52 Questions about the 2300 evenings and mornings

Questions about the 2300 evenings and mornings

Can the 2300 evenings and mornings begin at half point of the 70th week?

The 70th week begins when the son of destruction sits in the temple building, and the sacrifice and the offering are stopped for at least 42 months. (One might be of the view that the son of destruction will sit in the temple building around the half point of the 70th week.) For 2300 days, the sacrifice is abolished and the sanctuary and the people are trampled underfoot. Can it be seen that the 2300 days begin from the half point of the 70th week? In other words, can it be said that the sacrifice and the offering are stopped for the 1st half of the 70th week[1] and that the regular sacrifice is abolished for 2300 days after the beginning of the 2nd half of the 70th week?[2]  Probably not. The 2nd half of the 70th week is also 1260 days. When 1260 days pass from the half point of the 70th week, the 1000-year kingdom will be established[3], so if 2300 days have passed, it will be nearly 1000 days after the 1000-year kingdom has begun. After 2300 evenings and mornings, the sanctuary will be cleansed.[4] It is not believed that the sanctuary will be cleansed until more than 1000 days have passed since the establishment of the 1000-year kingdom.

Conclusion  I think that the 2300 evenings and mornings cannot begin from the half point of the 70th week.

Can 1 day of 2300 days be converted into 1 year and regarded as 2300 years?

When the principle of 1 day to 1 year is applied to the 2300-evenings and mornings prophecy[5], the key point will be from when to calculate the 2300 years.  ① Daniel received the word of 2300-day prophecy in the 3rd year of Belshazzar king of Babylon.[6] The 3rd year of Belshazzar is said to be the period between 554 BC and 551 BC historically. There is a way to calculate 2300 years roughly from this time.  From 553 BC to 2300 years it would be around AD 1748. Neither the cleansing of the sanctuary nor the cessation of iniquity occurred near AD 1748. Therefore I believe this is not.  ② He asks, 'How long shall be the vision [concerning] the continual [burnt-offering], and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?' 2300 days is the answer to that. 'To 2300 evenings [and] mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.' Therefore, there is a way to count the 2300 years from the beginning of the persecution of the saints, including the abolition of the regular sacrifice and the thrown down of the sanctuary.  If we look only about the time when the saints begin to suffer persecution, then Abel long ago was also persecuted by Cain. Therefore, when the saints begin to suffer persecution here, it should be counted at least after the temple is built. There may be a question as to whether the calculation should be made after the tabernacle, not the temple, was built. The sanctuary when it is expressed that the sanctuary was thrown down in the 2300-day prophecy, is 'mikdawsh' meaning 'sacred place' and 'mawkone' meaning 'fixed foundation'.[7] Since the tabernacle is a mobile tent, not a fixed dwelling place, it is reasonable to view the sanctuary of the 2300-day prophecy as referring to the temple.  Then, when did the sacrifice become abolished and the sanctuary thrown down? One might argue that the crucifixion of the LORD Jesus abolished the sacrifice and the sanctuary. However, the meaning of the abolition of the sacrifice and the destruction of the sanctuary here means that the forces of light have been trampled upon by the forces of sin. The trampling of God's people cannot be mistaken for opening the way to God through the cross. Also, because the sacrifice was perfected into worship through the cross and the saints became the temple by the coming of God the Holy Spirit, the abolition of the sacrifice and the destruction of the sanctuary does not mean that the concept of the sacrifice and the sanctuary itself has disappeared. Now we can come to God the Holy Spirit through the blood of the LORD Jesus, the true sacrifice.[8] We are offering the true sacrifice.[9]  Therefore, it would be more accurate to calculate the number of years by considering the abolition of the regular sacrifice and the destruction of the sanctuary as the period when the temple building was destroyed. It is said that the temple by Solomon was destroyed by the Babylonians around 588 BC, and the temple by Zerubbabel was destroyed by the Romans around 70 AD. If the meaning of the destruction of the sanctuary is not that the temple was destroyed but that it was polluted, the incident of sacrificing a pig to Zeus in the temple around 167 BC by Antiochus IV, Epimanes, of the Seleucid dynasty of Syria, the divided kingdom of Greece, also could be included in the destruction of the sanctuary.  However, the fact that the sanctuary is cleansed does not mean that the temple building will be built and animal sacrifices will be offered there again. Even if such an event were to occur, it would not be an event of cleansing the sanctuary. The sanctuary here refers to the true temple in the heaven of angels. Therefore, when the sanctuary is cleansed, it means that everything that has been or may be contaminated with sin is washed away in the true temple. This is possible only with the blood of the Son, and after being washed and purified by the blood of the Son, there will be no more sin in the true temple. The free will of the angels come to be perfected. The calculation starts from the time when the temple building was destroyed, but the result that occurs 2300 years after that is that the true temple is cleansed.  In any case, calculating 2300 years from 588 BC gives 1713 AD, calculating 2300 years from 70 AD gives 2370 AD, and calculating 2300 years from 167 BC gives 2134 AD. There was no event of cleansing of the sanctuary around 1715 AD. Around 2379 AD, it seems that the new heaven and the new earth had already been established. If there is a possibility, it would be around 2134 AD, but compared to the current urgent situation, it is still too future. And it doesn't make sense to take the polluted time as the starting point rather than the actually destroyed time.  ③ When Daniel prays for the restoration of Jerusalem, Gabriel informs Daniel of the 70-weeks God has set for the saints and Jerusalem.[10] At the end of the 70-weeks, human history will come to an end. At the end of the 70-weeks, sin is finished. If we consider this to be the cleansing of the sanctuary at the end of the 2300 evenings and mornings, the 70-weeks and the 2300 evenings and mornings will end at the same time. Therefore, there is a way to calculate 2300 years backwards from the end of the 70-weeks.  In the 70-weeks, there is a blank period between the 69 weeks and the 70th week, and the blank period is almost 2000 years so far. We have to count 2300 years including the blank period, but we do not know exactly how many years the blank period will be because the 70th week has not started yet. However, we will consider the current period until 2020 as the blank period and calculate. By the time the LORD Jesus was baptized or crucified, the 69 weeks were over. It is said that the time when the LORD Jesus was baptized or crucified was about 25 AD ~ 35 AD, so the end of the 69 weeks would be about 30 AD.  The period from 30 AD to 2020 AD is the blank period. Assuming that the 70th week begins in 2021 AD, all the 70-weeks will end at the end of 2027 AD. Then, the year obtained by going back 2300 years from 2027 can be regarded as the starting point of the 2300 evenings and mornings. Considering that there is no year 0 BC or 0 AD and the transition from BC1 to AD1 is taken into consideration, it can be considered that the 2300 evenings and mornings begin around 274 BC because 2300 - 2027 + 1 = 274.  274 BC is the period when Israel was captured by Ptolemy, the divided kingdom of Greece. It is said that there was little persecution because the Ptolemaic dynasty did not interfere much with Israel's religion. The 2300-day prophecy is about restoration such as the end of persecution and the end of sins. It is unlikely that the calculation for the 2300 years will start from a time of little particularity. The period of Israel's captivity to Ptolemy is about 106 years from 303 BC to 197 BC. Even if we do not calculate in terms of 2020, but in 2030 or 2050, there will come an era in which Israel is the same as Ptolemy's captives.  ④ Instead of aligning the end of 70-weeks with the end of 2300 days, there is a way to calculate by aligning the 70-weeks with the beginning of the 2300 days. The 70-weeks begin with the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem.[11] Therefore, there is a way to calculate 2300 years from the decree to restore Jerusalem.  The Persian decree against Jerusalem was issued 4 times. Among them, the decree to restore Jerusalem is the 3rd decree issued in 458 BC, that is, in the 7th year of Artaxerxes. (There may be different views as to when the decree was issued or as to which of the 4 decrees it refers to. For now, let's assume that it is the decree of the 7th year of Artaxerxes.) Calculating 2300 years from 458 BC, we get 1843 AD. We know that in 1843 AD, the iniquity was not over, the sanctuary was not cleansed, and there was nothing special that could say that the saints were rescued from persecution. Sin still continues on this earth, and the Son who will judge sin has not yet come. It is not believed that the 2300 evenings and mornings of the cleansing of the sanctuary are over, with the 1st resurrection that will prove the truthfulness of the commandments and perfect the free will of the angels, not yet occurred.

Conclusion There are too many parts that are difficult to explain to accept the 2300 days prophecy as the prophecy of 2300 years.

 

 

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[1] Dan.9:27 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week(view2:for half of the week) he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate.

[2] Dan.8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision [concerning] the continual [burnt-offering], and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? He said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings [and] mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

[3] Dan.12:11 From the time that the continual [burnt offering] shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days. Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.

[4] Dan.8:14 He said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings [and] mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

[5] Num.14:34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my alienation.

[6] Dan.8:1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.

[7] Dan.8:11 Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host; and it took away from him the continual [burnt offering], and the place(mawkone) of his sanctuary(mikdawsh) was cast down.

[8] Heb.10:19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

[9] Heb.10:28 A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

[10] Dan.9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

[11] Dan.9:25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.https://youtu.be/AupisuARmgQ?feature=shared