וְהִגְבִּיר בְּרִית, לָרַבִּים שָׁבוּעַ אֶחָד; וַחֲצִי הַשָבוּעַ יִשְׁבִּית, זֶבַח וּמִנְחָה, וְעַל כְּנַף שִׁקּוּצִים מְשֹׁמֵם, וְעַד-כָּלָה וְנֶחֱרָצָה, תִּתַּךְ עַל-שֹׁמֵם‮:

Then he will הִגְבִּיר a בְּרִית toward many one week; and half a week he will cause the זֶבַח וּמִנְחָה to cease, then, upon a wing of שִׁקּוּצִים he [will be] inflicting שֹׁמֵמוֹת, and until [the b^әrit] is ended or resolved, it will be smelted upon the ‏[שִׁקּוּץ] שֹׁמֵם.

Logic Demonstrated By Scientific Method

The scientific method is to develop a hypothesis that makes a prediction. If the prediction proves true then the hypothesis is accepted; if not, the hypothesis is rejected.

All modern "Sages" of eschatology, Jewish as well as Christian, try to fit yesterday's events to Scriptural prophecies. These Monday-morning quarterbacks draw millions of gullible followers by passing hindsight off as foresight. Others, less careful, who have been willing to make predictions based on their interpretations, were all disproven when their predictions didn't happen. Their followers were left on some hilltop awaiting UFOs or their corpses found by police following their suicides.

Scholars have long recognized that this 3½ years refers to the first half of the 70^th week of Dân•i•eil′ . At first, this was thought to refer to the first century C.E. For roughly (when it should be reasonably precise) 3½ years the daily sacrifices are (nonsensically) argued to have been maintained during the Roman siege of Y^әru•shâ•la′ yim by Vespasian (reigned 69-79 C.E.) and, after him, his son Titus (79-81 C.E.). However, this is all wishful thinking having no documented historical basis and, in fact, contradicted by the historical documentation. "Despite the hardship and privations of this period and the famine which raged, the Temple service continued until the walls of the city were breached by the Romans on the 17^th of Tammuz. The tamid [perpetual, i.e., daily] sacrifice then had to be discontinued due to the lack of lambs and qualified priests within the Temple precincts (Ta'an. 4:6; Jos., Wars, 6:94). Three weeks later on the Ninth of Av the Temple was destroyed by the Romans and the sacrificial system came to an end." (Sacrifice, Ency. Jud., 14.612, emphasis added).

The daily sacrifice certainly ceased upon the destruction of Y^әru•shâ•la′ yim and the Beit ha-Mi•q^әdâsh′  in 70 C.E.

Further, a ha-shi•qutz′  m^ә•sho•meim′ , under the banner of the Roman eagle (wing), took place soon after. This surely appeared to mark the middle of the 70^th week. But the end of goy•im′  control didn't come 3½ years later in 73-4 C.E., nor even 3½ years after that in 77-8 C.E. In retrospect, it is clear from this that the last 3½ prophetic-years (= 1260 "days") were not calendar years or days. The world didn't end.

By contrast, there is one, and only one, exception. This book was first published in 1990, hypothesizing a unique interpretation based on an encryption key that only became "unsealed" in 1948. This hypothesis predicted an evil b^әrit to happen in the Judaic year corresponding to 1992-3—more than three years before its predictions occurred in 1993!

This is the only interpretation of Dân•i•eil′  whose predictions for the future were later confirmed by actual events!!! Actual events have confirmed what this book predicted, based on the methodology and straightforward algebraic calculations explained herein, when first published in 1990—3 years before the fact: an infamous pact, incorporating a 7-year schedule, would be struck in 1992-3 that would be disastrous for Israel and that the enemy would violate at its midpoint, 3½ years later. This was 100% correct three years before it came about. A series of well-defined, not vague, then-future events confirmed calculated predictions based on our methodology.

Metonym for a B^әrit: זֶבַח וּמִנְחָה

Having explained the first 69 weeks of years (up through Dan. 9.26), we now turn our attention to the "70^th week" of years—a seven-year period—which occurs after the destruction of Y^әru•shâ•la′ yim and the Beit ha-Mi•q^әdâsh′  described in the previous verse. Thus, זֶבַח וּמִנְחָה in Dan. 9.27 cannot refer to sacrifices on the no-longer-existing Miz•bei′ akh of the Beit ha-Mi•q^әdâsh′ !

To what, then, does זֶבַח וּמִנְחָה refer? (Explanations are color-coded to more easily follow parallels.)

To answer this question requires that we first understand what זֶבַח וּמִנְחָה referred to relative to the Miz•bei′ akh in the Beit ha-Mi•q^әdâsh′ … where the זֶבַח וּמִנְחָה was a metonym specifying "the A-Z" of sacrifices, representing the entire gamut of performance terms—mi•tz^әw•ot′ —of the b^әrit: Tor•âh′  (reference glossary definition of b^әrit).

Only One Passage in Bible Describes An Evil B^әrit

A search of the term b^әrit in a Hebrew concordance reveals that there is only one evil b^әrit described in the Bible: in Y^әsha•yâh′ u 28.

The Displacement B^әrit•ot′  – Y^әsha•yâh′ u 28.15

Speaking to the "leaders of this am who are in Y^әru•shâ•la′ yim" (28.14b), Y^әsha•yâh′ u prophesied:

"Because you [the leaders] said, "We have cut a בְּרִית with מָוֶת, and with שְׁאוֹל, we have made a חֹזֶה; [saying that] the lashing whip that shall pass through shall not come upon us, because we have placed a lie, [to be] our מַחֲסֶה and in a falsehood נִסְתָּרִנוּ."

(Y^әsha•yâh′ u continues quoting י--ה: Therefore I will send the Mâ•shi′ akh…)

Analyzed Logically In Context: ("Command By Command, Line By Line…")

Y^әsha•yâh′ u was an artist of logic.

‎^28.9 Whom is there one may instruct in דֵעָה; and to whom may one convey understanding of the שְׁמוּעָה? Those weaned from חָלָב; and those who are retired מִשָּׁדָיִם.

‎¹⁰ For it is command by command, command by command; line by line, line by line, a few here and a few there.

‎¹¹ Because by a derisive lip and in another tongue shall one speak to this kindred ‎¹² For he shall say to them, "This is the rest: resting the weary; and this is the relaxation"; but they would not acquiesce to hear. ‎¹³ And they shall be confronted by the Saying of י--ה: command by command, command by command; line by line, line by line, a few here and a few there on account of they had gone and stumbled backward and were broken and ensnared and captured.

‎¹⁴ Therefore, hearken to the Saying of י--ה, scorning people—leaders of this kindred who are in Y^әru•shâ•la′ yim, ‎¹⁵ Because you [the leaders] said, "We have cut a בְּרִית with מָוֶת, and with שְׁאוֹל, we have made a חֹזֶה; [saying that] the lashing whip that shall pass through shall not come upon us, because we have placed a lie, [to be] our מַחֲסֶה and in a falsehood נִסְתָּרִנוּ.

‎¹⁶ Therefore, thus says A•don•ai′  י--ה, "Behold I have founded in Tziy•on′  a Stone; a Dear Corner Touchstone Foundation-of-the-Foundation, the believer will not rush [it]. ‎¹⁷ and I have placed a mi•sh^әpât′  for a line, and tz^әdâq•âh′  for a weight; and a hail shall sweep-away the מַחֲסֶה of the lie, וְסֵתֶר waters shall flush-away. ‎¹⁸ Then shall be voided your בְּרִית with מָוֶת and your חֹזֶה with שְׁאוֹל shall not arise; As the lashing whip shall pass through, you shall be its trampling-grapes. ‎¹⁹ As often as [the lashing whip] shall pass through it will take you, for morning by morning it will pass through, morning and night.

Only shuddering will be derived from the understanding of the שְׁמוּעָה. ‎²⁰ Because the couch is [too] short מִשְׁתִּרְפֶּים וְהַמְסַכְסְכָה בְּהִתְכַּנֵּס, ‎²¹ (because [it will be] at Har P^әrâtz•im′  י--ה will rise, in Givon He will be riled) for practicing [the lie's] practice—its practice is zâr, and working [the falsehood's] work—its a•vod•âh′  is foreign.

(Notice that the two displacement theologies are complementary elements, paralleling the lie and the falsehood, of a•vod•âh′  zâr•âh′ .)

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