Timtofly
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All according to you. You totally ignore other Scripture, and develope your own opinion as fact. Revelation 10 declares time over at the 7th Trumpet. Revelation 11 declares Jesus as King.According to you, but, not according to the Bible.
(1) The first part (7 weeks) relates to the rebuilding of Jerusalem. The angel said of the first aspect relating to the rebuilding of Jerusalem, in the first seven weeks, “the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.”
(2) The second part (62 weeks) takes up to the beginning of Christ’s earthly ministry.
(3) The third part (1 week) commences with the start of Christ’s earthly ministry and sees the crucifixion half way through it (3 ½ yrs). The other 3 ½ yrs saw the Church receive its baptism of fire at Pentecost and enter into the fulfilment of advancing the Gospel – the nations now being open to the Gospel, unlike before.
The question the futurists must answer is: is there any division in time between the 7th and 8th weeks?
The answer, of course, is a categorical NO!
Then, what scriptural warrant is there for, in unprecedented manner, decapitating this harmonious cohesive Messianic prophecy, aimlessly and indefinitely projecting the final week 2000 years+ into the unknown to a supposed end-time 7-year period, when it was perfectly fulfilled in the life and time of our Lord’s ministry, especially when there is absolutely NO corroborated in the New Testament for this 70th week gap-theory. As we have already stated, probably, the most distasteful aspect of this corrupt teaching is how they corruptly attribute it to anti-Christ at the end when it explicitly relates to Christ and His atonement 2000 years ago? To be honest, with this form of hermeneutics you could potentially corrupt any Old Testament passage and apply it to whatever time-period or matter one wishes.
The text does not in any way demand a gap; the Futurists unilaterally (without any scriptural warrant and for his own reason) chooses to insert one there in order to support his unsound theology. Those who do or condone such are unquestionably gap-theorists.
The text does demand – “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to (1) finish the transgression, and to (2) make an end of sins, and to (3) make reconciliation for iniquity, and to (4) bring in everlasting righteousness, and to (5) seal up the vision and prophecy, and to (6) anoint the most Holy” (Daniel 9:24).
These 6 elements must therefore be fulfilled (1) in Messiah, and (2) must come mid-way through the final week. The desolation is not within the 70 weeks, it is the visible result of the fulfilment of numbers 1-6 in the midst of the week i.e. the rendering of the temple’s former use obsolete.
What is the greater abomination, rejecting the once all-sufficient sacrifice of Calvary, as the Jews evidently did (and are doing), or abolishing or rejecting any idolatrous animal sacrifices in an imaginary temple? The Pretrib scenario is fanciful anyway as the temple has been (and is being) built – Christ’s body.
The “overspreading of abominations” was the rebellious idolatrous continuing of the temple sacrifices by the Jews after they were abolished at Calvary (1/2 way through the final week). And despite God allowing them time to repent in the intervening 40-year period (AD 30-AD 70), they stubbornly rebelled. The blasphemous continuing of the old order – the abolished (imperfect) sacrifices – occasioned the destruction of the temple – 40 being a perfect probationary period. When the practicing of the temple sacrifices had reached their allotted time-span, God destroyed them and the temple.
I am not a futurist. Just pointing out Scripture.
There is no verse that states within.
"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. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off,"
Last time I checked 7 plus 62 is 69, not 70. The only thing promised is Messiah cut off after 69 weeks. Besides Jesus being the 70th week is Jesus fulfilling both Christ and King in the 70 weeks. In is within those 70 weeks.
But Gabriel does not frame it that way. You are the one demanding your opinion being forced into the passage. Gabriel frames it as after 69 weeks, not within 69 nor 70 consecutive weeks.
The determination of 70 weeks is broken into 7 and 62 already. Placing the 70th week does not contradict Gabriel's point. It only points out the flaw in your own opinion you force onto the text. If Gabriel had not already broken the time into 7 and 62 weeks, you may have a point. You are fighting Scripture for your continuous time frame of 70 weeks.
Paul already points out there was a hold on Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles comes in. The promise was not given to the Gentiles. It was given to Israel. The Trumpets do not deal with Gentiles. They deal with Israel. Even the AoD was not instigated by Israel, as you claim. The AoD is always an act of a Gentile.
When the veil was torn at the point of Jesus declaring it is finished, there could no longer be an AoD in that temple. It was no longer Holy. So the Jews continued usage of the temple was not blasphemy, nor the AoD. There was no AoD in 70AD for the same reason. Continued usage was rather pointless, but not a defilement. God literally gave them their desires and the innocent blood of Jesus was on their hands and the hands of their children and grandchildren. The Jews brought on their own desolation and destruction.