The Covenant in Daniel

Roland Pletts speaks on the nature and outworking of the Covenant of which we read in Daniel Chapter 9.

Roland Pletts

Daniel 9:24-27

24. “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

25. "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

26. “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

27. “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

THE Covenant spoken of in the 9th chapter of the book of Daniel is most often understood as being one which the coming antichrist will make with the nation of Israel. However is this the correct?

Author and Bible teacher Roland Pletts digs into the verses to bring a quite different understanding. He was asked to first introduce himself and speaks of how the Lord caused him to change the view which he had held and taught for many years. Following on he sets the context of Daniel's 70th week before getting into the question of the Covenant.

Now listen to the recording below.

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Ed footnote/comment:The six things that Daniel 9:24 says will be completed in seventy sevens -

to finish the transgression
to make an end of sin
to make atonement for iniquity
to bring in everlasting righteousness
to seal up vision and prophecy
to anoint the most holy place

It is easy to see that 1-3 were/have been completed during the first coming of Christ, whereas 4-6 seem to point to his second coming and the subsequent millennium period.

Notes:
1. For an extensive list of references, articles and resources visit 'Daniel's 70th week'. Several comments have been appended to the article.
2. Roland has published an extensive list of books. These can be found and purchased in Lulu with a lesser listing in Amazon.
3. Logged-on site members can utilise the 'Response' facility below to ask questions/make comments etc.

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Roland received Jesus in the mid 1960s and over a period of about six months came to an assurance of salvation, was baptised and filled with the Spirit. He went into ministry as a young man and saw amazing events in Africa; people delivered from demons, healings, the conversion of a "witch doctor", great outpourings of the Holy Spirit, the death of martyrs, miraculous deliverance from harm and death, words of knowledge and gifts of prophecy.
He endured a seven year war and ministered to people of all faiths and walks of life. He then worked in churches and missions in Central Africa for four decades. His eight books on this website come from nearly five decades of Biblical study. Roland and his wife currently live in the United Kingdom.