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His end-date for the first 69 Weeks, March 30, 33 AD, was indeed the tenth day of a Jewish month, since the new crescent moon could have first been seen the evening of March 20. In this respect this is better than Anderson’s last day of the 69 Weeks which as we have seen could not have been the 10th of Nisan despite Anderson’s claims. The 360 day year is actually a Babylonian ‘Time’, and it slips over 5 days a year against the solar seasons, and neither is it in phase with the moon. It is certainly not the year used by Israel. It is misleading to argue that this is the year generally used in the Bible. In fact it is used at most on two specific occasions: the 150 days of Noah’s Flood, and the two halves (1260 days each) of the Tribulation. These situations are both special in that they are times of world-wide judgment, and it seems this is when God uses the 360 day year. He continues: “But the calendar may have been further disturbed by intercalation. According to the scheme of the eight years' cycle, the embolismal month was inserted in the third, sixth, and eighth years, and an examination of the calendars from AD.22 to AD. 45 will show that AD. 32 was the third year of such a cycle. As, therefore, the difference between the solar year and the lunar is 11 days, it would amount in three years to 33 3/4 days, and the intercalation of a thirteenth month (Ve-adar) of thirty days would leave an epact still remaining of 3 3/4 days; and the "ecclesiastical moon" being that much before the real moon, the feast day would have fallen on the Friday (11th April), exactly as the narrative of the Gospels requires.” The Coming Prince" is a classic interpretation of theprophecies of Daniel, especially the ninth chapter. Concerning Daniel's Seventy Weeks,Anderson wrote: "The only inquiry, therefore, which concerns us relates to the nature of the crisis [i.e., the Judgment of the Earth] and the time of its fulfilment [i.e., the duration of the Tribulation and especially the Second Coming of the LORD Jesus Christ] . And the key to this inquiry is the Prophet Daniel's vision of the seventy weeks." This means that the 490 years come to a fitting climax at the death and resurrection of Christ. The 490 years of Daniel 9:24 speak of a Great Jubilee Cycle (10 Jubilees) and so it is a great confirmation that the greatest Jubilee of all (even the fulfilment of all Jubilees - the Cross and Resurrection) took place at the end of a Great Jubilee Cycle. Whereas if the Cross was only after 483 years this would not be true. Only the death and resurrection of Christ form a fitting climax to the 70 Weeks and the calculation works to the very day! In fact the first three of the six supreme messianic accomplishments that v24 tells us should be acheived by the end of the 70th Week were fulfilled at the Cross. Thus we see that by letting all 70 Weeks run their course we get an impressive prophecy of what the Messiah would accomplish in His First Coming, at the climax of the 490 years, and it accurately predicts this to the very day! However, we must also admit there is much in the prophecy that has not been fulfilled in the 490 years from 458BC-33AD, and that the events of the 70th Week are still in the future (v27) How can the prophecy of v24 be fulfilled when the 490 years have passed and the Kingdom not yet established?

The problem is that Anderson uses Gregorian years when calculating the number of days between two Julian dates. If we use Julian dates, we must also use Julian years, and if we use Gregorian dates, we must use Gregorian years. We cannot mix the two calendars in the way that he proposes. Anderson was thus 3 days off in his calculation, for there are really 173,883 days inclusive between Friday, March 14, 445 BC and Sunday, April 6, 32AD (Julian). Instead of adding 116 days for leap years, Anderson should have added 119, for that is precisely how many leap years there are in 476 years in the Julian calendar. If he had wanted to use Gregorian years, he should have started and ended with the Gregorian dates of Saturday, March 9, 445 BC, and Sunday, April 4, 32 AD (March 9, 445BC Gregorian = March 14, 445BC Julian; April 4, 32AD Gregorian = April 6, 32AD Julian). But when we add 116 days for leap years to the number of days between these 2 dates, we still end up with 173,883 days. Only by mixing the two calendars does it falsely appear that there are 173,880 days. Because Harold Hoehner adds 476 years and 24.7 days to his start date of 5 March 444 B.C., he arrives at the end date of 30 March A.D. 33. Then he converts 30 March A.D. 33 into the Hebrew calendar, he obtains the date of 10 Nisan A.D. 33. Unfortunately, his end date in the Hebrew calendar is in error. The Gregorian date of 30 March A.D. 33 actually corresponds to 12 Nisan, A.D. 33 and not 10 Nisan A.D. 33. However, it is an error of only two days. In The Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ, Harold Hoehner concludes that the additional number of days is 25 days.[5] Professor Hoehner assumed 365.24219879 days per solar year in the Gregorian calendar for his calculation. His estimate of the number of days in the Gregorian calendar is closer to the solar calendar than that used by Sir Robert Anderson. Consequently, his estimate is more accurate and equals 476 years and 25 days.

Three Calculations of the 70 Weeks of Daniel

Sir Robert Anderson KCB (29 May 1841 – 15 November 1918) was the second Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1888 to 1901. He was also an intelligence officer, theologian and writer.

The Coming Prince, The Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ and Prophecy of Daniel’s 70 Weeks [6] all understand that the start date begins with Artaxerxes’ Decree to “restore and rebuild Jerusalem.” Nehemiah 2:1-8 states that the decree occurred in the twentieth year of the king’s reign.[7] However the documents disagree about the actual calendar date of the decree. In The Coming Prince, Sir Robert Anderson states that the start date is 14 March 445 B.C. He is off by one year which resulted in a one year shift in his end date calculation. Wrong Intervening Period. There is a serious calculation error hidden in his mixing of 2 calendars, which by itself invalidates his calculation. There is a confusion between Julian and Gregorian calendars. The Julian calendar is longer than a true solar year (about 3 days in 4 centuries). This error amounted to 11 days in AD. 1752 when our English calendar was corrected by declaring the 3rd September to be the 14th September, and by introducing the Gregorian reform, so that the Gregorian calendar we now use stays in line with the sun.Two notable books have been published on Daniel’s prophecy of 70 weeks and the death of the Messiah predicted in Daniel 9:24-26. The first important book is The Coming Prince, authored by Sir Robert Anderson. The second notable book is The Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ, authored by Harold Hoehner. The calculations given by both men and the calculations presented in my document titled, Prophecy of Daniel’s 70 Weeks are similar. There are three parts to their date calculations: 1) the end date or the fulfillment date of the prophecy, 2) the length of time predicted between the start and end dates 3) and then the start date of the prophecy. Three Calculations of the 70 Weeks of Daniel The 7 years of prosperity came first, but Israel did not come to Joseph (Jesus) in that time. The dreams show the 7 lean years that came later as eating up the 7 fat As we have shown, the starting date for the 70 Weeks is clearly marked in Ezra 7 as Nisan 1, in the 7th year of Artaxerxes. This was without doubt April 3rd, 458 BC (Gregorian). Measuring forward 69 Weeks (483 Jewish luni-solar years) takes us to the last day of the 69th Week: April 4th 26AD. This means the 70th Week, the Time of Messiah, began on April 5th AD 26 with the ministry of John the Baptist. The seven messianic years are in two halves (3.5 years of John the Baptist followed by 3.5 years of the ministry of Jesus Christ). The 70th Week of Messiah is 7 true solar years which close

Wrong kind of year. Like Anderson Hoehner uses the 360 day year which have previously shown to be in error.

In conclusion, the correct start date is 27 February 444 B.C. 444 B.C. and the end date of the prophecy is 6 Nisan A.D. 33, which occurred before Christ’s death on 14 Nisan 33 A.D.

The Julian date of that 10th Nisan was Sunday the 6th April, A.D. 32. What then was the length of the period intervening between the issuing of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem and the public advent of “Messiah the Prince,” – between the 14th March, B.C. 445, and the 6th April, A.D. 32? In short, all three calculations are within one day of each other. The differences are inconsequential over a 476 year period. Daniel’s Seventy Weeks is a vital foundational Bible prophecy that requires careful study to understand properly, as Jesus said when commenting upon it, “let those who read it understand” (Matthew 24:15). This chronological prophecy predicts the time of the Coming of Christ and should be fulfilled exactly (to the day). The correct interpretation sheds much light on the rest of Bible Prophecy, so it is important that we seek to find it. Anderson's "Coming Prince" was written many years before the Balfour Declaration(1917) made plain Britain's guarantee of a Jewish national home in Palestine; thus,establishing the modern framework for Israel to not only be re-birthed as a modernnation (1948), but a nation which will have a Temple to be prophetically desecratedby the "prince that shall come" (the Antichrist), who "shallconfirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shallcause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominationshe shall make it desolate" (Daniel 9:26-27). Even thoughthe subject matter and title of the book dealt mainly with the Antichrist, it wasthe Second Advent of Messiah the Prince (Daniel 9:25) for Whom Sir Robert Andersonlonged and anticipated. " 10 That at the Name of Jesus everyknee should bow, of things in Heaven, and things in Earth, and things under the Earth; 11 And that every tongueshould confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:10-11). Therefore, the correction to computerized Hebrew software calculations requires that 29 days are added, which means the start date is 1 Adar II 444 B.C. When we do this we discover that 1 Adar II 1, 444 B.C. corresponds to 27 February 444 B.C. in the Gregorian calendar. The date of 27 February 444 B.C. is the actual start date of the prophecy. Serious Errors In the 70 Weeks of Daniel Calculations

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Unfortunately, there is also another error in Hoehner’s calculation that makes the two day error insignificant. The major problem is that 1 Nisan 444 B.C. does not correspond to 5 March 444 B.C. as determined by computerized Hebrew calendar software. The actual start date of 1 Nisan 444 B.C. corresponds to 28 March 444 B.C. in the Gregorian calendar, according to modern Hebrew calendar software. That is an error of three weeks in his calculations. If Professor Hoehner had taken this three week shift into account, his end date would have shifted to 22 April A.D. 33 or 8 Iyyar A.D. 33 in the Hebrew calendar. This significant error misses the Passover date of 14 Nisan A.D. 33, by more than three weeks. The date of 8 Iyyar A.D. 33 occurs after the crucifixion of Christ, and does not correspond to Daniel’s 70 week prophecy. THE INTERVAL CONTAINED EXACTLY AND TO THE VERY DAY 173880 DAYS, OR SEVEN TIMES SIXTY-NINE PROPHETIC YEARS OF 360 DAYS, the first sixty-nine weeks of Gabriel’s prophecy.