| David Jay Jordan's Daniel 9 the 'Last 7 Years' As the Lord himself said, “Whosoever readeth, let him understand” what Daniel the prophet said about the LAST Days. (Mathew 24: 15 …..). In other words, if we want to know what the Lord will be doing in the ENDTIME, we have to study and learn what His prophet Daniel said about the 'LAST SEVEN YEARS'. This basic outline is all wrapped up in a few verses in Daniel Chapter Nine. So if you open up your Bibles, and hopefully they will be King James Version Bibles if you are to truly be able to cross reference what is said in the spirit to the rest of the Bible. Anyway, go to Chapter 9, verse 24. I’ll write down the exact verse as we go along and put my comments in parenthesis. But this is shown graphically on the Messianic Timeline 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophesy, and to anoint the most Holy. So no matter how you look at it, for all these things to be accomplished it definitely has to be the End of things as we know it and the Lord of Lords has to have returned to straighten things out. Why because we certainly don’t have an end of sin and iniquity in the world today, and we certainly don’t have everlasting righteous reigning in today’s courts nor institutions. Besides, without the Lord’s 2nd return, how can there be peace on earth without the Prince of Peace who will bring in everlasting righteousness. So until He gets anointed as the Rightful Heir and Rightful Ruler of this wicked world, His prophecies through ALL of his prophets have not been fulfilled nor His vision completed. Therefore as this beautiful mathematical prophecy states there will be seventy (70) weeks determined upon us, his people (spiritual Israel) and upon his holy city, (the City of David…Jerusalem), before it gets cleansed. 25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the prince shall be seven (7) weeks, and three score (3 times 20 = 60) and two weeks. (Making a grand total of 7 + 60 + 2 = 69 weeks). O.K. We’re going up until the Messiah, or the promised Savior for He was prophesied about from the very beginning by all including Adam and all his descendants, for He was called 'The Son of Man', our Redeemer because He was the Promised One to come that would save us from our original sins. So who was this Messiah and when did he come? Well, as Daniel is told, the 70 weeks start ‘from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem’. Yet Daniel is speaking in about 534 B.C. at a time when the Lord’s people have been scattered and many of them taken into CAPTIVITY to Babylon, as was the case with Daniel himself. The Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem had been destroyed by the conquering army of Nebacanezar, the King of Babylon in 586 B.C., and the whole Temple Mount area in Jerusalem was in shambles. And it was to stay that way, all the way up until the time of Artaxerses King of the Medes, because His father Darius the Mede had defeated Beltezazar the son of Nebancanezar. For it took until 454. B.C. before Artaxerxes yielded to the request of Nehemiah asking the king to allow him and others to return and rebuild the city of their father’s selpuchre and their temple, back in Judah. (Nehemiah 2:5). So according to Daniel, this first period of time from the going forth of this commandment to rebuild would take seven (7) weeks, until the street shalt be built again and the wall, even in troublous times. Why did it take so long, simply because while Nehemiah and his men were building the wall and city, they were also having to fight off attacks from those that didn?t want them to finish the completion of the Lord's wall.. (Nehemiah 4; 7,8). Yet they accomplished their task in 405 B.C, 49 years after beginning. So let's see, if 7 weeks equaled 49 years, mathematically that would mean that one week in Daniel's prophecy would be equal to 7 years. But let's check, it to make sure. and lo and behold the original Hebrew word used here in the Old Testament was 'Shebua'. And the meaning of Shebua is seven. So just as the Lord created everything in seven days or what we call a week even today, this word 'Shebua' meant seven. And if you take seven shuba's that would make 7 x 7 or 49 years. Great, so we have a match, and all is perfectly matching both history, language and mathematics, as the Lord fulfilled his never-failing Word. .So now let's take the second time period, which Daniel says takes three score and two weeks until the Messiah Shall be cut off.. That's 62 weeks or 62 x 7 equals 434 years from the finishing of the wall in Jerusalem. So we add 432 years onto 405 B.C. but because the time line Before Christ went downward towards zero and then onward positively as the years of A.D. passed, we subtract 434 from 405 meaning we have a difference of 29. But hold everything, there was no year 0, whether B.C. or A.D. so let's add one more year to our positive number of 29 making our projected cut off date for the Messiah to be 30 A.D. Please proceed to Daniel 9 Part Two |