Those who allegorize are not letting the text speak for itself but are putting words into gods mouth. This takes a look at fitting the 70 weeks of daniel into history. The 70 weeks of daniel chapter 9 biblical theology. 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. Sir robert anderson and the seventy weeks of daniel by tom stewart january 14, 2000. Do you know the most amazing passage in the entire bible.
If a shabuim is a week seven of years, it therefore follows that 69 sevens is 483 years 69. Also, the newly recorded expositional commentary on daniel, 16session study with notes. In the bible, the prophecy of seventy weeks is a prophecy given to daniel by the angel gabriel. The 70 weeks prophecy seals up other prophecies in various ways. 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. Understanding daniels 70 weeks the creation concept. Daniel s prophecy of the seventy weeks by wayne jackson, m. 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. Traditional interpretations of daniel 9 assume that the phrase seventy weeks is a way of saying 490 years, an assumption that is not supported by scripture. In other words, the 70 weeks of daniel 9 have to synchronize with the continuing weekly cycle of years. Seventhday adventists seek to tie daniel 9 to daniel 8. 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. 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. Jerry vines this has to be the apex of all the prophecies that god revealed to daniel.
Gabriel said to daniel, know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the word to restore and to build jerusalem unto the messiah the prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks. But the history of israel and jerusalem is determined to be 70 weeks so there is one week 7 years remaining. Meredith the covenant of the seventieth week daniel 9. Of course, using the decree of cyrus as the trigger for the 70 weeks prophecy is. He published this discovery in a book called the coming prince, a commentary on daniels 70th week.
The precision of prophecy daniels 70 weeks chuck missler. 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. Therefore the 70 weeks of daniel consist of 490 years of 360 days each. The fall feasts of israel and the timeline of the final 7 years of this age. This name derives from the opening words of most english translations.
That is the biblical interpretation of the 70 weeks of daniel chapter nine. 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 to jerusalem as the meschiach nagid, the messiah the king. Jesus christ emphatically declared that the old testament scriptures contained prophecies he would fulfill luke 24. Almost all commentators agree that the seventy sevens should be understood as seventy weeks of years, in other words, a period of 490 years. Thus, the 70 weeks of daniel 9 must begin on a sunday year. In two previous articles1 i have argued that daniels prophecies look forward primarily to the first corning of christ. At least the last 63 weeks, if not all the 70, are yet to occur in the future. In verses 25 and 27, the period of 70 weeks is divided into three time periods.
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. Daniels 70 weeks is actually not that difficult to understand and current historical information makes it relatively easy to get accurate dates. Daniel 70 weeks a presentation on daniels prophecies. This just really caps it all and pulls all of the prophecy of the bible together. Dec 17, 2009 alan breaks down the 70 weeks of daniel, as outlined in daniel 9. There was no obvious sign that jerusalem was about to be.
At the very end of this period, god would even send messiah the prince who would. The 70 weeks of daniel a bible study by jack kelley. Nov 01, 2004 the classic work on the seventy weeks of daniel. A heptad refers to a period of time involving multiples of seven, seven. The divisions of the 70 weeks in verse 24, gabriel says, seventy sevens are decreed for your people and your holy city. 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. The seventy weeks prophecy is one of the most significant and detailed messianic prophecies of the old testament. This article was originally published in the november 2004 personal update news journal.
The 70 weeks will terminate with the second coming of messiah and the establishment of his millennial kingdom here on earth. If we look at the six issues that daniels seventy week prophecy wraps up and finalizes we must of necessity come to this conclusion. Sir robert anderson and the seventy weeks of daniel. Jeremiah study bible what we learn from daniels 70 weeks. Daniels 70 weeks of years tribulation lamb and lion. 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. Part 9 in a series on the prophecies found in the book of daniel. 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.
When daniel read jeremiahs prophecy, he began to pray. 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. The chapter begins with daniel praying for israel, acknowledging the nations sins against god and asking for gods mercy. Daniel sat a captive in babylon, away from his people for 69 years, and wondered if god had forgotten him.
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. There is no other messianic prophecy that so perfectly foretells the coming of christ and the year of his baptism and crucifixion. The writing of truth 1 this is the subtitle of john f. Seventy weeks 490 years would be given israel to redeem her past failures. This is biblically accurate, yet radically novel, interpretation of daniel s 70 weeks. A prayer of daniel and the revelation of 70 weeks 1012.
This prophecy is a prophecy for daniels people and daniels city. Angel gabriel gave daniel 70 weeks prophecy with very clear timings. The first 69 weeks of daniel 70 weeks prophecy were fulfilled with the cutting off of messiah jesus. Over the centuries scholars have proposed dozens of competing interpretations of these challenging verses, especially daniels prophecy of the 70 weeks. At 30 years of age he was anointed and revealed to israel. As chapter 9 begins, jerusalem was in ruins and the prophet was diligently studying the seventy year prophecy of j eremiah 25. Missler, chuck, daniels 70 weeks, koinonia house, 2004.
No alchemy of origenistic spiritualizing interpretation can change that. More then 2500 years ago in the land of babylon a hebrew prophet named daniel, a captive from the land of. The seventy weeks of daniel what saith the scripture. 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. The 70th week of daniel commentary using a testimony of jesus christ. In the hebrew, the word translated weeks is actually the word sevens.
E stablishing the specific date for the beginning of the prophecy of the seventy weeks of daniel 9. A chart of the 70th week of daniel endtime pilgrim. 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. 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. This prophecy is a prophecy for daniel s people and daniel s city. It has been called the backbone of all prophecy in the bible. When interpreting the prophecy of the seventy weeks in daniel 9.
There are the fulfilled weeks of daniel 70 weeks which are the 69 weeks of daniel 70 weeks. Daniels 70 weeks 4 the baptism of jesus christ was the time appointed of the father galatians 4. Daniels 70 weeks prophecy and the jesuit lie of futurism. This verse is a precise mathematical prediction of the time of messiahs coming. The book of daniel was written while the jews were in exile in babylon because of their sin and rebellion against god. The weeks which have already been fulfilled show that these are weeks of years rather than of days. This is a jewish calculation about the 70 weeks of daniel. 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 angel informs him that seventy weeks have been decreed for them, and then gives a detailed but cryptic description of those weeks. Identifying that date has been a challenging task for biblical scholars and conse.
Over the centuries scholars have proposed dozens of competing interpretations of these challenging verses, especially daniel s prophecy of the 70 weeks. We know that by any reckoning, it was almost 500 years from the rebuilding of jerusalem until the coming 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. Daniels 70 weeks 4 daniel, because it is the only decree that fits the criteria and can be absolutely dated from the biblical data. God gave daniel this prophecy to tell him he had not forgotten about him or his promises to the nation of israel. As daniel prayed, the angel gabriel appeared to him and gave him a vision of israels future. But the prophecy of 70 weeks is so much more than a messianic prediction. Herbert carl leupold 18911972 was professor of old testament exegesis in the capital university seminary, colombus, ohio. 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. Daniel s 70 weeks prophecy and the jesuit lie of futurism full. 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. A proper understanding of the seventy weeks of daniel not only safeguards the christian against the elaborate guesswork of those who persist in setting dates for the lords return, but also furnishes the infallible key.
Daniels prophecy of the seventy weeks by wayne jackson, m. Daniel s seventy weeks the triumphal king in prophecy. The fulfilled weeks of daniel 70 weeks christian truth. A chart of the 70th week of daniel by gavin finley md download the pdf file of this article. The prophecy is usually referred to as the 70 weeks of years. 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. The seventy weeks of daniel by thomas ice let the postmillennial and amillennial commentators look long and steadily at this fact. Biblical scholars have catalogued more than 300 amazing prophecies that find precise fulfillment in the life and labor of the son of god. This period of time is referred to as the seventy weeks of daniel, or the seventy sevens. In effect, the angel gabriel told daniel that after sixtynine weeks of years the messiah would be revealed to the nation of israel. The 70 weeks of daniel were to begin from the going forth of the command to restore and build jerusalem verse 25. Probably no single prophetic utterance is more crucial in the fields of biblical interpretation, apologetics, and eschatology. Bohrs notes on daniel 9 overview of daniel 9 and its historical context 538 b. Sep 24, 2015 this is biblically accurate, yet radically novel, interpretation of daniel s 70 weeks.
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