There are certain markers of history that are more important than others, concerning the fulfillment of Bible Prophecy. This essay examines the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27 by the signing of a Seven-Year Peace Treaty between Israel and many nations.

The first arrival of the Messiah that was predicted by the prophecy of Daniel 9:24-25 was precisely fulfilled by Jesus on April 6, 32 AD (Nissan 10). The angel Gabriel told Daniel, in response to his prayer for his people, that the Messiah God promised in Genesis 3:15 would arrive after sixty-nine-weeks, or 483 years.

The Fulfillment Of Daniel’s 70 Weeks

Many people are not aware of just how extraordinary the prophecy of Daniel Chapter 9 really is. While Daniel is in captivity with the people of Israel in Babylon, he begins to pray for his nation and people. Daniel realizes that the seventy years of captivity that Jeremiah the prophet proclaimed for the Jews are nearly complete.

Near the end of Daniel’s prayer, the angel Gabriel comes to him and begins to explain the most important prophecy in the Bible. Daniel is going to record the exact day the Messiah will arrive at Jerusalem and the entire prophetic calendar for the Jews and the nation of Israel.

Daniel’s prophecy from chapter 9 describes 70 weeks of years (70X7)  or 490 years. Gabriel speaking to Daniel:

Daniel 9:24: “Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.”

The first sixty-nine weeks (483 years) will be fulfilled by the first arrival of the Messiah. The seventieth week is the seven-year Tribulation. This will be fulfilled when the Messiah returns to earth the second time, on the last day of the seven-year Tribulation.

First, let us examine the first 69 weeks of this prophecy and evaluate its fulfillment from a historical vantage point. In Daniel 9:25, the Lord is giving Israel the precise day the Messiah will come to Jerusalem.

First, a command will be given. Then seven weeks and sixty-two weeks will take place until the Messiah, the Prince, will come.

In the first seven weeks (49 years), the second Temple will be rebuilt at Jerusalem. In the second sixty-two weeks (434 years), the Messiah will arrive. The trigger for the countdown of this prophecy is the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. The purpose of this prophecy of Daniel Chapter 9, verse 25, is to complete the will of God for the Jewish people and Israel in the record of history. This will all take place during a period of 490 years. The first 483 years will begin with a command to rebuild the city of Jerusalem and the Temple. Encyclopedia Britannica records that Artaxerxes Longimanus issued the command to release the captives of Israel in Babylon on March 14, 445 B.C.⁠[1] So named “Longimanus” by the Greeks because his right hand was longer than his left.[2]

The Babylonian calendar was based upon a 360-day per year cycle. 360 days per year times 483 years equals 173,880 days. Taking into account the calendar year change from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. because there is no “0” year, and adding 116 days for leap years, we come to the correct number of days for this prophecy: 173,880 days.

Counting from March 14, 445 B.C., we come to April 6, the year 32 A.D. We will learn, in just a minute, that this was the precise day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey and was proclaimed as the Messiah.

How Do We Know The Command Came In 445 B.C?

The reign of Artaxerxes I (Longimanus) is computed from 465 B.C., according to the history of the Persians.[3] Xerxes I was murdered by Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard of the king. He was the most powerful of the officials in the court of the Persian king. With the help of Aspamitres, a eunuch, Artabanus assassinated Xerxes I, bringing Artaxerxes Longimanus to the throne in 465 B.C.[4]

According to Nehemiah 2:1, Artaxerxes wrote the command for the Jews to return to Jerusalem in the twentieth year of his reign:

Nehemiah 2:1: “And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, that I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before.”

Computing 20 years from Artaxerxes’ ascension to the throne in 465 B.C., we come to 445 B.C.

Hebrew months were not calculated in the same way that our current calendar months are determined. The first day of a Hebrew calendar month begins immediately following a new moon (when no moon is visible).

The way in which the first day of the month was determined in Israel, during their ancient history, was by observation. When at least two witnesses noticed that a new moon had occurred, they would notify the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem. Upon verification of the beginning of the new moon, the leaders of Israel would declare the “rosh chodesh,” the first of the month. Messengers would then be dispatched over the land to notify the people that the new month had begun.[5]

In the year 445 B.C., the new moon occurred on the thirteenth day of March at 7:09 a.m.[6] This would place the first day of April, the Hebrew month of Nisan, on March 14, 445 B.C. This was also the day when the Passover Lamb was offered.

Ezra and Nehemiah traveled together from Babylon back to Jerusalem after Artaxerxes issued the command to return and rebuild the city. We know from Ezra’s account that they left Babylon on the first day of the first month, which is Nisan 1, or our calendar, the fourteenth of March 445 B.C. Ezra says that he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, Av, by the Jewish calendar. Ezra 7:9: “On the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.”

This verifies from the secular, historical record and the Bible that the date of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem from Artaxerxes was issued on March 14, 445 B.C.

According to Nehemiah 6:15, the walls of Jerusalem were completed after just 52 days, on the twenty-fifth day of September. Counting backward 52 days, we come to the third of Av (July). This confirms that Nehemiah would have arrived with Ezra on Av 1, according to Nehemiah 2:11. Nehemiah 2:11: “So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.”

From the historical records of the Persians, the Jews, and the Hebrew scriptures, we can accurately compute the date of Artaxerxes’ command to return to Jerusalem as March 14, 445 B.C.

The Jews who had been held captive in Babylon for 70 years were allowed by Artaxerxes’ command to return to Jerusalem and begin building the city and the Temple. This is the object of the first seven weeks or 49 years of Daniel’s prophecy that was precisely fulfilled, according to the Book of Nehemiah, chapters 3-6.

The second set of 62 weeks of years (483) ended with Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem on April 6, 32 A.D. On the Hebrew calendar, this was the tenth day of Nisan 32 A.D., the day when the Passover Lamb was inspected for flaws before He would be sacrificed four days later, on the fourteenth day of the month—the precise day the Passover Lamb should be sacrificed. Jesus died on Passover, the same day the Lamb of God died; He was the Lamb who took away the sins of the world.

Was There Any Event Of Importance On April 6, 32 A.D.?

When we study the texts of the New Testament, we learn that on this date, Jesus came with His disciples to the city of Bethany. He instructed these men to go and fetch a colt for Him and return.

Luke 19:29-42: “And it came to pass, when Jesus came near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mountain called Olivet, that He sent two of His disciples, saying, ‘Go into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Lose him and bring him here. And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you loosing it?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.'” So those who were sent went their way and found it just as He had said to them. But as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said to them, “Why are you loosing the colt?” And they said, “The Lord has need of him.” Then they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their own clothes on the colt, and they set Jesus on him.”

On April 6, 32 A.D., Jesus sat on the back of the donkey and made His way into Jerusalem, also fulfilling the Messianic prophecy of Zechariah 9:9:

“Rejoice, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey—riding on a donkey’s colt.”

A foal is an unbroken young horse or donkey that has never had a man sit upon its back. Under normal circumstances, this young foal would throw the first person who attempted to ride him. Amazingly, this young donkey submits to Jesus and allows Him to ride into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. As Jesus makes His way into Jerusalem, He allows the assembled crowd to hail Him as “The Son of David,” a clear title for the Messiah.

Matthew 21:8-9: “And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ Hosanna in the highest!”

The words of the people in proclaiming Jesus the Messiah are from David’s prophecy of the Messiah in Psalms 118:24-26:

“This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Please, Lord, please save us. Please, Lord, please give us success. Bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord.”

David wrote this Psalm only for the Messiah and only for one specific day, the day He would ride into Jerusalem and the people would proclaim Him the Messiah. Jesus understood what He was doing. He had been following a very specific and detailed plan to fulfill all 400 of the Messianic prophecies with perfect precision.

It is interesting that up to this point, Jesus had refused all requests by His disciples to announce to the world that He was the promised Messiah.

John 7:3-6: “His brothers therefore said to Him, ‘Depart from here and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may see the works that You are doing. For no one does anything in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show Yourself to the world.” For even His brothers did not believe in Him. Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.”

Jesus was waiting for this one specific day that Daniel, Zechariah, and David had predicted when the Messiah would come to Jerusalem. Jesus had planned everything He did so that He could be there at the correct date and time to fulfill the words of the prophets.

Since The Prophecies of Daniel 9:24-25 Were Precisely Accurate, The Prophecies of Daniel 9:27 Will Also Be Accurate.

The Messiah arrived on the exact day that Daniel had predicted. This is a matter of the historical record. Daniel’s prophecies were a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint, both of which certify that what Daniel wrote was recorded hundreds of years before Jesus arrived to precisely fulfill Daniel’s prophecies.

The Dead Sea Scrolls as Corroborating Evidence

The Dead Sea Scrolls (circa 250 B.C. – 70 A.D.), discovered in the 20th century, include Hebrew manuscripts of Isaiah, Psalms, and other prophetic books. These Hebrew texts match the prophetic content found in the Septuagint, proving that both the Greek and Hebrew versions preserved the same prophecies centuries before Jesus’ birth.

The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa), dated to around 125 B.C., contains Isaiah 53 with the same descriptions of the Suffering Servant found in the Septuagint and New Testament. This confirms that all the prophecies of the Old Testament were written before Jesus arrived to fulfill them with great precision.

The Dead Sea Scrolls include manuscripts of Daniel’s prophecies. Eight manuscripts of Daniel were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran Caves 1, 4, and 6).

• 1Q71 (1QDana) – fragments of Daniel 1.
• 1Q72 (1QDanb) – Daniel 3.
• 4Q112–4Q115 (4QDana-d–d) – fragments covering portions of Daniel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, and 12.
• 6Q7 (6QDan) – Daniel 8:16–17.

These fragments date from 125 B.C. to 50 A.D., making them the oldest Hebrew copies of Daniel we possess.

Content and Prophecies Preserved

• The Qumran Daniel scrolls include apocalyptic prophecies, such as:
• The four kingdoms vision (Daniel 2, 7).
• The ram and goat prophecy (Daniel 8).
• The detailed history/prophecy of Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Daniel 11).
• The resurrection prophecy (Daniel 12:2 – “Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up…”).

The text in these scrolls matches the Masoretic Text and confirms the stability of Daniel’s prophecies well before Jesus.

The Language of Daniel in Qumran

The Dead Sea Scrolls of Daniel are written in both Hebrew and Aramaic, consistent with the traditional biblical text. The Qumran copies also show that Daniel was already regarded as Scripture by that time, since it was copied and preserved alongside Isaiah, Psalms, and the Torah.

What The Dead Sea Scrolls Preservation of Prophecy Means For Messianic Prophecy

Since the Daniel manuscripts at Qumran predate Jesus, they prove that the prophecies of the Messiah’s first arrival “after 483 years” (Daniel 9:24–27), the Son of Man given authority and dominion (Daniel 7:13–14),

The resurrection (Daniel 12:2–3) was already in circulation before the New Testament era. This undercuts the skeptical argument that Daniel’s prophecies were written after the fact, since Qumran provides hard manuscript evidence of their early existence.

Why Daniel Chapter 9 is Missing From The Surviving Dead Sea Scrolls

The absence of Daniel 9 in the Dead Sea Scrolls is due to the massive usage of the scrolls, not authorship or rejection. Many Qumran scrolls survive only in small fragments. Entire columns of text are missing from most books. Isaiah, for instance, survives in full (1QIsaa), but that is an extraordinary case. The lack of Daniel 9 fragments simply means those portions of the manuscripts did not survive the 2,000 years in desert caves. The reason is obvious: Daniel 9 is the most important chapter of Daniel as it describes the precise day for the first arrival of the Messiah, Jesus. This scroll was read hundreds of times more than all of the other scrolls from Daniel, causing it to deteriorate while others remained intact or as fragments.

Evidence that Daniel 9 Existed Before Jesus

Even without Qumran fragments of chapter 9, we can be certain this portion of the Daniel Scroll existed:

1. Unified manuscripts: Daniel was already treated as a complete book by the Qumran community. The fact that multiple chapters were copied shows that chapter 9 was part of the same book they valued.
2. Septuagint evidence: The Greek translation of Daniel, including chapter 9, was already in circulation by ~150–100 B.C. (LXX Daniel exists independently of Qumran evidence).
3. Early Jewish interpretation: Jewish writings before Christ (e.g., 1 Enoch, Sibylline Oracles) reflect familiarity with Daniel’s apocalyptic scheme, which strongly suggests Daniel 9’s 70 Weeks prophecy was already known.

The Prophecy of Daniel 9:27 is the important text that gives us the precise event that will begin the Seven-Year Tribulation:

Nearly 2,700 years ago, the Lord spoke to Daniel and told him that a fourth world empire, led by a man called “the beast,” would threaten the Jews in Israel and cause them to flee into the wilderness.

Daniel 9:27: “Then he (antichrist) shall confirm a covenant (Peace Plan) with many (nations) for one week (7 Years); But in the middle of the week (3 1/2 Years), He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering (Temple must be rebuilt). And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate (See Matthew 24:15), even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.”

Jesus described this same event in a parallel prophecy from Matthew 24:15-16:

“Therefore, when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.”

Jesus is confirming the prophecy that Daniel was given by God. When the nation of Israel sees the abomination of desolation take place, this is the signal from God to the Jews to get out of Israel and flee into the mountains.

The Events That Concern Israel And The Jews In The Last Days

In 1948, in just a single day, Israel became a nation again. According to Ezekiel 36, God would draw the Jews back into their own land again

In Ezekiel 37, God promises Israel that it will become a fruitful land. Today, Israel is one of the world’s top producers of fruit, vegetables, and flowers.

In Ezekiel 38, God reveals that just before the final seventieth week of Daniel chapter 9:27 prophecy, nations to the distant north: Russia, Iran, Libya, and others, will come against Israel to take their natural resources.

When this war begins, the world should take notice because the final events that were determined for our present world will be set into motion:

1. A war that will require a Peace Treaty (Daniel 9:27).
2. An alliance of nations that come against Israel and the Jews (Ezekiel 38).
3.  A World Ruler who will make a treaty of peace for seven years Daniel 9:27).
4. The removal of Jesus’ church from the earth at an event called the “Harpazo,” 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Seen in Revelation chapters 4-5.
5. The identity of the Ruler who made peace is made known to the world (2 Thessalonians 2).
6. The beginning of the seven-year Tribulation  (Revelation 6:1-2)
7. The 21 Judgments of the Great Tribulation (Revelation 6:3-18).

According to 2 Thessalonians 2, the antichrist, the beast, the world ruler who will come at the beginning of the seven-year Tribulation, cannot make his entrance until Jesus’ church is removed from the earth. Paul called the church, “that which hinders, that is taken out of the way.” The Holy Spirit working through the Church has restrained the beast from making his entrance.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 “Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.”

2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 begins with the context of what Paul had described before: The timing of Jesus’ coming for His church and the beginning of the Tribulation. “Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him.” This is what Paul has described previously in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, the Harpazo or Rapture of Jesus’ church.

Having clarified why Paul is writing these words, to clarify the events that will take place after Jesus’ church is removed from the earth, Paul moves on to the events that will commence just before the beginning of the seven-year Tribulation:

2 Thessalonians 2:2-4: “We ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”

The day of Christ is the day when Jesus will return to earth with His church, as described in Revelation chapter 19.

That day will not happen unless a “falling away” happens first. The Greek word “apostasia.” As the time of the seven-year Tribulation approaches, people who formerly claimed that they were a Christian, a follower of Jesus, will fall away from Him. We have seen this mass exodus take place in the past 10 years. All of the pretend believers in Jesus have departed from Him, in preparation for the removal of Jesus’ church and the beginning of the seven-year Tribulation.

• When the apostasy takes place, this is a signal to the world that the Tribulation is very near.
• The removal of Jesus’ church, as described by 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, will permit the antichrist to make his entrance.

Then Paul tells us that it was Jesus’ church and the Holy Spirit working through us that has prevented the antichrist from showing himself to the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:5-8: “Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.”

What Are The Events That Will Take Place Before The Church Is Removed?

For nearly 50 years in studying the prophetic events of the Last Days, I have always been puzzled by the prophecy of Daniel 9:27, which specifies that the antichrist will make his entrance into the world by the initiation of a peace plan, or covenant, for seven years.

How could a peace plan be initiated by the antichrist while Israel was living in relative peace in their land?

Of course, the answer is that he could not. For the antichrist to have the opportunity to institute a peace plan that will cause the Jews to receive him as their Messiah, there must be an urgent need. This present war with Hamas and Hezbollah, instituted by Iran, is the reason the antichrist will come now to broker a peace plan.

On Monday, September 29, 2025, A 21 Point Peace Plan Between Israel and Many Nations Began.

This is the precise event that will lead to the Seven-Year Peace Treaty defined by the Prophecy of Daniel 9:27

• Will The 21 Point Peace Plan Currently Underway Lead To The Seven-Year Peace Treaty Defined By The Prophecy Of Daniel 9:27?
• Full Transcript Of President Trump And Prime Minister Netanyahu: 21 Point Peace Plan

If you ask the orthodox Jews in Israel today how they will recognize their Messiah when He comes, they will tell you that He will do two things:

1. Make peace for the Jews and the surrounding nations.
2. Allow the Jews to rebuild their third Temple on the Temple Mount.

These are the precise events that Daniel 9 and Revelation 11 say the antichrist will do for the Jews when he comes to Israel. The peace that the antichrist will make for Israel and the Jews requires the exact type of war that we now see in Israel, between Hamas and Israel.

It is important to understand that, from the perspective of the antichrist, who may be on earth right now, he wants the Third Temple to be built at Jerusalem as soon as possible. According to 2 Thessalonians 3-4, the antichrist cannot enter the Temple and be proclaimed as “God” until the Third Temple is built

3 “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”

For this reason, the antichrist will, at first, be a peacemaker who seeks an agreement between Israel and the surrounding nations. This is the prophecy of Daniel 9:27: “he, the antichrist, will confirm a covenant of peace between many nations for seven years.”

It appears that on Monday, September 29, 2025, this Peace Treaty between Israel and Many Nations may be underway. If this Peace Treaty is Seven Years, as Daniel 9:27 defines it, then the Seven seven-year tribulation will begin not long after this treaty is signed.

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Sources and Citations

[1] Encyclopedia Britannica, 1990 Edition.

[2] Plutarch, Artaxerxes, l. 1. c. 1. 11:129 – cited by Ussher, Annals, para. 1179

[3] R. Schmitt. of Iran “Art”axerxes. Encyclopædia Iranica. 15 December 1986. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

4] 1.Iran-e-Bastan/Pirnia Book, 1 page 873, 2. Dandamayev 3. History of Persian Empire-Olmstead pages 289-90

[5] From Judaism 101, http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm

[6] From a letter sent to Sir Robert Anderson: To the Royal Obseervatory, Greewich, June 26th, I877. “SIR, – I have had the moon’s place calculated from Largeteau’s Tables in Additions to the Connaisance des Tems 1846, by one of my assistants, and have no doubt of its correctness. The place being calculated for – 444, March 12d. 20h., French reckoning, or March 12d. 8h. P. M., it appears that the said time was short of New Moon by about 8h. 47m., and therefore the New Moon occurred at 4h. 47m. A. M., March 13th, Paris time.” I am, etc (the 13th  day of March at 7:09 a.m)., ” (Signed,) G. B. AIRY.” Anderson, Sir Robert (2010-05-27). The Coming Prince (Kindle Locations 1737-1748).  . Kindle Edition.

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