Lessons for Bible Students.
The Seventy Weeks & Twenty-three Hundred Days.
(PROPHECY OF DANIEL, PP. 34-43.) 2. Were those days evidently designed to cover the duration of all the great empires brought to view in the prophecy? 3. How much time would 2300 literal days cover? 4. What then must those days be? 5. How much time is embraced in a symbolic or prophetic day? 6. What scriptures prove this? 7. How much time, then, is literally denoted by the 2300 days? 8. When must this period begin? 10. Why did not Gabriel explain the time to Daniel in chapter viii? 11. What does Daniel say in the last verse of that chapter? 12. To what must this have particular reference? 13. How do we know that this refers exclusively to the 2300 days? 14. With what does the ninth chapter of Daniel commence? 15. From the language Daniel there uses, what is evident? 16. Gabriel was then sent to him a second time; for what purpose was he sent? 17. To what does Daniel cite us in verse 21? 18. What statement is made by Gabriel in verse 22? 19. This being the object of Gabriel's mission what may we conclude? 20. What follows from Daniel's testimony at the close of chapter viii, that none understood the vision? 21. What language does this fact call forth from Gabriel on his second visit to Daniel? 22. What command does he give Daniel in verse 23? 23. Of what is all this undeniable proof? 24. If any ask further evidence on this point, what fact furnishes it? 25. In Gabriel's further explanation of the vision, with what point does he commence? [Ans. The very point omitted in chapter viii, namely, time.] 26. As Gabriel proceeds to explain the time, what is the first declaration he utters? 27. What does the word determined literally mean? 28. What did the vision which Gabriel came to explain, contain? 29. In his explanation, what does he tell us? 30. Of what, therefore, are the seventy weeks a part? 31. Of what is the commencement of the seventy weeks the date? 32. In how many years were the seventy weeks fulfilled? 33. Of what is this fact a demonstration? 34. What does Gabriel give as the date of the seventy weeks? 35. When did this command or decree for the restoration of Jerusalem go forth? [Ans. In the seventh year of the Persian king Artaxerxes, according to Ezra vii.] 36. For how long a period does the Bible give us the data for a complete system of chronology? p. 38, top. 37. From the birth of Cyrus downward, what have we to establish dates? 38. What important period of time is fixed by the canon of Ptolemy? 39. In what year does this canon place the 7th of Artaxerxes? 40. By what is the accuracy of this canon demonstrated? 41. Were there any decrees between the 7th and 20th of Artaxerxes? 42. The seventy weeks or 490 years, dating from the 7th of Artaxerxes, must begin and end where? 43. Commencing with the 20th, where would they begin and where end? 44. Did any event occur in A. D. 47, to mark their termination? 45. Can we then reckon from the 20th of Artaxerxes? 46. From what must we reckon? 47. To show that the 7th of Artaxerxes is not rightly fixed to b. c. 457, what must be done? 48. Commencing at this point, the seventy weeks would end in A. D. 34; what event marked their termination at that time? 49. When did the crucifixion take place? 50. Sixty-nine of the seventy weeks were to extend to the Messiah the Prince; when did they end? 51. What took place at that time? 52. What did the Saviour preach in regard to time immediately after his baptism? 53. What is the only time that can here be referred to? 54. In what month of the year A. D. 34, did the seventy weeks end? p. 40 next to last paragraph. 55. As the seventy weeks are the first 490 years of the 2300, how many years of that period remain after the 490 are cut off? 56. As the first 490 years of the 2300 end in the autumn of A. D. 34, where will the whole period end? 57. As it takes only 457 years before Christ, and 1843 years after Christ, to make 2300, how is it shown that those days ended in 1844, instead of 1843? 58. What reasons were given by the Advent people for expecting the Lord, at the end of the 2300 days in 1844? p. 42, next to last paragraph. 59. Was there any defect in their position relative to the time? 60. Where then was the mistake, and what was the cause of their disappointment?