Daniel's Prophecies'



Daniel's Prophecies'

Introduction

The term "week", referring to a period of seven years, was common among Jews. This expression comes from God's command in Leviticus 25:1-7 to work in the field for six years, allowing him to rest on the seventh year. This period of seven years became known as "week of years." Therefore, seventy weeks are 490 years. In the prophecies of Daniel, those 490 years, divided into 3 parts: seven weeks of years (49 years), sixty-two weeks of years (434 years) and a week of years (7 years). The starting point for the calculation of the seventy weeks is the decree issued by King Artaxerxes in the Medo-Persian 14 March 445 BC, authorizing the rebuilding of Jerusalem. The first period runs from 445 BC to 396 BC period of the reconstruction (49 years). The second period is 483 years, adding 49 years of the first seven weeks and 434 from the sixty-two weeks until the death of the Messiah (Jesus Christ). These data, considering the deduction between 1 BC and 1 AD, where there is only one year, the Jewish lunar year, which is only 360 days, years bisextos during the period, adding more than 119 days to calculate the discount and the small difference between the Julian calendar and the solar year (1 / 128 difference), reveal a number of 173,880 days, between week 1 and week 69.

Discussion

According to what we will explain later, we believe that 69 of the 70 weeks were fulfilled. Last week, a period of seven years, still be met, and this period is called the tribulation, which is part of the great tribulation, apart from the middle of the last week and will last three years. What is more interesting to observe in the calculation of the first 69 weeks, the prophet, inspired by the Lord gave such specific details and data that made possible the knowledge of the time when Jesus Christ would be born, we see that those who print or forward the newborn and recognized him as King, were not Jewish religious leaders, and scribes, and scholars and teachers of the law, read and studied Scripture consistently. Those who knew the proximity of the Messiah Nacimento and traveled thousands of kilometers in order to visit the Savior of the world were "wise men" came from the East. How that might happen, as the Jews had a constant and direct access to scripts and wizards lived milhares of miles from the Promised Land?

The answer is simple: the secular preceded the Nacimento of Jesus, sometimes due to a direct influence of Hellenistic ideas; the main Jewish leaders began to defend two positions wrong. First, they taught that the Scriptures should be interpreted literally, since they were wholly inspired by God and, consequently, contained errors. Second, they used to "spiritualize" the prophecies of Scripture, as if they were allegories then the prophecies of Daniel were metaphorical and interpretation of the data verbatim from the book of Daniel was gradually being ...