Prophecy of Seventy Weeks - wiki
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The historical-messianic interpretation also interprets the Messiah in Daniel 9 as Jesus Christ, but it understands the 490 years as an uninterrupted, continuous unit that ended 3½ years after His death. The 490 years begin with the decree by Artaxerxes I in 458/7 BCE (Ezra 7). The appearance of “Messiah the Prince” at the end of the 7+62 weeks (483 years) (9:25) is the anointed of Jesus Christ as Messiah at His baptism in 26/7 CE. This inaugurated His public ministry. The "cut off" of the “anointed one” (9:26) refers to His crucifixion 3½ years “after” (9:26) the end of the 483 years. Thus He made “atonement for iniquity” and brought in “everlasting righteousness” (9:24). The covenant (9:27) is the covenant between God and Israel, as extended by the prophecy of Daniel 9. Jesus “confirms” (KJV) this covenant for one week (9:27) firstly by His personal ministry while on earth and secondly by the ministry of the Holy Spirit for another 3½ years after His crucifixion. He caused the cessation of the entire system of sacrifices of Old Testament times by His death "in the midst of" (9:27) the last seven years, therefore in CE 30 or 31. The last week ends 3½ years after the crucifixion when the Jews finally rejected the Holy Spirit by persecuting the people that had the Holy Spirit (Acts 8, 9). At that time the gospel was redirected from the Jews to all peoples (Acts 8 to 11). This includes the vision in which God showed Peter “that God is not one to show partiality, but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him” (Acts 10:34-35).
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In Martin Luther's commentary of Daniel, Preface to the Prophet Daniel, Luther follows the day-year principle to calculate the timespan of the prophecy of seventy weeks as weeks of years. Thus, he explains that seven days in a week multiplied by seventy weeks gives 490 years.
Luther starts the prophecy in the "second year of King Darius also known as 'the long handed'",[31] in a period when Jerusalem was being rebuilt (according to Luther, also mentioned in Haggai 1:1-15; Zechariah 1:1-17). At the end of the first 69 weeks (483 years), is the first coming of Christ. From Darius, Luther calculates 456 years to Christ's birth and another 30 years to Christ's baptism (Luke 3:23), totaling 486 years. Any discrepancies in time, Luther dismisses with, "We cannot find and determine all days and hours so precisely, when we write history it is enough for us that we come pretty close, ...".
According to Luther the 70th week of the prophecy ends in the 4th year after Christ's death.[32] Luther’s is therefore a variation of the historical-messianic interpretation mentioned above.
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Philip Mauro (1921) proposed the discourse on the Mount Olivet (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21) to be an expansion of Daniel’s “seventy weeks” prophecy. His research on the Daniel prophecy was in part, influenced by the works of Martin Anstey (1913). He fully supported the view that the decree of Cyrus, in Ezra 1:1, exhorting the Jews to return to their land, was a real event. Like many others, he agreed that the period designated by the Daniel prophesy was “seventy sevens of years” (490 years). He points to the significance of 69 sevens, interpreted as a period of 483 years, as being the length of time to the Messiah. Thus, in the remaining “seven years” the Messiah would be “cut off and have nothing”.[37] He further relates that, “the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;” (9:25) is prophetic of the “desolation” of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 CE (Matthew 24:1-22; Luke 21:20-24)[37]
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