Miriam,
That was very well
done, and I enjoyed reading your study very much.
Yet I still cannot
100% accept that Jesus fulfilled the 1st ½ of
Daniel’s 70th week.
In my mind that
would end up confusing Jesus with the antichrist.
Daniel 9:27
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.
For Jesus to have
fulfilled the 1st half of the week, then he would
have been the one who would have had to confirm the covenant
for one week.
That would have
had to have been the old covenant.
But by the midst
of that week, 3 ½ years later, they rejected him, and
delivered him to Pilate to be crucified.
However, since it was his plan all along, they brought his
plan to pass.
Then by his blood
sacrifice on the cross, he then forever did away with the
old covenant sacrifices.
Then like in the
wilderness, he was patient with that generation for 40
years.
But after 40
years, they were still rejecting him, persecuting disciples,
and continuing to offer the old sacrifices, which in light
of his sacrifice, were abominable.
Then after 40
years, that generation died, when the Romans destroyed the
city and desolated the sanctuary.
So, the he in
Daniel 9:27 is either Jesus or the antichrist.
And we are not in
very good shape today, when struggle, even a little, at
trying to tell the difference between Jesus and the
antichrist.
At this point we
really should know better, but alas, most of us are still
babes.
This indictment I
bring also against myself.
Gino