DANIEL 9:24-27
70 WEEKS BIBLICAL PROPHECY
& “LAST
DAYS” ESCHATOLOGY HERMENEUTICS
An in-depth study sequel on Daniel 9:24-27, 70 Weeks, Prophecy,
and the 7 Jewish Biblical Festivals, aka the 7 Feasts of the Lord per Leviticus 23, including End of the
Age Last Days Prophecy, Jesus' Parousia, a Pre Trib Rapture
vs. Pre Wrath Rapture Hermeneutical Eschatological
Analysis, and Israel Festivals
including Feast of Trumpets, Feast
of Atonement, Jubilee, and the Millennial Kingdom.
By FeastsOfTheLord.Net
PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD
Parable of the fig tree (Israel) … "know the (Millenial) Kingdom
of God is near …" Mark 13:28-32
"Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from among the heathen, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation…"
Ezek. 37:22
Primary ESCHATOLOGY LINKS:
See: DANIEL 9:27 Hebrew Transliteration and English Equivalents
Web Site Eschatology Foundational Hermeneutics
ESCHATOLOGY SUMMARY
INTERPRETATIVE CHART
DANIEL 9: 24-27 PROPHECY
JESUS’ “PAROUSIA” / “COMING” *
PROPHETIC NUMEROLOGICAL SEQUENCES
The 7 Feasts are “Appointed Times with the
Lord” Lev. 23:1
These
Jewish Feasts are God’s Calendar of Redeeming Grace:
The prophecies in
the first 4 feasts were fulfilled at Jesus'
1st coming (Parousia);
The last 3
feasts will be fulfilled at His 2nd coming.
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Prophecy of the 1st AND
2nd Coming of Jesus:
The prophecy of Daniel 9 declares: “Seventy
weeks (70 periods of seven) are
determined upon thy people
and upon Thy holy city (Jerusalem)
, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation
for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the most Holy.” “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment
to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince
shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks (69 sevens): the street shall be built again, and the wall,
even in troublesome times.” Daniel 9:24-25
(69 x 7s = 483 years or 173,880 “prophetic” calendar days; at 360 days / year)
Note the significance of Israel’s ability to restore the City
of Jerusalem which happened in 445 B.C., when Nehemiah was ordered
to do so by Artaxerxes (Neh. 2:1-8). His order started the counting of the 69-7s period [The city wall was rebuilt, not the temple,
which had been under construction for 40 years, and was not completed for another 30
years; 486 BC – 416 B.C. See books of Ezra & Nehemiah). Precisely 483
years after Daniel's prophecy,
Dan. 9:24-27, Jesus the Messiah came the 1st time;exactly
as prophesied.
See “Daniel Prophecy Verification Calculations” which verifies the validity of this biblical prophecy of Jesus
at His 1st coming after 69 seven-year periods as prophesied.
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Caveat: Dates
stated are not absolute predictions of prophecy fulfillment. However, this analysis IS a compilation of Scriptures that
deserve thoughtful CONSIDERATION so that we might prepare for a Possible “Season” of our Lord’s
return, with RESPONSIBLE reactions of the Heart in service to God. This will help us to build a “Nehemiah type wall of Spiritual Protection”,
preparing us to overcome the future trials / tribulation / temptations to deny Christ as Lord and God. ALL
Years Are Estimates.
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Jesus 2nd coming:
Daniel
9:27 continues "AND He
(God) shall confirm the (His) covenant (of
70 periods of seven)
- upon the people & the city - (Jerusalem) with many for one week
(1 period of 7):
and in the midst of the week He (God) shall cause (allow) the sacrifice and the sacrifices to cease
(by His permissive will which allows the activities of the antiChrist), and for the overspreading of abominations
he (antichrist) shall make it desolate, even until the consummation (End, i.e. End of the Age), and that determined (God’s wrath) shall be poured upon the desolate (the unrepentant at the opening of the
7th Seal.
“Jerusalem Shall Be Trodden Down, UNTIL the Times Of The Gentiles Be
Fulfilled.” Luke 21:24
Note:
2 of 4 Sacrificial Offerings Are Praise Offerings to God - Not for Sin:
Burnt
Offerings: Represents complete submission to God's will.
Ezek. 46:1-2, 12; also Lev.
1:3-5 (i.e. Jesus)
Peace Offering: Expresses gratitude
to God & has nothing to do with sin.
Lev. 7:11-12, 15
Sin Offering: Sin through ignorance of the law; an
offense to God.
Lev. 4:2, 13
Trespass or Guilt Offering: Leviticus chapters 5 & 6
See "End Of The Age" and Eschatology Foundational Hermeneutics for greater detail
Daniel 9:27 states: "And He (God) shall confirm
the (His) covenant (of 70-7s) with many for one week (1 period of 7)". Therefore
the last 70th 7 year period is also subject to the prophecy concerning the ability to “restore
and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince”, for “Seventy weeks (70 periods of 7) are determined upon thy people
AND the City of Jerusalem.”Because Daniel 9:24 declares 70-7s are determined
and upon Thy holy city (Jerusalem) until the completion of all prophecy; Jesus' Second Coming is also prophesied in the last and 70th seven
(“Last Days”) of Dan. 9:
24-27. Thus this 70th 7-year period is also subject to the ability to “rebuild and restore Jerusalem”.
This event finally occurred in 1967;
therefore the counting “until the coming on the Messiah the Prince” applies here, just as when the rebuilding
was ordered by Artaxerxes in Nehemiah 2:1
!
Therefore, “Last Days” timing is partially based upon
Israel’s ability to rebuild Jerusalem since
it’s recapture in 1967 as per Dan. 9:25.
“Jerusalem
shall be trodden down, UNTIL the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” Luke 21:24
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Note:
Dan. 9:27 also states: "And He (God) shall
confirm the (His) covenant (of 70-7s) with
many for one week (1 period of 7)": and in the midst of the week He (God) shall cause (allow)
the sacrifice & oblation to cease”.
Re.: “He (God) shall cause (allow) the sacrifice & oblation to cease”:
This is by His (God’s) Permissive Will:
God
allows the anti Christ to cause “tribulation” (Peirasmos) upon the peoples of the earth; as exemplified in His (God’s) permissive
Will during the first 5 seals of Rev. 6 & 7 describing events of false religions, wars, famine,
pestilence and death by sword persecutions; which includes deceptions by satan and the
“abomination of desolation” by the antichrist.
This is contrasted by the events following the breaking of the 7th and last Seal,
opening the scroll, revealing and releasing “God’s wrath” (Ebrah)
upon the unrepentant.
Note:
*Confirm:
Regarding Dan. 9:27: “He shall confirm the covenant”
(of 70 periods of 7).
Confirm is from the Hebrew word “higbir” (Hiph'il form
of the verb Gabar) meaning “to confirm (a covenant),
to strengthen”.
See: Hebrew / Greek Interlinear Bible and Hebrew/Greek Lexicon
However, the New American Standard (NASB) incorrectly translates “higbir” to the English verb: “to make” (“karat / poieo”
in Hebrew / Greek) rather; than “to confirm”
or “to strengthen”. Thus the NASB infers
there was NO pre-existing covenant “to confirm” or “to strengthen”.
This incorrect translation by the NASB literally changes Scripture, to it’s detriment. "To make" is
NOT synonymous with "to confirm".
NASB translation “to make” is used
to heretically infer the antichrist “makes” a “covenant with the people and the city of Jerusalem”, and consequently,
causes major consequences in eschatology hermeneutics!
This is satan’s counterfeit at its best, distorting
God’s prophecy of His Second Coming! Unfortunately,
Pre-Tribulation theology uses this translation in justifying the antichrist
'making' a covenant with Israel at the beginning of the 7-year
‘tribulation’ period. It is imperative that a correct translation
‘to confirm’ or ‘to strengthen’ a covenant be used
to show the importance of God’s continued covenant of the full '70 periods of 7s’ with “the
people and the CITY of JERUSALEM”.
Note the ‘confirmation’ or ‘strengthening’ of the entire covenant,
which includes the “ability to rebuild Jerusalem”, and applies equally to both periods (69 7’s as well as
the last 70th 7). Therefore the ability to rebuild Jerusalem is a key
“sign” related to both the 1st & 2nd prophecies related to Jesus' coming!
For greater
detail see: Web Site Eschatology Foundational Hermeneutics
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The “Last Days” Timing could
also be associated with other factors:
In 1948 Israel became one nation again as prophesied (Ezek. 37:16-22), but did not control Jerusalem until
1967. Thus Israel had no ability to restore the City of Jerusalem
as required in Dan.9:24-27, as a prerequisite to Jesus' coming a 2nd time.
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The time between the 5th & 6th
Feasts i.e. the Feast of Trumpets & the Feast of Atonement is known as:
The 10 days “Days of Awe”
/ “Affliction” i.e. a time to repent between the
Feast of Trumpets & the Feast
of Atonement before Judgment, culminating at Jubilee; 1 day after Atonement,
which starts at the 50th year; aka Jubilee / Millennial Kingdom.
See: “Trumpets to Atonement to Jubilee” & The Last Trumpet
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Israel’s holy year is the Jubilee
Year. The timing of Jubilee was to years (50)
what the timing of Feast of Weeks (Shavuot
/ Pentecost) is to days (50). The Feast of Weeks (Shavuot / Pentecost)
occurs on the 50th
day; the day after seven weeks, plus 1 day after Passover.
The Jubilee Year occurs every 50th year; the year after seven Sabbatical
years (49 years), Lev. 25:8-11.
Jubilee: 50th
year; captives set free at end of the Feast of Atonement, Lev. 25:8-11
Jubilee is composed of 7 Sabbatical years of 7 years = 49 + 1 year of Jubilee = 50 years. Jubilee
starts at the end of 49th year after the Feast of
Atonement (Final Judgment)
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Luke 21:32 Jesus said: “….
This generation shall not pass away, until all be fulfilled.”
40 Year
Generation See Jesus on 'Last Days' Mark 13:28-32
40 years = generation see Psalm 95:10, Ezek. 29:11 & Num. 14:33-34
+ 10 years “Days of Awe” (10 days Repentance; Feast of Trumpets to Atonement)
Rev. 2: 8-11, Lev. 23:24-27
("... I have appointed thee each day for a year." Ezek. 4:6)
Generation
+ Repentance
= Jubilee:
(40 yr.; Mark 13:28-32) (10 Days
of Awe) (50 yr.; Lev 25:9-11)
40 years =
Generation see:
Ps. 95:10, Ezek. 29:11, Num. 14:33-34, Num. 32:13
On the 10 days of Awe between the Feast
of Trumpets & the Feast of Atonement, see Rev. 2: 8-11, Lev. 23:24-27
Note:
40 +
10 = 50 (40 yr, Generation + 10 Years Days of Awe = Jubilee)
7 x
7 + 1 = 50 (7 Sabbatical Years of 7 Years +1 = Jubilee)
7
x 7 + 1 = 50
Pentecost
- Pentecost:
7 Sabbaths of 7 days + 1 day following Passover
= 50 days
7
x 7 + 1 = 50;
7 Sabbatical Years of 7 Years + 1 = Jubilee
- Jubilee follows 7 Sabbatical years of 7-year periods
49 + 1 Year of Jubilee = 50
years
Jubilee: Captives set free on 50th year,
i.e. Millennial Kingdom
- Jubilee on 11th day of 7th
biblical month
40
+ 10 = 50;
40 yr, Generation + 10 Years Days of Awe = Jubilee
- Jesus arose and
spent 40 of the 50 days with them after His Resurrection,
leaving 10
days until the Holy Spirit was sent at Pentecost.
- Moses 40 days on
Mt Sinai + 10 commandments = 50 days
- 40 years
= Generation, see: Psalm 95:10,
Ezek. 29:11, Num. 14:33-34
-
Jews in wilderness 40 years for a generation to die, Num. 32:13
- Jesus
in wilderness 40 days
-
Saul, David & Solomon all ruled 40 years
- Temple destroyed 40 years
after Jesus started his ministry.
- 10 years “Days of Awe”
/ Tribulation / Repentance; Trumpets to Atonement
- 10
days Tribulation; see
Rev. 2: 8-11, Lev. 23:24-27
- 10 Plagues
- 10 Wise & 10 Foolish Virgins
Prepared for Bride Groom;
Christ coming
to claim His church in “Latter Days”
Note the feasts' relationship to God’s ordained numerical
sequencing:
7 day week ending on a Sabbath
7 months of 7 feasts ending on the ultimate Sabbath,
the Feast of Tabernacles
7 years culminating in a Sabbatical year
7
Sabbatical years of 7 years culminating at the Year
of Jubilee
7 weeks of 7 days to the Feast
of Weeks / Shavuot / Pentecost
70 periods of 7 (Dan. 9:24-27) “End of the Age” prophecy
7 year period at the “End of the Age” (Dan. 9:24-27’s: The
70th 7-year period)
70 years symbol of Completion;
See
Jer. 29:10-14; 30:3,7,11,24; 31:31-34, 38-40; also Ezek. 38:18; 39:6,8,11-12, 14 (7 months),
21; Rev. 16:16-17 & 17:1
SUMMARY: Therefore, the 7-year “End of the Age” period is in the 7th Sabbatical of 7 years.
During the last 7 years in the 10
years 'Days of Awe', starting on the
Feast of Trumpets in the 4th
year, of the 10 years 'Days of Awe', with the “counting”
starting in 1967 when Israel had the ability to “restore and rebuild
Jerusalem” and had been reborn in 1948 as “one nation in
the latter days”.End of the Age:
1967 + 40 + 10
= 2017;
40
year Generation + 10 Days (Feast of Trumpets to Feast of Atonement)
1967 + 50 =
2017; 1967 + 50 years to Year of Jubilee aka Millennial Kingdom
1948 + 70
= 2018 Completion
Note: From 1967
The END of 40 years is 2008
The
end of 50 years is 2018 - completes 70 years
From
1948
The END of 70 years is 2019
The year between 2018 - 2019 represents Jubilee;
Aka Millennial
Kingdom / Marriage Supper of the Lamb
Note: Biblically, the first month starts in the
month of Nissan (approximately April or May) in 2017.
PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD
June 7, 1967 Year 1
City of Jerusalem & Temple Mount Recaptured
Ability to rebuild Jerusalem see
Dan. 9:24-27
The shofar
(Ram’s Horn) was blown again for the first time in 1,897 years.
Plus prerequisite
of Israel & Judah as 1 nation (1948) as prophesied.
Current Status
The Temple Mount - Dome of the Rock & al-Aksa Mosque
2007 / 2008
40
Years from recapture of Temple Mount & City of Jerusalem
60 Years from Restoration of Israel
as a nation.
2007
- 2017 40th Year plus 10 Years left
10
Years of Repentance until Atonement.
“Days
of Awe / Affliction”
(10 days from Feast of Trumpets
to Feast of Atonement)
Rev.
2: 8-11 & Lev. 23:24-27
2010 –2017
43rd to 50th Year; 7 Years left
Start of "Latter Days" /
"End of the Age"
“End Of The Age” Period (years 43 – 50):
Start
of 7th Sabbatical Year of 7 years, culminating at Jubilee.
End of the 7 years "Last Days" at the
7th Sabbatical Year of 7 years;
49th
year from recapture of the Temple Mount & City of Jerusalem.
Ends at Feast of Atonement
aka “Judgment” (true believers). Separation of wheat & chaff.
Matt. 13: 24-30, 36-42
Marriage
Supper of bride and bridegroom. Matt. 22: 2-3, 13-14
2017-2018 - 50th Year
aka:
Jubilee / Millennial Kingdom ! Lev. 25:8-11 & Rev. 20:4-5
1st day following Feast
of Atonement;
50 Years from recapture of the Temple Mount & City of Jerusalem
Rewarded
believers – Parable of Talents Matt. 25: 14-30
Parable of
sheep and goats separated. Matt. 25: 31-46
Note:
Israel became a nation in 1948 + 70 yr. = 2018 – 10 yr. = 2008
Note biblical year spans 2017 &
2018. Note: Jer. 29:10-14
Jubilee:
Lev 25:9-11
aka The
Acceptable Year of the Lord Isaiah 61:1-4
aka The Year of Liberty Ezek. 46:17
-
Jubilee is 7 Sabbatical years of 7 years =
49 + 1 year of Jubilee = 50 years
- Jubilee: Captives set free on 50th year
The Jubilee year looks to the restoration of Israel
by the Messiah, and to the resulting Messianic
Kingdom of peace when ALL that belongs to God returns to Him; the original owner. Rev. 25:8-11 (Ram's Horn - 1 long
blast). Year of Jubilee – Proclaim Liberty / Redemption.
Sabbatical
Jubilee once every 7 years: Debts/payments forgiven for
1 year (i.e. Jubilee / Millennial Kingdom), slaves freed, land returned to owner (God). Lev.
25:8--13, 23
Conclusion of the 6th Feast:
Judgment completed on Yom Kippur / Feast
of Atonement, starts Year of Jubilee is marked by a single
long blast of the shofar (Trumpet - Ram’s Horn). It is symbolic of “when the ram’s
horn sounded long …” which marked the conclusion of the Revelation of the Law to Moses at
Sinai. (Ex. 19:13)
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Caveat: Dates stated are not absolute
predictions of prophecy fulfillment. However, this Analysis IS a compilation of Scriptures that deserve thoughtful CONSIDERATION
that we might prepare for a Possible “Season”
of our Lord’s return, with RESPONSIBLE reactions of the Heart in
service to God. Thus we can be building a “Nehemiah type wall of
Spiritual Protection” in preparation to overcome the future trials / tribulation / temptations to deny Christ as
Lord and God. ALL Years Are Estimates.
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"Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for
the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come. … So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings
of the earth thy glory. When the LORD shall build up Zion, He shall
appear in his glory." Ps. 102:113-116
The 7 Feasts of the Lord as outlined in Leviticus 23 outlines God’s redemptive plan for
mankind: These 7 Feasts are prophecies related to God’s calendar of redeeming grace for all mankind, and is the foundation upon which
ALL of Scripture is based.
Just as Jesus fulfilled the prophecies related to His first coming in the first 4 four feasts, Jesus is about to fulfill the 5th
& 6th feasts of Trumpets and Atonement. The 7th
and last feast, called the Feast of Tabernacles, will be fulfilled at a later time after the Millennial Kingdom.
Note Rev. 21 & 22 “New Heavens & New Earth” follow the
release of satan; who was bound during the Millennial Kingdom; Rev.
20.
For further detail see "End of the Age".
“…Who hath ears to hear, let him hear..” Matt. 13:9
"This generation (40 yr.) not pass away" ... Parable of the fig tree (Israel)
… "know the Kingdom of God is near …" "…no man knows day or hour"
(but can know the season)! Mark 13:28-32
Also see Jesus'
own statements on last days: Matthew 24 All, esp. 5-34
“But if
the watchman see the sword come, and blows not the trumpet, and the people be not warned;
if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require
at the watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the
house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at My mouth, and warn
them from Me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked
from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless,
if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou
hast delivered thy soul." Ezek.
33:6-9
“…
Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen,
whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them
one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall
be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms …” Ezek.
37: 21-22
“And
they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be
trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” Luke
21:24
“But
of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” But can, and should know
the season!" Mark 13:32
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face
to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." 1 Cor. 13:12
Woe unto you that desire the Day of the LORD!
To what end is it for you?
The Day of the LORD is darkness,
and not light." Amos 5:18
Reference:
Ezek. 33:6-9,
37:All, esp. 16-28, Daniel 9:24-27,
Nehemiah 2:1, Luke 21:10-36 (esp. vs. 32 )
Lev. 23: All,
Is. 61:1-4, Ezek. 46:17, Lev. 25:8-13, 23, Ex.
19:13
Jer. 29:10-14 Mark 13:28-32 1
Cor. 13:12 Amos 5: 18 Rev. 2:10-11
Matthew
24:5-34 2 Peter 3:8; Neh.
2:1, 5-8, 4:6, 17-18, 5:14, 6:15, 8:All, esp.1-6, 17-18
Matt.
21: 9 Mark 13:32-34 Psalm 118: 25
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