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Hello, good evening. This is truth and love. Thank you for joining me. I really appreciate spending time with you and talking about Jesus Talking about God's Word and and reaching out to our community for Jesus Christ I'm so grateful to spend time with you and thank you for your support

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Let's see what else This is going to be a Hopefully a shorter video and I know that I say that almost every time but I believe that this is going to be a much shorter video because it's not going to be

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We're not going to be studying going through verse by verse and and looking at you know Details and going in -depth.

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This is just a little discussion a little explanation of My shirt and what it means and and it may

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Some folks may have seen it and and not understood the the words that it meant or what it means or what

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I meant by What I said And I just wanted to give some clarification and some explanations on some of the things that that I believe

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With this qualifier, let me share this before I share with you what I believe And again, if you have any questions, please ask well, the floor is always yours if I can pray for you let me know just type me and I'll pray for you at the end and Let me know that you're watching if you will if you're so inclined

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I have no desire to be popular with popularity comes criticism and nobody likes that You know the the

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Lord I read Luke 6 this week I think it's 22 and 23 and the

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Lord tells us to have joy when when folks speak Ill of you and hate you for his name's sake and and yes, we want to do that But I don't want to go seeking that out.

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I don't want to do that. And so I'm not looking, you know To for any kind of popularity or numbers

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And so I thank you for joining with me in reaching out our community.

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So hey Tim. Hope you're doing well It's good to see you guys good to see you and I Appreciate you watching.

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Thank you so much. Let me make this comment before I I Begin describing what

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I mean By what my shirt says and getting giving you an explanation let me give you this qualifier

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These are some of the things that I believe However, and and I don't know what you mean by this next word

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I don't want to use I'm probably gonna use some some bigger words tonight, but I'm gonna say this. I'm I'm not a

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Fundamentalist and I'm not sure what you understand that word to mean here. Here's what

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I mean when I say fundamentalist someone who has decided upon a teaching of the

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Bible and holds on so tightly to it that They can't let it go

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No matter what and they won't even listen to Anyone else who says

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Here's where you may be wrong Look at look at this verse. They they will not do it

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They hold on so tightly to that belief that they won't have a conversation about it.

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They will even Not even will will they not speak to you and look at verses

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About that belief that that may show them that it's wrong Not only will they not do that But they will turn around and and talk about you or or call you a heretic or whatever and they won't even look at their

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Their own belief system. They want you to change yours, but they won't look at their own belief system

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That's what I would define as as a fundamentalist. I may be wrong and That is my point.

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That is why I am I do not consider myself a fundamentalist. It's because I Am human and I err and I could always be wrong

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These are just some of the things after after you know years of study after years of listening

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Looking at scripture looking at Commentaries and what other folks has to say and and listening to sermons after all that I have

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I have changed my beliefs in areas because I'm only human

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I err and I am NOT perfect. So Tim says same here.

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I'm always critiquing my faith, especially my eschatology Absolutely, because because I can be wrong and I can

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I want to be teachable I want to I want to be able to learn and grow So I am

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I'm never I will never say that I have arrived and and if somebody has a different belief than me

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I'm not going to you know, shoot them down if it's a secondary issue Or a third degree issue not on the first Tier issues, you know, whether Jesus is

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God the the the issue of the Trinity the the essentials for for salvation and the gospel, you know, those things are essential and We we must hold firm to those doctrines and teachings

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But when it comes to secondary or tertiary issues You know, there is there's room for fellowship with one another and and I must admit that I can be wrong and I Have not arrived.

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So with that being said I present this With with grace and love knowing that this is this is where I am.

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This is where where I have Come to in in my study and my understanding and I just wanted to share it with you

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But but I'm not dogmatic about it that means I like I said my definition of Fundamentalism where you hold on to it so tightly that you you you be you're aggressive with other folks

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That that are different than you on the secondary and tertiary issues so if if anybody and I know there are many many many people who are going to disagree with me on on my statements and beliefs and I open and and love conversation because it helps me to grow and learn and folks may helps help me to see things that I Had never seen before that will help me to grow

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My only request is when I speak of things that you disagree with that you offer the same

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Courtesy to me that you know, I may be able to show you some things That you have never seen before and You know, whether you are 80 years old and been in ministry for 80 years

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You also cannot say that you have arrived so We all can learn and we all can grow from one another iron sharpens iron and that never stops until we're in glory right

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If you can't be sharpened then you have a problem here and I can always

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I want to be sharpened by my brothers and sisters in Christ through God's Word and so With that being said let's briefly talk about what in the world is my shirt say and what what does it mean?

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And it kind of it will give you a little idea of my beliefs on the issue And and actually the the shirt starts at the beginning of the book

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And and the shirt ends with the end of the book. It's kind of interesting how it turned out that way

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But let's start with the first one. It says I hope you can read it. See it. It says I am a

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Creationist and then of course the the little slogan at the bottom no gap in between So what's a creationist and what does that have to do with they're not being a gap in between?

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All right, a creationist is someone that believes in in it God and That he is the creator and he created all things

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That's it. I'm a creationist because I believe that God created all things the

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God specifically the God of the Bible It tells us that he created all things. He's the creator

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And there's there is no if and buts about it. I guess that would be a a first -tier issue

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There there's no question there. There's no arguing that that God the God of the

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Bible Is the creator of all things? He's the God of the universe And so that's what a creationist is in in very very very simple terms a creationist

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I Guess it could also include It's it's a broad.

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It's a broad statement And it can probably include What was the movie that that mr.

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Stein did something about intelligence I Cannot remember the name of the movie that he did

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But intelligent design something like that and He he's not a

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Christian But he is not I mean he's using the brain that God has given him and it is it is quite evident to him that Evolution Was not the

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Process in which we were we got to where we are today that there is an intelligent designer out there

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And so I guess that creationist creationism is a broad enough term that could include

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Intelligent design where some people believe that yes, there is an intelligence out there that that designing created everything

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And and other theories could fall under that that yes, there is a creator and he chose to use

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Evolution so so it's a it's a broad category my where I fall under creationism and creationist is that The God of the

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Bible says that he is the creator of all things He is the one and only true God and there is no other

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God besides him and that he created all things so that's that's what I mean when

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I say that I'm a creationist even though other people could You know claim that title and just believe in intelligent design so We add the last part here no gap in between so there is a

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There is different theories on how God Created the universe and the method the process that he used and This this is one of those theories that of course

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Genesis describes The seven -day week God created all things and in six days and then there was the seventh day where he rested and There is there are those folks that believe in a gap theory that in between each day there is an

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Undetermined unknown amount of time in between each day that who knows what all happened there and even some of these folks believe that there was a there was a pre

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Adam and Eve Earth and then there was the first day and then there was a gap and there was a there was a second day and then there was

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A gap and they don't know what happened in those gaps What the process was or how long those gaps were or if they were different links

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They just don't know they just know and believe and and I guess it's their Excuse me

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It is their effort And this will be one of the explanations. This is their effort to try to push what they've been indoctrinated with from culture that evolution is true and so we've got to and I'm also a

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Christian so I've got to push this evolution into the Bible and so there must have been an

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Undetermined unknown amount of time between each day so that this process of evolution

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Could be true. So what do you have there? You have an outside idea

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That you're convinced is right that you have to create a place within scripture for that idea to go so that your idea of what happened can coincide or mix with what scripture says so you have to create a gap in between the days of creation and Why do

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I say create? Because I'm a creationist that believes there is no gap in between That's where the idea from the church comes from that there is no gap in between because for there to be a gap or for their explanation or to understand their explanation

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They have to to force a gap that scripture never describes

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You won't read about a gap in Genesis It's just an idea that they say it has to be there so that reason example a the process of evolution could be

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Accomplished so we have the the gaps and and here I love the ministry of answers in Genesis Listen to much of Ken Ham's Talks and and lectures and sermons and and other folks from answers in Genesis and also other folks from other creation ministries

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And this is one of the first things that I learned from Ken Ham One of the very very first things and and of course this is going to be one of his foundational teachings is speaking of Genesis 1 and a literal six -day creation and how he gets that and One of his examples one of the ways that he sees that in scripture

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All you have to do is look at Genesis chapter 1 Verse 5 and if you have your Bibles you want to look along with me

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We're first looking at Genesis chapter 1 verse 5 And it says and God called the light day.

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So he created he created the light and he called the light day and he called the darkness and the darkness he called night and There was evening and there was morning

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One day my new American Standard says one day or some versions say the first day

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So This was this is Ken Ham's explanation So, what do you have? What do you look at first you look at the word day first and the

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Hebrew word for day is yom y -o -m yom and That word is used of course all throughout the

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Old Testament in Hebrew yom the word day and the word day in our language and in their language could

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Could mean many different things and he would give you the example like back back in my father's day

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Well, that's not describing a literal 24 -hour day that that's just describing a period of time back in my father's day and And there's many many other examples that you could use to to describe the different meanings of the word day

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So, how do we know that? Genesis 1 Is speaking of a literal 24 -hour day, how do we know that?

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when when the word day could mean many different things and an undetermined amount of time well,

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Ken Ham Helps us to understand that this word day has three qualifiers and In Ken Ham's research

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He says that when you look throughout the rest of the Old Testament and you see the word day yom in Hebrew Tim says

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I agree with you. It is adding to scripture to say that there is a gap in the creation narrative Also, it is adding to scripture to say that there's a gap in the 70 weeks of Daniel as dispensationalists love to do.

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I agree with you Tim and I'm gonna I'm gonna get to Daniel in just a second.

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So appreciate the comment and Totally, you know,

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I'm totally on board with you We're gonna get to get to Daniel in in just a second

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So, yeah, so Everywhere else in the in the Old Testament Ken Ham says where you have the word.

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I apologize for my stumbling where you have the word day The word yom and it has it has a qualifier one qualifier

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It could be evening It could be morning. It could be a number

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Anywhere that the word day has at least one qualifier It always means a literal 24 -hour day.

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So that's helping us to to read the Bible in context. What does this word mean? Other places in scripture letting scripture interpret scripture.

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What does it mean by the words that it uses and in How it uses those words helps us to understand what it means so we interpret scripture with scripture we look at the context and the context tells us that when you have the word day or yom in Hebrew and At least one qualifier it means a literal 24 -hour day now if you look in Genesis and It's not just with the first day.

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It does this with every day of the week The word day or yom here in Hebrew it doesn't just have one qualifier it has three

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Genesis says and there was evening and There was morning the first day three qualifiers the so three times

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He is the author is telling us that he is speaking of a literal 24 -hour day

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So if that's the intent of the author that he wants us wants us to understand that The first day the second day third fourth fifth sixth and seventh day were actual literal 24 -hour days

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Then there is no room for a gap in between and of course

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Nowhere else in scripture hints at a Gap being in between the days of the week

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The creation week in Genesis, but we just don't get that where you do get it is trying to squeeze

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Evolution into the Bible and and creating you become the creator at that point you are creating a place for your

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Outside theory to fit with the Bible and that's the only way that it fits is if you created a place

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But Genesis just does not describe a place for a gap in between the days of the week

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And so that's why I say I'm a creationist and there's no gap in between.

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I'm a six Literal 24 -hour day creationist

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God created everything in six 24 -hour literal days and rested on the seventh. So that's where I stand on on creation

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All right. Now we're going to go to the the second part Post -millennialist

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I am a post -millennialist Millennialist and I have a hard time saying it no gap in between.

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So so what do I mean by that? Well The the verse that I reference is Daniel 9.

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So we want to go to Daniel 9 and That's where that's where we have the gap theory again.

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And not only that but but in my opinion Well, let me let me start here.

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Let me let me do some explanation of words This is the study of this is one of the views in the study of eschatology, what does eschatology mean?

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Eschatology is the study of in times or in things If you ever heard somebody use the word eschatology

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That's simply what they're meaning or saying the study of in times or in things and What is most popular is when you when you hear someone talk about the end times

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People are looking for certain Things to be happening in our future and and this is not what this video is about So I'm going to kind of leave it at that And And that would be one view of eschatology or one view of in times

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This is a second view of eschatology or how the Bible describes in times or in things and there's

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There's another there's a third Main view and then of course under that there are some some other views

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I think But the there's there's at least three main ones This one is post -millennial ism

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It is a view of eschatology or a view of how the Bible describes in times or in things

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So that's where we are on that. I know it's a mouthful. And if you have any questions, please

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Shoot me a comment and ask ask me a question And I'll be glad to try to answer it so Why don't we go to Daniel chapter 9 well, that's where folks want to try to add another gap theory and also,

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I believe that Understanding Daniel chapter 9 and this section where you have the gap theory,

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I Believe this is just my opinion the the rest of your understanding of in times hinges on What you believe

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Daniel chapter 9 teaches your your whole in times theology your whole in times thoughts and and and Doctrine or whatever you want to call it

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Everything that you hold on to about the in times hinges on what you believe about Daniel 9 because if if Daniel 9 doesn't say

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What you may think it does Then I believe that and it's my opinion that a certain

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View of in times Can hold no water. It just falls apart if What is believed about Daniel chapter 9 is incorrect.

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That's how that's how strongly I believe or Important I believe this this Daniel chapter 9

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Issue is and And and the gap theory within Daniel chapter 9.

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So Where is this gap theory? Where does it come from? Let's look at it real quick and we're not going to talk about the other we're not going to get in deep to Post -millennialism and and what the ins and outs of what what that means or the other views

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Just wanted to talk about the the post millennial Millennialist and the the part of it that that says there's no gap in between and Where we find that is

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Daniel Daniel chapter 9. All right, so If you have your Bibles, we're in Daniel chapter 9 starting in verse 24 and this this is prophecy

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He's he's hearing from Gabriel the angel and he says

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Seventy weeks Have been decreed for your people in your holy city to finish the transgression to make an end of sin to make an atonement for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness

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To seal up the vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. 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 sixty two weeks and it will be built again with plaza and moat even in times of distress

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Then after the sixty two weeks the 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

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Come with a flood 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 a grain offering and on the wing of Abominations will come to one who makes desolate even until a complete destruction

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One that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes desolate

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So that was Daniel chapter 9 verses 24 through 27, that's that's the the key verses there

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You really want to look at the whole chapter, but that's the key verses there of where the gap theory is

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And I wanted to bring up this this teacher that I that I listened to earlier that this person is pretty popular and this person is is well known really well known for applying during the teaching

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Writing out it depends on whether they are in the Old Testament or New Testament writing out so that the the audience and the folks watching can see

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They will write out the Hebrew and explain it and and then you know Translated in English and help you to understand what all the words mean and they do it in the

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Hebrew they do it in the Greek and the and whatever language Is being discussed that's one of the things that they're known for and So I listened to this person's teaching on this issue

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Because of the because of the Hebrew and the translation and and what was going on to see to see how they

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Line things up how they interpret it and what was interesting to me just just to make this first comment what was interesting to me was they they looked at the whole chapter of Daniel 9 and When they look at Daniel chapter 9,

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I think it was verse 2 What Daniel is doing is he is it says he is looking looking at the books

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Looking in the books the number of years which was revealed. So Daniel was among the members of Israel that was taken into captivity and Jeremiah said you will be in captivity for 70 years and Then you will return to Jerusalem.

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And so Daniel is among those There with them in captivity and they are reaching the end of those 70 years.

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Oh Hey Ramses, thank you for watching. I appreciate it So Daniel is there at the end of the 70 years part of the captivity and he's he's looking back at the at the numbers

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That were revealed, you know, they're they're in anticipation wanting to wanting this

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Captivity to end they're wanting to go back to Jerusalem And so they're looking for the this prophecy and when it will end and that's what he's doing

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And he then he goes through this prayer and this confession. He's praying on behalf of the people But this teacher that I was talking about looking at at the beginning of Daniel chapter 9

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Speaks of the 70 years that Daniel references that Jeremiah prophesied they would be in captivity and this person

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Writes out, of course the Hebrew And lets us know why the 70 years

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Actually meant 70 literal years one let's 70 consecutive literal years and then went down to Daniel chapter 9 verse 24 and Helped us to look at the the 70 weeks and and showed in the

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Hebrew how that that is different than the the 70 years

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At the beginning of Daniel and Showed the different word the the different I have no idea

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Anything really about Hebrew So I couldn't confirm or deny

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I'm just I'm open to learning. So I was watching and they were showing the difference between 70 years at the beginning of Daniel and 70 weeks here in Daniel 9 24 and and the how it's different so Daniel at the beginning of chapter 9 they were saying that it meant and of course it does a

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Literal consecutive 70 years here in verse 24 The the original language actually tells us that it's 7 70 weeks.

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So in other words a Week is seven years So there's 70

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Weeks of seven years each week is is seven years and there's going to be 70 of them and so they were talking about the difference between the the words and how we know that this one is literal consecutive and How this one is different But this person as I as I continue to listen

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Revealed that they are a gap Theorist they believe in a gap here in Daniel and they also believe in a gap in Genesis but where I found them inconsistent is

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That they did not take their method of interpretation from Daniel the beginning of Daniel looking at verse 2 and apply that method of interpretation to Genesis 1 where you

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Look at the original language you take it in its context To help understand what the word means and what the passage is saying

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They did not apply the same method Why so that they could insert and squeeze and push in this theory?

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Into Genesis chapter 1 so you have to force a gap into Chapter 1 of Genesis the the week the creation week of Genesis You have to create that gap so that you can this this idea will fit into scripture

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That's that's not originally there and that's why you become an inconsistent interpreter when you interpret one way

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In one section of scripture But when it doesn't fit your theology you interpret it a different way in a different portion of scripture

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And I want to be consistent with how I interpret God's Word I want to interpret correctly and I want to do that consistently so that I'm not trying to squeeze in What I believe that the

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Bible may not be teaching me to believe. I hope that makes sense. I hope that makes sense to you

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So with that being said and making that connection there with Genesis verse 24 does speak like I said of 770 weeks

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So there's gonna be 70 weeks and each week is seven years It's kind of confusing you have to think about just a second but then

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Daniel divides those Time periods up. This was also interesting about the the teaching that I watched the title of the teaching was

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If I'm correct, I don't want to misquote it. So I hope that I'm correct if I'm wrong,

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I apologize the the title of the teaching was God is a

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God is a date setter Something like that God is a date setter

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And that was the the title of the teaching and I found that so funny because you know to to be accurate with that title the beginning part of that teaching where they are looking at Daniel chapter 9 they say well

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God has Set a time for this like speaking of Jeremiah Prophesying the 70 years of captivity of Israel.

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God is a date -setting God and here, you know He sets the date and it happened. It's like this and then here in in Daniel 9 24, you know,

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God set the date and And this happened and this happened and this happened but then there's a

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There's a break in the consistency in that teaching on the one hand

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They're consistent with that title that they gave the the message God is a date -setting

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God and so he set the date and it happened is it was fulfilled And then the break and then after the break they become they become inconsistent and therefore untrue to the their title and What they claim

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God to be a Kind of confusing and so is this issue and topic but They become inconsistent.

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Why do they become inconsistent so that They can take this idea.

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That's not found in Scripture that but it fits their theology and Find a place in Scripture to squeeze it in so they have to be

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Inconsistent so this is how I interpret the Bible. Absolutely. This is I'm quoting

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You know hypothetical person this is how I interpret the Bible. Absolutely But I'm going to interpret it different here, but Differently than the way

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I originally say I interpret the Bible, but it's so that I can squeeze this idea from outside of the

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Bible in and I Don't know why they don't see that Inconsistency it confuses me

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But that's what happens and that's what happened in that teaching that I was listening to God is a date -setter and It was you know

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Pretty pretty confident pretty dogmatic. God is a date -setter and and we go by his dates and this was fulfilled and this happened

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But then all of a sudden there's a gap and he's not a date -setter anymore Interesting so I Think what this teacher said what

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I'm going to say next it would probably be consistent with What what a popular view would say so that's what that's why

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I'm going to repeat the teaching As closely as I can remember it So you have 70 weeks of years

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That's that's our time frame. That's the date and I that I do believe in that That's the date that God has said that Gabriel gave from God to Daniel 70 weeks of years and So they're going to be these things that that Daniel records that Happened in those weeks of years and this teacher which

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I think is Consistent with other people who hold this view or the the other

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End times view that's different than what I'm describing what mine. Um They would say that some of these things have happened but some of these things have not happened yet and so therefore

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Since they've not happened yet We've got to take this idea of a gap that Scripture does not hint at it's not in its context

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It's not any found anywhere else in Scripture, but we've got to have this gap Squeeze it in find a place to squeeze it in somewhere

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So that we can say all right this fits with my theology

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And maybe that's this makes it more clear why I said Daniel 9 All of eschatology in times hinges on Daniel chapter 9 because if that gap is not in there

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Then the rest of that in times theology Falls apart

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It holds no water In my opinion in my opinion and and I want to be teachable and I want to grow

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I'm just sharing with you What I've seen So I'm not being dogmatic

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I'm not being a fundamentalist I'm just sharing what what I've seen and I'm totally open for discussion and and growing and learning and Just sharing trying to share the truth that I I believe

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God has shown me and do it with love So They believe that some things some of these things have happened and some of these things have not happened

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And since they've not happened, we've got to have a gap in there But let's look at the let's look at how

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Daniel divides up the the weeks starting in verse 25 So are you so you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild?

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Jerusalem and of course, that's one of the things they say, you know has not happened yet the rebuilding of that there's going to be a rebuilt temple and And I would say that there was and Jesus walked in it and Jesus spoke of it and said

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There won't be one stone left upon another That was the rebuilt temple and it was issued and Daniel speaks of this issue or decree to restore it until Messiah the

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Prince Did you catch that Daniel says until Messiah the

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Prince There will be seven weeks. So this is one division seven weeks and the these seven weeks of seven years are

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Dealing with the decree to restore rebuild Jerusalem and and And Issues dealing with that.

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So that's what's going on in the first seven weeks of seven years And then here he gives the the second division and 62 weeks

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It will be built again so you have seven weeks of seven years and then 62 weeks of seven years and if you add the 7 and 62 you get 69

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So you have 69? weeks of seven years then they say

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There's a gap in between the 69th and 70th week of Daniel So you have one week left and Daniel speaks of that one week verse 26.

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Then after the 62 weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing and the people of the

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Prince who is to come will destroy the city and the Sanctuary and it's end will come with a flood even to the end

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There will be war Desolations are determined now verse 27 and he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week

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There's that last week the 70th week of Daniel But in the middle of the week a lot of people hear of three and a half years of three and a half years

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That's within that last week of Daniel Right in the middle

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But in the middle of the week, he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering so you have the 69 weeks and then

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Daniel describes the last the 70th week and That's when the

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Messiah Will be cut off the Messiah What's the context?

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If you look at verse 26 and 27 What's the context verse 27 and it says and he will make a firm covenant

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First of all, God is in Scripture. God is the only one that makes covenants with people from my understanding

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding and then who is the he? You've got to read it in context.

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Who's the he we have to go back to verse 26 Then after the 62 weeks the

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Messiah will be cut off When will he be cut off 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 what happened in the middle of the week but the 70th week started with the ministry of Jesus and Three and a half years later what happened?

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He was crucified He was cut off And in that act on the cross he put an end to sacrifice and grain offerings

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Amen to that Hallelujah to that Praise the Lord for that so Yeah, but there was a gap well

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Where is that gap? But that's they say that 70th week is still to come the the 69 weeks.

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They've happened. Yes But there's a Tim says the crucifixion removed all legitimacy from the temple sacrifices

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There is now a new better way. Absolutely Praise the Lord for that Amen So they would say the 69 weeks have happened and Then the 70th week is yet to come

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So there's this undetermined unknown gap of time in between the 69th and 70th week

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That's what the other views say not post -millennial. That's what the other view says

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But where do you find that gap in Scripture? He will make a firm covenant For one week.

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There's the last week and who's he the Messiah and he will be cut off and And when does this?

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Week this this one week the 70th week. When does it happen then after the 62 weeks?

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so After the 69th week you have the 70th week.

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I mean, that's pretty obvious So, how do we know it's not?

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To come in the future. How do we know it's immediately following 69th week? I Mean you you could you could insert a gap there by just you know

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The first few words then after the 62 weeks the Messiah will be cut off. Well, you know, it doesn't say that it's immediately

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It says at the end of the 69th week So in the future is still after the 69th week, right?

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It could be in the future and there could be this undetermined unknown time of gap time of or gap of time so How do we know that it's not in the future there's no gap

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But it is immediately following the 69th week because it says

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Then after the 62 weeks The Messiah and I know

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I keep saying 69th week But look back in verse 25 you have the 62 weeks in the seven seven weeks

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You have to put them together to get the set 69 weeks. So it's basically the same thing this after the 62 weeks

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The Messiah will be cut off in verse 27 and he will make a firm covenant

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Who is he The Messiah When was the Messiah here on this earth?

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2 ,000 years ago and if And some of these folks that hold to that view fully admit that this

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Messiah and this cutting off Speaks of Jesus. It's a fulfillment of Jesus and his ministry and his work on the cross

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So if if this is speaking of Jesus It has it had to have happened

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When he was here, right it had it had to have happened when he was here and so if if the 70th week started at his or this last week

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Contains things that the Messiah will do When was the Messiah here?

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2 ,000 years ago and so therefore the 70th week Started immediately after the 69th week because the

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Messiah was here at the end of the 69th week and Then his ministry began the 70th week

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He his ministry continued for three and a half years and then he was cut off If you and this is another thing that I found interesting about The accusation or the claim and accusation from folks that hold to a different view than I do

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They would say we interpret the Bible literally But those folks they don't they they interpret it as symbols as allegory as figurative

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Here's my question where in that interpretation

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Did I interpret any of that? Allegorically figuratively or Symbolically I didn't

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I Believe that God is a date setting God he set a date he told us what was going to happen in those weeks and Therefore it had to have happened when he the

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Messiah was here and so that's when the 70th week happened with no gap in between and That's where the saying comes from on my shirt

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So what happens in our interpretation is this when when we hold to these other views this this is how we interpret

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Scripture We we look at these events in Scripture and so we we try to determine and Understand what these different events mean and then based on what we think these events mean

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We therefore then become the creator or the date setter and say well based on how

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I understand these events to what what I understand them to mean and what

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I understand it to say based on that and the fact that What I believe they mean and say

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Haven't happened yet. Therefore the date must come at a at this time

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That's how we interpret Scripture but the proper way to interpret

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Scripture is to let God determine the date and then when he interprets the date, then we look at what he says is going to happen within that time frame and Understand those events based on the date that God gives us

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Let me let me give you one example of that and then we'll wrap it up This this has to do with end times if you look at Matthew chapter 24 verse 34, it says or Jesus says and And Jesus is speaking in all the verses that I'm getting ready to mention

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Jesus is speaking to us. He says truly I say to you This generation will not pass away until all these things take place and So those that hold to a different view than I do would say

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Jesus is speaking of The generation in which those things in Matthew 24 are going to take place and those things

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That Jesus mentions in Matthew 24 haven't happened yet. So therefore that generation that he's speaking of is a future generation

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Because they haven't happened yet, but you have to look at the context and And Look at the context for yourself of Matthew chapter 23 and 24 but above and beyond the context

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Look at other verses in Matthew And we then realize that we can interpret

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Matthew chapter 24 or chapter 24 verse 34 in that way Listen to these three other verses

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Matthew chapter 10 verse 23 But whenever they persecute you speaking to his disciples in one city

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Flee to the next for truly I say to you You will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the

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Son of Man comes how do you get away with that and Then Matthew chapter 16 verse 28

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Jesus says truly I say to you There are some of those who are standing here

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Who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.

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Did you catch that? there are some who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the

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Son of Man coming in his kingdom and Then Matthew 23 36 truly I say to you all these things will come upon this generation

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So if Matthew 24 verse 34 was a One -off if it was just that one isolated verse

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We would have a you know, we can have a big argument about that But we can't have a big argument and discussion about it when the context

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Supports one interpretation Jesus tells the disciples you will not finish going through the cities of Jerusalem Or the cities of Israel until the

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Son of Man comes there are those standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom and then

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This generation will not pass until all these things take place It's it only supports one interpretation

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So back to the way I suggested we interpret scripture if Jesus set the time

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Right Jesus in Matthew has set the time this generation

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Because this this is the way the other view interprets Matthew 24 these events

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This is how I understand these events in scripture. This is what I understand them to say

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This is what I understand and believe them to be talking about and they haven't happened yet So therefore it must be in the future.

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So this generation that Jesus speaking of must be that generation and therefore since it's a future generation and it hasn't happened yet then therefore

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There's got to be I've got to squeeze a gap into Daniel chapter 9 that isn't there

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But I've got to squeeze it in there so that it fits my theology of end times but instead of interpreting

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Those events and then setting a date Wouldn't it be more proper to let

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Jesus which he did set a date and Then interpret the events which he said would happen based on context and history according to Them happening within the date that Jesus has already said it if you um

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If you have any correction or question or or would like to share anything with me

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Feel free to do that. I just ask if you have a disagreement with me Don't Please don't you know blast me on the internet

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Blast me out in public This is just what I see in Scripture Privately contact me if you if you feel like You know, you want to have a deeper conversation if you're tempted to to speak of me in a ill way

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You know if you do, you know, that's fine. The Lord says to rejoice

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And I'm fully admitting here that I'm still a work in progress And I has

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I still have room to grow So I am NOT being a fundamentalist

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I'm not holding to something and tearing other people down and I would just ask that you would not tear me down as well

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But I am open for your discussion and questions and comments If you so inclined,

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I really appreciate you listening. I hope this was an encouragement to you What I really wanted to do is is not start an argument but just to explain what my shirt meant and Where I Have been growing in Scripture The the truth that I believe it that God has has revealed to me in in Scripture What he what he is saying not what

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I wanted to say. I want to know what God says Not what I make up and and if I'm making up something wrong,

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I want to know what God says I'm not a fundamentalist. I want to know what

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God says because I am human and I err all the time, so Thank You Tim Thank you, bro.

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I appreciate that. Thank you for your encouragement. I appreciate that as well And at the beginning of this video,

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I said it would not be a long one. I Messed up again.

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See I err big -time. Oh I hope you found some of it encouraging

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I if you don't agree with it and at least maybe you learned something about what a what a different view you may believe

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At least you can say that hopefully And And again, if you have any questions, just let me know if you do not know the

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Lord Jesus Christ. That's the most important thing We can discuss in times things, you know at a separate date if if we need to discuss

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The gospel and we do need to discuss the gospel first and foremost, you know, we can let me put it to you like this

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We can discuss in times One day we can discuss a different topic a different day

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But what we need to discuss every day is the gospel and that's kind of how I prioritize and understand things

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Thank you, brother Is that we need to discuss the gospel every day and we can talk about different issues on you know different days the

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Gospels every day and if you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior if God has not caused you to be born again.

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If you've not repented of your sins and trusted in Jesus Christ I would encourage you. I implore you to do that today.

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We've all sinned. We've all missed the mark. We all need Jesus We all need a Savior and so repent of your sins

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Put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ secure your eternity with him

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Jesus says in John chapter 6 that I I Will give you he who believes in me will have everlasting life.

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I will give him everlasting life he who believes in me he who trusts in me he who eats this flesh and drink this blood and over and over and over Jesus promises eternal life and that promise is

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A true promise that you can count on Um Be forward -thinking and be heavenly minded

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Because we need Jesus. Jesus matters and Jesus is king So if you've if you've never turned to God repent of your sins and trust in him, that's first and foremost these other issues

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I Think the Lord would have us to learn them But they're not as important as the gospel

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They're not as important as us coming to know Jesus Christ as our Savior So if I can help you in any way in that area

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Let me know if I can pray for you. Also, let me know that as well. I Love to be able to pray for you and I want to do that now as we close

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I don't see that anybody requested prayer this time. So if you if you request later

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I'll see that and be glad to pray for you then If you're still with me, let's pray together father We thank you for the time that you've given us tonight to study your word

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Father, thank you for this Thanksgiving season Help us to carry that attitude with us all year long because you

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You have led us to Prosperity There are there always been many things that are bad in this world.

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There are things that are bad in this world now Things that we can be disappointed in scared of but father from where where we were to Colonies that didn't make it because of a cold winter to now

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Having electricity and running water Anytime that we want it

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Father, look how far you have brought us. You are amazing You are kind and gracious to this generation

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We're so thankful you are so kind and good but above all else

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Your kindness is unmatched in giving us your son So we praise you and worship you for your gift of salvation through Jesus Christ and the work of the

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Holy Spirit that justifies us and sanctifies us and Finally will glorify us as we live forever because of Jesus And we thank you

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We pray these things in Jesus name. Amen Thank you guys for watching.

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I really appreciate it. Hope you have a good evening. I hope you have a really great Thanksgiving despite All the things that are going on in the world right now

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Remember that Jesus is King Go live in that victory and let's continue to go out there together and proclaim the gospel.