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.
Here’s The 70th Week Of Daniel 9 Decoded Introduction Part One.
Here’s The 70th Week Of Daniel 9 Decoded Introduction Part Two.
Here’s a one-page summary PDF of the fulfillment of the 70th week of Daniel 9 which you can save and print and share.
Here’s a two-page summary PDF of the fulfillment of the 70th week of Daniel 9 which you can save and print and share.
Here’s an introduction letter that you can use to share the summary PDFs with people.
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!
You need to know the fulfillment of the 70th week of Daniel 9 in order to understand Messiah’s apocalyptic vision in Revelation. It’s available as a printed book or in Kindle format.
CLICK TO GET A COPY
If you don’t want to purchase from Amazon, I offer the trilogy of Bible Prophecy Decoded books as a package which is shipped from me.
You get The 70th Week Of Daniel 9 Decoded, The Olivet Discourse Decoded and the Revelation Timeline Decoded books, a laminated Revelation Layers Chart and prophecy fulfillment summaries. For more information, click on Bible Prophecy Decoded book package.
You can request a PDF copy of the book using this form and it will be emailed to you.
Click here for the 70th Week Of Daniel 9 Study List
We’ll start this study by focusing on The Covenant Of The 70th Week Of Daniel 9.
I’m committed to full-time ministry and have been working part-time in the health and wellness industry to pay my bills; and to pay the ministry costs of website hosting, domain names, email distribution services, podcasting hosting, etc.
My income has dropped dramatically the last few years. If I get a different job, it will pull me away from my assignment, which is to write studies and books, and make videos.
Click here to donate via PayPal. PayPal now only allows people with a PayPal account to donate.
Mail me a check. Make it out to David Wilcoxson and send it to PO Box 1690 Parker, CO 80134
Click here to donate via my GoFundMe fundraiser. I’ve used GoFundMe for years. You can use a credit card and they send the money to me.
I pray that our Heavenly Father blesses you and keeps you. May He make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you!
David Nikao Wilcoxson
I take the preterist view of Rev, and what applies in Dan. as well. Rev. is a prophecy for the people of the first century church about the forthcoming destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. All of the symbolic “animals” and “people” are either actual historic people or nations, and are hidden because of the persecution by Rome of the Christians of that time. Has NOTHING to do with any futuristic occurrence for us. So many are frightened (to death literally) by the misinterpretation of Rev. People committing suicide, babies killed, aborted because of the fear of “going through” this tribulation thing. Totally false. Talk about false teachers: I would say 99.99% of the Christian church teach falsely about Rev. Dan., and it really disturbs and grieves me.
If the preterist view of prophecy is true, then that means that our Messiah had nothing to say to His Church about the following events which occurred during the last 1,900 years:
Satan using the Roman Empire to kill 10 million saints, in his attempt to wipe out the Early Church.
The fall of the mighty Roman Empire from civil war, disease, famine and financial collapse.
Roman Emperor Constantine and the Roman Bishops creating a new pagan religion of Christianity, the Roman Catechism, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Army after army attacking the great Roman Empire to desolate it, causing the last Roman Emperor to be removed from power in 476 A.D.
The rise of the Popes of Rome to power in the 6th century, who went on to relentlessly burn the Holy Scriptures and kill the saints during the Dark Ages and the Inquisition, during which over 50 million saints were killed.
The Popes of Rome proclaiming blasphemous things, such as they are God, that they forgive sins, that they control the whole world, and condemning saints as heretics.
The translation of the Scriptures into English, German, and other languages, after it had been hidden for so long in Latin by the Papal Church. And the advent of the printing press, which caused Bibles to spread around the world.
Martin Luther, a Catholic Monk, being led to read the Bible to see that the Papal Church was a false Church, a Harlot Church. He responded by posting his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation, causing millions of people to be saved by faith, come out of the Catholic Church and form the Protestant Churches.
The rise of the Jesuit Order, which the Roman Catholic Church empowered, to counter the Reformation, to bring the Protestants back under their power.
The Spanish Inquisition and wholesale slaughter of the saints in France, by order of the Pope of Rome.
The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, which killed many Catholics, in countries which had previously killed the saints.
The time of the Great Awakening when missionaries traveled around the world spreading the Good News.
All of those events and much more were pointed to by Messiah in His apocalpytic vision.
The Historicist view has been proven out, as most of Revelation has been fulfilled in exacting detail during the last 1,900 years. Here’s a website that proves it out. http://revelationtimelinedecoded.com
Absolutely. The 7th Day Adventist Church came into being thanks to the historicist approach to prophecy of William Miller and understood and taught this truth ever since. The 70 weeks being the first 70 weeks of the whole 2300 yr prophesy perhaps lends added weight to it making no sense to detach and throw the 70th week off into the distant unspecified future.
Bill, William Miller wrongly attached the 2,300 days to the 70 week prophecy; which caused him to proclaim that Messiah would return in 1844. But one day does not always point to one year.
Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the re-dedication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century BC.
Why did they need to rededicate it? Because Antiochus Epiphanes defiled the sanctuary and caused the daily sacrifice to be taken away for 2,300 days. His persecution of the Jews began in 171 B.C. and the temple was cleansed on December 25, 165 B.C., which is 2,300 days.
The Temple was liberated and rededicated. The festival of Hanukkah was instituted to celebrate this event. Judah ordered the TEMPLE TO BE CLEANSED, a new altar to be built in place of the polluted one and new holy vessels to be made.
That fulfills the 2,300 days prophecy in Daniel 8 “Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY BE CLEANSED.”
To summarize: Antiochus Epiphanes, the vile person, surrounded Jerusalem with his armies (the abomination of desolation) and killed 10’s of thousands of Jews. They defiled the sanctuary and caused the daily sacrifice to be taken away for 2,300 days (Daniel 8:14). His persecution of the Jews began in 171 B.C. and the temple was cleansed on December 25, 165 B.C., which is 2,300 days.
We can see that the 2,300 days was not pointing to 2,300 years. And the narrative of Messiah returning in 1844, and then the narrative of Messiah entering His “investigative judgment” are built on faulty premises.
Here’s a study that gives more information: http://christianitybeliefs.org/end-times-deceptions/daniel-8-2300-days-geneva-study-bible-refutes-sda-2300-years-1844-bible/
Thank you so much brother. God bless you. I was at the Vatican in ’77, Never further from presence of God. Come out of her my people. False teachers are bringing Protestants back! The Jesuits and their minions! Satanic to the core pure blasphemy.
Thank you for your comment George! Yeah, I bet the Vatican is a dark place to visit. 1.3 billion Catholics are deceived by their false salvation message, and into believing that Mary is the intercessor to the Father. And as you noted, they’re drawing the Protestants back, setting them up to join with them in their One World Government.
What irony! People call themselves Protestants, but they don’t protest anymore because they don’t even know that the office of the papacy is the antichrist of Revelation. Ugh!
Liked your discussion! It closely agrees with my 11 page commentary on the Olivet Discourse, which I have been trying to get pastors and others to read. NO Luck!!
The paper is in pdf file format and I don’t know how to put it in your blog. If you give me an email address I will sent a digital attachment to you.
It basically shows that Jesus is CONTRASTING the temple destruction (topic of Question #! for which the disciples get a warning) with His second coming comments , beginning verse 30, in which there is no advance warning (topic of Question #2).
The mindset of the Jewish disciples was to make these events to occur at the same time. Jesus is saying differently. He then switches back to 70 AD comments.
Thank you for your comment Wayne. What a blessing that you understand the 70th week of Daniel and the Olivet Discourse!
You can email the PDF to david at christianitybeliefs.org
Hi David,
I think your commentary is outstanding but the hang up I have with the 70th week is that in verse 26 it says that Messiah will be cut off. I am having difficulty rectifying that it says he’s cut off in the 69th week but isn’t crusified and making a new covenant until the 70th week. Can you elaborate please?
Hi Mark 🙂 Daniel 9:25 defines a 7-week period, in which the city and temple were rebuilt; and a 62-week period.
So when Daniel 9:26 says that AFTER the 62 week period, Messiah will be cut off; it’s based on the fact that the 62-week period followed the 7- week period.
It’s saying that Messiah would be cut off AFTER the 69-week period, meaning in the 70th week.
Daniel 9:27 gives more information, as says that the sacrifice and oblation would cease halfway through the 70th week. The need for temple sacrifices ended when Messiah died as the Passover Lamb. That again confirms that Messiah died in the 70th week.
I hope that helps!
David
Mark 1:15 Jesus after his baptism in the Jordan said the time was fulfilled and immediately began his ministry…thus acknowledging the fulfillment of the 70 weeks prophecy.
Thank you for your comment Rudy. Messiah confirmed that He was the promised Messiah when He read the passage from Isaiah at the beginning of His ministry, at the beginning of the 70th week of Daniel.
“So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written: “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.” Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” Luke 4:16-21
So good to hear David. I have been praying for Messiah,s Messenger,s. Studying . Health slowly returning. Brother the only Truth I’m finding is in Messiah. We are Praying ceaselessly. It was and is still a most wonderful to have found Yahuah,s Truth. Just what hasn’t been a lie. Churches are social clubs with tradition becoming their gospel. Lent. Advent. Invent! Prayerfully believing and sometimes patient. Praise Yahusha. Baruch Have Ba Shem Yahuah Brother David. Our 3rd child to be born August. Jonah Immanuel. 2nd Tim 1 vs 7. Will continue following Messiah and seeking fellow Watchman. Thank You. Peter
Thank you for your comment Peter! I love how the 70th week of Daniel points to the exact time that Yahusha would appear. That’s great that your health is returning! Keep up the prayers, for that is how the battle is won! That’s exciting about Jonah Immanuel! That’s a great name! Keep learning and growing in The Way! David
So good to hear David. I have been praying for Messiah,s Messenger,s. Studying . Health slowly returning. Brother the only Truth I’m finding is in Messiah. We are Praying ceaselessly. It was and is still a most wonderful to have found Yahuah,s Truth. Just what hasn’t been a lie. Churches are social clubs with tradition becoming their gospel. Lent. Advent. Invent! Prayerfully believing and sometimes patient. Praise Yahusha. Baruch Haba Ba Shem Yahuah Brother David. Our 3rd child to be born August. Jonah Immanuel. 2nd Tim 1 vs 7. Will continue following Messiah and seeking fellow Watchman. Thank You. Peter