24 “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and for your holy city for putting an end to the transgression, for making an end of sin, for forgiving iniquity, for bringing in everlasting justice, for setting the seal on vision and prophet, and for anointing the Especially Holy Place.
What does it mean make an end of sin?
Some say -- It means to
fill up the cup of sin and rebellion that is the probationary time for Israel so that they either accept or reject the Messiah.
All aspects of Dan 9 explicitly listed in the NT - not a matter of guesswork.
1 Thess 2:15-16 points to that fulfillment in the NT
15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men, 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved,
so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
Matt 23:31 “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt.
31 So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32
Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.
..
35 so that
upon you will fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
Notice also that the opening statement predicts that Daniel’s people (which everyone takes to be the Jews - and so do we) "finish the transgression and
make an end (as in seal up)
sin" (nasb).
We see a similar prediction regarding those living in the land of Canaan in the days of Abraham Genesis 15:16. God tells abraham that he will not be given the actual land that he is promised for over 400 years "for
the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete".
Matthew Henry
Dan 9
“The seventy weeks mean a day for a year, or 490 years. About the end of this period a sacrifice would be offered,
making full atonement for sin, and bringing in everlasting righteousness for the complete justification of every believer. Then the Jews, in the crucifixion of Jesus, would commit that crime by which the
measure of their guilt would be filled up”
=============================== others say this
Adam Clark's Commentary says this about it:
II.
To make an end of sins; rather
ulehathem chataoth, "
to make an end of sin-offerings;" which our Lord did when he offered his spotless soul and body on the cross
once for all.
And of course : Heb 10:4-12 points to the fulfillment and end of animal sacrifice sin offerings.
Daniel 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.
All vision and prophecy regarding Israel completed in that 490 year timeline that ends in 34 AD.
The cup of sin and iniquity filled up - complete full. Their time of probation like the Amorites completed. Gen 15:16