There is no doubt that in this case we are presented with seventy sevens of years rather than of days. Therefore, it is strongly suggestive of the idea “heptad” (a series or combination of seven), rather than a “week” in the sense of a series of seven days. (The only other occurrence is in the combination sebu`e sebu`ot in Ezek. Only in this chapter of Daniel does it appear in the masculine plural sabu`im. ” The word for “week” is sabuac, which is derived from seba`, the word for “seven.” Its normal plural is feminine in form: sebu`ot. And yet when it is carefully examined in the light of all the relevant data of history and the information available from other parts of Scripture, it is quite clearly an accurate prediction of the time of Christ’s coming advent and a preview of the thrilling final act of the drama of human history before that advent.ĭaniel 9:24 reads: “Seventy weeks have been determined for your people and your holy city.
It is by all odds one of the most widely discussed by students and scholars of every persuasion within the spectrum of the Christian church. The prophecy of the Seventy Weeks in Daniel 9:24-27 is one of the most remarkable long-range predictions in the entire Bible. How can we make any sense out of Daniel’s prophecy of Seventy Weeks?
Archer’s Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, published by Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, 1982, pp.
The following exegesis of the timeline of the appearance of the Messiah found in Daniel 9:20-27 is taken from the late Dr.
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