Brownlow (10 Jun 2024) "Ted Porter ? ? ?"
Thanks James! Great questions. Since your email is relatively short, I have copied it below in italics:
Hi Ted ; Thanks for your many previous insightful posts and comments. Your recent comment (copied below) ..... could you expound further ? Are you saying Anderson has the incorrect starting date to calculate Messiah's first coming (year and day) or that his use of 360 as a year calculation is in error , or something else ?
Anderson's book deals with Daniel 9:25-27 and interprets that scripture as saying Messiah would "arrive" 483 Hebrew years after the "commandment to rebuild Jerusalem".... a beginning date-- there were several commandments a few years apart (appx. 445 BC) which was still future when Daniel penned it.... And Messiah "appears" 483 years later.... appx 30 AD ??? Thanks , and God Bless !
Of interest is Sir Robert Anderson in "The Coming Prince", while having the seven weeks wrong, appears to have interpreted correctly that the Prince would be the man of sin.
My post reference as shown above in bold was that Sir Robert Anderson turned out to be wrong about adding the seven weeks consecutively after or before the sixty weeks, I’m not sure which, to come up with 69 weeks, which is equal to 483 weeks, for the timing to the first coming of Messiah. While Sir Isaac Newton was correct by saying it did violence to the scriptures to add these two time periods together. We have 62 weeks to Messiah the Prince from the commandment by Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem. We have 7 weeks to Messiah the Prince from the commandment by Moshe Dayan to restore Jerusalem to Israel.
Where Sir Isaac Newton turned out to be wrong was that he thought the 7 weeks would end at the second coming of Jesus Christ instead of the first coming of antichrist. Where Sir Robert Anderson turned out to be right about the 70 weeks was that as his book title states, “The Coming Prince” refers to the coming antichrist not the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Anderson is also correct in applying 360 day years to the 70 week prophecy. Although, I believe Sir Isaac Newton also referred to 360 day years. Regardless, all the dates appear to work out perfectly, to the exact day, when 360 day years are used for counting separately the 62 weeks and the 7 weeks.
I would say that Anderson had the incorrect starting date for the “commandment to rebuild Jerusalem”. There has never been a Gentile king that has commanded the rebuilding of Jerusalem for the benefit of the Jewish people. There was a Gentile king who appointed Nehemiah as Governor of Judaea. Nehemiah, as Governor, did command the Jewish people in Judaea to rebuild the city after the wall was rebuilt around 433 BC. Shortly after that he was recalled back to Susa by this Gentile king. I’ve wondered whether this commandment upset the king, which is why Nehemiah was recalled.
I would also say that Anderson had the incorrect ending date for when Messiah “appears”, or more precisely “to Messiah”. We don’t have to guess this ending date because the Bible tells us when to “Messiah”. The word “Messiah” is the Hebrew word as used in the Old Testament or “Christ”, which is Greek as used in the New Testament, or “The Anointed One” as translated into English. To “Messiah” is the exact instance in all recorded time when the Word became Flesh. Afterward, Messiah was born in the city of David. When He was born He was already “The Anointed One”.
With Herod generally accepted to have died in March/April of 4 BC we can back up to Jan 6th, Epiphany, for the generally accepted 3 Kings day visit, then backing up to Hanukah season, Festival of Lights, for the Messiah’s birth and another 40 weeks to the beginning of 5 BC for the conception of Christ.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the LORD. Luke 2:11
Okay, it’s easy for anyone with Excel to calculate past 70 weeks prophecy dates on the Gregorian calendar extrapolated back in time. First add exactly 6000 Gregorian years to the date Moshe Dayan commanded the Israeli troops to restore Jerusalem to the Jewish people which was on 6/7/1967. Then, subtract the 2 days, i.e. 2000 360-day years, in fulfillment of the prophesy that after 2 days He will revive us. This brings us to 2/20 in 5 BC on the Gregorian calendar for the conception of Jesus Christ. Subtracting 62 week of 360 day years brings us to 5/14 in 433 BC. May 14th is also the Gregorian rebirth-date of Israel in 1948. Is God amazing or what! For a bonus from God when I calculated back 4000 360-day years from 9/23/2015 it landed in the year the first reference I found on the internet for the year for Jacob’s ladder extradimensional opening between Heaven and Earth, 1928 BC. The exact day on the Gregorian calendar? 2/20!
Ref
Formula
+6000 Yrs
K6
=K7+7*7*360
9/23/8015
9/23
2015
AD
K7
6/7/7967
6/7/7967
6/7
1967
AD
K8
=K7-2000*360
2/20/5996
2/20
5
BC
=K8-62*7*360
5/14/5568
5/14
433
BC
=K6-4000*360
2/20/4073
2/20
1928
BC
Isn’t God really amazing! All the timings of the 70 week prophecy fulfilled so far appear to fall into place, to the exact day, and using 360 day years.
Shalom,
Ted Porter