DANIEL’S 70 WEEK PROPHECY CLEARLY EXPLAINED

I’ve been studying the Book of Daniel since 2009 and feel as though I understand the 70 weeks prophecy fairly well. It has taken until recently for me to feel that way. I’ve read and watched videos on it for many years as well as praying for a clear understanding.

One of my favorite teachers, Jonathan Cahn, has the best grasp of this book as anyone I know of. The notes I will share here align with this video link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqhYB42w1Y Feel free to copy these notes and anything on this blog. Just make sure you copy it right! This is not a blog for making money. It is for sharing truth.

We begin with Daniel praying, repenting, and interceding for Israel. Daniel was fasting and repenting before Yahweh for the restoration of the temple in Jerusalem. He humbled himself before Yahweh confessing his and the nation’s sins against the Holy One of Israel (Daniel 9). He was reading in Jeremiah about the 70 year captivity (Dane 9.2 and Jeremiah 25.11-12).

The angel Gabriel appeared to him at some point. It could have been days or even weeks that Daniel was in prayer. When Gabriel appeared he said he had come to give Daniel skill and understanding. This is what Gabriel said:

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the prevarication and to conclude the sin and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and seal the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.

 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to cause the people to return and to build Jerusalem unto the Anointed Prince (Messiah), there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks, while the street shall be built again and the wall, even in troublous times.

 And after the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One (In Hebrew Messiah) shall be killed and shall have nothing: (and the ruling people that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; whose end shall be as a flood, until at the end of the war it shall be cut off with desolation).

 In one week (they are now seventy) he shall confirm the covenant by many: and at the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the many abominations, desolation shall come, conclude the sin and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and seal the vision and the prophecy…Daniel 9.24-27

The word anointed in Hebrew is Messiah. This is a prophecy about the first coming of Yeshua, His death, and the tribulation period to follow later in time.

First the temple had to be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Cyrus, King of Persia (Iran today) give the decree that the Jews may return to Jerusalem and rebuild. This was after they had spent the last 70 years in captivity in Babylon. They were in captivity because they had not allowed the land to have the 7^th year Shemitah rest. One year for each Shemitah not kept. The Shemitah rest is once every 7^th year so 70 times 7 is 490 years the Jewish people had not kept Shemitah.

The 70 years of punishment were now coming to an end and the Jews would return to Jerusalem to resettle in the land and rebuild their temple. The punishment was coming to an end—now would come the redemption period.

Gabriel is telling Daniel when the Messiah was going to come and conclude the sin and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and seal the vision and the prophecy.

Simply put, Gabriel was telling Daniel that from the Persian decree to allow the Jewish people to return and rebuild until the Messiah would return to Jerusalem would be 490 years. He was giving Daniel a glimpse into the future when Yeshua would enter Jerusalem at a future Passover and die on the cross making an end to sin, a reconciling of iniquity.

From the time of the decree to return, Yeshua’s death, and destruction of the temple and city by Rome would cover 69 weeks. Messiah would be cut off at this time--killed (Daniel 9.26). The Romans would destroy the temple and city in 70 AD. Daniel 9.26 describes this destruction by the Roman Empire in 70 AD.

This indicates that the Holy Roman Empire will be involved in the tribulation period. (I’ve been writing about that and posting articles on the blog that follow events in the European Union and the formation of the modern Holy Roman Empire.) It may even indicate that the AntiChrist will come forth out of the Holy Roman Empire.

The destruction of the temple and the city by the Romans in 70 AD then begins a gap of time until the beginning of the tribulation. This gap of time is until the end of the war and desolations are determined…at the end of verse 26 KJV.

Then the seven year tribulation period begins week 70. The AntiChrist makes a covenant and allows sacrifice in the rebuilt temple. Half way through the tribulation, at 3 ½ years, the AntiChrist declares himself God and stops the sacrifices. This begins the time of “Jacob’s Trouble.”

SUMMARY

Gabriel informs Daniel that the judgment of 70 weeks of 7’s is now complete. The next phase would be the redemption phase which would be the coming of Messiah to die for sin. It would be 490 years after the decree of Cyrus that Messiah would come and die. The destruction of the temple and Jerusalem would follow in 70 AD completing 69 weeks.

Then would come a gap in time until the end of the war and desolations are determined. After this gap of time (time of the Gentiles fulfilled) the final week of the tribulation would begin.

At first the AntiChrist seems to favor the Jews then at 3 ½ years he will double cross them and the time of Jacob’s trouble begins in earnest until the second appearance of Messiah Yeshua.

As I have written before there is only one second coming of Yeshua--at the end. This is the day we are resurrected from the dead—the last day (John 5.21-31; John 6.38-54).

There is no secret rapture before this occurs. Yeshua only comes back once—on the last day—Yom Kippur—to judge the righteous and unrighteous (Matt 13.24-30). Note the reapers gather the wheat and tares together.

Watch the video for much more interesting details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqhYB42w1Y