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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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.
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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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David,
The 70 weeks are not yet fulfilled; how can it be when the it’s end involves bringing an end to sin and setting up an everlasting kingdom?
Again, it is a time line (complicated but not so much) calculated from Nebuchadnezzar through the birth and death of Jesus/ preaching of the gospel to the nations/ satan taking over and ruling over for the last 3.5 yrs (which is figurative) the end which is 2300 AD.
If a 70 week prophecy is not fulfilled in 70 weeks, it is invalid. We know that the 70 weeks started when the Jews were empowered to rebuild the temple and city, so we know that the 70 weeks were fulfilled.
Maybe you should actually read the studies before expressing your opinion.
Messiah fulfilled all that was defined in Daniel 9:24.
Regarding, To make an end of sins.
No man can stop sinning, so it’s impossible that the Jews could make an end of sins.
Let’s now look at how Messiah made an end of sins.
“The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” John 1:29
“For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.” Romans 6:10
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,” Romans 8:2-3
“For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” Hebrews 9:26
“Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.” Hebrews 9:28
“And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.” Hebrews 10:11-12
“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Hebrews 10:16-17
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.” 1 Peter 3:18
“And you know that He was manifested to TAKE AWAY OUR SINS, and in Him there is no sin.”1 John 3:5
http://70thweekofdaniel.com/messiah-fulfilled-the-purposes-of-daniel-924-during-the-70th-week-of-daniel/
Messiah setup His Father’s kingdom in the 1st century, which has been expanding ever since. Did He not say that the Kingdom is at hand? http://theolivetdiscourse.com/messiah-set-up-his-kingdom/
“My Kingdom is not of this world” John 18:36 The Kingdom of Earth is Jehovah’s, a cruel brutal God. “I Jehovah am a man of war” Exodus 15:3> The opposite of the Loving Father of Jesus that says “Love your enemies” “who cares for a sparrow that falls to the ground.”
The Prophecies of Daniel are twofold, [the 7 years are split into two]one relates to the life of Jesus on Earth as in the above accurate account, secondly the break in that 7 years, gives the final three and a half years the events that lead [2017 June to 2019 June] to the next super power being Israel who will reign for a 1000 years after the collapse of the present world order in an Armageddon of a Nuclear war lasting three and a half years. The man of sin is a Jew, who have controlled the world since Egypt under Joseph Babylon under Daniel and Rome through an apostate Christianity inspired by Judaism, under the Pope who is also secretly a Jew.This world is not our Kingdom…but the Kingdom of Heaven.
The 70 weeks of Daniel prophecy defined three time periods of 7 weeks, 62 weeks and 1 week. There is no text which states that there is a time break in the middle of the 70th week. And besides that, if a 70 week prophecy is not fulfilled in 70 weeks, it’s invalid.
As for the supposed 3 1/2 years in the end times; Daniel and John were pointing to the 1,260 year reign of the Popes of Rome, who fulfill Bible prophecy as the Little Horn of Daniel 7, the Son of Perdition of 2 Thessalonians 2, and the antichrist beast of Revelation 13. http://revelationtimelinedecoded.com/the-antichrist-sea-beast-of-revelation-13-is-the-popes-of-the-roman-catholic-church/
As for the end times super power, it is the Jesuits of Rome, who rose to power out of the Roman Catholic Church. They covertly control America, and almost every nation in the world; except Syria, Iran and North Korea; which is why those countries are being demonized, to justify military action against them. http://revelationtimelinedecoded.com/the-earth-beast-of-revelation-13-jesuit-generals-of-rome/
Hey David,
How can we be sure the 1290 days between the sacrifice ending and the abomination of desolation being set up mentioned in Daniel 12:11 doesn’t refer to the time between the sacrifices ending halfway through the week and abomination in Daniel 9:27? Seems like this connection makes logical sense.
Luke, Daniel 12:11 says that there will be 1,290 days between the sacrifices ending and the abomination of desolation being setup. Messiah’s death in 31 A.D. as the Passover Lamb ended the need for temple sacrifices, but the Jews did not stop making them. And we know that the abomination of desolation did not occur 3 1/2 years later. So those two timelines do not connect.
The first division of the Roman army, the abomination of desolation, appeared 1,290 days prior to the Roman army flooding the city, killing the remaining Jews, and destroying the temple; which ended the ability to make temple sacrifices.
I hope that clarifies it for you. Bible prophecy can be confusing because there are 3 1/2 year periods in Daniel 7, in Daniel 12, and several times in Revelation; but they point to different periods of fulfillment.
Hey thanks for the response. I’ve been through this stuff in detail and I understand the proposed fulfillments behind the two and that the two timelines don’t connect. That’s my question in a nutshell is how can we say for certain these are referring to the two separate sacrifice ending events? We know the abomination referred to is the same event. We also know that this did not happen 1290 days after the crucifixion.
Possibilities:
1. There is a detail in the original wording I am missing that would lead me to believe 9:27 and 12:11 refer to the 2 different sacrifice ending events noted.
2. Daniel 9:27 does not apply to the crucifixion, but the ending of sacrifice in 70AD
Not trying to be difficult, I just think this is a valid question. Do you at least see my point? Why would we assume the context changes in 12:11 and is referring to a different event? Is it just solely because that’s how it fits best with history? Seems like 12:11 and 9:27 logically would refer to the same thing.
I’m not totally seeing your point, but I understand the confusion, as there is 7 years in the 70th week; which is split into two parts essentially, as Messiah died at the midpoint.
Daniel 9:27 is proclaiming that the need for temple sacrifices would end at Messiah’s death, which was confirmed when the temple curtain was torn in two. So we know that Messiah fulfilled Daniel 9:27, in 31 A.D.
But the Jews kept making sacrifices, and that would only be stopped when the temple was destroyed, which is what Daniel 9:26 foretold.
So there are two events about the temple sacrifices ending: Messiah’s sacrificial death, which stopped the need for them; and Messiah sending the Roman army to destroy the temple, which stopped them physically from taking place.
The first parts of Daniel 9:26 and 27 point to what would happen in the 70th week of Daniel. The latter parts of those verses pointed to the desolation of the temple, city and Jews; and effectively the end of the Jewish nation; as most of them had rejected their promised Messiah.
I completely follow your explanation, but how these were fulfilled is not my question. I’ll try one more time to lay out what I’m asking more clearly.
Daniel 9:27 KJV
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
(We have a sacrifice being taken away directly followed by the desolation)
Daniel 12:11 KJV
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
(We have a sacrifice being taken away directly followed by the desolation but this adds a timeframe between the events)
Now, try to pretend you are reading Daniel for the first time and remove any preconceived notions of what fulfills these. What makes us safe to assume the context changes and 12:11 refers to the Romans taking away the sacrifice while 9:27 refers to Messiah taking away the need for sacrifice based on the details of the TEXT ONLY?
Again, don’t mean to nitpick, but if I was a student learning this for the first time I think it’s an obvious question, and I don’t have a good answer other than that’s how it fits best while keeping our interpretation of the 70 weeks in place.
Overall I’ve really enjoyed your sites, and you have a lot of good info on these. Thanks for putting all this work in. Would love to ask some other unrelated questions I have sometime to get your take.
Luke, we can prove out that the 70th week of Daniel was fulfilled from 27-34 A.D. Daniel 9:27 is talking about Messiah. Messiah’s ministry took place from 27-31 A.D. It states that He shall cause the sacrifices to stop. The text says that this would take place in the middle of the 70th week of Daniel. And we know that the Father confirmed this when the temple curtain was torn in two.
The events that are described in Daniel 12 can be proven to have been fulfilled from 66-70 A.D. The abomination of desolation took place in 66 A.D. The temple sacrifices were stopped permanently in 70 A.D.
I really don’t know how to explain it any better than that.
If you have questions, just comment on the appropriate study, and I’m happy to answer.
Keep learning and growing in The Way!
David
Hi again guys.
May I just add a couple of things?
Watch for context change and the missing parentheses.
1. Daniel 9 and Daniel 12 are not the same context nor vision:
Daniel 9:1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes…
Daniel 10:1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel… (this one continues through 12).
2. The scriptures are written “parenthetically”, meaning some explanation, or relevance are interjected into a passage, that is why we need to rightly divide the Word. Example: Ephesians 6 – put an open parenthesis after “the whole armor of God” in verse 13, and close parenthesis after “the sword of the Spirit” in verse 17 and you will see what “the whole armor of God” is.
I’m not sure what I’ve written to indicate that Daniel 9 and Daniel 12 are the same vision, but they are related.
Daniel 9 foretold that the promised Messiah would appear in the 70th week, and that He would be killed 1/2 way through the 7 years. The punishment for the Jews delivering Him up to be crucified was that the ‘people of the prince’, the Roman army of Prince Titus, would cause the desolation of the temple and city and Jews.
In the Olivet Discourse Messiah described the sign of the Abomination of Desolation, which was fulfilled in 66 A.D., when the first division of the Roman army surrounded Jerusalem.
Daniel 12 foretold that there would be 1,290 days between the Abomination of Desolation, and the army flooding into the city. The Romans flooded the city in 70 A.D., 1290 days after the sign.
The Roman siege lasted for 45 days, fulfilling the 1,335 days of Daniel 12. Here is the study that proves it out. http://theolivetdiscourse.com/daniel-12-is-not-about-an-end-times-antichrist/
Sorry, I meant Daniel 12:11 – To clarify, how can we infer the meaning from the original text that the sacrifice ending in 9:27 refers to the need for sacrifice ending at the crucifixion and the sacrifice ending in 12:11 refers to the physical daily sacrifice in the temple?
Hey David, Unfortunately even if you give scriptures of proof, there are those that will not accept it, you are absolutely right, the 70th week has been fulfilled with our Lord Jesus Christ. If one reads the scripture carefully, you see there is No rapture of the church spoken of, no mention of an anti-christ, and there is only one that can put an end to sacrificing, and Jesus did it at the cross. It takes studying, but more importantly when the truth is given to you, learn to accept it.
Thank You!
Hey Diane 🙂 Yeah, sadly, the programming of the enemy has caused people to think that they know the script of the 70th week of Daniel, so it’s hard to helped them see what Scripture is really saying. I just post the truth for those who are seeking it, and are Spirit led. Keep learning and growing in The Way! David
after reading your article, and opening up different translations of the text in English i was skeptical in your analysis. However, i pulled up the Greek Septuagint with a more modern greek translation and sure enough, there is NO EMPHASIS of a “archtype antichrist” in vs 26. As for verse 27, although the LXX doesn’t specifically refer to Christ but a male gender, in the modern Greek translation it is interpreted as the Christ.
Δαν. 9,26 (LXX) καὶ μετὰ τὰς ἑβδομάδας τὰς ἑξηκονταδύο ἐξολοθρευθήσεται χρῖσμα, καὶ κρίμα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτῷ· καὶ τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸ ἅγιον διαφθερεῖ σὺν τῷ ἡγουμένῳ τῷ ἐρχομένῳ καὶ ἐκκοπήσονται ἐν κατακλυσμῷ, καὶ ἕως τέλους πολέμου συντετμημένου τάξει ἀφανισμοῖς.
Δαν. 9,26 ( modern) Μετά δε την παρέλευσιν των εξήντα δύο εβδομάδων ετών, θα θανατωθή ο χριστός. Κυρίου, ο Σωτήρ, χωρίς να υπάρχη καμμία απολύτως αμαρτία και αιτία θανάτου δι’ αυτόν. Η πόλις της Ιερουσαλήμ και ο άγιος ναός θα καταστραφούν μαζή με τους ηγουμένους, τους άρχοντας της εποχής εκείνης. Οι κάτοικοι θα κατακλυσθούν από συμφοράς και ένας ξένος λαός θα αναλάβη πάλεμον κατά του Ισραήλ, μέχρι δε τέλους του πολέμου θα επιφέρη φοβεράς καταστροφάς και τρομερούς αφανισμούς.
Δαν. 9,27 (LXX) καὶ δυναμώσει διαθήκην πολλοῖς, ἑβδομὰς μία· καὶ ἐν τῷ ἡμίσει τῆς ἑβδομάδος ἀρθήσεταί μου θυσία καὶ σπονδή, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ ἱερὸν βδέλυγμα τῶν ἐρημώσεων, καὶ ἕως τῆς συντελείας καιροῦ συντέλεια δοθήσεται ἐπὶ τὴν ἐρήμωσιν.
Δαν. 9,27 (modern) Κατά μίαν εβδομάδα ετών ο Χριστός θα συνάψη και θα καταστήση ισχυράν και έγκυρον μίαν νέον διαθήκην. Κατά δε το μέσον της εβδομάδος αυτής, που θα προσφερθή η μεγάλη θυσία του λυτρωτού Χριστού, θα τεθή οριστικόν πλέον τέρμα εις τας παλαιάς θυσίας και σπονδάς. Εις δε τον ναόν μου και τον λαόν του Ισραήλ, θα εισέλθουν βδελυραί δυνάμεις καταστροφής και ερημώσεως. Τέρμα δε εις την καταστροφήν θα τεθή όταν συμπληρωθή ο ωρισμένος χρόνος.
This is great work you are doing here. Yah bless!
in fact in vs 26, “Η πόλις της Ιερουσαλήμ και ο άγιος ναός θα καταστραφούν μαζή με τους ηγουμένους, τους άρχοντας της εποχής εκείνης” it refers SPECIFICALLY that Jerusalem and the Temple will be destroyed by the the leader (Archon) of THAT PARTICULAR TIME/Era/seson (i.e. the Roman Empire)! Praise God, this is an amazing revelation to me. thank you
So the leader, Archon, is pointing to the prince in Daniel 9:26?
It’s really interesting to see how the Greek Septuagint reads in that verse. It’s proclaiming that Messiah caused the desolation of the city and temple, via the Roman army.
“And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint the city to desolations.”
And all of that matches up with Messiah’s Olivet Discourse, where He foretold the signs that would lead to the desolation of the temple, city and Jews; by the Roman army. http://theolivetdiscourse.com
the prince is the archon. the english translation says prince and in the greek lxx it says the leader that is coming translated to modern greek as archon. i actually found your study series searching if the tribulation started with the destruction of the temple. becuase i also believe that the olivet discourse was fullfilled in 70ad. if you have time david please contact me on email as there are a few things id like your insight on. thank you.
Thank you for sharing your insight George! May Yah bless you richly! David
Yahuah Bless you Abundantly David.
You were named after an amazing King, and he too faced many difficulties but he had the truth as you do. Be brave and courageous.
I have copied and typed up nearly all your articles and share them with those who do not have a computer. I am nearly 73 and you and others have left me and my husband Antony full of joy and peace. We were SDA’s but no more. We belong to our Yahuah and our Blessed Saviour Yahusha Messiah. Halleluyah AMEN Fauvette Amos
Thank you for your kind words Fauvette! I’m blessed to know that the 70th week of Daniel has helped you and your husband! The concept of a futuristic 70th week of Daniel is the foundation of the enemy’s end-time deceptions. Keep learning and growing in The Way! May Yahuah bless you richly! David