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Daniel 6:1-17
Daniel And The Lions Den
Daniel 6:18-28
Daniel Saved From The Lions
Daniel 7:1-14
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Daniel’s Vision of a Ram And a Goat
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Daniel 9:1-10
Daniel Prays For The People
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The Kings And Their Successors
Daniel 11:21-39
The Evil King From The North
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The Seventy Weeks Prophecy
Daniel 9:20–27
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When Queen Elizabeth was a little girl, she threw a tantrum. Her nanny said, “Do you know who you are?’ “Of course, “ she replied, “ I am Elizabeth.” “No,” scolded her nanny, “you are the heir apparent to the throne of the British Empir … More
While Daniel was praying the answer came. Gabriel came about the time of the evening sacrifice which was near 3 p.m (vv. 20-22). It is interesting to note that even though the temple had been destroyed for 66 years and sacrifices could not be offered there Daniel still recalled the hour and prayed at that time.
Daniel is concerned about God’s program for Israel in the future. So Gabriel was sent by God to reveal His plan for Israel until the end (v. 23). He explains how God’s program will be completed in 70 “sevens”. Bible scholars interpret this time period as a literal 70 weeks or 490 years and that Christ’s death came at the end of the 69 weeks. He explains that these seventy weeks cover the period when the Jews will be dwelling in their own land. The purpose of the seventy weeks is sixfold (v. 24):
Sixty-nine weeks mark the time from the death of Christ until the Antichrist decree. The seventieth week is yet future. Jerusalem will be rebuilt as a complete fully functioning city (v. 25) and the Messiah was to be killed by His own people (v. 26). He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘week.’ In the middle of the ‘week’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering (v. 27).
Application
I need to be as faithful in my prayer life as Daniel was?
Daniel 9:20-27 (English Standard Version)
While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the LORD my God for the holy hill of my God, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice. He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, "O Daniel, I have now come out to give you insight and understanding. At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision. "Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator."
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