Is Daniel 9:27 and Daniel 12:11 Referring to the Same Event?
1) Direct Answer
No. Daniel 9:27 speaks of Messiah confirming the covenant and, in the midst of the week, making sacrifice and offering cease by His own once‑for‑all offering. Daniel 12:11 points to a later, end‑time desecration when the daily sacrifice is forcibly taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, marked by 1,290 days.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Daniel 9:27: “He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week… in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.” This is Messiah’s work. By His death the veil was torn (Matthew 27:51), and the Bible says His one offering perfected forever them that are sanctified (Hebrews 10:10–14). That legally and spiritually ended the sacrificial system.
- Daniel 12:11: “From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.” Jesus placed that abomination in the end‑time setting (Matthew 24:15), and Paul shows a man of sin sitting in the temple of God (2 Thessalonians 2:3–4). This aligns with the tribulation span of 42 months/1,260 days (Revelation 11:2–3; 13:5), with Daniel adding the 1,290 and 1,335 day markers for that closing season.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- In Daniel 9:27, the sacrifice ceases because Christ fulfilled it. That is covenant confirmation by Messiah, not an Antichrist covenant.
- In Daniel 12:11, the sacrifice is removed by a profaning power and the abomination is set up, initiating a counted period of days at the time of the end.
- You see, one is the cross ending sacrifice by fulfillment; the other is the end‑time desolator halting it by desecration during the last half‑week as God turns back to Israel. This would imply the successful restoration of jewish temple worship before this event.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, if 9:27 were an Antichrist covenant, Hebrews would not declare that Christ Himself caused sacrifice to cease. The Bible is clear: 9:27 is Messiah’s covenant; 12:11 is the abomination in the end. They are connected in the prophetic program, but they are not the same event.
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Daniel 9: Gabriel's instructions to Daniel
61-0730M §66
Now, when we get to the seven ... or, the sixfold confirmation, we'll find what that city is and bring it down and prove who it was, who founded it, where it come from. How long will it stand? Will it be rebuilt again, and what time? Oh, great things are in store for us. All right. Seventy of weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy ... city, to finish the transgression, ... Now, he never said, "Daniel..." No doubt but what he told him that the seventy weeks was ... I mean, seventy years was about finished...
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §103
Now, at the end of the time, how many knows that the Bible says that the saints shall judge the earth? Paul said so. Let's turn now to the book of Daniel, and get the white throne. We could get it out of Revelation, but I like to take it out of Daniel (same thing), Daniel 7. And we'll catch the great white throne judgment here. Let's begin at the 8th verse of the 7th chapter of Daniel: And I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them ... a little horn, before whom there were three of the first horn...
Daniel 9: Daniel's Seventy Weeks
61-0806 §33
Now, now, let's outline Daniel's seventy of weeks. Now I might repeat here again, ministers of the gospel, if you disagree with this, all right. They are divided in three periods, as we find out in Daniel 9---three periods: First, a seven week period; then a threescore and two, which is sixty two; and then a one week period. They're divided in three different periods. Now, I've got it divided here on the board. The first period, second period, and to my understanding by the gospel, by the Holy Spirit, that the end-...
Daniel 9: The sixfold purpose of Gabriel's visitation
61-0730E §85
There'll be two prophets (the eleventh chapter, we'll pick that up) --- two anointed prophets like Elijah and Moses, who I think it is. And they'll bring great curses, after they have seen that they have consolidated, and Rome has broke its covenant (that prince). In the middle of this seventieth week, it'll break its covenant with Rome ... or, Rome will break it with Israel, and that'll cause the abomination to begin to scatter. And there will be the great flood, when the Gentile remnant, the sleeping virgins... T...
Daniel 9: Gabriel's instructions to Daniel
61-0730M §21
This has been a week of tremendous study. Yesterday all day I hardly moved from the room, trying to study. And it's something in the... Last time, many of the old-timers here that I taught, I just said, "In here belongs the seventy weeks of Daniel," but I did not try to attack it, to explain it. But this time, by the grace of God, I have taken upon myself to try to ask grace before God that I might bring it to the people. And in here I'm finding things that I do not know one thing about.