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desolations, and the city which is called by Your To restore and build Jerusalem
name; for we do not present our supplications Until Messiah the Prince,
before You because of our righteous deeds, but There shall be seven weeks and
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because of Your great mercies. O Lord, hear! O sixty-two weeks;
Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not The street shall be built again,
delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and the wall,
and Your people are called by Your name.” Even in troublesome times.
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confessing my sin and the sin of my people Is- “And after the sixty-two weeks
Messiah shall be cut off, but not
rael, and presenting my supplication before for Himself;
the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my And the people of the prince who is
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God, yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the to come
man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at Shall destroy the city and the
the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, sanctuary.
reached me about the time of the evening The end of it shall be with a flood,
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offering. And he informed me, and talked
with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come And till the end of the war desolations
are determined.
forth to give you skill to understand. At the 27 Then he shall confirm a covenant
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beginning of your supplications the command with many for one week;
went out, and I have come to tell you, for you But in the middle of the week
are greatly beloved; therefore consider the He shall bring an end to sacrifice
matter, and understand the vision:
and offering.
24 “Seventy weeks are determined And on the wing of abominations shall
For your people and for your holy city, be one who makes desolate,
To finish the transgression, Even until the consummation,
To make an end of sins, which is determined,
To make reconciliation for iniquity, Is poured out on the desolate.”
To bring in everlasting righteousness, In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia
To seal up vision and prophecy, 10 a message was revealed to Daniel, whose
And to anoint the Most Holy.
name was called Belteshazzar. The message
25 “Know therefore and understand, was true, but the appointed time was long; and
That from the going forth of the he understood the message, and had under-
command standing of the vision. In those days I, Daniel,
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was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleas-
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ant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth,
nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole
weeks were fulfilled.
9:24–26 Seventy weeks…until. These are 4 Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first
weeks of years, whereas weeks of days are month, as I was by the side of the great river,
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described in a different way (10:2,3). The time that is, the Tigris, I lifted my eyes and looked,
spans from the Persian Artaxerxes’ decree to and behold, a certain man clothed in linen,
rebuild Jerusalem, ca. 445 B.C.(Neh. 2:1–8), to whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz!
the Messiah’s kingdom. This panorama 6 His body was like beryl, his face like the
includes: 1) 7 weeks or 49 years, possibly clos- appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches
ing Nehemiah’s career in the rebuilding of the of fire, his arms and feet like burnished
“street and wall,”as well as the end of the min- bronze in color, and the sound of his words
istry of Malachi and the close of the Old like the voice of a multitude.
Testament;2) 62 weeks or 434 more years for a 7 And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the
total of 483 years to the First Advent of Messiah.
This was fulfilled at the Triumphal Entry on 9 men who were with me did not see the vision;
Nisan, A.D. 30 (Matt. 21:1–11). The Messiah will but a great terror fell upon them, so that they fled
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be “cut off”(a common reference to death);and to hide themselves. Therefore I was left alone
3) the final 7 years or 70th week of the time of when I saw this great vision, and no strength
Antichrist (v. 27). Roman people, from whom remained in me; for my vigor was turned to
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the Antichrist will come, will “destroy the city” frailty in me, and I retained no strength. Yet I
of Jerusalem and its temple in A.D. 70. heard the sound of his words; and while I
heard the sound of his words I was in a deep
sleep on my face, with my face to the ground.

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