Hi Sophiee, Dougg, the math doesn't add up.

The 62 to shavuim are NOT the 70 shavuim. Titus certainly fits the 62 shavuim. Where are you counting 483 years back from -- 62 or 70?


I am counting back from 70 AD when the temple was destroyed by Titus. Actually the number of years counting back from 70 AD would be 486.5 as I will present below.

The 490 years breaks down as....

7 weeks + 62 weeks + 1 week = 70 weeks

or restated in years...

49 years + 434 years + 7 years = 490 years

If Titus was the one who confirmed, then broke the covenant half way through the 7 years by destroying the temple, then in 70ad ce this number of years had passed...

49 years +434 years + 3 1/2 years = 486.5 years

Since we have a firm date of 70 AD, we can backtrack 486.5
years to see when the counting of the 490 years began.

486.5 - 70 = 416.5 years before year "0" BCE. So, the counting of the 490 years (based on Titus being the one who confirmed the covenant for the 1 week) began 416.5 years BCE....roughly, I am not trying to pinpoint down to the nearest month or anything like that.

That math certainly doesn't work out... so that eliminates Titus as the one who confirmed the covenant...IMHO.

Okay, if Titus is not the one who confirms the covenant... that is just one issue. Not the Cyrus issue.

I owe Netanel a reply on Darius and when Daniel received the message...which should show that Cyrus had already come when Daniel received the message from the Angel.

Sincerely,

Doug L.