I don't care as far as knowing that the messiah arrived in Jerusalem on what Christians celebrate as Psalms Sunday. Four days later, he was cutoff, crucified, and three days later rose from being dead on Easter.
No calendar necessary.
So? Fact is Jesus did not take away the sins of the world until dying on the cross. Not when he was baptized by John.
There is nothing in Daniel 9 text about the beginning of the messiah ministry - that is some man-made theory.
The only covenant found in Daniel 9 is the one that Daniel's people transgressed. And the confirming of that covenant on a 7 year cycle is found in Deuteronomy 31:9-13.
That the 7 years are in Ezekiel 39; and in Revelation 11 and Revelation 12 by adding the timeframes, is more evidence the 70th week is still future.
The 70 weeks do not end with the stoning of Stephen, a negative incident, and nothing on par with the Second Coming glorious return of Jesus in great power and glory which will be the true ending of the 70 weeks. The theory that you are holding, and them who think likewise, is an offense to the Second Coming of Jesus.
Christ's sacrifice is not the only event found in Daniel chapter 9.
Dan 9:24 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.
Dan 9:25 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.
Dan 9:26 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.
Dan 9:27 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.
Do the scriptures below reveal a time period of about 7 years when the Gospel was taken "
first" to Daniel's people, before Paul took the Gospel to the Gentiles?
Mat 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
Mat 10:6
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Mat 10:7
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
(When was the Gospel taken "first" to the Jews?)
Gal 1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Gal 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
Gal 1:16
To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Gal 1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Gal 1:18
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
Are we supposed to believe Daniel was reading from the Book of Jeremiah, and then Gabriel appeared to reveal the timeline of the Messiah who would bring in the New Covenant found in Jeremiah 31:31-34, and then the angel failed to even mention the New Covenant? The answer is found below.
Jer_31:31 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a
new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—
Mat_26:28 For this is
My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Mar_14:24 And He said to them, "
This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.
Luk_22:20 Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is
the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
1Co_11:25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is
the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."
2Co_3:6 who also
made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Heb_8:8 Because finding fault with them, He says: "BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD, WHEN
I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH— (from Jeremiah 31)
Heb_8:13 In that He says, "
A NEW COVENANT,"
He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Heb_9:15 And for this reason
He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Heb_12:24 to
Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
The scriptures above reveal the fact that you cannot separate the New Covenant from the death, and blood of Jesus. If the death of Jesus is found in Daniel 9, then the New Covenant must be a part of Daniel 9.
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