Sunday, January 15, 2017

Daniel 9

“Seventy weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of] sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy. 
“Know therefore and understand,
That from the going forth of the command
To restore and build Jerusalem
Until Messiah the Prince,
There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;
The street shall be built again, and the wall,
Even in troublesome times. vv.24-25

Read chapter 9
You ready for some math?!!?  There are a handful of numbers in this chapter determining length of periods of time of these prophesies of Daniel.  Verses 24 and 25 give time for the premileenial kingdom as described here as an end of sins and bringing in everlasting righteousness, to restore and build Jerusalem.  This time is said to be 70 weeks.  We know from Leviticus 25:9 that a "week" is a year, "‘And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years."  So this time is said to be 490 years then.  Following in verse 26 we know that this time of perfect peace ends for a short time, thus this isn't talking about the new heaven and new earth time.  This premileenial kingdom has not yet started as there is still sin and the Anointed One is not ruling.  Crazy to think that there will be a time of peace on earth for so long- almost 500 years of God governing the world that it is without a doubt to every human on earth that Jesus is the One and Only God yet some will still choose to go against Him. When you pray the Lord's prayer, do you now have a deeper view of what ask for when you say "Your Kingdom come"? 

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