What abomination is it being destroyed because of?
I'm going to put this up in a thread:
Daniel 9:25 "Know therefore and understand, that from the going out of the command to restore and to build Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince,
shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction." (Daniel 9:25)
"The street" refers to the rebuilding of Jerusalem, which took place during the first seven weeks of years (49 years).
Daniel 9:26 "And after (Hebrew achar) sixty-two weeks (after the sixty-two weeks which followed the first seven) Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And the end of it shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, until the end shall be war."
Subject: The coming of the Messiah.
Timing: 70 weeks from a certain point in time.
Purpose: 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.
Determined upon: Thy people and thy holy city.
Subject of verse 24: The Messiah.
Subject of verse 25: The Messiah.
Subject of verses 26-27:-
CAUSING SACRIFICE AND OFFERING TO CEASE
(AND THE REASON WHY):
Isaiah 1:11-17
"To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says the LORD; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
Bring no more vain sacrifice; incense is an abomination to Me; the new moon and sabbath, the going to meeting; I cannot endure evil and the assembly! Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they are a trouble to Me; I am weary to bear them.
And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do good; seek judgment, reprove the oppressor. Judge the orphan, plead for the widow.
Hebrews 10:8-10
"Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."
Hebrews 10
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Therefore when He comes into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared a body for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, Lo, I come ( in the volume of the Book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God."
CONFIRMING A COVENANT
"Behold, the days come, says the LORD,
that I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah" (Jeremiah 31:31)
"For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed
for many for the remission of sins." (Matthew 26:28).
"but this shall be the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel: After those days, says the LORD, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know the LORD; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more." (Jeremiah 31:33-34).
Daniel 9:27 "And he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. And
in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease,
and on a corner of the altar
desolating abominations, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall be poured on the desolator."
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
The one causing sacrifice and offering to cease in the middle of the week in verse 27: The Messiah.
The one confirming a covenant with many in verse 27: The Messiah.
Subject of verses 26-27: The Messiah.
Count: 7 + 62 weeks = 69 weeks. It was
after this (in the 70th week) that Messiah was cut off (but not for Himself). In the 70th week, Messiah finished the transgression (of the law) and made an end of sins:
1. "It is finished!" (John 19:30). He did this "once for all" (Hebrews 7:27; also Hebrews 9:12 and Hebrews 10:2 & 10).
2. He made Atonement for iniquity (Romans 5:11)
3. He brought in everlasting righteousness: "The LORD our righteousness" (Jeremiah 23:6; Jeremiah 33:16; Jeremiah 51:10)
4. He (a) Sealed up vision and prophecy. (He reopens the seals Himself: "And one of the elders said to me, Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals of it." Revelation.5:5)
(b) He was anointed by the Holy Spirit when He was baptized by John the Baptist:
"And Jesus, when He had been baptized, went up immediately out of the water. And lo, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon Him. And lo, a voice from Heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:16-17)
So He accomplished it all:-
"Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people and as to your holy city,
1. to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and
2. to make atonement for iniquity, and
3. to bring in everlasting righteousness, and
4. to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy." (Daniel 9:24).
THE ABOMINATION OF THE CONTINUED SACRIFICES
The sacrifices and offerings for sin that the people continued to make
in rejection of the once-for-all sacrifice of Christ the Messiah, would indeed have become an abomination to God.
Isaiah 1:11-17
"To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says the LORD; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
Bring no more vain sacrifice; incense is an abomination to Me; the new moon and sabbath, the going to meeting; I cannot endure evil and the assembly! Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they are a trouble to Me; I am weary to bear them.
And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
The Messiah fulfilled the prophecy,
but just as the prophecy says, the Messiah did not remain until the close of the 70th week (the entire 70 weeks was not fulfilled)
- He was cut off in the middle of the 70th week, when He caused sacrifice and offering for sin to cease by shedding His own blood, the forgiveness of sins.
Jesus to the Pharisees:
"Lo, left desolate to you is your house" (Matthew 23:38, Young's Literal Translation).
Was their house left desolate by the time Jesus spoke these words to the Pharisees,
or did this come to pass only around 40 years later, in A.D 70?
Did God hand it over to be made desolate because of what was abomination to God, or not? Was it consumed, or not? (actually it was literally consumed by fire).
We now know that it only came to pass around 40 years after Christ spoke the words. It's history.
Subject of verse 24: The Messiah.
Subject of verse 25: The Messiah.
Subject of verses 26-27: The Messiah, and the people of the ruler who would come and who would destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The fact that the city and the sanctuary was not destroyed within the 70 weeks is of no consequence, because the 70 weeks prophecy was not
primarily about either the city and the sanctuary, or the abomination (as though that was of chief importance, rather than the Messiah) - the prophecy was about the coming of the Messiah.
There is absolutely no biblical reason to believe (as many Christians do) that the covenant spoken of in Daniel 9:24-27 (which speaks about the timing of the coming of the Messiah) is a covenant that would be made 1991+ years after the Messiah came, or to believe that it speaks of a covenant "to be made by the Antichrist".