8:16 ...called out and said, "Gabriel, give this {man} an understanding of the vision." Gabriel had come to Daniel and explained the meaning of the vision. Now, he has been sent to Daniel again, to reveal another piece of the prophetic puzzle. There is a Hebrew phrase in verse 21 that has given ...

September 10, 2020 - But here Gabriel was using a play upon words in the Hebrew text, pointing out that insofar as Messiah’s kingdom was concerned, it was not “70 years,” but “70 sevens of years,” a total of 490 years (70 times seven). This period of 490 years had been “decreed” over the Jewish people and over the holy city of Jerusalem. The Hebrew word translated “decreed” literally means “to cut off” or “to determine.” In chapters 2, 7 and 8, God revealed to Daniel the course of future world history in which gentiles would have a dominant role over the Jewish people.

In the first year of Darius son ... according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years....

February 7, 2025 - “Know therefore and understand, ... Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times. a. From the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem: Here Gabriel revealed to Daniel the starting point for the seventy-weeks prophecy...

November 1, 2024 - God responds by sending the angel Gabriel to Daniel with a prophecy.

9:9, 16–19). Gabriel’s response is that God would answer that prayer even better than Daniel had prayed. God would deal with his people’s sin. He would bring in righteousness and atonement (Dan.

Daniel records what Gabriel said to him: Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

“Then after the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood; until the end there will be war, and desolations have been decreed.”Immediate Literary ...

May 4, 2025 - Gabriel’s name means “God is great,” and, as the angel of the annunciation, he is the one who revealed that the Savior was to be called “Jesus” (Luke 1:31). The first time we see Gabriel, he appears to Daniel after the prophet had a vision. Gabriel’s role is to explain the vision to Daniel (Daniel 8:16). Gabriel’s appearance was that of a man (Daniel 8:15; 9:21).

But here Gabriel was using a play upon words in the Hebrew text, pointing out that insofar as Messiah’s kingdom was concerned, it was not “70 years,” but “70 sevens of years,” a total of 490 years (70 times seven). This period of 490 years had been “decreed” over the Jewish people and over the holy city of Jerusalem. The Hebrew word translated “decreed” literally means “to cut off” or “to determine.” In chapters 2, 7 and 8, God revealed to Daniel the course of future world history in which gentiles would have a dominant role over the Jewish people.

As promised, the Messiah would be killed and left with nothing, only to be resurrected (Matthew 16:21; Luke 18:31–33; John 19:23; 20:11–18). Other aspects of Gabriel's prediction seem to point further ahead.

May 12, 2023 - Gabriel’s explanation is in chapter 9:24-27, with verse 24 an introduction to the ideas contained in the next three. It specifies the time involved and what God planned to achieve during that time. Gabriel said that during a period of “seventy sevens,’” the city, its wall and its sanctuary would be rebuilt and the Messiah would come.

June 4, 2025 - Part of the reason Gabriel was sent is to correct Daniel’s misunderstanding of what would happen. Daniel had just studied Jeremiah’s seventy-year prophecy. It seems that he believed that Israel’s troubles were almost at an end. They would return to the land and then the Messiah would come and establish His kingdom.

Since Gabriel told Daniel he had been sent to help him gain understanding of “the vision” (9:23) and there is no vision described in chapter 9, I understand the “vision” to be that of chapter 8. Daniel 9:24-27 therefore gives further insight into the “little horn” of chapter 8, who opposes (and even appears to defeat) the Messiah. These verses also give some very specific prophecies concerning the time and circumstances of the Messiah’s first coming.

August 11, 2025 - b. The vision refers to the time of the end: Gabriel assured Daniel that this vision had to do with end times, with the latter time of the indignation. i. This is a problem for some, because we see that the prophecy of Daniel 8:1-14 was fulfilled in the days of the Medo-Persian and Greek Empires, ...

As Daniel is reading Jeremiah and praying, the angel Gabriel appears to Daniel to explain the vision to him. The numbers in the vision are symbolic but

November 25, 2014 - Zechariah’s barren wife, Elizabeth, was going to conceive and bear a son; this miraculous child was to be named John, and he would fulfill the prophecy of the coming of Elijah (verse 17; cf. Malachi 4:5). Gabriel’s message was met with disbelief, so Gabriel struck the doubting priest dumb until the day of the child’s circumcision (Luke 1:20, 59–64). Gabriel’s appearance to Mary was to announce the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. The mother of the Messiah was assured of her favor with God (Luke 1:30) and told that her Son would fulfill the Davidic Covenant: “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.

January 10, 2025 - Gabriel, an angel from God, brings God’s answer to Daniel. At the moment Daniel began praying, God sent this messenger to speak to him.

The interpretation of Daniel 9’s prophecy requires complex calculations, starting with the decree to rebuild Jerusalem in 457 B.C. It leads through pivotal events, including the expected arrival of the Messiah in A.D. 2723. The prophecy is divided into three segments: seven weeks (49 years), sixty-two weeks (434 years), and the final week (7 years). Each segment corresponds to historical phases crucial for Jewish-Christian theological discussions23. Gabriel’s message in Daniel echoes the theme of seventy, as seen in Jeremiah, promising seventy weeks for divine milestones22.

1 week ago - The first seven weeks begin with the departure of a "word" to rebuild Jerusalem and ends with the arrival of an "anointed prince" (verse 25a); this "word" has generally been taken to refer to Jeremiah's seventy years prophecy and dated to the fourth year of Jehoiakim (or the first year of Nebuchadnezzar) in 605/4 BCE, but Collins objects that "[t]he word to rebuild Jerusalem could scarcely have gone forth before it was destroyed," and prefers the "word" that Gabriel came to give Daniel in verse 23; other candidates include the edict of Cyrus in 539/8 BCE, the decree of Artaxerxes I in 458/7 BC