The 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 →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…Matthew 24:15–16. Daniel’s seventieth week is the future seven-year period completing the seventy weeks appointed concerning Israel and Jerusalem. In its midst, the ruler associated with the covenant causes sacrifice and oblation to cease. An operating sacrificial service must ex…
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…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…aid that they had encountered misinformation or deepfake content during the previous four weeks. Among those reporting such an encounter, 71 per cent said that they had seen it online. UK politics, including the General Election, was the subject most frequently identified. These…
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