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DanielDANIEL’S 70TH WEEK HAS NOT HAPPENED YET: (AND THE BIBLE PROVES IT)

Some people claim that Daniel’s 70th week was fulfilled during the final week of Jesus’ earthly ministry.

But when you carefully read the prophecy, that interpretation simply does not fit the text.

Let’s walk through the Scripture.

Daniel 9:24 says:

“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city…”

This prophecy concerns Israel and Jerusalem, not the Church.

God lays out 70 prophetic weeks (490 years) that will complete His prophetic program for Israel.

The verse then lists six things that will be finished by the end of the seventy weeks.

“To finish the transgression to make an end of sins to make reconciliation for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness to seal up the vision and prophecy and to anoint the most Holy”

Those things describe the full restoration of Israel and the establishment of Christ’s kingdom.

Clearly that has not happened yet.

The earth is still full of sin. Israel has not yet nationally turned to their Messiah. Everlasting righteousness has not yet filled the earth.

So the prophecy itself already tells us the seventy weeks are not finished.

Daniel then breaks the timeline down.

Daniel 9:25

“From the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks.”

Seven weeks plus sixty-two weeks equals sixty-nine weeks.

Then Daniel explains what happens next.

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.”

Two major events happen after the 69th week.

Messiah is cut off. Jerusalem and the Temple are destroyed.

Both happened exactly as Scripture said.

Jesus was crucified.

Then in AD 70, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple.

But notice something very important.

These events occur after the sixty-nine weeks, yet before the seventieth week begins.

Daniel then introduces a new figure.

“The prince that shall come.”

This ruler appears in the final verse of the prophecy.

Daniel 9:27

“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease…”

The key question is this:

Who is the “he”?

Some people claim this refers to Jesus.

But basic reading rules show the pronoun refers to the nearest previous subject.

The nearest subject in verse 26 is the prince that shall come.

So verse 27 describes a future ruler, not Christ.

This ruler does three things.

He confirms a covenant with many for one week (seven years).

In the middle of the week he stops the sacrifices.

He commits the abomination of desolation.

Jesus did not make a seven-year covenant with Israel.

He did not break a covenant halfway through seven years.

And He certainly did not stand in the Temple committing the abomination of desolation.

But Scripture says a future ruler will.

Jesus Himself confirmed that Daniel’s prophecy was still future.

Matthew 24:15

“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place…”

Paul describes the same event.

2 Thessalonians 2:3–4

“That man of sin be revealed… who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God… so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God.”

Revelation describes the same period.

Revelation 13:5

“And power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.”

Forty-two months equals three and a half years, exactly half of Daniel’s seventieth week.

So the biblical sequence is clear.

Messiah appears. Messiah is cut off. Jerusalem is destroyed. A future ruler makes a seven-year covenant. Halfway through it he commits the abomination of desolation. Then the great tribulation begins.

That final week has never happened in history.

But the Bible also gives a sign about when these events would approach.

Jesus told us to watch the fig tree.

Matthew 24:32–34

“Now learn a parable of the fig tree… when his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh.

So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”

Throughout Scripture the fig tree is used as a picture of Israel.

Hosea 9:10 Jeremiah 24:5 Joel 1:7

For nearly two thousand years Israel did not exist as a nation.

But the prophets said Israel would return.

Ezekiel 36:24

“For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.”

Ezekiel 37:21–22

“I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen… and will make them one nation in the land.”

That happened when Israel was reborn as a nation on May 14, 1948.

For the first time in nearly two thousand years, the prophetic stage now exists.