When I think of Daniel's 70th Week, I have often thought of it being like the final sequel to the first 69 weeks.  Relating to the Church, by what patterns alone normally suggest, it has often been reasoned that because it was not a part (or in the setting) of the first 69 weeks of this prophecy, it will not be a part of the last week.  Because this reasoning is consistently supported by Scripture, it has been easy for me to accept it by faith as being a fact.  Obviously, this also supports a pre-trib or pre-Daniel's 70th Week rapture of the Church.  Intriguingly, there is scriptural evidence of something more to be considered here, also relating to patterns, something that has never been brought to light in any other view that I am aware of.

     Years ago, while contemplating John's account of what happens with the sounding of the first four trumpets (Rev. 8), my mind was drawn to the "third part" destruction he there wrote of and what this might mean for the geographical setting of Daniel's 70th Week.  Question:  What was the geographical setting for the other 69 weeks?  Answer:  Israel and the lands of the earth in its hemisphere.  In other words, the setting for the fulfilling of the other 69 weeks was the lands on Israel's side of the earth, meaning, the lands of the Bible days.  It could be said that, from Heaven's perspective, this was the stage upon which the first 69 weeks played out.  Similar to the line of thinking that I spoke of in the preceding paragraph, does it not seem reasonable that this would also be the stage for the last or 70th Week?  Of course it does.  So, what does this have to do with the third part destruction that John wrote of?  I'm believing that when you see it, you won't be able to unsee it.

     For those who are not geography buffs, what lands are in Israel's hemisphere?  Generally speaking, if you were to look at a globe of the earth towards the equator and the continents that are on Israel's side of the earth, the half of the globe that you would be looking at represents the hemisphere of which it is a part.  Said another way, whenever the sun is high in the sky over Israel's side of the earth, this would include all of the earth that is illuminated by it at that time.  It is easy to see that this would include Europe, Africa, and Asia.  Not quite as noticeable is that it would also include Australia and part of Antarctica.  By nature, this is also the way things were in the Bible days.  Today, the side of the earth of which Israel is a part is commonly referred to as the Eastern Hemisphere.

     An important thing to be realized is that the lands we normally consider to be in Israel's hemisphere represent two-thirds of the land area of the earth.  Related to the chronology of The Revelation and what results with the sounding of the first four trumpets, this percentage is very significant.  Let's continue to the next proposition...

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