The decree that meets this description was issued by Cyrus the Great as described in 2Chronicles 36: 2Chr. seven sevens or 7 x 7) must pass after the decree is issued before construction on the city and walls will be finished, which happens under Nehemiah’s leadership. The angel Gabriel tells Daniel that the seventy weeks (i.e., 490 years) begins with an issuing of a decree to rebuild the city of Jerusalem, which was destroyed after Babylon conquered Judah.
And its end will come with a flood even to the end there will be war desolations are determined. 9:26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. 9:25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.ĭan. Reviewing the prophecy of Daniel 9, we’re told that 69 “sevens” (i.e., 483 years) must elapse between two key events in Jewish history. Frankly, no one can adequately reconcile the biblical dates given in Daniel 9 with the classic historical timeline for the same period, but there is another solution.
