Daniel 9:27 says, “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.”
This whole passage is focused upon Calvary and the irreversible effect it had on Israel’s religious sacrifices and the oblations. The first thing we see is that in God’s economy it caused them to cease. In the economy of the religious Jews at the time of Calvary they stubbornly and sinfully continued to practice their sacrifices. The whole focus of Jewish religious worship was centered on the temple. It was here that the Jews came to make their typical atoning sacrifices.
The Judaic religious sacrificial system was brought to an end through Christ’s one final all-sufficient sacrifice at the cross. God Almighty, through the person of His Son. As Jesus was dying, he cried: “It is finished.”
At Calvary, Jesus finished transgression by becoming sin for us. God was completely satisfied with this spotless once all-sufficient sacrifice of His own dear Son and thus immediately and eternally rent the veil of the temple in twain. Calvary therefore finished the imperfect sacrifices. Mark 15:37 records, “Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.”
From a heavenly perspective the renting of the veil finished the temple sacrifices and oblations. Christ’s vicarious atonement satisfied all the just demands of a thrice-holy God. In this term we see how Christ has met or satisfied all the demands made by the Law and justice of God, on behalf of and in the place of his elect. By His self sacrifice he obtained complete justification for the child of God. The consequence of Christ’s atonement was the putting away of the old, forever, including the subsequent and consequential destruction of the physical Jewish temple.
