Whether you are a preterist that believes Daniel's 70th 'seven' (week of 7 years) was fulfilled in 70 AD or a futurist that believes Daniel's 70th week is yet to be fulfilled, you must place a break in Daniel 9:26, between the end of the 69th week in 33 AD (when Jesus Christ was cut off) and the beginning of the 70th.
If you do not accept a break, where do you place the beginning and end of Daniel's 70 weeks?
Preterists are wrong and futurist are wrong!
These two eschatological doctrine self refute one another.
Let's look at the verse you brought to light:
Daniel 9:26
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.
Ok....
Let us break these special phrases into their meanings:
1) Confirm the Covenant. Which Covenant?
2) Confirm the Covenant for ONE WEEK. Is this ONE WEEK the 70th week?
3) In the Midst of the week he shall end all sacrifices and oblations. Who ends these sacrifices? What happened from the middle of the week to the end of the week?
4) Sacrifice and Oblation will cease. Who makes this decision? What do these sacrifices relate to?
5) Sacrifices and Oblation will cease EVEN UNTIL CONSUMATION. What is CONSUMATION? And whose CONSUMATION?
6) That determined shall be poured upon the desolate. What is determined? What is poured? And who are desolate?
You couldn't answer this verse unless you break it down according the meaning of the six phrases.
1) is part and parcel of the MESSIAH THE PRINCE to come as indicated in the previous, who will confirm the covenant. This is the NEW COVENANT OF THE LAMB OF GOD.
2) Messiah the Prince confirms this NEW COVENANT in one symbolic week. This would be when he was crucified on the cross at Calvary for the forgiveness of sins ONCE AND FOR ALL NATIONS. So the 70th week must be tied to the fulfilment of what Messiah set out to do for his people. This he did when saying "IT IS FINISHED". Salvation therefore came to the Jews first.
3) Messiah the Prince puts an end to all Jewish sacrificial systems by being that ultimate sacrifice to end all sacrifices ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME. The middle of the week is when Messiah the Prince was crucified in fulfilling what God planned in ending all animal sacrifices because His Son became the ultimate sacrifice to end all traditional Leviticus Jewish sacrifices that were mandated until the lamb of God would finally take that role.
3) also points to the remaining of the symbolic 70th week where after Messiah the Prince was crucified he would then complete the latter half the 70th week in paradise (Abraham's Bosom) where all the Old Testament Saints were asleep under the altar of God as spoken of in Revelation 6:9-11.
And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been m, and for the testimony which they held: and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be killed even as they were, should have fulfilled their course.
Notice the FIFTH SEAL representing GRACE is when these Old Covenant Saints that were under the altar in Abraham's Bosom are calling Messiah the Prince Master. Notice these are those who were slain for the WORD OF GOD and not the TESTIMONY OF THE LAMB because they are the ones from every tribe of Israel that were resurrected when Messiah the Prince preached to them in the remainder of the 70th week in paradise.
So the fifth seal in Revelation 6:9-11 places the resurrected Old Covenant Saints in the latter half of the 70th week. What follows after Revelation Chapter 6 is 7 and chapter 7 tells us what happened when the fifth seal was opened by the lamb.
Sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed:and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
You could automatically see that those SEALED means REDEEMED to have part in THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD when Christ opened the Old Covenant graves in fulfilment to Ezekiel 37:11-14 and confirmed as prophecy fulfilled in Matthew 27:52-53.
Automatically when this latter half of the 70th week was fulfilled after Christ was resurrected and also resurrected those Old Covenant Saints who were asleep in Abraham's Bosom. That is why in Revelation 6:11 we are told that:
there was given them to each one a white robe
This is a RESURRECTION WHITE ROBE of an Angel as the Angelic Cloud (host), that Holy Ones that accompanied Christ into heaven after his resurrection as confirmed in Matthew 27:52-53 and in fulfilment of Ezekiel 37:11-14.
Not only that but if we look at the epistles we are also described the remainder of the symbolic 70th week.
Ephesians 4:8
This is why it says: "When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people."
These captives we those serving in paradise awaiting the long awaited Messiah the Prince to RESURRECT THEM. In Revelation Chapter 7 these Opd Covenant Saints are numbered 12,000, 12,000 and so on.
The distinction between them and those that later would carry the testimony of the lamb of God are described withinnthebsame chapter.
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
As you can now discern the two different groups, the Old Covenant and the New Covenant Saints who are justified by the blood of the lamb. The previous ones were said to have been SLAIN FOR THE WORD OF GOD.
What is interesting is that in Revelation 6:11 these resurrected Old Covenant saints are told to be PATIENT (rest) until also their New Covenant brothers are killed and then resurrected as they were.
This talks about the end of harvest leading up to the wedding supper of the lamb called Sukkot Or the feast of tabernacles where the wedding is fully furnished with all the resurrected saints from when the fifth seal was opened at the latter half of the 70th week right up to the CONSUMATION of the bride of Christ for that ultimate wedding at the End of Age.
4) basically alludes to how God would end all Jewish sacrificial systems by the giving of his only begotten Son as the sacrificial lamb to end all sacrifices as far as God is concerned. If there are future sacrifices in an earthly Jewish temple then that would be concerned an abomination in the sight of The Lord because that would be in direct opposition to God's plan of salvation (CHARA).
5) talks about the CONSUMATION OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST that is fully CONSUMATED at the End of Age the end of harvest when the wedding of the lamb of God is fully furnished with resurrected guests as the Angelic white cloud. This could not have been 70AD as the preterists advocate. In fact 70AD has no relation to the 70th week.
6) What is determined? What is poured? And who are desolate?
We note that God's judgement is what is determined and this is what is poured upon those who rejected the Son. So the desolate becomes the Levitica bride without a husband, who now is sent away and made desolate by the Messiah the Prince and therefore becomes the Harlot of John's Revelation as the first Babylon that was judged in 70AD. However that being so the 70th week was none the less fulfilled previously when Christ ascended up on high taking with him the resurrected angelic white cloud.
