Don Preston Contradictions
Let me make an argument based on Daniel 9:24-27 and Matthew 5. Not one jot or tittle would pass from the Law until it was all fulfilled. "The Law" included the prophets, the Psalms, and the Decalogue. Daniel 9:24-27 posited the fulfillment of the entire body of prophecy, i.e. the Law, within the confines of the 70 weeks. (Seventy Weeks are determined to seal vision and prophecy). Since not one jot or tittle of the Law could pass until it was ALL fulfilled, it is therefore impossible for "the Law" to have passed at the Cross, while constituent elements of "the Law" remained valid and unfulfilled. Remember, none could pass until all was fulfilled.
Jesus did not say some will pass when some is fulfilled! He did not say all would pass when some was fulfilled. He said none would pass until all was fulfilled.
Back to Daniel 9. Daniel 9 posits the fulfillment of vision and prophecy within the confines of the seventy weeks. Vision and prophecy is "the Law." The terminus of the seventy weeks is the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 (as Terry seems to agree). Thus, the Law, and obligation to keep the Law, would remain valid until the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
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Don Preston
I do not use a precise mathematical calculation for the 70 Weeks. I believe that it is a symbolic period of time, marked out by the beginning point, and the termination point, with "markers" in between. I do this for several reasons. There is no mathematical calculation that I have ever seen that comes out precisely.
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Don Preston: Seal Up Vision and Prophecy
"In other words the seventy weeks are not to be seen as absolute mathematical markers. But the passage, while not giving mathematical precision does provide a definite terminus a quo [point from which to begin] and a terminus ad quem [point up to, or ending] . . . This view, that the seventy weeks are not precise mathematical markers, allows the text and words of Daniel 9 to stand without doing astounding mathematical acrobatics or resorting to saying the DECREE of the destruction would fall within the 70 weeks but not the destruction itself."
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