We have already looked at the possibly deliberate changing of the Jewish calendar to mask the year of the Messiah’s coming. The same approach of obscuring the truth is found in the Jewish commentary, the Babylonian Talmud,[1] in respect to the 70-week prophecy of Daniel.[2] It concerns a curse against anyone who attempts to understand that passage, “Blasted be the bones of those who calculate the end. For they would say, since the predetermined time has arrived, and yet he has not come, he will never come. But wait for him, as it is written, though he tarry, wait for him.”
Synagogue readings are divided into the Torah (the five books of Moses) and the Haftarah (selected passages from the Prophets of the Old Testament). When the Greek Septuagint version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) was produced by 70 skilled rabbinic scholars in 285 BC, Daniel was classed as among the prophets.[3] However, in the Masoretic text used today in the Jewish world, Daniel is placed in the Writings section, and is therefore never included in the synagogue Haftarah reading.[4] Robert will discuss further this theme of rabbinic Judaism hiding strong clues about the true identity of the Messiah in one of his articles at the end of this book...
[1] Tractate Sanhedrin 97B
[2] Daniel 9:24-27
[3] The Septuagint is comprised of the Old Testament plus the Apocrypha
[4] Jim Burr, Daniel 9 & the Rabbinic Curse, hopeofisraelnj.com
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®.