J.-11 Bible Chronology

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J.-11  English

The 70 sevens

 

"Seventy weeks are decreed…"--Daniel 9:24-27 = 70 x 7 = 490

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 7 x 7 = 49

62 x 7 = 434

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…from the issuing of a decree to restore…

7 + 62 = 69

...until Messiah the Prince…>

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    "troublous times"    

…after the 62 weeks the Messiah will be cut off...  >

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<  Cyrus

…but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering…

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Artaxerxes >

Ministry of Christ began here.  >

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The crucifixión was in the middle of the 70th seven.  >t .

<  …from the going forth of the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem…(Daniel 9:25)

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<  Cyrus here

One "week" = one unit of seven = 7 years

    7 x 7 =  49

middle

7 x 7 = 49

<…the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.  62 x 7 = 434

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<  Artaxerxes here    1 x 7 =    7

...shall be 7 weeks…

Not even the last formula can be broken!

  70 x 7 = 490

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62 x 7 = 434

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>  62 weeks

…from…the…commandment…to restore…Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince…>

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And after 62 weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself...>

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...and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease…  >t .


J.-11  The 70 sevens

a.  This is the only part of Bible chronology that is based on a record of prophecy.  Some people reject the idea that Bible chronology can include prophecy.  After reading the whole Bible several times, one can see right away that the last chronological segment had to be prophetical because Christ had not yet come in the flesh and died on the cross.  The crucifixion is the end of Bible chronology.

b.  The principal relevant Bible references are Isaiah 44:26-28, Daniel 9:24-27, 2 Chronicles 36:22-23 and Ezra 1:1-4.  There are many others, but these are the most important.

c.  Some people have recently (beginning about 1830 AD) said that the laying of the foundation of the temple was the only aspect of the decree of Cyrus, never considering that the overall projects of Cyrus were prophesied by Isaiah about two hundred (200) years earlier and the scope of the decree of Cyrus would be several restoration projects like homebuilding in surrounding cities (Isaiah 44:26) as well as several projects within Jerusalem including rebuilding houses, streets, plazas, towers, walls, gates, and, of course, the temple which was the principal restoration project and needed special mention in order to show their enemies that the returning exiles had documentation to back up their restorations.  A prominent edict about the temple would serve to cover everything else.  It can be safely said that an edict to restore the temple was overall permission to restore anything else of lesser importance.

d.  Nevertheless these latter day opponents to traditional Bible chronology have tried to make the temple the sole project of Cyrus and the reconstruction of the walls the sole project of Artaxerxes who came later.  And so the beginning of the 70 sevens of Daniel had been postponed (probably by an attempt to reconcile the Bible with secular history) by the learned theologians failing to come to grips with the idea that temple work and city work cannot be considered as separate projects but all city reconstruction must necessarily be comprised of various sub-projects like temple, walls, towers, gates, houses, streets, plazas, etc.

e.  It is an invalid concept to think that City reconstruction and Temple reconstruction are two separate entities when, in fact, the Temple reconstruction is part of the overall City reconstruction.  Does not anyone understand that for the City to be reconstructed the very things in the City have to be reconstructed as well?  This is not rocket science but just plain common sense.

f.  So when we read in Daniel 9:25 from the “going forth of the order to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince will be 7 x 7 and 62 x 7...”, i.e., 69 sevens, we should immediately think about this span of time as going from the decree of Cyrus (which is very prominent in both 2 Chronicles and Ezra) to the beginning of Christ’s ministry, 483 years, which was followed by Christ’s ministry which lasted 3½ years, the end of which marks the time that Christ was “cut off” in the middle of the last seven, to end corruption, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, which took place after the 62 sevens wherein the very same Messiah was cut off.

g.  And after all these things had come to pass we should by now be able to put the prophecy together as history, but instead of understanding all this, we seem to be moving backwards instead of forwards in our understanding and by raising all kinds of irrelevant questions over the second coming of Christ which should never arise by anyone with an elementary level of math skill to know that 7 x 70 cannot be broken up into chunks with a supposed parenthetic gap, such thing never allowed by conventional mathematical principles.

h.  Those who hold to a futurist idea of Daniel’s 70th seven are not only hijacking Bible history, but they are hijacking the most prominent part of Bible history, namely the crucifixion, and by implication, the very resurrection of Christ!


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