Daniel's 70th Week Has Already Been Fulfilled:

Part 1 - The Plain Reading of the Text

To start off with, I'm going to read from Daniel chapter 9 verse 24 through to the end of the chapter. And just for a little context, while Daniel is praying and confessing his sin and the sins of the Israelites before God, the angel Gabriel appears to him to give him the famous prophecy of the seventy weeks:

Daniel 9:24-27
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.

Daniel's 70th week, the popular prophecy as found in Daniel chapter 9, is a prophecy that most Christians living in North America have deemed to be yet unfilled and to have a fulfillment at some unknown point in the future. They believe that a 2000+ year gap exists between the 69th week and the 70th week. They believe that in a yet future time that the antichrist/the beast will enter into a seven year covenant with Israel which will start and usher in the time period known in the scriptures as “the great tribulation”. These doctrines are core foundational prophetic teachings within dispensational circles. From John Nelson Darby, to the Scofield Reference Bible, to American Bible colleges, to seminaries, to the popular Left Behind novels and movies, to sermons, the belief in a yet future fulfillment of Daniel's 70th week has captured the minds of far too many Christians.

My belief based on the reading and studying of Daniel 9 is that the 70th week has already been fulfilled by the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ and his establishing of the better covenant, the New Testament.

And within this video series that will be composed of numerous parts, I will present my evidence for why I believe that Daniel's 70th week has already been fulfilled. Bear in mind as well that this belief was held by the vast majority of Christians until the 19th century, and before the arrival of John Nelson Darby. For centuries, Christians had no problems accepting that Daniel's 70th week was fulfilled by Christ. But after the influence of Darby and company, Christians began to challenge the long held belief that the 70th week was fulfilled. These Christians had no beefs about the first 69 weeks being fulfilled chronologically, but the 70th week they could not accept as being fulfilled. And they pushed it's fulfillment into a yet future time as they were influenced the by new teachings of men.

 Part 1: The Plain Reading Of The Text

2 Timothy 2:15-16
15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16  But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.


Daniel's 70th Week Has Already Been Fulfilled: Part 1 - The Plain Reading of the Text

Daniel's 70th Week Has Already Been Fulfilled: Part 2 - The six prophecies of Daniel 9:24 were fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ

In part 1 of this series looking at the prophecy of Daniel's seventy weeks, I looked at how the plain reading of the text (Daniel 9:24-27) indicates that prophecies have already been fulfilled. And if you have yet to check out part 1, I encourage you to do that, and will provide links to that study.

In this second part, I will be focusing on the six prophecies as found in Daniel 9:24 and will be showing you how, I believe, that Jesus Christ, the Messiah, fulfilled them all. So let's dive right into this study by reading Daniel 9:24:
 
Daniel 9:24
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.

Daniel 9:24 is a jammed pack verse with a lot of things going on. Within this one sentence, it pretty much encapsulates all the major prophecies that will occur within the seventy weeks. And then the scriptures that follow in this chapter, verses 25 through 27, expand and expound on what would take place within the seventy weeks. Bear this in mind, that there are only three subjects mentioned within Daniel 9:24. Those being, “thy people”, (the Israelites), “thy holy city” (being Jerusalem), and “the most Holy” (the Lord Jesus Christ).

Notice how there is absolutely no mention of the antichrist within the seventy weeks? Since the seventy weeks contains prophecies within it, why wouldn't the antichrist be mentioned here if he played such a major role in it? Why the complete and utter absence of him here? There's no prophecy in Daniel 9:24 of the antichrist entering into a future covenant with Israel mentioned here. There's nothing! The reason why that is so, is because the antichrist has absolutely nothing to do with the seventy weeks. 

But people may say, what about scriptures like Daniel 9:27, and Daniel 8:12-13, 11:31, 12:11 and Matthew 24:15? Well, will get to those, Lord willing, in more detail in other parts to this series; but I will leave you with this for now: Daniel 9:27 is dealing with the Lord Jesus Christ (and not the antichrist) and Daniel 8:12-13, 11:31, 12:11 and Matthew 24:15 is dealing with the antichrist. These scriptures are dealing with two different prophecies. One has been fulfilled by the Christ, and one is to be fulfilled by the antichrist. 

But for now, let's focus in again on Daniel 9:24.

So within verse 24 of Daniel 9 we have the following six prophecies to be fulfilled within the “Seventy weeks”:

1. to finish the transgression
2. and to make an end of sins
3. and to make reconciliation for iniquity
4. and to bring in everlasting righteousness
5. and to seal up the vision and prophecy
6. and to anoint the most Holy.

Now the thing is Jesus either fulfilled the above prophecies within his ministry upon the earth, or he didn't. I for one believe that he did. And to insert a 2000 + year gap after all six of the above prophecies is to really confuse the simplicity of the scriptures, and is needless. The Lord didn't fulfill these six prophecies in the 69th week. Nowhere is this taught in the Bible. 

Daniel's 70th Week Has Already Been Fulfilled: Part 2

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