d. The final one-week period (the Seventieth Week) (1) Its opening and closing events It opens with the Beast making a seven-years’ covenant with the Jews and it closes with the beginning of the pouring out of God’s wrath upon the desolator (the Beast). (2) Its interim events (a) The events at the beginning of the week 1) The Jewish prophetical clock again begins to tick (the gap period is completed) 2) The Roman Empire is revived (Rev. 13:1) 3) The Beast (the Man of Sin, the Ruler of the revived
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