Intro to Revelation Part 5The Seventy Weeks

Daniel 9:22-27

• Daniel 9:1-2 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans-- (2) in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

• Leviticus 25:3-4 'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, (4) but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

• Leviticus 25:3-4 'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, (4) but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

• Lev 26:33-34 'You, however, I will scatter among the nations … (34) 'Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation,

• 2 Chronicles 36:20-21 Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, (21) to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete.

• (24) "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.

• Romans 11:25-27 For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; (26) and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB." (27) "THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS."

• (25) "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

• Nehemiah 2:1&5 And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, … (5) I said to the king, "If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor before you, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may rebuild it."

• Nehemiah 2:1&5 And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, … (5) I said to the king, "If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor before you, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may rebuild it."

• (26a) "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing,

• (26a) "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing,

• John 1:11 He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.

Jewish Calendar (360 days per year) (7x7) + (62x7) years = 483 years

483 years x 360 days 173,880 days

Jewish Calendar Gregorian Calendar (360 days per year) (365 days per year) (7x7) + (62x7) years = 483 years 3/5/444 BC to AD 3/5/33 = 476 years

483 years 476 years x 360 days x 365 days 173,880 days 173,740 days 116 days in leap years + 24 days (March 29) 173,880 days

Artaxerxes’ decree torebuild Jerusalem.

March 5, 444 BC

Artaxerxes’ decree torebuild Jerusalem.

March 5, 444 BC

Artaxerxes’ decree torebuild Jerusalem.

483 prophetic years

173,880 days

March 5, 444 BC

Artaxerxes’ decree torebuild Jerusalem.

483 prophetic years

173,880 days

March 29, AD 33

March 5, 444 BC

Artaxerxes’ decree torebuild Jerusalem.

483 prophetic years

173,880 days

March 29, AD 33

Messiah is cut off,Friday April 3, AD 33

• (26b) and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

• (26b) and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

• Matthew 21:43 "Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.

March 5, 444 BC

Artaxerxes’ decree torebuild Jerusalem.

483 prophetic years

173,880 days

March 29, AD 33

Messiah is cut off,Friday April 3, AD 33

JerusalemdestroyedAD 70.

• (27) "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."

March 5, 444 BC

Artaxerxes’ decree torebuild Jerusalem.

483 prophetic years

173,880 days

March 29, AD 33

Messiah is cut off,Friday April 3, AD 33

JerusalemdestroyedAD 70.

Church Age4/3/33 to Rapture

March 5, 444 BC

Artaxerxes’ decree torebuild Jerusalem.

483 prophetic years

173,880 days

March 29, AD 33

Messiah is cut off,Friday April 3, AD 33

JerusalemdestroyedAD 70.

Church Age4/3/33 to Rapture

70th Week begins.

• Daniel 11:45 "He will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful Holy Mountain;

• Daniel 11:45 "He will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful Holy Mountain;

• Daniel 11:31 "Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.