Daniel 9:24-27; Christ’s Allotted Time in the 70 Weeks

by Brad Baker

January 25th 2023

1 The Hebrews used a circular way of writing things that was not liner like we do today. 2 I believe that Daniel 9:25 should be seen with starting the timeframe of 70 weeks with the 62 Weeks first which was for rebuilding Jerusalem, the Temple, the walls, etc. 3 Then the seven weeks after for the timeframe of Christ building the Heavenly Temple with the Royal Priesthood of lively stones in the Spiritual realm during the first century. 4 Daniel wrote it as the seven weeks first and the 62 weeks after, but Daniel could have been meaning it to be from the starting point of the going forth of the command in 539 BC by King Cyrus to Christ’s allotted time during the whole first century. 5 Then the additional Week to confirm the Covenant that Daniel 9:27 speaks of.


Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks have been determined upon thy people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.

25 And thou shalt know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.

26 And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint to desolations.

27 And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away: and on the temple the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation.

6 What I just notice today in Daniel 9:27 amazed me how we could have taken it wrong by assuming that it was in the middle of the last week that Christ was destroyed or crucified at that time. 7 In Daniel 9: 26a does not mention that but only that Christ was destroyed after the 62 weeks. 8 And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him. So now the anointed one is crucified and says Father forgive them for they know not what they do. 9 Today marks the day that all my previous views are obsolete and this one has become the view that I will be taking.


10 Then in Daniel 9:26b says: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: So now this anointed one Jesus Christ shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming. 11 The question I have now is, who is this prince that is coming. 12 Was it Jesus Christ in His second coming or was it Jesus Christ with another prince. 13 If it was another prince, did Jesus make a covenant with him to destroy the city and the sanctuary. 14 In other words did Jesus use the commander of Roman Army to execute judgment on Israel and cut them off, where Daniel says in 9:26b they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint to desolations.


15 If this was what God meant for Daniel to write then Daniel 9:27 should easily fall into place with the 70th week beginning in AD66 when the sacrifices were ordered to cease. 16 Then with on the temple the abomination of desolations following soon after to the Temple being destroyed in AD70.

Daniel 9:27 And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away: and on the temple the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation.

17 Here are some signs to look for, was the coming Prince to be just Jesus Christ or both Jesus and the Zealot leader Eleazar working together. 18 Eleazar was the son of the High Priest that commanded all sacrifices and offerings to cease in AD66 in the middle of the 70th Week. 19 Eleazar could be referred to as the lawless one and Antichrist yet God would use him to destroy Jerusalem and Temple.

20 When Jesus shed His blood that was the last sacrifice required for those who believed, but the sacrifices continued under the law as long as ancient Israel was still under the Old Covenant. 21 A believers sins were not blotted out at the cross, they were only covered. 22 Sins were blotted out on the Day of Atonement by placing the blood on the scapegoat and that never did happen during Passover. 23 Though Jesus could go into the Most Holy Place anytime in the Temple that is in Heaven after He Ascended he had to come out and appear a second time before all sins were blotted out and that happened in the unseen realm after the Temple no longer stood in AD70. Ending all sacrifices does not matter when it comes to that.


The Jubilee Cycles:

24 I believe that Daniel’s 70 weeks was not designed to have a 490 year consistent run for those 70 weeks and the reason why is because there are three segments in them. 25 Yet they have the Jubilee written all over them. 26 The Jubilee cycle was 7X7 = 49 then you add a year for the Jubilee for a total of 50 which was the year of Jubilee, Seven Weeks + One Week = the 50th Jubilee in AD70

27 The 62 weeks is 62X7 = 434 years without the 50th year added. Those 7 extra years were added together for the 7 Weeks mention in Daniel 9:25 which were the final Jubilee cycle of 49 years that were attributed for the appointed time for Christ. 28 I believe they began in AD14 shortly after Jesus was in the Temple on the Passover and said He was doing His Father’s business at the age of 12 which I will explain why later.


29 Jesus entered into His full time ministry when He was about 26 – 30 years old and after John Baptized Him to fulfill all righteousness Jesus proclaimed this is the acceptable year. 30 He when out setting captives free by healing them and doing whatever miracle was required to set them free. 31 Jesus was in the last cycle of 49 years of Jubilee and that the 50th Week of seven years would be for the very end of the age but did not know when those 49 years started and did not know when they would end. He said no man knows the hour or day as well as times and seasons. 32 We can know now because we have two things to look back on.


 33 Somewhere between 539 -536 BC. Cyrus gave the word or command to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple to start with but those 62 Weeks or 434 years ended about 117 years until those times were exhausted which was 117 years before Christ’s seven weeks began. 34 That is the only gap or time of rest from being exhausted.


35 We can also know when Christ’s 7 weeks began because we can see when everything in Daniel 9:24-27 was fulfilled. 36 So we have to count backwards in time 7 years add 49 years for 56 years counting back from AD70 to know when Christ’s 7 Weeks began and get at AD14.


37 The last week which was the 70th week was added to the 7 Weeks to complete the Grand Ultimate Jubilee began around AD63 to satisfy the Jubilee cycle of 50 years.



38 In the fall of AD62 a man called a Jesus the farmer “not the carpenter” during the Feast of Tabernacles when Israel was prospering and doing well he began to cry out Woe to Jerusalem over and over again, and he did this for about 8 years until the Romans killed him by flinging a big stone with their war machine that hit him. 39 Ed Stevens has a series of Podcasts Archives where he explains this in Signs Begin Appearing (late AD62).


40 Then in Signs of the End (AD 65-66) he explains how the early christians left Jerusalem about 3.5 years before to Pella. 41 They must have left long before what Jesus warned about when you see the abomination that would make desolate which happened shortly after all sacrifices ceased in AD66. 42 In a sense those early christian were experiencing a Jubilee by not being there, so AD63 sounds about right for the final 70th week to begin for the Grand Ultimate Jubilee to begin. 43 Then ends after the Temple was destroyed and the Day of Atonement which was the Day of Judgment. 44 This was the Great White Throne Judgment of Revelation 20:11 45 Then the New Heaven and Earth began because the Old Heaven and Earth passed away ending the Age of Corruption of Adam’s sin and death and the beginning of the New Glorious Creation that all of creation was waiting for according to:

 Romans 8:21because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groans and labours with birth pangs together until now. 23Not only that, but we also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

The History of Christ the Prince Seven Weeks Start in AD14:

46 Does AD14 ring a bell with this fourteen generation, maybe or maybe not but sometimes God does things in a way to get our attention.


Matthew 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations.

47 From the time of the captivity in Babylon there were fourteen generations to startproclaiming liberty to the captives; to the Jubilee generation of First Fruit who had the Spirit so they could return to the Garden of Eden when full redemption came in AD70 to the whole world from Adam’s sin and death.

Joel 2:3 A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like the Garden of Eden before them,
And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.

Matthew 2:13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.”

14 When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, 15 and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

Luke 2:41 His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. 42 And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast.

49And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” 50But they did not understand the statement which He spoke to them.

Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;

Conclusion:

48 Daniel 9:24 starts with his vision of the 70 weeks with all the things that would take place in the 7 weeks or 49 years and last week.

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks have been determined upon thy people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.

49 Then Daniel circles back around and begins with somewhere between 539 -536 BC. Cyrus giving the decree, word or command to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple as a starting point in the appointed time of 62 Weeks and then the the times shall be exhausted. 50 Exhausted means depleted of energy : extremely tired. In other words time for a rest until Christ’s 7 weeks began so a gap of 117 years or so.

Daniel 9:25 And thou shalt know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.


51 After those 62 Weeks Jesus Christ was destroyed or crucified and there is no judgment in him because He said Father forgive them for they know not what they do, He knew He was the Passover lamb being slain. 52 Those 7 Weeks or 49 years run out and the last Week or 7 years kick in at AD63 and in the middle of that Week of 3.5 years he destroyed the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming. 53 Ancient Israel was cut off and judged accordingly with a flood to the end of the war and appointed desolations.


Daniel 9:26 And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint to desolations.

54 Daniel then circles back around and adds that the sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away which they were in AD66.

Daniel 9:27 And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away: and on the temple the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation.


55 Ed Stevens has the most accurate account for the framework that was needed to start with.

Ed Stevens in his article called Dan 9:24-27 – The Seventy Weeks – June 3, 2020 says Quote: I definitely agree that the seventy weeks ended in AD 70. However, I do not think that the seventy weeks were a strict literal 490 years. Otherwise, the Jews and Christians would have known exactly when the Messiah would appear. Yet the Jews and Jesus and everyone else did NOT “know the exact day or hour” of His coming. Instead, Jesus told them to watch for the signs. When they saw all these things take place, THEN they would know that His return was very near.

I believe the same thing holds true in Daniel 9:24-27. Daniel was not given a literal 490 years to calculate the time of the Messiah1s coming. Instead, he was given a length of time divided into three distinct periods, each of which were marked off by signs to look for. When those signs appeared and were fulfilled, THEN they would know when each of the three periods had been, or were about to be, fulfilled. So it was a sign-based reckoning, NOT a year-based calculation.

Daniel 9:24 lists all the things that had to be accomplished by the end of the seventy weeks. Several of those items in the list imply that the end of the seventy weeks was AD 70. And the beginning of the seventy weeks is marked off by the decree of Cyrus to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple in 536 BC (which was the end of the 70 years of Babylonian captivity). Thus the seventy weeks was a period of 606 years (536 BC + 70 AD). The difference between 606 and

490 is 116 years. That is where the gaps come into play. The Jews knew about the three different divisions of Daniel’s prophecy, and were watching the signs to determine when each of the three periods began and ended. It was not a literal consecutive 490 years.

Instead, it was three periods of time (7 weeks, 62 weeks, and 1 week), marked off by distinctive signs. This means that the three periods were either relative in length, or they had gaps between them. Again, if it was a literal consecutive 490 years, then the Jews and Christians would have known exactly when it was to occur. They would not have needed any signs to look for. This is why the Jews demanded that Jesus produce the signs to confirm that he was the Messiah that they were looking for. They could not be sure that it was the right TIME for the Messiah to appear, unless that would-be Messiah could produce the right SIGNS that they were looking for.


What I find extremely interesting is the premil suggestion that the “prince” mentioned in Dan 9:26 is the future antichrist. That idea would work just as well (or better) in the preterist past-fulfillment scenario. In my research for my historical book (Final Decade Before the End), I have begun to zero-in on this same idea. The Messiah Prince mentioned in verses 25 and 26 appears to be a different Prince than the one introduced in verse 26. Since the people of this other prince abominate the city and sanctuary, causing it to be completely destroyed and desolated, this seems to fit the Zealot leader Eleazar b. Ananias and his band of Zealots who polluted the city of Jerusalem and especially the temple area. Josephus talks about the abomination of the city and temple that was done by the Zealots in their internecine strife and rivalry. Since Eleazar “sat in the temple” and made numerous lawless changes in the sacrificial system, and lawlessly broke his covenant with the Romans and the Jewish people as well, it appears that he is the prime candidate for the “Prince” designation here in Dan 9:26, as well as the “man of lawlessness” prediction in 2 Thess 2. And he was a “prince” in the sense that he was the priestly (anointed) son of the most powerful High Priest at that time (Ananias b. Nedebaeus).

I am not totally convinced that the “anointed one” in Dan 9:25-26 is Messiah Jesus. I lean somewhat in that direction, but am open for a better explanation based on further analysis of the historical data in Josephus, Yosippon, Hegesippus, and Tacitus.

Obviously, I have not finished my research and landed on a firm position, but this will give you the basic framework that I am working within (past fulfillment at AD 70). I would recommend taking a look at Thomas Howe’s very helpful book. Hope that helps. 

AD 62 — Some prince (son of one of the most powerful Jewish rulers or chief priests like Ananias) evidently made a covenant with the Jewish people.

AD 66 — That prince (Eleazar b. Ananias) took full control of the temple and stopped all sacrifices for Gentiles and put the sacrificial system and priesthood in disarray. Thus began his reign of tyranny over the Temple complex. The other Zealot factions (John of Gischala and Simon b. Giora) polluted the temple and ravaged the city with their internecine strife. Throughout all that internal conflict, they also had to deal with the forces of Vespasian and Titus on the outside (constant war and desolations inside and out).

AD 70 — “The End” came with a flood. At the very pinnacle of the abominations inside the city came one who caused the ultimate horror to happen. I think this must be referring to John of Gischala. Josephus notes how he was the most wicked of the three Zealot generals, and did the most spoiling of the food resources, and most plundering of the citizens, and most immoral in their conduct. He gained control of the temple, and Eleazar fled from the temple through underground tunnels and escaped to Masada. Then came the End for Jerusalem, when a complete destruction was poured out upon the one who had desolated the city and the Temple before the Siege of Titus.

The interpretation of Dan 9:24-27 points decisively to the decree of Cyrus as the beginning point for the 70 weeks. This is inconsistent with the dates of fulfillment only if one insists (contrary to the vagueness of the word “weeks”) that weeks of ordinary literal years must be involved.

End Quote

56 The Feast of Pentecost was 50 days after the Holy Convocation Day of First Fruits so Pentecost has Jubilee associated with it but that actual day the Jubilee year began was on the Holy Convocation Day of Atonement after 49 years. 57 During the 40 years which was within Christ’s Seven Weeks of a Jubilee cycle the first century saints were set free by the Holy Spirit which began on the Feast Day of Pentecost in the Upper Room in AD30. 58 Forty years later after the Temple no longer stood Jesus the High Priest returned out from the Most Holy Place apart from sin by blotting it out so that the whole world would be delivered out from Adam’s sin and death by casting it into the Lake of Fire. 59 The New Glorious Creation began as the Feast of Tabernacles was fulfilled and the New Heaven and Earth started with all things made new. 60 This was the Tenfold Grand Ultimate Jubilee and Everlasting Gospel which we still have ongoing forever.

61 I believe Daniel’s 70 Weeks began when King Cyrus gave the word or command to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple in 536 BC and that was when the 62 Weeks began to start the 70 Weeks. 62 When the 62 Weeks were exhausted after 434 years there was a gap of 117 years until Christ’s Seven Weeks started in AD14.

63 I believe that all of these were fulfilled within Christ’s Seven Weeks and last Week that started AD14 to AD70. 64 It was during the Seven Weeks that Jesus Christ built the New Jerusalem and the Temple. 65 The Temple was built out of Lively Stones which He was the Cornerstone that came with a Royal Priesthood of those who had the First Fruits of the Spirit. 66 Later on the 144,000 who were sealed that were raised from the dead in Matthew 27:51-53 just before the Great Tribulation began in AD66 which was in the middle of the 70th Week when the sacrifices and offerings ceased.

1)-for sin to be ended

2)-and to seal up transgressions

3)-and to blot out the iniquities

4)-and to make atonement for iniquities

5)-and to bring in everlasting righteousness

6)-and to seal the vision and the prophet

7)-and to anoint the Most Holy

AD14 to AD63 for Christ’s Seven Weeks

AD63 to AD70 for the 70th Week to confirm the Covenant for the Grand Ultimate Jubilee 

Hebrews 10:9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second.

Hebrews 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,

1 Peter 2:4Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 5you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.

Daniel 9:25

62 Week for the natural by Cyrus the anointed one

7 Weeks for the Spiritual by Jesus Christ the anointed one