The decree to rebuild Jerusalem
is the starting point
of the seventy weeks.
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 decree to rebuild Jerusalem is the event that begins the countdown of the seventy weeks in Daniel 9:25. From the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince is sixty-nine weeks (seven weeks and sixty-two weeks). In the prophecy of Daniel’s 70th Week, the first sixty-nine weeks run from this decree to the coming of the Messiah. After that the Messiah is cut off.
- Daniel 9:25 names the starting point: the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem.
- The street and the wall are mentioned in the same verse. The rebuilding includes the city itself.
- The decree is distinct from earlier permissions to rebuild the temple. The prophecy counts from the command that concerns the city.
- The sixty-nine weeks end with the coming of Messiah the Prince. Then the Messiah is cut off.
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.
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.
- Daniel 9:25 is the key verse that names the decree.
- The decree concerns the city of Jerusalem, not only the temple.
- Sixty-nine weeks (483 years on the year-for-a-day reckoning) run from the decree to Messiah the Prince.
- After the sixty-nine weeks the Messiah is cut off, and the city and the sanctuary are destroyed.
- The final seventieth week is still future in the common reading of the prophecy.
- The Commandment – The going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem.
- The City – Jerusalem, with its street and wall.
- The Starting Point – The beginning of the sixty-nine weeks.
- The Goal – Unto Messiah the Prince.
- The Distinction – A decree for the city, not only for the temple.
- Daniel 9:25 – “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.”
- Daniel 9:24 – “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city.”
- Daniel 9:26 – “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.”
- Nehemiah 2:1-8 – Artaxerxes gives Nehemiah letters for the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem.
- Ezra 7:11-26 – The decree of Artaxerxes concerning Ezra and the house of God.
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.
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city.
The decree to rebuild Jerusalem is the starting point of the sixty-nine weeks that run to Messiah the Prince.
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