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"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make recon- ciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal 9:24). Seventy shabu'im (sevens, or "weeks") speaks of weeks of years. This may seem strange to us, but the Hebrew traditions include a week of days, a week of weeks (shavout), a week of months, and a week of years.**? Seventy sevens of years are determined, or "reckoned" (hatch), upon Daniel's people and the city of Jerusalem. Notice a that: to finish the transgressions; to make an end of sins; to make reconciliation for iniquity; ron to bring in everlasting righteousness; to seal up (close the authority of) the vision; to anoint the Godesh Godashim, the Holy of Holies. The fact that not all of these have yet been fulfilled in 2,000 years also demonstrates that the time periods noted are not contiguous. Ancient calendars were based on a 360-day year, typically twelve 30-day months. This applies to the Assyrians, Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks, Phoenicians, Chinese, Mayans, Hindus, Carthaginians, Etruscans, and Teutons, etc. This also applies to the ancient Chaldean calendar, and it is from this Babylonian tradition that we have 360 degrees in a circle, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in each minute, etc. In 701 B.C., all calendars seem to have been reorganized. Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, reorganized the original calendar of 360 days per year by adding five days per year. King Hezekiah, Numa's Jewish contemporary, reorganized his calendar by adding a month in each Jewish leap year (on a cycle of seven every 19 years.) "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times" (Daniel 135, (The key to understanding this passage is to recognize that the 70 "weeks" are not all contiguous and that verse 26 is an explicit interval between the 69th and 70th weeks. )292 VERSE 24: THE SCOPE up the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy Place." (Daniel 1) The focus of the passage is on the Jews, not the Church, nor the Gentile world. Also, 2) There are six major items which have yet to be completed: 360-DAY YEARS In any case, the Biblical calendar, from Genesis to Revelation, uses a 360-day year. VERSE 25: THE 69 WEEKS