AND the people(Romans) of the prince(Not capitalized = the Anti-Christ)
The
translated English word isn't capitalized?? That's your proof it's referring to a covenant with the anti-christ?
Daniel's 70th Week Decree against Israel
In Daniel 9:24, Daniel prophesied that these six things must come to pass before this judgment against Israel would be fulfilled. Some think Jesus fulfilled all of these, most seem to think, as I do, that these things have not come to pass, and when they do that will be the end of the age.
1. Finish the transgression ( Israel has yet to repent, thus this transgression is ongoing )
2. Make an end of sins ( Israel still live in their sins, they will have to stop Wilfull Sin before this can happen )
3. To make reconciliation for iniquity (Israel has not yet accepted Jesus Christ as their Messiah )
4. Bring in everlasting righteousness ( When Israel finally repents this must usher in Everlasting Righteousness )
5. To seal up vision and prophecy ( When Israel repents this willseal up all prophetic events in history )
6. Anoint the most Holy ( Jesus is thus Anointed the King of kings and Lord of Lords when Israel repents )
Wow.
I'll try one more time...
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Like Daniel, the visions of Ezekiel were while he was living in Babylonian captivity. Chapters 40-48 are known as Ezekiel's temple chapters, which scholars agree has never existed yet in the history of Israel. Meanwhile, chapters 38-39 are known as the Gog/Magog chapters which most also agree are still future.
I'm mentioning these four chapters to establish a future boundary.
If Ezekiel was given his visions while also in Babylonian captivity, then what we read from chapters 33 to 48 is prophecy of everything that's supposed to happen to the Jews - in order -
AFTER they return to Jerusalem during the 2nd Temple Period. Notice how the list of prophecies match events recorded in the gospels and in history:
1. Ezekiel 33:28-29 - Jews will start
sinning again when they return from Babylon.
(fulfilled prior to Christ's birth 457 - 3 BC; see books
Nehemiah, Malachi)
2. Ezekiel 34 - Corrupt shepherds will mislead The Alighty's people but He will lit. "search out His
sheep" and make a "
COVENANT" with them.
(fulfilled: Christ vs Pharisees; the new covenant with many; the cross; pentecost 27 - 34 AD)
3. Ezekiel 35:5-15 - Israel's calamity will be begin, and
Edomites will attack during this time when "[
Israel's] iniquity is at an end", and then Edom will claim the land as theirs, but live through
constant war there; never at peace.
(fulfilled: 70 AD destruction; many years later land has never seen peace since the "state of Israel" was established)
4. Ezekiel 36:1-7 - The Almighty will be angry at Edom for
claiming the land as their property, and angry at every nation of the world for
claiming his people as their human property.
(fulfilled: the Jewish diaspora; the scattering = Jacob's trouble = Great Tribulation of the Jews;
Luke 21:24 & Matthew 24, Daniel 12).
5. Ezekiel 36:8-15 - The nations will mock their possessions and mistreat them
while Jews are in foreign lands, until The Almighty Himself gathers them back home.
(being fulfilled: theft, humiliation, holocausts throughout the centuries = their Great Tribulation;
Luke 21:24 & Matthew 24, Daniel 12)
6. Ezekiel 36:24-27 - The Almighty promises to gather His people out of the lands of their possession and will
confirm the new covenant with ALL. They'll remain in the lands of their scattering until He does this
Himself.
(unfulfilled)
7. Ezekiel 37 - Valley of dry bones; The resurrection of the whole house of Israel.
(unfulfilled: This is the long awaited resurrection event spoken by Paul in 1 Thessalonians)
8. Ezekiel 38-39 - Then Israel will return and live in safety in their land
without any protective walls or barriers, until Gog & Magog thinks to invade them. But the Almighty will destroy them Himself in His fiery fury.
(unfulfilled: the current "state of Israel" continues to build walls/partitions and fight. Those in the land are not Israel, but Edom)
9. Ezekiel 40-48 - Ezekiel's temple, also known as The Millennium Temple, where The Almighty and the Messiah will dwell with mankind forever.
(unfulfilled)
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A true prophet should always confirm or enhance another prophet's prophecies, never contradict each other, because it's all from the Almighty.
- Ezekiel's phrase "their iniquity is at an end" is directly tied to Israel's calamity that leads to their scattering. The NIV uses the phrase " the time their punishment reach[es] its climax". This is what "to make an end of sins" means in Daniel 9: for sin to reach its
height. They can't get more sinful that to kill the Son of the Living God (
Heb 6:6).
- Nowhere in this list of prophetic events does it detail the Jews going through yet
another judgment that scatters them
yet again after returning to the land and siding with an antichrist.
- Ezekiel's prophecy says The Almighty's people
remain in their scattered lands
until He comes to resurrect and gather all that are His.
- His prophecy says those who claim the the land as theirs -
before The Almighty regathers His people - are "Edom" and will suffer constant war while living there. The people who currently claim the land have lived through 73 years of constant war.
- The only covenants in this list of prophetic events are between the Almighty and His people. Not one is mentioned between His people and an antichrist.
The first covenant mentioned is said to happen when the Almighty is
searching for His lost sheep (which is LITERALLY what Messiah said during His ministry before establishing the New covenant with the few who were with Him). The second covenant mentioned is said to happen
after the people have been resurrected, regathered and returned to the land. The "dead in Christ" haven't risen yet.
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To push the 70th seven into the future conflicts with Ezekiel's prophecy in multiple areas, but when we leave the 70th seven in the first century, fulfilled just after the 69th seven Daniel's vision and Ezekiel's vision harmonize.