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NASB | Daniel 9:24 ¶ "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. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Daniel 9:24 ¶ "Seventy weeks [of years, or 490 years] have been decreed for your people and for your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make atonement (reconciliation) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness (right-standing with God), to seal up vision and prophecy and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. |
Bible Question:
I am really confused about the whole "70th Week of Daniel" thing. And I am sure many others are too, as it is a very controversial and rather esoteric passage. Many people promote the idea of a gap between the 69th and the 70th weeks. I just can't get the text to support that. I understand there are many interpretations and I would like to hear from everyone their "take" on this verse and its relevance to the return of Christ... |
Bible Answer: Amber, just like truthfinder explained, it IS DONE, FINISHED, FULFILLED. In order to "get any text" to support a so-called "future happening", like that erroneous doctrine spelled out by too many untaught teachers, you must first ignore Scripture throughout. The ‘fiction” writers talk about a "New" Temple being rebuilt. Where does Scripture talk about such? It doesn’t. It only talks about the destruction of the temple which was destroyed in 70 A.D. The same time and event that Daniel wrote about. Right to the year. The ONLY rebuildings of the Temples is found in Old Testament. Every “promise” of the rebuilding WAS WRITTEN before it was rebuilt. Therefore, and forevermore, those prophecies have been fulfilled. In a failed attempt for the "futuristic's" doctrine to sound feasible, they had to ADD the phoney concept that “one prophecy can have two fulfillments” Really? And where in Scripture can you find such a concept? Their reply says it all. "Well, it isn’t in Scripture, but surely that is what God means." Really? I always thought that God ONLY said what He meant. Reading the New Testament, Hebrews for example, discounts any such false notion about rebuilding a future Temple made with hands. In the Old Testament, BEFORE the rebuilding of the temple that Jesus promised would be destroyed, is the only place it is mentioned. And of course the fulfillment was WHEN IT WAS rebuilt, just as the prophecy said it would be. All the old church historians spells out these well-documented facts. Josephus, for one, an eyewitness to the fulfillment of Daniel 9, is one place to start. Every library should have one. Respectfully Taleb |