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|The first verse of the chapter locates it in the “First Year” of Darius the Median, or the same year as the “Fall of Babylon,” '''B. C. 538'''. Daniel had been studying the Prophecy of Jeremiah, and learned from it that the 70 years of “Captivity” of his people were drawing to a close, for the “Captivity” began in '''B. C. 606, and 68 years''' had elapsed since then.<ref>Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth, or “God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages“ (Philadelphia, PA: Clarence Larkin, 1918), 49.</ref> | |The first verse of the chapter locates it in the “First Year” of Darius the Median, or the same year as the “Fall of Babylon,” '''B. C. 538'''. Daniel had been studying the Prophecy of Jeremiah, and learned from it that the 70 years of “Captivity” of his people were drawing to a close, for the “Captivity” began in '''B. C. 606, and 68 years''' had elapsed since then.<ref>Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth, or “God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages“ (Philadelphia, PA: Clarence Larkin, 1918), 49.</ref> | ||
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| | |Now, I got some writing here that I’d like to read to you as we go by. Now: …the going forth of the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem… Which, was on the '''14th day of March'''. If any of you want to put that down, in the Hebrew you’ll find it called '''N-i-s-a-n, Nisan, which means “March.”''' The issue was given on the '''14th day of March, b.c. 445''', the issue went forth to build, rebuild the temple. You understand it, as you people have read the Scriptures.<ref>William Branham, 61-0806 - The Seventieth Week Of Daniel, para. 64</ref> | ||
|The date of the “commandment” is given in Nehemiah 2:1 as '''the month “Nisan”''' in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, which was the '''14th day of March, B. C. 445.'''<ref>Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth, or “God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages“ (Philadelphia, PA: Clarence Larkin, 1918), 49.</ref> | |||
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|Now, now, Jesus, Messiah, rode into the city of Jerusalem, triumph, on the back of a white mule, on '''Palm Sunday, April the 2nd, a.d. 30.''' Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, a.d. 30. And now, now, from '''b.c. 445 to a.d. 30, is exactly four hundred and seventy-five years.''' | |||
But, as we have already seen, that the sixty-nine weeks makes four hundred and eighty-three years. Now, there is where the trouble comes, right there. See? We’ve got only, with the marking of the Bible here, time, only four hundred and seventy-five years. And, actually, it’s '''four hundred and eighty-three years, a difference of eight years.''' | |||
Now, God can’t make it miss. If He said it would be so many days, it’s so many days. If He says it’s so much, it’s so much. So what are we going to do? Now, '''the b.c. 475 to a.d. 30, are Julian or astronomal years,''' which are three hundred and sixty-five and one-fourth day in—in each. '''But when we reduce them days to our prophetic calendar'''… | |||
Our '''prophetic calendar brings us to three hundred and sixty days''', as we use now in the Scriptures. We have exactly four hundred and eighty-three. There it is, four hundred and eighty-three. Here we have exactly proof of the prophecy, exactly the truth. For, from the time of the going forth to build the temple, until the destroying, when they rejected Christ and killed Him in a.d. 33, when Christ was killed, is '''exactly four hundred and eighty-three years'''. Now, from the going forth of the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem, was determined seven weeks, which meant forty-nine years. And forty-nine years hit it exactly. Well, from the rebuilding of the temple to the Messiah, was four hundred and thirty-eight years. So, four hundred and thir-…four hundred and thirty-four years. And four hundred and thirty-four (time), forty-nine, makes exactly four hundred and eighty-three years. It hit it on the nose, exactly to the day, from day to day. Amen! There you are. | |||
“Messiah the Prince shall come.” See? '''Seven times sixty-nine is four hundred and thir-…and—and eighty-four years. Exactly, it hit it on the nose.''' So, then, we know perfectly, we know exactly, that that Scripture is right. Here it is. But, you see, all these… | |||
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When God had the antediluvian world and destroyed it by water, and changed the astronomy date; and then let the Romans come in and make up their calendar, which it hits and jumps, and so forth. And I guess, that, even in the encyclopedia where I been reading.<ref>William Branham, 61-0806 - The Seventieth Week Of Daniel, para. 80-85</ref> | |||
|The day when Jesus rode in Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem as “Messiah the Prince,” was '''Palm Sunday, April 2, A. D. 30'''. Luke 19:37–40. But the time between March 14, B. C. 445, and April 2, A. D. 30, is more than 69 literal “weeks.” It is '''445+30=475 years. What explanation can we give for this?''' | |||
We found that the time between the “commandment” to restore and build Jerusalem, and “Messiah the Prince,” was to be 69 weeks, or 69×7=483 days, or if a “day” stands for a year, 483 years. But we found that from B. C. 445 to A. D. 30 was 475 years, a difference of 8 years. How can we account for the difference? | |||
We must not forget that there are '''years of different lengths. The Lunar year has 354 days. The Calendar year has 360 days. The Solar year has 365 days. The Julian, or Astronomical year, has 365¼ days,''' and it is necessary to add one day every 4 years to the calendar. | |||
So we see that we are to use in '''“Prophetical Chronology” a “Calendar” year of 360 days.''' | |||
According to ordinary chronology, the 475 years from B. C. 445 to A. D. 30 are “Solar” years of 365 days each. Now counting the years from B. C. 445 to A. D. 30, inclusively, we have '''476 solar years'''. Multiplying these '''476 years by 365''' (the number of days in a Solar year), we have 173,740 days, to which add 119 days for leap years, and we have 173,859 days. Add to these 20 days inclusive from March 14 to April 2, and we have 173,879 days. Divide 173, 879 by 360 (the number of days in a “Prophetical Year”), and we have '''483 years''' all to one day, the exact number of days (483) in 69 weeks, each day standing for a year. '''Could there be anything more conclusive''' to prove that Daniel’s 69 weeks ran out on April 2, A. D. 30, the day that Jesus rode in triumph into the City of Jerusalem.<ref>Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth, or “God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages“ (Philadelphia, PA: Clarence Larkin, 1918), 49–50.</ref> | |||
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