7 groups of 7 period of time.
62 groups of 7 groups of time.
The Jews went by a lunar observation time of the new moon for each month. This resurrection in some months being 29 days and others 30 days.
Their years were made up 12 months (of 29 days and 30 days).
So there accumulated an disparity because the earth orbits the sun more than the 360 days thereabouts of the 12 month. To get back in sync with the suns, the Jews added an extra month every 2 to 3 years. So that some year has 13 months in them, and not just 12.
So some of the years in the 483 years, has an extra month. But across the 483 years as unit, the 483 years is still 483 years, as the correction had been built into some of the years.
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but that not what you asked, I don't think. The weeks 70 is 490 years because in hindsight the command to rebuild Jerusalem and the wall is generally known, as is the time between Jesus's crucifixion and Artaxeres command - to warrant the 69 groups of seven to be 69 x 7 years - 483 years. Plus, the one group of seven added to it would be 490 years.
Douggg,
What was revealed to Daniel were sacred and hi-priestly things - far, far away from natural human thought.
Daniel received in several portions the wisdom that helped him understand the vision.
1. In 547 BC. Daniel received the vision for „2300 days“ (Daniel 8)
2. In 539 BC. Daniel received the vision for „70 weeks“ (Daniel 9)
3. In 536 BC. Daniel expected something important to happen and fasted for 21 days (Daniel 10)
From the connection of 1.-2.-3. it follows that Daniel understood the great sacred secret connected with the temple in the city of Jerusalem, that - the "weeks" are time periods not of 7, but of 8 years – Venus years!
2300 + „70 weeks“ (70x8 = 560) + 21 = 2881 – is a full 8-year cycle on the planet Venus of 2880 or 2881 days.
Daniel understood that the Archangel Michael (as the Jews call the planet Venus), who gave the instruction on which exact place to build Holy of Holies of the temple in the city of Jerusalem makes this instruction every 8 years. Daniel wanted this to happen in 536 BC, but someone interfered (see Daniel 10). Thus, Daniel understood that the decree of „Prince Michael“ (the planet Venus) would be issued in 8 years - in 528 BC.
Jesus Christ was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary on the day of the winter solstice in 8 BC.
9 months later - on the day of the autumn equinox of 7 BC. Mary gave birth to the Infant [exactly after 120x8 cycles of Venus or 480x2 (960) years after the beginning of the construction of the Temple of Solomon].
In the summer of 25 AD , when He was still 30 years old, Jesus was baptized and Holy Spirit anointed him for the Messiah. This is what Daniel 9: 24-27 says.
From 528 BC. - to 25 AD are 69x8 = 552 years - and the Messiah appeared.
In the middle of the last „week“ of 8 years - from 25 AD to 33 AD years, in the middle of the last 70th „week“ - week of 8 years, i.e. in the spring of 29 AD Jesus became the sacrifice (see Daniel 9: 27a).
In 33 AD. „70 weeks“ or 560 years (from 528 BC - to 33 AD) set aside for the Jews - the years are over. The gospel went to Cornelius (exactly at the ninth hour; Jesus on the cross said „It is finished“ - at the ninth hour; see Daniel 9: 21 - about the time of the evening oblation - at the ninth hour) and the Gentiles …
The decree in question was not issued by a human being, but by a celestial one - by an archangel (Prince Michael).
Everything related to the Temple in Jerusalem was subject to the 8 and 40 (5x8) annual cycles of the planet Venus; at 8 years cycles (sacred weeks) and not at ordinary 7 years cycles. These are secrets that were entrusted only to people of noble origin. These people were skilled astronomers and understood what the watchers (see Daniel 4: 17) - the planets - the saints were telling them ...
P.S.
[Among the ancient Canaanites and the Jews: - one Cycle ("sa · nah") of Venus was 8 years (see Genesis 6: 3 - 120 "sa · nah" are 120x8 = 960 years); one Generation of Venus was equated with 5 Cycles of the planet Venus or 40 years (5x8); one Age of Venus was equal to 12 Generations of Venus or = 480 years (12x40); and a complete Era of the evening-morning star "Shalim" (the planet Venus) lasted 3 Ages of Venus or = 1 440 years (480x3). (Solomon began to build his temple… after the Flood of one thousand four hundred and forty years. ”(See Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus Flavius, Book VIII, Ch. III, § I) This statement of Josephus is hardly true. (Is a priestly reading of the text possible, ie 1440x8 = 11,520 years?), but it clearly shows that for the Jews, many of the important moments in their history were related to the cycles of the planet Venus.]
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