THE LORD'S 3 YEAR MINISTRY - PETER'S KEYS - DANIEL'S 70th. SEVEN

THE LORD'S BAPTISM, HIS 3 YEAR MINISTRY AND PETER'S KEYS
WERE ALL WITHIN DANIEL'S 70th. SEVEN YEARS

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The chart below illustrates how the Hebrew Sabbatical and Jubilee years and the events of the final 7 years of Daniel's 70x7s of years, relate to major Jewish historical events from the start of "Herod the Great's" rule when he conquered Jerusalem in BC37 to Herod Aggripa receiving "Herod the Great's" territory in AD 38/39.

The final 7 years started at the beginning of the 30th Jubilee year and ended just before the start of the following Sabbatical year.

THE HEBREW CALENDAR

The Hebrew calendar is punctuated by multiples of 7.

The Hebrew week begins at sunset Saturday and has 7 days. The last day of each week is the Sabbath [i.e. from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset].

Hebrew years are in multiples of 7. Every 7th. year is a Sabbatical year.

Sabbaticals are in multiples of seven . Every seventh Sabbatical year is a Jubilee year. So Jubilee years are at 49 year intervals.

HEBREW MONTHS AND YEARS

The Hebrew year had 12 lunar months each starting with the new moon. Periodically extra days were added to years to keep the Hebrew seasonal festivities in step with the solar year and its seasons. So the counting of Hebrew years will tally with the way we count years with the possible exception that an event in mid Autumn might be one year different.

The first month of the year was in the Spring and called was initially called Abib and later Nisan. The very first month was when the children of Israel came out of Egypt. The remaining 11 months are numbered, 2nd month, 3rd month etc.

However, Sabbatical and Jubilee years did not begin with the first month. They began with 'The Feast of Trumpets' which was on the first day of the 7th. month later called Tishri. So that even though the first month of the Hebrew year was in the Spring the counting of Sabbatical and Jubilee years began and finished in the Autumn.

That is why the first Sabbatical began in the Autumn (7 years after they came out of Egypt) and the first Jubilee also began in the Autumn (49 years after they came out of Egypt).

Prophesies relating to the captivity number the reign of monarchs in years beginning with the seventh month (Tishri).

For these reasons, since these years straddle western years, we have represented them thus: BC 38/37. For example AD 20/21 represents the year that began in the Autumn of AD 20 and ended in the Autumn of AD 21.

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THE CHART AND THE LAST SEVEN YEARS OF DANIEL'S WEEK
THE FIRST HALF OF THE LAST SEVEN
THE LORD'S THREE AND A HALF YEAR MINISTRY.

The Lord Jesus was born in the Autumn of BC5. He began his ministry at the start of the 30th. Jubilee in the Autumn of AD 26 when he was baptised by John the Baptist in Jordon, was announced by John, twice, as "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". Then ,some days later, the Lord Jesus made his memorable Jubilee speech in the synagogue of Nazareth.

In the Spring of AD30, half way through the seven years at the Passover, he was crucified for the sins of the world.

THE LAST HALF OF THE LAST SEVEN
THE PETER USES THE KEYS TO OPEN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN - THE CHURCH

The Lord Jesus rises from death and appears several times to his apostles . He commissions them to preach the good news of salvation before being ascending into heaven.

Peter is the first to preach the way into the kingdom to the Jews on the day of Pentecost AD 30, 7 weeks after the crucifixion.

Peter is also the first to preach the way into the kingdom the the Gentiles three and a half years later in the autumn of AD 33.

Thus Peter used the keys the Lord had entrusted to him⁷ and thus the covenant was confirmed with the last week of Daniels 70x7s of years.

FOR DANIEL'S PROPHECY OF 70 times 7s OF YEARS see: Study in Daniel - chapter 9

Season Dates¹
BC Years
reign Years in
building AGE

40 The Senate proclaimed Herod king.

38 SABBATICAL BC 38/37

January 37 Herod began to rule the Jews.² {1st}

36 {2nd}

35 {3rd}

34 {4th}

33 {5th}

32 {6th}

31 SABBATICAL BC 31/30 {7th}

30 {8th}

29 {9th}

28 {10th}

27 {11th}

26 {12th}

25 {13th}

24 JUBILEE BC 24/23 {14th}

23 {15th}

22 {16th}

21 {17th}

20 Temple reconstruction begins.² {18th} 0

19 1

18 2

17 SABBATICAL BC 17/16 3

16 4

15 5

14 6

13 7

12 8

11 9

10 SABBATICAL BC 10/9 10

9 11

8 12

7 13

6 14

5 15

Autumn BC 5 JESUS BORN³ <<6059>>¹⁰ 00

4 16

Autumn 01

Winter Herod dies on the 25th of November 01

3 17

Autumn SABBATICAL BC3/2 02

2 18

Autumn 03

1 19

Autumn 04

AD [NOTE: There is no year zero.]

1 20

Autumn 05

2 21

Autumn 06

3 22

Autumn 07

4 23

Autumn 08

5 24

Autumn SABBATICAL AD 5/6 09

6 25

Autumn 10

7 26

Autumn 11

8 27

Autumn 12

Season Dates¹
AD Years
reign Years in
building AGE

Spring 9 12 year old Jesus in the Temple 28

Autumn 13

10 29

Autumn 14

11 30

Autumn 15

12 31

Summer Tiberius begins his reign as Augustus' viceroy ^{3 and 4}

Autumn SABBATICAL AD 12/13 {1st}⁴ 16

13 32

Autumn {2nd} 17

14 33

Summer Augustus dies. Tiberius declared emperor <<6208>>¹⁰

Autumn {3rd} 18

15 34

Autumn {4th} 19

16 35

Autumn {5th} 20

17 36

Autumn {6th} 21

18 37

Autumn {7th} 22

19 38

Autumn SABBATICAL AD 19/20 {8th} 23

20 39

Autumn {9th} 24

21 40

Autumn {10th} 25

22 41

Autumn {11th} 26

23 42

Autumn {12th} 27

24 43

Autumn {13th} 28

25 44

Autumn {14th} 29

26 45

Autumn The 30th. JUBILEE
AD 26/27 <<6281>>¹⁰ {15th}⁴ BAPTISED⁶ 30³

Spring 27 [1st. Passover Wed. 9 April]
<<6504>>¹⁰ 46 ⁵

Autumn [1 yr.⁶] 31

Spring 28 [2nd. Passover Mon. 29 March]

Autumn [2 yrs. ] 32

Spring 29 [3rd. Passover Sun. 17 April]

Autumn [3 yrs. ] 33

Spring 30 [4th. Passover Thur. 6 April] [3.5 yrs.] CRUCIFIED

Peter opened the Kingdom to the Jews PENTECOST

Autumn [4 yrs. ]

Spring 31 [Passover Tues. 27 March]

Autumn [5 yrs. ]

Spring 32 [Passover Mon. 14 April]

Autumn [6 yrs. ]

Spring 33 [Passover Fri. 3 April]

Autumn SABBATICAL AD 33/34 [7 yrs.⁶]

Peter opened the Kingdom to the Gentiles.⁶
Cornelius baptised and Paul baptised.⁸ THE VISION
SEALED UP⁶

Spring 34A [Passover Tues. 23 March]

[After his conversion Paul preaches in Damascus then he visits Arabia. On his return he stays in Damascus for 3 more years.]

Spring 35 [Passover Mon. 11 April]

Autumn 36 Aretus defeats Antipas and gains Damascus in Syria.

36/37 Paul escapes from Damascus.

37 Herod Agrippa I begins his oppressive reign.⁹

Winter 38/39 Caligula gave Herod's territory to Agrippa which included Syria

NOTES

1 Dates: Hebrew months were lunar. Extra days added to make up the solar year, to keep the annual festivities in step with the seasons.
The first Hebrew month [Abib/Nisan] started in late March or early April.
Hebrew years began with the seventh Hebrew month. It started mid September.

Winter 6/5. The winter of the Hebrew year which began in September BC 6.

Winter 5/6. The winter of the Hebrew year which began in September AD 5.

2 Even though the Senate declared Herod 'the Great' king in BC40 <<5424>>¹⁰he did not began reigning over the Jews until he gained control of Jerusalem in January BC 37 <<6082>>¹⁰so Jews would count his years of reign from January BC27.<<5476>>¹⁰ Herod began building the temple in the 18th year of his reign. <<5944>>⁹¹⁰ BC 37 being the 1st.of his reign, the 18th would be BC20.

3 The Lord Jesus was crucified at Passover time, in the Spring. So it would be Autumn when he started his ministry three and a half years earlier. As he had just turned 30 years of age [Luke 3:21-23] ⁴ it follows that he was born in Autumn.
Several secular time factors help us to ascertain with a reasonable degree of accuracy the year in which the Lord Jesus was born:
The death of Herod "the Great" (25 November BC4 ) <<6082>>¹⁰The 15th year of Tiberius reign (AD25/27)⁴
The 46th. year of building Herod's the temple.⁵

4 Tiberius began to reign as viceroy in the summer of AD 12, two years before Augustus died. <<6197/8>>¹⁰ John started baptising in the 15th year of Tiberius reign, (summer AD 26 to summer AD 27). [Luke 3:1-2]

5 Building work on the temple had been going on for 46 years.² [John 2:13-22]

6 Daniel 9:27 predicts 7 years would be spent establishing the Messiah's covenant with many (Jews and Gentiles). It was sealed with the Lord 's blood during the Passover of AD 30 (Spring), finalised with the Jews on the day of Pentecost and with the Gentiles three and a half years later (Autumn ,AD 33). This completed the final 7 years of the 70 times 7 predicted in Daniel 9:24 ³ and sealed up the 70 times 7 year vision.

7 The Lord gave Peter the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matthew 16:19) He opened the kingdom to Jews (Acts 2:1-41) and Gentiles. (Acts 10:24-48)

8 Paul and Cornelius were both baptised in the last year of Daniel's 70x7 years. The events in Acts 8:1-3, 9:1-31 and Acts 8:4-40, 9:32-12:25 occurred concurrently.

9 Herod Agrippa I, oppressed the church 3.1/2 years from AD 41 to 44, see Acts 12. He ruled from AD 37 to 44. Acts 12:23 records his death.

10 References indicated thus <<6208>> are paragraph numbers in
'The Annals of the World' Ussher - translated by Larry and Marion Pierce. ISBN 089051-360-0

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A chart showing when it was all fulfilled BOTH PAUL and CORNELIUS' HOUSEHOLD
were baptised in the last year of Daniel's 70x7