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Dan and I both hold the post millennial position. You've got the pre-trib dispensational position. You've got a mid-trib, you've got a post-trib, you've got an aumil position, and there's a wide array of several other positions that are out there.

But Dan and I hold the post-mill position. Post-mill, in the post-mill position, you have what you call the partial preterist position. That post-mill, that's right. The partial preterist position, some of these words are hard to pronounce, especially together.

And preterist just means past. So we believe most of the prophecies that are in Scripture, Old Testament and New, from Daniel to Revelation, have already taken place. And I know that's a hard pill for many to swallow because we have been taught a certain form of eschatology, a certain viewpoint for so many years, and I didn't even know that there were other viewpoints out there.

So I know it's a hard pill for some to swallow. It gets confusing because you've heard one thing for so long. But we believe in partial preterism, many have already happened in the past. Preterist means past.

And so we are trying to explain that and help you understand where we get that information. Our last video together, Dan and I have already looked at the bulk of Daniel chapter 9. But we wanted to focus tonight specifically on the last part, starting in verse 24 through 27, looking at the 70 weeks of years.

And I think it's a good video for Dan and I to do because Dan and I, at this point, hold a slightly different viewpoint on how to look at the 70 weeks that verse 24 starts off with. So we can have a conversation about it.

And it will be a good example if you or someone you know holds the pre-millennial dispensation view. In other words, you believe in the pre-trib rapture. If you hold that view and you come across somebody who holds a mid-trib, post-trib, amillennial position, post-millennial position like us, it's good practice to know how to have a conversation with someone that holds a different view and not label them a heretic and you don't want anything to do with them anymore.

And it can show how you can still work together for the gospel in ministry for Jesus Christ, even if you hold different views. I don't think Dan, the view that Dan and I hold are that much different. We'll see here in a few minutes.

But I think there is some differences, and I think both views are legitimate. So let's jump in. I'm going to read the text and kind of make some initial points before we actually get into the numbers game.

Verse 24, Daniel chapter 9, if you have your Bible, follow along with us. 70 weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring an everlasting righteousness, 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 Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, it will be seven weeks and 62 weeks. It will be built again with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

Then after the 62 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 come with a flood. Even to the end, there will be war.

Desolations are determined. And he will make a firm covenant with many for one week. But in the middle of the week, he will put a stop to sacrifice, a grand offering, and on the wing of abominations will come on who makes desolate.

Even until complete destruction, one that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes desolate. Now, Dan, I want you to make some comments after I make my initial comments. I want you to chime in on this because I think it's really important not only for people to see our conversation where we have differences, but if we can be specific on where we differ from the popular view, the premill dispensation, the pre-trib rapture view, I think it will be helpful discerning where we stand, how we get what we get, as opposed to that position.

So let's begin with the very first verse. Well, let me say this. I think we have a lot in common with the premill dispensation, the pre-trib rapture view, in the numbers game up to a certain point. Would you agree with that?

No. No?

No. Okay. I would say that your position probably does. Okay. So why don't you go ahead and describe that, and I'll describe where I'm coming from, so that way we can make the contrast and we'll make it fairly.

Okay.

So that makes sense that my position does have some similarities with the pre-trib rapture view on the numbers up to a certain point. So 70 weeks have been decreed for, I think this is an important point to make, for your people and your holy city.

It doesn't say 69 weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city. It's the whole 70. Do you think that's an important distinction to make? Mm-hmm. Yep. Okay. Because now I guess we're going to have to make some distinctions, because my view has some similarities with the pre-trib view.

So up to a certain point, we have some agreement up to the 69th week, and then they place in these verses a gap called the church age, and they don't know exactly how long the church age is going to be.

It's been 2 ,000 plus years now, right? Right.

Yeah. It's a concept called prophetic foreshortening. In other words, they say it's kind of like you're standing off on the plains close to the Rocky Mountains, and you see the glimpse of the Rockies, and you're seeing a whole bunch of different mountains here and across and over there, and you see them all as one range, so you would describe them as one mountain.

But you get up there close to them, you realize the peaks that you were looking at from way back may be miles and miles apart from each other. One may be way further away, one may be closer, but they look the same when you're looking at it.

So what they would say is that the weeks here are seen all together in a timeline, in one shot, but that 70th week is further off. It looks from Daniel's perspective way back here like it's all the same, but when you get up on it, you realize that there's a valley in between that 69th and 70th week that he wasn't able to distinguish.

Right. So that's where they kind of put that in.

And basically what you're saying is that's how they justify that gap. I can't find a biblical support for a gap. I don't find it here in Daniel 9, and I don't see it anywhere else. So who would they say that last week is for, that last seven years?

They say the last week is for the Jews. Okay. Which actually makes perfect sense or decreed about your people, Daniel's people.

So it comes back to the Jews and fulfills the first part of this. Right.

Okay. Because there's an understanding that since in the dispensational view that the people of Israel in Jesus' time actually rejected the kingdom that was offered to them. So it was put on hold until all the Gentiles that we believe would come in.

And then the Gentiles, the church would be raptured out. And all the promises in the Old Testament scheme that was going on before the church was called to Christ would then restart. So you get up to week 69.

The Jews reject the kingdom. God says, well, sit right there and think about it for a minute while I deal with these Gentiles. And then he comes back at the end, he'll remove the church and finish his promises to the nation of Israel.

Instead of realizing that it was always the faithful remnant, even those who were, Romans 4 says, 4, 9, 11. All of them say that it was the people of faith who were the children of Abraham. This is why we today, we can sing.

I don't know why a dispensationalist would sing Father Abraham and many sons. I am one of them. And so are you. No, you're not. You're not a Jew. He treats you differently.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point. So according to verse 24, my view and their view, we both believe that all 70 weeks are decreed for your people and Holy City. They just insert a time period for Gentiles and the church age.

But I don't see that. So let's move on. The next, and I know we touched this on the last video, but the next little part of verse 24 and 25, I guess, are the six things that must take place. And I see and I think you would agree with me that these six things have occurred.

Those that look into the future for some of these events to have happened, they see some of them yet to be fulfilled. And that will be a difference that we have. So each of these things and I have some notes here.

I'm not going to take time to go through each one of them, but I have notes and we can talk about. I can show you how each one of these six have in the past already been fulfilled. That's that's reasonable.

That's biblical.

It's historical. We can do that. We can look at it. And I kind of understand where people come from. They see especially finish the transgression to put an end to sin. Then they look around and see, well, there's sin everywhere.

So what do you mean? He's put an end to sin. Right. What we mean by that is that the initial putting of an end to sin has occurred that it's in God's dealings with mankind. It's as good as done because sin has been is either been paid for or the punishment for sin has been set up because Christ has died.

His blood is atoned for the sins of men. And and so sin has lost like the grave holds no power over us. That's what we believe. Put an end to sin is talking about that sin's power. It's destructive forces.

It's rain over the earth has ended because Christ's kingdom has come because he is he has purchased salvation for for men. Yeah. And women. I mean, men in the general. I don't know why would you say that nowadays?

I know it reminds me of the the idea of our sanctification. We're we're we're not under when we're saved and we begin the process of sanctification. We're not under the power of sin anymore. We're not controlled by under none of the power of it, but we're still influenced by it.

Yeah, almost like one of those vestigial organs, the ones that you have there, but they don't really serve a purpose or they may have served a purpose. But don't I don't really know about all that because it gets an evolution.

And I'm not really on board with evolution, but like like the appendix, you can you can absolutely live without it. So imagine you have an organ that at one time had to use. Now it doesn't just kind of sits there.

Sin nature. It's died. It still sits there. It's still a part of the body. May even be some things that run through it from time to time. But it just kind of dead weight, ready to get that cut off and put away forever.

That's cosmic appendectomy or something.

Boy, I wish there was such a thing. I'd like to be rid of it for real. Let me let me just jump in to my view of the numbers. So it's going to start with with verse 25, where Daniel says there's going to be a decree to rebuild Jerusalem.

And so what do we need to look for in the future? If God is true and Daniel is a true prophet, what do we need to look for? We need to look for a decree to rebuild Jerusalem. And we have that. We have that in history there.

There is a decree to rebuild Jerusalem. And if I'm not mistaken. We have is it Isaiah that gives the name of the person that will decree. And his name is Cyrus. Is that correct?

Maybe. Maybe. I'm going to have to say no, because this is where we disagree on. Oh, oh, oh, Cyrus is named.

Cyrus is named and he does. He does give a decree in history and he is prophesied to.

Wait, no, yeah, no, I agree with Cyrus. Right. Right. OK, I don't know how you can.

Well, maybe we'll get there. We'll get there. All right. We'll see. You'll see if my cup can hold water. All right. So we were both thinking Cyrus and Cyrus was prophesied before Cyrus was around. And which, you know, shows the miraculous.

Work of God. So we have Cyrus prophesied or he's prophesied that he gives a decree to rebuild that that starts the timetable, according to Daniel. Of the 70 weeks, I think, in my opinion, it's a lot of scholars, most scholars, some scholars, however you want to say it.

We calculate this as 70 weeks of years. So there's going to be 70 seven year increments. Is that right? Is that I think that's the correct view or it's hard to explain that. I'm not the best to do it.

That is your view. OK, so 77 increments of years, which seven days in one week, seven years. And, you know, you look back at the law that God had a time frame of letting the land rest a Sabbath year. You know, it kind of to me, it kind of plays into all that.

There was God does circulations of seven years. But anyway, one of the reasons why I want to look at it that way and I hold that point of view is because I'm we're coming off the heels of Daniel. Talking about a literal 70 years.

That they were in exile and they're there on the end of that prophecy. Getting ready to be fulfilled. It started. It ended 70 years. The prophecy was right. And then this prophecy is on the heels of Daniel talking about that prophecy.

And then you get to verse 27 and you have him speaking of in the middle of a week. And we want to we see Jesus, Jesus baptism. We see that as when he was the Messiah, the prince was anointed. And that's part of the prophecy here in Daniel.

And then that begins his ministry. That begins the last seven last week, the 70th week. And then at three and a half years, which we know that Jesus had a three, you know, it is ministry. So at three and a half years, which Daniel talks about, he's cut off.

He puts an end to sacrifice. He sees crucified. And so. Looking at all that. And and then the first seven years. You can kind of follow history with with these numbers. The first seven years after the decree was made, you have the building or the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

And then you have a 62 weeks or seven year increments. Sixty two weeks of years, seven years period of time. And then at the end of that, 62 weeks plus seven weeks is 69. Then you have Jesus coming on the scene.

And another reason why I want to take these numbers more literally is because you have Daniel at the beginning of Daniel. You it talks about the wise men that were in this area east of Jerusalem. And and then you have Daniel prophesying of a messiah to come and he gives specific dates.

And so I can't help but think that Daniel is passing along this prophetic information to these wise men. And then you have the New Testament. And what do you have in the New Testament? Gabriel, who come to Daniel, comes to Mary.

And then you have what wise men coming from the east who were a part of Daniel story. And Daniel gives them this prophetic information to look for. These are the certain number of years. And then the messiah, the prince will come.

How do they know when to look for the star? Daniel gave them some numbers to keep up with. And so to me, understanding the numbers as more literal, to me, makes sense. And then this I'll finish with this because this is what we hit on just a few minutes ago.

How do you make it all the way to 70 AD with those numbers? If you're and it may be a stretch and my cup may not hold water. But if you're looking at the numbers, doing the calculations, the 70th week ends after the three and a half years after the crucifixion.

But then we believe that 70 AD is when Jesus came in his judgment on Jerusalem. They were they were told Jesus told them to flee to the mountains. You know, let's hope that you're not pregnant. It's not the Sabbath, because when this day comes, you're going to want to flee.

What? That I hope I'm not pregnant. Oh, exactly. You're not pregnant either. All right. He was telling the women, hope that you're not pregnant at that time. Hopefully it's not a Sabbath, because when Jerusalem is surrounded by armies, look for that.

And this time of judgment came and culminated, finished in 70 AD and Jerusalem and the temple was destroyed. And that's when the Christians fled to the hills not to look back. Don't go back to get your cloak or, you know, something about the rooftop.

Don't go back to the rooftop to get your cloak. And so if you follow the years that Daniel gives, you end up at the end of the crucifixion, three and a half years after the crucifixion. But then after that, when the 70 weeks of years is finished, you have a gap between then and 70 AD.

So what do you do with that? In my view, the position that I hold, and this is how I would explain it. And don't shoot me down. This is just what I'm coming up with so far. And I could be wrong. I'm open to change.

Verse 24 says 70 weeks have been decreed for your people in your holy city. And then part of the six things that's supposed to happen, seal up vision and prophecy, supposed to be confirmed, supposed to finish.

All right. So it's finished. The 70 weeks is over. It's done. It was for those people, your people in your holy city. It was sealed up. The vision was sealed up. Prophecy was sealed up. It was confirmed.

It was finished. So that's fulfilled. We've got that. So it doesn't mention the gap between the 70 weeks is not a part of verse 27 where it's talking about the abomination and stuff, which we'll both get to.

And I think we'll both probably agree on who it is. But where I get the numbers for that gap between the end of the 70 weeks and 70 AD is when Matthew 24, 34. This generation will not pass until all these things come to come to pass.

All these things happen. And I think it's Isaiah that talks about that generation or a generation. Jesus talks about a generation several times. And one of the common answers of how long is a generation is 40 years.

And so that gap between the 70 weeks of years completing and 70 AD is approximately around 30, 35, 40, 40 years, something like that. Depends on where you start. So 35 to 40 years, that's around a generation biblically.

So that's kind of how I'm fitting the puzzle pieces together. And so I've spoken up and I'll let Dan share his viewpoint. All right. I do have a couple of questions.

Yeah. If you want me to clarify. Okay. I'll ask them and kind of let you go on. You were talking about 490 years as 77, right? Seven times 70 is 490. And that lining up from the decree of Cyrus. Now, Cyrus decreed his decree was written in 538 BC.

So how do you get to 30 ish AD and it be 490 years? I know. I don't have a math degree. I'm just trying.

Did I say Cyrus? Yeah. I mean, I meant the math works out better. If I go to being a guard exerts. Okay.

That's what I was wondering. I didn't think you could go from Cyrus. No, I.

I don't have all the answers there. There's two decrees to people that can fit the decree giving for my understanding. And so the math, I think, from my point of view, works out better with King exerts.

He's okay.

But then you have the math works a lot better with him than it does Cyrus. That's right.

I was wondering, but you have Cyrus. Prophesied with Isaiah and Cyrus does give the decree. And so, you know, that's where I'm at. That's fair. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, that was what I had. I'm just curious.

I'm sure I'll misspeak, too. Well, no, I didn't misspeak. I didn't do the math. Ahead of time. That's fine. But once you said that, I was like, I know where he's going.

That's cool. All right. So where I differ, unless you have any more clarifying points. All right. So where I differ first off is word number two, where it says weeks. You said weeks of years. That word weeks, even in like an ESV, I think in the NASB at the bottom, it'll have a little asterisk, a little number, and it'll say or sevens.

It's not necessarily weeks. It can mean sevens. Now, the way that the Jews back then would say a week, they would say it was a seven. It was a group of seven. But it wasn't necessarily a week. So I don't know if we have to be restricted to a week of year concept in order to understand what's being said here.

I actually think he's talking about sevens. The word seven's really close to the word for Sabbath. It has the idea of a rest, of a completion. God was done with his work, and so he rested on the seventh day.

So I think the idea that's being put forward is one of a rest or a Sabbath or a completion when he says seven. And here's why I say that. Back in the first part of Daniel nine, he says that he was wondering what was going on.

He was confused. The prophecy of Jeremiah was about to end. What's going to happen? 70 years were decreed back there in Jeremiah. So what's going to happen? How is this going to? What gives? He's wondering.

And I would be, too. You get to a certain point. What's God doing? And I don't think the important part is the time period. I think it's. Let me go back. I'm getting ahead of myself. Go back to Jeremiah.

It's found. This prophecy found in two places. Jeremiah 25, 11, which says this whole land shall become a ruin in a way. Speaking of Israel and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon. 70 years.

Then after 70 years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste. So 70 years are going to be in captivity in Babylon.

Daniel's wondering what's going to happen at the end of the 70 years of captivity. He was right there at it. 70 years is ending. He's under a new king. This king is a mead. That's not a Babylonian. That's a new king.

Dave, the Babylonians have gone. So what's going to happen now? No, they've been destroyed. So what do we do? The next time it's mentioned, this prophecy is also mentioned in Jeremiah 29 verse 10, which if you're familiar with Jeremiah 29, 11 of Jeremiah 29, 10 is the context for it and makes it better.

I think I'm taking it out of context. It says, for thus says the Lord, when 70 years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you. Now fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. To where?

To Israel. Why? Because I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord plans for welfare, not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. So at the end of those 70 years, Babylon is going to be defeated.

God's going to decree and bring back the people into the promised land. And so here we are. Daniel praying about this prophecy in Jeremiah and the angel comes and tells him, this is the answer. This is what's happening at the end of the prophecy that Jeremiah gave.

Babylon's done away with, and now I'm going to bring you back into the land. The first deportation into Babylon occurred about 605 of the 70 years lasted roughly 70 years, depending on what part of 605 and what part of 538 you look at, you get about 70 years that they were in captivity to Babylon.

And then something happens. Cyrus in the book of Ezra makes a decree that they should go back and rebuild the temple. Now, to me, rebuilding the temple would be step number one in rebuilding the city.

What are you going to do once you get to the city? Well, God sent us into exile. God, by his mighty hand, has defeated our enemies and brought us back from exile. Very first thing we need to do is to worship God.

Rebuild the temple. That's step one in rebuilding the city. Some people disagree with that. We don't really have a full word for word of the decree in Ezra. Josephus does record what he says is the full document of that decree.

And in that decree, it does say that they're supposed to go back and rebuild the city and the temple. So it says both. Now, Josephus is not in the Bible. He's extra biblical. So we need to look at Bible sources first.

If he lines up with it, great. If not, we'll kick him to the curb. No problem. So the decree would then, I believe, start with Cyrus. He would decree on 538 that they should go back, start rebuilding the temple so that those groups of sevens or completions were going to start to take place.

One would be shorter. One would be longer. One would be short and final. It would be the last final completion. Now, the reason why I think it's Cyrus is because, like you said, Isaiah predicts that somebody named Cyrus was going to be very important.

This all happens about the time that the 70 years ends, which is the context of Daniel 9. And I don't believe that there's a gap in Daniel 9. I know. That was going off of your T-shirt from the other day.

On the front end, I don't believe that there's a gap in Daniel 9. I believe that that started then and there. And also back in 2 Chronicles. If you go to 2 Chronicles verses 21 and 22, it says, To fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths all the days that it lay desolate.

It kept Sabbath to fulfill 70 years. So there was an idea of the people of Israel had not fulfilled the Sabbath. They hadn't rested. They hadn't allowed the land to rest. Like God had said, God doing his work.

And then he rested. They did their work and then they just kept on working and they didn't rest. So God said, stop what you're doing and rest in me.

That was kind of the idea that I was going off of. Sure. Yeah.

And then it says, Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled. The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, the king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation or decree throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing.

Thus says the king of Persia, the Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all kingdoms of the earth and has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord be with him.

Let him go up. So one of the things that the decree was supposed to do was supposed to lead the people out of captivity, out of Babylon and put them back into the land of Israel. You see, Cyrus hit all of those points.

The only point where it doesn't make sense is if we make it, if we start with the understanding that it's supposed to be a 490 year period because it doesn't fit like the math just does not work. But if you understand it as a first group of sevens, a second group of sevens and a final seven, what you start, what you have then is the first seven is the decree for the rebuilding of the temple in the city.

It's mainly the job of the temple to be rebuilt in the first 49, if you want to call it by those years or the first group of sevens. First group of sevens, the temple is rebuilt. And the second group of sevens, the city is rebuilt and it's repopulated by the Jewish people.

In the last group of seven or the last seven, what you see is all those things that are happening at the end, where the prince is anointed, he's cut off of the people of the prince, which I believe is the Jews, come and try to destroy.

And what ends up happening is that all of this happens. The sacrifice has an end put onto it. And then those who tried to desolate or tried to desecrate or who tried to kill the Messiah were eventually snuffed out.

The judgment was passed upon them. And so that's why I think this is dealing with Cyrus, starting in 538 and running through about 70, 80.

Here's a question that I should have looked up, but you probably or may already know. If we were to take the numbers, we were both talking about how the math doesn't add up if you begin with Cyrus. But there are so different calendars.

They went by different calendar than we go by. If you go by the lunar calendar, would the math add up? No. Okay.

It's still too much. Okay. Because you'd only lose about five days per year. Okay. It's not enough to gain back. What is that? Almost 100 years. Yeah. You'd have to gain back almost 100 years. Okay.

There's our two views. There's our two options. I think both of them are legitimate to me because I'm still learning. I'm still growing and I have a lot to learn. But what we do agree on is that there's not a gap in here.

It's got to be speaking of the preterist, partial preterist point of view, that however you calculate the years or interpret the years, Daniel's telling us that it was the completion of these 70 weeks of years or 70 weeks.

My apology. These 70 weeks is going to be the Messiah when he came in 70 AD, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. That's going to be the completion of all of it. And not something in the future.

And this is where I want to maybe wrap it up, if we can, and hit on these last two points. Because I made the comment people are looking for these things to happen. That's why they insert a gap here is because they're telling us that there are certain things that haven't happened yet.

So let's talk about those things. And I can think of two that I'd like to discuss. The first one is they say, well, Jesus hasn't come back yet and how they define that changes. I think sometimes they're referring to the rapture.

Sometimes they're talking about the second coming when they talk about he's coming back. You have to listen close to know which which one they're talking about. But they say Jesus hasn't come back yet.

And so, you know, this couldn't have happened. We're waiting for that to happen. And so I look at two different verses. And I want your thoughts on these verses. The number one, A, is to work. And then I've got B, another verse, Matthew 12, 28 and Luke 11, 20.

Jesus says, if I cast out demons, and I think Matthew says by spirit of God and Luke says by the finger of God, the kingdom has come upon you. So here you have Jesus who in his ministry cast out demons.

And he says, when that happens, the kingdom has come upon you. So we know we know he's there is his kingdom. These things are being fulfilled. And then the last verse or two verses that I want to look at, going more specifically to the Jesus coming and how we view that understanding of Jesus coming.

Isaiah 11, 4 and 5. Help me out here. Let me know if you think that I'm on track with these verses. So Isaiah 11? Isaiah 11, 4 and 5 or at least 4. It says, but with righteousness, he will judge the poor and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth.

He will strike. Here's the wording. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips. He will slay the wicked. So this is what we mean by Jesus came. And we believe that's how we interpret Jesus talking about his coming in 70 AD was not physically, but in destruction.

And here Isaiah is describing what that looks like. It's not a physical return with armies behind him to destroy his enemies. It's with his mouth. The afflicted of the earth with, it will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips, he will slay the wicked.

So people will say that he's not physically came back. Well, that's not what, we don't believe that's what Jesus was referring to when he was saying he come back in their generation. He is speaking Old Testament figurative language where all over the Old Testament, it speaks of God coming, but coming in judgment.

And here Isaiah is describing that coming of Jesus, but coming in judgment. And he comes and strikes the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips, and not a physical feet on the ground with armies marching behind him.