Daniel
9:27: The “Holy Covenant” Confirmed
By
Gregory M. Wilson
I am going to show you a “proof text”
which demonstrates that “the confirmed covenant” of Daniel
9:27a is a “Holy Covenant”. While Daniel uses
the term “covenant” without any descriptive adjective, we
may extrapolate the descriptive adjective “holy” from
other biblical texts.
I have maintained the view that
Daniel’s covenant is associated with God’s promises to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This short essay will put
forward another proof for the Abrahamic promises
associated with Daniel’s “confirmed covenant”.
Presently, the majority view on
Daniel’s “confirmed covenant” is a satanically inspired
covenant, peace treaty, and or agreement. Therefore,
they necessarily imply it is a satanic covenant made and
breached by the Antichrist.
Why do I assert Daniel’s covenant
is Holy? What is the Holy Covenant? Daniel
does not define this term “holy covenant”, but he uses it
twice in Chapter 11 in the context of chapter 9:27.
The term is used three times in the King James
Bible. It appears in Daniel 11:28, 30 and Luke
1:71-72. Luke defines the term “Holy Covenant”
in the context of Genesis 22:16-17; 1 Chronicles 16:16-17;
Psalm 105:8-11.
In chapter 1 Luke states:
71
To
perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember
his holy covenant;
72
The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
The Holy Covenant is the unilateral
“oath of the covenant” God made to Abraham in Genesis
22:16-17. It is the “confirmed covenant of Genesis
22:16-17; 1 Chronicles 16:16-17; and Psalm 105:8-11.
God’s Oath Confirmed the Covenant
Three Times
In Genesis 22, God said:
16
And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD,
for because thou hast done this thing, and hast
not withheld thy son, thine only son:
17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I
will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as
the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall
possess the gate of his enemies;
[Emphasis added]
This “thing” was Abraham’s offer of
Isaac as a sacrifice upon Mount Moriah. Isaac was a
type of Christ. Although Isaac was not actually
sacrificed, God said he was received in figure as though
he had been sacrificed. (Hebrews 11:17-19)
This oath of the covenant to Abraham
was repeated to Isaac and Jacob. This covenant was
“confirmed” to Isaac and Jacob. In 1 Chronicles 16,
God states:
16
Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of
his oath unto Isaac;
17
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law,
and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
This “oath of the covenant” is God’s
bond or guaranty. Our Lord discusses the nature of
his oath in the book of Hebrews. In Hebrews 6, the
Lord, speaking about God’s oath to Abraham, states:
16
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for
confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the
heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed
it by an oath:
God has purposefully used the term
“confirm” with His promises to Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. So, when we see “the covenant confirmed” in
Daniel 9:27, we should immediately consider associating it
with the Abrahamic promises. It is the only covenant
which had already been confirmed three times. God
used the word “confirm” intentionally.
The Confirmed Covenant is Bonded
What is a bond? A
bond is something which binds or restrains. It is a
uniting force. It is a binding obligation often
supported by a collateral guaranty. Ezekiel speaks
about a bonded covenant in the context of Israel in the
latter days, our days, the days when Israel is recovered
from the four corners of the Earth.
Ezekiel’s prophecy tells us that in the
latter days, Israel will be gathered from out of the
countries where they were scattered. Isaiah confirms
this regathering referring to it as Israel’s second
recovery from exile, i.e. (Babylon Diaspora exile. (Isaiah
11:11)
In Ezekiel 20, the Lord informs
us:
34
And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather
you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a
mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury
poured out.
35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people,
and there will I plead with you face to face.
36
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of
the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the
Lord GOD.
37
And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will
bring you into the bond of the covenant:
[Emphasis added]
So, the Lord is saying that He is going
to bring Israel (remnant Israel) into “the covenant” by
means of binding, restraining and uniting. It is
reasonable to associate the “holy covenant” with the
“bonded covenant” which appears in Daniel 9:27.
Jesus has been given “for a covenant of the people”.
(Isaiah 42:6) He is the personification of all God’s
covenant promises.
Ezekiel’s “bond of the covenant” is
“the confirmed covenant”.
The Confirmed Covenant is the
Holy Covenant
Daniel 11 is highly instructive.
He states in verses 28-31:
28
Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and
his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and
he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.
29
At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the
south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the
latter.
30
For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore
he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation
against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even
return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy
covenant.
31
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute
the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily
sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that
maketh desolate.
In the context of this series of Daniel
11 verses we see the “holy covenant” and the
“abomination that maketh desolate”. We see the holy
covenant appearing in the context of the abomination which
makes desolate. This is exactly what we see in
Daniel 9:27.
The holy covenant is the confirmed
covenant which is subject to God’s bond.
In Christ, Greg Wilson