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blhowes · #3 (**permalink**) 05-20-2004, 07:51 AM

Bruce,
Thanks for your response. I agree with you that the important point is that the focus of the middle of the 70th week is Jesus. Its too bad there's such a disagreement about that point. I don't think there could be a greater contrast between systems of interpretation then for some to interpret it as being about the Christ and for others to interpret is as being about the antiChrist!

The interpretation of the last part of the 70th week is one I hadn't heard before. Interesting. It almost reminds me of the dispensational approach, only with a shorter gap inserted at a different place on the timeline.

[b:7d66788d9b]Bruce wrote:[/b:7d66788d9b]
(Dan. 9:24; and compare 9:27 with Mt. 24:15).

I have to kind of smile whenever I read the last part of Matthew 24:15 - "whoso readeth, let him understand". With so many people reading the passage and so many people coming to such different interpretations of it, obviously somebody (myself included) isn't understanding something important about the passage.

I have a question about Daniel 9:26, something I've sometimes wondered.

Dan 9:26 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.

It says that after threescore and two weeks (the 69th week), two things will happen: the Messiah will be cut off and the city and the sanctuary will be destroyed. Is it necessary for both of these to occur during the 70th week?

I think its clear that the first one does occur during the 70th week, as shown by verse 27. But what about the city and sanctuary being destroyed? Is it necessary for that to be during the 70th week as well?

Lets say, for sake of argument, that the end of the 70th week was marked by some event that occurred 3.5 years after Jesus was crucified. Then, some 30+ years later, the city and sanctuary was destroyed in 70 AD. This would have occurred after the 69th week, but outside of the 70 year timeline.

Anybody want to share their :wr50:?

Bob