The Most Important Prophesy of Our lives.

[SpiritofFire]

I don't think the seventy sevens necessarily have to follow one after the other. I think they're broken up and that the last seven is separate for a reason. Just look at the Ezekiel 26 prophecy, concerning Nebuchadnezzar, the nations and Tyre. At first glance it sounds like it's talking only about the armies of Nebuchadnezzar (which is why I emphasized the nations instead). And if that were the case then the prophecy would never have been fulfilled, because Nebuchadnezzar only destroyed the mainland part of the city of Tyre - and not the entire city. But in later history Alexander the Great took the rubble of the mainland part of the city and threw it into the sea to make a bridge to the island part of the city. After Alexander came then the parts of the prophecy found in Ezekiel 26:12, 14, 19 came to pass.

Now a good section of it is submerged beneath the sea, never to be rebuilt. And there were a couple hundred years between Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander. So I don't think that the seventy sevens prophecy has to be fulfilled in one go. Which is probably one of the reasons why no man knows the day or hour.

I agree that Christ death is represented in this, but the prophesy stated that THE PEOPLE will do these things. We have yet to make an end of sins or to finish transgressions. To fully understand these things we must know where we are at in God's time.

Now I ask when was the commandment to restore Jerusalem issued?

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

Now I ask when was the commandment to restore Jerusalem issued?

483 years before Christ appeared.

 

[TheAristocat]

the seventy sevens are not concerned with the Second Coming - but with the First.

Eh. I think that's kinda what my post was about - how we can know what the prophecy's about (consider the long time gap between "Nebuchadnezzar" and Alexander. Was it fulfilled all at once? No? Well, it sure sounded like it was supposed to be - unless you take a closer look). To just say that it's not about such-and-such without providing a reason literally gives me no reason to think differently.

 

[crossnote]

So what is it? Every prophecy had been fulfilled by 70AD and we are just in suspenders....waiting?

 

[SpiritofFire]

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.

We have yet to bring in everlasting righteousness or any of this. To understand this prophesy is to know where we are at in the timeline of God.

 

[SpiritofFire]

483 years before Christ appeared.

What Jerusalem are we talking about? It is revealed to us that God does not dwell in temples made with human hands. We are that temple, so when did the commandment go out to restore this building?