God’s Timing!
"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"
Daniel 9: 24
Prophetic and apocalyptic language is a feast for
linguists. There are metaphors, allegories, word
pictures,
double meanings, and figures of speech. The use of
the
“seventy years” in Daniel’s prophecy is a good example.
Jeremiah said that the Jews’ captivity in Babylon would last
for seventy years (Jeremiah 25:11-12). Those were the literal
years that Daniel discovered in Jeremiah’s
prophecy and that
drove him to prayer (Daniel 9:1-3).
When Daniel prayed for understanding about those years, the
angel Gabriel showed him “seventy years” had an additional
meaning: seventy weeks of years, or 490 years total.
The seventy weeks would be subdivided into 629 weeks of
years, and one final week of years. That timeline becomes the
background of the most critical prophetic calendar in Scripture.
God’s timing can mean more than one thing. In any
case, His timing is always perfect. Let God be God
when it comes to the times of your life.
"I will therefore be prepared at all times
for that which may come at any time."
Unknown
