Study From the Book of Daniel,9

Study From the Book of Daniel, 9

Today is the ninth  part of this series where we study chapter nine and as usual, we pick up two biblical principles and their lessons which are useful in biblical counselling. 

 Daniel prayed the prayer of repentance of Israel’s past sinfulness.  He prayed with confidence because God was about to overthrow the Babylonians and allow the Jews to return to their homeland to rebuild it. The seventy years of captivity were almost up , and glorious things lay ahead. Daniel confessed that Israel had departed from the Word of God, had disregarded the prophets of God, and had despised the Lord Himself.

While Daniel was praying, Gabriel appeared in a vision at the time of the evening offering. He told him of the seventy-weeks prophecy ( weeks are in years). The sixty-two weeks can be added to the seven weeks of verse 25, resulting in a total of sixty-nine weeks or 483 years( a year is calculated as 360 days).

The end of the sixty-nine weeks coincides with the date of the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ. He died not for Himself but for the sins of the world,

Between the  cross and the second coming of Christ(rapture of the Church), there is a gap  which is the current gap of us as gentile and the Church(although no mention the term the Church  because the time frame for the Jews.

The last week (or 7 years)this is the time after the rapture of the Church and the tribulation and the great tribulation. During these seven years, the Antichrist reigns and will make a covenant with Israel and will build the temple of Jerusalem. However, in the middle of the seven years (after three and half years), he will break the covenant and will commit abomination of desolation by setting up an alter to the god Zeus in the temple.

By the end of the above seven years, the Lord Jesus will come physically to earth and after He does the judgement of the livings, He will reign for the happy 1000 years, the millennium period.    

Structure:

Verses 1-19: Daniel’s prayer for the people.

Verses 20-27: the seventy-weeks prophecy.

Principle 16 verse 9:: 18“---we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies."

Lesson 16: We bring our prayers to God on the basis of who  He is, not on the basis of who we are or what we have done. We stand tallest and strongest when we bow low in prayer.

Principle 17: verse 9:26: ---“And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself.”

Lesson 17: only one figure in history fits the time frame of this prophecy: Jesus Christ. He died for our sins, not for His own sins, since He never committed any.22/10/2023.