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Published on Friday, 11 November 2011 22:30 | Written by Vernon Gillispie | | | Hits: 7264
The Seventieth Week*
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." Dan 9:24-27 NIV (italics mine).
In Daniel chapter nine an angel gives Daniel a timetable of events in Israel's future. This timetable encompasses a total of four hundred ninety years remaining during which specific benchmark events will occur involving Israel. This is not a total of 490 years remaining in Israel's future. It is rather like a stop watch which begins the countdown with certain events and stops at other events while time goes on even when the hands of the prophetic clock are not moving.
+70 "Seventy weeks are determined
- 69 from -- command to -- build Jerusalem Until Messiah -- seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;
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1 missing week of years = 7 years missing
7 + 62 + 1 = 70 weeks of years:
Jewish (biblical) year = 360 days
1 week of years = 1 X 7 = 7 years = 2,520 days
7 weeks of years = 7 X 7 = 49 years = 17,640 days
62 weeks of years = 62 X 7 = 434 years = 156,240 days
The missing 70th week of Daniel's prophecy is the final seven years of Israel's future culminating with the return of Messiah, Jesus Christ's long awaited second coming. I believe the key purpose of the events of the last seven years of this age is symbolically portrayed by events in the life of king Nebuchadnezzar. To examine this see: The Symbolism of Nebuchasnezzar
It appears this seven year period will begin with antichrist signing of a seven year peace treaty with Israel. Midway through the treaty period he will apparently violate the terms of the treaty. Although some have identified this entire seven year period as the time of great tribulation, it seems more likely that the last three and one half years of this seven year period is the period referred to in scripture as the Time of Jacob's Trouble in which will occur the Great Tribulation.
He shall speak pompous words against the Most High.
Shall persecute the saints of the Most High
And shall intend to change times and law.
Then the saints shall be given into his hand
For a time and times and half a time.
Dan. 7:25; The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982. (italics mine).
Category: Tabernacle
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