How daniels prophecy foretells the messiahs arrival the prophet daniel lived more than 500 years before the birth of jesus. Decoding daniels seventyweeks prophecy david jeremiah. Keep in mind that this prophecy was given to daniel by the angel gabriel during the time of israels exile in babylon. Mcclain was the founding president of grace theological seminary and grace college and served in that capacity from 1937 until his retirement in. The book of malachi, which was written during the early part of the seventy weeks period. We saw in the last study that daniel had been reading the prophecies of jeremiah when he saw that israel would be in exile for 70 years. The prophecy in daniel 9 about the 70 weeks of years reveals the year when jesus became the messiah.
Book of daniel 70 weeks of daniel by chuck missler. Palm sunday and daniels 70th week discover the book. Daniel s inspired record regarding the seventy weeks is a profound demonstration of the validity of scriptural prophecy. Therefore the 70 weeks of daniel consist of 490 years of 360 days each. The first 69 weeks of daniel 70 weeks prophecy were fulfilled with the cutting off of messiah jesus. But the history of israel and jerusalem is determined to be 70 weeks so there is one week 7 years remaining. Several sections of the book of daniel contain messianic predictions, the general import of which has been sufficiently pointed out in setting forth the contents and object of that inspired writing. This prophecy does not deal with antichrist, but is rather. The message contained a blueprint for world events, revolving around daniel s people, the jews, and his holy city, jerusalem.
The ancient 70 weeks prophecy of daniel proves without a doubt that jesus was the messiah. Much of our commentary below is based on josh mcdowells book, the new evidence that demands a verdict, pages 197201. The fulfilled weeks of daniel 70 weeks christian truth center. The very brief but famous prophecy of the seventy weeks, recorded in daniel 9. Daniels prophecy of 70 weeks foretells the messiahs arrival.
Lets take a look at the chiastic structure of one of the most amazing prophecies in the bible. Some would have you believe there is no gaps in the biblical text, when referring to daniel 9. One of these predictive declarations is found in daniel 9. A proper understanding of the seventy weeks of daniel not only safeguards the. Seventy weeks prophecy of daniel and the sabbatical years. So they finally rejected the new covenant message and thus rejected jesus and this fulfilled the 70 weeks prophecy of daniel and that special status of being gods chosen nation was taken from them. The prophet daniel said more specific things about the end times than any other old testament prophet.
Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. Daniels prophecy of the 70 weeks mcarthur drive church. The seventy weeks prophecy is one of the most significant and detailed messianic prophecies of the old testament. The prophecy says that the starting point of the 70 weeks of years will be the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild jerusalem daniel 9. The prophecy pinpoints the very time of jesus crucifixion. Daniel also noticed that at the end of that time it was important for the israelites to seek god and confess their s. Because no significant biblical or prophetic event occurred in that year, the. Daniel s seventy weeks prophecy is a lot like a treasure map. This is a fascinating date, because it just so happens to correspond. In the bible, the prophecy of seventy weeks chapter 9 of the book of daniel is a prophecy given to daniel by the angel gabriel in response to daniels prayer.
According to most, the bible prophecy of daniels 70 weeks is either a messianic prophecy that foretells the baptism of jesus christ and the year of his crucifixion, or it is a prophecy that tells of the coming of antichrist and a seven year tribulation period. So, in panorama we see 490 years of history 483, plus gap now nearly 2,000 years 7 to gothe prophecy involves seventy weeks, and the hebrew word week means a week of years, or seven years. The angel informs him that seventy weeks have been decreed for them, and then gives a detailed but cryptic description of those weeks. Many have attempted to identify the beginning and ending dates of this prophecy using a continuous timeline from past benchmark dates. Aug 17, 2017 the timeline for this prophecy is weeks for days rather than years and all the assigned tasks must be completed within the 70 weeks timeframe. How daniel s prophecy foretells the messiahs arrival the prophet daniel lived more than 500 years before the birth of jesus. The 70 weeks will terminate with the second coming of messiah and the establishment of his millennial kingdom here on earth. Daniels 70week prophecy is one of the most important in the bible, as its time line identifies the messiahjesus christ. See my book seventy weeks of literal days for proof of the chronology and timeline. If we look at the six issues that daniels seventy week prophecy wraps up and finalizes we must of necessity come to this conclusion. Daniels seventy weeks prophecy about bible prophecy. At least the last 63 weeks, if not all the 70, are yet to occur in the future. And a greater part of the book of the revelation is simply an expansion of daniel s. Such exciting end of theworld and rapture paradigms are dearly held and difficult to change.
It is critical to realize that the book of daniel existed in documented form almost three centuries before christ was born. It is only four verses in length, yet it contains prophetic clues to. The prophet daniel in the hebrew scriptures confronts us with evidence of the time of messiahs coming. He published this discovery in a book called the coming prince, a commentary on daniel s 70th week. In verses 25 and 27, the period of 70 weeks is divided into three time periods. How can we be sure that this prophecy did in fact begin in 457 b. For daniel, who spend most of his life longing for reunification with his people and the reestablishment of the temple, this condition carried tremendous promise. The chapter begins with daniel praying for israel, acknowledging the nations sins against god and asking for gods mercy. Whatever one makes of the calculations of daniel s seventy weeks, they do not extend beyond the time of fleshly or national israel and their holy city. In other words, the prophecy ends at the the destruction of jerusalem in 70 ad.
In so doing, daniels prophecy confirms that god inspired the writing of the old and new testaments, he prophesying events in daniel and throughout the old testament that find their fulfillment in the four gospels. This model is popular in modern evangelical christendom. Daniels prophecy of seventy weeks end times simplified. Daniel s 70th week seventieth week the seventy weeks of daniel, was a message delivered to daniel from god, through the angel gabriel. Over the centuries scholars have proposed dozens of competing interpretations of these challenging verses, especially daniel s prophecy of the 70 weeks. Oct, 2018 and if the seventy in gabriels message played on the seventy from jeremiah 25. Mcclain shows that the 70 weeks of daniel is not contiguous or continuous, but a parenthesis or gap exists between weeks 69 and 70. The olivet discourse fixes the time of israels greatest trouble within the days of daniel s prophecy.
Pdf daniels prophecy of the seventy weeks researchgate. The subject of daniel in the old testament, particularly the seventy weeks passage, daniel 9. May 15, 2019 although theologians have not reached a consensus on the exact timing of the 70 weeks mentioned in daniel 9, we can draw a number of conclusions from this enigmatic prophecy. It foretells the coming of the messiah, and details his benevolent work.
This episode explains daniel s 70 weeks prophecy and more. God enabled daniel to see not just into the future of his own jewish people. But the prophecy of 70 weeks is so much more than a messianic prediction. It is known to most of us as the prophecy of 70 weeks, and it is the only prophecy in the bible that gives us a secular date by which we can accurately calculate the first coming of the messiah. The 70 weeks of daniel were to begin from the going forth of the command to restore and build jerusalem verse 25. The angel gabriel approaches daniel in the latter half of the ninth chapter after daniel. Apologetics press daniels prophecy of the seventy weeks. Many have set out to explain the seventy weeks recorded in the book of daniel. One of the most important ways to prove the bible is true and that he can predict the future is to note his claim as follows. The mysterious 70 week prophecy recorded by the prophet daniel has baffled bible scholars and theologians for centuries. This 70 week prophecy of daniel 9, also known as the messiah prophecy, is critical to understanding last day events spoken of in the bible. Daniels 70 weeks of years tribulation lamb and lion.
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of god is at hand. Only after these events does jesus make reference to daniel 9. That prophecy is found in the book of daniel, chapter 9. Especially due to the tremendous errors men have made to make this prophecy something that suits their fantasies. In the bible, the prophecy of seventy weeks chapter 9 of the book of daniel is a prophecy given to daniel by the angel gabriel in response to daniel s prayer for god to act on behalf of his people and city i. Daniels prophecy of 70 weeks foretells the messiahs arrival bible.
Daniels seventy weeks prophecy the church of god international. Daniel prophecy of seventy weeks christian truth center. It is by far the most important end time prophecy in all of scripture bar none. As the end of babylons supremacy drew closer, daniel had understood by books from the writings of jeremiah, that 70 years would be accomplished in the desolations of jerusalem, after which, there would be a restoration to the land and a rebuilding of the temple. It gives so much information that explains the seventy weeks of daniel s prophecy and it is well written. Daniels prophecy of the 70 weeks christian book distributors. Notice that he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week.
This is also the only way you can make the three measures of the great tribulation 1260 days, 42 months, or 3 12 years come out the same. One of these predictions, however, claims a further notice, owing to the special interest connected with its contents. I used it as one of my sources for my college paper and it was quite helpful even though it was a small book straight to the point. The 70 weeks of daniel equal exactly 490 years to the solar day. The basics of the 70 week prophecy of daniel 9 are relatively simple and clear as i am sure you will now agree. According to most, the bible prophecy of daniel s 70 weeks is either a messianic prophecy that foretells the baptism of jesus christ and the year of his crucifixion, or it is a prophecy that tells of the coming of antichrist and a seven year tribulation period. No prophecy in the entire bible is more critical to understanding the end times than the seventy weeks of daniel. A decree of seventy sevensweeks probably meant 490 years 70. Book of daniel bible study chapter commentary 9 part 2 daniels 70 weeks. Seventy years of exile had gone by and we come to the point to countdown the years to the messiahs coming.
Description daniels prophecy of the 70 weeks by alva j. It is the foundation roots of all end time prophecy even the johns apocalypse the book of revelation. Probably no single prophetic utterance is more crucial in the fields of biblical interpretation, apologetics, and eschatology. Book of daniel chapter 9 bible study daniels 70 weeks part 2.
One of the most profound prophecies in all of scripture must be his 70 weeks prophecy in daniel chapter 9. Nevertheless, jehovah revealed to daniel information that would make it possible to pinpoint the time when jesus would be anointed, or appointed, as the messiah, or christ. The brief but wellknown prophecy of the seventy weeks recorded in daniel 9. The seventy weeks prophecy of daniel was given by the angel gabriel in answer to a very fervent prayer. After half a week he will end sacrifice and offering. He published this discovery in a book called the coming prince, a commentary on daniels 70th week. Gabriel came to daniel with a prophetic revelation. The fact that this prophecy of seventy weeks was fulfilled to the very day on the enoch calendar, which has only been understood recently, is a convincing vindication of the book s validity. First, lets read this prophecy, commonly known as the 70 weeks of daniel. Daniels prophecy of 70 weeks foretells the messiahs. That is the meaning of seventy weeks are determined for. The book of daniel is actually one of the most authenticated books of the old testament, historically and archaeologically, but this is a convenient shortcut for our purposes here. Finally, it reveals the disastrous consequences of rejecting the son of god.
Daniels prophecy of the 70 weeks the prophecy watchers. The early church father jerome indicates in his commentary on the book of daniel that many individuals believed that daniel 9. This powerful prophecy of the messiah confirms the. Chuck missler examines some of the most provocative passages in the bible the messianic and endtimes prophecies in the book of daniel. Since other prophecies found in the book of daniel, such as the 70 year prophecy of jeremiah and the 70 weeks prophecy indicating the year of the appearance of the messiah, were fulfilled exactly as predicted, we can have confidence that god also provided the details found in this prophecy in daniel 11 long before they took place. Such exciting endoftheworld and rapture paradigms are dearly held and difficult to change.
Although the weeks are symbolic of different time periods, they are sequential without any gaps where the prophecy clock stops. Thus, the date of messiahs coming calculates out to be precisely april 6, 32 ad, which is based upon the total number of days in the first 69 weeks of daniel s prophecy of the seventy weeks. The only thing that is not initially distinctly clear and that many dispute is the date evidence. Book of daniel for those unfamiliar, the 70 week prophecy of daniel is found in the book of daniel. Did the bible really predict the coming of the messiah before it h. If we look at the six issues that daniel s seventy week prophecy wraps up and finalizes we must of necessity come to this conclusion. Nov 01, 2004 the book of daniel is actually one of the most authenticated books of the old testament, historically and archaeologically, but this is a convenient shortcut for our purposes here. The book of daniel has been under attack for centuries as not being authentic. However, there are reasonable doubts, especially when it appears the lord has opened up the door to an alternate interpretation of daniel s seventy weeks prophecy. The messianic time table according to daniel the prophet jews. Biblical scholars have catalogued more than 300 amazing prophecies that find precise fulfillment in the life and labor of the son of god. It seemed good to me, as well, to pen down a few words in respect to this great messianic prophecy. Alva mcclains book daniel s prophecy of the 70 weeks makes sense for many if the word of god is interpreted through the grid of dispensationalism, and forced to fit it. Daniel prophecy of seventy weeks is the backbone of all bible end time prophecy.
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