Israel is God's Time Piece
When Daniel prays, confesses, repents, and seeks the Lord in Daniel 9, he finds assurance of an answer from Him. The information he receives points to Jesus. This is a crucial point for Jewish people to understand, as the timeline is fixed in history to the exact time of Christ's arrival. Daniel 9:24 (ESV) “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. Where the exile lasted 70 years, the time of atonement for sin and everlasting righteousness (God's gift through faith) would come 490 years later (70 - 7 x 7 weeks). But how are we to understand time according to this passage? Well, Daniel is given further detail about those 490 years. The angel breaks it down: Daniel 9:25–26 (ESV) Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to ...