Start Date |
Prophetic Time Increment |
End Date |
March/April 444 B.C. |
..........time continues on uninterrupted until .......... |
March/April 33A.D. |
Begriming of Prophecy: |
483 Years = 69 X 7 X 30 = 173,880 Days |
End of Week 69 |
69 Weeks (sevens) X 7 years per week = 483 years |
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Still to come |
1 week or 1 seven or 7 consecutive years |
End of Week 70 |
Time Increment |
Alternative Term |
Heptad or Septets |
A group or series of seven. |
Seventy Sevens or 70 Weeks or 490 Years |
70 Times 7 years equaling a 490 year prophetic time clock that prophecy will be fulfilled. There is an intermission of unknown length between the end of week 69 (year 483) and the start of week 70 (year 484-490) (Daniel 9:24) |
Total of 70 Sevens or 70 Weeks or 490 Years |
49 + 434 + 7 = 490 Years (Daniel 9:24-27) |
Seven "Sevens" or Seven Weeks |
First 49 Years of this Prophecy (Dan. 9:25) |
Sixty Two Sevens or 62 Weeks or Three Score and Two Weeks |
62 X 7 = 434 consecutive years (Daniel 9:25) |
Sixty Nine Sevens or 69 Weeks |
483 Consecutive Years (Daniel 9:25 time added together) |
One Seven or One Week |
7 consecutive years also known as the 70th week (Daniel 9:27) |
Seventieth Week |
7 consecutive years (The last 7 of the 490) Also known as The Time Of Jacob's Trouble. (Daniel 9:27) |
30 = Number of Days in a Prophetic Month |
Lunar or Solar months are Not alternative terms for a prophetic month. |
360 = Number of Days in a Prophetic Year |
1/7th Of A Week Or Number Of Days In A Prophetic Year (30 X 12 = 360) |
5796 |
Number of 30 day months in 483 years (12 X 483) |
173880 |
Number of Days in 483 years (5796 Months X 30 Days) |
173880 |
Number of Days in 483 Prophetic Years |
173880 |
Number of Days in Solar Years (See 69 Weeks To The Day) |
“a time, times, and half a time” |
3 1/2 years or 1260 Days (Middle of last week) |
In this remarkable prophecy, Daniel uses a literary device in which one "week" (that is, a heptad, or one set of seven) represents a period of seven years. Hence, seven weeks equals 49 years, and 70 weeks is 490 years.
Verse 25: 69 Weeks (483 years), consisting of two periods of seven weeks plus 62 weeks, respectively (that is, 49 years followed by 434 years), representing the span from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem to the coming of the Messiah.
Verse 26: Time interval between the 69th and 70th Weeks, during which the Messiah is "cut off" (c.AD 30) and Jerusalem and the Temple are destroyed (AD 70).
Verse 27: The 70th Week, consisting of two periods of 3 1/2 years each, in which the Antichrist desecrates the Holy Place in Jerusalem (1)
A similar measurement of time is found in Leviticus 25:8 in dealing with the year of Jubilee. The use of a heptad (a measurement of seven years) was well known to the Children of Israel and is referenced in other Jewish literature outside of the Bible. The expression "week of years" occurs in the Mishna (Sanh.v1) (2)
Lunar or Solar months are Not alternative terms for a prophetic month.
Check out the Calendar Comparison Chart to compare 360 day year with 365 day year.
Check out Daniel's Master Link Table.
Back To Daniel's 9:24-27 Master Prophecy Page.
Other links of interest include:
1). The Christian Jew Foundation. Messianic Perspectives May-June 2000 p.6
2). The Soncino Books of the Bible; Daniel-Ezra-Nehemiah p.77
