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25 And you should know and have the insight [that] from the going forth of [the] word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Mes·si´ah [the] Leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks. She will return and be actually rebuilt, with a public square and moat, but in the straits of the times.

26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Mes·si´ah will be cut off, with nothing for himself.

“And the city and the holy place the people of a leader that is coming will bring to their ruin. And the end of it will be by the flood. And until [the] end there will be war; what is decided upon is desolations.

Answer 1

This passage from Daniel chapter 9 clarifies why the Israelites were so plainly in expectation of the Messiah or Christ at the beginning of the first century C.E. Daniel had plainly prophesied the precise year of his emergence!

Consider this passage from page 5 of the bible publication The Watchtower of March 15, 2002:
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“Messiah the Leader” would appear at the end of 69 weeks, or 483 years, counting from 455 B.C.E., when the word went out to rebuild Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 2:1-8) What happened at the end of that period? The Gospel writer Luke relates: “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was district ruler of Galilee [29 C.E.], . . . God’s declaration came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. So he came into all the country around the Jordan, preaching baptism in symbol of repentance for forgiveness of sins.” At that time, “the people were in expectation” of Messiah the Leader. (Luke 3:1-3, 15) Although crowds came to John, he was not that Leader. Then in about October of 29 C.E., Jesus of Nazareth came to John to be baptized. And John bore witness, saying: “...I have borne witness that this one is the Son of God.” (John 1:32-34) At his baptism, Jesus became the anointed Leader—the Messiah, or Christ.
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Learn more:
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20060215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/19990715/article_02.htm

Answer 2

This is from Daniel 9. It prophesies the very day Jesus will die. There are conversions needed between calendars and leap year and all that to show the exact day. Basically though, here it is:

A week is really 7 years. (Genesis 29:28 uses this also). The command to rebuild Jerusalem was given 445 BC. 7 weeks later (49 years), the wall was complete. Now it is 396 BC. There are 62 weeks (434 years) left until Jesus is crucified in A.D. 32. Like I said, there is a few years different, because of several reasons - The Babylonian calendar only had 360 days, Leap year and other differences between calendars.

There is one week left. There is a gap between the 69th and 70th week and we are in that gap now.

Answer 3

you wrote it wrong.....it is this:

there are 70 weeks total...
from the declaration to rebuild the temple to the time of the messiah will be 7 + 62 = 69 weeks.. (445/457 BC)or 490 years

the first 7 weeks = 49 years to rebuild the walls...

then comes the next 62 weeks.....Messiah comes

after this 62 weeks, messiah is cut off ( killed) approx 30-33 AD

then another prince who is to come ( at some unstated future time) shall destroy the city and there will be war.....
* 70 AD roman Titus came, but did not confirm any
covenant ( see below)....so this is not him.

this future prince will initiate the last week (7 years) by confirming a covenant with Israel .....but will break it in the middle of the week..

Answer 4

There are as many interpretations of this prophecy as there are TV preachers.

However, the essential meaning is that the the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem will occur after "69 weeks", normally thought of as symbolic for 69 *years*.. The temple was rebuilt about 516 B.C.E. (the 1st destroyed in 586 B.C.E.).
http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Second_Temple

The Messiah mentioned (actual meaning: "the anointed one") is likely referring to Cyrus, who decreed the rebuilding of the temple but died before work on it began.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezra%201;&version=49;

All of these refer to the same verses in Jeremiah
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jer%2025:11;&version=49;

Conclusion: the "near-term" interpretation of this prophecy is the destruction of the Babylonian Kingdom by Cyrus and the Persians, the resultant permission to rebuild the temple, and the resultant rebuilding of the temple, 69 years after its destruction by the Babylonians.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 5

The archangel Gabriel came to Daniel to give him also the coefficient. The angelic message is that we should understand the "seventy" as seventy times seven. Seven is the coefficient.
Gabriel spoke that the "seventy" consist from:
• seven times seven
• sixty-two times seven
• one times seven
The archangel addressed these "seventy" for:
• Daniel's people and
• Daniel's holy town. (Daniel 9:24)
It is clear that Daniel's people is Israel. Therefore, the "seventy" were for Israel, not for the Christian world. Daniel's holy city is Jerusalem. He always prayed as he stood in the direction to Jerusalem. If the "seventy" from Daniel are not for Babylon, so they are not for other cities in America or Europe. They are not for any place in the Christian world.

What is a contest of these "seventy" for Israel and Jerusalem? Gabriel divided it ons:
• to finish transgression and put an end to sin,
• to atone for wickedness and to bring eternal righteousness,
• to seal the vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. (Daniel 9:24)
The first is that times are set to come at points described above.
I understand from verse twenty-four that seven times seven had past and then the transgression of Daniel's people (Israel), mostly in Daniel's holy town of Jerusalem, was finished and annulled. If any transgression ends, the penalty imposed for a transgression was paid.
In some societies it is common that if a person is free, it has to be declared publicly and written in documents. In other words, a declaration about freedom and possibility for return to Jerusalem had to exist after seven times seven.
The archangel Gabriel said that slavery was not for seventy years, but for forty-nine years.

Afterwards, sixty-two sevens had to be when atonement was be done and eternal righteousness appeared.
Since Israel and Jerusalem are on the scene of the "seventy," atoning wickedness can be understood as atonement done by a high priest for a next year. However, according to Gabriel's words, it is forever.
Atonement was done when a high priest left the Holy of Holies. We know the Lord Jesus Christ had done that once and forever because he had died in Jerusalem to atone for the people. He showed God Himself as the resurrected man.
This atonement for Israel is not in effect because they do not believe in His resurrection. They did not see the resurrected Jesus for them. (Acts 13:31) They did not see him coming from the Holy of Holies for them, and therefore, God had to stop everything for them. Sixty-two sevens and the stop. Sixty-two sevens are until Christ's resurrection from the public declaration of freedom and not sixty-nine.
He brought eternal righteousness into existence for saintly people. (Sins are atoned and transgressions are covered.) They live already in the eternal spirit. It was the beginning of Christianity.

Finally, the last seven were for Israel to finish everything the prophets foretold and to establish the Millennium. The Holy of Holies will be anointed because the Lord Jesus Christ will enter it. The Lord Jesus Christ, as He reveals Himself to Israelites in Jerusalem, will enter the Most Holy Place in the Temple.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

Ooo that's Daniel. His prophecies were very accurate. Unfortunately he didn't know dick about the time he was supposedly living in. Can you say "Prophecy after the fact"?

Answer 9

That is one of the scriptures used to help calculate when the beginning of "the lords day would be"

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