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- From: ucakrvb@ucl.ac.uk (Vijay Bhuchar)
- Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- Subject: Re: Disproof of Proof 1
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.123358.21281@ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 12:33:58 GMT
- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium
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- In article <1jklahINNh6a@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Gedaliah Friedenberg writes
-
- >In article <1993Jan18.113815.29172@ucl.ac.uk> ucakrvb@ucl.ac.uk (Vijay
- >Bhuchar) writes:
- >
- >>Daniel writes that from the decree to restore and rebuild
- >>Jerusalem until "Mashiach Nagid" (Messiah the Prince or an
- >>anointed prince) will be seven AND sixty two "weeks" or "sevens"
- >>(of years) (*1).
- >
- >>(*1a) A week is a period of seven-years - compare with Lev 25:1-8
- >
- >>(*1b) seven AND sixty two weeks - Many Bibles both Jewish and
- >>Christian punctuate the first seven away from the next sixty two.
- >
- >As it should. It is referring to two different things. See below.
- >
- >>Under this method it was suggested that there were 2 separate
- >>mashiachs - the first after 7 weeks and the next after another
- >>62 weeks.
- >
- >Please read below. You argue here that the messiah will come after 7
- >weeks or possibly again after 62 weeks. Below you argue that Jesus
- >came after 69 weeks. This is inconsistent.
-
- NOT TRUE! When I first tried showing this prophecy to a friend he produced
- his anti-mission kit in which his refutation was that mashiach simply means
- 'anointed' and not 'Messiah'. Subsequently the 'Cyrus-Onais' *fulfilment*
- came about since both are 'anointed' but neither are 'Messiahs'.
-
- I was merely pointing this out.
-
- >
- >Try reading the main verse (25) in Hebrew. Here is a better
- >translation (any native Hebrew speakers can look it up and make a
- >better translation if mine is not adequate):
- > "Know and discern that from the going forth of the word to restore and
- > build Jerusalem unto one anointed, a prince, shall be seven weeks; and
- > for sixty two weeks shall it be built again with streets and moats,
- > but in troublesome times."
- >
- >
- >If Jesus came after 69 weeks, why did Daniel not say so forthright
- >(instead of 7 plus 62)? If you read the proper Hebrew version (or the
- >best possible translation), it is clear. According to the correct
- >translation (or the orginal Hebrew) is it clear that the messiah will
- >come after 7 weeks, then the city will remain intact for 62 weeks
- >(verse 26), then it will be destroyed. The Christian translation
- >cannot explain why Daniel separated the years into two.
-
- Yes it can. Without the punctuation, the first 7 weeks are taken to be the
- time during which Jerusalem was rebuilt. The Book of Nehemiah describes the
- rebuilding 'even in troublous times'
-
- BUT with the punctuation the following occurs:
- (1) The decree to rebuild goes out and then there is a 7 'week' delay (48 to
- 49 year delay? - unlikely!)
- (2) It takes the rest of the 62 'weeks' to rebuild Jerusalem ( no records that
- Jerusalem took this long to rebuild )
-
- >If you read the correct translation, you will see that after the 62
- >"weeks" that the anionted one will be cut off *AND* the sanctuary will
- >be destroyed. If Jesus was the messiah, consider the following:
- >Jesus was crucified in the year 32AD. The sanctuary (Temple) was
- >destroyed in 70AD. This is a 38 solar-year difference. Playing by
- >your rules (using your incorrect tabulation and math - see below) we
- >find that 38 x 365.242 = 13879.196 days; 13879.196 days / 360 =
- >38.553322 "biblical" 360-day years. 38.553322 / 7 = 5.5076175 "weeks"
- >(a week being 7 years). Therefore you are more than five "weeks" or
- >38 solar years off!
-
- I am truly glad that you brought this one up. I am not of the school of
- thought that the Temple was destroyed on the 9th Ab, 70 CE. I see a FORTY
- year link which I mentioned (in another newsgroup) before Christmas.
-
- One of next weeks postings provisionally entitled 'Dispersion' will go into
- it a little bit more.
-
- >I am not claiming that my post is a
- >*proof* that Jesus wasn't the messiah (although I certainly believe this
- >to be true). I am just showing the faults in the "proofs" given by
- >the "Messianic" community to draw Jews away from Torah and into the
- >Church.
- >
- >Gedaliah Friedenberg
- >-=-Department of Mechanical Engineering
- >-=-Department of Metallurgy, Mechanics and Materials Science
- >-=-Michigan State University
-
-
- Nobody wants to draw Jews away from being Jewish. *Even if* the Christians
- are mistaken in their belief they truly believe that Messianic Judaism is what
- God wants for the Jew.
-
- ======================================================================
- Last point: A GOOD refutation of this proof would consist of naming the
- subjects in this prophecy and substantiating with dates, figures and records.
-
- Until then any Jew who ostracises a 'Jew for Jesus' has no right to do so.
-
- Vijay (ucakrvb@uk.ac.ucl)
-