What was the prophecy of Daniel 9?

1st Semester / Week 3

Does the Bible teach there will be “7 years of the great tribulation” right before Jesus comes back? The Bible never, ever uses the phrase “7 years of the great tribulation.” It’s simply not in the Bible. It turns out that’s a modern invention, virtually unknown by our ancestors, based upon a futuristic interpretation of Daniel 9 which needs a “gap” in the prophecy.

Many modern believers incorrectly believe that Daniel 9 is a sinister passage about a future antichrist who makes a covenant (or supposedly a peace treaty) with Jews from a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem. However, the information presented here is THE TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATION of Daniel 9, the primary interpretation for 1,800 years and is still taught in many seminaries (one example would be the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary). It had always been known that Daniel 9 was all about Jesus and His glorious New Covenant, and is one of the most amazing predictions about Jesus in all of Scripture.

Mistakenly taking a prophecy about Jesus Christ and turning it into a prophecy about “Anti”-Christ isn’t just a small, insignificant, minor detail, but rather, would be a colossally huge error with countless harmful consequences. Therefore, this important study should be carefully and prayerfully evaluated to reveal the Truth, to see if Jesus Christ has already fulfilled this Christ-centered prophecy.

When Jesus was asked how many times we should forgive, He said 70 times 7, which is 490. Many currently teach that what He meant was just a really big number not to be taken literally, but when studying the book of Daniel, we see that when God was going to bring His people out of captivity (they had been put in captivity for exactly 70 years so that the land could have its Sabbath rest that it hadn’t previously been given), God then gave His people 70 weeks (70 times 7 = 490 days), and this prophecy is using the “day for a year” principle, and therefore is 490 years.

This “day for a year” principle is seen in passages such as Numbers 14:34, “After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each DAY FOR A YEAR,” as well as Ezekiel 4:6, “I have appointed you each DAY FOR A YEAR,” and in Genesis 29:27, “Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years.” In an act of recapitulation, Jesus also spent 40 days in the wilderness while Israel had spent 40 years. We should begin to see that when studying the 70 weeks in Daniel, it’s clearly using the “day for a year” principle, and the 70 weeks equals 490 years. Surprisingly, there are many prophecies in which a “prophetic day” is often equal to a “year.” To further prove that this prophecy in Daniel 9 is using the “day for a year” principle, we see in John 2:20 that it took 46 years just to build the temple, which is much longer than 70 literal weeks.

The reason for this time period revealed in Danial 9 is stated in verse 24 and 25,

“For your people and for your holy city,

To finish the transgression,

To make an end of sins,

To make reconciliation for iniquity,

To bring in everlasting righteousness,

To seal up the vision and prophecy

And to anoint the Most Holy.

Know therefore and understand,

That from the going forth of the command

To restore and build Jerusalem

Until Messiah the Prince,

There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;

The street shall be built again, and the wall.”

The well-known starting date for the decree to rebuild and restore Jerusalem was given by Artaxerxes in 457 BC (Ezra 7:13). Three other commands had been given to begin rebuilding, but the command in 457 BC was the command to not just rebuild but to also finally “restore” the people and government. According to Peter Gentry, Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, “457 B.C., then, is the correct date to begin marking off the seventy sabbaticals because this ‘word’ to rebuild the city is associated with the return of Ezra and the re-establishing of the judiciary, central to the concept of a city (Ezra 7:25, 26). Ezra is a central figure in the return… the point of the vision of Seventy Weeks is to mark a beginning after the word of Cyrus in 537. Thus, Ezra’s return commissioned by Artaxerxes is the next possible point. More importantly, the command in 457 is actually at the beginning of a sabbatical cycle. When one begins the computation from this point, the three periods of the Seventy Weeks and the events and personae associated with them fit both precisely and simply. First, the literary structure of the text must be observed; then the explanation of the chronology and events is straightforward.” http://equip.sbts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/sbjt_v14_n1_gentry.pdf

After 483 years (69 “weeks” times 7), Jerusalem had truly been rebuilt with streets and the wall, and Jesus had come, and we know that Jesus is the “Anointed One.” He became “anointed” when He was baptized with the Holy Spirit. Next we see in verse 26, “After this period [after the 69 weeks].. cut off [many translations use the words “killed,” or “slain,” or “put to death”] is Messiah.” The King James Version says that the Messiah is “cut off, but not for Himself,” which means that He was killed for us. At this point in the passage, it hadn’t been stated how long after the 69 weeks He will be killed (but that exact answer is given in the next verse, verse 27).

Continuing in verse 26 we read “the people of the prince…,” and this could either be the Roman leader Prince Titus with his army in 70 AD, or since Messiah the Prince was just mentioned in the previous verse, it’s still Prince Jesus (the “Prince of Peace,” per Isaiah 9:6) the Messiah who by God’s hand brought the Roman army to destroy the Temple as Jesus had prophesied. Now that we know it’s “the people” that Jesus used to accomplish His purpose, we’ll continue with that passage: “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.”

Again, the key to focus on is “the people”… “that shall come.” It’s not introducing an entirely new and different Prince that will someday come, but rather, it’s “the people” that Jesus used to destroy Jerusalem in 70 AD. It obviously wasn’t “Christians” that destroyed the Temple, but it didn’t need to be since there’s a firmly established precedent in the Old Testament for God to use gentiles as a tool to accomplish His will in punishing His Old Covenant nation. In this particular instance, the gentile people God used was the Roman army, and by using the future tense phrase “that shall come” introduces the possibility that the final, ultimate destruction of the Temple might occur after the 70 weeks prophecy has terminated.

For some reason, the currently popular dispensational interpretation is that “the people of the prince that shall come” is referring to a future Antichrist. However, if the focus is on another prince other than Jesus, there were lots of Hebrew words to choose from if Daniel was referring to a despotic leader or a tyrant, such as Strong’s Hebrew #6184: “arits” which means “mighty, oppressor, in great power, strong, terrible, violent,” or Strong’s #5303: “nphiyl” which means “a bully or tyrant or giant,” or Strong’s #5633: “seren” which means “lord, ruler, tyrant,” or Strong’s # 1368: “gibbor” which means “one who magnifies himself, behaves proudly, a tyrant, who is bold, audacious,” or Strong’s # 6216: “ashoq” which means “oppressor, extortioner.” There were many Hebrew words that could’ve been given to Daniel to imply that these people who would come would be associated with the Antichrist, yet none of those words were used.

History actually shows that it was by God’s hand that the entire Old Covenant system truly was washed away in 70 AD as if by a flood, just as predicted. The phrase “its end will come with a flood” if it isn’t to be fulfilled literally would certainly sound strange to our modern ears, but in this instance the “people of the prince” are being described with a metaphor to suggest the speed and overpowering destructive force of a flood, and this exact metaphor had been used throughout the Old Testament to describe catastrophic destruction (see Job 20:28, 27:20; Psalm 88:17; Daniel 11:10; and Hosea 5:10).

The Hebrew phrase for “Messiah the Prince” is “māšîaḥ nāgîd.” ‘Messiah’ means “anointed one.” In the Old Testament, messiah is used for the patriarchs (1 Chr 16:19-22; Ps 105:15-17), the high priest (Lev 4:3, 5, 16), the king of Israel (1 Sam 2:10, 35; 12:3, 5; 24:6; Ps 2:2), Cyrus the Great (Isa 45:1), and the eschatological Messiah (Dan 9:25-26; also Ps 2:2). The second Hebrew word in the phrase, “nāgîd,” can be translated as “prince.” Peter Gentry gives this description of how the word “prince” is actually used to refer to Jesus: “There is a good reason why… [Jesus] is referred to in verses 25 and 26 by the term nāgîd, “ruler,” rather than by the term melek, the standard word in Hebrew for king….In short, nāgîd communicates kingship according to God’s plan and standards whereas melek communicates kingship according to the Canaanite model of absolute despotism and self-aggrandizement. That is why the term nāgîd dominates in the passage on the Davidic Covenant (2 Samuel 7) and is also the term used here” (http://equip.sbts.edu/wp content/uploads/2010/05/sbjt_v14_n1_gentry.pdf).

Though māšîaḥ and nāgîd occur together only in Daniel 9:25, nāgîd occurs with the Hebrew verb “to anoint” (māšaḥ) in the following verses: 1 Samuel 9:16; 10:1; 2 Samuel 5:2-3; 1 Kings 1:34-35; and 1 Chronicles 11:2-3; 29:22, and each of these refers to the king of Israel. Therefore, ‘the Prince’ (nāgîd) of Daniel 9:26 clearly refers to the Lord Jesus Christ who is the true King of Israel. (Information gathered from Providence Theological Seminary – http://nct-blog.ptstn.org/2016/03/16/who-is-messiah-the-prince-of-daniel-924-27/).

When trying to decide who the “he” is in verse 27 that makes a covenant (a legal agreement), it’s been obvious to theologians for centuries that our God is a Covenant making God, His people are a people of the Covenant, and we are now in the New Covenant. An Antichrist is not a Covenant maker, only our God is, therefore the “he” is not referring to some future Antichrist.

A common, well known form of communication in ancient Hebrew literature was to make a statement, and to then immediately restate the same message but from a different perspective. When putting these two statements together, they function like stereo speakers; each one is playing something somewhat different, yet when played together, they compliment and complete one another (a full study of this subject can be found in How to Read and Understand the Biblical Prophets by Peter Gentry).

That is the case with verses 26 and 27. In this same way, verse 27 goes back and explains what the previous verse meant. “He [Jesus, who is the primary subject of this passage] shall confirm a COVENANT with MANY for one week; But in the middle of the week [the last week, the 70th week] He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.” This is exactly what Jesus did, He confirmed the covenant with many, and Jesus had even quoted Daniel 9:27 in the upper room:

“For this is My blood of the new COVENANT, which is shed for MANY for the forgiveness of sins,” Matthew 26:28.

This was also predicted in Isaiah 53:11:

“By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify MANY, For He shall bear their iniquities.”

We also see that the last week of Daniel 9 was still only about Israel according to Matthew 15:24, “I was only sent to the lost sheep of Israel,” but after that last week, after the 490 years, beginning with Paul, the gospel was then sent out to everyone.

Continuing with verse 27, we see that the end of sacrifices and offerings symbolically and spiritually happened immediately upon the death of Jesus in the middle of the last week when the Veil was torn from top to bottom, signifying that the old sacrifices and offerings ceased to have any further spiritual value. We even specifically see in Hebrews 10:5-9 that it was Jesus that took away the sacrifices in order to do God’s will, where “He takes away the first [verses 5,6, and 8 establish that this is referring to sacrifices and offerings] that He may establish the second.”

But how else did God eventually cause the sacrifices to fully stop as stated in verse 27? We see that answer in the next part of verse 27, “on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes [Jerusalem and its Temple] desolate.” We again see it stated in future tense “shall come one who makes,” rather than past tense “will have made it,” and this means that it wouldn’t be completely fulfilled during the 70th week, but rather by eventually sending the Roman army to destroy it in 70 AD (within that generation = within 40 years, per Matthew 24:34), just as Jesus predicted that not one stone will be left standing in the Temple (Matthew 24:2), and the specific details about the siege had amazingly been specifically prophesied in Deuteronomy 28:49-68.

We see that Jesus gave His followers this warning in Luke 21:20-22:

“when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of her depart, and let not those who are in the country enter her. For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.”

This is similarly stated in Mark 13:

“But when you see the abomination of desolation [Jerusalem surrounded by armies, as was just revealed in Luke 21:20], spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand) then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains.”

Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 are nearly identical, parallel passages describing the destruction of Jerusalem; one of the primary differences being that the gospel of Matthew was written to a Jewish audience, while Luke was written to Gentiles, as has been documented in many theologian’s commentaries. This is why, when referencing Daniel 9, Matthew wrote to the Jewish readers “let the reader understand.” However, Luke knew that a non-Jewish audience wouldn’t have a clue what the abomination of desolation meant, unlike those who were Jewish who might’ve been able to understand its meaning, which is why Luke spells it out for us. Instead of using the phrase “abomination of desolation” like Matthew had done, Luke instead simple states “armies.” Without a doubt, the abomination that causes desolation is an army that destroys and makes things desolate. An army most certainly causes desolation, therefore a destructive army can be an abomination.

Again, the topic of Daniel 9 as well as the topic of Mathew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 was the destruction of the Temple. That is what all 4 passages are discussing, and as history proves, the Temple was destroyed by the Roman army. The question the disciples had asked Jesus was, what would be the sign that the Temple is about to be destroyed. They were asking Jesus to clarify exactly when it would be when “not one stone will be left standing on top of another.” Simply put, the sign that Jesus gave them was that they would know when the Temple was about to be destroyed when they saw Jerusalem surrounded by the Roman army. That is what the abomination of desolation was, and it was fulfilled in 70 AD. Case closed.

One of the most amazing aspects of the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., as recorded in the writings of the Jewish historian Josephus who witnessed the events firsthand, was that not one single Christian perished in the conflict, the reason being that they heeded Jesus’s prophetic warning concerning the Abomination of Desolation, which was fulfilled by the Roman Army that was sent by God to destroy the obsolete Temple, and they all fled out of the city. Knowing this, it now appears almost silly that dispensationalists have been trying to teach that in a supposedly future worldwide great tribulation that believers would be able to escape tribulation by simply fleeing out of Jerusalem.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones also suggests a parallel structure of Daniel 9:26 and 27: “There are two sections to verse 26, and two sections to verse 27. In the first half of verse 26 we are told about the Messiah being cut off and having nothing, and in connection with that, there is a terrible flood, and the war with all its desolation which literally did take place in AD 70. And there is an exact repetition of the same two things in verse 27. First of all, the Messiah Himself confirming and ratifying the covenant and by His death putting an end to the sacrifices, and then in the second half the desolation and the war and the destruction which took place. And it all literally happened in AD 70.” (Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible, Volume III: The Church and the Last Things (Wheaton: Good News Publishers, 2003), page 135).

Another word about the “wing” of abominations mentioned in Daniel 9:27: Luke 21:20 clearly reveals that the abomination is an army, and the ensign on the standards of the Roman army was “an EAGLE,” and we see prophesied in Deuteronomy 28:49, “The Lord will bring a nation against you… as swift as the EAGLE flies,” and verse 52, “They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.” Clearly, this is exactly what happened in 70 AD. The 28th chapter of Deuteronomy is a choice given by God to the Jews: obey and receive all the blessings listed in that chapter, or receive all the curses listed in that chapter. Feel free to read all of Deuteronomy 28, especially verses 49-68, and then read The Fall of Jerusalem by Josephus and you will clearly see that the curses of Deuteronomy “literally” came to pass just as God promised, and all of this happened in 70 AD.

The abomination of desolation was first mentioned in the book of Daniel. Then Jesus mentioned it. Most scholars believe that the book of Revelation was written around 95 AD, and yet the book of Revelation does NOT mention the abomination of desolation. Why? Because in 70 AD the Temple was made desolate. It had already been destroyed and it no longer needed to be prophesied about in Revelation. Knowing all of this, it again appears silly, as well as sad, that dispensationalists try to teach that the abomination of desolation is a statute of the Antichrist that he will put up in a future rebuilt earthly temple. They take glory and honor away from Jesus and try to give it to Antichrist, but it’s now time for that false teaching to end. Their teaching is the result of faulty exegesis, and it’s now time to help people see Jesus, as Scripture points to Him, and it’s now time to realize all of what Jesus has fulfilled. Because the prophecy of Daniel 9 has already been fulfilled by Jesus, it’s time to “seal up the prophecy and vision” as we are told in verse 24, and to no longer try to look for a future fulfillment.

Wayne Jackson of the Christian Courier wrote, “It’s interesting to note that Daniel emphasized that the Anointed One would address the problems of “transgression,” “sin,” and “iniquity.” Similarly, the prophet Isaiah, in Isaiah 53, revealed that the Messiah would sacrifice himself for “transgression” (verses 5,8,12), “sin” (verses 10,12), and “iniquity” (verses 5,6,11). It’s also worthy to mention that Isaiah 53 is frequently quoted in the New Testament in conjunction with the Lord’s atoning work at the time of his FIRST coming. Since Daniel 9:24 quite obviously has an identical thrust, it, too, must focus upon the Savior’s work at the cross, and not upon Jesus’ second coming—(as is alleged by [dispensationalists]).” https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/14-daniels-prophecy-of-the-seventy-weeks

The Temple in Jerusalem was torn down by God and will forever be desolate, never to be rebuilt, “even until the consummation,” (as explained by verse 27). It makes no sense to think that when we are told that it would be forever “desolate even until the consummation” would mean that it would sit desolate for only a few months at the end of time after a future Antichrist has come. This is instead clearly a reference to a long period of time, such as from 70 AD until the End. Jesus was the perfect, final atoning sacrifice for our sins, and the Temple with its animal sacrifices was not only no longer needed, it actually would have been an insulting distraction from Jesus’s finished, once and for all, perfect sacrifice on the cross (Hebrews 10:1-18). Also, contrary to what the Harlot of Revelation teaches, no other sacrifice is ever needed, because the one time perfect sacrificial payment by Jesus is all we need (Hebrews 10:18, as well as Hebrews 6:4-6).

Now back to the 70th week mentioned in verse 27, in the middle of that last week (3.5 years after Jesus was Baptized) Jesus was crucified and rose again. The Jews now had 3.5 more years. Exactly 3.5 years after Jesus had died on the cross and rose again, Stephen, who was full of the Holy Spirit, was stoned to death by the Sanhedrin. This was the Jewish leader’s final rejection of the Gospel. Their 490 years was up. Remember Matthew 18:22, how many times must we forgive someone who has sinned against us, “I say to you not up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven!” The Old Covenant community of Jews had their 490 times, or in this case, exactly 490 years, to be forgiven by the final atoning sacrifice of Jesus which “brings in everlasting righteousness” to those who believe, but they refused. God then turned Saul into the Apostle Paul, and Paul was sent to share the Gospel, the Good News, to the Gentiles. According to Galatians 3:29, now we get to become the seed of Abraham if we have Jesus as our savior and belong to Him. Daniel 9 is all about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!! Before those 490 years had passed, the vast majority of Gentiles didn’t have a relationship with their creator. But God had a plan to redeem us too, a plan that had actually been clearly revealed throughout the Old Testament, and Hallelujah and praise God for His beautiful plan!!

But that’s not the end. There is something more that God had in store for us as revealed in Daniel 9, and Jesus explained it this way in John 16:7, “It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.” There was one more anointing, which took place on the day of Pentecost (also taught in 1 John 2:20). In the Old Testament, God had met with His people in the “holy of holies” in the temple made with hands. The High Priest went in once each year to make atonement for the people. But after the Holy Spirit came upon the believers at Pentecost, He now dwells in the hearts of believers (also see Hebrews 10:19-22 to know that we who are washed by the blood of Jesus are now to boldly enter the Most Holy Place). In 1 Corinthians 3:16 we read, “You yourselves are God’s temple, and the Spirit of God dwells in you,” and 1 Peter 2:5, “you also, as living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” As it turns out, this indwelling of the Holy Spirit, which began on the day of Pentecost, took place during the 70th week, in accordance with God’s plan.

Jewish leaders today still forbid fellow Jews from studying this prophecy and they teach that Daniel 9 is accursed and that whoever studies it will be accursed. Why? Because they know it’s undeniable historical proof that Jesus is the Messiah, the Anointed One. Again, as taught unanimously by our Protestant ancestors, this prophecy in Daniel 9 is all about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!!! In order to convince Jews that Jesus is the Messiah, www.jewishvoice.org, states that, “A significant Messianic prophecy that is often overlooked by those still waiting for the Messiah is Daniel 9:24-27. This Old Testament prophecy says that Messiah, the Anointed One, will be “cut off,” or killed, before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, which happened in 70 A.D. Clearly, Jesus’s death fits as fulfilling this prophecy, and no Messiah yet to come could.” This Jewish website is proclaiming this message to Jews in order to convince them that Jesus is the Messiah, and we should support their message, rather than take glory and honor away from Jesus and instead try to teach that Daniel 9 is about Antichrist, which is what dispensationalists have tried to do.

Jesus wanted to come to His previously chosen people and gather them and love them like a mother hen lovingly gathers her chicks under her wing, which is what He stated in Matthew 23:37-38:

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. See! Your house is left to you DESOLATE.”

Clearly, Jesus is telling them that the Temple no longer will have any spiritual significance, and it was about to be made “desolate” by God, which was the exact word which had been used in Daniel 9:27. Jesus also taught us in the parable in Matthew 22:1-14 that:

“they paid no attention and went off–one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent HIS ARMY and destroyed those murderers and BURNED THEIR CITY. Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’”

In this study of Daniel 9, we see that The King of Glory, with righteous anger truly did send HIS ARMY to destroy them and THEIR CITY, just as Daniel foretold, and since their 490 years had expired, He has now given everyone an invitation to the wedding feast, but we have to be washed by the blood of Jesus. Jews still need Jesus, just like we all do, because Jesus is the only way to be redeemed to the Father, just as Jesus declared:

“No one comes to the Father except through me,” (John 14:6).

(One important question for dispensationalists is this: if they insist that they take the Bible more literally than everyone else, then why do they not view the 70 weeks of Daniel as consecutive? From where in Scripture do they get the idea that there should be a gap of thousands of years in between the 69th and 70th weeks? What in Scripture teaches them to take this non-literally, especially considering that they take great pride in declaring that they take the Bible more literally than anyone else?)

<A key pillar of dispensational Futurism has now fallen>

And now a brief look at Jesuits who were responsible for popularizing this false narrative known as Futurism (as well as creating Preterism). The Jesuits were formed to counter the Protestant Reformation, and a Jesuit, Francisco Ribera, developed the doctrine of Futurism in order to distract us from the Harlot. Futurism was immediately rejected by Protestants for three centuries, yet somehow it has crept into the currently popular Dispensational Theology, although this teaching has only been popular for a mere 100 years. When considering what we’ve been taught by dispensationalism in regard to end times, if we instead embrace the Truth of Daniel 9, that it’s all about Jesus, then Satan’s lies will begin to unravel. Do we have the strength and courage to search for the Truth, and discover God’s Will as revealed in Scripture, as we try to uncover what happens when Satan’s lies are exposed and unraveled? To search through Scripture and our current doctrines and embrace that which is True and discard that which is false. We will uncover something huge that our Protestant ancestors tried to tell us, yet has been hidden from us by the Harlot, and as many have learned from Revelation 17 and 18, the Harlot has made the nations drunk with her false doctrines, and by her “sorcery all the nations have been deceived.”

(For more information, go to https://www.studylight.org/commentaries.html to read free commentaries on Daniel 9, and Revelation 17 and 18 by Albert Barnes, John Calvin, Adam Clarke, Thomas Coke, the Geneva Bible, John Gill, Matthew Henry, Matthew Poole, Charles Spurgeon, John Trapp, John Wesley, David Scott Clark, Walter Scott, Joseph Benson, James Burton Coffman, etc. These commentaries written over several centuries confirm the fact that all 70 weeks have already been fulfilled. Also see the well respected works by E.B. Elliott, Robert Fleming, and Henry Grattan Guinness. It’s only been recently that the Harlot was able to successfully change the narrative in order to blind us.)

(To see the refutation of the supposedly precise 173,880 days from 444/445 BC, which promotes a future 7 years, see the study here, and be sure to read past Harold Hoehner’s attempt to repair Sir Robert Anderson’s initial proposal. Refutation of Anderson’s initial study can be found here).