The Seventy Weeks: And the Great Tribulation

Superb book. Highly recommended for clarity of its logic and exposition.Mauro opposes Scofield Dispensationalism, but he agrees that Olivet refers to both the pending destruction of Jerusalem and the far off Second Coming of Christ.The single most important point Mauro makes is that the Great Tribulation refers exclusively to the Roman Destruction of Jerusalem and not to some far off future annihilation of the Jews after they return to their ancient homeland, as Rapturists believe.Mauro implies that the suffering of the Jews during the Roman destruction was even worse than what they experienced in the Holocaust, which was occurring when Mauro republished this book. He says the idea that the Jews will be ingathered to their homeland only to suffer another horrific calamity is obscene and totally false!Mauro opposes Zionism, which was still in its early stages when he published this book in 1922. And history would appear to have falsified his opposition to it. But I don't believe that should detract in any way from the power and persuasiveness of this book about Daniel and Olivet.Mauro demonstrates convincingly that Daniel's Vision of the Seventy Weeks points to the destruction of Jerusalem and that all 70 weeks were fulfilled in the time of Jesus. The final 40 years between Christ's crucifixion and Jerusalem's destruction were a probationary period appended to the Seventy Weeks of Years.Mauro also finds in the later chapters of Daniel, 10-12, clear allusions to Herod the Great and to the evangelism of the first Apostles. Such ideas i had never heard of before, but Mauro presents them very convincingly.One caveat: there are MANY typos and printing errors in this book. I found on average 5-10 per page, for a total of almost 1000! Most of them are minor, like misplaced commas and quotation marks, but some are more serious like misspelled words.I've written to Amazon about this problem, but they say it was published through their printing company by a private party. i am hoping they can notify that person so s/he can update the text.Meanwhile I found a copy of this book online in the public domain. I pasted it into Word and started editing out the mistakes I found in the Amazon book. I have uploaded a copy of this edited text here to my blog as seen in the comments section below.

After many years as a Christian I consistently struggled with many inconsistencies in the story of the bible. All was resolved through much prayer and reading many commentaries and books. It has been almost 2000 years since the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, and for most of that history there was a common theme of interpretation. In direct contrast to that theme the concept of Dispensationalism began to take root in the mid 1850's and is now the dominant method of interpretation for eschatology. I am of a firm belief that the Christian church lacks spiritual power specifically because of it contorting of bible verses to fit that fraudulent program of eschatology.Phillip Mauro's book does a wonderful, and concise job of presenting the 70 weeks prophecy of Daniel and the valuable lessons of the Olivet discourse that makes the Old Testament mesh with the New seamlessly just as God intended it to be. I would pray that you read this book and study and pray that you may have a surge of spiritual blessing and understanding in order to be of service to a desperate humanity in the name of Christ.

This is the most coherent and clear exposition of the prophecies of Daniel 9 - 12 that I have ever read. It is plausible, fairly easy to understand and the details of his explanation fits. I say it is fairly easy to read because it was written just after World War I and the English reflects the constructs of that era. Mauro, a lawyer, tends to be a bit tedious, detailed, and repetitive, but he does communicate his thoughts and he is worth the effort.Unlike many end-time prophetic interpreters, he does not accept the interminable gap between the 69th and 70th week. He sees them as contiguous as he should. He sees the 70th week to be about the Messiah, Jesus Christ, instead of the anti-Christ. This is a definite difference. However, read that way, it is plausible and the prophecy fits. The stunning thing to me is that I have often associated it with the anti-Christ. How opposite his interpretation is from what I had heard all of my life.This book will challenge your understanding and is well worth the read and thinking it through. Most will probably not agree with him, but he makes his points with clear logic and forceful rhetoric. I learned a lot from it and was very challenged. I enjoyed it and recommend it.

An excellent and thought provoking consideration on the subject of biblical prophecy. It presents a prophetic viewpoint that is rarely discussed today. But should be. Too many have accepted the relatively recent view of a pre-tribulation rapture without subjecting it to sound scrutiny. The biblical discussion is detailed and adequately refutes the pre-tribulation rapture theory. That is something that most can do simply from the bible. An added value is the historical discussion.My one complaint is that the author at times raises an issue then says something like “to this we will come shortly” or “as will be shown” but it seems he forgets to show it later. These are important points that aren't fully addressed. Hence not a five star rating.If your goal is to gain an overview of an unpopular viewpoint, this book is a fairly easy read. If your goal is to gain a good understanding of the author's prophetic viewpoint, it is not such an easy read.

This Book destroys the " Futurism " view on End time Prophecy, and Shows Daniels 70th week was Completely fulfilled by Jesus. And backs it up with Scripture, No 2000 year Rubber Band between the 69th and 70th week of Daniel. Futurism was a view on Prophecy Cleverly devized by 16th Century Jesuit Ribera, because most Early Protestants believed that Papal Rome was the prophesied Antichrist. This was , of course, very much to the Dislike of the Vatican. And if the COUNTERREFORMATION were to have any Succes this view had to be Changed. Thats why Jesuit Ribera founded Futurism ( and Jesuit Belarmine founded Preterism ). Both these views Cleverly Exonerated the Papal Dynasty from being the Man of Sin. Futurism was later Adopted by people like Scofield, and Sadly Today Much of the " Protestant " Church believes Futurism as Fact, Especially in the USA. Please do yourself a Favor and Buy this Book, especially if you believe in a " Future 70th week " and a " Future Antichrist " like most now do. I only have woken up to this Great Deception about a year ago, I hope this Book will ( help ) do that for you too. God bless

Awesome book

I found this book easy to read, very interesting, and it gave ma a whole new perspective on the prophecy of the seventy weeks. Not everyone will agree with what this book presents, but it's good to be open minded and respect other people's views concerning this prophecy.

Excellent view giving the historicist view of the Seventy weeks, and the great tribulation mentioned in the Bible. Makes complete sense, though written many years ago.