Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-02-14
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Il, 1885. H.. -..~

/ Christ or the Messiah. See1saiah xxxv, 8:
/" Strengthen We the weak hands, and con-
firm the feeble knees" Rom. XIV, 8: aNow
say that Jesus Christ was minister oil
the circumcision for the truth Of God, to
confirm the promises made unto the faith
ers." That is, the covenant made with
Abraham. See also Cor. j, 7, 8: One
Deek" This makes up the seventy weeks,
And in the midst Cor last half of the
ceek, he shall cause the sacrifice and the
collation. to cease" Who shall cause the
sacrifice and oblation to cease? answer
the Messiah. What sacrifice? The last
and only sacrifice in which God was we'll
pleased; or that could take away sin. Take
notice, it is in the singular, if the angel had
designed the Jewish, it would have been
sacrifices and citations. Yet it would not
have been true as it respects oblations being
taken away at the destruction Of Jerusalem,
for the Jews offer citations (gifts) even
down to the present day, and did offer sacrlti-
ces in the days ofJulian, about 800 years aft r
the destruction of Jerusalem. See Gibbons
History Of Rome: " And every priest stand
eth daily ministering, and offering often
times the same sacrifices, which'can never
take away sins; but this man Jesus Christ
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins,
forever sat down on the right hand of God
Heb. x, II, ~: "Who needeth not daily,
as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice
first for his own sins, and then for the peo-
ple's, for this he did once, when he offered
up himself" "By which will we are sane
tilted through the offering of the body Of
Jesus Christ once for all" 10 chap. Of Heb
This nv brother was the sacrifice and obla
ton which ceased. The gift of God to the
world was taken up to God and 10 his throne
and the person of Jesus Christ is not with
as but has assembled up on high to inter
cede for all the true children of faith.
"And for the orerspreading Of abomin
atoms he shall make it desotdte." Who
shall make it desolate? You say Titus
This cannot be, for Titus has long since
gone the way of all tie earth. And Julian
the apostate as he is called, would have
built Jerusalem again, and restored thu
Jews to their place and privileges, hat
there been DO other power but Titus t
! INT he hot hoI oil
in heaven and earth, who had said to tn
Jews in the days of his flesh, "Now i
your house left unto you desolate;" and h
who had said by his prophets, Jeremiah xix
8: "And will make this city desolate
and an kissing: every one that passed.
thereby shall be astonished and hiss, be
cause Of all the plaques thereof" and Eze
kiel Xxx, &c: "That might make them des
oIate TO the end that they might know tina
am the Lord" He it is, who for tn
overspreading of denominations" shall max
1t deSolate, even until the conSun1nuation
and that determined shall be poured ~pof
the desoldte" We are here brought dowI
to the end of all earthly powers, TO the con
summation, and the little horn, or desolato
, DESTROYED. When the stone cut out with
, out hands, shall rule the nations with a 70
of iron, and break them to pieces like
potters vesse.. Then you will acknowledg
that the Messiah confirmed the covenant
that the sacrifice and oblation ceased i
him, and that he made desolate by his pow
err, the Jews, the temple, and their city, "t
the end that they might know that he We
the Lord" All your arguments about T
tus crying over Jerusalem, zone week
which, according to your reasoning would
from the time Simeon took the child Jesus
{, his arms, until Jerusalem was destroyed, isa
l folly, and pity the mind that can be for
I moment staggered with such explanation
as these.
l think it is fairly proved, that the sever
: ty weeks began with the decree or con
5 mandment Of Artaxerxes, in the 7th year
u his reign, to Ezra, TO go up with all II
captives who choose to go free, when Il
u walls or city began to be built, as you ha'
acknowledged, and which were built as Il
> angel tells US in troublous times, includir
! Ezra's and Nehemiah's administrations,
u Then seven weeks, or 40 years, lasted I'm
{ the captivity were restored, the walls we
built, the city repaired, the abuses and di
= orders rectifed, and the historical part
10 the old testament complered-to the We
> 409 Before Christ. Then sixty-two weel
y or 434 years, carries US down 10 &c yea