Accurate
interpretation of the Scripture is of supreme importance if we are to discover
the truths which the Lord has revealed. Moving forward in our exegeses to
recover many of those important truths requires that we take the time and
effort to expose the Scofield Reference Bible which has been implemented to
effect major doctrinal confusion within the ranks of Christianity.
The subject of this brief discourse brings us to that
important passage at Daniel 9:24-27 to correct the distortions found in the
Scofield revisions described as Daniel’s ‘seventy weeks’. To accomplish this
objective we will need to look at both the Scripture text and the commentary
notes added on page 915 of the 1967 Scofield revision of the original King
James Version.
The
text begins “seventy weeks are determined
upon thy people, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and
to make reconciliation for iniquity, and bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision of prophecy and anoint the most Holy.(verse 24) Clearly in view then is a time frame
identified as seventy weeks to include all of the preceding descriptive phrases
leading us to the ‘anointing of the most
Holy’, his crucifixion and ‘reconciliation
for iniquity ‘ to be fulfilled in Messiah (the Prince), Jesus the Christ.
The ‘seventy weeks‘ are determined as
weeks of years with each week consisting of seven years and so then seventy
times seven equals 490 years total
according to Jewish reckoning (See Lev.25:10- of the Jubilee). This designated period is uninterrupted
contrary to the Scofied notes where we read ‘the proof that the last week has not yet been fulfilled is seen in the
fact that Christ definitely relates the main event to his second coming
(Matthew 24:15). Hence, during the interim between the sixty ninth and
seventieth weeks there must be the whole period of the Church set forth in the
N.T.(See page 915) The authority presented on the Scofield notes is the
tradition of the Church Fathers with
no supporting Scripture. The
erroneous assumption made here is that the Antichrist interrupts the Jewish
worship of offering animal sacrifices in the middle of the tribulation and
begins to persecute the Jews. This is a total fabrication of the text as
evidenced by verse 26 where we read: “And
after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself …..This
is the crucifixion of Christ occurring in the seventieth week….”And he shall confirm the covenant with many
for one week and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and
oblation to cease by his own sacrifice providing the perfect satisfaction
for sin. At the moment of death when he yielded up his Spirit “the veil of the temple was rent in twain
from top to bottom…”(Matthew 27:51 ) Signifying that ”Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he
entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption of us.
(Heb. 9:12) This is the covenant: “and he shall confirm the covenant with many
for one week….(verse27) This is the
fulfillment of the promise as concerns the Jews. This is not some presumed covenant made with
the Jews by the Antichrist at the end of the age as is presumed by Christian Zionism
and the corrupted notes in the Scofield revisions.
Let us
just track the truth of the ‘seventy weeks ‘of Daniel’s prophecy as it is set
forth in Daniel 9:24-27.The promise is for a specified period of 490 years to be continuous ‘determined on thy people’, i.e. Jewry(verse 24). Its inception was by a decree issued by Artaxerxes
in the 2oth year of his reign, (457 B.C.)(See Ezra, chpter. 7) This was to
allow complete provision for the rebuilding of the temple, the city and wall of
Jerusalem. The temple was completed in seven weeks of
years or forty nine years. Another sixty-two
weeks expired (434 years) up to the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist in
the River Jordan. This fulfilled the ‘anointing
of the most Holy’ when the Spirit descended upon him to prepare him for his
ministry to the Jews. His personal
ministry led up to the crucifixion (3 ½ years). The gospel of the kingdom was
committed unto his disciples who were told to take the message to the ‘lost sheep of the house of Israel
‘. The remainder and final three and one-half years
of the ‘seventy weeks’ determined on the people of Israel was concluded at the
stoning to death of Stephen in Acts, chapter seven when he confronted the
Jewish Sanhedrin (the seventy elders) with the history of their apostasy and
breach of covenant. The gospel to the Jews collectively ended there. The ‘seventy weeks determined’ were
accomplished.
The
fabrication of events as set forth in the notes on page 915-1967 revision of
the King James Version is simply a further effort to establish a future
restoration of Jewish hegemony in Israel and a millennial kingdom with Christ
reigning from an alleged throne in earthly Jerusalem. As we move on into the
New Testament we will further prove that this has no Scriptural support. It
constitutes a significant altering and perversion of the truth of Scripture and
sets people up for deception and delusion both now and at the end of the age. I would recommend my title: The Israel deception for a much
more complete application of the errors of the Christian Zionism phenomenon
which is gaining momentum through
developments in the secular world.
David Lance Dean The Israel Deception and These
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