In Daniel 9, the prophet was given a great prophecy of events, that spanned more than 2000 years, from his own day on into our own future. Marked out on this prophecy, is a period of seventy “weeks” of years or 490 years.

The 490-year period began with the building of the wall of Jerusalem, in the days of Nehemiah, until the end of the age.

Before His crucifixion, as Jesus talked with His disciples on the Mount of Olives, He told them what would happen in the period just before His Second Coming. In that passage, He refers several times to what He calls “the end of the age”. This is the same final seven year period of Daniel’s prophecy that Jesus refers to when He speaks of “the end of the age.”

This seven-year period of both Daniel’s prophecy and Jesus’ prophecy contains the fascinating – and frightening – series of events we are currently exploring in Revelation 6 through 19.