Digging further into that back-bone of prophecy: the '70 Weeks', nice and slowly. Half a verse this time: Daniel 9:26b after 69 Weeks (483 years)...
Israel has been expecting their Messiah for centuries. They obviously missed the meaning of Abraham having to offer Isaac as a sacrifice (Heb 11) in the same land of Moriah as Jerusalem (Gen 22), but they knew...
- ‘the sceptre shall not depart from Judah’ - Gen 49:10
- ‘a Star shall arise out of Jacob’ - Nu 24:17
- ‘the throne of David shall be established forever’ - 2 Sam 7:16
- ‘a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son...Immanuel’ – Is 7:14
- ‘I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before Me’ – Mal 3:1
- ‘out of thee (Bethelehem) shall he come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel’ – Mic 5:2
A King that
would deliver them from the Romans ? Yes we’ll have that saviour! (No wonder
the Roman army was on high alert and Pontius Pilate acted so desperately!)
A Prophet
who tells us God’s mind? Maybe we’ll listen... (Matt 21:11)
A High
Priest who reminds us of our sinfulness?
(Heb 3:1...) No thanks, we have our own priests to handle that business.
Messiah is
‘cut off’ suddenly, EXACTLY when Gabriel predicted 483 years after the
rebuilding order was given. What did He prophecy only 3 days earlier?...
“See these
great buildings? There shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not
be thrown down” Mk 13:2
Gabriel got
it right: “the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and
the sanctuary”. Roman general Titus did this under orders from his father
Caesar Vespasian in 70AD, as recorded by historian Flavius Josephus.
The Western Wall
stands as mute witness and...
there
has been NO JEWISH SANCTUARY on TEMPLE MOUNT ever since 70AD!
NEXT UP: That
very sticky ‘70th Week’
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