Also, in purposely fulfilling the 2 prophecies the Jews would then provide evidence that Jesus was the Messiah. There is a third prophecy by Daniel that was given at approximately the same time as the other two prophecies. He even links it within one verse of the other two prophecies. Because it is the only decree that mentions rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. This is the day that Jesus presented himself as the Messiah.
Original copies exist today.
If the Jews were trying to fulfill biblical prophecy, they never mentioned this after the fact. These calculations were not discovered or disclosed by the Jews. The discovery that the 932,400 days also applied to Jerusalem and not just Israel was just discovered in the Summer of 1997. So the Israeli government and military both provided, quite by accident, evidence that Jesus is the Messiah. A Challange to Stephen Hawking's Universe Stephen Hawking's God is used as a word put in place of a quantum question mark.