Daniel 9:26-27 is bothering me, i see satan the prince destroying the rebuilt city and sanctuary after JESUS is cut off. ...but the next verse ...why are we assuming it is talking about satan? JESUS stopped the Covenant that included sacrifice and oblation because He fulfilled it in the midst of a week. Would it mean the guess of 7 years of tribulation is wrong?
Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
70 weeks are determined upon Israel and upon Jerusalem to make an end of sins, and bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy who is Jesus, and the only way they can make an end of sins is by accepting Jesus.
The nation of Israel has 70 weeks to be in the truth that Jesus is their Lord and Savior.
Dan 9:25 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: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
69 weeks has passed.
Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
The 69 weeks are in the past when Jesus was on earth for after 62 weeks Messiah was cut off, but not for Himself but to shed His blood to wash away sins.
The weeks are years not actual days so that is 490 years.
Dan 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 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.
There is 1 more week to go which is 7 years and it will be the New Age Christ, antichrist, that will establish that peace treaty in the Middle East in an attempt to get the Jews to go along with his agenda.
The 7 years period is the time God causes all people who do not love Him to follow the antichrist and brings Israel to the truth that Jesus is their Lord and Savior fulfilling the 70 weeks determined upon Israel as a nation to be in the truth.
For the first three and one half years salvation is still available to the world, and all people who do not love God will be given strong delusion to follow the New Age Christ.
The last three and one half years the world persecutes the Christians and then comes the end when the Son shall deliver up the kingdom to the Father and put down all authority, power, and rule.
Act 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Act 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
God will restore the kingdom to the nation of Israel.
Jer 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
Jer 31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Jer 31:37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
God has not cast away His people but Israel shall never cease to be a nation and the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 apostles of the Lamb is written in the New Jerusalem.
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Rom 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Israel is the Church and it is Israel all the way from Abraham to Jacob, Israel, to Jesus to the millennial reign to the New Jerusalem, and when a Gentile is saved they are a Jew inward and belong to the commonwealth of Israel.
Eze 39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
Eze 39:26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
Eze 39:27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
Eze 39:28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Eze 39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
God will bring the whole house of Israel back to Israel and leave none of them in the nations anymore, and they will know the LORD their God from that time forward and He will never hide His face from them again which means they will always be in the truth from that time forward.
This is a future prophecy when God restores the kingdom to the Jews for Israel is not in the truth as a nation.
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