<TITLE>09. Par 59-65</TITLE>L-59 In the reformation come Luther, a little brighter. You see? In the days of Wesley brought it in a little brighter yet. But in the last church age here, the Nicolaitane church age, that's the age that we--not the Nicolaitane, but the Laodicean--that's the age that we live in. You notice, there's not too much light.
Someone was--seen the drawing of it up there, said, "Shame on you, Brother Branham, this great day of enlightment..."
I said, "I'll imagine when it's sifted down that doesn't even do it justice." When you get the real pure in heart, borned again of the Spirit... Remember, this was the only church age that Christ was put out of His own church, of all of them. We got a great confession, but do we have a possession is what we're talking about. Is Christ really in the church? It'll be very much in the minority.

L-61 Now, now, let's outline Daniel's seventy of weeks. Now, I might repeat here again: Ministers of the Gospel, if you disagree with this, all right. They are divided in three periods, as we find out in Daniel 9--three periods: First, a seven week period; then a threescore and two, which is sixty-two; and then a one week period. They're divided in three different periods.
Now, I've got it divided here on the board. The first period, second period, and to my understanding by the Gospel, by the Holy Spirit, that the end time God returns again to the Jew.
Now, we know by all the Gospels that Paul taught and the others, that God will return again to the Jews, Well, then if He's going to return again to the Jew, how can we apply it back in Daniel's time? We've got to apply it in this last age, and it's after the Gentile church has been gone, 'cause He deals with Israel as a nation, we as an individual.

L-64 Now, I've got some writing here that I'd like to read to you as we go by. Now, the going forth of the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem, which was on the 14th day of March. If any of you want to put that down, in the Hebrew you'll find it called N-i-s-a-n-Nisan, which means "March." The issue was given on the 14th day of March, B.C. 445--the issue went forth to build--rebuild the temple. You understand it, as you people have read the Scriptures then. Until it was completed, it taken forty-nine years to complete the temple and the city--to rebuild it. And as the Bible said here, Daniel speaking--or the Angel to Daniel, that the walls--and it would be built in troublesome times. And many of us remember when it was built, they had a mortar block in one hand and a sword in the other to watch the enemy. "And it would be built in troublesome times." So here is where I find that getting my days...

L-65 Now, we got two--three different calendars. We go back to the old astronomy calendar, and we find out that in the Julian calendar there is 365 1/4 day in a year. They timed that by the passing of Sardis and the different stars and so forth, they timed it. Now, we find in the Roman calendar, that we live under now, 365 days in a year by the calendar. But in the Christian or prophetic calendar we find there's only 360 days in a year.
Now, you might wonder how this confusion come about. Now, this I can only say as myself speaking. I believe that back before the antediluvian destruction, back in the days of Job and so forth, that they kept the time by the stars, and we understand--or back before that time that the world stood upright. And then in the sin of man, the overflow of the world, and it tilted and the floods came; therefore, we have the great ice glaciers and so forth; and all the top and bottom of the earth is full of ice. We know that. And the earth does not set straight up; it sets tilted. That shook it out from where the moon and stars, where they was looking at, and misplaced then, or--or you could not keep time by it any more, because it's setting lopsided--setting tilted back. Therefore, it would not hit them stars at the same time, because it's--it's out of cater to them stars. You understand? I believe that's what it is.


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