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"The going forth of the
commandment" Dan 9:25 50
VII (12) "The going forth of the Commandment" Dan.9.25
50.VII.(12) ________________________________________________________
On
"received" dates this commandment is generally assumed to be
the decree of Cyrus, & it's date 536 B.C.
The date in Charts 50. VI & VII.5, is 454 B.C. for the
following reasons: 1) It falls in the alst year of Nebuchadnezzar's
"madness". Asteiages,
his brother-in-law, (See Ap.58) acting on his behalf; at the instance of
Nehemiah, (Chaps. 1&2) issues the decree to build JERUSALEM.
(Asteiages = the Ahasuerus of Esther = the Artaxerxes
of Neh. 1 = Darius the Median of Dan.5.31 = Ahasaerus of
Dan.9.1. (See the note on
50 VII.5.) 2) The eyar 454 marks the close of 42 (7 x 6) years of the 70 of
the Babylonian Servitude leaving 28 (7 x 4) years still to run.
The Babylonian dynasty and the "Servitude" end together
in 426 B.C., & the date is marked by the decree of Cyrus, the son of
Asteiages & Esther; to rebuild the TEMPLE, in the same year that
"Darius the Median (his father Asteiages) took the Kingdom (being)
about threescored & two years old." (Dan.5.31) 3) The "Seven Sevens", it will be seen (Charts 50 VI
& VII.5) begin with the "going forth of the commandment"
of Asteiages (to Nehemiah) in 454 B.C., and end with the dedication of
the Second Temple in 405 B.C., in the 6th y. of Darius Hystaspis. The "Sixty two Sevens" then commence &
close with the "cutting off of the Messiah" in A.D. 29.
It will be noted that the Babylonian "Servitude" ends
at the 4th "Seven."
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