p. 148 | The Seventy Weeks

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Nov 15, 1853

The Seventy Weeks.

THE following is from a leaf entitled, Word of Warning, No. 1. It was published in 1843 by J. V. Himes.

“We claim that the ninth of Daniel is an appendix to the eighth, and that the seventy weeks and the 2300 days or years commence together. Our opponents deny this.

Again the writer says in No. 2:—

“THE SEVENTY WEEKS. This was given to Daniel, as recorded in Dan. ix, as an explanation of the 2300 days, from which they were cut off. Sixty-nine of these weeks, 7 multiplied by 69, equal to 483 years, were to reach to the Messiah, and to begin with the going forth of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem. This decree, according to Ezra vii, was given in the 7th year of Artaxerxes Longimanus, B. c. 457.”

If the beginning of the 2300 days is not given in Dan. ix, is it any where given? If not given at all, then of what profit are the 2300 days? If they reach to the second coming of Christ, and no starting point given in the Bible to reckon them from, shall we not have to wait till Christ comes before we can understand them—then count back 2300 years to find their beginning?!

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable;” and was given for our profit before (not after) Christ comes. And in order for the prophecy of the 2300 days to profit, their beginning must be revealed.

The arguments in favor of the 70 weeks being the first 490 years of the 2300, and that they commenced B. c. 457, are unanswerable. This brings the end of the 2300 prophetic days in 1844. Christ did not then come as expected; but this does not prove that the days did not there end. The cleansing of the Sanctuary is the event to occur at the end of the days. This event is not the Second Advent, but an event preceding it.