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Where is the Evidence of a Gap in the 70 weeks of Dan 9?

Is there a "gap" in the 70 weeks of Daniel 9"


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jgr

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If artexerxes started his reign in 465 Bc, and gave the command to restore jerusalem in 445 bc, how did cyrus give a decree in 457BC when artexerxes was in power? Oh and anothe fact, he died in 530BC, how could give a command 70 years after he died?
You're using the secular and discredited Ptolemaic chronology, which is in error by 80 or more years. Use Anstey's instead.
 
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When did messiah commit the abomination of desolation by placing an idol in the holy place in the middle of the 70th week?
Messiah's agents, the Roman armies, abominations to the Jews, advanced on the holy city of Jerusalem (Luke 21:20), destroying it into desolation, a generation after the 70th week.
 
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Thanks, i will try to take a look at it soon, and give a reply, this is how we should all be, tak all views, study, and determine with all facts the you think scripture supports, without going to outside sources,

That why i have changed many of my views i grew up with, and at one point fought withr my life to defend. (Huge mistake)
 
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Messiah's agents, the Roman armies, abominations to the Jews, advanced on the holy city of Jerusalem (Luke 21:20), destroying it into desolation, a generation after the 70th week.

I see no abomination (unclean thing or idol) which makes desolate standing in the holy place in your reply,

Can you show me if i missed it?
 
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The letter is an accepted historical document. If you have any credible evidence to discredit it, please provide said evidence.
 
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I love the GAP. I buy all my jeans there. But a GAP doesn't belong is Scripture.

... and the "weeks" are not "weeks". So please don't presume a ~490 year fulfillment.

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DaDad

It’s 483 years (7 weeks and 62 weeks) plus the gap time from the going forth of the command to Messiah the Prince.

Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 BC, realeasing the children of Israel in his first year of reign, 538 BC.

538 years before Christ, the command to restore and build Jerusalem was issued by Cyrus.



Do you understand what the phrase Messiah the Prince means?


Do you believe that from the command of Cyrus to restore Jerusalem to the Messiah was 483 days?


Is that what you believe?


Do you understand it took 46 years to rebuild the Temple itself?


JLB
 
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I see no abomination (unclean thing or idol) which makes desolate standing in the holy place in your reply,

Can you show me if i missed it?
An inanimate idol does not make desolate. An invading army does. The Roman army invading the holy city of Jerusalem (the holy place) bore pagan symbols of their emperor deities, which were abominations to the Jews.
 
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My favourite bits so far are the exclusion of Paul from the canon, and the relegation of Isaiah to bit-part extra.

"Yeh man, like who are Saul of Tarsus and Isaiah man?"

Surely we can go one better?

"Daniel yeh. Interesting guy, but way out on the prophecies".

I guess being sawed in half in a log, thrown to a den of starving predators,
And being stoned by a mob of thousands of enraged homicidal lunatics just doesn't mean diddly-squat anymore
 
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It’s 483 years (7 weeks and 62 weeks) plus the gap time from the going forth of the command to Messiah the Prince. ...

The commentators certainly have poisoned the well. Here's the TRUTH:

“... Montgomery, for all of his scholarship and knowledge of the history of interpretation, ends up with no reasonable interpretation at all.”

“... as Young points out, the word ‘sevens’ is in the masculine plural instead of the usual feminine plural. No clear explanation is given except that Young feels ‘it was for the deliberate purpose of calling attention to the fact that the word “sevens” is employed in an unusual sense.’”

“...Young finally concludes after some discussion that Keil and Kliefoth are correct when they hold that the word ‘sevens’ does not necessarily mean year-weeks, but an intentionally indefinite designation of a period of time measured by the number seven, which chronological duration must be determined on other grounds.”

John Wolvoord, Daniel, The Key to Prophetic Revelation, Moody Press, Chicago, 1971, p. 217-218

Thus we know that the seventy "sevens" can be ANY number EXCEPT 490.

Thanks,
DaDad
 
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What?

Where is this in psalms? Your the one who said the boom was psalms, can you support your thought?

DaDad said:
Book 19, prophetic for the 1900's, and Chapter 24 = 1924 ( per J.R. Church "Hidden Prophecies In The Psalms"), provides the "going forth of the word".

Did this not answer your question?

Thanks,
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You're using the secular and discredited Ptolemaic chronology, which is in error by 80 or more years. Use Anstey's instead.
So i came to ad 32 but i am 80 years off?

Who is anstey that he got it right?
 
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So lets take 454 BC

454bc plus 476 years plus 1= 23 Ad,

It seems his line of thinking is seriously flawed.
 
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You're using the secular and discredited Ptolemaic chronology, which is in error by 80 or more years. Use Anstey's instead.
So i came to ad 32 but i am 80 years off?

Who is Anstey that he got it right? When everyone else got it wrong?
The letter is an accepted historical document. If you have any credible evidence to discredit it, please provide said evidence.
So i put the words of man, not inspired, over the word of God, inspired, which shows otherwise.

Sorry i will take the word of god over the words of men 100% of the time

Thats the flaw with the roman view, (which is where amill cimes from) scripture means nothing.
 
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Cyrus never gave a command to restor the city, his command stated only the temple could be restored.
 
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An inanimate idol does not make desolate.

Jesus said otherwise, history proves otherwise,

Again, i will take jesus words words or scripture 100%

An invading army does. The Roman army invading the holy city of Jerusalem (the holy place) bore pagan symbols of their emperor deities, which were abominations to the Jews.

Jesus said we would see it standing, and gabriel said it would stand and be seen until the end

An army destroys a temple, it does not make it unclean

A temple destroyed is no temple at all
 
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I have read something like these in the past also.

I think what it shows is no matter what, artaxerxes command is the only command that not only allows rebuilding of city and walls, but fits the timeline of when messiah was introduced to his people, and when he was cut off.
 
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You're using the secular and discredited Ptolemaic chronology, which is in error by 80 or more years. Use Anstey's instead.
Why because he fits your interpreation?

How about i let the word speak for itself?
 
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CLANinja had asked this:
Simple solution to who will end the sacrifice: what new testament scripture states the antichrist or AOD will put and end to the sacrifice and offering?


Those passages don't say the (pronoun) AOD or AntiChrist caused the sacrifices to cease (that's an interpretation - that's what's being argued but there's still no real support for the argument).

This is new to me as well, so I don't have a strong grasp on this....but what makes a lot of sense to me is that this isn't about a person (or an entity)....but instead, an action or behavior (I'm still wrestling, though).

When the Levitical law was laid out to the Israelites about the temple practices, it was all based on them being God's chosen people (Exodus 6:7). The prophecy of Daniel states that "seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city".....and that ties in with Jesus cleansing the temple (going back to Leviticus 14:33-53). Take a look at Leviticus (I'm not going to quote it all right here):

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus+14:33-53&version=NRSV

I am of the belief this is the practice Jesus was following when He entered the temple the two different occasions (once in His early ministry -and again at the end of His life). He was acting as High Priest. The "abomination" or disease/corruption was that the religious leaders refused to acknowledge Him as Messiah (and even declared "there is no other god but Caesar" causing their once Holy City to be "desolate"....void of God's presence). An unclean and corrupt temple must be destroyed (as per Levitical law).

Leviticus 14: 43 ~ If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it, 44 the priest shall go and make inspection; if the disease has spread in the house, it is a spreading leprous disease in the house; it is unclean. 45 He shall have the house torn down, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.
 
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Josephus is regarded not as an inspired writer, but as a historian.
He has been accepted in this role for many years by Bible scholars, in the same way that a person who lived during the time of Abraham Lincoln might be a source of the history of that time period.

We do not throw away history books written about Lincoln, because the author was not a Christian.

The history of the Maccabees, which is found in the Catholic Bible, falls into the same category as the writings of Josephus. It is regarded as an accurate history of the events that happened to the Jewish people who lived during that time.

Christ was cut off "after" the 69th week, which would be during the 70th week.

Because 4 Passovers can be found in the Gospels, Bible scholars believe His earthly ministry lasted for about 3 1/2 years long. Therefore, He was cut off in the middle of the 70th week, which began at His baptism.

Based on Matthew 10:5-7, and Romans 1:16, and Galatians 1:14-18, the 70th week was the time when the Gospel was taken to the Jewish people before Paul began his ministry to the Gentiles.

Based on Luke 21:24-28, and Romans 11:25, we are now in the times of the Gentiles.

Your Bible says the same thing.

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