In Daniel 9:27 it says he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week.
Christ confirmed the covenant with many. He died for His Elect, all of the Saints from Old and New Testament who are also Daniel's people, not everyone in the world.
[/quote]In Matthew 4:12-17, after He heard that John the Baptist was cast into prison … from that time Jesus began to preach, and say, repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. I would say that while Jesus was baptized prior to Matthew 4:12 he did not preach (confirm the covenant) until sometime after his baptism.
Would you place the start of the one week confirmation with
many at Jesus’s baptism or at the time he started to preach? If it was at his baptism, why would there be a delay in his proclaiming of the kingdom of heaven?[/quote]
Not according to Scripture.
Heb 9:11-17
(11) But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
(12) Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
(13) For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
(14) How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
(15) And f
or this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
(16)
For where a testament is, there must
also of necessity be the death of the testator.
(17) For
a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of
no strength at all while the testator liveth.
The covenant can only be confirmed by the death of the testator. It cannot be confirmed by baptism while Christ was still alive. Therefore, the covenant was confirmed at the Cross, not Baptism.
I’m also thinking about this; from Mark 1:9-13 immediately after Jesus was baptized he was driven into the wilderness. In John 1:29 the next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. So the declaration of Jesus being the Lamb of God occurs after the 40 days in the wilderness. If the confirmation of the covenant started at his baptism it wouldn’t seem to make sense that the confirmation would have included the 40 days in the wilderness because it certainly wasn’t with many during that time.[/QUOTE]
No, it does not make sense. The confirmation of the covenant has nothing to do with Baptism or the preaching of the Gospel. It's HIS DEATH that made the way for the New Testament Covenant Church as kingdom representative of God's kingdom on Earth.
You will have to show us the Scripture where the covenant requires baptism to be confirmed.
