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We will focus our discussion here to one of the most amazing passages in the entire Bible. It will not only demonstrate the astonishing precision with which the Bible details "history in advance," this passage also holds the key to understanding the period emerging on our horizon just ahead of us. Four disciples privately came to Jesus for a confidential briefing about his Second Coming. His response was so important that it is recorded in three of the Gospels.”*° In this briefing, Jesus highlighted a passage in the ninth chapter of Daniel as the key to end-time prophecy. The book of Daniel was part of the Old Testament, and, as such, was translated into Greek in 270 B.C. as part of the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. Although Daniel is one of the most authenticated books of the Bible, this simplify- ing observation will serve to establish the undeniable existence of the book long before the events it so precisely predicts. Daniel had been deported as a teenager and then spent the next 70 years in captivity in Babylon. He was reading the prophecies of Jeremiah”! from which he understood that the 70-year period which had been predicted was about to end, and so he committed himself to prayer. During his prayer, the angel Gabriel interrupted him and gave him the most remarkable prophecy in the Bible. The last four verses of Daniel 9 are this famed "70-week prophecy of Daniel." Let's examine this passage carefully. 9:24 9:25 9:26 9:27 the 70th week 134 THE 70 WEEKS The last four verses of Daniel 9 also outline the fourfold structure of the passage: the scope of the entire prophecy the 69 weeks (of years) an interval between the 69th and 70th weeks