Study
to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
II Timothy
2:15
Introduction
Let us study Daniel’s 70
weeks together, and as the Word
says, not be ashamed. Let us rightly
divide these 70 weeks. Not into 69
½
weeks and ½ week as is the manner of
some. Nor into 69 weeks and 1 week as is
the manner of others. But into 62 weeks,
7 weeks, and 1 week as contained in
the Word of God, the word of truth.
Let us understand that God
has divided these 70 weeks into
three time periods, not for us to divide
further. Let us also understand that
God has divided these 70 weeks, not for us to
remove the divisions God has
placed. But, for us to realize there are
three time periods which all together
add up to 70 weeks determined upon the people
of Israel
and the city of Jerusalem.
Between
each of these three time periods there is a
gap, a distinct periods of
time, some call a dispensation, determined
upon mankind, before the end of days.
The end of days, which is the end of time as
we know it, is reached only at the
end of the 70 weeks.
Timeline
433 BC – Command by an
Israelite (Nehemiah, Governor
of Judah) to REBUILD JERUSALEM for the Israeli
people (Tuesday, -432 May 14 Gr,
-836592 MJ, 3328 Iyyar 20 He, 6.15.19.14.6
MLC)
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62 Weeks = 1st
division of 70 Weeks = 62 * 7 *
360 Days = 156,240 Days
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5 BC - Jesus Christ, Son of
Man and the only begotten Son of
God, the Word of God conceived through the
power of the Holy Ghost (Tuesday, -4
February 20 Gr, -680352 MJ, 3756 Adar 14 He,
7.17.13.14.6 MLC)
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Two Times = Times of the
Gentiles / Church Age = 2 * 1000 * 360
Days = 720,000 Days
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1967 AD – Command by an
Israelite (Moshe Dayan,
Defense Minister) to RESTORE JERUSALEM to the
Israeli people (Wednesday, 1967
June 7 Gr, 39648 MJ, 5727 Iyyar 28 He,
12.17.13.14.6 MLC)
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7 Weeks = 2nd
division of 70 Weeks = 7 * 7 * 360 Days
= 17,640 Days
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2015 AD – Return of Jesus
Christ to establishing His
millennial reign, landing on the Mount of Olives
and cleaving it as is written of in Zechariah
14. (Wednesday, 2015 September
23 Gr, 57288 MJ, 5776 Tishri 10 He,
13.0.2.14.6 MLC)
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One Time = Time of Jesus
Christ / Kingdom Age = 1000 * 360 Days
= 360,000 Days
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3001 AD – End of Time of
Jesus Christ, Kingdom Age, (Sunday,
3001 May 17 Gr, 417288 MJ, Sivan 3, 6761 He,
15.10.2.14.6 MLC)
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1 Week = 3rd
division of 70 Weeks = 7 * 360 Days =
2,520 Days
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3008 AD – End of Days
(Sunday, 3008 Apr 10 Gr, 419808
MJ, Nisan 13, 6768 He, 15.10.9.14.6 MLC)
(Gr = Gregorian, MJ =
Modified Julian, He = Hebrew, MLC =
Mayan Long Count)
Daniel
9
Realize that in the history
of Daniel’s people there have
been at least two other periods of 70 weeks
with gaps. God dealt with and
counted not to Israel
the time in those gaps. Various Bible
chronologists have noticed those gaps
when compiling and reconciling their
chronologies. Most notably are the years
between Ishmael being born as a result of
Abraham not waiting upon the Lord,
and the birth of Isaac, the child of promise,
the true first born, the one who
opened Sarah’s womb.
Realize also how these
periods of 70 weeks have played so
prominently in the lives of Daniel’s
people. Daniel, himself in a
foreign land, was living through the sentence
of 70 years placed upon his
people. They had disobeyed God and
observed not the Sabbath rest of the land
for a period of 70 weeks. They had about
reached the end of their sentence as
understood
by Daniel and as handed down by God through
the Prophet Jeremiah. It was at
this time when Daniel cried out to God for His
people.
In the
first year of Darius the son of
Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which
was made king over the realm of the
Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I
Daniel understood by books the
number of the years, whereof the word of the
LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet,
that he would accomplish seventy years in
the desolations of Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:1-2
Daniel then confesses the
sins of his people.
We have
sinned, and have committed
iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have
rebelled, even by departing from thy
precepts and from thy judgments:
Daniel
9:5
He then appeals to God’s
forgiveness and mercy.
To the
Lord our God belong mercies and
forgivenesses, though we have rebelled
against him; Daniel 9:9
Daniel finally beseeches
God for the sake of his people and
their city, Jerusalem,
that it is not just his people and his city
but God’s people and
God’s city.
O LORD,
according to all thy righteousness,
I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury
be turned away from thy city
Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for
our sins, and for the iniquities of
our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are
become a reproach to all that are
about us. Daniel 9:16
O Lord,
hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord,
hearken and do; defer not, for thine own
sake, O my God: for thy city and thy
people are called by thy name.
Daniel
9:19
Will God forgive them when
they have finished serving their
sentence for the 70 times 7 years they
observed not the Sabbath of their land?
Will God have mercy on them? But how
many times can God continue to forgive
them? But then, how many times did Jesus
tell Peter to forgive?
Then
came Peter to him, and said, Lord,
how oft shall my brother sin against me, and
I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until
seventy times seven.
Matthew
18:21-22
Will God forgive?
Will God allow God’s chosen people
to return to God’s Holy city? Will God
allow God’s chosen people
to rebuild God’s Holy city? Will God
restore unto God’s chosen
people, God’s Holy city? We know God did
forgive His people and in
stages restored and will fully restore Jerusalem
to God’s chosen people. The first stage
was Cyrus after the 70 years had
been completed, just as the Prophet Jeremiah
had foretold. He ended the 70
years of desolations of Jerusalem
by allowing
those taken into captivity to RETURN to Jerusalem
to rebuild at least the temple.
Now in
the first year of Cyrus king of
Persia, that the word of the LORD by the
mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled,
the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king
of Persia, that he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and
put it also in writing, saying,
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD
God of heaven hath given me all the
kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged
me to build him an house at
Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezra
1:1-2
So how does God answer
Daniel’s prayer and
supplication? God sends Gabriel directly
to answer Daniel’s questions regarding
the people of Israel
and the
city of Jerusalem.
And
whiles I was speaking, and praying,
and confessing my sin and the sin of my
people Israel, and presenting
my supplication before the LORD my God
for the holy
mountain of my God;
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.
And he informed me, and talked
with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come
forth to give thee skill and
understanding. Daniel 9:20-22
And then came what is
considered the most famous revelation
in the Old Testament, some consider the whole
Bible, found at the beginning of
Daniel 9:24.
Seventy
weeks are determined upon thy
people and upon thy holy city,…
Daniel had just identified
his people for whom he is praying
as not just Judah,
composed
of the tribes of Judah, Levi, and Benjamin of
the lower kingdom, but all “my
people Israel”.
And
his holy city is repeatedly identified as Jerusalem.
Now if these 70 weeks had started
at the time of this proclamation by Gabriel,
or later at the time of the
proclamation by Cyrus, both before 500 BC, and
ended 490 years later with no
gaps, Daniel’s people and Jerusalem would have
clearly ceased to exist
some years before the birth of Jesus
Christ. Yes, ceased to exist. The
word
“determined” as used here in Hebrew means, “to
be determined,
be decreed, be settled, be marked out”.
Gabriel pronounces a
promise and a sentence. The
descendents of Israel
and
the city of Jerusalem
only have seventy weeks determined upon
them. For Daniel though this was most
likely reassuring from where he sat in a
foreign land as he could see his
people and his holy city disappearing into
history. To hear a promise that his
people and his city would continue for many
more lifetimes must have been good
news. For the rest us who have had the
advantage of reading Revelation, we
know the time is longer than 490 sequential
years. We know that the Israeli
people and her beloved city, Jerusalem,
exist even through the millennium and to the
end of time.
And
when the thousand years are expired,
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And
shall go out to deceive the
nations which are in the four quarters of
the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather
them together to battle: the number of whom
is as the sand of the sea. And
they went up on the breadth of the earth,
and compassed the camp of the saints
about, and the beloved city: and fire came
down from God out of heaven, and
devoured them. Revelation
20:7-9
And
death and hell were cast into the lake
of fire. This is the second death. And
whosoever was not found written in the
book of life was cast into the lake of
fire. And I saw a new heaven and a new
earth: for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away; and there was
no more sea. And I John saw the holy
city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned
for her husband.
Revelation
21:1-2
We are blessed that through
God’s mercy there are gaps
in the 62, 7, and 1 week that make up the 70
weeks. Between the 62 and 7 weeks
are the times of the Gentiles, often called
the Church Age, and between the 7
and 1 week is the millennium, often called the
Kingdom Age. For we know that
after the millennium, satan must be loosed for
a little season.
And
cast him into the bottomless pit, and
shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that
he should deceive the nations no
more, till the thousand years should be
fulfilled: and after that he must be
loosed a little season.
Revelation
20:3
And at the end of the
little season, the 1 week, the last
week, comes eternity.
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. Daniel
9:24
At this point we should
recognize that while we commonly call
this Daniel’s 70 weeks, we should more
accurately call this the
descendants of Israel
and the
city of Jerusalem’s
70
weeks. These 70 weeks are determined
upon them, not Daniel.
Now on to analyzing Daniel
9:24. We have seven events
mentioned as happening during these 70
weeks. The first two events mentioned
are
“to finish
the transgression, and to
make an end of sins”. We
are all under the curse of Adam
which is physical death.
Nevertheless
death reigned from Adam to
Moses, even over them that had not sinned
after the similitude of Adam's
transgression, who is the
figure of
him that was to come.
Romans
5:14
Now while Jesus Christ
finished redeeming this
transgression by His blood, for all who will
accept it, throughout time.
And for
this cause he is the mediator of
the new testament, that by means of death,
for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first
testament, they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 9:15
This transgression will not
be finished till death is
thrown into the lake of fire.
And
death and hell were cast into the lake
of fire. This is the second death.
Revelation
20:14
Likewise sin did not end
with the first coming of Jesus
Christ. Nor will the “end of sins”
occur at the second coming of Jesus
Christ. It will not happen till after
satan has deceived mankind for the last time,
after the little season, when
death is thrown into the lake of fire.
That as
sin hath reigned unto death, even
so might grace reign through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ
our Lord. Romans 5:21
Let’s look at the last
five:
…and to
make reconciliation for
iniquity,…
Jesus paid the price of our
iniquity so we might be
reconciled to God through his death of the
cross.
Wherefore
in all things it behoved him to
be made like unto his brethren, that he
might be a merciful and faithful high
priest in things pertaining to God, to make
reconciliation for the sins of the
people. Hebrews
2:17
However, reconciliation of
everyone who has committed
iniquity before God will not be finished till
the end of time. At Judgment
day, reconciliation to God of all who are
found written in the book of Life will
be made for ever and ever as the Almighty
Judge accepts His own Son’s
sacrificial death upon the cross in payment
for our iniquities.
…and to
bring in everlasting
righteousness,…
The next event is
everlasting righteousness. Eternity, the
new heaven, the new earth, and the new
Jerusalem, cannot be brought in until
the unrighteous, the old heaven and the old
earth, death, hell, and the grave have
passed away. Which brings us to:
…and to
seal up the vision and
prophecy,…
Daniel sealed up the vision
he had and the prophecy he
received as he was commanded. This event
would have happened before 500 BC.
But
thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and
seal the book, even to the time of the end:
many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased. Daniel
12:4
In contrast, John the
Revelator was commanded not to seal up
the vision and the prophecy he received.
And he
saith unto me, Seal not the sayings
of the prophecy of this book: for the time
is at hand. Revelation 22:10
Now comes the part of the
verse which has caused much
controversy:
…and to
anoint the most Holy…
Some have taken this last
event in the list as the last
event which then ends the 70 week. Even
though the previous two events, the
sealing of the vision and the sealing of the
prophecy, were the first to happen
in the list and even though at least some of
the previous four must happen undeniably
at the end of time. But we have short
memories.
To make this work though,
they must interpret the anointing
of the “most Holy’ as being the anointing of
the “most Holy
one”. This must be the anointing of a
person not an object, specifically
when Jesus Christ was anointed with the Holy
Spirit. This must not be when the
temple on the Holy mountain of God
was rebuilt and rededicated
to God and anointed with blood which poured
down the mountain as described in
Ezra.
And the
children of Israel,
the
priests, and the Levites, and the rest of
the children of the captivity, kept
the dedication of this house of God with
joy. And offered at the dedication of
this house of God an hundred bullocks, two
hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
and for a sin offering for all Israel,
twelve he goats, according to the number
of the tribes of Israel.
Ezra
6:16-17
However, the latter is what
Daniel had been praying for and
what Daniel had been calling Holy:
O LORD,
according to all thy
righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine
anger and thy fury be turned away from
thy city Jerusalem,
thy holy mountain:
because for our sins, and for the iniquities
of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy
people are become a reproach to all that are
about us. Daniel 9:16
And
whiles I was speaking, and praying,
and confessing my sin and the sin of my
people Israel, and presenting my
supplication before the LORD my God for the
holy
mountain of my God; Daniel
9:20
Now God did indeed anoint
Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit
right after He was baptized by John:
How God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth
with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went
about doing good, and healing all
that were oppressed of the devil; for God
was with him.
Acts 10:38
And there is some
controversy that Jesus did not become Messiah
or Christ until He was anointed by the Father
with the Holy Spirit right after
His water baptism.
But consider this. We
know the word “Christ” is
the Greek translation of the Hebrew word
“Messiah”, both of which
translate into our English word
“anointed”. So by definition, to
be Christ or Messiah, one must be
anointed. We may have forgotten though
that
Jesus Christ was anointed with the Word of God
by action of the Holy Spirit at
conception, just as He was anointed with the
Holy Spirit by action of God the
Father around 30 years later. The bottom
line though is his rightful title at
birth would be Christ since he had been
anointed. Mary, His mother, like many
of the woman of the time, desired to be the
chosen vessel to give birth to the
Christ. And she indeed was blessed and
gave birth to the Christ child, not someone
who would not become Christ till 30 years
later.
For
unto you is born this day in the city
of David
a
Saviour, which
is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:11
It is written that Jesus
Christ was conceived miraculously
in Mary though she knew not a man, by the
power of the Holy Ghost.
Then
said Mary unto the angel, How shall
this be, seeing I know not a man? And
the angel answered and said unto her,
The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the
power of the Highest shall
overshadow thee: therefore also that holy
thing which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God.
Luke
1:34-35
Jesus was born as the
incarnation of the Word of God.
And the
Word was made flesh, and dwelt
among us, (and we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and truth.
John
1:14
Then he
answered and spake unto me,
saying, This is the word of the LORD unto
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor
by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD
of hosts.
Zechariah
4:6
Daniel
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.
Daniel 9:25
Here we have two divisions
of the 70 weeks clearly
identified for us. We have seven weeks
and we have 62 weeks. That would leave
one week, doing the math, to make a total of
70. Here we also have two
divisions of what was to be commanded.
We have restore and build.
So we have two time periods
and two commandments. Both are
accounted to Israel.
Both
are made by descendants of Israel.
All
are done in their proper order. Cyrus
allowed the Israelites to RETURN to
build their temple but he gave them no
protection to allow them to build Jerusalem
with a wall
protecting them from their enemies.
Daniel 9:25 specifies
building Jerusalem.
Since the Israelites were a
conquered people they were at the mercy and
whim of their conquerors who had no
desire to see Jerusalem
become a fortified city with a wall. And
Jerusalem
had in no way been restored to the
Israelites. It would take till the time
of
Nehemiah just for the wall to be rebuilt and
under the exact conditions
foretold, “the
street shall be built
again, and the wall, even in troublous
times”.
Now the King gave Nehemiah
the power to go back and rebuild
the wall, which the King’s “commandment” or
authorization has
been traced back to 445 BC. Sir Robert
Anderson wrote a masterful groundbreaking
work over 100 years ago using this year.
He used seven times 360 days to
number the days of each week in Daniel’s 70
week prophecy. This
reckoning was and is generally accepted based
not only on our understanding of
the Babylonian calendar, but based on how the
book of Revelation apparently
equates 1260 days with 42 months and 3
½ years. Using this reckoning Sir
Robert Anderson added together the 62 weeks
and the 7 weeks of 360 day years and
came to 32 AD. This would seem to give
validity for adding together the 62 and
7 weeks with no dispensation, no Age of the
Gentiles, between.
Now while I can find
nothing wrong with using 360 day reckoning,
it should be pointed out that had Sir Robert
Anderson used solar reckoning he
would have ended up at 39 AD. But even
32 AD is pushing it for the crucifixion.
Josephus recorded that Jesus of Nazareth was
crucified 40 years before Jerusalem
was destroyed
which would place the date at 30 AD.
There is also a letter
purported to be from Pilate to Caesar
about crucifying Jesus with the date of April
6th, which would be a
week early for the Passover in 32 AD but would
fit 30 AD because of the day of
the week of the full moon. Subtracting 3
½ years for the ministry of Jesus
Christ and then 30 years for the age of Jesus
Christ when he began his ministry
we arrive at the fall of 5 BC using 30 AD
versus the fall of 3 BC using 32 AD
for the birth of Jesus.
The vast majority of the
evidence points to Pontius Pilate dying
in March or early April of 4 BC, which again
fits 30 AD. Research of records
of when the census was called for by Rome
shows one in 6 BC and then the next one in 6
AD. For Joseph and Mary to have
traveled to Bethlehem
one year later in 5 BC for the census in this
community sounds perfectly reasonable,
while a delay of two more years to give us a
year of 3 BC seems less
reasonable.
So, in the end, while Sir
Robert Anderson created a
groundbreaking classic, 32 AD appears to be 2
years after the crucifixion. The
Messiah was the Messiah at conception not at
crucifixion, or when He rode into Jerusalem
on the first day
of that week. And Sir Robert Anderson
had no basis for adding together the 62
weeks and the 7 weeks as there are two comings
of Messiah because Jesus Christ declared
before He died that He was coming again.
Ye have
heard how I said unto you, I go
away, and come again unto you. If ye loved
me, ye would rejoice, because I
said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is
greater than I. John 16:28
And so did the Angel:
Which
also said, Ye men of Galilee,
why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this
same
Jesus, which is taken up from you into
heaven, shall so come in like manner as
ye have seen him go into heaven. Acts
1:11
We have covered the origin
of adding together the 62 and 7
weeks with no gap to come up with 69
weeks. Then there is placed a gap, the
Times
of the Gentiles, between just the 69th
and the 70th week.
What about those who teach the 62, 7, and 1
week should all be added together with
no gaps between them? Then a new gap, a
different gap not mentioned in Daniel
9:25 is introduced half way through the 70th
week. In between the 69
½ weeks and the last ½ week they
insert the Times of the Gentiles. Where
does
that come from? Well, it comes from
skipping ahead and looking at Daniel 9:27
and comparing that with the choices for dates
to begin the count of the 70
weeks.
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, and that determined shall be
poured upon the desolate. Daniel
9:27
We have one week.
Since Daniel 9:25 explained the 62 and 7
weeks, this is assumed to explain the 1 week
which makes a total of 70. Then
the word “midst” is taken to mean the exact
middle with 3 ½ weeks
on either side.
Let’s first take a look at
the choices of dates we
have to begin the 70 week count:
539 BC – (Ezra 1:1-4 &
4:6-13) King Cyrus allowed
the Israelites to return to the land and
rebuild their temple in Jerusalem.
However this
rebuilding is stopped due to false witnesses
520 BC – (Ezra 6:8-12) King
Darius allowed the
Israelites to complete the rebuilding of their
temple in Jerusalem
457 BC – (Ezra 7:11-28)
King Artaxerxes allowed Ezra
authority to lead the nation in the Laws of
God
445 BC – (Nehemiah 2:1-9)
King Artaxerxes in his 20th
year allowed Nehemiah to leave for the purpose
of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem,
appointing him
Governor of Judah
433 BC – (Nehemiah 5:14
& 6:15 & 13:6) Governor
of Judah, Nehemiah, had prepared material and
people and in the 32nd
year of King Artexerxes starts rebuilding
wall, completing the wall in 52 days on
Elul 25 and then returning to King Artaxerxes
the same year. More details are:
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Command given to rebuild Jerusalem
- Date reached by counting backward
from 6/7/1967 - (Tuesday, -432 May 14 Gr,
-836592 MJ, 3328 Iyyar 20 He, 6.15.19.14.6
MLC)
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+72 Days
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Started rebuilding wall -
Date reached by Nehemiah counting
backward from Elul 25 - (Thursday, -432 July
25 Gr, -836520 MJ, 3328 Av 4 He, 6.15.19.17.18
MLC)
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+51 Days between – (52 Days
inclusive)
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Date recorded in Nehemiah
as finished - (Saturday, -432 September
14 Gr, -836469 MJ, 3328 Elul 25 He, 6.16.0.2.9
MLC)
Now, judiciously taking 457
BC and adding together the 62
and 7 weeks to get 69 weeks, and then
interpreting these to be solar years
instead of 360-day years we have 457 BC + 69 *
7 = 457 BC + 483 years = 27 AD
(no 0 AD). This we would take as the end
of the 69th week and the start
of the 70th week. At this
point we would be forced to make this
interpretation work to say Jesus became Christ
/ Messiah, when He was anointed
by God with the Holy Spirit in the fall of 27
AD to fulfill Daniel 9:25. Then
to fulfill Daniel 9:27, at this same time,
Jesus confirmed a covenant for 7
solar years.
And he
shall confirm the covenant with
many for one week..
The problem is no where in
the Bible do we see described
that Jesus Christ confirmed a covenant with
many that was to last 7 solar
years. We do have Jesus Christ
confirming the covenant God made with man
which
was to last for 7 times or 7,000 years.
We could also make a case that Jesus
confirmed a covenant with many when He rode
into Jerusalem
triumphantly as Messiah on Palm
Sunday and it last 7 days, ending the 8th
day when the God-Man was
resurrected from the dead by God the Father.
..and
in the midst of the week he shall
cause the sacrifice and the oblation to
cease…
Now in the midst of these
7,000 years, God did indeed cause
the sacrifice and oblation to cease.
This happened in 70 AD when the temple
was destroyed. Now again it could be
argued that in the middle of the 7 day
Passion week, that Wednesday at the 9th
hour of the day, around 2:30
PM, when Jesus Christ gave up His ghost and
the temple curtain was torn
asunder, the REASON for having the sacrifice
and the oblation ceased.
So we can make a case for
confirming a covenant for 7 days
and 7,000 years. Interestingly a day is
like a thousand years to God.
But,
beloved, be not ignorant of this one
thing, that one day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and a thousand years
as one day. II Peter 3:8
But it is very difficult to
make a case for Jesus Christ
confirming a covenant for 7 years based on the
Bible. But saying we do. Adding
3 ½ solar years to the fall of 27 AD we
arrive at the Spring of 31 AD. Okay,
we were shooting for 30 AD but we are within a
year and with inclusive
reasoning and not knowing exactly when in 457
BC Ezra led the nation in the
laws of God, close enough. And there you
have it. All except the last ½ a
week of Daniel’s 70 weeks have been accounted
for. Or so the story goes.
But let’s get back to an
explanation that to me makes
more sense: Again, referring back to
Daniel 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.
Daniel 9:25
We have discussed how Cyrus
before 500 BC allowed Israel to
RETURN to their land but did not
RESTORE Jerusalem
to Israel.
Jerusalem
was still under the sovereignty of
Cyrus. Likewise Nehemiah was given the
authority in 445 BC to go to Jerusalem
for rebuilding
the wall.
And it came to pass in the
month Nisan, in the twentieth
year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was
before him: and I took up the wine,
and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been
beforetime sad in his presence. Nehemiah
2:1
And I said unto the king,
If it please the king, and if thy
servant have found favour in thy sight, that
thou wouldest send me unto Judah,
unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that
I may build it. Nehemiah 2:5
And the king said unto me,
(the queen also sitting by him,)
For how long shall thy journey be? and when
wilt thou return? So it pleased the
king to send me; and I set him a
time. Nehemiah 2:6
However it wasn’t until 433
BC as Governor of Judah
that Nehemiah commanded the rebuilding of the
wall and it was built in 52 short
days and he was able to leave Jerusalem
and go back to the king, having accomplished
his mission.
Moreover
from the time that I was
appointed to be their governor in the land
of Judah, from the twentieth year
even unto the two and thirtieth year of
Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve
years, I and my brethren have not eaten the
bread of the governor. Nehemiah 5:14
So the
wall was finished in the twenty and
fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and
two days. Nehemiah 6:15
But in
all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the
two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes
king of Babylon
came I unto the king, and after certain days
obtained I leave of the king: Nehemiah 13:6
Adding 62 weeks of 360-days
to 433 BC we arrive at 5 BC. This
is right on the dot as to when the Virgin Mary
would have been ANOINTED with the
Word of God and conceived through the power of
the Holy Ghost, the MESSIAH.
Hallelujah!
Now many expect Jesus
Christ to have been born on Hanukkah,
the Festival of Lights, when the Light of the
World came into the world and the
light was no longer hidden from the world in
Mary’s womb. Does the date
counting backward from 6/7/1967 exactly 2000
times 360 days which is -4
February 20 Gr, (5 BC) fit? Well, adding
40 weeks for the fullness of time,
the fullness of pregnancy, which is 280 days
to this date we arrive at:
5 BC: Birth date
(Tuesday, -4 November 26 Gr, -680072 MJ, 3757
Kislev 28 He, 7.17.14.10.6 MLC)
Now Hanukkah is an 8 day
event, celebrating 8 days that oil
for the temple that was only enough to last
for one day, lasted. The 9
fingered Menorah is used to count off each day
with the center candle, the
servant candle, used to light each day.
The first day is Kislev 25. The
fourth day is Kislev 28. With Jesus born
the fourth day, the Jews would have
come to the position of the servant candle on
the fourth day, the date of His
birth. Jesus IS the servant
candle. Jesus was BORN in the midst of
Hanukkah.
Hallelujah!
I realize that without the
Bible specifying that Jesus was
born on any certain date there is no way to
prove from scripture the date He
was born. We would need only to allow
sufficient time for Herod to give the
command to kill the babies up to two years of
age around Judea
before his death in late March early April, 4
BC. This date suffices. While
some have researched that sheep were not kept
out in winter in Judea, others
have researched that the sacrificial lambs
near Jerusalem
were kept out year round. And
technically this would have been almost a full
month before the beginning of
winter. It is mathematically interesting
though that there are exactly 280 days
between Kislev 25 in 6 BC and Tishri 10 in 5
BC.
Conception date based on
the 1st day of Hanukkah (Monday,
-5 December 4 Gr, -680430 MJ, 3756 Kislev 25
He, 7.17.13.10.8 MLC)
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+ 280 Days
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Birth date based on
conception date based on the 1st
day of Hanukkah (Sunday, -4 September 9 Gr,
-680150 MJ, 3757 Tishri 10
He, 7.17.14.6.8 MLC)
And mathematically
interesting indeed gives us cause to
ponder in the absence of specific dates in the
Bible. God of course may have
left the date unspecified so future
generations would not to have been able to
calculate and know beforehand the exact date
of 6/7/1967 for the end of the
times of the Gentiles. This knowledge
may have been sealed. Fortunately, He
gave us Daniel’s 70 week prophecy so we could
calculate the exact date of
9/23/2015 for His return.
Rachel
weeping for her children
In Rama
was there a voice heard,
lamentation, and weeping, and great
mourning, Rachel weeping for her children,
and would not be comforted, because they are
not.
Matthew 2:18
Israel’s
62
weeks were up with the conception of
Messiah. This ending was marked by the
murder
of many of Israel’s
children.
Then
Herod, when he saw that he was mocked
of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and
sent forth, and slew all the children
that were in Bethlehem, and in all the
coasts thereof, from two years old and
under, according to the time which he had
diligently enquired of the wise men.
Matthew 2:16
This ending also started
the times of the Gentiles. The Gentile’s
two times were up with Jerusalem
no longer belonging to the domain of the
Gentiles.
And
they shall fall by the edge of the
sword, and shall be led away captive into
all nations: and Jerusalem
shall be trodden down of the
Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be
fulfilled. Luke 21:24
This ending and beginning
was also marked by the murder of many
of the Gentile’s children. Some claim
this was the result of the 60’s
free drugs and free sex lifestyle among the
youth. But the bottom line was
that so many illegal murder of babies were
being conducted in the United States
at
that time there was a push to legalize those
murders. This resulted in the
legalization of some of those murders in
January 1973 with the Roe vs. Wade
decision, 6 years and 7 months after 6/7/1967,
for any murder conducted within
a window of 7 months after conception.
Can it be any coincidence
that at the heart of the Babylon
Mystery Religion was child murder?
GOD HATES MURDER!
But back to Daniel’s 70
weeks.
Daniel
9:25 Summary
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.
Daniel
9:25
So Messiah came 62 weeks
after the commandment to BUILD Jerusalem
by an
Israelite. In fulfillment of the rest of
Daniel 9:25 we can then expect Messiah
to come again 7 weeks after the commandment to
RESTORE Jerusalem
by an Israelite. In between this
62 and 7 weeks we have the Dispensation of
Grace, the Church Age, the times of
the Gentiles.
And
they shall fall by the edge of the
sword, and shall be led away captive into
all nations: and Jerusalem
shall be trodden down of the
Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be
fulfilled.
Luke 21:24
We have confirmation by
Jesus Christ’s own words that
the times of the Gentiles would end when Jerusalem
was no longer trodden down by the
Gentiles. Then the commandment to
RESTORE Jerusalem
to Israel by
Israel shall have come to pass and the 7 week
countdown of 360 days to the
return of our Messiah Jesus Christ will have
begun.
Daniel
9:26
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
thereof shall be with a flood,
and
unto the end
of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:26
Notice that Daniel 9:26
states “after
threescore and two weeks”. Daniel
does
not state after threescore and nine
weeks. Nor does Daniel state after
threescore and nine ½ weeks. That
is a tremendous problem for those who add
the 62 and 7 weeks together to get 69 weeks
and for those who then go ahead and
add another half a week to get 69 ½
weeks to when Messiah was cut off. The
scripture doesn’t say these items happen after
69 weeks nor does it say
these items happen after 69 ½
weeks. Scripture states these items
happen after
62 weeks. We clearly have 8 weeks still
to be fulfilled in the 70 weeks when
these items occur.
Let’s go through these
items:
shall
Messiah be
cut off, but not for himself:
Messiah was cut off from
God the Father at His death in 30
AD. But He was not cut off for the sake
of Himself, but for the sake of all
mankind, when He took upon Himself sin who
knew no sin, the sin of man, to be
the perfect blemish-free sacrifice for our
sins.
And at
the ninth hour Jesus cried with a
loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama
sabachthani? which is, being interpreted,
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark 15:34
So
Christ was once offered to bear the
sins of many; and unto them that look for
him shall he appear the second time
without sin unto salvation. Hebrews
9:28
The next item is:
and
the people of
the prince that shall come shall destroy the
city
The people, Roman Legions
under the command of Titus, came
and destroyed Jerusalem
in 70 AD. Titus was the son of Emperor
Vespasian, making him the prince.
and
the sanctuary;
The sanctuary, the great
temple built by Herod, was greatly desired
by Titus not to be destroyed during the siege
of 70 AD. However, his wishes
did not come to pass as Jesus had already
prophesied the complete destruction
of the sanctuary.
And
Jesus went out, and departed from the
temple: and his disciples came to him for to
shew him the buildings of the
temple. And Jesus said unto them, See
ye not all these things? verily I say
unto you, There shall not be left here one
stone upon another, that shall not
be thrown down.
Matthew
24:1-2
and
the end
thereof shall be with a flood,
During the siege, there was
a flood of pilgrims from around
the world into Jerusalem
to celebrate the Passover. Titus let
them in to Jerusalem.
Titus did not let them leave.
His strategy was to overwhelm the water and
food supplies within the city while
cutting off the supplies from outside the
city. It worked, and it led to mass
starvation and the end of Jerusalem.
and
unto the end
of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:26
Jerusalem
was indeed made
desolate in 70 AD. According to
Josephus, 2 ½ million were assembled
for the
Passover just before Titus took the
city. Over 1.3 million perished.
Shalom,
Ted Porter