Question: You know how in the date in the proofs for Jesus the 70 years are broken down to 7, 62, & 1? Well we need all 490 years to get to the crucifixion, right? What does it mean in Dan. 9:26 where it says “after sixty two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off”. Doesn’t it look like the “cut off” is the crucifixion? How does that relate to the beginning of John’s ministry in 27 AD (408bc-434yrs= 27ad)? In other words, the 62 weeks (434 years) doesn’t get us to 34 AD, we need the last week (7 years), but verse 26 makes it look like the crucifixion (”shall be cut off”) happens “after sixty two weeks”, see? I’m trying to explain this to an evangelist,but i can’t explain it to myself right now (duh). I could use an answer ASAP.

An answer: The point at which the “cut off” occurs is after the 62 week period. It is at the end of the last week that “the annointed one” is “cut off”. Of course it is true that John the baptists ministry took up half that week and that Jesus finished his mission beginning in the second half of that last week. So, it’s 7, 62 and 1 with one being the final week which comes after the 62nd week and is the week in which “the annointed one” is “cut off”. We recognize that He was “cut off” at the end of the week and the prophecy doesn’t say that he “shall be cut off” directly after the end of the 62 week period but only states “after” the end of the 62 week period. Anyone can then see that the point after the 62 week period is the end of the final week (also given in prophecy) which has an exact begining and end. How fitting that the crashing finale at the end of the final week making up the 70 weeks would be the crucifixion. The way the whole thing is worded gives the impure some wiggle room so that they may easily hang themselves not realizing of course that it is by “their own petard” they are hung. In this instance you could say their “stinking thinking” hung them as that is what smells (the definition of petard is “fart”).

Its interesting that the prophecies rely on parts of the other prophecies to reveal the actual meanings behind them. For instance, the Great Pyramid gives the date for Jesus in mathematical language. In that portrayal His mission ends at a precise point in the passage way of the GP saying nothing about the end of a 62nd week, but only after showing the point of His birth, the first of the week and the middle of the week.

The gist of this is that people who are not sincere, and do not study the whole message included in the firesides and don’t deepen afterwards and do not continually “strive with God” along the way to get the whole picture wander back into the numbing thickets of Babylon where it is likely they will stay to the bloody end. Jesus won’t be coming to a location in the sky near anyone and similarly flying monkeys won’t be coming out of the dark place on the anatomy of the wicked witch.See how this note is completely ruined by the mention of flying monkeys? Why did I have to do that? Can’t do anything about it now though. Or can I? We can all see through that too. Read on.

While in the embrace of superstition we don’t see how a thought is just a thought and that with some work it can easily be changed by meditating on it to make it a better thought or to erase it completely. To our sensibilities then the thoughts given by superstitious wise ones are like the rock, seemingly immutable, inviolable. When we think thoughts in opposition to the edicts (which we believe come from God) of our wise ones we begin to feel guilty and believing we are weak (against which our education affords us no defense) and we make corrections so that our lukewarm embrace of the errant utterances of our wise ones heats up and we are suddenly in the grip of rabid fanaticism as someone who embraces the truth attempts to reason with us and then begins the flood of flying monkeys.

Reg