The coming of the 70th week - Discerning the loss of Islamic control of the Temple Mount to the West

Where does the antichrist come from and what is his religion

Christians often speculate that The Roman Catholic Church or Islam will be where the Antichrist emerges.  However,  scripture says that a final kingdom depicted as the toes of iron and clay will be the final kingdom which is destroyed for the coming of Jesus in Daniel 2.  

Daniel 2 shows an image with a head of gold, chest of silver, lower body of bronze, legs of iron and toes of the iron of the legs mixed with clay.  Then a kingdom made without hands destroys the feet and goes on to be the eternal kingdom of Christ.   The interpretation given by Daniel is that the head of gold is ancient Babylon and that 4 other kingdoms will emerge in the future till Christ comes and establishes His eternal kingdom.  Persia is the silver chest, Greece is the bronze, Rome is the iron legs and the West is presumably the feet of iron and clay.  These kingdoms are relative to the kingdoms that govern the land of Canaan as a Jewish nation.  Babylon, Persia, Greece/Seleucid Greeks, Rome and the UN are the only nations since this prophecy which have governed over the land of Canaan as a Jewish nation.  incidentally, the UN is exactly a divided kingdom made up mostly of  the West (Nations which are of  the Roman Empire).  

Prophecy indicates that a third Jewish Temple will be built in which the Antichrist will commit the abomination of desolation (likely by standing as God in the temple) and will remove sacrifice and offering.  See Daniel 9:24-17, Matthew 24:15-22 and 2 Thessalonians 2:4.  In order for this to happen,  a third temple must be built.  This means Islamic control of the temple mount would need to diminish so that Israel can take control of the temple mount and build the third temple.

We know that Muslims aren't allowed to worship anyone other than allah.  If the Antichrist is to be Mulsim, then it might be very unlikely that anyone will worship him.  Yes a messiah figure or Imam is to come as a savior.  But he isn't to be worshiped.  It's likely that Muslims will be persecuted and killed by the antichrist for not worshipping him as god.

Revelations 13:4 says that the beast will be worshipped as god and that the dragon (Satan) will also be worshipped.  This is purely Satan worship and not exclusive to any other religion.  Verse 15 goes on to say that people will be forced to worship the image of the beast.

In conclusion, the beast will likely emerge from the West or UN and will be his own Satanic religion.  

Note, this is purely speculative and based on indications from scripture and not based on anything that the bible specifically claims.  

The mathematical prophecy of Daniel 9:23-27 broken down and explained. Calculating the math and the third temple and Great Tribulation

The 70 week prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 is quite astonishing in terms of its precision it had in predicting when future events would happen hundreds of years prior.  There are a few components of the prophecy.  A. The angel Gabriel explains the purpose of it, B. he accurately predicts when the Messiah will begin His ministry followed by His death and the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem and  C. with ambiguity, he describes what the final week will entail which is the coming of the anti-Christ, the abomination of desolations and the great tribulation.

Part 1.

In it, the angel Gabriel explains to Daniel that there will be 70 weeks determined for his people, the Holy City and to finish transgression, sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity, to seal up vision and prophecy and last but not least, to anoint the Most Holy. Therefore, the aforementioned is what is to be accomplished in the 70 week period (See verse 24).  A week in Hebrew is either a seven day period or a seven year period as shown in Genesis 29:27 & 28.  So 70 weeks is 70 seven year periods which amounts to 490 years.

Daniel 9:23, 24

23 At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision:

24 “Seventy weeks[a] are determined

For your people and for your holy city,

To finish the transgression,

To make an end of[b] sins,

To make reconciliation for iniquity,

To bring in everlasting righteousness,

To seal up vision and prophecy,

And to anoint the Most Holy.

Part 2.

Now for the math portion of the passage which predicts the year of the Messiahs ministry with amazing accuracy and  describes it being followed by his death and the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem by a prince and the period of desolation in verse 25 and 26.

Daniel 9:25, 26

25 “Know therefore and understand,

That from the going forth of the command

To restore and build Jerusalem

Until Messiah the Prince,

There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;

The street[c] shall be built again, and the wall,[d]

Even in troublesome times.

26 “And after the sixty-two weeks

Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;

And the people of the prince who is to come

Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

The end of it shall be with a flood,

And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

It predicts that there will be 69 weeks (483 years) from when the decree to rebuild Jerusalem is issued to when Messiah the Prince will begin.  Many people confuse the decree to rebuild Jerusalem with the decree to rebuild the temple by king Cyrus.  But the decree to rebuild the city was issued by King Artaxerxes in the 20th year of his reign during the month of Nissan (mid-March to mid-April) as mention in Nehemiah chapter 2.   The year of this decree is between March 15 and April 15 of the year 445 BC since Nehemiah merely says that it was in the month of Nissan during the 20^th year of Artaxerxes reign.  We also know that the angel Gabriel wasn’t speaking of Cyrus since Gabriel the angel spoke this prophecy to Daniel after Cyrus's death during the first year of king Darius’s reign as stated in verse one of Daniel 9.  So the beginning point for calculating the math of this prophecy is 445 BC in the month of Nissan which is from mid-March to mid-April.  The amount of years of your starting date would 444.75 years BC if you were to use April, 1 of the year 445 BC as your starting point.  This is because April 1 represents a quarter into the year 445 BC which means you’re actually 444.75 year BC instead of just 445 years BC.

Now before you can just calculate the 69 weeks or 483 years from April of 445 BC (444.75), you first have to determine what kind of years the 483 years are.  Are they solar years, lunar years or prophetic years (yes there are prophetic years as noted in Revelations and Daniel)?  We know its unlikely to be solar years of 365.25 day years since the Gregorian calendar wasn't yet the official calendar in use for during Daniels prophecy.  The official calendar of the day was the lunar calendar which is about a 354.5 day year which makes the lunar calendar a good candidate.  There is also the prophetic year which is a 360 day year.  This is the result of prophecy indicating that there are 1260 days in 42 months and inside of three and a half years.  That means each month is 30 days and each year is 360 days.  The figures given in prophetic visions or by angels in both the books of Daniel and Revelations are as follows.  A time is one year, times equals 2 years, a time, times and half a time equal three and a half years. 42 months are equated to three-and-a-half years and 1260 days equal three and a half years, one week equals 7 years and half a week equals three and a half years.  The three and a half years are all in reference to the length of the Great Tribulation period of the anti-Christ in both Daniel and Revelations. (If you would like to read more on this, see Revelation  11:2-3 and Revelation 12:6, 14, Daniel 7:12, Daniel 7:25, Daniel 9:24-27 and Daniel 12:7). 

Now for the tricky part, we now have to calibrate the years since we base the year 445 BC as the year that the decree to rebuild Jerusalem was made is on the Gregorian calendar of 365.25 day years but we base the 69 weeks (483 years) on either the lunar or prophetic years of either 354.5 day years or 360 day years (To be candid, I’m not certain which calendar is thee calendar to base the 69 weeks on since either of them fit history. I do prefer the prophetic calendar since it lines up more ).

Let’s first calculate the 69 weeks with the lunar year value.  To convert 483 lunar years into solar years, first take 483 years and multiply it by 354.5 days.  The total comes out to 171,223.5 days.  Now divide 171,223.5 days by 365.25 days. The total comes out to 468.78 solar years.  So if the angel was describing 69 weeks as being 483 lunar years, then that is the equivalence of 468.78 solar years.

Now if the angel Gabriel was referring to 69 weeks as meaning 483 prophetic years of 360 day years, then multiply 483 years by 360 days.  The total comes out to 173,880 days.  Divide 173,880 days by 365.25 days.  The amount comes out to 476.05 solar years.  So if the angel was describing 69 weeks as being 483 prophetic years, then that is the equivalence of 476.05 solar years.  So 69 weeks is either lunar to solar totaling 468.78 solar years or Prophetic years totaling 476.05 solar years.

So now let’s calculate the 69 weeks from the year 445 using both the lunar years value and the prophetic years value and see what year we arrive to.  Let’s start with the 69 weeks (483 years) in lunar years which is 468.78 solar years.  We have to calculate 468.78 years from about the month of Nissan of 445 BC.  Since Nissan is mid-March to mid-April, let’s use April 1 of 445 BC as our starting point.  April 1 is 90 days into 445 BC which is  a quarter of a year into the year 445 BC.  So a quarter of a year into 445 BC is 444.75 years to the year 1 AD (there is no zero AD).  So we need to use 444.75 as our value for April 1 of 445 BC. Note: There's no information as to what day in the month of Nissan that the decree to rebuild Jerusalem was issued. So let’s pick April 1 which is right in the middle of Nissan since it’s a nice clear quarter into the year which makes the math easier.  That gives us a margin of error of 15 days before or after the April 1 date.

So we need to subtract our 468.78 years (69 weeks of lunar years) from 444.75 (Nissan of 445bc April 1^st).  444.75 minus 468.78 is the formula.  The total should come out to -24.03.  The result is January of 24ad.  So if the 69 weeks were lunar years, then Messiah the prince is to be cut off after January of 24 AD according to Daniel 9:25-26. 

However, since our calendar doesn't start with zero AD,  but rather goes from the year 1 BC to the year 1 AD on the following year rather than going from 1bc to zero ad the following year (The Gregorian calendar leaves the year zero AD out. Example: the year 2000 should have been in 2001 AD).  So a year needs to be subtracted from January of 24 AD which brings us to January of the year 23 AD if the 69 weeks was based on lunar years.. 

January of the year 23 AD is an acceptable year since many historians argue that Jesus was possibly born about 4 BC according to one proposed birth year of Jesus by Josephus and Luke says Jesus began His ministry at approximately 30 years old according to Luke 3:23.  Jesus would have been approximately 30 on January of 23 AD.  The only issue is that it conflicts with Jesus beginning His ministry after John the Baptist’s ministry which began on the 15^th year of Tiberius Casers reign which was the year 29 AD.  So if Jesus began His ministry in the year 23 AD, then how could he begin His ministry after John the Baptists ministry in 29 AD.  Not that Daniel 9 is saying that Jesus’ ministry begins within 69 weeks.  It merely says that there are 69 weeks until Messiah the Prince and that Messiah will be cut off sometime after the 69 weeks.  If I may be candid, I simply presume that “69 weeks Until Messiah the Prince is referring to when He starts His ministry since the 69 weeks from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem arrives at either 23 AD or 30 AD depending on whether the 69 weeks are based on lunar years or prophetic years.

Now if the 69 weeks was referring to 483 prophetic years which is 476.05 solar years, then we need to subtract 476.05 years from April 1 of 445 BC.  The formula for this is 444.75 minus 476.05 which equal’s -31.3 or April of 31 AD.  Calibrate for the missing year zero AD in the Gregorian calendar which equals -30.3 which is April of 30 AD.  30.3 means under a third into the year 30ad which is under 3 months into 30 AD.  This brings us into early April of 30 AD.

30 AD is a great year since Josephus's records also allow for Jesus to be born on about 1 BC.  Since Luke 3 teaches that Jesus began His ministry at approximately 30 years old and that it began after John the Baptists ministry which began on the 15^th year of Tiberius Caesars reign in 29 AD.  The only discrepancy is what historians believe as the official birth year of Jesus would have been since there is uncertainty of when the death of Herod was.  Jesus had to be born prior to Herods death which was either in 5BC, 4 BC or 1 BC.  Josephus tells us that Herod died during a lunar eclipse but there was no record of the year of his death.   The records show that that there was a lunar eclipse on the years 5 BC, 4 BC and 1 BC.  If Jesus was born in 5 or 4 BC, then He would have been approximately 30 around the 23 AD date if we calculate the 69 weeks as being lunar years.  However that would conflict with Jesus beginning His ministry after the 15^th year of Tiberius’s reign in 29 AD.  As stated before, Daniel 9:24 doesn’t say that The messiah the prince will begin His Ministry after 69 weeks. 

It just says that there will be 69 weeks until Messiah the Prince and that He will be cut off after 69 weeks.  So the big question is what “69 weeks until Messiah the Prince” means?  Is it saying when He will be born, begin His ministry or enters Jerusalem lowly on the donkey as messiah.  The lowly on a donkey would be good however it doesn’t fit since the date is April of 30 AD and Jesus’ ministry was over 2 years long since it began around a Passover, and ended 2 Passovers after.  So since Jesus began after John the Baptists ministry after 29 AD and was crucified over 2 years after His Crucifixion, the date which He enters Jerusalem on the Donkey would have been as early as April of 32 AD.   So this means that Jesus likely began His ministry when He was baptized  in  April of 30 AD which was very easily just prior to a Passover and He  was then crucified just over 2 years after in about April of 32 AD. 

 I choose therefor believe that the 69 weeks are prophetic years of 360 day years and that “until Messiah the Prince” in Daniel 9:25 is referring to When He is baptized and begins His Ministry with the power of The Holy Spirit.  And I believe that “Messiah will be cut off after the 69 weeks” in Daniel 9:26 is referring to Jesus being Crucified after the 2 years.  I believe that what is meant by “Then the prince of the people will destroy Jerusalem and the temple” in Daniel 9:26 is referring to Prince Titus of the Romans destroying Jerusalem and the temple about 40 years after Jesus’s death. 

Jesus's coming and crucifixion aren’t the only impressive aspects of this prophecy, but the fact that it was able to accurately predict that a prince would destroy the temple and Jerusalem after the Messiah is cut off is astonishing and would require a rather ridiculous conspiracy theory to play out just so.  Many cynics say that the earliest records of a book of Daniel ever existing were in about 250 bc and therefore the book of Daniel may not have been written by Daniel in about 450 BC which is ludicrous since that only means that earlier records of the book are lost.  And it would still be too fantastic for a fraud to predict such events even 250 years BC.

Part 3.

Now we are at the somewhat ambiguous and yet, one of the most important eschatological pieces of prophecy in the Bible at the  end of verse 26 and in verse 27.

Let’s review what verses 26 and 27 of Daniel 9 say:

²⁶ “And after the sixty-two weeks
Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
And the people of the prince who is to come
Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The end of it shall be with a flood,
And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
²⁷ Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;
But in the middle of the week
He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate,
Even until the consummation, which is determined,
Is poured out on the desolate.”

Let’s look at what it goes on to say after it says that the temple and Jerusalem will be destroyed.  It says there will be desolations until the end of the war.  We immediately think that its speaking of the end of the Jewish Roman war.  But if you notice carefully,  it goes on to say that then the prince will make a covenant with the people for one more week but he will make an end of sacrifice and offering in the middle of the week.  The big question is how the anti-Christ can take away sacrifice and offering in the middle of the 70th week if he already destroyed the temple prior to the 70th week.  Did Prince Titus rebuild the temple after he destroyed it and then take sacrifice and offering away after he built it again?  Of course not since the temple hasn't been rebuilt since Prince Titus destroyed it in 70 AD.  With that being said, when it says that desolations will be determined after the temple and city is destroyed till the end of the war, it’s talking about the 2000 year plus period of desolations that the Jewish people experienced since the city and temple were destroyed.  The war is a spiritual one and the prince who will confirm a covenant with the people for the final 70th week is still to come and is the anti-Christ himself and will take away sacrifice and offering from the temple after he eventually orders it to be rebuilt again. 

Now the big part of this to notice is when it says that the prince will take away sacrifice and offering, and that he will do it on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate.   Jesus cations us in Matthew 24 5 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’[a] spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. 18 Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. 19 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 20 Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.

This great distress that is unequaled from the beginning of the world until now and never to be equaled again is known as the great tribulation.  Jesus is referring to back to Daniel 12 when He says this which says:

Daniel 12:1 “At that time Michael shall stand up,

The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people;

And there shall be a time of trouble,

Such as never was since there was a nation,

Even to that time.

And at that time your people shall be delivered,

Everyone who is found written in the book.

2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,

Some to everlasting life,

Some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Jesus is also referring to Daniel 12:11 when He says in Matthew 24:15

15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’[c] spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.

Daniel 12:11 says:

11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

13 “But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”

And Daniel 12:7 says that this Great Tribulation will be a time, times and half a time which is three and a half years. 

Daniel 12:7

7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.

Jesus Says that the sun and moon will darken and the powers of the heavens will be shaken immediately after the Great Tribulation and that He will return on the clouds sometime after the sun and moon dimming event.

This sun and moon dimming event is very likely to be the opening of the 6^th seal as mentioned in Revelation 6:12. Let’s compare the 2 in Matthew 24:29-31 and Revelation 6:12-17.

Matt 24: 29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

And now compare this to Revelations 6:12

Rev 6:12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold,[e] there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon[f] became like blood. 13 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. 15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders,[g] the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

The 70th week is yet to begin and when it does, the temple will be rebuilt and the great tribulation will begin in the middle of the last week when we see the abomination of desolations.  This great Tribulation period will last three and a half years since this event occurs in the middle of the week or 7 year period. 

Jesus says the great tribulation ends with the sun going dark and the moon and with Him ultimately returning in the clouds sometime after the sun and moon going dark along with the powers of the heavens being shaken in Matthew 24:29-31. The sun and moon going dark after the tribulation is likely the opening of the sixth seal in Revelations 6:12  when the sun goes dark and the moon dims blood red followed by the great earthquake and the stars falling from the sky. 

Daniel 12 also confirms that the Great Tribulation occurs with the abomination of desolations and lasts three and a half years.  The prince mentioned in verse 27 is a spiritual principality just as is the prince of Persian which is a demon as shown in Daniel 10:13.  The prince in verse 27 of Daniel 9 is the antichrist who commits the abomination of Desolations by declaring himself as god in the Holy place. 

Daniel 12:1-3

1 “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. 2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Daniel 12:11-12

11 “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.12 Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.

Part 4.

So with all that being said, let’s read the 5 short verses of Daniel 9:23-27 and understand what this small but treasure trove of knowledge passage is all about.

Daniel 9:23-27

23 At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision:

24 “Seventy weeks[a] are determined

For your people and for your holy city,

To finish the transgression,

To make an end of[b] sins,

To make reconciliation for iniquity,

To bring in everlasting righteousness,

To seal up vision and prophecy,

And to anoint the Most Holy.

25 “Know therefore and understand,

That from the going forth of the command

To restore and build Jerusalem

Until Messiah the Prince,

There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;

The street[c] shall be built again, and the wall,[d]

Even in troublesome times.

26 “And after the sixty-two weeks

Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;

And the people of the prince who is to come

Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

The end of it shall be with a flood,

And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;

But in the middle of the week

He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.

And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate,

Even until the consummation, which is determined,

Is poured out on the desolate.”

Look Unto The Ant - A fictional story that compares an engineer of an ant farm to God and a world of ants to humans lending validity to the creation story

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A young engineer designs and builds an enormous and elaborate ant farm in his 4 car garage. The ant farm nearly takes up the whole garage, over 40 square feet.  There are different  ecosystems with a variety of terrains, bodies of water, plants and a vast range of ant breeds along with other species of insects and creatures.    He skillfully emulates mountains and hills, valleys, canyons and flats, lakes, swamps and rivers.  He creates lights which hang from above which replicate  both the sun by day and the moon and stars by night.  An irrigation system creates rain, mist and refills wells all throughout at random.  There are also devices installed which produce a palette of wind pressures and climate temperatures. There are even ingeniously simulated  events of natural disasters of seismic activity, storms, floods and fires within various regions of the sophisticated ant farm.

Life in this insectoid bio dome flourishes and becomes self-sufficient with subtle assistance from the engineer.  The food chain balances itself out with occasional help from the engineer to ensure maintenance.   Ants are the dominant species in this mechanically ordered world of small creatures.  They quickly begin to form colonies and societies and continue to populate steadily for hundreds of ant generations.  They are unable to see outside their world nor are they keenly aware of the engineers existence. 

Life in the ant world is robust and diverse.  There are cultures and different levels of progress. Anything from Wars over resources and control occur to ants blending into other ant societies take place.  Some ants are more sophisticated than others as diversity blossoms.

After several decades pass, ants begin to wonder and even debate about where they came from. Some believe they were created while others believe that nature brought about their existence by chance while still some remained neutral.

The ants who believed that nature brought about their existence by chance observed the gradual changes in nature and proposed that all existence evolved and that there must have initially been some sort of a bang of matter in the outside universe. They ridiculed the ants who believed they were created and reasoned that the creation theory sounds like a fairy tail.

The other school of thought philosophized that everything must have been created since their world operates and functions with far too much order and sophistication to have naturally evolved at random by sheer chance.  They also pointed out that none of the ants ever observed any of the natural events for which they claimed and reasoned that it was speculation.

Legend in the ant world has it that some ants throughout history have been mysteriously abducted out of the world and into the sky by a five pronged claw of a great creature.  And on some occasions,  ants would be returned by this five pronged claw unharmed.  What these ants claimed to have seen in the heavens above are regarded are fairy tales. 

However, a great many ants endorse this mysterious clawed creature as their god and the keeper of their world.  They believe the legends which speak of ants who were taken up into the heavens by his mighty claw and claim to see this clawed god do unimaginable things.  He has the power to create light with the flip of a great switch and speak to other gods like him magically through claw held devices.  He travels in a great big carriage which can race at an unimaginable speed and he can even take off into his heavens with an immense winged cylinder at speeds too fast to put into ant words.  He was even once alleged to have been seen moving and creating entire mountains in an instant with his own claw.  He even lifted part of the whole ant planet with his own claw.

 The communities of ants who believe these stories and feel there is such a great and powerful five pronged claw keeper of their world are regarded as lunatics and silly and blind by the rest of the ant world.  And most ants are offended if these theistic ants even speak of such a creator. 

Which of the  groups of ants were correct?

The ark was able to hold all the animals with about 2 thirds of left over space

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How all the animals would have fit into the ark as mentioned in Genesis 7.

 Many skeptics will allege that it would be impossible to fit all the animals into Noah's Ark.  So I've decided to demonstrate just how easily all the land animals of the earth would fit into the ark as described in Genesis by breaking down each type of species and allotting a reasonable amount of space for each pair or each 7.  All the species of land animals as mentioned in Genesis 7 and 8 barely would have even taken up a third of the space of the ark. 

People don’t realize that even though there are about a million species of land animals, almost all of them are insects and only about 5,000 of them are mammals and only several hundred species of mammals are bigger than the size of an average sized sheep.  Over 3,000 mammals are rodent sized.  There are about 10,000 species of birds, 8,200 species of reptiles and tens of thousands of very small sized land creatures that ranch from toad sized to parasitic size. 

The ark had 1,518,750 cubic feet of space.   Its measurements were 300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits.  A cubit is one and a half feet long.  That is divided into 3 stories or levels.  That means the ark was 450'x75'x45'. That’s about football fields in size with 15 foot tall ceilings.

 Almost all the species of land animals are insects.  There are only several hundred species that are the size of a sheep and larger.

 There are 8 different kinds of land animals. insects, avian (birds), reptiles, Chelicerata's (mites/scorpions), Myriapoda's (pedes), amphibians, annelids (worms/leeches) and mammals.

 1. Insects: There are 925,000 known species of insects. Fit each average pair in an area of 1 cubic inch.  That's 925,000 cubic inches or under 77,085 cubic feet.  We’re left with over 1,441,665 cubic feet.

 2. Avian: There are 10,000 known bird species.  The bible says there were seven of each bird species.  That is 70,000 birds.  The average bird size is the size of a parakeet.   Give each bird 4 cubic feet and they take up 280,000 cubic feet.  That leaves us with over 1,161,665 cubic feet.

 3. Reptiles: There are about 8,200 known reptile species. Most are about the size of a snake or lizard.  Give each average pair of reptiles about 3 cubic feet and they will take up 24,600 Cubic Feet of space.  We are now left with over 1,137,065 cubic feet.

 4. Cheliceratas: There are about 77,000 known species of cheliceratas (scorpions/spiders/mites).  Give each average pair 3 cubic inches of space on the ark and they will use up 231,000 cubic inches (19,250 cubic feet).  We are now left with 1,117,815 cubic feet of space on the ark.

 5. Myriapodas: There are about 13,000 known species of Myriapoda’s (millipedes/Centipedes).  Give each average pair of them 5 cubic inches and they will take up about 65,000 cubic inches (5,417 cubic feet).  We are left with 1,112,398 cubic feet of space on the ark.

 6. Amphibians: There are about 6,000 know species of amphibians (frogs).  Give each average pair of frogs 6 cubic inches of hopping space and they only take 36,000 cubic inches (3,000 cubic feet).  We are now left with 1,109,398 cubic feet of space on the ark.

 7. Annelids: There about 20,000 species of Annelids (worms/leeches) and almost all are marine or freshwater.  Let’s suppose 10,000 are land worms.  Give each average pair of them 3 cubic inches of slithering room and they will take up about 30,000 cubic inches (2500 cubic feet).  We are now left with 1,106,898 cubic feet on the ark.

 8. Mammals: There are only about 5,500 species of mammals.  Almost all of them are rodent size.  2,000 are rodents, 1,000 of them are bats and then you have 250 of your livestock/cattle mammals, your carnivore mammals only have 37 feline and 35 canine and 9 bear species.  And you have your horse/rhino mammals which are only 19 different kind and you have your elephant types.  The average size mammal is of a sheep.  Subtract all the whales and dolphins etc. and the average mammal is the size of a medium size dog.  A pair of dogs is 2x2x1.5 feet.  That’s 6 cubic feet in size.  Let’s give them quadruple their size for plenty of moving around space at 24 cubic feet for them.

5500 mammals with 24 cubic feet would only take up 132,000 Cubic Feet.  Let’s say that they need 200,000 cubic feet to accommodate the 7 of each clean mammal’s.  We are now left with 906,898 cubic feet of space on the ark.

This isn't even counting if all the animals were in an infant stage when brought aboard.

All the living species and the space provided them on the ark barely even take up a third of the space of the ark. This leaves us with space for food, water, supplies, infrastructure and isles on the ark.  When you think of a dog pound or a barn or a giant mouse lab, you realize this could all conceivably be done. 

Most of the ark story should be answered by claiming that the event is a supernatural occurrence by God and should therefore be explained by reasoning that if God can make heaven and earth in 6 days, then he can also make a global flood and still spare every type of species on earth.  But when God says that a 450'x75'x45' box would be required to physically fit a pair or seven of each kind of species, then you better bet that Gods math is going to be more than accurate. 

As far as how God preserved plant life, sea life, etc, then understand that God is supernatural and had an unknown supernatural means of wielding His will successfully without being limited to the laws of physics.   

 Some will speculate and allege that the ship would have been too heavy to stay afloat with that percentage of volume in flesh. However i can fill a fishing boat with people and it will stay perfectly afloat.