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• In Daniel chapter 9, further secrets are revealed about these events. Daniel was told the exact prophetic time period from when Nehemiah would re-build the walls of Jerusalem, after Ezra re-built the Temple - events which we have looked at in our lesson on the Medo-Persian Empire. After that time period expired (under a day for a year principle), the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, would be cut off (killed, that is, crucified) but not for himself (not for anything he had done wrong), and the Romans would then come and destroy the city (Jerusalem) and destroy the sanctuary (the Temple), and the end thereof would be with a flood (sudden and decisive, with huge numbers of people), and the war would cause desolations against Jerusalem. The end result would cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease, that is, the Jewish priesthood would be destroyed, and Law of Moses would come to an end.