In response, the Lord sent the angel Gabriel to him even as he prayed, who revealed to him that for the atonement for the sins of Judah to be completed, it would not take a mere seventy years, but seven times seventy years (Dan. Perhaps realizing that the seventy years began when he himself was taken captive, he prayed diligently to the Lord for forgiveness for the many sins of his people, asking the Lord to turn away his fierce anger (Dan. 25:11-12) that the captivity of Judah would last seventy years (Dan. In the first year of Darius the Mede, Daniel understood the prophecy of the Lord to Jeremiah ( Jer. Daniel’s Prophecyįirst, let us review the prophecy itself. It also is a testimony of the authenticity of the Book of Daniel. Thus, the prophecy stands as a witness of both the foreknowledge of God and also of the precise timing of events of the Savior’s life, planned from the foundation of the world. The purpose of this article is to show for the first time that Daniel’s prophecy is accurate to the very day on the Enoch calendar. It has been understood for centuries to have been accurate to within a few years, or even to the very year, but there has been no general agreement on how the details were fulfilled. Yes, there is one very precise prophecy found in the book of Daniel. But was any hint provided of exactly when the mission of Jesus Christ’s first coming would be fulfilled?
Sir Isaac Newton provided a key to understanding how Daniel prophesied the date of the crucifixion to the very day.Īre there any prophecies in the Old Testament of when the Messiah would be born? There are several prophecies about Jesus Christ in Isaiah and Psalms, which describe many of the things that the Messiah would do when he would come to earth.