Daniel #46 Six Events God Has Determined to Occur in the Seventy Weeks #1

The single most important three days in all of history are the three days in which the Lord of glory was
crucified, buried, and raised from the dead on behalf of His people. God's eternal plan for history from the
point of creation either points forward to those three days in the ministry of Christ or points back to those
three days in the victory of Christ over the curse of sin, the miseries of this life, death, Satan, and hell. That is
when the glory of God's justice in punishing sin and the glory of God's mercy in atoning for sin was realized.
The Old Testament prophets prophesied numerous times of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection (the Seed
of the woman, the Seed of Abraham, all of the sacrifices of the Old Testament, Isaiah 53). This also is the
theme of Daniel 9:24-27.
I submit that when a system of prophetic interpretation does not include in the 70 weeks (490 years) of Daniel
9 the most important three days in all of history (and in Israel's history)—the three days which are the very
foundation of salvation for Jew and Gentile alike and for Israel and all the nations of the earth in the future,
but rather consigns those three days to a gap or parenthesis in history—such a system of interpretation should
be viewed with skepticism and rejected.