2. Why do we tend to place our allegiance on
earthly powers when we know the future?
3. Why do we tend to place our allegiance on
earthly powers when we know the future?
Jesus Christ came to put an end to sin
and will return to conquer death and
sin once and for all.
4. Daniel 9
20 Now while I was speaking and praying,
and confessing my sin and the sin of my
people Israel, and presenting my supplication
before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy
mountain of my God, [21] while I was still
speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel,
whom I had seen in the vision previously,
came to me in my extreme weariness about
the time of the evening offering.
5. Daniel 9
22 He gave me instruction and talked with
me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come
forth to give you insight with understanding.
23 “At the beginning of your supplications
the command was issued, and I have come to
tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give
heed to the message and gain understanding
of the vision.
6. Matthew 7:7,11
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek,
and you will find; knock, and it will be
opened to you. . . . If you then, being
evil, know how to give good gifts to
your children, how much more will your
Father who is in heaven give what is
good to those who ask Him!”
7. Daniel 9
24 “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your
people and your holy city, to finish the
transgression, to make an end of sin, to make
atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting
righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and
to anoint the most holy place.
25 So you are to know and discern that from the
issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be
seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built
again, with plaza and moat, even in times of
distress.
8. Daniel 926 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will
be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the
prince who is to come will destroy the city and the
sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even
to the end there will be war; desolations are
determined.
27 And he will make a firm covenant with the
many for one week, but in the middle of the week
he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering;
and on the wing of abominations will come one
who makes desolate, even until a complete
destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on
the one who makes desolate.”
9. Symbolic View
- The “seventy sevens” represent three periods of
time ending in the first century A.D.
- The first period extends from Cyrus’ decree for
Jewish exiles to return until the time Ezra and
Nehemiah began rebuilding Jerusalem (around
440–400 B.C.)
- The second period stretches from around 400
B.C. until the coming of Jesus Christ
- The last seven years represent the period prior
to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70
10. Literal View
- There are 490 years divided into 3 periods of
time: 49 years, 434 years, and 7 years
- The first period begins with the decree of Ezra to
rebuild Jerusalem and ends with the completion
of the work (around 400 B.C.)
- The second period begins at the end of the first
and concludes with the inauguration of Christ’s
kingdom (either his baptism or entrance into
Jerusalem on Palm Sunday)
11. Literal View
- The Messiah would be rejected by the people,
he would suffer alone on the cross
- Jerusalem would be destroyed by the Romans
- The third period would begin at a later date
when Anti-christ appears and establishes a final
government to overthrow Christ
- Tribulation will ensue and Anti-christ will make
an abomination of desolation half-way through
- After sevens years of tribulation, Christ will
return in glory, conquering Anti-christ
12. Daniel 9
24 “Seventy weeks have been decreed for
your people and your holy city, to finish the
transgression, to make an end of sin, to make
atonement for iniquity, to bring in
everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision
and prophecy and to anoint the most holy
place.
13. Daniel 9
25 So you are to know and discern that from
the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will
be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will
be built again, with plaza and moat, even in
times of distress.
14. Daniel 9
26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the
Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and
the people of the prince who is to come will
destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its
end will come with a flood; even to the end
there will be war; desolations are
determined.
15. Daniel 9
27 And he will make a firm covenant with the
many for one week, but in the middle of the
week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain
offering; and on the wing of abominations
will come one who makes desolate, even
until a complete destruction, one that is
decreed, is poured out on the one who
makes desolate.”
16. Matthew 24
15 “Therefore when you see the
ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was
spoken of through Daniel the prophet,
standing in the holy place (let the reader
understand), [16] then those who are in
Judea must flee to the mountains. . . . [22]
Unless those days had been cut short, no life
would have been saved; but for the sake of
the elect those days will be cut short.”
17. 29 “But immediately after the tribulation of those
days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE
MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS
WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the
heavens will be shaken. [30] And then the sign of
the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all
the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will
see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS
OF THE SKY with power and great glory. [31] And
He will send forth His angels with A GREAT
TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His
elect from the four winds, from one end of the
sky to the other.”
18. Why do we tend to place our allegiance on
earthly powers when we know the future?
Jesus Christ came to put an end to sin
and will return to conquer death and
sin once and for all.
