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Since the prophecy is the 70 week prophecy, in which 69 weeks are specifically identified, we need to determine the seventieth week. 70 times 30 equals 490 years.
69 weeks equals 483 years leaving the time of seven years or the last prophetic week, which would total 490 years. 483+7= 490 years or 70 times 30 days per month.
b. In verse 25, the beginning of this prophecy is specified (the decree to restore Jerusalem), and its end point is also stated 69 weeks (483 years) later (the arrival of the Messiah, “Messiah the prince”. The word “Messiah” means “anointed one). The word “Christ” is the Greek form of “anointed.” AD 27. Through calling Himself the Anointed One, Jesus is making an extraordinary claim . . . This represents His baptism . . .
Dan 9:25 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:[or 69 weeks or 483 years from 457.B.C. ] the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
457.B.C. counting backward now, to reach 26 A.D. when John the Baptist made his declaration “Behold the Lamb of God”, then Jesus came to John at the Jordon in 27 A.D. to be baptized of John in the Jordon.
Mat 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Mat 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. [A fire that "man" cannot extinguish]
Mat 3:13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee [at about age 30] to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. Which would place His birth around between 3 & 4 B.C.
Luk 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
Luk 3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
Luk 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
Act 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
In the Year 27 A.D. at Jesus’ baptism in the Jordon, He was anointed by the Holy Ghost for His ministry which He then began about the age of thirty, and He preached and taught the people for three and one-half years, before His crucifixion in the year 31 A.D. Now if Jesus was about thirty as Luke said, in A.D. 27, add three and on-half years later on the cross, Jesus would have been about 33 years old at his death. The Jews counted time inclusively meaning any part of a day was considered a whole day, or any part of a year was also counted as a whole. In other words, He was already 32 years old but was into His 33rd year the year He was crucified.
Joh 1:32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. [This was Jesus’ anointing by the Holy Spirit for His ministry]
Joh 1:41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. [Which means the “ANOINTED ONE”]
Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Mar 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Mar 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Jesus therefore was identified by John the Baptist in the year 26 A.D. but came to him in the year 27 A.D. to be baptized of John in the Jordon using this “inclusive reckoning” of time, which was the custom of the Jews. To be ANOINTED!
Counting from 457 A.D. backwards to 26 A.D. when the proclamation by John the Baptist, “Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the World”, then the baptism of Jesus in 27 A.D. three and one half years later would be the year 31 A.D. when He died on the cross.
Now 3 ½ years would be half of Seven or (One Half of) the last week of the 70 week prophecy.
69 weeks plus 1 week would be 70 weeks.
1 week would be 7 days or 7 prophetic years.
1 half of that last week would be 3 ½ years
69 weeks plus one half week of 3 ½ years would be 69 and one half weeks, leaving the other half of the week remaining after Jesus died in A.D. 31 plus 3 ½ years would be A.D. 34, remember inclusive reckoning counts any part of the day or year as a whole. Depending on whether it’s the first half of the day or the latter half, or the first part of the year or the latter half year.
In the Jewish mind during the year 34 A.D. after the stoning of Stephen by the Jews, this completed the last 3 ½ years of the last week of the prophecy, completing the 70 week prophecy of Daniel 9.
Act 7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
Act 7:55 But he, [Stephen] being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
Act 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
Act 7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
Act 7:58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
Act 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Act 7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
69 weeks plus a half week or 3 ½ years of ministry by Jesus before the crucifixion. Then 3 ½ years after the crucifixion to 34 A.D. completing the 70 week prophecy, the “gospel” went to the Gentiles, and literal Israel was cut off, according to Jesus’ own proclamation when He entered Jerusalem on that last “Passover” the week He was crucified.
Mat 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks [62 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.
Dan 9:27 And he [Jesus] shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: [7 years, 3 and 1/2 years by Jesus HImself, the other 3 and 1/2 years by Stephen and the Apostles] and in the midst [Middle or 3 ½ years of the Seven Years ] of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, [By His Death on the Cross] and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, [The End of All Things] and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Act 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Act 13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
See the chart at below to illustrate the prophecy . . .
Daniel 9:24, 25: The summary of these statements is simply that this period of time (seventy weeks) was given as a probation time for the nation of Israel – a time allocated for them to prepare for and accept the coming of the Messiah. The beginning of this prophecy is 457 BC, when the decree to restore Jerusalem was issued by Artaxerxes. [It took (49) forth nine years from 457 B.C. to 408 B.C. to complete the rebuilding of Jerusalem.] From 408 B.C. until 31 A.D. is exactly 434 years. Add 434 years and 49 years and you have 483 years. 483 years calculates to 69 weeks of the 70 week prophecy. The 483 years was the time from the decree until "the Anointing" of Jesus in A.D. 27, there is still one prophetic week left. (The Seventieth Week of the prophecy which is divided into TWO 3-1/2 year increments. The first 3-1/2 years would be Jesus' personal ministry. The other 3-1/2 years would be the spreading of the gospel by the Apostles, leading up to 34 A.D. and the "Stoneing of the deacon Stephen, completeing the 70 weeks of Daniel 9:25
10. Matthew 21:43, 45: In verse 43, Jesus predicts that the kingdom of God will be taken from the Jewish people and given to “a nation bearing the fruits of it.” In verse 45, the chief priests and Pharisees are aware of the power of this statement and realize that Jesus is referring to their people, so they conspire to murder the Messiah. Thus the mercy of God had been extended to the Jewish community for 490 years. Jesus made it clear that we should forgive 490 times. Seventy times seventy. This is a reference to the probationary amount of time He granted to the Jewish people . . .
11. Acts 13:46, 47: The apostle Paul is clearly stating that the Jewish community has been rejected by God Almighty as the repositories and emissaries of God’s truth and that the Gospel is now going to the Gentiles – the very demographic to whom the Jews were originally intended to preach the Gospel. Paul is essentially saying that the close of the probationary period for the Jewish nation officially ended and that the Gospel is being spread to Gentiles.
The stoning of Stephen (Acts 7:54-60) represented the close of the probation for the Jewish community – and the beginning of the birth of the Christian church.
12. Galatians 4:4, 5: When the “fullness of the time had come” – representing the end of the 483 years – God sent his Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from our slough – or Augean stable – of sin.
Objection: Futurism, is what is being taught today in most ALL Protestant churches, which is a “dangerous doctrine.” The seven-day week (Daniel 9:27) is applied to the future in this eschatological paradigm. The gist of this scheme is that at the beginning of these seven years, people are raptured by the Almighty, and a seven-years time of tribulation begins. This interpretation ends by positing that Jesus Christ returns at the end of these seven years (the time of tribulation).
Answer: The futuristic method (made popular by the Left Behind franchise and other media) of extracting the seven-day week from the prophecy and sending it to the future is awkward, arbitrary, and contrary to its Biblical context. Futurism is a humanly contrived manner of interpreting the Scriptures that was deliberately created by representatives of the papacy in an effort to relieve their institution from culpability as the usurpers of Jesus Christ – that is, they sought to avoid being identified as the antichrist power. . .
This prophecy, as any other passage of Scripture, must be interpreted in its Biblical context instead of “bending it to fit any particular eschatological or doctrinal view” because interpreting it through any human collusion or scheme imperils our spiritual wellbeing. “. . . Knowing this first: that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation . . .” (1 Peter 1:20). But research the history and the dates and you will find this prophetic interpretation to be “SPOT ON.”
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