Daniel’s 70-Week Prophecy contains 70 prophetic weeks or 70 sets of seven, called Shabua or Heptad. In Hebrew, a Shabua means a week of 7 days, or a week of 7 years. Therefore, 70 heptads are calculated as 69 Weeks of Days plus 1 Week of Years.

• The First 69 Weeks of Days=69 Weeks x 7 Prophetic Days/Week=483 Prophetic Days or Biblical Years

• The Last 1 Week of Years=7 Years x 360 Prophetic Days/Year=2520 Prophetic Days or Biblical Years

A day in the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation means a year:

• 483 prophetic days=483 biblical years or 476 actual solar years (483x360/365)

• 2520 prophetic days=2520 biblical years or 2485 actual solar year (2520x360/365)

• According to the Book of Daniel, the mystery of the 70-Week Prophecy will be revealed at the appointed time. This is a brand-new way to view the prophecy as it progressed from 444 BC to 2042. IT IS ALL ABOUT THE MESSIAH, as written in Daniel 7:13 & 14, “The Son of Man (Messiah) came with the clouds of heaven…There was given to Him dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve Him: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”

  His First Coming was to redeem humanity from sin in AD 33 as predicted and precisely calculated using the first 69 short heptads (69 prophetic weeks or 476 years from 444 BC to 33). His Second Coming is to destroy evil permanently and bring everlasting righteousness to humanity in 2042 as predicted and precisely calculated using the last or the 70th long heptad (7 prophetic years or 2485 actual years from 444 BC to 2042).

  The mathematical expressions are so beautiful and captivating. They are woven seamlessly into other prophetic numbers (476, 1150, 1260, 1290, 1335, 2300, 2485, and 2520) written in Daniel and Revelation as the only Master Equation, God’s Prophetic Equation.

  Daniel 9:24: “70 heptads (or 70 sets of sevens) are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the transgression, and to put an end to sin,… and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision of prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”

  Only God can pull off these kinds of mathematical relationships among the equations with precise historical records to prove as illustrated on the Time Chart.

• 1260 days in Daniel and Revelation=1260 actual years. This period started from the “Abomination Caused Desolation or Abomination Setup” in 707 AD when the Al Aqsa Mosque was completed and progressed to 1967 when Israel recaptured both Jerusalem City and its Holy Temple during the 6-Day War (Daniel 12:7). The year 1967 marked the end of the 1260 years of the Gentiles Period (Mostly Islamic nations) Controlling Jerusalem and its Temple Mount (Revelation 12:6, 11:12, 12:14, and Daniel 7:25 & 12:7). During this period, the Dragon (Satan/Antichrist) tried to terminate the Jews, but God took them to other nations to stayaway from the Dragon for 1260 years (707-1967). Therefore, the Dragon turned back and persecuted the Christians instead. This is also the period during which the two witnesses (Judaism & Christianity) prophesied for 1260 years. See Sections 3.3 and 2.1 in the book for more details.

• 1150 days or 2300 numbers of evenings and mornings (2300 sacrifices/2 sacrifices per day=1150 days) or 1150 actual years from 444BC to 707. During this period, Greek and Rome desecrated the Temple of God, then demolished it and took away the daily burned offerings (Morning and Evening sacrifices). This desecration period went on until 707 when Islam placed the Al Aqsa Mosque on God’s Holy Temple site and made it permanently desolated for the final 1335 years (707 to 2042). See Section 2.2 for more details.

• 1335 days= 1335 actual years starting from the “Abomination Setup” in 707 AD and ending in 2042, the final year of Daniel’s 70-Week Prophecy. The “Abomination Setup or the Abomination of Desolation” refers to the completion of the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Jewish Holy Temple site in 707AD for worshipping Allah instead of Yahweh God of the Bible. See Section 2.4 for more details.

• 2485 Years = 1150 years + 1335 years. These two periods are in series and make up the total 2485 years of the entire prophecy. This independent calculation has the same result of 2485 years as calculated from the 70th Week or 70th Heptad above. See Section 2.6 for more details.

• If you assume the 7 years of the 70th Heptad to be 7 Islamic years and convert them to number of days, you will have a total of 2485 days (7 Islamic years x 355 days/Islamic year=2485 days). A day is a year in Daniel and Revelation; 2485 days are 2485 years. See Section 3.1 for more details.

• The three independent calculations above prove that the duration of the prophecy is 2485 actual years (444 BC to 2042). See the Time Chart in the book for more details.

• The Antichrist came in the “Midst” of the 70th heptad/week, or in the midst of 2485-Year Prophecy (Daniel 9:27). He placed the Aqsa Mosque on the Jewish Holy Temple Site in 707 AD which is in the midst of the long week/heptad or in the midst of the entire prophecy from 444BC to 2042 (444BC<707<2042). This caused the Temple Site to be desolated for 1335 years from 707 to 2042. According to Daniel 9:26-27, desolations and wars will be to the end (2042). It is impossible for the Jews to rebuild Jerusalem Temple. Rebuilding the Jewish Temple will trigger World War III for sure. See Section 3.1 for more details.

• This new interpretation of Daniel 70-Week Prophecy renders the traditional 7-Year Tribulation Theory incorrect. Therefore, there will be no more antichrist to come, no more seven years of tribulation, no more pre-trip or mid-trip rapture. The final trial for humanity will come as “The Day of the Lord or Judgment Day” as mentioned in the Bible. No one know when it will start and how long it will last, only God knows. God will protect those who keep His teachings during this trial period, and he will take them out at the appropriate time (Rev. 3:10 and 16:15).

• According to Daniel, One Can Calculate the End Year, Not the Day or the Hour as Jesus Mentioned:

  There is no place in the Bible written explicitly about the 7-Year Tribulation or the 7 actual final years. In 1894, Sir Robert Andersen published the book “The Coming Prince,” in which he miscalculated the 70-Heptad Prophecy and assumed each week (heptad) is a 7-year period. As a result, the 70 heptads became a total of 490 years, and the first 69 heptads became 483 years and ended in the year Jesus was crucified. His book also said that the last 7 years or the seventieth week (70th heptad) will occur in the future years, and there is a time gap in between the 69th heptad and the 70th heptad named the church’s age.  Based on the year the book was published, there was a time gap of at least 1861 years (1894-33AD) or greater inserted in between the 69th heptad and the 70th heptad that no one will ever figure out. Most evangelical Christians took this view and made it the traditional 7-Year Tribulation theory. This 7-Year Tribulation theory is incorrect; however, people are still able to predict the end year of the entire 70-Week Prophecy. For example, if one sees the rapture starting in 2025, he can calculate the end year by adding 7 more years (2025+7=2032). If those 7 years are 7 prophetic years (2485 actual years), as proven in Sections 2.5-2.6 of the book, the calculation will still be the same. Since 444BC is the actual starting year of the prophecy, the end year must be 2042AD (-444+2485) +1 for no zero year=2042). Therefore, Daniel’s 70-week prophecy is a calculable prophecy. Either way, it enables us to calculate the end year exactly, not the “day and the hour” as Jesus said.

   When describing time, especially in end-time prophecies, the Bible used specific words such as year, month, day, and hour. In Mathew 24:26 (ESV), Jesus said, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of Heaven, nor the son, but the Father only.” Jesus only mentioned the day and the hour, not the year. However, Daniel mentioned the appointed time many times, such as in Daniel 8:19: “For at the time (year) appointed the end shall be.”  Therefore, one can calculate the “appointed year” or “the appointed time” for each event described in Daniel and pinpoint the exact year in history for each of the 7 events to occur or to end, including the final year. According to the Book of Daniel, a time is a year, 7 times are 7 years, 1 time + 2 times + half time = 3.5 years. Every event has its own appointed time (year) in history; at the end time, these appointed years will be revealed by mathematical formulas prescribed in the Book of Daniel and Revelation, such as the ones shown in this book. Because of God’s love and righteousness, He will not hide the final year from the unbelievers; therefore, He has provided at least five calculations to pinpoint the final year of the 70-Week Prophecy (2042) and has given the last generations enough time to repent.

  Moreover, most skeptics think Bible prophecies are manmade and self-fulfilled because people read these prophecies and try to make them come true, such as the return of the Jews in 1948 after 2000 years in exile as prophesied in the Bible. They said this event was deliberately made to come true by the Zionists, the United Kingdom, and the UN and that it is unfair to the Palestinians. For this reason, Daniel’s 70-Week Prophecy did not provide any calculation or appointed time (year) for this particular event. Instead, Daniel used a different event happening in 1967, which is 19 years later, to complete the return story of the Jews. There are two calculations for 1967, the year in which Israel recaptured Jerusalem and its temple site. The year 1967 is much more important than the year 1948. Israel came home in 1948, but East Jerusalem and its holy Temple Mount were still in the hands of Gentiles, mostly Muslims. Israel, without Jerusalem and its temple, is like a body without a soul. Israel must take back Jerusalem and its temple to fulfill the prophecy of Daniel regarding the 1260-year period in which the Gentiles controlled Jerusalem and its temple site. The year 1967 is the second key to unlocking the entire 70-Week Prophecy (2485 years). Similarly, Year 33 AD is the first key to unlocking the first 69 weeks of the prophecy. The calculations for 33AD revealed a day is a year, which is the same as the calculations for 1697. Without 1967, no one can calculate and pinpoint that 707AD is the exact year in which the “Abomination is Setup” as documented by historical secular records. There are two calculations to prove about this year (see Sections 2.1 & 2.2). By the way, without 1967, no one could come up with the two crucial calculations to assure that 444 BC was the starting year of the 70-Week Prophecy. Both 1967 and 33AD also provided the two calculations to confirm that 444BC is God’s chosen year for the prophecy to start.

  The Bible also offered four different starting years for the prophecy (536BC, 520BC, 457BC, and 444BC), but only one (444BC) is chosen for all calculations to match perfectly with Daniel’s descriptions of the two sets of heptads and the years 33, 707, 1967, 1997, and 2042. All these events happened blindly many years ago in history before men figured out how to calculate them. Most of these events were accomplished by the enemies of the prophecy, not by Christians or friends of the prophecy, as seen in the case of the Year 1948, so no one can say the Christians made them come true. Surely, these 7 events will silence all critics because no one knew how to calculate these years in advance and force them to happen in the correct years they were appointed for. God saw these appointed years in advance and wrote them out in mathematical formulas so we could calculate them and be in awe of His power. No mortal man could have done so. Embrace them today and believe in the Bible because we don’t have much time left. The 70-Week Prophecy is all about the Temple and the Messiah. It provides the calculations to pinpoint the exact years associated with the 7 crucial events or the 7 periods regarding the Temple and the Messiah from 444BC to 2042. Jesus Christ is the Messiah and the Temple, as He said about His body before they crucified Him, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will restore it.” He is the Messiah and the temple that was destroyed and then rebuilt. He is also the most high priest who can take away sin and restore the broken relationship between God and men forever (Isaiah 52-53).

  As in the ancient days, when God rescued Noah and Lot from the flood and from the fire, He will rescue His church from the final Wrath of God coming down on earth to test those who are left behind. Revelation 3:10, “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.”

• No One Knows the Day and the Hour of the Rapture:

  If you disagree with the first view, you may consider this second view. Jesus was talking to His disciples about the rapture, not the end year of Daniel’s 70-Week Prophecy, because the rapture date was more relevant to them than the end year. He wanted His believers to be alert and ready at all times whenever He calls. Since there are no more 7 years of tribulation, the rapture day is the "Day of the Lord." The Day of the Lord is a secret day when the final Wrath of God will pour down on the people who are left behind, and no one knows that day.

  Jesus is God, as He said: "I and the Father are one" and "whoever sees me, sees the Father." If He is God, He must know the day and the hour. Why did Jesus say the opposite? Of course, Jesus told the truth because He left that date open for change. Mathew 24:22 mentions, “Because of the elect, those days will be shortened (changed).” Because of His tremendous love, He will "shorten" the final trial period or push back the rapture so that many will be saved. Another possibility is that the elect may have to go through the first part of the final trial before he takes them out. The final period is not a 7-year tribulation period as traditionally taught. It could be 3, 5, or 10 years, no one knows; only God knows.