Dear Covenantee,
Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
This verse is difficult to understand if you don't have a full understanding of the pathway to salvation that the Elect will travel. I'll try to explain below.
The verse is teaching about the spiritual conversion of the Elect under the New Covenant (after the Messiah is cut off).
First, let's identify and define the key terms:
- The "people of the Prince" (Anointed One) are the Elect (spiritual Jews).
- The "flood" represents judgment, as in the Thousand Years Reign as shown in Rev 19.
- The "city" is Old Jerusalem which represents the "worse than the first" carnality of a fallen away believer (Man of Sin).
- The "sanctuary" is the Old Temple which represents a fallen away believer who "practices lawlessness" (Mat 7:23). In other words, the believer (Man of Sin) approaches Christ by their own "works" as the Old Covenant of Law requires. It is the Old Temple (Man of Sin) that will be destroyed. It is not talking about the literal physical temple.
- The "end of the war" represents the moment of conversion. The war occurs within a believer between the Holy Spirit and the believer's carnality. The believer's carnality is worsened when the spirit of anti-Christ indwells them. The war ends when Christ gives the fallen away believer the Latter Rain and judgment.
- The "desolations are determined" represents when the spirit of anti-Christ enters the Elect believer and causes them to fall away. This event is called the Abomination of Desolation and is mentioned by Christ in Mat 24:15.
The pathway to salvation for an Elect believer begins when Christ comes to them and gives them the Early Rain of the Spirit. Because the Early Rain is a "small amount", the believer is left spiritually blind and carnal. Satan takes advantage of the believer's weaknesses and deceives them via the spirit of anti-Christ. This causes the Abomination of Desolation within the believer. This causes the believer to spiritually die and become "worse than the first; a Man of Sin. They will remain in this lost condition until Christ comes to them a "second time" and pours out the Latter Rain and judgment. This judgment is called the Thousand Years Reign and is when Christ and the newly born again child of God judges their own worsened carnality. After the new child of God has destroyed the Old Jerusalem and the Old Temple, they are converted and saved.
What I have briefly explained above is what all end-time prophecy (including the book of Revelation) teaches.
I will be travelling for the next few days so this is going to be my last post until I return home. I do have a website (shown below my member name) which teaches the pathway to salvation in detail if you have an interest in learning more.
Joe
