For me, it has long been interesting to think of Daniel's 70th Week as being the final sequel to Daniel's first 69 weeks.  And, even on the surface, it is quite reasonable to conclude that, because the Church was not a part of the first 69 weeks of this prophecy, it will not be in the setting of the last week.  Years ago, while thinking about all of this and reading John's account of what happens with the sounding of the first four trumpets (Rev. 8), my attention was suddenly drawn to what the geographical setting might be for Daniel's 70th Week.  Consider:  What was the geographical setting for the other 69 weeks?  Answer:  Israel and the lands of the earth in its hemisphere.  In other words, the setting for Daniel's first 69 weeks was the lands on Israel's side of the earth, meaning, the lands of the Bible days.  It could be said that, from Heaven's perspective, this was the stage upon which the first 69 weeks played out.  Thinking along this line, does it not seem perfectly reasonable that this would also be the stage for the last or 70th Week?  Of course it does.

     For those who are not geography buffs, what lands are a part of Israel's hemisphere?  To illustrate, if you were to look at a globe and look directly towards Israel, all of the globe that you could see at that time would represent the hemisphere of which it is a part.  Said another way, at midday in Israel, this would include all of the earth that is illuminated by the sun at that time.  Depending upon the season and the time of the day (which is constantly changing), this would basically always include the continents of Europe, Africa, and Asia, with varying portions of other continents.  By nature, this is also the way things were in the Bible days.

     An important thing to be realized is that the land area normally considered to be in Israel's hemisphere represents two-thirds of the land area of the earth.  So what?  Related to the chronology of The Revelation and what results with the sounding of the first four trumpets, this is very, very significant.  Let's continue to the next proposition...

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