Luke 19 - How could Israel have recognized the "time" of the visitation of Messiah? 2017

Luke 19:44
and will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."

Yeshua specifically said that Jerusalem will be destroyed because they did not recognize the time of your visitation. How could Israel have recognized the "time" of the visitation of Messiah? The reason being is that it is spelled out for them in Daniel 9:24-26. Let's turn to this passage in Daniel and see what transpired. Dan 9:24 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place. "Seventy weeks" does not necessarily mean 490 days. The Hebrew word for weeks is "shabua" which means "a unit of measure". This word is similar to our word dozen. A dozen can stand for twelve of anything. Gabriel is saying here that seventy "sevens" are determined for the people of Daniel. It could be seventy sevens of days, weeks, months, or years. In the context of this verse, it is plain that Daniel was reading in Jeremiah about 70 years and it appears that what is being referred to is years. Why were the Israelites held in captivity for 70 years? LEV 25:3 'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit; LEV 25:4 'but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. LEV 25:5 'What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land. The Israelites had violated the law of the sabbath pertaining to their land for 490 years. They did not let their land rest on the seventh year as Elohim had commanded. Elohim let them know He meant what He said. He let them be held captive to make up for the 70 Sabbath years they had missed (2 Chron. 36:21). The 70 weeks spoken of here is broken up into three segments: 7 weeks, 62 weeks, and 1 week. Daniel must be puzzled here as to how the end of the 70 years of captivity would fit into the long period of Gentile world domination shown in the previous visions in chapters 2, 7, & 8. Daniel had to think that at the end of the 70 years of Israel captivity his people would return to the land, the promised Messiah would come, and the kingdom which had been promised to David would be established. But what about these Gentile empires? These had to be seemingly irreconcilable contradictions to Daniel. It says "Seventy weeks are determined for your people,..." The Hebrew word for "determined" here literally means "cutting off". The seventy sevens are to be cut off, or cut out, for the Israelites, as the following verses will indicate. The seventy weeks concern "your people". It concerns Israel. They also concern "your holy city", which is Jerusalem. Six things will be accomplished at the end of the seventy weeks: This verse is a summary of the prophecy of the seventy weeks. Keep in mind that this prophecy concerns Israel. Gabriel says it is for "your people". When critics come to the Book of Daniel, they hate the ninth chapter. It is pre-written history. It is the section that foretells the arrival of Messiah. Elohim predicted the time this prophecy would start. Elohim also predicted the day of the Messianic entry of Yeshua into Jerusalem.

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Dan 9:26