Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins… This text was an answer to a prayer — one of the warmest, humblest, and most earnest prayers that was ever offered up. In answer, the angel told Daniel of the time when the Son of God was to come down, and of all the blessed things He was to do for man's salvation. 1. As to the time. Seventy weeks. Punctually the Lord came. 2. See the description of what He was to do. His name is expressive, "Most holy." His qualification is "anointed and consecrated," What was His undertaking? Something He came to do away with. "Finish the transgression, and make an end of sin." And to make reconciliation for iniquity." Jesus not only does away with the guilt of the sins which men have committed, but He breaks sin's power in them for the time to come. See what He comes to do. "To bring everlasting righteousness." He "sealed up the vision and the prophecy" by bringing it to pass. Reflections. (1) What a respect does the Lord Show to a humble and a contrite supplicant. (2) How punctual is the Lord; how faithful to His own set time! (3) What a glorious event for man was the first coming of the Lord Jesus. (A. Roberts, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. |
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