If Daniel is correct, the time from the edict to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (Nisan 1, 444 BC) to the coming of the Messiah to Jerusalem is 483 years (69x7), each year equaling the Jewish prophetic year of 360 days (173,880 days).
The terminal event of the 69 weeks is the presentation of Christ Himself to Israel as the Messiah as predicted in Zechariah 9:9. H. Hoehner, who has thoroghly researched this prophecy in Daniel and the Corresponding dates, calculates the date of this event: "Multiplying the sixty-nine weeks by seven years for each week by 260 days gives a total of 173,880 days. The difference between 444 BC and AD 33 then is 476 solar years. By multiplying 476 by 365.24219879 or by 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45.975 seconds (there are 365 1/4 days in a year), one comes to 173,855 days, 6 hours, 52 minutes, 44 seconds, or 173,855 days. This leaves only 25 days to be accounted for between 444 BC and AD 33. By adding the 25 days to March 5 (of 444BC), one comes to March 30 (or AD33) which was Nisan 10 in AD 33. This is the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem."
Interval between weeks 69 and 70
After the termination of the 69 weeks and before the commencement of the 70th week, two events had to occur.
Wilson discusses this part of the prophecy: "After that, the Roman prince [Titus] sent an army which utterly destroyed the city and temple of Jerusalem.
"That destruction was complete. The temple was not simply polluted, as it was by Antiochus Epiphanes - it was destroyed. It has not been reared in Jerusalem since. The Jewish ritual was ended. It has never been restored, and it never can be. It has had no priesthood since Jerusalem fell; for every son of Aaron was slain. There can be no more priestly sacrifices, nor atonement by high priest; for in that dire disaster, the older covenant passed away. Its vitality and validity has ceased when the Lamb of GOD was offered upon Calvary; but for forty years the outward shell remained. That shell as removed in the destruction of Jerusalem, 70 AD."
SUMMARY:
Time line:
So Daniel prophesies accurately concerning the Messiah in his prophecy of the 70 weeks. Even in the 165 BC date of authorship is correct, all these events took place at least 200 years later.
They include:
The third part of the prophecy pertaining to the 70th week is yet to occur.
OLD TESTAMENT PREDICTIONS WHICH WERE LITERALLY FULFILLED IN CHRIST
Floyd Hamilton in The Basis of Christian Faith (a modern defense of the Christian religion, revised and enlarged edition; New York: Harper and Row, 1964, p. 160) says: "Canon Liddon is authority for the statement that there are in the Old Testament 332 distinct predictions which were literally fulfilled in Christ."
His First Advent
The fact. Genesis 3:15; Deuteronomy 18:15; Psalms 89:20; Isaiah 9:6; 28:16; 32:1; 35:4; 42:6; 49:1; 55:4; Ezekiel 34:24; Daniel 2:44; Micah 4:1; Zechariah 3:8.
His Divinity. Psalms 2:7,11; 43:6,7,11; 72:8; 102:24-27; 89:26,27; 110:1; Isaiah 9:6; 25:9; 40:10; Jeremiah 23:6; Micah 5:2; Malachi 3:1.
Human Generation. Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 21:12; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14; 49:10; II Samuel 7:14; Psalms 18:4-6,50; 22:22,23; 89:4; 29:36; 132:11; Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15.
His Forerunner
Isaiah 40:3; Malachi 3:1; 4:5
His Nativity and Early Years
The Fact. Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Jeremiah 31:22
The Place. Numbers 24:17,19; Micah 5:2
Adoration by Magi. Psalms 72:10,15; Isaiah 60:3,6.
Descent into Egypt. Hosea 11:1
Massacre of Innocents. Jeremiah 31:15
His Mission and Office
Mission. Genesis 12:3; 49:10; Numbers 24:19; Deuteronomy 18:18,19; Psalms 21:1; Isaiah 59:20; Jeremiah 33:16.
Priest like Melchizedek. Psalms 110:4.
Prophet like Moses. Deuteronomy 18:15
Conversion of Gentiles. Isaiah 11:10; Deuteronomy 32:43; Psalms 18:49; 19:4; 117:1; Isaiah 42:1; 45:23; 49:6; Hosea 1:10; 2:23; Joel 2:32.
Ministry in Galilee. Isaiah 9:1,2.
Miracles. Isaiah 35:5,6; 42:7; 53:4
Spiritual graces. Psalms 45:7; Isaiah 11:2; 42:1; 53:9; 61:1,2.
Preaching. Psalms 2:7; 78:2; Isaiah 2:3; 61:1; Micah 4:2.
Purification of Temple. Psalms 69:9
His Passion
Rejection by Jews and Gentiles. Psalms 2:1; 22:12; 41:5; 56:5; 69:8; 118:22,23; Isaiah 6:9,10; 8:14; 29:13; 53:1; 65:2
Persecution. Psalms 22:6; 35:7,12; 56:5; 71:10; 109:2; Isaiah 49:7; 53:3
Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. Psalms 8:2; 118:25,26; Zechariah 9:9
Betrayal by Own Friend. Psalms 41:9; 55:13; Zechariah 13:6
Betrayal for Thirty Pieces of Silver. Zechariah 11:12.
Betrayer's Death. Psalms 55:15,23; 109:17
Purchase of Potter's Field. Zechariah 11:13.
Desertion by Disciples. Zechariah 13:7.
False Accusation. Psalms 27:12; 35:11; 109:2; Psalms 2:1,2.
Silence Under Accusation. Psalms 38;13; Isaiah 53:7.
Mocking. Psalms 22:7,8,16; 109:25.
Insult, Buffeting, Spitting, Scourging. Psalms 35:15,21; Isaiah 50:6.
Patience Under Suffering. Isaiah 53:7-9.
Crucifixion. Psalms 22:14,17
Offer of gall and vinegar. Psalms 69:21.
Prayer for Enemies. Psalms 109:4.
Cries Upon the Cross. Psalms 22:1; 31:5.
Death in Prime of Life. Psalms 89:45; 102:24.
Death With Malefactors. Isaiah 53:9,12.
Death Attested by Convulsions of Nature. Amos 5:20; Zechariah 14:4,6.
Casting Lots for Vesture. Psalms 22:18.
Bones Not to Be Broken. Psalms 34:20.
Piercing. Psalms 22:16; Zechariah 12:10; 13:6.
Voluntary Death. Psalms 40:6-8
Vicarious Suffering. Isaiah 53:4-6,12; Daniel 9:26.
Burial With the Rich. Isaiah 53:9.
His Resurrection
Psalms 16:18-10; 30:3; 41:10; 118:17; Hosea 6:2.
His Ascension
Psalms 16:11; 24:7; 68:18; 110:1; 118:19
His Second Advent
Psalms 50:3-6; Isaiah 9:6,7; 66:18; Daniel 7:13,14; Zechariah 12:10; 14:4-8.
Dominion Universal and Everlasting. I Chronicles 17:11-14; Psalms 72:8 Isaiah 9:8; Daniel 7:14; Psalms 2:6-8; 8:6; 110:1-3; 45:6,7.
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