Daniel 9
A Summary of The Seventy Weeks of Daniel 

The prophecy is about the coming Messiah, and what He will do when He arrives, and what will happen as a result of the Jewish nation's rejection of Him.

All of the parameters are set in the first verse of the this prophecy. It is 70 weeks appointed for Daniel's people only. In Daniel a "week of seven" equals 7 years. Seventy times seven equals 490 years.

Daniel 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


In hindsight we know this means they have 70 weeks to accept their Messiah as the Son of God since these things can not be accomplished accept through Jesus. 

Jesus was "cut off" during the 70th week

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 26; And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, 

Notice that it says AFTER the 69th week. Not before, or on the last day of the 69th week, but after it is over, which puts the Messiah being "cut off" as taking  place during the 70th week.

Some believe that the final 70th week is left till the end days, but Jesus already used a portion of it because He was cut off during the 70th week.

The first "seven sevens" a sabbatical week equals 49 years. This is the amount in a Jubilee year on the 50th year which is also the 1st year of the next 49 years.
Then 434 more years remain until Messiah comes. So, 483 years would pass from the decree until Messiah comes. That is a total of 69 of the 70 weeks until the Baptism of Jesus when He began His ministry. 

The 70th week

Dan 9 Verse 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

.Is this "the antichrist" that makes a 7 year peace agreement? NO

He is the Messiah the prince.

Not Titus, the other prince in this prophecy, and not some future antichrist.

You need to ask yourself what Jesus did while He was on earth.

Did He confirm (a word that means to STRENGTHEN) His covenant? YES. During the 3 1/2 years of His ministry

During the time of Jesus on earth did He cause the Jewish sacrifices to cease? YES. In their relevance to God they are no longer accepted by Him.

The word  translated as "cease"  is "sabat"  in Hebrew.  It can also be translated as to cause to fail, and that is exactly what Jesus's sacrifice caused.

In Strongs the tense is (Hiphil)

1) to cause to cease, put an end to
2) to exterminate, destroy
3) to cause to desist from
4) to remove
5) to cause to fail

He replaced them with His own blood. He became the LAST sacrifice needed. Now some would argue that the Jewish sacrifices continued for the next 40 years until the Temple was destroyed, and so He didn't cause them to cease with His sacrifice. But in the spiritual realm, where it counts, He did. God no longer recognized the blood sacrifices of animals from the Jews from that day forth. He did truly cause the sacrifices in the Temple to fail. To loose their reason for being done.

Jesus took the place of not only the temple sacrifices but made the final sacrifice needed for all mankind.

Heb 9:11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, [a] with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

Jesus said that the temple would be torn down, not one stone left upon another, but that He would raise it up in 3 days. This, of course, means that at His resurrection Jesus would become the Temple of God. It didn't matter that the earthly Jewish temple of God remained standing for another 40 years. Just as it didn't matter that the sacrifices continued for that amount of time. Jesus had caused them to fail, becoming null and void in the eyes of God. Jesus had replaced them.  

Remember it was Daniel's people, the Jews, that were given only 70 weeks, not the whole world. For Daniel's people, accepting Jesus would put an end to national sin, atone for wickedness, bring everlasting righteousness, seal up this prophecy, and anoint the most Holy. All they had to do was accept the Anointed One. All of these things would be accomplished through the Messiah for the nation.

For any Jewish person that accepts Jesus now, they are under His grace. He has put an end to believers sins through His blood. He has atoned for their wickedness before the throne. He has for them everlasting righteousness.

What would be the result of their rejection of Him? 
They rejected Him and the covenant He offered. So a prince would come and make their Holy Place and Holy City desolate.

Daniel 9 Verse 27 continues;
and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

The Hebrew word that is translated as "overspreading" is the Hebrew word meaning "Wing' sometimes translated as the "pinnacle of the temple" It all starts with the word wing. Which is a reference to feathers, which the Hebrews are to cut the "corners" of their robes in fringes like that of a wing. So then the word took on the meaning of a "corner" Hence the corner of the of the walls of the temple compound became known as a wing of the temple. The corners were the pinnacles, or highest places. Probably because they were built to the edges of the mountain and below were the valleys. The pinnacle of the temple was the highest wall of the temple compound.

As a side note; The word pinnacle (pterygion-Greek) also means wing. The wing or pinnacle is the highest part of the temple compound looming over the valleys below.

"pterygion"

  1. a wing, a little wing

  2. 2) any pointed extremity

  3. a) of fins of fishes

  4. b) of part of a dress hanging down in the form of a wing

  5. c) of the top of the temple at Jerusalem

Mat 4:5  Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle (or a wing) of the temple,

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So what this verse in Daniel is saying is that at the pinnacle of abominations,  one will come and make it desolate until a complete destruction. Which is a reference to the previous verse that speaks of the complete destruction of the Temple and the Holy city at the hand of the people of the prince who would come.  This took place in 70 AD.


Is the last half of the 70th week still left to be completed at some time in our future?

The time limit put on Israel to believe was 70 weeks and they did not believe as a nation of people by the end of said 70 weeks (490 Years). The offer was withdrawn at the end and given over to the gentile nations. Israel was blinded in part because they did not partake. After His death and resurrection they did not recognize His sacrifice.

They had been the "prepared" people. The "chosen people" chosen to be the light that God used to shine the knowledge of Him out into the nations. The people who had received direct revelation and understanding of God through His prophets. The prophets that spoke the promises of God to send a Messiah that would bring salvation. IT WAS 400 YEARS WITHOUT A PROPHET IN ISRAEL UNTIL JESUS' BIRTH WAS ANNOUNCED by an angel.

The Jewish nation were the "first". but because they rejected their salvation by not believing and partaking, then at the end of the 70 weeks the first became last and the last (gentiles) became first. In other words the gentiles would become the chosen ones to be the light of the gospel of His Son to shine out to all the world the truth of God.

And those that had been first "chosen" would now walk in blindness as a nation of people (a nation not defined by the land, but defined by the old covenant of which they still clung to). That does not mean that individual Jewish people can't begin to believe at any time.

The 70 week ended with the stoning of Stephen in 34 AD. But then Jesus met Paul on the way to Damascus and Paul was sent out to bring the Gospel to the nations.

But the nation of Israel will get a second chance in the end days. They will now be last. Last to receive and partake in the New Covenant. But they will partake. That is the promise made by God and He will fulfill all His promises made with them, not for their sake but for His own. Messiah will return and they will see Him that they pierced.

Zec 12:10  And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Zec 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

He will come in a way that they won't be able to deny Him any longer. Coming in the clouds in great glory in view of the whole world . They will deeply morn whom they had denied. And they will believe and become partakers and for the nation of Israel (12 tribes) they will have salvation, but will have missed the rapture and will enter the 1000 years of peace, under the rule of Jesus, as flesh and blood humans.

-Norma - Pale Horse Rising