It's written
in Hebrew. The Hebrew word sabua (week) is not preceded with any qualification like in the English translation which says
for one week. The Hebrew text does not imply that He will take one whole week or the entire week to confirm the covenant - it tells us that He will confirm the covenant during one of the weeks, and the text makes it obvious that it's during the final week, and it tells us
when He will confirm the covenant during that week - in the midst of that week, and this is the covenant:
I'm told by another Hebrew guy Daniel just said "week", one week. Those vowel points being added later. "From the memorization of men who were gifted to accurately memorize long passages of oral readings, men called
choyzers.
But these translations are not what this all hinges on. There has to be a final full and complete 70th week, or it wouldn't be a week. There's other ancillary evidence which points to this week having to be happening now, and the specifications being completed, just prior to Christ's Second Appearance. Because when He appears, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
"Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah" (Jeremiah 31:31)
Sorry man, you're on the wrong covenant. Jesus is not coming back to start up the house of Israel, and the house of Judah again. They are just over there holding up the sign right now that reads: "Jesus is coming soon". They're only over there to issue the command in 1969 to rebuild the Old City of Jerusalem.
This falls into the category of: "To seal up vision and prophecy.
To Seal Both Vision and Prophet.
God had three prophets in operation at the same time. Daniel, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. Three prophets prophesying, but He was giving them two different end time narratives, Everything would hinge on Israel's behaviour during the 70 weeks, and especially the first half of the 70th week.. 70 weeks were determined, 70 weeks were "chawthak" or cut off. It really was Old Israel's one last and final chance:
- to finish the transgression,
- to put an end to sin,
- to atone for iniquity,
- to bring in everlasting righteousness,
- to seal both vision and prophet,
- to anoint a most holy place.
It was in their midst. All that they would have had to do was to accept their Messiah. It's why John the Baptist was always saying that the Kingdom of God was at hand. Because it really was at hand right then and there. If the Old Time Jews would have cooperated and accepted their Messiah it would have been a completely different world right now. Daniel would have remained forever sealed, Revelation would have never been written. We would have built Ezekiel's Temple sometime in the middle ages.
The original plan was for the Jews to accept their Messiah, then Jesus would have began the Kingdom of God on earth right away because it really was "at hand" at that time. John the Baptist would not have died the way that he did, "lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction". Jesus would have sent disciples out from Jerusalem to invite anyone who wanted to be saved to come and live there in the Kingdom of God in the 1st century. The good news of the Kingdom of God would have travelled far and fast. Jerusalem would have eventually grown to such a huge population that it's walls could no longer contain it.
Then, after some time, Satan in the guise of Gog Magog would attempt to attack the unwalled Holy City but Jesus would destroy him and his army where they stood and we would spend the next seven years burying them and burning their wooden weapons. And the wolf would lay down with the lamb and we could watch an infant stick his hand into a viper's den while we built Ezekiel's Temple. Jesus' 1st century disciples would have never had to ask:
“Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
It would have been happening right before their eyes.
But now instead, Paul gets knocked off his horse, the NT and Revelation gets written, Daniel gets unsealed for the final generation, we get an end time Babylon, an end time Antichrist, mark of the beast, two witnesses of 144,000, Jesus makes His second Visitation and we have a brand New Jerusalem with an end time variation on Gog Magog.
Does this describe how the crucifixion occurred?:
Him Whom They Have Pierced
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.
Or is this describing the original method of how Jesus would have been sacrificed as the Lamb if humanity had not turned Him over to the enemy? I don't remember too many of those tribes weeping very hard. Just mostly His family and close friends.
But what is Israel doing over there now?
Why did they become a nation again in 1948?
It's looking to me like everything that has taken place in the world since 1535 has been so that Israel would become a nation again in 1948. The Ottoman empire, WW1, WW2, 1948 and all the trees. But the one and the only reason for all this to happen was so that Israel could recapture Jerusalem in 1967 `and then in 1969 create a reason for the Knesset to make an official decree to "restore and build Jerusalem". It's all about Jerusalem, and the two modern day decrees to restore and rebuild.
"Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks.
This was written 2600 years ago and at that time there may not have been a second coming required. The Jews might have redeemed the 70 weeks in the first century. Jesus would have come one time only and never ascended back to heaven, making a second coming unnecessary. Daniel 9 had to be written in such a way to include both the primary visitation of Jesus AND the possibility of a secondary visitation in a compact and simultaneous fashion.
Causing the system of sacrifice and offering for sins to cease:
Isaiah 1:11-17
"To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says the LORD; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
Bring no more vain sacrifice; incense is an abomination to Me; the new moon and sabbath, the going to meeting; I cannot endure evil and the assembly! Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they are a trouble to Me; I am weary to bear them.
Remember when God was telling Moses to make sure that he built the temple according to the plan that was shown him on the mountain?
"See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."
That's because it was an exact pattern of the one in heaven's temple. If there were to be an alter of incense and a golden censer of coals in the Israelite temple, the exact same items must exist in the true tent in heaven.
Whatever the detail and purpose of this service in heaven's temple, I hesitate to speculate, it came to an end in Revelation 8:
"Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
When the angel took that censer "and threw it on the earth", that is the end of that service. I read it like a sense of righteous indignation. It reminds me of when Moses threw the 10 commandments at the children of Israel.
(27: But in the middle of the week
He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.)
If I am correct about where we are in this last heptad of 70 weeks, this would have been taking place mid point through 2021. Those last few sentences in Daniel 9 from the verse 27 on down must be things that are happening now.
The greatest event in the history of mankind was the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead nearly 2,000 years ago.
I hear you on this, Amen.
But lets check back on your opinion when the saints from all of history are resurrected, then we who are alive and remain will join them to illuminate the stratosphere, and all the tribes remaining on earth will mourn at the sign of the Son of Man.
