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Narrative: Introduction

and the rough places made plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all
flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it” - Isaiah 40:1-5a

“…The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths
straight. Every valley shall be filled, every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the
crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; and all flesh shall
see the salvation of God.” - Luke 3:4-6

These passages state declare a restoration and a rebuilding of the land, and it is
addressed specifically to Jerusalem. Is this not the commandment to restore and build
Jerusalem? Yet for many centuries the correlation between Isaiah’s prophesy and the seventy

weeks of Daniel is ignored. Instead the 70 weeks is stretched outside of their clearly stated
scope into an odd calculation of years to try and span the time from the second temple until
Christ. The conclusion of this Narrative of the Gospel Chronicle is that the seventy weeks of
Daniel are an actual consecutive seventy weeks, equivalent to about 1 year and 4 ½ months,
which can indeed be seen as the “Acceptable Year of the Lord”. This time is accounted by

Peter in The Acts.

“…all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the
baptism of John, unto the same day that he was taken up from us…” - Acts 1:21-22

John the Baptist’s first recorded words initiate the ministry of Jesus Christ, by issuing a
commandment to restore and build Jerusalem by lowering that which is high and raising that
which is low, to prepare a place for the Church (body) of Jesus Christ. A perpetual spiritual
temple that should permanently replaces the second temple of Ezra and Nehemiah as we are

shown in the book of Revelation:

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