Reasons why Daniel’s 70 Weeks prophecy has not yet been fulfilled, and an explanation of the events in Daniel’s final week, including the covenant, the stopping of sacrifices, and the abomination of desolation.

While we respectfully disagree with the “already-fulfilled” theory, we acknowledge the desire it reflects to glorify our LORD and Savior YASHUA HA MASHIACH for His sacrifice. Our hope is to clearly explain why we believe, as discussed in the prior episode, that Daniel’s 70 Weeks will not be fulfilled until the end of the age.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction
2:37 Has the transgression been finished?
4:04 Has an end been made of sins?
5:39 Has reconciliation been made for iniquity?
6:21 Has everlasting righteousness been brought in?
7:42 Has vision and prophecy been sealed?
9:23 Has the most Holy been anointed?
11:47 Daniel’s final week explained
12:30 Who are the people of the prince to come?
13:52 Who makes the covenant?
15:02 When do sacrifices cease?
17:34 Has the abomination of desolation already happened? 

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Transcript:

As you saw in our last video, it’s our belief that Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy is put on hold at Yeshua’s crucifixion and that Daniel’s final week is a prophecy about our future.

Some people disagree. They believe the entire 70 weeks prophecy has already been fulfilled. Today we’re going to take a look at each of the purposes that are outlined in the prophecy and I will tell you why we think some of those purposes point to events that are still yet to come.

One of the main causes for disagreement among people who study these matters is Daniel’s final week. Who is it who confirms the covenant and who is it who stops the sacrifices? I will tell you what we think and why.

Before we get started, whichever viewpoint you hold to, we don’t think it has any effect on your salvation. So, if you agree with us, shalom. And if you disagree, shalom. Shalom to all of Father’s children.

“Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey Thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we sinned against Him. And He hath confirmed His words, which He spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.”

The words you just heard are part of Daniel’s prayer to our Father. While Daniel was in exile in Babylon, he cried out to God over his people Israel and over Jerusalem. In response, Father sent him the angel Gabriel with a message. That message contained information on what was going to happen to the people and to the city Daniel is praying about. “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city,” Gabriel said.

Thy people is Israel and thy city is Jerusalem and the first purpose of the 70 weeks that Gabriel gives us is to finish the transgression. We do not believe the transgression has been finished.

In accordance with the scriptures, Yeshua came to those in Israel who repented from transgression. In Hebrew, to repent is literally to turn. So he came to those who turned from their transgression. He didn’t force Israel to stop their transgression. He saved those who turned away from it.

Today in Jerusalem and among the people of Israel, there is still transgression and we can expect this to continue throughout the end times since elsewhere in Daniel, Gabriel tells us that there’s a time coming when the transgressors are come to the full. When that happens, that’s when the antichrist arises.

The end times judgment of the transgressors is foretold in the Book of Isaiah where it says the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed. So, in our view, once the transgressors come to their full and once they’re destroyed by our righteous God, then and only then will the transgression be finished.

The second purpose of the 70 weeks is to make an end of sins. The Hebrew word for “to make an end of” is “chatam” which means to seal up and close up. Chatam is speaking of something that cannot be opened. If you are in Yeshua, you have been freed from your sins. But there is even more work regarding sin that He intends to do.

In Matthew 13, Yeshua talks about the end of the world in which His angels will remove all causes of sin from the earth. This will happen when His angels throw all of the evil and all of the law breakers into a fiery furnace.

Matthew 25 tells us that they will be thrown into the same fire that’s prepared for the devil and his angels and in Revelation, we learn that this fiery furnace is a pit that will be shut and sealed up for a thousand years. This points us back to the 70 weeks prophecy where it says that sins will be chatam, sealed and closed up.

So, in our view, a chatam of sins will not be fully fulfilled until the future when the causes of sin, the unrepentant sinners, the devil, the beast and the false prophet are all sealed up in a pit at Yeshua’s return.

Another purpose of the 70 weeks is to make reconciliation for iniquity and we believe that this part of the prophecy has been fulfilled. The Hebrew word for “to make reconciliation” is kafar, which is the root word for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

Kafar in Hebrew means to atone for and for those of us in Yeshua, His death provided atonement for our sins, iniquities and transgressions, so this part of the prophecy has indeed been fulfilled.

The fourth purpose of the 70 weeks is to bring in everlasting righteousness and we believe that this part of the prophecy is speaking of a time that is yet to come.

As I mentioned earlier, Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy is about the people of Israel and Jerusalem and Jerusalem won’t be in a state of everlasting righteousness until Yeshua is in His rightful place reigning as King of Kings.

Everlasting righteousness in Hebrew is “tsedeq olamim” which literally means “righteousness forever”. We believe that this prophecy is actually speaking about the days to come when all of the people of Zion will be righteous as it is written in Isaiah 60 and when the righteousness of the City of Zion will shine like a bright light as we see in Isaiah 62.

Those days of righteousness forever haven’t been brought in yet but once our King comes to His rightful place to rule and reign in Zion, then Jerusalem, Israel and the entire world will be living in a time of righteousness forever like Gabriel described.

Another purpose of the 70 weeks is to seal up the vision and prophecy. In Hebrew what this literally says is to seal up vision and prophet and we don’t believe this part of the prophecy has been fulfilled yet either. To seal up vision sounds to me like the time of people having visions has come to an end and we know that this can’t happen until after the last days.

Joel prophesized and Peter explains that in the last days, people will have visions and some of you listening today have had visions from the Lord. So, we don’t expect visions to cease in this age.

On a similar note, we know that the role of prophet will continue through the end of the age as well. It’s written that the two witnesses prophesy for 1260 days at the end. Just based on that fact alone, this part of the prophecy cannot yet be fulfilled.

It’s possible that when Gabriel said to seal up vision, he was referring to an earlier vision that Daniel had one day coming to an end. But even then, all of Daniel’s visions were about events that extend all the way to the end of days.

So, in either case, whether Gabriel was talking about the future when God’s people no longer have visions and prophecy or if he was talking about one of Daniel’s previous visions, this part of the prophecy won’t be fulfilled until all of the words in Daniel have come to pass.

The last purpose given for the 70 weeks is to anoint the most holy. If this verse is referring to Yeshua, then it has already been fulfilled. In Hebrew, the words that Gabriel uses are to anoint Kodesh HaKodashim, which could literally mean to anoint a holy one of the holy ones and a holy one of the holy ones is one way of saying the Holy One of Israel which is Yeshua.

Yeshua was anointed while he was here on earth. We know this because the gospels tell us that He read out loud from the Book of Isaiah which says, “The spirit of the Lord is upon me because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor,” and right after he read those words, He said, “This day is the scripture fulfilled in your ears.”

So, if Kodesh HaKodashim is a reference to Yeshua, the Anointed One, then yes, this part of the 70 weeks prophecy has been fulfilled. But it could also be that Kodesh HaKodashim is talking about the Holy of Holies in the temple. Ezekiel tells us that in millennium, we’re going to build a new temple for our Father and I personally believe that construction starts on that temple sometime within the last few days or months of the last seven years.

If Kodesh HaKodashim is the Holy of Holies in the Temple, then it would align with Daniel’s 2300-day prophecy, which ends with the sanctuary being made righteous.

We will go over that prophecy in our next video. But for now, what I can tell you is that if Kodesh HaKodashim is a reference to Yeshua, it has been fulfilled, and if it’s a reference to the temple, then it’s still yet to come.

When we look at all of the purposes of the 70 weeks in our view, some parts have been fulfilled and some have not. So, as a whole, the prophecy has only been partially fulfilled and we’ve still got a lot to look forward to, like an end of sins and eternal righteousness.

Now that you know why we think the 70 weeks hasn’t been completely fulfilled, here’s how we interpret Daniel’s final week, which is the part of the prophecy that most people are interested in.

Gabriel breaks the 70 weeks into three parts – 7 weeks, 62 weeks and 1 week, and he says after 62 weeks, Messiah will be cut off but not for himself. That’s Yeshua being crucified for our sins. As I explained in the last video, our view is that the crucifixion stopped the clock on the 70 weeks prophecy until the end times.

“And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.” The people who destroy the City of Jerusalem and the sanctuary after Yeshua’s crucifixion were the Romans.

So, when we read here about the prince that shall come, who is associated with those destroyers, it’s not talking about Yeshua. Yeshua is not a prince of Rome. He is the glory of Israel and Israel did not destroy their own city. Rome did. This verse is letting us know that a prince or a leader is coming who will in some respect be in charge of whatever remains of the Roman Empire and the end thereof shall be with a flood and unto the end of the war, desolations are determined.

The end with a flood is a reference to the Roman armies destroying the city and sanctuary in approximately 70 AD and as I mentioned last time around, that last part of the verse literally says “Until an end of war, desolations are determined.”

There won’t be an end of war until Yeshua returns. So, we expect desolations to occur in the land of Israel until He comes back.

“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week.” We believe the one week is referring to the last seven years of the age. Now those who assume that the 70 weeks prophecy has already been fulfilled assume here that the confirming of the covenant is a reference to Yeshua making the new covenant with believers or a reference to him enforcing the old covenant which is the law of Moses.

But one important thing to note is that in Hebrew, it doesn’t say confirm the covenant. It literally says to strengthen a covenant. If Gabriel was referring to the establishment of a covenant with God, it wouldn’t have a time limit of 1 week of 7 years.

We believe what this verse is actually talking about is an agreement between parties that gets strengthened by the same leader that Gabriel mentioned earlier, the prince that shall come who will take charge of the Roman Empire and that is not Yeshua. It’s the antichrist who takes over territory at the end of days.

“And in the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.” Some people believe that “He shall cause the sacrifice to cease” is a reference to Yeshua making it so that sacrifices are no longer necessary.

We absolutely agree that because of Yeshua’s death, sacrifices are no longer necessary, but sacrifices in the land of Israel did not cease after his crucifixion. The people continued sacrificing in the land for decades after his death.

If you look at all of Daniel’s prophecies, you will see that there will be sacrifices in the land once again at the end of days.

The truth is that Yeshua made it so that sacrifices are no longer necessary but it’s written in Daniel that in the days to come, truth will be cast to the ground.

When those sacrifices start up again, the truth of our Lord’s ultimate sacrifice will be cast to the ground and it will be done as it’s written because of transgression. We will talk about this more in our next video. But for now, the point I want to make is that it’s not Yeshua who stops the sacrifices in this prophecy. It’s the antichrist. We can be assured of this since the same sacrifice-stopping event is described in another one of Daniel’s prophecies.

In Daniel 11, it says that, “A vile person will arise and that arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice.”

We know that the Daniel 11 prophecy and the 70 weeks prophecy are both talking about the same thing because the very next thing that’s mentioned in both of those prophecies is the abomination of desolation.

Daniel 11 says they shall take away the daily sacrifice and they shall place the abomination that makes desolate and Daniel 9 says, and this is a literal Hebrew translation, “He will cause to cease sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of abominations is one who makes desolate even until a full end. And that which is determined will be poured out over the desolation.”

For those of you who have heard that the abomination of desolation is another one of those things that has already been fulfilled, in this case by a man named Antiochus Epiphanes in the 2nd Century BC, that theory is absolutely untrue. Around 200 years after Antiochus lived and died, Yeshua told us that the abomination of desolation was something that was coming in the future, not something that happened in the past.

The abomination of desolation that both Daniel and Yeshua are talking about is the same idol in the temple that’s described by the apostle John in Revelation. John tells us that what sets this idol apart is it will be given the breath of life and it will live and speak, something that Father has never allowed to happen on earth before.

If you are at all worried about what’s going to happen to you when that time comes, don’t be. While our Father is judging the transgressors at the end of days, He has a perfect plan to take care of His children as He always does.

♫ Sun goes down from east to west, and my heart is still with You. ♫

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