The Seven Times-2520 Years: 5

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN

Now Belshazzar saw the message that the Hand had written on the wall, and the message troubled him. Now why did it trouble him? Could he understand the message on the wall? In part he did. It wasn’t just the hand writing on the wall, it was the message that he wanted to understand because it was written in his language. What was actually written there was a number.

Each of the words written there was a measurement of weight.

DANIEL 5:25 And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

The four words stood for MENE- 50 SHEKELS= MENE=50 SHEKELS= TEKEL= I SHEKEL, UPHARSIN=25 SHEKELS…

THE TOTAL EQUALED 126 SHEKELS….

The Bible says in Ezekiel 45:12, "And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs:…"

THE SHEKEL IS 20 GERAHS:

Exodus 30:13; Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; Numbers 18:16; Ezekiel 45:12;

20 TIMES 126 IS 2520 GERAHS, OR SEVEN TIMES

He saw the number on the wall and he didn’t understand what it meant. Daniel comes in and he saw that this was not a good thing. You see, Daniel understood what the 2520 meant—scattering. He knew it meant God’s judgment on the kingdom. That’s why he said, ‘Your kingdom is weighed and wanting, divided, numbered and finished!’

…THAT NIGHT BELSHAZZAR’S KINGDOM WAS FINISHED.

He had transgressed passed the point of return. His kingdom would be rent from him.

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN = 2520 The Scattering.

But the Gathering is also shown in the book of Daniel in chapter 4:10-17. Nebuchadnezzar had a dream.

"Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven; He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth: Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.

This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men."

He was told that the tree would be cut down and around the stump would be wrapped bands of IRON and BRASS.

Iron in the Bible represents severe servitude. Some say that IRON represents the Civil Power—but under the Civil Power what do you have? Severe Servitude!

"God had said that His people should be saved, that the yoke He would lay upon them should be light, if they submitted uncomplainingly to His plan. Their servitude was represented by a yoke of wood, which was easily borne; but resistance would be met with corresponding severity, represented by the yoke of iron." 4T 172

Brass in the Bible represents affliction and judgment.

So what is being said here is that during this ‘scattering’ time, the 2520, there would be severe servitude, affliction and judgments, but there would be a time when God would gather them back.

Now look what it says about what would happen in the Gathering Time:

Daniel 4:33-37 "The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws]. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [is] from generation to generation: And all the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and [among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase."

DURING THOSE SEVEN TIMES, 2520, NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S REASON WAS TAKEN AWAY. HE COULDN’T SEE CLEARLY. BUT AT THE END OF THAT SEVEN TIMES HE WAS ABLE TO HAVE UNDERSTANDING BACK

1 HE WAS ENLIGHTENED AT THE END OF THIS 2520 PERIOD.

2. EXCELLENT MAJESTY WAS ADDED TO THE KINGDOM.

3. 1798 REPRESENTS THE END OF THE SCATTERING.

4. IN 1844, TWO THINGS HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH:

A. Wisdom and Understanding increased.

B. Excellent majesty was added.

BRASS AND IRON:

MOSES:

In Deuteronomy Chapter 28 verse 45-58: MOSES WAS REFERRING TO THE BLESSINGS AND THE CURSES THAT WOULD COME FOR BREAKING THE COVENANT.

The power he gives as trampling down the people is a yoke of iron. This power has a strange language and would come from afar, destroy Jerusalem and besiege it…Moses proclaimed the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD! Moses was teaching the trampling down of Pagan Rome continuing into Papal Rome. Moses understood this and prophesied what would happen from breaking the covenant.

PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS p. 467.

"By the Spirit of Inspiration, looking far down the ages, Moses pictured the terrible scenes of Israel's final overthrow as a nation, and the destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Rome: "The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young." {PP 467.1}

"The utter wasting of the land and the horrible suffering of the people during the siege of Jerusalem under Titus centuries later, were vividly portrayed: "He shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed. . . . And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land. . . .

Thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee." "The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, . . . and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates." {PP 467.2}

PART ONE SUMMARY:

We have seen the basic structure of this prophecy of the 7 Times. The Word of God just ties things together and how cryptically it has all been laid out in the Word. Mene, Mene, Tekle, Upharsin, something not understood for many years is made plain to us.

The deeper meaning of the story of Nebuchadnezzar is brought together now. We now see BOTH the Scattering and Gathering brought together. Never before in history has this understanding been made plain.

We are clearly in the very end time where we can start understanding clearly the role of the 144,000 in the last events of this world’s history.

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