n for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the
commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the
Prince shall be seven weeks, and three score and two weeks: the street
shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after
the three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for
himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the
city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and
unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm
the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he
shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

There are three distinct periods of time here indicated. First: Seventy
weeks between the time of the vision, and the age of "everlasting
righteousness" and anointing of the most Holy; or, from the time of the
vision, to the earthly kingdom of Christ, which is yet future. Second:
Sixty-nine weeks; beginning to reckon from the same time, or from the
command of the King of Babylon to restore Jerusalem, and continuing unto
the death of Christ, which is referred to as the "cutting off of the
Messiah." And lastly: One week, for the overspreading of abomination and
that which is determined to be poured upon the desolate.

History fortunately interprets the time here indicated: for, from the
command of the King to rebuild Jerusalem, to the death of Christ was 483
years, or sixty-nine weeks of seven years each. This leaves but the one
additional week of the seventy before the bringing in of the everlasting
righteousness. That one week is here described as the time of most
terrible desolation and overspreading of abomination, when the people
are under a covenant with another prince. This present age is as a
parenthesis in Jewish history and, as no account is made of it in these
reckonings, the last unfulfilled week (seven years) of the seventy,
before the kingdom is established upon the earth, must be the time
between the gathering out of the Church--an event which completes the
purpose of this parenthetical age--and the final bringing in of the
kingdom.

The last period of seven yea