Daniel 9:27 may very well be the most misinterpreted prophecy in the entire Bible! The early Protestant Reformers saw it as a Messianic prophecy fulfilled by none other than the Lord Jesus Christ! Most modern day evangelicals with the notable exception of Pastor Chuck Baldwin view it as prophecy fulfilled by the Antichrist in the unknown future.
Verse Segment | Modern Evangelical Interpretation | Protestant Reformers Interpretation |
---|---|---|
And he | the Antichrist | Jesus Christ |
shall confirm the covenant | shall make a treaty | shall confirm the Covenant of Grace God made with Abraham |
with many for one week | with leaders of the world’s religions for 7 years in the future | with the people of Israel living in the time of Christ |
and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease | the Antichrist will stop the daily sacrifice in a rebuilt temple of Solomon. Hence the Temple of Solomon needs to be rebuilt before Jesus will come. | Jesus was crucified three and a half years after the start of His ministry. Jesus, the Lamb of God, became the ultimate sacrifice for sins which meant there was no more need for daily animal sacrifices, and hence, no more need for a physical temple to do them. |
and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, | The Antichrist will start a world wide persecution against all who refuse to worship him. | Jesus through the Roman General Titus will desolate the Temple of Solomon |
even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. | Jesus will return, fight the Antichrist and his armies, and throw them into hell. | Jesus will cause the Roman army to destroy both the Temple and Jerusalem as punishment for the rejection of the people of Israel for rejecting Him. |
Wow, what a difference in interpretation! Where did the modern interpretation come from? I submit to you it came from a Jesuit priest named Francesco Ribera, circa 1585, who cooked it up for the purpose of taking Protestant Christians’ eyes off the Pope and the papacy as the biblical Man of Sin, also known as the Antichrist, to make them think the Antichrist is an Endtime figure only. The Jesuits sure did the job, didn’t they? This doctrine was initially rejected by Protestant Christians but was later promoted by John Nelson Darby and C.I. Scofield. As a result, it was accepted by the prestigious Dallas Theological Seminary. Furthermore, a host of other false doctrines such as pre-tribulation rapture and Christian-Zionism grew out of the false interpretation of Daniel 9:27.
Daniel 9:27 is very confusing but I think we had to wait for the Daniel’s book of
truth to be open to understand it better. If daniel11truth.com is correct we are
awaiting this “in the middle” of the 7 years treaty – which is just about now.
Pedro, if you read all the other articles on this website about Daniel 9:27, you’ll see it’s not confusing at all. It’s clear.
KJV Daniel 9:27 included with my comments in parentheses:
And he (Jesus Christ) shall confirm (not make but confirm the Covenant that already existed) the (definite article) covenant (the Covenant God made with Abraham) with many (people of Israel) for one week (seven years): and in the midst of the week (at the 3 1/2 year point when Jesus was crucified) he (Jesus) shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, (cease animal sacrifices for sin because Jesus the Lamb of God became the ultimate sacrifice. The second half of the 7 year Covenant or 3 1/2 year period was the ministry of the Apostles to the Jews up to the stoning of Stephen and the calling of Paul to give the Gospel to the Gentiles.) and for the overspreading of abominations (the invasion of Jerusalem by the Roman Army) he (Jesus, through General Titus) shall make it desolate (destroy Jerusalem and the Temple, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate (the Jews, Jerusalem and their Temple, i.e. the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple 40 years later by the Roman Army which was an abomination to the Jews and which desolated Jerusalem and the Temple.) (Posted on https://www.jamesjpn.net/eschatology/daniel-927-grossly-mistranslated-in-modern-versions/
daniel11truth.com is not correct. It’s based on the school of interpretation of prophecy known as Futurism. I was a Fururist for 40 years and always speculating on who the Antichrist might be. After 40 years I learned the Protestant view of the Antichrist and now I KNOW who he is! The string of Popes from 500 a.d. till now! He’s not a single human person but Satan inhabiting men of power and wealth throughout time!
The Book of Daniel as well as all the Books of the Bible were opened 2000 years ago by Jesus. Revelation chapter 5 verses 2,3 and 5 tell me so.
What a bunch of crapola. You actually took a Scripture out of context & tortured it to make it say what you want it to say. I believe what Jesus says in Revelation about the synagogue of Satan false pastors like you & your silly beliefs, leading people astray.
I am giving you the standard Protestant interpretation of Daniel 9:27, what Christians used to believe before John Nelson Darby introduced his false doctrines of Dispensationalism and Futurism in 1830. And you call it “crapola”?! Shame on you! I dare say you have not experienced the wrath of the Roman Pope as they have in the 16th and 17th centuries! I suggest your views are from modern preaches that have been misled by false interpretations that originated with Roman Catholic Jesuit priests to mislead Protestant and Baptist Christians to get them to stop thinking of the Popes of Rome as the fulfillment of the man of sin of II Thessalonians chapter two. Will you research this subject further? Only if you seek the truth. Just because your favorite preacher told you differently from my article doesn’t make him right. He may be sincere but he still may be wrong. I don’t go by what people say the Bible says anymore, I go by what the Bible says, and YOU have NOT given me one single verse of Scripture to prove your point.
the Apostle Paul taught a pre Tribulation rapture.
Chapter and verse from the Scriptures, please, of what the Apostle Paul taught about that. I see no such teaching of a pre-tribulation rapture from the Apostle Paul. If you identify the rapture as a rescue from persecution, it should have happened centuries ago. How many of the saints of God have already been killed by the Popes of Rome? Estimates are as high as 150,000,000.
Are you saying General Titus was filled with the Holy Ghost? *Side eye* Even worse, are you saying that Jesus desolated the temple in order to spread abominations? How do you reconcile your view when compared to Matthew 24:15-21? Much worse tribulations have happened since 70 AD, namely the Holocaust. Or how about comparing your view to II Thessalonians 2:4 and Revelation 13:5-8?
This scripture is pointing to a person who comes after the destruction of the second temple, in the days of the construction of the third temple, who fulfills the type of Antiochus Epiphanes. How do we know this? Daniel 9:26 is the sin of Judah as prophesied in Ezekiel 4, and the seige of Jerusalem 40 years later(a day for each year on his side). Their sin was rejecting and killing the Son of God written as Messiah cut off, and the flood/desolation was the Romans utterly destroying the temple and the priestly services.
In Daniel 9:27, it’s ALL been restored during the first half or beginning of the final week. This last verse takes place after the second restoration of Jerusalem, that’s why Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy began with the decree to restore Jerusalem. It’s almost as if the entire 70 weeks prophecy was a big picture of the 70th week itself, with Antiochus Epiphanes 290 years in the midst of it. Almost looks like 1290, huh?
Thank you for your comments. The answers to your questions are very easy to answer when we apply the principle of Scripture interprets other Scripture.
I am not saying General Titus was filled with the Holy Ghost. Was King Nebuchadnezzar filled with the Holy Ghost when he destroyed Jerusalem and the first Temple? No. But yet he was God’s tool to punish the Jews for their idolatry.
Luke interprets what the Abomination of Desolation of Matthew 24:15 is:
Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Luke 21:20 ¶And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
These passages are clearly talking about the war Rome fought with the Jews in 70 A.D. Matthew called it “great tribulation” but Luke called it “days of vengeance.” Vengeance upon whom? The Jesus Christ rejecting Jews! The believers in Jesus obeyed Him and fled Jerusalem and Judea and escaped to the mountains and were saved. And yet people think this is a FUTURE event?! It’s clearly not! It’s fulfilled prophecy!
Thessalonians 2:4 is NOT about a future rebuilt temple the Antichrist sits in! It’s about the popes of Rome sitting in the Church, the Temple of Christ, proclaiming himself to be Christ on earth! This is what ALL the early Protestants used to teach and believe! It was a Jesuit trick to throw the final 7 years of the 70 Weeks prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 in order to get the Protestants to think Antichrist / Man of Sin, is a future person, and not one continually with them in the popes of Rome.
Please do a little more research on this. I know what you believe and why. I believed it too for 40 some years because I was taught the futurist view of Daniel, Matthew 24, and the Book of Revelation when I was a babe in Christ, and I had no reason at the time to question it. Babes don’t know anything, right? They can only trust what their teacher has to say. I submit to you that nobody can say the Covenant of Daniel 9:27 is confirmed by the Antichrist who makes a future treaty with the Jews by reading that passage on their own. The Holy Spirit doesn’t teach that. They were led into the futurist view by a teacher told them so.
Please read a more comprehensive article on my other web site about this subject:
https://www.jamesjpn.net/eschatology/who-is-the-he-who-confirms-the-covenant-with-many-for-one-week-of-daniel-927/
Thank your for your time.
I understand your view but I don’t understand how you could possibly defend it when looking at the big prophetic picture. Scripture interprets other scripture, as you say, and it does indeed. It seems to me that you’re using singls verses to interpret single verses and taking both out of context. Furthermore, you’re completely ignoring the fact that history is prophetic as well.
Take the Exodus for example. The Passover lamb clearly represents Christ dying, and his blood causes death to pass over us. Historical event fulfilled!!! But that’s just the beginning. Israel then proceeded to wander the wilderness for forty years. Why? Because they rejected the word of God. Jesus is the Word whom Israel rejected(then the gospel was turned to the gentiles), and yup, you guessed it, forty years went by and they still rejected it. This was the upside-down entering of the Promised Land. The faithful entered with Joshua(Yeshua) in 1400s bc, and the unfaithful were expelled without Jesus(Yeshua) in 70ad.
Although your view makes very good points with the time length, the Pope, etc, I think that Revelation 13 and Daniel 7 together make it very clear. Have you noticed the beasts of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome are the same beasts mentioned when describing the beast in Revelation 13? This is history being prophetically fulfilled. What I mean is that there will be nations(kingdoms) that rise against nations(kingdoms) the way Jesus described the end would be. In this time period, there will be a Babylon type who reigns first(possibly America), a Persia type who devours much flesh(perhaps Russia, the way things are going), Greece type with four heads(Iran and their proxies maybe), and lastly, the Rome type(EU, NATO, UN, or something like BRICS).
The people of the prince could refer to the Roman legions that came from Antioch, which was made up of a majority of Syrian people. This ethnic group has close ties with Catholicism, which I do think has some prophetic historical significance. Maronite Christians are what you would call this peculiar group today. The President of Lebanon must be Maronite Christian. Lebanon is essentially the same word Leban in Hebrew, which means “white”(white horse rider?), but Laban(“white”) was where Jacob fled to when he was in TROUBLE with his angry brother. It was there where he worked for SEVEN years to wed Rachel only to find out that he was DECEIVED. A prophetic historical event? Jacob was 77 years old when he fled to Labans house. Israel is about to turn 77 this next May.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
Revelation 12:3
Arab League
Formal name:
LEAGUE OF ARAB STATES
Unscrambled:
A GREAT FOUL SEA BEAST
The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945, initially with seven members:
1. Egypt(1945 kingdom fallen)
2. Iraq(1945 kingdom fallen)
3. Transjordan(1945 kingdom fallen)
4. Syria(1945 kingdom fallen)
5. North Yemen(1945 kingdom fallen)
6. Saudi Arabia(1945 kingdom still is and does have a king/president/leader)
7. Lebanon(1945 kingdom still is but currently does NOT have a king/president/leader)
Five kings are fallen, one is…
Revelation 17:9-11
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.