The First Seven Weeks: Rebuilding Jerusalemįrom 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.Īccording to verse 25, the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks would begin with a decree to rebuild the city of Jerusalem. In Revelation 11:3 and 12:6, the apostle John counts a three-and-a-half-year period as 1,260 days, indicating a 360-day year. A close examination of Genesis reveals that the earliest known month in Bible history was thirty days in length (Genesis 7:11, 24 8:3-4), and multiplying thirty days by twelve monthly periods produces a year of 360 days. This is consistent with many ancient calendars, including other biblical records. In verse 2, he references “seventy years,” so the “seventy sevens” in verse 24 are seventy groups of seven years.īefore we study the other details of Daniel’s prophecy, we also need to understand that his years consisted of 360 days, not 365.
A more literal translation of Daniel 9:24 would be “Seventy sevens are determined.” History has proven that Daniel was referring to years rather than days, but we can also use context to determine his meaning.
In Hebrew, the original word means “a period of seven” and can apply to days or years. The first step to decoding the Seventy Weeks is to understand the meaning of week. Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city.
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It maps out a series of events that began in Daniel’s lifetime and will continue until the Second Coming of Christ.īy studying the Seventy-Weeks prophecy, we can discover clues about the End Times. Before he could finish his prayer, the angel Gabriel arrived with a reply known as the Seventy-Weeks prophecy. He acknowledged God’s righteous judgment and begged for mercy. On behalf of his entire nation, he confessed their hard-hearted rebellion and wickedness. He had been held hostage in Babylon for decades when something in the prophecies of Jeremiah caught his attention: his people’s captivity would be limited to seventy years-and that amount of time was nearly over! (Jeremiah 25:11-12 29:10) We don’t know how long Daniel had been in possession of Jeremiah’s prophecies or how many times he may have read them, but suddenly the words leapt off the pages and he discovered the treasured knowledge that God was about to set his people free.Įquipped with a new understanding of God’s Word and His will, Daniel dropped to his knees in prayer.
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