mkgal1, the point I am making is that the messiah rising from the dead on the third day is not written, nor suggested, in Daniel 9.
You are rationalizing, trying to make the covenant confirmed for 7 years to be a reference to the new covenant in Christ, instead of being the Mt. Sinai covenant.
Daniel 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.
"And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week."
Jesus' and His apostles ministry to the Jews alone was seven years...one week. "Confirm" means to establish the correctness of or strengthen something previously believed " This says "Covenant."
Covenant.
What covenant?
Look at
Daniel 9 again...
Daniel 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Daniel 9:4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God,
keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
Note that Daniel does not say to all Israel. He says to them that love him and that keep his commandments. So again,
what covenant? It's a covenant that Jesus merely strengthened. It is the covenant that He gave to Abraham.
Genesis 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
How would all nations be blessed through Abraham's seed? Through Jesus the Christ. Jesus Confirmed that Covenant.
Jesus confirmed the covenant that God had already made.
That bears repeating in case anyone glossed it over.
Jesus confirmed the covenant that God had already made.
Those believers in the Old Testament believed that God would do as He promised and provide His salvation, though they knew not the name of Jesus. Those who have believed since Jesus came, believed that Jesus' death, burial and resurrection paid the price for their (our) sins. It has always been the same. God has not changed. His mercy and grace has been extended in the same way. Jesus confirmed the covenant that God had made with Abraham. In thee shall all nations be blessed. See also
Matthew 26:28,
Mark 14:24, and
Luke 22:20.