CHAPTER 1

Looking ever more closely to the writtings of Joel it would appear that Joel is expressing the devouring of the land including the trees (men)to where there is only stubble in the vineyard (Israel)which is left from the army of locust, palmerworm, cankerworm and caterpiller (false prophets & teachers).

 The land laid a waste land, but God said a day of drought will come and dry up the rivers of waters (truth) and fire will devour the pastures of the wilderness and all the trees of the field. That they should gather the asssembly together and cry unto the Lord.

CHAPTER 2

This chapter seems to continue with that thought and say that day of the Lord is nigh at hand. A fire will come and devour before them and behind them. Given that fire is a way of purification and in verse 5 it descibes the army that is to come upon them shall devour the stubble that which was left by the Locust.

Neither this army of God is shall fall upon the sword (word of God) shall be wounded. For they shall be a people set in battle array. The Lord calls the people of Israel to turn again their hearts unto him and that he would show great mercy and be anger, but only if they call for an assembly to repent and be sancified.

That then will God be jealous for his land and pity for his people, if they return to him that he would restore the days of the locust and send corn, wine and oil that you shall be sancified. That God would remove the northren army and bring you back into your land and pour out the former and latter rain in the first month of the season.(Holy Spirit) Thus restoring the years that the locust hath eaten, my great army that God has sent unto them. Thus the army of God is the harvest of the earth that wheat and barley in one seasonal month.

CHAPTER 3

Is a continuation of those days in which God would restore Judah and Jersualem in gathering those that are scatter among the nations. It speaks of precaliming war among the nations that all men might draw near, even the farmer is called into battle beating his plowshares into swords to sow in the field no more, but to being the harvest. Put in the sickle for the havest is ripe. In that day the mounatin shall drop down with new wine and the hills shall flow with milk and a fountain out of the house of the Lord.

Seems to me that each chapter continues the same thoughts and descibes the same events which would be that the land was first laid waste by false prophets and teachers causing the people to sin. God would have them to call for a general assemby and repent and be sancified. In chapter 2 it relates in a way of an invasion by the army of God that will make clean and puriftied thereby clearing the land of stubble and weeds, leaving the ground as clean as possible for the tillage tools.

This leaves me to ask can we assume that the army of God (2:11) is an pagan nation that can’t be wounded? Clearly this speaks of the army of God that speads the words of God as if it was ‘fire’ and as a ’sword’ to make ready the land for it planting and harvesting of souls.

So in my studying and gathering more info about demons I come across these connections.

• Demon equakes to spirit, unclean spirit(s), evil spirit(s) and devil(s).

• Unclean is symbolic of Goat, Swine, Frogs, and Lepers.

• Haunts denotes the Deep, Sea, Desert, Tombs and Mountains.

I also noticed that when Jesus spoke of the demons he then related them to unclean spirits and or devils in the KJV. So I gather that these are interchangeable and synonymous with man.

So one passage that deals with demons (unclean spirits) I would like for us to take a deeper look into is from Matthew 12 were Jesus enters the synagogue after his disciples plucked the ears of corn to eat on the sabbath. Jesus then answers the scribes and Pharisees question for a sign. The part I would like to deal with is Matthew 12:43-45

My first thought would be why had Jesus sudden change to speaking about unclean spirits as in answering their question of a sign? But as you read on we come to realize that the disciples wanted to know why Jesus was speaking unto them in parables?(Matthew 13:10) Jesus spoke the parables about Beelzebub and unclean spirits on the same day as He told that of the sower (Mt. 12:46; 13:1). The large amount of parabolic language used that day therefore prompted their question.

So to the meaning behind this parabolic story of the unclean spirits. First we notice that Jesus said to them, “Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation”

Excert from Duncan Heaster

“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places…” Walking through a wilderness and deciding to return to one’s house is clearly language applicable to a man. This is all confirmed by the fact that Jesus is almost certainly alluding to a verse in the Septuagint version ( which was the Bible in common use in Christ’s time) at Proverbs 9:12 Septuagint version which is omitted. This verse clearly speaks of a man, not a spirit, “ walks through a waterless waste, through a land that is desert, and with his hands garners barrenness”.

The “spirit” often refers to the attitude of mind (e.g.  Mk. 14:38; Lk. 2:40; 2 Cor. 2:13; 12:18; Eph. 4:23). An “unclean spirit” may possibly refer to and unclean state of mind, which would fit the context in vs. 34-36. Because, as a man “thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Prov. 23:7), the spirit would be synonymous with the man. Thus the parable would describe a man’s attitude of mind being cleansed and then his going into an even more degenerate state.

As a parable the man, representing the Jews, who would not heed the teaching of Christ, walked through “dry places”. This may recall apostate Israel in the wilderness, who also “tempted Christ” (1 Cor. 10: 9), thereby refusing to obey the teaching of Moses, who represented Christ (Dt. 18:18). God led Israel “through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death. This exactly recalls the language of Proverbs 9:12 in the Septuagint - “through a waterless waste, through a land that is desert…barrenness”. Notice that Israel in the wilderness sought for the “rest” of the kingdom, but never found it (Heb. 3:11). Similarly, the man in Matthew 12: 43 went through the dry wilderness “seeking rest, and findeth none”.

The man decided to return to his house. This must have reference to v. 29, spoken shortly before, which says that the strong man of a house must be bound before the contents of his house can be taken away.

Thus the house to which the man returned was empty all the goods of the strong man had been taken away. This may have been symbolized by Jesus cleansing the temple (Mark. 11:15-17). He described the temple to the Jews as “your house” (Matthew 23:38). The man, representing apostate Israel, would call the temple “my house”. Christ’s cleansing of the temple at Passover time would have mirrored the Jewish custom, based on Exodus 12:19, of the firstborn sweeping the leaven from the house. Jesus cleansed the temple, His “Father’s house” .  source

So in my conclusion of Matthew 12 of the man with the unclean spirit (demon) is that it’s a parable to teach of the unclean man (Jews) and his house (the temple).

Looking over these passages I noticed one thing that I would like to share. I’ve always heard that the temple that Jesus mentioned in John 2:19 was his body that which was to be destroyed, but exmaning the context of these verses it becomes clear that Jesus is refering to that physical temple and not of his body that will be destoryed, however it was his body as the Body of Christ the new temple that was raised after three days. This is what John makes clear also.

See what Jesus said about the physical temple and noticed that the Jews response with a question about a sign due to the reason he done those things.

Then Jesus responses by the statement ‘destory this temple’ ….I want to stop there to define what temple is to be destroyed, but first I notice the word ‘Destory’ Strong’s G5351 - phtheirō which in some places translated to ‘Defile’. In noticing this that word phtheirō means: in the opinion of the Jews, the temple was corrupted or “destroyed” when anyone defiled or in the slightest degree damaged anything in it, or if its guardians neglected their duties

In this sence of defilement would be in context of what those merchants had done and all Jesus was saying is that Defile is temple and I will rise up another in three days.

This would parallel in meaning in how Paul taught the Corinthians in if they ‘Defiled the temple of God’, that God shall ‘Destroy’ him.

The ’Defile this temple’ is about the physical temple and not the body of Jesus in the context of John 2. The sign that he had the authority to do these things (clean the temple) is shown in the rising of his body as the temple of God after three days.  So it would be my opinion that the translator’s interperted the meaning of  phtheirō  for us which given the error and fallacy which distort the meaning behind Jesus statement of defiling the temple.

 Addition 11-28-11

 Looking over this again the Greek word for destroy is G3089 - lyō which carries the meaning of ‘loose, break, melt, dissolve and destroy’. So given that it is mostly used as ‘loose or break’ Seeing that the context is one of a temple opposite of that heavenly temple. How has that Greek word ‘luo’ being employed? Here is one scripture I found that may help give a understanding of how ‘luo’ is employed with the temple.

Ephesians 2:13-14
13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down [luo]the middle wall of partition between us;

Broke down (3089) (luo) means to loose, release, dissolve. Christ loosened or dissolved the barrier of that earthly temple which is the Mosaic Law separating Jews and Gentiles. So in this sence ‘luo’ doesn’t give the image of the body of Christ as ‘this temple’.

Although it’s clear that they defiled the temple causing Jesus to run them out and cleaning of the house of God. I would add that Paul after Jesus on the cross spoke as if the temple was destroyed as that dividing wall was broken. Paul had been wrongfully accused of taking an Asian Gentile, Trophimus, past this checkpoint Acts 21:29.

• Body:

1 Cor.15:44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Romans 8:10 1And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Eph.2:14-16 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

• Dead:

1 Cor. 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

Romans 11:1515For if the casting away of them [natural branch] be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Ephesians 2:1,51And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)

 

• Awake:

1 Cor.15:34, 45 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. 45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [man] was made a quickening spirit.

Ephesians 2:1, 6 & 5:14 1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Romans 13:11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed

This is only a few parallel scriptures that Paul has related the transformation of the ‘natural’ branch of Israel becoming into the new man the gathering together of both Jews and Gentiles [Ephraim] so that all of Israel shall be saved.

Paul answering the questions of How are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come? He addresses that by using the seed analogy which is the same one that Jesus spoke of as the parable of the soil. In conclusion Paul reveals a mystery that wasn’t known to them [Eph. 3:5)that not all shall sleep. As you can see from the passages above sleep has to do with the lack of knowledge or being blind, being in darkness as Paul also told the saints not to be of the night, but be sober.

1 Thess. 5:4-8
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

This is a way that God plan for the olive tree to be grafted in with wild branches [Gentiles/Ephraim] that which was onces cut off to also the grafted into the olive tree again, so that all those that sleep might be awaken to the truth in Christ. Both Romans and Ephesians reveal this mystery and I would conclude that 1 Corinthians is as well.

Metaphor’s

• Hunger: Man shall not live by bread alone(Matthew 4:4), I am the Bread of Life(John 6:35), Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness (Matthew 5:6).

• Thirsty: Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness (Matthew 5:6), But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again (John 4:14)

• Stranger: Go ye to the loss sheep of Israel (Matthew 10:6) Go ye to the highways and hedges and compel to come in, that my house maybe filled (Luke 14:23)

• Naked: Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame (Rev.16:15),…white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed and the shame of they nakedness do not appear(Rev.3:18)

• Sick: They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick (Matthew 9:12)

• Prison: But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.(Gal.3:22), Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.(Gal.3:23)

So there no reason to read these deeds as being literally filled as good deeds, but that we should undertsand them as spreading of the seeds of God, I mean spreading the good news of Christ to the losted.

 For those unfamiliar with this passage of the Olivet Discourse in Matthew it fortold of a generation in which all of the things that Jesus has just told his audience would come to pass.

Matthew 24:34 ^KJV

 Now there are things which have came to pass such as the seign of Jerusalem and it’s desolation. This in the first century would have came to pass which Jesus has fortold of the Temple that not one stone would remain upon another. Given that this part was recorded as coming to pass even with in that audiences generation. That should cause us to logically determine that since one thing had come to pass that all of those things have also came to pass with in that audiences generation.

What then would have been the implication of Jesus to fortell of this generation of vipers that their father’s which have killed the prophets that their blood would be upon them in that generation?

 All these ‘things’ which could be stated as all of these punishments was to come upon these scribes and Pharisees in which Jesus had pronounced seven woes unto that generation in which Jesus and John the Baptist called a generation of vipers. A description of the scribes and Pharisees which ruled over the people as a blood sucking generation of vipers. Which sucked the life out of the people instead of leading them to life in Christ. As Jesus called them blind leader of the blind.

So in summation I see no way to include any other generation into this equation of ‘this generation’ which these things where to come to pass. If one things that was mention to come to pass in that generation then all of those things would also come to pass in that generation. Case in point, If the Temple was destroyed which fulfilled the prophesy of Jesus that not one stone would remain that also would have to been in ‘This generation’. Therefore there’s no logical reason to insist that 2000 years after that fulfillment there would come a generation that would finish the prophesies. That in itself would be insisting that a generation would span 2000 years which is illogical.

If all is fulfilled in one generation it must have been the same generation in which the Temple was desolated.

Daniel 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings [melek] that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings [melek].

Daniel 6:7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal [melek] statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king [melek], he shall be cast into the den of lions.

In this instance ‘royal’ is the only place that melek is translated rather than king. Could this be important in how we are to understand or even interpert these ten horns which where translated as ten kings. Where the word melek was used and interperated as king or kings rather that royal.

As you can see the subject in Daniel 6 and verse 7 is of those people that where given to high places among the governing of that kingdom. These came together and consulted among themselves to establish a decree or a royal statute. Given the indication of their kingly [royal] positions. Even among these where the three Hebrews boys that where set over the province of Babylon. Chapter 3 tells us that ‘all of the rulers of the province” were gather together at this assembly.

So one way we might translate melek in Daniel 7:24 is as a ruler of the province, governors, counsellors, or presidents rather than king. If this be the case in there were ten so called kings out of that kingdom. Notice Daniel 7:24 spoke of ‘that kingdom’ showing that these ten had not their own kingdom, but rather was out of that kingdom. If we then correlate how Daniel 8 speaks of some of the stars and host of heaven being casted down to the ground this might give us some insight into these ten kingly persons. There made be a correlation with the three Hebrew boys becasue of their high place within the kingdom. We might be able to draw some parallels from them as to the three kings subdued. It may well be expressing the royal preisthood as being kings of which three was subdued.

So instead of thinking that there are ten kings which come out of this kingdom and which have no kingdom of themselves. That make my point even stronger for why call them a king when they have no kingdom.

Daniel seems to indicate that these are royalty rather than kingship. As the list of thoses that assembled together as presidents, governors, princes, counsellors and captains all was considered to be royalty.

But lets look even closer at how this is delivered. These ten ‘melek’ horns shall arise and another little horn shall arise after them and shall be different that the first horns while the little horn shall subdue three of the first horns.

Here and in other places Daniel used ‘prince’ as to indicate one of power in waiting of the kingship. (Dan. 3:2, 3:27, 6:7, 9:6, 9:25-26, 10:13, 10:20, &11:22) In these there are a couple that I would bring to our attention and they are Daniel 9:6 where Daniel mention of that they people didn’t hearkened unto the prophets which spake unto thy name to our kings and princes and our fathers…

Daniel 9:6 KJV Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

This indicate that Daniel is speaking of the kings of Israel and those that await it as princes the other one is in Daniel 11:22 where Daniel mentions that the vile person in verse 21 would come into the kingdom and come like a flood and shall break them and the prince of the covenant.

Daniel 11:22 KJV And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

Here again Daniel is referring to the royal priesthood of Isreal that Antiochus IV casted down and set up them whom he chose to set over the kingdom as high priest. Onias III the legitimate high priest was murdered so that one would take his place.

So the connection I would place is how Daniel spoke of the three Hebrew boys as rulers over the provinces and was counted among those that was among the royalty of the kingdom. This would place the thought that Daniel may have been indicating that the ten kings where more of ten princes that where in waiting of that kingdom.

This seems to be in line with the priest that are in the royal priesthood as princes. For the priest color are given to denote royalty the color purple. And we know that Antiochus did in fact subdue [ bring under control by physical force ] the priest and high priest of Israel.

Many of the reasons people see two parts to Matthew 24 as to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70 [temple no stone upon another] and the use of hyperbolic language those of verses 27-31 [son of man cometh as lightning] is that it is in two parts in parallelism, but some come to the conclusion that the hyperbole language must mean that this part is still in the future all the while it’s only repeating what was told by Jesus in the first part. To me this style of writting is used throughout the old testament and some in the new testament to bring more attention to the word spoken of the first member. In these cases they are called parallelism and in this case used hyperbolic language. Parallelism is the expression of one idea in two or more different ways. Hebrew poetry is also characterized by vivid figures of speech, Simile, Metaphor, Implication, Rhetorical question, and Hyperbole use of exaggeration to emphasize a point.

THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE PARALLEL

Matthew 24:5-26
5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand.)
16Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25Behold, I have told you before.
26Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

THE SECOND MEMBER OF THE PARALLEL [HYPERBOLIC]

Matthew 24:27-31
27For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

So lets review another usage of parallelism with hyperbole.

THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE PARALLEL

Matthew 19:23
²³Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

THE SECOND MEMBER OF THE PARALLEL [HYPERBOLIC]

Matthew 19:24
²⁴And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

So the understanding is that when the writer used parallelism with hyperbole the hyperbole member of the parallel is to repeat and enforce the meaning expressed in the first member of the parallel. In theses cases both members express the same and is referred to as parallelism.

What I’m proposing is like with the Old Testament/Covenant as a Type and Shadow of the Anti-Type that is founded in the New Testament/Covenant. I’m hoping to show what I’m proposing concerning the Martyred Saints. The context passages would be taken from Daniel and Revelation.

OLD COVENANT SAINTS

Type and Shadow

Daniel 7 & 8 Many of these passages speak of the saints being prevailed over whom to maked war with them. Verse 9-12 concerns with a ‘little horn’ which I certain refers to Antiochus IV in that he casted down some of the host of heaven and star to the ground and stamped upon them. I’m certain that these host and stars of heaven is a representation of the faithful to God as saints. These are said to be at war with the little horn until the Ancient of days came and judgment was given to the saints. That time that was given to make war with the saints and to prevail over them was a time and times and the dividing of time.(kjv) So here we have a number of symbols that can be seen as types and shadows. Which I believe to be used as typology to then parallel with the real.

NEW COVENANT SAINTS

Real and Fulfilments

Revelation 6:9-11Here I’m proposing that those under the altar is an reference to those that give their life and that their blood crys out for vengence. We look at Daniel and we can see these martyred saints as Daniel descibed them as the host and stars of heaven being casted down to the ground. These then was told to wait…until their fellow servants would likewise be killed. I’m proposing that these would be those of out of great tribulation that Jesus himself spoke of that if the days wasn’t short that even the elect of God would not be saved. We can see that John in Revelation told of this time of tribulation that the Beast would make war with the saints and kill all that would not take nor worship the Beast image. That time frame that the beast kingdom was given was 42 months the same as or equal to the time, times and half, 1260 days. I will say that many see these from Daniel and Revelation as depecting the same event, but I think Daniel’s is to be a type and what Revelation fortold is the Real event. Again we can fine the same symbols in Revelation.

The only exception would be the Temple in the first century the Temple wasn’t just desolated of it’s sacrifices, but destoryed completely. So when viewing how John spoke of the Temple of God and measuring the Temple of God and the Altar, and them that worship therein.(Rev.11) That would seem to be given the impression of the churches. The Old Testament Church and the New Testament Church of those that laided down their lives for the Lamb of God loving not their lives unto death.

These Two Churches prophesied the Word of God as fire coming out of their mouths and these both were given to prophesy for forty and two months.

I haven’t written much in a while, but being studying the writting style of Daniel and other book in the bible. Hebrew parallelism is a style of poetic poem’s to convey a thought with great force. As well it can be found in Psalm and other old testament books alone with some new testaments, here we have in Daniel an expression of parallelism.

In the verses in Daniel chapter 9 of verses 26 & 27 it would become apparent to me that verses 26 and 27 was in the writting style of antithetical parallelism. Here are two sources http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/vi…id=67&letter=P and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literar…Book_of_Daniel

[The antithetical, in which the parallel members express the opposite sides of the same thought]

In verse 26 we have two members: “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

Likewise does verse 27 have two members: “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

Which follows the pattern set in verse 26 where the first member told of the Messiah and then told of the desolation of the sanctuary. Verse 27 is repectitive and parallel in nature and thought. It requires that the Messiah ‘he’ will make a strong covenant for many one week. This is how Jesus spoke of the new covenant.

Matthew 26:28
For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

It’s the whole theme behind the book of Hebrews concering the sacifical lamb of God and the new and better covenant.

In the case of the book of Daniel, Daniel seems to use that style of writting to express the thoughts and to reveal the dreams. As to the repeative nature of chapters 2 & 7 as given in one of those sources as to Double Chiasm. Also chapters 7 & 8, 8 & 11 all parallel.

So I see no reason to not understand the style of writting as parallelism which fortold of the coming Messiah after 69th weeks of years which places it in the seventieth week and the parallel verse said that ‘he’ would make a strong covenant with many and would cause the sarcifices to cease.

Therefore the seventieth week was fulfilled by Jesus blood covenant which was made firm by his blood and ministry of the first half of the seventieth week and continued by the Holy Spirit through his disciples to the Jewish people for another three and half years. So in determining for me one key point is how do we determine the ‘he’ that confirmed the covenant in the midst of the final week?! To me this referring to Christ on the cross with in the final seventieth week by first understanding the style of writting as antithetical parallelism and that the scriptures confirm that Jesus fulfilled all six of what was to be determined upon the people of Daniel.