Jesus christ emphatically declared that the old testament scriptures contained prophecies he would fulfill luke 24. At 30 years of age he was anointed and revealed to israel. The fall feasts of israel and the timeline of the final 7 years of this age. The seventy weeks of daniel or, the wisdom of god in all of the seventy weeks 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. More then 2500 years ago in the land of babylon a hebrew prophet named daniel, a captive from the land of.
Thus, the 70 weeks of daniel 9 must begin on a sunday year. The 70th week of daniel commentary using a testimony of jesus christ. Almost all commentators agree that the seventy sevens should be understood as seventy weeks of years, in other words, a period of 490 years. The 70 weeks of daniel were to begin from the going forth of the command to restore and build jerusalem verse 25. Angel gabriel gave daniel 70 weeks prophecy with very clear timings. This just really caps it all and pulls all of the prophecy of the bible together. The chapter begins with daniel praying for israel, acknowledging the nations sins against god and asking for gods mercy.
Dec 17, 2009 alan breaks down the 70 weeks of daniel, as outlined in daniel 9. The seventy weeks of daniel what saith the scripture. Jeremiah study bible what we learn from daniels 70 weeks. Herbert carl leupold 18911972 was professor of old testament exegesis in the capital university seminary, colombus, ohio. The passage states that the time from the start date of the prophecy, the decree to restore and rebuild jerusalem, to the end date, messiah will be cut off, is seven weeks and sixtytwo weeks or sixtynine weeks total. A heptad refers to a period of time involving multiples of seven, seven.
Daniel 70 weeks a presentation on daniels prophecies. The seventy weeks of daniel by randall price no portion of the old testament scripture is as essential to unlocking the mysteries of the prophetic plan for gods future program for israel and the nations than the book of daniel and. Seventy weeks 490 years would be given israel to redeem her past failures. Over the centuries scholars have proposed dozens of competing interpretations of these challenging verses, especially daniel s prophecy of the 70 weeks. Daniels 70 weeks 4 the baptism of jesus christ was the time appointed of the father galatians 4. The 70 weeks prophecy seals up other prophecies in various ways. The writing of truth 1 this is the subtitle of john f. In the hebrew, the word translated weeks is actually the word sevens.
Therefore the 70 weeks of daniel consist of 490 years of 360 days each. Daniels 70 weeks prophecy and the jesuit lie of futurism. Of course, using the decree of cyrus as the trigger for the 70 weeks prophecy is. Using this standard of each day representing one year, daniel s 70 weeks of 7 s most likely denotes 490 prophetic days that actually refers to 490 prophetic years. The 70 weeks of daniel a bible study by jack kelley. In other words, the 70 weeks of daniel 9 have to synchronize with the continuing weekly cycle of years. The first 69 weeks of daniel 70 weeks prophecy were fulfilled with the cutting off of messiah jesus.
This name derives from the opening words of most english translations. God gave daniel this prophecy to tell him he had not forgotten about him or his promises to the nation of israel. Using this standard of each day representing one year, daniels 70 weeks of 7 s most likely denotes 490 prophetic days that actually refers to 490 prophetic years. Your contributions help me to continue doing these videos. Daniels 70 weeks is actually not that difficult to understand and current historical information makes it relatively easy to get accurate dates. Daniel sat a captive in babylon, away from his people for 69 years, and wondered if god had forgotten him. This prophecy is a prophecy for daniel s people and daniel s city.
Meredith the covenant of the seventieth week daniel 9. The seventy weeks of daniel by thomas ice let the postmillennial and amillennial commentators look long and steadily at this fact. Visions of future daniel is given vision of future starting from the silent years on wards till antichrist coming to stage in a jumbled manner. There are the fulfilled weeks of daniel 70 weeks which are the 69 weeks of daniel 70 weeks. On what basis do you hold 1 that the 2300 days eveningsmornings of daniel begin at the same time as the seventy weeks of years of daniel 9. Over the centuries scholars have proposed dozens of competing interpretations of these challenging verses, especially daniels prophecy of the 70 weeks. The book of daniel was written while the jews were in exile in babylon because of their sin and rebellion against god. A prayer of daniel and the revelation of 70 weeks 1012. The 70 weeks of daniel chapter 9 biblical theology.
The divisions of the 70 weeks in verse 24, gabriel says, seventy sevens are decreed for your people and your holy city. The seventy weeks of daniel the seventy weeks of daniel chapter 9 of the book of daniel describes one of the most important times in the history of israel and of the world. He published this discovery in a book called the coming prince, a commentary on daniel s 70th week. E stablishing the specific date for the beginning of the prophecy of the seventy weeks of daniel 9. But the history of israel and jerusalem is determined to be 70 weeks so there is one week 7 years remaining. Almost every mistake ive run across in studying the various interpretations of end times prophecy can be traced back to a misunderstanding of this passage. By using this understanding, we can establish that the 70 weeks of daniel 9 are synchronous with the previously existing weekly cycle established at the exodus. In the bible, the prophecy of seventy weeks chapter 9 of the book of daniel is a prophecy given to daniel by the angel gabriel in response to daniel s prayer for god to act on behalf of his people and city i. Sir robert anderson and the seventy weeks of daniel by tom stewart january 14, 2000.
He published this discovery in a book called the coming prince, a commentary on daniels 70th week. Bohrs notes on daniel 9 overview of daniel 9 and its historical context 538 b. The prophecy is usually referred to as the 70 weeks of years. This prophecy is a prophecy for daniels people and daniels city. Also, the newly recorded expositional commentary on daniel, 16session study with notes. This verse is a precise mathematical prediction of the time of messiahs coming. Daniel s prophecy of the seventy weeks by wayne jackson, m. There was no obvious sign that jerusalem was about to be. This is biblically accurate, yet radically novel, interpretation of daniel s 70 weeks. But the prophecy of 70 weeks is so much more than a messianic prediction.
Nov 01, 2004 the classic work on the seventy weeks of daniel. The seventy weeks prophecy is one of the most significant and detailed messianic prophecies of the old testament. Despite this, there are an alarming number of people who believe there is an unknown gap of time between the 69 th and the 70 th week that originated from the spanish jesuit francisco ribera. It is known to most of us as the prophecy of 70 weeks, and it is the only prophecy in the bible that gives us a secular date by which we can accurately calculate the first coming of the messiah. This takes a look at fitting the 70 weeks of daniel into history. Daniels 70 weeks 4 daniel, because it is the only decree that fits the criteria and can be absolutely dated from the biblical data. Daniels prophecy of the seventy weeks by wayne jackson, m. In two previous articles1 i have argued that daniels prophecies look forward primarily to the first corning of christ. In other words, mauro is unable to find any event within the seventieth week of daniel to fulfill the prophecy of the latter part of daniels seventieth week, and in the end is forced to abandon his major thesis that the prophecies of daniels seventy weeks are subject to literal fulfillment. This is a jewish calculation about the 70 weeks of daniel. Daniel 70 weeks a presentation on dan iels prophecies 1. This is also the only way you can make the three measures of the great tribulation 1260 days, 42 months, or 3 12 years come out the same.
Sir robert anderson and the seventy weeks of daniel. Daniel s seventy weeks the triumphal king in prophecy. A chart of daniel s 70 weeks which compares the 70 weeks timeline with the image from daniel ch 2 two key chapters in the book of daniel, chs 2 and 9, outline the whole history of gods dealings with his people israel from hundreds of years bc, right through to the second coming of christ and the inauguration of his millennial kingdom. The significance of sir robert andersons book, the coming prince 1895, should not be underestimated by modern students of bible prophecy, in that anderson not only ably defended daniel s authorship of the book of daniel from the scholarship of unbelief of the higher criticism of his day, but he clearly. If we look at the six issues that daniels seventy week prophecy wraps up and finalizes we must of necessity come to this conclusion. In effect, the angel gabriel told daniel that after sixtynine weeks of years the messiah would be revealed to the nation of israel. Part 9 in a series on the prophecies found in the book of daniel. As chapter 9 begins, jerusalem was in ruins and the prophet was diligently studying the seventy year prophecy of j eremiah 25. What is the correct calculation of daniels 69 weeks. His interpretation of the 70 weeks made no effort to connect the numbers of weeks associated with the three sections, 7 weeks, 62 weeks, and 1 week with real years. In this study of daniel s 70 weeks, you will discover this amazing prophecy in the old testament predicted the very day that jesus presented himself as the meschiach nagid. Do you know the most amazing passage in the entire bible. The fulfilled weeks of daniel 70 weeks christian truth.
At least the last 63 weeks, if not all the 70, are yet to occur in the future. When interpreting the prophecy of the seventy weeks in daniel 9. Identifying that date has been a challenging task for biblical scholars and conse. The 70 weeks will terminate with the second coming of messiah and the establishment of his millennial kingdom here on earth. There is no other messianic prophecy that so perfectly foretells the coming of christ and the year of his baptism and crucifixion. Daniel s 70 weeks prophecy and the jesuit lie of futurism full. Seventhday adventists seek to tie daniel 9 to daniel 8. It has been called the backbone of all prophecy in the bible.
Daniels 70 weeks of years tribulation lamb and lion. The overview is that the 70 weeks go from the command to build again the city, to the jubile year, to the coming of messiah the prince of israel, and after this 62 weeks, is messiah cut off, and confirms or strengthens the new covenant by his work on the cross, for one. Sep 24, 2015 this is biblically accurate, yet radically novel, interpretation of daniel s 70 weeks. Some people such as john pratt and sir isaac newton have placed the crucifixion of jesus at the end of daniels 70 weeks 490 years prophecy. In order to get that to make sense, those interpreters use a persian decree, usually the one from circa 458 bce, as the starting point for their interpretation, which makes the. When daniel read jeremiahs prophecy, he began to pray. Missler, chuck, daniels 70 weeks, koinonia house, 2004. Understanding daniels 70 weeks the creation concept.
In the bible, the prophecy of seventy weeks is a prophecy given to daniel by the angel gabriel. Probably no single prophetic utterance is more crucial in the fields of biblical interpretation, apologetics, and eschatology. As daniel prayed, the angel gabriel appeared to him and gave him a vision of israels future. At the very end of this period, god would even send messiah the prince who would. A chart of the 70th week of daniel endtime pilgrim. According to most, the bible prophecy of daniel s 70 weeks is either a messianic prophecy that foretells the baptism of jesus christ and the year of his crucifixion, or it is a prophecy that tells of the coming of antichrist and a seven year tribulation period. A chart of the 70th week of daniel by gavin finley md download the pdf file of this article. The weeks which have already been fulfilled show that these are weeks of years rather than of days. This period of time is referred to as the seventy weeks of daniel, or the seventy sevens.
Jerry vines this has to be the apex of all the prophecies that god revealed to daniel. No alchemy of origenistic spiritualizing interpretation can change that. The precision of prophecy daniels 70 weeks chuck missler. That is the biblical interpretation of the 70 weeks of daniel chapter nine. We know that by any reckoning, it was almost 500 years from the rebuilding of jerusalem until the coming of christ. The angel informs him that seventy weeks have been decreed for them, and then gives a detailed but cryptic description of those weeks.
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