In his book "The Coming Prince", Sir Robert Anderson said 445 BC (Nehemiah's return) - 397 BC is the 7 sevens; 397 BC to AD 32 is the 62 sevens, and the last seven is in the future.
Philip Mauro said 457 BC (Cyrus' decree, which should be 539 BC) - 408 BC is the 7 sevens; 408 BC to AD 26 is the 62 sevens, and the last seven begins at Christ's baptims in AD 26. Jesus' death would be in the middle of the 70th seven in AD 30. I know there are other people who also start counting at 457 BC but acknowledge that the decree in 457 BC was for Ezra to return to Jerusalem.
I would suggest that the 70 weeks should start with Cyrus' decree in 539 BC, because Isaiah 44:28 says Cyrus will decree the rebuilding of Jerusalem (see also Daniel 9:25). The problem is that there are more than 490 years between 539 BC and Jesus Christ. But suppose there are actually two decrees, the first decree for the 7 sevens (539 BC - 490 BC) when Zerubbabel rebuilt the street/broad place where Ezra later gathered (Ezra 10:9) and a second decree for Nehemiah to rebuild the wall (Nehemiah 2:5-6) to start the 62 sevens (444 BC - 10 BC).
Messiah the Prince comes after the 62 sevens (Dan. 9:25). If Jesus was born in 6 BC, then are we off by 4 years? I know Sir Robert Anderson tried to calculate the coming of the Messiah to the very day, but the precision may only need to be one seven i.e. 7 years. So Jesus would be born in the 63rd seven, after the 62 sevens, so to speak. After the 62 sevens, Messiah will also be cut off, and the city and the sanctuary will be destroyed, which happened in AD 30 and AD 70.
Assuming that the 70th seven is future. The end is Jesus' Second Coming and the 7th trumpet. But how do the beginning and middle of the 70th seven line up with the Book of Revelation?
After the 6th trumpet, we see 4 angels are released to destroy (Rev. 9:14-15), which shows that the restraint on evil is lifted, as in 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7. In contrast, during the 5th trumpet, the locusts had all kinds of restrictions (can't hurt grass, trees, people who are sealed, cannot kill anyone). The mighty angel (Rev. 10:5-7) stands on land and sea and says there will be no more delay. If the angel is standing at the boundary between the land and the sea, then when he gets out of the way, the beast from the sea can join together with the beast from the land, and 42 months of the Great Tribulation will follow (Rev. 13:5). These 42 months are also mentioned between the 6th and 7th trumpets as the time when Jerusalem will be trampled (Rev. 11:2). So I think the 6th trumpet and the second woe starts in the middle of the 70th seven.
If the middle and end of the seven years are the second and third woes, the first woe could mark the beginning of the seven years at the 5th trumpet. The star that falls from heaven to earth is Satan, whose fall is also described in Rev. 12:12, where the loud voice says "Woe to the inhabitants of the earth." The other two woes may refer to the rise and fall of Babylon (Rev. 18:10, 16, 19 say "Alas, alas" which is the same Greek word as "woe") at the 6th and 7th trumpets.
What do you think?
Philip Mauro said 457 BC (Cyrus' decree, which should be 539 BC) - 408 BC is the 7 sevens; 408 BC to AD 26 is the 62 sevens, and the last seven begins at Christ's baptims in AD 26. Jesus' death would be in the middle of the 70th seven in AD 30. I know there are other people who also start counting at 457 BC but acknowledge that the decree in 457 BC was for Ezra to return to Jerusalem.
I would suggest that the 70 weeks should start with Cyrus' decree in 539 BC, because Isaiah 44:28 says Cyrus will decree the rebuilding of Jerusalem (see also Daniel 9:25). The problem is that there are more than 490 years between 539 BC and Jesus Christ. But suppose there are actually two decrees, the first decree for the 7 sevens (539 BC - 490 BC) when Zerubbabel rebuilt the street/broad place where Ezra later gathered (Ezra 10:9) and a second decree for Nehemiah to rebuild the wall (Nehemiah 2:5-6) to start the 62 sevens (444 BC - 10 BC).
Messiah the Prince comes after the 62 sevens (Dan. 9:25). If Jesus was born in 6 BC, then are we off by 4 years? I know Sir Robert Anderson tried to calculate the coming of the Messiah to the very day, but the precision may only need to be one seven i.e. 7 years. So Jesus would be born in the 63rd seven, after the 62 sevens, so to speak. After the 62 sevens, Messiah will also be cut off, and the city and the sanctuary will be destroyed, which happened in AD 30 and AD 70.
Assuming that the 70th seven is future. The end is Jesus' Second Coming and the 7th trumpet. But how do the beginning and middle of the 70th seven line up with the Book of Revelation?
After the 6th trumpet, we see 4 angels are released to destroy (Rev. 9:14-15), which shows that the restraint on evil is lifted, as in 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7. In contrast, during the 5th trumpet, the locusts had all kinds of restrictions (can't hurt grass, trees, people who are sealed, cannot kill anyone). The mighty angel (Rev. 10:5-7) stands on land and sea and says there will be no more delay. If the angel is standing at the boundary between the land and the sea, then when he gets out of the way, the beast from the sea can join together with the beast from the land, and 42 months of the Great Tribulation will follow (Rev. 13:5). These 42 months are also mentioned between the 6th and 7th trumpets as the time when Jerusalem will be trampled (Rev. 11:2). So I think the 6th trumpet and the second woe starts in the middle of the 70th seven.
If the middle and end of the seven years are the second and third woes, the first woe could mark the beginning of the seven years at the 5th trumpet. The star that falls from heaven to earth is Satan, whose fall is also described in Rev. 12:12, where the loud voice says "Woe to the inhabitants of the earth." The other two woes may refer to the rise and fall of Babylon (Rev. 18:10, 16, 19 say "Alas, alas" which is the same Greek word as "woe") at the 6th and 7th trumpets.
What do you think?
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