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Dan and I will be looking at Daniel 9. Messiah or anti christ?

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Dan was trying to tell me something right before I started the intro and I didn't realize that it would mute our mics so that we couldn't talk while the intro was going on.
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So I cut him off and he's gonna have to tell me what he was saying I get now or or when the show's over.
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We'll definitely do it later. Hey Becky, what's up?
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How are you? Maybe our viewers are our wives, which is good.
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That's his wife. Yeah, great. Awesome.
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So we want to talk about Daniel tonight. Dan and I have been going through the book of Daniel. We've been talking about our understanding of eschatology, which just means in things.
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And it has led us to looking to look at the prophecies of the Old Testament. We've started in Daniel.
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I've been walking through Daniel and now we're in chapter 9 of Daniel. And we want to walk through Daniel 9 with you tonight.
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Daniel 9 kind of starts us back up again in some of the prophecies.
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There was a gap there. Well, 8 does, but there was a gap where we learned some of the famous stories of Israel's history.
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You have the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and stories like that.
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And that gap between prophecies and Daniel. But it seems like there's a progression with the prophecies in Daniel.
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You have similar prophecies talking about the same thing. They're presented in a different way.
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They're presented to different people. You have first the prophecy vision going to the king.
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The king wants it interpreted. And then you have you have a different king sitting and writing on a wall.
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And then you have a king who sees a vision. You have visions coming to Daniel.
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You have visions coming to Daniel. And the angel touches, seems to touch
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Daniel physically and interprets the visions for Daniel. There's an agreement in these prophecies.
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Speaking of times to come and what to look for, you're going to have these different kingdoms and what these different kings and kingdoms are going to look like.
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So there's consistency in these prophecies. There's something familiar in each of these prophecies.
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And as we approach chapter 9, verse 27, the last verse in chapter 8, as I was telling
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Dan, seems like a good introductory verse for chapter 9 because it shows us the man,
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Daniel, who he is. And I was just thinking about how it's good for us to,
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I know we can't do it, we can't do it to the degree that it would help us the most, but go back visually and with the best imagination that we can.
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Daniel was a part of the Jewish nation, the
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Hebrew people, and they were exiled and they were part of this prophecy.
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I mean, they were in the middle of a prophecy that was being fulfilled right in front of their eyes.
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So they were taken from their homeland because of their own doing, but this was part of a prophecy, not in their own country, in a time where nowhere close to having the comforts that we have in our day.
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And then you have these visions. You live in a time where somebody, you could be killed just by the king's orders in the blink of an eye.
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He could get rid of you. And he was interpreting visions, he was interpreting dreams for the king, and how fearful that was.
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And then they're thrown into a fiery furnace. We don't face those things every day.
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We do not face anything like these folks faced back in that day. And here, it looks like he's feeling the weight of these visions.
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The vision that they are currently in and facing is the 70 years of exile, and it's coming to an end.
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And he knows that. He sees the... Here's the interpretation, sees the visions of the kings and the kingdoms and what's to take place.
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In verse 27 of chapter 8, he says, then I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days.
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Then I got up again and carried on the king's business, but I was astounded at the vision, and there was none to explain it.
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So on top of the life that he has to live and the harsh reality, which to us, it is just normal every day for him, but he's feeling the weight of these visions, the weight of the nation, what's to come, what's...
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As you were talking about earlier, Dan, he realizes that this 70 weeks is ending, and he doesn't know what's going to happen next, just in this time of uncertainty.
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And what he's getting is just probably heavy on his heart and making him emotionally sick, which exhausts him and causes him to be physically sick.
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And it kind of gives us the heart of the man of Daniel as we...
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I think we will continue that as we begin to look at the first section of chapter 9.
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Any comments on that introduction, Dan? Yeah.
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One of the things that probably enhances exhaustion and sickness is found in that very last little bit.
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It says, there was none to explain it. He had the visions, he had the knowledge, but he didn't understand what it meant.
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He had information, but no hope. I mean, he had the hope, he had the knowledge that God is good, and that he was going to follow
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God, and that God had him all taken care of. But he was given all these incredible things.
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I mean, we hear of these visions, like a ram and a goat ramming into each other.
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And we think, you know, I've seen that before. I've seen, maybe not ramming a goat, but I've seen, you know, rams hit each other.
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I've seen goats try to headbutt one another. You know, what's the big deal? Why did it affect him so much?
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We have to remember that we weren't there to see these visions. We don't know exactly the experience of seeing those visions was for him.
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And to see all these great, incredible, God -sized things happen to him, happen right there, and then have nobody to talk to, nobody that he could go to that had any idea what he was talking about.
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He goes to somebody and brings it up. They're like, Daniel, I have no idea what you're talking about. I can't help you, bud.
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He had no one to turn to. So he did the exact right thing. It was, you know, it went from, if I'm not mistaken,
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Chapter 8 was in the, you know, it was in the time of Belshazzar. So a few years later, you've got
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Darius showing up in Chapter 9. So a few years later, still has nobody to talk to him about all these things.
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And I can guarantee you he, this wasn't his first prayer as to what all this meant.
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And he had no one to talk to. Who would he talk to? He's going to talk to the one who gave him the visions. He was going to pray to him.
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And it probably took a while, but as we see later, God was faithful to answer.
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When he answered, it was incredible. Yeah. So let's start in Daniel Chapter 9.
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We're going to read Daniel Chapter 9, 1 through 14. And we're going to see the heart of this man and where his focus lies, who his heart is for, as we look at Daniel Chapter 9.
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Starting in verse 1, in the first year of Darius, the son of Osiris, of Median, the son of who was made king over the kingdom of the
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Chaldeans. In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the
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Lord to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely 70 years.
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So I gave attention to the Lord God to seek him in prayer and supplications with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.
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And I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed and said, alas, oh Lord, the great and awesome
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God who keeps his covenant and loving kindness for those who love him and keep his commandments.
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We have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from that commandments and ordinances.
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Moreover, we have not listened to thy servants, the prophets who spoken in thy name to our kings, our princes, our fathers, and all the people of the land.
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Righteousness belongs to thee, oh Lord, but to us open shame as it is this day to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all
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Israel, those who were, who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which doubt has driven them because of their unfaithful deeds, which they have committed against the open shame belongs to us, oh
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Lord, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. To the
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Lord, our God belong, compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him, nor have we obeyed the voice of the
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Lord, our God to walk in his teachings, which he set before us through his servants, the prophets.
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Indeed, all Israel has transgressed thy law and turned aside, not obeying thy voice.
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So the curse has been poured out on us along with the oath, which is written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have sinned against him.
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Thus he has confirmed his words, which he has spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us to bring on us great calamity for under the whole heaven, there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.
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As is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the
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Lord, our God, by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to that truth. Therefore, the
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Lord has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us. For the Lord, our God is righteous with respect to all his deeds, which he has done, but we have not obeyed his voice.
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Yeah, we definitely see the heart of Daniel and he is his realization of the sin of the nation, the sin of his people.
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And he's confessing, he's crying out to the
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Lord their sin. And the 70 weeks or 70 years that we were talking about earlier comes in verse two, the desolations that God was bringing upon Jerusalem through those 70 years, that prophecy was in Jeremiah.
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They were in the middle of fulfilling that prophecy and it was coming to an end.
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What's your commentary on that section, Dan? It starts,
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I guess we need to start by understanding exactly what these 70 years were all about. Yeah.
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Got to go to two places in scripture. Number one is in Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter 30 verses one through five.
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Before this, God had been speaking to the nation of Israel.
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They're about to cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan. They're going to face giants. They're going to take over them.
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They're going to take the land because God had promised it to them. These were the faithful generation who were actually going to go in.
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He told them, he says, you are going to fall down. And then he describes in incredible detail the things that will happen when they're being destroyed, when the covenant is finally completely broken.
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But he says also that if they fall away, they'll be taken off into exile.
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In chapter 30 verses one through five, it says, so it shall be when all these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which
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I have set before you. And you call them to mind in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.
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In other words, they have lost the land. They've gone off into exile. And you return to the
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Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and soul. According to all
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I command you today, you and your sons, then the Lord your
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God will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you. And we'll gather you again from all the peoples where the
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Lord your God has scattered you. If outcasts in the ends of the earth, from there, the Lord will gather you back or yeah, we'll gather you.
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And from there, he will bring you back. The Lord your God will bring you into the land, which your father's possessed and you will possess it.
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And he will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. So what they were doing in the place where they're at in the middle of this is that they had gone off into exile.
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Jeremiah speaks of it. He's telling them right before they go off into exile, you know exactly what's going to happen.
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So he says this in Jeremiah 25, 11 through 12, says this whole land will be a desolation and a horror.
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And these nations will serve the King of Babylon 70 years. Then it will be when the 70 years are completed,
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I will punish the King of Babylon and that nation declares the Lord for their iniquity in the land of the
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Chaldeans. And I will make it an everlasting desolation. So he's saying that they're going to go off into exile.
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It's going to be a 70 year exile. And then they're going to be punished.
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The Chaldeans, the Babylonians, but that he will call his people back to himself.
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Now he talks about this again in chapter 29 of Jeremiah.
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It says, for thus says the Lord, when 70 years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill my good word to you to bring you back to this place.
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And this is very interesting because a lot of folks yoink this one directly out of context. It says, for I know the plans that I have for you declares the
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Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. This was in the context of his covenant blessings to the people of Israel while they're in exile, telling them that the end of the time where they were being under the curse of God, that at the end of that time,
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God was going to bring them out because their end, their final purpose wasn't to be destroyed in Babylon.
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Their final purpose was for a hope, was for welfare, was for something good, which as we find out by reading on into the
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New Testament was Jesus coming and forgiving men of their sins. That is the plans that God had for them to prosper and not to harm them.
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It is not about us getting a Bentley or a nice house. So just put that right back in context actually makes us, it's better when you put it back in context than when you think of God as your magic genie.
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I don't know, I'm going to hear from some people on that one, but that's okay. You needed to hear it.
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So when Daniel's here, Daniel sees he's close to the end of that 70 years.
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He's around year 67 or 68 of this 70 years.
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And he says, Oh man, we need something to happen because we're over here in exile and it doesn't look like we're repenting.
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It doesn't look like we're turning back to God. It doesn't look like, look at verse 13.
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It says, and it was written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us. And then remember what it said, it said, and if you turn you and your sons, you turn back to the
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Lord, God will go wherever they are and restore them. But look at what it says here, as is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us.
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Yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord, that promise of return to the land of the
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Lord, our God, by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to your truth. Therefore the
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Lord has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us. They had opportunity to go back to the land of Israel after their time in Babylon.
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But while they were there, they didn't even turn from their sins then. They almost hardened themselves.
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They know a new generation had been born there. And that generation loved the things of Babylon.
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They didn't turn back to God. So, what
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Daniel is seeing here is, it fits really well with his anxiety, with his being exhausted, with his wondering, what is going on?
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There are rams running into each other. There's supposedly a hope of a golden statue and silver and bronze and iron and iron and clay, all falling down.
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But there's also, I saw what God did to Nebuchadnezzar, and now the calamity that we have, it's still going to be here.
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What's going to happen? We thought Babylon was going to be it. Now here we are, we're in the
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Medo -Persian empire, and we're still suffering. We haven't gone back home yet. And I thought this 70 years was going to be it.
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And so he's wondering, what is God doing? And he prays a little bit more than true
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God fashion. He answers him quite impressively. Yeah.
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And I found that as we were talking earlier, that burst that you find in scripture, that helps me to reorient my thinking, my theology, my way of approaching
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God. And you're exactly right. I can see how, you can see where his anxiety comes from because his nation has not sought the favor of the
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Lord. I mean, he's pulling from Moses, this promise, this returning to the land, which
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I'm sure he desires and would rather be there than be in captivity and be underneath someone else.
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But his people have not sought the favor of the Lord, which you read, which
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Moses spoke of. And what does seeking the favor of the
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Lord look like? And that's what was interesting to me. It was turning from our iniquity and giving attention to the truth.
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How far off track do we as, or do the church leaders, how far off track do we get from where we should be?
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I'm sure the desire, at least outwardly anyway, is to seek the favor of the
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Lord. We want God's blessings. We want his favor. We want him to be pleased, for him to be happy.
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But we choose our own direction. We choose our own path. This is what will bring in the people.
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This is what will bring pleasure to God if we do it this way or whatever.
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But Daniel is saying, and of course, pulling from Moses, pulling from Deuteronomy, to find the favor of the
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Lord is to turn from our sin and give attention to the truth.
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Of course, the truth is God's word and the truth is Jesus Christ himself.
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So, I think we can heed, we would do well to heed this scripture here for practical purposes for us in our lives, individually and as leaders in the church.
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To have the favor of the Lord is to turn from sin and give attention to the truth.
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So, let's look at the next section, 15 through 19. Let me read it for us real quick. And now,
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O Lord our God, who has brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and has made a name for thyself, which is going to come up here in a second, as it is this day we have sinned, we have been wicked.
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O Lord, in accordance with all thy righteousness, righteous acts, let now thine anger and thy wrath turn away from thy city,
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Jerusalem, thy holy mountain, for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers,
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Jerusalem and thy people have become a reproach to all those around us. So now, our
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God, listen to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplications. And for thy sake,
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O Lord, let thy face shine on that desolate sanctuary. O my God, incline thine ear and hear, open thine eyes and see our desolations and the city, which is called by thy name.
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For we are not presenting our supplications before thee on account of any marriage on our own, but on account of thy great compassion.
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O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and take action for thine own sake.
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For my God, do not delay. Or, O my God, do not delay, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
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So it seems like Daniel's perception here is that the only way out of this is to appeal to God's own name, to God's own glory.
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Even though it's our sin that has caused this desolation on Jerusalem and on the temple, but for your sake, for your name's sake, for your reputation, for your face, please, please shine upon Jerusalem again.
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What do you see here in this next section? This is extremely, it's extremely important, especially when we will look at the last four verses of this chapter to see why exactly
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God was planning on the favor that he's going to hear about from Gabriel.
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Why is, why are they going to receive it? We already know that God had promised to them that if they were evil, they would be sent off in exile.
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If they were, if they turned to repent of their sin while they're in exile, they'd be brought back.
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They don't. But still, we know that there was
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Jews in Jerusalem with a rebuilt temple at the time of Jesus. Why did all this happen?
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It's exactly, the basis of Daniel's request is exactly right.
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God, glorify yourself because you're worth it.
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It's not us. It's not your people. Your people are sinful. Man, I think about myself. I mean,
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God, we want you to bless our nation. We want you to, we want to see revival in Oneana.
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And I'm like, well, why would God do that for us? Now, think about it. But certainly not because of me, because I'm a horrible, wretched sinner.
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But why do we really want God to bring revival to our city?
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Why do we want to see our rulers do well? We do it because God's not being worshiped by them, but he deserves to be worshiped by every single creature that he's created.
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What does it say in Psalm 150? Everything that has breath, praise the
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Lord. Everything, every rock, every fish. I know rocks don't breathe, but bear with me. Every rock, every fish, every bird, every blade of grass, everything that he has ever created, every comet out in space, all of it.
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God deserves to be worshiped by them. He doesn't deserve to have his creation rebel against him. And so for his name's sake, on account of his goodness and his mercy,
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Daniel pleads to God to act when they don't deserve it, which really is the basis of our salvation.
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God, we need to have our sins forgiven. Well, why?
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Nothing in me, because I just said I'm a sinner. That's why I have sins that need to be forgiven. So why should
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God forgive us? And God should forgive us because God is good.
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He deserves to be worshiped by his creation. That's why
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God does anything. It's for our good and for his glory. And so Daniel, like a true
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Holy Spirit inspired prophet of God, hit the nail right on the head. Exactly. It's interesting how he makes that transition.
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We stopped in verse 13 where he says, we've not sought your favor. We've not sought the favor of the
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Lord, our God, by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to that truth. And then he transitions over to it's not happening.
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It's not going to happen. If it's going to happen, it's going to be you. Right. And it's going to be because of you and for you.
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So that's why I'm appealing to you, God, because we can't do it.
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We didn't do it. We haven't done it. We're not going to do it. It's like he sees the heart of man and knows the heart of man, that it's not going to happen, that finding favor with God through obedience is just, it's not going to happen.
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It's almost as if he, like you said, being filled with the
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Holy Spirit, he is one of the ones that is seeing what God wanted them to see.
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You know how in the New Testament, the idea of who the
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Messiah was, was foggy to them. Well, I guess they understood it clearly because they saw it one way, but then it become foggy when
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Jesus began to present himself as the Messiah, but differently than what they expected.
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And here, Daniel is like, he's getting it. God is asking us to obey.
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God has given us these commands. He's given us the commandments, the 10 commandments, but we can't do it.
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So I'm appealing to you, the only one who can do it. So I find that very interesting and enlightening, that transition there.
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So we see Daniel seeking the Lord. Let's move on to the next section, verses 20 through 23.
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And this is where we begin to hear an answer from the Lord.
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Now, while I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people, Israel, and presenting my supplication before the
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Lord, my God, in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man
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Gabriel, whom I have seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.
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And he gave me instruction and talked with me and said, oh,
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Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight and understanding at the beginning of your supplications, the command was issued.
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And I have come to tell you for you are highly esteemed. So give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.
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So what a blessing for Daniel that he, like you said, like you pointed out in verse 27 of chapter eight, but I was astounded at the vision and there was no one to explain it.
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So he, he's living in this loneliness. He's, he's living in, like you said, in a time where he can't, he doesn't have any companions, co -workers, no one to confide in, confidant, whatever you want to call it.
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And he goes to the only one he can go to. And so what a great comfort for Daniel here that the only place that he can go is not silent and answers him.
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And so to me, this is a blessing from God of grace and kindness, compassion from God that, that Daniel goes to the only place he can and God answers.
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And he's, God is sending his messenger Gabriel again to Daniel.
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And from what I see, Gabriel is setting him up to give him a new revelation on top of what he's already experienced before with, with the visions of the kingdoms and the statue and the goats and the, the rams, he's going to give him a new revelation and, and this confirmation.
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So this transition that we were talking about from this, this insight that it seems
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Daniel has of not being able to do him individually and the people, his people,
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Israel, they're not able to do things. They're not able to obey. And so he begins to appeal to God.
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He has affirmation here in verse 23, for you are highly esteemed.
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So it's, it's affirmation that his, his thinking, his prayer is his heart is in the right direction.
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So it would, we would do well in my opinion to, you know, to heed that heart of Daniel, where God finds favor with that kind of heart to seek him in that way.
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So what's your, what's your view here on verses 23 to 23? Yeah, Daniel was struggling. And God responded several ways.
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First, he sent him a friendly face and somebody that he could talk to that knew what he was talking about.
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Somebody that can answer some questions. Oh man, Daniel must've been, must've been like, you know, thank
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God you're here. I needed somebody to talk to. And then to have him say, you know,
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Daniel, you've been going about this the right way. You've been esteemed by God. God is, is happy with the way that you're doing this.
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You're praying to God for the forgiveness of your sins. You're trying to seek the forgiveness of the sins of your people.
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You're going about it the right way. I'm going to throw you a bone here. I'm going to give you a, a, a word of hope, which is very important, especially when you look at what that word of hope is.
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Because there's a lot of folks today who will look at these and say, this isn't a hopeful message.
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This is a message in which, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't prophesy much good.
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I mean, there's a little good, but mainly the, the, the main point is that things are going to get destroyed. But we, we have to remember, you know, what was the original understanding of this prophecy as given to Daniel?
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It was a message of complete and utter hope. Here, here bud, you need this.
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You need to know that when you're down and out and you look like things aren't going to get any better and nobody else is trying to repent and everybody's trying to stay locked up in their sin.
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Here's some hope for you and your folks. It's just incredible. So here we are on the last section, verses 24 through 27.
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And this is where it gets controversial for folks, even, even between Dan and myself.
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There's, there's going to be some, probably some discrepancies. But we're not going to look at that tonight.
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Next time we're together, we are going to look at the portion of this passage that, that deals with time.
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You have the, the 70, the 70 weeks of Daniel and you have
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Daniel breaking down those, those 70 weeks into three different sections. And you have how to interpret that, what that looks like, how to add up the 70 weeks, what the 70 weeks mean.
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We'll, we'll take a look at, at the time, the timeframe and how the different types of interpretation or the different kinds of interpretation that there are, the ones that are legitimate, the ones that are less legitimate, in our opinion.
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We'll look at that in the next video. But for now, we want to look at our perspective where we pretty much have agreement on Dan and I, but also where we differ and it may come across different.
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Like, like Dan was saying, this next section, if you, if you hold a certain position on end times, you'll come back to Daniel or you'll hear folks come back to Daniel to try to put a certain character in, in Daniel, put a certain time gap, or in, in Daniel chapter nine, that, that we don't see.
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We don't see those things in Daniel. We see something different. So that's the part that we're going to focus on tonight.
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We'll focus on the time aspect in the next video. So let me look or let's read together
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Daniel chapter nine, 24 through 27, and we'll look at, look at the place and the people that he talks about.
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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 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.
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And 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
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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. Verse 27, and he will make a firm covenant with the many for a week 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, even until a complete destruction.
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One that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes desolate. All right.
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I underline in verse 24, um, when he says 70 weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city.
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So this is what come to mind. Um, when, when
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I first started looking at this section and I, and I see who it was intended for thinking about, um, the end times theology that I grew up with, um, the, the pre -millennial dispensational view, um, they want to put a gap and undetermined amount of year gap between the 69th week of Daniel here in chapter nine and the 70th week.
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And they call it the, um, uh, the time of the Gentiles. I think that's what
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Dan, you, you referred to it earlier in our conversation, the time of the Gentiles or, or the church age.
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And, um, and I find it interesting that here in verse 24, what
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Gabriel tells Daniel is that 70 weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city.
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No gap, no Gentile age, no church age, the 70 weeks from one end to the other has been decreed for your people and your holy city.
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So you can comment on that, um, here in just a second. Uh, the next part is you'll see six things that, um,
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Gabriel brings up that must happen. You'll hear some people talk about how, um, maybe some of these have taken place, but not all of them or none of them have taken place.
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Um, going back to, to how I usually, um, what
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I usually bring up in the introduction of these videos is that Dan and I hold a preterist position where most of the prophecies have been fulfilled already in the past, preterist means past.
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And so I see, and I think Dan also sees that the six things that, that Gabriel brings up here at the end of verse 24, that must take place have taken place.
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Um, you'll, you'll see the part about, um, and to anoint the most holy place.
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Um, you know, we see that that's happened. Um, you, you've got a certain in -house position that is looking for a rebuilt temple in our future, but, um, and you see that in verse 25.
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So you are to know and discern that from issuing a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the
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Messiah. So I would say that we're talking about the same, um, the same temple, the same rebuilt temple in, in all these verses, um, those that hold to the pre -trib, uh, rapture view, they're going to agree with us on, on some of this dating, some of this, um, measuring, but then differ between the 69 and 70 weeks.
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But, um, I would say that, um, the, the reissuing of the temple is that rebuilt temple.
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Um, we're, we're not to be looking for one to come in the future, in our future. Um, I don't think anywhere in scripture is speaks up by another rebuilt temple.
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And this is definitely something that I don't understand that in, in that rebuilt temple, that's supposed to come in our future, guess what they're supposed to do again.
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They're supposed to reinstate sacrifices. What a spit in the face to Christ and what he did on the cross.
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Um, how in the world you get that? I don't know, but, but here I would say that the, the rebuilding of the temple, um, the, the, to anoint the most holy place, um, the, the temple
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Jerusalem, the sacrifices everywhere that it's speaking of a temple is speaking of the same temple.
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It never jumps to a future temple thousands and thousands of years later.
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Um, I may have some more comments, but then I'll let you take over and you tell me what you think and go ahead and explain to us about the, uh, the
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Messiah, the Prince, the, um, the Messiah is to be cut off and, um, help us understand the post -millennial position there.
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Yeah. Um, this says 70, uh, weeks or 70, uh, sevens, um, which that's the word for, for weeks.
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It actually says sevens in there, um, have been decreed for you and your people, um, and your holy city.
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Now what's going to happen? What's going to take place among the people in the city in that time period?
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Uh, finish the transgression, 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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Now, um, if somebody wants to take the 70 weeks and put a gap in there and send it off into the future, then what, what you're left with is these things either partially or fully being uncomplete or not fulfilled.
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So, I mean, I don't know, it'd be unfair to say that, that, uh, someone who, who holds to a dispensational pre -millennial view thinks that sins haven't been atoned for, you know, they still believe in Jesus.
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They believe that he's died on the cross for the sins of men. They believe that all who come to him in repentance and faith will, will find him to be a perfect savior.
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Um, they believe that, but it's, it's difficult to understand why in light of this, uh, passage, cause they're saying, he says for you and for your people, here's six things.
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Now these six things were all accomplished in Christ. Um, they were all accomplished.
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The, the finishing of the transgression, you know, he paid for sins, uh, to make an end of sin, sin is defeated, uh, dead.
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Now, obviously we're still waiting for that final consummation, but sin has already been dealt.
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It's death blow. Jesus went into the grave and got up out of it. So death has no power any longer.
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Uh, sin has been made an end of like it is, it is nothing. It is pathetic.
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It is weak in comparison to Christ, uh, to make an atonement for iniquity.
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Sins are forgiven to bring an everlasting righteousness. No, the, the blood of Christ has been set in the temple of heaven has been laid as well.
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The most Holy place has been anointed. Um, all of these things have taken place.
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Uh, and here's the thing. Um, it was all done.
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What is Daniel's people have to look forward to while they're in exile? Even though they as of yet have not repented of their sins, the people of Israel are going to see repentance from their sins.
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They're going to see a turning away. They're going to see an end of sin. They're finishing of the transgression. Now, I personally,
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I don't, I don't know about anyone else. I personally think that we saw a huge portion of that, uh, on the day of Pentecost, uh,
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Peter preached to 3000 Jews and they believe there was a turning away.
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I mean, the church grew. Um, now it went out to the Gentiles, but I think that was part of God's plan all along.
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I would see Psalm 117 for, for that. Um, it's also very short, so you don't have to see much.
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Um, but when you, you come on down in 25, uh, so you are to know, uh, and discern that from the issuing of the decree to restore the temp or restore and rebuild, uh,
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Jerusalem until the Messiah, or, uh, in a different translation, it says, uh, the
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ESV says an anointed one. Now anointed one is, is a good translation of Messiah simply means anointed one.
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So nobody's trying to read their theology into it. Both equally valid as far as, you know, from the
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Hebrew into English, they both mean the same thing. Uh, the NASB does capitalize it, which
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I think they're absolutely right in doing. Um, and most others would think that too.
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Uh, they don't, so far there's not a ton of disagreement. Um, inside the
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Prince, there will be seven weeks and 62 weeks and it would be built again with moat, uh, even in times of distress.
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Um, uh, whatever your view on the timing, which we will, we will duke it out in a week.
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Um, uh, what you see there is a rebuilding of the temple and rebuilding of Jerusalem at the end of this, uh, 69 weeks.
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Uh, basically it may happen before that, but in that time period, you're seeing a rebuilt temple, a rebuilt city.
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And then at the end of that 62 week period, so at the end of 69 weeks, you have the seven weeks and then you have 62 weeks or sevens or however you want to look at it.
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At the end of that time period, end of 69, it says that the Messiah or the anointed one will be cut off and have nothing.
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Jesus died. It was cut off. He had nothing.
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He didn't even have his life. And then he rose from the dead. The iniquity was paid for.
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The transgression was ended. The most Holy place was anointed. The sins were forgiven and a sin was made an end of all of those things took place.
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Um, um,
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Robert, do you want to add anything before we move on? I got into verse 26. I didn't really, I got excited.
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Okay, cool. I didn't want to run ahead and and leave you behind or anything.
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Oh no, no, no left behind here. That's right. That was good.
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I got jokes. The, the temple that we were talking about is going to be rebuilt, built within that timeframe.
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Yep. Um, and it's, it says from the time of the decree to rebuild the temple.
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So, you know, we've got to figure that out. Um, but this
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Daniel is clear here, Gabriel to Daniel to us is clear here.
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Um, this temple is going to be rebuilt during this time period.
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And then it's interesting, even, even those who believe that there's a gap between the 69th and 70th week.
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Um, how can you say that there's going to be a temple coming after the 70th week or, or after the seven 69th week when
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Gabriel or the book of Daniel here is so specific that it's coming in that time period between the first week and the 69th week at some point, it just doesn't make sense when, when
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Daniel is so clear here, how you can add a, a third rebuilt temple.
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Um, well, we do see another, uh, rebuilt temple, uh, in the
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Bible, but the Bible in the end of revelation is very clear that, uh, those are actually the people of God that constitute the temple.
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Yeah. It's, it's us. Yeah. Not. Yeah. Because he says, Hey, do you want to see the temple of God?
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Absolutely. Or no, no. He said, you want to see the bride of Christ? One of the two.
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And he turns around and he says, look, and it's the, uh, it's a temple. Yeah.
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So yeah. Well, well, Paul uses that, um, language. Yep. All throughout his books that, that we are, we're his temple.
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We are, uh, individually, whereas temple together, we are his temple. We're the stones of this to a living stones being put together.
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So it just, the consistency of, of this post mill theology runs all throughout the old and new
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Testament. So I'm, I'm tracking with you here. All right. And the people of the
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Prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. This right here, this sentence is where there is wild divergence of opinion.
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Who is this Prince that is to come? Now, some people see this, they try to run this in a wooden, rigid chronological order, which
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I don't know how you do and have sin atone for actually, you know, up there in the first few verses, but they will come to this point, say the
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Messiah has been, has come, the anointed one has come and he's been cut off and he has nothing. And now there's going to be another person.
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There's going to be a Prince that is to come, who's going to come and he and his people are going to destroy the city and the sanctuary.
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I think that is inaccurate, inaccurate.
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There's no reason to, to insert someone else. There's no one else even described here.
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An anointed one, a Prince, a Messiah, all the same thing.
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So when it says that the Messiah is cut off, the Messiah has nothing.
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And then the Prince and the people of the Prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
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It's still talking about Jesus. Now, one of the things that, that Robert and I both believe is that Matthew 24 actually fills in a ton of the gaps right here.
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The Prince, the people of the Prince, the coming to destroy a city and temple that all occurred and took place in 70
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AD. Who was it that actually came? Who was the Prince that was spoken of that came and destroyed the temple and the city?
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Well, humanly speaking, it was Titus, but who came in, who actually came in judgment at that time?
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And that was Jesus. It talks about the moon being turned to blood and stars falling from the sky and all sorts of grand apocalyptic type language, which is the exact same language we see of when
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God visits a country in the Old Testament and pronounces judgment upon them, when
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He is working judgment on a people. So what we see in Matthew 24 is that Jesus actually did come and visit the nation of Israel in judgment.
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It was, that is, the Prince would be Jesus and the people of the Prince would be those saints, at least
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I believe, would be those saints who had believed and passed on beforehand.
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Or some people also believe it could have been His angels who came with Him at that time.
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I don't understand why that view is so shocking to people that we would say
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Jesus, we would give credit to Jesus for the destruction of Jerusalem, destruction of the city, and using nations to do it.
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I don't understand why that is so shocking when that's the most consistent interpretation looking at the
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Old Testament. That was God's means. That was God's language that He used. That's what
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God did in the Old Testament. He took them into exile by means of other nations.
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He, you know, had Jerusalem attacked by means of other nations. He used that language in the
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Old Testament of the, you know, the blood, the moon, the stars, the sun, language in the
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Old Testament. And even in our chapter, chapter 9 of Daniel, verse 12, you'll hear similar language in Matthew 24.
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Thus He has confirmed His words, which He had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us to bring on us great calamity for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done in Jerusalem.
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This hyperbolic type language is used in Matthew 24.
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This destruction or desolation will come upon them like has never been before. We'll never see again.
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You see the language here in Daniel. Any comments on that? Yeah, I was talking with,
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I made a Facebook post not too long ago, had a professor saying some things.
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It's not relevant what it was, but it kind of rubbed me the wrong way. So I said something to the effect of, my goodness, people, we don't have to reinvent everything that we say.
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A lot of times when we try to be fresh and relevant, we try to say things that nobody else has thought of before.
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We usually end up just dressing up in old heresy in a new dress. And I think that's kind of what's happening here.
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Now, I don't want to throw around the word heresy or heretic too harshly on people, because I don't necessarily think that folks are doing this type of thing on purpose.
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I don't think they know any better. It's not something you'd want to accuse somebody of in a harsh tone or anything, because I don't think they would know what's going on.
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But that idea that Jesus wouldn't act like that or Jesus wouldn't come visit people in judgment is the thing that happened with the old heretic named
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Marcion. And what he did was, he was trying to say that the
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God of the Old Testament was not the same as the
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God of the New Testament. He tried to use a modern day example.
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He was trying to unhitch the Old Testament from the New Testament in order to save face for the
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God of the New Testament, to say that it wasn't the same God. The God of the Old Testament was vengeful and spiteful, but the
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God of the New Testament is nice and kind and loving. What's really the case is that the
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God of the Old Testament is just as loving and kind as Jesus on the earth. And the Jesus of the
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New Testament is the exact same God who decreed the destruction of nations in the
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Old Testament. It's one and the same God. So, it shouldn't surprise us that Jesus, anointed
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Messiah, Prince, would come and destroy a people who, let's face it, are sinful and wretched.
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We would say the same. If Jesus visited America today with the number of infants that we've slaughtered and the way that we've treated marriage, the absolute joke that some pastors treat the pulpit with, it's all gimmick and fluff.
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It's designed to put butts in the pew and not grace in the hearts of men. Would we say that Jesus is unjust to come and visit us and know in our sin that the church would face judgment first even?
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No. He said we won't face his wrath. Well, not his wrath, but he said he'd chastise us or chasten us, rather.
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He said that he would discipline us because he loves us. So, if the church starts acting a fool, would Jesus not come and whack us?
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Absolutely. So, there's nothing here that should be shocking that we believe that the same temple that Jesus is saying through Gabriel is going to be rebuilt.
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The same city that's going to have its walls put back together is then going to be destroyed through Jesus.
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He uses human agency, but he visits the nation of Israel in 70
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AD through Titus and his men. You shouldn't shock us.
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No, no. I'm with you. I agree with you. We're good.
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We're not disagreeing until next week. Yeah, we'll wait till next time to disagree.
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And even then, we'll only disagree until I speak. No, I'm kidding. So, we are just about 27.
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And its end will come with a flood. Even to the end, there will be more. Desolations are determined.
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Right. Which is speaking of that destruction.
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Right. Right. Of Jerusalem. Yeah, a flood would be a good way of saying it.
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Once the waters hit, it just would not stop. Yeah.
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That's why Jesus said, when you see the army up on the hill, run. Like, don't go back down inside to get a coat.
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Don't do nothing. Run. Run. And that's why you don't see anything about Christians dying in the siege of Jerusalem in 70
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AD because they believed Jesus' words and got out of town. Is that why he says those who believe will endure to the end?
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Not necessarily, but possibly. Possibly. It has application there.
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We need to put it in context and I don't have that stored in my brain at this hour.
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Gotcha. Well, some of the verses that say that, it makes me think of that particular context.
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That he's speaking to those people, you know, you'll survive. You know, if you obey me, you believe and obey, you will survive.
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You will, if you flee, you listen to me like, you know, just like you're talking about. Of course, there's the eternal aspect of that statement as well.
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Then verse 27, this is another distinction that we can make between the two views.
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And he will make a firm covenant with many for one week. Um, who besides God makes covenants?
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Um, and, and this is where some will say the antichrist is the prince.
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The antichrist is going to come and he's going to make a covenant and there's going to be three and a half years of peace.
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Um, they start inserting all, all of that stuff in here and say, it's the antichrist is going to make covenant, but only
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God makes covenants. It's my understanding from what I've been learning.
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Is that, is that kind of the stance that you take? Uh, yeah, yes and no.
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Yes. I believe this is, this is talking about Jesus. Jesus is the one making the covenant.
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Uh, but then the people of Israel actually, uh, chastised for making a covenant with a people.
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Um, they said that they were from a far away land, but really it was people like just around the corner who didn't want Israel to come in and destroy them too.
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So it said that they made a treaty or a covenant with them that they wouldn't destroy them.
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So, but as far as an eternal covenant or a covenant spoken of by, by Gabriel, it's pretty safe to say this is going to be a covenant by, by God himself.
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Um, and I believe that this strong covenant that's made in that final week is the new covenant.
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I believe it's the same covenant. I believe that cause you have, I mean, look at the, look at the way that Daniel or not
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Daniel Jeremiah is, is going, going on talking about the captivity. Um, he talks about the captivity in chapter 25, he moves on and talks about it again in 29 and where do we find the prophecy of, um, of the new covenant?
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We find that in chapter 31, uh, even Jeremiah's progression of, of what's going to happen with Babylon and Babylon ending.
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And then the new covenant coming matches up with Daniel, you know, saying that Babylon will end, there's going to be other ones, but there's going to be a strong covenant made by God with his people for the salvation of their souls.
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Well, actually the whole person, it's not just their souls. That's why the body's raised up as well. You need to quit being so Gnostic.
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And there you go again, just showing the consistency in that interpretation.
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Um, the consistency, that thread throughout all the scripture. And so that, and as you were talking about this, this is the last week.
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Um, Daniel here in this session seems to divide the three sections that we were talking about. You have, um, what, seven weeks, then you have 62 weeks.
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And then here in verse 27, you have the last week, which is, um, supposed to be seven years.
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And then he will, he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week. But in the middle of that week, he will put a stop to sacrifice and grant offering.
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Did that happen? What's what say? Yes. Yes.
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Yes. Um, but you said we can't fight about interpretations till next week. So just leave it there.
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The timing part, right? Yeah. I, I don't necessarily think it was three and a half years, but, um, at the destruction of the temple in 70
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AD, um, it was completely the, the grain offering. All the offerings were done away with, but yeah, well, like I said, yes,
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I agree. We'll fight about the rest next week. Uh, amicably of course.
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Absolutely. People hear the word fight and they think that we're going to like be at each other's throat or something.
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And I don't know. I think fighting is fun. It's like iron sharpening iron. Like there's still sparks, but, but you end up being, being better at the end of it.
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That's right. And that's, that's what we hope for. Absolutely. But it was, it was Christ.
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It was Jesus, the Messiah, the Prince, the anointed one. He was the one who came. Um, he ended sacrifices.
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He ended the grain offerings with his sacrifice on the cross. So that's, that's what we see.
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Um, he, he ended it and made it no more. He ended the covenant, which is what we see happening here in Daniel, the old covenant, the old, the age, the, that age is, is done.
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It's finished. Um, no more sacrifice is needed. That's why he put a stop to it.
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Um, he, it doesn't say that he will reinstate it. He says he puts a stop to sacrifice and grain offering and on the abominations will come 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. Can you explain that last part to us?
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Um, on the, on the wing of abominations, uh, I think would be Titus. Titus, um, was doing all sorts of wretched stuff before he actually finally destroyed the temple again.
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Um, I would say that you could absolutely call them abominations. And then also he, one who makes desolate, yeah, he, he ripped it down.
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It was, you left with the wailing wall and that was about, that's just a foundation wall. That's, that's it.
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Um, until the end is poured out on the desolator. Um, he, uh, he, he also met his end.
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So God not only, um, he, God not only, uh, ended, um, he not, he not only had his judgment come and used human means to do it, but he also, uh, judged the wickedness of the one who came to do the destructing, destruct, destruction, destructionating.
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I don't know. I think, I think it's getting late for both of us.
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Um, going back to trying to interpret this, this last section, um,
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Daniel used a similar language when he's, he's talking about the 70 years that they're, they're currently, uh, speaking of Daniel, his present situation, he's presently him and his people are presently in that 70 year.
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Um, um, exile. That was prophesied and he uses this similar language, uh, which again should confirm the type of interpret the way you should interpret the language.
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Um, the, the desolation, desolate abomination, um, he uses calamity, um, calamity, calamity.
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Uh, he also uses, um, desolations. Um, where's that verse earlier in chapter nine, he talks about the desolations.
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Um, and I can't find it right now, but he does use it.
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Um, which tells me that, um, if this is the type of language, this is what he's, he's using to describe what's going on in, in this prophecy and, and God's, um, treatment of Jerusalem and, and the people then, then we can understand it in a similar way to be consistent in our interpretation and our understanding of his language, his word use here in this section and, and what it will look like and what it should look like, um, instead of trying to make up our, our own theology, our own understanding of the word for it to, to fit some future use.
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Um, so yeah, and I wish I could, I wish the, it would just pop right out to me, but I know he used the word desolation.
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17 and 18. 17 and 18. Yep. Yes. Yes. There it is.
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Similar language. Absolutely. So when you, when you use the word, um, when you use the word, um, iron sharpening iron, it reminded me of a comment that I made earlier.
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And that's what I wanted to wrap up on. Gabriel is responding to, um,
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Daniel and his response from, from God is like a, a double edged sword.
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So here, Daniel cries out here, Oh Lord, Oh Lord, forgive.
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Oh Lord, listen, take action for that own sake. So to a degree, it doesn't seem like God is answering in that way is that he's, um, he's going to be forgiving or he's going to, um, make his face shine on, on this people again, like, like Daniel's requesting.
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So, um, how is it a double edged sword? We, we do see the, um, we, we do see the desolation to come, but how is that a double edged sword?
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Where's the blessing in that? Um, where, where do we see the, um, that, that God is going to, to restore and answer
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Daniel's prayer of an 18 and 19, where he's pleading for God to, uh, to consider his people because they are his people.
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Right. Um, I, I think he, he does it, uh, in, uh, 24 and then in 27, uh, 24, uh, he talks about the forgiveness of sins.
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He talks about the putting away of evil. He talks about their salvation and the good things that are coming to them.
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Um, and then, uh, remember Daniel's request was, was twofold. He's like, he wanted the blessing of God.
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And he also wanted, uh, his people to be a people who would repent as well.
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Um, and what you see here at the end of 27, where things are being desolated and things are being torn down, uh, where a temple and city are destroyed, you are seeing the unfaithful people that Daniel's a part of put aside.
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So Daniel's request really is being met. Uh, it's being met maybe in a way that he didn't envision, but it is being met because it was always about the remnant.
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It was always about those who had faith in God. It was always about those who trusted in the
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Lord. We see this in, in, uh, Paul's writings in Romans, uh, 11, uh, there was branches broken off and believing or Jewish unbelieving branches broken off of the olive tree and believing
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Gentile branches grafted in Daniel's people was pruned.
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The unbelieving unfruitful were broken off. And those who bore fruit were put on along with salvation, along with the putting away of sins, along with the iniquity being done with.
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So really, uh, Daniel's, um, Daniel's prayers were completely answered.
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Maybe not in the way that he thought he was probably hoping for a, a mass, a conversion of the
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Jews right then and there at that point, God, come on, my people are struggling. Uh, now
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I personally believe we'll see that. Um, I don't know that it's a point of contention among some people.
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I believe that we'll see that at some point in the future, um, that the, uh, one of the things that will, what will, one of the things that will happen is that we, as, as Gentiles will preach the gospel in such a way that we'll put the
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Jews to shame and they will, um, out of jealousy turn to Christ. Uh, Paul says that he says that, uh, in that same section that, uh, one of the things that the
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Gentiles will do is to love God with such a fervency that they'll, uh, that they'll provoke
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Paul's people to jealousy and see them turn to Christ. Uh, those who are believing will be grafted back into the tree.
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Um, so yeah, Daniel got exactly what he was praying for.
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Even though it may not have looked like it had hit, you know, sitting in Babylonian exile, you know, 500 years before Jesus was going to show up, but yeah, he got exactly what he was asking for.
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And that's, that's something that I didn't want us to miss. And I didn't want those who may be watching to miss, you know, we focus so much on the prophetic aspect of this and the
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Messiah, the antichrist, the, the years, the 70 years, but Daniel cried out to the
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Lord. He was highly esteemed and, and Gabriel promised, um, here's, here's a decree.
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This is a decree for your people in your holy city. There will be a finished finish, um, or to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make an atonement for iniquity, to bring everlasting righteousness.
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And, and we know 20 vision or how does that 2020 Jesus Christ is our everlasting righteousness.
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He's the end of, of transgression, the atonement for iniquity. And, uh, that part
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I didn't, I didn't want us to miss because that's, that makes this Christo centric and gospel centered.
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Even when it says to seal up vision and prophecy, you run into Hebrews one, and it says in time, Tom's passing various times.
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And, and, uh, God spoke to our fathers, uh, through the prophets, you know, many different ways, but today he has spoken past tense through his son.
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What other revelation are we looking for from God? We're not, that's right.
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Um, because he has sealed up vision and prophecy because he has given us a complete revelation of his son, his salvation and his hope for this world and marching orders to go out and disciple the
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That's right. That's right. Well, let's end on that. So our plea with you tonight is to, um, yeah, the, we want you to understand post -millennialism.
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We want you to understand that there's something out there different than pre -trib rapture, pre -millennialism.
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But most of all, we want you to know Jesus Christ and know him as your savior, known as your
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Lord, know him as King, as he currently reigns. So if you do not know him, we would ask that you, um, and, and plead and proclaim
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Christ teach you and, and tell you that he commands all men everywhere to repent and turn from your sins and believe the gospel.
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So with that being said, let me pray and we'll, we'll close this video. Father, we thank you for a time that you given
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Dan and I've been together to discuss your word. We pray that you will bless it and honor it.
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We pray that, um, you were honored and glorified. We appeal as Daniel did to your name, um, because for your sake, we, we want folks to come to know you and we can only do it through you.
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And, um, because of your son and what he did on the cross, which is what we learned tonight in Daniel, that Jesus put an end to iniquity.
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He made atonement for sin and he is, Jesus is our everlasting righteousness.
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So we want to lift him up and praise him tonight in Jesus name.
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Amen. Thank you guys for watching. Remember that Jesus is King, go live in that victory and continue to go out there with Dan and I and proclaim the gospel.