DavidPT
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Deal accepted. I found the antecedent of the prince. He is Messiah the Prince.
I was under the impression that antecedents mainly have to do with pronouns. prince in verse 26 is not a pronoun, is it? Yet, you are saying you found the antecedent of the prince. He is Messiah the Prince. Yet, according to verse 26 though, the prince that shall come is not even the first person meantioned in that verse to begin with, Messiah is the first person mentioned in that verse. That makes Messiah in that verse being the nearest to Messiah the Prince in verse 25.
That doesn't mean the prince that shall come can not be meaning the Messiah, but it can mean that the prince that shall come doesn't have to mean the Messiah either. In order to determine whether or not the prince that shall come can be meaning the Messiah or not, that will have to be determined from verse 27 in this particular chapter. Plus, from other Scriptures as well, where some of those Scriptures might even be in the NT.
When we get to the pronouns in verse 27, the only one they can be referring to is the prince that shall come, and for sure not the Messiah in verse 26, unless the Messiah and the prince that shall come are one and the same. Clearly they are not. Verse 27 is tied to abominations caused by the person in question in verse 27. Speaking of blasphemy, since this has been brought up in this thread, how can it not be a blasphemous interpretion if verse 27 is to be understood like such?
And Christ shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week Christ shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations Christ shall make it desolate , even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The issue with blasphemy is not so much what I don't have underlined, but what I do have underlined, because what I do have underlined has to still be applied to what I don't have underlined.
What is being made desolate in this verse? How can it not be the sacrifice and the oblation? And why are they being made desolate? How can it not be because of the spreading of abominations by the one meant in this verse?
Clearly, to some of us anyway, Christ can't be meant in verse 27, period.
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