Decoding Daniel 9: The 70 Weeks Prophecy Explained

[jdwagman]

I agree more or less with your start date. Circa 445 BCE. But you need to go back to the drawing board and recalculate the dates after reading this.

How many days are in a Jewish Calendar year and how does this effect the calculations to establish an accurate time line with the Gregorian calendar?

All lunisolar calendars have to periodically adjusted their calendar to realign it to the earths orbit around the sun. Our modern Gregorian calendar has 12 months which totals 365 days; we end up close to a quarter day short of the 365.2442 days it takes the earth to orbit the sun. So every four years we add one day to the month of February. (a 366 day year) Every 1, 667 years we need to add another day to the year to make up for the .006 days we are short by.

The Jewish calendar typically has 12 months which totals 354 days in a year and end up 11.256 days short. So periodically (about three years) they add an extra lunar leap month - a second month of Adar (a 13 month and 387 day year) to realign the calendar to earth's orbit around the sun. The exact formula used is complex and goes beyond our need to know to align Jewish dates and years to Gregorian dates and years.

The importance is that within a four years cycle both calendars are readjusted so that there is never in any one given time more than a 35 day difference between the dates in Jewish years and dates in Gregorian years. So we don't have to account for the exact days in the years to make our calculations. Since both calendars are periodically readjusted to the orbit around the sun anyway.

For example: 445 BCE plus 483 Gregorian years will still be 38 AD (always remaining within a 35 day range from the Jewish calendar and years). Ot 457 BCE plus 483 years will still be 26 AD (within less than 35 days).

Thus to come up with 7 Jewish years being (7 x 360 = 2, 520 days) is not accurate. It would be 2, 556 days after all the intercalculation days are adjusted within it. There is never any year in the Jewish calendar that has 360 days. All months in the Jewish calendar are either 30 or 29 days, the average of 29.5 days which is the exact orbit time of the moon around the earth. A Jewish month always starts within a half day of the new moon.

[razterizer]

Not the crucifiction, but the palm sunday when he was declared king.

[CarlosCeita]

PROJECT 7 HEADS
TOPIC I: 14th review: [ Religion and society: the calculation of Nehemiah's 70 weeks ]
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I. How to calculate the 70 weeks of Nehemiah, also called the 70 weeks of Daniel?
II. Introduction.
1. The 70 weeks were prophesied by Daniel to draw Judah's attention to the 1st advent of the messiah. If Judah accepted the messiah, it would be up to her to follow the messiah in evangelizing the world. If he rejected, the prophecy would serve as a testimony to him.
2. The calculation of the 70 weeks is based solely and simply on the Tanakh (Old testament). This is so that there is no embarrassment for the Jews (who do not believe in the New Testament) in their calculation.
3. The numerous particularistic interpretations of certain christian churches will not be addressed here, but only the interpretation that concerns Judah in the 1st century.
4. The prophecies of the 2300 evenings and mornings and the 1335 days of Daniel will not be addressed here.
Note 1: (a) For those who wish to perform and confirm the calculation between two eras, they must take into account the year zero [Ø]; (b) -n, -3.-2.-1, 0, +1.+2, +3, +n; (c) b.c.e. = Before Common Era and c.e. = Common Era.
III. Historical assumption of Artaxerxes I and Nehemiah.
1. [ 477 b.c.e. ]: (a) Year of Purim {Esther 9:1-32}; (b) Conspiracy and execution of Haman, the 2nd in the kingdom; (c) Elevation of Mordecai to 2nd in the kingdom; (d) Counter-slaughter of Jews on the day of 'pur'.
2. [ 476 b.c.e. }: (a) Artabanus, head of the royal house, kills Xerxes I; (b) Artaxerxes I, his ally, son of the murdered king, drives away his brothers who were pretenders to the throne, seizing the kingdom.
3. [ 456 b.c.e. ]: (a) Twentieth year of Artaxerxes I; (b) Nehemiah is appointed and authorized to travel to Jerusalem as governor {Nehemiah 2:1-6}; (c) Beginning of the construction of the walls and the prophecy of the 70 weeks.
IV. The 70 week calculation.
1. [ 456 b.c.e. ]: (a) 20th year of Artaxerxes I 'Longimanus'; (b) Beginning of the calculation of Nehemiah's 70 weeks {Daniel 9:24-27}.
2. [ 456 b.c.e. – 34 c.e. ]: 70 weeks of years: 70 'weeks' x 7 = 490 years {Daniel 9:24}.
3. [ 456 b.c.e. – 27 c.e. ]: (a) 69 weeks of years: 69 'weeks' x 7 = 483 years {Daniel 9:25}; (b) 27 c.e. it is the date of the baptism of the messiah in his 1st advent; (c) 27 c.e. it is also the date of Jehovah's visitation to Judah {Malachi 3:1, 2; Jeremiah 23:12 ; Luke 3:22; 19:41-44}.
4. [ 27 c.e. – 34 c.e. ]: (a) Last week of years: 1 'week' x 7 = 7 years; (b) This is the 'Jewish-messianic covenant week' {Daniel 8:11; 9:27}.
5. [ 27 c.e. – 30 c.e. ]: (a) 1st half of the week = 3 1/2 years; (b) This is the 1st half of the 'Jewish-messianic covenant week', relating to the preaching of the messiah, since his baptism in 27 c.e. until his martyrdom in 30 c.e. {Daniel 9:26; 8:11; Matthew 27:35; Zechariah 13:7}.
6. [ 30 c.e. – 34 c.e. ]: (a) 2nd half of the week = 3 1/2 years; (b) This is the 2nd half of the 'Jewish-messianic covenant week', since the martyrdom of Jesus Christ in 30 c.e. until the martyrdom of Stephen in 34 c.e. {Acts 6:1-15; 7:1-60}; (c) 34 c.e. marks the end of the 'Jewish-messianic covenant week' {Daniel 11:31}.
7. [ 3 b.c.e. ~ 27 c.e. ]: 1st method of calculating the life of Jesus: calculate 69 weeks until the baptism of the Messiah in 27 e.c. and then subtract 30 years {Micah 5:2; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23; 2:6; Luke 1:31}. In 27 c.e. Jesus was 30 years old.
8. [ 3 b.c.e. ~ 30 c.e. ]: 2nd method of calculating Jesus' life: calculate 70 weeks until the messiah's death in 30 c.e. and then subtract 33 years.
Note 2: Holy Spirit and blessings to all who can calculate and understand correctly {Proverbs 4:7, 18; 24:14; 9:10; Psalms 119:105; Colossians 2:2; Ephesians 6:12}.
Note: But then, what was and is the importance of the prophecy of the 70 weeks, without the complex interpretative inventions of the interval, elaborated by certain gentile churches? In conjunction with Malachi 3:1, the prophecy of the 70 weeks served to warn the Jews that the advent of the messiah was simultaneous with Jehovah's visitation, as He had promised Moses in 1506 b.c.e., at the beginning of the hebrew exodus {Exodus 32:34}. It also served to ensure that Judah would have no excuses, so that they would not say that they were unaware of the prophecy, the method of calculation and the date of Jehovah's visitation, simultaneous with the advent of the messiah.

[ End. Open to translation, correction, reinterpretation and deepening. ]
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