The Messiah in Daniel 9:27 by C. C. Stanbro

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 8, 1873

The Messiah in Daniel 9:27

By C. C. Stanbro

C. C. STANBRO: The antecedents of the pronouns used in the Bible must be determined more by the sense than by the construction. See 2 Sam. 24: 1, compared with 1 Chron. 21: 1. In Dan. 9: 27, the sense requires that we take the Messiah as the antecedent of the pronoun “he,” and not the “prince that shall come,” which doubtless refers to the Roman prince. Because, first, the Messiah is the leading subject from verse 25; and, secondly, he is the one that caused the sacrifice and oblation to cease by his death on the cross. Therefore he is the one that confirmed the covenant, the new covenant that was to be made with the house of Israel and the house of Judah; Jer. 31: 31; and he confirmed it in person during the first half of the last or seventieth week, and through his apostles during the latter half of that week. Heb. 2: 3. That the ceasing of the sacrifice and oblation predicted in Dan. 9: 27, was the annulling of those Jewish ordinances at the cross, is evident; because, first, they did there virtually cease, as they were no longer of any efficacy after that event; and, secondly, the actual suppression of the form of those ceremonies at the destruction of Jerusalem was of no sort of consequence whatever so far as they were concerned; and, thirdly, the destruction of Jerusalem is brought to view in the expression that follows: “And for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate.”