Daniel's Seventy Weeks Return to Homepage DANIEL'S Seventy
Weeks, which are equal to 490 years, are scripturally divided
into three periods: first, into a period of "Seven Weeks;
"secondly, of " Sixty Two Weeks; "and thirdly, of "One Week."
The commencement of the Seventy Weeks and of the Seven Weeks, is
the same. Both periods began at "the going forth of a
commandment causing to return and to build Jerusalem," eighty-
three years after the end of the seventy years Babylonish
captivity. This imperial decree of the Persian king was the
official restoration of the Commonwealth of Israel, at present
in abeyance "until the times of the restitution of all things
which the Deity hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy
prophets," from the beginning of the Mosaic Economy, (Acts
3:21,) and until He shall send Jesus Christ to "raise up, or
build again the Tabernacle of David," that is fallen, and close
up the breaches thereof: and to set it up as in the days of
old.--(Acts 15:16 ; Amos 9:11). The beginning and ending o