God has a plan with a timeline. In this breathtaking prophecy, we see the rich backdrop against which the seventy-sevens are to be understood as years that mark out a very particular timeline for the Jewish remnants and the rationale for this timeline that stretches Daniel’s expectation of restoration from seventy years since captivity to four hundred ninety years. What the new timeline accomplishes is the full restoration of the people of God with the completion of judgment, true repentance, atonement for sin, everlasting righteousness, and the millennial temple. This is the God whom we worship and serve, the God of wisdom and order who has a plan and a timeline. He is the reason for the security that we enjoy no matter the circumstances in this life.