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Ok guys, so I have spent the past hour or so trying to do the math behind Daniel's 70th Week and I think I MIGHT have gotten it right! This has been bothering me for some time, and I've never gotten the numbers to line up until just today. I used my own Bible including both the actual text and notes as well as some outside sources online (even wikipedia) to help me with some of the dates and conversions.
Please feel free to point out any errors that I might have made, I only took 2 math classes in college so it's been a while!
Without further babbling, here we go!
Daniel 24-26 KJV: 24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
So according to scripture, the commandment to restore the city appears to be Neh 2:1-8, which states that it occurs in the 20th year in the rule of Artaxerxes. Wikipedia tells me his rule started in 465, putting this at 445. My bible in the notes actually lists this as specifically taking place in 444 B.C., in the month of March. Next, we are looking at the Crucifixion (Messiah cut off) taking place in 33 A.D. My Bible actually says, 32 A.D but the math seems to make it seem like 33 A.D. I'm not sure, but as of now I'm doing 444 B.C. to 33 A.D. seems to work. Maybe its actually 445 B.C. to 32 A.D. Whatever, it works either way. In short, we have the 69 weeks going from 444 B.C. until 33 A.D. Also significant, is that it appears the decree of Artaxerxes took place in March of 444 B.C and Jesus's death and resurrections took place in April 33 A.D. (as in, the months seem to matter a bit).
Ok, on to the math. I've listed this in steps, mostly because I kept getting lost if it didn't break it down this way.
Step 1:
March of 444 B.C. to April 33 A.D. = 476 Gregorian years aka what we use today
Step 2:
1 Gregorian year = 365.24219879 days
1 Biblical year = 360 days
Daniel is referencing biblical years, while we use gregorian years so some conversion must take place.
Step 3:
1 Gregorian Yr (365.24219879 days) divided by 1 Biblical Yr (360 days) gives us 1.0145616331 Biblical Yrs per Gregorian Yr
476 * 1.0145616331 = 482.931351733 Biblical Yrs.
Step 4:
482.931351733 * 360 = 173,855.286624 days
Step 5:
Working backwards, we know that Daniel's prophecy is 490 biblical years in total. Daniel 9:27 talks about the final week, thus meaning the first 69 weeks is 483 biblical years. 483 biblical years is equal to 173,880 days (483*360).
So we take 173,880 - 173,855.286624 = 24.713376 extra days, which seems to account for the extra time from March to April.
Thus we have 483 biblical years or 173,880 days from Artaxerxes's decree in 444 B.C. to Jesus's death in 33 A.D. Maybe its actually 445 and 32 - that's fine it works either way. The numbers lining up obviously matters more then being off a year one way or another. I'm pretty excited about this, as I've previously just thought "I trust that the numbers all work out" but this seems to be further confirmation of the unbelievable accuracy of scripture. That final 7 weeks is still in the future and we can bet if the first 69 weeks happened exactly as stated that final week will happen exactly as stated in both Daniel and Revelation.
Before I get too excited here, does anyone see any errors in this or have a different interpretation/understanding of this?
Please feel free to point out any errors that I might have made, I only took 2 math classes in college so it's been a while!
Without further babbling, here we go!
Daniel 24-26 KJV: 24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
So according to scripture, the commandment to restore the city appears to be Neh 2:1-8, which states that it occurs in the 20th year in the rule of Artaxerxes. Wikipedia tells me his rule started in 465, putting this at 445. My bible in the notes actually lists this as specifically taking place in 444 B.C., in the month of March. Next, we are looking at the Crucifixion (Messiah cut off) taking place in 33 A.D. My Bible actually says, 32 A.D but the math seems to make it seem like 33 A.D. I'm not sure, but as of now I'm doing 444 B.C. to 33 A.D. seems to work. Maybe its actually 445 B.C. to 32 A.D. Whatever, it works either way. In short, we have the 69 weeks going from 444 B.C. until 33 A.D. Also significant, is that it appears the decree of Artaxerxes took place in March of 444 B.C and Jesus's death and resurrections took place in April 33 A.D. (as in, the months seem to matter a bit).
Ok, on to the math. I've listed this in steps, mostly because I kept getting lost if it didn't break it down this way.
Step 1:
March of 444 B.C. to April 33 A.D. = 476 Gregorian years aka what we use today
Step 2:
1 Gregorian year = 365.24219879 days
1 Biblical year = 360 days
Daniel is referencing biblical years, while we use gregorian years so some conversion must take place.
Step 3:
1 Gregorian Yr (365.24219879 days) divided by 1 Biblical Yr (360 days) gives us 1.0145616331 Biblical Yrs per Gregorian Yr
476 * 1.0145616331 = 482.931351733 Biblical Yrs.
Step 4:
482.931351733 * 360 = 173,855.286624 days
Step 5:
Working backwards, we know that Daniel's prophecy is 490 biblical years in total. Daniel 9:27 talks about the final week, thus meaning the first 69 weeks is 483 biblical years. 483 biblical years is equal to 173,880 days (483*360).
So we take 173,880 - 173,855.286624 = 24.713376 extra days, which seems to account for the extra time from March to April.
Thus we have 483 biblical years or 173,880 days from Artaxerxes's decree in 444 B.C. to Jesus's death in 33 A.D. Maybe its actually 445 and 32 - that's fine it works either way. The numbers lining up obviously matters more then being off a year one way or another. I'm pretty excited about this, as I've previously just thought "I trust that the numbers all work out" but this seems to be further confirmation of the unbelievable accuracy of scripture. That final 7 weeks is still in the future and we can bet if the first 69 weeks happened exactly as stated that final week will happen exactly as stated in both Daniel and Revelation.
Before I get too excited here, does anyone see any errors in this or have a different interpretation/understanding of this?