Daniel 9

This passage in the bible is the most incredible thing that I have ever found. This is one reason that I converted from Atheism to Christianity. We have copies of this text from around 125 B.C. That is, 125 years before Jesus Christ was ever even thought about in the world. Modern scholars agree that Daniel wrote his copy of this text around 500 B.C., 500 years before Jesus Christ walked the earth.This passage is called

The Seventy “Sevens”

²⁰ While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the LORD my God for his holy hill— ²¹ while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. ²² He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. ²³ As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:

²⁴ “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

²⁵ “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. ²⁶ After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. ²⁷ He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.

Context: Seventy times seven they didn't follow the sabbatical law. The angel Gabriel (vs. 9:24) gives them another seventy times seven years to follow the sabbatical law

Seven sevens and sixty two sevens from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild jerusalem until the messiah= 483 years. Convert Hebrew lunar years into solar years (1000 AD). 30 day months, 12 months, 360 days a year. Every little while (5 or 6 years) they would add an extra month in because they are losing 5-6 days a year (solar year- 365 days). 483 x 360= 173, 880 divided by 365 (solar year) 476 solar years is = 483 lunar years. We can date the decree, stated above, to the month by going to Nehemiah 2:1-8. Artaxerxes started his reign in 465 BC (Encyclopedia Britanica Vol. 1 P. 598). 'Twentieth year' (of artaxerxes reign)= 465 + 20= 445. Nehemiah says that it begins in Nissan (spring). 444 BC is the date of the decree. 444 + 476= 32 AD + 1 because calendars have no 0 year. 33 AD is when the Messiah will come to restore things (according to this principle). This is the same date Jesus Christ died on the cross according to history.

3 bc 2 bc 1 bc – 1 ad 2 ad etc. no space for a zero year.

In Daniel it says 3 and a half years is 1260 days.

Daniel is writing over 500 years before any of this happened. The date for the decree is accepted by all. Could NT authors fake its fulfillment? This is not possible. The NT never says Jesus came in 33 AD. We found the date because of a matrix of chronological data found in the gospels which all line up on that day. IE. Born under Herod, about 30 when He began ministry, when they talk about the temple being built and how it took them 46 years to build (John), Herod III. All of these have to line up and as you line them up only one year is left and that is how we date the death of Christ. To fake this, NT authors would have to know how modern scholars were going to date things.

God wrote in the bible that a man would come to restore all things in 33 A.D. Jesus Christ came and died in 33 A.D. and when he died he took the fallen nature of man with him so that we could once again be in relationship with God. All he asks is that we take this free gift from his hands, just like a child takes gifts from his parents on Christmas. God wants a relationship with you. Who can predict the future like God? Who can tell of the things to come so accurately?

Isaiah 44:6-8