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Please turn in your Bibles to Daniel 9:24.

Prairie View Christian Church Norway, Iowa Pastor-Teacher Bill Wenstrom www.prairieviewchristian.org. Sunday June 7, 2009 The Day of the Lord: The Four Views Of The Rapture: Post-Tribulation View Tape # 29. Please turn in your Bibles to Daniel 9:24.

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Please turn in your Bibles to Daniel 9:24.

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  1. Prairie View Christian ChurchNorway, IowaPastor-Teacher Bill Wenstromwww.prairieviewchristian.org 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  2. Sunday June 7, 2009The Day of the Lord: The Four Views Of The Rapture: Post-Tribulation View Tape # 29 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  3. Please turn in your Bibles to Daniel 9:24. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  4. This morning we will study the third view of the rapture, which is the “post-tribulation” position that contends that the rapture will take place at the end of the Tribulation period indicating then that the church would have to go through the Tribulation. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  5. The “post-tribulation” position erroneously considers the prophecy of Daniel’s Seventy Weeks to be completely fulfilled. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  6. A “week” in the prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 refers to 7 prophetic years of 360 days; therefore, the prophecy of the 70 weeks of Daniel refers to 490 prophetic years of Israel’s history. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  7. Daniel 9:24, “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.” 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  8. The phrase “your people” indicates that the prophecy deals specifically with the history of the nation of Israel and the city of Jerusalem. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  9. “To finish the transgression” refers to the fact that the nation of Israel’s apostasy and sin and wandering over the face of the earth will be brought to its consummation within the 490 prophetic years at the Second Advent of Christ. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  10. “To bring an end of sin” refers to bringing sin into judgment at the cross, and extending forgiveness for sins already committed through faith in the coming Redeemer, the Messiah. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  11. “To make an atonement for iniquity” refers to the Cross of Christ as it affects the restoration of the nation of Israel at the Second Advent of Christ (See Zechariah 12:10). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  12. In the Hebrew text, the phrase “to bring in everlastingrighteousness” literally means “to cause to bring in everlasting righteousness” and refers to the millennial reign which will be characterized by righteousness. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  13. The phrase “to seal up vision and prophecy” refers to the fact that all that God promised to Israel throughout her history by means of the prophets will be fulfilled during Christ’s millennial reign. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  14. The sixth divine objective “to anoint the Most Holy Place” refers to the dedication of the most holy place in the millennial temple which is described in detail in Ezekiel 41-46. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  15. Daniel 9:25, “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.” 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  16. “The issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem” refers to Artaxerxes Longimanus’ decree in 444 B.C. (Nehemiah 2:1-8). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  17. Daniel 9:26, “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.” 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  18. The statement “after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off” refers to the crucifixion of Christ. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  19. “The people” refers to the Romans who under the general Titus destroyed the city of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and “the prince who is to come” refers to the Antichrist who will make a seven year treaty with Israel to begin Daniel’s 70th week. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  20. Daniel 9:27, “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.” 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  21. The statement “he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week” refers to antichrist making a covenant with Israel, which actually begins Daniel’s 70th week (See 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  22. “But in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate” refers to the antichrist stopping the sacrifices that will be reestablished in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem in the middle of Daniel’s 70th week. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  23. The statement in Daniel 9:27, “onthe wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate” means that the Antichrist will break his treaty with Israel and proclaim himself as God and seat himself on the mercy seat between the wings of the two cherubim on either the recovered Ark of the Covenant or one built by himself, which will be located in the Holy of Holies in the rebuilt temple. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  24. The phrase “even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one (Antichrist) who makes desolate” refers to the destruction of antichrist at the Second Advent of Christ when he will be thrown into the lake of fire (See Revelation 19:20; Daniel 7:11, 26). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  25. The seventy weeks of Daniel of 490 prophetic years are divided into three segments: 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  26. (1) 7 “sevens” (49 years): The decree of Artaxerxes in 444 B.C. (Neh. 2:1-8) to the completion of the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Dan. 9:25). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  27. (2) 62 “sevens” (434 years): The completion of the rebuilding of Jerusalem to Christ’s Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem and crucifixion in 33 A.D. (Dan. 9:25-26) 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  28. (3) 1 “seven” (7 years): Tribulation period (Dan. 9:27). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  29. None of the events mentioned in Daniel 9:27 have been fulfilled in history, thus refuting the “post-tribulation” position that Daniel’s Seventy Weeks have been fulfilled. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  30. Also, in Matthew 24:15, the Lord Jesus Christ in His Olivet Discourse, in which He addressed the future of Israel, spoke of a yet future fulfillment of the Seventieth Week of Daniel “after” His death. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  31. Proponents of the “post-tribulation” view contend that John the Baptizer began his ministry as the “Seventieth Week” was ushered in and Christ was baptized, tempted and began to preach a few months later. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  32. They also say that the first half of the week was used in preaching the gospel of the kingdom and the middle of the week was reached at Passover, which was exactly in the middle of the seventieth week. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  33. According to this theory Christ becomes the one who confirms the covenant and in the period of His ministry the six great promises of Daniel 9:24 have already been fulfilled. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  34. In response to this, it can be stated that the six areas of promise in Daniel 9:24 are related to Israel and Jerusalem and are the logical outgrowth of the covenant with that nation. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  35. Israel has not experienced her national salvation and the church can not now be fulfilling these promises, thus we can conclude that the six promises in Daniel 9:24 await a future fulfillment. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  36. Christ could not have confirmed the covenant as the “post-tribulation” view holds since the “he” of Daniel 9:27 must have as its antecedent “the prince that shall come” of the preceding verse. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  37. Therefore, because this one is related to the people who destroyed Jerusalem, namely the Romans, the one confirming the covenant can not possibly be Christ but rather Antichrist who will make a treaty with Israel, which he shall break. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  38. The “post-tribulation” position has the church taken off the earth and then immediately placed right back down on it, which obviously leaves no time for the Bema Seat Evaluation of the church to take place (2 Corinthians 5:10) and the Marriage of the Lamb (Revelation 19:1-7). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  39. Also, the “post-tribulation” view like the “mid-tribulation” view argues that the church has been promised tribulation, which indicates then that the church will have to go through the Tribulation period. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  40. However, the term “tribulation” is used in a “non-technical” way in John 16:33, Romans 5:3, 8:35, 12:12, 1 Thessalonians 1:6 and Revelation 1:9, 2:9-10, and it is also used in “technical” way in Matthew 24:9, 21, 29, Mark 13:19, 24 and Revelation 7:8, 14 where it is used with reference to the Tribulation period. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  41. “Post-tribulation” view most strongly depends on the interpretation that the resurrection of all believers whether the church or Old Testaments saints is at the end of the Tribulation period just prior to the millennium. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  42. However, they fail to see that the Scriptures teach that the resurrection of believers throughout history takes place in stages. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  43. The chronological order of events in God’s resurrection program: 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  44. (1) The humanity of Christ in hypostatic union (Matthew 28; Mark 16:1-14; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-9). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  45. (2) The Church at the rapture, which takes place prior to Daniel’s Seventieth Week (1 Cor. 15:51-58; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Philippians 3:21). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  46. (3) Old Testament believers and Tribulation martyrs at the Second Advent of Jesus Christ, which ends Daniels’ Seventieth Week (Daniel 12:2-3; Revelation 20:4). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  47. (4) Every non-believer in human history will be raised from the dead at the Great White Throne Judgment of unbelievers at the end of human history (Daniel 12:2; Revelation 20:11-15). 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  48. Lastly, another argument used to support the “post-tribulation” position is that the wheat in our Lord’s parable of the wheat and the tares that appears in Matthew 13 refers to the church being raptured. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  49. This parable of the wheat and the tares depicts the history of the kingdom of God and thus does not refer specifically to the church age but rather the entire age from the rejection of Christ to His Second Advent, which would include the church age. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

  50. In the parable, God will be sowing and so will the devil and at the end of the age, God will distinguish those who are His children and those who are the devils’. 2009 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries

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