Ok, sink your teeth into this. For me, when the reading is difficult, I tend to skim over it and go to more understandable passages. I think that's our nature. But I kept looking at this and thinking, this is deep... DEEP. So today, we unpack Daniel 9:27. I wasn't sure where we were going, but where we ended up is indeed profound! You can see the ENTIRE New Testament written here. That doesn't mean you can close up shop and go home! Re-read Daniel 9:27, and if you're like me, the questions come flying off the page. And the answers are all there in the New Testament!

Notes to Daniel 9:27

Ok we got a lot of pushback on the idea that The Cross is The Abomination That Causes Desolation that Daniel is referencing in Daniel 9:24-27. I get it! It was a jarring thought to me too but stick with me. This podcast flushes out the meaning and the biblical patterns of this concept. If you understand how this applies to the cross, you'll have a much deeper, theological understanding of what actually happened on the cross!

Notes to The Abomination That Causes Desolation

I have been tempted to do this! I've even been on the other side and watching rapture dates come and go. We dug into this a little bit more and came up with this cool concept that lets you really focus on the events but not the dates. If you follow us, you'll never have to worry about "when" again. You'll be able to rest in the comfort of knowing that you're ready - whenever "it" happens!

Notes on Setting Prophetic Dates

Revelation

Whoa!!! We do not take this lightly! We are tossing out classic interpretive dogma about the end times and reading Daniel closely and then harmonizing Daniel's timeline with the New Testament. The result is a more cohesive and consistent interpretation. What if I told you that there is no requirement to rebuild the Jewish temple. What if I told you that there is no 7-year peace deal offered by the coming antichrist. If you are looking for those two signs (very common), you might be missing what scripture is actually telling you and worse, you might be missing what has ALREADY happened. Stick with us and see if this makes sense!

NOTES for Harmonizing Daniel with the New Testament

Revelation Series >> Daniel 9:24-27

Most interpretations get Daniel 9: 24-27 wrong (IMHO). We have mapped Daniels prophecy to the ministry of Christ and the results are stunningly accurate. If you're following on with our Revelation series, what we've done here is correct the traditional 7-year interpretation of end times that is just flat out wrong! We even account for the gaps (i.e. the Church Age).

Notes to Daniels 7th Week Prophecy

The traditional interpretation of Matthew projects it onto the last 3.5 year timeline. This perhaps is why many arrive at a Post Wrath Rapture. But tossing aside pre-conceived notions, Matthew 24 overlays on top of the first 6 seals in Revelation PERFECTLY. Read this chapter again with fresh eyes! The parables supporting this also indicate that Jesus is talking about a Rapture event - not a Wrath event!

Notes: Matthew 24 - a Rescue Story

We've spent a lot of time on this because ONE: I don't want to mislead anybody and TWO: I don't want to be there during the wrath! What I don't ever want to do when I read the Bible is start with the answer. That's like leading the witness. We've checked the entire Bible and God unfailingly protects his chosen from wrath. Revelation is no exception and we even find deeper clues within the context itself.

Notes for Rapture Before the Wrath

Revelation

The more I read and understand Revelation, the more I see God's grace. We started the research for this episode looking for evidence of a Pre-wrath rapture. What we discovered was far more. Revelation exemplifies God's mercy and grace over and over again. He is practically pleading for people to listen to him!

In the process, we did find definite clues supporting a pre-wrath rapture.

Notes on Patterns of Mercy - Revelation Rescues