HI Ross. Don't know where you come up with all this ages of Israel and all and that the 490 years ended with Jesus birth in 4-6 B.C. It always is a mystery to me why people feel compelled to add to the simple teachings of Scripture!
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Vse. 24 490 years have been decreed for Israel to end her transgression (it is singular not transgressions) finish sins and end iniquity. this follows the prophecies in Ez. 20:33-38 and Zech. 12:8-9 that Israel will finish her sin.
As I only commented on verse 24, I will only respond to the portions of your rebuttal of my post which deals with verse 24 in your post.
Here are two translation which cover verse 24: -
Daniel 9:24: - 24 "Seventy weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
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 the Most Holy.
To finish the transgression,
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 the Most Holy.
NKJV
Daniel 9:24: - 24 "Seventy weeks have been determinedconcerning your people and your holy city
to put an end to rebellion,
to bring sin to completion.
To atone for iniquity,
to bring in perpetual righteousness,
to seal up the prophetic vision,
and to anoint a most holy place.
to put an end to rebellion,
to bring sin to completion.
To atone for iniquity,
to bring in perpetual righteousness,
to seal up the prophetic vision,
and to anoint a most holy place.
The NET Bible®
In both translations, the eight lines of the verse as written in the respective two translations can be broken into two distinct parts. The first four lines in each translation is dealing with the Nation of Israel and their corporate sin of continual idolatrous worship, to finish the transgression and to make an end of their sins or as expressed in the NET, "to bring sin to completion."
In both translation, the next four lines, is telling what will occur after the 490 years of the Lords Grace for the nation of Israel to repent of their sins committed up to that time and to put to an end those respective sin(s), concerns what the servant Israel, i.e. Christ, will achieve on the cross.
That was the main point of my post.
However I did put the context of the time spans for the completion of their sin with respect to Exodus 20:4-6 which speaks of the visitation of the iniquities of the idolatrous worship of the nation of Israel of the fathers during the first two ages of their existence during the next two ages upon their children and the children's children during the third and the fourth ages of their existence.
Now your two references, Ez. 20:33-38 and Zech. 12:8-9, speaks of this present time in our near future, when God will gather the nation of Israel to Himself and purge them of the rebels against God and the renewing of His Kingdom of Priests, a Holy Nation and His Possession among the Nations covenant which they had rebelled against at Mt Sinai. These two prophecies do not begin until the completion of the visitation of their iniquities upon the fathers children during the third and the fourth age.
The Ezekiel 20:33-38 passage I would paraphrase in this manner: -
God Will Restore Israel
33 "As I live," says the Lord God, "surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you. 34 I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out. 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face. 36 Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land/country of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you," says the Lord God.
37 "I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; 38 I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country/earth where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land/fertile field of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
37 "I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; 38 I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country/earth where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land/fertile field of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
The Zechariah 12:7-9 passage speaks of God protecting the city of Jerusalem and the house of Judah from the nations coming once more to trample God's earthly hosts when the nations will assemble at Armageddon.
Because nearly two and a half ages have passed since Daniel penned chapter 9, we are better able to understand what the context of verse 24 is.
Shalom
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