Daniel 9:1527

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Daniel 915-27

• Daniels Prayer and Gods Redemptive Plan

August 10, 2008
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The Setting of Daniel 9

• Daniel God is my Judge
• Occasion Israel (Judah) is in Babylonian
  Captivity because of idolatry
• Year Written (538 B.C.)
• Daniel 91 In the first
  year of Darius the son of
  Ahasuerus, of Median descent

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The Tension In Daniel 9

• The promises of God seem to be in jeopardy
• Seed promise (Genesis 127 155)
• Land (Genesis 127 1518-21)
• Nation (Genesis 122 174)
• Blessing to all the nations (Genesis 123)
• Structure
• Daniel 91-14 Confession
• Daniel 915-19 Supplication
• Daniel 920-27 Divine answer

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Israels Sin Brings Reproach
To Yahwehs Name

• Daniel 915
• 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.

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Israels Sin Brings Reproach To
Yahwehs Name

• Daniel 916
• O Lord, in accordance with all Your
  righteousness, 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.

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Restoration For the Messiahs Sake

• Daniel 917
• So now, our God, hear the prayer of Your
  servant and to his supplications, and for the
  Lords sake, shine Your face upon Your desolate
  sanctuary.

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Evidence Daniel 917 Is a
Messianic Reference

• Daniel 917
• Daniel speaks to Yahweh (2nd person)
• Daniel switches to 3rd person for Adonais sake
• Psalm 1101
• Yahweh said to my Adonai Sit at My right
  hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for
  your feet.

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The People of God and Jerusalem
Bear His Name

• Daniel 918-19 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 supplication before You on
  account of our righteousness, but on account of
  Your great compassion. 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.

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Gods Answer Comes To Daniel

• Daniel 920-21
• 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, 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.

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Gods Answer Comes To Daniel

• Daniel 922-23
• He gave me instruction and talked with me and
  said, O Daniel, I have now come forth to give
  you insight with understanding. 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.

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Gods Redemptive Plan For
Israel

• Daniel 924
• 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.

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Summary Of What God Will Accomplish

• Daniel 924
• Finish transgression
• Make an end of sin (kattat)
• Make atonement for iniquity
• Bring in righteousness
• Seal up prophesy
• Anoint most holy place

Getting Rid of Sin
Bringing in of Righteousness
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The 70 Weeks of Years
(490 years)

• Daniel 925 So you are to know and discern that
  from the issuing of the 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.
• Decree Given by Artaxerxes March 5, 444 B.C.
• Seven weeks 49 years (Jerusalem rebuilt)
• Sixty two weeks 434 years (Messiah)

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The 70 Weeks of Years
(490 years)

• Daniel 926
• 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.

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Summary of 70 Weeks
Thus Far
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Jesus is cut off on
10th Nisan 33 A.D. (lamb
selection day!)
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69 weeks of years 483 yrs 173,880days
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Starting Point Command To Rebuild Jerusalem
March 5, 444 B.C. (Artaxerxes)
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Lamb Selection Day!

• Exodus 121-3, 5
• Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the
  land of Egypt, This month shall be the beginning
  of months for you it is to be the first month
  for youSpeak to all the congregation of Israel,
  saying, On the tenth of this month they are each
  one to take a lamb for themselves according to
  their fathers householdsYour lamb shall be an
  unblemished male a year old

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The 70th Week

• Daniel 927
• 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 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.

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Application

• 1. Like the Israelites, we too must not take
  the name of God in Vain
• 2. We must remember that when we do sin, our
  justification is only based on Gods mercy and
  compassion.
• 3. The specific nature of Daniels prophecy and
  its precise fulfillment proves the divinity of
  the Bible!

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Let Us Not Take The LORDS
Name in Vain
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• Exodus 207
• You shall not take the name of Yahweh in vain,
  for Yahweh will not leave him unpunished who
  takes His name in vain.
• Deuteronomy 2810 (Predicated on obedience)
• So all the peoples of the earth will see that
  you are called by the name of Yahweh and they
  will be afraid of you.

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Forgiveness Is Based Solely
On Gods Faithfulness
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• 1st John 19
• If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
  just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
  from all unrighteousness.

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The Precision of Daniels Prophecy Proves
The Bible Is Gods Word
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• 2nd Peter 120-21
• But know this first of all, that no prophecy
  of Scripture is a matter of ones own
  interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by
  an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy
  Spirit spoke from God.