Daniel's 70 Weeks Correctly Explained At Last

[A Freeman]

Daniel’s 70 Weeks Correctly Explained At Last

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by A. Freeman




The following, oft-repeated passage, commonly referred to as “Daniel’s 70 weeks”, has been mistakenly interpreted by some to refer to the coming of the “antichrist” during the end-times, even though it specifically references The Messiah/Christ throughout, including events leading up to, during and after the life of Jesus.


If the passage is read properly, it is prophecy concerning Christ’s SEVEN-YEAR MISSION (God’s number of completeness is 7 NOT 3 ½), to preach the Gospel to the “House of Israel” and to the “House of Judah”, culminating in the crucifixion of Jesus on a WEDNESDAY.


Daniel 9:24-27

9:24 Seventy weeks 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 [as King].

9:25 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: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall MESSIAH be cut off, but not for himself (Matt. 15:24): and the people of THE PRINCE that shall come shall destroy the city and The Sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

9:27 And HE shall confirm The Covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations He shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation (the “Lake of Hell-Fire”), and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.


TABLE 1: The 490-year Timeline leading up to the Crucifixion of Jesus (from the time of the Command to rebuild, recorded in Ezra 7)





Terms Defined (for the prophecies fulfilled with Jesus):


Daniel 9:24:

• Seventy weeks = 70 x 7 “days” (each day for a year – Num. 14:34) = 490 years
• thy people = the true people Israel (Exod. 18:1)
• thy holy city = Jerusalem (1 kings 11:36)
• the transgression = the sin/crime/lawlessness (1 John 3:4) for which we fell under the curse (punishment clause) of The Law (Deut. 28:15-68)
• to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in Everlasting Righteousness = the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus (John 1:29)
• seal up the vision and prophecy = fulfill the Old Covenant prophecies about the coming of the Messiah (Christ) and His mission during the life of Jesus (Matt. 5:17, Luke 5:24)
• anoint The Most Holy [as King] = The Messiah/Christ (Luke 4:18-19, John 12:3, Acts 4:26-28)

Daniel 9:25:

• Commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem = God moving Artaxerxes, king of Persia, to grant Ezra’s request to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (Ezra 7:6)
• THE MESSIAH THE PRINCE = Prince Michael/Christ, the Anointed One (Ps. 2, Dan. 10:21, Dan. 12:1, Col. 1:15, Heb. 1:9, Rev. 12:7-11)
• seven weeks = 7 x 7 “days” = 49 years (Num. 14:34) and threescore and two weeks = 62 x 7 “days” = 434 years (Ezek. 4:6); 49 + 434 = 483 “days” (years)

Daniel 9:26:

• Messiah = Prince Michael/Christ = The Anointed One (Ps. 2, Heb. 1:9)
• cut-off = separated from His Brethren (Heb. 2:7-9)
• the Prince = Prince Michael/Christ (Dan. 10:21, Dan. 12:1-4, Rev. 5:1-5, Rev. 12:7-11)
• the people of the Prince = the people sent by the Prince to destroy the den of thieves (Luke 19:41-46)
• the city = Jerusalem
• the Sanctuary = the rebuilt (Herod’s) Temple, which was completely destroyed in 70 A.D., as Christ prophesied (Matt. 24:1-2)
• the end thereof [shall be] with a flood = the flood of Roman soldiers into Jerusalem in 70 A.D., when the city and Sanctuary were burned and destroyed
• desolations = grief, sadness, devastation, and ruin, as punishment for not keeping The Law and rejecting their rightful King (Deut. 27:26, 28:15-68, Matt. 2:1-2, 27:37)

Daniel 9:27:

• he = THE MESSIAH THE PRINCE (Dan. 10:21, Dan. 12:1, Heb. 1:9, Rev. 12:7-11)
• The Covenant = the NEW COVENANT (Jer. 31:31-33, Heb. 8:8-10, Heb. 9:14-15)
• many = the people Israel (Matt. 26:28, Heb. 9:28)
• one “week” = 7 YEARS (Num. 14:34, Ezek. 4:6)
• the midst of the week = WEDNESDAY, 21 April 34 A.D., the day Jesus was crucified (Lev. 23:5-7, Matt. 12:39-40, Luke 23:50-56, 24:1-3, John 19:31)
• the sacrifice = the Lamb of God (John 1:29)
• the oblation = the gift from God of His Son (John 3:16)
• abominations = the serving of other gods (e.g. church, state and “self”), as happens in every corporate fictional church, synagogue, mosque, temple, government facility and courtroom, etc. on Earth (Deut. 12:28-32, Rev. 2:20-23)
• make [it] desolate = that the Jews and Jerusalem shall bear no spiritual fruit and be spiritually desolate (Matt. 21:19, 23:37-24:2, 24:15)
• poured upon the desolate = when the “dead” shall be judged and consumed by The Fire (Rev. 20:12-15).

In 457 B.C., during the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, Ezra, a ready scribe of The Law of God, went up with some of the children of Israel from Babylon to Jerusalem on the first day of the first month under the king’s command.


Ezra 7:1-10

7:1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

7:2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

7:3 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

7:4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

7:5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

7:6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he [was] a ready scribe in The Law of Moses, which the “I AM” God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the “I AM” his God upon him.

7:7 And there went up [some] of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

7:8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year of the king.

7:9 For upon the first [day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first [day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek The Law of the “I AM”, and to do [it], and to teach in Israel Statutes and Judgments (Deut. 4:1-9).


For those who may mistakenly believe that the destruction of the Second Temple (Herod’s Temple) in 70 A.D. was the work of antichrist or some earthly prince directed by Satan, please read what the passage actually says and remember that it was by God’s COMMAND that both Solomon’s and Herod’s Temples were destroyed (Prov. 21:1), because both had become a place of business, instead of a place of worship, just as all earthly churches, synagogues, mosques and temples, etc. do (Matt. 6:24, Acts 7:48), which is why God prohibited the building of them (Matt. 6:5-6, Sura 9:107-110). Yet the Ashkenazi and Edomaean/Idumean counterfeit-Jews are also determined to defy Him, by wanting to build a Third Temple in Jerusalem.





God, through His Christ, said He would deliver Jerusalem and His House – which had become a den of thieves – into the hands of the people of Hischoosing: the Romans (Matt. 24:1-2, Mark 13:1-2, Luke 19:41-46, Luke 21:5-6, John 2:13-16); just as He had done with the First (Solomon’s) Temple. In c. 588 B.C., Solomon’s Temple was delivered into the hands of the Romans’ ancestors, the Babylonians, whom God had chosen for that task (see: Jer. 7:9-14, 30, 12:7, 19:15, 23:10-12, 26:4-12, 18, 32:27-36, 34:12-22) for the very same reason (Matt. 21:13): as a punishment, and to teach the world to NEVER TRUST ROME and their Babylonian mystery religion and never congregate in their churches. The Babylonians and the Romans are the same race of people, who crucified Jesus (The Sanctuary/Temple) and destroyed God’s House, twice (Sura 17:7). God had them destroy both Temples and yet the Zionist-Jews want to build a third one. Will they never learn?



For further confirmation of the timeline, and the second fulfillment of Daniel's 70 Weeks in Christ's Second Coming, please read the rest of the article at:


Daniel's 70 Weeks Correctly Explained At Last

 

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[Douggg]

seal up the vision and prophecy = fulfill the Old Covenant prophecies about the coming of the Messiah (Christ) and His mission during the life of Jesus (Matt. 5:17, Luke 5:24)

Start over, beginning in v21-23.

The vision referred to is the vision in Daniel 8 of the little horn, time of the end prophecy, when Daniel first encountered Gabriel.

 

[Christian Gedge]

This is a good chart except for the last line. Jesus was not crucified at the "end" of the 70th week; he was crucified in the "midst" of the 70th week. Can you show Jesus' ministry lasting seven years? I can't.

 

[Douggg]

9:25 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: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

Okay stop counting right there.

Jesus arrived in Jerusalem hailed as the messiah, King of Israel, coming in the name of the Lord. John 12:12-15. 483 years complete.

Stop counting and the gap begins. 4 days into the gap after the 483 years, the messiah is cutoff. Also another 40 years later into the gap the city and temple are destroyed by the Romans. Now that we are living in the time of end, the prince who shall come, the little horn person, will arrive as the messiah, coming in his own name, and confirm the law of Moses covenant for the 7 years as Moses required in Deuteronomy 31:9-13, to begin the 7 year 70th week.

And the vision and prophecy about the little horn person will be completed in that 7 years.

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Five proofs:

1. The parable of the fig tree generation, to witness Jesus's return in great power and glory. 1967 + 70 years.

2. The little horn person vision stands up against the Prince of princes Jesus, and the little horn person is broken. Time of the end. Daniel 8:25.

3. Time of the end characterized by increase in movement of human travel activity, and increase in knowledge. Daniel 12:4.

4. Jews back in the land, Israel a nation again in the land, latter days, latter years, Ezekiel 38:v8 and 16.

5. The infallible timeline framework for end times events in Ezekiel 39. Which is...
Gog's army destroyed and buried v1-16. Then 7 years. Then Armageddon v17-20. Psalms2, why do the heathen rage and image a vain thing.

Jesus returns to earth to rule the heathen v21 with a rod of iron. And reign. To finish the transgression v22-26. Jesus gathers all of the Jews, the elect, back to the land of Israel v28. Matthew 24:31

 

[Douggg]

This is a good chart except for the last line. Jesus was not crucified at the "end" of the 70th week; he was crucified in the "midst" of the 70th week. Can you show Jesus' ministry lasting seven years? I can't.

CG, he said "mission" not ministry on his chart. It is irrelevant anyway because the length of the messiah's ministry is not part of Daniel 9.

All that matters is that 483 years from when the command was given (it does not need a calendar year assigned to it) until messiah.... because there is a definitive passage of the event when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, hailed as the messiah, King of Israel, coming in the name of the Lord, in John 12:12-15.

BC, AD, whether Jesus was born in 6BC or 4BC, all of that is fog factor and all kinds of potential error are built in.

What matters is unto messiah is 483 years.

After the 483 years, the messiah is cutoff. 4 days after arriving in Jerusalem, hailed as the messiah, the messiah is cutoff, into the gap between the 483 years and the final 7 years, at the time of the end to finish the vision and prophecy about the little horn person.

What you guys are failing to see is not recognizing what vision Gabriel and Daniel were referring to in v21-23, as being about the little horn person at the time of the end.

 

[jgr]

What you guys are failing to see is not recognizing what vision Gabriel and Daniel were referring to in v21-23, as being about the little horn person at the time of the end.

Debunked by Jesus and Gabriel.

And by every other recognized student of the Word on the planet past, present, dead, and alive.

 

[Douggg]

Debunked by Jesus and Gabriel.

And by every other recognized student of the Word on the planet past, present, dead, and alive.

Useless, one liners. But I guess you feel you have to say something. Do you have a list of the individual's names of who you think is every recognized students of the Word on the planet past, present, dead, and alive?

 

[jgr]

Useless, one liners. But I guess you feel you have to say something.

You said something.

I said something.

 

[jgr]

Useless, one liners. But I guess you feel you have to say something. Do you have a list of the individual's names of who you think is every recognized students of the Word on the planet past, present, dead, and alive?

Here are three.
Your turn.
Just one name of any recognized past, present, dead, or alive student of the Word who agrees with you.
Just one name.

Albert Barnes
And consider the vision - This vision - the vision of future things which he was now about to present to his view. From this passage, describing the appearance of Gabriel to Daniel, we may learn,
(a) That our prayers, if sincere, are heard in heaven "as soon" as they are offered. They enter at once into the ears of God, and he regards them at the instant.
(b) A command, as it were, may be at once issued to answer them - "as if" he directed an angel to bear the answer at once.
(c) The angels are ready to hasten down to men, to communicate the will of God. Gabriel came evidently with pleasure on his embassage, and to a benevolent being anywhere there is nothing more grateful than to be commissioned to bear glad tidings to others. Possibly that may be a part of the employment of the righteous forever.The thought is an interesting one, if we are permitted to entertain it, that good angels may be constantly employed as Gabriel was; that whenever prayer is offered on earth they may be commissioned to bring answers of peace and mercy, or despatched to render aid, and that thus the universe may be constantly traversed by these holy beings ministering to those who are "heirs of salvation," Hebrews 1:1, Hebrews 1:4.

Joseph Benson
Therefore, understand the matter, and consider the vision — Apply thy mind carefully to what is said, for this prophecy contains in it truths of the greatest importance. Our Saviour plainly refers to these words, which are repeated Daniel 9:25, when, explaining the latter part of this prophecy of the final destruction of Jerusalem, he adds, Let him that readeth understand, Matthew 24.

Matthew Henry
Therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision, v. 23. This intimates that it was a thing well worthy of his regard, above any of the visions he had been before favoured with. Note, Those who would understand the things of God must consider them, must apply their minds to them, ponder upon them, and compare spiritual things with spiritual. The reason why we are so much in the dark concerning the revealed will of God, and mistake concerning it, is want of consideration. This vision both requires and deserves consideration.

 

[Douggg]

Here are three. Not a hint that they refer to Daniel 8.
Your turn.
Just one name of any recognized past, present, dead, or alive student of the Word who agrees with you.
Just one name.

Albert Barnes
And consider the vision - This vision - the vision of future things which he was now about to present to his view. From this passage, describing the appearance of Gabriel to Daniel, we may learn,
(a) That our prayers, if sincere, are heard in heaven "as soon" as they are offered. They enter at once into the ears of God, and he regards them at the instant.
(b) A command, as it were, may be at once issued to answer them - "as if" he directed an angel to bear the answer at once.
(c) The angels are ready to hasten down to men, to communicate the will of God. Gabriel came evidently with pleasure on his embassage, and to a benevolent being anywhere there is nothing more grateful than to be commissioned to bear glad tidings to others. Possibly that may be a part of the employment of the righteous forever.The thought is an interesting one, if we are permitted to entertain it, that good angels may be constantly employed as Gabriel was; that whenever prayer is offered on earth they may be commissioned to bring answers of peace and mercy, or despatched to render aid, and that thus the universe may be constantly traversed by these holy beings ministering to those who are "heirs of salvation," Hebrews 1:1, Hebrews 1:4.

Joseph Benson
Therefore, understand the matter, and consider the vision — Apply thy mind carefully to what is said, for this prophecy contains in it truths of the greatest importance. Our Saviour plainly refers to these words, which are repeated Daniel 9:25, when, explaining the latter part of this prophecy of the final destruction of Jerusalem, he adds, Let him that readeth understand, Matthew 24.

Matthew Henry
Therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision, v. 23. This intimates that it was a thing well worthy of his regard, above any of the visions he had been before favoured with. Note, Those who would understand the things of God must consider them, must apply their minds to them, ponder upon them, and compare spiritual things with spiritual. The reason why we are so much in the dark concerning the revealed will of God, and mistake concerning it, is want of consideration. This vision both requires and deserves consideration.

None of those three acknowledged what vision in which Daniel had first encountered Gabriel. Three fails.

21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

Back to your turn. Find just one name of who you consider a student of the Word who acknowledge what vision that Daniel first encountered Gabriel.

 

[jgr]

None of those three acknowledged what vision in which Daniel had first encountered Gabriel. Three fails.

21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

They all acknowledged that the vision being referred to was the vision immediately following Daniel 9:23.

Three successes.

 

[Douggg]

They all acknowledged that the vision being referred to was the vision immediately following Daniel 9:23.

Three successes.

No, it says in v21 at the beginning, not following three verses later. Three fails.

21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

name just one name.

 

[jgr]

No, it says in v21 at the beginning, not following three verses later. Three fails.

21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

name just one name.

If you're unable to understand their plain English, I can't help you with that. Sorry.

 

[Douggg]

If you're unable to understand their plain English, I can't help you with that. Sorry.

I did understand their plain English. Three fails.

21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

just one name. I am waiting.

 

[jgr]

I did understand their plain English. Three fails.

21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

just one name. I am waiting.

Plain English.

 

[Douggg]

Plain English.

Plain Engish is a student of the Word ? I have never heard of that person. I don't think it is a person.

just one name. I am waiting.

 

[jgr]

Plain Engish is a student of the Word ? I have never heard of that person. I don't think it is a person.

just one name. I am waiting.

Plain English.

 

[Douggg]

Plain English.

What year did the student Plain English live?

It's still your turn. just one name. I am waiting.

 

[DavidPT]

Okay stop counting right there.

Jesus arrived in Jerusalem hailed as the messiah, King of Israel, coming in the name of the Lord. John 12:12-15. 483 years complete.

Stop counting and the gap begins. 4 days into the gap after the 483 years, the messiah is cutoff.

Assuming everything you have submitted up to this point is correct, plus the fact that no one disputes that when Messiah is cut off, this is meaning the cross, this indicates He obviously can't be cut off 3 and 1/2 years later, like many insist, because John 12:12-15 is meaning days before the cross, not years before the cross. But in order to make all of this logically work out though, 483 years prior to John 12:12-15 would have to be meaning when the following initially happened---that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince(Daniel 9:25).

Do you have undeniable proof that it was 483 years after the going forth of the commandment to that of when John 12:12-15 was fulfilled?