Dan 9.26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
Here is the essence of what is being said, in the bold above. Messiah would come to bring final salvation to Israel. But before that happens, the temple will fall on hard times. Sounds a lot like the Olivet Discourse, in which Jesus surprised the Disciples by saying the temple, instead of bringing deliverance to Israel, would instead be destroyed.
Remember the story in which Israel brought the ark into battle, thinking it would win the war with the Philistines? But instead of winning the war, the undeserving Israelites lost the ark to the Philistines. see 1 Sam 4.
The Jewish Religion could not, without purging, bring deliverance to Israel. The temple would have to be destroyed, and a new "temple" set up whereby faithful Israelites could obtain favor with God while the majority fell away.
So here in this prophecy, Dan 9, we see the temple being rebuilt after the Babylonian Captivity. And instead of saying it would bring final salvation for Israel, Daniel is shown that it too would be desolated, along with Jerusalem. This new "holy of holies" had to be anointed, to usher in final salvation. I speak of Christ. With the old temple, Christ was cut off and had nothing.
The covenant established in the 70th Week fulfills all of the things spoken of in 9.24, which I believe has to do with the Messiah. He accomplished those things, even as the Jews largely fell away, along with their temple. So the final Week of Daniel's 70 Weeks had to do with confirming a covenant with the Jews that could not be fulfilled through the Law and through the temple. It would have to be fulfilled through the cutting off both of Messiah and the temple.
In other words, the final Week consists of Christ confirming the Abrahamic Covenant apart from the temple structure. The last Week consisted of Messiah's life until he is cut off. That is when he confirmed the covenant.
Here is the essence of what is being said, in the bold above. Messiah would come to bring final salvation to Israel. But before that happens, the temple will fall on hard times. Sounds a lot like the Olivet Discourse, in which Jesus surprised the Disciples by saying the temple, instead of bringing deliverance to Israel, would instead be destroyed.
Remember the story in which Israel brought the ark into battle, thinking it would win the war with the Philistines? But instead of winning the war, the undeserving Israelites lost the ark to the Philistines. see 1 Sam 4.
The Jewish Religion could not, without purging, bring deliverance to Israel. The temple would have to be destroyed, and a new "temple" set up whereby faithful Israelites could obtain favor with God while the majority fell away.
So here in this prophecy, Dan 9, we see the temple being rebuilt after the Babylonian Captivity. And instead of saying it would bring final salvation for Israel, Daniel is shown that it too would be desolated, along with Jerusalem. This new "holy of holies" had to be anointed, to usher in final salvation. I speak of Christ. With the old temple, Christ was cut off and had nothing.
The covenant established in the 70th Week fulfills all of the things spoken of in 9.24, which I believe has to do with the Messiah. He accomplished those things, even as the Jews largely fell away, along with their temple. So the final Week of Daniel's 70 Weeks had to do with confirming a covenant with the Jews that could not be fulfilled through the Law and through the temple. It would have to be fulfilled through the cutting off both of Messiah and the temple.
In other words, the final Week consists of Christ confirming the Abrahamic Covenant apart from the temple structure. The last Week consisted of Messiah's life until he is cut off. That is when he confirmed the covenant.
which was cut off from apostate Israel before the Roman War. (i.e. run for the hills, get out of Judea).
masiah karat am - an anointed on is cut off from the people
Genesis 17
14 Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people (karat am); he has broken my covenant.