Brother DHK,
The 6 events in Daniel 9:24 took place in the life, death, and glorification of Christ. This is evident from any unbiased reading of scripture.
No, it is not evident at all. From the unbiased reading of Isa.9:6 do all the events in that verse take place at his birth?
Do all the events of Joel 2:28ff take place on the Day of Pentecost?
Many Scriptures have both near and far and some multiple prophecies like a prophet looking down the peaks of several mountains with valleys (of time) in between. He can only see the tops of the mountains, and often doesn't clearly understand what he is writing.
Do you think it is a mere coincidence that the angel Gabriel, who brought these predictions to Daniel ( Daniel 9:21), is the same who announced the approach of Christ to Zachariah and Mary (Luke 1:11-19, 26)?
He is a messenger of God. It is totally irrelevant.
This is because Christ was the one to fulfill Daniel's prophecies that Gabriel had previously shown Daniel, it is not a coincidence as one would have to believe with your interpretation of Daniel's prophecy.
Spiritualizing scripture or reading too much into scripture is simply eisigesis, and an error of interpretation.
Moreover, the expression used by Gabriel to Daniel, "thou art greatly beloved", is the exact equivalent by the same messenger to Mary- "thou art highly favored". This expression is to be used three times to Daniel and never to anyone else in scripture except Mary; and Gabriel is the only angel employed to make known to men the revelation of the mystery of redemption. Again Brother DHK I ask you, is this a coincidence, or is there a connection?
No connection at all. Actually the phrase "highly favored" has more in common with the greeting given to "Jael" than given to Daniel. So, again, you are reading into scripture things that are not there.
Jdg 5:24
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be,
blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
Luke 1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee:
blessed art thou among women.
Luke 1:42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said,
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Deborah, in song, said about Jael, what the angel said about Mary.
The comparison is far more similar than Daniel to Mary.
Therefore I believe you are reading into scripture that which is not there.
What in the passage leads you to believe there will be a delay from the 69th week to the 70th week?
At the end of 69 weeks the Messiah is cut off. He died. That time has been calculated by a number of Godly scholars--483 years. It has been calculated from the time that Ahasuerus gave the command to Nehemiah to go and rebuild Jerusalem, (using a lunar month of 30 days and thus a year of 360 days and taking into account other factors). 483 years (their time) from that date would bring one to April 33 A.D., the date that most believe Christ died. This is an unbelievably accurate prophecy. It is not simply sometime after 69 weeks. It is at the end of, right at the end of.
So the question really ought to be, why don't a good many here believe Christ died right at the end of the 69th week as the prophecy actually says?
If that be so, then when was the seventh week. What started it?
What or who ended it?
What was the promise made for seven years, and who made it?
Why was it broken in the middle?
If the "he" of verse 27 is Christ, as OR affirms, then Christ made a covenant for 7 years and broke the covenant in the middle of that seven years becoming a liar and a truce-breaker.
But the "he" is not Christ. He is the antichrist, a "foreigner" who has not yet set foot on this earth. He will make a covenant with the nation of Israel for seven years and then break it in the midst of that seven year people by desecrating the Temple. That has not happened yet. Jesus confirms this prophecy in Mat.24:15ff.
Also, do you think it is a mere coincidence that the time from when Daniel's prophecy first began on the countdown to the 70 weeks (i.e. seventy seven of years) to the time Christ was crucified, is within the 490 years prophesied by Daniel?
It is not.
If you do, think is as such, do you not at least have to admit there seem to be quite many coincidences with the idea that Christ was the fulfillment of the 6 prophecies in Daniel 9:24, don't you think?
NO. He was not the fulfillment of any of them--not even close.
I do not wish to have long posts, thus I am going to stop this one here, but make other posts showing how Christ fulfilled the 6 prophecies of Daniel 9:24.
Good idea.