Revelation Revealed Pt 2

Text: Daniel 2 and 9, Revelation 20:4-8
There is a lot about eschatology that we can’t know and will never understand. 
When you die you go to heaven or hell. 
When Christ returns, we get our glorified bodies back and heaven will last forever. 
In the meantime, the church will continue to exist on earth. 
We are living in what is know as the Church Age. This term came really in the last 110 years mainly from a Cyrus Scofield. 
It is assumed that the 70th week of Daniel which is 7 years is the tribulation period.  
There is not one verse in the Bible that says that.  If you can claim that then everything else makes sense. 
God’s promises for 70 weeks equals 490 years. 
Seven days in a week - 7 times 70 = 490 years. 
Gabriel, when speaking to Daniel divided the 490 years into 3 periods. 
First, the seven years. 7x7=49 years. 
Second, 62 weeks. 62x7=434 years. 
Then, he talks about the last week. 7 years. 
490 years. 
Dan. 9:25 
Gabriel gave a specific timing for the coming of the Messiah. He said that from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, there would be seven weeks and then 62 week = 69 years or 483 years. 
In 457 BC, Artaxerxes, the king of Persia, said that they Jews were free to return to their homeland and rebuild the city and the Temple. 
483 from that date, we come to AD 27.  
The accuracy of this prediction is so incredible that scholars used to question the trustworthiness of Scripture and would argue that the book of Daniel must have been written after the prophesy was fulfilled. 
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls between 1946 and 1956 proved that Daniel was written before these event were fulfilled. 
We know that Jesus was not born in the year 0 because Matthew 2 tells us that Jesus was born while Herod was alive. 
Herod died in 4 BC. Most all scholars believe that Jesus was born in 4 BC. 
Jesus was 30 years old in AD 27. 
The were 483 between the decree to rebuild Jerusalem and the revealing of the Messiah. 
Dan. 9:26
Most all preterist agree on the first 69 weeks.  
It’s the last week that everyone begins to disagree on. 
Most of the early church saw no gap between the 69 weeks and the 70th week. 
Dan. 9:27a
If there is no gap, then the last seven years would have began in AD 27, the year Jesus was baptized and began is public ministry. 
If there is a gap of 2,000+ years between the 69th week and last years, we are waiting on that week to take place. 
So, does Dan. 9:25-26 speak of Jesus or the anti-Christ?
Rev. 1
John said 39 times, “I saw…..”
The source of these vision was not John’s imagination. 
It’s important to note that Revelation 1-3 is not considered prophecies. 
Scholars are in conflict as to when Revelation was written. Many say it was written 95-96 AD. This would pose a problem for those with a partial preterist view because it couldn’t possibly be written after the fulfillment in 70 AD. 
The Syriac Bible says on the title page at the beginning of Revelation, 
“The Revelation which was made by God to John the Evangelist in the island Patmos, into which he was thrown by Nero Caesar.”
Nero Caesar ruled over the Roman Empire from AD 54-68.