SACRIFICIAL PERIOD
Henry V. Mc Nulty
Author, Founder of Eternal Kingdom Seminary
P.O. Box 4691, Palm Desert, CA, 92261
Daniel’s fifth vision is one of his prophecies that have confused bible scholars with its complexity. Not really, unless you are mining the scriptures to support a preconceived theory. So let’s proceed to analyze a portion of Daniel’s fifth vision by reviewing the scripture. Daniel 8:13-14 NIV:
V13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint that spoke. How long shall the vision be concerning the daily sacrifice, the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and host to be trodden underfoot? V14 And then he said unto me, unto two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful place.
Most bible scholars agree that the 2300 days is 2300 years. (Ezekiel 4:6, Numbers 14: 34, each day a year). So to identify the 2300 year time period, we must first find the beginning or the end of the 2300 years, then apply the 2300 years to find the alternate beginning or end. One of the saints give us three clues when he states that the vision concerns the:
- Daily sacrifice
- The transgression of desolation (abomination of desolation)
- The sanctuary and host to be trampled and the sanctuary cleansed.
Matt. 27: 51 KJV Tells us that when Jesus was crucified, the “veil of the temple was rent in twain from top to bottom: and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent. Without the veil, the temple could not be used for the daily sacrifice. The sanctuary was cleansed by the blood of Jesus. So the blood of Jesus cleansed the temple and ended the daily sacrifice. Approximately 45 days later was Pentecost. The Holy Spirit came with power. The new temple was now available. 1st Corinthians 6:19 KJV
Know you not that your body is the temple of God and the Holy Spirit resides therein?
We now know that the temple was cleansed at the cross. The crucifixion was the Abomination of Desolation. So let’s use 33 AD as the termination date of the 2300 years. Bishop Ussher was the Prelate of the Irish Church during the seventeenth century. He spent many years attaching dates to the bible. His accuracy is human and subject to dispute, but it will work HERE to establish that 2300 years was the time span from the first altar and sacrifice to the cleansing and final sacrifice; 2300 years before the cross places us at Genesis 8:20 KJV:
And Noah took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Now let’s refer to our concordances and see where the word “altar” is used. That would be in Genesis 8: 20, which describes Noah’s sacrifice of burnt offerings. That form of sacrifice lasted for 2300 years before the cleansing of the temple, which is the ultimate and final sacrifice.
Now let’s turn to Hebrews 7: 27 LB:
He never needs the daily blood of animal sacrifices as other priests did to cover over their own sins and the sins of the people; for he finished all sacrifices, once and for all, when he sacrificed himself on the cross.
Since there are to be no more sacrifices why, as people say, do we have to build another physical temple? 1 Corinthians 15:50:
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
Accordingly, the promise is spiritual, not physical.
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