I've already talked about how I now believe the 70th Week of Daniel is Nisan of 30 AD to Adar of 37 AD.
But I've been putting a lot of thought into specifically Daniel 9:27 and am starting to think it's about The Passion in even more ways.
First of all what is the Abomination?
This ties in with how I have come to view John 5:43 as fulfilled by John 19:15 when the Chief Priest says "We have no King but Caesar". I've already talked about how Israel demanding a Human King was them rejecting YHWH as their King, and Caesar was being worshiped as a living God in the Eastern Provinces. The High Priest committed this idolatrous Abomination the same day he later had to offer the Passover Sacrifice in The Temple.
And as I've pointed out before the "he" associated with the Abomination isn't in the Hebrew, it's not identifying any person as setting it up.
The Hebrew word for "Desolation" or "Desolate" is a word that can also be translated "Abandoned" Jeremiah's Desolation of Jerusalem is about Jerusalem being depopulated after it was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar, but it can also be connected to YHWH's Divine presence leaving The Temple at that same time. Whatever Divine presence the Second Temple had (in John 4) left it at or before Pentecost to indwell in The Church which is why it's gone in Acts 7.
This word is used twice in Daniel 9:27 however. In the KJV the verse ends with "upon the desolate" in some translations the last word is "desolator" but in the Young's Literal Translation it's "Desolate one". On the Cross I think the "abandoned one" is Jesus "my God, my God, why has thou Forsaken me".
The Consummation and that which was determined or "the decreed end" was poured out onto Jesus on The Cross and then He said "it is finished".
Wasn't Jesus crucified at the end of the 69 weeks? Why then is there still to be poured upon him at the end of verse 27? And what exactly are you saying that the desolating thing upon the wing of abominations is?
ReplyDeleteI think it's a little simplistic to interpret the Prophecy that way, the final verses about the whole of the 70th Week.
DeleteRegardless, I'm not seeing how you apply verse 27's events to 30 - 37 AD. If Jesus is the "covenant-confirmer" then why is this covenant only said to be confirmed for a week? When did the sacrifices stop? I'm not getting your explanation for the Abomination either. The high priest refuses Christ for Caesar and sacrifices the Passover later? What's that got to do with one who makes desolate being on the wing of abominations(whatever that means)?
ReplyDeleteI think it's possible "confirm the covenant for one week" could be interpreted as meaning it took at Week to Confirm it.
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