the fact that God specified only these 3.5 years to be counted by prophetic years should be a warning to us. He is saying these are special years that He will shorten for a reason. He does NOT want us to alter the other much longer part of Daniel’s prophecy.

But Darby did it and therefore had to change the dates of the beginning decree from Ezra to Nehemiah, and had to change the end date from the glorious baptism of Jesus Christ to the Triumphal Entrance. This also caused him to declare a dispensational separation of the Church Age and of a 7-year Wrath of God when in reality God clearly declared that His Wrath would last only 3.5 years, or 1260 days, or 42 months, a Time-Times-Half-a-Time.

SCREEN PLAY: THE DARK SKY OF PROPHECY: WHAT HAVE THEY DONE? can be seen here as a short:  THE DARK SKY OF PROPHECY     —– just paste it to your browser:            https://youtu.be/6csUGwACGZU?si=J7dN4GInzeKDVvy3

What Have They Done?  

OPENING SEQUENCE — THE MESSIAH

VISUAL

Dark background. Jesus emerges from the darkness.

The opening immediately establishes that the subject of Daniel’s prophecy is not merely chronology, kingdoms, or prophetic speculation.

It is the Messiah.

NARRATION / ON-SCREEN MESSAGE

The seventy weeks point forward through history to the appearance of the Messiah.

TRANSITION

Dissolve from Christ to Scripture and the written prophetic record.

SCENE 2 — DANIEL’S PROPHECY

VISUAL

Close views of an open Bible.

Daniel’s prophecy comes into view.

Pages and passages are photographed cinematically, emphasizing that the investigation begins with the biblical text.

NARRATION

Daniel is praying, “we have sinned …now therefore…O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant”….(Silence as the lamp flickers.)

CAMERA

Slow movement across the biblical text.

The Angel Gabriel appears in same royal Chamber:

“Daniel I have come to give you wisdom and undertanding…thou art greately beloved. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people….and to your Holy City, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness….”

SCENE 3 — THE CENTRAL QUESTION

VISUAL  Jesus on the Cross appears soon after the scripture below is scrolls through

DANIEL 9:27 is revealed on the scroll…”He shall make a covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week He will cause offerings and sacrifices to cease. He shall be made desolate on the wing of abomination….until the consummation of the desolate is complete.”

NARRATION

The investigation asks whether commonly accepted prophetic assumptions actually arise from the biblical text itself as the words change into another interpretation: “and on the wing of abominations shall come one who destroys and even unto a complete destruction until the decreed end there shall be war, desolations are decreed.

What does Daniel actually say?  The film begins raising the question of how Daniel’s prophecy has been interpreted that the word “destroy” was used to replace “desolate” which have two completely different meanings….Jesus cannot be destroyed but He was made desolate in every possible way as he took upon himself the sins of the world.

SCENE 4 — THE CROSS

VISUAL

Calvary.

Three crosses against the setting sun.

Christ hangs upon the central cross.

Figures stand below.

JESUS

“It is finished.”

SOUND

Music falls back.

Allow Christ’s words to stand with little or no competing narration.

TRANSITION

Hold briefly on the Cross before returning to Daniel.

SCENE 5 — DANIEL AND THE SEVENTIETH WEEK

VISUAL

Bible opened to Daniel.

Relevant portions of the prophecy are emphasized.

NARRATION

The film begins examining the remaining portion of Daniel’s prophetic timetable—the final week and particularly its division into halves for God is clear that each 3.5 year period is to be measured in 360-Day years.  Seven times God repeats that 3.5 years is equal to 1260 days or Times, Time, half a Time. 7 Times God warns us not to use 365-Day years.  Yet we disobeyed God and did exactly that.   Jesus fulfilled the first half week by ministering for exactly 3.5 years fulfilling the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree- which can be read outloud as the the film focuses on the Landowner and the farmer discussing whether to chop down the Fig Tree representing Israel.

The question becomes increasingly focused:

What happened to the rest of the seventieth week?

TITLE REVEAL

VISUAL

The principal artwork appears.

Two prophetic figures.

The clock.

The divided cities.

The cross of light.

The dark prophetic sky.

TITLE

THE DARK SKY OF PROPHECY

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?

SUBTITLE

A Biblical Warning. A Prophetic Question. A Final Hour.

MUSIC

Full thematic statement.

Then gradually diminish beneath the next narration.

SCENE 6 — RETURN TO THE TEXT

VISUAL

Daniel again.

Light passes over the pages of Scripture.

NARRATION

The viewer is invited to reconsider Daniel’s seventy weeks—not as a confusing calculation centered upon fear and the Antichrist, but as a revelation leading toward Jesus Christ.

TRANSITION

Daniel dissolves into the Gospel of John.

SCENE 7 — THE LAMB OF GOD

VISUAL

Bible opened to John.

Warm light illuminates the page.

SCRIPTURE / NARRATION

“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

— John 1:29

VISUAL INTENTION

This is an important theological anchor for this is the end of the 483 years in Daniels 70-weeks Prophecy….or the end of the 69 weeks marking the Appearance of the Messiah.

The prophetic calculation is beginning to move away from speculation and toward the person and mission of Christ.

SCENE 8 — THE FUTURE-TEMPLE QUESTION

VISUAL

Contemporary imagery suggesting the world, Israel, and modern prophetic interpretation.

NARRATION

The film introduces a teaching that Daniel’s abomination must occur in a future rebuilt Temple even though Jesus says that He is the Temple and no Temple is mentioned in the entire book of Revelation.

EDITORIAL NOTE

This is a question to be investigated, not merely as an accusation.

The audience is allowed to examine the evidence.

SCENE 9 — DANIEL IN SUPPLICATION

VISUAL

Daniel is now seen as an elderly man.

He wears rough clothing—sackcloth.

Ash marks his face.

He is bowed in humility and grief.

NARRATION

Wearing sackcloth and ashes, Daniel confesses the sins of his nation and pleads for God’s mercy.

CAMERA

Remain close enough to feel Daniel’s anguish, but do not require visible lip movement.

His posture communicates the prayer.

LIGHTING

Subdued.

The room should initially feel heavy with sorrow and judgment.

SCENE 10 — THE INVESTIGATION

VISUAL

Modern investigative imagery.

A wall covered with documents, photographs, timelines, notes, connections, and questions.

NARRATION

The investigation examines Daniel, Revelation, the rapture, Israel, the Temple, and the final years of human history.

EDITORIAL NOTE

This sequence establishes the film as an investigation.

The Scriptures—not the investigation board—is the ultimate authority.

SCENE 11 — DANIEL 7

VISUAL

Return to Daniel.

Light across the biblical page.

NARRATION

The investigation contrasts interpretations centered upon fear and the Antichrist with a reading that leads directly toward Jesus Christ.

TRANSITION

Slow dissolve.

SCENE 12 — THE SEVENTY WEEKS ARE ALMOST FULFILLED

VISUAL

Open Bible.

Daniel’s prophecy fills the frame and the 2000 Church Age appears with the saints being filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and spreading throughout the world to share the Gospel.  But there are trials and tribulation…..with many martyrs showing that this is the Great Tribulation.

NARRATION

Daniel’s seventy-weeks prophecy is almost fulfilled.

What remains is the rapture—and the remaining 3.5 years to complete the final last week or 7-years of Daniel’s 70-weeks Prophecy.

SCENE 13 — RETURN OF THE TITLE / CENTRAL THESIS

VISUAL

The principal Dark Sky of Prophecy artwork returns.

PURPOSE

The film is moving from presentation of the problem toward its central argument.

SCENE 14 — THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK

VISUAL

The Cross.

Christ is shown in isolation against the sky.

NARRATION

In the middle of this prophetic seventieth week, He makes the New Covenant, is cut off—

made desolate—

on the wing of abomination.

The imagery should slow down here.

Do not bury the statement beneath excessive music or visual movement.

This is where the audience needs to understand that the “He” of Daniel 9:27 is Jesus Christ and not the Anti-Christ.

SCENE 15 — THE FOG

VISUAL

A lone figure walks through dense fog.

Visibility is limited.

NARRATION

Its purpose is to remove the fog of confusion.

VISUAL METAPHOR

Confusion gives way to clarity.

This motif could recur throughout the finished film.

SCENE 16 — OPEN THE SCRIPTURES

VISUAL

A Bible is opened.

Hands carefully approach the text.

NARRATION

The invitation is simple:

Open the Scriptures.

Examine the evidence.

Ask the question: why did Darby remove Jesus Christ from this pivotal verse and put the Anti-Christ here.  Was it to accommodate the trend towards science and pragmatism—to appeal to the human mind and the new science of using math and correct measurements such as solar years instead of Prophetic 360-day years.  The choice forced the change of the timeline, the elimination of Jesus’ 3.5 year ministry and replaced Ezra’s decree with that of Nehemiah’s.

EDITORIAL PRINCIPLE

This is the governing method of the documentary:

Show the evidence rather than merely tell the audience what to believe.

SCENE 17 — THE EARTH AND THE PROPHETIC SYSTEM

VISUAL

A person holds an image of the earth.

NARRATION

The earth shakes, yet many modern prophecy movements cut the sacred thread.

TRANSITION

Move from the global imagery toward Israel.

SCENE 18 — ISRAEL

VISUAL

Israeli flag.

NARRATION

The film affirms God’s continuing covenant purposes concerning Israel by showing the blessings that God has given the new nation of Israel and its great achievements.

EDITORIAL NOTE

This distinction is important.

The argument should not be presented as Israel versus the Church.

The question is how Scripture itself relates Israel, Messiah, covenant, judgment, and redemption.

SCENE 19 — THE QUESTION THAT HAS LASTED GENERATIONS

VISUAL

The principal title artwork returns.

NARRATION

What if one of the Bible’s most important prophecies has been misunderstood for generations because of a false reinterpretation.

PAUSE

Let the question remain unanswered for a moment.

SCENE 20 — THE MINISTRY OF JESUS

VISUAL

Jesus ministers among the people.

The sick, blind, suffering, and oppressed come to Him.

NARRATION

Jesus heals the sick, the blind, and the demon-possessed for half a week.

VISUAL PURPOSE

The prophetic number is no longer merely mathematics.

It becomes the living ministry of Jesus Christ.

SCENE 21 — EVIDENCE AND INVESTIGATION

VISUAL

Return to investigative materials, timelines, historical evidence, and visual connections.

NARRATION

Throughout Scripture, historical investigation, dramatic reenactment, visual timelines, and careful comparison, the evidence is examined.

EDITORIAL NOTE

Keep returning from research to Scripture.

SCENE 22 — THE MEN WHO SHAPED MODERN PROPHECY

VISUAL

Christian historical imagery.

Bible study.

Cross.

Teachers and theological movements are introduced.

NARRATION

John Nelson Darby, D. L. Moody, C. I. Scofield, and later prophecy teachers have shaped what millions of Christians now believe.

EDITORIAL NOTE — IMPORTANT

Darby who came up with the whole theory was an obsure scribe who lived in the middle of mainland Europe near Germany where intellectuals were debating Marxism, Materialism, and Darwins Evolution.  Show the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and how these philosophies had roots in the culture at that time and the seeds of evil were being sown among many who may have influenced Darby.  Darby then traveled to America and influenced Moody, and Scofield.

Historical claims should be documented on screen or in the film’s source notes as America had just gone through the civil war, was looking for growth in its industry and world trade through pragmatism, science, and inventiveness.

END OF RECONSTRUCTED OPENING SECTION

FILMMAKER’S GUIDING PRINCIPLE

Throughout the reconstruction, ask:

CAN WE SHOW THIS INSTEAD OF EXPLAINING IT?

When Daniel speaks—show Daniel.

When Scripture speaks—show Scripture.

When history matters—show the historical evidence.

When Christ fulfills the prophecy—show Christ.

When two interpretations differ—place the texts beside one another and allow the audience to see the difference.

The Bible remains the principal witness.

NEXT RECONSTRUCTION PASS

The next editing pass should recover the narration more precisely from the finished soundtrack— divide the film into exact screenplay scenes with:

SCENE NUMBER
TIME CODE
INT./EXT. LOCATION — TIME
VISUAL / ACTION
DIALOGUE / NARRATION
SCRIPTURE
MUSIC / SOUND
TRANSITION
FILMMAKER’S NOTE

If God sent were to send the Archangel  Gabriel back to us, he would say I gave you the LORD’s Word clearly, yet you have changed its meaning so much that I cannot call it the message that my LORD has shared with you.  Seek God’s Heart with all your heart, soul, and spirit. God is warning us, “Do not be brainwashed.”

When Darby and all his millions of followers digress from God’s heart they are accountable to those eagerly listening for Truth, encouragement and direction. Don’t you agree? God has made a lot promises and yes, we should know  how He is answering them. Most of those promises are in the form of prophecies. In fact almost 1/3 of the Bible relates to prophecies made by prophets guided by God’s hand; and God is answering some of those right now. If you doubt this please take time to read my new book “Dark Sky of Prophecy” that will open up the Heart that God has for you. You see those promises reveal what God is doing and will do to not only save you and your family, but also a large remnant of the Jewish people.

This book reveals an antisemitic bent in the futurist and the preterist schools— which is a result of Augustinian and Darby’s influences. These influences remove the heart of God’s plan for the Church and His people and replace it with dogma and falsehoods. Darby’s dispensational viewpoint and the Replacement theology coming from Reformed theology are in error and that is why there is a general fog in the minds of those who have to listen to it over and over again. Note that God warns that those who add or subract from his warnings and revelation in the Book of Revelation will be cursed—–maybe that mental fog is protecting people !

This post also addresses the failure of Jewish leaders who have accepted Jesus as their Savior to confront the major errors in the Futurist/Darby school of prophecy that dominates all prophecy teaching in mainline Protestant Churches. There are many Messianic Jewish leaders who should know that Darby’s Dispensationalism and his school of thought in regards to Daniel’s 70-weeks prophecy was and is antisemitic—-he flipped it away from the anointed Ezra and the Baptism of Jesus Christ and then used his dispensationalism to omit Israel from the Church Age!! Do you comprehend this? Darby did not know that God would Bless Israel by reconstructing the Nation in 1948—the “Dry Bones Prophecy” was fulfilled! Yet all these Rabbi’s ignore this and likewise authors like Jonathan Cahn. Do you not realize that Darby’s futurist point of view states that there will be “suffering like never before” in Jerusalem in the end time despite the 2 Witnesses and the 144,000 sealed Jewish saints?–have you studied Daniel 9:26-27 and how Darby broke proper grammar and Hebrew lexical common sense by transforming the “he” to the anti-Christ when the HE is clearly Jesus Christ? Wake up! You are being blinded!