What might happen on the "9th of Av" = July 25, 2015 - Part 3

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Every year has a 9^th of Av. But something significant concerning Israel does not always happen on the 9^th of Av. Why am I watching this year closely? (Tweet that!)

Because this year is different, special:

• It is a Shemitah year.

Learn more about the Shemitah in this introduction.  Learn more in this recent series of posts about the Shemitah listed at the bottom of this page. (Tweet that!)

• We are currently within the four "Blood Moon" total lunar eclipses with the last one ending the series coming this September.

You can see the schedule of these total lunar eclipses in this post. (Tweet that!)

But then again, all these things may be warnings of things yet to come next year. Or the next. (Tweet that!) And so maybe this is not the year for something bad to happen for Israel on the 9^th of Av after all. History will tell.

What might happen on the "9th of Av" = July 25, 2015 - Part 2

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In the previous post we talked about what might happen concerning Israel on the 9^th of Av, which is July 25, 2014.

Significant happenings in Israel on the 9^th of Av in history include (Tweet this!):

• Ten spies (not including Joshua and Caleb) gave a false report to Moses about the Promised Land causing the children of Israel to refuse to enter the Land (which is why Jews believe this day is cursed) 

• The destruction of the first Temple, that is Solomon's Temple, on the  9^th of Av in 586 B.C. 

• The burning down and destruction of the second Temple, that is Herod's Temple, by the Romans on the 9^th of Av in 70 A.D. 

• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella expelled the Jews from Spain (as Columbus sailed) on the 9^th of Av in 1492.

• In 1941 on the 9^th of Av Adolf Hitler signed papers for the "Final Solution" of the Jews. 

• And on the 9^th of Av in 1942 the "Final Solution" was implemented "as the first deportation of the Jews started from the Warsaw Ghetto with the extermination of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto and the arrival of the first transport of [Jews] to the Treblinka concentration camp." (Source. )

If you've been reading this blog for a while, you may remember my posts teaching about the 9^th of Av. (Tweet that!) You can review them here:

• April 9, 2015: Can this Date be Biblically Prophetic? Important Events in Jewish History on the 9th of Av

• April 11, 2015: Will the "Framework Agreement" with Iran be the False Peace Treaty in Bible Prophecy?

• October 18, 2014: Mark Biltz teaches "Shemitah Events" (Video Post)  Includes comet pieces hitting Jupiter. 

I know what you're thinking. Every year has a 9^th of Av. Why do I think something significant concerning Israel might happen this year? (Tweet that!) I'll tell you in the next post.

What might happen on the "9th of Av" = July 25, 2015 - Part 1

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Something significant concerning Israel may well happen on July 25, 2015.  (Tweet that!)

As I've studied the 9^th of Av and what has happened in Jewish history on that date, it doesn't seem to be too wild to think something significant might happen concerning Israel on the 9^th of Av this year. (Tweet that!)

This year the 9^th of Av on the Jewish calendar corresponds to July 25, 2015, on our calendar. (Tweet that!) (Remember that a Jewish day actually begins at sundown the evening before, that would be July 24, and ends sundown which would be July 25.)

When I say something might happen concerning Israel on July 25, 2015, I am not thinking it will be something big and headline-grabbing, like the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States. (Tweet that!)

Rather, I'm thinking something that most people might not even know is going on, unless they are really paying attention. (Tweet that!) I'm basing this on previous happenings on the 9^th of Av in history.

There were major events taking place, but I'm not sure most people in the world knew they were happening or would have recognized them as major events had they known of them:

• Adolf Hitler signs some papers.
• A train leaves the Warsaw Ghetto…

I'll list more of these 9^th of Av happenings in history in the next post.

But today as I look around the world at what is happening, one thing that leaps out at me is the deal negotiated with Iran. It was signed by U.S. leaders early Tuesday morning, July 14, 2015.

That doesn't mean it's a done deal though. The U.S. Congress has 60 days to review the agreement. I'm not clear on what that means. "Review" is far different than "approve" or "vote down." So what if Congress "reviews" it? If Congress disapproves it, can that stop it?

Currently, as I write this, President Obama is saying he will veto anything that doesn't approve the deal.

Back in April news sources announced U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other world leaders had agreed to a framework for a peace deal.

• New York Times.com: Iran Agrees to Detailed Nuclear Outline, First Step Toward a Wider Deal

At the end of my April 11, 2015, post I wondered this: 

Might this "peace deal" be made on the 9th of Av?

Well I was off a little. The deal was made July 14, 2015, not July 25^th – still 10 days until the 9^th of Av, July 25^th. God is never off even a little bit. His timing is always 100% perfect. Considering the 60-day review by Congress, that skips over the 9^th of Av by a couple months.

Could there be something else concerning Israel that could occur on the 9^th of Av this year that I'm not foreseeing? Or is this not the year?

In the next post we'll look at some of the occurrences concerning Israel that have happened in the past on the 9^th of Av.

Related Article:

• April 11, 2015: Will the "Framework Agreement" with Iran be the False Peace Treaty in Bible Prophecy?

Will the “Framework Agreement” with Iran be the False Peace Treaty in Bible Prophecy?

"Negotiations about Iranian Nuclear Program - 
the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Other Officials 
of the P5+1 and Ministers of Foreign Affairs 
of Iran and EU in Lausanne" 
by United States Department of State
Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

I had a friend ask me the other day if the "framework for a deal with Iran," which seems to be coming to be known as the "Framework Agreement," which the Obama Administration has worked out via Secretary of State John Kerry could be the "false peace treaty" in Bible prophecy. (Tweet that!) I had to admit I was kicking myself that I had not thought of that possibility.

Let me explain what my friend was referring to. The Bible speaks of "weeks" which we understand to be "weeks of years," in other words 7-year segments of time. In Daniel 9:20-27 the prophet Daniel saw a vision of the angel Gabriel, whom Daniel had seen and met with before. This time, Gabriel gave Daniel insight and instruction about "seventy sevens." We understand these to be 70 weeks of years.

Then in Daniel 9:25 Gabriel speaks of "seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.'" That totals 69 sevens. Which means there is one more "seven" left: the 70^th seven, or one more "week of years," a 7-year period.

There are, of course, different ideas about this, but many (if not most?) scholars believe there was an indeterminate gap of time between the 69^th week in Daniel and the 70^th week. And this final 70^th week of 7 years will be the final 7 years of history on earth as we know it now.

Then Daniel says this about that 70^th week of years:

"He [that is the Antichrist] will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him." (Daniel 9:27, NIV 1985)

As you can see, there is a covenant with "many." I believe most scholars think this is the Jewish people. I wonder if it isn't the majority of people on the earth?

This covenant is for one seven-year period. But in the middle of this seven – in other words, at the 3½ year point – the Antichrist breaks the covenant. (Tweet that!) This means the Antichrist never really meant for there to be lasting peace and so it was a "false peace." (Tweet that!)

We know the Jewish Temple has been rebuilt on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem at this point because sacrifices are going on, and that is the only place Jewish sacrifices can take place. (Tweet that!)

Then, in the middle of this seven-year so-called peace deal, the Antichrist puts an end to sacrifice, meaning he stops the Jewish sacrifices going on at the Temple.

When he, the Antichrist, breaks that covenant at the half-way point through the seven years, all hell breaks loose quite literally. The Antichrist sets himself up as God in the Jewish Temple or "on a wing of the temple" and this attempt to usurp God's rightful place as King of kings and Lord of lords is the last straw: the abomination that causes desolation.

So, for prophecy watchers, we are watching for these two things:

• the Temple to be rebuilt on the Temple Mount where sacrifices resume for the first time since 70 A.D., and

• the start of a “peace” deal which we know will be killed after 3½ years.

So the question is, could this so-called deal with Iran that the United States and other nations are painfully claiming to be negotiating with Iran be that Biblically prophesied false peace deal? And furthermore, considering the previous post, I’m wondering might this "peace deal" be made on the 9^th of Av? (Tweet that!) It's something to watch.

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