Fighting For Real Estate - Part #19: Has the 70th Week of Daniel Already Happened?

“If God Didn’t Bring In Everlasting Righteousness, We Are to be Most Pitied Among Men!”

By Richard Allen – June 16, 2025

The Prophecy of Daniel Chapter 9:24-27 has been hotly debated in our modern age, especially regarding the fulfillment of those prophecies that a completed 70 Weeks of God’s judgment were supposed to accomplish. Believe me, this passage was not always so controversial among Christians. If you went back to the Church Fathers, Reformers and other Saints throughout the ages, you would find a fairly consistent interpretation. “Many Christians believed that Daniel 9:24-27, that is, the prophecies to be accomplished by 70 Weeks of God’s Judgment – were all fulfilled by Jesus Christ!” Most of the ‘Faithful’ in previous ages believed that “all these prophecies were fulfilled by Jesus at His First Advent!”  Sadly, in our own day, many Christians believe that all these Prophetic Promises are focused on National Israel’s Salvation, and are yet to be fulfilled at some future date.

Here’s what the Angel Gabriel told  Daniel would be accomplished during God’s 70 Weeks (Hebrew, sabua = years) of Judgment upon Israel. Upon these Six Outcomes rest all the Promises of God, in fact, these Six Promises represent the full force of Gospel Truth to fallen men and women:

“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 atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.  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 troubled times.  And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate” (Daniel 9:24-27).

And it’s nothing short of amazing that this same Angel, Gabriel, was sent to a young virgin named Mary, a descendant of King David, betrothed and ready to be married to a Carpenter named Joseph:

“In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”  But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end” (Luke 1:26-33).

Looking at the list of the Six Outcomes that God told Daniel would be accomplished, it’s easy to see why many Christians throughout history believe Jesus fulfilled them all.  First, that generation of Jews did Finish their Transgression. When Jesus confronted the Jewish leaders of His day, He said, “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?” (Matthew 23:31-33).  Even after the Gospel went forth bringing men and women into the kingdom, “Unbelieving Jews” resisted the Apostles at every turn, prompting Paul to say: “By hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved – in this way they have brought to completion the sins they have always committed. And now God's wrath has at last come down on them!” (1 Thessalonians 2:16).  After centuries of disobedience, their rebellion climaxed as they killed their own Messiah, the Lord of Glory!

Second, Jesus Made an End of Sin: “But now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself” (Heb. 9:26). Third, God in Christ Made Atonement for Sin through His Son, Jesus Christ. This is a core doctrine proclaimed in the Gospel. Paul tells the Church in Rome: “And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement” (Romans 5:11). Fourth, through Jesus, God Brought in Everlasting Righteousness. Paul tells the Church at Corinth: “For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21). Fifth, God Sealed up the Vision and Prophecy. In an excellent online article by Alex Polyak entitled: “Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy” (Daniel 9:24-27), the writer concludes:

“According to a broad spectrum of commentators—premillennial, amillennial, and postmillennial alike – the term “to seal up vision and prophecy” means that miraculous signs and wonders, which God used to confirm his prophets, will end because the Bible’s prophecies will have finally been fulfilled.” [ https://thebiblefulfilled.com/daniels-seventy-weeks-prophecy/].

Paul, the Apostle, alludes to this sealing up of the vision and prophecy in 1 Corinthians 13:8 where he says: “Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.” Understood in the context, Paul says that New Testament signs and wonders were for “the infancy,” but when the “complete revelation came” we would no longer “know in part,” but that which is “complete” would come. Later in 1 Corinthians 14:20, Paul the Apostle – quoting from Isaiah 28:11-13 makes it clear that “New Testament Tongues” (i.e. actual languages miraculously imparted) were a sign to unbelieving Israel of the judgment and destruction to come:

“Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then, they will not listen to me, says the Lord” (1 Corinthians 14:20-22). 

Sixth, to Anoint the Most Holy. Commentators disagree whether this Hebrew phrase should be translated to “Anoint the Most Holy Place,” or “Anoint the Most Holy One.” While some Dispensational writers look to a future physical Temple. But this prophecy most likely refers to “the Anointing of Christ,” the Most Holy One. “Jesus said, ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He [God] has anointed Me’ ” (Luke 4:18). No matter how you interpret these Six Promises, Jesus fulfilled them all by the power of the Spirit during His “Life, Death and Resurrection!”  Daniel gives us a “time frame” in which all of this had to be accomplished: 490 years – from the Decree to Rebuild Jerusalem (most likely 457 B.C.) to the time when the Decree was given to Nehemiah to actually rebuild the City of Jerusalem and the Temple – until cutting off the Messiah and the Abomination that brought Desolation.  Scholars have been amazed at the accuracy of the fulfillment of this prophecy. Sadly, Dispensationalists believe that the 490 years which the angel prophesied – have now become over 2,500 years, still waiting for a carnal-natural fulfillment by converting Israel after the Flesh.  Jesus gave us a definitive answer as to when this prophecy was fulfilled:  When Jerusalem was surrounded by Roman armies in 70 A.D.  Here’s how Our Lord Jesus quoted Daniel 9:24 – showing the fulfillment during His Olivet Discourse:

“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people” (Luke 21:20-23).

By comparing all three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), it’s absolutely clear that the Abomination that brought Desolation was not a talking statue in Jerusalem someday in the future. Jesus, as Luke records – tells us that the Abomination that brought Desolation was the Roman Armies that made Jerusalem and the Temple desolate in 70 A.D.!  Identifying the Roman Armies with their idolatrous “Eagle topped Ensigns” as the sign of Jerusalem’s destruction, Jesus is clearly telling us that the Prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27 was accomplished!  We are not waiting for two more groups to “duke it out” over the Real Estate in Palestine, that is regressive and carnal!  New Covenant Saints are looking for a promised city – The New Jerusalem, the “Glorified Church and Bride of Jesus Christ,” descending from heaven, without any spot, wrinkle or blemish (Ephesians 5:27).  Here are four passages that make crystal clear what Real Estate we are longing for:

“By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God”  (Hebrews 11:9-10).

“For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared for them a city” (Hebrews 11:14-16).

“But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel” (Hebrews 12:22-24).

“Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal” (Revelation 9:9-11).

These verses proclaim a New Covenant, spiritual understanding of the of Scripture.  The godly in every age have always sought “the Jerusalem above (Galatians 4:26), that Faithful city – where the souls of Just Men are now made perfect – is the place where men and women will worship God in Spirit and in Truth.” This is the worship God the Father delights in, and has sought from the beginning. To once again go back to “Fighting for Real Estate” is moving backwards in God’s Plan of Redemptive History. My hope and prayer is that the people of God would not sell out their birthright for a “bowl of millennial stew,” cooked up by carnal men who failed to grasp true worship “in Spirit, and in Truth!”  As I alluded to with my subtitle, “if the promises of Daniel 9:24-27 have not been accomplished, that our sin has not been finished or atoned for, and that Jesus hasn’t brought in eternal righteousness – we are of all men to be most pitied!” 

Soli Deo Gloria