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Author	: Bill Kochman
Publish	: Jan. 24, 2017
Update	: Jun. 19, 2025
Parts	: 03

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Continuing our discussion from part two, so you see, my dear friends, that is how true Prophets of God are really called, according to the Scriptures. In fact, we see a very similar thing occurring with the young Prophet Jeremiah. Now in his case, we are even told that God called him, and ordained him a Prophet, before Jeremiah was ever even born, as we can easily determine by the following group of verses:

"Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant."


At any rate, getting back to my own personal situation, my friends, there was simply no way that I could possibly resist what was becoming so very plain to me in the Holy Scriptures. There was no way that I could harden my heart, dismiss what I was reading, and say "No, that cannot possibly be." I knew it was the truth, because God had been slowly showing me a few verses here and there over the previous few years, which in fact challenged what I had believed for so long. As a result, I already knew where it was heading in my heart. Up until that time, I just hadn't taken the plunge yet by undertaking what I would call a full-scale, serious re-examination of the Scriptures.

Now, if I would have outright rejected what I was now seeing in those particular verses -- which are all discussed quite thoroughly in the aforementioned series -- then I would have intentionally remained deceived, as I had been for so many years prior to that time. However, the more I read, and the deeper I studied, the more the verses connected together to form a true pattern and picture regarding what Jesus and all of the Prophets of old were really saying regarding the end of that particular prophetic age -- that is to say, the very conclusion of the Seventy Weeks prophecy that was given to Daniel -- and Jesus Christ's Return to the Earth during the latter part of the First Century.

As I explain in the aforementioned series, what you may find interesting is the fact that the First Century Apostles and Disciples were quite aware of these ancient prophecies. One reason why this was so, is because as we have already seen, at that time, Israel was seriously oppressed, and under the iron-fisted domination of the Roman Empire. As a result, the Israelites were longing for liberation from their enemies. And as so often happens -- including even today -- they were looking to their Prophets and Holy Scriptures -- that being just the Old Testament at the time -- and questioning when God would intervene, send His chosen Messiah, and restore the Kingdom of Israel to the throne of David.

As we discover in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, Jesus' followers did not yet fully understand these matters. And, of course, neither did the rest of the common people, or even the religious order of the day. In fact, that is why the Scribes and the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Zealots, and the Sicarii did not fully embrace Jesus, and in fact in large part rejected Him. They were looking for a leader who would physically restore Israel, but that is not why Jesus even came to the Earth. As He tells us in His own words, He came to offer us all entrance into a spiritual Kingdom which is not of this Earth. Consider these sample verses:

". . . My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence."


"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."


"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."


"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city."


But the main point I wish to make here is this: Because the Apostles were desirous to know when Herod's temple would be destroyed, when Jesus would return, and when the prophecies of Daniel would be fulfilled, they asked Him a three-sided question in the aforementioned three chapters. What was part of their question? Did they actually ask Him when the world would end? As I quite plainly explain in the aforementioned series, that is exactly what many modern Christians have been led to believe by their Futurist-leaning ministers and pastors, by acclaimed preachers, by famous Christian book authors, and even by certain movie makers.

As I explain in a number of other articles, there's something very important that you really need to understand. One effect of embracing Futurism is that consciously or subconsciously, you begin to filter everything you hear, see and read through the Futurist lens. In other words, because of your entrenched views, you're simply unable to process anything from a neutral standpoint. Your Futurism-based, preconceived ideas won't let you. As a result, because you approach Bible prophecy from this false base and misguided understanding, you can become doctrinally confused. In other words, if you start off on a false premise and a false assumption -- in this case, that a particular prophecy has not been fulfilled yet -- then what happens is that everything you believe after that is equally false. It is basically one lie built upon another, and one deception built upon another, because your original premise is wrong. That is just the way it works.

This is precisely what so many Christians do with regard to the Disciples' questions. They assume -- erroneously so -- that the Disciples asked Jesus about the end of the world, which in their minds means today in our current time. So whenever they see any other verses which talk about the end, or the end of days, or the last days, etc., they assume they are talking about the end of the world as well, when that is most certainly not the case at all. To reiterate, they were asking Jesus about the end of the age which concluded during the last half of the First Century.

This deception includes the very Daniel verses which we have been discussing in this series. Due to the current war which just flared up between Israel and Iran, some of these people are pulling up some of these ancient, already-fulfilled Bible prophecies and falsely claiming that these current events are the very fulfillment of said prophecies. In fact, just today one Christian fellow claimed that Daniel 9:27 has not been fulfilled yet, but that it will be very soon. I'm sorry, but I strongly disagree. Sadly, he is not alone in his confusion.

I know for a fact that for quite a few decades now, a false interpretation has been in circulation which claims that the final week of Daniel's Seventy Weeks prophecy -- that is to say, the final seven-year week -- hasn't been fulfilled yet. According to these misguided Christians, God supposedly put Israel's plan on hold while He has dealt with the Gentiles over the past two thousand years or so. Supposedly, once the Gentile plan has concluded -- which they assume will be at the time of the Rapture -- God will restart the Israel plan during the final seven-year period, and that is supposedly when the Great Tribulation begins. To refresh your memory, allow me to share Daniel 9:27 with you again:

"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."


So how do some of these misguided Christians interpret the previous verse? Buckle in my dear friends! As I explain in articles such as "The Great Tribulation and the Rapture", according to some of them, American President Donald Trump is the Beast, or the Antichrist. Never mind that for years before that, they were claiming that Barack Obama was the Antichrist, and Obamacare was the wicked Mark of the Beast. In fact, I finally wrote an article in which I exposed that nonsense. Anyway, I suppose Mr. Obama somehow lost the AC anointing, and so now it is resting upon Donald Trump. Yes, I am purposely being a bit sarcastic here. I apologize, but due to the absurdity of it all, I just can't help myself.

But their deception does not end there. As I point out in the article entitled "It Is Time to Wake Up!", based on the belief that the Orthodox Jews may soon get their new temple in East Jerusalem once Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finished his murderous "housecleaning", those same deceived Christians believe that President Trump will move to Israel, rule America from there, sit in the new temple, and in fact declare himself "God". To those misguided Christians, it all makes sense, because the Orthodox Jews do in fact love Trump and have called him the "Prince of Peace". Even gold coins have been made with his image on them.

So what happens next? According to some of those Christians -- it depends on whether they are Pre-Trib or Post-Trib -- the Rapture will occur, the Saints of God will take a fast bullet train to Heaven, and then the Great Tribulation will begin as "Antichrist Trump" begins to persecute and behead any Christian who refuses to worship him as "God". This act in itself ties into their erroneous belief that Trump will do this, because supposedly he is secretly a Jew, and he'll be compelled by the Noahide Laws -- look it up -- to kill anyone who worships Jesus, because that it blasphemy based on the tenets of Judaism. There is only one God, and to the Jews, it is not Jesus. Thus, to worship Jesus is blasphemy, and worthy of death.

And, of course, false god Trump's instrument of death will most certainly be the thousands of guillotines which some of those deceived Christians claim to have seen in mysterious train boxcars all across America. This story has likewise been floating around for years now. You see, in their minds, all of these events fit nicely into their rather imaginative scenario, because in the Book of Revelation, we are indeed told that the Saints of God are beheaded for their faith by the Beast.

If your jaw is dropping after having read all of the above, I can't say that I blame you. It just goes to show exactly how deceived people can become when they reject the truth of the Scriptures, or at least seriously misinterpret them. In case you didn't realize it, I just gave you a good example of what happens when you start off on the wrong premise. As I said earlier, you end up building one lie upon another, and one deception upon another. Keep at it long enough, and you end up way out in left field just like the Christians I just described to you. Sad!

However, if you invest the time in thoroughly and seriously reading my seven-part series "Jesus Christ's Return: Have We Been Deceived?", and accept the plain truth that is revealed through the many Scriptures which I share in it, one thing you will learn is that what the Apostles actually asked the Lord, was NOT when the entire world would end, but rather, when that particular prophetic age would come to its final conclusion. That is to say, Daniel's prophetic age of 490 years.

In other words, my friends, that age -- which is described in the Seventy Weeks prophecy, and in other verses which are found in Daniel, in the Book of Revelation, in the Gospels and elsewhere -- was still ongoing at the time the Disciples posed their questions to the Lord. It was on its final laps, but it was not quite through yet, because some very major prophetic events had not occurred yet, and would not occur until about forty years later, as we have already seen. In fact, as many of my knowledgeable readers will recall, the Lord specifically mentioned Daniel's prophecy in His famous Olivet Discourse, in two of the three chapters that I shared with you earlier. He told His followers that they would see it during their lifetimes, clearly proving that the Seventy Weeks prophecy was for the First Century, and NOT for today. Consider these two verses:

"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)"


"But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:"


As I mentioned earlier in this series, the subject of the Abomination of Desolation is thoroughly discussed in its own series, so I encourage you to take the time to read it. Now, please ask yourself a simple question: Why would Jesus even mention Daniel's prophecy in His response to the Apostles, if said prophetic events were not even going to occur until some two thousand years in the future, as modern Futurist-leaning Christians have been led to believe? The answer seems rather obvious to me. The reason Jesus mentioned it, is because that is precisely what the Apostles were asking Him about. As I already stated, among other things, they wanted to know when Daniel's prophetic age of 490 years -- and not the end of the world -- would come to a final conclusion, heralding Jesus' own Return. It is just that simple.

In short, contrary to what those misguided Futurists believe, there's NO break in the Seventy Weeks -- 490 years -- prophecy that was given to Daniel. All of it, including the final week -- or Last Seven Years -- was fulfilled almost two thousand years ago. There is absolutely NO final seven-year period in our current time. I am convinced that it is a fantasy and just another false, man-made doctrine which has zero merit. I hope that you likewise agree, or at least are beginning to see the light. If you have been deceived by the Futurist doctrine as I was for so many years, and if I have now at least got you thinking and questioning your beliefs, then I guess I should feel satisfied.

My friends, I realize that I have shared a lot of information in this series which for many of you will be very difficult to accept. I am, of course, referring to my Futurist-leaning friends. Trust me; I understand exactly where your heads and hearts are at in a doctrinal sense, because as I have already thoroughly explained, I was in that very same place for many years of my Christian life. I would dare say that I was just as convinced -- and perhaps even more so -- of the things that you continue to believe regarding Bible prophecy, and more specifically, concerning Christ's Return, and everything that has become associated with it.

Because I know how many of you think and believe, if you have even made it this far in this series -- without just briefly skimming through it, that is -- I have a good idea regarding what you may be thinking about me, and the doctrinal position which I have expressed here, as well as in some of my other more recent articles and series. Perhaps you think that I am sincere in my beliefs, but nevertheless, sincerely deceived. If you even more staunchly embrace your current positions, you may even consider me to be a dangerous false teacher who is spreading lies.

In fact, it might interest some of my readers to know that just today I had one Christian accuse me of that very thing because I refused to accept his misguided view that Donald Trump is the Antichrist. According to his wayward mind, I'm now in serious trouble with the Lord because I am purposely deceiving folks by saying that Trump is not the Antichrist. This is the kind of nonsense I have to deal with everyday on some of the social networks. Regarding Donald Trump, again, please consider reading my article entitled "It Is Time to Wake Up!", and other Trump-related articles which are found at the end of it.

If you are thinking and feeling anything negative towards me because of what I have stated in this series, I have just one request to make of you. Before you just wave your hand and dismiss what I have written here, I ask you, no, I challenge you, to read "Christ's Return: Have We Been Deceived?", along with some of the other articles and series which are linked at the end of this series. Again, please do not just quickly browse through it, so that you can then tell me "Okay, I read it, but I still think that you are wrong."

Really take the time to very carefully, and very prayerfully, read every word I have written in it, and every verse that I have included in it. Consider my explanations of each verse. Pause and take some time after you have completed reading the series, to reflect on what you have just read. Let it sink in for at least a few days, before you form any clear opinions concerning it. Let God speak to your heart about it. Now, if after doing that, you still remain convinced that I am wrong, or deceived or whatever you may think, then I suppose we will just have to leave it at this:

". . . Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."


As I have stated publicly many times, I learned a long time ago that engaging in doctrinal debates is just an exercise in futility, and changed minds and hearts rarely ever result from such encounters. Why? Because in most cases, both sides are already quite entrenched in their own position, and only want to convince the other person of their views. I discuss this issue more thoroughly in the article entitled "Should Christians Engage in Doctrinal Debates?". My point is this: If you still disagree with my position after studying the aforementioned series, please don't expect me to engage in a lengthy doctrinal debate with you somewhere online, or via email, because I just won't do it. My time is precious to me, and I have a lot to get done here each and every day.

With these thoughts, I will bring this article to a close. It is my hope that you've found it informative and enlightening, and I pray that it has been a blessing in your life as well. If you have an account with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or with any other social network, I would really appreciate if you'd take the time to click or tap on the corresponding link that is found on this page. Thanks so much, and may God bless you abundantly!

For additional information and further study, you may want to refer to the list of reading resources below which were either mentioned in this article, or which contain topics which are related to this article. All of these articles are likewise located on the BBB Bible web server. To read these articles, simply click or tap on any link you see below.

Abomination of Desolation: Explained!
Age of Deception, Age of Delusion
Are You Flexible?
As a Thief in the Night
Facebook False Prophets and Misguided Teachers
Fight Against Futurism
He That Shall Endure Unto the End
Humility in Our Understanding of God's Word
In the Ages to Come
Is Elon Musk the Antichrist?
It Is Time to Wake Up!
Jesus Christ's Return: Have We Been Deceived?
Lying Wonders of Our Age
Modern Deception: Shall a Nation Be Born at Once?
Modern Deceptions: Return to Israel, the Fig Tree and This Generation
Modern False Prophets and Worldly Ecumenism
My Evolving Theology
Please Stop Misinterpreting the Scriptures
Prophetic Comparisons: Moshiach, Mahdi and Messiah
Psalm 83 War False Doctrine Exposed!
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
Seventy Weeks Prophecy: What It Means
Should Christians Engage in Doctrinal Debates?
So, You Have Got It All Figured Out, Do You?
Sorry, Jesus Is Not Coming at Any Moment
The 70th Week of Daniel Error: Are You Guilty?
The Day I Am Waiting For
The Day of the Lord: What It Really Means
The Fall of Masada
The Great Tribulation and the Rapture
The Misguided End of the World Predictions of Harold Camping
The Office of Prophets and Teachers
The Triumphant Touchdown of Jesus Christ
The Two Sackcloth Witnesses of Revelation 11
The Wisdom of God Versus the Philosophy of Men
The Woman in the Wilderness and the 144,000
Tradition or Truth? Old Wine or New Wine?
Understanding the Bible in Context
Vespasian, Titus and the Fall of Jerusalem
When Was Satan Cast Out of Heaven?
Who Hindered the Antichrist
Who is Babylon the Great?
Who is Moshiach ben David?
Who is Who?: Defining Important Prophecy Terms

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