| 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. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but
in times of trouble. After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. (Daniel 9:25ff) The book of Daniel was completed around 530BC. Daniel was a Jewish exile who became a high official in the Babylonian and the successor Medo-Persian empires. |
Sevens
refers to weeks of years: 7x7 + 62x7 = 483 years. In 445 BC Artaxerxes issued a decree to allow the Jews to establish worship and Jewish law in Judah. 69 weeks is 483 daysc(69 weeks X 7 days in a week). If you consider a "prophetic day for a year" principle, you would add 483 years from the date of the decree in 445 BC. If it began in 445 B.C., and you add to that four hundred and eighty-three years, to the exact month (because we know that the month in which the edict to rebuild Jerusalem was issued was the Hebrew month Nisan, which corresponds about to our April), then it brings us down to April, 32 A.D., which includes adjustments due to the ancients using 360 day/year, which would be really made it 476 years, and also adding one year because there is no year zero. Know of anyone claiming to be the Messiah who was cut off in April, 32 AD? |