Introduction
Let us study Daniel’s 70 weeks
together, and as the Word says, not be ashamed. Let us
rightly divide these 70 weeks. Not into 69 ½
weeks and ½ week as is the manner of some. Nor
into 69 weeks and 1 week as is the manner of others.
But into 62 weeks, 7 weeks, and 1 week as contained in the
Word of God, the word of truth.
Let us understand that God has divided these 70
weeks into three time periods, not for us to divide
further. Let us also understand that God has divided
these 70 weeks, not for us to remove the divisions God has
placed. But, for us to realize there are three time
periods which all together add up to 70 weeks determined
upon the people of
Timeline
(Gr = Gregorian Calendar extrapolated
backward, i.e. 1 BC = 0, 2 BC = -1, MJ = Modified Julian Day
Count, He = Hebrew Calendar, MLC = Mayan Long Count)
433 BC – Command by an Israelite (Nehemiah, Governor
of Judah) to REBUILD JERUSALEM for the Israeli people
(Tuesday, -432 May 14 Gr, -836592 MJ, 3328 Iyyar 20 He,
6.15.19.14.6 MLC)
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62 Weeks = 1st division of 70 Weeks = 62 * 7 *
360 Days = 156,240 Days
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5 BC - Jesus Christ, Son of Man and the only begotten Son of
God, the Word of God conceived through the power of the Holy
Ghost (Tuesday, -4 February 20 Gr, -680352 MJ, 3756
Adar 14 He, 7.17.13.14.6 MLC)
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Two Times = Times of the Gentiles / Church Age = 2 * 1000 *
360 Days = 720,000 Days
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1967 AD – Command by an Israelite (Moshe Dayan, Defense
Minister) to RESTORE JERUSALEM to the Israeli people
(Wednesday, 1967 June 7 Gr, 39648 MJ, 5727 Iyyar 28 He,
12.17.13.14.6 MLC)
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7 Weeks = 2nd division of 70 Weeks = 7 * 7 * 360
Days = 17,640 Days
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2015 AD – Return of Jesus Christ to establishing His
millennial reign, landing on the
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One Time = Time of Jesus Christ / Kingdom Age = 1000 * 360
Days = 360,000 Days
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3001 AD – End of Time of Jesus Christ, Kingdom Age, (Sunday,
3001 May 17 Gr, 417288 MJ, Sivan 3, 6761 He, 15.10.2.14.6
MLC)
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1 Week = 3rd division of 70 Weeks = 7 * 360 Days
= 2,520 Days
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3008 AD – End of Days (Sunday, 3008 Apr 10 Gr, 419808 MJ,
Nisan 13, 6768 He, 15.10.9.14.6 MLC)
Daniel 9
Realize that in the history of Daniel’s
people there have been at least two other periods of 70
weeks with gaps. God dealt with and counted not to
Realize also how these periods of 70 weeks have
played so prominently in the lives of Daniel’s people.
Daniel, himself in a foreign land, was living through the
sentence of 70 years placed upon his people. They had
disobeyed God and observed not the Sabbath rest of the land
for a period of 70 weeks. They had about reached the
end of their sentence as understood by Daniel and as handed
down by God through the Prophet Jeremiah. It was at
this time when Daniel cried out to God for His people.
In the first year of Darius the son
of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made
king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of
his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the
years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the
prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the
desolations of Jerusalem. Daniel
9:1-2
Daniel then confesses the sins of his people.
We have sinned, and have committed
iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even
by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Daniel
9:5
He then appeals to God’s forgiveness and mercy.
To the Lord our God belong mercies
and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; Daniel 9:9
Daniel finally beseeches God for the sake of his
people and their city,
O LORD, according to all thy
righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy
fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy
mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of
our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a
reproach to all that are about us. Daniel
9:16
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O
Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my
God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. Daniel
9:19
Will God forgive them when they have finished
serving their sentence for the 70 times 7 years they
observed not the Sabbath of their land? Will God have
mercy on them? But how many times can God continue to
forgive them? But then, how many times did Jesus tell
Peter to forgive?
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I
forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him,
I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy
times seven. Matthew 18:21-22
Will God forgive? Will God allow God’s chosen
people to return to God’s Holy city? Will God allow
God’s chosen people to rebuild God’s Holy city? Will
God restore unto God’s chosen people, God’s Holy city?
We know God did forgive His people and in stages restored
and will fully restore
Now in the first year of Cyrus king
of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of
Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the
spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also
in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The
LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the
earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at
Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Ezra 1:1-2
So how does God answer Daniel’s prayer and
supplication? God sends Gabriel directly to answer
Daniel’s questions regarding the people of
And whiles I was speaking, and
praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my
people Israel, and presenting my supplication before
the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man
Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning,
being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of
the evening oblation. And he informed me, and talked
with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give
thee skill and understanding. Daniel
9:20-22
And then came what is considered the most famous
revelation in the Old Testament, some consider the whole
Bible, found at the beginning of Daniel 9:24.
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy
people and upon thy holy city,…
Daniel had just identified his people for whom he is
praying as not just
Gabriel pronounces a promise and a sentence.
The descendents of
And when the thousand years are
expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And
shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four
quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them
together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of
the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the
earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the
beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven,
and devoured them. Revelation 20:7-9
And death and hell were cast into the
lake of fire. This is the second death. And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was
cast into the lake of fire. And I saw a new heaven
and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth
were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I
John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband. Revelation 21:1-2
We are blessed that through God’s mercy there are
gaps in the 62, 7, and 1 week that make up the 70
weeks. Between the 62 and 7 weeks are the times of the
Gentiles, often called the Church Age, and between the 7 and
1 week is the millennium, often called the Kingdom
Age. For we know that after the millennium, satan must
be loosed for a little season.
And cast him into the bottomless pit,
and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should
deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years
should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a
little season. Revelation
20:3
And at the end of the little season, the 1 week, the last
week, comes eternity.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy
people and upon thy holy city, to finish the
transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make
reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and
to anoint the most Holy. Daniel 9:24
At this point we should recognize that while we commonly
call this Daniel’s 70 weeks, we should more accurately call
this the descendants of
Now on to analyzing Daniel 9:24. We have seven
events mentioned as happening during these 70 weeks.
The first two events mentioned are “to finish the
transgression, and to make an end of sins”. We
are all under the curse of Adam which is physical death.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam
to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the
similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of
him that was to come. Romans 5:14
Now while Jesus Christ finished redeeming
this transgression by His blood, for all who will accept it,
throughout time.
And for this cause he is the mediator
of the new testament, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under the first
testament, they which are called might receive the promise
of eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:15
This transgression will not be finished till death
is thrown into the lake of fire.
And death and hell were cast into the
lake of fire. This is the second death. Revelation 20:14
Likewise sin did not end with the first coming of Jesus
Christ. Nor will the “end of sins” occur at the
second coming of Jesus Christ. It will not happen till
after satan has deceived mankind for the last time, after
the little season, when death is thrown into the lake of
fire.
That as sin hath reigned unto death,
even so might grace reign through righteousness unto
eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:21
Let’s look at the last five:
…and to make reconciliation for
iniquity,…
Jesus paid the price of our iniquity so we might be
reconciled to God through his death of the cross.
Wherefore in all things it behoved
him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a
merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to
God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Hebrews 2:17
However, reconciliation of everyone who has
committed iniquity before God will not be finished till the
end of time. At Judgment day, reconciliation to God of
all who are found written in the book of Life will be made
for ever and ever as the Almighty Judge accepts His own
Son’s sacrificial death upon the cross in payment for our
iniquities.
…and to bring in everlasting
righteousness,…
The next event is everlasting righteousness.
Eternity, the new heaven, the new earth, and the new
Jerusalem, cannot be brought in until the unrighteous, the
old heaven and the old earth, death, hell, and the grave
have passed away. Which brings us to:
…and to seal up the vision and
prophecy,…
Daniel sealed up the vision he had and the prophecy
he received as he was commanded. This event would have
happened before 500 BC.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the
words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end:
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased. Daniel 12:4
In contrast, John the Revelator was commanded not to seal up
the vision and the prophecy he received.
And he saith unto me, Seal not the
sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at
hand. Revelation 22:10
Now comes the part of the verse which has caused much
controversy:
...and to anoint the most Holy...
Some have taken this last event in the list as the last
event which then ends the 70 week. Even though the
previous two events, the sealing of the vision and the
sealing of the prophecy, were the first to happen in the
list and even though at least some of the previous four must
happen undeniably at the end of time. But we have
short memories.
To make this work though, they must interpret the
anointing of the “most Holy’ as being the anointing of the
“most Holy one”. This must be the anointing of a
person not an object, specifically when Jesus Christ was
anointed with the Holy Spirit. This must not be when
the temple on the Holy
And the children of
However, the latter is what Daniel had been praying for and
what Daniel had been calling Holy:
O LORD, according to all thy
righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy
fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem,
thy holy mountain: because for
our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem
and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about
us. Daniel
9:16
And whiles I was speaking, and
praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people
Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my
God for the holy
mountain of my God; Daniel
9:20
Now God did indeed anoint Jesus Christ with the Holy
Spirit right after He was baptized by John:
How God anointed Jesus of
And there is some controversy that Jesus did not become
Messiah or Christ until He was anointed by the Father with
the Holy Spirit right after His water baptism.
But consider this. We know the word “Christ”
is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word “Messiah”, both
of which translate into our English word “anointed”.
So by definition, to be Christ or Messiah, one must be
anointed. We may have forgotten though that Jesus
Christ was anointed with the Word of God by action of the
Holy Spirit at conception, just as He was anointed with the
Holy Spirit by action of God the Father around 30 years
later. The bottom line though is his rightful title at
birth would be Christ since he had been anointed.
Mary, His mother, like many of the woman of the time,
desired to be the chosen vessel to give birth to the
Christ. And she indeed was blessed and gave birth to
the Christ child, not someone who would not become Christ
till 30 years later.
For unto you is born this day in the
city of
It is written that Jesus Christ was conceived miraculously
in Mary though she knew not a man, by the power of the Holy
Ghost.
Then said Mary unto the angel, How
shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the
angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall
come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall
overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which
shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Luke 1:34-35
Jesus was born
as the incarnation of the Word of God.
In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1
And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of
the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:14
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: the street shall be
built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. Daniel 9:25
Here we have two divisions of the 70 weeks clearly
identified for us. We have seven weeks and we have 62
weeks. That would leave one week, doing the math, to
make a total of 70. Here we also have two divisions of
what was to be commanded. We have restore and
build.
So we have two time periods and two
commandments. Both are accounted to
Daniel 9:25 specifies building
Now the King gave Nehemiah the power to go back and
rebuild the wall, which the King’s “commandment” or
authorization has been traced back to 445 BC. Sir
Robert Anderson wrote a masterful groundbreaking work over
100 years ago using this year. He used seven times 360
days to number the days of each week in Daniel’s 70 week
prophecy. This reckoning was and is generally accepted
based not only on our understanding of the Babylonian
calendar, but based on how the book of Revelation apparently
equates 1260 days with 42 months and 3 ½ years.
Using this reckoning Sir Robert Anderson added together the
62 weeks and the 7 weeks of 360 day years and came to 32
AD. This would seem to give validity for adding
together the 62 and 7 weeks with no dispensation, no Age of
the Gentiles, between.
Now while I can find nothing wrong with using 360
day reckoning, it should be pointed out that had Sir Robert
Anderson used solar reckoning he would have ended up at 39
AD. But even 32 AD is pushing it for the
crucifixion. Josephus recorded that Jesus of Nazareth
was crucified 40 years before
The
About Jesus Christ, whom I fully made
known to you in my last letter, a bitter punishment has at
length been inflicted by the will of the people, although
I was unwilling and apprehensive. In good truth, no age
ever had or will have a man so good and
upright. But the people made an amazing effort,
and all their scribes, chiefs and elders agreed to crucify
this ambassador of truth, although their own prophets,
like the Sibyls with us, advised to the contrary; and when
he was hanged supernatural signs appeared, and in the
judgment of philosophers menaced the whole world with
ruin. His disciples flourish, and by their
behavior and continence of life do not repudiate their
master; on the contrary, in his name they are most
beneficent. Had I not feared a sedition might
arise among the people, who were almost furious, perhaps
this man would have yet been living with
us. Although, being rather compelled by
fidelity to your dignity, then led by my own inclination,
I did not strive with all my might to prevent the sale and
suffering of righteous blood, guiltless of every
accusation, unjustly indeed, through the maliciousness of
men, and yet, as the Scriptures interpret, to their own
destruction. Farewell. The 5th of the
Calends of April.
The date of
April 5th, would be a week early for
the Passover in 32 AD but would fit 30 AD because of the day
of the week of the full moon. Subtracting 3 ½
years for the ministry of Jesus Christ and then 30 years for
the age of Jesus Christ when he began his ministry we arrive
at the fall of 5 BC using 30 AD versus the fall of 3 BC
using 32 AD for the birth of Jesus.
The vast majority of the evidence points to Pontius
Pilate dying in March or early April of 4 BC, which again
fits 30 AD. Research of records of when the census was
called for by
So, in the end, while Sir Robert Anderson created a
groundbreaking classic, 32 AD appears to be 2 years after
the crucifixion. So this year must be discarded
as dead. Although, the real nail in this
coffin is that the Messiah was the Messiah starting
at His conception, not as Sir Robert Anderson puts
forth, starting when He rode into Jerusalem on the first day
of the week before His
crucifixion. Likewise, Sir Robert Anderson
had no basis for adding together the 62 weeks and the 7
weeks to lump both comings of Lord Jesus Christ
together as Scripture records there will be
another coming of Messiah. Jesus
Christ Himself declared before He died that He was
coming again.
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I
go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would
rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my
Father is greater than I. John 14:28
And so did the Angel:
Which also said, Ye men of
We have covered the origin of adding together the 62
and 7 weeks with no gap to come up with 69 weeks. Then
there is placed a gap, the Times of the Gentiles, between
just the 69th and the 70th week.
What about those who teach the 62, 7, and 1 week should all
be added together with no gaps between them? Then a
new gap, a different gap not mentioned in Daniel 9:25
is introduced half way through the 70th
week. In between the 69 ½ weeks and the last
½ week they insert the Times of the Gentiles.
Where does that come from? Well, the
basis comes from skipping ahead and looking at Daniel
9:27 and comparing that with the choices for dates to begin
the count of the 70 weeks.
And he shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he
shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and
for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it
desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined
shall be poured upon the desolate. Daniel 9:27
We have one week. Since Daniel 9:25 explained the 62
and 7 weeks, this is assumed to explain the 1 week which
makes a total of 70. Then the word “midst” is taken to
mean the exact middle with 3 ½ weeks on either side.
Let’s first take a look at the choices of dates we
have to begin the 70 week count:
539 BC – (Ezra 1:1-4 & 4:6-13) King Cyrus
allowed the Israelites to return to the land and rebuild
their temple in
520 BC – (Ezra 6:8-12) King Darius allowed the
Israelites to complete the rebuilding of their temple in
457 BC – (Ezra 7:11-28) King Artaxerxes allowed Ezra
authority to lead the nation in the Laws of God
445 BC – (Nehemiah 2:1-9) King Artaxerxes in his 20th
year allowed Nehemiah to leave for the purpose of rebuilding
the walls of
433 BC – (Nehemiah 5:14 & 6:15 & 13:6)
Governor of Judah, Nehemiah, had prepared material and
people and in the 32nd year of King Artexerxes
starts rebuilding wall, completing the wall in 52 days on
Elul 25 and then returning to King Artaxerxes the same
year. More details are:
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Iyyar 20, 433 BC - Command given to rebuild
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+72 Days
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Av 4, 433 BC - Started rebuilding wall - Date
reached from reading Nehemiah and counting
backward from Elul 25 - (Thursday, -432 July 25 Gr, -836520
MJ, 3328 Av 4 He, 6.15.19.17.18 MLC)
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+51 Days between – (52 Days inclusive)
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Elul 25, 433 BC - Date recorded in Nehemiah as finished -
(Saturday, -432 September 14 Gr, -836469 MJ, 3328 Elul 25
He, 6.16.0.2.9 MLC)
Now, judiciously taking 457 BC and adding together
the 62 and 7 weeks to get 69 weeks, and then interpreting
these to be solar years instead of 360-day years we have 457
BC + 69 * 7 = 457 BC + 483 years = 27 AD (no 0 AD).
This we would take as the end of the 69th week
and the start of the 70th week. At this
point we would be forced to make this interpretation work to
say Jesus became Christ / Messiah, when He was anointed by
God with the Holy Spirit in the fall of 27 AD to fulfill
Daniel 9:25. Then to fulfill Daniel 9:27, at this same
time, Jesus confirmed a covenant for 7 solar years.
And he shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week.
The problem is no where in the Bible do we see
described that Jesus Christ confirmed a covenant with many
that was to last 7 solar years. We do have Jesus
Christ confirming the covenant God made with man which was
to last for 7 times or 7,000 years. We could also make
a case that Jesus confirmed a covenant with many when He
rode into
...and in the midst of the week he
shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease...
Now in the midst of these 7,000 years, God did indeed cause
the sacrifice and oblation to cease. This happened in
70 AD when the temple was destroyed. Now again it
could be argued that in the middle of the 7 day Passion
week, that Wednesday at the 9th hour of the day
on April 5th - Julian, Nisan 14 - Hebrew, 11 days
after the Spring Equinox fixed on March 25th - Julian, the
9th hour of the day or around 2:30 PM, in 30 AD, when Jesus
Christ gave up His ghost and the temple curtain was torn
asunder, the REASON for having the sacrifice and the
oblation ceased.
So we can make a case not for Jesus Christ
confirming a covenant for 7 years, but for Him
confirming a covenant both of 7 day duration that ended
when God the Father accepted His sacrificial death for us
and raised Him from the dead, and 7,000 year
duration on Judgment Day at the end of time when God will
raise some to everlasting life and the rest to everlasting
damnation to be cast into the lake of
fire. Interestingly, a day is like a thousand
years to God.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this
one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day. II Peter 3:8
So it is very difficult to make a case for Jesus Christ
confirming a covenant for 7 years based on the Bible.
But saying we do. Adding 3 ½ solar years to the
fall of 27 AD we arrive at the Spring of 31 AD. Okay,
we were shooting for 30 AD but we are within a year and with
inclusive reasoning and not knowing exactly when in 457 BC
Ezra led the nation in the laws of God, close enough.
And there you have it. All except the last ½ a
week of Daniel’s 70 weeks have been accounted for. Or
so the story goes.
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: the street shall be
built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. Daniel 9:25
We have discussed how Cyrus before 500 BC allowed
And it came to pass in the month
Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that
wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it
unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his
presence. Nehemiah 2:1
And I said unto the king, If it
please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in
thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the
city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it. Nehemiah 2:5
And the king said unto me, (the queen
also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be?
and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send
me; and I set him a time. Nehemiah 2:6
However it wasn’t until 433 BC as Governor of Judah
that Nehemiah commanded the rebuilding of the wall and it
was built in 52 short days and he was able to leave
Moreover from the time that I was
appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from
the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of
Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my
brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor. Nehemiah 5:14
So the wall was finished in the
twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in
fifty and two days. Nehemiah 6:15
...for in the two and
thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of
There you go! Now adding 62 weeks of 360-days
to 433 BC we arrive at 5 BC. This is right on the dot
as to when the Virgin Mary would have been ANOINTED with the
Word of God and conceived through the power of the Holy
Ghost, the MESSIAH. Hallelujah!
Now many expect Jesus Christ to have been born on
Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, when the Light of the
World came into the world and the light was no longer hidden
from the world in Mary’s womb. Does the date counting
backward from 6/7/1967 exactly 2000 times 360 days which is
-4 February 20 Gr, (5 BC) fit? Well, adding 40 weeks
for the fullness of time, the fullness of pregnancy, which
is 280 days to this date we arrive at:
5 BC: Birth date (Tuesday, -4 November 26 Gr,
-680072 MJ, 3757 Kislev 28 He, 7.17.14.10.6 MLC)
Now Hanukkah is an 8 day event, celebrating 8 days
that oil for the temple that was only enough to last for one
day, lasted. The 9 fingered Menorah is used to count
off each day with the center candle, the servant candle,
used to light each day. The first day is Kislev
25. The fourth day is Kislev 28. With Jesus born
the fourth day, the Jews would have come to the position of
the servant candle on the fourth day, the date of His
birth. Jesus IS the servant candle. Jesus was
BORN in the midst of Hanukkah. Hallelujah!
I realize that without the Bible specifying that
Jesus was born on any certain date there is no way to prove
from scripture the date He was born. We would need
only to allow sufficient time for Herod to give the command
to kill the babies up to two years of age around
Kislev 25, 6 BC
- Conception date based on the 1st day of
Hanukkah (Monday, -5 December 4 Gr, -680430 MJ, 3756 Kislev
25 He, 7.17.13.10.8 MLC)
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+ 280 Days
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Tishri
10, 5 BC - Birth date based on conception date
based on the 1st day of Hanukkah (Sunday, -4
September 9 Gr, -680150 MJ, 3757 Tishri 10 He, 7.17.14.6.8
MLC)
And mathematically interesting indeed gives us cause
to ponder in the absence of specific dates in the
Bible. God of course may have left the date
unspecified so future generations would not to have been
able to calculate and know beforehand the exact date of
6/7/1967 for the end of the times of the Gentiles.
This knowledge may have been sealed. Fortunately, He
gave us Daniel’s 70 week prophecy so we could calculate
the apparent exact date of 9/23/2015 for His return.
Rachel Weeping for Her Children
In Rama was there a voice heard,
lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel
weeping for her children, and would not be comforted,
because they are not. Matthew 2:18
Then Herod, when he saw that he was
mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent
forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem,
and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and
under, according to the time which he had diligently
enquired of the wise men. Matthew
2:16
This ending also started the times of the
Gentiles. The Gentile’s times, specifically their
"two times", their two thousand 360-day years, were up
with
And they shall fall by the edge of
the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations:
and
This ending and beginning was also marked by the
murder of many of the Gentile’s children. Some claim
this was the result of the 60’s free drugs and free sex
lifestyle among the youth. But the bottom line was
that so many illegal murder of babies were being conducted
in the
Can it be any coincidence that at the heart of the
Babylon Mystery Religion was child murder?
GOD HATES MURDER!
But back to Daniel’s 70 weeks.
Daniel 9:25 Summary
Know therefore and understand, that
from the going forth of the commandment
to
restore
and
to build
{
seven
weeks,
and
threescore and two weeks:
{the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in
troublous times.} Daniel 9:25
Notice the groupings. We have (to restore - seven
weeks) and (to build - threescore and two weeks). We
know from History that Messiah came threescore and
two weeks after the commandment to BUILD
And they shall fall by the edge of
the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations:
and
We have confirmation by Jesus Christ’s own words
that the times of the Gentiles would end when
Daniel 9:26
And after threescore and two weeks
shall Messiah
be cut off, but not for himself:
and the
people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the
city
and the
sanctuary;
and the end
thereof shall be with a flood,
and unto the
end of the war desolations are determined. Daniel
9:26
Notice that Daniel 9:26 states “after threescore
and two weeks”. Daniel does not state after
threescore and nine weeks. Nor does Daniel state after
threescore and nine ½ weeks. That is a
tremendous problem for those who add the 62 and 7 weeks
together to get 69 weeks and for those who then go ahead and
add another half a week to get 69 ½ weeks to when
Messiah was cut off. The scripture doesn’t say these
items happen after 69 weeks nor does it say these items
happen after 69 ½ weeks. Scripture states these
items happen after 62 weeks. We clearly have 8 weeks
still to be fulfilled in the 70 weeks when these items
occur.
Let’s go through these items:
shall Messiah
be cut off, but not for himself:
Messiah was cut off from God the Father at His death
in 30 AD. But He was not cut off for the sake of
Himself, but for the sake of all mankind, when He took upon
Himself sin who knew no sin, the sin of man, to be the
perfect blemish-free sacrifice for our sins.
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried
with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?
which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? Mark 15:34
So Christ was once offered to bear
the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he
appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Hebrews 9:28
The next item is:
and the
people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the
city
The people, Roman Legions under the command of
Titus, came and destroyed
and the
sanctuary;
The sanctuary, the great temple built by Herod, was
greatly desired by Titus not to be destroyed during the
siege of 70 AD. However, his wishes did not come to
pass as Jesus had already prophesied the complete
destruction of the sanctuary.
And Jesus went out, and departed from
the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him
the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto
them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you,
There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that
shall not be thrown down. Matthew
24:1-2
and the end
thereof shall be with a flood,
During the siege, there was a flood of pilgrims from
around the world into
and unto the
end of the war desolations are determined. Daniel
9:26
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