Timtofly
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The problem is you are looking at the wrong decree. Ezra and Nehemiah explain how it happened.I'm not skipping v25.
This illustration is representative of v. 25:
Daniel 9:25
Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
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See the math?
Decree issued 457 BC
+ 7 weeks (49 years) = 408 BC
408 BC + 3 score 2 weeks (62 weeks or 434 years) = 26/27 AD Messiah’s anointing for His mission (baptism in Jordan River - also known as leading second exodus that's patterned after the original exodus out of Egyptian slavery by Moses).
Jesus's ministry is accepted to have been 3.5 years....Cross was 30 AD
The end of the Mosaic covenant (covenant made in flesh not adoption or Spirit) between Israelites and God was 34 AD
No longer were the Israelites that were formed "in the flesh" "God's people" exclusively any longer.
That is the end that was referred to.
"Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem."
Nehemiah 7:1
"Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,"
Nehemiah built the wall prior to this:
"Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia."
The decree of Artexerxis stopped the building of the temple.
"Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;"
Artexerxis stopped the work on the Temple by decree, but Artexerxis let Nehemiah build the wall.
4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
Which decree would restore and build Jerusalem? The one that allowed the Temple to be built, or Nehemiah given free reign to build a wall?
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