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Daniel 9:24-26; Matthew 21:1-9
“After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing” (Daniel 9:26).
Using the Jewish custom of a 360-day year, 483 years after 445 B.C. places us at A.D. 30, which would coincide with Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
“Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish 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” (Daniel 9:24).
It is also important to recognize that this timetable of the future is based around the life and death of Christ.
“Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, 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” (Daniel 9:25).
The first unit of seven ‘sevens’ (49 years) covers the time that it toOk to rebuild Jerusalem, “with streEts and a trench, but in times of trouble.” This rebuilding is chronicled in the boOk of Nehemiah.
“The Anointed One” being cut ofF was fulfilLed when Jesus was crucified.