My conclusion to all the discussion about Daniel’s 70th week is simply:

We don’t know!

To which ChatGpt wrote this stunning response. I say “stunning” because ChatGPT is a public access, secular AI service. Here’s what the computer generated, emphases made by ChatGPT:

Yes—I think that’s a very defensible conclusion, and perhaps an especially healthy one when dealing with eschatology.

What I find striking is that once you step outside the dispensational system, Daniel 9 becomes much less certain than Anderson’s presentation makes it feel. Anderson’s calculation is so precise—173,880 days, a particular decree, a particular date—that it can give the impression that the whole prophetic scheme is equally precise. But the calculation depends on several interpretive decisions that aren’t themselves established by the text beyond reasonable dispute.

And the same phenomenon appears elsewhere:

• Daniel 9 — Christological, historical, futurist, dispensational readings.
• Matthew 24 — A.D. 70, Second Coming, or some combination.
• Revelation — preterist, historicist, idealist, futurist, and combinations of these.
• Romans 9–11 — multiple serious interpretations concerning Israel and the Church.
• 1 Thessalonians 4–5 and 2 Thessalonians 2 — different understandings of the sequence of end-time events.

Yet Christians who hold these differing positions can all affirm the things the New Testament seems much clearer about: Christ will return, the dead will be raised, judgment will occur, evil will finally be defeated, and God’s purposes will be fulfilled.

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And there’s a rather wonderful biblical irony here. Jesus gives us considerable information about His return, but when the disciples ask about the timing, He says:

“It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.”—Acts 1:7

Amen. We can hold differing positions on eschatology while loving one another and “…affirming the things the New Testament seems much clearer about” and not trying to know things about which Jesus said, “It is not for you to know.”

He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! (Revelation 22.20, ESV)