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Clear searchThe Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…alem’s desolation. He understands from Jeremiah that the Babylonian desolation would last seventy years, confesses the sins of his people and pleads for mercy upon God’s sanctuary and holy city. Gabriel then gives an answer which expands the horizon from seventy years to seventy…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…the New Testament Tribulation is the still-future completion of Daniel's seventieth week. Seventy sevens for Daniel's people and city Daniel 9 begins with Jeremiah's prophecy of Jerusalem's seventy years of desolation. Daniel confesses Israel's covenant rebellion and pleads for "…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…aniel 9:26. A Qumran fragment preserves part of Daniel’s prayer in chapter 9, but not the seventy-weeks prophecy. The Christian case does not need inaccurate evidence. Daniel 9 existed within Judaism before Christianity. Even the customary critical dating places it before Jesus.…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…ses, audiences, and results. Daniel's unfinished programme has a defined subject Daniel's seventy weeks are decreed upon "thy people and upon thy holy city" (Daniel 9:24). After the sixty-nine weeks Messiah is cut off and Jerusalem is later destroyed. The final week therefore rem…
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