Topic: Daniel’s Prophecy Is an End-of-Days Road Map – Discover the Book by Dr John Barnett 11 March  2022

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Daniel’s Prophecy Is an End-of-Days Road Map

“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.”
– Daniel 9:24, emphasis added

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God’s prophetic Word in Daniel 9 is directed at the future of Israel–not the church. In God’s Word, more than 75 percent of all prophecies (fulfilled and not yet fulfilled) are about the future of Israel. His Word always has and always will focus on Israel. In his epistle to the Romans, Paul reminded the church of this when he clearly warned them to not forget that they are grafted into the tree, which is Israel (Romans 11:11-36).

Segment One–The Scope of the Entire Prophecy: God worked with the Jews 2,200 years before the church and is going to work with them 1,000 years after the church. In our little period of time, 2,000 years, we are important, but we are not all there is. Israel is critically important. The church is blended together with them now; we are grafted in, but God is going to come and deal with them again. We should therefore diligently lead people to Christ, because as soon as the last one to be saved is saved, we will be raptured out of this planet.

Now let us look at the scope of the whole period. At the beginning of today’s devotional, we read Daniel 9:24 in which God said some specific things about the Jews. The idiom of “a week of years” was common in Israel as a “sabbath for the land.” You can read about this in Leviticus 25-26 and Deuteronomy 15. These passages talk about a sabbath for the land-about heptads, or periods of seven years; the land was to lie fallow every seventh year. It was their failure to obey these and other laws that led to God’s sending them into captivity under the Babylonians (2 Chronicles 36). They were to work for six years and take the seventh year off. After forty-eight years, the forty-ninth was the sabbath year–and the fiftieth year was the Jubilee year. It was a wonderful system. God said that they needed that rest and renewal to anoint the Most Holy. And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years (2 Chronicles 36:20-21).

Note that Daniel 9:24 is not directed to the church but focuses upon “your people [Israel] and your holy city [Jerusalem].” The scope of this prophecy includes a broad list of things that clearly are yet to be completed.

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