It was sometime in 446-444 BC, when Artaxerxes I gave Nehemiah the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 2:5-9, 17, 18). See Daniel 9:2.Ģ) The “Terminus a Quo” i.e., starting point in time of this prophecy is “from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem” is well defined in history. It is closely related to Jeremiah 25:11-12 29:10 Prophecy and it was not intended as a prophecy for every nation or for any nation who wish to claim it their own.

Here now are the ten important things we need to know about the Jubilee and Daniel’s Seventy Sevens.ġ) Daniel’s Seventy Sevens is God’s revelation to Daniel about his people, the children of Israel and the desolation their Holy City, Jerusalem. According to the proponents of this belief, “every nation that reaches 490 years has an opportunity to put an end to all wickedness, unrighteousness, and injustice resulting in shocking poverty? ( Manila Bulletin, last accessed October 4, 2011). In 2010, many Filipino Christian leaders proclaimed that it was a year of a “new beginning” for our country, owing it to Ferdinand Magellan’s landing-rediscovery of the Philippine islands in 1521 and Daniel’s prophecy many calls Seventy Sevens (aka weeks or “shabua” in Hebrew, see Daniel 9:24-27).

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