70 Weeks of Years Prophecy and Mormons

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I have been posting the counting of the final days at various sites. At US Message Board, a response included a delving into the 70 Weeks Prophecy by another user who ended with "It's astonishing that this prophecy is so accurate." My reply included some reference to the Book of Mormon :

"It is, but there is a slight snafu in the classic interpretation you present. Perhaps you have questioned this, too, if you've ever read the translation that speaks of Christ being slain "in the half of the week". This must necessarily allow for the last half of the final week to be after Christ's Crucifixion.

As Christ taught that as soon as the Good Seed is sown, immediately after, the evil one comes to uproot it. The word "Antichrist" is no where found in the Old Testament. Yet there is this period of the last half of the last week which serves to acknowledge the Antichrist without mentioning him with such name.

When one first reads of "antichrist" in the New Testament it is in this context, "Now that you have heard that antichrist is coming, so have many antichrists arisen."

I haven't much confirmation on this except for the very words Jesus spoke at the Last Supper concerning the action of the Holy Spirit, but I hold that the convicting power of the Paraclete was at work immediately (even Christ uses that adverb in describing His Second Coming in Matthew 24:29) after someone began to reason the name "ante-Christ" (the use of the Greek ante) from the various prophecies in Daniel.

Hence, the Holy Spirit in prophecy then worked to interpret and convict what was given in knowledge, though it was founded in an oral report, like in Antioch when the first time the disciples were called "Christians" (and St. Ignatius defined "catholic"), and in Syria when the oral misnomer of "and the Son" began (only to come before a Vicar of Christ and be rejected).

Such have been the difficulties with the final two chapters of the Book of Daniel, too.

Since the day of the first Pentecost, the Holy Spirit coming in the Name of Jesus Christ is a fulfillment of Daniel 12:9, the words being closed and sealed until the appointed time. Prophetically speaking, the opening and unsealing will never cease, because of the prophecy that Christ's Kingdom is without end.

The prophecy says, "from the going forth of the word to rebuild the Temple until Christ the Prince".

This does not necessarily mean the day and/or year on which the decree was given, but must mean the day and year on which all of Israel knew of this. Factor in the Mormons who were allowed to be released at the start of the Babylonian Captivity and sail to America, it was later than 457 B.C. We would have to attribute the Native American Indians as being messengers of such information.

The 70 weeks of years prophecy is amazing in more than one way.

The very manner in which the going forth of the word ensued, is a foreshadowing of what Christ said about "this Gospel", that it must be preached to the entire world.

Just as Noah and the Flood foreshadows the Judgment by fire.

[WarMonger]

It is 120 jubilee years or 120 x 50 = 6,000y.

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