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❖ Could One Prophecy Predict the Exact Arrival of Messiah, the Destruction of Jerusalem, and the Coming Antichrist?
Daniel 9 is one of the most astonishing chapters in all of Scripture because it does something critics hate:
It ties prophecy to real history, real kings, real cities, and real chronology.
Not vague symbolism.
Not mystical ambiguity.
A prophetic countdown.
That is why skeptical scholars have attacked Daniel for centuries. The prophecy is simply too precise.
◦ Around 539 BC, Daniel was living in Babylon near the end of the Jewish exile.
Jerusalem had been devastated.
Solomon’s Temple had been destroyed.
The Jewish people were under Gentile domination.
While reading Jeremiah, Daniel discovered that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years:
“When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise.”
Jeremiah 29:10
Daniel responded with fasting, confession, and repentance:
“We have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled.”
Daniel 9:5
Although Daniel personally lived righteously, he identified himself with the sins of the nation.
❖ Then Gabriel arrives with one of the greatest prophetic revelations ever given.
“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city.”
Daniel 9:24
The Hebrew literally means “seventy sevens.”
Most conservative scholars understand this as seventy sets of seven years:
70 \times 7 = 490\text{ years}
Notice who the prophecy concerns:
▸ “your people” = Israel
▸ “your holy city” = Jerusalem
This prophecy is explicitly centered on Israel and Jerusalem.
Gabriel divides the timeline into:
◦ 7 weeks
◦ 62 weeks
◦ 1 final week
The first 69 weeks combine into:
69 \times 7 = 483\text{ years}
Then Gabriel gives the starting point:
“From the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem…”
Daniel 9:25
This is where the prophecy becomes extraordinary.
Daniel says the countdown to Messiah begins with a decree to restore Jerusalem.
Many futurist scholars connect this to the decree issued by Artaxerxes I in Nehemiah 2 around 444/445 BC.
Artaxerxes authorized Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls, gates, and city infrastructure:
“The king granted my requests.”
Nehemiah 2:8
That matters because Daniel specifically says:
“to restore and build Jerusalem”
Not merely the Temple.
Jerusalem itself.
This transforms Daniel 9 into a measurable prophetic timeline tied to a documented Persian decree.
Sir Robert Anderson later argued in The Coming Prince (1894) that the 483-year countdown points with astonishing precision to Messiah’s public presentation before His crucifixion.
Whether one agrees with every detail of Anderson’s calculations or not, the implications are enormous:
Daniel attached Messiah’s arrival to history itself.
❖ Then Daniel says something staggering:
“After the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing.”
Daniel 9:26
The Hebrew term for “cut off” refers to violent death.
Isaiah used nearly identical language:
“He was cut off from the land of the living.”
Isaiah 53:8
Daniel predicted:
◦ Messiah would come
◦ Messiah would be killed
◦ and this would happen before Jerusalem’s destruction
Daniel immediately continues:
“The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.”
Daniel 9:26
In AD 70, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Second Temple under Titus.
Jesus Himself warned:
“Not one stone here will be left on another.”
Matthew 24:2
The order matters:
❖ Messiah comes
❖ Messiah is cut off
❖ then Jerusalem and the Temple are destroyed
That means the Jewish Messiah had to come before the destruction of the Second Temple.
Daniel 9 does not merely predict Messiah.
It puts Him on the calendar.
The Temple is gone.
The genealogies are gone.
The sacrifices ceased nearly 2,000 years ago.
Yet Daniel said Messiah would appear before that destruction.
For believers in Yeshua, the conclusion is obvious:
He came.
He was cut off.
Then the sanctuary was destroyed.
❖ But Daniel’s prophecy does not stop there.
Daniel describes a coming ruler who:
▸ confirms a covenant with many for one “week” — Daniel 9:27
▸ breaks it midway — Daniel 7:25; Daniel 9:27
▸ stops sacrifice and offering — Daniel 9:27
▸ commits the abomination of desolation — Daniel 9:27; Matt 24:15
▸ exalts himself in God’s Temple — 2 Thessalonians 2:3–4
▸ dominates the final Beast system — Revelation 13:5–7
“In the middle of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering.”
Daniel 9:27
That statement alone implies:
◦ a functioning Temple
◦ restored sacrifices
◦ Jerusalem once again central to world events
Jesus directly connected this prophecy to the future:
“When you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel…”
Matthew 24:15
Daniel becomes the backbone of biblical eschatology.
◦ Critics often object to the gap between the 69th and 70th week.
But prophetic gaps already exist elsewhere.
Isaiah 61:1–2 spans both comings of Messiah, and Jesus stopped reading mid-verse in Luke 4.
Zechariah 9:9 shows Messiah on a donkey.
Zechariah 9:10 immediately shifts to Messiah ruling the nations.
Old Testament prophecy often compresses future events together.
❖ Daniel 9 reminds us that God rules history with terrifying precision.
Empires rise and collapse.
Kings boast and disappear.
Jerusalem is scattered and regathered.
Messiah arrives exactly on schedule.
And the God who fulfilled the first part of Daniel’s prophecy with astonishing accuracy will also fulfill the rest.
“For the vision awaits an appointed time… it will certainly come.”
Habakkuk 2:3
Daniel was not written to entertain curiosity.
It was written to awaken watchmen.
@carteblanche230 It was not the fulfillment of this verse in Jeremiah.
It was a shadow for what's to come.
It's speaking about the great tribulation while the antichrist will hunt down and kill the Jews.
@KendallSals@CharlotteW45308@unclefunny80@JeffBaggaley And where's the antichrist right now and his demand for worship? Where's the false prophet? It doesn't make sense. That's why I believe we're not in the great tribulation yet
@KendallSals@CharlotteW45308@unclefunny80@JeffBaggaley Again I don't think the vaccine was the mark. The mark will be something if you take it you actively rebelling against the true God and showing actively loyalty and worship to the beast/antichrist. It has to do with worship and a choice
@KendallSals@CharlotteW45308@unclefunny80@JeffBaggaley So if an unbeliever hasn't the vaccine by now he has the holy Spirit because of this ? This is not how salvation works. There's people who didn't take the vaccine because they knew it was bad but that doesn't mean they are believers
@JeffBaggaley@CharlotteW45308@unclefunny80@KendallSals But revelation suggests that everyone that doesn't accept the mark and the saints will be killed.
If the vaccine was the mark then you would die if you don't got the vaccine not other way around
@unclefunny80@JeffBaggaley@CharlotteW45308@KendallSals Agree. The mark of the beast is something which if you take it will symbolize actively that you show loyalty to the beast and give worship to Satan and not to God.
@CharlotteW45308@JeffBaggaley@KendallSals I don't saw the first 5 trumpets happening by now. Also the antichrist is not in full power and is not hunting down the saints