Daniel 9:27; "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured unon the desolate."
Daniel 9:24-27 is probably the most fought over verses in scripture for christians today. Instead, let's just do one. Verse 27.
HERE WE SEE IN SUMMARY OF DANIEL 9:24-27 that verse 27 says:
(1) finish the transgression
(2) and to make an end of sins,
(3) and to make reconciliation for iniquity,
(4) and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
(5) and to seal up the vision and prophey,
(6) and to anoint the most holy.
Who finishes the transgression, makes an end to sins, makes reconciliation for iniquity, brings in everlasting righteousness, seals up and anoints the most holy? Jesus Christ.
The transgression started when Eve picked the apple.
"and he shall confirm the covenant," Galatians 3:17; "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect."
The term covenant is not the same word as treaty.
We separate the Bible into the Old Testament and the New Testament, and the "testament" is interchangeable with the term covenant.
Hebrews 9:15; "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance."
A treaty is a political instrument that is used between nations and is not a sacred agreement between God and man.
In the Old Testament, God made an agreement with man that if the people will adhere to His "covenant," He would protect and keep them and be their God. This is articulated in Exodus with the children of Israel where God says, "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people.," (Exodus 19:5) In the very passage in question in Daniel, which is prophetic on its face, God further promises that He will bring the Messiah who will confirm the covenant that He has already made.
Although it is a new covenant in that it brings out certain characteristics that were somewhat veiled in the Old Testament, becuase it is a covenant with Israel, it is actually a renewal of the covenant that God made through Moses. Thus in Jeremiah, God says, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel." (Jeremiah 31:31)
Therefore, about fifty years after God promised to Jeremiah that He would remember Israel with another covenant that will build upon the existing covenant, He tell Daniel that "the Messiah the Prince...shall confirm the covenant with many.." (Daniel 9:25,27)
Paul stated: "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after (Galatians 3:17) Through this confirmation, we learn that Christ is the heir of all the promises. He is the Seed of Abraham upon whom the blessings are bestowed, and He is the only one who "brings in everlasting righteousness. (Daniel 9:2).
Israel did not recognize the time of their visitation from God that brought the nation of Israel to the overspreading of abominations that were the natural outgrowth of their refusal to recognize Jesus as their promised Messiah.
I had TOTALLY forgotten it and yet its so relevant and chucks out the augustinian view of amil and postmil but yet doesnt back up or support dispensationalism, i too, like you have a different view. I am a classic premi futuristl but also a covenantalist