The "Seventy Weeks" |
for your people… until the Anointed One, the ruler comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.'" — Dan. 9:24-25 NIV |
from Jerusalem proclamation to Messiah's anointing |
ends validity of Old Covenant sacrifices. "I will make a new covenant" —Jer. 31:31 |
S I X T Y - N I N E W E E K S O F Y E A R S
approx. 455 B.C. <-- 483 years --> approx. 29 A.D.
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Messiah Messiah Gentiles
Anointed Cut-off Converted
29 A.D. 33 A.D. 36. A.D.
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Daniel 9:24-2724Seventy weeks [ = 490 years "a day for a year"—Ezek. 4:6] are determined upon thy people [ = the Jews] and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins to make an end of sins [ via Messiah's atonement; "I will forgive…remember their sins no more"—Jer. 31:34 ], and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint [ Messiah is the Hebrew word for "anointed one" ] the most Holy.25Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem [ approx. 455 B.C.] unto the Messiah the Prince [ baptized by John approx. 29 A.D. "the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar"—Luke 3:1] [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks [ (7x7)+(62x7)=483 years "a day for a year" ]: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. |
26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off [ = killed, crucified], but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come [ = the Romans who destroyed Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 A.D.] 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. 27And he shall confirm the covenant [ = God's covenant with Israel prior to welcoming in the Gentiles ] with many for one week [ = 7 years = Messiah's 3 1/2 year ministry + 3 1/2 years of Apostles converting Jews before widespread Gentile conversion began]: and in the midst of the week [ = the midpoint of the 70th week of years] he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease [ = Messiah, as "the Lamb of God"—John 1:29 , was sacrificed "once for all"—Heb. 9:26-10:18 ], and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate [ = Roman armies cause destruction according to Jesus: "armies"—Luke 21:20 = "'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel"—Matthew 24:15 ], even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. |
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