DANIEL, ORIGINALLY DEPORTED FROM ISRAEL WHILE A TEENAGER, WAS READING IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH AND CONCLUDED THAT THE 70 YEARS OF SERVITUDE FOR DISOBEDIENCE BY ISRAEL WAS ABOUT TO BE ACCOMPLISHED. THE ANGEL GABRIEL CAME TO GIVE DANIEL AN ANSWER TO HIS PRAYER FOR HIS NATION. THE ANSWERS ARE FOUND IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9 : 24-27

      THE IDIOM OF A WEEK OF YEARS FOR ISRAEL WAS COMMON IN ISRAEL AS A "SABBATH FOR THE LAND", IN WHICH THE LAND WAS TO LIE IDLE EVERY SEVENTH YEAR. THE HEBREW WORD TRANSLATED "WEEKS" IS THE WORD" SHABUA", WHICH MEANS A WEEK OF YEARS, OR SEVEN FULL YEARS.

      IN EFFECT, GABRIEL TOLD DANIEL THAT THE INTERVAL BETWEEN THE COMMANDMENT TO REBULD JERUSALEM UNTILL THE MESSIAH WOULD ACTUALLY COME TO JERUSALEM FOR PRESENTATION WOULD BE 69 x 7 WEEKS OF YEARS ON THE HEBREW CALENDAR. THIS 483 YEARS CALCULATES OUT TO EXACTLY 173,880 DAYS FROM THE ISSUANCE OF THAT COMMANDMENT.

      THAT COMMANDMENT WAS GIVEN BY "ARTAXERXES LONGIMANGUS", KING OF PERSIA ON MARCH 14, 445 BC. JESUS CAREFULLY AVOIDED BEING CAST AS THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL, SAYING, " MINE HOUR IS NOT YET COME", UNTILL DRAMATICALLY ARRANGING TO RIDE INTO JERUSALEM ON THAT DONKEY. THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH HAD EVEN FORETOLD THIS VERY DONKEY RIDE 600 YEARS EARLIER. (ZECH 9:9)

      ZECHARIAH 9:9 REJOICE GREATLY, O DAUGHTER OF ZION; SHOUT, O DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM; BEHOLD THY KING COMETH UNTO THEE; HE IS JUST, AND RIDING UPON AN ASS, AND UPON A COLT THE FOAL OF AN ASS.

      AS I INDICATED IN ISRAEL AND THE FIG TREE, THERE WAS A 19 YEAR INTERVAL BETWEEN THE CAPTURE OF DANIEL AND THE CONQUEST OF JERUSALEM BY BABYLON. THE TIME INTERVAL FROM THE REBIRTH OF ISRAEL AS A NATION ON MAY 14th, 1948 TILL THE THE RECAPTURE OF THE CITY OF JERUSALEM ON JUNE 7th, 1967 WAS LIKEWISE A 19 YEAR INTERVAL. IS THIS PROPHETICALLY IRONIC?

      THE DESOLATIONS OF JERUSALEM BEGAN WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY AND ITS TEMPLE BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR IN 587 B.C.

      DANIEL KNEW FROM READING JEREMIAH 25:11-12, AND JEREMIAH 29:10 THAT ISRAEL WOULD SERVE EXACTLY 70 YEARS UNDER BABYLON. ( 70 YEARS x 360 DAYS = 25,200 DAYS )

      IN EZEKIEL 4:3-6 WE FIND: "THIS WILL BE A SIGN TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. LIE ALSO ON YOUR LEFT SIDE, AND LAY THE INIQUITY OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL UPON IT. ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF DAYS THAT YOU LIE ON IT, YOU SHALL BEAR THEIR INIQUITY. FOR I HAVE LAID ON YOU THE YEARS OF THEIR INIQUITY, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF DAYS, THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY DAYS; SO SHALL YOU BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE HOUSE OF "ISRAEL". AND WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THEM, LIE AGAIN ON YOUR RIGHT SIDE; THEN YOU SHALL BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE HOUSE OF "JUDAH" FORTY DAYS. I HAVE LAID ON YOU A DAY FOR EACH YEAR."

      LEVITICUS 26:18,21,23-28; HAD FOREWARNED ISRAEL THAT ANOTHER REBELLIOUSAND DISOBEDIENT ACT WOULD RESULT IN A SEVEN-FOLD PUNISHING OF ISRAEL. REMEMBER THEY HAD ALREADY SLAVED AWAY IN BABYLON FOR 70 YEARS.

      THE INTERVAL BETWEEN ISRAEL'S DISPERSION IN 606 B.C. TO THE DISPERSION OF JUDAH IN 587 B.C. STANDS COMPARATIVE TO ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND THE RECAPTURE OF JERUSALEM IN OUR CENTURY!

      COUNTING FORWARD FROM THE CONQUEST OF ISRAEL AND THE SUBSEQUENT DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, WE ARRIVE AT MAY 14, 1948, AND BY ADDING THE 19 YEAR INTERVAL WE COME TO JUNE 1967.

      NOW, JUST SUPPOSE THAT GOD REPLANTS THE FIG TREE OF ISRAEL, IN EXACTLY THE SAME TIME SEQUENCE SCENARIO AS HE UPROOTED IT FROM ITS PLANTED LAND, ( 70 years ) WE FIND THAT 51 YEARS ADDED ONTO THE 1967 RECAPTURE OF JERUSALEM COMES TO THE YEAR 2018.

      THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE, BEING REALIZED WITH THE REBIRTH OF ISRAEL IN 1948 CARRIES A REMARKABLE PARALLEL WHEN WE REMEMBER THAT JESUS SAID TO THE GENERATION THAT WITNESSES THE BUDDING OF THE FIG TREE: