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The 490 year prophecy of Daniel 9:24 - 27
This is an edited version from different bibles. These brackets [ ] supplied indicate that the inclosed words are not in scripture, but were changed for easier reading.
Vs. 24. [Four hundred and ninety years] (seventy weeks) have been decreed for your people and your holy city, and to put an end to sin and transgression, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal this prophetic vision and anoint the most holy one.
Vs. 25.[Forty nine years will have passed] (seven weeks) after the issuing of the decree to restore and build Jerusalem.[Then] It will have been rebuilt with streets and trenches even during times of trouble. Know and understand this, until the anointed one, the coming ruler, there will be [four hundred and thirty four years]. (Sixty-two weeks.)
Vs. 26.And after the [four hundred thirty four years] (sixty-two weeks) the anointed one will be cut off, but not for himself. He will confirm a covenant with many and will put an end to sacrifice and offering in the middle of that [seventy years]. (Week.)
Vs. 27. The people of a ruler will come and destroy the city and the sanctuary. And on the wing [of the temple] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end decreed is poured out on him. Wars will continue until the end, for desolations have been decreed, and the end will come like a flood.
Note: A week can equal seventy years or seven years depending on the sentence structure being used. In verse 24 a week is equal to seventy years, were as in verse 25 it is equal to seven years.
Example: In the 70 weeks prophecy, 70 x 7 = 490.
However, one seven (or week) is equal to seventy years, and so the middle of that week is equal to 35 years. ( 7x70=490.) ( 70 ~ 2 = 35 )
You may have noticed that the sentence structure is a little different in this script above, than the bible you have. There are more than a few versions of this chapter in Daniel. Obviously some one is trying to confuse the issue. I have done my best to reconstruct the passage as I thought Daniel intended.
From 469 BC to 420 is 49 years, and that is the "seven sevens" or "weeks" mentioned in Daniel 9:25.It is the finishing of the temple that marks the beginning of the 490 year prophecy, and not the decree to rebuild by Cyrus.
Remember, the prophecy includes the destruction of the city and temple, in 70 AD.
In John 2:20,a Jew states that it took 46 years to build the temple. The reason for the 3 year difference would be that Daniel counted the time with the Jews leaving with the temple ornaments, ( see:Ezra 1:7,11.)were as the Jew in John 2:20 counted the actual work.
Since the 490 year prophecy includes the destruction of the temple in 70 AD, it would be logical to conclude that 420 BC was the finishing of the temple. (420+70=490)
In Daniel 9:25. "the coming ruler, there will be sixty-two sevens." That is 434 years minus 420 BC is 14 AD. See Luke 2:41-50.
In Luke 2:42, It says that Yashua is 12 years old when he came to the temple.
The reason for the discrepancy is because the Gregorian calendar is off by two years after 0 AD, and before 0 AD it is off by four years.
Yahshua was born 4 BC and 4 BC equals 0 AD. A person should take notice that it was Theophilus (Theophilus means: friend of God.) that copied the book of Luke.
Theophilus may have also calculated that Jesus was 12 years old. See: Luke 1:1-4. Over all "seventy sevens" had been decreed in Daniel 9:24. That is four hundred and ninety years to the destruction of the temple in 70 AD.
That is 70 AD + 420 BC = 490.
In Luke 3:23 it says that Yahshua was 30 years old when he began to preach. And in Luke 13:6 Yahshua tells a parable about a fig tree. (Figs are the people of Israel in Yahshua’s time. See Jeremiah 24:1-10.)
So the parable having to do with the length of his ministry is 3 plus 1 years. And so Yashua preached for about four years. This means that Yahshua was crucified before he turned 35 years old in 35 AD.
In Daniel 9:27 it says that he will confirm a covenant in the middle of (one week. = 70 ÷ 2 = 35).
The 490 year prophecy of Daniel 9:24 - 27
This is an edited version from different bibles. These brackets [ ] supplied indicate that the inclosed words are not in scripture, but were changed for easier reading.
Vs. 24. [Four hundred and ninety years] (seventy weeks) have been decreed for your people and your holy city, and to put an end to sin and transgression, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal this prophetic vision and anoint the most holy one.
Vs. 25.[Forty nine years will have passed] (seven weeks) after the issuing of the decree to restore and build Jerusalem.[Then] It will have been rebuilt with streets and trenches even during times of trouble. Know and understand this, until the anointed one, the coming ruler, there will be [four hundred and thirty four years]. (Sixty-two weeks.)
Vs. 26.And after the [four hundred thirty four years] (sixty-two weeks) the anointed one will be cut off, but not for himself. He will confirm a covenant with many and will put an end to sacrifice and offering in the middle of that [seventy years]. (Week.)
Vs. 27. The people of a ruler will come and destroy the city and the sanctuary. And on the wing [of the temple] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end decreed is poured out on him. Wars will continue until the end, for desolations have been decreed, and the end will come like a flood.
Note: A week can equal seventy years or seven years depending on the sentence structure being used. In verse 24 a week is equal to seventy years, were as in verse 25 it is equal to seven years.
Example: In the 70 weeks prophecy, 70 x 7 = 490.
However, one seven (or week) is equal to seventy years, and so the middle of that week is equal to 35 years. ( 7x70=490.) ( 70 ~ 2 = 35 )
You may have noticed that the sentence structure is a little different in this script above, than the bible you have. There are more than a few versions of this chapter in Daniel. Obviously some one is trying to confuse the issue. I have done my best to reconstruct the passage as I thought Daniel intended.
From 469 BC to 420 is 49 years, and that is the "seven sevens" or "weeks" mentioned in Daniel 9:25.It is the finishing of the temple that marks the beginning of the 490 year prophecy, and not the decree to rebuild by Cyrus.
Remember, the prophecy includes the destruction of the city and temple, in 70 AD.
In John 2:20,a Jew states that it took 46 years to build the temple. The reason for the 3 year difference would be that Daniel counted the time with the Jews leaving with the temple ornaments, ( see:Ezra 1:7,11.)were as the Jew in John 2:20 counted the actual work.
Since the 490 year prophecy includes the destruction of the temple in 70 AD, it would be logical to conclude that 420 BC was the finishing of the temple. (420+70=490)
In Daniel 9:25. "the coming ruler, there will be sixty-two sevens." That is 434 years minus 420 BC is 14 AD. See Luke 2:41-50.
In Luke 2:42, It says that Yashua is 12 years old when he came to the temple.
The reason for the discrepancy is because the Gregorian calendar is off by two years after 0 AD, and before 0 AD it is off by four years.
Yahshua was born 4 BC and 4 BC equals 0 AD. A person should take notice that it was Theophilus (Theophilus means: friend of God.) that copied the book of Luke.
Theophilus may have also calculated that Jesus was 12 years old. See: Luke 1:1-4. Over all "seventy sevens" had been decreed in Daniel 9:24. That is four hundred and ninety years to the destruction of the temple in 70 AD.
That is 70 AD + 420 BC = 490.
In Luke 3:23 it says that Yahshua was 30 years old when he began to preach. And in Luke 13:6 Yahshua tells a parable about a fig tree. (Figs are the people of Israel in Yahshua’s time. See Jeremiah 24:1-10.)
So the parable having to do with the length of his ministry is 3 plus 1 years. And so Yashua preached for about four years. This means that Yahshua was crucified before he turned 35 years old in 35 AD.
In Daniel 9:27 it says that he will confirm a covenant in the middle of (one week. = 70 ÷ 2 = 35).