FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
added to 444 BC, indicates the date of 10 BC, which is close to the time
of the birth of Christ.Marler’s research somehow led him to the period of 440-438 BC, and
adding 434 years to 438 BC led to 4 BC, which is closer to the actual
date of the birth of Jesus. Marler believes that the other seven ‘weeks’
or 49 years apply to the second coming of Jesus. Rather than using
the date of May 14, 1948, when Israel officially became an independent
country, he used the date of November 29, 1947, when the United
Nations voted 33-13 to approve a Jewish homeland. Adding 49 years
indicated a date of November 29, 1996, as the end of man’s rule on this
Earth. By counting back 3-1/2 years, he theorized that the period
known as the Tribulation would begin May 29, 1993. The irony here is a
story that was reported on the news on May 19, 1993. Big Ben, the
renowned tower clock famous for its accuracy, which was installed in
1859 at the eastern end of the Houses of Parliament in London, had
mysteriously stopped running. Was the most recognized time piece in
the world stopped through divine means to signal the beginning of the
end? No. And another ‘date’ has come and gone.There are also those researchers who have chosen to totally base all
of their calculations on the premise of 360 days indicating a Biblical
year. For instance, in Hosea 6:1-2 it says: “Come, and let us return
unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten,
and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day
he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” From the initiation of
Christ’s ministry, in the fall of 28 AD, and adding two “days” (2 years X
360 days) would give us 720,000 days, which adjusted to our calendar
by dividing into that 365.25 results in 1971.25 years, which added to
28.75, takes us to the year 2000.Another one has to do with the cleansing of the Temple. In 168 BC, the
Syrian King Antiochus IV Epiphanes attacked Israel, and sacrificed a
pig to Zeus on the Temple altar, an event that is referred to as the
Abomination of Desolation. The period till cleansing, according to
Daniel 8:14, was 2,300 days, which some scholars feel refers to 2,300
morning and evening rituals, or 1,150 days (3 years, 2 months and 10
days), which seemingly points to the ritual cleansing performed by
Judas Maccabaeus three years later, after the success of the
Hasmonean revolt. However, according to the apocryphal book of the