hotcoffee
New Member
Daniel 9:25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One,[f] 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. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.[g] 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.’[h] In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple[j] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.[k]”[l]
f.Daniel 9:25 Or an anointed one; also in verse 26
g.Daniel 9:26 Or death and will have no one; or death, but not for himself
h.Daniel 9:27 Or ‘week’
i.Daniel 9:27 Or ‘week’
j.Daniel 9:27 Septuagint and Theodotion; Hebrew wing
k.Daniel 9:27 Or it
l.Daniel 9:27 Or And one who causes desolation will come upon the wing of the abominable temple, until the end that is decreed is poured out on the desolated city
The commentaries pretty much agree that these verses all talk about Jesus. [I had a couple of commentaries quoted complete with all the links to Ezra and Nehemiah, but I hit a wrong button and undid everything.] Let me take you back to David Guzik's commentary where the links will lead you to the verses.
First there is the rebuilding of the Temple and then the streets.
The Bible presents four possible decrees that might fulfill this description:
Cyrus made a decree giving Ezra and the Babylonian captives the right to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple in 538 b.c. (Ezra 1:1-4 and 5:13-17).
Darius made a decree giving Ezra the right to rebuild the temple in 517 b.c. (Ezra 6:6-12).
Artaxerxes made a decree giving Ezra permission, safe passage, and supplies to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple in 458 b.c. (Ezra 7:11-26).
Artaxerxes made a decree giving Nehemiah permission, safe passage and supplies to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the city and the walls in 445 b.c. (Nehemiah 2:1-8).
Cyrus made a decree giving Ezra and the Babylonian captives the right to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple in 538 b.c. (Ezra 1:1-4 and 5:13-17).
Darius made a decree giving Ezra the right to rebuild the temple in 517 b.c. (Ezra 6:6-12).
Artaxerxes made a decree giving Ezra permission, safe passage, and supplies to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple in 458 b.c. (Ezra 7:11-26).
Artaxerxes made a decree giving Nehemiah permission, safe passage and supplies to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the city and the walls in 445 b.c. (Nehemiah 2:1-8).
Only the last of these four decrees was a command to restore and build Jerusalem. The first three each focused on the temple, not on the street or on the wall.
Then there is the timeline to Jesus.
The seventy weeks are divided into three parts:
Seven weeks - 49 years, until the city and its walls are rebuilt.
69 weeks (7 plus 62), 483 years from the decree, until Messiah the Prince appears.
A final 70th week to complete the prophecy
69 weeks (7 plus 62), 483 years from the decree, until Messiah the Prince appears.
A final 70th week to complete the prophecy
Then there is the Crucifixion in verse 26.
Cut off is a poignant description of Jesus' earthly life up to and including the cross. "Born in another man's stable, cradled in another man's manger with nowhere to lay his head during his life on earth, and buried in another man's tomb after dying on a cursed cross, the Christ of God and the Friend of the friendless was indeed cut off and had nothing."
Then the anti-Christ arrives on the scene.
On the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate: The ending of sacrifice will come with abominations, followed by tremendous desolation.
Abominations translates an ancient Hebrew word (shiqquwts) that is connected to horrific idolatry (Deuteronomy 29:17, 1 Kings 11:5-7, 2 Kings 23:13). The idea is that the coming prince breaks the covenant and brings an end to sacrifice and offering by desecrating the holy place of the temple with a horrific idolatry.
Jesus called this the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15) and indicated that it would be a pivotal sign in the Great Tribulation. Paul referred to the idolatry of the coming prince in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.
Jesus called this the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15) and indicated that it would be a pivotal sign in the Great Tribulation. Paul referred to the idolatry of the coming prince in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.
And then in verse 27 Jesus returns.
Until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate: This breaking of the covenant and abomination of desolation has a promised consummation. Before the 70th week is completed, each of the things described in Daniel 9:24 will be accomplished and everlasting righteousness will reign.
