Tuesday, July 05, 2011

The Supposed Last Week Of The Earth, Part II

Seventy weeks [of years, or 490 years] are decreed upon your people and upon your holy city [Jerusalem], to finish and put an end to transgression, to seal up and make full the measure of sin, to purge away and make expiation and reconciliation for sin, to bring in everlasting righteousness (permanent moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) to seal up vision and prophecy and prophet, and to anoint a Holy of Holies. Daniel 9:24


So let’s look at scriptures and see what happened because of Jesus being sacrificed for us.


Therefore, since we are now justified (acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God) by Christ's blood, how much more [certain is it that] we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more [certain], now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved (daily delivered from sin's dominion) through His [resurrection] life. Not only so, but we also rejoice and exultingly glory in God [in His love and perfection] through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received and enjoy [our] reconciliation. Romans 5:9-11


We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. For when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from [the power of] sin [among men]. Romans 6:7


Daniel was told that by the end of the seventy weeks that there would be a reconciliation for sin and the Holy Spirit tells us in Romans 5 and 6 that Jesus’ Blood is our reconciliation for sin. We are also told in these chapters that our bodies that could sin have been destroyed. There are literally dozens of other verses in the New Testament that teach the same Truth. These two chapters in Romans will give you a great starting point if you desire to study further on Jesus being our reconciliation for sin.


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