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NASB | Daniel 9:24 ¶ "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Daniel 9:24 ¶ "Seventy weeks [of years, or 490 years] have been decreed for your people and for your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make atonement (reconciliation) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness (right-standing with God), to seal up vision and prophecy and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. |
Bible Question:
I am really confused about the whole "70th Week of Daniel" thing. And I am sure many others are too, as it is a very controversial and rather esoteric passage. Many people promote the idea of a gap between the 69th and the 70th weeks. I just can't get the text to support that. I understand there are many interpretations and I would like to hear from everyone their "take" on this verse and its relevance to the return of Christ... |
Bible Answer: Hi Amber_G This is a prophecy that definitely shows Daniel to be an authentic prophet. It reads, in part: "There are seventy weeks that have been determined upon your people and upon your holy city, in order to terminate the transgression, and to finish off sin, and to make atonement for error . . . And you should know and have the insight that from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks (making 69 in all). . . . And after the sixty-two weeks (that is, 7 plus 62, or after the 69th week) Messiah will be cut off . . . And he must keep the covenant in force for the many for one week (the 70th); and at the half of the week he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to cease."-Daniel 9:24-27. Many Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant Bible scholars agree that the "weeks" of this prophecy are weeks of years. The Revised Standard Version, Ecumenical Edition, reads: "Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people." Those 490 years began in 455 B.C.E. when Nehemiah was authorized by Persian king Artaxerxes "to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem." (Nehemiah 2:1-8) Sixty-nine weeks of years later, that is, in 29 C.E., Jesus was baptized and anointed, becoming the Christ, or the Anointed One, the Messiah. "At the half of the (70th) week," in 33 C.E., he was "cut off." His sacrificial death made atonement for the sins of mankind, thus causing the animal sacrifices under the Law of Moses "to cease." Because of this reliable prophecy, first-century Jewish people "knew that the seventy weeks of years fixed by Daniel were drawing to a close; nobody was surprised to hear John the Baptist announce that the kingdom of God had drawn near."-Manuel Biblique, by Bacuez and Vigouroux. Truthfinder |