"Seventy weeks [of years, or 490 years] are decreed upon your people and upon your holy city [Jerusalem]...to bring in everlasting righteousness (permanent moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation)..." [Dan.9:24][AMP]

The Jewish people and the city of Jerusalem, are the Lord's time clock that reveals to us where we are on the Lord's Timeline.

The 490 Years are split into 3 separate time periods.

49 Years + 434 Years + 7 Years = 490 Years

The city of Jerusalem was completely destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC.

Jeremiah had prophesied that Israel would remain in captivity in Babylon for 70 Years, and Jerusalem would remain a desolate city for that length of time.

"And this whole land shall be a waste and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years." [Jeremiah 25:11]

Daniel was just a teenager when he was taken to Babylon, and by the time the 70 Years was almost up he was around 85 Years old! 

He already knew about Jeremiah's prophecy and decided to pray for his people, and the city of Jerusalem around 539 BC. 

"...I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of years which, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass by before the desolations [which had been] pronounced on Jerusalem should end; and it was seventy years. And I set my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer..." [Daniel 9:2,3][AMP]

The Lord heard Daniel's prayer, and sent the Angel Gabriel to him, to show him the Timeline of two restorations of Jerusalem, and as a consequence, the Year [1 AD] of the Lord's 1st coming as a baby, born of a virgin, and the Year [6000 AD] of His 2nd coming in the heavens, to gather up His saints!

"Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until [the coming of] the Anointed One, a Prince, shall be seven weeks [of (49) years] and sixty-two weeks [of (434) years]; it shall be built again with [city] square and moat, but in troublous times." [Daniel 9:25][AMP]

Artaxerxes became king in 454 BC. 

Twenty Years into his reign brings us to 434 BC!

In Month 1, Year 434 BC, king Artaxerxes issued the commandment for the restoration and building of Jerusalem!

For we read,

"In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence."

"So the king said to me, Why do you look sad, since you are not sick? ...And said to the king, Let the king live forever! Why should I not be sad faced when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchers, lies waste, and its [fortified] gates are consumed by fire?" 

"The king said to me, For what do you ask? So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to [him], If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you will send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ sepulchers, that I may rebuild it...And a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest or park, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple and for the city wall..." [Neh. 2:1-5,8][AMP]

"Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until [the coming of] the Anointed One, a Prince shall be...sixty-two weeks [of [434] years]

The above verse is referring to the Lord's 1st Coming!

We count down from 434 BC [62 weeks] to 1 BC then to 1 AD.

There is no Year 0!

In 1 AD The Lord Jesus Christ, the Anointed One, a Prince, was born to a virgin, by the name of Mary!

Daniel was then told,

"...after the sixty-two weeks [of (434) years] shall the Anointed One be cut off or killed and shall have nothing [and no one] belonging to [and defending] Him." [Daniel 9:26][AMP]

This is exactly what happened, for on Day 14 Month 1 Year 33 AD [Friday the 3rd of April 33], the Lord was crucified!

The Lord rose from the dead on Day 16 Month 1 Year 33 [Sunday the 5th of April 33 AD].

Then the Lord ascended up into heaven a few weeks later, from where He poured out His Holy Spirit, on the Day of Pentecost.

The Holy Spirit is God's gift to all those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Lord and God.

In 33 AD, the city of Jerusalem continued to exist for another 37 Years until it was completely destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.

"And the [Roman] people of the [other] prince [Pope Francis] who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood; and even to the end there shall be war, and desolations are decreed." [Dan.9:26][AMP]

Now this is where things really begin to get interesting!

"Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until [the coming of] the Anointed One, a Prince, shall be seven weeks [of (49) years] and sixty-two weeks [of (434) years]; it shall be built again with [city] square and moat, but in troublous times." [Daniel 9:25][AMP]

Most Bible scholars that have studied the above verse tend to add seven weeks [49 Years] to sixty two weeks [434 Years] to arrive at a total of sixty nine weeks [483 Years].

This is wrong because the angel Gabriel told Daniel that the Anointed One will be killed after sixty-two weeks [434 Years] and not after sixty nine weeks [483 Years]!

"...after the sixty-two weeks [of (434) years] shall the Anointed One be cut off or killed and shall have nothing [and no one] belonging to [and defending] Him." [Daniel 9:26][AMP]

I believe the angel Gabriel was revealing to Daniel that the city of Jerusalem was to be restored a second time, in our generation, after it was destroyed in 70 AD!

The 2nd restoration of Jerusalem occurred within the 49 Years that precedes the 120th Jubilee Year we're in now!

From the 27th of September 1965 to the 4th of October 2014, we were living within the 7 Week [49 Years] part of Daniel's 70 Week Prophecy!

The 120th Jubilee Year [6000], began on Day 10 Month 7 Year 6000 [5th October 2014] 

We are NOW in the 120th Jubilee Year since creation! 

This is the Year within which the Lord will come from heaven, to give us solid spiritual bodies that will never age or become diseased or sick!

"...we are citizens of heaven, and it is from there that we expect a Deliverer, the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. He will change the bodies we have in this humble state and make them like his glorious body, using the power which enables him to bring everything under his control." [Phil.3:20,21]

The 120th Jubilee Year will end on Day 30 Month 6 Year 6000 [15th September 2015]

Then Daniel's last week [of 7 Years] will begin!

49 Years + 434 Years + 7 Years = 490 Years

This will be from Day 1 Month 7 Year 6001 [16th September 2015]

I believe, by this time, offerings and animal sacrifices will once again be permitted on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem!

"And he [Pope Francis] shall enter into a strong and firm covenant with the many for one week [seven years]. And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and offering to cease [for the remaining three and one-half years]; and upon the wing or pinnacle of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate, until the full determined end is poured out on the desolator." [Daniel 9:27]

From the 16th of September 2015 the prince [Pope Francis] will confirm a 7 Year covenant with Israel to allow worship on the Temple Mount.

42 Months after the 7 Year covenant begins, by the 6th of February 2019 [Day 30 Month 11 Year 6004], Pope Francis will stop all burnt offerings and animal sacrifices from taking place on the Temple mount! 

Then from the 7th of February 2019 [Day 1 Month 12 Year 6004] Pope Francis himself will sit in the newly built temple, as God!

For he,

"...exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." [2 Thess.2:4]

God's final Judgement will be poured out for the remaining 42 months!

After 40th Months of Judgement, on the 3rd of April 2022 [Day 1 Month 1 Year 6007] the Lord's Millennium Reign will begin! 

3 Months later, on the 30th of June 2022 [Day 30 Month 3 Year 6007], God's Judgement will be completed.

This brings Daniel's 70 Week Prophecy to an end!