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A Prophecy of Vital Importance. The Sixfold
Messianic Mandate of Daniel 9
God will have completed six things for Israel.
A. The first three have to do with sin,
B. The second three with the kingdom.
C. The basis for the first three was provided
in the work of Christ on the cross, but all
six will be realized by Israel at the Second
Advent of Christ.
"Seventy weeks are determined
upon thy people and upon thy holy
city, to finish the transgression, and
to make an end of sins, and to make
reconciliation for iniquity, and to
bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and
prophecy, and to anoint the most
Holy.
"Know therefore and understand, that
from the going forth of the
commandment to restore and to build
Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince
shall be seven weeks, and threescore
and two weeks: the street shall be built
again, and the wall, even in troublous
times.
"And after threescore and two
weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but
not for himself: and the people of
the prince that shall come shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary,
and the end thereof shall be with a
flood, and unto the end of the war
desolations are determined.
"And he shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week: and in the
midst of the week he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and
for the overspreading of abominations
he shall make it desolate, even until
the consummation, and that
determined shall be poured upon the
desolate." Daniel 9:24-27.
1. Daniel’s prophecy of the 70 weeks is
one of the most significant prophecies
in the Bible, and one of the most
misunderstood.
2. In this prophecy, the Jews were
given the approximate time of the
arrival of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus
Christ.
3. For this reason, there was a great
air of expectancy among the Jews 483
years after the order by the Persian
King Artaxerxes for the rebuilding of
the walls of Jerusalem in 445 BC (see
Nehemiah 2:4-8).
4. It is generally accepted that the
weeks in Daniel 9:24 are weeks of
years, or periods of 7 years. The
coming of Christ after 483 years (69
times 7), thus fulfilling this prophecy, is
one of the greatest proofs of the divine
inspiration of the Bible. 2520 years
from the image of Nebuchadnezzar’s
image til 1914 and the beginning of
Israel’s restoration.
A. Jesus fulfilled the Prophecy---When
Christ came, He told the people
The time that had been fulfilled
was the chronology that had been
given by Daniel.
1. God had an appointment with Mankind.
Mark 1.15—The time is fulfilled, and the
kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and
believe the gospel,"
2. Appointment Fulfilled. Daniel 9:24 gives
us specific prophecies that would be
fulfilled by Christ during the 70 weeks or
490 years.
To Restore the Glory
• Exodus 34:6-7— Then the Lord passed by in
front of him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the
Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow
to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness
and truth; who keeps loving-kindness for
thousands, who forgives iniquity,
transgression and sin; yet He will by no means
leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the
iniquity of fathers on the children and on the
grandchildren to the third and fourth
generations."
Hebrew Meaning of Sin
• 1) Slipping away from where you should be.
• 2) Unbelief. Erring from the path on which
God’s put you.
• 3) You are not achieving a standard that God
has set.
• 4) Missing the mark or the path.
Hebrew Meaning of Transgression
• 1) A willful deviation from, and therefore
rebellion against, the path of Godly living.
• 2)Greek meaning of Transgression: To go
beyond Overstepping the limits.
Hebrew Meaning of Iniquity
• 1) Perverseness, bowed down, twisted, to be bent or
crooked, to be wrung out of course. It signifies not
merely that which is wrong, but the tendency to do
wrong.
• 2) Iniquities are second nature sins, which drive us to
repeatedly, continually commit wrong.
• 3) A perversion of the truth, which leads to error.
• 4) A perversion of intents, which affects our will. Sin
and Transgression are Verbs and things we do:
• 5) Iniquity is the bent condition of what we are.
Iniquity revolves more about the underlying attitudes:
Idolatry, Racism, Gluttony, Covetousness,
Unrighteousness, wickedness, lawlessness. It defiles
our character.
A. “Finish the transgression,"
1. Matthew 27:25—All the people
answered, "Let his blood be on us and
on our children!"
2. Romans 11:21-25. Israel was blinded
for our sake. That rejection of the
Messiah's was the final transgression of
Israel until the blinders are removed
and all Israel shall be saved.
• 3. Acts 4:11—He is the stone you builders
rejected, which has become the
capstone.'
• 4. Hebrews 3:12 –beware, brethren, lest
there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief in departing from the living God.
But exhort one another daily while it is
called today lest any of you be hardened
through the deceitfulness of sin.
3. John 19:30—Therefore when Jesus had
received the sour wine, He said, "It is
finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up
His spirit.
4. Hebrews 9:15—For this reason He is the
mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a
death has taken place for the redemption of
the transgressions that were committed under
the first covenant, those who have been called
may receive the promise of the eternal
inheritance.
B. He would "make an end of sins," which
can be understood as making an end of the
sacrifice for sins. Christ did this when He
offered Himself for our sins once and forever
on the cross.
1. Hebrews 9:26—Otherwise, He would have
needed to suffer often since the foundation of
the world; but now once at the consummation
of the ages He has been manifested to put
away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
2. Hebrews 10:12—But He, having offered one
sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN
AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,
3. John 1:29—The next day he saw Jesus
coming to him and said, "Behold, the
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of
the world!
4. 1 John 3:5—You know that He appeared in
order to take away sins; and in Him there
is no sin.
C. He would "make reconciliation for
iniquity." Christ made reconciliation
for the sins of the people on the
Cross.
1. Ephesians 2:15-17—By abolishing in His
flesh the enmity, which is the Law of
commandments contained in ordinances,
so that in Himself He might make the two
into one new man, thus establishing peace,
16 and might reconcile them both in one
body to God through the cross, by it having
put to death the enmity.
2. Hebrews 2:17—Therefore, He had to be
made like His brethren in all things, so that
He might become a merciful and faithful
high priest in things pertaining to God, to
make propitiation for the sins of the
people.
3. 2 Corinthians 5:18—Now all these
things are from God, who reconciled us to
Himself through Christ and gave us the
ministry of reconciliation
D. He would "bring in everlasting
righteousness." Christ has been made
unto us righteousness.
1. Romans 5:18—So then as through one
transgression there resulted condemnation
to all men, even so through one act of
righteousness there resulted justification of
life to all men.
2. 1 Corinthians 1:30—But by His doing
you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us
wisdom from God, and righteousness and
sanctification, and redemption,
3. 2 Corinthians 5:21—He made Him who
knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so
that we might become the righteousness
of God in Him.
E. He would "seal up the vision and
prophecy." Christ fulfilled the law and
the prophets.
1. In the last 24 hour of His life Christ
fulfilled 25 Old Testament prophecies that
identified the Messiah.
1. Matt 5:17-18—Do not think that I have come to
abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come
to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the
truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the
smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen; will by
any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished.
2. Acts 3:18-19—But this is how God fulfilled what
he had foretold through all the prophets, saying
that his Christ would suffer. Repent, then, and turn
to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that
times of refreshing may come from the Lord,
3. Romans 3:21-23—But now a
righteousness from God, apart from
law, has been made known, to which
the Law and the Prophets testify. 22
This righteousness from God comes
through faith in Jesus Christ to all who
believe. There is no difference,
4. Rev 10:6-7—and swore by Him who lives
forever and ever, WHO CREATED HEAVEN
AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE EARTH
AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE SEA AND
THE THINGS IN IT, that there will be delay
no longer, but in the days of the voice of
the seventh angel, when he is about to
sound, then the mystery of God is finished,
as He preached to His servants the
prophets.
F . The Most Holy would be anointed;
this was fulfilled when Christ was
anointed to be our Savior.
1. Luke 4:17-19—and the book of the
prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He
opened the book and found the place
where it was written, "THE SPIRIT OF THE
LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE ANOINTED
ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR.
HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE
TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF
SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE
WHO ARE OPPRESSED, TO PROCLAIM THE
FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD."
2. John 2:19—Jesus answered them,
"Destroy this temple, and in three days I
will raise it up." But He was speaking of the
temple of His body.
3. Quote from Modern Day Rabbi
The first thing we need to consider is 1
Corinthians 6:19 which to teaches that the
individual believer in Messiah is a “temple of the
Holy Spirit”. The word for temple in this verse was
a common Greek word used to refer to the Holy
of Holies. The thrust appears to be that since the
body of Messiah is universal and diverse, there
can be no possibility of a central place of worship.
Instead, God made each individual believer a kind
of a mini, portable temple. The historical reality
of the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple and
its lack of replacement for nearly 1900 years may
serve to reinforce that viewpoint.
However, there is also a second factor to
consider. The Temple/Mishkan served as a
unifying point for a specific political nation,
the nation of Israel. Jewish people have been
wandering around the globe since 722 BCE.
One of the few national rallying points we
have had over the thousands of years was the
Jerusalem Temple. In essence, when the
Jerusalem Temple was destroyed in 70 CE to
all intents and purposes, the nation was also
destroyed. We do not mean that the people
were destroyed. We are just speaking about
the geo-political entity.
There had not been a piece of real estate
in which the Jewish people were
permitted to build a Temple since 70 CE,
but things changed in 1948. In fulfillment
of Biblical prophecy, the Nation of Israel
was re-born into a geo-political nation.
Since 1967 we have had a united capital
city — Jerusalem.
G. Daniel 9:26 we are told that Christ
would be cut off, but not for Himself - He
died for us.
H. The next event after that on the
prophetic calendar would be the
arrival of the "prince that shall come"
to destroy the city of Jerusalem
and the Temple. This was fulfilled in 70
AD when the Roman general Titus
came, within one generation of the
time of Christ, as predicted
(Matthew 23:35-36, 24:34) and destroyed
Jerusalem.
1. Matt 23:35-36—so that upon you may
fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed
on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel
to the blood of Zechariah, the son of
Berechiah, whom you murdered between
the temple and the altar. 36 "Truly I say to
you, all these things will come upon this
generation.
2. Matt 24:34—Truly I say to you, this
generation will not pass away until all
these things take place.
I.
Christ would confirm the covenant
with many (not all) for one week
(Daniel’s 70th week).
II. We are told in Hebrews 12:24 that
Christ was the mediator of the new
covenant.
1. Hebrews 12:24—and to Jesus, the mediator
of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood,
which speaks better than the blood of Abel.
2. Hebrews 9:15—for this reason He is the
mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a
death has taken place for the redemption of
the transgressions that were committed under
the first covenant, those who have been called
may receive the promise of the eternal
inheritance.
J. In the middle of the week Christ
caused the sacrifice and oblation to cease,
when He died on the cross for our sins - at
that moment when He was on the cross,
the veil of the temple was torn in half.
1. Matt 27:51-54—and behold, the veil of the
temple was torn in two from top to bottom;
and the earth shook and the rocks were split.
52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies
of the saints who had fallen asleep were
raised; 53 and coming out of the tombs after
His resurrection they entered the holy city and
appeared to many.
2. Hebrews 10:18—Now where there is
forgiveness of these things, there is no longer
any offering for sin.
K. This disruption of the temple sacrifices
was a sign that Christ had opened for us
the way into the heavenly sanctuary, so
that the animal sacrifices in the Temple
were no longer necessary. (Based on this
reference to Messiah’s ministry
culminating "in the midst of the week" it
has been believed that His earthly
ministry lasted for 3 1/2 years).
1. However, there is also a second factor to
consider. The Temple/Mishkan served as a
unifying point for a specific political nation,
the nation of Israel. Jewish people have been
wandering around the globe since 722 BCE.
One of the few national rallying points we
have had over the thousands of years was the
Jerusalem Temple. In essence, when the
Jerusalem Temple was destroyed in 70 CE to all
intents and purposes, the nation was also
destroyed. We do not mean that the people
were destroyed. We are just speaking about
the geo-political entity.
2. There had not been a piece of real estate
in which the Jewish people were permitted
to build a Temple since 70 CE, but things
changed in 1948. In fulfilment of Biblical
prophecy, the Nation of Israel was re-born
into a geo-political nation. Since 1967 we
have had a united capital city — Jerusalem
L. Over the centuries, the great commentators
have agreed that Christ is the One who confirmed
the covenant with many including:
Matthew Henry, Matthew Poole, Adam Clarke,
Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Edward Young, John
Calvin, John Wesley, Geneva Study Bible, etc). The
Church Fathers such as Tertullian, Clement of
Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius, Augustine and
Eusebius regarded the 70th week of Daniel as
having already been fulfilled by Christ’s earthly
ministry, as did the Venerable Bede, John
Wycliffe, Luther, Melancthon, John Gill, etc.
Church Fathers such as Tertullian, Clement
of Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius,
Augustine and Eusebius regarded the 70th
week of Daniel as fulfilled by Christ’s
earthly ministry, as did the Venerable
Bede, John Wycliffe, Luther, Melancthon,
John Gill, etc.
M. This is a Messianic Passage
Daniel 9:24.
1. This verse clearly describes Christ’s
earthly ministry, and tells us that all
these things, including His making
reconciliation for iniquity by dying on
the Cross.
N. Midst of the Week Clearly leaves
3.5 years or 42 Prophetic Months
decreed for Israel.
1. That would be the ministry of the
Two Witnesses. It’s focus is Israel.
1. Revelation 11:3-4—and I will grant
authority to my two witnesses, and they
will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty
days, clothed in sackcloth." These are the
two olive trees and the two lampstands
that stand before the Lord of the earth.
O. No mention of anyone breaking a
Covenant. Not Biblical.
1. Edward Young explains the correct
meaning of this confirmation of the
covenant by the Messiah:
1. "The Hebrew words are unusual. They
are sometimes interpreted as though they
meant simply ‘to make a covenant.’ Such
an interpretation, however, is incorrect, for
it does not do justice to the original which
can only mean to cause a covenant ‘to
prevail,’ or ‘to make a covenant firm.’ The
implication is that the covenant is already
in existence and that its terms and
conditions are now to be made effective
and confirmed.
P. It is better to regard the subject of this
passage as the Messiah; Clearly He has
been the most prominent Person in this
passage. The covenant which is to prevail
is the covenant of grace wherein the
Messiah, by His life and death, purchased
for God men and women from all nations.
Q. Fallacies of Applying this Passage to
anti-christ.
Many say that the "prince that shall come" in
verse 26 is the Antichrist, and that the
Antichrist will make a seven-year treaty with
the Jews in Israel at some point yet in the
future. Some have identified this as any treaty
that may be made between modern Israel and
the Palestinians. They say that whenever we
see such a treaty enacted, that will signal the
start of a 7-year period of tribulation.
There are a lot of mistaken consequences that
naturally arise from this incorrect
interpretation of Daniel’s prophecy.
1. This type of thinking results in an
irrational, morbid fear of and
inappropriate application of it
purpose.
2. How is it possible that these events in
Daniel’s prophecy, which were so
clearly fulfilled in the First Century AD
just as Daniel said they would be, can
be projected 2000 years in the future?
3. Those who insist that the 70th week is in
the antichrist say that there must be a
great slaughter of the Jews when the
Antichrist breaks the peace treaty with
them. However, there is absolutely no
mention in Daniel’s prophecy of
anyone breaking any peace treaty or
any covenant with anyone.
4. We are told that He, the Messiah, will
confirm the covenant, but there is
absolutely nothing about anyone
breaking or abrogating any covenant
or treaty.
5. In fact, there is nothing in Daniel 9:27
about making any covenant or treaty.
"He," that is, the Messiah, will confirm
the covenant in His blood that was
God and His people that He foreknew
before the foundation of the world. As
far as God was concerned the Lord
was slain before the foundation of the
world. It was always His plan to
confirm this covenant with mankind.
• Ephesians 1:4-6—Just as He chose us in Him before the
foundation of the world, that we would be holy and
blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to
adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself,
according to the kind intention of His will,
• Revelation 13:8-10—All who dwell on the earth will
worship him, everyone whose name has not been
written from the foundation of the world in the book
of life of the Lamb who has been slain. 9 If anyone has
an ear, let him hear. 10 If anyoneis destined for
captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the
sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the
perseverance and the faith of the saints.
We have seen that the prophecy of Daniel
9:27 was fulfilled 19 centuries ago, within
the time-frame predicted by Daniel and the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, we should stop applying it as a text speculative notions about "things to
come" in the Middle East in the near future
involving the anti-christ.
Tertullian, the famous Latin theologian of
Carthage, wrote many works, including
Contra Judaeos (“Against the Jews”).
1. In chapter 8 of that work he used the
seventy-weeks prophecy to argue against
the Jews that Jesus fulfilled this prophecy
in His first advent (including the Roman
capture of Jerusalem in A.D. 70) and that
the Old Covenant had been replaced by the
New.
Irenaeus wrote this long before the Roman
Empire had fallen.
"John and Daniel have predicted the
dissolution and desolation of the Roman
Empire, which shall precede the end of the
age and the millenial Kingdom of Christ.
St. Athanasius (296-372) , "When ye therefore
shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the
holy place (whoso readeth, let him
understand); then let them which be in Judea
flee into the mountains: let him which is on
the housetop not come down to take any thing
out of his house: neither let him which is in
the field return back to take his clothes" [Matt.
24:15]. Knowing these things, the Saints
regulated their conduct accordingly." (Defense
of His Flight [11])
Chrysostom "Or because he who had
desolated the city and the temple, placed
his statue within the temple." (The AnteNicene Fathers) For He brought in also a
prophecy, to confirm their desolation,
saying, "But when ye shall see the
abomination of desolation,spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy
place, let him that readeth
understand."(12) He referred them to
Daniel.
And by "abomination" He meaneth the
statue of him who then took the city, which
he who desolated the city and the temple
placed within the temple, wherefore Christ
calleth it, "of desolation." Moreover, in
order that they might learn that these
things will be while some of them are alive,
therefore He said, "When ye see the
abomination of desolation."
(Of Matthew 24:1,2)
From all accounts Jerusalem was certainly
devastated and perhaps a million Jews
were killed. But the "times of the Gentiles"
in Jerusalem continued. the Romans came
back to kill another 1/2 to 3/4 of a million
Jews less than 70 years later.
And Jerusalem was compassed with armies
not only in 70 AD but in 132, 639, 1099,
1187, 1948, 1967 and today. And those
armies are sworn to the destruction of
Israel and killing and "driving the Jews into
the sea".
Our early church fathers could never have
imagined, what we can see looking back
through history, after 1200 years of
Islamization of Jerusalem rendered the city
so physically and spiritually desolate by the
beginning of the 19th century, as the
accounts of those how visited Jerusalem in
the 19th century attest:
In "A History of the Jews" Paul Johnson
writes on page 321: "Between 1827 and
1839, largely through British efforts, the
population of Jerusalem rose from 550 to
5,500 and in all Palestine it topped 10,000 the real beginning of the Jewish return to
the Promised Land. In 1838 Palmerston
appointed the first western vice-consul in
Jerusalem, W.T. Young, and told him 'to
afford protection to the Jews generally'.
" In 1835 Alphonse de Lamartine wrote:
“Outside the city of Jerusalem, we saw no
living object, heard no living sound. . .a
complete eternal silence reigns in the
town, in the highways, in the country.”
In 1844, William Thackeray writes about
the road from Jaffa to Jerusalem: “Now the
district is quite deserted, and you ride
among what seem to be so many petrified
waterfalls. We saw no animals moving
among the stony brakes; scarcely even a
dozen little birds in the whole course of the
ride.”
In 1857, the British consul in Palestine,
James Finn, reported: “The country is in a
considerable degree empty of inhabitants
and therefore its greatest need is that of a
body of population.”
In 1866, W.M. Thomson writes: “How
melancholy is this utter desolation. Not a
house, not a trace of inhabitants, not even
shepherds, to relieve the dull monotony …
Much of the country through which we
have been rambling for a week appears
never to have been inhabited, or even
cultivated; and there are other parts, you
say, still more barren.”
In 1867, Mark Twain – Samuel Clemens,
the famous author of “Huckleberry Finn”
and “Tom Sawyer”, toured the Holy Land.
This is how he described the land: “There is
not a solitary village throughout its whole
extent; not for thirty miles in either
direction… One may ride ten miles
hereabouts and not see ten human beings
… Nazareth is forlorn… Jericho lies a
mouldering ruin…
… Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty
and humiliation… untenanted by any living
creature… A desolate country whose soil is
rich enough but is given over wholly to
weeds. A silent, mournful expanse. We
never saw a human being on the whole
route. There was hardly a tree or a shrub
anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus,
those fast friends of a worthless soil, had
almost deserted the country.”[11]
In 1874, Reverend Samuel Manning wrote:
“But where were the inhabitants? This
fertile plain, which might support an
immense population, is almost a solitude….
Day by day we were to learn afresh the
lesson now forced upon us, that the
denunciations of ancient prophecy have
been fulfilled to the very letter — “the land
is left void and desolate and without
inhabitants.”
In 1892, B. W. Johnson writes: “In the
portion of the plain between Mount
Carmel and Jaffa one sees but rarely a
village or other sights of human life… A ride
of half an hour more brought us to the
ruins of the ancient city of Cæsarea, once a
city of two hundred thousand inhabitants,
and the Roman capital of Palestine, but
now entirely deserted… I laid upon my
couch at night, to listen to the moaning of
the waves and to think of the desolation
around us.”
Today Jerusalem and Israel is fully
inhabited and flourishes just as the Bible
predicted to indicate we are living in the
very last days. God took that barren,
forsaken land and caused it to become a
flourishing garden with streams and rivers
and a beautiful habitation in fulfillment of
last day prophecy.