Daniel 9 24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy 25 "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times. 26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined."

Daniel's prophecy was made in 538 B.C. * Artaxerxes issues his decree to Ezra in 457 B.C. 7 weeks of years later (49 years) Nehemiah's governorship of Jerusalem ends and the city's restoration is complete in 408 B.C. 62 weeks of years later (434 years), in 26-27 A.D., Messiah the Prince (Jesus) is baptized. The Messiah is cut off (killed) in 30 A.D., but not for any sin he committed. 40 years later the city of Jerusalem and it's sanctuary is destroyed in 70 A.D. (Yeshua died on Wednesday, 14 Nisan, 30 CE, at the exact time Passover lambs were being slain in the Temple (Josephus, War, 6.9.3)). (Herod's Temple destroyed on 9 Av (August 4, 70 CE on the Julian calendar) by the Romans. The Babylonian Talmud records that for 40 years before the Temple was destroyed, the following things happened: The lots for the Yom Kippur goats ceased to be supernaturally determined; the crimson thread tied to the Azazel goat's horn (which had before supernaturally changed to white to show God's forgiveness) remained red; the western candle in the menorah in the Temple sanctuary would not burn continually; and the doors of the Temple would open by themselves (Yoma 39: b). (* Many scholars regard the Letter of Artaxerxes I permitting Ezra's return in 458 (or 457) as the terminus a quo, the beginning point, of Daniel's first 69 weeks (Dan 9:24-27). If each week represented a solar year, then 69 times 7 years equals 483 years, added to 457 B.C. equals A.D. 26, i.e., the traditional date for the beginning of Christ's ministry. Others, however, regard the commission of the same king to Nehemiah in 445 B.C. as the starting point (Neh 1:1, 11; 2:1-8 ). From this date by computing according to a lunar year of 369 days, the same date of A.D. 26 is reached.)