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Daniel’s “Seventy Weeks” 41

As we can see, the history of the children of Israel began and ended with a probationary pe-
riod of 40 years. The first period of 40 years’ probation began with the sacrifice of the Passover
lamb in Egypt; the second began with the antitype, the sacrifice of Yeshua the Messiah -- the true
Passover Lamb. At the close of the first of those periods YEHOVAH God brought the children of
Israel into the land He had promised to their fathers. At the close of the second He drove them out of
that land and scattered them among all the nations of the world.

There is one -- and only one -- continuous line of dated events in the Bible. It extends from
the creation of Adam to the resurrection of the Messiah, and includes in it the prophecies of Daniel
and the period of the Persian kings. Without this Divine historical guideline important events in the
Bible narrative can be misconstrued and placed in the wrong context. Instead of relying on man-
made chronologies we should look to YEHOVAH God’s Word for the TRUE time line that cor-
rectly unravels the prophecies of His servants.

King Cyrus signs the decree permitting the Jews to
return from Babylon and rebuild Jerusalem.

The Berean Voice March-April 2003