The End

bring in everlasting righteousness, to fulfill scriptural vision and

prophecy, and to anoint the most holy (Dan 9:24). (For more

detail, see “The Count Down” in Chapter 3, “WHEN.”) This

reconciling for sin is explained in the New Testament:

“All this

is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and

gave us the ministry of reconciliation… Be reconciled to

God… God made him who had no sin to be sin (a sin offering)

for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of

God”

(2 Cor. 5:18, 20, 21).

Through the trespass of the first man, Adam (disobedient

at the Garden of Eden), all were condemned. By the righteous

act of the second Adam, Christ (obedient at the cross), all are

offered salvation (Rom. 5:18, 19).

We can determine that 483 years of God’s 490-year decree

has been completed. The 483 years ended with the Anointed

One (Messiah) being cut off (Dan. 9:26). After being cut off,

He went back to His place (heaven) and will be there until, in

their misery, the Jews earnestly seek Him (Hos. 5:15).

The seven years that remain are known as the Seventieth

Week of Daniel, or the Tribulation. It is the time of Jacob’s (Is-

rael’s) Trouble. An outline of what will happen in this end-time

period is given in the book of Daniel:

“The end will come like a

flood; War will continue until the end, and desolations have

been decreed. He will confirm a covenant with many for one

‘seven’ but in the middle of that ‘seven’ he will put an end to

sacrifice and offering. And one who causes desolation will place