Hi DTS,DanielTheSmith said:
One thing we need to pay attention is the "COMING of an anointed one", so this is a soft transition rather than a hard transition. As such this does not appear in the Psalms until 1948 (see Psalms 48), when David BenGuriion had fully arrived to the nation which he helped conceive:
As early as 1909, Yitzchak Ben Zvi and David Ben Gurion started organizing a secret defense organization in the expectation that Judea would rise again.[1]#_ftn1 By 1917, the British had defeated the Turkish Ottoman’s hold on Palestine, occupying significant regions of the middle east. But borders acceptable to Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Egypt had to be negotiated. They were finally established on December 4, 1918 by the British and French.
These boundaries left the Zionists disappointed, but a “Balfour Declaration” issued on November 18, 1918 did provide some assurance. This British document laid the foundation for a Zionist state by the key phrase, “a national home for the Jewish people,” as interpreted by the French, German, and Hebrew with the “connotation of a cozy corner,” but the Arabic translation used the term, “Watan Qaumi,” which meant “national fatherland,” a much more substantiative term.[2]#_ftn2
One of the earliest economic/political/military Zionist organizations was the Histadrut in 1920. David Ben Gurion was made the first Secretary General, and he established a ‘State within a State,’ in Palestine. Ten years later, the Mapai, the Israeli Workers Party, was founded with Ben Gurion as its leader. By 1935, he was elected both chairman of the Zionist Executive and the head of the Jewish Agency.[3]#_ftn3
Truly, David Ben Gurion’s presence was manifest in the prophesied year of 1931 (“from the going forth of the word... to the coming of an anointed one ... there shall be seven weeks”). He continued as a political stalwart, holding the reins of leadership as Prime Minister from 1948 to 1953, and again from 1955 to 1963.
[SIZE=8pt][1][/SIZE] [SIZE=12pt]Amos Elon, Israelis Founders and Sons, Rinehart and Winston, NY, 1971, p. 118[/SIZE]
[SIZE=8pt][2][/SIZE] IBID, pp. 174-175
[SIZE=8pt][3][/SIZE] “David Ben Gurion,” New Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, IL, 15th Ed., Vol. 2, p. 88
So next we should consider that Israel was conceived during troubled times demanding ever increasing defenses:
Dan. 9:25
Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
Note: One should be aware that Israel NEVER HAD A MOAT. In fact, this "moat" has the inference of a political rather than physical influence.
And the next verse:
Dan. 9:26
And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing;
The event “(a)nd after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing” was fulfilled on November 4, 1995, with the political assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. His death left Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres as the Premier, and in a difficult position. Where Peres had opposed the accord which traded occupied land for ‘peace,’ he immediately found himself obligated to continue Rabin’s policies -- contrary to his and many other Israeli’s preferences. Interestingly enough, the gunman, Yigal Mair, had intended to kill both Rabin and Peres in the November 4th Peace Rally, but Peres left a few minutes early, causing the assassin to focus on his main target. Had Mair succeeded in his dual attempt, Israel would have been left rudderless, “without a successor of sufficient stature to lead the complex peace process.”[1]#_ftn1
[SIZE=8pt][1][/SIZE] Dan Perry, “Police: Peres Was Also On Hit List,” Associated Press, Amarillo Globe, Nov. 24, 1995, p. 14A
With Best Regards,
DD
