Updated: 6-19-2025 © Copyright 2010 - 2025   All rights reserved. Daniel 11 Explained (condensed ‘one page’ commentary) ‘Matthew 24’ Explained (must match Revelation) The ‘Seals’ Explained (Revelation timeline revealed) Seven Churches Explained (Past & Present Church Prophecy) Note: ‘Sitemap’ shows a complete list of all pages (by category). ‘Homepage’ gives 3 simple steps + timelines + summary. Current Events from Daniel 11 (matching the Middle East) The Abomination (Daniel 11:31) done Recent Events ISIS - Saudi - Turkey (Daniel 11: 24-27) Final Events to the Abomination (Daniel 11: 28-30) Shiites re-take Persia + America’s Role Begins (Daniel 11: 21-23) soon done done - Chart showing the offset between 70th Seven and 2300-day Tribulation click to enlarge Related page: Daniel 11 Explained  (Condensed verse-by-verse commentary on one page) Background: What is a Seven?   At this point, let me back up and show that a “seven” is 7-years, rather than something else.  In case you’re not familiar, this verse is called the “70^th seven” because there are sixty-nine other sevens that precede it.  The others are not connected chronologically, and I’ll discuss that in the next section, but they are useful in showing the measure of time.  Daniel 9:25 says, “Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens’ and sixty-two ‘sevens’.”  The decree to rebuild Jerusalem (not the temple) was issued by King Artaxerxes of Persia, in the seventh year of his reign, which was 458 BC (according to the NIV study notes for Ezra 7).  It is not apparent to me why God separates the sevens, but the total is 483 years (69 times 7).  That puts the 483d year around 25AD, which is very close to when Jesus started his ministry (the Anointed One) because He was not born in year ‘zero’.  He was born in the time of King Herod (Matt. 2:1) and Herod died in 4 BC.  Plus, before Herod died, he ordered all Hebrew males, two years old and younger to be killed, so Jesus was probably about one.  Since He started His ministry at age 30 (Luke 3:23), it would have been around 25AD or the 483rd year.  The dates may not be exact, but the illustration is sufficient to show that a “seven” is ‘7-years’ rather than something else.  ‘ How do I know the other 69 Sevens are not connected?     I’ve had more than one person write in to tell me that the 70^th Seven happened in Jesus’ time, but I suspect all of them were from the Church of Christ or similar denomination because I know the Church of Christ is not only ‘post-trib’ but believes that everything in the Bible took place in Jesus’ time or shortly afterwards.  I know that because a friend of mine was in the Church of Christ and told me.  My immediate response was, “Well, what about Heaven, at the end of Revelation?”  He said, “Well, except heaven of course.”  Excuse me, but that leaves an awfully big gap in the Bible without any prophecies from God.  Needless to say, I whole-heartedly disagree.  Besides, my unique, logical and verifiable interpretations of Daniel 11 and the Seals show that many of God’s prophecies were fulfilled in the last 2000-years, many in the last decade.  God is very active in the world, especially during end times.  Anyway, it’s easy to show how the 70^th Seven is not connected to the other 69.  To see where the break is, you just need to look at Daniel’s entire vision. (below)  I’ve added the brackets for clarity.   Daniel 9:25-27 (NIV) 25 "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem [458 BC] until the Anointed One [Jesus], the ruler comes [25 AD], there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' [69x7=483 years]  It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. [Nehemiah 4:16-18]  26 After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. [crucifixion by the Romans]  The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. [Romans 70 AD]  The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.  27 He 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.   It’s pretty clear that the prophecy jumps to “the end” about halfway through verse 26, when it distinctly says, “the end will  come like a flood … and desolations have been decreed.”  Of course, it’s talking about the ‘abomination that causes desolation’ from verse 27, which clearly happens in the distant future, near the end, which is now.  The Church of Christ thinks that the destruction of the Temple was somehow the abomination, but that doesn’t make much sense when you consider other verses that indicate the abomination will be “set up” and “standing in the holy place,” not destroyed.  Besides, the main exile of the Jews, which they consider the ‘desolation’, didn’t happen until after the third revolt, around 136 AD, which is much longer than a ‘seven’.  They are obviously wrong because “the end” didn’t happen when the 2^nd Temple was destroyed by the Romans.  Yet, they are stubborn in their beliefs, and won’t listen to any facts concerning the pre-tribulation rapture.  It’s sad, but all post-tribs I’ve encountered are like that and refuse to listen to plain facts from the Bible.  Instead, they choose to manipulate Revelation by overlapping and omitting, which is expressly forbidden by God. (Rev 22:19)  Anyway, the 70^th Seven happens during end times, and I think it directly relates to the JCPOA between Iran and the P5+1 (many).  Time will tell if I have the right ‘confirmation’ as I explained above.  ‘ The 70th Seven is Not the Post-rapture Tribulation   Another thing that people get wrong about the 70^th Seven is that they confuse it with the post-rapture tribulation, but they are not the same thing.  The abomination happens in the ‘midst’, ‘middle’, or generally ‘within’ the 70^th Seven, but it ‘starts’ the post- rapture tribulation.  Thus, they overlap to some degree, as I’ve illustrated on the left, but they cannot be the same because the abomination is ‘within one’ but ‘starts’ the other.  Besides, the post-rapture tribulation (Trumpets and Bowls) last 2300-days, as described in Daniel 8:13-14 (below), but 2300-days is equal to 78-lunar months, or about 6.3 solar years, which is different from a ‘seven’.  Dan 8:13-14  13 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, "How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled-the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host that will be trampled underfoot?"  14 He said to me, "It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated."   Daniel 8:13-14 is an extraordinary prophecy because it summarizes the whole 2300-day ‘post-rapture tribulation’ into a few key events.    (1) The “rebellion that causes desolation” is obviously the ‘uprising and abomination’, combined, as they are combined in Daniel 11:31, along with the abolishing of the daily sacrifice.  Those events all happen together and ‘start’ the 2300-day tribulation.    (2) The “surrender of the sanctuary” is when the antichrist kills the two witnesses, 1260-days into the 2300-days (Rev 11:7), and takes over the 3rd Temple (2 Thess 2:4), which is built while the two witnesses supervise and protect the Temple Mount. (Rev 11:3-6)  That invasion is also the 6^th Trumpet War (Rev 9 & Daniel 11:40-43), in the approximate ‘middle’ of tribulation.    (3) The “host that will trampled underfoot” are the armies of the antichrist that are killed at Armageddon (7^th Bowl), at the ‘end’ of tribulation, at which time Jesus will reconsecrate the sanctuary, since it was defiled by the antichrist.    So, God amazingly summarizes the beginning, middle, and conclusion of tribulation, all in one verse, which will take 2300-days (note: an “evening and morning” is how God described ‘one day’ during the creation. (Gen 1:3)    Anyway, I said all that to show how the abomination ‘starts’ the 2300-day tribulation, which is different from the 70^th Seven, which merely ‘contains’ the abomination.   The 70^th Seven   To be honest, when I decided to write a book and subsequently started this website, the 70^th Seven (Daniel 9:27) was not a priority for me.  I had spent many years figuring out Daniel 11 and thought it was my duty to share it with the world.  After all, Daniel 11 is the only chapter in the Bible that was specifically “sealed until the time of the end.” (Dan 12:4)  Of course, that didn’t mean it would be sealed forever, so someone had to ‘unseal’ it or decipher its true meaning.  Second to that was the Seals, which I honestly thought everyone understood, but after I launched the website and started getting emails, I learned that the Seals were still a mystery to most people.  Even though the 70^th Seven is vitally important, since it’s the only verse with a time reference to the ‘abomination that causes desolation’, it was not a priority because I wasn’t trying to discover any rapture timing, only explain or ‘unseal’ Daniel 11 and the Seals.  Nevertheless, I kept getting drawn back to the 70^th Seven because it contains the same ‘abomination that causes desolation’ that Daniel 11:31 does.  Thus, the two verses were related because they contained the same event so their timing must match.  Daniel 9:27 (NIV)  [The 70th Seven] “He 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.”    It is clear that the abomination happens ‘within’ the 70^th Seven.  The NIV says “middle of the seven” and the KJV says “midst of the seven.”  Yet, they both agree because the ‘middle’ of a time period doesn’t necessarily have to be the exact middle.  In other words, anytime after the beginning but before the end could be referred to as being in the middle.  In this case, “midst” is probably a better word, but the point is: the abomination happens within the 70^th Seven.  Therefore, it stands to reason that some of the verses of Daniel 11, leading up to the abomination in Daniel 11:31, must also be within the 70^th Seven, or after the beginning.  That’s why the two verses seemed inseparable, so even though the interpretations stand alone, I kept getting pulled back to studying the 70^th Seven.    The event that starts the 70^th Seven is a “confirmation of a covenant with many.”  First of all, contrary to what others have taught, Israel is not involved in this covenant.  I mean, the same entity that makes the covenant with many sets up the abomination and the “end that is decreed is poured out on him.”  I think that is clearly Iran because they are the leader of the final empire in Daniel 11 (starting in verse 21) and the arch enemy of Israel.  Additionally, Israel would not be considered the “many” because they are simply not that big of a country.  I am almost certain that the covenant (agreement) was the Iranian nuclear agreement (JCPOA), which was signed between Iran and the P5+1 (US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany), which is literally “many.”    The JCPOA was originally signed in July-2015, and implemented in Jan-2016, but a key word in the verse says that the 70^th Seven starts when the agreement is “confirmed.”  That implies to me some kind of “re-affirming” when the agreement already existed because it doesn’t say “make a covenant” or “establish a covenant”; It says, “confirm a covenant.”  A friend suggested, and I agreed, that the confirmation could have been when Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the agreement, in May-2018, but the other countries didn’t follow.  In other words, Iran “confirmed the covenant” with the other 5 nations of the P5+1, which is still “many.”  Later, someone showed me an article with a timeline of events that showed Iran actively pursued the confirmation by meeting with the E3 (UK, France, and Germany) to formally agree to a continuation of the agreement without the US.  They even made arrangements to bypass the sanctions that Trump was re-imposing.  It was definitely a “confirmation of a covenant with many.”  Later, I found a different article that explained how the E3 met with Iran, twice in late-2024, to discuss the expiration date of the snap-back sanctions, which is scheduled for Oct-2025.  The E3 said a new deal should be struck before the expiration date, or actually by summer-2025, or they would initiate the snap-back sanctions.  Of course, Iran said that would nullify the deal and they would stop all inspections.  So, one way or another, the JCPOA was doomed to either expire or fall apart around summer-2025, which happened to be almost exactly 7-years from the confirmation in May-2018.  I had always said that only the ‘start’ mattered, but God found a way to make the confirmation actually last for 7-years, just like the verse says.  That’s amazing.    Update: Granted, the 7-years from May-2018 to May-2025 have technically passed, but I still think we are within the 70^th Seven.  I don’t want to sound like I’m just kicking the can down the road, but I’ve had more time to think about it.  In general, even though the JCPOA was originally signed 10-years ago, the current war between Israel and Iran still revolves around the same agreement.  Therefore, I definitely think it was the “covenant with many.”  One way to think about it is that the confirmation was specifically with the E3, when they met with Iran in May-2018, but that confirmation will continue until one of them decides to formally end it, either by the E3 using the snap-back sanctions or Iran stopping the inspections.  In other words, the “confirmation for one seven” could be defined more by the ‘confirmation’ rather than the exact number ‘seven’.    Seriously, I can provide a Biblical example of God extending a prophetic time period, which would be the same as God extending the 70^th Seven.  I mean, God told Abraham, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.” (Genesis 15:13)  Yet, when the Israelites came out of Egypt, the Bible says they were there for 430-years to the day. (Exodus 12:40-41)  Now, one could argue that they weren’t ‘enslaved and mistreated’ for the first 30-years, which is probably the case, but they were still ‘strangers in a country not their own’.  In any event, I don’t think the original prophecy was meant to be exact.  In the same way, the 70^th Seven might not be exact, but I think it will be close enough.  For the sake of comparison, the 430-years is a 7.5% increase over the 400-years.  If the same percent is added to 7-years, we get 7.5-years.  That would extend the 70^th Seven to November, but the deadline for the snap-back sanctions is October, so I doubt it would go that long.  I really doubt it will go much longer at all.  I’m not trying to buy more time or kick the can down the road.  I’m just trying to illustrate that the 70^th Seven could be approximate, so we could still be close to the rapture, since the JCPOA fits the prophecy in every other way except the exact time length.  May 14 1948 May 8 2018 May 12 2025 70-years Possible start of  70^th Seven (Daniel 9:27) Trump withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal May 8, 2018 but the deal continued,  so Iran effectively ‘confirmed’ the agreement with the other five nations (many). Israel’s Declaration of Independence Result of Seal 4  ‘Holocaust’ Timeline of 19’s 70th Seven 7-yrs  Sept 1 2031 78 lunar months or 2300-days Seal 6 (&7)  Abomination and Rapture in the ‘midst’ of the 70th Seven (Daniel 9:27) 2300-Days from the Abomination  and Rapture to Armageddon and re-consecration of the sanctuary  (Daniel 8:13-14) Bowl 7 Armageddon and re-consecration of the sanctuary (Daniel 8:13-14) Oct 1-8, 2031  Feast of Tabernacles  (starts on full moon)   Note: All survivors of Armageddon must worship Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles or be cursed with rotting flesh and no rain (Zech. 14:12-19) ‘post-rapture tribulation’ Trumpets & Bowls Jesus’ 1000-year reign 29 AD The following are two charts from a video I made, which included the 70^th Seven and other things. (47 minutes)  Post-rapture 1000-year reign Other Information: Israel goes to war with Iran   As everyone knows by now, on the early morning of June 13th (local time), Israel began attacking Iran.  Israel calls it a pre-emptive attack against Iran’s nuclear sites, but it’s much more than that.  When Israel attacks and kills several of Iran’s top military commanders, as well as hitting military targets, then they have declared war.  Israel can call it what they want, a pre-emptive strike or Operation Rising Lion, but they started a full-fledged war with Iran.  I don’t know how long it will last, but this could very well be the catalyst that leads to the Abomination that causes Desolation.  I mean, look again at Daniel 11:31.            Daniel 11:31 “His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.”    As I’ve said before, I think the “temple fortress” is the Western Wall and any “desecration” could (at least temporarily) “abolish the daily sacrifice,” which I think is just the daily prayer at the Wall that Jews perform.  Something like that would be a huge event.  Then, during the chaos of the uprising, they will set up the Abomination that causes Desolation.  That’s when Jesus will appear in the sky and the rapture will happen.    Like I said, the storming of the Temple Mount and desecration of the Western Wall would be a huge event, which would probably spell disaster for the group doing it when Israel retaliated.  That’s probably why no group has tried it already, but I think this declaration of war puts us one step closer because Iran is already experiencing the retaliation, so what do they have to lose?  I mean, I don’t think Iran has the fire-power to defeat Israel by conventional weapons, so the next best thing is to hit Israel where it hurts the most, such as storming the Temple Mount and desecrating the Western Wall.  The abomination that follows could be any symbolic gesture that they could set up quickly that would be hated by God.  Like I said, the mission would surely spell disaster for the group doing it, but what does Iran have to lose? In reality, the rapture that follows will be a disaster for Jews and Muslims alike because neither believes that Jesus was the Son of God and their Messiah.    Given the recent developments with the war between Israel and Iran, I think we are still on track for the abomination and rapture coming soon, within the 70^th Seven, as defined by the JCPOA confirmation. 4114 BC 1st Settlement in Modern Israel (Petah Tikvah) Result of Seal 3  ‘protection and prosperity’ Fulfillment of Jeremiah 16:15 29 AD 66 AD 136 AD Resurrection Seal 1 Timeline of 19’s 3 Jewish Revolts Seal 2 “made men slay each other” Resulted in banishment from Palestine for over 1700 years (Jeremiah 16:15) Note: 67 AD was on Timeline of 19’s  (one year off), but 37-years is also kind of significant 70-years 1878 May 1948 May 2018 May 2025 37-years 70-years 70-years Possible 70^th Seven (Daniel 9:27)   Trump withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal May-2018 but the deal continued, so Iran effectively ‘confirmed’  the agreement with the other five nations (many). The Abomination is set up in the ‘midst’ (KJV) of the 70^th Seven and the 6^th Seal rapture  takes place when the abomination is set up. 2024 was on the Timeline of 19’s  (one year off) Israel’s Declaration of Independence Result of Seal 4  ‘Holocaust’ Timeline of 19’s 7-yrs Creation Timeline of 19’s Note: Seal 5 is just a waiting period for the gospel to spread, same as Matt. 24:14 before the abomination in Matt. 24:15. Chart of the Seals & the 70^th Seven This 2nd chart is actually the end the first with the post-rapture added. Updated: 6-19-2025