The leaders Gabriel refers to.
This series of posts rests on what God says in Daniel 9 and is extracted from the texts of Revelation the Fair God, The Great Harvest of the Post-Allah World as well as The Rock Breaks the Globalists’ Empire and the biblical references therein.
At the 483 year mark the appointed [anointed] leader will be killed; he will have nothing.
The people of the leader who is to come will destroy the city and the holy place. The end of the city will come like a flood, and war will continue until the end. God has ordered that place to be completely destroyed.
That leader will make a firm agreement with many people for seven years. He will stop the offerings and sacrifices after three and one-half year.
Jesus is the divinely appointed/anointed leader. No other leader has been appointed/anointed for Israel. And Jesus was killed at the precisely promised date. This takes care of the appointed/anointed leader.
In Daniel’s time, the Roman Empire was not yet relevant so its leadership was yet “to come”. Thus, as predicted, a few decades after Jesus’ atonement, the people of the coming leader, the Roman legions, did come and thoroughly destroyed the city and sanctuary.
So, almost 2,000 years ago, history fulfilled Gabriel’s words: the city was sacked and the temple destroyed, and the on-going continuum (war, desolations) has followed its universal course ever since—just as Gabriel predicted. This takes care of the one to come.
So: Who is “that leader” who will make a firm agreement? Gabriel had mentioned only two leaders: the anointed/appointed leader, and the leader who will destroy the city and the temple: the Roman power. So: “That leader” who will make a firm agreement can only be one of these two because “that” is a demonstrative pronoun, its use refers to persons previously mentioned.
Which of the two leaders qualify? Did the Roman leader make a firm agreement with many people for a specific seven years? No, Rome did not; but Jesus did!
Did Rome stop the offerings and sacrifices after three and one-half years? No, but Jesus did.
And did Rome stop the offerings and sacrifices? No, Rome did not stop the offerings and the sacrifices. Jesus did that forty years prior to the Roman campaign! (The Jews, out of step with God, sinfully kept up the now meaningless temple sacrifices. It was an empty practice. The Roman deconstructed a disaffected building! So the Rome is not that leader.)
There is no logical leeway in Gabriel’s message to introduce another hypothetical, future leader into the narrative. Only the two leaders, and both have already come.
So, “that leader” is Jesus. He is not the antichrist.
Jesus indeed made a firm agreement with many people. His covenant is universal, it is for all of humanity. It replaces, supersedes and expands the Hebraic Old Covenant. And three and one-half years after Jesus brought out the good news, He stopped the sacrifices and offerings.
And His earthly ministry, in Israel, lasted three and one-half years with Daniels people.
It is God through Jesus who puts an end to the sacrifice; not the enemies of God.
“That leader” is in our past; not in our future!
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