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II Revelation 26
II Revelation 26:1 Here is the understanding of the seventy weeks spoken of by Daniel the prophet: The weeks are portions of seven, signifying seven years each.
II Revelation 26:2 The first sixty-nine weeks are the four hundred and eighty-three years, Which began with the decree of king Artaxerxes sending forth a proclamation to restore and build the holy city to its former glory.
II Revelation 26:3 The sixty-nine weeks were completed when the Messiah rode into Jerusalem sitting on a young ass.
II Revelation 26:4 Then the prophecy that the Messiah is cut off, and the holy city is not his, was fulfilled when our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ was delivered up, and crucified.
II Revelation 26:5 The last week of the seventy is a mix of both natural and spiritual expositions, as I shall expound:
II Revelation 26:6 The week began with the first Jewish-Roman War, the Great Revolt, on December second, year, sixty-six, when a Greek named Jason sacrificed two white doves to Zeus in front of a synagogue in Caesarea,
II Revelation 26:7 an abomination of lawlessness to the Jews, who were not able to gain the support of the Roman authorities to punish the transgression.
II Revelation 26:8 As word spread throughout the land, the indignation grew into murmurrings, and uprisings, and rebellions, against the Roman conquerors of the land.
II Revelation 26:9 For, they denied them justice, taxed them to death, controlled them, and treated them with contempt under the rule of oppression.
II Revelation 26:10 The Leader of Rome given authority to end the Great Revolt was Titus Favius Sabinus Vespasianus, a name having a double spirit, as the name of both father and son
— together being the Leader spoken of in the prophecy.
II Revelation 26:11 And Favius Sabinus Vespasianus strengthened a covenant with many legions, by their leaders, during the seven-year war, to utterly destroy Israel by a wing of desolating abominations.
II Revelation 26:12 They crucified hundreds of Jews trying to escape Jerusalem outside the walls of the city each day, as they had done before to other Jewish cities.
II Revelation 26:13 They slaughtered millions of Jews, defiled their daughters, and stole all their treasures.
II Revelation 26:14 They also burned down many of the cities, and temples, and all the strongholds to the ground, which, therefore, ended Israel as a nation.
II Revelation 26:15 In the midst of the spiritual week, on the day now remembered as Tish B'Av, the legion of Titus breached the last wall of the Jerusalem Temple stronghold, and plundered the treasures of the Jewish Temple.
II Revelation 26:16 Doth the Arch of Titus not shew these things, by its reliefs carved by many hands into a great stone monument for rememberance?
II Revelation 26:17 Thenceforth, the Roman soldiers began burning the supports with Greek fire until the Temple was, thus, destroyed, as Jesus prophesied, 'Do ye not see all these? verily I say to you, There, may not be left here a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'
II Revelation 26:18 The Great Revolt ended when the last stronghold in Masada was conquered, on April sixteenth, year, seventy-three, when nine hundred and sixty of the nine hundred and sixty-seven Jews, fighting for the reign of Israel over Israelites, fell upon their own swords.
II Revelation 26:19 The Great Revolt lasted exactly two thousand three hundred and twenty- eight days, over a spiritual week of seven years, from year, sixty-six unto seventy-three.
II Revelation 26:20 Howbeit, the spiritual week continueth through the rememberance of Tish B'Av, which is in the eyes of Jehovah a great abomination.
II Revelation 26:21 For, as the latest Jewish calendar doth signify, they are not weeping for the Temple of Jehovah, but are instead weeping for Tammuz,
II Revelation 26:22 and the perfections of superabundance, great power to war, light burdens, making merry, quiet ease, fulness of bread, new wine, and adulterous hearts, that Tammuz, who is Molech the man-slayer, the Adversary's whore, provided them,
II Revelation 26:23 for their continual sacrifices to Megabaal, the sun god that Israel followed year-round in festivals as their God — As the Temple itself, not Jehovah, hath unto this very day been.
II Revelation 26:24 Therefore, for their idolatry, two thousand years are remembered before the eyes of the Lamb, because one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, signified by the double spirit of Tishah B'Ab, remembering the destruction of the First and Last Jewish Temples of the age.
II Revelation 26:25 The fulness of the two thousand years of Tish B'Av are fulfilled to the day
— at the witching hour of July fourth, In the exact moment that Wormwood doth smite the earth.
II Revelation 26:26 And this shall fulfil to the letter, the words spoken by our Lord, saying, that the great tribulation cometh in the days following the abominations of desolation, when the encampments surround Jerusalem, and the Aqsa abomination (the Dome of the Rock and Al- Aqsa mosque) standeth where it ought not.
II Revelation 26:27 After this last Tish B'Av (remembering the destruction of the Adversary's Temple), the natural days forming the exact fulness of the week come to pass,
II Revelation 26:28 when the remnant of two hundred and thirty days are fulfilled at the going down of the sun, on February nineteenth, year, two thousand and seventy-one, the day of Jehovah, The great and fearful, The second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, The last hour of the age.