The 70th Week Gap.

[Diaste]

This is the reason for the long gap:

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."

"And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations."

I payed attention to stats on this some time ago. At the time I think there were quite a few people groups with no bible.

I don't know where we are with that today.

Thoughts?

 

 

[WilliamL]

One issue that has rightly troubled many commentators is the gap in time, presumed by both the future and historical views, between the end of the 69 weeks of years and the beginning of the 70th. Some few people believe there was no gap, and the last seven (or three and one-half) years immediately followed the death of Jesus. However, they can provide no plausible argument for the fulfillment of the seven events prophesied by verses 26b-27. Nothing of the kind occurred in the 30s A.D.

Likewise, the future view has no convincing biblical argument for a nearly 2000-year gap. The historical view does provide a legitimate reason for a gap, however, which is this: 40 years (or days) was Godʼs standard period for the testing of His people Israelʼs obedience. In particular, God tested Israelʼs faithfulness for 40 years after they entered into the Mosaic Covenant at Mount Sinai. All the Israelites of adult age who failed that test died.

God likewise allotted 40 years to test whether the Jewish people, and especially their religious leaders, would accept or reject Christ’s New Covenant. After those 40 years were fulfilled, the rebels against the New Covenant had their holy city and Temple destroyed, which effectively ended many mandated practices of the Old Covenant. That covenant required both a Temple and a place to gather for the yearly festivals of the Law. Both places were destroyed, and the Temple was never rebuilt.

Jesus prophesied just such a “desolation” for the city, people, and Temple of his day, saying that these were “the things having been written.” Luke 21:22; “the things” referring to the events of verses 6 and 20-21. Only one Old Testament “written” prophecy fulfills this statement, and that is the passage of Daniel 9:24-27. (Micah 3:12 was not fulfilled until the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba War, which ended in 135 A.D.) In particular, Jesus singled out the corrupted and rebellious religious leaders of his day – ha-poshim/the apostates (Dan. 8:23) – whose pesha would soon be “utterly restrained” (9:24):

Matthew 23:29 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! … 31 …you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. … 35 …upon you shall come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth… 36 Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem… 38 Behold, your house [that is, the Temple] is left to you desolate.”

In saying these words, Jesus was in effect both witnessing to and re-decreeing the “decreed desolations” of Daniel 9:26b and 27, and prophesying that those desolations would be fulfilled during the generation of the first century A.D. Which they were.

-- From the blog article:

https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/1611-daniel-924-27-examined-part-7-were-verses-26b-27-fulfilled-historically/

 

[Eternally Gratefull]

The Gap,  , any prophetic gap actually, can be seen a few ways, one way is to look at it straight, where you appear to have ne straight continuous line of successive events one occurring immediately following another, then as we rotate the view, we see we have gaps, or valleys in between events, and not every event is immediately following the previous event.

one example is when Jesus read from the scroll, he read from the prophet Isaiah in Luke 4

he read this 

Luke 4: 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me ^[i]to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, 19  To set at liberty those who are^[j]oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

he then said today this scripture is fulfilled

however if we look at the prophecy we see this

Is 61 

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to [a]heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,

Jesus stopped here and he fulfilled this that day, but the prophecy continues

And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins,
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.
5 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
And the sons of the foreigner
Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But you shall be named the priests of the Lord,
They shall call you the servants of our God.
You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
And in their glory you shall boast.
7 Instead of your shame you shall havedouble honor,
And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they shall possess double;
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

8 “For I, the Lord, love justice;
I hate robbery [c]for burnt offering;
I will direct their work in truth,
And will make with them an everlasting covenant.
9 Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,
And their offspring among the people.
All who see them shall acknowledge them,
That they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed

Non of these things has occured yet, yet it is written like they are in sequence yet there is a prophetic gap between the acceptable day of the lord and the day of vengeance 

 

in Dan 9 we see the same thing

And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;

here again, like the passage in Is, we have a cut off period, when Jesus enters Jerusalem, lik the prophet said he would riding on a donkey, the 69th week had just completed,  literally a week later, messiah was cut off, this of course is the cross. 

however, after this there s a mentions of things that happen

 

lets read...

And the people of the prince who is to comeShall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

1. city and sanctuary destroyed by people of a future prince,  fulfilled almost 4 decades after messiah was cut off

2. The city and sanctuary will lie desolate until the end of war desolations are determined (remember Jesus said wars and rulers of wars, nation against nation kingdom against kingdom, but the end is not yet, 

3. it is after this predetermined period (only God knows the length) that the 70 weeks continue

27 Then he shall confirm a [k]covenant with many for one week;But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the [l]desolate.”

here we have a future covenant from a future prince, the one whose people destroyed the city, confirming some covenant for 1 week,  this is the beginning of the 70th week,

we are told in the middle of that week or 3.5 year later, he will bring an end to sacrifice and offering and put in the holy place an abomination (unclean thing) which causes desolation rendering the holy place unclean.

this is also when Jesus said immediately following this there will be great tribulation such as never been before or after, and unless he camel no flesh would survive, so Jesus comes to prevent some extinction event which would occur killing all life on earth 

but we see, the gap or as many call it a prophetic gap is easily seen in the passage if you turn it sideways and read what is happening after the 69th week ends. 
 

I hope this helps 

[Keras]

         

Daniel 9:24 Seventy sevens are decreed for your people and your holy city – to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, vision and prophecy ratified and the Most Holy place anointed.

Daniel 9:25-27 Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Anointed One, the ruler comes – there will be seven sevens and sixty two sevens. It will be rebuilt with streets and drains, but in troubled times. After the 62 sevens, the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come, will destroy the city and sanctuary.   The end will come like a flood. War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. He will confirm a covenant with the many for one ‘seven’. In the middle of the seven, he will put an end to the sacrifice and offering. In the Temple, he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out upon him.                           

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Verse 24 - The Angel Gabriel’s message for the end of this age:            

1/To complete and finalize the transgressions of the wicked peoples.[Time of the Gentiles]

2/ To make an end to disobedience against God. [Punishment of His enemies]

3/ To make reconciliation for iniquity.  [Forgiveness for His people]

4/ To usher in the age of Righteousness.  [The Christian Church age– ‘a light to the nations’]

5/ To fulfil prophesy. [The promises to the Patriarchs and to Israel]

6/ To sanctify the Temple. [The Third Temple, built by the people of New Israel]

Verse 25: 70 times 7 = 490 years. The first 7 ‘weeks’ = 49 years, starts from the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem in the 20th year of the reign of Artaxerxes. This was in 445BC. Jerusalem’s walls and streets were rebuilt ‘even in troublous times’.  As Nehemiah and Ezra describe.

Verse 26 Then another 62 ‘weeks’ = 434 years, plus the 49, makes a total of 483 prophetic years until ‘Messiah, the Prince, is cut off’.

‘There shall be nothing for Him’, means that at that time He did not receive the Millennium Kingdom. ‘The people of the ruler to come, will destroy Jerusalem, including the Temple’, refers to the Roman destruction in 69/70AD. This gives us the clue to the origin of the Anti Christ, who will lead a restored Roman Empire.

The simple fact is: there has been a gap of nearly 2000 years, till the present day.

The end period; the 70th of the 7 ‘weeks’ = 7 years will be made up of 2 periods of 1260 days each. It will be the closing time of this age, ‘the end shall be with a flood’. Flood is better translated as – an overflowing; of troubles.   2 Thessalonians 2:8                          As described in Revelation and in all the end times prophesies. 

Verse 27 The Anti Christ will make a 7 year treaty with the ‘many’. That is, the holy people of God: every born again Christian, living in their own Land. There will be a faithful group who will oppose this agreement, so this treaty is made with many, but not all of His people, the Israelites of God. Daniel 11:32, Isaiah 28:15.

The Anti Christ will break this after 1260 days, which will commence the Great Tribulation.  He sets up his own image in the Temple, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, then after the final 1260 days, he will meet his end.  Daniel 11:45, Revelation 19:20.

                                                                                  

 

[R. Hartono]

On 3/20/2021 at 3:14 AM, Diaste said:

This is the reason for the long gap:

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."

"And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations."

I payed attention to stats on this some time ago. At the time I think there were quite a few people groups with no bible.

I don't know where we are with that today.

Thoughts?

 

 

Many nations ban Bible. Such as communist n Arabs. So God needs to replace the church with the 2 Witnesses of Revelation to break the barrier n destroy their resistance with fire n plagues n send destruction to the unbelieving world.

It shall be called the great tribulation because God's patience is finished at the 70th week.

Edited April 2, 2021 by R. Hartono