Jensens survey of the old testament adam 227
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same world powers (chap. 7). Chart 90
shows some of the major similarities of the
two dreams.
The Ful llment column is a widely
accepted
conservative
system
of
interpretation of these chapters. Note how
much of the prophecies were ful lled before
Christ’s rst coming. The identi cation of
Antichrist as the little horn is based on New
Testament passages referring to these last
times. (Read 2 Thess 2:3-10; Rev 11:2; 13:2,
5-10, 15-17; 19:20.)13 Chart 91 shows the
premillennial, pretribulational view of end
times, which is the setting for such an
interpretation of the two dreams. (The most
intense activity of Antichrist is during the
Great Tribulation.)
(9:1-27)
Among Evangelicals there are two main
schools of interpretation of this vision. Both
are agreed that the “weeks” of the vision are
heptads (“sevens”) of years, one week being
seven years. One view, referred to by
Edward J. Young as the “traditional
C. VISION OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS
messianic
interpretation,”14
sees
the
seventieth week as ful lled in the rst
century A.D., without a hiatus of a Church
age. According to this view, the prince of
9:26 is Titus, destroyer of the Temple and
Jerusalem in A.D. 70; and the “he” of 9:27 is
Christ, whose death removed the need for
further sacrifices under the old covenant.
The other view, recognizing a gap
between the sixty-ninth and seventieth
weeks, sees the vision as an outline of
Israel’s history up to the Great Tribulation of
the end times. This is diagramed on Chart
92.
Study Chart 92 in connection with the text
of Daniel 9:24-27. Robert D. Culver gives
the following reasons for holding to a time
gap in this vision:
1. Jesus placed the culminating week
with its “abomination” in the times of
the nal Antichrist, just before His
second advent (Mt 24:15).
2. Daniel 7:25, parallel to 9:27, is a
prophecy of the times of the nal
Antichrist.
3. The period of three and one-half
times or years is always mentioned in
Scripture in an eschatological (end
times) setting (Rev 11:2-3; 12:6, 14).
4. The six things to be accomplished in
the seventy weeks (Dan 9:24) require
the second advent of Christ, and the
restoration and conversion of Israel.15
You will want to come to your own
conclusions as to whether a time gap is
intended by the vision. Refer to the
commentaries already cited for further help
on the two main views outlined here.
