How are the judgments upon Jerusalem again foretold?
Answer
"And for the overspreading of abominations He shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate!' Remainder of verse 27.
NOTE - Seventy weeks would be four hundred and ninety days; and as a day in prophecy
represents a year (Num. 14:34; Eze. 4:6), this period would be four hundred and ninety years. The
commandment to restore and build Jerusalem was brought to its completion by Artaxerxes Longimanus in
the seventh year of his reign (Ezra 6:14; 7:7,8), which, as already noted, was 457 BC. From this date the
sixty-nine weeks, or four hundred and eighty-three years, would extend to the baptism of Christ in AD. 27,
and the whole period to AD. 34, when the martyrdom of Stephen occurred, and the gospel began to be
preached to the Gentiles. Before the end of that generation Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, AD.
Why did Israel fail to attain unto righteousness?
What threefold union is thus established?
Does proper correction evidence a want of parental love?
To whom do the things which have been revealed belong ?
What is to be the fate of those who, instead of worshipping God, engage in this false worship?
What has He commanded men to observe in memory of this great work?
What peaceful condition will reign throughout the earth then?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle