From my honey:
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.
Sam's Paraphrase:
God the Father: "Let me give this people and this city another 490 years. They've got 490 years to accomplish the following:
"finish the transgression"
Jesus: "Won't happen."
The Father: "make an end of sins"
The Son: "Won't happen. I will have to go."
The Father: "make reconciliation for iniquity"
The Lamb: "The blood of bulls and goats can't really do that."
The Father: "bring in everlasting righteousness"
The Prince of Peace: "Only I can do that. In person."
The Father: "seal up the vision and prophecy"
Yeshua: Well, Gabriel is going to spell it all out in the next few sentences after he tells about these things.
The Father: "anoint the most Holy"
Messiah: "Well, even though they may see the Spirit descend as a dove when I am baptized, not many will believe. But some will. And blessed will be those who do not see, and yet will believe."
And so the angel Gabriel was sent to speak a prophecy to Daniel. He would pronouce a 490-year probationary period during which the people and the city of Jerusalem are to make things right. Of course, God knows they won't succeed, and He will send His only begotten Son to:
"finish the transgression"
"make an end of sins"
"make reconciliation for iniquity"
"bring in everlasting righteousness"
"seal up the vision and prophecy"
"anoint the most Holy"
The people and the city are given 490 years in which to accomplish this, even though God knows they won't be able to do it. Just as the Law points us to Calvary because of our inability to keep it, so should Daniel 9:24 let us know only a Saviour could bring those things to pass.
The 490-year probation would be cruelly cut short at about the 486-year mark by the "cutting off" of the Messiah, as prophesied in Daniel 9 and Isaiah 53.
And ever since then, the Messiah has been dealing with transgressors and sinners. For it was in that cutting off that much of Daniel 9:24 was accomplished.
AGIC,
Karen
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.
Sam's Paraphrase:
God the Father: "Let me give this people and this city another 490 years. They've got 490 years to accomplish the following:
"finish the transgression"
Jesus: "Won't happen."
The Father: "make an end of sins"
The Son: "Won't happen. I will have to go."
The Father: "make reconciliation for iniquity"
The Lamb: "The blood of bulls and goats can't really do that."
The Father: "bring in everlasting righteousness"
The Prince of Peace: "Only I can do that. In person."
The Father: "seal up the vision and prophecy"
Yeshua: Well, Gabriel is going to spell it all out in the next few sentences after he tells about these things.
The Father: "anoint the most Holy"
Messiah: "Well, even though they may see the Spirit descend as a dove when I am baptized, not many will believe. But some will. And blessed will be those who do not see, and yet will believe."
And so the angel Gabriel was sent to speak a prophecy to Daniel. He would pronouce a 490-year probationary period during which the people and the city of Jerusalem are to make things right. Of course, God knows they won't succeed, and He will send His only begotten Son to:
"finish the transgression"
"make an end of sins"
"make reconciliation for iniquity"
"bring in everlasting righteousness"
"seal up the vision and prophecy"
"anoint the most Holy"
The people and the city are given 490 years in which to accomplish this, even though God knows they won't be able to do it. Just as the Law points us to Calvary because of our inability to keep it, so should Daniel 9:24 let us know only a Saviour could bring those things to pass.
The 490-year probation would be cruelly cut short at about the 486-year mark by the "cutting off" of the Messiah, as prophesied in Daniel 9 and Isaiah 53.
And ever since then, the Messiah has been dealing with transgressors and sinners. For it was in that cutting off that much of Daniel 9:24 was accomplished.
AGIC,
Karen