Daniel’s 70 Weeks: End Times Timeline Part 1 | Generations of the World Ep.5

Addressing common misconceptions about end-times, new developments on the end-times timeline, and how taking a close look at the Hebrew words behind Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy impacts our understanding of the days to come.

This is a part 1 of our study on the end-times timeline. For more details on the 70 weeks, 2300 days, 1290 days, and other time periods related to end times that are mentioned in the books of Daniel and Revelation, here’s a detailed Paper we put together: To the Watchmen – Part 4: End Times Timeline

We’ll be discussing more information from the Paper in the next few episodes of Generations of the World.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction
2:53 Purpose of the 70 Weeks
4:34 Examining the Hebrew words for “to finish the transgression”
7:40 Examining the Hebrew word for “reconciliation”
9:07 From the going forth of the commandment until Messiah the Prince
12:50 Including the Crucifixion in the 70 Weeks
14:12 YASHUA fulfills the year of Jubilee
18:47 Seven years minus 14 days
19:27 The gap period we’re living in
25:53 Aligning Daniel’s final week with Revelation’s 1260 days and time, times, and half a time
28:27 Seven years are still owed: Jeremiah’s 70 years prophecy
29:35 Enoch’s 8th week prophecy: a week of righteousness
32:30 A literal translation of “the covenant with many”
36:33 Defining the “midst of the week”
38:33 One more important note
40:09 Song: Walls

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Transcript:

Most people don’t want to be around for the end times because they think it will be like a horror film where believers will spend three and a half years running from the antichrist. But if you want to compare the days that are coming to a movie, forget the zombie apocalypse for just a second.

When we think about the end times, the movie that comes to our mind is the Exodus as portrayed in The Ten Commandments because the days that we are about to live through are days in which we will be guided to safety and hidden in the shadow of our mighty God’s wing.

At the end of it all, we will have stories to tell for a thousand years of how during a short time of tribulation for the world, our Father delivered us and watched over us very carefully and how once He cleansed the earth, He gave us a beautiful land to inherit that we could actually enjoy in peace.

In the next few episodes, we’re going to spend some time talking about the last seven years of the age, why these days have to come, what we can expect to happen and what our Father has planned for us during this time. We will put together a timeline of how we think the end time events will play out and we will also take a look at Daniel’s prophecies in the Original Hebrew to see what new information we can gather.

But most importantly, if you remember anything from the study, please remember this. No matter what happens from now until the end of the age, our Father has you covered.

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One of the main reasons that we’re all waiting for seven years at the end of the age is because of a prophecy that we read about in the Book of Daniel and that is the prophecy of the 70 weeks. So, for a little bit of context, Daniel is living in the land of Babylon. He’s in exile because the temple in the City of Jerusalem has been destroyed and taken over by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and while he’s in there, he’s in Babylon, he’s praying and he’s crying out to God and Father hears him and He sends His messenger Gabriel to him to deliver a message and this is what Gabriel tells Daniel.

“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”

So, what Gabriel is doing here is he’s telling Daniel and he’s telling us what the purpose is for these 70 weeks. Now the word “weeks” in Hebrew is “shabua” and a shabua in Hebrew just means seven. So literally 70 weeks is seventy sevens.

Now we follow the common interpretation where the sevens are sets of seven years. So, what we’re looking at here is 70 times 7 years for a total of 490 years and as we’re going to see very shortly, 483 of these 490 years have already been fulfilled. So that leaves us with just seven years for the end of the age in the prophecy.

We’re going to take a look at some of the words in Hebrew that Gabriel uses because I think it will help us to understand the prophecy a bit better and also give us a better picture of the end times timeline. So, one of the things that Gabriel says is the purpose of the 70 weeks is to finish the transgression.

So, this is the Hebrew word for all. It’s the letter kaf and the letter lamed. So kol. This word means all. Now this letter hey is used in Hebrew words to mean to reveal and when all, when kol is revealed, it’s finished. Everything is finished. It’s brought to a complete end. It’s completed and so this word “kalah” in Hebrew means to finish, to bring to a full end, to complete something. So, within the 70 weeks, part of what we’re looking for is the completion, the finishing of transgression. The word for transgression is pesha. This is the letter peh, which is a picture of the mouth, the letter shin which is a picture of teeth and the letter ayin, which is a picture of the eye. So pesha, transgression.

In Hebrew, the letter “peh” and also the word “peh” gets used over and over again to mean edge. If you think of a cup for example, the edge, the outer rim, the mouth of the cup is its peh and that’s how it’s used in the bible. So what transgression is in Hebrew is it’s a picture of tearing something with the edge of your teeth and doing it with full knowledge, doing it knowingly, doing it with your eyes wide open.

So, transgression, pesha, is a picture of open rebellion towards God and what we can expect to see in the 70 weeks is the end of open rebellion towards God. It’s written that judgment starts at the House of God and one reason for that is because the House of God is supposed to know better. They know Him. He knows them and they know His laws and His ways. They just choose not to follow them, so they are in transgression when you knowingly go against Father’s will.

So, this is going to be finished in the 70 weeks. Now that’s one huge indication for you, for us, that the 70 weeks is not done yet because we see plenty of pesha, plenty of open rebellion transgression towards God in the world.

Another one of the purposes of the 70 weeks is to – it says to make reconciliation for iniquity and the Hebrew word for to make reconciliation is “kaphar” and whether or not you know Hebrew, you probably are familiar with this word already. So this is the kaf, the letter peh and the letter resh, kaphar.

Another way of pronouncing this word is “kippur”. So if you think of Yom Kippur, it’s the day of atonement and that is what Gabriel is actually saying. He’s saying that part of the purpose of the 70 weeks is to make atonement for iniquity.

Now, what is it that makes atonement for our iniquity? It was Yeshua’s crucifixion. He died for us to make atonement. So, this is a very important point. Yeshua died on Passover which is on Aviv 14th. That is the 14th day of the 1st month in Father’s calendar is when he made “kaphar” for our iniquity.

Gabriel continues and he says, “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.”

So, what Gabriel is doing here is he’s breaking up the 70 weeks into a few different time periods for us and he starts with a period of 7 weeks. Now, a week again is just a period of seven years. So 7 times 7 is 49. This is 49 years and then Gabriel says that there’s a period of 62 weeks which to get the number of years, we just do 62 times 7 and that’s going to give us 434 years. So altogether, 483 years.

The starting point Gabriel says is the going forth of a word to restore and to build Jerusalem. In the King James version, it says the going forth of the commandment but the literal Hebrew translation is just the going forth of a word. A lot of people disagree as to the start of the 70-week period and what’s the actual word that went out that starts the clock on this prophecy.

So, there are a few different decrees that people choose to look at. But ultimately, we’re just looking at one decree that is made several times and it’s the decree that Father originally told Isaiah about hundreds of years before Israel, before Judah was even placed into exile into Babylon.

Father said that, “I’m going to raise up somebody named Cyrus and Cyrus is going to cause my city, my house to be rebuilt.” So that is the initial and the single word that was given and that word is repeated by Cyrus when he eventually was born and he was made king of Babylon and Persia. But specifically, when he took over Babylon and he gave the word to send the people home, fulfilling the prophecy that Father had given to Isaiah.

There’s also the decree that came though Darius and that came through Artaxerxes. Now in the Book of Ezra, it speaks of the decree of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes as one decree. So scripturally, any of those proclamations can be considered as one of the starting points. We go with the one that happened at the time of Nehemiah. So, from the going forth of a word until Messiah, Mashiach Nagid, so literally an anointed prince in Hebrew will be 7 weeks and 62 weeks. Now the end of the 62 weeks here, it marks the last full year of Messiah, Yeshua’s ministry on earth. So, after the 62 weeks, Gabriel tells us that Messiah will be cut off but not for himself. So sometime after the 62 weeks.

Now when Yeshua was cut off but not for Himself but speaking of His crucifixion, and we have to include His crucifixion as part of the 70 weeks because it fulfills a key purpose of the 70 weeks, which is to make “kaphar” for iniquity.

Father also lets us know in the Book of Isaiah in chapter 53 that Yeshua was smitten for the “pesha” of his people. So, we can’t exclude this from the 70 weeks, if we’ve already fulfilled this much time, 483 years, AKA 69 weeks. Then there’s only one week left in which we can place Messiah’s being cut off and that has to be in the final week of the prophecy.

So, this is one week, which is seven years, and now we have the full picture. So, it’s 483 plus 7 years, 490 years, which is 70 weeks. But what’s going on here at the end of the 62 weeks, like I said, it’s the last full year of Messiah’s ministry. When he gets to the first day of this week here, it’s a Jubilee.

One of the things that Yeshua said when he initially started His ministry, He’s basically telling you that He is the anointed prince. He says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He has anointed Me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

So He’s telling you that He has been anointed. He is the anointed prince, Mashiach Nagid, and part of what He did while He was here is He fulfilled the concept of Jubilee and we do believe that He fulfilled the concept of Jubilee in a Jubilee year. There are full details on that if you look at our website. I will put a link in the description. But if you follow the historical timeline of Israel, all the way from the time they answered the land and had to start following the Jubilee cycle, it does lead you to a Jubilee year happening in the crucifixion year.

Now the concept of a Jubilee is perfectly and beautifully fulfilled in what Yeshua did because there are two main things that happen in a Jubilee year. One is that any Israelite who had sold himself into slavery was to be freed in a Jubilee year and another thing is that any Israelite who had sold himself into slavery was to be returned to his family and given his inheritance back.

Now the prophets tell us that – now, Father tells us, I should say, through the prophets, you have sold yourself for nothing and I will redeem you without price. When He redeemed us without price, it was right here. It was at His crucifixion. So, we had sold ourselves. Israel had sold themselves to sin and He came and He redeemed us without price. So, in that sense, He fulfilled the Jubilee because He freed the captives as He said at the beginning of His ministry and also part of the Jubilee is to – if you’ve sold yourself into slavery, you’re brought back into your family. Yeshua made it so that we are now, those who are His, those who believe in who He accepts as His, we become part of the house of God. We are sons and daughters of the Most High because Yeshua made it so that could happen. That is the generation that He came to create, the generation of the children of God.

So, we are in that sense returned to our family as of this day and if a son had lost his inheritance, he would get it back. So, what Israel had lost because of pesha, they got back or they got the opportunity to get it back through Messiah and through what He did. So not only do you get back into the family of God but you get your inheritance and Yeshua came to make this not only an inheritance and salvation and freedom for the children of Israel but he opened it up to the children of all of the nations.

So, we do believe – I do believe that that is a complete, total fulfillment of a Jubilee and it does seem to match the timeline of the Jubilee cycle that this happened in the Jubilee. So, from the going forth of the word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, when Nehemiah goes into the land and starts building up the fortifications of the city, from that point until Messiah the prince, we’ve got 7 weeks and 62 weeks and he’s cut off after the 62 weeks.

So, He has to be cut off within – He dies for us. He has to be cut off within the final week of the prophecy. So, I do believe that when we get to the rest of this time period, which is the remainder of the last 7 years of the age, it will be with 14 days already having been fulfilled by our Messiah and the reason I say 14 days is because, as I mentioned earlier, when Yeshua was crucified, it was on the 14th day of the first month Aviv in Father’s calendar. So, 7 years minus 14 days is what I am personally looking for as being the starting point of the last 7 years of the age.

I’m going to zoom in on that final week of Daniel because there’s something very interesting that I want to show you. So, let’s say that this is the tail end or the last part of the 62 weeks and we know that after the 62 weeks, Messiah is cut off and that this happens on the 14th day of that 1st year, let’s say.

So, this period of time here would be 14 days and I do believe that this event, when Yeshua was crucified, it stopped the clock on the 70 weeks prophecy and that the remainder of the last 7 years is yet to be fulfilled and that it will be fulfilled sometime in the future. So, let’s say this is 7 years that’s left, minus 14 days.

Now that would mean that we are living in a kind of a gap period waiting for the rest of the prophecy to come to past when transgression is finished. When there’s no more sin and all the things that Gabriel describes to Daniel. So, in this gap period, let’s call this gap. The angel Gabriel, he gives us an idea of what’s happening and actually so does the Book of Revelation.

What Gabriel says is that “After threescore and 2 weeks, so after the 62 weeks, shall Messiah be cut off,” which brings us here. “But not for himself and the people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end therefore shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.”

So one thing we can expect to see in this gap and which we did historically see was the destruction of Father’s house. So, the sanctuary was destroyed.

Now in the King James version, it says, “And unto the end of the war, desolations are determined.” But if you were to look at the Original Hebrew for that verse, literally what it’s actually saying is until an end of war, not until an end of the war which implies that we’re talking about one war, possibly the same war between the Romans and the Jewish people that resulted in the sanctuary being destroyed.

It’s not the war. It’s until an end of war, period. So, if we look around today, there are plenty of wars still going on in the world and we do not expect to see an end of war until Yeshua returns, which is going to be sometime after or towards the end of the last seven years of the age.

So, desolations are determined all the way through the gap period that we’re living in and until the end of the age. Desolations in the land is what we are expecting to see until an end of war is what the prophecy is actually saying.

Now the Book of Revelation also gives us some additional insight into this same gap period. The apostle John, he had a vision of a woman with a crown on her head with 12 stars and so we believe that he’s speaking of Israel and the 12 tribes of Israel. So, the woman in the vision is Israel.

The woman has a manchild which we believe is Yeshua and the manchild is caught up to heaven and to God and to His throne. So that puts us now just a few days into this gap period. So, after Yeshua is crucified, He’s caught up to His throne. He’s resurrected or that could be speaking of the ascension that came 40 days later. But we’re definitely in the gap period.

Then what John says is that the woman who had given birth to the manchild, the manchild who was to rule the nations, she flees into the wilderness and what we see as a result of the sanctuary being destroyed, the Romans coming in, destroying Father’s house and also destroying the city of Jerusalem is that the remnant of Israel that was in the land had to then flee.

So, the house of Judah was the remnant in the land at that time and Judah ended up fleeing to all nations of the earth and joining the rest of the lost tribes who were already kicked off of Father’s land hundreds of years before. Judah is now part of the 12 tribes of Israel who are now among the nations. So, Israel flees as part of this gap period.

Now when the clock resumes on the 7 years, what John describes is that the woman is fed for 1260 days and then he talks about another period of time right after that where the woman is fed for time times and half a time. If you’ve seen our video on Father’s calendar or if you’ve read any of our materials, then you know we go with a 364-day year as being the basis for Father’s calendar and in Father’s calendar, 1260 days is actually 14 days short of 3 and a half years.

So, this time period here is three and a half years. In the Book of Daniel, the word “time” is equated with a year. So, for example, when Nebuchadnezzar, when Father made Nebuchadnezzar go insane for seven years, in the Hebrew it’s written that seven times passed over him. So, a time is a year. Time times and half a time is three and a half years.

Now three and a half years in Father’s calendar is 1274 days, not 1260 days. So, these two periods of time are not equal. So therefore, that leads me to believe that the apostle John is talking about two different periods of time and what I think he may be saying is that when the sanctuary is destroyed and Israel flees into the wilderness of the nations, the nations who the manchild will eventually rule. So, Yeshua eventually he’s coming as king of kings. He’s ruling over all of the nations and all of the earth.

When the clock resumes on the last 7 years, 14 days have already been fulfilled by Yeshua and that is why there are only 1260 days in the first part of the last 7 years. That’s my thought. That’s my theory. You’re free to disagree and so there’s 1260 days in the front where we would expect to see Israel, the tribes of Israel still scattered among the nations for the first part of that last week.

In the second part of the final week is the time times and half a time. So, one thing that’s very important to note is in both cases, whether we’re talking about the beginning of the seven-year period or the end of the seven-year period, in both cases the woman is fed and nourished. This is Father taking care of those who are His. He promised to Israel that even though we would be scattered among all the nations of the earth, He would be a sanctuary to us wherever we go in whatever nations we reside. So even though at this point we’re still going to be among the nations, He’s going to take care of us. He’s going to feed us and He will nourish us.

The Book of Daniel and also the Book of Revelation are both pointing us to believe that there are seven years at the end of the age. But some people think that there’s only three and a half years that we are waiting for. But it’s not just in Daniel and it’s not just inferred in Revelation that there is a full seven-year time period. There’s also the point that I made earlier about King Nebuchadnezzar. So, Jeremiah had made a prophecy that Israel and the surrounding nations were to serve the King of Babylon for 70 years.

But Father made the King of Babylon go insane, leave his throne and go and live like a wild man for seven years. So that is seven years that Israel and the surrounding nations still owes to the King of Babylon to being in servitude of the King of Babylon. We’re going to talk about that hopefully with Carlos in just a bit.

So that’s another indication that we’re waiting for a full seven years and a third indication is from the Book of Enoch. So, if you took a look at our first video of Generations of the World, we went through Enoch’s 10-week prophecy and so he uses a week the same way that Daniel and the other books in the Bible use the word “week”.

A week is a seven of something and we believe that Enoch’s eighth week is the seven years before the end of the age and that’s because the two weeks that follow it are very obviously talking about life in millennium. So, Enoch actually calls this last period, that last seven years, he calls it a week of righteousness, a week of righteousness. Now I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody besides Enoch talk about the end of the age as a time of righteousness.

I’ve heard a lot of descriptions assigned to this period, tribulation, hell on earth, lots of things like that. But a week of righteousness is what the prophet Enoch called it and that is because righteousness is to follow the will of God. Father has things that he wants accomplished on this earth and once we get to the end of this last seven years, He’s going to fulfill a lot of promises that He has made to His children, one of which is you will inherit the earth.

So part of what He’s going to do here is going to be to prepare the earth and to prepare you for the inheritance that is coming. He’s also going to get rid of all of the wicked and anything that would cause you to sin in this period so that when you get to your inheritance, you can actually enjoy it. You can live forever without messing it up and separating yourself from God and losing your inheritance.

So, he’s going to clean it all up and that is part of righteousness. When Yeshua went to be baptized by John the Baptist, John the Baptist was like, hey, it should be you baptizing me and Yeshua told him, “Let it be so to fulfill all righteousness,” because that was Father’s will. It was for Him to be baptized by John, so let it be so.

So, I would say the same thing. I would echo Yeshua’s words for what we are about to experience. It is a week of righteousness. It is to fulfill our Father’s will and let these things be so, so that His will can be done.

Getting back to Gabriel’s words to Daniel, he says that, “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week.” A literal translation from the Hebrew to English of what the Bible actually says is he will cause to prevail a covenant for many week one.

So a couple of subtle differences there. But I do think that they are important to understanding the timeline. So, he will cause to prevail. The “he” that we’re speaking about here is the prince of the people who destroyed the sanctuary. So in some sense, the antichrist who is coming is considered a prince of the Roman Empire.

Maybe we will ask Carlos about that, what he thinks about that when we sit down together to discuss this. I don’t have any opinion on what exactly that would mean if that’s a principality or if that’s someone who’s part of the governmental bodies that have flowed out of the Roman Empire.

But I do have strong opinions on other parts of this verse. So the first one is he will cause to prevail. It comes from the Hebrew word “gabar”. So this is gimmel, beyt, resh, gabar. And the way that this word is used in the scripture is to – in the scriptures, is to cause to become strong. So, to enlarge, to magnify. When the floodwaters were on the earth, then they were rising on the earth, they were gabar-ing. They were prevailing upon the earth.

So, we can expect the antichrist to cause to become strong or to become great, a covenant for many. In the last week, a lot of people think that what it is literally saying is it’s going to be a seven-year agreement. But that’s not what the Hebrew says. It says, “He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week,” but the literal is “He will cause to prevail a covenant for many week one.”

So all Gabriel is doing there is he’s identifying the time period that he’s talking about. He has already talked about the seven. He talked about the 62 and at this point, he’s talking about the last week. Not necessarily saying that this was going to be a seven-year agreement and also there’s no mention of peace, meaning peace treaty. There’s no mention of that in this verse either.

Now, if you think about it, anyone who is part of a parliament or part of a congress, their job is to cause to prevail agreements and laws. So, I don’t think there’s anything in that scripture that’s telling us that the antichrist will be the one – you know, he’s a king or something and he will be the one to sign off on agreement. He could be part of a larger governmental body or a group of people in the shadows because it does say that he becomes strong with a small number of people. But he’s part of a group that causes some sort of agreement for many people to become strong.

So, I think Gabriel is very vague in his words and I don’t want to add any specification to his words that he didn’t want us to have. So, I don’t think we will be able to identify the antichrist from that, certainly not at the very beginning. Later on, there are some things that we’re going to go through in the next few episodes. We will talk about what the antichrist will be doing that will make it abundantly clear who it is.

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Gabriel says next, “And in the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.” So in the midst of the week, the word for “midst” is “chatsi”. That’s chet, tsade and yod. So chatsi. Now I think what most people think when they hear that verse is that when you say in the midst of the week or in some translations, it literally says in the middle of the week. They assume that we are talking about the dead center of the week.

So, three and a half on this side and three and a half on that side but by the Hebrew and the way this word “chatsi” is used in the scriptures, elsewhere in the Bible, it doesn’t mean a perfectly even split. What it does mean is it’s something that has been divided into two parts. Not necessarily even but into two parts. One example for that is the half-tribe of Manasseh.

So, there was a half-tribe of Manasseh on one side of the Jordan River and there was a half-tribe on the other side and they didn’t have equal populations. Neither did they have equal portions of land. It was just – it was a split. It was a dividing. So, it could be split over here or it could be split over here and that would still qualify as a chatsi.

So, in the midst of the week, he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate even until the consummation. The word there is “kalah”. So even until a full end, “kalah,” and that which is determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

The thing that is determined that’s going to be poured upon the desolate is Father’s wrath and one very important thing to note is that his wrath is not poured on us. It is poured on the desolation. It is poured on the desolate, meaning those who are already destroyed through transgression, not on his children.

So, if you forget everything that I’ve put on the board today, absolutely fine. But just remember that Father will take care of you through the entire period that is to come. We’re going to talk next about that abomination of desolation, what it is, and what it’s not.

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