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Daniel 9:24-27
(24) "'Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make and end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. (25) 'Know therefore and understand, that from the
going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah
the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; the street
shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times.
"'Therefore when you see the ""abomination of desolation,"" spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place' (whoever reads, let him understand), 'then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.'" In 70 A.D., forty years after Jesus made this prophecy recorded in Matthew 24:15,16, Jerusalem was completely destroyed by the Romans. Thus Jesus Himself applied the events connected with the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D. to the fulfillment of the otherwise mysterious prophecy in Daniel 9:27–"And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate." |