Once again, you are ignoring the same concept found below in the 1599 Geneva Bible, in an attempt to make Dr. Kelly Varner out to be a lone fool.
Daniel 9:27
And he (a) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to (b) cease, (c) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
(a) By the preaching of the Gospel he affirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles.
(b) Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection.
(c) Meaning that Jerusalem and the sanctuary would be utterly destroyed because of their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague will be so great, that they will all be astonished at them.
Do you deny that Christ's baptism was the beginning of His public ministry?
Do you deny that He was crucified 3 1/2 years later?
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Well I don't care about commentaries in Bibles. You will find those that agree with allegorical interpretation and I will find mine that AGREE WITH LITERAL, HISTORICAL, GRAMMATICAL INTERPRETATION! And in the 17th century most of teh church was still inteh throes of allegorism as the main tool to understand SCripture going back to Augustine.
And no it is not to make Dr. Varner a lone fool. He has tons of company!
But once again let us look at what your preacher said and compare it with Scripture!
He declared the 490 years of Daniel are continuous and ended in 34 AD.
So let us look at the events he said took place after 69 weeks or 483 years! and what Daniel said!
Daniel 9:24-27 King James Version (KJV)
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
I do not deny Jesus public ministry began after the baptism of JOhn (He was led in to the wilderness for forty days and then He spent time gathering the 12) His first public act was at teh Wedding Feast of Cana
And Yes He was cricified approx. 3 1/2 years later! That is where Varner veers from Scripture!
Verse 26 "after 483 years shall Jesus be killed but not for Himself!"
If we are to follow Varners timeline Jesus began His ministry the same time He was crucified according to Daniel!
Verse 26 again!
Daniel 9:26 King James Version (KJV)
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
So we either have to back his death up 49 years if you don't want to include the first 7, or He died after 69 7's or 483 years! And saying that means "sometime after 483 years" is hogwash! that is twisting SCripture to fit a preconceived bias! 3 1/2 years would be 486 1/2 years. And given that Gods has been so specific so far in Daniel I don't think He needed editors to allegorize after to mean 3 1/2 years after.
Baptism is not an anointing! It never was thought that .
So Jesus (according ot your preacher) started HIs ministry and died after 483 years according to the Scripture!
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According ot all messianic Jews who are adept at Hebrew that I have read or studied under. The 69 weeks ended when Jesus made His triumphal entry on Palm Sunday and then the next week He was cut off but not for HImself!
And the best you have done to finish the 490 years is to give us an approximate by Paul going out to the gentiles! Well Paul started His ministry sometime in the mid 30's and it is a further stretch to believe that Paul preaching ot the gentiles (when the other Apostles were still preaching to the Jews)
fulfilled all what was to occur to the Jews in the 490 years- even the Watchtower is not that far fetched!
Close is good for horseshoes but not for
Biblical prophesy!