Prophet Daniel said 70 Weeks; till window closed on the Jews
[ Bible Probe ]Posted by Bible Probe on January 02, 2006 at 17:58:29:
End Time Delusion. Yeshua/Jesus clearly warned us that some would falsely teach us some "secret coming" of Him.
Jesus told us Himself, that he would return in the clouds with power and great glory, with trumpets blaring, shouting, and with multitudes of Angels who will gather His elect. Yeshua/Jesus told us, he would return just as He departed - in full view of His followers (while they watched, He was caught up in the clouds). This will not be a secret event! Acts 1:9-11 and 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.
He will come as a "thief in the night", unexpectedly upon the unprepared unbelievers. He will bring sudden destruction on the unsaved (lost). But then it will be a very loud event (Greek word used: Parousia). There is nothing in scripture of any "Rapture" before this happens.
Next, the dead will then rise, and then True Believers will then be "caught up" together with them to meet the Lord..What warning
did Yeshua/Jesus give to the lost? He said, it will be as in the Days
of Noah. So forget any second chance to be saved during or after any
tribulation. Don't put it off. Pray to Yeshua/Jesus, the only Son of
God as your only hope of salvation. Only His sheep (followers) will be "caught
up" to meet Him. What happened in the "days of Noah"? The unsaved
were having a good time ridiculing Noah for his faith. Suddenly, without
warning billions of tons of water came upon them. Noah and his family were
saved, and all others without Faith were lost forever.
As we know, the "Lost Sheep of Israel" was their Messiah's (Mashiach ben David)
and our Savior's main focus/ministry.
After 490 years exactly to the day, the Gentiles became the main focus because the Jews had missed the time of their own visitation.
If only the First Century Jerusalem Jews had studied their own Scripture, and recognized the "day of their visitation" of their own Messiah, history may have been very different.
Writing in about 607 BC, the Prophet Daniel prophesized the exact date the Messiah (Jesus) would ride into Jerusalem on a colt.
Who else claiming to be the Messiah, and doing many wondrous miracles rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey on Palm Sunday, April 6, 32 A.D.?
This was a very singular moment in the history of Israel. I do not know if you are aware of this, but when our Lord was riding down that mountain on a donkey into the city of Jerusalem, it was an historic event, in fulfillment of several prophecies of the Old Testament.
According to the reckoning of Sir Robert Anderson, former head of Scotland Yard, an English layman with a great knowledge of the Bible, the precise date on which Daniel's prophecy was to be fulfilled was this day. According to the actual time which had elapsed, if Israel had been aware of it, this was the predicted hour, to the very second, in which our Lord was to present himself as King to Israel.
The 70th weeks of Daniel Delusion
We at Bible Probe believe that the 70 weeks of the Daniel Prophecy have nothing to do with tribulation and the antichrist.
There is no text in the Bible that teaches a 7-year tribulation.
Daniel 9:27 speaks of nothing to do with an antichrist, a rebuilt Jewish Temple, or even tribulation. Nothing! That's because it is all about Jesus Christ, the Messiah AND the Jewish people. And it does not speak of an Antichrist making or breaking a covenant. It speaks of Jesus Christ confirming the covenant or "the promises made to the fathers (see Romans 15:8 and Galatians 3:17). Jesus said, this is My blood of the new covenant.
During His 3.5 years of ministry Jesus was Himself focused on saving "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 10:6).
This accounts for what we (Gentiles) often think strange --that is that the Lord was adamant in His saying basically ---His work was with/for the Jews who were treating him badly, and not for Non-Jews.
Daniel 9:27 says; "He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week
(7 years): and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease".
We believe that many (especially Evangelicals) have wrongfully applied this somehow to the coming Antichrist, when in reality, Daniel is speaking of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The Antichrist is an altogether different matter addressed in Revelation.
By offering Himself as the perfect sacrifice, Jesus put an end to the Levitical sacrifices --which ceased to be pleasing to God the moment Jesus died on the cross, and the veil in the Jewish Temple was torn (Matthew 27:51)
in the instant of the death of the perfect sacrifice (Yeshua/Jesus).
One week refers to seven years in bible time. This seven weeks was: 3.5 years given to the Jews during Christ's earthly ministry. and 3.5 years after His crucifixion,
when the window closed on unbelieving Jews--when they also killed the Jewish
believer Stephen.
Many Evangelicals and other Christians and Christian book writers are also deluded to think the 70th week of Daniel went on hold for 2000 years. When in fact it happened just like clockwork and ended when Stephen (the first martyr) was "officially" stoned by the direction of the Jewish Sanhedrin at the end of the 70th week (3.5 yrs after Christ's crucifixion). This is the 7-year period spoken of.
No biblical time span ever went on "hold". In all the bible,
there is no instance such as a day or week or year not coming immediately in
sequence. So, a 2000 year span between the 69th and 70th weeks is just
ludicrous.
GOSPEL SWITCHES TO THE GENTILES AFTER 70th WEEK OF DANIEL
The second 3.5 years of the "70th week" was also given to the Jews as a second chance (Acts 1-6), but this 7 years of ministry officially ended when the Jewish Sanhedrin (highest Jewish office) rejected Jesus and His Gospel a second time and stoned Stephen (first martyr). Immediately the 70th week ended, and the Gospel then went to the Gentiles. You will recall also, that the great Jewish man named Paul was "recruited" at the end of this 7 years to minister to the Gentiles. His name was changed from the Jewish Saul to the Gentile Paul (Romans 11:13) which signified the new focus. Also, at this time God gave Peter a vision indicating it was now time to preach to the Gentiles (Acts 10:1-28)
Regarding the "abomination of desolation". Jesus was speaking of the time in 70 AD when his followers were to flee Jerusalem, because the Roman armies under Titus. In Matthew 24:15 Jesus told His followers, "When you see Jerusalem surrounded by
armies (Roman armies) then know that its desolation is near". Why did this
happen? In Matthew 23-38 Jesus told the Pharisees: "See! Your house is left to
you desolate". That's because of the "abominations" of the Pharisees, and how
they treated their Messiah, and His followers.
JEWISH SCHOLARS FAILED MISERABLY IN THE 1st CENTURY:
They failed to see that Jesus Christ was the one predicted by Daniel and He would die in the middle of the 70th week, per Daniel 9:27.
THE BOOK OF DANIEL IS AWESOME! It was written by Daniel from a prophecy the angel Gabriel gave him while he and the Jews were undergoing their exile in Babylon. It tells the Jews that God had given them a second chance to return to Israel and rebuild their Temple to get ready to ultimately receive their Messiah (Jesus Christ). It is an actual blueprint to the day Jesus would ride into Jerusalem on a donkey, and the first day (Psalm Sunday) Jesus (a son of David) would allow
either the apostles or the people to proclaim Him King -- the actual day He would die on the cross - to the actual day (end of 70th week-3.5 years after His crucifixion) that the door would slam shut on the Jews.
DANIEL 9:24-27:
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. 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. 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.
According to Sir Robert Anderson, this edict to rebuild Jerusalem was issued on
March 14, 445 BC by Artaxerxes Longimanus of Persia. Exactly 173,880 days later Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. This was the first time Jesus allowed Himself to be publicly proclaimed as the Messiah and King. As you will recall, prior to this
Jesus was always saying go and tell no one (about his miracles). He was
afraid that the people would believe Him only for His signs/miracles. A week later Jesus was "cut off" or crucified.
This prophesy refers to weeks of years, or 483 biblical years. Beginning with the exact day on which Persian King Artaxerxes gave the decree to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem (March 14, 445), exactly 173,880 days later--Palm Sunday, April 6, 32 A.D. This is the precise number of days spanning 483 biblical years, which were then measured as 12 months of 30 days each.
Daniel's prophecy is based on seventy (70) periods of seven year cycles. Literally, the Old Testament called for the land in Israel to lie idle every seventh year. "Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. . . . the land shall have a sabbatical year" (Lev. 25:3-5).
Keeping the seven year cycles in mind, Daniel's prophecy reveals that seven "cycles of seven years" would be counted to start the prophecy, which equals 49 years. So the first segment of Daniel's "time-oriented" prophecy culminated in a year of Jubilee, the 50th year.
The second time span in Daniel's prophecy calls for a period of sixty-two (62) "cycles of seven years," which equals 434 years. Adding the initial 49 years to the 434 years equals 483 years.
According to Daniel's prophecy, the Messiah was to appear at Jerusalem 483 years after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem.
Let's multiply the 483 years by the number of days in a year. Our solar calendar has 365¼ days each year. The Hebrew lunar calendar contains 354 days in a normal year or 383 days in a leap year. Which length is correct? Let's assume that the length of a year revealed in the Bible is correct. What will we find?
When Jesus was asked if one should forgive their neighbors 7 times --don't you find Jesus's answer prophetically curious? His answer; no forgive them 70 times 7 (=490) prophetical
vis-à-vis Jesus knew that from the prophecy of Daniel that God had given the Jews only 490 years (483 from decree to rebuild Jerusalem + 7 more yrs) to recognize and accept their Messiah.
The Bible uses 360 days for a biblical year. We find the 360 days in the books of Genesis [Noah], the Torah [Moses], Daniel, and Revelation. Consider the 360 day year found in the book of Revelation. They [Gentiles] will trample on the holy city for 42 months. And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth (Rev. 11:2-3).
By this verse, 1,260 days equal 42 months. We divide the 1,260 days by 42 months to arrive at 30 days in a month.
Since there are 12 months in a year, we multiply 30 x 12 to equal 360 days in a year.
Now we can get the exact length of Daniel's time line. We must multiply 483 years by 360 days in a year to get 173,880 days.
The Prophet Zechariah wrote in about 520 BC (Zechariah 9:9):
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Daniel 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 (69 weeks = 483 yrs x 360 days = 173,880 days): the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Daniel also says below that two startling historical things would follow Messiah's appearance.
First, Messiah would be cut off
halfway through this 7 years. Yeshua/Jesus died for our sins 3.5 years
into His ministry.
Second, the city of Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed shortly thereafter. The Romans "flooded" into Jerusalem and massacred hundreds of thousands of Jews
(some say a million). See Josephus' "Antiquities" for details on the Romans "flooding" into Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:26
(Speaking of the first Prince-Jesus) And after threescore and two weeks (32 years - the age Jesus was) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: (speaking of the second "Prince" Romans) 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.
Summary
A chronological summary of Daniel 9:24-26
1. There would be a decree to rebuild Jerusalem.
2. Jerusalem and the Temple would be rebuilt.
3. Then an anointed one (messiah) would be enter Jerusalem as king, and then "cut off" (an idiom for "rejected" or "killed").
4. Then Jerusalem and the Temple would be destroyed again.
What Happened?
All of these events later happened, in the same order in which they are described in Daniel 9:24-26:
1. After the Medo-Persians had conquered the Babylonian empire about 2540 years ago, they ruled a vast empire that included the land of Israel. About 445 BC, Persian king Artaxerxes gave permission to the Jews to rebuild Jerusalem, which was still in ruins after having been destroyed earlier by the Babylonians.
2. The Jews rebuilt the Temple and the city of Jerusalem.
3. Then, in about 32-33 AD, Jesus entered Jerusalem as the Messiah on the 173,880th day. That day (Psalm Sunday) was the first time Jesus ever allowed anyone to address Him as king. This was the Messiah (Mashiach ben David), who had been promised by Old Testament prophets. But, many people rejected Jesus as the Messiah and He was crucified by the Romans. But death could not contain Him. He rose and was witnessed by many.
4. About 40 years after Jesus was crucified, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple. The Romans flooded in, murdering hundreds of thousands. The Temple has not been rebuilt since then.
History:
Jews were commanded in Leviticus (Leviticus means "The Law") 25:1-7 to let their land lie unused every seventh year. These Jews honored their sabbatical days - by not working or plowing on the Sabbath day. But because their hearts were greedy and not right or believing - they decided to plant and harvest even on this sabbatical year (7th year). God, acting like a Father who still loves the Jews - chastised the Jews of that time by sending them into bondage in Babylon for 490 years - the exact amount of time they ignored God's sabbatical years Law. Astonishing enough - God's prophet Jeremiah warned them of this in Jeremiah 25:9-11 which reads in part:
Behold, I will send and take all families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations round about......
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Toward the end of their captivity in Babylon, some Jews visited Israel and found it in desolation. They requested of the King of Babylon that they be helped in rebuilding Jerusalem, including its wall.
Speaking of the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the Prophet Nehemiah 2:1 says; "And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king....." Note: No exact day in the month of Nisan was given. But according to Jewish tradition - when no exact day is given the first day of the month is assumed (the first day of Nisan would be March 14, 445 B.C.).
Artaxerxes came to power in 465 B.C., 20 years later would make this 445 B.C., or March 14, 445 B.C. So, on March 14, 445 B.C. the rebuilding of Jerusalem began.
It took "Seven weeks (or 49 years)" to rebuild Jerusalem and its walls.
Daniel also said Messiah would be cut off and the city of Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed shortly thereafter.
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.
Jesus Comes from Galilee and teaches in Caparnum
Isaiah 9:1-2 (written: 712 BC (Before Christ)
"Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."
Jesus Teaching in Capernaum:
Matthew 4:12-16 "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; And leaving Nazareth he came and dwelt in to Galilee. Leaving Nazareth, he went and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zebulon and Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."
The first time Jesus ever allowed his apostles or the Jews to call Him King was the day He rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey. This was Psalm Sunday, April 6, 32 A.D., exactly 173,880 days (69 weeks = 483 yrs x 360 days = 173,880 days) after the command to rebuild Jerusalem.
The Prophet Zechariah wrote in about 520 BC (Zechariah 9:9):
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Speaking of the Psalm Sunday Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey:
John 12:13-15 [they] Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. And
Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
Messiah will be Rejected in Israel:
The Jewish Prophet Isaiah 8:14 (written: 742 BC (Before Christ)
"And he shall be a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
Isaiah 53:3 (written: 712 BC Before Christ)
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Psalm 118:22-23 - The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the LORD'S doing; it is
marvelous in our eyes.
Isaiah 28:16 - Therefore thus saith the LORD GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Jesus bears our sins at Calvary...
Isaiah 53:4 (written: 712 BC (Before Christ)
"Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted."
Isaiah 53:5 (Suffering Servant Passage) (written: 712 BC Before Christ)
"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
being crucified....nailed to the cross
Psalm 22:16 (written: 1018 BC (Before Christ)
"For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet."
being included with sinners....and prayer for
his enemies...
Isaiah 53:12 (written: 712 BC Before Christ)
"Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
Matthew 27:38 "Two robbers were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left."
The Jewish Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 43a) from the Tannaitic Period recorded: "On the eve of Passover Yeshu was hanged"....
Coincidence?
* A pagan historian by the name of Thallus, who lived shortly after the resurrection of Christ. In about A.D. 52 he wrote concerning a miraculous darkness that covered the earth at the Passover of A.D. 32 and attempted to explain it as an eclipse of the sun. Julius Africanus, a Christian teacher in North Africa in A.D. 215, wrote concerning this historian's assertions, "Thallus, in the third book of his histories, explains away this darkness as an eclipse of the sun - unreasonably as it seems to me." Julius contends, and modern astronomers confirm, that the Paschal full moon in which the Passover occurred (the Passover in which Christ was crucified) could not have been eclipsed. Thus, no known natural explanation can be presented to explain the darkness referred to in the Bible as occurring during Christ's crucifixion.
The Father turned His face (probably in great discomfort) as His Son Jesus took our sins fully upon Himself:
Matthew 27:45-46:
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Read the words of Psalm 22, written by King David, one of Jesus' ancestors: "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" This psalm is a clear prophecy of the death of Christ, written hundreds of years before His birth. They were the last recorded words that He spoke before he died, nailed to the cross.
Matthew 27:50-54
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared to many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
Luke 23:45-46 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, he said, Father into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
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