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Sunday, January 20, 2013

The Third Sunday after Epiphany (OTA)


Daniel 9:24-27
24 “Seventy weeks 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. 25 Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. 26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. 27 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

The Anointed one of God (Jesus Christ) came to the Land of Galilee and he proclaimed the Gospel to the people.  He called the people to repent of their sins.  He called the people to believe in the promises of God to remove their sins.

Who is this Anointed One?  Who is cut off and made nothing?  Who are his followers who brought to ruin the great City?  What is the strong Covenant?

I am not going to claim to have all the answers, but it looks like Jesus to me.  I have been accused of finding Jesus too much in the Bible, but isn’t the Christ the Anointed One of God?  Jesus Christ was cut off from the land of the living and made to be like nothing.  He rose from the Dead also.  His followers caused great consternation in the City of Jerusalem.  Many people heard the message of the Apostles (or Good News of Jesus Christ).  They believed.

Jesus Christ made a new Covenant in his Body and Blood with His people.  This covenant was cut in His own Sacrifice upon the Cross.  It is this covenant that we are joined to in Baptism.  It is this covenant we receive in the Lord’s Supper.  This is the New Covenant made between Christ and His people, of which nothing is stronger.

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