27 but he makes stron a covenan of the many seven one³, and amid the seve he makes cease sacrifice and grain-offeringⁿ, and on a wing abominations making desolateven until an end that is decided will be  poured out upon the desolater¹.

 

(MISB: Dan. 9:27): http://www.torahtimes.org/NewTranslation/BasicBooks/daniel.html#9:27

http://www.torahtimes.org/NewTranslation/bibleframe.html

 

 1. What is the antecedent of “he” here? Is it the prince mentioned in vs. 26 or is it the people of the prince? (In which case, it would have to be translated “it”) Or is it Messiah? We have to rule Messiah out since Yeshua does not make a covenant limited to seven years, nor does he make the Levitical Service to cease (cf. Jer. 33:17-22). So is it the people of the prince or the prince? The Romans under Titus destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70, but neither made a seven year covenant. The Temple was destroyed in year 2 of the Sabbath cycle, so sort of in the middle, but not exactly. So what Titus and the Romans did does not qualify for people and prince as the most literal fulfillment. The literal fulfillment lies in the future. It will be the King of Babylon, who revives the seven Empires under his throne. He will be the anti-Messiah, the man of sin. We should be prepared for the possibility that the anti-Messiah does not announce a seven year covenant. He will announce an eternal one, or a 1000 year one like Hitler. But it will only last seven years, and he will only make his promises good after 3 1/2 years, since he only gains Empire for 42 months.

 

 2. Do we assume this covenant has anything to do with Torah? The Church would like to think the anti-Christ rebuilds the Temple. But this is just ad hoc interpretation based on theological presupposition that Messiah is done with the Levitical Service. Jer. 33:17-22 says otherwise. It is more likely that the anti-Messiah will be making a covenant with the world, and that he hates Israel. So why help Israel build the Temple? That’s the last thing he wants to do since it bears witness against him. It is quite likely that the Temple will be rebuilt by Israel some time before this last seven years even begins, and that the anti-Messiah will find the Temple Service a roadblock in his plans for world domination.

 

 3. Pardon the slavish literal translation of the Hebrew, but the reason few can understand these prophecies has to do with concealing the exact form of it from just about everyone. “One seven”; the word seven here is shavuah, which is different from the form of the word earlier in the passage. It includes a plene waw, marked in red: שָׁבוּעַ. The other usages mean both sabbatical years and sabbatical periods. Here it means only sabbatical period. To be sure the sabbatical period has a sabbatical year at the end of it. Years are understood from Dan. 9:2, and the Angel of Yahweh told Daniel 7 x 70, to remind him that all Israel has sevenfold judgment for failure to keep 70 sabbatical years (cf. Lev. 26:18, 21, 24, 28.) So at the beginning of a cycle, the anti-Messiah will rise up and covenant with the world.

 

 a. This can be pinned down quite a bit more precisely from other information. First, it has to be a real sabbatical period, on the same cycle that Israel used (which also counts 7 year cycles from creation and the settlement of the land). And it has to be the seventh cycle ending in a sabbatical year followed by a Jubilee year. For the cycle is followed by the end of the age, which happens at the “last trumpet”, and this is on Yom Kippur and only happens to announce the Jubilee. The next Jubilee is 2035/36 AD, and the seventh cycle is 2028-2035 AD. So the year 2032 AD marks the middle. If the end occurs in the next cycle, that’s when it will be. Can’t say for sure, but looks real probable.

 

 n. Here is a popular theory: Messiah died in the middle of the week on Wednesday and ended the sacrificial system; the only problem is that it did not actually end. One thing about Messianic Prophecy is that when it comes true, it comes literally true. It does not come true in some weirdo symbolical sense that has to be tea-leaved out of the text. That Yeshua ended the offerings is wishful thinking on the part of Christians that do not understand Torah. Yeshua was not a replacement offering. Yeshua was the missing offering. The Levitical Service atoned for sins of ignorance and circumstance. What was missing? Atonement for serious sins called “transgressions” and “iniquities”. For on Yom Kippur no offering was slain to forgive these sins. They were just carried away from the camp. The actual forgiveness (in the formal sense) had to await Messiah. So the Levitical Service still has a use (cf. Jer. 33:17-22 and Ezek. 40-48).

 

 o. Like the King of the North, Antiochus, the end time King of the North (a.k.a. King of Babylon) will cause the Temple Service to come to a halt. First he will get control of the Temple. Then a bit later the abomination of desolation, and then a bit later the vision of the evenings and mornings will come true (1150 days in all). From the start of it to the end of it will be 42 months, a time, times, and half a time.

 

 1. The anti-Messiah will face the year of Yah’s wrath for his destruction of humanity. First the trumpets, then the bowls. New Babylon will go up in age abiding smoke. The armies of heaven and Israel will combine and come from the wilderness led by Messiah Yeshua. They will be killed at Megiddo and Edom will become their grave. The kingdoms of the world will become the kingdoms of Messiah Yeshua. Thus Yahweh will be King over all the earth, and His name the only name.