70 WEEKS OF DANIEL PART II

The prophetic period of time in question is declared to be “Determined.” This involves the assumption of a comprehensive plan of God in which future events are rendered certain and conceived of as a part of an overall plan which is being executed by God. A very important aspect of the prophecy given at the start is that the period of time in Question relates to “Thy People” and “Thy Holy City.” Even in ruins, Jerusalem remains the city set apart in the heart of God.

Once it has been established that the prophesy relates to the people of Israel and the Holy City Jerusalem, six important purposes of God are clearly discerned in verse 24: ‘to finish the transgression;” “to make an end of sin;” “to make reconciliation for iniquity;” “to bring in everlasting righteousness;” “to seal up the vision and prophecy;” “to anoint the most Holy.”

In verse 25, Daniel introduces three periods of time which are immediately consecutive; first, a period of Seven Sevens, or 49years, and then a period of Sixty Two Sevens, or 434 years, one Seven, or 7 years. The continuous fulfillment holds that the Seventieth immediately follows the Sixty Ninth, and immediately after that, the Seventieth Week, the sacrifice ceases.

The whole of this prophecy and all events has been fulfilled to the very letter.
Dan. 9:24 (Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city).
2 Chron.36:21 (For as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, threescore and then years).
Jer.25:11-12 (And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years).
Jer.29:10-14 (After seventy years, I will visit you, in causing you to return to this place).

Daniel, understanding from the prophesies of Jeremiah that the 70 years captivity was now terminating, pours out his soul in fervent prayer to God, and earnestly supplicates pardon and restoration for his captive people. When he in the supplication of God in behalf of Israel; the Angel Gabriel is sent to inform him of the 70 prophetic weeks, or 490 years which should elapse from the date of the edict to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple to the death of the Messiah.