The quantitative dimension of the 69 weeks.
This series of posts rests on what God says in Daniel 9 and is extracted from the texts of Revelation the Fair God, The Great Harvest of the Post-Allah World as well as The Rock Breaks the Globalists’ Empire and the biblical references therein.
As developed in part 2, Gabriel’s revelation is for your people; it is relevant to Daniel’s people: the Jewish people.
Gabriel continues: A command will come to rebuild Jerusalem. The time from this command until the appointed leader comes will be forty-nine years and four hundred thirty-four years. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and a trench filled with water around it, but it will be built in times of trouble. After the four hundred thirty-four years the appointed leader will be killed; He will have nothing. All this is history to us.
With impeccable precision: After forty-nine years and four hundred thirty-four years the appointed leader [was] killed. By putting the validating stamp on Gabriel’s the time predictor, Jesus certifies the rest of the prediction.
Gabriel uses a specific format: a back-and-forth set of images. He leads with a snapshot of the divine and follows with a corresponding snapshot of the evil. Gabriel uses this style for both the 69 weeks and the 70th week; there is continuity in how he presents his message.
Gabriel groups the first sixty-nine weeks together (7 plus 62) and ties up that part of the message on the divine side as follows: Messiah will be cut off and have nothing. Indeed, Jesus died a lonely death and his followers ran away and the Jewish people did not rally behind Him.
Then on the evil side Gabriel gives two separate predictions: the people of the coming prince will destroy the city and sanctuary. And a second: The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed. The first information obviously refers to Jerusalem and the temple. The second, however, refers to the whole world, to humanity in general.
Messiah’s death brings closure to the timed part of the sixty-ninth week but it does not end its characteristics. Until the end… tells us that the run-off of these sixty-nine weeks will span out till the end of humanity. So what does Messiah end? Messiah’s death puts an end to the rule of sin.
What Gabriel started was the official countdown clock of salvation for the benefit of the Jewish people. Daniel’s people needed to be able to measure the Messianic timing quantitatively, to know how to validate Messiah by the timing of His action…and thus to embrace Him. From the other Jewish prophets they knew the events of their future history; so the content was already there. Gabriel simply marked the calendar!
This is very important, because all the Pharisees and the teachers of the law knew how to count 483 years from the edict! They knew that they were killing one who called Himself Messiah on the very day in history that Messiah was to die! Gabriel’s prophecy through Daniel removed any and all excuses for their positions and reactions to Jesus. This has been true for every Jewish person since. They did not want Jesus to be Messiah. They rebelled against God. They and all the Jewish people in-the-know were thus guilty.
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