Daniel 9 70 weeks Prophecy: The Jubilee Year View

“The Heavenly Clock Never Stopped!”

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Daniel 9:22. He came, he spoke, he said to me, "Now, Daniel; I have come down to teach you how to understand. 23. When your pleading began, a word was uttered, and I have come to tell you. You are a man specially chosen. Grasp the meaning of the word, understand the vision: 

Codes:  week (lit. a seven) amounts to 7 years. This stretch is known as a ‘Jubilee Year.’

24. `Seventy weeks (shabuim shibim) are decreed for your people and your holy city,
|1| for putting an end to rebellion (pesha),
|2| for placing the seal on sin (tanam chata),
|3| for covering guilt (kaphar avon),
|4| for introducing everlasting righteousness (olam tzedek)
|5| for setting the seal on vision and on prophecy (hazon, navi),
|6| for anointing the holy of holies (mashak qodesh qadeshim).

70 Jubilee years = 490 actual years, divided into three time periods:

25. Know this, then, and understand:From the time there went out this message: 'Return and rebuild Jerusalem'

to the coming of an Anointed Prince, seven weeks .  .  . with squares and ramparts restored and rebuilt, but in a time of trouble.

The first seven weeks is from the

.  .  .  and sixty-two weeks, (for a total of 69 weeks)

How long is 69 weeks (or how many years amounts to 69 jubilee years)?

69 jubilee weeks = 69 x 7 = 483

457 BC (year of the decree) + 483 years + 1 (no year 0) = 27 AD

Tabernacles (thereabouts) 27 AD: Messiah’s advent: he is washed by Yochanon, “all righteousss is fulfilled,” there is a heavenly decree, and he starts his progression, completing 69 weeks.

26. And after the sixty-two weeks (we have already accounted for the 7 weeks) an Anointed One is put to death (“cut off”)

The Messiah is empailed at Pesach 31 AD 3 ½ years after he began, completing 69 ½ weeks.

city and sanctuary ruined by a prince who is to come. The end of that prince will be catastrophe and, until the end, there will be war
and all the devastation decreed. 27. He will strike a firm alliance with many people for the space of a week; and for the space of one half-week. He will put a stop to sacrifice and oblation,

 The “prince who is to come” is either Titus Flavius, son of the King of Rome, whom official parties of the Israel government decreed a prince of Israel. The rebellion against this prince led to the total destruction of Israel.

Or the prince could also be Messiah, who could credibly be shown to be the ostensible cause of the destruction of Israel.

and on the wing of the Temple will be the appalling abomination until the end, until the doom assigned to the devastator."

There were plenty of abominations on the ‘wing’ (parapet) of the Temple – the Roman Eagle, Herod’s patio, Ya’aqov’s (James’) execution, etc.

Another translation has: Daniel 9:27  And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week; and for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator."   

Here there is no Temple mentioned, but ‘on the wing” of the destruction of city and sanctuary, the judgment of the desolator has been made. There are plenty of candidates for the desolator, from Antioches Epiphanes to Caesar Nero to Prince Charles … who do you think?

The end of the seventieth week is Tabernacles of 34 AD and the death of Stephen (who may be a stand-in for Ya’aqov, who was the “prince” (the “Stephen” or “crown”) of the Jerusalem Assembly beginning in that year (as well as a new jubilee year).