This 70th week of Daniel Bible study focuses on when Christ was anointed.
The reason this is so important is that many Pastors teach that Christ appeared after the 69th week of the 70 weeks of Daniel prophecy, that He was anointed when He entered Jerusalem on a donkey, and then He was crucified.
By doing this, they explain that the 70th week of Daniel was not fulfilled.
This study will prove that Jesus was anointed when His ministry began, then He ministered for 3 1/2 years before being crucified.
This confirms that the first 3 1/2 years of the 70th week of Daniel have already been fulfilled, which invalidates the concept that it occurs in the end times.
Let’s start with Christ’s baptism, where the Holy Spirit descended on Him.
“When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened. And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.” Luke 3:21-22
Luke 4:16-18 then confirms that when Christ was baptized and the Spirit descended on Him, He was anointed.
“So He (Jesus) came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:“
“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.”
Christ confirmed that He had already been anointed when He declared “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” Luke 4:21
Acts 10:38 also confirmed that Christ was anointed by God at the beginning of His ministry, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
This proves that Christ was anointed when He was baptized, not 3 1/2 years later when He was entering Jerusalem just before He was crucified.
Friend, can you now see that Christ fulfilled the first half of the 70th week of Daniel when He preached the New Covenant to the House of Israel for 3 1/2 years?
So now let’s look at how the last half was fulfilled.
After Christ rose again, He instructed the Apostles to only preach to the Jews.
This fulfilled His promise to the Jews, that He would offer them Salvation, through a New Covenant which would cover their sins and iniquities.
“Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.” Jeremiah 31:31
The Apostles were from the House of Israel. The Church of Christ is built on the foundation of the Apostles.
And through the Apostles, the Everlasting Covenant is building a spiritual temple, the Temple of God, that fulfills all of God’s promises to the Israelites.
The Israelites were unable to receive all of God’s promises made to Abraham, because no man can earn them through the Law. The only way for the Jews to receive the promises are to accept Jesus as their Messiah.
The Apostles preached the New Covenant to the Jews for 3 1/2 years, until the Jewish leaders stoned Stephen to death, which marked their final rejection of Christ as their Messiah, and it ended the 70th week of Daniel.
Then the message of the New Covenant was given to the Gentile Nations.
The text in Daniel 9:27 does not say that the Covenant is only for 7 years, “Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week.”
It is the Everlasting Covenant, which Christ and His Apostles preached for 7 years to the House of Israel and the House of Judah, before it was given to the Gentile nations.
For 1,700 years the Church of Christ understood that the 70th week of Daniel was fulfilled, and there was no teaching about a future fulfillment.
So how did this false concept of an end-times 70th week of Daniel come to exist?
The Protestant Reformers testified that the Roman Catholic Church is the Sea Beast of Revelation 13, the Little Horn of Daniel 7, of the Pope, the Son of Perdition of 2 Thessalonians 2.
To deflect blame away from the Papal Church, in 1545 A.D. the Jesuits, who are the military arm of the Papacy, created an commentary that featured an end-times antichrist in a 7-year tribulation period.
This was designed to deflect blame away from the Catholic Church, because if the antichrist is one-man that appears in an end-times 7-year tribulation period, then it can’t be the Papal Church.
This concept was rejected by the Protestants for hundreds of years, as they knew better.
But slowly, the Jesuits found Pastors who they caused to teach these concepts, and it has spread like leaven into Seminaries, Protestant Churches, and to Christians, so that it is accepted by the majority.
To see how the leaven of their deception spread, click on How The Leaven Of The 70th Week Of Daniel Deception Spread
Here’s more Bible studies that prove that Christ and His disciples fulfilled the 70th week of Daniel:
An End Times Fulfillment of the 70th Week of Daniel is Illogical
Here’s a graphic to use on Facebook and other social media sites, to help people see the truth about the 70th week of Daniel.
I disagree with this post, the Daniel 70th week has not been fulfilled yet although we see types in shadows through history but it’s not the actual seven year. That Daniel was speaking about. It’s just like Covid how people thought that was the Mark of the beast because people were being persecuted for not complying to what the government states. People lost their jobs their livelihood their lives. People were ridiculed and persecuted because they did not want to receive what the government wanted us to get. That was a type and shadow of what is soon to come. What we see now or labor pains, they’re getting stronger and more frequent things are speeding up.
“And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.”
2 Thessalonians 2:6-8 ESV
I don’t believe that the bride of Christ will be here during the time of the antichrist because God gave the commission to the bride to go out and preach the gospel during the time of the antichrist there’s gonna be two witnesses in the 144,000 that’s gonna be preaching to the world. What happened to the bride? The bride is gone now the commission has been given to the two witnesses and 144,000 in the book of revelation and then an angel is also going to preach in the air all over the world. That is my understanding.
Augustine, I prove out the historical fulfillment of the 70th week of Daniel 9 on this website. https://70thweekofdaniel.com/
I’m currently published a new videos series to explain it in detail: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY8Cq8enpfGdd1pX6knPfcbOHIWuZt5eJ
We would agree that
•Jesus anointing revealed He is Messiah.
•That He started Daniel’s 70th wk
•Again His ministry was 3½yrs the 1st half of the 70th heptad of 7yrs
•His CUTOFF was indeed not for Himself but all who believe and a new and eternal covenant!
•But did you realise He also started Hosea’s prophecy 6¹-³?
Now nearly 2000yrs from baptism we are about to enter the third day ie 3000yrs!
•Also that in Dan9²⁷ ‘week’ is also a heptad of 7yrs. But because its broken on the middle this is not Christ but antichrist who on the ‘wing of abominations makes desolate!’
•That a complete destruction decreed in Dan7¹¹,²⁴+²⁵ without the hand of man will be poured out upon him. 2Thes2⁸
•That Jesus said for the sake of the elect he had shortened the days else no flesh would have survived! Mat24²² Mk13²⁰
•Did you realise Jesus left the 2nd half of Daniels 70th wk to the last 3½yrs of the 2000yrs we live in.
•1260days; 1290days, which has extra 30days for a leap yr or a 2nd Passover for the defiled; 42mths;
time times & half a time; middle of the week; 3½days all refer to that last 3½yr period.
•Antichrist can’t complete his 7yr covenant because Jesus ministry completed the first 3½yrs. So although he; (arrogantly – see the Heb for ‘firm’); makes a 7yr covenant, its broken after 3½yrs.
•That’s how Jesus shortened the days!
•These last 3½yrs are started by…
the 2 witnesses; remnant Israel flight into wilderness, trampling underfoot of Jerusalem, world wide church persecution; and antichrist 7yr but only 3½yr covenant.
•Then achrist is destroyed and millenium third day begins.
•The woes of pregnant women or breast feeding are happening since the arm prick. 83%NZ, 75%Aust, 86%Scotland, 86%US, 91%Israel women who were arm pricked before, during or after pregnancy MISCARRIED BABES!
•Right now a nanotech MAC no. can be registered with BLE tech
at eftpos machines where setup and hospitals.
• AI being set up in the body of prick recipients sets up the achrist in the temples of the Holy Spirit.
Like Achaan and battle if AI there is an exchange of the anointing and glory if God for a babylonian and gold and silver.
•We are in tribulation!
Apologies for sp mistakes. At 76yrs I use mobile!
Thank you for your comment John. That’s interesting about Hosea 6:1-3.
We disagree that there is a 2000-year break in the middle of the 70th week, as it was fulfilled on time when Messiah’s disciples proclaimed the Gospel to the Jews to fulfill the prophecy. I cover that in the timeline videos in my new series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY8Cq8enpfGdd1pX6knPfcbOHIWuZt5eJ
The shortening of the days in Matthew 24:22 is not about the end times, but about the Jewish-Roman War of 66-70 AD, in that generation like Messiah proclaimed. I cover that in the Olivet Discourse video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY8Cq8enpfGfTIA3a4jZ1wZsOYPGJt7ZG
The 1290-days of Daniel 12 point to the time of trouble for the unbelieving Jews during the 3 1/2 years of the Jewish-Roman War of 66-70 AD when 1.1 million Jews died in and around Jerusalem from famine, pestilence, infighting, suicide, evisceration, crucifixion and by the Roman sword. https://theolivetdiscourse.com/daniel-12-is-not-about-an-end-times-antichrist/
There is no New Testament text which says that the antichrist makes a covenant. Daniel 9:27 is about Messiah confirming the everlasting covenant which was referred to in Daniel 9:4. https://70thweekofdaniel.com/the-covenant-of-the-70th-week-of-daniel/
The two witnesses are the Scriptures and the saints, who witnessed against the antichrist beast popes during their 1,260-year reign of power from 538-1798 AD. https://revelationtimelinedecoded.com/the-two-witnesses-of-revelation-11/