TROUBLING SOCIAL ISSUES. Do you find the social issue of today troubling? Daniel was trouble for his people. He wanted to know what was going to happen to them in the future. God not only told him what would happen to his people, the Jews. He gives him more.
We continue looking at the Judgement from a mathematical perspective. We do this using Daniel and Revelation in the context of the three angels’ messages in Revelation 14.
These messages make up the core of the gospel of Jesus Christ and are the present truth for our time.
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Heavenly Father, the visions and prophesies you have provided in the Bible are relevant. Help us to understand their relevance to us today. In Jesus’ Name Amen
Besides providing Daniel with prophetic information on the future of his people. God gave Daniel more! Not only did God reveal to Daniel the future for Daniel’s people, the Jews. God revealed to Daniel the future of humanity.
The vision that Daniel had is found in the Old Testament in Daniel Chapter 8. The part of this prophecy that was distressing to Daniel is the 2300 days which we understand, prophetically speaking, represents 2300 years.
In the previous lesson, we found that 490 years were determined “cut-off” or subtracted from the 2300 years. This time was specifically allocated for Daniel’s people, the Jews.
But when would the 490 years begin and end?
It was to start with the command to build and restore Jerusalem. Various decrees have been made regarding Jerusalem. However, the decree in Ezra 7:13, 27, which occurred in 457 B.C., is the only decree that allowed the Jews to not only return to Jerusalem. It allowed the Jews to leave Babylon and go back to their homeland, and they were allowed to establish themselves as a religious community again.
13 I issue a decree that all those of the people of Israel and the priests and Levites in my realm, who volunteer to go up to Jerusalem, may go with you.
27 Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, (Ezra 7:13, 27)
Therefore, in the fall of 457 B.C., King Artaxerxes commanded the Jews to go home and build their city. What is significant is that in Daniel, Gabriel tells Daniel that 483 years would pass from the time the Jews started rebuilding Jerusalem to the time of the Messiah.
If we start at 457 B.C. and move forward on history’s timeline, adding 483 years, we arrive at A.D. 27. The word Messiah means “anointed one.”
What happened in AD 27? Jesus Christ, the Messiah, was baptized according to Matthew 3:13-17.
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him.
14 And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”
15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.
16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.
17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”(Matthew 3:13–17)
What’s interesting here is that Daniel announced the exact year for Jesus’ baptism several hundred years before Jesus is baptized, which is also the time that Jesus began his three-and-a-half-year ministry on earth.
Gabriel in Daniel 9:25 explains to Daniel.
“ ‘And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah [the Chosen One; the Savior] shall be cut off [killed], but not for Himself’ ” (Daniel 9:26, NKJV).
In other words, Gabriel tells Daniel that the Savior will be “cut off.” He will die on the cross, then he adds “but not for Himself.” This tells us that, though Jesus could have saved himself from the fires of affliction, he instead died to save us. This is why Paul writes in Romans 5:8
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8).
Furthermore, in Daniel 9:27, we read that.
27 Then he (the Messiah) shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, (Daniel 9:27).
What does this mean?
In the middle of this seventieth week, in A.D. 31, Christ confirmed the everlasting covenant with His blood. He did this by dying on the cross. At this point, the Jewish sacrificial system lost any and all prophetic significance.
Therefore, this verse is talking about the final week of the 70-week time prophecy of the 490 prophetic years. In the timeline of 490 years, in A.D. 31, Jesus keeps the promise that God made to His people. Jesus kept this promise with His blood, which He offered for our sins when He died on the cross. So, the Jews no longer needed to bring animal offerings for their sins to the temple.
These prophecies reveal that Christ, the Messiah, would be crucified and cause the sacrificial system to cease its prophetic importance in the spring of A.D. 31.
These predictions were fulfilled in every detail. Exactly at Passover, when the high priest was offering the Passover lamb, Christ was sacrificed for all, both Jews and Gentiles.
Aligning with Daniel 9:24-27 which says:
24 “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.
25 “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.
26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.” (Daniel 9:24-27)
Mark 15:38 and Matthew 3:15, 16 demonstrate Jesus was the Messiah:
Matthew 3:15-16 says:
15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.
16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.
And upon his death, Mark 15:38 says
38 Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
Demonstrating an end to the Jewish system of sacrificial offerings.
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This, however, only covers 483 years. What about the remaining 1810 years of the 2300-year prophecy? 2300 years if we start from 457 b.c. would end in 1844.
Watch our next video, Day 6: The Year 1844
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