Seventy Times Seven

Then Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. Matt 18:21-22

Why did Jesus answer with seventy times seven, instead of a thousand times seven? It would have been more in line with Biblical numerology. It certainly wouldn’t have changed the effect of the answer concerning forgiveness, except to heighten it. Could there be a secondary lesson communicated by seventy times seven? We believe so. We think that it is no coincidence that the same number, expressed by the same formula, is found in the book of Daniel:

Seventy weeks [sevens] are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. Dan 9:24 NKJV

(p. 232, 236-237, Behind The Veil of Moses)

In this chapter discover the amazing correlation between these two verses. You’ll never look at Matt 18:21-22 and Daniel’s seventy weeks prophecy the same way again.