The book of Daniel is a record of life and prophetic revelation given to Daniel, a captive Jew carried off by King Nabuchnezzer to Babylon after the first conquest of Jerusalem in 600 b.c.  We wish to focus on the prophecy pertaining only to Daniel’s people and the city of Jerusalem and to Jesus crucifixion linking Him with the time period of His death.  We wish to prove that the “Seventy Weeks” prophetic picture has no reference to the Rapture theory.

    Many theologians use the text from Daniel 9:27 to prove there theory on the Rapture that will be a seven year deal between the Anti-Christ and the Jewish nation, and after the three and half years that the Anti-Christ will try to put an idol in the temple and they will refuse to eccept the idol and that is when the Anti-Christ will declare war on the nation of Israel.
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    The prominence of the Messiah in the Old Testament prophecy and the mention of Him in both verses 25 and 26 make the cutting off of the Messiah is one of the most important events in the prophetic enfoldment of God’s plan for Israel and the world; how tragic is that when the promised King came, He had to die.

    The true Messiah came at the set time according to what Daniel had spoken in His book written by the prophet Daniel regarding their return, ordered by Darius for Israel to return to Jerusalem and to rebuild the temple until the appearing of Jesus and His crucifixion.

   The Babylonian captivity came to pass as Jeremiah prophesied (2 Chronicles 36:13-20) “To fulfill the words of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed the Sabbath: for as long as she layed desolate she kept the Sabbath to fulfill three score and ten (70 years) verse 21.

    Daniel knew that the captivity of Israel was about to come to the end and he knew that there was to be a rebuilding of Jerusalem and restoration of the true worship there and Gabriel heard his prayers and revealed to him the future history of his people.

    Daniel in chapter 9, having learned from the book of Jeremiah’s prophecy of the doom of the seventy years desolation for the Holy City, a term that was now naturally drawing to the end, set himself to pray for the forgiveness of his people’s sins and the promised deliverance.  The angel Gabriel appeared to him, and interprets the year as weeks, with details of the distant future and of the crowning age of divine purpose.

   Now comes the interpretation of Daniel’s prophecy regarding the seventy years.  Seventy weeks: 490 years are assigned as the time for the ushering in of the age of peace and the consecration of the Holy Place.  From the time Cyrus the Great signed a decree for the restoration of Jerusalem, was the date of the formal close of the exile by the king.  The seventy times seven is therefore 490 years, with the beginning at the time of “The command to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem” found in verse 25 and culmination 490 years later in verse 27.  Before detailing the event to be founded in the first 483 years (69 times 7), the event between the sixty-nineth and the seventieth week, and the final seven years, Daniel gives the overall picture in verse 24.