Theseventysevensofdaniel.com

Introduction

The purpose of this webpage is to share an interpretation I have found of the prophecy of the seventy sevens in Daniel chapter 9. There are a wide range of views on this prophecy. None can be proven right until the day comes for the return of Christ. There is no consensus as to how to interpret this prophecy, nor any prophecy in scripture for that matter. I am going to provide you with the details of the interpretation first and then I will share some of the amazing things from recent and current events that support this interpretation.

Just a little bit about me, so you will know who it is telling you about this. I am a born-again Christian who believes the Bible is the inerrant Word of God. I take scripture literally unless there is indication in scripture that what is said is meant to be symbolic or a metaphor. I fully embrace Biblical symbolism, especially in prophecy. I believe in dual fulfillment of prophecy as a real method employed by God’s Word. I believe in a literal return of Christ, a literal resurrection of the dead, a literal 1000-year reign and a literal new Heaven and new Earth. I am not a dispensationalist, even though I agree with many of their points. My entire reason for sharing this is because I feel called by God to do so. It is my faith in him and his redemption that holds me together in my being. I do not claim to be a prophet. Everything I am going to show you is in plain sight for everyone to see. I have no special revelation that differs from, or adds to, what has already been stated by God. I believe we are given the duty of truthfulness, and I plan to fulfill my duty.

1 Peter 1:10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

The Prophecy

Daniel 9:22 He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. 23 As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:

24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out (Decree issued) to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.

If you have studied this passage at all, or have heard it discussed, you have likely heard the mainstream, dispensational interpretation. That view is there was a decree issued to rebuild Jerusalem when Israel came out of Babylonian captivity and then 69 sevens passed and then Jesus was crucified at the end of the 69 sevens. The final seven is in the future and is awaiting confirmation of a covenant and that confirmation will trigger the rapture at the start of the final seven years. This view was popularized by John Nelson Darby in the mid-to-late 1800s. I will present you with an interpretation that differs from that one and stays truer to the words of the prophecy, in my opinion. Sir Isaac Newton saw it in a similar way to what I am going to present. We can start with his interpretation.

The Two Newtons

In his posthumous 1733 work, Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John, Newton argued that adding the 7 sevens to the 62 sevens to make 69 sevens was "doing violence to the language of Daniel." He interpreted Daniel 9:25 like this:

The 62 Weeks: Counted from an ancient decree (like Artaxerxes) leading to Christ’s First Advent and subsequent crucifixion.

The 7 Weeks: An entirely separate, future timeline counted from a different decree yet to be issued, leading to the Second Advent and the return of Christ as "Messiah the Prince".

Newton argued that the punctuation in Daniel 9:25 requires separating the 7 sevens and the 62 sevens. He calculated the 62 sevens as a continuous block running up to Christ's crucifixion, and the 7 sevens were a distinct, standalone block reserved exclusively for the future end-times return of Christ as "Messiah the Prince." Newton wrote that this countdown would only begin when a completely new decree is issued by a world power to physically restore and rebuild Jerusalem. Because Newton did not know when that future decree would be signed, he used alternative calculations in his manuscripts—such as tracking 1,260 years from the rise of the Papal power in 800AD with the crowning of Charlemagne—to estimate that the final end-times resetting of the clock would land around 2060AD. He only intended that date as a place holder, and it was only listed in his private notes, not in his work.

When B.W. Newton of the Plymouth Brethren revived this view in the 1840s, it led to a confrontation with John Nelson Darby and his pre-tribulation rapture theory. Newton (no relation to Sir Isaac Newton) did not hide his source. He openly declared that his interpretation was a continuation of Sir Isaac Newton's linguistic discovery. In his prophetic writings and lectures critiquing Darby's unified 69-week model, B.W. Newton famously summarized his reliance on Sir Isaac by writing:

"The separation of the Seven Weeks from the Sixty-two Weeks is no novelty of mine. It was long ago perceived by that great master of demonstrative reasoning, Sir Isaac Newton, who, in his 'Observations on Daniel,' explicitly states that the Seven Weeks refer to a period yet future, to be initiated by a decree yet to be given for the final restoration of Jerusalem, preceding the Second Advent of Messiah the Prince. It is a distinction demanded by the grammatical structure of the Hebrew text, which the current systems of interpretation have done violence to by lumping them together."

By explicitly pulling Sir Isaac Newton’s 1733 text into the 1845 Plymouth Brethren debates, B.W. Newton successfully argued that his post-tribulation model was not a modern invention, but rather a recovery of classical, rigorous Protestant scholarship.

B.W. Newton and John Nelson Darby had highly intense, extensively documented, and deeply public battles over Darby's pre-tribulation rapture theory. Their clash over Daniel 9 was not a secondary academic disagreement—it was one of the core theological fault lines that permanently shattered the Plymouth Brethren movement in the 1840s into two factions: the Open Brethren and the Exclusive Brethren. Their fierce debates played out through published books, pamphlets, and confrontational meetings.

When Newton left the church they attended, his closest scholarly ally, Dr. S.P. Tregelles, left with him. Tregelles wrote his defenses of Newton, noting that Darby's attacks were driven heavily by his frustration that Newton’s literal, multi-advent interpretation of Daniel 9 successfully falsified Darby's pre-tribulation timeline.

George Muller of Bristol was another of Newton’s defenders. He was famous for operating orphanages almost entirely on faith and prayer. A highly respected and loved figure, he staunchly defended B.W. Newton against Darby.

Darby ex-communicated many members of the church for siding with Newton and Tregelles. Darby could not tolerate any other view than his being taught, and he enforced his view through church discipline, much to the dismay of those affected. This parallels the many stories of broken fellowship over the pre-tribulation rapture theory and its dogmatic expression ever since Darby.

My Interpretation

That sets the stage for the explanation of the seventy sevens that I believe God showed to me. It is similar to that of Newton but varies in a couple of key ways.

In verse 25 we see that the seventy sevens are broken down into three time periods. There are seven sevens and sixty-two sevens, leaving one seven that it covers later in the passage. The first two periods of time are said to start with a decree to rebuild or restore Jerusalem, and end with a coming. This is the key to understanding the whole thing. This is a prophecy about lengths of time from a decree to the coming of a person.

25...."FROM the time the WORD GOES OUT to restore and rebuild Jerusalem UNTIL the Anointed One, the ruler, COMES, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens."

There are two people mentioned along with the two periods of time. The two people are the Anointed One and the ruler. The ruler is the Antichrist and the Anointed One is Jesus. This is a prophecy to their coming, not to their deaths or anything else. That is key to understanding this prophecy. The following statement is where most of the other interpretations lose, or miss, the intent of the prophecy:

26 “After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.”

The overall intent of this prophecy is to tell you when, precisely, the person being spoken of will come. That was the very first thing it said in verse 25, when the timing of the prophecy was being laid out. This statement in verse 26 is the outcome of the coming of the Anointed One, not the outcome of the end of the period of 62 sevens.

25...."FROM the time the WORD GOES OUT to restore and rebuild Jerusalem UNTIL the Anointed One, the ruler, COMES, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens."

The period ends with his coming, AND THEN, AFTER THE 62 SEVENS, he will be cut off. See the difference? This is where the fork in the road is located. If you don’t have this right, then you cannot have the rest of it right. The time periods given are to the coming of a person. Period. Any interpretation that alters that is creating a foundational flaw in the theory. How can you change the stated purpose of the prophecy and stay true to its meaning? You cannot.

If the decree starts a period that is to his coming, then why state that he will be cut off after 62 sevens? I believe it is because God does not want us to think that this coming is for the setting up of the Kingdom of God on earth and the Millennial Reign of Christ. This coming is for his sacrifice to atone for our sins. It is a very important distinction, obviously. It is prophesied in several places in the Old Testament that the Messiah would come and give his life for our sins. It is also stated multiple times in the Old Testament that the Messiah will come and set up a kingdom on Earth that will never end. God doesn't want any confusion about the purpose of this coming. The cutting off of the Anointed One is both the purpose and the outcome of his coming. But it happens after his coming, which happens at the end of the 62 sevens.

The very next thing it tells us in verse 26, same verse as the one that tells us what the outcome of the coming of the Anointed One is, is what the outcome of the coming of the ruler will be.

“26 ....The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

Notice that when it identifies him, it calls him "the ruler who will come". A clear reference to the initial statement of this prophecy that the time periods given are to the coming of both the ruler and the Anointed One. The “he” in verse 27 is the ruler who will come, not the Anointed One. The fact that it now identifies them separately is a clear indication that they are two different people. That means that the opening verse spoke of them both even though it sounds like the Anointed One and the ruler might be the same person. People will often say that "the Anointed One, the ruler" just means that the Anointed One is a ruler. If that were true, then they wouldn't be spoken of separately just one verse later. If the ruler were Jesus, then it would be Jesus who sets up the Abomination of Desolation in the temple. That is a major contradiction with many other scriptures including the word of Jesus himself in Matthew 24 and Paul in 2 Thessalonians, not to mention, just plain common sense. What is an abomination? Not something Jesus does.

The prophecy does not directly state what period of time is between the future decree and the coming of the ruler. It has to be deduced by the process of elimination. There are seven sevens and the 62 sevens to the coming of the Anointed One AND to the coming of the ruler, and the Anointed One is identified with the 62 sevens, so it is very clear that the ruler comes after the seven sevens. What other option is there? The mainstream interpretation will tell you that while the ruler does come, he does not come after either the seven sevens or the 62 sevens. He comes after an unknown period of time. Not only unknown but unknowable. They also say the Anointed One comes after BOTH the seven sevens and the 62 sevens. They just add them together. The prophecy is not written that way at all. The two time periods are written in the original Hebrew with a mark between them that indicates they are not to be added together nor spoken as if they were. The mark is called an atnah. This was Isaac Newton’s main point. It tells the reader that the two time periods have distinct markers for the start and finish of each. It is why the text doesn't just say 69 weeks. God has not given us other examples of breaking a period of time into two parts without explanation as to why. For example, Jesus was said to be about 30 years old when he began his ministry. The scripture could say he was 10 and twenty years old, but it does not. There is no precedent in scripture for this, and even if there were, this case still uses the atnah to separate the times, telling us not to add them together. It was a more common way of speaking in previous eras. The Gettysburg address is a prime example. Four score and seven years. I think this kind of speech structure influenced scholars into thinking of it as a single number expressed artfully, or poetically. The atnah refutes this interpretation.

If my interpretation is accurate, you would need two decrees separated by thousands of years, with the first being 62 sevens before the birth of Christ, and another at some point in the future. Why is that? Because Jesus and the Antichrist come thousands of years apart from each other. There is no doubt about that. Verse 25 tells us that there will be a "decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem". Is there be a decree to both restore and rebuild Jerusalem that is 62 sevens before the birth of Jesus?

The Calculation

To calculate the amount of time that constitutes the 62 sevens we need first to be aware that the prophecy does not use the word years. In fact, it refers to the Abomination of Desolation as being in the middle of the final seven. We know from many other scriptures that the Abomination of Desolation starts the Great Tribulation, and the Great Tribulation lasts alternatively 1260 days or 42 months or times, time and half a time, depending on which scripture you look at. For all of that to be consistently true, a seven would have to be 7x360 days. 62 sevens calculate to days then in this manner: 62x7x360. That comes out to 156,240 days. When you convert that to our solar years, it comes out to 428.05 years.

Keep in mind that just a few verses before this prophecy, earlier in the same chapter, we see Gabriel and Daniel speaking of the seventy years of captivity that had been prophesied for God’s people. Gabriel clearly knows the difference between 70 years and 70 “sevens”. If he had meant 490 years, he could have said that. Instead, he chose a different term to express the amount of time. Why would he do that? Certainly, Daniel understood what years meant. He was praying to God precisely because the 70 years of captivity had ended. That prophecy was given to the Jewish people of the time and to no one else, so the way of calculating time was well known by both parties, Israel and God. The prophecy of the 70 sevens is not just for their people in their time. It stretches far into the future and affects all the people on Earth. Different cultures have different expressions of what constitutes a year. To keep it consistent for everyone, I believe God chose to express the count this way so that it is a count of the number of days from the decree to the coming. A day is the same everywhere, all the time.

The First Decree

It is widely agreed upon that a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem came a short time after Israel was released from captivity.

The Three Waves of Return

The first wave was led by Zerubbabel. Around 538 BC, King Cyrus of Persia issued a decree allowing the first and largest group of Jews to return to Jerusalem. Zerubbabel served as the governor and led this group to rebuild the foundation of the Temple. The prophecy of the seventy sevens says the decree is to be to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, not the temple.

The second wave was led by Ezra. Approximately 80 years later (around 458 BC), Ezra led a second, smaller group of exiles back to Jerusalem under the authority of King Artaxerxes, Ezra's primary mission was not physical construction, but spiritual reformation, teaching the Mosaic Law, and restoring proper worship.

Third Wave was led by Nehemiah. Around 445 BC, Nehemiah led the final major group back to Jerusalem. His primary mission was political and structural, successfully rebuilding the broken walls of the city.

So where does a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem fit into this narrative? I submit to you that it was the final decree of Nehemiah, after he returned from his recall to the king in 433/432BC. It was the culmination of all the work done by Ezra and Nehemiah. Ezra brought the spiritual aspects of restoration and Nehemiah the Governor brought the more civil aspects of rebuilding. After they had both completed their work it became apparent that the people of Israel were not accustomed to this way of life and faltered in it. Nehemiah describes this in chapter 13.

Neh 13 On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God, 2 because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.) 3 When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.

4 Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah, 5 and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil prescribed for the Levites, musicians and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.

6 But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission 7 and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God. 8 I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room. 9 I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.

10 I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields. 11 So I rebuked the officials and asked them, “Why is the house of God neglected?” Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.

12 All Judah brought the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil into the storerooms. 13 I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zakkur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because they were considered trustworthy. They were made responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.

14 Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.

15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day. 16 People from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them in Jerusalem on the Sabbath to the people of Judah. 17 I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this wicked thing you are doing—desecrating the Sabbath day? 18 Didn’t your ancestors do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity on us and on this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath.”

19 When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day. 20 Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem. 21 But I warned them and said, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you.” From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath. 22 Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this also, my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.

23 Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah. 25 I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God’s name and said: “You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves. 26 Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women. 27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?”

28 One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.

29 Remember them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

30 So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task. 31 I also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me with favor, my God

Notice verse 4 where he says, “Before this”. What was “this”? “This” was the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem. The dedication, which was the decree we are looking for, happened after the Israelites had fallen away from God. That falling away had happened after the rebuilding of the city walls by Nehemiah in about 445BC and the rebuilding of the temple and the work of Ezra in restoring Israel 13 years earlier, in 458BC.

Dedication of the Wall of Jerusalem

27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres. 28 The musicians also were brought together from the region around Jerusalem—from the villages of the Netophathites, 29 from Beth Gilgal, and from the area of Geba and Azmaveth, for the musicians had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem. 30 When the priests and Levites had purified themselves ceremonially, they purified the people, the gates and the wall.

31 I had the leaders of Judah go up on top of the wall. I also assigned two large choirs to give thanks. One was to proceed on top of the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate. 32 Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed them, 33 along with Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, 34 Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah, 35 as well as some priests with trumpets, and also Zechariah son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zakkur, the son of Asaph, 36 and his associates—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah and Hanani—with musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the teacher of the Law led the procession. 37 At the Fountain Gate they continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the site of David’s palace to the Water Gate on the east.

38 The second choir proceeded in the opposite direction. I followed them on top of the wall, together with half the people—past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall, 39 over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. At the Gate of the Guard they stopped.

40 The two choirs that gave thanks then took their places in the house of God; so did I, together with half the officials, 41 as well as the priests—Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah and Hananiah with their trumpets— 42 and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malkijah, Elam and Ezer. The choirs sang under the direction of Jezrahiah. 43 And on that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The sound of rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard far away.

44 At that time men were appointed to be in charge of the storerooms for the contributions, firstfruits and tithes. From the fields around the towns, they were to bring into the storerooms the portions required by the Law for the priests and the Levites, for Judah was pleased with the ministering priests and Levites. 45 They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did also the musicians and gatekeepers, according to the commands of David and his son Solomon. 46 For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors for the musicians and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. 47 So in the days of Zerubbabel and of Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the musicians and the gatekeepers. They also set aside the portion for the other Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.

13:1 On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God, 2 because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.) 3 When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.”

The dedication of the wall incorporated the whole of the community, led by Ezra and Nehemiah. It incorporated both the spiritual and the physical aspects of the return from captivity and the establishment of Jerusalem as the City of God. The time between Ezra and Nehemiah’s initial work upon return was about 13 years. That 13 years will come up again later in this essay. This ceremony came much later though. The decree that starts the 62 sevens was not included in either man’s work, separately. It was found in both, together. Nehemiah stated that the dedication happened after he had returned from his recall to the king. Scholars place that recall in the 432/433BC timeframe.

Being sometime after 433BC makes the timing of this event perfectly in line with a period of 428 years to the birth of Jesus. Starting at 433BC and going forward 428 years you come to 5BC. That means that Jesus would have been born around 5BC, at a time when many scholars say he was born. They are not in agreement on that though. This prophecy could pinpoint the exact date of his birth, if we knew the date of that dedication ceremony. That date is hidden from us, and I believe that is clearly intentional. If God had wanted us to know exactly when that event took place he could have told us, and that would have revealed the date of the birth of Jesus. That was not his will, apparently.

There is a well-known number in Biblical prophecy that is very close to the 428 years of the 62 sevens. That number is 430 years. The first-time scripture mentions the number 430 is when Eber, a great-great-grandson of Noah, fathers his son, Peleg. Peleg means division. Eber was a descendant of Shem, which is where we get the term Semite (Shemite). Eber is father of the Hebrews and where we get the term Hebrew (Heber). After he fathered Peleg, he lived for 430 years. These men are all listed in Matthew as being in the lineage of Jesus. Eber was the triple great grandfather of Abraham. Abraham entered into covenant with God on the date of the future Passover exactly 430 years before the Passover Exodus. That is the second time that a period of 430 years was mentioned in scripture. On that very same date, Nisan 15, 430 years later, the Israelites marched out of Egypt.

The third instance for the 430-year period was when the prophet Ezekiel laid on his side for 430 days while in captivity in Babylon to represent the 430 years that Israel would be punished for her sins. This was after the 430 years of slavery in Egypt, so it wasn't referencing that. It was referring to a future period of 430 years where God would turn away from Israel. This was approximately 580BC. What 430 years was he referencing? The time between the testaments, also known as “the silent years,” was a period of time where God did not send a prophet to speak to Israel. Malachi ended the Old Testament with his prophecy of the coming of John the Baptist and then that was it. God did not speak to Israel for another 430 years. When the father of John the Baptist doubted the message of the Angel of the Lord, he could not speak again until after the child was born. I believe this is a symbol of the time between the testaments and that the period ended with the coming of Christ and his prophet who paved the way for him. When the name of John was openly declared, it symbolized the restoration of speech from God after the 430 silent years.

Micah 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,

though you are small among the clans of Judah,

out of you will come for me

one who will be ruler over Israel,

whose origins are from of old,

from ancient times.”

3 Therefore Israel will be abandoned until the time when she who is in labor bears a son, and the rest of his brothers return to join the Israelites.

4 He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth.

If we use a 430BC date, in line with Malachi and his final prophetic utterance and with the dedication ceremony/decree to rebuild and restore Jerusalem in Nehemiah 12/13, we get an interesting set of matches. It pushes the birth of Jesus to 2BC and his crucifixion to April 25, 31AD. That was a Wednesday. I know that many churches teach that Jesus was crucified on a Friday. That is not found in scripture. When he was laid in the tomb, scripture says it was almost the Sabbath. Jesus died on Nisan 14 and was laid in the tomb as the sun set. The 15th is ALWAYS a High Sabbath, a special Sabbath, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Yet people still assume that it must have been a Saturday Sabbath that was spoken of. Three days and three nights cannot start on a Friday at sundown and end on Sunday, neither at the start of the day nor at sunrise. A Wednesday crucifixion is the only one that has three days and three nights and finishes as the Sabbath sun sets and Wavesheaf Sunday begins. There are other references to this set up in the Gospels. His crucifixion, then the High Sabbath, then a regular day (Friday), then the Saturday Sabbath.

John 19:30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. 31 Now it was the day of Preparation (Nisan 14), and the next day was to be a special Sabbath (Nisan 15). Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.

Biblical References on First Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread as a High Sabbath

Leviticus 23:7: "On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it."

Exodus 12:16: "On the first day there shall be a holy convocation... No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat, that only may be prepared by you."

Numbers 28:18: "On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.

So there have been three 430-year periods that were lived through by the Hebrew people. The 430-year life span of Eber after his son Peleg (Division) was born, the 430 years of Egyptian captivity and the 430 silent years between the Old and New Testaments. Those three 430-year periods, when added together, equal 1290 years. I believe very strongly that this is an allusion to the 1290 days of Daniel 12.

The third 430-year period of punishment for Israel ended with the coming/birth of Jesus. Each of those periods were brought about by the sinful attitudes of the Israeli people towards one another. God describes this in detail through the OT prophets. The division started with the birth of Peleg. It continued as the brothers of Joseph sold him into slavery out of jealousy. It continued even through Babylonian captivity and the return. The people were not unified under the Law of Moses. Nehemiah remedied that with instructions on how to follow the Law and a national decree and ceremony to seal the deal. It is recorded in Nehemiah 12 and 13. That began not only the 430 years of silence, but it also began the 62 sevens, or 428 years, to the birth of Jesus.

If his birth came 428 years (62 sevens) after restoration of Jerusalem by Nehemiah in 430BC, then he was born in 2 or 3BC. He and his family fled to Egypt before his second birthday. Herod inquired of the wise men as to the time of the star and ordered the death of all male children in Bethlehem under 2 years of age. This would tell us that Jesus was not two years old when this occurred. Many scholars point to the record of the ancient historian Josephus who recorded the fact that there was a lunar eclipse just before the death of Herod. There was a lunar eclipse on December 29, 1BC, that they say shows that Herod died just as BC changed to AD. Jesus and his family waited in Egypt until Herod died. So, Jesus came out of Egypt right around the time that he turned two and BC turned to AD. That would mean that 430 years after the covenant was confirmed by Nehemiah and the decree to restore Jerusalem, Jesus came out of Egypt.

Hosea 11:1 “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son."

I cannot prove any of what I am about to tell you. It is a theory, but it sure does have the ring of truth to it. We do not know the date or year of the dedication ceremony that began the 62 sevens. We also do not know the date of the birth of Jesus. We just know that Jesus came at the end of the 62 sevens. That is most likely the day he was born. What day would Ezra and Nehemiah choose for a ceremony of this nature to dedicate Jerusalem? I would guess it would be near but not on Passover. 10 days before Passover is the day the Israelites select the lamb for Passover. In 430BC that day was March 24. The period of time for 62 sevens is 156,240 days. Counting 156,240 days from there takes you to Christmas Day in 3BC. A baby born that day would have been conceived on Nisan 14/15, 3BC. That is Passover!! He would turn one right at the time of the alignment of the stars that many scholars say led the Magi to him. That alignment process began exactly a year earlier. It ran from Christmas to Christmas. He would turn two a few days before the eclipse of 1BC, which shortly preceded the death of Herod. Joseph and Mary could have easily waited for Passover in 1AD to return, as they did what the Angel of the Lord told them to do. Depending on who you ask, Nisan 14 in 1AD was March 24. That is EXACTLY 430 years after our proposed date of the 62 sevens in 430BC. If this is correct, you have a perfectly placed ceremony beginning both the 62 sevens and the 430 years, just as I am proposing. It places the birth of Jesus at Christmas, his conception on Nisan 14/15 and his return from Egypt exactly 430 years later, on Passover, a few months after the death of Herod.

The other answer you get for the date of Passover in 1AD is April 25, and Wednesday! That is the same day that Jesus died on in 31AD, Wednesday, April 25. He rose again on April 28, just as it switched to the 29th. These two dates will come up again later in a major way. If the 430 years ended April 25, 1AD then they started April 25, 430BC. That day is Iyar 5/6 in 430BC, on the Hebrew calendar. May 14, 1948, the date on the Gregorian calendar when Israel declared their birth, was Iyar 5, on the Hebrew calendar. That is the same day. If we start at April 25, 430BC and count off the 62 sevens to the coming of Jesus we get Feb 8, 2BC for his birth. If you go back the standard gestational period from there, you come to May 14, 3BC. Mind blowing. Many scholars will point to a mid-February time frame for the birth of Jesus as the shepherding patterns that time of year match what was said about the shepherds in the gospels. This solution means that both the start of the 62 sevens and the conception of Jesus fell on the same Hebrew date as the birth of Israel in 1948.

April 25 and 28 are major dates that I am going to show you later in this interpretation. So is Christmas Eve, the day he was most likely born, according to my understanding. Trust me when I say I had no intention coming into this of making the case that Jesus was born on Christmas Eve, or any of these other things I am showing you. These are just the results of careful study, the kind of careful study that even the angels long to engage in. The prophets of old spent a good deal of time looking into the timing and the circumstances of what was shown to them. That is the same thing I am doing. I am not “trying to make it fit”. I am just showing you what I find. I don’t have all the answers. I refuse to twist outcomes to try and make them fit. They either fit or they don’t. I have zero concern over whether they fit or not. It is the truth that I am after. Ask me anything. I will answer honestly, straight forwardly and from my heart.

Regardless of the exact dates, I believe he came out of Egypt on that Passover in 1AD. I believe God shielded us from the precise information because we have corrupted the calculation of accurate dates on ancient things and cannot agree on them. He thought it was better to make the case in more than one way so that all lead to the same result, in my opinion. In any case, just like the Israelites coming out of bondage in Egypt 430 years after Abraham entered his covenant with God, Jesus came out of Egypt 430 years after the start of the silent years prophesied by Ezekiel. The Abrahamic Covenant was made exactly 430 years before the first Passover. That tells us that Abraham entered his covenant on Nisan 15, the same date as Passover. The parallels are striking. The Abrahamic Covenant and the 430 years of bondage in Egypt foreshadow the restoration of Jerusalem followed by 430 "silent years" between the testaments. Both ended with the coming of the Lamb of God. Hallelujah!

The pre-tribulation rapture dispensationalists have their own timeline that fits their interpretation, and they have him being born later, so that their 69 sevens end on what they think is the date of his crucifixion. Or do they think that's the date of his crucifixion because that is when their count ends? Did they choose that date because it fit their narrative? I cannot answer that. I showed you why the prophecy of the 70 sevens is not a count to his crucifixion, but rather to his coming. I also showed you why the prophecy doesn't add the two time periods together. I also explained why he could not be crucified and die on a Friday, and scripture makes that pretty clear with a little bit of study. I hope that makes sense to you.

The 62 sevens are in the past and started with a decree to restore Jerusalem and ended with the coming, or conception, of Jesus. The 7 sevens will begin at some point in the future and will start with a decree to rebuild Jerusalem and will end with the coming of the ruler, the Antichrist.

Prophetic Numbers 62 and 49 and their history

Every year, on the Jewish calendar, Passover occurs in the Spring. Then the biblically mandated "Counting of the Omer" starts the day after Passover. That count is seven times seven, or 49 days. This is a remembrance of the time from the Exodus to the day when God gave the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai. The day the Ten Commandments were given is called Shavuot. Christians call it Pentecost, but we celebrate Pentecost on a different day than the Jews do. Pentecost means fiftieth day. That is where the 7 sevens come from. The pattern is repeated in the Jubilee. 7 periods of 7 years with the Jubilee being the 50th year, same as Shavuot.

The day after Pentecost starts a count of 62 days to Tisha B'Av. That is the day on the Jewish calendar that both the first and second Temples were destroyed. The 62 days from Pentecost to Tisha B'Av are not explicitly stated in scripture. The dates we have for these events are coming directly from Judaism. Passover and Pentecost occurred long before our Savior gave his life on Passover. The pattern and the timing were set centuries before Jesus came. Jesus is the living Temple of God. This is why he is associated with the 62 sevens in Daniel’s prophecy. It is the time from Shavuot/Pentecost to the destruction of the Temples. His death was a more real version of the Temple of God being destroyed than when the physical temple was destroyed in 70AD.

The 7 sevens count ends with the coming of the Antichrist and the start of the final seven. I do not know why the Antichrist is associated with the 7 sevens. Perhaps it is a perfect period of time. It gives us a perfect warning. Perhaps it is something specific about him that we will see when he comes. Perhaps it indicates his pretend status as a man of God. It is important to note that Pentecost is a stand alone day and is not part of either count. This parallels the gap in time between the two periods of sevens and is consistent with not adding the two together. Pentecost is the atnah, if you will.

The Future Decree

There were many people who were following Newton’s interpretation and starting the count of 7 sevens on June 7, 1967. They assumed that because Israel unified the city on that date that it would count as a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. They had pinpointed Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles in 2015 for the end of the 7 sevens. On that day we also witnessed the final blood-moon of a four blood-moon group known as a tetrad. It was not correct. A tetrad had also accompanied the establishment of Israel in 1948 and the retaking of the city of Jerusalem in 1967. They saw it as clear evidence that God was targeting this time. The problem is there wasn't any decree issued on June 7, 1967. There was one issued on June 28, 1967, though. It placed Jerusalem under the control of Israel and unified the city, while protecting the Holy Places. It had no statement on rebuilding the city. It only set up the restoration of the city to Israel. A count of seven sevens from that date yields the day that the final seven would begin as Oct 13, 2015. That was also not correct, as too much time has passed, and it is clear that no action was taken to indicate a final 7 year covenant was confirmed on that date. However, that was the exact date that Iran’s parliament approved the JCPOA. Their religious leaders approved it the next day, and it went into effect on Oct 18. Now, back to the Sukkot many had pinpointed as the end of the 7 sevens. That was Sept 27, 2015. Two days earlier, at the United Nations, Agenda 2030 was passed by the General Assembly. Agenda 2030 plays a very large role in what I am going to show you coming up. Just to round out the narrative of the count from 1967, I want to tell you when that final seven would have found its middle day, the day the Abomination of Desolation would have occurred. It was March 25, 2019. That was the day Donald Trump signed the Golan Heights Decree. We know from Revelation 11 that the two witnesses will testify 1260 days and then will be killed as the final seven ends, only to be raised again 3 ½ days later. Counting 1263 days from there take you to Sept 8, 2022. That was the day Queen Elizabeth died and Charles became King. What that means is not known to me. I see these things and report them. I do not always know what the meaning of it is. Something to ponder for sure. 1290 days after the Golan Heights Decree was Oct 5, Yom Kippur. 1335 days after the Golan Heights Decree was Nov 19, 2022.

That brings us to what I believe is the decree that began the count of the 7 sevens to the confirmation of the covenant and the coming of the Antichrist. That decree is the Jerusalem Law of 1980. It was issued July 30, 1980. It is a Basic Law of Israel. They do not have a constitution but use “basic laws” as the foundation of their legal system, much the same as a constitution.

The Jerusalem Law July 30, 1980

Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel.

Jerusalem is the seat of the President of the State, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court.

The Holy Places shall be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings towards those places.

Development of Jerusalem

(a) The Government shall provide for the development and prosperity of Jerusalem and the well-being of its inhabitants by allocating special funds, including a special annual grant to the Municipality of Jerusalem (Capital City Grant) with the approval of the Finance Committee of the Knesset.

(b) Jerusalem shall be given special priority in the activities of the authorities of the State so as to further its development in economic and other matters.

Area of the jurisdiction of Jerusalem (Amendment no. 1)

The jurisdiction of Jerusalem includes, as pertaining to this basic law, among others, all of the area that is described in the appendix of the proclamation expanding the borders of municipal Jerusalem beginning the 20th of Sivan 5727 (June 28, 1967), as was given according to the Cities' Ordinance.

Prohibition of the transfer of authority (Amendment no. 1)

No authority that is stipulated in the law of the State of Israel or of the Jerusalem Municipality may be transfered either permanently or for an allotted period of time to a foreign body, whether political, governmental or to any other similar type of foreign body.

Entrenchment (Amendment no. 1)

Clauses 5 and 6 shall not be modified except by a Basic Law passed by a majority of the members of the Knesset.

MENACHEM BEGIN

Prime Minister

YITZCHAK NAVON

President of the State

Section 4 titled “Development of Jerusalem” constitutes a decree to rebuild. Not only is it a decree to rebuild, but it also places Jewish sovereignty over the city and the Temple Mount and prohibits future governments of Israel from giving away that sovereignty to a foreign entity. Section 5 incorporates the decree that was issued regarding Jerusalem after the Six-Day War in 1967.

This law comes 13 years after the 1967 decree. It was passed 70 days after Shavuot. It was introduced on Jerusalem Day, 28 Iyar, which celebrates the 1967 restoration of Jerusalem. It specifically marks June 7, 1967, as that is the day they took the entire city including the Temple Mount. In 1980, Jerusalem Day fell on May 14th, the 32nd birthday of Israel on the Gregorian calendar. Just another of so many amazing coincidences! Just like with Ezra and Nehemiah, the action taken was in two phases. The first phase was more about the restoration, and the second was more about the rebuilding. Those two phases were also 13 years apart, same as these two modern phases rolled into one. When Israel celebrates Jerusalem Day, they do what is known as the Dance of the Flags. It is a direct spiritual mirror to the dedication ceremony of the wall in Nehemiah’s day. The dedication that began the 62 sevens. How amazing that the day Israel has marked as Jerusalem Day, and the day they re-enact the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem by Ezra and Nehemiah also was the day they introduced the Basic Law that forever made Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel!

Rabbi Chaim Druckman (1932–2022), was one of the most influential spiritual leaders of the Religious Zionist movement and a massive champion of Jerusalem Day celebrations. Discussing the spiritual foundation of the flag march, he taught:

"Our dancing through the gates and along the walls of the Old City is not a modern innovation, nor is it a political provocation. It is the direct continuation of Nehemiah the Governor and Ezra the Scribe. When they dedicated the rebuilt walls of Jerusalem, they did so with mass processions, music, and great joy that echoed across the mountains. When our youth dance with flags today, they are walking in the exact footsteps of the returning exiles of Nehemiah's day, dedicating the city once again to the Holy One, Blessed be He."

The Count of the 7 Sevens

Now that we have our modern decree, it is relatively simple to count the days to find when each of the 7 sevens begins and ends, and to find when the final seven begins and ends.

The first seven began on July 30, 1980. It was the day the Jerusalem Law decreed the restoration and rebuilding of Jerusalem. That was 70 days after Shavuot. July 30 was also the day the New York Declaration was announced as being passed by the UN in 2025. That was the 45th anniversary of the Jerusalem Law. It directly opposes the Jerusalem Law and seeks to overturn it.

June 22, 1987, was the start of the second seven. Trump rolled out his "Peace to Prosperity" plan, phase one, on that day in 2019. He bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities on this day in 2025.

May 17, 1994, was when the third seven started and was also Shavuot/Pentecost.

April 10, 2001, was when the fourth seven started. It was the third day of Passover. That is the day when Jesus rose at sundown, at the end of the third day. It was also the end of the third seven. Amazing!

March 3, 2008, was when the fifth seven started. Purim in 2026, when we attacked Iran, was on March 3. It was the day we destroyed the headquarters of the Assembly of Experts where the Twelvers meet in Qom. The war had started on Shabbat Zachor, the Sabbath before Purim when the portion read in the synagogues relates to their ancient enemy Amalek. Haman, the villain of the story of Purim, was an Amalekite.

Jan 28, 2015, was when the sixth seven started. That's the day Trump rolled out "Peace to Prosperity" phase two in 2020. It is the start of what turned into his 20-point peace plan for Gaza, which he revealed on Rosh Hashanah 2025 at the UN.

Dec 21, 2021, was when the seventh seven began. On that very day the first pure red heifers in several millennia, 21 of them, were revealed to the world by Rabbis of the Temple Institute at a ceremony in Texas. Some were transported to Israel. After Oct 7, 2023, Hamas stated in an interview that one of the big reasons they launched their attack was “the bringing of the red cows”.

Nov 14, 2028, the eighth and final seven will begin. Same day the seven-year SDG Agenda 2030 plan of Pope Francis ends. Trump issued a statement on Nov 14, 2025, declaring agreement between he and 8 Islamic nations approving the Gaza peace plan and establishing the Board of Peace. Board membership is set up for 3 years, ending Nov 14, 2028. Nov 14, 2028, will be King Charles' 80th birthday. Remember he was made king on Sept 8, 2022. That day was 1263 days after the middle of the final seven when counting from June 28, 1967. It is the day the two witnesses would have been raised had the June 28, 1967, decree been the correct starting point.

Oct 10, 2035, is when the final seven ends. Trump reached the cease fire agreement with Hamas on Oct 10, 2025, which caused the release of the hostages.

Oct 13, 2035, the two witnesses will be raised on Yom Kippur. Oct 13, 2025, is the day Trump signed the Gaza Peace Deal in Egypt.

Nov 9, 2035, is the 1290th day after the Abomination of Desolation. It is also known for some other major events that reflect on our timeline. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was made public on this date. Kristallnacht, the beginning of the Holocaust, as well as the 1989 fall of the Iron Curtain happened on this day.

Dec 24, 2035, is the 1335th day after the Abomination of Desolation. I showed you earlier how this could actually be the day Jesus was born. I believe it is the most likely scenario. If it is, then we can chalk up all the ideas that it is evil to celebrate Christmas to the work of the devil. The fact that Daniel says, “blessed and holy is he that waits for and reaches the 1335th day”, combined with this timeline pointing to the day being on Christmas Eve just supports the idea it could be the day Jesus was born. It’s not proof, just supporting evidence.

Summary

I believe that what I have shown you is the purest and simplest way of interpreting the prophecy of the seventy sevens. I have many convincing proofs that this concept is accurate. Please go to the page titled “Many Convincing Proofs” to see them for yourself. It is even more stunning than what I have described here. Please remember, it is you and you alone that are responsible for what you believe. Take what I have shown you in prayer to the Lord. That is what I did, and he convinced me 100% that the interpretation of the 70 sevens I showed you was accurate. That did not include the portion about applying that interpretation to modern events. What I am saying is that I got this interpretation confirmed from the mouth of God and only after that did, I find how to apply it. I stand by the interpretation of the split in the weeks and the future decree with all my heart. I know it’s true like I know my own name. What I did not get confirmed from him was what I came to find as a result of that interpretation being applied to the world and the events therein. I believe it is correct too, but it is on me if it is not accurate. I do not swear, as God has forbidden it. Everything I have told you is as true as I can understand and imagine truth. God is the final judge, and time will tell if my work stands up. Please continue to the next section. It is well worth your time. 2 US presidents, a pope, the G20, the UN and a King, all show us evidence of the dates being accurate, and so much more. That page is under construction and will be updated soon with new information. Check back or email me and I will let you know when the updated information is posted. God bless you my brothers and sisters in the Lord!