This podcast explains the circumstances of when and how Daniel received the Seventy Weeks Prophecy in Babylon while still in captivity after almost 70 years. Before the captivity of the Jews began, Jeremiah predicted that the exile would last 70 years. As the end of the 70-year captivity drew near, Daniel was praying about when he could expect the return of the Jews because he felt as though captivity should have ended already. In response to his prayer on that subject, Daniel received the Seventy Weeks Prophecy that has its basis in the 70-year captivity of the Jews in Babylon but is a prophecy on a much grander scale of 70x7 years or 490 years until the end of the spiritual captivity of the Jews at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

The first seven weeks of seven Sabbatical years in the Seventy Weeks Prophecy (Daniel 9:24-27) is  ...