DANIEL 9:21-2721 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

24 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.25 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.

26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

BACKGROUND TO THESIXTH SEAL

UNDERSTANDING THESEVENTY WEEKS OF

DANIEL

WHO REVEALED THE

SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL

THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318 122-2 {35} And now, the Lamb is standing now tonight as we enter into this 6th chapter; He's got the Book in His hand and starting to reveal it. And, oh, I would've absolutely today... And I hope that people are spiritual. I would've had a horrible mistake on that if it hadn't been about twelve o'clock today when the Holy Spirit came in the room and corrected me on something that I was writing down to say. I was taking it from an old context. I had nothing on it. I don't know what the Second Seal is no more than nothing, but I'd got some old contexts of something that I'd spoke on several years ago and wrote it down, and I'd gathered this context--context... And Dr. Smith, many great outstanding teachers that I--I'd gathered, and all of them believed that, so I'd wrote it down. And I was fixing to say, "Well, now I'll study it from that standpoint." And there about twelve o'clock in the day the Holy Spirit just swept right down into the room, and the whole thing just opened up to me, and there it was...?... of this--of this First Seal being opened.

61-0730E THE.SIXFOLD.PURPOSE.OF.GABRIEL'S.VISIT.TO.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 45-88 SUNDAY_« 104 † Now, let's not take what some man said. Now, there's not a Scripture to prove that. So how could I take that? Well, let's find out what really is the sealing up. Watch. He come to do that, to seal up the vision and the prophecy. Now, let's just turn right back to the Book of Daniel where we was at. Over in the Book of Daniel we will find out just what It said. Now, let's turn to Daniel the 12th chapter. Now, as we get to Daniel 12... Now, we could begin and read from... When you go home, I want you to read from the 1st verse

on. Let's just read from the 1st verse down to the 4th. And at that time Michael shall stand..., the great prince which will stand for the children of thy people:... (Now, this is at the end time.)... and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since... the nation... (That's when the antichrist, this First Seal rider goes forth, when he takes place.)... even until this time:... (Not in the time that when Titus took the walls of Jerusalem. That was only at one place. Watch when this antichrist, that prince that was to come, watch when he comes.)... even to the same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that's found written in the book. (Hallelujah. Thy people, Israel, shall be written in a book.) And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

THE.SEVENTIETH.WEEK.OF.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 89-141 SUNDAY_ 61-0806

214 Do you see where we are now? Do you understand Daniel's seventieth week now? See now, when we go on into these Seals and things, breaking these Seals, the first one comes forth a white horse rider, he's got a bow in his hand. Watch who that guy is. Watch that pale horse ride after him. See? Watch who it is, and look how he come in. Watch those 144,000 come in. Watch that sleeping virgin when she comes up. Then watch all these things take place, the pouring out of the Vials, the Woes, the three unclean spirits like frogs; watch those things how they fit right in those plagues and exactly when they're poured out. Every time a Seal opened, a plague pours out and a destruction comes. And watch what takes place right now at the end.

DANIEL 9:2 - 32 † In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.3 † And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

It is now the year 538BC and this is where our

Scripture begin.

68 years into captivity, Daniel the prophet begins to pray for he knows, by

studying the Word,that the Hour Of

DeliveranceIs at hand

JEREMIAH 29:10 - 1210 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

In the year 606BC God brought

His Word through the mouth

Of Jeremiah to pass. Jerusalem

was destroyed and the peopletaken captive to

Babylon

61-0730M GABRIEL'S.INSTRUCTIONS.TO.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 1-44 SUNDAY_« 72 † Now, the prophet Daniel had been in Babylon for sixty-eight years (You who wants to run references back and save yourself some of the time that I've had to--to looking it up)--sixty-eight years. He went into captivity in B.C. 606. And when the vision came to him was--was B.C. 538; 538 from 606 leaves 68. Sixty-eight years he had been in Babylon amongst heathens and still had the victory. Amen. We can't stay a hour. But he had been in the very midst with nobody but three companions, and them in different parts of the kingdom. But Daniel standing alone with God held the victory for sixty-eight years. Think of it. (I don't want to start preaching, because this is supposed to be a teaching message.) But sixty-eight years he had kept the victory and was undefiled before God without the baptism of the Holy Ghost, without the Blood of Jesus Christ to make intercessions for him, with only the blood of bulls and goats and heifers which he had to offer secretly, because of the heathen traditions of that land. They'd been taken down there. Jeremiah prophesied of them that they were going down.

Daniel 9:2424 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.

DANIEL IS A JEW – THIS VISION PERTAINS TO HIS

PEOPLE – THE JEWS

THE SEVENTY WEEKS ARE BROKEN UP INTO THREE PERIODS•SEVEN WEEKS : TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM UNTO MESSIAH

• SIXTY TWO WEEKS: THE STREETS AND WALLS SHALL BE BUILT AGAIN IN TROUBLOUS TIMES

•ONE WEEK: MESSIAH WILL BE CUT OFF AND A CONVENANT CONFIRMED

THINGS TO TAKE NOTE OF :-1)WHEN DO THE SEVENTY WEEKS START?

2)IS IT LITERALLY SEVENTY WEEKS?

3)IF THAT IS TRUE THEN ALL THAT THE ANGEL GABRIEL TOLD TO DANIEL SOULD HAVE BEEN COMPLETED IN 16 MONTHS

4)WE WILL REALISE AS WE GO ALONG THAT THESE ARE PROPHETIC WEEKS AND NOT LITERAL WEEKS

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

NEHEMIAH 2:1 - 61 † ¶ And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.2 † Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,3 † And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?4 † Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.5 † And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.6 † And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

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

In the year 445BC,

March 14th,

King Artaxerxes gives

Nehemiah, a Jew, the

permission to Rebuild

Jerusalem

61-0806 THE.SEVENTIETH.WEEK.OF.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 89-141 SUNDAY_

« 64 † Now, I've got some writing here that I'd like to read to you as we go by. Now, the going forth of the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem, which was on the 14th day of March. If any of you want to put that down, in the Hebrew you'll find it called N-i-s-a-n-Nisan, which means "March." The issue was given on the 14th day of March, B.C. 445--the issue went forth to build--rebuild the temple. You understand it, as you people have read the Scriptures then. Until it was completed, it taken forty-nine years to complete the temple and the city--to rebuild it. And as the Bible said here, Daniel speaking--or the Angel to Daniel, that the walls--and it would be built in troublesome times. And many of us remember when it was built, they had a mortar block in one hand and a sword in the other to watch the enemy. "And it would be built in troublesome times." So here is where I find that getting my days...

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 weeksPROPHECY - WILL TAKE SEVEN WEEKS TO REBUILD

THE CITY

IT ACTUALLY TOOK 49 YEARS TO REBUILD THE CITY

IT IS NOT LITERAL WEEKS BUT PROPHETIC WEEKS

7 WEEKS = 49 YEARS

1 WEEK = 7 YEARS (49/7)

1 WEEK = 7 DAYS

1 DAY = 1 YEAR (7/7)

70 WEEKS OF DANIEL’S PROPHECY = 490 YEARS

THE FORMULA OF GOD’S PROPHECTIC WEEKS

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.

FIRST PART : 7 WEEKS = 49 YEARS THAT BRINGS US TO THE YEAR

396BC

SECOND PART: THREESCORE AND TWO WEEKS AND MESSIAH WILL

COME

NEHEMIAH 4:17 - 1817 † They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.18 † For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

DANIEL 9:2525 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.

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.

ZECHARIAH 9:9 9 ¶ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

On the 2nd April 30AD this scripture Was fulfilled with

the Messiah Riding into Jerusalem, thus

Completing the 69 Weeks of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel

61-0806 THE.SEVENTIETH.WEEK.OF.DANIEL_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN DA 89-141 SUNDAY_« 80 † Now, now, Jesus, Messiah, rode into the city of Jerusalem, triumph, on the back of a white mule on Palm Sunday, April the 2nd, A.D. 30. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, A.D. 30. And now, now, from B.C. 445 to A.D. 30 is exactly 475 years.But as we have already seen that the sixty-nine weeks makes 483 years... Now, there's where the trouble comes, right there. See? We've got only with the marking of the Bible here, time, only 475 years, and actually it's 483 years, a difference of eight years.Now, God can't make it miss. If He said it would be so many days, it's so many days. If He says it's so much, it's so much. So what are we going to do? Now, the B.C. 475 to A.D. 30 are Julian or astronomy years, which are 365 1/4 day in--in each. But when we reduce them days to our prophetic calendar...

61-0806 THE.SEVENTIETH.WEEK.OF.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 89-141 SUNDAY_

« 80 Now, now, Jesus, Messiah, rode into the city of Jerusalem, triumph, on the back of a white mule on Palm Sunday, April the 2nd, A.D. 30. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, A.D. 30. And now, now, from B.C. 445 to A.D. 30 is exactly 475 years. But as we have already seen that the sixty-nine weeks makes 483 years... Now, there's where the trouble comes, right there. See? We've got only with the marking of the Bible here, time, only 475 years, and actually it's 483 years, a difference of eight years. Now, God can't make it miss. If He said it would be so many days, it's so many days. If He says it's so much, it's so much. So what are we going to do? Now, the B.C. 475 to A.D. 30 are Julian or astronomy years, which are 365 1/4 day in--in each. But when we reduce them days to our prophetic calendar...

SOLVING THE DILEMMAOF THE MISSING YEARS

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FIRST PART : 7 WEEKS = 49 YEARS

SECOND PART: 62 WEEKS = 434 YEARS

69 WEEKS = 483 YEARS (69 X 7)

IF WE LOOK AT THE ACTUAL TIME SPAN IT WOULD BE AS FOLLOWS:

445BC 30AD445 + 30 = 475

475 + 1 = 476 YEARS

REVELATION 11:3» 3 † ¶ And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

3 ½ YEARS 1260 DAYS

1 YEAR 360 DAYS

WE CAN SEE WITH GOD’S CALNEDAR1 YEAR HAS 360 DAYS AND NOT 365.25

LET US TAKE OUR 476 YEARS AND CONVERT IT TO GOD’S CALENDAR

(476 X 365.25) / 360 = 483 YEARS

69 WEEKS = 69 X 7 = 483 YEARS

THE FINAL WEEK

DANIEL 9:26-2726 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

MESSIAH SHALL BE CUT OFF

63-0324M QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.THE.SEALS_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN SUNDAY_

« 338 † 36. Brother Branham, I noticed you--your referring to Daniel's seventy weeks on the First Seal message. I understand on Daniel--on the tape of Daniel when the Gospel returns to the Jews, the seventy weeks will begin. Is there a one seventy--one week, seven years, left for the Jews, or yet is there only one-half week, one three and one-half years left for them?Only one-half week: Jesus prophesied the first half week, as was predicted, only one-half week left for them.

After 69 weeks, Messiah will be cut off

Messiah will be cut off in the 70th Week.

Jesus preached for 3 ½ years

1 Week = 7 Years½ Week = 3 ½ Years

First Half of the 70th Week has been completed in the

Ministry of Jesus Christ

NOT FOR HIMSELF

63-0323 THE.SIXTH.SEAL_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN SATURDAY_

« 210 Notice now, we find out that the time lasts, I said three and one-half years of Daniel's seventy weeks. Let me explain that a little closer now, 'cause I see somebody here that's always watched that now; I want to try to make myself clear: a teacher. Notice, when the seventy weeks come in... When Daniel seen the vision of the time coming and the ending up of the Jews... But he said there was determined seventy weeks (That's seven years), in the midst of it, why the Messiah would be here--or--and would be cut off for a sacrifice. Now, that's exactly what taken place. Then God dealt with the Gentiles till He took out a people for His Name. As soon as the Gentile church is taken out, He taken up the Church. And when He did, the sleeping virgin, the church itself (The Bride went up.), and the church itself was put into outer darkness, where there's weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, and the same time the tribulation falls upon that people.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE THAT SHALL COME SHALL DESTORY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY

63-0318 THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN MONDAY_

« 332 † Notice. (That's one thing. We want to hit just a couple more places before closing.) He is the prince that was destroy; Daniel's people. You believe that? I'm going to make this if you just help and be lenient with me for a few minutes, I--I'll make it just as quick as I can, but I want to make it positive (See?); 'cause I--the Holy Spirit's give me this just as certain as I'm standing here. See, see?

63-0318 THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN MONDAY_

« 334 † Now, look, let's take--go back to Daniel again just a minute. I want to read something 'fore... Whether if you don't go back, it's all right. I want to read Daniel 9--Daniel 9, and I want to read the 26th and 27th verse of Daniel 9. And watch, if he isn't the one to destroy Daniel's people--what he's going to do. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off... (See, that's the threescore and two weeks, He'd be cut off out of the seventy weeks.)... not for himself: but for the people and the prince... (That's the hierarchy here.)... that shall come--that shall come shall destroy the city and... sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with great flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

63-0318 THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN MONDAY_

« 336 † I want to ask you people something. After Christ was cut off from the earth in the three and a half years of His ministry, and what destroyed the temple? Who destroyed it? Rome. Sure. Constantine (Or, no, I beg your pardon.) Titus, the Roman general. He destroyed the prince. Now, notice. Watch this fellow come right on down just go on.

61-0808 THY.HOUSE_ TIFTON.GA TUESDAY_« E-70 † All right, Brother Jimmy, maybe you got another one. [Brother Jimmy reads the next question: "Explain 'blood unto to the horse's bridle."--Ed.]... bridle bits, the Armageddon (Uh-huh.) in Revelation...

Now, in the last days, we come to a place when Titus in A.D. 70 taken the walls of Jerusalem, and tore down the walls of Jerusalem. They claim that there was so much blood spilled amongst that--right at a million or more Jews that was inside of the walls, until they killed even women, babies... And well, it was so bad till... They'd--they'd rejected the Holy Spirit.See, now God, when He--when they rejected Christ and called Him a Beelzebub, He said, "I forgive you for that. (See?) I forgive you." But said, "Someday the Holy Spirit is coming" to do the same thing that He was doing. Said, "One word against That won't be forgiven."

CONFIRMINGTHE COVENANT

WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE SECOND

HALF OF THE 70TH WEEK (3 ½ YEARS)

UNDER THE 6TH SEAL

538BC

536BC

445BC

396BC

AD30 AD33

AD70

AD53 - RAPTURE

6TH SEAL

THE 70 WEEKS OFDANIEL