Daniel's 70 Weeks

Daniel's 70 Weeks have passed and have been fullfilled!

There are two "messiahs" (anointed ones) mentioned in this Daniel 9


The first messiah is Cyrus -- the Babylonian Emperor -- who gave the word to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple.

Ezra: 1:1-2: "And in the first year of Cyrus, the king of Persia, at the completion of the word of the L-rd from the mouth of Jeremiah, the L-rd aroused the Spirit of Cyrus, the king of Persia, and he issued a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also in writing, saying: "So said Cyrus, the king of Persia, 'All the kingdoms of the earth the L-rd G-d of the heavens delivered to me, and He commanded me to build Him a House in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.."

Isaiah 44:28, God "says of Cyrus, "He is My shepherd, and all My desire he shall fulfill," and to say of Jerusalem, "It shall be built, and the Temple shall be founded." . . . So said the L-rd לִמְשִׁיחוֹ֮ / to His messiah, to Cyrus, whose right hand I held, to flatten nations before him, and the loins of kings I will loosen, to open portals before him, and gates shall not be closed."

45:1 This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His messiah, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

2 Chronicles 36:22-23 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: 23 "This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: 'The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.'" (see also Ezra 1:1-2)

Then hundreds of years pass -- and Daniel foresees the destruction of the Second Temple and the Jews again exiled -- and the appearance of an evil messiah who will be part of that destruction. . .

Neither of these messiahs were Jesus --

It is this second messiah, the one who indeed had to be alive at the time of the Temple's destruction (40 years passed Jesus' (Yahovah/Eashoa) ressurection) 

Daniel 9

9:1 "In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus of the offspring of Media, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,

This is Darius the Mede, not  Darius the Persian whose parents were King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther.  According to the Talmud, this vision took place in the seventieth year after Nebuchadnezzar's subjugation of Jeconiah, eighteen years before the destruction of the Temple.

9:2. in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, contemplated the calculations, the number of years about which the word of the LORD had come to the prophet Jeremiah, to complete the seventy years since the ruin of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 29:10  “For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.

 

The Jews have been exiled to Babylon. Daniel is in exile with them. It is first year of the reign of Darius the Mede, son of Ahasuerus, in the Chaldæan empire (521 BC). Daniel is among the Jews who have been exiled to Babylon -- and he wants to calculate when this exile will end and the Jews will return to Judah (Israel) It was 597 BC, 76 years earlier, when King Jeconiah of Judah had been deposed and sent into exile. Thus more than 70 years had already passed from the start of the exile itself -- so was Jeremiah speaking about the length of the exile or did the 70 years stand for something slightly different? The date of Jeconiah's exile was too early -- and Daniel is in exile six years past that date, wondering when the "70 years" began and when his exile will end. Those are not the 70 years. . .The 70 years began with the completion of the Second Temple -- 586 BC --  exactly 70 years after the destruction of the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC.  But that had not happened yet for Daniel -- so he was unable to compute the date for the start of his vision -- the return of the Jews from Babylonian exile. In his vision he sees that a messiah (not "the") will give the word to rebuild Jerusalem and let the Jews return to Israel (Judah), this is Cyrus.

 

9:3. I set my face toward the L-rd, G-d, to beseech (with) prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. . .
9:21. I was still speaking in prayer, when the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, was lifted in flight approaching me, at about the time of the afternoon offering.
9:22. He made me understand and spoke with me. He said: Daniel, I have gone forth now to teach you understanding.
9:23. At the beginning of your supplications a word went forth, and I have come to relate it for you are beloved. Contemplate this matter and gain understanding in your vision.
9:24. Seventy septets (שָׁבֻעִ֖ים / shavuim) have been decreed upon your people and upon your holy city to terminate transgression, to end sin, to wipe away iniquity, to anoint the Holy of Holies.

Literally "seventy weeks," this phrase refers to seventy times seven years, or 490 years.  This refers to the seventy years of exile that have passed from the Destruction of the First Temple until this vision and the entire 420 year period of the Second Temple

 

The passage does not say that anyone will end sin. It says that the Jewish people have a time frame (given in the chapter) in which to stop sinning and avoid a second exile. It is a WARNING.

9:25. Know and comprehend: From the emergence of the word to return and to build Jerusalem until the anointment of the prince will be seven septets (שָׁבֻעִ֖ים / shavuim) and for sixty-two septets (וְשָׁבֻעִ֞ים / v'shavuim) it will be rebuilt, street and moat, but in troubled times.

The "septets" (shavuim) refer to full seven-year periods.  The prince of this verse is Cyrus, who gave permission to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple.  He ascended to the throne fifty-two years (seven full septets plus three years) after the exile had begun.  From then until the second destruction of Jerusalem was 438 years, or sixty-two septets and four years

9:26. Then, after the sixty-two septets (הַשָּׁבֻעִים֙ / ha-shavuim) , the anointed one (messiah) will be cut off and will exist no longer; the people of the prince will come and destroy the city and the Sanctuary; but his end will be (to be swept away as) in a flood. Then, until the end of the war, desolation is decreed.

This last anointed king, 'of the kings of Judah', which started with saul down to the last Jew king at the 2nd destruction of the temple is Herod Agrippa II. Although a Jew, he was entirely devoted to the Roman Empire and started the Jewish–Roman War of 66–73AD.

The prince and his people were Titus and his troops who destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem in 70AD.

9:27. He will forge a strong covenant with the great ones for one septet (shavuim); but for half of that septet (שָׁב֣וּעַ / shavua) he will abolish sacrifice and meal-offering and the mute abominations will be upon soaring heights until extermination. as decreed will pour down upon the mute (abomination).

The Roman emperor would make a treaty with the Jewish nation for seven years; but for the second half of that term the Romans would violate that covenant and impede the Temple service.  The "mute abomination," i.e., a temple of idolatry, was erected by the emperor Hadrian on the Temple Mount. - the Jewish–Roman War of 66–73AD.

 

Then, until the end of the war, desolation is decreed. The was then continued until 135AD

 

see also: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1998/10/i-have-a-question/i-have-a-question?lang=eng 

 From there the whore of the earth started to take over and corrupt the earth until the times of the gentiles (nations) are fullfilled which can be seen in Daniel 7's 4 beasts, 2 Ezra 11-13 is the 4th, which is america.