Surprise of the Day

530 years before Jesus’s birth, the exact years Messiah would be born, begin his ministry, and die were predicted.

Daniel 9:24-27  –  Numbers 4:47  –  Ezra 1:1-2; 4:4-7  –  Haggai 1:1,14  –  Haggai 2:1  –   Ezra 6:13-15  –  Ezra 7:7-10  –  Nehamiah 3:16-32  –  Zechariah 6:11-13  –  Zechariah 6:11-13

Fact of the Day 

King Cyrus II – 550-530 BC – His 1st year (550 BC), he said BUILD THE TEMPLE (II Chronicles 36:22-23)

(King Cambyses II – 530-522 BC A different DARIUS, HIS COUSIN rules)

King Darius I:  522-486 BC In his 2nd year 520 BC, he said “RE-SUME rebuilding the Temple AND              START rebuilding  JERUSALEM  (Daniel 9:25)

Priests began public service at age 30 (Numbers 4:47)

PROPHECY FULFILLED

 520 BC Darius ordered Jerusalem rebuilt

  –30 years of age when Priests begin public ministry (Jesus’s age when he began his ministry)

-490 BC = 70 “wks” (after temple repairing resumed and  Jerusalem rebuilt) (The year Jesus began his public ministry)

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BUT

493 BC = 62 “wks” x 7  +  49 “wks” 

 -3  1/2  years = the middle of one week, one 7 

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490 BC    (Jesus began his public ministry)

460 years (490 years – 30 years of age) The year Jesus was born