Tim Hillis, Ph.D.
Dec 24, 20222 min
I know many do not like the presenter in this video, but I'd like to challenge you to consider the postulation behind this video short...
You've probably been educated to believe that the End Times Covenant of Peace is a land deal between Israel and her enemies.
Are you aware this is a version of the Jesuit doctrine called Futurism as modified by Hal Lindsey in his book "The Late Great Planet Earth"?
Are you aware that book has had more than a half dozen rewrites that involved MAJOR changes from the previous versions? It kind of makes you feel like he might have been guessing, doesn't it?
Here is why he would need to...
The peace will be confirmed by Messiah. The peace will be broken by anti-Messiah.
Daniel gives us this prophetic story using a Hebraic writing tool known as a Literary Interchange, or sometimes as an A-B-A-B Writing Structure. Basically, it is when an author alternates between two sets of ideas (sometimes even more), different but related.
We can see this particular tool used throughout Scripture.
Take a look at Daniel 9 with this tool in mind. Remember Biblical Hebrew had no punctuation. So I removed it. The inserts are obviously mine to show what I am talking about.
๐๐ = Messiah
๐๐พ๐๐พ = antiMessiah
Daniel 9:25-27
"Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the
๐Messiah the Prince๐ shall be seven weeks and ๐threescore and two weeks๐ the street shall be built again, and the wall even in troublous times and ๐๐after threescore and two weeks๐๐ shall ๐Messiah๐ be cut off but not for himself and the people of
๐๐พthe prince that shall come๐๐พ shall destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end thereof shall be with a flood and unto the end of the war desolations are determined and
๐he shall confirm the covenant๐ with many for one week and in the midst of the week
๐๐๐พhe shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease๐๐พ๐ and for the overspreading of abominations ๐๐พhe shall make it desolate๐๐พ even until the consummation and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate"
Admittedly, it is not clear who will cause sacrifice and oblation to cease, but based on logic alone, it would seem to be antiMessiah.
Notice how the A-B-A-B tone is set with a discourse about Messiah and then "the prince that shall come"?
This is a setup, of sorts, to let the reader know the writer is using this particular writing style whether intentional or not most Literary Interchanges contain this in the beginning, which is logical.
You'll see it in the book of James/Ya'akov quite clearly. Just as you can here IF you know what to look for. This writing style has been a part of Hebraic culture for as long as there has been one and frankly, was so common there was no name for it until modern cultures gave it one in the last century or so.
In ancient Hebraic culture,
it appears to have never been named, presumably because it was a primary means of written communication.