The Decree of Seventy Weeks continued (Daniel 9:24-26)

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Welcome to Kootenai Community Church adult Sunday school We will be in the book of Daniel again.

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I don't know what page I can't find my Bible So I'm gonna use this thing which is going to be strange for me. Let's open in prayer

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Father every bit of your word is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction and for instruction And so this morning we look for each of those that you would bring them into our lives as we look at these incredible panoramas that you laid out to Daniel for Sometime just after his time and far into the future

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We are grateful Lord that you have everything in control that we look to you as the sovereign

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God of the universe The one to whom we can come to with everything the one to whom we know the one from which comes everything

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This morning give us illumination help us to understand this section of Scripture as it relates to our lives and how it relates to the

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Rest of Scripture and we'll thank you for all you're doing in Jesus name. Amen So as I mentioned I and what

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I did with it, it's Been one of my superpowers lately to lay things aside and lose them

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But I can read this. These words are big enough if I just hold it the right distance so open your

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Bibles to Daniel and we're gonna read from Jeff Chapman chapter 9 from verse 20 to the end of the chapter and we will be

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Revisiting a little bit of verse 24, which we started last week And then we will launch into as far as we can get so Daniel chapter 9 verse 20

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Remember we're we're looking at the ending of Daniel's prayer which probably lasted most of the day and at the beginning of that prayer

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God dispatched in the angel Gabriel who made it by the time of the evening sacrifice to give

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Daniel the information that God had sent so verse 20 of Daniel chapter 9 now while I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people

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Israel and Presenting my supplication before the Lord my God on behalf of the holy mountain of my

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God While I was still speaking in prayer then the man Gabriel whom I had seen in The vision previously came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering

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He gave me instruction and talked with me and said Oh Daniel I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding at the beginning of your supplications

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The command was issued and I have come to tell you for you are highly esteemed So give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision verse 24 70 weeks have been decreed for your people in your holy city to finish the transgression to make an end of sin to make atonement for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place

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So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild

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Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and 62 weeks and it will be built again with plaza and moat even in times of distress then after the 62 weeks the

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Messiah will be cut off and Have nothing and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city in the sanctuary and its end will come with a flood

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Even to the end there will be war Desolations are determined and he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week

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But in the middle of the week He will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate

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Even until a complete destruction one that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes desolate So as we're reading through and studying this section, there's something we all need to keep in mind and that is that prophecy is

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For comfort. It's designed to give us comfort That's one of the built in Benefits the pluses of prophetic insight that Daniel got here.

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It gave him comfort as well as concern knowing that Hard things were still coming for his people

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But it also if prophecy does nothing else and it does a billion things. So this is just a saying

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Okay, if it does nothing else It reminds us of how sovereign God is and of how everything is completely within his control and purview

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Because when the things that he said come to pass come to pass as he said they did it should continually to be a source of awe and Incredible joy and comfort and blessing for us

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Even though we've been reading about it and studying about it for for most of us many decades so he

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Sent an answer to Daniel when Daniel began to pray and Daniel received that answer somebody's already throwing rocks at me somebody and Daniel received that answer towards the end of the day and That answer begins with 70 weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city.

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It's doing it again Oh, there we go. It has to it has to vibrate in case you're wondering 70 weeks have been decreed for your people in your holy city to finish the transgression to make an end of sin to make atonement

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For iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place

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We talked about the six purposes for the 70 weeks found in this verse finish the transgression make an end of sin

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Make atonement for iniquity Bring in everlasting righteousness seal up vision and prophecy and anoint the most holy place those six

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We were we've looked at three We'll get to them in a moment and then nine points to keep in mind

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The prophecy deals with Daniel's people and Daniel's city verse 24 the princes two princes

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Messiah the Prince Verse 25 and the prince that shall come verse 26 The time specified is 70 weeks verse 24 and it is specifically divided into three time periods

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Seven weeks 62 weeks and two weeks This period begins quote from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild

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Jerusalem verse 25 unquote the end of the seven weeks and the 62 weeks are marked by the appearance of Messiah the

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Prince verse 25 at a later time number six after 69 weeks After the 69 weeks but not in the 70th week

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Messiah the Prince will be cut off and Jerusalem will again be destroyed by the people of another prince who is yet to come verse 26

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Following this 70th week will be marked by the establishment of a firm covenant treaty Between the coming

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Prince and the Jewish nation for one week verse 27 and in the middle of the 70th week the coming

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Prince will force the Jewish sacrifice to cease and Will cause a time of wrath and desolation lasting to the end of the week verse 27

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And once the 70 weeks are completed there will be a time of great blessing for the nation of Israel and We went through the first three

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The first one being the fact that it was decreed for your people We looked at the fact that this was decreed for the people of Daniel, which would have been the

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Israelites the Jews that The second aspect was to finish the transgression.

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Although that is the first of the six purposes It refers to the Jews sin of rebellion against God God will eventually at the end of time

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Completely remove this kind of transgression from Israel. She will turn to her Messiah and Then it is to make an end of sin.

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This is to make an end of individual sin Sin that permeates and then to make atonement for iniquity and That is where we ended last week so the first three purposes

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Deal with the sin of Daniel's people and the idea is to get rid of sin What's heaven gonna have not have in it?

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It's not gonna have sin So looking forward to that. It's not gonna have any sin.

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It's going to be a perfect place of blessing and so this is The beginning of that aspect or looking at how that will work out so the second three purposes are our positive items the first three if you will are

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Negative only in the sense that they're to get rid of something in the first three are to add them to add some things so We're going to look at those three things today

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The first one is to bring in everlasting righteousness now The angel does turn to positive items the last item on the negative list

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Was to make an end of sin Righteousness is the opposite of sin It must be appropriated by grace through faith to be effective in one's life and it is individual righteousness

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That blooms into national righteousness. God does not save nations. He saves people and when the people of a nation

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Begin to turn to him that is the salvation of the nation He doesn't just I'm gonna save this and he just doesn't just I don't know how else the word

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He just doesn't save nations. He saves individuals and those individuals turn to Christ By grace through faith and through that changing in their lives the nation begins to change now

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I believe this particular change is going to be rather rapid this one that's being talked about here But any nation can begin to turn back to Christ and begin to preach the gospel

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It's happened in the 1740s in this country What was called the first Great Awakening and it was a return to national righteousness that slowly but surely

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Created the the seedbed for some of the freedoms that would take place later on This will be a much quicker turn to Christ, but we will get to that later

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The idea of everlasting here when he says bring in everlasting righteousness is very significant in the life of the

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Israelites They had constantly turned from God and then back to God and then from God and then back to God almost like a revolving door

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I'm glad none of us do that, but the Israelites did that well, okay, then

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Every time they turned back to God he brought blessing This would be followed by a return to sin and God's discipline

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To encourage them to force them to change to cause them to turn back to him This turning to everlasting righteousness that this is talking about will be permanent

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It is good for us to remember that this kind of righteousness will be the righteousness of Yahweh himself This is not a contrived men's righteousness.

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It's not the unreliable righteousness of human invention Men invent a righteousness that looks good sounds good smells good tastes good, but it's not the real thing the real thing can only be imputed into Individual believers by Yahweh by God himself

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This is a righteousness that depends upon God's character It doesn't depend on Israel's character or on our character remember when

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Daniel prayed some of the blessings he asked for he Specifically said I'm not asking because of any merit on our part, but because of your

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Righteousness because of your mercy, that's what that's what prayer requested Thus this phrase describes something yet future.

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This hasn't happened. It didn't happen right away It didn't happen immediately after Daniel. It didn't happen in the near future there.

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This is still something future There is no national everlasting righteousness occurring in Israel to my thought is there

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My missing something I watch CNN Okay, well

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I was kidding. I don't watch CNN. I don't I don't do fiction Thus so this phrase describes something future

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What is in view here is a postponing into the future of the final righteousness that depends upon Yahweh permanently?

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Turning the hearts of the Israelites to their Messiah when we get to talking about the Messiah Later on in this section.

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I haven't I haven't finished fleshing this out, but there's some Some of the theories that have come up over the last three centuries are unbelievably strange

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And I won't get into too many of them because we don't want to spend time on strange We want to spend time on God's Word So bringing in everlasting righteousness of permanent righteousness that will permeate the nation of Israel and turn them back to their

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God Turn them to their Messiah the second of the three positive purposes or the fourth

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I guess is to their fifth excuse me is to seal up vision and prophecy This phrase starts with the same

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Infinitive as the phrase to make an end of sin. The idea is one of completion to finish

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To cause it to happen for good. That's what the idea behind the word seal up is in the

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Hebrew Now the praetorist believes that all visions and prophecies have been fulfilled in Christ There are plenty of Old Testament prophecies that have not yet been fulfilled from Daniel The Tribulation has not yet been fulfilled from Jera Jeremiah the covenant that Yahweh will make with Israel when he puts their law his laws into their hearts that has not been fulfilled

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From also from Jeremiah the time of Jacob's troubles has not been fulfilled from Ezekiel The future invasion of Israel has not been fulfilled.

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These are just a few I thought I would just kind of categorize that because some people figure Have determined that all the prophecies have come to completion in Jesus Christ.

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They have not there are plenty of prophecies that are still to be finished out so this phrase rings with the finality from the words and it rings from from the words and from the context that this refers to a final sealing up a vision and Prophet literally with the word prophet referring to the product of the

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Old Testament prophets namely their prophecies This phrase is a general statement about prophecy

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Is it is an indication of a time when all prophecies will have been fulfilled?

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this indeed Indicates or points to the end times which haven't happened.

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That's number five and then last of this Positive aspect that the angel

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Gabriel is bringing to Daniel is to anoint the most holy So this phrase connotes the idea from the

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Hebrew usually translated as to pour oil on something or someone that it's it's funny how words come to have meaning but the idea of to anoint came from a

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Process that they did in anointing They would pour oil on the head and it would run down over the over the person's face and and Jerry I'm one of the prophets talks about in the beer.

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I think it's Samuel. It runs into the beard and It's a it's a picture of an anointing

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It is the physical manifestation of what the word to anoint means this phrase occurs 39 times in the

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Old Testament With or without an article with or without the article and it is always a reference to the tabernacle or the temple or to the

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Holy Articles that are used in their service Whenever it refers to the most holy place where the

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Ark was kept the article is used But the article is not used when referring to the holy articles or tools in the tabernacle slash temple it is most certain that this phrase refers to the temple here and as Commentator Leon wood has shown in his word study.

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He said in view of these matters It is highly likely that the phrase refers to the temple also here which in view of the context must be a future temple

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And since the phrase is used without the article reference must be to a complex of that temple rather than its most holy place

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Amillennialists some of who reject the idea of a future temple and who find the fulfillment of this overall passage in Christ's first coming

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Identify the phrase with Christ himself Making him the Holy of Holies This however is contrary to the evidence cited

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Christ's millennial rule will know a recovered temple and it is logical to find it as the point of reference of the phrase

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So this is to anoint the most holy The fact is that this expression is never used of a person in the 39 times that it's used

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It's always used of things. It is not a reference to the Messiah nor to the church Which is nowhere found here in the entire prophecy of Daniel.

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It refers to Daniel's people Israel This clause also awaits future fulfillment to anoint the most holy that hasn't happened yet.

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It's going to happen So again a summary

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I read from Leon Woods in summation regarding the time of fulfillment of all six items The first four are fulfilled in principle at Christ's first coming when full atonement for sin was made full

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Atonement for sin was made by the Lord Jesus Christ Remember what he find his final words on the cross were it is finished.

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Oh, what beautiful what three beautiful words But fulfilled in respect to okay

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So let me start over because I interrupted Leon In summation regarding the time of fulfillment of all six items

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The first four are fulfilled in principle in Christ from his first coming when full atonement for sin was made

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But fulfilled in respect to actual benefit for Israel as a nation only at Christ's second coming when the nation will truly turn to God individuals will and the nation will and The last two items are fulfilled only in connection with the second coming when the prophecies of that time will be fulfilled and there will

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Be a restored temple to anoint Reviewing the six clauses in verse 24 shows that None of them have been completely fulfilled

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There remains a time of future fulfillment for much of what is given to us in verse 24 this is an outline in verse 24 of the entire prophecy and Shows a general picture of the end while the beginning will be given to us in verse 5

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Excuse me verse 25. So we're going to see More explicit more information coming in the next three verses 25 26 and 27 now keeping in mind as We begin to discuss the 70 weeks

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Some do not countenance the gap between the first and second comings of Christ the idea of a 70th week in The 800 year period in which

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Israel occupied their land There is a 490 year period of ignoring the Sabbath rests

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There is there are at least three hundred and ten years of gaps interspersed throughout those four hundred and nine those eight hundred years, excuse me, so there's a 490 period year period of Ignoring the

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Sabbath rests, but in that 800 year period there's three hundred and ten years of gaps interspersed throughout that 800 years

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This is a direct correlation between the two things even preterists generally agree that the 70 weeks of Daniel are related to the violation of God's direct command for sabbatical years as God gave in Leviticus 25 and 26 concern and concerning 2nd

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Chronicles 36 and Jeremiah 35, excuse me, Jeremiah 25 there appears to be substantial evidence that the gaps of the 800 years of Israel's occupation of the land predict or at least allow a

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Gap in the prophecy of the 70 weeks. And so we're going to look at this there is going to be clearly language in this next section for those who take the scripture literally unless directed otherwise that These there are a number of things that happen after the 69th week, but do not happen in the 70th week

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So we will look at those as we get to them Any questions about verse 24?

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two weeks on verse 24 verse 25 Daniel Angel Gabriel says so you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild

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Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and 62 weeks it will be built again with Plaza a moat and moat even in times of distress

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I'm I have asked Josh to put the entire PowerPoint online and so he's going to facilitate that and that will cover

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Nearly all of the scripture that I use the other scripture and some of the comments and that will be available for you to look at the the text is a hundred thousand words already, so it's

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Probably too much, but the PowerPoint will be up He said probably when he gets back from Oklahoma, so verse 25

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Here we have the beginning point of or what is called the terminus a quo Why do people use

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Latin my son was born with what is called spina bifida cultus, and you know what that means?

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Let me translate that for you something happened in the womb to his backbone, and we don't know what it was That's what the

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Latin means in the vernacular Sometimes I wish they just put stuff in English, so this is the beginning the terminus a quo

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The countdown will begin with the decree to rebuild Jerusalem Note that some have mistakenly used dates from the beginning of the building of the temple

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But also, but this is not what is said here There were several decrees regarding the rebuilding of the temple now.

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I have all the scripture presented on this up here We're not going to read all of it But it will be available on online to direct you to look at the different decrees that were made in Ezra and in Nehemiah I Will read some of them

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There were several decrees regarding the rebuilding of the temple the decrees will be listed to this morning in reverse order of Time the third decree was issued in Ezra chapter 1 verses 2 through 4 chapter 6 verses 3 through 5 in 537

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BC Now Ezra says in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia in order to fulfill the word of the

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Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah the Lord stood up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia so That he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing saying thus says

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Cyrus king of Persia The Lord the God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build him a house in Jerusalem which is in Judah Whoever there is among you of all his people may his

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God be with him let him go up to Jerusalem Which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the Lord? The God of Israel he is the

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God who is in Jerusalem by the way This pagan still doesn't understand just who

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Yahweh is Because he's not just the God who is in Israel He is the God sovereign God of the universe

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But he is being used by Yahweh right now to facilitate this prophecy or to begin to facilitate some parts of this this

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Every survivor at whatever place he may live let the men of that place support him with silver and gold with goods and cattle

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Together with a freewill offering for the house of God, which is in Jerusalem, so One observation

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I made there that has absolutely nothing to do with Daniel, but it occurred to me Whether you actually go or you're financed both people have part in it an equal part

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I'm reminded of that's this I think David said that at some point in his his kingship, too So the people that went and the people that stayed and financed the going had part in this the second one

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Part in Ezra is chapter 6 verses 3 through 5 In the first year of King Cyrus Cyrus the king issued a decree concerning the house of God of Jerusalem Let the temple the place where the sacrifices are offered be rebuilt and let its foundations be retained its height being 60 cubits and it's with 60 cubits for With three layers of huge stones and one layer of timbers and let the cost be paid from the royal

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Treasury Also that the gold and silver utensils of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem Be brought to dab

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Babylon remember that early on and Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar took all of those implements they're gonna take them back home and You shall put them in the house of God So that's the first degree the third

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It's the third decree actually and it was issued in 537 Then there was the second decree which was from Artaxerxes in Ezra 7 11 through 26

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And I believe I do have that or not there it is second decree

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I'm gonna hit the high points not that scripture all of scripture isn't important But I would like to get through some of this this morning

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Now this is the copy of the decree which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest ascribed learned in the words of the commandments of the

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Lord and the statutes to Israel Artaxerxes king of kings to Ezra the priest described of the law of the

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God of heaven perfect peace and now I have issued a decree that any of the people of Israel and their priests and the Levites of my kingdom who are willing to go to Jerusalem may go with you for as much as you are

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Sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your

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God So I'm gonna read verses 17 through 20 with this money therefore you shall diligently buy bulls rams and lambs with their grain offerings and their drink offerings and Offer them on the altar of the house of your

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God, which is in Jerusalem Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do so with the rest of the silver and gold

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You may do according to the will of your God Also the utensils which are given to you for the service of the house of your gods

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Deliver in full before the God of Jerusalem the rest of the needs for the house of your God for which you may have occasion

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To provide provide for it from the Royal Treasury so this decree was for resumption of use of the temple and then the third decree or the first decree in our

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Particular way we're doing it which was from also from our Xerxes in Nehemiah chapter 2 and this is the one that we're going to focus on With this the third decree referenced the building of the rebuilding of the temple the second degree the reestablishing proper procedures

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The first decree in Nehemiah specifically addresses the rebuilding of the city So let's look at that see if I can find that in this bunch of Nehemiah chapter 2 verses 5 through 8

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Go the other way

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Moving forward. I said to the king Nehemiah said to the king If it pleased the king and if your servant has found favor before you

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Send me to Judah to the city of my father's tombs that I may rebuild it Then the king said to me the

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Queen sitting beside him How long will your journey be and when will you return? so it pleased the king to send me and I gave him a definite time and I gave him a definite time and I said to the king if it pleased the king let letters be given me for the governors of the provinces beyond the river that they may allow me to pass through until I come to Judah and a letter to ASAP the

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Keeper of the Kings for us that he may give me timber to make beams to the gates of the fortress Which is by the temple for the wall of the city and for the house to which

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I will go and the king granted them To me because the good hand of my God was upon me So this is the this is the decree that I believe is being referenced in Daniel chapter 29 verses 25 and 24 24 and 25

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So as I said the first decree referenced the rebuilding of the temple the second degree

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Re -established proper prayer procedure proper procedures at the temple and the first decree in Nehemiah specifically addresses the rebuilding of this the tent the city and it is from this specific degree that the 70 weeks proceeds the 483 years from the beginning of which is

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March 5th 444 BC and ended on Monday March 30th 33 AD Constitutes the 69 weeks of this prophecy

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Monday March 30th 33 AD was the date of Christ's triumphal entry and four days later.

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He was cut off by the crucifixion so all of that scripture and attendant

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Concurring scripture it will be on and maybe many of you have read it already, but it will be in the

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PowerPoint online now The scripture specifically says seven weeks and 62 weeks.

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Why didn't it just say 69 weeks? It will be built again with plaza and moat even in times of distress, why is it divided this way?

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There is not much debate on the first seven weeks This is the first of the three segments and refers to Jerusalem the refers to in Jerusalem will be built again

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With plaza and moat so the first seven weeks refers to the time of rebuilding Jerusalem and the temple in his documentary the key prophetic prophetic revelation

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John Walvoord says this he said the best Explanation seems to be that beginning with Nehemiah's decree in the building of the wall

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It took a whole generation to clear out all the debris in Jerusalem and restore it as a thriving city This might well be the fulfillment of the 69 of the 49 years first week

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The specific reference to streets again addresses our attention to Nehemiah's situation where the streets were covered with debris and needed to be rebuilt

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At this was accomplished in troubled times is fully documented by the book of Nehemiah itself

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I don't know how many of you have come upon Abandoned buildings but even if they're only abandoned for just a few years they quickly go into serious disrepair and It's like if things aren't used they break they break badly.

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So Jerusalem had been Essentially by the Jews properly unused for 70 years

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There was a tremendous amount of restoration to be done and this would take time now

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It's amazing what people could get done in antiquity I mean witness the pyramids and things like that, but they did not have backhoes and graders and Dump trucks.

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I don't think I do watch CNN they had hand labor and donkeys and carts and horses and So this would have taken a long time 49 years doesn't seem like an untimely amount of time

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So Wolvers comments about streets by the way when he uses the word streets is based on the fact that the word for Plaza Is from a

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Hebrew word, which means a width an area a broad place. Hence a street

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So also the combination of the words Plaza and moat refers to access to the city and to the city defenses so the plaza refers to the streets getting those rebuilt the moat is a

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Oblique or even a definite direct reference to the city defenses So the next period the 62 weeks follows the first seven years of weeks seven weeks of years

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Excuse me seven years of weeks you get that backwards you really are these two total the 69 weeks before the final 70th or 483 years as Noted briefly briefly previously this period extends to Christ's triumphal entry, which was predicted in Zechariah 9 9

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Rejoice greatly Oh daughter of Zion Shout and triumph Oh daughter of Jerusalem behold your king is coming to you

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He is just and endowed with salvation humble and mounted on a donkey even on a colt the foal of a donkey

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So because God gave us the timing we can also see this fulfilled as Jesus entered

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Jerusalem in Luke chapter 19 verses 41 through 44 Scripture says when he

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Jesus approached Jerusalem He saw the city and wept over it saying if you had known this day

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If they'd paid attention to the scriptures He would have known this day if you had known this day even you the things which make for peace

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But now they have hidden they have been hidden from your eyes For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you and surround you and him you in on Every side and they will level you to the ground and your children within you and they will not leave you in One they will not leave in you one stone upon another because you did not recognize the time of your visitation the visitation of the

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Son of God the Messiah the literal understanding of Daniel 24 9 24 through 27 shows the actual fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy and its fulfillment as as chronicled in Luke 19 the 62 weeks ending at Christ's triumphal entry

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Marks the second section of the prophecy the third section is the 70th week and there are numerous numerous textual reasons for a gap between the 69th week and the 70th in the first place the scripture itself sections off the three different periods verse 25 speaks of the seven weeks and then the 62 weeks or the 49 years and then the 434 years which totals 483 years we have seven years left

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To complete the 490 years this comes in verse 26 now granted There were no verse divisions in the original text so that in itself is not an indication

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But the fact that Gabriel speaks of the first seven weeks then the second 62 weeks then the third week

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Separately is an indication that God has made a division here So Daniel the

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Bible that would have Daniel the records that Daniel would have had and the Bible all the way up until the nine

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Hundreds would have not had the verse and chapter divisions. It would have been one and sometimes that would be very welcome

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It would just be one narrative in each book Any comments or questions about verse 25?

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Yes That's after the 69th week. Oh She noted that there's a 69 weeks and then a gap

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The Messiah and the church age. So that's how this I Looked for really good

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Diagrams the diagram is supposed to show the first 69 weeks not separating this the first out

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But it shows the first 69 then a gap and then the coming Prince the final week

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So there's a gap between when Messiah was cut off. That's the church age and the coming Prince the

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Antichrist But that we're in the gap No No, it's not counted either place

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It's it's spoken of separately from those times the 69 weeks ends Messiah's cut off So and it's worded that way it's literally worded that way then after the 62 weeks so we had the first seven weeks and Then the 62 weeks then after the 62 weeks but it doesn't say anything about it being in the 70th week the

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Messiah will be cut off and have nothing and the people of the Prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary and its end will come with a flood

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Even to the end there will be war Desolations are determined. I don't know.

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I'm not a The Bible scholar you should follow for these kinds of things But I don't know if there's more encapsulated in one verse in the

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Bible than there is right here Just an unbelievable amount of happenings Messiah is cut off Then after the 62 weeks the scripture says quote -unquote

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There is no description of the length of time that the word after describes This is not the opening event of the 70th week and it is not stated as such it occurs after the culmination of the 69

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Weeks or more formally it is after the culmination of these seven weeks and then the 62 weeks

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So the reconstruction of Jerusalem occurs in the first seven of sevens First seven sevens 49.

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Remember the word weeks is not used. It's seven sevens and 62 sevens Daniel actually used the term to create the word week back in an earlier chapter and in a later chapter

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So the reconstruction of Jerusalem occurs in the first seven sevens 49 years Then another 62 sevens passes 600 434 years

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Following this two events occur first Messiah comes verse 25 and he is cut off verse 26

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There is no debate about the fact that it is Jesus who is being spoken of here

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I'll talk about that more next week. There actually is some debate that I discovered

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It's spurious debate, but it's interesting what people the lengths people will go to from the time of 400 the silent years of the

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Old Testament in an interval between the Old and the New Testament and Not too many years ago to come up with ways that this could have happened differently than Daniel predicts it

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So there's no debate I say but I believe there was some debate about the fact that it is Jesus who was being spoken of Here and this is a reference to the crucifixion of Christ So after the completion of the seven and then the 62

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Messiah appears and is cut off But this happens before the beginning of the 70th week

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Rick. He would have been in that He would have been right at the very end of it following this two events occur first Messiah comes then he's cut off There's no debate and this is a reference to the crucifixion of Christ So after the completion of the seven and then the 62

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Messiah appears and is cut off But this happens before the beginning of the 70th week for this to happen

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There must be a time gap between the two time periods Since almost all believing commentators believe agree that this is a 400 year period 490 year period made up of three time periods 49 years followed by 434 then another seven totaling 490

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Only those who do not believe there is a time gap are forced to insert the appearance of Messiah The crucifixion of Messiah and the destruction of Jerusalem 40 years later into the purported seven -year period this simply did not happen

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One Well -known proponent of this theory argues that Christ's death took place in the middle of the final week coming to an end in a d33

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With the con with the conversion of Paul which has no bearing on this prophecy There is no way to cram 40 years into this seven -year period

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Note that there is no mentioned of the 70th week here These events precede the 70th week but do not immediately follow the 69th week only a literal

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Understanding of this passage can harmonize the interpretation Three things occur in verse 26 at the end of the 69th week or the 483 years number one

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Messiah will be cut off and have nothing Number two the people of the

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Prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary and number three its end will come with a flood even to the end there will be war desolations are determined as Mentioned before all believing interpreters agreed to the cutting off of Messiah that that refers to the death of Jesus The 483 years have been fulfilled to the day on March 30th 80 33 at Christ's triumphal entry and the

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Lord was crucified four days later on April 3 80 33 So this was an event that took place after the 483 years after the 69 weeks

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But not during the final weeks of years the text says after the 62 weeks not in the 62 weeks

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These things occurred after 483 years But before the final seven years since no mention is made of these things occurring during that final week of seven years

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Walvoord explains in his commentary Open quote it makes plain that Messiah will be living at the end of the 69th seventh and will be cut off or die

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Soon after the end of it end of it end of it the end of it close quote Another commentator

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GH Pember observes now his crucifixion quote now his crucifixion took quote Quote now his crucifixion took place

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Four days after his appearance as the prince that is four days after the close of the 483rd year nevertheless

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The prophecy does not present represent this great event as occurring in the seven years which yet remained to be fulfilled

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Here then is the beginning of an interval which separates the 483 years from the final seven

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This explains the phrase that the Messiah would be cut off The Lord Jesus Christ through his death on the cross which paid for the sins of the elect was in effect

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Well, actually wasn't in effect. He was killed. He was cut off. He was murdered This is the cutting off of the prince the nothing

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Quote since we're being filmed you can see them That Christ did not gain at his first and the advent was his final kingdom

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He did not receive his messianic kingdom and that was intentional He was cut off before that was established

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The stone had not destroyed the image at this point his own people rejected him and did not receive him as John says in his gospel

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Yes during his triumphal entry Yes, so it was noted that he was declared a prince.

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You can't kill a prince unless he is a prince He was declared a prince during his triumphal entry Good point

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He did not receive his final kingdom and his own people rejected him as it is said said John says in his gospel

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John 1 11 he came to his own and Those who were his own did not receive him the people of Daniel the

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Jews Rejected the Messiah and so with the Lord Jesus Christ first coming. The kingdom was not ushered in after the final week

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The 70th week this will happen and that is part of the comfort of prophecy this will happen

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You enough take my word for it. You take well, I don't have my Bible up here. You take this phone's word for it Because it's open to Daniel chapter 24 so Reynolds showers explains that this section in his commentary

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He said the expression open quote and have nothing close quote meant that when Messiah would die

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He would not have all that should properly belong to the Messiah as Messiah He should have had a royal crown of gold and precious jewels, but he had a crown of thorns

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Matthew 27 29 He should have had a royal robe, but he was stripped of his clothing John 19 through 23 24

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He should have had a royal throne But he was given the cross John's 1917 and 18 and he should have had the reception and claim of his people and a claim of his people

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But he received their rejection John 19 14 15 and their scorn Matthew 27 39 through 44

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So regarding the phrase and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary open and closed quote

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There is considerable debate and we don't have time to get into that debate this week

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I want to just close there then we'll look at the people of the prince that next section I I know this is slow going but there's there's much here and There's much comfort much encouragement much blessing much for Daniel I think comfort but also

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Concerned because he was going to see that his people still had a lot to go through before they finally accepted

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Trusted Messiah before they finally turned to Messiah and this would have been a real heartbreaker for him

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Because he was a man who loved his God and he loved his people I'm sure all of us can feel some of that a little bit of that.

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We love God We love our people and the church the real vibrant living

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Church of God Will believe this or does believe this and this will be a comfort to those who understand these words

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They're not as cryptic as I had thought they were going to be as I began to study through them I have not given as much time to eschatology in my 40 years of studying the

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Bible as I should have and and I for that I am profoundly Sorry, but it has been such an encouragement and a blessing to spend time in this and wait till you hear about the weird ideas about The Messiah next week.

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It'll be a good belly laugh for you. Any comments or quick questions before we close? Let's let's close

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Father it what Jesus did was perfect. It was finished. It was enough What you gave us in your scripture are sufficient or is all sufficient for every exigency of life

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We have no we have nothing to complain of we have everything to be grateful for and so this morning as we worship you and as we praise you

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And as we we hear your word might we just continue to bend our knee and Sanctify you and and glorify you in our lives as we take your name to those who need to hear of you