SYNOPSIS: Daniel prays a collective prayer of repentance after contemplating a prophecy of Jeremiah – Daniel 9:1-23.
The “first year” of Darius the Mede locates the vision of the “Seventy Weeks” in approximately 538 to 537 B.C. This is the same period when Babylon fell to the “kingdom of the Medes and Persians,” as well as the release of the Jewish exiles from Babylon by the decree of Cyrus the Great (536 B.C. – 2 Chronicles 36:22-23, Ezra 1:1-11). Continue reading “Seventy Weeks – Prayer and Visitation”
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