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PROPHESIED EVENTS AFTER THE SIXTY-NINTH WEEK (9:26)
9:26 “And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off
and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a
flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.”
As noted earlier, the “sixty-two weeks” is best understood as being
connected chronologically with the “seven weeks,” with both identifying
the length of the time period between the command to rebuild
Jerusalem and the coming of the “anointed one.” The ESV translation is
unfortunate in this regard because it interjects a note of interpretive
confusion that implies the “anointed one” was to arise after just “seven
weeks.”
Most conservative expositors have interpreted “the anointed one” as a
reference to Jesus Christ, who was “cut off” by His death on the cross.
The verb rendered “to cut off” has the meaning “to destroy, to kill,” for
example, in Genesis 9:11; Deuteronomy 20:20; Jeremiah 11:19; and
