1
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah: Now it came about in
the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, and I myself happened to be in Shushan the
castle
(Nehemiah 1).
This was not the 20th year of Axtaxerxes the king. Every ordinal year of a king
in the bible is called such explicitly (check 'first year', 'second year' etc
with an electronic bible). This was the 20th year of Nehemiah's being in Shushan.
Which appears to have been the 19th year of Artaxerxes the King, since the 20th
year of Axrtaxerxes, when Nehemiah asked to be governor of Judah, was some
'days' later, days of weeping and mourning as below:
4
And it came about that, as soon as I heard these words, I sat
down and began to weep and mourn for days, and I was continually fasting and praying before the God of the
heavens (Nehemiah 1).
Then he prayed asking for pity from the King:
11
Ah, Jehovah, please, let your ear become attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the
prayer of your servants who take delight in fearing your name; and, please, do grant
success to your servant today and make him an object of pity before this man. Now I myself happened to be
cupbearer to the king (Nehemiah 1).
The true God granted his request:
1
And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of
Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him, and I as usual took up the wine and gave it to the
king. But never had I happened to be gloomy before him (Nehemiah 2).
Nehemiah asked if he could go back to Jerusalem and rebuild its wall and re hang
its gates:
6
At this the king said to me, as his queenly consort was sitting
beside him: How long will your journey come to be and when will you return? So it seemed
good before the king that he should send me, when I gave him the appointed time
(Nehemiah 2).
The answer to this question is given later in Nehemiah's book:
14 Another thing: From the day that he commissioned me to become their governor in the land of Judah, from the 20th year to the 32nd year of Artaxerxes the king, 12 years, I myself and my brothers did not eat the bread due the governor (Nehemiah 5).
On the Web there are hundreds and hundreds or differing interpretations of the 70 sevens of Daniel 9. They are all incorrect, although many are valiant efforts, because they are based on the view of the majority of historians that the 20th year of Artaxerxes was 445 BC (Cambridge Ancient History). But there is good evidence that Artaxerxes was coregent with his father for 10 years so that his 20th year was in fact 455 BC, see - [120]. The Watchtower gets the credit for this one. So in this section we take this 20th year to start in 455Nisan. There is a scriptural parallel to the 70 sevens prophecy which is good evidence that this date of 455 is true. It is drawn below:
Inauguration of the
Tabernacle
Inauguration of Solomon's Temple
1512Nisan
1026Tishri
X_______________________________________X
486½ years (69½ weeks of years)
Zerubbabel's Temple inaugurated under
law Inauguration of Temple
of Jesus' body
455Tishri24
33Nisan16
X_______________________________________X
486½ years
(69½ weeks of years)
Temporal parallel indicating that the 20th year of Artaxerxes I was 455 BC.
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There are 70 sevens that have been determined upon your
people and upon your holy city
in order to terminate the transgression
and to finish off sin
and to make atonement for error
and to bring in righteousness for times indefinite
and to imprint a seal upon vision and prophet
and to anoint the holy of holies
(Daniel 9).
We read earlier in the chapter that:
2 In the first year of his reigning (Darius 521) I, myself, Daniel discerned by the books, the number of years concerning which the word of Jehovah had occurred to Jeremiah the prophet, for fulfilling the devastations of Jerusalem, 70 years (Daniel 9)
Darius acceded on 29September 522BC (Cambridge Ancient History). So the first regnal year of Darius was 521. We see from verse 24 that 70 'sevens', which sevens can either be sabbaths, or weeks of days or weeks of years, are decreed upon people and city. If they are sabbaths then they could refer to the 70 year devastation of Jerusalem, which was a land sabbath repayment period, see [121], [122]. If so then there are two periods of 70 sabbaths, one determined upon the holy city and the other upon the people. We know from [122], that these are:
609Tishri the end of the last land sabbath missed to 539T the fall of Babylon to Cyrus, in the case of the people.
585Nisan, the first sacred year after the destruction of the temple on 586Ab10, to 515Nisan, the start of the first year after the inauguration of Zerubbabel's temple (either in 516Adar or 516AdarII).
Obviously as stated in verse 2, Daniel had worked out the Jerusalem fulfillment. The 70 years on the people had been and gone. This is the literal meaning of Daniel 9.
Daniel’s entreaties started in 521 when a word went forth according to Gabriel:
23
At the start of your entreaties a word went forth (Daniel
9).
But verse 25 informs us that:
25 From the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah (anointed one), Leader, there will be 7 sevens and 62 sevens (Daniel 9).
If we take the sevens as being ordinal i.e. seven sevenths, or 7 sabbaths, then assuming Daniel was praying in the early part of the first year of Darius (521Nisan onwards), then the 7th year of Darius, which was the first year of Zerubbabel's temple was 515Nisan onwards. The first year of Darius was when 'a word went forth', so in his 7th year, the anointed one, the high priest Joshua, started officiating in the temple of Zerubbabel, the leader or governor of Judah. Haggai informs us about Zerubbabel and Joshua:
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah occurred by means of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak the high priest (Haggai 1).
So Gabriel was confirming Daniel’s own calculation of verse 2:
2 In the first year of his reigning I myself, Daniel, discerned by the books the number of the years concerning which the word of Jehovah had occurred to Jeremiah the prophet, for fulfilling the devastations of Jerusalem, [namely,] seventy years (Daniel 9)
Now, having dealt with the 7 sevens, we turn our attention to the 62 sevens that follow. Certainly a word went forth to restore true worship in Jerusalem in 516Adar/AdarII, namely: 'Come and worship in our newly inaugurated temple'. If we count inclusively 62 years from here we end up in the year starting 455Nisan. But in 455Tishri24, the law was re instated by Ezra, see below. So 454 was the first year under the re instated law of Moses. And therefore the 62 years from 516 to 455 inclusive, were a sabbath, a release from the Law. The reason why Zerubbabel's temple was inaugurated in 516Adar or 516AdarII more likely, rather than 515Nisan at the passover as one would have expected, is that the nation was not under law in 516, so the real inauguration under law regulated by the temple of Zerubbabel was in 455Tishri at the festival of Booths, just before they re - entered the law - see [98].
These 62 years were a priesthood malediction. So Joshua, the anointed one, started officiating at the temple during the 7th sabbath (release from the temple and the law), after Daniel's entreaties (inclusively), with the passover, under the leadership of Zerubbabel. And the high priest Ezra, the anointed one, started officiating properly at the temple during the 62nd sabbath (release from the law) after that with a proper version of the festival of booths, under the leadership of Nehemiah, the governor of Judah. The 70 year penalty on the temple was a ‘worship sabbath’ rather than a land sabbath, which was the 70 year penalty on the people. To see that Ezra was the high priest consider:
21 And by me myself, Artaxerxes the king, an order has been put through to all the treasurers that are beyond the River, that everything that Ezra the priest, the copyist of the law of the God of the heavens, requests of you men it will be done promptly (Ezra 7).
25 And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand appoint magistrates and judges that they may continually judge all the people that are beyond the River, even all those knowing the laws of your God; and anyone that has not known [them] you men will instruct (Ezra 7).
Of course the Land Sabbath repayment on the people, the house of Israel, ended in 539Tishri, so the 70 year temple penalty had to be a different kind of Sabbath. It was truly a release from the obligations of the law, since one quite obviously cannot obey the law without a temple. Although the many modern physical Jews erroneously attempt to do this. They are doing it not because it makes any logical sense, but because their pride will not accept that God has rejected them only in as much as they have lost their exclusivity, of being God's people, who are none other than Abraham's sons through the First Abrahamic Covenant, which exclusivity was by means of the Land and Circumcision Covenant, see [9]. They lost it as a result of the death of the Christ. This re instatement of the law on 455Tishri24 is covered in Nehemiah 8,9,10:
1
And all the people proceeded to gather themselves as one man
at the public square that was before the Water Gate. Then they said to Ezra the
copyist to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded
Israel.
2
Accordingly Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation of
men as well as of women and of all intelligent enough to listen, on the 1st day of the
7th month (Nehemiah 8).
17
Thus all the congregation of those who had come back from the
captivity made booths and took up dwelling in the booths; for the sons of Israel
had not done that way from the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day, so
that there came to be very great rejoicing.
18
And there was a reading aloud of the
book of the law of the [true] God day by day, from the first day until the last
day; and they went on holding the festival seven days, and on the eighth day
there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule (Nehemiah 8).
1 And on the 24th day of this month the sons of Israel gathered themselves together with fasting and with sackcloth and dirt upon themselves (Nehemiah 9).
38 So in view of all this we are contracting a trustworthy arrangement, both in writing and attested by the seal of our princes, our Levites [and] our priests (Nehemiah 9).
28
As for the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the
gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim and everyone separating himself from the
peoples of the lands to the law of the [true] God, their wives, their sons and
their daughters, everyone having knowledge [and] understanding,
29
they were
adhering to their brothers, their majestic ones, and coming into [liability to]
a curse and into an oath, to walk in the law of the [true] God, which had been
given by the hand of Moses the servant of the [true] God, and to keep and to
perform all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord and his judicial decisions and
his regulations (Nehemiah 10).
So on 455Tishri24 the oath was taken to obey the law a second time. The previous occasion being on mount Sinai in 1512Sivan3. Before this time and since 586Ab, for a period of 70 exclusive and then 7 inclusive and then 62 inclusive years ending in 455Tishri, the Jews had not been under law! Furthermore since Ezra was the anointed one who came at the end of the 62 sevens in the literal fulfillment he must have been cut off after this:
26 And after the 62 sevens Messiah will be cut off with nothing for himself (Daniel 9)
Obviously Ezra died, but this scripture is saying that he was killed.
So we have the kingship, the land and the priesthood maledictions all following from the error of the two houses of the Jews, see [121].
Furthermore we have a period of 486.5 years or 69.5 weeks of years from 455Tishri when the second law oath was taken and Zerubbabel’s temple therefore became fully operational until 33Nisan, when Jesus completed the building of the new temple of his body. This period matches exactly with the period of 486.5 years from the inauguration of the Tabernacle in the wilderness in 1512Nisan until the inauguration of Solomon’s temple in 1026Tishri. Providing some confirmation that 455 was the 20th year of Artaxerxes.
Moses and Aaron conducted a 7 day installation and atonement ceremony in the tabernacle that was finished by Moses and accepted by Jehovah on 1512Nisan1.
17 Accordingly it came about in the first month, in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up (Exodus 40).
33
And you must not go out from the entrance of the tent of
meeting for 7 days, until the day of your fulfilling the days of your
installation, because it will take 7 days to fill your hand with power.
34
Just as
it has been done this day, Jehovah has commanded to be done so as to make
atonement for you (Leviticus 8).
Precisely 483 plus 3.5 i.e. 486.5 years later we read:
2 So all the men of Israel congregated themselves to king Solomon in the lunar month of Ethanim (Tishri), in the festival, that is the seventh month (1 Kings 8).
In the rest of the chapter we read about Solomon's inauguration of this temple, again this would have included an atonement day. So just as there were 69.5 weeks of years from the inauguration of the tabernacle to the inauguration of Solomon's temple, the more permanent physical temple, so there were 69.5 weeks of years, or 486.5 years, precisely, from the inauguration of clean worship in Zerubbabel's temple to the inauguration of the spiritual temple of Jesus' heavenly body, which we know occurred on Nisan16, 33CE. This whole paragraph can be read with the word 'inauguration' replaced with 'first atonement sacrifice' which was part of any inauguration in any event.
| First Law period | 1512Sivan3 to 586Ab | 926 years 2 months |
| Second Law period | 455Tishri24 to 33Nisan | 486.5 years |
So the Law covenant remade on 455Tishri24, by a word going forth, was ended on 33Nisan14, 69.5 weeks of years later, by the word going forth into death, at the half of the week. Hence we understand the deliberately ambiguous scripture:
27 And he must keep [the] covenant in force for the many for one week; and at the half of the week he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to cease (Daniel 9).
This meant that the Land and Circumcision Covenant would end in 36Tishri, and the law covenant would end in 33Nisan, at the half of the week, for without sacrifice, there was no forgiveness under law, and the law was not changed.
There is a further fulfillment to Daniel 9:25 with John the Baptist:
25 From the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah, Leader, there will be 7 sevens and 62 sevens (Daniel 9).
The word that went forth from Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem in 455Nisan until John was anointed by Melchizedek (Simeon) to be entered by Gabriel at 30 years old in 29Nisan, was a period of 69 weeks of years or 483 years. So we have:
Word of Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem Baptism of John
455Nisan
29Nisan
X_________________________________X
483 years to Messiah (69 sevens)
Word of Ezra to Restore
Jerusalem Baptism of Jesus
455Tishri
29Tishri
X_________________________________X
483 years to Messiah, Leader (69 sevens)
Word of Ezra to Restore Law in
Jerusalem
Death of Jesus
455Tishri
33Nisan
X______________________________________X
486½ years to end of law (69½
sevens)
Conversion of Cornelius (Acts 10)
Word of Ezra to Restore Law in
Jerusalem
End of LCC
455Tishri
36Tishri
X____________________________________________X
490 years to end of law (70 sevens)
10
For your leader is one, the Christ (Matthew
23).
Both John and Jesus were Messiahs or anointed ones.
26 And after the 62 weeks Messiah will be cut off, with nothing for himself (Daniel 9).
This is John the human at the entry of Gabriel and Jesus the human at the entry of Michael. The Human spirits in John the baptist and Jesus, both died, aged 30 (360 months) at the entrance of Gabriel into John in 29Nisan and Michael into Jesus at 29Tishri.
In fact High Priest Joshua and Leader Zerubbabel, and High Priest Ezra and Leader Nehemiah, both prefigure John and Jesus.
On October 31st 1517 (Julian Calendar) which was November 10th 1517 Gregorian (because Pope Gregory added 10 days to bring the calendar back into sync with the sun, making a true solar calendar) and 1517Heshvan13 BLC, Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses of his dissertation against indulgences to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg and sent a copy to the Archbishop Albert of Mainz.
24
There are 70 sevens that have been determined upon your
people and upon your holy city
in order to terminate the transgression
and to finish off sin
and to make atonement for error
and to bring in righteousness for times indefinite
and to imprint a seal upon vision and prophet
and to anoint the holy of holies
(Daniel 9).
One would think that these 70 sevens of years or 490 years started on 1517Heshvan13, because Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church began the reformation which led to all the protestant churches. So this was the going forth of the word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem to a church door at the least. But perhaps the goign forth of the word from there to the pope or to other significant clergy was the real fulfilment. So we take the going forth of the word as being in 1517Chislev, to give the word time to go forth by horse from Wittenberg. The greater Jerusalem, is the religious administration of God's people, the true church.
25
From the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild
Jerusalem until Messiah, Leader, there will be 7 sevens and 62 sevens.
26
And after the 62 sevens Messiah will be cut off, with
nothing for himself.
27
And he must keep [the] covenant in force for the many/the great for one seven; and at the half of the
seven he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to
cease (Daniel 9).
The going forth of the word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, was these 95 theses nailed to the church door in Wittenberg.
Now if you read verse 26 and verse 27 of Daniel 9 you see that Jesus was to be cut off with nothing at some unspecified time after the 69 weeks, in fact at some unspecified point in the 70th week. Now, the Messiah, Jesus, was cut off on 2001Tishri30 when his body, the 1NC church on earth, lost its water baptism, since the 1NC saints were not clean in the flesh any longer and therefore not part of Jesus' wife, who must be clean. So Jesus' flesh was destroyed on 2001Tishri30.
23 At the start of your entreaties a
word went forth, and I myself have come to make report, because you are
someone very desirable. So give consideration to the matter, and have
understanding in the thing seen.
24 There are 70 sevens that have been
determined upon your people and upon your holy city, in order to terminate the
transgression, and to finish off sin, and to make atonement for error, and to
bring in righteousness for times indefinite, and to imprint a seal upon vision
and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.
25 And you should know and have the insight
[that] from the going forth of [the] word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem
until Messiah [the] Leader, there will be 7 sevens, also 62 sevens. She will
return and be actually rebuilt, with a public square and moat, but in the
straits of the times.
26 And after the 62 sevens Messiah will be
cut off, with nothing for himself. And the city and the holy place the people of
a leader that is coming will bring to their ruin. And the end of it will be by
the flood. And until [the] end there will be war; what is decided upon is
desolations.
27 And he must keep [the] covenant in force
for the many for one seven; and at the half of the seven he will cause sacrifice
and gift offering to cease. And upon the wing of disgusting things there will be
the one causing desolation; and until an extermination, the very thing decided
upon will go pouring out also upon the one lying desolate (Daniel 9).
70 weeks of years or 490 years after 1517Heshvan13 is 2007Heshvan. Now in
1560, 43 years after Luther nailed his theses to the door and during the 7th
seven, the first print run of the Geneva bible occurred. This was the first
English bible to be seriously mass produced and distributed. So in truth the
word of God also went forth to restore and rebuild Jerusalem in the 8th seven in
a big way, because the 8th was the first seven to start with a large number of
mass produced bibles being available. This explains the 7 seven and 62 seven
split in verse 25.
95 Theses nailed to Wittenberg door 1517Heshvan13
Spirit sanctification of 2NC kings ends (1995Chislev-2000Chislev)
Word of Luther to Restore Christianity reaches Pope
Leader of TCC4 is fully baptised in spirit
1517Chislev
2000Chislev
X_____________________________________________X
483 years to Messiah, Leader (69 sevens) (or perhaps just accurate
to the year like the 70 weeks?)
Week of months of covenant extension begins 2NC
Kings stop springing LW 4EC water
baptism ends
Would otherwise have ended on
Nisan14 1NC Kings stop
descending 7 years of exclusivity from 2001Tishri30
March
8
June
20/21
October 3/4
2008Nisan1 (start of day)
2008Tammuz15 (end of day) 2008Tishri30
X_____________________________________X_______________________X
Week of months covenant 4EC extension (would otherwise have been half a month)
95 Theses nailed to door 1517Heshvan13
Terminate
the transgression (Watchtower left UN in 2001)
Word of Luther to Restore Christianity reaches Pope Finish
off sin (by the LW baptism which can wipe out JW sin)
1517Chislev
Make
atonement for error (by fasting from unclean food in 2007Adar)
Bring in righteousness for indefinites-saints (in the LWs)
Imprint a seal on vision and prophet (the Watchtower
recognises LW prophetic power in some way)
Anoint the holy of holies (1992Chislev, Gordon sanctified)
2007Adar
X___________________________________________X
490 years until righteousness (70 sevens) not accurate to the month
(1518-2007 inclusive).
So we have a covenant extension week of months which is not consecutive with the first 69 weeks of years and which runs from 2008Nisan1 to 2008Tishri30. After that time we just accept people who must already be sons of the 1AC, although we would not know that. When no more 1NC remnant or 2NC kings can enter the LWs, at the end of 2008Ab, we stop sacrificing them by stoping water baptising them into a confirmation of their spirit baptism death?
So in summary here are the various periods of 70 weeks we have so far deduced...
70 weeks of years of the LCC run from the word of Ezra in
455Tishri to the conversion of Cornelius on 36Tishri18.
70 weeks of years of the reformation from the word of Martin Luther in
1517Heshvan/Chislev, 490 calendar years from 1518 to 2007 inclusive.
Here is the engraving on the door of the church showing the year of the reformation MDXVII 1517...
Here are some nice pictures of the inside and outside of the chruch...
Here is Daniel (an LW, not the Jewish prophet, although he is a spiritual Jewish interpretational prophet from the same race as Martin Luther). He is holding up the fulfilment at the end of the 70 weeks of years of Daniel 9, just as the door of the church has the words that began those 70 weeks of years
Here is the famous door with all the 95 Thesis inscribed upon it...
Here is the fulfilment of the 70 weeks prophecy (Jesus coming on a cloud in 2007Heshvan) and the interpretation stuck to the original 95 Theses on Saturday 3 November 2007 (2007Heshvan18)...
Here is more of a close up of the 70 weeks of years interpretation.
Here is the text of the letter that he fastened to the door!
"On October 31st
1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to this church door and started the
protestant reformation.
Daniel chapter 9 verses 24 and
25 say…
24
There are 70 sevens that have been determined upon your people and upon your
holy city, in order to terminate the transgression, and to finish off sin, and
to make atonement for error, and to bring in righteousness for times indefinite,
and to imprint a seal upon vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.
25 And you should know and have the insight [that] from the going forth
of [the] word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah [the] Leader,
there will be 7 sevens, also 62 sevens. She will return and be actually rebuilt,
with a public square and moat, but in the straits of the times (Daniel 9).
Jesus fulfilled this coming 69
sevens of years or 483 years after Ezra read out the law to the return Jews in
the public square before the water gate in Jerusalem as recorded in Nehemiah 8
in the Hebrew month of Tishri 455 BC. Jesus was baptized by John in the Hebrew
month of Tishri in 29 AD, 483 years later. The Gentile Cornelius was sanctified
and the Land and Circumcision Covenant given to Abraham was ended in the Hebrew
month of Tishri in 36 AD, 490 years later or 70 sevens of years later.
Well Daniel 9 has a second
fulfilment relating to the second coming of the Christ. For the word went forth
to restore the church in the Hebrew month of Heshvan 1517 when Luther nailed his
theses to the door of this church. And 70 sevens of years after that is the
Hebrew month of Heshvan in 2007. We are presently in that month. It ends at
sundown on November 15th 2007. So before then the true church must be
identified by a confirming of its visionaries and its prophets.
We should therefore see in the
next few days whether the true church is the Roman Catholic Church or is one of
the protestant churches that Martin Luther paved the way for!"
As regards Daniel 9:1-2...
1 In the first year of Darius the son of
Ahasuerus of the seed of the Medes, who had been made king over the kingdom of the
Chaldeans;
2 in the first year of his reigning I myself, Daniel, discerned by
the books the number of the years concerning which the word of
Jehovah had occurred to Jeremiah the prophet, for fulfilling the devastations of
Jerusalem, [namely,] 70 years (Daniel 9).
Perhaps we can say that Jerusalem (the administration of the 1NC saints) was devastated for 70 months from 2001Tishri30 to 2007Ab with the steam cloud in NYC that started on 2007Tammuz30 at 6 pm and continued until 2007Ab1. This being a greater 70 years Daniel 9:2. Sure nobody paid that cloud much attention but thereagain, no one left Babylon when Cyrus took it in 539Tishri, they started to leave one year later.