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TEACHING THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD

Daniel 2

BabylonMedo

PersianGreekEmpire

ImperialisticAlliances

Daniel 2 Daniel 7

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Christ Returns to End Gentile Rule & All Israel Is Saved (Rom 11:25-27)

Daniel 7

Kingdom

The Age of the Gentiles

Daniel 9:1-2

Dan. 9:1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans —

Dan. 9:2 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 Lord to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

Jer. 29:10 “For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

Jer. 29:11 ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Jer. 29:12 ‘Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Jer. 29:13 ‘You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Jer. 29:14 ‘I will be found by you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’

Jer. 29:15 “Because you have said, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon’ —

Daniel 9:4-11

Dan. 9:4 I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed and said, “Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,

Dan. 9:5 we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.

Dan. 9:6 “Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land.

Dan. 9:7 “Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day — to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You. Dan. 9:8 “Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. Dan. 9:9 “To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;

Dan. 9:10 nor have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

Dan. 9:11 “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, for we have sinned against Him.

Lev. 26:2 ‘You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the Lord.

Lev. 26:3 ‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,

Lev. 26:4 then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

Lev. 26:14 ‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,

Lev. 26:15 if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

Lev. 26:16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

Lev. 26:31 ‘I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

Lev. 26:32 ‘I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.

Lev. 26:33 ‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

Lev. 26:34 ‘Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. Lev. 26:35 ‘All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.

Daniel 9:12-14

Dan. 9:12 “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 to Jerusalem.

Dan. 9:13 “As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord our God by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to Your truth. Dan. 9:14 “Therefore the 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.

Lev. 26:40 ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me —

Lev. 26:41 I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies — or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity, Lev. 26:42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.

Daniel 9:15-19

Dan. 9:15 “And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made a name for Yourself, as it is this day — we have sinned, we have been wicked.

Dan. 9:16 “O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.

Dan. 9:17 “So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary. Dan. 9:18 “O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.

Dan. 9:19 “O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”

Daniel 9:20-23

Dan. 9:20 Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, Dan. 9:21 while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering. Dan. 9:22 He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding. Dan. 9:23 “At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.

Daniel 9:24-27

Dan. 9:24 “Seventy 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 in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

Dan. 9:25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

Dan. 9:26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

Dan. 9:27 “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, 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, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

Dan. 9:24 “Seventy 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 in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

Seventy “Weeks”

The Purpose of Seventy Sevens

For Israel & Jerusalem:1. To finish “the” transgression2. To make an end of sin3. To atone for Israel’s sin4. To bring everlasting righteousness5. To seal up prophecy6. To anoint the Temple

“Weeks” = shavat = sevens

Days?

Seventy “Weeks”

Years?Months?Weeks?

“Weeks” = shavat = sevens

Seventy “Weeks”

Daniel thought 70 years

Years?

“Weeks” = shavat = sevens

Seventy “Weeks”

70x7 yearsGabriel says490 years

Age of Gentiles70 Year Exile

DecreeIssued

490 Years70 x 7

2Chr. 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia — in order to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah — the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

2Chr. 36:23 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all His people, may the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up!’”

7 sevens

Dan. 9:25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree torestore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeksand sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times ofdistress.

Dan. 9:26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and havenothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and thesanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war;desolations are determined.

62 sevens

Walls Finished

DecreeIssued

MessiahCutoff

483 Years 69 “Sevens”

69 sevens

MessiahCutoff

Biblical Calendar

AD 27

CyrusDecree

456 BC

69 sevens

MessiahCutoff

Common Calendar

AD 27

CyrusDecree

538 BC

82 Years

7 sevens

Dan. 9:25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. Dan. 9:26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

62 sevens

Walls Finished

DecreeIssued

MessiahCutoff

483 Years 69 “Sevens”

7 Years 1 “Seven”

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7 sevens 62 sevens

Walls Finished

DecreeIssued

MessiahCutoff

1 Seven

CovenantMade

70 SEVENS

Dan. 9:25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. Dan. 9:26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

Dan. 9:27 “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, 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, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

Matt. 24:15 “Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Matt. 24:16 then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

Matt. 24:21 “For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.

7 sevens 62 sevens

Walls Finished

DecreeIssued

MessiahCutoff

1 Seven

CovenantMade

70 SEVENS

PAUSE?

Dan. 9:25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. Dan. 9:26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

Dan. 9:27 “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, 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, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

7 sevens 62 sevens

Walls Finished

DecreeIssued

MessiahCutoff

1 Seven

CovenantMade

70 SEVENS

PAUSE?

7 sevens 62 sevens

Walls Finished

DecreeIssued

MessiahCutoff

1 Seven

CovenantMade

70 SEVENS

PAUSE??

BabylonianCaptivity586 BC

Age of the Gentiles

Fall ofBabylon

& Judah’sReturn536 BC

Earlier Events

• Abrahamic Covenant• Kings established over Israel

(1051 BC)• Kingdom divided

(931 BC)• Northern tribes taken captive

by Assyria & lost

TempleFinished516 BC

HellenizationOf Judah323 BC

RomanRule Begins

63 BC

Herod’sTemple

Destroyed70 AD

Nebuchadnezzar’sRule

605 BC

Gen. 12:3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

Age of Gentiles(Current Age)

Millennial Kingdom(Next Age)

Kingdom Ages

SolomonicKingdom

7 Years of Exile+

70 SEVENS

BabylonMedo

PersianGreekEmpire

ImperialisticAlliances