We are discussing in this series of studies the prospect that the Seventy Weeks Prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 is fulfilled. The second statement in the angel’s prophecy of Daniel 9:24 is, “Seventy Weeks are determined… to make and end of sins.” How are we to understand this? If the meaning is that there would be no more sin in the world, then this prophecy has no fulfillment in sight. However, if this second work of God can be shown that we have misunderstood its meaning, and it is indeed fulfilled, then we are well on our way to proving that this prophecy was fulfilled during the first century AD. If this is logical and true, then this means our looking for a future seven-year period of trouble to occur just before the return of Jesus is false!
The phrase make an end is one Hebrew word—chatham (H2856). The most believed sense that men have ceased to sin is a false doctrine. The scriptures don’t reflect this understanding that the translators have rendered in many versions of our Bibles
The words, to make and end have to do with marking something out for oneself (Job 24:16); or taking responsibility for the activity of another (Esther 8:8); or taking ownership of something for which one has paid the price (Jeremiah 32:10-14; vis-à-vis the seal of the deed). The fact is: we are marked in the sense that God has set his seal upon us (2Corinthians 1:22; Ephesians 1:13); and Christ has taken responsibility for what was written down against us (Colossians 2:14); and ownership of the human race has been transferred to Christ (1Corinthians 6:20; 7:23; Matthew 13:44, cp. 13:38), for Christ did indeed buy a field, and this field is interpreted as the whole world. He bought this field because of the treasure within, i.e. God’s people.
We are the treasure of God! What a thought, but Jesus, himself said: “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21). “God so loved the world that he gave…” (John 3:16) the most treasured life of his Son, Jesus to be the propitiation for our sins (1John 4:10; cp. Malachi 3:16; Matthew 13:45).
I have heard it taught that Matthew 13:45 speaks of our having to sell all we have to gain Christ, but I know of only One who sold all he had (Philippians 2:6-8), and he bought us. He received us as we are and has led us to give up the things of this world and let him be our increase, but all this is a process taking our entire lives. Yet, from the very beginning he has always been ours by grace alone. We have paid no price, because we have nothing of value in terms of obtaining the Kingdom of God or laying claim on its King.
We are told that Christ has purchased the church with his own blood. He has not only purchased the whole field (the world), but he has set his mark on us – the Church – in particular. He bought us and sealed us with his Holy Spirit (Acts 20:28; Ephesians 1:11-14). Just as the thieves of Job 24:16 marked beforehand those homes they would later rob, Christ gives the “earnest of our inheritance” (his Holy Spirit) to all whom he sealed or marked before his coming to judge the world. Not only has Christ bought the entire world and marked (sealed) those he predestined to be his own, but he also took sole responsibility for all that was written against us (Colossians 2:13)
Our Father has reconciled himself to us through Christ. He has done all that could be done to save the world and what is done, as it says in Romans 5, is more than enough to undo all that Adam has caused through the sin of his rebellion in the Garden of Eden. Thus, this second work of God (cp. Daniel 9:24) is complete in Christ and does not await a future fulfillment in an imagined seven-year period. As Jesus said from the cross, “It is finished!”
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