The Supposed Last Week Of The Earth, Part IV

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 that, [just] as sin has reigned in death, [so] grace (His unearned and undeserved favor) might reign also through righteousness (right standing with God) which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) our Lord. Romans 5:21

In Christ we have eternal life right now. We do not have to wait for it. Those who confess that the seventy weeks of Daniel’s Prophecy have yet to be fulfilled are teaching that we have to wait to be made righteous by Christ. So this means that we have to keep works and laws on our own to get us to the future point of freedom.

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who believes in Me [who adheres to, trusts in, relies on, and has faith in Me] has (now possesses) eternal life. John 6:47

The Holy Spirit teaches us in Colossians 2:14 that all of the laws and ordinances that convicted us of sin have been nailed to the Cross with Jesus and that they have been done away with. This is what Jesus came to do: He came to be a sacrifice that allowed our Father to give us His grace freely. People who believe that the seventy weeks have yet to be fulfilled believe that sin still has power over the Bride of Christ and it doesn’t.

For by a single offering He has forever completely cleansed and perfected those who are consecrated and made holy. Hebrews 10:14

He then goes on to say, And their sins and their lawbreaking I will remember no more. Now where there is absolute remission (forgiveness and cancellation of the penalty) of these [sins and lawbreaking], there is no longer any offering made to atone for sin. Hebrews 10:17-18