It is the spring of 31 A.D., halfway through the 70th prophetic week of Daniel 9:24. This passage from the Book of Daniel predicts that between the command to build the city of Jerusalem—in the autumn of 457 BC—and the appearance of the Anointed One (the Messiah), 69 prophetic weeks or 483 years (a prophetic day corresponds to a calendar year, according to the principle of “a day for every year” in Ezekiel 4:6) will elapse.
The cry of contrasts
