The Seventy Weeks of Daniel Executive Summary

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The seventy weeks of Daniel is one of the most important prophetic concepts that you need to understand.  Daniel’s seventy weeks is a prophecy that is almost fulfilled and will not be completely fulfilled until the End Times.  Understanding this prophecy will not only give you key understanding about the End Times, but also a realization of how powerful and precise Bible prophecy is.  However, the argument that I present significantly deviates from the flawed works of the past.  I not only present the weakness of others works, but introduce a new interpretation that makes the prophecy’s timeframe work. 

 

The angel Gabriel tells Daniel that seventy weeks have been given to the people of Israel and the city of Jerusalem to end their disobedience, atone for their sins, and to be saved. 

o   Dan 9:24  Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people, and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.

 

Gabriel provides Daniel great detail about the first sixty-nine weeks.[1]  Jerusalem.  The rebuilding process will last for seven weeks, and after that there will be an additional sixty-two weeks which will end when the Messiah (Christ) is “cut off”.  This timeframe clearly has been fulfilled as Christ was crucified and ascended to heaven nearly 2,000 years ago.       

• Jerusalem had long been destroyed by the time Daniel received the vision (6th century B.C.).  The call to rebuild Jerusalem that Gabriel spoke of came in the Jewish month of Nisan during Artaxerxes Longimanus’s 20th year of the reign.
• Most scholars agree that 20th year of Artaxerxes was either in 445BC or 444BC while Christ’s crucifixion occurred between 26-36AD; corresponding to the reign of Pontius Pilate.  

As you can probably tell from the nearly 500 year span to just cover sixty-nine weeks of Daniel, prophetic time is a lot different from normal time.  The following list summarizes how long certain prophetic events are and how long exactly sixty-nine weeks of Daniel were.

• One Prophetic Week = 7 Prophetic Years
• One Prophetic Year = 360 Days
• 69 Weeks of Seven Prophetic Years = 483 Prophetic Years
• 69 Weeks X 360 Days X 7 = 173,880 Days

 

Most people cite these two men’s attempt to calculate the start and end of the first 69 weeks of Daniel when defending the validity of the seventy weeks of Daniel prophecy.

• Sir Robert Anderson set March 14, 445BC as the start date of the first week of Daniel, which meant that April 1, 32AD was the end date of the sixty-ninth week.  He claimed that 32AD was likely the end year since Passover occurred on a Thursday.  Furthermore, he wrote that Palm Sunday, which commemorates Christ’s entry into Jerusalem, occurred on April 6.  Unfortunately, Anderson’s argument falls apart when you consider how Nisan 32AD was really laid out.  Palm Sunday actually occurred on April 8 while Passover was on Monday.  A year that has a Passover on a Monday cannot be the year of Christ’s crucifixion because it contradicts the biblical text.

• Harold Hohner moved the start date of the first week of Daniel to March 4, 444BC, which meant that March 30, 33AD was his estimated end of Daniel’s sixty-ninth week.  The big problem is that his predicted start date of the first week of Daniel is impossible.  The problem with March 4, 444BC is that it was not in the month of Nisan!  The actual first day of Nisan was not until April 3 of that year.

 

I discovered that you cannot precisely identify when the sixty-nine weeks of Daniel occurred in a way that does not contradict the Bible if you use Christ’s crucifixion as the end of the sixty-ninth week.  Instead, I found that using the date that Christ ascended to Heaven as the end of the sixty-ninth week enables you to precisely identify when the first Week of Daniel began and when the sixty-ninth week of Daniel ended.  The reason that the Ascension Date can be used is that the term “cut off” in Daniel 9:26 actually refers to the removal of the Messiah from the Earth without a messianic kingdom yet established.  The following table shows the sixty-nine week of Daniel timeframe:

 

Event	Our Calendar	Hebrew Calendar
Crucifixion	April 1, 33AD	Nisan 14, 3793
Resurrection	April 3, 33AD	Nisan 16, 3793
Ascension	May 13, 33AD	Iyyar 26, 3793
Start of the 1st Week	April 19, 444 BC [1]	Nisan 23, 3317

 

The seventieth week of Daniel is a period that is to come in the future.  It is an extremely important period because most of the end time events will occur during this time.  This final seven prophetic year period will start out “good” for Israel because a covenant with Antichrist will be upheld.  However exactly halfway through the week, at three and one-half years, the covenant will be broken and Israel will be in big trouble. 

o   Dan 9:24  Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people, and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.

 

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