70 weeks of Daniel
The angel explained to Daniel two comings ( resurrections ) of the lord. One that happened on the Passover weekend that the Lord was crucified and the second coming which is future. Unfortunate that many including scholars add the 7 weeks and 62 weeks together and say it was 69 weeks. If the numbers were to be 69 weeks the angel would have said so.
Unfortunate that many try to combine the 7 weeks and 62 weeks into one understanding that the Lord appeared at the end of 69 weeks or 483 years.
Keep in mind that a week may be the number 7 or something that refers to 7.
This is not was told to Daniel.
25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One,( Jesus) the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.
In the times of Yeshua/Jesus, even tho the Romans were in their land Israel was well endowed and prospered. They had Jerusalem and the Temple. They ate and drank, married and given in marriage, planted and harvested, bought and sold and had unhinged travel in the Roman Empire. It was a good time to be living in Israel when Jesus walked the earth, unlike the current events which Daniel said the 62 weeks would be in a troubled time.
As a Passover was approaching Jesus got into a dicussion with the Pharisees and they said it has taken us 46 years to build this temple.
46 years plus 3 years of ministry equals 49 years or 7 weeks. At the end of those 49 years the anointed one was crucified. And that day was a friday or 6th day of the week.
Going back to creation the Lord said it was good or very good meaning just as it was designed. Another way of saying this, it was a time of no sin. The sixth day when Adam was made was the original Passover and became the revolution of the year. When Adam and Eve sinned they covered themselves with fig leaves which wasnt good enought for the Lord. He required a blood sacrifice which carried up to the New Covenant.
The lord was exactly on time.
Malachi 4:2 2 But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.
The Lord was speaking of a resurrection and the timing was the 4th day of creation ( 4000 years ). That moment between the 4th and 5th day leaving 2000 years. Lord described a calf which was born and how they are happy to be born. If you missed it, see the word sun and not son.
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The 62 weeks---in a Troubled time
62 weeks
Next up is Pentecost, the fulfillment of the second coming and timing of our Lord called the Blessed day, the Day of the Lord and the beginning of the 1000 year reign of Christ.
The 62 weeks does not mean 434 years but 62 Passover weeks. As Passover week contains 7 days. Jerusalem was returned to Israel in 1967 during the 6 day war and by adding 62 Passovers we come to our calendar year of 2029. 1967 plus 62 equals year 2029. Remember I told you the revolution of the year is on Passover. I explained in a previous writing how the covenant made with many including Israel happens on the Feast of Trumpets and the 1335th day ends on the Lord's Feast of Pentecost. Covenant will be made on September 23, 2025 and count 1335 days to the resurrection/rapture on the feast of Pentecost May 20, 2029. These are the only years that will count exactly 1335 days. This is a confirmation.
From the building of Jerusalem --1967-from the 6 day war, add 62 which is the revolution of the year is Passover week, again we come to year 2029. Lord was counting Passovers to his coming
Looking at Daniel 9, we can break it down into the pieces for greater understanding:
Daniel 9:24-27
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.
We see here the
six PURPOSES for the seventy heptads (groups of seven). In other words, that time of Jacob's trouble serves the purposes of all those items.
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.
So, it will take 49 years to rebuild Jerusalem, and then another 434 years to the day when Christ will enter Jerusalem in His triumphal entrance into Jerusalem immediately prior to His being cut off (crucified) for mankind, not for Himself. That is a total of 69 heptads (483 years to the day) from the issuing of the command from the king to Christ's entry into Jerusalem as the King, immediately preceding His being cut off.
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.
There are some gaps in this very, very short narrative that covers a host of events not stated here. after 434 years from the time Jerusalem is rebuilt, Messiah shall be cut off.
27 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.
Verse 27 gives more clarity to the use of the term "desolations." The man of sin will, in the middle of the 70th heptad (seven years) will make the temple at that time desolate after setting himself up as god.
The idea some have that all 70 of the "weeks" are consecutive, with no breaks in between, well, what can one say other than to point out that they have no solid evidence I have ever seen to back that assumption.
The dispensation of grace, the knowledge of which was sealed up in God since the creation of the world, pushed the fulfillment out from the generation that was standing in the presence of Christ because of Israel's continued rejection of Christ.
Hope that brings some clarity to that timeline revealed by the angel to Daniel.
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