"Determined: 490 Years"

July 13, 2014

“Determined: 490 Years”

Blessings folk!

A decree had been issued by the Most High God.
A period of 70 weeks would occur - 490 years.

That length of time is interesting.
The people of the Lord (the southern kingdom) had been in captivity for 70 years.
This was due to the fact they had not honored the sabbath rest of the land.
The Lord required that the land lay fallow every 7th year.
The Lord had made great promises of provision if the people honored his Word.
They did not.
They did not do so for 490 years.
They ignored 70 sabbath rests.
The Lord required a year in captivity for each sabbath ignored.

Now, that time was ending.
The Lord revealed to Daniel was to occur.

Daniel 9:24
24 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 reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.


The 70 weeks were determined by the Most Hight.
They relate to Daniel’s people - the Jews - and the holy city - Jerusalem.

What is the purpose to the time period?
The Lord tells us that the 490 years are determined…

  • to finish the transgression
  • to make an end of sins
  • to make reconciliation for iniquity
  • to bring in everlasting righteousness
  • to seal up the vision and prophecy
  • to anoint the most Holy

Wow.

As a Believer your mind is likely rolling as to what each of these mean.
If not a Believer, you will likely have no clue. Happy

What transgression?
The end of sin?
Reconciliation between who?
Everlasting righteousness?
What is “the vision and prophecy”?
The most Holy? Some versions say most holy “place”?

These all provide an outline from the Lord for what would occur to His people and to the holy city.

It impacts us.
It explains what is occurring.

Seek the Lord.
He will continue to give revelation, illumination and enlightenment.

The next verse begins, “know therefore and understand…”

We can know.
We can understand.