Tribulation: Daniel’s Seventieth Week

1. God never reckons time with Israel when they are out of their own land, or out of Divine order. (5^th cycle of discipline)

2. Daniel 9:24-27 speaks of 70 weeks in God’s program for Israel.

a) One week equals seven years. “Weeks” as used in this passage is a Hebrew word for “sevens.” 70 weeks are literally 70 7’s, or 490 years.

b) Check out Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6b.

3. This period of seventy weeks is divided into three sections: Daniel 9:25.

a) 7 weeks: 7x7=49 years (troublous times). This is the period of time Artaxerxes (445 BC) issued the decree to restore and rebuild the city of Jerusalem in Nehemiah 2:1-8 until the walls were actually completed.

b) 62 weeks (three-score and two weeks) x7 = 434 years. The time from rebuilding the walls until the cross (30 AD).

c) 1 week x7 (verse 27) = 7 years. (Tribulation).

“a” and “b” make a total of 483 years, but in Daniel 9:24-27 they are promised 490 years. The 483 years are cut off at the cross—the last seven years are picked up after the Church Age Rapture. The Tribulation is Daniel’s 70^th week, in the Age of Israel. These are LUNAR YEARS, of 360 days.