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of Syria. But Christ had been born in

Bethlehem – “Shiloh” had come while

Judah still held the scepter, and thus the

prophecy met its exact fulfillment.

Malachi 3:1 – The Messiah, here called the

“Messenger of the Covenant,” would come

while the Temple in Jerusalem still stood

in its grandeur. Christ fulfilled this

prediction, also. But, forty years after His

death, the Roman soldiers under Titus

destroyed that magnificent Temple, not

leaving one stone upon another. (See

Matthew 24:1, 2)

Daniel 9:24-27 – The most amazing and

explicit of all the time-prophecies of the

Old Testament is that of the “Seventy”

prophetic “weeks” – symbolizing 490

literal years – which were to reach from

the Persian restoration to the Jewish

nation (457 B.C.) to the appearance and

death of “Messiah the Prince.” When this

prophecy and the annual Passover ritual