'Messianic Themes In The Apocrypha'
[An Analytical Look at Genesis 3:15; 1 John 3:8 & Revelation 12:9]
(Daniel 9:24 = 2nd Esdras 12:30-37)
[An Analytical Look at Genesis 3:15; 1 John 3:8 & Revelation 12:9]
(Daniel 9:24 = 2nd Esdras 12:30-37)
Daniel 9:24
English Standard Version
The Seventy Weeks
24 “Seventy weeks3 are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
English Standard Version
The Seventy Weeks
24 “Seventy weeks3 are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
2 Esdras 12:30–37
The Revised Standard Version
30 this is the interpretation: It is these whom the Most High has kept for the eagle’s end; this was the reign which was brief and full of tumult, as you have seen.
31 “And as for the lion whom you saw rousing up out of the forest and roaring and speaking to the eagle and reproving him for his unrighteousness, and as for all his words that you have heard,
32 this is the Messiah whom the Most High has kept until the end of days, who will arise from the posterity of David, and will come and speak to them; he will denounce them for their ungodliness and for their wickedness, and will cast up before them their contemptuous dealings.
33 For first he will set them living before his judgment seat, and when he has reproved them, then he will destroy them.
34 But he will deliver in mercy the remnant of my people, those who have been saved throughout my borders, and he will make them joyful until the end comes, the day of judgment, of which I spoke to you at the beginning.
35 This is the dream that you saw, and this is its interpretation.
36 And you alone were worthy to learn this secret of the Most High [Jehovah -- Psalm 83:18].
37 Therefore write all these things that you have seen in a book, and put it in a hidden place [Apocrypha];
The Revised Standard Version
30 this is the interpretation: It is these whom the Most High has kept for the eagle’s end; this was the reign which was brief and full of tumult, as you have seen.
31 “And as for the lion whom you saw rousing up out of the forest and roaring and speaking to the eagle and reproving him for his unrighteousness, and as for all his words that you have heard,
32 this is the Messiah whom the Most High has kept until the end of days, who will arise from the posterity of David, and will come and speak to them; he will denounce them for their ungodliness and for their wickedness, and will cast up before them their contemptuous dealings.
33 For first he will set them living before his judgment seat, and when he has reproved them, then he will destroy them.
34 But he will deliver in mercy the remnant of my people, those who have been saved throughout my borders, and he will make them joyful until the end comes, the day of judgment, of which I spoke to you at the beginning.
35 This is the dream that you saw, and this is its interpretation.
36 And you alone were worthy to learn this secret of the Most High [Jehovah -- Psalm 83:18].
37 Therefore write all these things that you have seen in a book, and put it in a hidden place [Apocrypha];
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