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Daniel 9:24

FULFILLED

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To finish the transgression

Finish (H3607) “shut up” (1Samuel 6:10; Psalm 88:8)

To finish the transgression involves shutting up or stopping mankind’s rebellion.

No forgiveness without the shedding of blood (Hebrews 9:12; Romans 3:25). The “transgression” concerns rebellion, not sins of disobedience. A rebel has no right or power to repair the damage he’s done to his former state of union with God. It is Christ alone, no other sacrifice or any righteous work on our part is able to restore us to a right relationship with God. It is he who repairs the damage done, and it is he who is able to restore us to a good relationship with God.

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To make an end (H2856) of sins
“to seal” (Jeremiah 32:10-11; Esther 8:8) or “to mark” (Job 24:16) etc.

Sealing involves purchasing and, hence, ownership.

The fact is: we are marked (Job 24:16) in the sense that God had 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; cp. Esther 8:8); and ownership of the human race has been transferred from Adam (the generator of our race) to Christ, who has saved us from death and extinction, in that he purchased us with his blood (Matthew 13:38, 44, cp. Jeremiah 32:10-11), Christ bought the field, i.e. the world, because of the treasure within, i.e. God’s people.

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To make reconciliation for iniquity

“to make reconciliation” mean “to cover, to make atonement or to pacify or to satisfy one’s legal obligation”

for “iniquity” – meaning our “depravity or guilt” (what we’ve become due to our rebellion against God).

Making reconciliation for our iniquity involves “covering our shame” or “satisfying the legal requirement for what we’ve become due to our rebellion against God.

Thus far, God, in Christ, has ended the rebellion of mankind. Christ has purchased us, and has taken responsibility for our debt. In other words, God has reconciled himself to us. What remains to be done is for us to be reconciled to him. The fact that God has stopped waging war against us, and has made us his own family and paid the debts we owe—this doesn’t change our hearts, who we are, what we’ve become. That work remains.

God has returned to us, reconciling himself to us, through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, and through the Gospel, the ministry of reconciliation has been committed to us who have been restored to a right relationship to God (2Corinthians 5:18-19). The work is done; what remains is our response, the giving of our hearts to God, because, if freewill is a right, our response is required. The Kingdom of God is something that lies within the hearts of men (Luke 17:21).

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To bring in everlasting righteousness

Only God is righteous, so everlasting righteousness is something imputed to mankind by the only one who is eternally righteous. The righteousness of God has been credited to us through our trust in Christ (1Corinthians 1:30). He is all we need. Knowing this, and trusting in God who has made such a thing available to us becomes our everlasting righteousness.

God does not give us anything apart from Christ. Christ is the ‘treasure house’ of all we need in our walk with God (Ephesians 1:3). In other words, all of what God gives us comes through his new creation in Christ not through the rebellious old creation in Adam. In Adam we have God’s wrath, the reward of rebellion, but in Christ we have all the wealth of the Firstborn, the Son of God (Colossians 3:10). All that is Christ’s has become ours, as part of the riches within the new creation (Galatians 3:26-29). Christ is our all in all, and God causes Christ to be our Righteousness (1Corinthians 1:30).

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To seal up the vision and prophecy

To seal up (H2856) not the same word as “finish” (H3607) the transgression.

To seal up means to “end” or to “stop” or “set one seal upon”

To seal the vision and prophecy concerns bringing “the vision and prophecy” to its fulfillment. Thus, it is stopped, nothing else remains to be done.

So, what vision and prophecy in the Book of Daniel does God promise to fulfill, and bring to fulfillment in the Seventy Weeks Prophecy? Every vision and prophecy that Daniel is given is based upon the dream of the image that Nebuchadnezzar had in chapter two of the Book of Daniel. This is what must be fulfilled, and Gabriel reveals that it will take 490 years to do so. In other words, the Seventy Weeks Prophecy incorporates Nebuchadnezzars vision or dream of the image that is destroyed by the Stone cut from a mountain by the hand of God. The Lord sets up a Kingdom during the time of the kingdoms represented in the image, and this Kingdom will eventually destroy the worldly kingdoms, in that the Gospel (good news) of its coming restores mankind’s hearts and service to God rather than men.

The work is done, but the process of the growth of the Kingdom of God continues.

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To Anoint the Most Holy

To anoint (H4886) means “to consecrate”

the Most Holy (H6944; H6944) – same word used twice. It concerns the Sanctuary or Temple, particularly the Most Holy Place. OR…

It may refer to the Most Holy One

To Anoint the Most Holy could not have referred to the Temple that would soon be rebuilt, because Jesus declared that Temple unclean both in the beginning of his ministry and at the end of his ministry (John 2:14-16; Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-17; Luke 19:45-46).

If this Temple was to be anointed (H4886), when was it cleansed? Yet, the Most Holy had to have been anointed before the fulfillment of the vision and the prophecy, which occurred during the first century AD (see above).

The word holy (H4886) does refer to men at times (2Chronicles 23:6), and the Messiah is also referred to as a Sanctuary, meaning the Temple or Tabernacle of God (Isaiah 8:14).

Jesus declared that the Lord had anointed him (Luke 4:18; cp. Isaiah 61:1), and he is our Sanctuary, whereby all who are **in** Christ are redeemed (Romans 3:24),  aren’t judged (Romans 8:1), are free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2), are forever united to God (Romans 8:39), are made holy (1Corinthians 1:2), made alive (1Corinthians 15:22), are anointed by God (2Corinthians 1:21), are no longer blind (2Corinthians 3:14) so that “we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2Corinthians 3:18). Moreover, all who are **in** Christ are new creatures (2Corinthians 5:17), are reconciled to God (2Corinthians 5:19), and have been given the ministry of reconciliation (2Corinthians 5:18) whereby we call out to other men to become reconciled to God (2Corinthians 5:20)!