Page 80 - 09 The Seventy Weeks

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
are in the waiting time, and puts us upon our

watch; for we know not how soon the work

will be finished, and our Lord appear. Watch,

lest coming suddenly, he find you sleeping.

After stating the great events connected with

our Lord’s mission here upon the earth, the

prophet in the last part of verse 27 speaks of

the soon-following destruction of Jerusalem

by the Roman power; and finally of the

destruction of that power itself, called in the

margin “the desolator.”

NOTE. — That the expression “to anoint the

most holy” refers, according to remarks on

verse 24 of this chapter, to the anointing of the

heavenly sanctuary previous to the beginning

of Christ’s ministry therein, and not to any

anointing of the Messiah himself, seems to be

susceptible of the clearest proof. The words