70 Weeks of Daniel: How the Literary Structure Informs Interpretation

Examining the organization and focus of the prophecy to help us interpret the text according to the authors intention.

[larrybedouin]

Seventy weeks are determined [divided from the 2, 300 prophetic days = years] upon *thy people and upon thy holy city*
...to finish the transgression, and
(Jn 19:30; Col 2:13-14; Is 53:12)
...to make an end of sins, and
(Jn 1:29; 1Jn 3:5; Jn 5:14; Jn 8:11; Rom 6:6-7; 1 Cor 15:3; Heb 9:26-28; Heb 10:14)
...to make reconciliation for iniquity, and
(Rom 5:10; 2 Cor 5:18-19; Col 1:20-22; Eph 2:14-16)
...to bring in everlasting righteousness, and
(Matt 3:15; Rom 3:21-22; Rom 8:4; 2 Cor 5:21)
...to *seal up the vision and prophecy* and
(Matt 3:13-17)
...to anoint the most Holy.
(Jn 1:32-34; Mark 1:15; Acts 10:38; Luke 4:18; Is 61:1)
{Daniel 9:24} < The context

And he [the Messiah] shall confirm the covenant with many for ONE WEEK: and IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK (the seventieth) he [Christ] SHALL CAUSE THE SACRIFICE AND THE OBLATION TO CEASE, and for the overspreading of abominations (the continued temple sacrifices, after Christ one perfect sacrifice.) he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. ("Behold your house has been left unto you desolate.")
{Daniel 9:27}

7 weeks + 62 weeks + *one week* = 70 weeks, to anoint the most Holy, and to seal up the vision and the prophecy.

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, *It was necessary* that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: (for there were three and a half years remaining grace for "thy people" of the final week.) but seeing ye put it from you, and *judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life* lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 

For so hath the Lord commanded us,  saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. 

And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
{Acts 13:46-48} 

To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until *the land had enjoyed her sabbaths* for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
{2 Chronicles 36:21}

For 490 years, equal to 70 sabbath rest for the land every seventh year, that Israel and Judah transgressed the law of God.

This is why they received seventy years exiled in bondage in the land of Babylon.

There was no gap in their seventy years in exil, and there is no gap in the 490 years of transgressing the law of God, and there most certainly was no gap unto the coming of the Messiah who did not come in a vacuum, but rather confirmed his covenant with many for there and a half years, and in the land of Israel's inheritance.

The stoning of Steven is when probation closed on the covenant that God made with the their fathers, exactly three and a half years after Jesus Christ, our passover was sacrificed for us, and the gospel of the kingdom of heaven went out unto the Gentiles also.

[nunyabiz]

They don't even match....who wrote this? At least they got "the prophet" correct, KJV reads "the prophecy", a question I hit Jamie up with n he ranted about "the prophecy" vey