Daniel’s 70 Weeks — Timeline

[JLB]

“Seventy weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy.

“Know therefore and understand,
That from the going forth of the command
To restore and build Jerusalem
Until Messiah the Prince,
There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;
The street shall be built again, and the wall,
Even in troublesome times.

And after the sixty-two weeks
Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
And the people of the prince who is to come
Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The end of it shall be with a flood,
And till the end of the war desolations are determined.


Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;
But in the middle of the week
He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate,
Even until the consummation, which is determined,
Is poured out on the desolate.”
Daniel 9:24-27


“Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), Matthew 24:15


This discussion will start with the already fulfilled 69 weeks, and how the timeline looks from scripture.

This first post is very condensed and can be discussed passage by passage.



70 Week Timeline: from the going forth of the command to Messiah the Prince.


17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations. Matthew 1:17

A Generation is 40 years.

Babylonian Captivity to Christ = 14 generations = 560 years

Time of Captivity = 70 years: the command of Cyrus ended the 70 years
Prophetic Clock Starts;

560 -70 years of captivity = 490 years = 70 Weeks

• However, we are looking for 69 Weeks.

Gap between 7 weeks and 62 weeks = 40 years = 1 Generation
[ From one king to the next]

490 - 40 year pause because the work ceased.
the timeline ceased with the command of the world ruler of Persia for one generation.

23 Now when the copy of King Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem against the Jews, and by force of arms made them cease. 24 Thus the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem ceased, and it was discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. Ezra 4:23-24

That puts us at 450 years to the birth of Christ, however we are specifically looking to identify the phrase “Messiah the Prince” which is found in the unique phrase …
Hosanna to the son of David


Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:
“Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’
Hosanna in the highest!” Matthew 21:9

• 33 = Birth to "Palm Sunday"

So now we add 33 years to 450 and we have 483 years. 69 Weeks


Now Jesus Himself began His ministry_at about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, Luke 3:23



I thought this would be a good topic of discussion since we seem to be in the time of the final 7 years of Daniel’s 70 Week Timeline.


I better stop here as this post is already to long.




JLB

 

[eddif]

Not long ago I said I would hang out in End Times some. I am not much into this.

About all I wonder about is:
Where are the years of silence in this timeline?
Is the synagogue of Satan in one of the 7 Churches of Revelation in this time line?
Just where is the beginning of The New Jerusalem (from prophetic utterance and development points)?

Pretty ignorant huh.

I am just along for the ride. No hurry about answering.

Mississippi redneck
eddif I’m

 

[JLB]

Not long ago I said I would hang out in End Times some. I am not much into this.

About all I wonder about is:
Where are the years of silence in this timeline?
Is the synagogue of Satan in one of the 7 Churches of Revelation in this time line?
Just where is the beginning of The New Jerusalem (from prophetic utterance and development points)?

Pretty ignorant huh.

I am just along for the ride. No hurry about answering.

Mississippi redneck
eddif I’m

Here is a key passage that pertains to you and I that would be worth discussing.


Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.


The "middle" of the week refers to 3 1/2 years, which we find to be referred to several ways...

• one thousand two hundred and sixty days
• a time, times, and a half of time
• forty two months

Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days. Revelation 12:6


But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
Revelation 12:14


But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months. Revelation 11:2

And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
Revelation 11:3


He shall speak pompous words against the Most High,
Shall persecute the saints of the Most High,
And shall intend to change times and law.
Then the saints shall be given into his hand
For a time and times and half a time.
Daniel 7:25


Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.
Daniel 12:7


(Later, we see this “time, times and a half of time” of Daniel 12 further develop into 1290, and 1335 days, but for now I was hoping to discuss these scriptures that pertain to the “middle of the week”).


So far we see the “middle of the week” that pertains to the last seven years of Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy is associated a 3 1/2 year time period found in Daniel and Revelation.


One thousand two hundred and sixty days and forty two months are unmistakably refering to 3 1/2 years. A time, times and a half of time is directly associated with one thousand two hundred and sixty days, which is connected with the woman in Revelation 12:6 and 12:14.





JLB

 

[JLB]

Where are the years of silence in this timeline?

Seventy weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy.

“Know therefore and understand,
That from the going forth of the command
To restore and build Jerusalem
Until Messiah the Prince,
There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;
The street shall be built again, and the wall,
Even in troublesome times.

And after the sixty-two weeks
Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
And the people of the prince who is to come
Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The end of it shall be with a flood,
And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;
But in the middle of the week
He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate,
Even until the consummation, which is determined,
Is poured out on the desolate.”
Daniel 9:24-27


The prophecy spans 3 different prophetic time frames.

seven weeks
sixty two weeks
one week

Specific events occur during these time frames.

These time frames are controlled by world rulers and event markers and do not run concurrent.

The 70 Weeks 490 years “prophetic timeframe”, spans (2500 years in total) from the time of Cyrus to the time of the end when the antichrist (a world ruler) will initiate the final “week” seven years, and therefore has “prophetic pauses” along the way because a world ruler initiated the start of the prophetic time clock, his successor caused it to stop, and the next successor cased t to begin again until the event called Messiah the Prince.


This is some of the wisdom Jesus told us was needed.


Cyrus began the prophetic time clock ticking with the going forth of his command to restore and (re)build Jerusalem.

Daniel understood (was given understanding) from the books that the 70 years that Jeremiah had prophesied were nearing fulfillment.

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans— in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Daniel 9:1-2


Daniel then set himself, to fast and to intercede and seek God for the nation of Israel.

Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God, yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering. And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand. At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision: Daniel 9:20-23


So this “prophecy” was given to Daniel directly from Gabriel.




JLB