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Daniel's 70th week
This page/article is a collection of views and resources on how we might understand Daniel 9:24 - 27
Note: The form of the information on this page will be lacking in structure. Information will be presented in the form it arrives. The reader is invited to scroll down, check the left-hand margin (at the top of the page) and contribute to the discussion in the 'Response facility at the foot of the page. (Pseudonyms can be used if so desired.).
 Daniel 9:24-27 (ANIV)
24 "Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.
25 "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens', and sixty-two 'sevens'. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
26 After the sixty-two 'sevens', the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven'. In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."
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21/07/2024 20:25 |
From Philip Wren -
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The Prince who is to come is Jesus as in Matthew 22:7. In that verse it is the Father who sends His armies to destroy the city. In Daniel it refers to the gentiles.
Verse 26 refers to the desolations which will continue from the destruction of Jerusalem until the end. In verse 27 after the covenant which Jesus strengthens and His rejection desolations continue until the consummation when Jesus returns.
To look for the abomination of desolation in verse 27 is to read into it that which is not there. The references to the abomination of desolation in Daniel are found in 11: 31 and 12: 11.
The translation of this prophecy is heavily influenced by the translators preconceived interpretation. I have just looked at an older version of the NIV. The translation it adopts is an extraordinary flight of fancy. I have based my understanding on more literal translations such as Hermon Goldwags 'Daniel's Seventy Weeks Prophecy.
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21/07/2024 20:27 |
From Nick Thompson (responding to https://www.christianstogether.net/Publisher/file.aspx?id=357377)
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I guess where I come from is as follows, I have written in bullet points for easy digestion.
1. I suspect that in common with a lot of prophecy there may be multiple realisations.
2. I lean towards the primary fulfilment being in respect of Israel.
3. There is a decree from Cyrus, which I would date to 551BC and his victory over Babylon, for the Return.
4. Nehemiah's return to the emperor, he was cupbearer and therefore chief spy, can be dated to 502BC and the Ionian revolt. 49 years on
5. John Hyrcanus and Alexander Jannus of the Maccabean royal family fell out in 68 BC (483 years on) and sought Roman help. 483 years on
6. Pompey entered the Temple in the middle of the afternoon sacrifice, slaughtering the priests in 61BC, effectively annexing Israel and finishing her indepedence. 490 years on and possibly the abomination of desolation.
7. Having said that the timeline set out in the chart and running to Vespasian also works.
8. However, Daniel 9:24 aligns six criteria to the completion - An end to transgression, an end of sin, forgiving iniquity, bringing in everlasting justice, Setting the seal on vision and prophet and anointing the especially Holy place.
9. Jesus' death, burial and resurrection categorically delivered the first three, but the second three are more difficult.
10. Isaiah 60 says 'foreigners will rebuild your walls'.
11. In 1537 Sultan Suleiman issued a decree to rebuild Jerusalem, its walls and squares (plaza's).
12. Could this be a further fulfilment?
13. In 1582 the Julian calendar was introduced. 49 years on. Could this be significant?
14, In 2020 the world changed completely. 483 years on.
15. On October 7th, 3 years and 6 months from lockdown - Pope addressing an empty Vatican Square - Hamas committed their atrocity. Could this be the abomination of desolation. Certainly the site of the main attack is on the borders of Israel which is an acceptable translation of 'Kanaph'. It also coincided with an Adar II year which I wrote about for Prophecy Today and remarkably got published.
16. Hamas cited the Red Cow as a big reason and it prevented or delayed the Red Heifer sacrifice happening
17. If there is something in this then Passover 2027 could be interesting.
18. I would lean towards 1967, 2300 (Daniel 8) years after Alexander defeated the Persian Empire and ushered in the Time of the Gentiles, with its liberation of Jerusalem and military coup that removed the Greek Royal Family as the end of the times of the gentiles.
19. 1967 was 70 years after the first Zionist Congress organised by Herzl
20. The run of blood moon tetrads in the run-up to 2020 could be seen as significant
'In summary, I see the 490 year phase as significant to Israel and the Church. Could your author have it right? Possibly.
I am happy to hold these things in tension.
I hope this helps.
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