http://www.historicist.com/daniel/how-to-reckon-the-seventy-weeks
A great article that briefly lays out the Dan 9 70 weeks prophecy and how the ENTIRE prophecy was completed in one cohesive unit and fulfilled in Christ. No parenthetical church, no future 7 year period of "tribulation."
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Disclaimer: While I like and agree what is written in this article, the writer lumps all premillennialists in with dispensationalists and I disagree with that assertion. You can be premillennial without being dispensational (e.g. John Gill, Charles Spurgeon, and George Eldon Ladd). It's just rare in these days...
A great article that briefly lays out the Dan 9 70 weeks prophecy and how the ENTIRE prophecy was completed in one cohesive unit and fulfilled in Christ. No parenthetical church, no future 7 year period of "tribulation."
The Prophecy Fulfilled in Every Detail. As we take up the various clauses of verse 24, we discover six things are predicted. We shall examine each of them separately.
1. "To finish the transgression." To what transgression did this prophecy refer? In order to understand it we should read Luke 11:47-51. Therein Jesus told of the long list of crimes committed by the fathers against the prophets and ended by saying "That their blood would be required of this generation." A parallel passage is found in Matt. 23 :29-32 of which vs. 32 says, "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers." The fathers killed the prophets but the Jews whom Jesus spoke to killed the Messiah. In so doing they finished their transgression, or filled up the measure of their fathers because no future transgression can equal the crucifixion. This terrible deed was committed in the seventieth week as prophesied by Daniel.
2. "To make an end of sins." The very purpose for which Christ came into the world was to make an end of sins. In Matt. 1:21 we read the familiar announcement of the angels, "Thou shalt call His name Jesus for He shall save His people from their sins." The death of Christ which occurred in the 70th week is what saves people from their sins and thus, for each believer, it makes an end of sins.
3. "To make reconciliation for iniquity." This is the central theme of the prophecy. The Chaldean lexicon simply renders it, "To atone for sins."' And the Septuagint Version says, "To make atonement for sins." That Christ came to make atonement for sins we all admit. It is imperative that the atonement should be made in the time determined by God, that is, in the 70th week. If the 70th week is still future then the atonement is also, for the atonement was the main event to take place in the 70th week. The death of Christ in the midst of the 70th week made atonement for our sins in accordance with the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
4. "To bring in everlasting righteousness." The redemption of Christ does bring everlasting righteousness. Of course, it only applies to the believer, but that is all He intended. His own words are, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life." John 3:36.
5. "To seal up the vision and prophecy." This part of the prophecy can best be answered by quoting Heb. 1:1, 2, "God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets hath is these last days spoken unto us by His Son." Christ is God's last message to man. For over nineteen hundred years this seal has remained on vision and prophecy and we need expect no further addition until Jesus comes again on the judgment scene. God's first message was through the prophets; His last is through His Son.
6. "To anoint the most holy." This anointing took place on the day of Pentecost. In the Old Testament God met with His people in the "holy of holies" in the temple made with hands. The High Priest went in once each year to make atonement for the people. But after the Holy Spirit came upon the believers at Pentecost He took up His habitation in the hearts of men, that is to say, in His Church, which is the body of Christ. In 1 Cor. 6:19 we read, "Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost." This infilling of the Holy Ghost also took place in the 70th week in accordance with God's plan.
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Disclaimer: While I like and agree what is written in this article, the writer lumps all premillennialists in with dispensationalists and I disagree with that assertion. You can be premillennial without being dispensational (e.g. John Gill, Charles Spurgeon, and George Eldon Ladd). It's just rare in these days...
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