Daniel 9.27d-The Antichrist Will Continue to Desecrate the Temple Until His Complete Decreed Destruction is Poured Out on Him by God
Wenstrom Bible Ministries
Pastor-Teacher Bill Wenstrom
Wednesday January 29, 2014
Daniel: Daniel 9:27d-The Antichrist Will Continue to Desecrate the Temple Until His Complete Decreed Destruction is Poured Out on Him by God
Lesson # 294
Please turn in your Bibles to Daniel 9:24.
Daniel 9:24 “Seventy units of seven years have been decreed for the benefit of your people as well as for the benefit of your holy city in order to put an end to the rebellion and in addition to bring sin to an end as well as to atone for iniquity likewise to bring about everlasting righteousness as well as to seal up prophetic vision and in addition to anoint the most holy place. 25 Therefore, please know, yes please carefully consider: From the issuing of the command to restore, yes to rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince, there will be seven units of seven years and sixty-two units of seven years. It will be restored, yes it will be rebuilt with a public square as well as a defensive trench even during distressful times. 26 Then, after the sixty two-units of seven years, the Messiah will be executed so that He possesses nothing. Next, the people of the coming leader will destroy the city as well as the sanctuary. Indeed its end will take place with a flood. Yes, there will be war up to the end. Desolations have been decreed. 27 Then, he will establish a firm covenant with the leaders, which will be one unit of seven years. However, he will cause the sacrificial offering to stop in the middle of this unit of seven years while between the wings which results in abominations, he will cause desecration. Indeed, until a decreed complete destruction is poured out against the desecrater.” (My translation)
Daniel 9:27 “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.” (NASB95)
“Even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate” is emphatic.
It is advancing upon and intensifying the previous temporal clause that between the wings of the cherubim on the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant, the Antichrist will cause the temple to be desecrated or desolate.
The advancement and the intensification is that Antichrist will not only desecrate the Temple by displaying himself as God but will do so for three and a half years until the seventieth week is ended by the Second Advent of Jesus Christ.
“Until a complete destruction, one that is decreed” is composed of the preposition ʿǎḏ (עַד) (ad), “until” and its object is the noun kā·lā(h) (כָּלָה) (kaw-law´), “a complete destruction” which is followed by the conjunction wa (וְ) (waw), which is not translated and followed by the verb ḥā·rǎṣ (חָרַץ) (khaw-rats´), “one that is decreed.”
The noun kā·lā(h) means “complete destruction” in the sense of a full end or consummation, the ultimate end.
The word refers to the complete destruction of the Antichrist whose end will consummate or finish not only Daniel’s seventieth week but also the Times of the Gentiles.
His end will be brought about by the Second Advent of Jesus Christ.
The noun kā·lā(h) is also the object of the preposition ʿǎḏ, which denotes a continuous extent of time up to a point.
It is a temporal marker indicating that something occurs up to the time indicated by its object or sometimes during the time indicated by its object.
Therefore, this prepositional phrase indicates that Antichrist will continue to desecrate the Temple by displaying himself as God between the cherubim “until” his complete destruction by the Second Advent of Jesus Christ.
The verb ḥā·rǎṣ means “to be decreed” referring to the fact that the Antichrist’s desecration of the temple during the last three and a half years of the seventieth week has been decreed by God in eternity past to take place.
The conjunction wa is used to join the noun kā·lā(h) and the substantive participle form of the verb ḥā·rǎṣ in order to communicate one idea, which is called “hendiadys.”
Therefore, these two words express one idea, namely a decreed complete destruction of the Antichrist.
“Is poured out on the one who makes desolate” is composed of the verb nā·ṯǎḵ (נָתַךְ) (naw-thak´), “is poured out” which is followed by the preposition ʿǎl (עַל) (al), “on” and its object is the verb šā·mēm (שָׁמֵם) (shaw-mame´), “the one who makes desolate.”
The verb nā·ṯǎḵ means “to pour out” but is used in a figurative sense of the causing of an event to take place as a figurative extension of pouring out a mass or liquid, implying the event will have a degree of intensity.
Here it refers to God pouring out judgment against the Antichrist in the sense of causing him to receive judgment which will take place at the Second Advent of Jesus Christ.
The verb šā·mēm refers to the desolation or desecration of the temple as the result of the Antichrist sitting between the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant and declaring himself as God.
It refers to the sinful actions of the Antichrist making desolate the holy place since these actions defiled and made it ceremonially unclean.
This time the verb means “the desolater” since it functions as a substantive participle and is also the object of the preposition ʿǎl, which is functioning as a marker of opposition meaning that this decreed complete destruction will be poured out “against” this desolater or desecrater, the Antichrist.
Daniel 9:27 “Then, he will establish a firm covenant with the leaders, which will be one unit of seven years. However, he will cause the sacrificial offering to stop in the middle of this unit of seven years while between the wings which results in abominations, he will cause desecration. Indeed, until a decreed complete destruction is poured out against the desecrater.” (Author’s translation)
Gabriel completes his communication of the prophecy of the seventy units of seven or seventy weeks, four hundred ninety prophetic years by informing Daniel that the coming leader who we know is the Antichrist will continue to desecrate the temple until a decreed complete destruction has been poured out against him.
Throughout the last three and a half years of the seventieth week, Antichrist will continue to desecrate the temple by sitting on the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant between the cherubim and displaying himself as God.
He will be completely destroyed by God through the Second Advent of Jesus Christ.
The demise of the Antichrist was decreed by God in eternity past to take place in human history.
At His “Second Advent,” the Lord Jesus Christ will destroy the Tribulational armies, have Antichrist and the False Prophet thrown into the Lake of Fire (Rev. 19:11-19), will imprison Satan for a thousand years (Rev. 20:1-3) and will establish His millennial reign on planet earth (Rev. 20:4-6).
At that time, the Lord and His armies will orbit the earth before landing on the Mount of Olives, which was the site of His Ascension (Acts. 1:9-11).
There will be a great earthquake when our Lord’s foot touches the Mount of Olives (Zech. 14:1-8) and will be a unique day having neither day nor night (Zech. 14:7).
The Lord Jesus Christ describes the Tribulation period in detail and His Second Advent in Matthew 24:29-31 and Luke 21:25-28.
The “Second Advent” of Jesus Christ is taught in both the Old and New Testaments (Deuteronomy 30:3; Psalm 2:1-9; 24:7-10; 96:10-13; 110; Isaiah 9:6-7; 63:1-6; Jeremiah 23:1-8; Daniel 2:44-45; 7:18-27; Zechariah 12; 14:1-9; Matthew 19:28; 24:27-31; Mark 13:24-30; Luke 12:35-40; 17:24-37; 18:8; 21:25-28; Acts 1:10-11; 15:16-18; Romans 11:25-27; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10; 2:8; 2 Peter 3:3-4; Jude 14-15; Revelation 1:7-8; 2:25-28; 16:15; 19:11-21).