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Beginning to read the English translations of the Bible, my soul begins to grieve and resent. I spit, swear scared and do not know how to explain to them the simple things.
I will quote the Scriptures using the Bible translation of the version of King James.
Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. (Daniel 9:25)
This is not a commandment, but an oral command. I do not know how much the word "commandment" used in this passage is perceived by the readers as an oral command given by the ruler.
7+62=69 seven-year periods. 69x7 = 483 years. From the oral command of King Artaxerxes to the queen Esther and Mordecai until the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 16 Nisan is 31st year AD – the interval is exactly 483 years. Why could not all theologians think of such an easy decision?
First, the books of Esther and Daniel are literature. Yes, it's fiction, the writings of unknown authors. Please don't kill yourself by beating your foreheads against the wall. It's like the legend of Noah's Ark. As a story of the creation of the world. But all these fictional stories in the future have their real embodiment in the material world.
Now it came to pass in the days of
In accordance with the text of the Septuagint, we correct the name of the king in the book of Esther.
Now it came to pass in the days of Artaxerxes, (this [is] Artaxerxes which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, [over] an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) (Esther 1:1)
(Everywhere below I will write in the English texts of the book of Esther the name of King Artaxerxes.)
According to non-biblical sources, King Artaxerxes I came to power in 465 BC. Some, also unbiblical sources, specify: King Artaxerxes I ascended the throne in August. We are interested in the counting of the years of the reign of King Artaxerxes I, so we will try to determine the interval of the year when Artaxerxes became king.
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, (Nehemiah 1:1)
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that] wine [was] before him: and I took up the wine, and gave [it] unto the king. Now I had not been [beforetime] sad in his presence (Nehemiah 2:1)
We see that in the month of Kislev (the 9th month), and the 1st of Nisan, there was one and the same, the twentieth year of the reign of King Artaxerxes I. That is, the accession to the throne of Artaxerxes could not be in the period from the 2nd day of the month of Kislev until the 2nd day of Nisan.
I must remind you of one of the rules for interpreting the Holy Scriptures: unspecified time intervals are considered to be the minimum possible, and unspecified days in the month are considered 1 date of the month.
In the Bible, everything is so intertwined that I have to make a leap forward, and indicate the correspondence of the moments of time of two fragments in two books:
And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, [with] certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by [their] names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. (Ezra 10:16)
Please compare with
So Esther was taken unto king Artaxerxes into his house royal in the tenth month, which [is] the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. (Esther 2:16)
When the Jews who were in Jerusalem decided to divorce their foreign wives, it was on that day that King Artaxerxes chose a Jewess as his wife. This obvious connection indicates the simultaneity of the events that occur, therefore we can determine that the ascension to the throne of Artaxerxes could not have occurred between the 2 nd of Av (5th month) and the 2nd of Tevet (10th month):
And there went up [some] of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year of the king.
(Ezra 7:7,8)
That is, we established that the 1st year of the reign of King Artaxerxes began in the period between the 2nd day of the month of Nisan and the 2nd day of Ava.
In order not to get confused, I'll draw a table.
1st = 465-464 BC.
2nd = 464-463 BC.
3rd = 463-462 BC. The beginning of the royal feast of the 1st of Nisan
4th = 462-461 BC. Scandal in Yom Kippur
5th = 461-460 BC.
6th = 460-459 BC.
7th = 459-458 BC. 1st Tevet: Divorce with wives in Jerusalem, the election of Esther.
8th = 458-457 BC.
9th = 457-456 BC.
10th = 456-455 BC.
11th = 455-454 BC.
12th = 454-453 BC 1st of Nisan: Haman cast lots....
13th = 453-452 BC.
14th = 452-451 BC.
15th = 451-450 BC.
etc.
Well, now you understand everything. 180 days of feasting and then another 7 days - it's in Yom Kippur. Very good time for drinking, I must say.
<...> whose name [was] Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
And he brought up Hadassah, that [is,] Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother <...>
(Esther 2:5-7)
It turns out that Hadassah (Esther) is a cousin of Mordecai. Now, count now how old Mordecai is, if he was in the Babylonian captivity in the days of King Jehoiachin (in 597 BC)?
That is why zealous scribes hastened to correct the name of King Artaxerxes on Ahasuerus: they could not accommodate the age difference between the young Esther and the 150-year-old Mordecai. "Xerxes I is one of the Persian kings identified as Ahasuerus in the biblical Book of Esther." Shame on you, scribes, you should be very ashamed!
Then you understood everything: on the 13th of the day Nisan the king signed a decree on the extermination of the Jews. On the 13th, 14th and 15th, the Jews cried and fasted. On the third day, that is, on the 15th day, Esther went to the palace to the king. The next day, the 16th Nisan of Haman was hung on a tree instead of Mordechai.
And here the most important: an oral command of the king Artaxerxes!
Then the king Artaxerxes said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal [it] with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.
(Esther 8:7,8)
It is this verbal command of King Artaxerxes that is the starting point for the reckoning of the prophecy of Daniel.
Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the
(Daniel 9:25)
"to restore and to build Jerusalem" – do you understand what kind of "Jerusalem" is meant here?
The oral command of the king brought joy to the Jews, joy of the Lord. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is also the sudden joy of victory over death. Heavenly Jerusalem is the city of joy about the Lord and his victory over the world. This is a spiritual city.
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever [in that] which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. (Isaiah 65:18)
So I say that the "seventh seal" of those who rejoice over the Second Coming is "Jerusalem", not yet come in the Eastern Gate of the Third Temple, and not yet assembled in one place as the city of Yahweh Shamah.
Finally one more verse about the beautiful Esther:
And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. (Nehemiah 2:6)
This queen was interested in this matter, because she was Jewish!
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