Tim,
Perhaps you will be able to understand Ellen White’s explanation better?
The burden of Christ’s preaching was, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent ye, and believe the gospel.” Thus the gospel message, as given by the Saviour Himself, was based on the prophecies. The “time” which He declared to be fulfilled was the period made known by the angel Gabriel to Daniel. “Seventy weeks,” said the angel, “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.” Daniel 9:24. A day in prophecy stands for a year. See Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6. The seventy weeks, or four hundred and ninety days, represent four hundred and ninety years. A starting point for this period is given: “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks,” sixty-nine weeks, or four hundred and eighty-three years. Daniel 9:25. The commandment to restore and build Jerusalem, as completed by the decree of Artaxerxes Longimanus (see Ezra 6:14; 7:1, 9, margin), went into effect in the autumn of B. C. 457. From this time four hundred and eighty-three years extend to the autumn of A. D. 27. According to the prophecy, this period was to reach to the Messiah, the Anointed One. In A. D. 27, Jesus at His baptism received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and soon afterward began His ministry. Then the message was proclaimed. “The time is fulfilled.” {DA 233.1}
Daniel 9 predicted that Jesus would be anointed the Messiah at a specific time in history and He was.
Ellen also states:
The light that Daniel received direct from God was given especially for these last days. The visions he saw by the banks of the Ulai and the Hiddekel, the great rivers of Shinar, are now in process of fulfillment, and all the events foretold will soon have come to pass. {CTr 335.4}
In Daniel 9:24 Daniel was told by Gabriel to “consider the vision” and Gabriel began to explain it to him. The vision in question was one that Daniel had seen earlier by the river Ulai. That means that Ellen said Daniel 9 was fulfilled in Christ’s day in AD 27 and she is saying that the visions that he saw by the Ulai “are now in process of fulfillment, and all the events foretold will soon have come to pass.” Since it was fulfilled in AD 27 and ALL THE EVENTS FORETOLD WILL SOON HAVE COME TO PASS, it is clear that Ellen White is saying that the prophecy fulfilled in AD 27about anointing Jesus as the Messiah (prince) will be fulfilled a second time when someone else is anointed as a prince.
Daniel 9 was fulfilled the second time in our day. The decree to rebuild Jerusalem was issued 31 May 1998 and the endtime event revealed in that study of Daniel 9 ended on 20 January 2001, the very day that George Bush II was inaugurated President of America. That made GW America’s Counterfeit Protestant Prince of the Covenant/Constitution. Thus, Christ’s title “Prince of the Covenant” is counterfeited by America’s Presidents beginning with Bush II. Thus Daniel identifies America’s presidents beginning with Bush II as being princes.
In Revelation 13 the prophecy begins with the papal beast that has 7 heads after its deadly wound is healed in 1929. They were Pius XI & XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John-Paul I & II, and Benedict XVI. Benedict’s resignation ended the 7th head/solo pope’s reign of the first beast. The prophecy in Revelation 13 moved to the next beast from the earth that has duo horns. The word duo commonly means 2. But in Luke 10:1 it is translated 2 and 2. In Revelation 13 duo occurs twice and the endtime meaning (aligning with prophetic fulfillment after 1844) is 2 and 2. Thus, horns depict kings as per Daniel 8:20-22 and the earth beast has duo horns which depicts 2 & 2 American Presidents that Daniel calls PRINCES: Bush II & Obama and Trump & Pence. Thus, when Daniel 12:1 says Prince Michael shall stand for his people know this:
Jesus as Prince Michael stood for His people to confess them before God in 1844.
The Lord has shown me in vision, that Jesus rose up, and shut the door, and entered the Holy of Holies, at the 7th month 1844; but Michael’s standing up (Daniel 12:1) to deliver his people, is in the future. {WLF 12.4}
I saw that the anger of the nations, the wrath of God, and the time to judge the dead were separate and distinct, one following the other, also that Michael had not stood up, and that the time of trouble, such as never was, had not yet commenced. The nations are now getting angry, but when our High Priest has finished His work in the sanctuary, He will stand up, put on the garments of vengeance, and then the seven last plagues will be poured out. {EW 36.1}
"The commencement of that time of trouble," here mentioned does not refer to the time when the plagues shall begin to be poured out, but to a short period just before they are poured out, while Christ is in the sanctuary. At that time, while the work of salvation is closing, trouble will be coming on the earth, and the nations will be angry, yet held in check so as not to prevent the work of the third angel. At that time the “latter rain,” or refreshing from the presence of the Lord, will come, to give power to the loud voice of the third angel, and prepare the saints to stand in the period when the seven last plagues shall be poured out. {EW 85.3}
When Prince Michael Pence stands for his people there is a Time of Trouble. Then comes the Mark of the Beast. Then comes the Latter Rain. Then Prince Michael (Jesus) stands and “It is done” probation closes, the Time of Trouble morphs into the 7 last plagues, and Jesus Comes in the clouds of heaven.
When Daniel was praying about this in chapter 9 he repeatedly stated " to us [belongeth] confusion of face" which is to repeatedly say…we do not understand! And we will not understand prophecy on our own hook. God gives understanding to those who seek it from Him. And unless He gives it, there will be no understanding.
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James 1:5).
