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70 weeks TIME PROPHECY PREDICTING
CHRISTS MINISTRY AND THE YEAR OF HIS DEATH
The 70 week prophecy of Daniel chapter 9:24-27 is the only time prophecy accurately
predicting when Jesus would commence His ministry & die on the cross for mans sins
No infidel, agnostic, or atheist has ever been able to refute this prophecy.
It stands as positive proof that Jesus Christ is indeed the Saviour of humankind.
"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." Dan
9:24 The Jewish people as a
nation had to account for many sins including of killing the prophets,
idolotry and many other atrocities. They were in desperate need of
reform, so God had given a defined time for them to repent as a nation to
be delivered from their captors.At the time of this prophecy the
BAbaylonians were their captors, at the time of Christ the Romans were in
control. So the dfeined time
period was to address all these points, ie: the Jewish nation to repent
and "to bring in everlasting rightiousness and anoint the most Holy" to
see the fullfillment of prophecy regarding the
Messiah "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. See
the comments below re: 457 BC "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. "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."
Daniel
9:24-27.
In Bible prophecy God has given a principle that must be applied
and accepted by most Bible scholars. God told Ezekiel, who lived at the time of Daniel:
“I have appointed thee each a day for a year” (Eze. 4:6, KJV).
With each day representing a year, simple mathematics can help us understand what Gabriel was showing Daniel.
What we have here is more internal proof of the day/year principle.
The command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem occurred many centuries
before Christ.
If taken as literal time, 70 weeks is just a year and a few months, hardly enough time to reach down to Jesus.
Application, however,of the day/year principle solves the problem:
It covers the time span from the rebuilding of the city to the first advent of Jesus.
In short, Jesus proves the validity of the day/year principle.
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Persian King Artaxerxes commands rebuilding of Jerusalem (Daniel 9:25, Ezra 7:11-16). |
 A.D. 27 |
Baptism of Jesus; Jesus begins to preach and teach. |
| A.D. 31 |
Messiah "cut off in the midst of the week" after 3 1/2 years of ministry (Daniel 9:26, 27; Matthew 27:60, 61; Mark [15]:33-39). |
| A.D.34 |
Stoning of Stephen; Gospel introduced to the Gentiles (Daniel 9:[24], Acts 7:54-60, 9:15). |
| A.D. 1844
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End of the 2,300-year prophecy; investigative judgment begins. |
The first verse of Luke 3 pinpoints the historical setting of Jesus’ anointing “in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate, being governor of Judea.” The fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar was A.D. 27, the very year Christ began His ministry, saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15).
Six purposes are mentioned verse 27. They describe primarily the results of Christ's life and work here on earth:
1. To finish the transgression. Transgression refers to the break in relationship between God and humankind.
Through His sacrifice on the cross, Jesus brought to an end the broken relationship and restored us to God.
2. To make an end of sins. Gabriel here announces that the Messiah would take care of humankind's failures.
He would take their sins on Himself and thereby make an end of them.
3. To make reconciliation for iniquity. "Iniquity" is sin as in a perversion of what is right.
Through the atoning sacrifice on the cross, Jesus Christ took care of sin in all its forms.
4. To bring in everlasting righteousness. Through the Fall, humanity has become unrighteous.
The Messiah, says Gabriel, will bring in a righteousness from God that will be everlasting for those
who make it their own through faith that results in obedience.
5. To seal up vision and prophecy. The idea of sealing here doesn't mean "in the sense of 'shutting up,'
but of 'confirming,' or 'ratifying.' The fulfillment of the predictions connected with the first coming of the
Messiah at the time specified in the prophecy gives assurance that the other features of the prophecy,
notably the 2300 prophetic days, will be as precisely fulfilled."—The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 4, p. 852.
6. To anoint the Most Holy. Temples were anointed to inaugurate their services (see Exod. 40:9).
The anointing foretold in this verse points to the inauguration of Christ's
priestly ministry in the heavenly temple after His ascension (Heb. 9:21).
The 457 B.C. date,as the starting point of the prophecy brings us right to the time of Christ.
This decree was given by Artaxerxes I, and it provided for the restoration of complete civil, judicial, and religious authority of Jews in their homeland (see Ezra 7:11-28).
It's obvious that both the Jews and their enemies understood the decree to mean the rebuilding of the city. In Ezra 4:7-13 (the events in Ezra are not in chronological order), a group of Persian officers wrote to King Artaxerxes, complaining about the Jews who were rebuilding Jerusalem. In the letter, they stated two important points: (1) that the city was being rebuilt (Ezra 4:12) and that (2) the Jews who were rebuilding had come there because of the king. Said the letter, "the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city" (vs. 12, emphasis supplied). In other words, the Jews who were rebuilding the city had come there because of King Artaxerxes, and the only decree issued by the king that sent the Jews back to Jerusalem was issued in the seventh year of his reign, the one shown in Ezra 7, a date that can be established as
457 B.C.
| 457 BC is then the only starting date that fits the prophecy to its completion.The decree of Atrexerxes is the only decree which ended in the rebuilding of the city and the people returning to Jerusalem. |
Daniel in his prayer in Daniel 9 15 yrs after receiving the 2300 day prophecy identified himself with his people and petitioned God for them. In response God sent the angel Gabriel, who explained to Daniel that the Messiah would come at a specified time to reconcile humanity with God.
How interesting, too, that this—the most crucial prophecy concerning Jesus—is just part of the larger prophecy, the one about the 2,300 years Daniel 8:14 "Unto 2300 days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed" an event commencing in 1844 in heaven of the judgement of all people that ever lived.
Futurists are wrong when trying to take the 70th week and take it 2000 yrs into the future to apply this prophecy to predict the Antichrist.
It is logical for the 70th week to follow the 69th week.
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