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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
Talk about raising the white flag
Willful ignorance looks good on you...so on second thought...keep doing you
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How often ,Mr. Pot, do you call the Kettle black?
Singer is a strike out artist. He didn't get the first few examples right, and he certainly won't get Daniel 9 right.
But...for your info I did listen to about the first 13 minutes of the vid and that told me all I needed to know. He did not disappoint. It confirmed my well-grounded suspicions that rabbi Singer is as clueless as they come. He is so far off base about the 70 weeks, he would never in a 1,000 lifetimes figure it out. But to be fair and balanced, the messianic Jew with whom Singer engaged wasn't much better! The messianic Jewish guy probably meant well, but also approached the 70 Weeks prophecy all wrong!
It appears that both Singer and the messianic Jew believed that the 70 Weeks represented 490 literal years! This is their first big mistake. The 70 Weeks (literally --
Seventy Sevens) is a symbolic number that is actually referring to
sabbatical years. Also, the numbers 7 and 10 in scripture are important numbers -- sometimes to be taken literally and sometimes not! The number 7 symbolizes qualitative perfection, while the number 10 typically symbolizes quantitative perfection.
It might come to shock some people (even the few Christians here) that the 70 years of Babylonian captivity, which Jeremiah predicted and which Daniel prayed about in chapter 9 were
not literal years. The were approximate years. The Jews, technically were in exile for about 67 or 68 years, according to some learned scholars. Therefore, there was a reason why the prophet Jeremiah, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, rounded those years up to 70 -- that particular captivity being 1/7 of Daniel's "490" years. In other words, the Jews were in captivity for
10 sabbatical years. (Suffice it to say for now that a sabbatical year in the OT was every 7 years.)
But having said that does
not mean that we can't know with precision the starting point of Daniel's prophecy and its termination point, even though the years are symbolic.
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