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FACT
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The Facts on
Jesus the Messiah (Harvest House, 1993) pp. 36, 38
Daniel 9:24-27—Who is the "Anointed
One" to be "cut off" after 483 years? The
Biblical Text (500 B.C.)
Seventy "weeks" 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. Know and understand this: from the issuing of
the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One,
the Ruler, comes, there will be seven "weeks" and
sixty-two "weeks." It will be rebuilt with streets and a
trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two
"weeks," the Anointed One will be cut off and will have
nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city
and the sanctuary (Daniel 9:24-26a).
The Explanation of This Text
According to this prophecy, the Messiah will appear at the
end of the 69 weeks (the seven weeks [49 years] plus 62 weeks [434
years]) or a total of 483 years. After the 69 weeks (483 years) the
destruction of the city and the temple will take place. (We know
from history this took place in 70 A.D. under Titus and his Roman
legions who destroyed Jerusalem.)
But from what year and what decree (the decree "to
restore and rebuild Jerusalem") are we to begin to count the
number of years until Messiah?
The prophecy cannot refer to the decree of Cyrus (539
B.C.), Tattenai (519/18 B.C.), or Artaxerxes (457 B.C.) because all
these only refer to rebuilding the temple and not the city of
Jerusalem which the prophecy demands. Only the decree given by
Artaxerxes to Nehemiah in 444 B.C. involves a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
(Nehemiah 2:1-8; cf. Hoehner, 126-128).
We are now ready to determine the date from the decree of
Artaxerxes (444 B.C.) until after the 69th week (483 years later)
when Gabriel announced the Messiah would be killed in Jerusalem.
Using the accepted 360-day lunar year calendar it turns out to be
A.D. 33, the very time in which Jesus Christ lived and was crucified
in Jerusalem!*
The important point in this prophetic passage is this:
Clearly, the Messiah had to come by the end of the 69th week—483
years after the issuing of the decree. Again, we stress that the
time between the decree authorizing Jerusalem to be rebuilt
(verse 25—444 B.C.) and the coming of the Messiah was to be 69
"sevens" or 483 years (7 + 62 units = 169 x 7 years). That
is the exact time that Jesus Christ was alive and ministering. And
since the prophecy restricts the appearance of the Messiah to this
time period, there is simply no other logical candidate for the
Messiah. Again, this prophecy proves that Jesus Christ is the only
possible candidate to be the Jewish Messiah.
*For full documentation, please see The Facts on
Jesus the Messiah.
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