Msg #2040 The Seventieth Week of Daniel 9:24

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Jesus said that Daniel is a key starting point for those who would understand his second coming (Matt 24:15). Daniel became God's “greatly beloved prophet” and he sent Gabriel to him to clarify the grand outline and full timing of Christ's first and second coming. For the Bible believer Daniel 9 is a treasure trove for understanding the doctrine of last things. Again, Jesus said so. Gabriel says to Daniel, “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city,...” (Dan 9:24). A Bible student should list and comprehend the six things therein that will be complete in seventy weeks. When God judged Israel at Kadesh-barnea it was forty years in the wilderness, a day for a year (Num 14:34). When Ezekiel lay on his side for four-hundred and thirty days to portray the siege of Jerusalem, it was a day for a year (Ezek 4:6). And when Gabriel tells Daniel “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and thy holy city,” it is a day for a year, or four-hundred and ninety years.
   This timing pertained to the Jews, not the Gentiles. Seven weeks to build Jerusalem, sixty-two weeks to bring in, and cut off Messiah, and one week, one seven year period, “to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity...” (Dan 9:25-27). That, oh sincere Bible student, will be “a great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world” (Matt 24:21). The dispensation of grace is a parenthesis in this four-hundred and ninety year schema. It has lasted almost two-thousand years now. It will end very abruptly before the horsemen of Revelation 6 begin to ride. Two-thousand years after the cross, will be 2030; allowing for this week of transition, believers should be getting antsy in 2023 as Marxist communism likely overtakes the USA.

An Essay for week #40 Oct 4, 2020

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