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Originally Posted by Luke
You are pulling one word from a passage and leaving out context. Context demands that there is yet a full week to take place sometime after the messiah is cut off.
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The one word is critical, essential, to the passage and I don't think I'm out of context with the usage of the word. The passage is plain, something will happen AFTER a certain time frame. That's important to the understanding of the scripture. AFTER the 69 weeks, meaning somewhere within the following, 70th week, something will occur. In this case, within context, the cutting off of the Messiah would occur. Not in the 69th week, but AFTER the 69th week.
Context does not demand a full week to take place after the cutting off of the Messiah, context demands for the Messiah to be cut off sometimes after the 69th week. In the 70th week.
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Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Please answer me this question was the city of Jerusalem and the temple destroyed when Jesus died or even seven years later? If not the the 70th week cannot have started yet according to the context of this passage no matter how you interpret the word after.
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The word after means after. Subsequent to. Following something.
Actually, the first thing we should determine is if the Messiah was cut off in the 70th week. My position is that the Messiah was cut off during the 70th week, per context of scripture. The city of Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed several decades after the cutting off of the Messiah. This has nothing to do with Messiah being cut off AFTER the 69th week though.
I'm interested in why you would not define the word after as subsequent to, following something.
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