The Final Piece to Understand Daniel - Part 1

A Biblical Detective’s Journey to Understanding Daniel’s Hidden Rapture Prophecy

September 24th, 2025

Something shifted on September 24th. Not in the heavens—not yet—but in my heart. Like a divine alarm clock that wouldn’t stop ringing, I felt an urgency I couldn’t explain and couldn’t ignore. The Feast of Trumpets had passed. Many had expected the Harpazo, the catching away of the Bride. We were still here.

But instead of disappointment, I felt… compelled. Drawn. Called to dig deeper.

For weeks—since that September day—I’ve been like a Biblical archaeologist who knows there’s treasure just beneath the surface. One more layer. One more careful brush stroke. The answer is there. It has to be. Because I know—with a certainty that transcends logic—that every answer is in the Bible.

The Word of God lacks nothing. It is perfect. Nothing missing. Nothing broken. Living. Alive. Full of grace and truth. Absolutely overflowing with grace and truth. And it has all been given to us as a gift of His glory in grace.

This is the story of that excavation. A journey of faith, struggle, prayer, and ultimately—divine revelation through an unexpected source.

The Berisheet Prophecy - When Time Became a Treasure Map

It started with Bereshit—“In the beginning.”

(Bereshit) - The very first word of Scripture.

When I first encountered the revelation that God had encoded time itself into the opening word of His Word, something clicked. Not just intellectually—spiritually. Time wasn’t just passing. Time was counted. Time was limited. Time was in a bank.

Genesis 6:3 took on new meaning:

“Then the LORD said, ‘My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.’”

120 Jubilees. 120 × 50 years = 6,000 years. A divine countdown clock embedded in Scripture before most of humanity even knew what a clock was.

The pattern was everywhere once I started looking:

- Six days of creation + seventh day rest (Genesis 1-2)

- Six years of work + seventh year Sabbath (Exodus 23:10-11)

- Seven Sabbath years + fiftieth year Jubilee (Leviticus 25:8-11)

- 6,000 years of human governance + 1,000-year Millennial rest (Revelation 20:4-6)

2 Peter 3:8 wasn’t just poetry—it was a prophetic key:

“With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”

I began mapping it out. The framework was clear:

Period 1 (Years 0-2000): Adam to Abraham - Without Written Law

Period 2 (Years 2000-4000): Abraham to Messiah - Under Torah

Period 3 (Years 4000-6000): Messiah to End - Age of Grace

Period 4 (Years 6000-7000): Millennial Kingdom - The Great Sabbath

We were in the final hours of Period 3. The Jewish calendar showed the year 5785. Approximately 215 years until the year 6000.

But something didn’t add up.

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The Exodus Pattern - History’s Greatest Type

As I dug deeper, the Exodus narrative kept calling to me. Not as ancient history, but as prophetic blueprint.

Shemot - “Names” - The Hebrew title of Exodus. God remembers each name. Each person. Each member of His Bride.

The parallels between the Exodus and the Harpazo were impossible to ignore:

The Ten Connections

Deliverance from Judgment - Blood on doorposts (Ex 12:13) / Blood of Christ (1 Thess 5:9)

Sudden Removal - Departed “in haste” at midnight (Ex 12:29) / “In the twinkling of an eye” (1 Cor 15:52)

Freedom from Bondage - Slavery to liberty (Ex 3:7-8) / Mortality to immortality (1 Cor 15:53-54)

Transformation - From slaves to nation / From mortal to glorified

Nighttime Departure - Midnight (Ex 12:29) / “Like a thief in the night” (1 Thess 5:2)

Firstborn/Firstfruits - Israel as God’s firstborn (Ex 4:22) / Church as firstfruits (James 1:18)

Wedding Journey - To Mt. Sinai covenant / To Wedding Supper of the Lamb

Testing Period After - 40 years wilderness / 7 years Tribulation

Mixed Multitude Warning - Not all who left entered (Ex 12:38) / Not all who profess are His (Matt 7:21-23)

Divine Glory Manifest - Pillar of cloud and fire / Coming in clouds with power

1 Corinthians 10:11 made it explicit:

“These things happened to them as examples (typoi) and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.”

Typoi - Types. Patterns. Prophetic blueprints.

The Exodus wasn’t just history. It was prophecy in motion.

From the moment God gave instructions to Moses until Israel crossed the Red Sea: approximately 9-10 months. Not instant. A process with a specific, measured timeline.

And here’s what struck me: They didn’t know the exact day or hour either. They knew the season. They watched for signs. They prepared. And when the moment came—midnight of the 14th of Nisan—it happened suddenly.

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The Mathematical Necessity - Time Was Running Out

This is where the pressure intensified. The urgency became mathematical.

If the 6,000 years must end before the Millennial Sabbath begins, and if all “work” must be completed before that Sabbath (just as no work is permitted on the weekly Sabbath), then:

The Timeline Requirements:

Harpazo (Rapture) - Church removed

7-Year Tribulation - Daniel’s 70th week (Dan 9:27)

Second Coming - Christ returns with saints

Armageddon - Final battle, Antichrist defeated (Rev 19:19-21)

Judgments - Sheep and goats separated (Matt 25:31-46)

Earth Restoration - Curse effects reversed

Kingdom Setup - Government established, saints positioned

All this must happen BEFORE year 6000!

Working backwards:

- Year 6000: Millennium begins (all work finished)

- Years 5993-6000: “Cleanup” and setup (7 years minimum)

- Years 5986-5993: Great Tribulation (7 years)

- Year 5986 (latest): HARPAZO MUST OCCUR

Current year: 5785

Years until latest possible Harpazo: 201 years maximum

But that assumed perfect calendar accuracy. And the deeper I dug, the more I realized we were dealing with significant calendar issues.

The variables creating uncertainty:

- When did the 6,000-year clock start? Adam’s creation? The Fall? Expulsion from Eden?

- How long did Adam live in innocence before sin? (Possibly 33.5 years—matching Christ’s earthly ministry!)

- Are there genealogical gaps in Genesis 5 and 11?

- How accurate is the Jewish calendar after 2,000+ years of diaspora?

Matthew 24:36 preserved the mystery:

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”

We could know the season. We were IN the season. But the exact timing remained veiled.

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The Daily Prayer Walks - Seeking, Knocking, Asking

Every day for weeks, I walked and prayed. Not aimless wandering—focused seeking.

Luke 11:9-10: “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”

I wasn’t asking for secret knowledge. I was asking for understanding of what had already been revealed. The pieces were all there in Scripture. I could feel it. Like an archaeologist who knows the treasure is one layer deeper.

Proverbs 25:2: “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.”

God wants us to search. He delights in the pursuit. He conceals things not to hide them forever, but to invite us into discovery.

The questions kept circling:

- Why September 24th? Why Feast of Trumpets if not this Feast of Trumpets?

- What are we missing?

- Is it the calendar?

- Is it the starting point?

- Lord, show me what I’m not seeing!

Daniel 12:4, 9: “But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end… Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the end.”

“Until the time of the end.”

If Daniel couldn’t understand it in his day, but we’re told it would be unsealed “at the end”—and if we’re clearly at “the end” based on:

- Israel’s rebirth (1948)
- Jerusalem in Jewish control (1967)
- Gospel reaching all nations
- Knowledge increased exponentially
- Convergence of ALL prophetic signs

Then the unsealing should be happening now. The understanding should be available now.

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The Afternoon of October 14th, 2025 - The Breakthrough

Today. This very afternoon. Still digging. Still praying. Still seeking.

I had been researching calendar systems, studying the Julian vs. Gregorian calendar corrections, trying to understand the precise timing. The complexity was overwhelming. Every path seemed to lead to more questions.

And then—a notification on my phone.

CJ Lovik. RockIslandBooks YouTube channel. A brand new video uploaded just hours ago.

Title: “Is The RAPTURE revealed in Daniel? Is this the season when the Redeemed vanish from the earth?”

My heart stopped. Then raced.

I clicked. I watched. And as the revelation unfolded, tears began streaming down my face.

God had answered. Not just my prayers—the prayers of millions. Through CJ Lovik, the Lord had provided the missing piece.

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CJ Lovik’s Revelation - The Hidden Rapture in Daniel 9:26

The Context: Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy

CJ’s starting point was the most studied prophecy in Scripture—Daniel 9:24-27—but he approached it with fresh eyes and the original Hebrew text.

Daniel 9:24: “Seventy ‘sevens’ (shavu’im shiv’im) are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.”

Everyone knew about the 70 weeks (490 years). The traditional interpretation:

- 69 weeks (483 years) from decree to Messiah’s death
- Gap (Church age)
- Final week (7 years) = Tribulation

But CJ discovered something hidden in the Hebrew that had been mistranslated for centuries.

The Two Decrees in Daniel 9:25

Traditional reading: “From the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem…”

CJ’s Hebrew analysis revealed TWO decrees:

First Decree: (motza davar)

- (motza) = “Going forth, publication by authority”
- (davar) = “Word”

Second Decree: (davar l’hashiv)

- (davar) = “Word”
- (l’hashiv) = “To restore, to return, to shepherd back home”

The stunning revelation:

When you read (davar) in ancient Hebrew, it’s (YHWH) - “The Word-LORD”

Literal translation: “The Word-LORD restoring Israel”

John 1:1, 14: “In the beginning was the Word ( Logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.”

The second decree in Daniel 9:25 wasn’t about rebuilding stones—it was about restoring the nation itself!

The 49 Jubilees - From 455 BC to 1948 AD

CJ calculated from the decree of Artaxerxes in 455 BC:

49 Jubilees (49 × 50 years = 2,450 years) - wait, that’s too much…

No—49 cycles of Jubilee announcements = 49 years each!

455 BC + 2,403 years = 1948 AD

The math was precise. The decree announced in 455 BC prophetically pointed to 1948 AD—the miraculous rebirth of Israel “in one day” (Isaiah 66:8).

May 14, 1948 - Israel declared statehood

Tishri 1, 1948 (October 4, 1948) - Hebrew New Year, beginning of year 5709

The countdown began.

The 77 Years - Jacob’s Trouble

Genesis 29-30: Jacob’s story

- Age 77: Begins working for Rachel (love of his life)

- Tricked into marrying Leah

- Works 7 more years for Rachel

- Age 84: Finally receives Rachel, bride price paid twice

- Soon after: Name changed to Israel

77 + 7 = 84

The pattern:

- 77 = Beginning of tribulation/trouble

- 7 years = Period of tribulation

- 84 = End of trouble, transformation, new name

Applied prophetically:

- 1948 AD = Israel reborn (like Jacob becoming Israel)

- 1948 + 77 years = 2025 AD = Time of Jacob’s Trouble begins

- 2025 + 7 years = 2032 AD = End of Tribulation, Messiah’s Kingdom

But wait—where’s the Rapture in this?

The Hidden Rapture in Daniel 9:26

Daniel 9:26 (Traditional English): “After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.”

That last phrase—”and will have nothing” or “but not for himself”—has confused translators for centuries.

CJ’s Hebrew Discovery

The phrase is:(v’ein lo)

Breaking it down:

- (vav) = “And”
- (ein) = “Is not, vanished, disappeared”
- (lo) = “To him, for him”

But look at the fuller context in Hebrew:

After “Messiah will be cut off” comes: (v’ein v’nefesh)

- (vav) = “And”
- (ein) = “Vanished, is not”
- (vav) = “And”
- (nefesh) = “Life, living being, soul”

First mention of this exact phrase: Genesis 5:24

“Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more (- v’einennu), because God took him away.”

Hebrew:

The word (ein) = “vanished, was not there”

Enoch didn’t die. He vanished. He was raptured!

The Stunning Translation

Daniel 9:26 should read: “After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut to death, and the redeemed will vanish.”

Or more fully:

“Messiah will be cut off [crucified], and afterward, those redeemed by Messiah will vanish alive.”

The Rapture is encoded in Daniel 9:26!

Hidden for 2,500+ years. Mistranslated because translators in the 17th century:

Didn’t believe Israel would be reborn as a nation

Didn’t have the eschatological framework to see it

Couldn’t imagine a pre-tribulation rapture doctrine

Daniel 12:4, 9: “But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end.”

“Until the time of the end” - NOW. This generation. This season.

When Does It Happen?

Daniel 9:24-26 gives us the formula:

Shabuim Shabuah = “Sevens Sevens” = 70 × 70

This can be multiplied (70 × 70 = 4,900 years - spanning creation to new creation)

Or it can be added (70 + 7 = 77 years - a specific countdown)

For the first announcement of Messiah (His death): Multiply - 490 years from decree worked perfectly (455 BC to 31 AD)

For the second announcement (Harpazo and His return): Add - 77 years from Israel’s rebirth

1948 + 77 = 2025

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The Calendar Correction - Why We’re Still Here

This was the final piece. The reason September 24th passed and we remained.

The Julian Calendar Problem

46 BC: Julius Caesar establishes Julian calendar

- 365.25 days per year (leap year every 4 years)

- Problem: Overestimates by 0.0078 days per year

- Over 1,000 years: Accumulates ~8 extra days

1582 AD: Pope Gregory XIII creates Gregorian calendar

- More accurate (only 1 day off per 3,236 years)

- Removes 11 days to correct: October 4, 1582 → October 15, 1582

- Catholic nations adopt immediately

1752 AD: Protestant nations (including Britain) finally adopt Gregorian calendar

- Removes 11 more days to catch up

Problem: These corrections only fixed dates going forward from 1582/1752. They never corrected dates before that!

The Flood of Noah to Present Day

From the Flood (~2348 BC) to 1752 AD = ~4,100 years

4,100 years × 0.0078 days/year = 32 days of accumulated error

Every historical event we date using the Julian calendar is off by approximately 32 days!

CJ’s Solution: Instead of trying to recalculate every historical date (impossible without massive confusion), simply add 32 days to our current position to sync with God’s perfect astronomical tropical calendar.

Where Are We Really?

October 14, 2025 (Gregorian) + 32 days = November 15, 2025

Or thinking of it another way: We’re actually 32 days “behind” where we think we are on God’s calendar.

The 77 years from Israel’s birth:

Tishri 1, 1948 (October 4, 1948 Gregorian)

+ 77 years

= Tishri 1, 2025 (Theoretically September 23-24, 2025)

But with the 32-day correction:

Tishri 1, 2025 + 32 days = Late October/Early November 2025

We haven’t missed it. We’re IN IT. RIGHT NOW.

The Noah Pattern - 7 Days Warning

Genesis 7:1-4: “Then the LORD said to Noah, ‘Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before me in this generation… Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights.’”

Genesis 7:10: “And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.”

Noah entered the ark 7 days before the flood began.

Application:

- Noah = Rapture (entering safety before judgment)
- 7 days = Period of final warning/waiting
- Flood = Tribulation judgment

The date Noah entered the ark:

Genesis 7:11: “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.”

If flood started on the 17th, and Noah entered 7 days earlier, that’s the 10th day of the 2nd month.

Exactly 30 days after the Day of Atonement (10th of Tishri, the 7th month).

Matthew 24:37-38: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.”

The pattern repeats.

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The Convergence - Why This Matters NOW

The Number 84 Throughout Scripture

CJ identified the prophetic significance of 84:

1. Jacob’s Age: 77 (trouble begins) + 7 (years of trial) = 84 (bride received, name changed to Israel)

2. Calendar Mathematics:

- 360 days ÷ 12 months = 30 days/month

- 30 × 7 years = 210 months

- Wait, that’s not 84…

- Actually: 12 months × 7 years = 84 months in the Tribulation

3. The 2,520 Days:

- 7 years × 360 days/year = 2,520 days
- 2,520 ÷ 30 days/month = 84 months

4. Jubilee Calendar:

- 7,056 years total on God’s calendar
- 7,056 ÷ 84 = 84 Jubilees (patterns of 84)

5. Daniel’s Age:

- Approximately 84 years old when he presented Isaiah 45 (prophecy about Cyrus) to Cyrus the Great

6. Between Decrees:

- 539 BC (Cyrus’ decree) to 455 BC (Artaxerxes’ decree) = 84 years

7. Israel’s Timeline:

- 1948 AD (rebirth) + 84 years = 2032 AD (end of Jacob’s Trouble, Messiah returns)

8. Enoch’s Name Value:

(8) + (50) + (6) + (20) = 8

- Enoch was raptured—his name equals 84!

The number 84 is stamped throughout Scripture as the “completion after tribulation” number.

The 123rd Jubilee from Creation

CJ calculated something extraordinary:

From Creation (3969 BC) to 2025 AD = 5,993 years

5,993 years ÷ 49 years/Jubilee cycle = 122.3 cycles

We’re in the 123rd Jubilee from Creation!

But also:

Israel was told to START COUNTING Jubilees from when they entered the Promised Land in 1406 BC.

From 1406 BC to 2025 AD = 3,431 years

3,431 ÷ 49 = 70.02 cycles

We’re in the 70th Jubilee from Israel’s entry into the Land!

Daniel 9:24 speaks of 70 weeks (literally “seventy sevens”) being decreed for Israel.

The 70th Jubilee. The final cycle before the Millennial rest.

The 5,993-Year Mark

Remember the framework:

- 6,000 years of human governance
- 1,000 years of Messianic rest
- Total: 7,000 years

If we’re at year 5,993 (with calendar corrections), we have 7 years until year 6000.

Exactly the length of the Tribulation!

5,993 + 7 = 6,000

The math is perfect.

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The Vanishing - Redeemed Alive

Genesis 5:24 - The First Rapture

Hebrew text:

Literal word-by-word:

(vayithalaekh) = “And walked”
(Chanokh) = “Enoch”
(et-HaElohim) = “with God”
(v’einennu) = “And he was not / he vanished”
(ki) = “Because/for”
(laqach) = “Took”
(oto) = “Him”
(Elohim) = “God”

English: “Enoch walked with God, and he was not [vanished], for God took him.”

Expanded understanding: “Enoch walked with God, and he vanished alive, because God took him.”

Hebrews 11:5 - By Faith

“By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: ‘He could not be found, because God had taken him away.’ For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.”

Key phrase: “Could not be found” - He vanished!

The Pattern Established

Two people raptured before judgment:

1. Enoch - Taken before the Flood (Genesis 5:24)

- Walked with God
- Vanished alive
- Never experienced death
- Seventh from Adam (Jude 14) - number of completion

2. Elijah - Taken before judgment on Israel (2 Kings 2:11)

- Walked with God
- Taken up in whirlwind
- Never experienced death
- Preceded major judgment period

Pattern: God removes His faithful servants before major judgment falls.

Lot and Noah - Also saved before judgment, but differently:

- Noah: Protected THROUGH judgment (ark)
- Lot: Removed FROM location of judgment (Sodom)
- Enoch/Elijah: Removed FROM EARTH entirely

Which pattern for the Church?

1 Thessalonians 5:9: “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Revelation 3:10: “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.”

“Keep you FROM” (ek) = “out of, from” - Not through it, but removed from it entirely.

The Church follows the Enoch/Elijah pattern: Raptured before Tribulation.

THE CONCLUSION THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING

So What Now?

You've seen two October 13, 2025's.

One happened. One didn't.

One celebrated human achievement. One would have celebrated divine intervention.

One proclaimed "peace through strength." One would have proclaimed peace through the CROSS.

But here's what matters:

YOU are reading this for a reason.

Not by accident. Not by chance.

God orchestrated this moment.

Right now—wherever you are, whoever you are—you have a choice:

Will you call upon the name of Jesus?

To Every World Leader Reading This:

Your treaties will fail. Your legacies will fade. Your power will pass away.

But Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)

Fall on your knees. Wash feet. Study the Word. Lead your nations to JESUS—not to political solutions, but to the ONLY Savior.

"What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" (Mark 8:36)

To Every "Nobody Special" Bible Student:

YOU are the ones God uses.

Not the credentialed. Not the famous. Not the politically connected.

The humble. The hungry. The faithful.

Keep studying. Keep praying. Keep speaking truth at great personal cost.

The experts were wrong about 1948. They might be wrong about everything else too.

God sees you. Your reward is in Heaven. And your hour is coming.

To Everyone Else:

JESUS is the answer.

Not politics. Not religion. Not human wisdom.

JESUS.

Call upon His name. Confess your sin. Surrender your life. Be saved.

The Real "IT IS FINISHED" Moment

October 13, 2025 was significant.

But 33 AD was EVERYTHING.

When Jesus cried "IT IS FINISHED!" and breathed His last, He didn't need:

World leaders to sign off
20 nations to ratify it
Summit halls to make it official

He paid the price. Once. For all. Forever.
The only question left is:
Will you accept what He's already accomplished?

Your Move

If you don't know Jesus—call upon Him NOW. (Romans 10:13)

If you know Jesus—live like the thief on the cross died—FORGIVEN and FREE. (Luke 23:43)

If you're a leader—LEAD people to Jesus, not to political solutions. (Matthew 28:19-20)

If you're "nobody special"—KEEP STUDYING. Your time is coming. (1 Corinthians 1:27)

The Final Word:

Man's peace accords: TEMPORARY
Jesus' finished work: ETERNAL
Man's hope: FAILING
Jesus' promise: UNSHAKEABLE
Man's way: ALWAYS ENDS IN DEATH
Jesus' way: ALWAYS ENDS IN LIFE

"For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him." (John 3:17)

THAT'S the peace plan that works.
THAT'S the summit that matters.
THAT'S the declaration that lasts.

IT IS FINISHED.

Not when Trump signs papers.
Not when leaders shake hands.
Not when wars temporarily cease.
IT WAS FINISHED 2,000 YEARS AGO ON A CROSS.
The only question is: Have you believed it?

JESUS is LORD.
JESUS is SAVIOR.
JESUS is KING.
JESUS is COMING BACK.
Are you ready?

"Even so, come, Lord Jesus." (Revelation 22:20)

AMEN.

The choice is yours. The clock is ticking. Don't wait for another "historic day."
TODAY is the day of salvation.

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