What The Bible Says
Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
The greatly beloved Daniel understood by books that the seventy-year Babylonian captivity was closing, he prayed, and Gabriel came to him to give him “skill and understanding” (Dan.9:22). Gabriel said, “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people (Israel) and upon thy holy city (Jerusalem)” (9:21-24). A Bible student discerns that these are weeks-of-years, that sixty-nine of them are accounted for in verses 25-26, and that the “one week” spoken of in verse 27 is a seven year period wherein there “shall be great tribulation, such as was not seen from the beginning of the world” (Matt.24:21). Further in verse 27 it is clear that the “he” that “shall make it desolate” is the abomination of desolation of Matt.24:15, the beast to rise up out of the sea of Rev.13:1, AND the scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy of Rev.17:3. “He” shall make war with the Lamb, and we know how that will end (Rev.19).
What Gabriel said would be done for Israel and Jerusalem after seventy-weeks is critical: 1) to finish the transgression. 2) to make an end of sin, 3) to make reconciliation for iniquity, 4) to bring in everlasting righteousness, 5) to seal up the vision and prophecy, and 6) to anoint the most Holy.
When the apostle John writes in the Revelation of Jesus Christ “the things which shall be here after” (1:19, cf. Chap.4-19) it is all about Israel and their 70th week. Miss that and you are missing the heart of Biblical prophecy, and the heart of God. When a church misses that, they are apostate. Israel is presently in a war of Biblical proportion, those siding with Hamas or Palestinians are pitted directly against the LORD God of Israel. And we know how that will end.
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