Daniel 9 contains both restorative elements and destructive elements.
In Daniel 9:24–25, we find the restorative side of the prophecy. Verse 24 gives the spiritual and redemptive restoration: to finish transgression, make an end of sins, make reconciliation for iniquity, bring in everlasting righteousness, seal up vision and prophecy, and anoint the Most Holy. Verse 25 gives the physical restoration: the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, with street and wall, even in troubled times.
Those restorative elements were to take place within the seventy weeks. The city would be restored, and Messiah would come. Then Messiah would accomplish the redemptive purposes of verse 24 through His ministry, death, resurrection, and covenant-confirming work. But here is the important point: although those redemptive accomplishments were fulfilled within the seventy weeks, their consequences did not end when the seventy weeks ended.
The reconciliation for iniquity accomplished by Christ continues to bless believers to this day. The everlasting righteousness He brought in does not expire at the end of the seventy weeks. The finishing of transgression, the making an end of sins, the sealing up of vision and prophecy, and the anointing of the Most Holy all have continuing effects in God’s plan of salvation. They were accomplished within the seventy weeks, but their results continue until the end.
So fulfillment within the seventy weeks does not mean every consequence of that fulfillment must be exhausted within the seventy weeks. That same principle should be applied to the destructive elements in Daniel 9:26–27.
Yes, the Passion Week of Christ had significant repercussions not only on the Old Covenant nation of Israel, but also repercussions upon Gentile & Jew alike throughout all ages. Those repercussions are good for whosoever among mankind shall be eternally saved, or the repercussions are bad for whosoever among mankind remains in darkness and unbelief.
I agree the siege against the nation through the Roman Army was the
physical repercussion for their sins against God, especially the great sin and abomination of crucifying the Lord. But the even
greater repercussion against them was spiritual, not physical. The spiritual separation from God came when Christ came riding into Jerusalem on a donkey proclaiming to be the Messiah Prince they had long been told would come. Just as the Old Covenant apostate nation had rejected the one True God, so also, the Old Covenant apostate nation rejected the Son. Their punishment had long ago been foretold. God had called the nation to be a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, but again, and again they rejected God.
Exodus 19:6 (KJV) And
ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Even the priests of Old Covenant Israel would be destroyed through lack of knowledge of God. “
For lack of knowledge, which you, O priest, should have kept alive in their hearts.” The knowledge of God is life eternal. The entire priesthood had rejected the knowledge of God.
The Lord’s controversy repudiates the entire priesthood, as they had rejected the true knowledge of God. The priests led the nation down the path of spiritual adultery, fornication, idol worship etc. etc. etc. which caused the whole nation to turn away from God, except for the remnant of them, elect according to grace.
John 17:3 (KJV) And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Jeremiah 4:22 (KJV) For
my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
It was when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey (the one week), and the vast majority of the nation of Old rejected Christ the words Christ spoke came to pass:
Mark 8:31 (KJV) And he began to teach them, that
the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
The cross was the ultimate and final act of hardened hearts of rebellion against God for the Old Covenant nation. This is the abomination of desolation that Daniel prophesied. Telling His disciples from the Mount of Olives that when they come to know, understand, perceive, see for themselves the abomination of desolation, where it should not be, they should flee to the mountains. Ye “
shall see the abomination of desolation,”....”
stand in the holy place”. IOW when the disciples understand the once holy place (City & Temple) of God is an abomination and become a desolation through spiritual wickedness and harlotry led of those priests and leaders who were appointed to hold up the Covenant as an example of obedience unto God. The Priests, Pharisees, and Sanhedrin had all become abominable before God and through them the entire Old Covenant nation of Israel came to utter ruin forever.
Because this was the last act of rebellion from Old Covenant apostate Israel, that would forevermore leave the nation in utter darkness, never to see the Light of Christ until they acknowledge “
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.” Because from that final Passion Week forward, the Old has been altogether done away through the New Covenant of Christ come to give His life a ransom of many.
Once Christ confirmed the New Covenant through His death and resurrection, everything from Old, the sacrifices and oblations ceased forever in the eyes of God, because the cross was the final overspreading of abominations that brought the Old nation to ruin
spiritually. What is ordained for the desolate of Old Covenant Israel is that which has been determined by God until the consummation, or until the completion or end in final destruction ordained for them.
Daniel 9:27 (KJV) 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.
We can’t rightly understand the prophesy of Daniel if we try to understand it through past physical history. The physical destruction of 70 AD. This is the mistake the Preterit makes, and one like it, Premillennialists casting the abomination of desolation into the far distant future just before Christ comes again. The only proper understanding of the prophesy shall come when we understand that Christ made a complete end of the literal, physical nation of God, that nation of Old is spiritually gone forever since the final week of Christ come to earth a man. It’s been replaced by the spiritual Kingdom of God that Christ came with when He came to earth, and through Him, His Spirit in us, the church would be built up:
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But a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”
One last thing. I know you believe God delayed sending the Roman Army to utterly, physically destroy Israel as a way of 40 years of testing as we find elsewhere in the Bible. I still believe that God gave them this time to fill up their transgressions and sins. I believe God gave Israel of Old this additional 40 years, for their sins against the church that Christ said, “
I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”. That didn’t keep the Jews from coming into churches with lies and false prophets and false doctrine to lead astray the new converts to Christ. Teaching them they must keep the law of Moses if they desired to be saved. Many times Jewish converts faced persecution from Jewish authorities. The Pharisees and the Sanhedrin continued to oppose the Gospel of Jesus and the apostles. Although 70 AD did not make a complete end of persecutions of Christians by apostate Jews, it greatly lessened the tensions between the two. Early Christians, who initially came from Judaism began to establish their identity as a separate religion. You can see how forty years might have been the amount of time God allotted the apostate Jews to fill up their iniquities, then bring complete utter physical destruction upon them.