IS THE UN’S PROPOSED SEVEN-YEAR PLAN PROPHETICALLY SIGNIFICANT?

The UN recently announced that they need “7 Years of Accelerated, Transformative Action to Achieve SDGs.” The SDGs are the seventeen “Sustainable Development Goals” that the UN put in place eight years ago through which they intend to establish a one-world government.

Below is a quote from the UN’s website regarding the upcoming summit during which they hope the leaders of the world will commit to a seven-year initiative to achieve all their SDGs:

The SDG Summit, in September 2023, must signal a genuine turning point. It must mobilize the political commitment and breakthroughs our world desperately needs. It must deliver a rescue plan for people and planet.

At the center of this rescue plan, Heads of State and Government must recommit to seven years of accelerated, sustained, and transformative action, both nationally and internationally, to deliver on the promise of the SDGs. Leaders can show their resolve by adopting an ambitious and forward-looking political declaration at the SDG Summit and presenting global and national commitments for SDG transformation.[i]

Is the fact that the globalists of our day are thinking in terms of “seven years” prophetically significant?

Those who believe that the seventy weeks of Daniel 9:24-27 remain relevant for our day would answer “yes.” They teach that the last week of seven years, as the prophet describes in 9:27, awaits a future fulfillment.

Those that deny the restoration of a kingdom for Israel won’t place any prophetic significance in the UN’s seven-year plan. That’s because they claim that Daniel’s prophecy of seventy weeks is no longer relevant because the church is now God’s kingdom on earth and thus there’s no seven-year Tribulation followed by Jesus’ thousand-year reign described in Revelation 20:1-10.

Which position aligns with the words of Scripture? Let’s examine the evidence.

HAVE ALL OF GOD’S PURPOSES FOR THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL 9:24-27 BEEN FULFILLED?

In Daniel 9:24, the Lord revealed all that He intended to accomplish through His “people,” the Israelites, and His “holy city,” Jerusalem, during the seventy weeks:

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Has God achieved all His purposes for His people and city during this extended time? No, He has not.

The Lord has not yet brought “everlasting righteousness” to the world. Yes, Jesus did atone for our sins upon the cross making “reconciliation for iniquity.” However, His purposes for the seventy weeks remain incomplete. God has not accomplished all these things through Israel and more specifically, through Jesus, His Son.

Because some would argue that the Lord has brought “everlasting righteousness” to the world in a spiritual sense through the church, we must continue to examine the words of Daniel’s prophecy.

WHAT DOES DANIEL SAY WILL HAPPEN TO THE TEMPLE DURING THE SEVENTIETH WEEK?

Daniel 9:27 tells us that at the midpoint of the last week, a future prince will desecrate a Jewish temple.

“And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

Has this defilement already happened, or does it await a future fulfillment? Some say that a Greek ruler named Antiochus Epiphanes fulfilled this prophecy on September 6, 171 BC when he offered a pig as a sacrifice on the altar of the Jewish temple. But was this a precursor to Daniel 9:27 or its fulfillment?

Those who have calculated the time of the first sixty-nine weeks of Daniel’s prophecy discover that this time period ended on the exact same day that Jesus’ rode triumphantly into Jerusalem, one week before He was “cutoff” fulfilling the words of Daniel 9:26. It’s illogical to say that the seventieth week occurred before the previous sixty-nine; that’s similar to saying the number twelve comes before the number five.

Secondly, and most importantly, the Lord Himself said that Daniel’s seventieth week remained unfulfilled in His day, two hundred years after Antiochus defiled the Jewish temple.

JESUS REFERRED TO THE TEMPLE DESECRATION WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE END OF THE AGE

Jesus, in Matthew 24:15, referred to the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27 as a future event:

So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand).

When asked about the end of the age and His return to the earth, Jesus’ mentioned Daniel’s prophecy of the desecration of the temple as a sign of these things…