Seven Year Covenant and Daniel’s 70 weeks
I was able to find some info on this. Is it right? You judge for yourself. I do not always go by the facts that man comes up with. I go by what the Holy Spirit lets me see in God’s Word. I feel that the time and dates of future events and God’s word are not as important as the fact that God says these events will take place. It is not my place to question God’s timing of his plans. It is my place to trust God’s word that these things will take place at a time of his choosing. I believe God does not want us to read the calendar and watched the clock. God wants us to read his word and watch for the signs as Jesus tells us in Matthew 24.
I do know this with every fiber of body and mind that Jesus Christ’s return for His people is close at hand. The Earth also knows this. You can read Matt 24 and check out the news and see this too. I believe that God works in 3’s. Time of sorrows. Which started at the crucifixion of Jesus. Tribulations part 1. The breaking of the first seal. 1948 Israel becoming a State. Great Tribulations. The 6th seal. I believe what kicks this off is when the "abomination of desolation" stands in the "holy place," God's place.
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“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.
25 “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.
26 “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.
27 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
Beginning at the beginning:
- Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city
- Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem
Let's start with the command in the bible that begins the 70 weeks time period -
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,
Thus says Cyrus king of Persia:
All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. 3 Who is among you of all His people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 1:1-3
Background -
The children of Israel are in captivity, from the time Nebuchadnezzar came to the land of Israel, to Jerusalem, to take captive the children of Israel and all the treasures of the Temple.
Since that time, Persia has taken over as the world governing empire, with Cyrus as king of the world, and the children of Israel are still in captivity, under his dominion.
Meanwhile, Daniel who served in the court of Nebuchadnezzar and is in captivity, is fasting and praying to God because he discovers from the "books" that Jeremiah who prophesied about this captivity, also wrote that it would be for 70 years.
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— 2 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 receives the Vision of Seventy weeks from Gabriel -
20 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, 21 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. 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand. 23 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: 24 “Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city... Daniel 9:20-24
If we know from the beginning, that the focus is about Daniels people and his holy city of Jerusalem, it will help us to navigate through this prophecy with greater understanding.
Any comments?
JLB