Questions about Daniel 9:24-27

  1. When is promise in verse 24 fulfilled?
    1. Seven years after Jesus was "cutoff".
    2. At the resurrection.
    3. At the Crucifixion.
    4. Right Answer!After the last of the seventy weeks are complete.

     

  2. How long is one of the "weeks" contained in this prophecy?
    1. Right Answer!Seven years.
    2. Seven days.
    3. Seventy times seven years.
    4. Three and a half years.

     

  3. What is the event that starts the "weeks" countdown?
    1. From the start of the Babylonian captivity.
    2. Right Answer!From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem.
    3. From the day that he prophecy was spoken.
    4. None of the above.

     

  4. How many years from the start of the "weeks" until Jerusalem is rebuilt with a wall?
    1. Seven years.
    2. Right Answer!Forty-nine years.
    3. Four score and seven years.
    4. Forty years.

     

  5. How many years from the issuing of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One would come?
    1. Sixty-nine years.
    2. Seven times forty years.
    3. Right Answer!Four hundred eighty three years.
    4. Four hundred ninety years.

     

  6. What is meant by the Anointed One being cutoff?
    1. The Anointed One, that is, the Messiah or Christ would come but be put to death.
    2. The Anointed One would be exiled from the Jewish nation.
    3. The King would come but he would not receive his kingdom.
    4. Right Answer!Both a and c.

     

  7. Which year would the Anointed One come?
    1. Thirty-three years before he was cutoff.
    2. Thirty years before he was cutoff.
    3. Three and a half years before he was cutoff.
    4. Right Answer!The same year that he was cutoff.

     

  8. In verse 26 who are the "people of the ruler will come"?
    1. The Jews.
    2. The Christians.
    3. Right Answer!The Romans.
    4. The Babylonians.

     

  9. Historically we know that the Roman army destroyed the city and the sanctuary in 70 AD so what does that tell is about the "ruler" that is of the people that will come and destroy the city?
    1. That the ruler is Jesus Christ.
    2. Right Answer!That the ruler who is to come is descended from the Roman people, or empire.
    3. That the ruler is Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor.
    4. That Nero was a Roman citizen.

     

  10. Are the seventy "weeks" all continuous?
    1. Yes, there was 490 years from the issuing of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem to the fulfillment of this prophecy.
    2. Right Answer!No, there is a gap between the end of the 69th week and that start of the 70th week of a non specified length.
    3. No, there is a gap between the end of the 69th week and the start of the 70th week of forty years.
    4. None of the above.

     

  11. What does this prophecy say will happen between the 60th week and the 70th week?
    1. Nothing.
    2. Right Answer!Wars will continue until the end and that desolations have been decreed.
    3. That the temple will be destroyed after the seven year treaty has been signed.
    4. That the Christians will destroy the City.

     

  12. Who is the "he" that confirms the covenant, (or treaty), in verse 27?
    1. It is Jesus Christ.
    2. It is the Antichrist.
    3. It is the man that is of the people that would come and destroy the city and sanctuary.
    4. Right Answer!Both "b" and "c".

     

  13. When, exactly, does the ruler set up an abomination that causes the desolation of the temple, relative to the "weeks"?
    1. Seventy "weeks" after the issuing of the decree.
    2. Sixty-nine "weeks" after the issuing of the decree.
    3. Right Answer!Exactly in the middle of the seventh week, that is 1260 days after the treaty is signed.
    4. This prophecy does not say when.

     

  14. What exactly does the ruler do to cause the abomination that causes desolation?
    1. He forbids the sacrifices to continue.
    2. He claims that there is no God.
    3. He says that Jesus is not the Christ.
    4. Right Answer!He enters the temple and sets up an image of himself claiming that he is the Messiah.

     

  15. What age does the world enter when this prophecy is complete?
    1. The Church Age.
    2. Right Answer!The Millennial Kingdom Age.
    3. The Eternal Age, that is, Heaven.
    4. The age of Capitalism and Democracy.

     

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