Zone:
I am trying to understand your last week:
Your last week began at the baptism of Christ
crucifixion 3.5 years later - i can underatand this and can be proven by 3.5 years of his ministry.
But can you prove that the stoning of stephen/rejection of HS by the jews occured 3.5 years after crucifixion?
i don't know.
i would have to focus entirely on that.
might be able to come close. that would involve all dates in scripture.
there are already lots who have worked on it.
but don't know if anyone has to
prove it.
there are two choices:
1) the 70th week was a period of 7 years (the last of the 70 prophesied, and followed the 69th without a break) which involved Jesus and Israel, and is complete (the fact that the judgment of Titus happened afterwards is pretty good evidence the 70th was complete
)
2) the 70th week is not complete - is some other combination of ideas - any of which involve a gap of 2000 years (or so).
And as to the gap thing:
The vision did not say consecutive but seventy weeks.
watcher...God is not the author of confusion.
if He meant to say that something would happen...then something else would happen way way later, He would have said so.
the very idea that He laid out a time and location specific prophecy for the most important event in history to date should make us take notice.
and be very careful about (for some reason unfathomable to me) cutting that time specific prophecy apart and shuffling it around. talk about changing times and seasons!
whew.
Can you admit that it is possible that the vision compose of two events:
1- 7+62 : rebuilding of city up to messiah
2. 1 - destruction of city and sanctuary/ confirming the covenant.
the passages in question focus on the 70 weeks.
that's all about the Promise.
the destruction of Jerusalem is added because it is the closure of it all....when the indignation is complete.
the destruction of Jerusalem (Titus) is NOT within the 70 weeks.
it followed 40 years later.
it's NOT part of the 70 weeks.
as long as you keep that straight, of course i can agree the prophecy has two parts to it.
1) Jesus & The Promise
2) the destruction 40 years later by the people (Romans) of the prince who was to come - Titus.
The destruction of the city and sanctuary did not occured 3.5 years after crucifixion, so definitely another event if we consider that the vision talks about only of the 70 weeks.
answered above.
it's like this:
Hey Watcher:
Here's something i wanted to tell you about...we already talked about it briefly over coffee.
You are about to lose your home to the banks.
Your entire neighborhood is in the same predicament.
I agreed to bail you out, at no charge. I told you for years I would be there for you.
So, STARTING next week i will meet you at the coffee shop and we will arrange for you everything you need to survive,
and i'll help you with everything we discussed.
It will take exactly ONE YEAR for us to accomplish everything we need to do to save you.
when that YEAR is complete, everything i promised in order to SAVE you will be complete.
but i'm adding a warning and reminder
that AFTER our YEAR (meaning, in the very next phase of time that follows one year - another year; the next year; the following year) the rest of the neighborhood will be foreclosed on, because they didn't want my help.
Because i have inside information - 'll even tell you that The Acme Eviction Company will come, which is owned by someone you don't know because he hasn't been made the CEO yet. i'm telling you this, even though you won't be there, because this is a PUBLIC RECORD of what is going to happen, so everyone will know, even those who never read it.
(too much coffeeeee)
Though, Jesus was the Lamb that take away the sins.
The Jews continued their daily sacrifice in the temple, until it finally ceased when the temple was destroyed in 70AD.
and?
was God pleased with or honoring those sacrifices after Jesus was sacrificed?
or was He PATIENT?
