The Seventy Weeks of Daniel

[Yahweh will increase]

I read, understand and believe what the Bible plainly states.
I have never been brainwashed by a Bible College and the Methodist Church that my parents brought me up in, never mentioned Bible Prophecy at all. I also reject all the Commentaries, Jerome's included.
So my views on the end time events yet to happen, are what is clearly Written.

Jesus did NOT fulfil the first half of the Seventieth Week at His first Advent. There is no evidence that He did. He was Crucified at the exact end of the 69th week.

There most certainly is and it is in the fact that Daniel clearly says, that after the 7 weeks and 62 weeks, Messiah would be cut off and that would mean that in order for atoinment for iniquity to be made like Daniel 9:24 tells us that it would within those 70 weeks of years, the last week would have to follow right after the 69the week.

Otherwise, the atointment for iniquity that is said to be fulfilled within the 70 weeks would not have but instead it would have been fulfilled outside of the 70 weeks in your non supported by scripture gap theory.

Furthermore, why would Daniel have been given a prophecy about Jesus that jumped right past his first coming and all he way to his second coming and like it would have if it was truly revealing that it would be fulfilled at his second coming instead?

It simply doesn't make sense and neither does it work with those things that are mentioned in Daniel 9:24 that would be fulfilled within the 70 weeks of years.

All of those things mentioned in Daniel 9:24 were things that were fulfilled by Jesus at is first coming, all of them!

 

[Joe]

A week is a period of time that is segmented into seven days. If one says it will be eight weeks until an event is to happen, then we understand that eight weeks consisting of fifty six days will pass before the event.

If you were constructing a building and were told from the issuing of the building permit until the building inspector arrives shall be eight weeks. You would understand that once the building permit was issued 8 weeks consisting of 56 days will pass before the inspector is scheduled to arrive. If the inspector arrived on day 53, you would say the inspector arrived early at 7 1/2 weeks instead of 8 weeks. And if he arrived on day 60, we would say he arrived late at 8 1/2 weeks.

To understand the prophetic language of the seventy weeks in Daniel, we apply the one day equals one year principle that is used in Numbers 14:34 when the Israelite's were to wander 40 years in the wilderness for their unbelief, and in Ezekiel 4:4-6 where the Lord uses a day for year. This means one day equals a year, and there are 7 days in a week, so 7 X 70 weeks = 490 years.

When we read Daniel 9:25, we are given a defined starting point to begin the timer to the arrival of the Messiah, along with the specific amount of time it takes from start to end.

Daniel 9:25- "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times."

* The specific starting point to begin counting time is the command to restore and build Jerusalem.
* The specific event to happen is the arrival of Messiah the Prince.
* The specific length of time is 7 weeks and 62 weeks. This is 69 weeks total, 7+62=69. This consisting of 483 years. 7 days x 69 weeks = 483 years

From the command to restore and build Jerusalem to Messiah the Prince is sixty nine weeks. This means sixty nine weeks shall have passed from the command to rebuild Jerusalem to when our Lord was revealed to Israel upon being anointed by the Holy Spirit (John 1:29-34).

Now that we understand that it took sixty nine of the seventy weeks unto the Messiah, we know it is at the beginning of the seventieth week our Lord began His ministry and died mid-week. This helps us to understand verses 26 and 27, that are an A-B/A-B parallelism. Parallelisms and bifidic styles are common in the Hebrew poetry of the Bible.

In an A-B/A-B parallelism, the ‘A’s have corresponding elements, as do the ‘B’s. The effect is likened to two different views of two different events.

(Dan 9:26)
A: And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
B: And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

(Dan 9:27)
A: Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
B: And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate."

The first half of each verse is describing the Messiah, while the second half of each verse is describing the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.

It is important to understand, it is in verse 24 the seventy weeks were determined for the Jewish people and their city of Jerusalem to fulfill six things: To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.

We know the seventy weeks have been fulfilled because all six things were completed within the seventieth week when Jesus our Lord arrived.

God Bless

 

[cjab]

When we read Daniel 9:25, we are given a defined starting point to begin the timer to the arrival of the Messiah, along with the specific amount of time it takes from start to end.

Given the number of times the rebuilding of Jerusalem is deferred to, starting with the prophet Jeremiah, then Cyrus, Ataxerxes, and Ezra, the defined starting point is anyone's guess.

Daniel 9:25- "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times."

* The specific starting point to begin counting time is the command to restore and build Jerusalem.
* The specific event to happen is the arrival of Messiah the Prince.

But just who is The "Annointed One"? The term is very unspecific, referring to kings, priests, and even Jesus.

* The specific length of time is 7 weeks and 62 weeks. This is 69 weeks total, 7+62=69. This consisting of 483 years. 7 days x 69 weeks = 483 years

From the command to restore and build Jerusalem to Messiah the Prince is sixty nine weeks. This means sixty nine weeks shall have passed from the command to rebuild Jerusalem to when our Lord was revealed to Israel upon being anointed by the Holy Spirit (John 1:29-34).

Now that we understand that it took sixty nine of the seventy weeks unto the Messiah, we know it is at the beginning of the seventieth week our Lord began His ministry and died mid-week. This helps us to understand verses 26 and 27, that are an A-B/A-B parallelism. Parallelisms and bifidic styles are common in the Hebrew poetry of the Bible.

In an A-B/A-B parallelism, the ‘A’s have corresponding elements, as do the ‘B’s. The effect is likened to two different views of two different events.

(Dan 9:26)
A: And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
B: And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

(Dan 9:27)
A: Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
B: And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate."

The first half of each verse is describing the Messiah, while the second half of each verse is describing the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.

Don't forget there was an earlier destruction by Antiochus IV Epiphanes in the second century BC, involving a similar desecration of the temple. The 70th week events are a better fit to this Maccabean era period.

Also the seventieth week doesn't map onto events surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus.

It is important to understand, it is in verse 24 the seventy weeks were determined for the Jewish people and their city of Jerusalem to fulfill six things: To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.

We know the seventy weeks have been fulfilled because all six things were completed within the seventieth week when Jesus our Lord arrived.

God Bless

 

[Yahweh will increase]

A week is a period of time that is segmented into seven days. If one says it will be eight weeks until an event is to happen, then we understand that eight weeks consisting of fifty six days will pass before the event.

If you were constructing a building and were told from the issuing of the building permit until the building inspector arrives shall be eight weeks. You would understand that once the building permit was issued 8 weeks consisting of 56 days will pass before the inspector is scheduled to arrive. If the inspector arrived on day 53, you would say the inspector arrived early at 7 1/2 weeks instead of 8 weeks. And if he arrived on day 60, we would say he arrived late at 8 1/2 weeks.

To understand the prophetic language of the seventy weeks in Daniel, we apply the one day equals one year principle that is used in Numbers 14:34 when the Israelite's were to wander 40 years in the wilderness for their unbelief, and in Ezekiel 4:4-6 where the Lord uses a day for year. This means one day equals a year, and there are 7 days in a week, so 7 X 70 weeks = 490 years.

When we read Daniel 9:25, we are given a defined starting point to begin the timer to the arrival of the Messiah, along with the specific amount of time it takes from start to end.

Daniel 9:25- "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times."

* The specific starting point to begin counting time is the command to restore and build Jerusalem.
* The specific event to happen is the arrival of Messiah the Prince.
* The specific length of time is 7 weeks and 62 weeks. This is 69 weeks total, 7+62=69. This consisting of 483 years. 7 days x 69 weeks = 483 years

From the command to restore and build Jerusalem to Messiah the Prince is sixty nine weeks. This means sixty nine weeks shall have passed from the command to rebuild Jerusalem to when our Lord was revealed to Israel upon being anointed by the Holy Spirit (John 1:29-34).

Now that we understand that it took sixty nine of the seventy weeks unto the Messiah, we know it is at the beginning of the seventieth week our Lord began His ministry and died mid-week. This helps us to understand verses 26 and 27, that are an A-B/A-B parallelism. Parallelisms and bifidic styles are common in the Hebrew poetry of the Bible.

In an A-B/A-B parallelism, the ‘A’s have corresponding elements, as do the ‘B’s. The effect is likened to two different views of two different events.

(Dan 9:26)
A: And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
B: And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

(Dan 9:27)
A: Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
B: And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate."

The first half of each verse is describing the Messiah, while the second half of each verse is describing the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.

It is important to understand, it is in verse 24 the seventy weeks were determined for the Jewish people and their city of Jerusalem to fulfill six things: To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.

We know the seventy weeks have been fulfilled because all six things were completed within the seventieth week when Jesus our Lord arrived.

God Bless


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It seems you are in agreement with what I also see from the Lord on this, for it says "after 7 weeks and 62 weeks the Messiah would be cut off and which means that in order for Daniel 9:24 to be fulfilled and especially the atoinment for iniquity, that 70th week had to follow immediately after the 69 with no gap like most falsely teach about this.

I also see part B of both Daniel 9:26 and 27 to be the prophecy and vision referred to in Daniel 9:24 that would be sealed within that last week but not actually fulfilled within the 70th week and I believe that this is where many people go off track with this prophecy because they do not understand this correctly.

For the 70 weeks were all about what the Messiah Jesus would accomplish at his first coming and it is all positive and not negative and therefore it has nothing whatsoever to do with the spirit of antichrist or the tribulation or the end of the age with the exception of the sealing of the prophecy and vision about it in part B of both verse 26 and 27.

 

[Joe]

It seems you are in agreement with what I also see from the Lord on this, for it says "after 7 weeks and 62 weeks the Messiah would be cut off and which means that in order for Daniel 9:24 to be fulfilled and especially the atoinment for iniquity, that 70th week had to follow immediately after the 69 with no gap like most falsely teach about this.

Yes, we do agree. There is no gap in the seventy weeks.. The seventy weeks were all about verse 24, and those six things were accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ.

I also see part B of both Daniel 9:26 and 27 to be the prophecy and vision referred to in Daniel 9:24 that would be sealed within that last week but not actually fulfilled within the 70th week and I believe that this is where many people go off track with this prophecy because they do not understand this correctly.

For the 70 weeks were all about what the Messiah Jesus would accomplish at his first coming and it is all positive and not negative and therefore it has nothing whatsoever to do with the spirit of antichrist or the tribulation or the end of the age with the exception of the sealing of the prophecy and vision about it in part B of both verse 26 and 27.

It seems we think of B in 26 and 27 differently. Historically, and according to our Lord in Mark 13, Matthew 24, and Luke 21, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, which is the tribulation of the Jewish people of that period was foretold in part B of 26 and 27.

9:26B - "And the people (Romans) of the prince (Titus) who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war (Roman, Jewish) desolations are determined."

9:27B - "And on the wing of abominations (pagan) shall be one (Titus) who makes desolate (to lay waste), Even until the consummation (completion), which is determined (decreed by God), Is poured out on the desolate (Jewish people)."

It is historical fact that in 70 AD, Titus the son of Emperor Vespasian besieged Jerusalem and destroyed the city and the temple, which was not left one stone upon another. The Roman armies came against them, and like a flood that is quick and devastating; so were the Romans against the Jewish people. Desolation was determined upon them, for those were the days of vengeance as written (Luke 21:22). Titus and his armies entered the temple, desecrating it and carried off the temple artifacts. There is to this day standing in Rome, an arch that Titus' brother Emperor Domitian erected in his honor that depicts the Roman triumph over the Jewish people with a panel that shows the spoils taken from the temple (The Menorah, gold trumpets, fire pans, and the table of Showbread.).

The Romans completely demolished the temple, leaving not one stone upon another, thus fulfilling our Lord's prophecy in Mark 13:2, Matthew 24:2, and Luke 21:6.

The destruction of the city, temple, and people was the judgment of God, as foretold by our Lord Jesus in Luke 19:41-44, 20:9-18; Matthew 22:1-14, 23:35-36. The days of vengeance as written in Malachi 4:1-5, Isaiah 6:9-11, Deuteronomy 28:20-68, 32:21-26, Daniel 9:26-27

The Roman armies of 70 AD is the Abomination that causes desolation that our Lord spoke about in Mark 13:14, Matthew 24:15, and as Luke clearly states in Luke 21:20.


God Bless

 

[Yahweh will increase]

Yes, we do agree. There is no gap in the seventy weeks.. The seventy weeks were all about verse 24, and those six things were accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ.

It seems we think of B in 26 and 27 differently. Historically, and according to our Lord in Mark 13, Matthew 24, and Luke 21, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, which is the tribulation of the Jewish people of that period was foretold in part B of 26 and 27.

Only concerning B of the 27th verse however, for I believe this is speaking of the apostasy and abomination that would come about even within the greater majority of the church who are led by the spirit of antichrist instead of the real Jesus Christ and would then becasue of it, also have its effect of the same upon the whole world.

9:26B - "And the people (Romans) of the prince (Titus) who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war (Roman, Jewish) desolations are determined."

On the above we agree 100%, that it happened for that generation of the Jews through the Romans led by Titus but only as a pre type of what would come after it during the tribulation and in which the people of the prince that would come would be those who believe and follow the false Christ, or spirit of antichrist

9:27B - "And on the wing of abominations (pagan) shall be one (Titus) who makes desolate (to lay waste), Even until the consummation (completion), which is determined (decreed by God), Is poured out on the desolate (Jewish people)."

I believe this is speaking of the apostasy that would begin with the church falling from the truth and having the effect of hardening the hearts of all men both Jew and Gentile and which will then bring in the judgment of God in the tribulation (consummation).

It is historical fact that in 70 AD, Titus the son of Emperor Vespasian besieged Jerusalem and destroyed the city and the temple, which was not left one stone upon another. The Roman armies came against them, and like a flood that is quick and devastating; so were the Romans against the Jewish people. Desolation was determined upon them, for those were the days of vengeance as written (Luke 21:22). Titus and his armies entered the temple, desecrating it and carried off the temple artifacts. There is to this day standing in Rome, an arch that Titus' brother Emperor Domitian erected in his honor that depicts the Roman triumph over the Jewish people with a panel that shows the spoils taken from the temple (The Menorah, gold trumpets, fire pans, and the table of Showbread.).
The Romans completely demolished the temple, leaving not one stone upon another, thus fulfilling our Lord's prophecy in Mark 13:2, Matthew 24:2, and Luke 21:6.

The destruction of the city, temple, and people was the judgment of God, as foretold by our Lord Jesus in Luke 19:41-44, 20:9-18; Matthew 22:1-14, 23:35-36. The days of vengeance as written in Malachi 4:1-5, Isaiah 6:9-11, Deuteronomy 28:20-68, 32:21-26, Daniel 9:26-27

The Roman armies of 70 AD is the Abomination that causes desolation that our Lord spoke about in Mark 13:14, Matthew 24:15, and as Luke clearly states in Luke 21:20.

I agree with that but I see it also as a precursor to what will happen in a spiritual sense in these last days before Jesus returns and which I believe is actually happening right now also.


For I believe that the churches just like Israel of old has fallen into a great apostasy from the truth and this is why you have so much division called denominations within the churches also.

By the way, we have the same name, if indeed Joe is your real name and that is why I use "Yahweh Will Increase" as my user name, for it is the Hebrew definition of the Hebrew name "Joseph" and which is my real birth name.