The Seventy-Weeks Prophecy
20 Now while I
was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God, 21 yes, while I
was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, [
c]being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering. 22 And he informed
me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand. 23 At the beginning of your supplications the [
d]command went out, and I have come to tell
you, for you
are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision:
24 “Seventy [
e]weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
[
f]To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint [
g]the Most Holy.
Daniel 9 has been debated forever the meaning.
V24 reads to me as if it has been accomplished.
Christ has been anointed, He has been given all power over earth and in heaven.
Christ's death finished the transgression and made an end of sins. bringing in everlasting righteousness for His people
And our citizenship is in heaven, where is Mt Zion, our holy city, New Jerusalem, where God dwells with His people.
Hebrews 12
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the [
a]general assembly and church of the firstborn
who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Revelation 21
All Things Made New
Now I saw a
new heaven and a
new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John,
saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God
is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them
and be their God.
Hebrews 9:26
He then would have had to suffer often
since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
Hebrews 10
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come,
and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once [
a]purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3 But in those
sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For
it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—
In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’ ”
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and
offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure
in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, [
b]O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10
By that will we have been [c]sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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