Daniel’s Seventy Weeks Daniel 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. 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. 26. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end there of shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one 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, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. The revelations to Daniel of seventy weeks came as an answer to his prayer. God showed him that the refining judgments of Israel would come to an end, and their acceptance of the Messiah would bring in everlasting righteousness. This prophecy provides a time frame for messianic prediction from the time of Daniel to the establishing of the millennial kingdom It also established the fact that God is not finished with Israel as a nation. To a great extent, Israel becomes God’s prophetic clock. The time frame of the seventy weeks or “Seventy Seven of Years” is associated with Daniel’s people, the Jews, and the holy city, Jerusalem. The fact that the weeks of years (490 years) are 360 day years is established. The weeks of years began with the commandment by Artaxerxes in 445 B.C. to restore Jerusalem. Chronologically they are divided as: Seven sevens 49 years- 445 to 396 B.C. (From Artaxerxes’ decree to the arrival of Nehemiah and the covenant renewal celebration at Jerusalem) Sixty-two sevens 434 years-396 B.C. to A.D. 32 (From the dedication of the second temple to the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ) One seven 7 years – Unfulfilled. One who makes desolate: National Israel will enter into a covenant with the future little horn, the Roman prince. Or Antichrist for seven years (Daniel’s final or Seventieth Week). In the middle of the week, the Antichrist will break the covenant and demand that the blood sacrifices, restored by Israel in the last days, must cease. He will then set up his image in the Jewish temple and require worship. (Matthew 24:15 Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation’ “spoken by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed ,the son of perdition.(The man of sin (“man of lawlessness” in some manuscripts) is called the Antichrist in the letters of John on the son of perdition see 1Thessalonians 5:5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are neither of the night nor of darkness.)2nd Thessalonians 2: 4who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (Jewish history had already shown in Antiochus Epiphanies (about 167 B.C. ) a fiercely ungodly monarch who desecrated the temple of Jerusalem(Dan 11:31-36)the Book of 1 Macabees, an intertestamental historical account, tells this story). Roman emperors, such as Gaius Caligula (A.D. 37-41) and Domitian (A.D. 81-96), sought to be regarded as divine. This corrupting potential of political power will mark the final Man of Sin as well.) Classical Interpretation: The classical approach differs, seeing such numerical computation as arbitrary. It views the 490 as representing not a literal period but a lifetime punishment seven times over (Jer. 25:11; Lev 26:28). In other words, to this viewpoint, in some form or other Israel’s desolation will last for centuries, the posrexullic return not making that end; but an end will come. This view also continues this prophecy to the second century B.C., that time when Jerusalem would suffer greatly at the hands of Antiochus Epiphanies (one who makes desolate) His: abominations: included setting up a heathen altar in the temple, the time of the cutting off of Onias 111. God’s anointed high priest of that time. (Messiah vv 25, 26), which can be translated “anointed one,” is thus seen by the classical school as not necessarily referring to Christ but to the high priest.) The prophesied consummation is interpreted as Antiochus overthrow at the time of Maccabean revolt. The classical approach does not, however, rule out antitype fulfillment of the broader principles in Jesus Christ, in the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, nor in the last days’ rampages of the Antichrist. Daniel’s language is clearly eschatological at points, denoting a multilevel prophetic fulfillment. Nehemiah 2:3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father’s sepulchers, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? Things happen in Rapture 1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in Him that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. Revelation 3:1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write. These things say He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know you works that you have a name that yoy are alive but you are dead.
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