This inspired work of Phillip Mauro was instrumental in changing my views on eschatology.
For years I kept trying to calculate the length of the Gap between 69th an 70th week of the Arch Angel Gabriel’s message to the Prophet Daniel.
Da 19:1 ¶ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:…….
19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
20 ¶ And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
At that time I had been influenced by my peers who taught the Futurist Dispensational view of eschatology.
But the nagging question of the length of the Gap they proposed between Christ triumphant entry into Jerusalem and the rebuilding of another Temple for the Anti Christ to sit in , I could not resolve.
I tried the year day theory with no success, then I attempted using the 50 year Jubilee Cycle which brought me to date in 1997. The Year passed and that too failed.
I downloaded a Online Bible shortly after that and the work I am attaching to this post arrived with it.
I had read many futurist books before this and I reluctently viewed this inspired work, thinking here comes another fanciful end times view.
Is there a gap in Daniels seventy weeks ? Here is the Pdf link to the answer just click on it 1921_mauro_seventyweeks
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