Handout - Western Christadelphian Bible School

Appendix 2: Daniel’s 70 “Week” Prophecy
Under extended consideration. Main points:
1 The word for “weeks” is “sevens”; the time period is not given but is most probably a
“time” of 360 days.
2 No part of the prophecy was more than approximately fulfilled in the first coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ. This will be demonstrated by a careful analysis of the
chronological possibilities.
3 There is no hiatus between the 69 th and 70 th “seven”. Furthermore, the division of the
first 69 “sevens” into “seven sevens and sixty-two sevens” will be explained.
4 Account will be taken of prophecies showing a near-the-end-time division of Israel into
two parts: one religious, the other secular. These two parts are clearly visible in the
nation right now.
5 It will be shown that the chief feature of the 70 th “seven” is a covenant to be framed
between “the prince that shall come” and the secular part of Israel – a covenant that
will be violently set aside by the “prince that shall come”, mid-way through the 70 th
“seven”. In his fury, “the prince that shall come” will kill the leader of the religious
part of the nation (“a prince, an anointed one”), desecrate the Jewish temple, cut off the
daily sacrifice and thus allow the Arabs to achieve their dream of pushing Israel into
the sea. This is the great tribulation – the second half of the 70 th “seven”. The reason
for this violent assault will be the disgust of the “prince who shall come” (aka Gog of
the land of Magog, the little horn(s), the king of the north, the man of sin, the beast, the
king of Assyria, the king of Babylon, etc) at the sabotage that the religious part of
Israel will wreak on his, the prince’s, plans for the nation. He will therefore set out
systematically to destroy the religious life of the nation, reenacting the work of
Antiochus Epiphanes – and so on.
6 In the desperation of their last extremity, Israel will call on the Lord for salvation,
Christ will come, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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