The prophecy of the Seventy Weeks ... is one of the most remarkable long-range predictions in the entire Bible. It is by all odds one of the most widely discussed by students and scholars of every persuasion within the spectrum of the Christian church"--Gleason Archer in his New Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties. It enables calculation of Jesus Christ's birth, ministry and death. It teaches about praying and fasting and how quickly God responds. Archer adds: "It is quite clearly ... a preview of the thrilling final act of the drama of human history before [Christ's] advent.