WHO ARE THE MANY OF DANIEL’S COVENANT? - A Word Study of the Hebrew Text

‘And he shall Confirm the Covenant with Many for 1 Week: and in the midst of the Week he shall cause the Sacrifice [of the Covenant] and the Oblation to cease, and for the overspreading’… -Daniel 9:27 Hebrew Interlinear

The purpose of this study is to consider who are the ‘Many’ that the AntiChrist will be ‘Confirming the Covenant’ with, in Daniel 9:27. The most prevalent suggestion or conjecture is that it is a political ‘Agreement’ with ‘Many’ Nations, as in the UN. For example, many End Time Watchmen believe that the Daniel 9:27 Covenant is the U.N. Agenda 2030. The Supposition is mainly predicated on calculating the Crucifixion from 30 AD. So, 2000 Years from that year is 2030. But the problem is that if one subtracts the 7-Year Tribulation from 2030, it is 2023.

That year has come-and-gone although it appears to be mathematically sound. One believes that this U.N. Agenda 2030 7-Year proclamation is just a dry-run and a rehearsal for sure. If one is to take more of a Biblical Interpretation, a convincing scenario should rather be with the Nascent Sanhedrin that has been reconstituted. One is convinced that this body is what and who the ‘confirming’ of the Framework will be dealing with. It is about the reinstitution of the Mosaic Law, an Accord with Israel and the ‘Many’ Rabbis, as in the 70 Elders of Zion.

The Law of Moses just must be ‘Confirmed’ or Implement nationally. Thus, at the core of the Daniel 9:27 context, and contrary to prevailing interpretations, it is all about Israel. And that the meaning of “Many” is being interpreted through the filters or lens of a Western Mindset. But most Watchmen have not studied carefully the text in its original context and language, that being Hebrew. One will attempt to do this in this study. See Table Matrix below. In one’s humble opinion, one believes that the ‘Many’ does not refer to the UN, the EU or the USA, as in Nations.

And that the ‘Covenant’ is that which pertains to a Sacrifice, as in to ‘cut’, as used and demonstrated in Genesis 15:18. Thus, in one’s assessment, Israel, in the Last Days is at the core of Biblical Prophecy, and that has to do with the 3rd Temple. It specifically alludes to the ‘Covenant’, in how it infers to the start of the Daily Sacrifices. And how the ‘Many’ are the Sanhedrin, the many Rabbis. This is based on the Hebrew Word Study that is presented below. This study will delve into the Context of ‘1st Mention’. It is when the word 1st appears in Scripture; all subsequent ones are determined by it.

End Time Understanding
That being said, Daniel 9:27 is showing, as one is now more convinced, that it identifies who the ‘Many’ are and what the ‘Covenant’ is. Some background beforehand. As the Church Age is about to end and the prophetic economy of Jehovah is to revert to Israel’s 70th Year, to conclude its Discipline, it is understood that the last Week of Years solely pertains to Israel, not the Church. It is Israel that still owes Jehovah 1 Week for the Sabbaths of the Land Israel did not keep.

Christians must realize that the Body of Christ has no Land allotted nor Debt. Thus, the 70th Week of Daniel does not Pertain to any Obligation on the part of the Body of Christ to pay for what is not owed, which is Judgment, as in Wrath. Jesus took all the Wrath at the Cross of Calvary and the Believers in Jesus are not ‘Appointed unto Wrath’. Thus, logically, the Bride of Christ cannot partake of this Final Week of Jacob’s Trouble, whenever that is, as a corporate body. It is also Understood that this is the Terminal Generation.

It is also understood that the unsealing of revelation and understanding of Scripture, according to Daniel, would be bestowed in the end to the Body of Christ. The ‘unveiling’ of Scripture, is for the purpose of preparing the Bride, to be on the look-out for the Trumpet Call, to be presented to Jesus at the Rapture, etc. If there is ever a time to have one’s ‘Hand to the Prophetic Plow’, in terms of studying and understanding End Times Prophecy, it is the present time. Why? Jehovah told Daniel, who wished to understand what was being revealed to him, that it was for the Last Days.

And that it would not be revealed nor understood until the Last Days. Why? Such information and understanding would not have made rational sense in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th centuries, etc. Unbeknownst to the Believers then, there would be 7 Stages of the ‘Churches of Asia’ to be had. And that his time-frame would span nearly 2 Prophetic Days or 2000 years. So, End Time Prophecy to a Nascent Church then would have been irrelevant from their point of time reference.

But ironically, one must realize that the Apostle Paul started his teaching to a brand-new gathering of Believers in Thessalonica with Prophecy. And how it was to end, with the Rapture. Rabbis point-out that the ‘Peace Covenant’ that the AntiChrist ‘Confirms’ is with the, 'Rabim’ or L' Rabbim. In the Hebrew, it can then be ‘The Many Rabbis’. It is one Interpretation, but it sounds like the Sanhedrin in one’s Estimation. And it would make sense, as these are the ‘Learned Elders of Zion’ or the Counsel of the 70 that are preparing Israel to receive the false Jewish Messiah and are behind the building efforts of the 3rd Temple, etc. The Council of the 70 Elders of Zion were set-up by Moses.

They got to see and dine with Jehovah. i.e., the pre-incarnate Jesus or the Christophany on His Throne above the Sapphire Sea at Sinai. Incredible. But this is the same religious ruling body of Israel that got usurped by corrupt men of the Luciferian kind. This is the Sanhedrin that Jesus exposed as being nothing more than White-Washed Tombs and Hypocrites or Actors pretending to be Israel’s Teachers. The Term Rabbi means Teacher and that is precisely what Jesus called them.

It is about the ‘Rabbis’
Such was the case, when Nicodemus came to Jesus at night for fear of the Sanhedrin. Jesus said of him, ‘You are supposed to be a Teacher of Israel, and you know not these things?’ It is that these Teachers or L’Rabbim, called Caesar their King instead of Jesus. The ‘Many’ or L’Rabbim, of the 70 have been compromised by those that rather chose a different Father and Messiah. They have sided with the Father of Lies, Lucifer and False Messiah that will come, in his own Name, etc. They became and are the Synagogue of Satan that condemned Israel’s True Messiah, Jesus on behalf of the Jewish Nation.

Not only did they condemn themselves and this Body of 70 or the L’Rabbim, but they condemned national Israel, to this day. And it will be such that will accept the False Jewish Messiah, that Jesus warned would come in his own Name. So, it would make sense, that as the AntiChrist is debuted and unveiled after the Rapture, as the reconstituted Sanhedrin will mutually and eagerly accept this Messiah, Lucifer’s. He will be bestowed the Name or considered to be ‘Messiah Ben David’. And in turn, the ‘Confirming’ will be as one has calculated, that of the Law of Moses, the Law and the Prophets. Is there a precedence of the Prophets and Kings of Israel doing this? Yes.

It started with Moses, then Joshua. Then it was done at the dedication of the Temple by Solomon. Then it was performed after the Babylonian Exile with Ezra. The Kings of Israel would gather all of Israel on Simchat Torah to read the ‘Covenant’ and re-confirm it. In fact, it is a yearly observance presently done on that day in the Jewish Synagogues on Simchat Torah. Here now is the Hebrew Word Study on Daniel 9:27. One argues that in Hebrew, it infers, ‘The Rabbis’, plural as the ‘Many’.

1. Strongs 7227 is Rab where it means to ‘make strong’. But L’ Rab-Bim, then, is a compound word. It then suggests the root word for how the ‘Many’ that are strong or as in to Master or be a Master, are thus a Rabbi. The Hebrew Noun is רב rav ‘Master’. רב Or in other Words, to the Masters or Teachers, etc. Note the symmetry of the 22 Words of Daniel 9:27 in how it is a Microcosm of the 22 Letters of the entire Hebrew Alef Bet.

2. The ‘Confirming’ of the ‘Covenant’, is in this case, a Sacrifice as in a ‘Berit’. This is the same Word that was used in how Jehovah ‘cut’ the Covenant or ‘Berit’, literally in halves when He made the Pact or ‘Deal’ with Abraham. Thus, the Covenant from Start to end, deals with the start and end of the Daily Sacrifices in Daniel 9:27. In essence, one has here the initiation by the AntiChrist to sanction the ‘Berit’ that starts the Week of Years count, that being 7 years, etc.

3. Notice that the Hebrew Phrase, ‘But in the middle’ does not mean, ‘Somewhere within the 7 years of the 1 week. It means in Hebrew, ‘Wa-ha-si’, Stongs Number 2677, חֵצִי ‘Chatsi, which is the word for, exactly at a halfway point of the period of time in question. In this case, it is the half of 7 years or precisely 3.5 years, the corresponding halves of a 1260-day count.

UN 7-Year Treaty?
Thus, at the ‘midst’ of the 7-Year Tribulation Period or Last Week of Daniel, precisely at the 1260th day, the same Covenant Sacrifices that were confirmed to the Teachers or Strong Ones, are cut in half. This motif echoes a Blood Sacrifice that one conjectures will reoccur during the dedication of the 3rdd Temple.

Thus, one can now see, yet another example of how in the End Times, what has always been there in Scripture, is now being better understood. Thus, one wholeheartedly concurs that the ‘Many’, lā·rab·bîm is indeed inferencing the Sanhedrin. These are the ‘Many’ that the AntiChrist will Confirm the Covenant with. They are the Teachers that will be the ‘Many’, the L’Rabim or the 70 Elders of Zion, better known as the Synagogue of Satan to Jesus because of their state of denial, to this very day. So, as to the UN 7-Year ‘Treaty’ with the ‘Many’ Nations possibly being the Daniel 9:27 Covenant? One is not in agreement with this assessment.

One is coming from a Political Scientist point of view also. It is only the UN’s Acceleration Protocol of implementing their Agenda 2030, within a 7-year time-frame. Thus, based on the Hebrew word study, one can say that it is not the Covenant made with the ‘Many’ of Daniel 9:27. But why is one so adamant? It is just that the same Hebrew word for the ‘Covenant’ that Jehovah ‘cut’ with Abram, bə·rîṯ, is the same word, that specifically inferred to an Animal Sacrifice. It is what the AntiChrist will permit, anew, with the false ‘Abrahams’ of the Sanhedrin that will represent all of Israel, after the Rapture. Rather, it could be that 2030 is when the Great Tribulation begins.

Thus, the UN’s Acceleration Protocol cannot be the Daniel 9:27 Covenant bə·rîṯ, nor with the Many’, lā·rab·bîm because what is required to be in place for the Covenant or the Sacrifice to begin and with the ‘Many’, is not fully ready just yet. Meaning? There is no Altar of Sacrifice that has been built permanently on the Temple Mount. Of course, this would be the case if one accepts this interpretation. The word, ‘Covenant’ means ‘Sacrifice’ per Genesis 15:18, as in the Daily Sacrifice and the ‘Many’ is the Rabbis. Note that the ‘Many’, the ‘Covenant’ and the ‘He’ are all Jewish pertaining. Nonetheless, given this new understanding of Daniel 9:27, regarding Shemini Atzeret but specifically, the Day after that, called Simchat Torah? It is the day after the 7-day long Feast of Sukkot. Sukkot is the last ‘Big’ Feast of YHVH, the 7th in fact. So, Shemini Atzeret, means the 8th Day Assembly after the day Sukkot, etc.

It is about Simchat Torah
But the Day after that is called Simchat Torah. It is when the Kings of Israel would read the Torah and to the ‘Many’ lā·rab·bîm ‘Confirm’ the Covenant or the bə·rîṯ, as in the Daily Sacrifices. Why this was, is and will be significant is that one calculates this event will be the 1st day that initiates the last 7-years of Tribulation Period, that of the total 490-year judgment of Israel. Thus, the Last Week of Years of Israel’s Judgment, will start with the bə·rîṯ, as in the Daily Sacrifices in one’s estimation.

It is when the Covenant is ‘cut’ or the Daily Sacrifices start and confirmed with the Many, i.e. the 70 Elders of the Sanhedrin by their supposed Jewish Messiah figure. So, when is this to occur? It depends on when the Rapture occurs. The following is one’s New speculated timeline that begins at a Simchat Torah celebration, perhaps. It is from this timeline that one surmises a ‘perfect’ 1260+1260-day count and having the season of Passover precisely occur at the midpoint or ‘half’. This timeline then concluded with a September Rosh HaShanah date association, exactly 2520 days later.

This is the prophetic template. But as to the exact year? That will remain to be known. Nonetheless, one does argue that when the Tribulation does start, what constitutes the exact 1260+1260 Day Count, is the start of the 1st Day the Daily Sacrifices begin. And that is bə·rîṯ, when this happens. It will be when the AntiChrist or Jewish false Messiah will have sanctioned it, on a Simchat Torah Day time-frame. It is he that will be making a Deal with the Religious Jews, the lā·rab·bîm. However, it will be the ‘Deal with Death’.

1) 1ST TEMPLE
Flash-Back to the 1st Temple being dedicated by King Solomon. He too, gathered all of Israel and had the Priests, the lā·rab·bîm performed the 1st Daily Sacrifice, the bə·rîṯ. It was placed in the newly built Altar of Sacrifice. And this is when the Fire came down from Heaven to ignite it and start the Perpetual Fire that was to never go out. And Solomon, whose Wages were 666 Talents of Gold, united all the 12 Tribes and the World around this House of Prayer for all the Nations. He ‘Confirmed the Covenant’ with the Many, the Ruling Jewish Counsel. They were the 70 Elders of Zion and all the People’s Representatives from all that was Israel and Foreign Dignitaries. Well, the Point is that one correlates this event, now called Simchat Torah, or the Day after Shemini Atzeret, with what the False ‘King Solomon’, Man of Peace type, will precisely do likewise with Israel.

Then one likens the confirming of the Covenant with this Simchat Torah time-frame to how Ezra and Nehemiah also read the ‘Covenant’ to Israel after their Babylonian Captivity, as they finished rebuilding and rededicating the Altar of Sacrifice. They performed the 1st Daily Sacrifice, bə·rîṯ, even though the Temple was not yet fully restored. This could be the case after the Rapture as technically, all that is needed is the Altar of Sacrifice to initiate the Daily Sacrifices and not the Temple proper. The Temple will be to house the Ark of the Covenant that one is also convinced will be rolled-out for this very purpose and justification for rebuilding the Temple.

The scenario one is seeking to picture is that it will be after the Rapture that Jehovah reverts back to dealing with Israel. Thus, this time-frame will come also with how Israel will be put under the Law, that of Moses’ Covenant and the need for the Daily Sacrifices, etc. It will be at that time that the False Prophet will cause Fire to come down from Heaven. Imagine the spectacle when this happens. It will authenticate the credentials of this False Jewish Messiah. Initially, this false Jewish Messiah will show up to geo-politically provide the answer to Israel's security problem.

This ‘Solomon’ Type has to be a Jew, not only bringing Peace and Safety to Israel, but to the entire World. And it will be the Ruling Elders, the ‘Many’ Rabbim lā·rab·bîm that will Reciprocate and allow the ‘Covenant’ bə·rîṯ, to be ‘cut’ as in the Old Testament Days. This is what the Sanhedrin of the present day seeks to have Israel come under the Mosaic Law once again. The Gentiles will be under their Noahide Laws, which will spell persecution to those that will claim Jesus as King during these final 7 Year of Israel’s Judgement before Jesus returns with the Bride of Christ or all those Church Age Believers, etc.

And what does all this have to do with the Bride of Christ? The removal of the Bride of Christ that ends as a Wheat type of Harvest will allow for the coming AntiChrist to Sanction the 3rd Temple, build the Altar of Sacrifice and Unify the World. It will be in the vacuum caused by the departed Bride of Christ that will leave a crisis of Faith on planet Earth. With the help of the False Prophet, they will merge all the major 3 Abrahamic Faiths with the notion of the ‘Abrahamic Houses on the Temple Mount.

And one Conjectures that the 3rd Temple will be key and a crucial centerpiece to this false World Unity and Hybridized Religion that will really be Luciferian at its core. The Jewish AntiChrist will be like a Nimrod, and the 3rd Temple will be like the Tower of Babel. Remember, he wanted to build it to reach into the very Throne Room of YHVH in Heaven to overtake. It was not about height. Although it was extremely tall, in fact, exactly 3X the Height of the Burj Khalifa. No Accident.

Now as to some possible Objections to this different Perspective based on the Hebrew Word Study? Others have already said that the word 'Covenant' (H1285) is also used for Covenants or ‘Agreements’ between Men. This is all True, but one’s main point in this Hebrew Study presentation, is that precisely in Genesis 15:18, the word bə·rîṯ, is specifically the same word in the context of what the AntiChrist will require and procure with the ‘Many’, lā·rab·bîm, animal sacrifices, not geo-political peace treaties.

As mentioned, the context is in light of the rule of Eschatology. And how in the study of Hermeneutics, there is that Rule of ‘1st Mention’. It sets the Scriptural precedence for the context of all Scripture thereafter. So, meaning that if the word for ‘Covenant’ is in the Context of making a Blood Sacrifice, as it was with Jehovah and Abraham. And thus, all subsequent ones are to follow its context and pattern. It does not refer to a ‘Deal with the Nations’, but with Israel specifically and its Religious ruling Council, the Many Teachers or Sanhedrin.

Deal with the Devil
Yes, the word can then also refer to a Deal between man and man. But the point is in the context of Daniel’s Revelation, that the Prophecy exclusively pertains to Israel. In the context of Daniel, it is not a ‘Deal’ or Covenant between a man to man, but of a Divine Being with a Man, i.e., Jehovah and Abraham. And how that Template is what the false Messiah, as a Proxy for Lucifer and the ‘Many’ Men of the 70 Elders will make just the same in one’s interpretation. Realize that Lucifer is mimicking Jehovah in all aspects. Thus, the Sanhedrin on behalf of Israel will make that ‘Deal with the Devil’, the Covenant with Death, etc.

This is why one objects to the UN being the Body that will make the 7-year Covenant with the Nations. If that be the case, geo-politically, the UN 7-year ‘Deal’ must be also that of the Isaiah 28:18 Covenant with Death. How can that be explained? Now, how the UN can be or will be involved is that after the Rapture, the Antichrist can only be revealed.

He can only then be working overtly in the world along with a False Prophet and with the 70 Elders of the Sanhedrin to orchestrate the ‘Transition’ Period. He will be center stage in the world needing now to unify it. How? The 3rd Temple. And that will not take that much time to set-up as the ‘Reset’ has been accomplished now for that very reason. As noted, it is not the revealing or the advent of the AntiChrist, after the Rapture that the 2520-day count Tribulation Period is predicated upon.

One believes it is when, once all is ready and prepared after the Transitionary Period is concluded, it is when he then reads the Law to Israel and the 1st Sacrifice is then made on that Simchat Torah Day of Confirmations. Note that it was also the time when the Kings of Israel were crowned. Consider this speculation, that if indeed the 1st day of the Tribulation Period occurs on a Simchat Torah rededication of the Daily Sacrifices, it will also serve for the 70 Elder of the Sanhedrin to place the crown they have fashion now, on the head of this Jewish man.

Israel’s Golden Age and the Return of Solomon 2.0
At this Day, he will be recognized as the King Messiah, come to Israel at last to restore the Kingdom and protect them as the Goyim ‘Cattle’ of the world will serve them. So, in summary, a Hebrew Word Study has been provided to show what the ‘Many’ are and what is the ‘Covenant’. It is an alternative interpretation of Daniel 9:27 that has never been presented. At least as far as one has not come across in 40 Years of studying the Books of Daniel and Revelation.

One is just offering this context and bringing it to the nearly 2000-year-old debate. Regardless, what is ‘heartbreaking’ is that the Grace that Humanity has been bestowed upon for nearly 2000 years, during the Church Age, by the work of Jesus on the Cross of Calvary will be withdrawn soon with the Rapture of the Bride of Christ. And going forward thereafter, there will be no more Body of Christ on Earth, collectively. There will no longer be the Restrainer to ward-off, full-on Evil.

And more alarming, will be how the coming AntiChrist will have total power over the Tribulation Saints, to ‘Wear them Out’. Presently, the world lives in truly a privileged and borrowed time that is about to run-out. Jesus has made is so easy to be Saved during this nearly 2000-Year-Old Age of Grace, because it was literally a torture for Jesus to accomplish. All that is required to be Saved from the Wrath of the Lamb to come, is that upon understanding what Jesus did to acquire Salvation for Humanity is the Following. It is about making a personal ‘Covenant’ or Pact with Jesus, a ‘Blood Oath’ if you will

All one is required to do is admit one has no other Salvation apart from Jesus for the Forgiveness of Sins. Believing what Jesus died and resurrected from the dead as promised was to be a Sign of His Word is true. Jesus is now alive forever more and indestructible and invincible. He destroyed death, sin and defeated Lucifer at the Cross of Calvary. If one wholeheartedly accepts this as the Truth, then simply call upon the Name of Jesus, trusting in His Promise to save you from the wrath to come. If one does in sincerity and truth of heart, a conversion and transformation of one’s being will occur.

It is a life-long commitment, like a Marriage or a Covenant one then also has responsibilities to keep or maintain. It is not about acquiring a ‘New Religion’, but developing a new Relationship as would a man seeking to court a woman. You cannot love someone you do not know. Then get to know Jesus. This is done through the reading of the Gospels and then Church History and Doctrines of the entire New Testament. And with references to the Old Testament as lessons of what happened to Israel for not keeping their ‘end of the deal’.

But what is different about the New Covenant is that Jesus promised the indwelling of the GOD the Holy Spirit into one’s being to help lead one to what is truth and sound teaching. This occurs as one then grows and matures in the Faith in Jesus and of Jesus, etc. Jesus then promised that He would return 1 day to then resurrect and/or rapture His Bride out of Wrath’s way. It is coming. This is before the Last Week of the 70 that was given to Daniel to Understand that it was a Prophecy for His People, not the Church. This Age of Grace is thus about to Conclude.
Thereafter, the Judgment will Fall simultaneously on not only Israel but the entire World. The 70th Week is about ‘Collecting’ what is Owed of the Land Covenant made, conditionally between Jehovah and Abraham. Note the lesson. Israel did not honor nor keep it. Thus, the Last Week of the 70 Weeks revealed to Daniel, concerning his People, City and Temple is what Daniel 9:27 is all about, the Covenant to be confirmed by the Many, the L’Rabbim.
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wə·‘aḏ-	mə·šō·mêm,	šiq·qū·ṣîm	kə·nap̄	wə·‘al	ū·min·ḥāh,	ze·ḇaḥ
וְעַד־	מְשֹׁמֵ֔ם	שִׁקּוּצִים֙	כְּנַ֤ף	וְעַ֨ל	וּמִנְחָ֗ה	זֶ֣בַח
and Even until	shall be one who makes Desolate	of Abominations	the Wing	and on	and Offering	Sacrifice

8074 [e]	5921 [e]	5413 [e]	2782 [e]	3617 [e]
šō·mêm.	‘al-	tit·taḵ	wə·ne·ḥĕ·rā·ṣāh,	kā·lāh
שֹׁמֵֽם׃	עַל־	תִּתַּ֖ךְ	וְנֶ֣חֱרָצָ֔ה	כָּלָה֙
the Desolate	on	is poured out	and which is Determined	the Consummation

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bə·rîṯ	’aḇ·rām	’eṯ-	YHVH	kā·raṯ	ha·hū	bay·yō·wm
בְּרִ֣ית	אַבְרָ֖ם	אֶת־	יְהוָ֛ה	כָּרַ֧ת	הַה֗וּא	בַּיּ֣וֹם
a Covenant	Abram	with	YHVH	made	that	On day

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min·nə·har	haz·zōṯ	hā·’ā·reṣ	’eṯ-	nā·ṯat·tî	lə·zar·‘ă·ḵā	lê·mōr;
מִנְּהַ֣ר	הַזֹּ֔את	הָאָ֣רֶץ	אֶת־	נָתַ֙תִּי֙	לְזַרְעֲךָ֗	לֵאמֹ֑ר
from the River	this	Land		I have given	to your Descendants	saying

6578 [e]	5104 [e]	1419 [e]	5104 [e]	5704 [e]	4714 [e]
פְּרָֽת׃	נְהַר־	הַגָּדֹ֖ל	הַנָּהָ֥ר	עַד־	מִצְרַ֔יִם
Euphrates	the River	great	the River	to	of Egypt