You Shall Count The Days!

Daniel 9; Leviticus 25:8; Nehemiah 2:1-8; Ezra 1:1-4, 6:12-13, 7:11-16; Daniel 5; Revelation 11:2-3; Genesis 7:24, 7:11, 8:4, 1 Samuel 10:1-20; Leviticus 4:3; Isaiah 61:1; Exodus 40:9-11; Numbers 6:15; Isaiah 45:1; Genesis 1:14; Exodus 12:1; Deuteronomy 16:1; Jeremiah 25:11-12, 29:10, 52:12-13; Daniel 1:1; Jeremiah 25:1; 2 Chronicles 36:20-23; Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 25; Daniel 11:2


We are walking in today:  You Shall Count The Days!

Witness throughout the Bible:  seal H2368 chowtham seal, signet, signet-ring
Genesis 38:13, 38:25; Exodus 28:21, 28:36, 39:6, 39:14, 39:30; Job 38:14; Jeremiah 22:24; Isaiah 3:21; John 6:27; 1 Corinthians 9:2; Revelation 5:1-5, 20:3; 22:10

This morning's teaching will show us the importance of counting the days the way that Yahweh teaches us from the beginning.  Fiveamprayer we can no longer allow creative mathematics to have us miss His appointed times and seasons for the aligning of one event irregardless of the havoc that results for all the other surrounding events.  Our original pattern in Genesis gives us the start of the day measured from evening to morning--Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. In the Hebraic mindset we are counting up in expectation, yet in the western/Greek mind it is a count down that does not point to an expectation at the end.  We have in the book of Daniel, the messenger Gabriel comes to bring him understanding and skill to know the times and seasons.  Fiveamprayer, the same has happened with us!  Yahweh sends us a message regarding the days, times and seasons that we too will be skilled and understand His appointed times.  The count up that we are looking to for this new year 5776 will be the 120th jubilee and an outpouring of His spirit--100%  Spirit!
This 9th chapter of Daniel has been a major focus for both Jews and Christians alike.  For varied reasons--to show the complete greatness and judgment of Almighty God, Yahweh and a guide to calculate important biblical events and the end times.  When the text is returned to its original Hebrew, it no longer supports the Christian view of the first coming of the Messiah.
We also find the 7 weeks referenced in this portion of scripture, or could it be 7 days?  In counting the days we are to use His guide and measure.  Each week would actually be 7 years.  The Christian view ties this to the exile of Israel to Babylon and the destruction of the temple.  Then years later after the rebuilding of the temple the arrival of the Messiah who came to die not for Himself, but others.  Accounting for the temple reconstruction and the delays in the completion makes this calculation difficult.  In the original Hebrew, does not match the time frame of the redemptive work of Christ at Calvary.  So how can this discrepancy be resolved?  Another calculation for the 7 year difference.  This effects the days allotted for the months and the number of days in a year.  Where in scripture does Yahweh give us the option or ability to change His appointed times and seasons?  The days in a solar year are 365 1/4 the days in the lunar year is 354 days the Hebraic calendar uses both, so that the appointed times are in the proper places there is an extra month that is added to keep the feasts of the Lord in the appropriate places in time. With this understanding of the original count of the days we find that calculations that have evolved through the Christian theologians is in error.  For further clarification the words translated as Messiah, in the original would be moshiach--used most often as anointed one.  In Daniel 9 is it used in reference to the inner most chamber and later--an anointed prince the more accurate translation.  Due to lacking the definite article 'the' or in Hebrew 'ha' this not a specific person but a group of people--Son of Man, the remnant, the witnessing army.
Another difficulty posed by Christian theologians is the 7 and 62 weeks.  They have been added together yet in the Hebraic understanding they would not be listed separately if they were designated for the same time period.  The portion of the text regarding 'he will be no more' is not being cut off but a divine punishment for grievous transgressions.  Fiveamprayer we have to return to the original for His understanding in reading His word.  The biblical calendar uses both the sun and moon as signs for the times and seasons.  For in Genesis He gives us in 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:  The starting point in Daniel 9 to begin this count would cause the  differing time for the Jews and the Christians is the prophetic word versus a human decree.  To hear more of this teaching click here.