Daniel's additional days of prophecy (Dan 12:11-12

by August Rosado

- Sun, Jan 4 2009

Daniel's additional days of Prophecy (Dan 12:11-12)
Posted by: Evangelist August Rosado on Fri Jan 02 2009

By. Evangelist August Rosado

There are some passages in the scriptures that preachers won't touch on, and Bible commentaries
will not go near with a ten foot pole. I would have to say Daniel 12:11-12 would be one of those
passages. Daniel wrote his prophecies in the sixth century B.C and they were fulfilled in the fourth
century B.C This is why liberal Theologians and Minimalist despise the book of Daniel, and say
Daniel did not write Daniel, but someone else wrote the book as these events unfolded. This can't
be true since Jesus authenticates the book of Daniel by declaring Daniel as its author (Matt 24:15).
The book of Daniel is the only book in the Bible that gives one of the most mathematical end time
prophecies in the word of God. This is the 70th week of Daniel's prophecy described in Daniel 9:24-
27. Daniel gives specific details of the timeline of the coming of the Messiah at the appointed time
God himself had planned. The 70th week of Daniel's prophecy is divided into two periods, the first
half is known as "tribulation", the last half is called "Great tribulation". This seventy weeks of
prophecy is intended for Israel, not the Church (Dan 9:24). The Bible describes the last three and
one half years of the tribulation in these terms:

                                           Daniel 7:25 "A time and times and the dividing of time"
                                           Daniel 12:7 "a time, times, and a half"
                                           Revelation 11:2 "forty and two months"
                                           Revelation 11:3 "A thousand two hundred and threescore days" (1,260)
                                           Revelation 12:6 " a thousand two hundred and threescore days"
                                           Revelation 12:14 "a time, and times, and a half a time"
                                           Revelation 13:5 "forty and two months"

No matter how you slice it, it comes out to three and one half years of the last half of the tribulation
period. Jesus tells us that if he did not return by the space of three and one half years, there would
be no life left on earth, (Matt 24: 22). Jesus the Jewish Messiah must return to this earth at His
second coming, three and a half years after the Abomination of Desolation to stop the world carnage of death, and destruction, (Matt 24:15). All human life would cease if Jesus the Messiah
did not return at the appointed time. If He did not return at the appointed time, there would be no
survivors to enter the Millennial Kingdom if the Lord did not return at His second coming. The
Jewish prophet Daniel describes additional days added to the last half of Daniel's 70th week of
prophecy (Daniel 12:11-12). Verse 11 gives us a figure of 1,290 days, an additional 30 days added
to the 1,260 days, the last half of the tribulation period. There must be a good reason for God to add
an additional 30 days. I believe this additional 30 days is a prior announcment to the Jews of the
Antichrist intentions, allowing the Jews to flee to Petra, (Isaiah 16:1; 4; 63:1). After the Beast
desecrates the third rebuilt Jewish Temple, the Jews would have already fled to Petra (Matt 24:16).
I say this because Daniel 12:11 is concerned with , "a ceasation of animal sacrifice, and an
abomination that makes desolate". Both Daniel and Jesus use this same terminology to refer
to Antichrist defiling the third Jewish Temple (Daniel 9:24; 12:11; Matthew 24:15). This 30 day
"heads up!" allows the Jews to seek shelter provided by God, (Rev 12:6;14). If anyone has a better
explanation I'm all ears. However, in Daniel 12:12 we have another 45 days added to the 1,290 days,
thus we now have 1, 335 days. This additional 45 days probably occures between the tribulation
and the Millennial Kingdom. So the question is, what happens during that 45 day period? Here is
how I see it;

                         Jesus the Messiah returns at His second coming (Rev 19:11-16)
                                          He rescues the Jews sheltered at Petra (Isaiah 63:1)
                           Defeats the Antichrist, False Prophet, & their forces at Armaggedon (Rev 16:16; 19:19
                         Satan is cast into the bottomless pit (Rev 20:1-2)
                        The Lord Jesus judges Israel and the nations (Matt 13:24-30)
                        The elect, the saved tribulation Saints enter the Kingdom ((Matt 24: 29-31)

My conclusion, this all happens within the 45 day interval before the inaugaration of the Millennial
Kingdom. Again, if anyone else has a better explanation I'm all ears. Daniel 12: 12 uses the word
"Blessed" to apply to those tribulation Saints who wait for these days to be terminated, the
tribulation, (Matt 24:22). This would easily speak of the blessedness of the Millennial Kingdom
reign of Jesus the Messiah of Israel. Jesus Christ will rule the Millennial Kingdom through three
classes of Kingdom administrators;

                                                   The Apostles & the Church (Matt 19:28)
                                                      The Tribulation Saints (Luke 19:12-27)
                                                The Old Testament Saints (Isaiah 26:19; Daniel 12:2)

The blessedness of the Millennial Kingdom will bring 1000 years of peace and tranquility this world
has been missing for 6,000 years since man's fall. In Daniel 12:13 God tells Daniel he would not live to see the fulfillment of his own prophecies. God promised Daniel he would rise, to be resurrected
at the end of days, to his inheritance at the inauguration of the Millennial Kingdom. All who trust in
Daniel's God, the God of Israel will be blessed likewise.....................

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