Today, I want to talk about Daniel chapter 9 verse 27.
The Bible reads, and he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week, and in the
midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading
of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined
shall be poured upon the desolate.
Now, this is a verse that deals with the abomination of desolation.
It's a very famous verse, and I've heard this verse preached my whole life, but one thing
I've noticed is that whenever you listen to preachers who believe in the pre-tribulation
rapture, talk about Daniel 9-27, they always completely change what it says, and I've heard
this my whole life growing up in pre-trib churches and in recent years whenever I talk
to anybody who's pre-trib or hear people talk about the pre-trib rapture, you'll always
hear them say this, that the seven year tribulation, of course I don't believe that the tribulation
lasts seven years, but that's what they believe, so I'm saying what they believe.
They say the seven year tribulation will start out with the anti-Christ signing a peace treaty
with Israel, and they say the anti-Christ is going to sign that peace treaty with Israel,
and then he's going to break that treaty halfway through.
Well, I always ask him, well where does it say that in the Bible, and they'll point to
Daniel 9-27, but listen again to what Daniel 9-27 says, and he shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week.
Now they're looking at that and saying that's a seven year peace treaty with Israel.
Well here's the problem, there's no mention of Israel.
Where does that say a peace treaty is being signed with Israel?
The Bible says he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week.
Many is not Israel.
The word many means four or more, and so that's not a covenant with Israel, that's a covenant
with many.
So again, it's just a fabrication there.
Now this confirming of the covenant with many for one week, that might not even be something
that we see.
That's probably going on behind closed doors some way, where the anti-Christ is making
some kind of an agreement with many people, perhaps Rockefeller and Rothschild in a smoke
filled room, whatever that is.
It's dead sure not a peace treaty with Israel though.
It's some kind of a covenant that's being confirmed with many.
That's what the Bible actually says.
Now the other thing about this is that pre-trib believers will often say that the first half
of the seven years is a time of peace, because there's this peace treaty with Israel, it's
going to be broken halfway through, but the first half is a time of peace.
Well that's not consistent with what the Bible teaches, because when the second seal is opened
in the book of Revelation, the first thing that happens as far as the end times is the
first seal, second seal, third seal begin to be opened.
Well when the second seal is opened, the Bible says that there went out another horse that
was red and power was given unto him that sat there on to take peace from the earth
and that they should kill one another.
So according to the Bible, one of the earliest events of the tribulation is warfare all over
the world.
Matthew 24 talks about it, Mark 13 talks about it, and in Revelation 6 it talks about it
with the opening of the second seal.
That world war is one of the early events of the tribulation, the second seal in fact.
So this doctrine that says, well the Antichrist is going to make a peace treaty with Israel
for seven years, that's not found in the Bible.
And secondly, this doctrine that the first half of the tribulation is going to be a time
of peace, that is not biblical because the Bible is very clear that the tribulation will
be a time of warfare all the way back to the second seal.