24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. Daniel 9:24
To bring in everlasting righteousness…
Notice that in order to fulfill the word spoken by Daniel, that is to say, the 70 weeks being completed, then the requirements following the time span of 70 weeks would need to be met. One of which would be everlasting righteousness.
The 70 weeks of time are determined for Daniels’ people and Daniel’s city.
The Jewish people and Jerusalem.
It would be foolishness at best to think that everlasting righteousness would be brought in for these people and for this city, while they are in a state of “unbelief’ about the Messiah.
Jesus said –
40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! Matthew 13:40-43
Everlasting will be “brought in†when these two things are accomplished.
There will be no more unrighteous people left for they will have been removed.
The righteous will “shine forth as the sunâ€, as Jesus demonstrated for us an an example of the righteous state of being that God intended for Adam and Eve, and all their offspring to walk in as a reflection of the image of God.
1 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 2 and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. Matthew 17:1-2
Until the angels gather all those who practice lawlessness and cast them into the fire, and the righteous shine forth as the sun, then “everlasting righteousness†will be something we look forward to.
JLB
To bring in everlasting righteousness…
Notice that in order to fulfill the word spoken by Daniel, that is to say, the 70 weeks being completed, then the requirements following the time span of 70 weeks would need to be met. One of which would be everlasting righteousness.
The 70 weeks of time are determined for Daniels’ people and Daniel’s city.
The Jewish people and Jerusalem.
It would be foolishness at best to think that everlasting righteousness would be brought in for these people and for this city, while they are in a state of “unbelief’ about the Messiah.
Jesus said –
40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! Matthew 13:40-43
Everlasting will be “brought in†when these two things are accomplished.
- The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
There will be no more unrighteous people left for they will have been removed.
- Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
The righteous will “shine forth as the sunâ€, as Jesus demonstrated for us an an example of the righteous state of being that God intended for Adam and Eve, and all their offspring to walk in as a reflection of the image of God.
1 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 2 and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. Matthew 17:1-2
Until the angels gather all those who practice lawlessness and cast them into the fire, and the righteous shine forth as the sun, then “everlasting righteousness†will be something we look forward to.
JLB