Tag: seventy weeks
A Year of Jubilee, Did Bible scholars in Daniel’s prophecy?
Is the year of Jubilee a blindspot among Bible scholars? The year of Jubilee is possibly hiding in plain sight within Daniel’s famous seventy weeks prophecy. But if so, it’s so obvious, it is usually overlooked by most Bible scholars. I just posed a question, and I am not ready to claim that I know…
O Lord forgive. Daniel 9:7-19 before the 70-weeks prophecy
Daniel prays: “We have not obeyed your voice O Lord, our God.” The seventy years of Jewish captivity were coming to an end. The prophet Daniel asked God to remember his promise. He asked, “O Lord, hear, O Lord, forgive.” We can learn a lot from the prayers that are recorded in the scriptures. In this…