Six Mysteries of Messiah (1)

The Timing

1. To start the prophecy, most all choose Artaxerxes to deny God’s great servant Cyrus … here.
2. This inspired prophecy to Daniel of 70 weeks covers 490 years, or 70 weeks of years (70×7).
   1. Readers are introduced to this principle of a year for a day in chapter seven (Daniel 7:25).
   2. We assumed it there but rejected it in chapter eight by context (Dan 8:14), the timeframe of the prophecies; chapter seven covers 2000 years, chapter eight only the Greek Empire.
   3. We give thanks to know this fulfillment, and we know it took 490 years, not 490 days.
   4. A year for a day here is not debated, but a long indeterminate gap must then be opposed.
   5. For a detailed explanation of the day-year principle of prophecy and when to use it … here.
   6. For a detailed explanation of the 2300 days of Daniel 8 and a bad SDA corruption … here.
3. The time was determined! It should not be altered, changed, extended, suspended, corrupted.
   1. Here is a limit to the prophecy: God is true and determined exactly 70 weeks (of years).
   2. It was given to Daniel for knowledge and understanding, so it is a defined period of time.
   3. Every man that fears God will not have a problem with this prophecy, but the fear of man brings a snare, for you will have to go against the popular opinions of the present day.
   4. If you believe God, it all happened within 490 years, bringing us to Jesus the Messiah.
   5. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to insert any gap into this determined timing.
   6. The fulfillment in our Lord’s anointing, ministry, death, and apostles is divinely precise.
   7. You need not know any other details for proof – this prophecy must end by 33 A.D.
4. The 70 weeks of years appertain to Daniel’s people and their city, the city ending in 70 A.D.
   1. Readers of Daniel know the abomination of desolation would occur before the holy people were finally scattered, which the Romans did following 70 A.D. (Dan 12:1,7,11).
   2. John, Jesus, Paul foretold the ruin of Daniel’s nation and city in their generation (Matt 3:7-12; 21:33-46; 22:1-7; 24:2; Luke 19:41-44; 21:20-33; 23:27-31; I Thes 2:14-16; etc.).
   3. Students of history know that the people called Jews and their city were destroyed by Titus Vespasian in A.D. 70, who is yet honored for this great event by an arch in Rome.
   4. Six very important events occurred within 490 years, limiting the prophecy to 33 A.D.
   5. The fulfillment of these events are found in Messiah the Prince, Jesus, before 33 A.D.
   6. Many of the Futurist speculators say these will not be fulfilled until the Millennium, claiming that there are no events in the history of the world to fulfill these prophecies!
5. The unique prophecy is about Messiah, or Messias – the Christ (Dan 9:25-26; Jn 1:41; 4:25).
   1. There are only two occurrences of Hebrew to English Messiah in the Bible (right here).
   2. There are only two occurrences of Hebrew to Greek to English Messias (John’s Gospel).
   3. Our Jesus, the Messiah, was cut off in the midst of the 70^th week, not for Himself, for us.
   4. His death, being cut off in the midst of the 70^th week, ended the Jewish sacrificial system.

 

Event #1:  To Finish the Transgression

1. Israel finished her great rebellion and transgression against God and filled up her sins and the full measure of her wicked national fathers by killing God’s Messiah, His only begotten Son.
2. Jesus foretold this event with parables, by describing an irremediable crime by the Jewish nation, which brought total ruin, and the Pharisees were guilty (Matthew 21:33-45; 22:1-7).
3. The Jews said they were not like their bloody fathers who had killed the prophets, but they fulfilled all their fathers had ever done and then much more by killing Jesus, resulting in incomparable guilt and the Lord’s curse upon them, their city, and temple (Matt 23:29-36).
4. The Jews only needed Jesus the Son of God to appear to fill up their sinfulness (I Thess 2:14-16), just like the Amorites needing time to fill up and finish their iniquities (Genesis 15:16).
5. Israel finished the transgression by sinning to a point God determined as the most He would allow for maximum guilt when there would be no remedy (Daniel 8:12,23; II Chron 36:16).
6. John the Baptist announced God’s wrath and judgment upon that generation (Matt 3:7-12).
7. Peter condemned the Jews for saving a murderer and killing the Prince of Life (Act 3:13-15), and it was on this basis he warned those on Pentecost to avoid that generation (Acts 2:40).
8. Stephen did the same as Peter by accusing that generation of killing Messiah (Acts 7:51-53).
9. We apply the next three events to Christ’s saving death, but this here to Israel’s desolation as shown (Matt 21:33-45; 22:1-7; 23:29-36; I Thes 2:14) and by these contextual reasons also:
   1. Daniel applied Antiochius’s desolations to Israel’s transgression (Daniel 8:12-13,23-24).
   2. Daniel’s vision here is a response to his prayer about Babylon’s desolation of Jerusalem and dispersion of the Jews as punishment for their previous transgression (Dan 9:11-12).
   3. The prince of the people that came, Titus and his legions, destroyed for Messiah’s death.

 

Event #2:  To Make an End of Sins

1. An end of sins was made 70 weeks of years after Daniel’s prophecy by the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ for all the sins of His people, freeing them from any sin guilt forever.
2. This event paid for sins, the next perfected a relationship, the next guaranteed eternal life.
3. This is not an end of sinning, which is glorification, for that did not occur within 490 years.
4. The elect would sin in the future and future elect would sin, but an end to sins legally for redemption and glorification was fully and finally made by the Messiah within 490 years.
5. The Jews in that city had offered countless sacrifices for sins that never paid for even one.
6. All iniquities and sins were put on Christ, who was bruised and died for them (Is 53:4-11).
7. The angel told Joseph Mary’s son Jesus would save His people from their sins (Matt 1:21).
8. There was no longer anything to lay to the charge of God’s justified elect (Romans 8:33).
9. Jesus purged all our sins away Himself so God forgets them (Heb 1:3; 9:11-28; 10:12,17).
10. Jesus bore our sins in His own body on the cross, healing us by His stripes (I Peter 2:24).
11. More verses (Dan 9:26-27; Acts 5:31; Rom 3:25; 8:3; Col 2:13-14; I Jn 2:1-2; 3:5; Rev 1:5).

 

Event #3:  To Make Reconciliation for Iniquity

1. God reconciled His elect to Himself by pouring out His wrath on Jesus Christ in their place and satisfying His anger and enmity, thus they were made acceptable to Him in the Beloved.
2. Here is a perfected relationship, the previous put away sins, the next guaranteed eternal life.
3. When we were God’s enemies, Jesus Christ reconciled us to Him by His death (Rom 5:10).
4. God reconciled His elect to Himself, and He sent ambassadors to tell them (II Cor 5:18-20).
5. Jesus was made by incarnation to be like His brethren to make reconciliation (Heb 2:14-17).
6. Jesus Christ by His bloody death made peace with God and reconciled all the elect to God, who had been and are before regeneration both aliens and enemies of God (Col 1:20-22).
7. The death of Christ reconciled Jews and Gentiles to God by bringing peace (Eph 2:14-18).
8. God put our iniquities on Jesus, and He was satisfied with the sacrifice of Jesus (Is 53:4-11).
9. The Desire of all Nations made peace while the second temple was yet standing (Hag 2:6-9).
10. Though a related term, Jesus Christ redeemed us from all iniquity (Titus 2:14; Heb 9:12).
11. Those that are not reconciled remain under their sins and God’s wrath, for God is angry with the wicked every day (Psalm 7:11; Matt 7:21-23; John 3:36; Rom 1:18; 9:22; Eph 2:1-3).

 

Event #4:  To Bring In Everlasting Righteousness

1. Jesus Christ the Righteous justified us by His death and resurrection, so that we are viewed by God as free from sin and standing forever before Him in Messiah’s perfect righteousness.
2. This here guaranteed eternal life, the previous perfected relationship, the earlier forgave sin.
3. God made Jesus to be sin for us, and He made us God’s righteousness in Him (II Cor 5:21).
4. God chose us in Jesus Christ, whom God chose for our righteousness (I Corinthians 1:30).
5. God is absolutely righteous in justifying us forever by His substitute Jesus (Rom 3:19-26).
6. The Second Adam came in the fullness of time and justified us as righteous (Rom 5:16-21).
7. God was satisfied with His death for us, perfecting us forever (Heb 10:14; Is 53:11; 51:4-8).
8. There is no condemnation to the elect, who are justified by Jesus forever (Rom 8:1-4,33-34).
9. More references (Gal 5:5; Eph 4:24; Phil 3:9; II Tim 4:8; II Pet 1:1; 3:13; Rev 19:8; 22:11).

Event #5:  To Seal Up the Vision and Prophecy

1. God sealed up the vision and prophecy by closing Jewish understanding of scripture, so they in divine blindness missed this prophecy and the teaching of prophets, John, Jesus, apostles.
2. Sealing up vision and prophecy is closing and hiding it from most; such language is not at all about fulfilling visions and prophecies (Isaiah 8:16; 29:11; Dan 8:26; 12:4; Rev 10:4; 22:10).
3. There are many prophecies of this blinding (Ps 69:22-23; Isaiah 6:9-13; 28:9-16; 29:9-14).
4. The N.T. confirmed and proved this blindness (Mat 13:10-16; 22:29; Jn 12:37-41; Acts 3:17-18; 13:27; 28:23-29; Rom 9:32-33; 11:7-10,25; I Cor 1:22-24; II Cor 3:14-15; I Peter 2:7-8).
5. God knew what the Jews expected or required, but He only sent preaching (I Cor 1:22-24).
6. They could forecast weather, but they had no clue about Jesus their Messiah (Matt 16:1-4).
7. If Jesus healed on the Sabbath, they missed the miracle to hate Him for doing it on Saturday.
8. How long would the blindness last? Through the Gentile dispensation (Is 6:11-12; Lu 21:24), which is still true today as ever, the people with the most revelation are most blind to Christ.
9. Born in Muslim nations: 3-4% Christian … in Japan: 1-2% Christian … Jews: less than 1%.

 

Event #6:  To Anoint the Most Holy

1. God anointed Jesus Christ with the Holy Ghost at His baptism, when John declared Him to be the Son of God, before entering upon His public ministry as the King and Priest of Israel.
2. We see the words the most Holy pointing to the next object, Messiah the Prince (Dan 9:25).
3. God did not anoint any place in earth or heaven by such language, but He did anoint the Lord Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit and repeated the matter many times (Psalm 2:2; 45:7; Isaiah 11:1-5; 42:1-4; 61:1-3; Matt 12:28; Luke 4:16-21; John 3:34; 10:36; Acts 10:38; Heb 1:9).
4. This formal anointing of Jesus Christ took place at His baptism (Matt 3:13-17; Jn 1:29-34).
5. Jesus is the Holy One of God (Ps 16:10; Mark 1:24; Luke 1:35; 4:34; Acts 2:27; 3:14; 4:27).
6. Jesus is the anointed one of God, the Messiah, the Christ (John 1:41; 4:25). Why ignore it?
7. There is no holy place on earth; heaven was holy before Jesus; the Holy Spirit makes the church holy; why the confusion? There is a devilish effort to get Jesus out of this prophecy.
8. Nothing fulfills this prophecy like Jesus; He did it in the time determined (Heb 7:26; Re 3:7).
9. Jesus was declared the Son of God at two events – baptism and crucifixion (I Jn 5:6) … here.
10. The list here is not chronological, just as a similar list in I Timothy 3:16 is not chronological.
    1. “Received up into glory” was before “preached unto the Gentiles,” so order is not a rule.
    2. Putting Jesus’ anointing last points directly to what follows – the Messiah (Daniel 9:25).
    3. Since Messiah is the most important, why not put Him last as the crown jewel of the list?
    4. This list has several that overlap others, so the importance of order or time is not helpful.
    5. The focus of the prophecy is that these six things would all happen – not in what order.