The Seventy Weeks of Daniel - The last third - Part 2

Going tonight for the prophecy of Daniel 70 weeks and outlines God's plan for the Jewish people and the coming of the Messiah is the more that God wants us to learn from my own Turning Point.

Dr. David Jeremiah considers three important lessons for us to take the heart from this foundational present Scripture to introduce the conclusion of his message the 70 weeks of Daniel. Thank you for joining us today. This is the sixth part of this message. I don't have any messages that have six parts with this one, but it's so powerful and it's so important and it covers so much material in just a few verses from Daniel chapter 9, set the stage for an understanding of God's prophetic truth like nothing you will ever see anywhere you know that whole books have been written on the section of the Scripture. Because of its importance today will finish up our discussion tomorrow when we get together for the first edition Turning Point going to talk about Daniel and the demons how an invisible war takes place all around us that were not aware of and that you want to miss this book is so filled with incredible truth and tomorrow is the beginning of another chapter of how spiritual warfare is happening all around us today even as it was during Daniel's day well let's begin this last segment. Daniel's 70 weeks Christ will have the Jewish people eating out of his hand. The one thing that the Jews long for more than anything else in all of the world is the restoration of their temple and the beginning again of Temple sacrifice. When you go to Israel.

You can sense as you hear the Jews even the guy take you around talk about the morning and the longing for the day when their Temple will be rebuilt one day is going to be a great, great leader who will come on the scene, he will sit down with the Jewish people at the table treaty. He will say to them. My friends is my desire to see your temple built and your sacrifices and your temple worship restored the Jewish people will be duped into believing this is the one who will help them restore their sacrifices, but notice what the text says, and in the midst of the week. When would that be if the week of seven years. What is the middle of the week after 3 1/2 years in the midst of the week he will cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease after the seven-year treaty has run for only 3 1/2 years. The antichrist, the Roman prince will tear up his agreement like it was a meaningless piece of paper. The tree will be broken and the result of that treaty being broken will be that the great tribulation will be inaugurated that last 3 1/2 years of time when all the world of that day will be made in the blood of persecution and when, according to some of the reports of the Scriptures. Blood in some places will be so high as to be at the height of the bridles where the dead corpses will produce such a terrible smell, but ships passing in the harbor will try to divert their travel so as to not pass by the awfulness of death. In fact, the great tribulation, or the time of Jacob's trouble is described for us in Matthew chapter 24 versus 15 to 22 Jesus speaking here in the 24th chapter of Matthew tells us what it's going to be like in that last 3 1/2 year of tribulation, when he therefore shall see the abomination of desolation in our question is which one Jesus is the one spoken of by who Daniel is talking about this passage were studying right here Jesus said when you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place whoever reads, let them understand Jesus is let him watch me in Judea flee into the mountains. Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house, neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes and woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days, but pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day for then shall be great tribulation, such as not has been since the beginning of the world to this time know nor ever shall be, and except those days be shortened, there should no flesh be saved but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Jesus said that time is going to be the most awful period of time. You can imagine, take all of the horrors of war that you can imagine in your mind, multiply them 100×100, you have not approached the awful Holocaust that will take place during the last half of the tribulation.

The time of Jacob's trouble.

And that brings us to the end of the prophecy and you say pastor Jeremiah is that it is not the way it all ends is that all the Jews have to look forward to now wait a minute. We need to go back to verse 24 and remember that all of this must come to pass in order that the truth of what Gabriel told Daniel could be asked.

And that all of the things that God has in store for the Jewish people could at last, we realized we come to the second when Christ the King will come if you go back to the 24th verse and you'll discover that all of those things will be fulfilled after the tribulation period is completed. It says in verse 24 that the transgression of the Jews will be finished in her sin will be ended. No more after the close of the 70th week. Will the Jews ever be in rebellion again all of the history of the Jewish people is been a history of rebellion against God. But God says he's going to purge that rebellion out of them through the tribulation.

And when the kingdom comes in the King's residents sin and iniquity and transgression will be put behind the Jews, and that it says that they will have reconciliation made for iniquity at the second coming of Christ which comes at the close of the 70th week our Lord will, on the basis of his sacrifice reconcile his chosen people to himself. The Bible says and so all Israel shall be saved.

I cannot comprehend that.

I don't know how that's going to happen. I study that pondered that read about that and try to explore it and I don't know how God is going to do it with the Scripture says all Israel shall be saved and reconciled to their Messiah and rebellion will be gone and sin will be gone and iniquity will be gone. That which we know is the kingdom of peace in the reign of the King will begin. Daniel was also told that the end of the 490 years that God established is his program for the Jews everlasting righteousness would be brought in. What better term is there to describe the millennium and God's future for his people in everlasting righteousness, the Jews have not known anything like that at all.

They don't not know it now, and they will not know it until that day when the tribulation period is over Daniel 70th week is behind and the millennium is in place. The Scripture says that the prophecy will be sealed up say what is that mean that means that everything God is prophesied for his people, the Jews will culminate and be finished and over with God's fulfilled word in the lives of his people to choose will be there experience and then finally it says that the most holy place will be anointed effectively read the text in verse 24. It doesn't say holy place, and there have been some who have said that this is a reference to the anointing of the holy one, the Lord Jesus. But if you read the text carefully in the language in which it was written discover that it could not mean the most holy one is a reference to the anointing of the holy place you want have some fun sometime. Open your Bible to the book of Ezekiel and read beginning about the 40th chapter through chapter 45 and you will find there. The description of the temple that's going to be built in the millennium, the millennial Temple and the Bible says that in that.

Call the reign of peace, Jesus Christ is going to be the king and the holy of holies the temple where worship is carried on by the Jews will be anointed and all of the beauty of the Jewish worship will be reestablished in that millennial Temple.

It will be a temple like none that is ever existed.

Though it is not as big as Solomon's Temple is a glorious, glorious temple to read about, to see how it's going to be built.

Even now, the Jews look forward to that in unbelief, not understanding what's involved, but someday God is going to reestablish his temple in the millennium and all of this is a reminder to us that what God has promised he will do that brings us to the end of the prophecy we have to ask ourselves the question what does God want to say to us as we have examined this prophecy.

As we've spent so much time going into its detail. As we try to understand what God would have us to know from the prophecy of the 70 weeks of Daniel like to suggest that there are some things God would teach us from what we've learned is like to suggest several things that this prophecy says to me that I trust will be meaningful to you. First of all, the prophecy of Daniel 70 weeks teaches us the perpetuity of God's people. Can you imagine Daniel sitting in Babylon, a captive 69 years he's been away from his people.

He's one of God's most holy people. He is the beloved of God, according to the Scripture be sitting there in that Babylonian culture now, having been taken over by the Persians and he saying in his heart. I wonder if God's forgotten me here.

I have been out here all these years I think is prayer is indication that Daniel wanted to know what God was going to do and God gave this prophecy to Daniel to tell and he hadn't forgotten about and he hadn't forgotten his promises even as far back as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to the Jewish people. Someone has said that the king of Egypt could not diminish the Jew, the waters of the Red Sea could not drown him available could not curse him fiery furnace could not devour him. The gallows of Haman could not hang him nations could not assimilate him and the dictators could not annihilate him.

The Jew is here to stay fact it's an amazing thing in our world today that wherever you go you see the various cultures and races of the world assimilated into one another, but that is not true with the Jews. If you go to Russia you meet Russian Jews.

If you go to Germany to meet German Jews to go to Poland you meet Polish Jews to come to the United States you meet American Jews. Somehow, no matter where they go. They absolutely refuse to be assimilated into the culture of that place because God has reserved their unique identity because one day his plan for his chosen people is going to be fulfilled. This prophecy teaches us the perpetuity of the Jewish people. Secondly, the prophecy teaches us the purpose of the captivity. As we look at the 70 years of captivity that is the basic understanding of the whole book of Daniel. We can't help but ask ourselves what is the purpose of it all.

We learned already that the captivity of the Jewish people in Babylon is a very symmetrical picture. 490 years before that captivity, the Jews had violated their Sabbath for 70 Sabbath years. They had refused to do what God asked them to do to set aside one year as holy unto him, and for 490 years before the Babylonian captivity. The Jews said, we will not do that. So as we learned earlier, God said, if you will not give it to me I will take it from you and he took the Jews out of their land and allow their land to be desolated.

He took them away to Babylon. And God got his Sabbath year all 70 of them because the Jews wouldn't give it to them willingly and after he got that 70 years back from the Jews, he said. Now I've got 490 more years.

I want to tell you about that or get out of the future. In my plan for you. So if you feel this whole thing. You see, 490 violated years, 70 years of captivity in 490 years out in the future.

Sometimes when we look at the captivity of the Jews. We ask ourselves, wasn't that a waste wasn't really a sad thing that those Jews were taken out of their land and sent over to the Babylonian cultures, many of them defected many of them walked no longer with the Lord and for 70 years. God's chosen people were totally out of their land wasn't really a waste. I suggest you something that you may not have thought of. Perhaps you never heard this before that during that 70 years.

There were several things that happened to the Jewish people that perhaps could not happen. Apart from the captivity. First of all, up until the captivity of the Jews in Babylon, the Jewish people were idolaters you read the Old Testament Scripture every time you turn around, Jews were falling down before some idle God would clean them up and get them straight down. The next thing you know they be bowing down before some idle again. And the interesting thing about it is this from the moment that the captivity ended. The Jews never again were idolaters after the captivity of the Jewish people in Babylon the most hard thing to a Jew is an idle and there is no record in Jewish history of Jews ever again bowing down before the idols fact the three great religions of the world, according to historians or Christianity. Mohammed is him in Judaism in all three of them have an abhorrence for idols after the 70 year captivity. The Jews never again worshiped idols. Let me share with you something else that happened during a seven year period of time while the Jews were in Babylon. Something was born into the Jewish culture called the synagogue. The Jews work where their temple was they couldn't worship as they had been accustomed to worshiping. Growing up, and so the rabbis decided that they wanted to teach the Jewish people and they would gather them together and sort of a house church and they would sing praises to their God and they would read the Scripture and then they would get a homily on the Scripture which is sort of like our sermon and the synagogue became the center of worship during the 70 years of captivity and men and women.

The synagogue is that to which we can attribute the basis for our church. The church that we enjoy finds its roots in the synagogue. So during that 70 year period of time which we would look at from history's viewpoint is a wasted time during that time, God allowed the synagogue to be born out of the synagogue, the roots of the church came to study that the New Testament you see, it was just a slight transition from the synagogue to the house churches of insipid Christianity. The third thing that happened in captivity while the Jews were in captivity. The Old Testament canon of the Bible was completed.

In fact, the earliest record we have of a collection of Old Testament books is the collection that took place under the leadership of Ezra during the 70 year captivity they were away from their homeland. You can imagine how precious the scrolls of the prophets were. And so Ezra began to collect those scrolls into what he called the collection of scrolls which later became the basis for the Old Testament Scripture. When we open our Bibles today and we leave through the books of the Old Testament. The 39 books of the Old Testament that collection of Scriptures. First started while the Jews were in captivity in Babylon. Let me suggest just one other thing during the time the Jews were in the captivity, they began to be able to say the name of Jehovah God in Jehovah became a name spoken by the Jewish people you know when the Scriptures were written will describe an Old Testament scribe would come to the name Yahweh, which is the Old Testament word for Jehovah.

He was only allowed to write that name once he would write the name Yahweh and he would throw his pen away because the name was so sacred and so unapproachable that he could not use the pen to write the name again. But something happened during the captivity. The Yahweh who was unapproachable became the Jawa who was near the Yahweh, though he was still holy who could not be approached because he was so high and lofty above the people of the Jews became the Jawa and the Jehovah walked among his people, and who became precious to them in the name Jehovah became a name the Jews began to use affecting the book of acts chapter 15 in verse 21 we read these words for Moses of an old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day. The book of acts is that Moses had in every city.

Synagogues were the name of Jehovah Jesus was preached and that found its roots in the captivity, you say pastor Jeremiah the 70 years of captivity really seems like a waste. And for many perspectives. It does God had a purpose and he allow that purpose to be realized. You know that says to me personally. There so many times and I don't know what God is doing with me. It seems sometimes almost incomprehensible.

What in the world is going on in my life, Lord, why have you got me in the spot in the situation. What are you trying to do and I've learned as I've grown now in the Lord.

Over these years to look back on my life. Though I couldn't understand it.

Then to realize that God was at work even when I didn't understand what he was doing the Jews were there and that captivity without any knowledge of what God was up to. But God knew what he was up to. While he was purging and punishing his people. He was accomplishing the good hands that would carry his program forth. I could go on and give you many of the things that we could learn from the 70 weeks of Daniel.

But let me close by sharing with you something that I discovered in my Bible reading many of the things that we could talk about concerning the 70 weeks of Daniel. But let me just cycle down to the last one I have on my list.

70 weeks of Daniel and that prophecy demonstrates to me the personal involvement that God has with his prophet and with his people you know the Bible says that when God wanted to talk to Daniel in answer to his prayer and give him the information about the future that he didn't do it in some distant cold way fact he dispatched his special messenger Angel Gabriel his PR man if you will send him down to earth he sent that Angel to Daniel with his answer. If you go back with me in your Bibles to the eighth chapter of the book of Daniel. I want to show you something very exciting. It is a five point illustration of God's involvement with his prophet Daniel. First of all, in verses 18 and 19 of the eighth chapter of Daniel we read these words now as he was speaking with me. I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground, but he touched me and set me up right and someone has said that that was God's touching Daniel to make him see to give them site to give them vision turn to chapter 9 verses 21 and 22 while I was speaking in prayer. Even the man Gabriel, whom I have seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly touched me about the time of the evening oblation that was when God touched Daniel by his angel to give them skill. Notice chapter 10 verses 10 and 11 and behold in hand touched me and set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands and he said to me oh Daniel old man greatly beloved understand the words that I speak him to be and stand upright for him to BMI now sent and when he had spoken this word on to me. I stood trembling. That was God touching Daniel to make him stand. Then look at verse 16 in the same chapter, and behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips and I open my mouth and spoke, and said unto him, who stood before me. Oh my Lord by the vision. My sorrows are turned upon me and I have retained no strength that was God touching Daniel to make him speak and then notice last in verse 18, then there came again and touched me like a one like the appearance of a man and he strengthened me that was God touching Daniel to make them strong. Is it exciting to see how God loves us and how he wants to be involved with us not at a distance not impersonally not over a span of time with no personal involvement. He is a personal God, and on five different occasions in the life of this prophet who was greatly beloved of the Lord because of his obedience, God sent down the touch to minister to him.

He touched him to make him see you touched them to give them skill.

He touched him when he needed to stand touched his lips. When it was time to speak touched him when he needed to be strong cares about his people and makes me think. I'm sure you well Bill Gaither song touched me because that's what happens when you meet Christ you feel his touch in your life and then throughout your life as a Christian I know I felt his touch.

When I was going through cancer I felt his touch during challenging days as a leader is a pastor.

I feel his touch.

In recent days as we've experienced this virus in our land. And I know that you feel that is well I'm so grateful for the Scripture and how graphically it reminds us of God's love for each of us if you need a touch from him today. He's available just asking to say Lord God, I need your touch of my life today and watch for it.

He is a loving, compassionate God even as he cared so deeply for Daniel he cares for you. Was I mentioned earlier.

Tomorrow we began about four messages that have the newest spiritual warfare. What happened with Daniel as he was involved in the midst of the prophetic scheme of everything going on in his day.

How the angels the demons got involved. Pretty exciting stuff will see her tomorrow the next message today came to you from showtime Mountain Community Church with Dr. David Jeremiah serves as a senior cost does not have tending point is touching your life.

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