 Hey, good morning everyone and welcome to BC 308 our course on Daniel and revelation. Thank you to each one for joining the class today Could somebody just lead us in prep please and then we will get started Thank you Let's pray Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you under the name of Jesus. I thank you for this day. I thank you for the The class we are about to have Jesus. God, I pray that you will hold the spirit you'll be with us Pastor ashes teaches us the deepest truth in the Bible God, I pray that you will help us to understand you will help us to open our spiritual mind and spiritual ears and listen to the truth and to Be fully convinced in the truth Jesus May everything that we do in this class be done for your glory I thank you for Pastor ashes and I thank you for all my classmates over here. Give us a good way for connection throughout the session We give you all the glory and all that and Jesus name my prayer Amen Amen Thank you everyone once again So we have been joining To the book of Daniel all the last All of weeks We've finished a few of the chapters there in Daniel Let's quickly review not going to go into detail but just How I teach what we have seen so far And then they're going to move into Daniel chapter 9 today and Daniel 9 and also Look the plan is to do Daniel 9 and 11 today. Let's see if you can finish both But that's the plan so just to quickly review Daniel chapter 2 Is there be See an outline of the end time events given to us Through the dream that never kidnapped He had this he saw this big image and different parts of the image Represented different kingdoms or empires Starting with his own The head of gold that represent the Babylonian Needs and persons Then the Greeks Then the feet of iron which was very strong empire And then the feet of the legs of iron and the feet Was a mix of iron and clay and they were 10 tools And then the God of heaven there's a huge rock that comes out of heaven Crushes this whole image and becomes a big mountain And that's when the God of heaven sets up his kingdom here and up So we said that this Daniel chapter 2 is an outline For the rest of what we're going to read in Daniel And really when we progress through The book of Daniel they're getting more and more information that we can attach To this outline Daniel chapter 5 We saw how Daniel Informs Belshazzar And his kingdom is coming to an end And the means Means and persons are coming which happened that same night And so we have information on the next kingdom Which is the chest Of Silver Which represents the means and persons Chapter 7 Which we did last week Chapter 7 Chapter 7 He's seen many different kind of beasts So now God is using some other Different Set of images To give more details So he sees These different beasts And in chapter 7 Which we said That Daniel is also given The interpretation of what those Beasts represent, different kingdoms In chapter 7 there is additional information We see ten horns And then we see A little horn coming And Overpowering three of those ten horns And we also see The Insight into happening Where the son of man is standing At the right hand of the ancient of days And all the kingdoms are given To the son of man And to his saints So This is all additional information The son of man, his kingdom Is that final kingdom Which God of heaven sets up on the earth So we're connecting that To What we saw in chapter 2 And establishing everything else And establishing kingdom on earth That's the kingdom of the son of man Which is now then given to the saints We then also connect the ten toes To the ten horns We saw ten toes there Now ten horns Is telling us about ten leaders We see this in Daniel chapter 7 Daniel chapter 8 Which we also read last week Now he's zeroing in On two kingdoms The ram and the goat The ram Rising up on the east With two horns The first one is smaller than the second horn Which is bigger Representing the means and the persians The persians were more powerful Than the means This ram comes and starts moving westward Then there's a goat That comes from the west Which represents the kingdom So the Greek empire And this is also given to us in chapter 8 Saying this is the ram represents The means and persians That goat represents the Greek empire And then he says The goat moved very swiftly eastward Which is exactly what happened The Greeks extended the kingdom Very quickly towards the east And then he says The first horn became very big And became great So what happened? Alexander the Great He was very strong He moved very quickly He built his empire very quickly But then it was cut off Let me see that And then There were four generals The kingdom was divided into four Now this becomes important Because God revealed to Daniel That from one of these four Come the little horn Which we saw in chapter 7 We understand because we have the full picture We recognize this is the Antichrist But remember when Daniel Is getting all this information It's all new to him For us it's easy to understand Because we've got the whole Bible We can connect everything But Daniel remembers Oh I saw it in another vision Now God is telling me some more About this little horn He's saying this little horn From the divided king empire Okay so Daniel says Daniel understands And then there's more detail given On what this little horn does He is going to He's going to speak pompous things Against God He's going to stop this daily sacrifices He's going to desecrate the temple And there is a timeline given This was in verse 14 That's all last time 2300 days or 1150 days 2300 mornings and evenings 1150 days which is Approximately three and a half years That this little horn is going to Desecrate the temple After which the temple will be cleansed So more details are being given here About how this little horn Which we know as the Antichrist Is going to operate What he's going to do and so on So this is still chapter 8 Any questions before we move forward I hope all of you are with me so far Chapter 2, 5, 7, 8 Things are clear If you could ask any questions anytime So now let's move forward Because there is more As we journey forward God is revealing to Daniel More and more details All connected to this outline That has been given to him in chapter 2 More and more details are being given And a beautiful picture is coming out Daniel chapter 2 We see Daniel here He understands By reading the prophecies Of Isaiah and Jeremiah That God had already spoken and said His people will be in captivity for 70 years So he's realizing that these 70 years are coming to an end So he starts praying He's praying for his people God forgive us our sins Forgive us all the wrong we've done So that's the early part of Daniel chapter 9 He's praying for his own people And he's asking for mercy, for forgiveness And so on So basically Daniel is an intercessor here We're just seeing one part of it But he must have been living the life of an intercessor Intercessor with people just knowing that The prophets had spoken And said 70 years So the Lord's 70 years are coming To an end You need to fulfill your purpose Around this time As he's praying God sends the angel Gabriel To Daniel With a message And in that message We have so many more details That's going to unfold So let's read Daniel chapter 9 Versus 20 to 27 So I'm not reading the earlier part of Daniel 9 Because that is his prayer of intercession So we're skipping that part We're just going to read from chapter Sorry, verse 20 to 27 So let's do that What we used to do Three verses each please And just read And then we'll look into it Anyone can start Now while I was speaking Praying and confessing my sin And the sin of my people Israel And presenting my supplication Before the Lord my God For the holy mountain Oh my God While I was speaking in prayer The man Gabriel To fly safely Reached me about The time of the evening offering Somebody answer please And he informed me And talked with me and saved Oh Daniel I have now come for the Jesus Here to understand At the beginning of your supplication The commandment out And I have come to tell you For you are greatly loved Therefore consider the method And understand the vision Which are determined For your people And for your holy city To finish the transgression To make an end of sin To make reconciliation for Iniquity To bring in everlasting righteousness To seal our vision And professing And to enlighten the most holy Know therefore and understand That from the going forth Of the command To restore and build Jerusalem There shall be seven weeks And sixty-two weeks The street shall be built again And the wall Even in troublesome times And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah will 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 Until the end of the war Desolations are determined For one week But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice And offering And on the wing of abomination Shall be one who makes desolate Even until the consummation Which is determined Is poured out on the desolate Thank you This is Everything in the book of Daniel Is important But this passage that we just read Is one of the most powerful prophecies In the book of Daniel In just these three Four verses It's just amazing The amount of detail That has been revealed In just these four verses So we need to understand this As thoroughly as we can To spend some time Because it's probably The most important So Gabriel Comes to Daniel He says, Daniel You're greatly beloved of God From the time you started praying Commissioned me to come to you And in verse 24 Let's look at each verse carefully He says 70 weeks Are determined For your people And for your holy city So 70 weeks We will explain what those weeks are But notice The first thing I want to notice Is that he's giving a time period 70 weeks So We will discover I'm just saying this And I will explain to you how we understand it Each week represents seven years 70 weeks is a period of 490 years 70 Times 7 Is for 90 years I will explain to you how we know That week is a year Or maybe we'll look at it right now So Weeks One week is a period of seven A week is seven days Now The way We have a footnote and some bibles It will tell you That It literally means 77s 70 weeks 77s Now the way of week was used At least in the Old Testament Bible times Was used to represent Seven years So example If you go Into Genesis 209 You remember how Jacob served Laban He had to serve Seven years Actually for seven years And then Leah and then another seven years Rachel But Genesis 29 If you turn to Genesis 29 And these are all in your notes And I'm just explaining it here And somebody could read Versus 27 and 28 for us Genesis 29 Versus 27 and 28 Genesis 29, 27, 28 Please go ahead And we will give you this one also For the service Which you will serve at May Still another seven years 28 And Jacob did so And fulfilled her week So he gave him his daughter Rachel So you see how week Is used To represent Seven years So Laban says You have to work for me for one week Then I will give you Rachel also Now One week Very easy seven days But he didn't mean seven days He meant seven years So that's a long time And it says Jacob fulfilled her week But week was not just seven days It was seven years So here's an example in the Bible Where A week Actually is used to represent A time period of Seven years And so like that We find in scripture Sometimes As given in context A day could represent a year And I've given this in the notes Is equal to chapter four Versus four to six May God use a day To represent a year Or we saw earlier In chapter seven A time Times and half a time The other word A time is used to represent One year A time Two years Half a time Half a year Three and a half years So Here Going back to Daniel 9 24 And When we cross reference When we cross reference That means when you go into the book Of Revelation You will find That this is what we are saying Seven year period Is correct Because There you'll read about Three and a half years Of 42 months And So When we come to verse 27 Of Daniel 9 When he says in the middle of the week That is in the middle of seven years In the middle of the week He will break the covenant That means clearly it has to be Three and a half years Cross reference that With Revelation 11 month 42 months Three and a half years So it is correct Biblically you can Validate it You know that What we are saying Is correct So both By looking back Into the way The weeks were used In Bible times A week used to represent seven years And also we look ahead Into the book of Revelation It becomes very clear That a week Of course Is seven year period Okay So Going back to Daniel 9 24 Gabriel says 70 weeks That means he is saying I want to talk to you About 70 weeks But this 70 weeks He says Is about your people And your holy city That means this 70 weeks Is about your people The Jewish people People of Israel And your holy city Is about Jerusalem So this is not about You know everyone And anyone No the 70 weeks I am talking I want to tell you What is The 70 weeks concerns Your people And your city Right So keep that context Is very important And then he says What is going to happen In 70 weeks In this time period I am going to tell you about This 490 years In this 490 years This 490 years Is about your people Is about your city And these other things That I am going to highlight Which is going to take place In this 490 years What will happen To finish transaggression Impression 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 So it's like in this 490 years These are the highlights That are going to take place That means first Sin Is going to be dealt with And there is going to be An atonement for sin That's the first aspect To deal with transgression End of sins And reconciliation for iniquity Or an atonement for sin So that's the first highlight That's going to take place In this 490 years And we will see He will explain this Then The other highlight is Everlasting righteousness Is going to be assured in And all vision and prophecy Is going to be fulfilled And the most holy Will be anointed So here When he says the most holy It could refer to The most holy place Or the most holy one The most holy one Referring to Jesus The most holy place Referring even to the temple But I think it's More specifically to anoint The most holy one That is Christ being Settled Asking So these are the highlights These are the things that are going to happen In this 490 years So how is it going to happen? Verse 25 He's breaking it down Know therefore and understand That from the going forth Of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince Oh So he's saying look And first chunk of First time period Is From the time There is the decree to go And rebuild Jerusalem Which King Cyrus did The Persian king So after the Medes The Persians came King Cyrus As soon as he became king In the first year of his reign He issued the decree Jews Go back And Rebuild Jerusalem Rebuild your city And your temple Go back So King Cyrus did that So he's saying From the time Of the going forth Of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince Messiah The anointed one The king Until he comes There's going to be 69 weeks So remember he said 70 weeks First 69 weeks For 83 years 483 years Is this time period How do you know 69 weeks he says They shall be 7 weeks And 62 7 plus 62 69 So 69 weeks And he just broke it in two parts Don't get confused 7 plus 62 He could have said 60 plus 9 Or he could have said 7 plus 62 69 Total 69 So from the time King Cyrus gives the decree Go and rebuild Jerusalem Until the Messiah comes 483 years And this was fulfilled Exactly Now historically Now remember this That historians today That is More than 2,000 years We're talking about 2,500 years later Today When historians are Reconstructing Human history The dates May not always be precise It's approximate Because nobody was there 2,500 years ago Right They're only saying Approximately around this time This King lived in there And it's all based on What they find Right They may find Archaeological evidence They find this They find that And oh this was from that date They did So even historians When they reconstruct history Remember it's not an accurate It's not an accurate process They arrive at somewhere Around you know that 450 to 500 years They may not be able to give us Exactly 480 You know 69 weeks Exactly 483 years They can't give that Precisely because it's not possible But they have a rough estimate Of around that same figure Whereas Daniel said Not Daniel Gabriel said 69 Weeks Which is 483 Precisely Right So Angel Gabriel Gave it very precise 69 weeks Or 69 times 7 483 years Historians give us an estimate Which comes around the same thing Which is amazing Amazing We can You know We can say very confidently Yeah If he said 483 years exactly That's what would have happened Now nobody was there to see it And make a note of it But You know We can say with confidence Because Gabriel said 69 weeks 483 years From the time The decree is issued To go and rebel Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince But notice he said this Messiah The Prince Messiah The Anointed One The Prince The King But When the Messiah came the first time He didn't come as the Prince What did he come to do? He came to finish transgression To make an end of sins To make reconciliation for Iniquity So this 483 years It is the same Messiah He is the King But when he came the first time He came to do that first piece of work To deal with sin To make a torment for sin He came to deal with that And so Daniel continues In verse 25 The street shall be built again And the wall that is the rebuilding of the city Which is the issue was The issue The decree was issued To go and rebuild the city So he is saying the street will be built Again the wall even in difficult times Verse 26 And after the 62 weeks 7 plus 62 69 Really After that 62 weeks 7 plus 62 69 weeks What will happen? Messiah shall be cut off But not for himself The Messiah will be killed He will be cut off He will be killed But it's not for himself He is going to die for the sake of other people It's very interesting Very powerful Because he said the first highlight Should be the dealing with sin To make an end of transgression End of sin To make reconciliation iniquity And that's what the Messiah will do At the end of 483 years The Messiah will be cut off He will be killed But it's not for himself It's for the people And then he said And the people Of the prince who is to come The people of the ruler And those days Will destroy the city And the sanctuary Which happens Messiah was cut off 80-30 40 years later The Romans The people Who is to come The Romans They destroyed the city of Jerusalem And they destroyed the temple 80-70 They destroyed the city And the sanctuary And the end of it Shall be With a flood Until the end of the war Desolations Are determined So the city Is destroyed The sanctuary The end of it Is going to be with a flood Until the end of the war Desolations Are determined So the city is destroyed Temple is destroyed And then he's jumping to the end The end of it There's going to be war There's going to be flood Which we know in the book of Revelation That's the battle of Armageddon And there's going to be Revelation 16 talks about a river 5 feet high At least 183 miles Of blood That's the devastation that's going to happen Until the end The end of it will be with a flood And until the end of the war Desolations are going to happen That means there's going to be A lot of problems going on In the city The Jerusalem The land It's going to go on It means Israel is not going to necessarily See an entirely Complete time of peace Until the end Desolations are determined Until the end Until the end of the war And the war is that last Of Armageddon Verse 27 Then He shall confirm A component With many For one week But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end To sacrifice An offering This is now talking Verse 27 Then he shall confirm What is he talking about? He's talking about this man Who's going to make Who's going to Desecrate The temple, the abomination And desolation So we will cross reference Matthew 24 and 2nd Thessalonians 2 We'll do that This person that's being referred to In Daniel 9, 27 Jesus referred to him as The abomination Paul in 2nd Thessalonians Referred to him as the son of Perdition, the man of sin Revelation refers to him As the antichrist We will cross reference it But let's understand verse 27 Then he So we're giving you the Information ahead of time That means this son of perdition This man of sin This antichrist This The one who makes desolation He Is going to confirm a Covenant with many For one week That means he's going to establish In modern language We will say a peace treaty A covenant A covenant is what A promise He's going to establish with many A covenant For one week One week is Seven years With many We can understand it as many other nations Many other rulers is going to establish A peace treaty A covenant for one week But in the Middle of the week He shall bring In the middle of the week means Three and a half years In the middle of one week In the middle of the week Bring an end To sacrifice an offering That means Sacrifice an offering What is that? That is the worship that happens In the temple But the temple has been destroyed Verse 26, it's going to be destroyed The city and the sanctuary is destroyed Which the Romans did Till today The temple mount is there But no temple Which means that before Verse 27 can be fulfilled A place of worship has to come Where the Jewish people Will be doing sacrifice and offering Because In the middle of that week He's going to stop Sacrifice and offering So that's why we say that There has to be A third temple that is built Solomon's temple Was destroyed It was rebuilt During Ezra Nehemiah's time That was the second temple The second temple was destroyed In 8070, fulfilling Daniel 926 It's no longer there So a temple has to come in place Which we refer to as a third temple Which This man Will Set up a peace treaty And there will be worship going on Sacrifice and offering happening In the middle of that week He will stop sacrifice and offering And he's going to move so quickly Doing On the wing of abominations Shall be one who makes Desla This man is going to move so fast Doing abominations What will he do? He's going to speak blasphemous things Against God He's going to stop the daily sacrifices And we will see later on He will give himself up as God And demand to be worshiped And he's going to make desolate And he's going to go and Attack The people of Ezra Which we know from Revelation 12 Even until the consummation Which is determined Is poured out on the desolate Until all the judgment that's been Determined Is poured out. So that last three and a half years Is going to be a time of great trouble Great tribulation All It's the consummation of judgment Being poured out on the earth And everything, you know, it's going to be Devastating a great desperation But With that, the rest of the prophecy Will be fulfilled. That's verse 24 At the end of That everlasting Righteousness Will be brought in All vision and prophecy will be fulfilled and the most holy one Will be unveiled It will happen In this So He said 70 weeks That means 490 years The first 69 weeks Is from King Cyrus Degree to the Messiah being killed First 69 7 years 70th week So that is referred to as Daniel's 70th week So there's a gap In between The Messiah being cut off And the start of Daniel's 70th week There's a gap What is that gap? It's the church age So right now we are there In the church age The first part of Daniel 924 was Transgression was done There was an end of sin and reconciliation of iniquity For 83 years 69 weeks Here in the church age What is remaining is Daniel's 70th week That's left That 7 year period That one week that's Referred to in Daniel 927 That's still remaining But that's what we refer to as The 7 years of tribulation During which time this man of sin The son of perdition The one who makes desolate is going to be operated So From the Time the Messiah was cut off Till Daniel's 70th week Is the church age The church Was birthed after Christ Died and rose up again And right now The church has given certain responsibility To preach the gospel to the nations Make disciples of all nations And then The church was taken out of the way And Daniel's 70th week Will come into play Remember These 70 weeks Are specific Are dealing with Things that are going to be really impactful On Israel and Jerusalem So Daniel's 70th week Is also referred to as The time of Jacob's Trouble The time of Jacob's Trouble Daniel's 70th week So now we need to do a little bit Of cross-referencing Like I said To get more understanding of These four verses Which we are going to do But let me pause here And see, did you follow with me Through these four verses I can repeat it If you want But did you understand these four verses Very, very powerful Verses Please go ahead Also you said it was okay I forgot the question Go ahead From verse 25 We see There shall be seven weeks And 62 weeks From King Cyrus to the time of Jesus But in verse 26 We see There's only 62 weeks So I mean I was expecting 69 To be there because he said 69 until The time of Jesus So why it's 62 and why There it's 61 Good question It's simply A reference To his last point So he said Seven weeks and 62 weeks Then he's continuing And after the 62 Messiah will be cut off Okay So Seven plus 62 we are saying totally 69 But remember this was written As one state where it wasn't like Divided into chapter and verse So suppose I tell you Example Example It's just a sentence structure But I'm just giving an example Suppose I say to somebody The first four hours I will be in the office The Second four hours I will be In the city And after the second four hours I will meet you Now How I spent total Eight hours Right because I said first four hours I'll be in the office Second four hours I will Be in the city And at the end of the second Second four hours I will meet you Basically Total is I have spent Eight hours that day But As a reference I said After the second half of The day After finished the second half of the day I will meet So that's how we should understand So if you say how many hours Has he already spent before meeting He's already spent eight hours But he said After the second four hours I'll meet So that's kind of it's a sentence structure Right Seven years And 62 Until The going for the Decree to the Messiah And then after the 62 That is the end of 69 Messiah will be It's how we say So basically for 83 years From Sarah's Decree to Jesus being And then after that Next major thing is The temple is destroyed The city and the temple is destroyed What happens? Then he's jumping to the very end The end of war Which we understand is the very end Of the age But before that The seven year final Seven years has to happen And This is how it's going to How the last seven years is going to unfold This man of sin is going to set up a covenant Of peace But he will break that And stop all the sacrifices and everything And Then there will be great desolation Happening during that time Any other? Pastor Price look I'm sorry I still Could not understand The seven weeks And 62 weeks And you said some 483 years After Messiah shall be cut off So can you please Re-iterate on that Conversion please Yeah Alright so let's go through it again So in verse 24 He says 70 Weeks Right verse 24 70 weeks Are determined for your people So here's Gabriel saying Daniel I've come to talk to you about 70 weeks About your people Now one week Is equal to 7 years We saw this From Genesis 29 Genesis 29, 27 And 28 I'm just typing it out here So one week is 7 So 70 Times 7 Is equal to 490 years So total of 490 years Is So he's come to Talk to Daniel About a time period of 490 years But And then he says in this 490 years The main things that are going to happen is Verse 24 Sin is going to be dealt with And then the other part is Everlasting righteousness Prophecy will be fulfilled The most holy one will be anointed So these are the key highlights So far he says 7 weeks Plus 62 weeks Which is equal to 69 weeks So that's In verse 25 There shall be 7 And 62 weeks Which We know 69 weeks 69 weeks Times 7 Is 483 years So that's how the 483 years comes Thank you very much Pastor So 483 years From King Cyrus Till Messiah 483 years So then 7 years are left One week is still left That one week happens At the end It's the last 7 years During this Time period And that's called Daniel's 7th week Let's take a break We'll come back after the break And we'll take more questions if there are But what we need to do now is We need to cross the fence with a new testament That really explains this much further Which we will do after the break Thanks