no it isn't.
it was 7 years long.
and it was attached to the other weeks - 7 years each, 69 of them, plus the 70th.
it ended just like the others. seven years after it started.
no gap. no magically super-flex rubber 70th week.
just another period of 7 years, like all the rest.
it went like this: 1 week,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17........and so on, in sequence, in order.............to 69 & 70.
see how simple that was?
God fulfilled all of it, the temple and wall were built....the ppl returned from captivity, Jesus of Nazareth came and ACCOMPLISHED salvation for Israel Personally, and through His 12. we had Pentecost too.
DONE. easy.
it's
long over.
Jerusalem was leveled by Rome as the Kingdom went to a peoples bearing the fruit of it.
jews can be saved today. Gospel. simple.
no crafty math needed...like this:
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zone:
ellis, your 70th week is a long overview of all the other weeks, and more, that goes as far back as the second decree to rebuild the temple.
your 70th week ends in 1948 when Israel became a nation.
your last 7 is some unique 7 that is only posited by one guy who no one can find. no one else believes his interpretation.
anyways, the 7 (for the final week) times 360 (for days in a Jewish year) equals 2520 years which you converted into 2484 solar years is the exact number of years between Darius' decree in 536BC and 1948.
amazingly, in the middle of this time frame, you have the abomination of desolation which is the erecting of the Dome of the Rock in 688 AD.
However, doing the math, the middle should be 706BC.
So, what did you do?
you made a new start date for the 70th week and moved it back to the destruction of the first temple by Nebuchadnezzar in 583BC. is that right?
Therapon:
That is not correct. It is true that Jer 41:5 and 52 :20 places the abolution of sacrifices in the 23rd year of Nebuchadnezzar, 583 B.C, three years after the Temple was destroyed, but the 70th week does not begin with the abolition of sacrifices, it starts in 536 B.C, in the first year of Darius, who gave the first decree of the Medo-Persians allowing the Jews to return to the holy land.
The 70th week ends in 1948 A.D. when the Jews were back in their homeland for the final time. You are correct, the middle of the 70th "week" is exactly 706 A.D., but when God uses such an imprecise word as a "week" as the descriptor of 2520 Hebrew years (2484 solar years), 688 A.D, is still in the "middle of the week."
so Therapon's magically expanding flex-70th week:
starts in 536 B.C, in the first year of Darius, who gave the first decree of the Medo-Persians allowing the Jews to return to the holy land [and]
ends in 1948 A.D. when the Jews were back in their homeland for the final time.
a week of seven years which starts in 536BC and ends in 1948AD