What I am such an idiot I didnt read this thread properly grrrrr. Sorry peoples. The 70 weeks/years or Daniel 9:24-27 is about the arrival of Jesus as the Messiah. it is not actualy 70 years but 70 lots of 7 years. using the prophecy at
Daniel 9:25 You should know and have the insight that from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks
According to Nehemiah (Nehemiah 2:1, 5-8) the word to rebuild went forth in the 20th year of the rule of Artaxerxes. Historians say that the first full year of his rule was 474 BCE so we find out then that the 20th year would be: 455BCE
Therefore our starting point is 455BCE knowing that 1 week = 7 years then 69 weeks (which is the time in the above mentioned prophecy) is 483 years which then gives us the year 29CE (Luke 3:1, 2, 21, 22) and that Jesus was baptised and started in his public ministry (work) on the earth. He was then cut off during the 70th week in 33CE
Now addressing what I said earlier. The Prophecy in Daniel 4:10-16 says Now the visions of my head upon my bed I happened to be beholding, and, look! a tree in the midst of the earth, the height of which was immense. The tree grew up and became strong, and its very height finally reached the heavens, and it was visible to the extremity of the whole earth. Its foliage was fair, and its fruit was abundant, and there was food for all on it. Under it the beast of the field would seek shade, and on its boughs the birds of the heavens would dwell, and from it all flesh would feed itself.
“‘I continued beholding in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, look! a watcher, even a holy one, coming down from the heavens themselves. He was calling out loudly, and this is what he was saying: “CHOP the tree down, and cut off its boughs. SHAKE off its foliage, and scatter its fruitage. Let the beast flee from under it, and the birds from its boughs. However, LEAVE its rootstock itself in the earth, even with a banding of iron and of copper, among the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let it be wet, and with the beast let its portion be among the vegetation of the earth. Let its heart be changed from that of mankind, and let the heart of a beast be given to it, and let seven times pass over it
This prophesy actually has a double meaning, as it talks about the decension of one king into madnes, but it also has a meaning for the kingdom of God, his people and its rulership.
Now lets study this.
The tree represents Gods line of anointed KIngs over Israel. WQhen the tree gets chopped down, this is fulfilled when Jerusalem was taken over by the Babylonian in 607 BCE. It was banded or stopped from growing again until the proper appointed time, which is the "seven times" that it is passed over.
Using the "day for a year" method used in Numbers we now turn to the "seven times". To know how long this is, we go to Revelation 12:6, 14 which indicates that three and a half times equal “a thousand two hundred and sixty days" so if 3.5 times =1260 days then 7 times would be double this, which leads us to the number 2520 days. using the above mentioned day for a year it is 2520 years
So in 607BCE when Jerusalem was destroyed and therefore started the "gentile times" or "times of the nations" (depending on your bible) we count 2520 years, which gives us the year 1914. This is the year that the tree which was banded and chopped down (God's line of anointed kings of his people (his kingdom)) will stop being banded and will be alllowed to grow once again.
This is the year that the scene in Revelation 12:10 (satans removal from heaven) started as it is also the beginning of "the last days" because this is when God's anointed KIng (from the line of David) was restored to rulership.
Jesus then told us about the sign of his presence in the heavenly rulership in Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13. Also see 2 TImothy 3:1-5.
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