Updated October 2025
This months comment:
The Seventy Weeks of Daniel:
Daniel 9:20-27 is
widely regarded as one of the most difficult passages in the Bible. Over
the centuries scholars have proposed dozens of competing interpretations
of these challenging verses, especially Daniel’s prophecy of the 70
“weeks.” Daniel
9:24-27 is a deeply controversial passage with a variety of historical
interpretations.
Daniel 9:24 -
27 “Seventy ‘sevens’ c are decreed for your people and your holy city to
finish d transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness,
to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy
and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
9:25 “Know and understand
this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
until the Anointed One, f the ruler, comes, there will be seven
‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a
trench, but in times of trouble.
9:26 After the sixty-two
‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. g
The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the
sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the
end, and desolations have been decreed.
9:27 He will confirm a
covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ h In the middle of the ‘seven’ i he
will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple j he will
set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is
decreed is poured out on him.
There are many, many web sites giving us an
interpretation of this prophecy. None agree with one another. After
reviewing most of these "seventy weeks explanations" I have concluded that
a few provide scripturally sound information. The few are:
https://www.pre-trib.org/dr-robert-thomas/message/why-a-gap-in-daniel-s-70-weeks/read
https://www.pre-trib.org/dr-robert-thomas/message/the-seventy-weeks-of-daniel/read
https://www.kingdombiblestudies.org/70wks/70%20Weeks-1.htm
https://www.calvarychapelontario.com/files/THE-SEVENTY-WEEKS-OF-DANIEL-BY-SIR-ROBERT-ANDERSON.pdf
https://www.truthnet.org/dan70.html
Associated web sites:
https://www.gospelfortoday.bibleanalytics.ca
https://www.returnofchrist.bibleanalytics.ca
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