Those  “Certain”  Years  And  Days Of  ‘Daniel’s People’

 

 

Part Two

 

 

 

“About The Times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.”

Sir Isaac Newton, 1643-1727

 

 

 

“For I dipped into the Future, far as human eye could see, saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1842

 

 

 

“And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.  But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal. And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.”

Leviticus 19:23-25   KJV

 

 

 

“And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.”

II Kings 19:30-31

 

 

 

“And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.”

Ezra 7: 25  KJV

 

 

After previously laying the foundation for the concept that the Holy Spirit superimposed Daniel’s ’70 weeks’ upon Israel’s Sabbatical cycle, and in recognition that the ’70 weeks’ of years are 490 literal years, we now can begin to arrive at the date that the Lord intended for the beginning of Daniel’s important prophecy.  The definition of ‘years’ used here is that of the nation of Israel, i.e. their years,  that begin in the month of Tishri, as the Bible commands for the counting of Sabbatical and Jubilee years.

 

 

Because of the necessary imposition of the Sabbatical cycle upon this prophecy,  and the fact  that 490 years equals ten Jubilee cycles of 49 years each, it is therefore an absolute fact that Daniel’s prophecy must BEGIN and must END in a 49th year !

 

 

***An important fact to remember :  Since ALL 490 years of the prophecy of Daniel 9, were given to the nation of Israel under the dispensation of LAW, and the 483rd year was completed at the end of the 69th Sabbatical cycle on Tishri 1, 3787, then the remaining 7 years must also be completed within the dispensation of LAW!  And, this will indeed be the  case, as Jesus already fulfilled the first 3.5 years of the last 7 years of the prophecy in which both He and the ‘years’ were cut-off at the Cross in the 486.5th year, which leaves the remaining 3.5 years to be fulfilled by the believing remnant of the Jews, after the close of the Day of Grace, and the resurrection/rapture of the true saints of the Church Age,  before the opening of the FIRST half of the 7 years of Tribulation, which will then return under the dispensation of LAW.

 

 

Daniel 9 is concerned about the time period in which the earthly sanctuary would be the center of worship with a return to the keeping of the Law of God and of Moses.

 

 

Daniel was told in 9:25 in the KJV…”Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince…” In other Bible versions, the word “commandment” is “decree” in this passage, and there are definitely three decrees that come into view with a ‘return to Jerusalem.’   The word decree in Hebrew is dabar  which means "word, speaking, speech."

 

 

The first decree was a proclamation in Ezra 1, at the exact end of the 70 years of the Babylonian captivity…”Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom…and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah…. Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.”  Notice that this decree directed the rebuilding of the Temple. 

 

 

Bishop Ussher dates Nebuchadnezzar’s FIRST deportation of Judah, beginning with King Jehoiakim in II Chronicles 36:6 as 607 b.c.  70 literal years later was the date of 537 b.c.  There are 564 consecutive years between 27 a.d. which was Jewish year 3787, and 537 b.c.  Therefore, 537 b.c. was Jewish year 3223.   (3787 minus 564 =  3223).  By counting back consecutively by 7’s from the majority Sabbatical year of 27 a.d. (3787) we can know that 540 b.c (Jewish year 3220) was the closest Sabbatical year to 537 b.c.  In fact, from the beginning of that Sabbatical year in Tishri of 541 b.c.,  3.5 years later was the spring of 537 b.c. (Jewish year 3223) or 3223.5 which was the exact MIDDLE OF SEVEN, and the MIDDLE of that Sabbatical cycle. 

 

 

We are not told in II Chronicles or in II Kings which month Nebuchadnezzar first took Jehoiakim captive.  However, since Jeremiah’s prophecy was for 70 literal years, and since II Samuel 11:1 says that “after the year was expired, at the time kings go forth to battle,” (which would have been at the beginning of Nisan, because after Exodus 12:1, all biblical dating is on the Sacred calendar, from Nisan to Nisan), I believe the Babylonian captivity actually began in the spring of 606 b.c. (which would have been 607.5 b.c.) Again by counting back 70 consecutive years, the spring of 606.b.c. would have been Jewish year 3153 or 3153.5 (which had began in Tishri of 607 b.c.)   By counting back consecutively from the majority Sabbatical year of 540 b.c., (Jewish year 3220) we can know that 610 b.c. was Jewish year 3150, (which divides equally by 7) and was indeed a majority Sabbatical year.  Since Jewish year 3153.5 was the spring of 607.5 b.c., and 3153.5 divides equally by 3.5, this also proves that year was indeed in the MIDDLE of a Sabbatical cycle.

 

 

An extremely important point emerges here: …The Jews were taken captive by Babylon in the MIDDLE of SEVEN and they were set free from that captivity in the MIDDLE of SEVEN !

 

 

But, the angel Gabriel did NOT say “from the going forth of the commandment to REBUILD THE TEMPLE...”

 

 

After the return of the people into Judah with the priests, Zerubbabel and Yeshua, Ezra 3:1-2 says: “And when the seventh month was come,…and (they) builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.” Please note that the Jews began their return to sacrifices with only an altar, BEFORE the foundation of the Temple was even laid two years later in Ezra 3:10.  Trouble began to arise with the attempt at temple building and Ezra 4: 4-5, says the following:  “Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.”  The beginning work on the Temple was stopped from 534 b.c. until the second year of the reign of Darius I.  Ezra 4:24 says:  “Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.”

 

 

The whole theme of the book of Haggai deals with the Lord’s disgust directed towards His people because of the fact that they had all built their own houses but had neglected work on “His house” which had ceased !

 

 

Ezra 6 talks of the second decree, that of King Darius I.  Verses 11-2 say: “Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this. And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.”

 

 

A majority of scholars agree that the date of the ‘second year’ of King Darius I was 520 b.c.  Counting back consecutively from the majority Sabbatical year of 27 a.d. (Jewish year 3787) by 7’s,  brings one to 519 b.c., which was a majority Sabbatical year, and is confirmed by scholars who study Sabbatical years.  519 b.c. was Jewish year 3241. That Sabbatical year began in Tishri of 520 b.c. which opened the Jewish year 3241.

 

 

The O.T. books of Haggai and Zechariah are the two most exact dated books in all of Scripture.  Haggai 1: 1 begins with the words: “In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month...”  We know the sixth month, the first day would have been Elul 1, Jewish year 3240, 29 days before the ‘turn of the (civil)  year’ on Tishri 1, of New Year 3241.  From the first verse of Haggai 2, thru the end of the book, all verses were written in the Jewish Sabbatical year of 3241 !

 

 

Zechariah 1:1 says:  “In the eight month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord….” We know this eight month would have been Heshvan, after the turn of the New Year, Jewish year 3241.  Therefore, the first six chapters of Zechariah were written in the Jewish Sabbatical year of 3241, 519 b.c.!

 

 

Because we know that the “second year of Darius” was within the beginning of the Sabbatical cycle which started on Tishri 1, 520 b.c. (Jewish year 3241), 3.5/4 years later would have been “the sixth year of Darius” and indeed, this is confirmed by verse 15 of Ezra 6.  “And this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.”

 

 

Therefore, THE BUILDING OF THE SECOND TEMPLE  WAS COMPLETED IN THE MIDDLE OF SEVEN, which was in THE MIDDLE of a Sabbatical cycle in Adar of 515 b.c., the spring of Jewish year 3244 (3244.5).

 

 

But, the angel Gabriel did NOT say “from the going forth of the commandment to RESTART THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE...”

 

 

The fourth and final ‘return to Jerusalem’ involved that of Nehemiah, but there was NO ‘decree’ as such  issued for his return.   Nehemiah had received word from Hanani, who had come from Jerusalem back to Babylon, to report in Nehemiah 1: 3:  “And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.”   After much prayer to the Lord concerning this grave matter, in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes, the king noticed the very sad face of Nehemiah, his cupbearer. In 2:2, the king asked Nehemiah if he was sick and Nehemiah became “very sore afraid.”  He replied to the king in verse 3: “And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?”  Then Nehemiah made this request to the king in verse 5:  “And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.”  Artaxerxes asked how long the trip would take and then he agreed to Nehemiah’s return…” So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.”

 

 

Then Nehemiah asked king Artaxerxes for “letters” to be given to him granting safe passage, and for a letter written to Asaph the keeper of the forest, in verses 7-9.  Please note…there is NO decree given, only the King’s permission for Nehemiah to return ….” If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah; And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me. Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters.”

 

 

Most scholars date Nehemiah’s return to Jerusalem between 445 b.c. to 444 b.c.  Counting forward consecutively from majority Sabbatical year 519 b.c. by 7’s,  brings one to majority Sabbatical year  449 b.c., Jewish year 3311, exactly 70 years from 519 b.c. Ussher dates Artaxerxes’ letters as Nisan of 445 b.c., Jewish year 3314, which had begun in Tishri of 446 b.c.   Therefore, the spring of 445 b.c. was Jewish year 3314.5, which was the exact MIDDLE OF SEVEN and the MIDDLE of that Sabbatical cycle.

 

 

But, the angel Gabriel did NOT say “from the going forth of the commandment to REBUILD THE BROKEN DOWN WALL, NOR THE GATES, NOR THE TEMPLE...”

 

 

You will have noted by this time that the “two returns” just noted, commanded by Cyrus and Darius, and the return of Nehemiah with letters written by Artaxerxes, were all accomplished IN THE MIDDLE OF SEVEN, in the MIDDLE of a Sabbatical cycle, not at the beginning of a Sabbatical cycle, a ‘7th’  year,  and of course, surely not in a 49th year.

 

 

Now we come to the return of Ezra, which is listed third in order in Scripture.  Remember, that the angel Gabriel’s key words to Daniel as the beginning date of the 490 years…”from the going forth of the commandment TO RESTORE and rebuild Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince….”

 

 

For some background on Ezra, from Bible Teaching Notes.com: 

 

The first introduction to Ezra’s priestly pedigree was is Ezra chapter 7. “This was an important matter to the Jews because it linked Ezra with Aaron, Israel’s first chief priest, thus establishing Ezra’s authenticity and credibility.  Although greatly abbreviated, Ezra’s genealogy is a ‘who’s who’ of important priests in Hebrew history.  God used a man named Ezra to set the people back on course.  Ezra was a man who was prepared for what God had prepared for him.  He was a man prepared for a purpose.  Ezra 7:6 tells us of Ezra’s qualifications and the decree, which authorized his return to Jerusalem.  Ezra’s priestly pedigree, preparation and piety gave him the credibility and uniquely qualified him to do God’s work.  Notice that Ezra was an expert in the Mosaic Law.  He was an interpreter and teacher of the Law who had been trained to the point of proficiency.  The Jewish historian Josephus tells us of Ezra’s piety.  Josephus wrote that Ezra enjoyed a reputation in society for his integrity and the high qualities of his character. Ezra 7: 7-10 is a summary statement of Ezra’s journey from Babylon to Jerusalem.  Ezra 7:10 reveals the key to Ezra’s success in life and in service. Notice that Ezra set his heart “to study the law of the Lord.” The word “study” means “to seek.”  Ezra put forth effort to study God’s Word.  Notice also that Ezra was determined to “practice” what he had learned through his study of God’s Word.  Ezra was a doer of the Word.  He translated his discoveries into deed! Ezra was also determined to teach God’s Word in Israel.  The  order  is important:  Study, practice, and then teach!”  [end of quote]

 

 

Ezra 7: 12-14 says:  “Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.  I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellers, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;”

 

 

“Ezra 7:11-26 is a record of the decree of King Artaxerxes.  This decree spelled out the scope of Ezra’s power and purpose.  First, it authorized the return of Ezra, and any Jews who wanted to accompany him to Jerusalem.  Second, it authorized Ezra to investigate the state of affairs among the Jews in Judah.  Third, the decree provided for the needs of the Temple.  Fourth, Ezra was authorized to obtain whatever else he needed for the Temple at the expense of the royal treasury. Fifth, those who worked in the Temple were granted a tax-exempt status.  Finally, Ezra was authorized to set up both a judicial and educational system” [end of quote]

 

 

Ezra the priest, Ezra the scribe was authorized to RESTORE JERUSALEM AND ITS PEOPLE!

 

 

How can we truly determine the date of King Artaxerxes’ decree to Ezra to calculate if indeed, this would fulfill the requirements of the angel Gabriel’s instructions?

 

 

First:  from dedication.www3.50megs.com/456.html:

 

Quote:  “Historians compare many things in history to make up a historical calendar we can relate to. One of the more reliable ways is to compare the Egyptian calendar with the Ptolemy's Canon or history record. The Egyptian's did not adjust their calendar. They had exactly 365 days in each year and didn't seem to worry if the calendar got ahead of the stars. Sir Isaac Newton studying this historical evidence concluded that Ezra took the Artaxerxes' decree to Jerusalem in 457 B.C. This was placed in the margin of the King James Version in 1701.”  [end of quote]

 

 

The Holy Spirit gives us clues to the answer of this question.  First, Ezra 7:7-8 says: “And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.”

 

 

A majority of scholars agree that the ‘Artaxerxes’ of Ezra was the Persian king Artaxerxes I, who was also known as ‘Longimanus.’  It is a documentable, historical fact that his father, King Xerxes, was King Ahasuerus of the book of Esther.  King Xerxes died in December of 465 b.c.  At the time his son Artaxerxes I came to the throne, the Persians determined the year of their kings’ reign from spring to spring.  The months preceding the first spring of their reign were considered to be the ‘ascension year.’

 

 

restoredcog/articles/witswo.html says the following: 

 

“According to the Jews, the first year of Artaxerxes’ reign was from September, 464 b.c., to the following September, 463 b.c.  Yet, Artaxerxes actually ascended to the throne in late December, 465 b.c.  This means that the seventh year of Artaxerxes’ reign would have taken place from about September, 458 until September, 457 b.c.  Since the trip of Ezra and his company took five months to complete and they arrived at Jerusalem during the fifth month (Ezra 7:8), therefore, the return still would have fallen within the seventh year of Artaxerxes’ reign.” [end of quote]

 

 

“Basically, from 536 b.c. to 457 b.c., the Israelites were a struggling group of people with no real government, city or well-defined country.  They built themselves houses and managed to build a temple.  It wasn’t until Artaxerxes came to the throne in 464 b.c. that we actually see them rebuilding the city.  It was during Artaxerxes reign that the adversaries (on the other side of the River Euphrates) appealed to legislation to stop Israel, for they were ‘building a rebellious and evil city.’ 

 

 

So we see Ezra receiving his decree from Artaxerxes in 457 b.c. (in the seventh year of  Artaxerxes).  The decree gives further help in establishing the temple, but it also gives Israel the right to self-government.  Up until 457 b.c., the leaders in Judea were no more than county commissioners. They could look after local problems but they did not have judicial or executive authority.  Now they did!  They could set up their own magistrates and judges to carry out their laws.  Now, they were recognized as a nation.  This is why this decree is so important to the reestablishment of Jerusalem!“ [end of quote]

Bible Teaching Notes.com

 

 

In recent years scholarly study has produced ten pieces of evidence for the sabbatical cycle in postexilic times.  Plotting these particular years on a graph, they have extrapolated the placement of each sabbatical year for the era of the second Temple.  On this basis, it can now be determined that 457 b.c., 27 a.d. and 34 a.d. (of the 70-weeks prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27) were sabbatical years (see William H. Shea, “Unity of Daniel,” Symposium on Daniel [ Washington, D.C.: Biblical Research Institute, 1986], pp. 226, 252-255).

 

 

Truly, Ezra the scribe, was the appointed man, in the appointed year, sent under the appointed decree, issued by the appointed King, to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, which would mark the beginning date in which to calculate the EXACT year that Y’shua the Messiah would come to the nation of Israel to begin His ministry!

 

 

Just as Daniel was beseeching the Lord in his humble prayer for forgiveness of Israel’s national sin in Daniel 9:5-6…”We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:  Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land”…of course the Lord already had in mind the pious and holy man Ezra, who would attempt to restore the city of Jerusalem and its people back to the faith of their fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!

 

 

One final word about the biblical text which reveals the divine decree which begins the wonderful count of the ’70 weeks’:  one cannot escape noting the 7’s and factors of 7 contained in it:

 

1.                  Ezra’s decree and departure from Babylon with his company is found in the 7th chapter and the 7th verse. 

2.                  This event occurred in the 7th year of King Artaxerxes’ reign

3.                  King Artaxerxes had 7 advisors.

4.                  The ‘restoration of Jerusalem and its people  began in a 7x7th year- a 49th year

 

 

Also, from Ezra 5:13 to Ezra 7:21:  in the KJV and the NASB, the word ‘decree’ is used a total of 9 times.  Also, in both versions, the word ‘decree’ is only used regarding Ezra, never regarding Nehemiah.  

 

 

In Part  One of this paper, it was shown how the attempted invasion by king Sennacherib, ‘the Assyrian’ is historically documented in Jewish history as having taken place in the majority Sabbatical year of 701 b.c.  And, it was pointed out that because this is recounted in II Kings 18/19, in which God told king Hezekiah…”this shall be a sign unto you” and then proceeded to reiterate His own provision principle of ‘four years’ from the 6th year, which is the law of the Jubilee Year, that this provides strong evidence that 701 b.c. was not only a 7th year but was also a 49th year, the beginning of a Jubilee Year!

 

 

Since the Sabbatical year of 701 b.c. (Jewish year 3059) began in Tishri of 702 b.c., counting forward consecutively by 7’s, one comes right to Tishri of 457 b.c. (Jewish year 3304) which is exactly 245 years.  245 years equals 5 Jubilee cycles of 49 years.  Therefore, 456 b.c. was not only the majority Sabbatical year but was also a 49th year!   Because of this fact, the beginning of the prophecy of Daniel’s ’70 weeks’ began in a 49th year!  After the passage of ten additional Jubilee cycles, the ’70 weeks’ will come to end for ‘Thy People, Daniel” in another 49th year, which will be the final 490th year of the prophecy!

 

 

Now that we know the beginning date of Daniel’s wonderful prophecy, let’s begin to decode the ‘puzzle’:

 

1.         Verse 25:  “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…”

                                    7 x 7 years  = 49 years

 

 

From 457/456 b.c.  +  49 years  =  408/407 b.c.   a 49th year

 

 

Seven ‘weeks’ or 49 years, a Jubilee cycle, forward from 457/456 b.c. (Jewish year 3304) brings us to another documentable, historical date, that of 408/407 b.c. (Jewish year 3353).  Historians have found a preserved, written documented dated 408 b.c.

 

 

From  newadvent.org/cathen/o8193a.htm:   (and other historical sources)

 

“It had long been the opinion of most historians that the Artaxerxes of Nehemiah was certainly the first of that name, and that consequently the first mission of Nehemiah fell in the year B. C. 445. The Aramaic papyri of Elephantine, recently published by Sachau, put this date beyond the shadow of a doubt. For in the letter which they wrote to Bahohim, Governor of Judea, in the seventeenth year of Darius II ( B. C. 408 ), the Jewish priests of Elephantine say that they have also made an application to the sons of Sanaballat at Samaria. Now Sanaballat was a contemporary of Nehemiah, and the Artaxerxes of Nehemiah, therefore, was the predecessor, and not the successor, of Darius II. “ [end of quote]

 

 

From Bible Basics- Nehemiah:

 

“The book of Nehemiah, like Ezra, Ruth, Job, Esther, and others is named after it's principle character. The Jews considered it to be one book with Ezra, but the repetition of Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 may indicate it was originally two works. Although the author is not mentioned, it may have been an autobiography by Nehemiah. It was possibly written by Nehemiah looking back on his administration. The accuracy of the history told in the book has been well established by the discovery of the Elephantine papyri which mentions many of the same names and events with dates. It can be also learned from these papyri that Nehemiah ceased to be governor of Judea in 408 B.C.” [end of quote]

 

 

2.         Verse 25: “ 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 threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times….

           

                                    62 x 7 years = 434 years

 

 

                                    408/407 b.c.  +  434 years  =  26/27 a.d.   (Jewish year 3787)

                                                                                                                        a Sabbatical year

 

 

3.         Verse 26:  “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:….”

 

49 years + 434 years  = 483 years  or ’69 weeks’

 

 

From Tishri 457 b.c. to Tishri 1 of 26 a.d.  = 483 years or the end of the ‘7 weeks’ + the ’62 weeks’ which totals the ’69 weeks’ !

 

                                   

Messiah was to be cut-off AFTER Tishri 1, 26 a.d…and He was...3.5/4 years after, at the Cross, in the spring of 30 a.d.  (Jewish year: 3790 or 3790.5 )  in the middle of a Sabbatical cycle

 

 

Y’SHUA MESSIAH WAS CUT OFF IN THE 486.5th YEAR OF DANIEL’S 490 YEARS !