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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nOnce the issue of the date of\nthe decree to restore Jerusalem is solved, the problem with the dating of the\ncoming of Messiah remains with the prophetic 360-day which is 5 days short of\nthe solar year. After calculations, that equates to a loss of 7 actual years\nfrom Daniel\u2019s prediction, or 476 actual years. If you are counting 69 weeks\nuntil Messiah, counting forward from the first decree to restore Jerusalem in\n457 brings us to 19 A.D. If you count 70 weeks to Messiah, you have 26 A.D. On\nthe other hand, if we count from the final decree to rebuild Jerusalem, the\ndecree that finally got the job done, we calculate 69 weeks from 444 B.C the\nresult is 32 A.D. which becomes 33 A.D. corrected for the missing year zero.\nWhat better accuracy could you expect?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daniel gives us the point in\nthe prophecy where Messiah is crucified.
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\nDaniel 9:25-26 So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree\nto restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven\nweeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in\ntimes of distress. 26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be\ncut off\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The way this is read is that\nMessiah arrives and is cut off after 7+62, or 69 weeks, when He is crucified.\nKnowing the brief treatment of history in the following verses concerning the\ndestruction of Jerusalem several decades after Messiah and other wars and\ndesolations to follow gives us a perspective to deal with this very brief\nmention of the coming Messiah. Some interpret being cut off after the 69 weeks\nas meaning He came at the end of week 69 and was crucified in the middle of\nweek 70. Others read this as the Messiah was present during week 69 and is cut\nof, crucified, right after, or at the end of the 69 weeks. \u201cAfter\u201d is somewhat\nof a relative term to be determined by the reader. Is \u201cafter\u201d like the\nafter-church potluck which happens at the end of the service, or is it a longer\nperiod of time? Further context of these 70 weeks can be gleaned in vs. 26-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daniel 9:26-7 and the people of\nthe prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end\nwill come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are\ndetermined. 27 And he will make a firm covenant with the many for ONE\nWEEK, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain\noffering;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a nod to coming history\nafter the fall of Jerusalem as \u201cwar and desolations are determined,\u201d it reads\nas if there is one week left in the prophecy; which would be considered week\n70. These verses describe, for the most part, the event described in 2\nThessalonians 2:4 when the antichrist takes his seat in the temple in\nJerusalem. This event is further described as part of the end time scenario in\nDaniel 12:4-13. This week seems to coordinate with the 69 previous weeks.\nFurther confirmation that the week 70 is included in the end time events after\nthe time of Messiah is revealed in vs. 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daniel 9:24 \u201cSeventy weeks\nhave been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the\ntransgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring\nin everlasting righteousness, to SEAL UP VISION AND PROPHECY and to anoint the\nmost holy place.
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\nTo \u201cseal up\u201d gives us time context for this prophecy. The word for \u201cseal up\u201d is\nchatham in the Hebrew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Strong\u2019s #2856:<\/strong> chatham (pronounced khaw-tham\u2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n a primitive root; to close up;\nespecially to seal:\u2013make an end, mark, seal (up), stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To SEAL UP the prophecy of 70\nweeks was to cover all prophecy up to the CLOSE OR END of all revelation.\nTherefore, even John\u2019s book of prophecy is under its umbrella. The prophecy of\nDaniel leads us through the first 69 weeks up to Messiah and even reached\nbeyond into history afterward. The time between Messiah and the week 70 is\nbriefly mentioned in vs. 26. Week 70 takes up in the end time which is expanded\non by John in the Revelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus Himself refers to this\nevent during the week 70 in Matthew:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthew 24:14-15 14 This\ngospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to\nall the nations, AND THEN THE END will come 15 \u201cTherefore when you see the\nABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet,\nstanding in the holy place (let the reader understand). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Compare this to Daniel 12:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daniel 12:11 From the time that\nthe regular sacrifice is abolished, and the abomination of desolation is set\nup, there will be 1,290 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here we find Jesus relating the\nsecond half of the prophetic week of Daniel 12 to the end time after the gospel\nhas been preached in the whole world. Daniel 12:4 also indicates his vision of\nthe seventieth week was directed at the end times. Those who claim all seventy\nweeks were fulfilled by the time of Christ must deal with this statement by our\nLord. Week seventy has clearly been reserved for the end time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Certain groups have determined that the dating of the appearance of Messiah by the weeks foretold in Daniel begins with a calculation beginning from the year 457 B.C. This is the date of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem given in Ezra 7. At first glance, this makes sense as Daniel indicated that, from the time … Continue reading “Rightly Dividing the Seventy Weeks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelation714.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelation714.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelation714.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelation714.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelation714.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/revelation714.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/revelation714.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelation714.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelation714.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelation714.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}