"Messiah…"

June 16, 2014

“Messiah…”

Blessings folk!

Seventy weeks have been determined - 490 years.

Determined for what?

Daniel 9:24-27
24 “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
25 So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. 27 And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”


Determined for what was listed.

Without getting into the details, there is debate and varied options, the 7 weeks plus 62 weeks speaks of the time until Messiah, Jesus, would come.
It occurred just as the angel said.

Jerusalem was rebuilt...with plaza and moat.
It was a time of distress.

At the end of the 62 (69) weeks Messiah was cut off and have nothing.
Jesus was killed.

The people of the prince who is to come destroy the city (Jerusalem) and the sanctuary (Temple) in 70 A.D. (Do not jump to the conclusion that a particular “nation” is equivalent with “people groups”.)

Jesus made an end of sin, by faith in Him.
Jesus made atonement for iniquity, by salvation in Him.
Jesus brings in everlasting righteousness, if we believe Him.

The balance of the list will be fulfilled when Jesus comes again.
Transgression will be finished
Vision and prophecy will be sealed up.
The most holy place will be anointed.

One more thing for today.
You will note that we added another verse from what we had previously examined, v. 27.
Who is “he”?
What does “he” do?
For how long?

The end of time is quickly approaching.
Watch what is happening with Iraq/Iran/Syria.
Be not blind.
Seek the Lord.
He will reveal.