The Prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27

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The Prophecy of Daniel 924-27
24 Seventy Sevens are determined upon thy people
and upon thy holy city,

• bv,

• The Hebrew word for seven
• The feminine plural
• The masculine plural
• The word for seventy
• Literal Hebrew
• "Sevens Seventy"

• tAbuv

• yibuv'

• yib.vi

• yib.vi

• yibuv'

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The Prophecy of Daniel 924-27
24 Seventy Sevens are determined upon thy people
and upon thy holy city,

• A "Seven" is a Sabbatical Period.
• In Deut. 159, the Hebrew text calls the sabbath
  year 'the year of the seven'.
• There were six years to plant and reap, and then
  one year of rest, the seventh year (a sabbath
  year).
• They are referred to as "seven years" (Lev. 258)
• The 70 year exile contained 10 sabbath years.
• This prophecy is seven times 10 sabbath years
• God would punish Israel seven times over (Lev.
  2618)
• 10 sabbath years in 70 years x 7 is 70 sabbath
  years in 490 years.
• "Thy people" is Israel.
• "Thy holy city" is Jerusalem.

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to finish the transgression, and to make an end
of sins, and to make reconciliation for
iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
righteousness, and to seal up the vision and
prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.

• To finish transgression for the land of Israel
  "I will remove the iniquity of that land in one
  day" (Zech. 39). This is not complete yet.
• Nor is everlasting righteousness complete for
  Israel yet.
• Nor is the vision and prophecy complete.
• Nor is the Temple restored (Daniel 814).
• These things are completed on the 'Day of
  Atonement' (Lev. 1630)
• These matters are taken up in the End of Days
  Presentation

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25 Know therefore and understand, that from the
going forth of the commandment to restore and to
build Jerusalem unto Prince Messiah shall be
Seven Sevens, and Sixty and two Sevens (the
street shall be built again, and the wall, even
in troublous times.) 26 And after Sixty and two
Sevens shall Messiah be cut off, but not for
himself

• This prophecy predicts the comings of Messiah
  using the sabbatical period measurement method.
• It begins with a commandment to rebuild Jerusalem
• It notes something after seven sabbatic periods
• It tells us that Messiah dies after an additional
  62 sabbatic periods.
• The total sabbatic years from the rebuilding of
  the city to Messiah's Passion is 69.

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26b And the people of the prince that shall come
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary
and the end thereof shall be with a flood,
and unto the end of the war desolations are
determined. 27 And it shall confirm the covenant
with many for one Seven and in the midst of
the Seven he shall cause the sacrifice and the
oblation to cease, and for the overspreading
of abominations he shall make it desolate,
even until the consummation, and that
determined shall be poured upon the desolator.

• The people of the prince is Rome, who came in
  A.D. 66
• They destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in A.D.
  70
• Jerusalem was completely desolated in A.D. 135.
• The 70th sabbatic year is delayed until the day
  of Yahweh.
• The 70th sabbatic period is taken up in the End
  of Days presentation.

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The beginning point
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the
going forth of the commandment to restore and to
build Jerusalem
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is when Nehemiah rebuilt the city
21 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in
the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, I
said unto the king, If it please the king, and if
thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that
thou would send me unto Judah, unto the city of
my fathers' sepulchers, that I may build it.
(Nehemiah 21-5).
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When was the 20th Year of Artaxerxes And the
month of Nisan?

• April 13, 445 B.C. April 2, 444 B.C. Persian
  20th year
• Pg. 32 Babylonian Chronology, 626 B.C.A.D. 75
• Biblical AVIV (Nisan) THR 4/ 2/-444
  29 days Jul 1559344.16
• Biblical New Moon sighting at sunset 4/2.

20th Year
445 B.C.
444 B.C.
Nisan
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How do we know this date is correct?

• The date agrees with the accepted date by secular
  historians.
• The date agrees with VAT 5047 (Venus Astronomical
  Text)
• The date agrees with the Saros Tablets.
• The date agrees with the received Chronology of
  Ptolemy.
• Nehemiah 11 shows that a Tishri based year was
  used.
• This gives us three independent
  sources,
• plus the backing of historians

20th Year
445 B.C.
444 B.C.
Nisan
See The Chronology of Ezra 7, Lynn H. Wood, PhD.,
Siegfried H. Horn, PhD., pg. 95, note 14, pg.
69-70. See Chronological Aspects of the Life of
Christ, Harold W. Hoehner, pg. 129.
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to the point of Messiah's cutting off
unto the Messiah the Prince shall be Seven
Sevens, and Sixty and two Sevens the street
shall be built again, and the wall, even in
troublous times. 26 And after Sixty and two
Sevens shall Messiah be cut off, but not for
himself
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is in A.D. 34
A.D. 33
A.D. 34
Nisan Yeshua's Death And Resurrection
and this was the subject of the previous
presentation on the Passion Chronology
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How do we know that this date is correct?

1. The date is the only date in Finegan's Handbook
   of Biblical Chronology, Rev. Ed, as calculated by
   the astronomer Fotheringham, to give a Wednesday
   date for the 14th of Nisan compatible with the
   Sabbath resurrection.
2. The date is the only Wednesday date that agrees
   with the calendar according to the first
   observation of the new moon in Jerusalem, per
   Torah requirements, and confirmed in the Talmud.
3. The date is the only Wednesday date that agrees
   with normal intercalation of the 13th month and
   the proper timing for the ripening of the barely.
4. The date is the only date to allow a four year
   ministry of Yeshua per the requirements of Luke
   136-9.
5. The date is the only date to allow us to fit all
   of John's three Passovers into the chronology,
   and Luke's two extra Passovers (Luke 61 and Luke
   13).
6. The date agrees with all other data about the
   birth of Yeshua in 3 B.C., and the start of his
   ministry in A.D. 30.
7. Any earlier date would falsify Daniel's Prophecy.

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8. The date was arrived at by the Orthodox Jewish
Scholar Solomon Zeitlin, and published in the
Journal of Biblical Literature.
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The beginning point to the cutting off of Messiah

20th Year
445 B.C.
444 B.C.
Nisan Yeshua's Death And Resurrection
Nisan Decree Date
A.D. 33
A.D. 34
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must contain an interval of
Seven Sevens, and Sixty and two Sevens
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The Hebrew Text
yInv.W yVivi yibuv'wgt h'b.vi yibuv'
seven sevens, and sixty and two sevens
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And From page 988 of The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-
Gesenius Hebrew And English Lexicon
7620 hWbv' n.m.Dn 9,27 Period of seven
(days, years), heptad, week late yibuv' Dan
924 4t.
Translated by the Stone Edition TANACH as
"septets," i.e. "sevens".
Rendered by H.W. Guggenheimer in "Seder Olam The
Rabbinic View of Biblical Chronology" as
"Sabbatical periods" (pg. 242).
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And From page 2522 of Reuben Alcalay's Complete
Hebrew-English Dictionary
WbV'h tnv. Shemittah (q.v.)
Deuteronomy 159 "Year-of the-seven year-of
the-Shemittah (release)"
hJ'miV.h tnv. bV,h-tnv.
WbV'

• yiWbv'

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Also From page 2522 of Reuben Alcalay's Complete
Hebrew-English Dictionary
yeWbv. , yiWbv' , WbV' week
seven days seven years
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So What are these Sevens?
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked
heart, saying, year of the seven, the year of
release, is at hand and thine eye be evil
against thy poor brother, and thou givest him
nought and he cry unto Yahweh against thee, and
it be sin unto thee (Deut. 159)
bV,h-tnv. year of the seven. The sevens
are either sabbatical periods (seven year
periods) or the sabbatical years themselves. We
will work the prophecy both ways.
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How we know Daniel Understood Sabbatical Years
In the first year of his reign I Daniel
understood by books the number of the years,
whereof the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the
prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years
in the desolations of Jerusalem. (Dan. 92)
To fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of
Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her
Sabbaths for as long as she lay desolate she
kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. (2Chron.
3621)
How many sabbatical years did Israel break?
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Exactly Seventy
According to Ezekiel 45-6 the sin of Israel was
390 years, and the sin of Judah was 40 years.
Combine these two numbers for a total of 430
years. Now in the 430 years there were 64
seventh year sabbaticals 6 Jubilee year
sabbaticals (Note 430/7 61 and 430/49 9, but
when the chronology is worked out the sin years
are not continuous but broken up by periods of
repentance all these years are precisely mapped
out in the Chronology Scroll)
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What Torah says about the Sabbatical Years
And thou shall number seven Sabbaths of years
unto thee, seven times seven years and the space
of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee
forty and nine years. 9 Then shall thou cause the
trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day
of the seventh month, in the day of atonement
shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all
your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth
year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the
land unto all the inhabitants thereof it shall
be a jubilee unto you and ye shall return every
man unto his possession, and ye shall return
every man unto his family. (Lev. 258-10).
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So the 70 years of exile were based on exactly 70
sabbatical years that Israel broke. Daniel
expects the restoration of the captivity into the
age to come. Why then does the Angel say,
"Seventy Sevens" (Dan 924?)
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto
me, then I will punish you seven times more for
your sins. (Lev. 2618). Then will I also walk
contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven
times for your sins. (Lev. 2624).
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So then it is clear that the sevens are
sabbatical years, or sabbatical periods. How do
we fit seven sabbatical years and sixty two
sabbatical years into the interval?
20th Year
445 B.C.
444 B.C.
Nisan Yeshua's Death And Resurrection
Nisan Decree Date
A.D. 33
A.D. 34
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The prophecy says "after" the "sixty two
sevens" Messiah will be cut off. This means that
the ending sabbatical year must terminate before
Yeshua's death and resurrection
62nd Sab
A.D. 34
A.D. 32
A.D. 33
Nisan Yeshua's Death And Resurrection
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On the other hand to fit seven sevens plus
sixty Two sevens into the interval requires the
first Sabbatical year to be in 445/444 B.C.
1st Sabb
444 B.C.
445 B.C.
Nisan issuance of Decree to rebuild
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The fit is so constrained that the sabbatical
year could be placed no other way to meet the
requirements of the prophecy.
1st Sabb
62nd Sab
7th Sabb
1st Sabb
69th Sab
444 B.C.
445 B.C.
A.D. 34
A.D. 32
A.D. 33
Nisan issuance of Decree to rebuild
Nisan Yeshua's Death And Resurrection
One year later would violate the "after"
clause. One year before would reduce the number
of Sabbatic years or periods
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How the Sabbaticals are Counted

1. According to the inclusive principle of counting
   in Hebrew the decree, which is in the first
   sabbatical year (or period) allows us to count
   that sabbatical year (or period) as the first.
2. Seven sevens and sixty two sevens total to make
   sixty nine.
3. The total number of years is 444 33 477.
4. 477/7 68. A tight fit allows us to add 1.
   68169.
5. This back of the envelope calculation is
   confirmed by actually mapping out every
   individual sabbatical year and period in the
   timeline.

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Why the division into seven sevens and sixty two
sevens?

1. Ezra appears the first time at the reading of
   Torah at the feast of tabernacles in Nehemiah 8.
2. Ezra went back to Persia (as also did Nehemiah)
   and he returned in the 7th year of Artaxerxes II,
   which is the year 398/397 B.C. Ezra 7 speaks of
   the 2nd Artaxerxes, and this is proved by the
   succession of high priests.
3. Ezra returned with a decree prohibiting the
   taxation of Levites and with orders concerning
   the temple.
4. He completed dealing with the corrupted priests
   (mixed marriages) and restored the temple to
   operation by 396, which is exactly a 49 year
   period from 445, and contains seven sabbatical
   years.

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Seven Sabbatical Years To Restore the Levitical
Service Or Exactly 49 years
Ezra finishes his work
49 Years (7x7)
62 Sevens
1st Sabb
7th Sabb
1st Sabb
49th Yr
444 B.C.
397
396
395
402
Ezra goes to Jerusalem in 7th Year of Artaxerxes
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Rebuilding Decree issued By Artaxerxes I
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The Torah Reading in Nehemiah 8 Confirms that
this Was a Sabbatical Year.
818 Also day by day, from the first day unto the
last day, he read in the book of the Torah of
God. And they kept the feast seven days and on
the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according
unto the manner. (Nehemiah 818).
And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of
every seven years, in the solemnity of the year
of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 When
all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh thy
God in the place which he shall choose, thou
shalt read this law before all Israel in their
hearing. (Deut. 3110-11).
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The Torah is Read
Deut 3110-11, Neh 818 Torah Reading
1 J.H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the British
Empire, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, 2nd ed.,
Soncino Press, London, 5733/1972. "in the set
time of the year of release. According to
tradition, the reference here is to the
'Sabbatical year', called in xv, 9 'the year of
release'. The Feast of Tabernacles referred to
is that immediately following the conclusion of
the Sabbatical year." (Deut. 3110).
1st Sabb
444 B.C.
445 B.C.
Nisan issuance of Decree to rebuild
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The Prophecy is Fulfilled And the Sabbatical
cycles Established The Scripture is Proved
True And Yeshua is Proved to be Messiah As
exactly verified by history
69 Total
1st Sabb
62nd Sab
7th Sabb
1st Sabb
444 B.C.
445 B.C.
A.D. 34
A.D. 32
A.D. 33
Nisan issuance of Decree to rebuild
Nisan Yeshua's Death And Resurrection
7th Year
A.D. 2006
A.D. 2007
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Why did Israel forget How to Explain Daniel
9? The factors of Forgetting

1. Israel forgot the Sabbath
2. Israel forgot the Passover Sabbath
3. Israel forgot the sign of Jonah
4. Israel forgot that Yeshua rose on the Sabbath day
5. Israel rejected the Torah
6. Israel forgot God and worshipped idols
7. Israel replaced Sabbath with the "Sun" day.
8. Israel forgot to read Torah.
9. Israel forgot the sabbatical years.
10. Israel forgot the Levites and the Temple Service.
11. Israel hired false teachers to tickle their ears.

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What Israel must do is Repent and Confess its Sin
to Almighty God
When all these things are come upon thee, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before
thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all
the nations, whither Yahweh thy God hath driven
thee, 2 And shalt return unto Yahweh thy God, and
shalt obey his voice according to all that I
command thee this day, thou and thy children,
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul 3
That then Yahweh thy God will turn thy captivity,
and have compassion upon thee, and will return
and gather thee from all the nations, whither
Yahweh thy God hath scattered thee. . 6 And
Yahweh thy God will circumcise thine heart, and
the heart of thy seed, to love Yahweh thy God
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that
thou mayest live. . 10 If thou shalt hearken
unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to keep his
commandments. (Deut. 301-10).
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How the Rabbis Explained Daniel 9 According to
Seder Olam Rabbi Yose ben Halaphta ca. 140 A.D.
490 Years/ 70 Sabbatical Years
Year 1
70th Sab
422 B.C.
423 B.C.
A.D. 69
A.D. 68
Destruction of Second Temple
Destruction of First Temple
To accomplish this, Halaphta had to shorten the
Persian period by 165 years. Back then the fraud
escaped detection, but by the 10th century it was
exposed, and by the 19th disproved. The correct
dates of the first and second destruction of the
temple are 587 B.C. and A.D. 70 respectively.
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The Seder Olam fraud introduced a host of
additional exegetical difficulties, not the least
of which is the fact that the kingdom did not
materialize in A.D. 70.
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End Supplemental Slides Follow

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Error 1 Making Messiah End The Levitical Service
And he shall confirm a covenant with many for one
seven and in the midst of the week he shall
cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,
and for the overspreading of abominations he
shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that Determined, shall be
poured upon the desolator. (Dan 927)
Did Messiah Desolate the Temple? Did the
offerings actually end?
Did Yeshua make a covenant for only one seven?
7th ?
6th ?
5th ?
4th ?
3rd ?
2nd ?
1st ?
A.D. 34
A.D. 32
A.D. 33
A.D. 31
A.D. 30
A.D. 29
A.D. 28
Adventists
Catholics
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No, No, and No But
612 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh
Yahweh of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose
name is The BRANCH and he shall grow up out of
his place, and he shall build the temple of
Yahweh 13 Even he shall build the temple of
Yahweh and he shall bear the glory, and shall
sit and rule upon his throne and there shall be
a Cohen before his throne and the counsel of
peace shall be between them both. (Zechariah
612-13).
33 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of
silver and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and
purge them as gold and silver, that they may
offer unto Yahweh an offering in righteousness. 4
Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be
pleasant unto Yahweh, as in the days of old, and
as in former years. (Mal. 33-4).
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Error 2 Trying to Reduce the Year to 360 Days
A.D. 32
A.D. 33
A.D. 31
Evangelicals

1. In an attempt to fit 69 x 7 years (483) years
   between 444 B.C. and A.D. 33, the Evangelicals
   (following Sir Robert Andersons, The Coming
   Prince, reduce the year to 360 days, to make it
   actually (360483/365 ¼ ) 476 years.
2. They give strong evidence that Noah used a 360
   day Year.
3. While Noah may have used a 360 day year, it must
   have been astronomically correct for his time,
   with new moons every 30 days, but we know that
   the year is now 365 ¼ days, and the new moons
   average 29 ½ days.
4. Anderson's calculation was invalid because A.D.
   32 does not allow either a Friday or Wednesday
   Crucifixion.
5. And the Evangelical calculation for A.D. 33 is
   invalid because they are forced to start the
   prophecy in the month of Adar instead of Nisan.

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Error 3 Listening to the Rabbis Claim that the
prophecy is from the destruction of Solomon's
Temple to The Temple in A.D. 70
490 Years???
585 B.C.
586 B.C.
A.D. 69
A.D. 70

1. This is the teaching of the work called Seder
   Olam.
2. Orthodox Judaism does not use a modern scientific
   approach to chronology.
3. Orthodox Jews forbid their people to study the
   book of Daniel
4. Everlasting Righteousness did not come in A.D. 70
   (Dan. 924).
5. The city was not rebuilt in 586 B.C., but
   destroyed.
6. The time between the temples is 655 Years, so
   that 490 years is historically impossible.
7. The Orthodox view was created specifically to
   confuse Daniel 9

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Error 4 Listening to other Rabbis To date the
prophecy to Onias III or Antiochus Epiphanes
483 Years???
585 B.C.
586 B.C.
165 B.C.
171 B.C.

1. Another common Rabbinic view for those who do
   accept the actual history of the Persian and
   Greek periods, and also many higher critics.
2. 483 years would end in 103 B.C., and since
   Messiah was to be cut off after the sixty two
   sevens, the calculation is invalid.
3. The starting point is still invalid.

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How the Rabbis Deceive You
That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall
perform all my pleasure even saying to
Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built and to the
temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. (Isaiah
4428).
The Rabbis deceive you by misinterpreting the
Cyrus Prophecy they claim that this refers to
Cyrus the Great (539-530).

1. There is no record that Cyrus the Great said the
   city was to be rebuilt.
2. The Cyrus Cylinder does not mention the Jews
   specifically.
3. The Persians had a policy of returning peoples,
   but not all at once.
4. The Cyrus Edict in Ezra 1 does not say that this
   Cyrus is Cyrus the Great who ruled from 539-530.
5. Jeremiah wrote a letter to the exiled king (Jer.
   291-10) in which they were told they must be in
   exile 70 years.
6. Ezekiel dates this 70 years according to the
   exile of the king.
7. The king was exiled in 597.
8. But 539 falls short of 70 years.
9. The Babylonian rule also falls short of 70 years
   604-539 is only 66 ½ years.
10. Babylon did not become an everlasting desolation.

So What is the Solution?
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Cyrus is a Throne Name Pg. 428, Lexicon in
Veteris Testamenti Libros, Koehler/Baumgartner
vrltAK n.m. ku,roj Cyrus elamitischer
Thron-name elamitic name of reigning prince,
Kuraš Hirt shepherd.

1. Any Persian King can hold the title, just as any
   Egyptian king is called Pharaoh.
2. Josephus specifically calls Artaxerxes I "Cyrus"
   Ant. 11.184. And this is the Cyrus that
   commanded the city to be rebuilt.
3. Isaiah calls "Cyrus" a surname (Isaiah 454),
   i.e. a family name or throne name.
4. Isaiah prophesies in 4514 that Cyrus will
   conquer Egypt, and this was done by Cambyses only
   in 525 B.C., which makes him Cyrus. And he also
   became the Pharaoh of Egypt.
5. The Isaiah prophecy is time compressed and refers
   to Messiah also (Isaiah 4514b-15, the true
   Shepherd of Israel.

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• The 70 years exile is from 597 to 528 B.C., which
  brings us to the first year of Cambyses, who we
  know is a Cyrus meant by Isaiah since he
  conquered Egypt in 525 B.C. Therefore Cambyses
  was the Cyrus who issued the temple decree.
  However, when the temple was completed and
  shortly after services began, it was taxed into
  closure, and did not function properly until Ezra
  returned in the 7th year of Artaxerxes II (397
  B.C.). This king is also "Cyrus"
• The 70 years of Babylonian rule is from 604 to
  539 B.C. with 3 ½ years cut off to the end of the
  age. At the end of days this 3 ½ years will take
  place, and then Babylon will become an
  everlasting desolation.
• The two other 70 year periods in the book of
  Zechariah date differently.
• Artaxerxes I (464-424) is Josephus' "Cyrus," and
  this "Cyrus" is the one who issued the decree to
  rebuild the city.

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The Foolishness of Israel is Evident

1. In attempting to explain that all the seventy
   weeks are fulfilled already, and not just the
   first 69, because 'everlasting righteousness' is
   not yet, and neither is the holy of holies
   annointed. Judah also committed this
   foolishness.
2. In attempting to explain that Messiah ended the
   sacrifices in the middle of the 70th week, when
   Yahweh God himself said that he would not annul
   his covenant with Levi until day and night passed
   away (Jer. 3317-22).
3. In attempting to shorten a year to 360 days in
   order to make it fit their preconceived timing of
   Yeshua's death and resurrection on Friday in A.D.
   33.
4. In attempting to place Ezra before Nehemiah and
   so ruining the explanation of the seven sevens.
5. And Judah in attempting to explain that the
   prophecy starts with the destruction of Jerusalem
   in 587 B.C. rather than the rebuilding of it, and
   then reducing Persian History to end it in A.D.
   70 after only 490 years.

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The Current Sabbatical Period
We are here
7th Year
6th Year
5th Year
4th Year
3rd Year
2nd Year
1st Year
A.D. 2006
A.D. 2007
A.D. 2004
A.D. 2005
A.D. 2003
A.D. 2001
A.D. 2002
Planned Future Prophetic Future
History Fulfilled Prophecy
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The Sure Word of Prophecy
God is not a like man, that He should lie, Nor
like a son of man, that He himself should repent.
What has He said, and will He not do it? Or what
has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
(Numbers 2319).
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from
heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the
earth, and maks it bring forth and bud, that it
may give seed to the sower, and bread to the
eater 11 So shall my word be that goes forth out
of my mouth it shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
(Isaiah 5510-11)