Everything hangs on Daniel 9, the 70 weeks. let me explain.
Every prophecy teacher will always comes back to the foundational part of Daniel 9 so that's why it is so important to look at the foundation first...
Daniel 9:25 "Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One (Jesus), the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. (reference to Nehemiah and the rebuilding of the wall)
There are 490 years, the 70 sevens. From the time of the commandment to go back and to rebuild and restore Jerusalem, that is recorded is the seventh chapter of the book of Ezra where the King of Persia send Ezra back to rebuild and restore Jerusalem. That year was the autum of 457BC. That's when Daniels prophecy begins. It ends 490 years later. When you go from BC into AD you go all the way over into the autum of AD34. 457BC to AD34 is the time period of un-interrupted chronological time. You must understand, this is so important. Daniel prophecy is 70 weeks, covers a times period of un interrupted chronological time, 457BC when Ezra went back (Ezra 7) all the way over to the stoning of Stephen in Acts 7.
What you must understand is verse 26
"Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
It is pretty evident that that was when prince Titus came in and destroyed the city of Jerusalem, the Jewish wars 66AD until AD70.
One reason the enemy has muddled the waters is because if our Jewish friends all over the world would have understood this scripture they would have seen that the Messiah had to come before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD. Scofield, Larken, Moody say there are two princes in this chapter but you will see there is only One.
From the time that Ezra went back in 457BC unto Jesus coming down into the Jordan river to be baptized by John was 483 years. That's how Daniel says it.
"Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks:"
That is 69 weeks of 483 years.
From Ezra going back until the public of the anouncement of Messiah the prince where the Father spoke from heaven, Matthew 3:17: " This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased".
Please get this...
From Ezra's day, down to the time when Jesus came to be baptised was 483 years, and the 69th week ended when He stepped in the water.
The 70th week began when He came out of the water and for the next 3,5 years the first half of the 70th week, was Jesus public ministry.
The last 3,5 years of the 70th week Jesus still moved through the apostles by the power of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem among the Jews.
Jesus death, burrial, resurrection, assension and the consequent coming of the Holy Spirit to empower the church is what I call the very pivit of human history and nothing more important than that. And all this happened during Daniels 70th week! From AD27 to AD34. It was the public ministry of Jesus Christ and the first seven chapters of the book of Acts.
Now the most important verse of all.
Verse 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 the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate".
The end of verse 26, the war that came and the Jewish that came was prophesied by Jesus Himself at the end of Matthew 23, "Behold your house is left desolate unto you".
Who is he? .."And "he" shall confirm the covenant with many for one week".
"He" is a pronoun, it needs a antecedent, it needs a noun to refer to. It's got to go all the way back up to the prophecy and it modifies Messiah the prince. "Messiah the prince" is the "he" of verse 27.
And he Messiah Jesus shall confirm the covenant, what covenant? the covenant that Jeremiah mentioned, the Testament, Daniel was reading Jeremiah and in Jeremiah 31-34 quoted verbatim in Hebrew 8:31-13 is the new covenant, the New Testament in the Blood of Jesus. The Blood Covenant cannot fail and cannot be broken!
In the spring of AD31 a very real Jesus died on the cross in Jerusalem and when He did this it caused all offerings and all sacrifices to cease as He was the ultimate ones and for all Blood sacrifice. He is the fulfillment and there will be no more sacrifice.
The first seven chapters of Acts has the church in staying in Jerusalem as it's head quarters.
With the stoning of Stephen the 70th week was over and God turned to all the nations, chapter 8 of Acts, Philip goes to Samaria, preaches Christ, Holy Ghost falls on them. Acts 9 Paul calling, Acts 10, Cornelius house, Holy Spirit outpouring, and Acts 13 Paul says to turn to the gentiles. and the head quarters moved from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Satan wanted a theology and a system of belief that says it never happened because in that 3,5 years span, satan himself defeated at Calvary's cross, as he is so deluded that he is living in denial of his own demise.
The 70 weeks have been fulfilled in total and all six things that wouild happen has happened. Verse 24
"Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place".
Who made an end to the transgression? JESUS.
Who put an end to sin? JESUS
Who atoned for wickedness? JESUS
Who brought in an everlasting peace? JESUS
Who seal up all vision and prophecy and the fulfillment of everything? JESUS
Who anointed the Most Holy Place? JESUS
Jesus said it is finished!!
To say that the last week hasn't happened yet is to take away a part of His work on the cross as the 70 weeks were set to fulfill all the six things mentioned in Daniel 9:24 and is taking away from Christ sacrifice....
