DANIEL 12:4 - DANIEL'S BOOK UNSEALED

DANIEL 9:24-27 - THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE TRIBULATION

"Seventy weeks (literally: seventy sevens of years) are determined upon thy people (Daniel's people were the Jews) and upon thy holy city (Jerusalem), 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.  Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks (seven sevens of years), and threescore and two weeks (sixty-two sevens of years): the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.  And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off (Christ was crucified for our sins - 1 Cor. 15:3), but not for Himself (Christ was sinless - Heb. 4:15): and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary (the Antichrist - he will be from the territory ruled by Rome, in that, it was Rome which crucified Christ, and destroyed Jerusalem approximately forty years later - A.D. 70); and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.  And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week (one seven): and in the midst of the week (three and a half years; a time, times, and half a time - Dan. 7:35; 12:7; Rev. 12:14; 42 months - Rev. 11:2; 13:5; 1260 days - Rev. 11:3; 12:6) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate (Dan. 11:31; 12:11; Mt. 24:15; Rev. 13:1-18), even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

So, from the command to go rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple (Neh. 2:1-10), to the crucifixion of Israel's Messiah (Mt. 27:35; Mk. 15:24; Lk. 23:33; Jn. 19:18; etc.), would be 483 years - 49 years to rebuild, and 434 years from the completion of the Temple to the death, burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Mt. 28:1-10; Mk. 16:1-11; Lk. 24:1-12; Jn. 20:1-18; Acts 2:24; 13:33; etc.).  For Israel, one seven-year period remains - the Tribulation.  The parenthetical gap between the Resurrection of Jesus and His Second Coming, includes the Church Age (from Pentecost to the Rapture of the Church - Acts 2:41; Jn. 14:1-3; 1 Cor. 15: 48-54; 1 Th. 4:16-17; etc.) plus the seven-year Tribulation (Daniel's Seventieth Week; also known as "the Time of Jacob's Trouble - Jer. 30:7).  It is not clear whether or not the Tribulation immediately follows the Rapture or removal of the Church.  The Tribulation is described in chapters six through eighteen (see also Mt. 24:3-29).