www.ServantofMessiah.org Daniels 70 weeks and 2 possible outcomes When God created the earth He defined the weekly clock. He worked six days and rested the seventh. God named the seventh day the Sabbath. Every week since creation has followed the same pattern of six days for work followed by one day for rest. God applied the same pattern to a week of seven years. He told the children of Israel to plant and to harvest their land for six years and then let the land rest the seventh year. He called the seventh year a Sabbath. It is also called a sabbatical. The week of seven years is called a sabbatical cycle.
For the land shall be abandoned by them, and shall l make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, shall be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes (Lev. 26:43). The Hebrew Bible according to the Jewish canon ends with the book of Chronicles. The Judeans were exiled was to allow the land to enjoy its Sabbath rest - "until seventy years have gone by, it will keep Sabbath throughout the days of its desolation." (2 Chr 36:21).
The verse implies that during the reign of the Israelite A third time scale for the weekly pattern is 7,000 years. kings from David onwards (1,050 BC to 587 BC) the For almost 6,000 years the earth has been corrupted by land of Israel had never enjoyed its sabbatical year as sin. Then the earth will have a Sabbath rest for 1,000 commanded by Moses in the book of Leviticus . years in the millennial reign.
Man - 7 days Land - 7 years Earth - 7,000yrs
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Pattern for Rest Work Work Work Plant Plant Plant Sin Sin Sin
Seven sabbaticals brought God’s people to the Jubilee to bring restoration to His people and to their land. God’s Sabbath Years are Important The children of Israel were not faithful to God. For 490+ years they refused to allow their land to rest during the Sabbaticals. For 70 land Sabbath years the land was not allowed its Sabbath rest. Because of their disobedience, God allowed the children of Israel to be taken captive to Babylon for 70 years. While they were in Babylon the land back in Canaan enjoyed its 70 Sabbath years of rest.
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7x1 day 7x1 year 7x1,000 yrs
For about 490 years from David's reign to the exile, the land was farmed continually until it was long overdue for a Sabbath rest, in fact up to 70 years. Why did the Israelite kings refuse to obey the law of Sabbath rest for the land which is enjoined upon them every seven years? It is purely economics. It is just not economical to let the land lie fallow for a period of one year when harvests can be gathered year in and year out. In short, they would suffer financially and materially. They did not keep the land Sabbaths so God arranged for the land to rest, while they were in Babylon.
Leviticus 26 provides the sanctions that God would impose upon His nation for the years that Israel did not obey the specifications of a sabbatical year. So in 606 BC Babylon invades the land and takes captives and installs a vassal king in Jerusalem. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of the Nineteen years (19 years) go past and Jeremiah tells desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; the king people that Babylon is Gods tool and judgment then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. All and they are to repent. the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your Sabbaths, while you were Jer 37:1 And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in living on it (Lev. 26:34-35). place of Coniah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah. P.O. Box 39082 Lakewood WA 98496
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www.ServantofMessiah.org Jer 37:1 Then the word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me:…. 8 And the Chaldeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
Daniel realizes the 70 years captivity is almost up. He starts to pray because He believed what God promised. Even while being punished and exiled at Mc Neil, the The king of Judah does not keep the agreement with Babylon and they rebel. Babylon comes back and burns ear of God is open to His servants. That is the lesson of Gods dealings with a disobedient people. Yet through it the city and the temple to the ground on the 9th of Av all, He never abandons his people. Consider that. 587 BC. The people are carried off to Babylon including Daniel and his friends. (Dan. 9:1-3) In the first year of Darius, in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, observed in the books the number 1 Chronicles 36 v 20 And them that had escaped of the years which was revealed as the word of the from the sword carried he away to Babylon, where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years. So I of the kingdom of Persia: gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. He is interrupted in his prayer of Daniel 9. This is prayer we prayed together in Shelton Prison and one I recommend for you all to pray. So Daniel prays and he is answered by an angel who not only tells him they are going home after 70 years but lays out a prophecy about the future Messiah who will remove all their sin in 70 times 7 years. (490) 21 To fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill the Seventy years. 2 Chronicles 36: 20-21 see also Jeremiah 25: 12 & Daniel 9:2 The land has a Sabbath rest as the people are taken into slavery.
Cycles of 70 70 x 1 year 70 x 7 years
Unit of Time 70 years 70 sabbaticals
Total Years 70 years 490 years
Daniel studied the prophecy of Jeremiah and knew it was time. For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. Jeremiah 29 v 10 P.O. Box 39082 Lakewood WA 98496
Daniel 9:25 “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: ( 70 weeks) the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.” What happens at the End? Captivity ends from literal Babylon and they go home. Provision made to end spiritual Babylon and Christ's first coming
1. The "7 sevens" in Daniel 9:25. 2. The "62 sevens" in Daniel 9:25. 3. And the 70th "seven" in Daniel 9:27. This is also known as 70 weeks prophecy
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www.ServantofMessiah.org Daniel 9:25 “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: ( 70 weeks) the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.” 1. The "7 sevens" in Daniel 9:25. 2. The "62 sevens" in Daniel 9:25. 3. And the 70th "seven" in Daniel 9:27. We combine the first two periods for a total of 69 "sevens." to determine when the Prince was to appear. The time for the revealing of the Messiah will be 69 weeks or 483 years from the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. The key to this prophecy is the command to restore and rebuild the city of Jerusalem.
The decree from Artaxerxes to Nehemiah in 445 BC. (see Nehemiah 2:1-8) "The words of the decree are not given, but its subject matter can easily be determined. Nehemiah hears of the desolate condition of Jerusalem. He is deeply grieved.
The focus of Daniel’s prayer had been the desolation of Jerusalem and that God would end the judgment and The King asks the reason. Nehemiah replies, 'the city, restore the people to the land and Jerusalem. the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lie waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire.' The King Daniel’s prayer actually made reference to the bids him make request. He does so promptly, asking for “desolation of Jerusalem.” The 70 years were in an order to from the King that 'I be sent to the city that reference to destruction of Jerusalem. God honored I may build it.' And, as we read, he was sent, and he Daniel’s prayer and used Jerusalem as the catalyst for rebuilt Jerusalem." identifying the exact time King Messiah would be revealed to Israel. Jerusalem plays a critical part in So we start counting from 445 B.C, we arrive at approx determining the timing of Messiah’s coming. 32 A.D. the year in time in which the Messiah was to appear. That would correspond to the time that Jesus There have been a few timelines set out to account for rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. The reason the the 69 weeks. We can see that only the time span #2, donkey is important is that in Zechariah 9:9, the beginning in the year 445 B.C. and terminating in 32 prophet Zechariah speaks of a King riding a donkey and A.D. will fit. presenting himself as the King to Jerusalem. This was the only time He allowed the crowd to proclaim Him as This is the time span advanced by Sir Robert Anderson King. in his classic work, 'The Coming Prince'. Only this time-line will succeed in connecting into two Nisan The 69 weeks, or 483 years, were broken in two moons, the beginning Nisan moon being the Nisan of segments. The first is seven weeks or 49 years while Nehemiah and the ending Nisan moon being the Nisan the second is 62 weeks or 434 years. There is a very of the Passover of our Lord's crucifixion. important reason that God divided the 483 years for the coming of the Messiah into two sections. The first I have not taken the time to document the reasons for section is divided into 49 years to get the people ready using a 360 day prophetic year vs. our 365 day solar for the coming of King Messiah. calendar and the effects of the leap years. Ask me if you have questions. Perhaps Jesus was speaking from His experience as the YHVH of the Old Testament, when He answered Peter…How many times one must forgive another. P.O. Box 39082 Lakewood WA 98496
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www.ServantofMessiah.org Not just 7 times Matt 18:22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. One Prophecy, Three Fulfillments? The prophecy in Daniel 9:24 has two distinct and essential fulfillments. Remember, Daniel is praying about the lethal problem of sin in his own people. He is concerned about the 70 years to be finished and they go home.
Sir Isaac Newton believes the separation of one week (7 x 7 is 49 years) could also allude to another Jubilee cycle from a later command to rebuild Jerusalem, and the 2nd coming of Messiah. Jerusalem was delivered in 1917 from the Turks (Ottoman Empire) by the British. The Jewish people once again had control of Jerusalem and the Temple 1967 when they captured it from the Jordanians during the Six-day-war If the Messiah the prince is to reappear the 2nd Time, he is not too far off as we add 49 years to 1967.
Gabriel brings him a dual answer that provides a complete solution: Their captivity is over and the 70 years are finished but going back to Jerusalem, was not a solution to their permanent sin problem.
Matthew 24 predicted the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 and it also predicts events leading up to the Second coming of Jesus. Some of the verses in Matthew 24 apply to the destruction of Jerusalem, some apply to Seventy "sevens" - 70 sabbatical cycles – 70 x 7 = 490 the second coming of Jesus, and some apply to both. In years . Seventy "sevens" are decreed for your people to the same way, Daniel 9:24 and 27 apply to both atone for wickedness. Jesus was the atonement and fulfillments. sacrifice for our wickedness. He lived a perfect life on earth and then died for our sins making it possible for God means what He says and says what He means. us to be delivered from sin. The first fulfillment pointed We will look at some messages directed at our to the coming of the Messiah. The 70 sabbaticals generation. Yeshua will likely return on a Sabbatical predicted Christ’s first coming and His being cut off in because of the following similarities between His the middle of the week of his ministry. prophesied return and the Sabbatical years. The term "cut off" implies that Messiah would not die a natural death; He would be murdered! So also had Isaiah prophesied using an equivalent word: "He was cut off out of the land of the living" (Isaiah 53:8). The details about how Messiah was "cut off" are given in the gospels. "To Finish the Transgression", or literally, "to finish transgression." As Jesus was dying, he cried: "It is Finished." At Calvary, Jesus finished transgression by becoming sin for us. No future sacrifice can ever finish transgression; it was finished at Calvary (Heb. 9:15). "He was wounded for our Transgressions" (Isaiah 53:5).
1. Both are announced by the trumpet: Lev. 25:9/ Mat. 24:31; 1Cor. 15:51; 1Thes. 4:16 2. Both mean rest from labor: Lev. 25:4, 19/Heb. 4:9 3. Both reunite family: Lev. 25:10/Matt. 24:31; 4. Both give land back to rightful owner: Lev. 25:13; 27:24/Matt. 5:5; Dan. 7:18, 22; Rev. 2:26-27 5. Slaves are freed by both: Lev. 25:10/Isa. 60:12-14; 49:23; Rev. 20:4 6. Debts are canceled: Lev. 25:35/Rev. 21:4; John 8:36 It makes sense for him to appear at a Sabbatical year ….for look at how He announced His ministry and His mission. These are the verses Yeshua read that Yom Kippur when He announced His ministry in Nazareth at age 30.
The fulfillment of the 69 sabbaticals began in 444 BC and ended 483 years later in 30 AD. Jesus died in 31 AD in the middle of the 70th sabbatical cycle. The first Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because coming of Christ occurred at the exact time predicted in the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the prophecy of Daniel 9:24. the meek… 2. to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to The prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27 has two fulfillments. In comfort all that mourn. a dual prophecy not all of the verses will apply to both fulfillments. For example, Matthew 24 is a dual The Avenger of Blood is to return soon prophecy. P.O. Box 39082 Lakewood WA 98496
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