Daniel 9:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Confirm

Cause

Matthew 27:51

Hebrews 10:4

For the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate

That determined

1 Thessalonians 2:15

General references

Luke 21:20

Bible References

Confirm

this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.

but the gift is very different from the trespass. For while the rest of men died by the trespass of one man, the grace of God and the free gift which comes by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed far more richly upon the rest of men.

Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers,

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

For in making a promise to Abraham God swore by himself (since he could swear by none greater),

Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers,

He mediates a new covenant for this reason, that those who have been called may obtain the eternal inheritance they have been promised, now that a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions involved in the first covenant.

This is the covenant I will make with them when that day comes, saith the Lord, I will set my laws upon their hearts, inscribing them upon their minds, he adds,

May the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of the eternal covenant,

Cause

And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were split,

(for the blood of bulls and goats cannot possibly remove sins!).

For the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate

So when you see the appalling Horror spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing erect in the holy place (let the reader note this),

But whenever you see the appalling Horror standing where he has no right to stand (let the reader note this), then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills;

But whenever you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then be sure her desolation is not far away.

This done, all Israel will be saved ??as it is written, The deliverer will come from Sion, he will banish all godlessness from Jacob:

That determined

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men

General references

But whenever you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then be sure her desolation is not far away.