Understanding the seven years of the 70th week of Daniel is very important, because of the truth of its fulfillment and the deceptions based on it.
The 70th week of Daniel 9 is the only prophecy that foretold when Messiah would start His ministry and die for our sins. The context of Daniel 9 is that the Jews are at the end of their 70-year captivity, and Daniel is inquiring about what will happen to them. Daniel is not seeking information about the end times or the antichrist, just about the destiny of the Jewish nation. Daniel 9:24-27 gives the answer.
Seventy Shemitah cycles are determined for the Jewish people. The prophecy is pointing to seventy 7-year Shemitah cycles, which is ten 49-year Jubilee cycles. The first seven weeks of the prophecy point to seven 7-year Shemitah cycles, which is one Jubilee cycle of 49 years.
The commands from Cyrus and Darius were about the rebuilding the temple, not the city.
The timeline started with a command from Persian King Artaxerxes in 457 BC, so the 70th week occurred from 27-34 AD, which is the time frame in which we know Messiah carried out His ministry and died for our sins. This is confirmed by the book of 1 Esdras, which is an extension of the book of Ezra. And it’s validated, as a year of Jubilee took place in 457 BC, when the captive Jews were set free, confirming the starting year.
The command from King Artaxerxes in 445/444 BC was to restart the rebuilding of Jerusalem, as it had been stopped, which is why Nehemiah was so sad; so it’s not the correct decree.
Daniel 9:24 defines six things to be fulfilled during the 490 years. The Jews cannot fulfill them. Our Messiah did with His blood atonement that paid for transgressions and reconciled the Jews, and us, with the Father. Isaiah 53 foretold Messiah being wounded for our transgressions, our iniquities, when He was ‘cut off.’
In Daniel 9:25-27, you see how the 70-weeks are structured. It started with 7-weeks (one Jubilee cycle) during which the Jews were empowered to rebuild Jerusalem. Then 62 weeks of mostly silence from the prophets. And then the pinnacle of the prophecy, the last 7-years of the 70th week. Daniel 9:25 points to Messiah the Prince appearing after 69 weeks. 9:26 points to Him dying after the 69 weeks, meaning in the 70th week. His multi-year ministry took place in the 70th week, starting with His Isaiah declaration and anointing at His baptism.
The ‘people of the prince’ are the Jews, who are declared in Daniel 9:24 as ‘thy people.’ Messiah the Prince is of the tribe of Judah, so the Jews are ‘the people of the prince.’
The Jews caused Jerusalem and the temple to be destroyed because they continued in their rebellion against the Heavenly Father and they rejected His Son and delivered Him up to be killed, so it was their punishment.
The Jews caused Jerusalem and the temple to be destroyed because they attacked the army of Cestius, killing thousands of soldiers, which incited the ire of the Roman Emperor who sent three legions of soldiers to Jerusalem to capture the Jews.
The Jews caused Jerusalem and the temple to be destroyed because they caused the peaceable Titus, who tried to get them to surrender, to order the desolation after being horrified by the Jews causing hundreds of thousands of their own people to die.
Daniel 9:25-26 points to Messiah the Prince, so the ‘he’ in Daniel 9:27 is still Messiah, who came to ratify the everlasting covenant in the middle of the 70th week. The word ‘prince’ is the same Hebrew word, nagiyd. It makes no sense for the word prince to point to two different people. Many Jews believed in Messiah the Prince, 3,000 on Pentecost and more were added daily. Messiah’s Ekklesia was built on a foundation of Jews.
The 70th week of Daniel points to Messiah’s multiyear ministry, not just His death.
People who believe that the 70th week of Daniel 9 is yet to be fulfilled, proclaim that four days after the 69th week was fulfilled, Messiah entered Jerusalem to be ‘cut off,’ killed, fulfilling Daniel 9:26.
But the prophecy is not just pointing to Messiah coming to die, but to His multiyear ministry in which He said, ‘repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
It started when He was baptized by John, when the Spirit descended on Him, and the Father proclaimed ‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’
Then He went into the synagogue, read the Isaiah passage and proclaimed that it was fulfilled in Him. His many miracles served to validate His authority.
On Passover, at the beginning of His ministry, He cleansed the temple, driving out the money-changers. Three years later He repeated this temple cleansing before He died as the Spotless Lamb on Passover.
Messiah confirmed the everlasting covenant of Daniel 9:4. Daniel 9:27 says that he ‘confirms’ the covenant, which means that the covenant already existed. We only have to look back to Daniel 9:4 to see that Daniel is pleading with the Heavenly Father to remember His covenant of mercy to those who love Him.
“And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments.”
Messiah came to confirm the everlasting covenant that was made to Father Abraham, which needed to be ratified by the blood of Messiah, the Spotless Lamb.
Romans 15:8 says, “Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.“
Galatians 3:17 says, “And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.”
Hebrews 13:20 says, “Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.”
Daniel 9:27 points to the timing of Messiah’s death, in the middle of the 7-years. The word ‘for’ in Daniel 9:27 is added by the translators, making it seem to point to a 7-year covenant. It’s simply pointing to the last week of seven years.
Messiah’s death on the cross caused the need for temple animal sacrifices to cease, as He is the one-time atonement for sin. The Father validated this when He tore the temple curtain in two, though the rebellious Jewish leaders continued sacrifices until their judgment in 70 AD.
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Here’s The 70th Week Of Daniel 9 Decoded Introduction Part Two.
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The deception is that the 70th week of Daniel hasn’t been fulfilled yet.
We’ve been told that it is about an end-times antichrist who makes a 7-year peace agreement with Israel, which starts a 7-year tribulation period.
The Jesuits created this deception in the 16th century to deflect blame away from the Popes of Rome, as the Protestant Reformers had rightly identified them as the Little Horn of Daniel, Son of Perdition of 2 Thessalonians 2, and antichrist beast of Revelation 13.
They had Jesuit Priest Francisco Ribera, a brilliant man with a doctorate in theology, write a 500 page commentary with an opposing view, where he manipulated prophecies in the books of Daniel and Revelation, to create the narrative of a one-man antichrist in an end-time 7-year tribulation. This idea, called Futurism, was quickly adopted as the Roman Catholic Church’s official position on the Antichrist.
The true Church effectively rejected these futuristic concepts until the 19th century, when the Jesuits caused several people to promote these concepts; including Pastor Edward Irving, John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, which led to these deceptions being taught at Dallas Theological Seminary, where the leaven of the Jesuits deceptions have spread around the world.
The historical witness of the many persecuted believers and theologians of the past have been pushed aside, and futurism is now taught by most Pastors.
I understand that this explanation of the 70th week of Daniel may be new to you, so I want to step back and take a child-like, logical view of the prophecy.
Simply ask yourself:
How long does it take the Father to fulfill His own 70 week prophecy? The obvious and correct answer is 70 weeks. If a 70 week prophecy is given and it is not fulfilled in 70 consecutive weeks, then the prophecy is not valid.
What week follows the 69th week? The obvious answer is the 70th week, but the enemy would have you believe that there is a 1,990+ year time gap between the 69th and 70th week, even though there is no such time gap defined in Daniel 9.
Daniel 9:25 mentions the arrival of the promised Messiah, and then Daniel 9:27 mentions a ‘covenant‘. Whose covenant do you suppose that it is referring to? Isn’t it logical to assume that it is Messiah’s covenant, as the reason that He came was to die to ratify the everlasting covenant with His blood as the Passover Lamb?
The text even proclaims that He was ‘cut off‘, meaning that He was killed, in the middle of the seven years, which matches Isaiah’s prophecy about the promised Messiah, in Isaiah 53:8, “He was taken from prison and from judgment. And as for His generation, who considered that He shall be cut off from the land of the living? For the transgression of My people He was stricken.”
The consequences of the 70 Weeks of Daniel deception are grand!
The enemy’s end times deception is based on the concept of a futuristic 70th week of Daniel. It causes people to look for an end times one-man Antichrist, instead of identifying the office of the papacy as the beast of Revelation, the Little Horn of Daniel and the Son of Perdition.
This is the very reason that the end times 7 year tribulation deception was created by the Roman Catholic Church. They were being accused by the Protestant Reformers of being the Antichrist system who persecuted the saints. The Protestant Reformers told people to ‘come out of her‘, which caused millions of people to leave the Roman Catholic Church and be saved by the pure Gospel of Messiah.
The enemy has programmed our minds to view the 70th week of Daniel as futuristic. But when you understand that the 70th week of Daniel has been fulfilled, and that it’s not an end-times 7-year tribulation period; most of the enemy’s deceptions about prophecy fulfillment crumble to the ground.
The Revelation Timeline Decoded Bible study series gives you the proof that the Popes of Rome are the beast of Revelation, the Little Horn of Daniel and the Son of Perdition.
David Nikao Wilcoxson
Watch these videos to understand the key concepts of the 70 week of Daniel 9 prophecy.
Here’s a video called The People, The Prince And The Covenant Of The 70th Week Of Daniel 9.
Here’s a video called The Jubilee Cycles In The 70th Week Of Daniel 9 Prophecy.
Here’s a video called The Chiastic Structure Of The Seventy Weeks Of Daniel 9 Shows The Fulfillment Of The 70th Week.
I was interviewed about the 70th week of Daniel 9 by pastor Michael Rowntree and Joshua Lewis on The Remnant Radio show.
They asked me typical questions that someone who believes in a future 70th week of Daniel makes, and they let me explain the fulfillment. Click on this link to watch the interview. If you like the interview, please click the YouTube LIKE button and make a comment, to help it get ranked on YouTube so that others can learn the truth about this important prophecy.
The 70th week Of Daniel 9 Decoded book explains the fulfillment in detail.
The enemy has created many prophecy fulfillment deceptions to mislead the saints, so that they’re not prepared for how the end-times with play out.
The 70th week of Daniel 9 points to Messiah coming to confirm the everlasting covenant with His blood as the Passover Lamb, which atones for our sins. HalleluYah!
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Thank you David
I dont know why none of my comments showed up except the thank you one, I just found this website a few days ago. We agree on all the real important things, I had posted about an end of this age nation that Yahweh calls the “Daughter of Babylon” this is a 180 from religious Babylon which I have no doubts is Papal Rome, but the Daughter is positively a nation, there are over 100 characteristics that fit America like tailor made glove, in fact anyone reading these prophecies would soon realize these prophecies seem to be meant for America, anyone that knows the history of America that is, here is a small sampling: 1. Comes from a mother nation, this mother nation becomes just a shadow of it’s former glory days, Great Britain? 2. Rises up in a wilderness. 3. Marches through the land taking it from others. 4.Is made up of many races of peoples, has many Jews. 5.Has many resources, many lakes, rivers and rivers that divide the land. 6 Called the Hammer of the whole Earth, some have called America the world’s policeman.7.Mounts it defenses up to the heavens, America has NASA and the most advanced Air Force, land of whirring wings. 8 Has no king,Some form of government that the people have a voice.9 Home of the rich men, the people have a better standard of living than the rest of the world. 10. Was a Godly nation with many blessings but changes much for the worse. 11.The prophets seem to be describing the new immigrants as they’re likened to Locusts because they are so destructive Muslims are already showing they are not about to assimilate, just like their almost 1400 years history proves and the prophet describes a type of government breakdown, this sounds like what might happen during Trumps time. This is just a sample of a nation that seem like America.
All of your comments were approved, so they should all be showing up. Where did you post “an end of this age nation that Yahweh calls the “Daughter of Babylon””?
Hello Brother David: All that I have posted on here is on the “The 70th Week Of Daniel Deception” It’s hard to believe that the majority of pastors are teaching this lie, as for the Rapture, the Messiah plainly states that the Tares are taken first, Corrie Ten Boom could have told the pre-Trib-Rapture people a lot. I just realized that my posting problem was probably due to logging in properly, today was my first posts, as I’m new to this site, since I believe May 23, 2018 Thanks for asking. Jack
Hi David: It showed up, I rewrote it and posted it again, thinking it got lost in cyber-world.
End-times people like to hear fables:
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” (2Ti 4:3-4)
We all know, all these “left behind” books and movies, with vehicles left without drivers and airplanes without pilots that crash everywhere, all that sells. A millions dollars industry…
Yeah Marc, it’s hard to watch people being deceived, and the deceivers making money doing it. People like dramatic explanations. I think that the historical fulfillment of the 70th week of Daniel is dramatic, as it was the high point of this world, when Messiah died as the Passover Lamb for our sins; and then rose again! 🙂
“This is the very reason that the end times 7 year tribulation deception was created by the Roman Catholic Church.”
It’s even possible that it’s a whole end times 70 weeks (490 years) deception:
In year 1535, the Vatican ordered the painting of the Sixtin Chapel representing end times, the same year that Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the reconstruction of the walls of Jerusalem, after having received a “vision of God”. It looks like a second fulfillment of Daniel 9 starting in 1535AD, with the 69th weeks ending in… 2018!, and the 70th week ending in 2025, that curiously is short of another 7 years period until 2032 that is two days (or 2000 years if 1 day = 1000 years) since the crucifixion (“After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight” of Hosea 6:2). It look’s like a second fulfillment of Daniel 9. At the first fullfilment, the walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt but later demolished again, but since the walls were rebuilt after the year 1535AD, the walls were never demolished. They are still standing here now, making the second fulfillment looking even better, with the six days war occuring after 62 “weeks” and the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel after another 7 weeks… It’s very strange!
Marc, I don’t believe in multiple fulfillment of prophecy. Sure, there are generic things that happen over and over, but when it comes to a specific prophecy like the 70 weeks of Daniel, I believe that there’s only one fulfillment.
The 70th weeks pointed to the rebuilding of the city and temple, which was desolated by the Babylonians. And the 70th week pointed to the arrival of the promised Messiah. http://70thweekofdaniel.com/an-end-times-70th-week-of-daniel-is-illogical/
So, what I wanted to say, is that it’s a man-made 2nd fulfillment, a COMPLETE 70 weeks deception (not only a 70th week deception)?
That’s interesting Marc. I’ve only really seen people applying the 70th week to the future, not the whole 70 weeks.
What I think is that the devil is not stupid, but very wily. To be able to deceive as many people as possible – “if it were possible even the elects” – a simple appearance of an antichrist cannot work as everybody know that the second coming of Christ only happens after him. But by creating a false fulfillment of Daniel 9, with a false antichrist in the 70th weeks, then the true antichrist that follows the false one can easily deceive people into believing that he is the Christ, since the false antichrist will have already been blasted (by him as a false miracle). Only this way may all people that are not true Christians be deceived… We are seing the whole world being made as horrible as possible, in preparation for the fake “peace and safety” time that will follow…
Sadly, most Christians are already fooled about the antichrist, as the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, fulfill Bible prophecy as the Little Horn of Daniel 7, the Son of Perdition of 2 Thessalonians 2, and the antichrist beast of Revelation; who leads the harlot church of Rome, which now deceives 1.2 billion Catholics with a false salvation message. http://revelationtimelinedecoded.com/prophecy-points-to-the-leader-of-the-roman-beast/
Now we have an interesting new:
“WASHINGTON – A LONG-AWAITED MIDDLE_EAST peace plan from the Trump administration will include what the White House is calling a ROBUST economic plan to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an official has said.”
“LONG-AWAITED” — yet to be “confirmed”
“ROBUST” plan — “solid alliance”
“MIDDLE-EAST” (not only Israel / Palestine) — “with many”
confirm… solid alliance… with many…
Sounds like Daniel 9:27, no? And we are in the 70th week since Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the reconstruction of Jerusalem walls in 1535 AD…
From article:
Trump team preparing economic plan as part of Mideast peace proposal
http://www.jpost.com/International/Trump-team-preparing-economic-plan-as-part-of-Mideast-peace-proposal-563477
The enemy is going to play out their false script, which is based on the false concept of a futuristic 70th week of Daniel.
You need to study a little more. It may be true that Rood and some others are mistaken. But, they are not false teachers. The true teachings of God is love and forgiveness. This brother you do not illustrate. Secondly, we are to study to show ourselves worthy. I’m sorry that I don’t agree with you but my seminary training did not teach what you are practicing. Why argue grow brother and teach yourself to be less critical.
God Bless You
I teach the truth out of love for the saints, and part of that role is exposing the false prophecy teachings of people like Rood.
I’ve proven out that the 70th week of Daniel was fulfilled on time, and that it’s not a futuristic 7-year tribulation period.
Most likely you were deceived about that at seminary, as the enemy has infiltrated the teachings of most seminaries and bible colleges.
There’s no argument. What Rood teaches about prophecy fulfillment is false, and it’s giving people who follow him, a false script, so that they may be misled by the antichrist and false prophet.
Is Rood teaching you that the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, fulfill prophecy as the Son of Perdition and the antichrist beast?
Is Rood teaching you that most of Revelation has already been fulfilled during the last 1,900 years, as Satan has used the Roman beast to fight against Messiah and His saints?
Here’s a Revelation Fulfillment Summary that gives the big pictures, and the studies on the website prove it out verse by verse.
Is Rood teaching you that Messiah’s Olivet Discourse was fulfilled in that generation, just like Messiah’s proclaimed that it would be?
You need to study a lot more Gary, for you will be held accountable for what you teach about prophecy fulfillment.
May the Spirit of our Father guide you to the truth!
David
Thank you David for this great study! (btw, I am Rood e Lynn on facebook)
Thank you for your comment Sheila! 🙂
Hello.
I am 65 years old and have been a minister of the Evangelical Church Alliance since 1980. My studies in Scripture have been deep and wide ranging. You should come to a clearer understanding of the Hebrew word olam and its derivative. This entry from my upcoming book, God willing, should prove helpful.
The Hebrew language also has a word that has been dragged through the mud of the Latin language and twisted in the sick mind and dark heart of the Big Whore which uses Latin for everything. (I thank God that He did not see fit to inspire either the Hebrew Scriptures nor the Christian Scriptures in Latin.) The Hebrew word I am speaking of is olam and the term l’olam va’ed. Neither of these mean eternal, everlasting, or forever. Here is their definition from a Jewish source, jewishroots.net: “The Hebrew word olam means in the far distance. When looking off in the far distance it is difficult to make out any details and what is beyond the horizon cannot be seen. This concept is the olam. The word olam is also used for time in the distant past or in the distant future as a time that is difficult to know or perceive. This word is frequently translated as eternity or forever in the English language but it is misunderstood to mean a continual span of time that never ends. In the Hebrew mind it is simply what is at or beyond the horizon, a very distant time. A common phrase in the Hebrew is “l’olam va’ed” and is usually translated as “forever and ever” but in the Hebrew it means “to the distant horizon and again” meaning “to a very distant time and even further” and is used to express the idea of a very ancient or future time.” Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus are all of limited duration not eternal. To believe these are eternal is to bite into one of the biggest lies of the Big Whore and thereafter to have a mutant Bible with a mutant “gospel” and a mutant message to carry to the world. An ugly message of eternal wrath, eternal bondage, and eternal torture. A terrifying and horribly twisted message indeed.
Please feel free to email me for additional information and/or clarification.
In Christ Jesus our Reigning God,
Rev. Nathaniel J. Merritt
Hello Rev. Merritt, thank you for sharing that insight! You’re commenting on a website about the 70th week of Daniel, but I’m not seeing how the concept of olam applies in this context. Please let me know.
I agree about people not being condemned to hell forever. I don’t believe in eternal wrath either.
Thank you, David