week 2 - John Meister

pg 32 week 7: Daniel - 70 weeks - calculations
The Prophecy of the 70 Weeks (the calculations)
Daniel 9 is intended to predict the day on which Jesus would be officially
presented as Israel’s Messiah (“until Messiah the Prince,” Daniel
9:25), aka, Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the
donkey.
Calculation: Formula Factors:
- length of the year used in prophetic calculations = 360-day years.
30 day months were used to record the length of the Flood (Gen. 7:11; 7:24; 8:3-4).
30 day months are used for the 70th Week of Daniel (Dan. 9:27= time,
times, 1/2 time, or 3 1/2 years according to Dan. 7:25 & 12:7 & Rev. 12:14,
which in turn = 1260 days in Rev. 12:6. In Rev. 11:3 the 1260 days is shown
to be 42 months in verse 2 and in Rev. 13:5)
Therefore, you can formulate it this way:
69 “weeks (sevens)” of years = 69 X 7 = 483 Years.
360 Jewish Prophetic Days ( 30-day, or Lunar, months) are to ?
Years as 365 Modern Calendar days are to 483 Years.
Thus, 360 x ? = 173,880 = 476.38 Years 365 483 365
The Roman calendar system (Gregorian) jumps from 1 BC to 1 AD, with no
“0” in between.
Nehemiah 2:1-8 established the starting date of the calculations. The latest
archaeological and near east calendar system data sets that date at Nesan 1,
or March 5th, 444 B.C. Deducting the 476.38 years from that date,
keeping in mind that there is no “0” year, and figuring in a 365.24219879
Leap-Year number to be precise, you arrive at March 30th, 33 A.D. This
would bring you to Luke 19:35-44 where in the crucifixion week Jesus
fulfills the Zechariah 9:9 prophecy presenting Himself officially to Israel as
their Messiah. He is accepted by the faithful as the “King” in Luke 19:38, but
rejected by official Israel in verse 39. As a result, in verse 44 He rebukes
them “because you did not recognize THE TIME (69th Week) of your
visitation.” Jesus then goes on to fulfill the rest of Daniel 9:26, and is “cut
off” for our Salvation. Praise His Name !!!
Notes: 1. J. Alva McClain, Daniel’s Prophecy Of The 70 Weeks, p.9. 2. James M. Boice,
Daniel: An Expositional Commentary, p.108. 3. Lehman Strauss, The Prophecies of Daniel,
p.275. 4. McClain, Daniel’s Prophecy, p.10. 5. A “must-read” book, besides McClains, is the
scholarly work by Harold Hoehner, entitled Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ, with it’s
up-to-date astronomical calculations of early dates.