Prove from the bible only that Daniel's 70 weeks are weeks of years.
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE CONTEXT, LAYING ASIDE YOUR PRESUPPOSITIONS, INSTEAD OF PRESUMING WHAT YOU WERE TAUGHT WAS ACCURATE.
Daniel 9:23-27 (NASB)
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23 [/SUP] "At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell
you, for you are highly esteemed;
so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.
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24 [/SUP] "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy
place.
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25 [/SUP] "So you are to know and discern
that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince
there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
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26 [/SUP] "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end
will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
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27 [/SUP] "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations
will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."
The Prophecy said from
the DECREE to Rebuilt Jerusalem to MESSIAH THE PRINCE, there would be 69 WEEKS, and that is 483 years if it is JEWISH CALENDAR YEARS. MESSIAH CAME AS A PRINCE WHEN HE RODE THE DONKEY INTO JERUSALEM. WHEN HE COMES AS KING of Kings, HE WILL RIDE A WHITE HORSE OF A CONQUEROR.
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A DECREE was made by the Babalonian King
Cyrus the Great and in it he gave the DECREE to Rebuild the TEMPLE OF SOLOMON in 536 BC. That decree did not count because the wording of the Prophecy specifies the rebuilding of JERUSALEM. In 445 BC
Artaxerxes gave the COMMAND or DECREE to rebuild Jerusalem including the walls. And who was the Historian that recorded this DECREE, and personally had letters from the Artaxerxes to prove it? I dare say few Christains know this because they spend so little time in the old Testament; but it was Nehemiah, who's job title in Babylon was the King's Cupbearer.
Nehemiah 2:1-18 (NASB)
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1 [/SUP] And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, that wine
was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
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2 [/SUP] So the king said to me, "Why is your face sad though you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart." Then I was very much afraid.
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3 [/SUP] I said to the king, "Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?"
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4 [/SUP] Then the king said to me, "What would you request?" So I prayed to the God of heaven.
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5 [/SUP] I said to the king, "If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor before you, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may rebuild it."
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6 [/SUP] Then the king said to me, the queen sitting beside him, "How long will your journey be, and when will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me, and I gave him a definite time.
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7 [/SUP] And I said to the king, "If it please the king, let letters be given me for the governors
of the provinces beyond the River, that they may allow me to pass through until I come to Judah,
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8 [/SUP] and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress which is by the temple, for the wall of the city and for the house to which I will go." And the king granted
them to me because the good hand of my God
was on me.
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9 [/SUP] Then I came to the governors
of the provinces beyond the River and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.
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10 [/SUP] When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard
about it, it was very displeasing to them that someone had come to seek the welfare of the sons of Israel.
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11 [/SUP] So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.
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12 [/SUP] And I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anyone what my God was putting into my mind to do for Jerusalem and there was no animal with me except the animal on which I was riding.
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13 [/SUP] So I went out at night by the Valley Gate in the direction of the Dragon's Well and
on to the Refuse Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were consumed by fire.
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14 [/SUP] Then I passed on to the Fountain Gate and the King's Pool, but there was no place for my mount to pass.
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15 [/SUP] So I went up at night by the ravine and inspected the wall. Then I entered the Valley Gate again and returned.
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16 [/SUP] The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; nor had I as yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials or the rest who did the work.
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17 [/SUP] Then I said to them, "You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach."
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18 [/SUP] I told them how the hand of my God had been favorable to me and also about the king's words which he had spoken to me. Then they said, "Let us arise and build." So they put their hands to the good
work.
So you COUNT from 445 BC for 483 years (69 Weeks) and that brings you to near the end of the Last Year of Christ's ministry here on Earth. I have seen lots of people who claim, Artaxeres's Decree was in 444 BC. Because a Jewish month is only 28 days long every MONTH, they fall behind the Solar Clock and have a LEAP MONTH (a 13 Month Year) to catch up every few years.
Adar – The Lucky Month
In a Jewish leap year, an extra month is added after the month of
Shevat and before the month of
Adar. It is called
Adar Aleph,
Adar Rishon, or
Adar I. The month of
Adar is then referred to as
Adar Bet,
Adar Sheni, or
Adar II.
According to Jewish tradition,
Adar is a lucky and happy month.
Leap Year Rules
A leap year occurs 7 times in the 19-year Metonic cycle. With years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19 of the cycle being leap years, this corresponds to a frequency of every 2 to 3 years.
The Metonic cycle, also known as
Enneadecaeteris, is a period that comes very close to being a common multiple of the solar year and the lunar month (synodic month). With a deviation of just a few hours, 19 solar years have very nearly the same length as 235 lunar months, both periods amounting to 6940 days.
This makes it possible for Jewish time reckoning to approximately stay in sync with the solar year simply by adding a certain amount of full months per Metonic cycle. Since 19 years with 12 months accumulate to 228 months, 7 extra months must be added to arrive at a total of 235 months per cycle.
By employing this system, the Jewish calendar deviates from the solar year by 1 day in 216 years.
How accurate are the other calendar systems?
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/jewish-leap-year.html
THUS those who fail to compute this correctly will come up with a different Year for Christ's Crucifixion or a different Year for Artaxeres's Decree.
NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT, IT IS NOT TALKING ABOUT WEEKS OF DAYS, BUT RATHER IT OBVIOUSLY IS TALKING ABOUT WEEKS OF YEARS.
