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Author	: Bill Kochman
Publish	: Jul. 5, 2025
Update	: Jul. 5, 2025
Parts	: 13

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Continuing our discussion from part seven, while Adam and Eve lived very long lives, in the end, as we all do, they eventually died. More importantly, on the day that they ate of the forbidden fruit, their once harmonious relationship with the Lord was broken. And so, as punishment for their rebellion, they were both cast out of the Garden of Eden, and they were forced to live very difficult lives as they struggled to survive. Sadly, again, as all Christians know, the problem and the rebellion did not end in Eden. In fact, as Jesus, the Apostle John and the Apostle Paul all clearly explain, their sinful nature eventually both spread to and corrupted all of humanity. As a result, we have inherited the very same penalty for sin, which is death.

If we closely examine the Old Testament, we see that the very same spirit of rebellion is found throughout its pages. As I point out in such articles as the series "The Fruits of Disobedience", time and time again, the Israelites backslid from the Lord and fell into a state of deep apostasy. As a result, God was forced to punish them over and over again in order to get them back on track, at least for a time, until they rebelled again. In the Gospels and the Epistles, we see the same thing occurring with the unbelieving Jews. Not only did they rebel and remain in stubborn disbelief, even when the Messiah was in their very midst, but they were so wicked that they eventually plotted His murder, and used the Romans as their executioners.

Looking at the Book of Revelation, the very same spirit of rebellion persists as we see the Beast, the False Prophet and their followers blaspheming God, and eventually, even making war against the camp of the Saints. So, when we see the prophecy stating "to finish the transgression", or to put an end to, restrict, restrain or refrain the sin and the rebellion, we should now understand exactly what this phrase means, and why it became necessary to do so.

In fact, I will take this thought one step further. If you read my series "Vespasian, Titus and the Fall of Jerusalem", one thing you will learn is that once the Zealots, robbers, Sicarii and other thugs took over the temple compound, they totally polluted and defiled it with extreme bloodshed and violence. Furthermore, they removed the real priests, and they installed their own. Likewise, they mocked the Prophets of the Lord, and they scoffed at the Laws of God. They were in a total state of ungodly rebellion, and they didn't even care. Is it any wonder that God had the Romans burn down the place in order to purify it?

So to reiterate, what started out as a rebellion in Heaven, then moved to the Earth, and beginning with Adam and Eve, it eventually spread to all of humanity, so that sin and death came upon all men. These plain truths are made evident by verses such as the following:

"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one . . . For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"


"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."


"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."


"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord."


"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us"


"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."


"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)"


"And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness."


Yet as the previous verses also reveal, the all-knowing God had already put a wonderful plan into motion, which across the centuries and the millennia, finally came to fruition when Jesus gave His life as an atonement and ransom price for us all. This He willingly did so that we today might be redeemed through His blood, and thus have our relationship with the Father restored. But for that to happen, we need to first believe in and confess what He did for us, so that we might be symbolically washed in His blood and made righteous before God the Father. If we do this, then as the previous verses plainly declare, we will not only no longer be under the condemnation of the Law, but we'll pass from death unto life, exactly as Jesus stated in John 5:24 above.

That is exactly what the Seventy Weeks Prophecy is all about. Everything was leading up to that moment when Jesus finally said "It is finished". He met the requirements of the Law. He closed up the breach between God and man. He completed His mission. He put an end to the transgression, exactly as the prophecy states, and He opened Salvation's door for us all.

2. TO MAKE AND END OF SINS.

This part of the prophecy was likewise fulfilled when Jesus died on the Cross. In this particular phrase, the word "end" is derived from the Hebrew word "tamam" which means to end, complete or finish. Furthermore, the word "sins" is derived from the Hebrew word "chatta'ah" which Thayer's Greek English Lexicon defines as follows:

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‭‭1) sin, sinful‭

‭‭2) sin, sin offering‭
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  2a) sin‭

  2b) condition of sin, guilt of sin‭

  2c) punishment for sin‭

  2d) sin-offering‭

  2e) purification from sins of ceremonial uncleanness‭
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Now, some people might possibly argue, "But Bill! Just look at the world. Look at the mess it is in. There is still sin and rebellion everywhere." Yes, my friends, this is indeed very true. But perhaps that isn't exactly what the phrase means. I see two ways in which we can understand it. First, perhaps we can interpret it to mean that Christ's death on the Cross put an end to the PENALTY of sin. Which is what? As we saw earlier in Romans 6:23, Death. If we believe in Jesus, and accept His loving Sacrifice as atonement for our sins, and as the ransom price which He was willing to pay, then we are liberated from death, and will live forever in His eternal Kingdom. As Jesus said, we have passed from death unto life.

In fact, as I have explained before, the Bible informs us that at one time, the Devil had the power of death. However, with His death on the Cross, and subsequent resurrection from the dead, it appears that Jesus symbolically took back the keys of both death and Hell itself. Death no longer has dominion over Him. Furthermore, we are told by the Apostle Paul that when we embrace Christ, sin no longer has dominion over us. If sin no longer has dominion over us, then neither does death -- because the wages of sin is death -- and as we learned earlier, we have thus passed from death unto life. These amazing truths become evident in the following group of Bible verses:

"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he [Jesus] also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;"


"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."


"Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God . . . For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.‭"


Now, the second way in which we can possibly understand the phrase "to make and end of sins" is that once we have been symbolically washed in the Blood of the Lamb -- meaning, of course, Jesus -- then our slate is washed totally clean, and God will remember our sins no more. That is the end of them. They become "invisible" to God, as long as we are willing to confess them. Consider the following group of Bible verses which verify this point:

"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."


"Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all."


"Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you."


"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin . . . If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."


"And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."


"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more."


"And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more."


3. TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY.

In this phrase, the word "reconciliation" is derived from the Hebrew word "kaphar". According to the Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Hebrew Aramaic English Lexicon, this word is defined in the following manner:

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1) to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation, cover over with pitch

  1a) (Qal) to coat or cover with pitch

  1b) (Piel)

    1b1) to cover over, pacify, propitiate

    1b2) to cover over, atone for sin, make atonement for

    1b3) to cover over, atone for sin and persons by legal rites

  1c) (Pual)

    1c1) to be covered over

  1c2) to make atonement for

  1d) (Hithpael) to be covered
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In that same phrase, the word "iniquity" is derived from the Hebrew word "aw-vone'", which again, the Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Hebrew Aramaic English Lexicon defines in the following manner:

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1) perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity

  1a) iniquity

  1b) guilt of iniquity, guilt (as great), guilt (of condition)

  1c) consequence of or punishment for iniquity
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As we saw earlier, this is exactly what Jesus did for us. He atoned for our sins by shedding His own blood, because as we also learned earlier, without shedding of blood, there is no remission of our sins. Again, Jesus Christ became the final Passover lamb. He reconciled us to the Father. He became the propitiation for our sins. In other words, He appeased the Father's wrath, so that we are now held guiltless, and are no longer under harsh condemnation, once we come to Christ. Just as Adam and Eve lost their peaceful relationship with the Lord, we have regained it through Christ's sufferings. Consider the following group of Bible verses which again verify this important point:

"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ . . . For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."


"And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation."


"But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father."


"For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:"


"My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."


"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."


"Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;"


"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."


4. TO BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Once again, we see the fulfillment of this phrase in Jesus Christ. Some people will no doubt again wonder how I can possibly say this. In fact, I have had certain Christians say to me "But Bill, how can you possibly say that this has already been fulfilled. Look around you! Look at the world! Where is this everlasting righteousness of which you speak? To such people, I say this: You are looking at things the wrong way. You are understanding them with your carnal mind. There are so many Futurist-leaning Christians who have this very physical conception of what everything means. Yet they seem to forget that Jesus also said the following:

"And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."


I am personally convinced that this phrase is also referring to an internal righteousness. It is in fact the righteousness that we each receive when we place our faith in Jesus Christ. As the Bible informs us, our righteousness is as filthy rags. It stinks. It cannot possibly ever save us. I've covered this same subject a number of times before. As the Apostle Paul informs us, his own Jewish brethren who rejected Christ went about trying to establish their own righteousness before God by supposedly keeping the mandates of the Mosaic Law. And the reason why they did this, is because they rejected the true righteousness which comes through faith in Christ alone. Let me share a few verses with you before continuing:

"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."


"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."


"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;"


"And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:‭ Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.‭ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men ‭are‭, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.‭ I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.‭ And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as ‭his‭ eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.‭ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified ‭rather‭ than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.‭"


As the Apostle Paul writes in the previous verses, the simple fact of the matter is that the righteousness of God is only obtained through faith in Jesus Christ. Christ is our one and only righteousness, and when we're symbolically washed in His blood, and accept His blood atonement as propitiation for our sins, the Bible informs us that we are symbolically clothed with a garment of salvation, and we're covered with a robe of righteousness. Furthermore, even Jesus spoke about this in the Gospels. This Scriptural truth becomes plainly evident by the following group of verses. Notice how Revelation states "for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints":

"I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment ‭was‭ as a robe and a diadem."


"I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels."


"Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen."


"He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels . . . I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see."


"And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled."


"After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands . . . And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?‭ And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."


"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God."


5. TO SEAL UP THE VISION AND PROPHECY.

This phrase is a little more difficult to understand, but not entirely. In this particular phrase, the words "seal up" are derived from the Hebrew word "chatham" which means to seal, seal up, affix a seal, lock up, or to be stopped. We are told that this would happen upon the completion of the Seventy Weeks, or the 490-year period. My sense -- and I admit that I could be wrong -- is that once all of these various things had occurred, the prophecy was to be sealed up, locked up, and come to its end. It was to be put away, because it had been completed. It was done with. As Jesus himself said, "It is finished." Furthermore, allow me to remind you of exactly what Jesus said to two disciples as they were walking on the road to Emmaus, and then what He later said to the Apostles as well who were in hiding:

"Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . . . And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things."


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