Seventy Sevens in the Prophecy of Daniel 9: Part 2

 Literally interpreting the 69 sevens of times

THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL 9:24

INTRODUCTION: SEVENS OF TIMES

The Hebrew for “seventy sevens” is exactly like many translations of the Bible word it, “seventy sevens.” 

It does not say, “seventy sevens of years. 

But because some of the “sevens” are clearly “years,” some assume that every “seven” stands for seven years.

But that is an error. The Bible is too important and too precise to base our faith on “what we assume.”

The “sevens” could be “seasons” as in Ecclesiastes 3:1.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

In fact, only when we stick to the truth that the “sevens” are “times,” do we interpret Scripture literally.

What else can they be other than “times?” They are durations of time. We call durations of time what? “Times,” yes, we call them times.

Again, “times” can be “years,” but they are, in their core meaning “times.”

When King Nebuchadnezzar thought he was an ox for seven “times,” we cannot be certain that it was for seven years (Daniel 4:32). 

Scripture says, it was “until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes.” (Daniel 4:32)

And our Lord Jesus says that only God the Father knows the length of the times and seasons (Acts 1:7).

Acts 1:7 says, “Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.”

So, it should not shock us that the length of time from 535 BC (Cyrus’ Decree) to 27 AD (Jesus’ Baptism and anointing as Messiah) is 562 years when there were only 483 times in sixty-nine sevens.

Perhaps the reason that God uses “times” rather than years, months, or days is that He is the only one who knows and controls the times.

Scripture accounts for that difference simply by not saying “Seventy Sevens of years” and by the rest of the truths in this post.

(Read on please)

In our earlier post we proved from Scripture that the beginning terminal of Daniel’s prophecy of chapter 9:24-27 was the decree of Cyrus II, King of Persia.

In this post we, with God’s help and your prayer, we will show that the end of the first 69 weeks of that prophecy was at the Baptism and Anointing of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

But to do that, we must unpack the first verse of the prophecy, which is Daniel 9:24.

This text has both the beginning and the end of the fulfillment of the whole prophecy. And it shows six works of God during the seventy-sevens.

We have no agenda except for truth. Please note that we do not solve the mystery of the final terminal of the 69 sevens by calculating from the advantage of hindsight. It is all Bible and Bible history.

Rather, we lay it out for our highly esteemed readers with the rest of the Bible as support.

TABULAR VIEW OF THE PROPHECY AND FULFILLMENT OF DANIEL 9:24

THE PROPHECY	THE FULFILLMENT
Seventy-sevens pertain to Daniel’s people and the city of Jerusalem (Daniel 9:24; See also Daniel 9:4).	Daniel’s people are the [true] Israelites (1). For these people God keeps His covenant of love.
Seventy-sevens pertain to Daniel’s holy city (Daniel 9:24).	Daniel’s holy city is Jerusalem, but God fulfills this in the Jerusalem above (Hebrews 12:22). (2)
“To stop transgression,” sin and iniquity. During seventy sevens God will end the sin of Israel in its three forms. Yahweh will not complete this until He fulfills 2 Peter 3:13	At His cross our Lord ended true Israel’s transgression, sin, and iniquity (Hebrews 12:22). (3) The fruit of this will be in the New Heavens and New Earth (2 Peter 3:13). (4)
“To bring in [into Israel] everlasting righteousness.” It is the righteousness of God as acted out by our Lord and imputed and imparted to His people.	Embodied in Jesus Christ is righteousness. Fulfillment is in the Book of Romans and especially in Romans Chapter 10. (5)
To seal up vision and prophecy. By fulfilling the visions and prophecies our Lord Jesus ended them. None other could ever fulfill them. They were only for Him.	Our Lord Jesus fulfilled all the laws and all the visions and prophecies of the prophets (Matthew 11:13) (6). By fulfilling them, He patented them as His, affixing His seal on them.
To anoint the most holy [Person].  Also prophesied in Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor…”	God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit at Jesus’ baptism. The Hebrew verb for “anoint” in Isaiah 61:1 is the same root word as “Messiah.” See Psalm 2:2 (7)

Notice in the Table that God works during the 70-sevens. Each of these works begins with the word “to.” 

These six works are works of God through Messiah Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 

Each of these works are during the 69th seven.

There had been a prophecy in Jeremiah 25:12 that foretold that the Babylonian Captivity of Judah would last for seventy years.

When the 70-years of the Babylonian Captivity expired, God gave Daniel the prophecy of 70 X 7 years until the end of Jewish sin. That is the prophecy that we find in Daniel 9:24-27.

It was like God was saying the following: 

‘National Judah did not turn to Me in repentance and faith during the 70-years of captivity. But I still love them. Now I will give individual Israelites 7 X 70 times in which to turn to Me in repentance and faith. And I will destroy sin, bring in righteousness, fulfill all prophecy, seal all prophecy, and anoint my most holy Messiah for them.’

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THE FIRST THREE WORKS OF GOD ARE THE DESTRUCTION OF SIN IN ALL ITS FORMS

Daniel 9:24 says, “Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy [Person].”

Notice that Daniel is specifically praying for God to turn His wrath away from “your people [Israel] and your holy city.” Included in the prophecy are all those believing Gentiles in the New Testament whom God adopted into the Jewish faith (Galatians 3:29) (9).

Daniel admits that the next move is the repentance and faith of the remnant of Israel. They must individually return to Yahweh.

Daniel 9:4 says, “And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments.”

THE 490 TIMES

Notice that the entire prophecy of 490 times in Daniel 9:24 foretells six events that God will bring about during the 70-sevens of years.

The first three of these show that God will eradicate Jewish sin in all its forms, namely transgression, sin, and iniquity during the 70-weeks (sevens of times). 

At His cross our Lord ended true Israel’s transgression, sin, and iniquity (Hebrews 9:26; 12:22). (10)

The fruit of this will be in the New Heavens and New Earth (2 Peter 3:13).

2 Peter 3:13 “But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.”

The word “years” is not in the Hebrew text, but the word “sevens” [or weeks] is there. 

The Hebrew for “seventy sevens” is, most literally, “seventy sevens.

We know that our Lord Jesus Christ is the only Person who could and did destroy sin (Hebrews 9:26).

Hebrews 9:26 says, “For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he [our Lord Jesus] appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” KJV

Matthew 1:21 says, “She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

THE FOURTH PROPHESIED WORK OF GOD IN DANIEL 9:24

The fourth of the six events in Daniel 9:24 is “to bring into Israel (11) everlasting righteousness. 

Romans 10:4 “For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.”

Christ fulfilled the law and by that, God resurrected Him and justified Him, declaring Him righteous (1 Timothy 3:16)

He had created human righteousness which had not existed until His resurrection.

Old Testament people had received justification by imputed righteousness. But God had credited righteousness to Abraham based upon what He planned would occur in the future (Romans 4:17 NKJV) (12).

In the Old Testament times it was known as the righteousness of God. 

It was still the righteousness of God in New Testament times. 

But more specifically, Scripture calls it the righteousness of Christ, and even the Gospel of righteousness by faith.

By fulfilling the Law, Christ ended the Law as a covenant that condemns [for His people] (13).

And, by fulfilling it, He established the Gospel of righteousness by faith (Genesis 15:6; Romans 10:1-13).

So, God through Gabriel to Daniel foretold this coming of righteousness.

THE FIFTH WORK OF GOD IN THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL 9:24

The fifth of the six works of God in Daniel 9:24 is “to seal up vision and prophecy.”

This foretells the end of visions and prophecies of the Old Testament during the 70-sevens.

Visions and prophecies can only end with fulfillment. 

So, we know that our Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled or is fulfilling every vision and prophecy in the Old Testament in some manner. (Luke 24:27) (14).

And when He fulfilled them, He sealed them up. That is, He patented them as uniquely His, for all to see.

THE SIXTH WORK OF GOD OF DANIEL 9:24 WAS THE FIRST ONE FULFILLED

The sixth of the six events in Daniel 9:24 is to “anoint the most holy [Person}.

We know that the New Testament Temple is our Lord Jesus Christ (John 2:19-21). (15)

We know that in Him is the holy of holies.

We know that everything else in the six prophecies of Daniel 9:24 pertains to our Lord Jesus the Messiah. 

So, this one is about Him also. 

And we know that in the Old Testament God prophesied the anointing of Jesus and sent the Holy Spirit to do it at His baptism (Isaiah 61:1). (16)

And we know that our Lord fulfilled Isaiah 61:1 according to Luke 4:18. (17)

And we know that our Lord connected His anointing to His mission when He read in the scroll of Isaiah 61:1, “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor…”

And we know when He read Isaiah 61:1 to the Synagogue in Nazareth, He said, 

“Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing,” He was claiming to be the God-Anointed Messiah, fulfilling the prophecies about Him in the Old Testament. (18)

And to this, we say, “Amen.”

And we know that God anointed His only begotten Son at His baptism when the Spirit descended like a dove and rested upon Him (Matthew 3:16).

Matthew 3:16 says, “As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”

Instead of anointing our Lord with oil like prophets and kings of the Old Testament, God anointed Jesus with what the oil represented, which was the Holy Spirit.

And God anointed our Lord Jesus at His baptism, giving Him the Holy Spirit without limit (John 3:34).

And shortly after His anointing our Lord announced that anointing to the Synagogue in Nazareth

SYMBOLIC MEANINGS EXPRESSED IN NUMBERS

God, through the angel Gabriel told Daniel to know and understand the duration of the seventy sevens of 538-535 BC (Daniel 9:25).

That understanding requires knowledge of the Scriptures as a whole.

It is not strange to holy writings that God may have two meanings in one number such as the number “7.” Explanation of this follows.

The Bible often uses the word “seven” as a literal number that also has a symbolic meaning. That meaning is “completely or intensely.”

Most Christians believe in the literal method of the interpretation of the Bible.

But there are differences of opinion about which Scriptures we must interpret verbatim, and which we must interpret symbolically.

The rule of thumb is that unless we have compelling reasons to interpret symbolically, we interpret word for word.

Note that all Christians know that when John the Baptist said, “Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world,” he was not speaking of a literal lamb. He spoke of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, all Christians know that there are symbols in Scripture. The question is, which are literal, and which are symbolic.

DISPENSATIONAL METHOD OF INTERPRETING DANIEL 9:24-27

Dispensationalists say that we must interpret the timeline of the 70 weeks of Daniel chapter 9 literally.

We whole-heartedly agree with the literal method of interpretation of Daniel 9:24-27 if everyone can agree on the Biblical definition of the word “literal.” 

The literal method also includes idioms, allegories, figurative language, and other senses that the Bible uses. (19)

In this post we prove that Daniel 9 uses the phrase “seventy sevens” both literally and figuratively.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary (20) employs the following sentence to explain what literalism is not: “The distress signal SOS has no literal meaning.” (21)

Note that the term SOS is a morse code symbol for a distress signal. It is three short beeps “SSS,” followed by three long beeps “OOO,” and then by three short beeps again. Then the sender repeats it over and over until the alarm ends in some way.

So, the word SOS has no literal meaning (22). But it does have a symbolic meaning.

The expression SOS is like the word “Mayday.”

We can say the same about “times” in the Bible. We do not know the length of a time unless Scripture says it.

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If the above New Testament timelines are not true, please find a way to explain them to yours truly, the author of this blog. 

GOD MAY CHANGE THE TIMES OF A PROPHECY (Jeremiah 18:7-10).

For God’s ways in changing the lengths of time He gives to nations and cities, please see Jeremiah 18:7-10 below:

TABULAR VIEW SHOWING THAT GOD MAY LENGTHEN OR SHORTEN PROPHECIES

Jeremiah 17:8	God says He will “relent of the disaster [He] had planned to bring” upon a nation [the nation that repents].
Jeremiah 17:10	God says He will “relent of the good [He] had intended for it [the nation that turns to evil].
Jonah 3:4	God through Jonah prophesied the destruction of Nineveh in 40 days. But, when Nineveh repented, He changed it.
See Scriptures >	God lengthened the duration of Nineveh’s city life to 148 years (Isaiah 10:5, 12; Zephaniah 2:13-15; Isaiah 37:36).

Jeremiah 18:7-8 says, “At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. 8But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.”

Jeremiah 18:9-10 says, “And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom, 10and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.”

So, first God gives a prophecy like the seventy sevens of Daniel 9:24-27. 

Then for reasons of His own in judging that nation or city, He may destroy or prosper it. (23)

Nations had to do right as God saw it, for Him to bless them. 

And the nation of Judah did even more evil than the Amorite nations that God destroyed (2 Chronicles 33:9).

2 Chronicles 33:9 “So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.”

And Judah did even more evil than the northern kingdom of Israel did (Jeremiah 3:11-16).

For this God had punished them with the 70-year Babylonian Captivity.

But Judah did not repent of their sins and turn to God for mercy (Daniel 9:13).

Daniel 9:13 says, “Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.”

God was more patient with Judah than with Israel, probably because Judah had our Lord Jesus’ human nature in its loins.

So, this may be another reason that God seems to treat Judah [in this life] better than He treats Israel. For this please see Jeremiah 3:11-16.

Along with more patience from God comes more time to repent. 

So, this is yet another reason for God to increase the length of the 483 times until the baptism of Christ.

Jeremiah’s horrible experience with the Jewish remnant that went to Egypt during the Babylonian Captivity was an example of Jewish rebellion in both Babylon and Egypt (Jeremiah 44:13-19; Ezekiel 18:25).

Judah’s exiles in Egypt still were committing their idolatrous sins. 

God gave His message to Jeremiah that none of them would live if they continued in their idolatry. 

So, Judah’s exiles in Egypt continued in their sin and many died in Egypt.

They refused to do what God said. And, to Jeremiah’s face they said that they would not do as Jeremiah said (Jeremiah 44:16-18).

They said they were better off in Israel because they burned incense to the Queen of Heaven there. They thought their blessings came from the Queen of Heaven, not Yahweh (Jeremiah 44:20f).

And not only did the exiles in Babylon not repent of their sins, but many of the people of Judah became wealthy in Babylon (24) (25). So, they did not want to return to the holy land when God allowed it. 

They were still idolators, worshipping money rather than God.

EXAMPLE OF GOD CHANGING THE DURATION OF THE FULFILLMENT OF A PROPHECY THAT HE GAVE THROUGH A PROPHET: 

JONAH’S PROPHECY ABOUT NINEVEH’S FALL (JONAH 3:4).

Jonah prophesied that God would overthrow Nineveh in 40 days (Jonah 3:4).

Jonah 3:4 says, “On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, ‘Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!’”

The people of Nineveh did repent of their sins after hearing Jonah’s preaching (Jonah 3:10). Their repentance influenced the city for many years. It must have been genuine.

Nineveh, which Jonah foretold would last only 40 days, continued 148 years longer (Isaiah 10:5, 12; Zephaniah 2:13-15; Isaiah 37:36). 

Big repentances produce big results.

Jonah preached about 760 BC. God finally destroyed Nineveh in 612 BC using an army of Babylonians, Medians, and Scythians.

Conclude that God told Jonah to announce to Nineveh that He was going to destroy their city in 40 days. But, when they turned to God for purity and mercy, He forgave them and gave them 148 more years of city life.

JONAH’S LIFE WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST (MATTHEW 12:40)
Note that Nineveh was a Gentile city.

If Jonah’s prophecy had been part of the seventy-seven’s prophecy of Daniel chapter 9, God would have changed the meaning of some of the seventy sevens.

Matthew 12:40 says, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

Not only was Jonah’s life a prophecy of the burial and resurrection of Christ, but the repentance of Nineveh foreshadowed the great Gentile revival after our Lord resurrected from the dead and ascended to the throne of Heaven.

God had changed the length of the results of Jonah’s prophecy from destruction in 40 days to no destruction for 148 years.

Repeat: So, if Jonah’s prophecy had been part of the seventy-seven’s prophecy of Daniel chapter 9, God would have changed the meaning of some of the seventy sevens.

And God did put His own meaning into some of the seventy sevens. They became longer.

Only God knows the times and seasons.

Disclaimer: It is true that God fulfilled many time prophecies literally. One good example is that He fulfilled the 70-year prophecy of the Babylonian Captivity literally. But that does not mean that He must fulfill all of them literally. When there is sound Biblical evidence that He fulfilled a prophecy symbolically, rather than literally, we must believe that evidence. It is God’s word.

ENGLISH EXAMPLES OF WORD PICTURES MADE WITH NUMBERS. 

In English we also have word pictures. For example, “Mayday” does not always mean the literal first day of May. Mayday can be both a literal number and a distress call.

The literal meaning of thirteen: It is the number after 12 and it is the number before 14. (26)

The symbolic meaning of thirteen: Some say it is an unlucky number. So, considering this, many hospitals do not have a 13th floor. They do not want their patients to think luck is against them.

(Note: This is not the case with believers in our Lord Jesus since mature Christians are not superstitious.)

FITTING THIS KNOWLEDGE INTO THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL 9 

We know for sure that the prophecy that God gave to Daniel in Daniel 9:24-27, is about sin, judgment, and salvation. 

We also know that God is answering Daniel’s prayer of Daniel 9:4-19 in the prophecy. 

We know from Daniel’s prayer that he is not asking for forgiveness for those who do not obey God’s covenant (Daniel 9:4; 28:1-14). 

Daniel 9:4 says, “And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments.”

From Daniel 9:4 we learn that Daniel is primarily praying for those who obey God’s law. 

But since our Lord is the only Israelite who ever obeyed God’s law completely,

And since believers in Christ have Christ’s righteousness imputed and imparted to us,

Then we conclude that Daniel was praying for forgiveness for those who obey God’s law in Christ.

Daniel is not praying for Israelites who die in their sins (John 8:24).

John 8:24 says, “That is why I told you [Jews] that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” Brackets mine.

And we know that in Daniel’s prayer he admitted to God that all Israel had agreed to keep God’s covenant (Exodus 19:8; Daniel 9:4, 27).

Exodus 19:8 says, “And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has said.” So, Moses brought their words back to the LORD.”

And we know that in God’s covenant with Israel, He promised to bless obedient Israel (Deuteronomy 28:1-14) and curse those who disobeyed that covenant (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).

And we know that only our Lord Jesus obeyed that covenant completely (1 Peter 2:22).

We know that in the New Testament God revealed that He would bless believing Israel through Christ and curse unbelieving Israel in Adam (Romans 5:12-20).

We know that a true Israelite is not an Israelite whom God has begotten only in the natural birth (John 1:11-13).

John 1:11 says, “He came to His own [Israelites], and His own [Israel] did not receive Him.”

John 1:12 says, “But to all [Jews and Gentiles] who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—”

John 1:13 says, “Children [individual Jews & Gentiles who received Him] born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.”

We know that when He says, “Children born not of blood,” He means that those of whom He speaks are children of God, regardless of into what nation they were born in their natural birth.

THE NUMBER SEVEN

We also know that God gives the prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 in numbers. The factors are 7 x 7 x 10, which amount to 490.

The entire prophecy is ten Jubilee periods of 49 years each. The tenth Jubilee is the New Heaven and the New Earth.

The word “Jubilee” means “freedom.” So, a Jubilee year was a time of freedom from the sin of Israelites selling their land that God gave to them.

We know that the Holy Spirit uses both “7” and “10” literally and figuratively in the Bible. 

We know that the number 490 is 490 times, not years.

But we know that at least some of the 490 times are years. 

We know that God has said that when He gives numerical prophecies promising to reward or threatening to curse for a certain duration, He can change the times for His own purposes.

We know that our Lord Jesus said, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.” (Acts 1:7b)

Further, we know that the elapsed time between Cyrus’ decree and the baptism of Christ, far exceeds the 483 years of the sixty-nine sevens of the prophecy if we interpret everything literally.

So, we conclude that God fulfilled some of the 483 years of the 69-sevens of Daniel’s prophecy figuratively.

Or maybe God changed some of them for other of His own reasons and purposes.

In our previous post entitled, “Seventy Weeks in the Prophecy of Daniel 9 Part 1,” we proved from the teachings of the Bible books of Isaiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah, that Daniel’s prophetic clock began to tick at the time of the decree of Cyrus II, the great, king of Persia.

We proved that clock digits began counting at the decree of King Cyrus in 538-535 BC.

In this present post we proved that that prophetic clock reached the mile marker of 69-sevens (483 times) at the Baptism of Christ.

But some of the 483 times are literal. 

And we saw that even though Judah’s sins were greater than those of the northern kingdom of Israel, God did not judge them as severely [in this life] as He judged Israel.

So, we concluded that, for reasons of His own, God could and did change the times.

We proved from Scripture that God plainly says that He changes what He threatens and promises, depending upon whether nations obey Him. 

And God treated Judah differently from Israel because our Lord Jesus Christ was, in His human nature, in the loins of Judah.

We thus concluded that God interpreted His 483 times as 562 years.

It was 562 (27) years from the decree of Cyrus until the baptism of Christ, at which God anointed Him as Messiah in about 27 AD.

So, if a Christian has no agenda except truth, he does not solve the dilemma of the final terminal of the 69 sevens by calculating from the advantage of hindsight.

This is what the originators of Dispensationalism did.

Conclude now that Dispensationalists have both the beginning date of the prophecy and its final date incorrect.

But we love them in Christ.

In our next post we will show the correct interpretation of the final “seven” of the prophecy of Daniel. That is, if the Lord is willing!!!

NOTES:

(1) For the true Israel please follow this link: https://www.williamrandolphpublishing.com/prophecy/the-new-testament-teaches-two-kinds-of-israels-seed

(2) Hebrews 12:22 says, “Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem…”

(3) Hebrews 9:22 says, “But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.”
(4) 2 Peter 3:13 says, “But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.”
(5) Please follow the link to our post: https://www.williamrandolphpublishing.com/prophecy/new-testament-explanation-deut30-part5
(6) https://www.williamrandolphpublishing.com/matthew5/axm0uwlonwhspk7k8hcfrp7gg9enfd
(7) The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One: Note that in the Greek copy of Psalm 2:2, where it says, “against His anointed,” the Greek is Christou. So, when we say “Christ,” we are saying both “Messiah: and “Anointed One.” And our Lord Jesus is the anointed one who is the New Testament Temple (John 2:19-21).

(8) In Romans 11:1-12 Paul asks the question, “Has God cast away His people? Paul answers that by saying that God has not cast away the Israelites that He foreknew. Those He foreknew He called; and those He called, He justified (See Romans 8:28-30).  So, in Romans 11, the Holy Spirit is not saying that the fullness of Israel is unsaved Israel. Rather, they are the remnant that God foreknew and predestined for conformity to the image of His Son. For further study on this, please see our post by following the link: https://www.williamrandolphpublishing.com/prophecy/the-fullness-of-israel-and-the-gentiles

(9) Galatians 3:29 says, “And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.”

(10) Hebrews 9:22 says, “But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.”

(11)  It is “to bring into Israel everlasting righteousness” because in Daniel 9:24 God says that “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people. These are Daniel’s people Israel. But they are specifically the remnant of Israel for whom Daniel prays. Hebrews 9:22 says, “But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.”

(12)  For this kind of Biblical reasoning, we quote Romans 4:17 NKJV “(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations” ) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;”

(13)  Though our Lord ended the Law as a covenant that condemns, He did not end the law as a revelation of God which we must obey as our Lord interpreted it.

(14)  For a more thorough understanding of our Lord’s fulfillment of the Law, please follow the link: https://www.williamrandolphpublishing.com/matthew5/axm0uwlonwhspk7k8hcfrp7gg9enfd

(15)  John 2:19 says “Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” 20 This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?” 21 But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.”

(16)  Isaiah 61:1 says, “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,”

(17) Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed”

(18)  Luke, a chronological Gospel, puts the anointing of Jesus after His  baptism (Luke 3:22) and then after His temptation in the wilderness (Luke 4:1-15). He was at Nazareth while visiting other cities temptation by the devils in Galilee (Luke 4:16-30).

(19) For example, Galatians 4:24 shows that Hagar and Sarah were not only two literal mothers. They were also, allegorically speaking, two covenants, law and grace.

(20) “Literal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://weww.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literal. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.

(21) Ibid.

(22) Ibid

(23)

(24) https://bible-history.com/map-babylonian-captivity/treatment-of-the-jews-in-babylon Note that many Jews “became wealthy in Babylon.” But far more of them never repented of the sins for which God drove them out of Judah and into Babylon. They were idolators prior to the Captivity and continued in idolatry in Babylon. Thus, they fit in very well. Most lived in towns and villages along the Chebar River.

(25) It was not sinful for the Jews in Babylon to become wealthy in Babylon. Their sin was that they loved their money so much that they refused to return to Judah as they should have.

(26)Thirteen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thirteen. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025.

(27)  This is 562 years, not counting the very true fact that we would use Biblical years of 360 days and leap years, etc., if precision were necessary in this case. But it is not. The difference is so great that we can only account for it by the true fact that God is in control of the times. And 360-day years are not far from 365-day years.