Articles: What is Daniel's Seventy Week Prophecy?

God's program for Israel is 70 weeks of 7 years each, or 490 years.

Daniel 9:24-27

These years are divided into 3 sections:

1. 7 weeks of 49 years- return of the Jews from Babylon and the rebuilding of Jerusalem [v. 24].

2. 62 weeks of 434 years- covers the rebuilding until Calvary. Total so far is 483 years. Between the 69th week and the 70th week has been a period of 2,000 years called the church age [v. 25-26].

3. 1 week of 7 years is the tribulation period. It does not begin until the Anti-Christ confirms the covenant after the rapture (Dan 9:27).

The church is not in Dan 9:24-27.