Sophiee1 wrote:Douggg:

Note that in The Wars of the Jews (also by Josephus) which I quoted in my first response to you Josephus identifies the Roman Emperor Titus (Vespasian) as the second messiah of Daniel 9. That passage was quoted in my earlier post, but I'll post it again from The Wars of the Jews, also by Josephus and written nearly 2000 years ago. The reference is in book 6, chapter 2.


Okay, I see where you went back edited your previous post where you misspoke about Antiochus IV being the second messiah of Daniel 9. 

 7weeks + 62 weeks + 1week = 70 weeks.

So let's look at Titus.     In verse 26, after 62 weeks, Titus dies.    Then in verse 27, Titus, after dying strengthens a covenant for 7 years (1 week),  to complete the 70 weeks.

1. that doesn't make sense, dying in verse 26, then strengthening a covenant in verse 27.
2. when did Titus ever strengthen a covenant for  7 years?


26And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one [Titus] will be cut off, and he will be no more, and the people of the coming monarch will destroy the city and the Sanctuary, and his end will come about by inundation, and until the end of the war, it will be cut off into desolation.

27And he [Titus] will strengthen a covenant for the princes for one week, and half the week he will abolish sacrifice and meal- offering, and on high, among abominations, will be the dumb one, and until destruction and extermination befall the dumb one





My Lord, what a morning, when the stars begin to fall - Judith Durham