70 WEEKS OF DANIEL PART III

Nebuchadnezzar, the great king of the Babylonian Empire, reigned from 605 to 562 B.C.; it was he who carried away Judah in the 70-year Babylonian captivity. The date of Jerusalem’s captivity, March 16, 597 B.C. was destruction on a wholesale scale; the temple was destroyed, and it is estimated that some 60,000 citizens were carried away to Babylon at this time. The temple was also removed, to be restored again in the days of Ezra (2 Kings 24:1-25, 2Chron. 36:1-21), and (Jeremiah 52).

When Darius, the king of the Mede-Persia, having routed the Chaldean armies, occupied the city of Babylon, and he was made king of Babylon by Cyrus; it was in this same first year of Darius, as the seventy years of Babylonian’s exile draws to a close, that the angel Gabriel answered Daniel’s prayers and confession with a revelation of the “Seventy Weeks of Seven (490 years), from the decree for rebuilding Jerusalem under (Ezra 7:18,25; 4:12-16) to the Messiah, His death, and the confirming of the Gospel to Israel (458 B.C. through A.D.33)

Bible study reveals the fulfilled interpretation is the correct view; that the 69 weeks measured “Unto Messiah;” and in the midst of the 70th week-- after Three and a Half Years of ministry--He was cut off in death; that this sacrifice, having been the perfect sacrifice, caused other sacrifices to cease in God’s plan. Let us now notice step by step--all of the basic parts of the 70 weeks prophecy and how these things were fulfilled.
(1) Jerusalem was to be restored.
(2) The street and wall were to be rebuilt in troublous times, under Artaxerexes.
(3) The most Holy was to be anointed.
(4) To finish the transgression.
(5) To make an end of sin.
(6) To make reconciliation for iniquity.
(7) To bring in everlasting righteousness.
(8) To seal up the vision and prophecy.
(9) Messiah was to be cut off.
(10) He shall confirm the covenant.
(11) He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.