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# 1
The Most Amazing Prophecy in Human History
Daniel 9
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# 2 The Claims of Christ
Self-Existence: like God, he has no external
dependencies.
John 5:26 "For just as the Father has
life in Himself, even so He gave to the
Son also to have life in Himself;
Holds power over life and death:
John 5:25 "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when
the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and those
who hear shall live.
Holds the power to save from judgment:
John 5:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My
word, and believes Him who sent Me,
has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has
passed out of death into life.
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# 3 Who Is Jesus Christ?
A Wise Philosopher?
A Good Man?• Or –
The Son of God, as he claimed?
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# 4 Proof that He’s the Messiah?
John 5:31 "If I alone bear witness of myself, my testimony is not true.”• Ie, my personal claims aren’t very credible.
John the Baptist (Jn.5:32-35)
Signs (the “Sumaiya” Jn. 5:36-37)
The Old Testament:• John 5:39 “You search the
Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that bear witness of Me.”
• There are over 300 prophecies concerning the Messiah in the Old Testament which Christ fulfilled.
• Tonight: Daniel 9, one of the most amazing there is!
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# 5Daniel 9:24
“Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.”
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# 6 Context: Daniel 9:1 In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a
Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom--
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# 7 Daniel 9:2I, Daniel, observed in the
books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
Jer. 25:9-11“I will summon all the peoples of the north and my
servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the LORD,
“and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding
nations. . . and these nations will serve the king of Babylon
seventy years.”
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# 8 Daniel 9:11 Daniel’s Prayer“Indeed all Israel has
transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; 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…”
Lev. 26:27 If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be
hostile toward me,33 I will scatter you among the
nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities
will lie in ruins.34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the
country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its
sabbaths.
Lev. 25:2-7
“Sabbath Year”
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# 9 Daniel 9:24 Context:Sabbatical Years
"Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city …”
Also confirmed in 2 Chronicles 36:20,21 “Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile to Babylon the remnant . . . and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power. The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah.”
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# 10
Context: Two 490 Year Periods
490 years you BLEW IT 490 years TRY AGAIN
Dan. 9:24Dan. 9:1-11
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# 11 Daniel 9:24
9:24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city tofinish transgression, to put an end to sin,to atone for wickedness,to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecyand to anoint the most holy temple
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# 12 Daniel 9:25 Breakdown
“So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince comes,there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’
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# 13 Step 1: Calculate the Years.
From the issuingof a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be...
7 sevens and 62 sevens7 X 7 = 49yrs. 62 X 7 = 434 yrs.
49 + 434 = 483 years
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# 14 Step 2: Convert to Solar Years
From the issuingof a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be...
7 sevens and 62 sevens7 X 7 = 49yrs. 62 X 7 = 434 yrs.
49 + 434 = 483 years
Convert Hebrew Lunar years to our Solar years
Lunar years = 360 days each483 years = 173,880 lunar year days / 365¼ (S.L.D.) = 476.06 Solar Years
Or, 476 of our Solar years
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# 15 Step 3: Dating the Decree
From the issuingof a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be 476 years
7 sevens and 62 sevensWhen?25b “it will be built again,
with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.”
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# 16 Step 3: Dating the DecreeNehemiah 2:1ff In the month of
Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought for him, ...the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad?”
I answered, “Why should my face not look sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
The king said to me, "What is it you want?"
• "If it pleases the king, may I have letters to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, so that they will provide me safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah…
• give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress which is by the temple, for the wall of the city…”
• ...the king granted my requests.
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# 18 Step 3: Dating the Decree
From the issuingof a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be 476 years
7 sevens and 62 sevens
465 BC - 20 yrs=445Nissan=Spring= 444 bc
Neh.2:1 “In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes”
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# 19 Step 4: Perform the Math!
From the issuingof a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be 476 years
7 sevens and 62 sevens
444 bc?
?- 444 (BC)+476 32 + 1 (No “0” yr)
1 AD 2 AD 3 AD2 BC3 BC 1 BC- 3 - 2 - 1 0 1 2
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# 20 33 AD, 22 NissanLuke 19:37 And as He was now approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" And some of the Pharisees in the multitude said to Him, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples." And He answered and said, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!"
476.06 = Precise Days.06 = 22 Days
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# 21 33 AD, 28 Nissan
Luke 19:41 And when He approached, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.”
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# 22 33 AD, 28 NissanLuke 19:43 "For the days shall come upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank before you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side, 44 and will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."
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# 23 Daniel 9 Prophecy Refutations?1. This passage accurately predicts the date of the
coming of Christ over 500 years before the fact!2. The pre-Christian date of Daniel 9 cannot be denied!
Even skeptics don’t take this route.3. The date for this decree is accepted by all.4. Could the New Testament authors fake its fulfillment?
Impossible! Tiberius, Augustus, Herod, Quirinius, Pilot, Passover on a Friday…
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# 24 How Do You Explain This?
Who is Jesus Christ?More Proof:• John 5:40 “and you are unwilling to come to Me,
that you may have life.” Implication: new life in him.• “My teaching is not my own. It comes from him
who sent me. If anyone is willing to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.” John 7:16,17
Why not ask God to give you the rest of the evidence tonight?
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# 25 The Daniel 9 Prophecy
From the issuingof a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be 476 years
7 sevens and 62 sevens
444 bc
This passage accurately predicts the date of the coming of Christ over 500
years before the fact!
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# 26 The Daniel 9 Prophecy
From the issuingof a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be 476 years
7 sevens and 62 sevens
444 bc
The pre-Christian date of Daniel 9cannot be denied!
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# 27 The Daniel 9 Prophecy
From the issuingof a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be 476 years
7 sevens and 62 sevens
444 bc
The date for this decree is accepted by all
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# 28 The Daniel 9 Prophecy
From the issuingof a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be 476 years
7 sevens and 62 sevens
444 bc
Could the New Testament authors fake its fulfillment?
Impossible!Tiberius, Augustus, Herod, Quirinius,
Pilot, Passover on a Friday…
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# 29 The Daniel 9 Prophecy
From the issuingof a decree to rebuild Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be 476 years
7 sevens and 62 sevens
444 bc