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COUNTING THE WEEKS 89
week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation
to cease ; and upon the wing of abominations shall
come one that maketh desolate ; and even unto
the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be
poured out upon the desolate ." Daniel 9 :27,
ASV The covenant that is made firm is the
Abrahamic covenant concerning the Seed in
whom all families of the earth are to be blessed .
The Jews, Abraham's natural seed, were the first
ones to whom the benefits and opportunities of
that covenant were to go and did go . Acts 3 :25,
26 Confirming that covenant or making its application
strong to "many" of the natural Jews
means, therefore, restricting first its benefits to
the Jews exclusively during this final "one week",
from A.D . 29 to 36 . The "midst" of that week is
a critical time .
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When the prophecy says, "In the midst of
the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the
oblation to cease," it means Messiah the Prince
will do so . How? "Cause to cease" means literally
"cause to sabbath, to rest, to desist from working".
The "sacrifice and the oblation" which he
causes to cease are not Jesus' ransom sacrifice
offered at Calvary, but are the sacrifices and oblations
offered by the Jews at the temple in Jerusalem
according to Moses' law . Jesus' death on the
torture stake at Calvary took place on the afternoon
of Passover day, Nisan 14, of A.D . 33, and
this proved to be the very midst of the seventieth
week of years. That time is generally fixed as
13,14 . What was made to cease in the midst of the
week? How?