Agreed. And who is that prince?
There is only one individual identified as a prince in the passage.
He is Messiah, aka the Christ, aka Jesus.
It is time ,at least for me, to end this fruitless conversation. We have beaten this dead horse until there is no flesh left on the carcass.
So let me conclude by showing what you and BABerean and a few others in your allegorical and eisegetical prowess have declared to us how we should understand Daniel 9:24-27 and the New Covenant as written in Jeremiah 31 according to all you have written on this thread and the dates you have declared. Some of these pontifications I do not disagree with.
The Bible:
Daniel 9:24-27 King James Version (KJV)
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.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
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.
Now how we have been told to understand it!
24: 490 continuous years have been decreed for the Jews and Jerusalem to end the rebellion (transgression), complete your sins, make reconciliation for your errors, bring in everlasting righteousness, and to end the vision and prophecy, and to anoint Jesus!~
25: Know that from the command to rebuild Jerusalem by Cyrus in c.548 B.C. unto Jesus will be 49 years and 434 years. it will be rebuilt in troublous times.
26: Now after the 434 years will Jesus die for us. And Jesus (who is the prince of Rome for they are the people that will come and destroy Jerusalem and the temple in 66-70 A.D. under Titus). And unto the end of the 490 years (unless we have a quick parenthetical jump to the end of time.) wars and desolations are decreed.
27: Jesus will make a strong binding covenant (the new covenant as foretold in Jeremiah) with many Jews for 7 years (for that is approximately how long the gospel went out to the Jews alone at first) this took place when He died and established the New Covenant c. April 30 A.D. and in the middle of the 7 year covenant He made with many Jews,( c. Oct.33A.D). Jesus will cause the sacrifices and burnt offerings to end. And for spreading detestable things and idols to the extremity or wing of the temple Jesus will make the temple horrified, even till the full end and that which was decreed shall happen to the appalled or awestruck!
Now for the New covenant as it is said is the covenant Jesus makes in Daniel.
The Bible:
Jeremiah 31:31-34 King James Version (KJV)
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
And how our allegorical and eisegetical scholars say we need to understand it!
Verse 31: The days are coming saysd the Lord that I will make a new covenant with the house of israel and Judah (well many of them as it says in Daniel 9)
Verse 32: Not like the old covenant that I made with the whole nation in the desert, which they broke, though I was a husband to the nation.
Verse 33: But this new covenant (which went into effect c. April 30 A.D.), I will make with many in Israel , I will put my laws only in those who accept me in the house of Israel and will be their God and those chosen will be my people that chose me!
Verse 34: They won't have to teach each other to know me, for those who choosde me will know me from th eleast to the great, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember ther sin no more (unless according to some allegorists they sin too much after they accept Jesus as Savior, then Jesus will not forgive their sins and they will lose their salvation)
This is how many allegorists with their eisegetical powers have told us we should understand these two passages. I am sure they disagree with each other on some points, but thus endeth the matter!
