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DANIEL 9
LESSON #11
INSIGHTS INTO PRAYER AND GOD’S TIME TABLE

• MEMORY VERSE: EPHESIANS 5:15-16
• READ DAN 9:1-2
• HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
• THIS DARIUS IS DARIUS, THE MEDE OF DANIEL 6 WHO PUT DANIEL INTO THE LION’S DEN.
• DANIEL KNEW BY “BOOKS” THAT THE 70 YEAR BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY WAS TO COME TO AN END IN ONE YEAR (JER 25:11,12).
• DANIEL AND JEREMIAH WERE CONTEMPORARIES THOUGH THEY WERE NOT IN THE SAME LOCATION. HOWEVER, THEY DID LEARN OF THE MESSAGES OF THE OTHER PROPHETS.
• READ DAN 9:3-19 DANIEL’S PRAYER
• WHY DID DANIEL NEED TO PRAY SO FERVENTLY IF IT WAS REVEALED IN WRITINGS OF JEREMIAH THAT THE CAPTIVITY WOULD END AFTER 70 YEARS?
• PRAYER CHANGES THE PERSON WHO PRAYS. DANIEL’S PRAYER WAS CONCERNED WITH THE PRECISE METHOD GOD WOULD USE TO ACCOMPLISH THE JEWS’ RELEASE FROM CAPTIVITY AS WELL AS THE PRECISE DAY IT WOULD HAPPEN.
• READ EZE 36:37 JER 50:4,5,20
• GOD SAYS HE WILL FORGIVE THEIR SINS, AND THEY SHALL BE RESTORED TO THEIR HOMELAND.
• DANIEL SEES A NEED FOR INTERCESSION AND CONFESSION OF THE SINS OF HIS PEOPLE. HE IDENTIFIES HIMSELF AS A SINNER AS WELL.
• BECAUSE OF THE SIN OF IDOLATRY, ISRAEL HAD GONE INTO CAPTIVITY AND JERUSALEM HAD BEEN LAID WASTE (2CHR 36:15-21).
• THE JEWS FAILED TO LET THE LAND LIE FALLOW EVERY 7 YEARS, SO GOD TOOK THEM OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND TO MAKE UP THE TIME THEY FAILED TO OBEY. THIS SIN DETERMINED THE LENGTH OF THE CAPTIVITY. (LEV 25:4 LEV 26:34-35)
• DANIEL KNEW HOW THE NEW GENERATIONS BORN IN BABYLON WERE SATISFIED TO SETTLE AND STAY THERE. HE NEEDED TO STIR UP HIS PEOPLE TO DESIRE TO RETURN TO JUDEA AND JERUSALEM.
• DISCUSSION

: WITH ALL THE EVIL TO COME UPON THE WORLD AT THE END OF THIS AGE AND IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, WHY SHOULD WE PRAY WHEN THESE THINGS WERE PROPHESIED?

• HOW SHOULD WE PRAY?
• NOTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE HAPPENS IN GOD’S PROGRAM ON EARTH APART FROM THE PERSISTENT AND BELIEVING PRAYERS OF HIS REDEEMED PEOPLE.
• THE KINDS OF PRAYER IN WHICH DANIEL ENGAGED HIMSELF: (3)
• PRAYER
• THE WORD “PRAYER” IS A GENERAL TERM FOR ALL TYPES OF PRAYER.
• SUPPLICATION
• SUPPLICATION IS THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SPECIFIC NEEDS.
• FASTING
• THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF BIBLICAL FASTING (EITHER TOTAL FASTING OR LIMITED FASTING), AND FOR VARIOUS LENGTHS OF TIME.
• SACKCLOTH & ASHES
• A SYMBOLIC ACT INDICATING HUMILITY.
• PARTS OF PRAYER
• ADORATION AND WORSHIP (4)
• CHARACTERISTICS ABOUT GOD ARE STATED.
• GREAT (4)
• AWESOME (4)
• FAITHFUL (4,12)
• MERCIFUL (4)
• RIGHTEOUS (7,14)
• COMPASSIONATE AND FORGIVING (9)
• SOVEREIGN AND POWERFUL (15)
• THE PURPOSE OF PRAYER (19)
• CONFESSION (5-15)
• TYPES OF SIN (5)
• SINNED = TO MISS THE MARK
• INIQUITY = TO BEND THE LAW
• WICKEDLY = TO DISTURB THE PEACE
• REBELLED = TO REVOLT OR ATTACK
• DEPARTED = TO IGNORE
• SPECIFIC SINS
• DISOBEDIENT (10,11)
• THE EVIL OF THE LEADERS (12)
• SINS OF THEIR ANCESTORS (16)
• PETITION (16-19)
• DON’T CAUSE YOUR WRATH TO FALL UPON JERUSALEM.
• HEAR MY PRAYER.
• EXTEND YOUR GRACE TO THE DESTROYED TEMPLE.
• BEHOLD THE DESOLATIONS OF YOUR PEOPLE.
• THE HORRORS THAT FELL UPON JERUSALEM ARE DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS. TWO AND A HALF YEARS THE BABYLONIANS BROUGHT SIEGE AGAINST JERUSALEM BRINGING STARVATION, CANNIBALISM, AND THEN TOTAL DESTRUCTION. NO OTHER ANCIENT CITY, SO FAR AS WE KNOW, EXPERIENCED SUCH A CATASTROPHE AS GOD PERMITTED UPON JERUSALEM.
• FORGIVE SIN.
• ACT ON MAN’S BEHALF.
• SUMMARY OF DANIEL’S PRAYER:
• DANIEL DID NOT PRAY FOR THE SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING OF THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST. HE DID NOT PRAY FOR THE PROSPERITY OF THE SAINTS OF ALL AGES. HE PRAYED FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE TEMPLE AND FOR THE REVERSAL OF THE DESOLATIONS OF THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• THE ANSWER TO DANIEL’S PRAYER, SENT BY GOD THROUGH THE ANGEL,GABRIEL, CENTERS ON JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL.
• THESE WERE DANIEL’S DEEPEST CONCERNS. THEREFORE, THE ANSWERS THAT GOD GIVES HIM CONCERN THEMSELVES WITH JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL.
• THE NATURE OF BIBLE PROPHECY IS THAT A PROPHET NEVER SAW THE TOTAL PICTURE OF GOD’S PLAN. EACH PROPHET ONLY SAW A SMALL PART OF THE PLAN. THAT IS WHY THERE WERE SO MANY PROPHETS AT THIS PERIOD OF TIME.
• READ DAN 9:20-27 THE SEVENTY WEEKS
• THEIS PASSAGE IS THE ANSWER TO DANIEL’S PRAYER.
• THIS PASSAGE IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SECTIONS OF PROPHETIC SCRIPTURE. THIS SECTION IS CALLED THE BACKBONE OF PROPHECY BECAUSE IT GIVES US GOD’S TIME TABLE FOR THE JEWS AND JERUSALEM.
• GABRIEL (21) = HIS NAME MEANS “STRONG ONE OF THE STRONG GOD” HE IS GOD’S HERALDING ANGEL MAKING ANNOUNCEMENTS ESPECIALLY AS REGARDS ISRAEL AND THE JEWS.
• PHRASE BY PHRASE INTERPRETATION

(24-27):

• “SEVENTY WEEKS DETERMINED UPON THY PEOPLE AND UPON THY HOLY CITY

” (24) =

• GOD DIVIDES TIME AS TO HIS DEALING WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM
• THE WORD, “DETERMINED” = CUT OFF TIME FROM OTHER PERIODS, SET APART, DIVIDED FROM.
• 70 WEEKS (“SHABUA”) = THIS IS A PROPHETIC PHRASE THAT LITERALLY IS SEVENTY SEVENS OR 70 WEEKS OF YEARS (70 X 7 = 490 YEARS) (GEN 29:26-28).
• GOD WORKS WITH HIS PEOPLE IN CYCLES OF SEVENS (REMEMBER THE 70 YEAR BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY).
• WE KNOW THE 7 WEEKS OF YEARS = 7 ACTUAL YEARS BECAUSE OF LEV 25:8 (7 SABBATHS OF YEARS).
• THE PURPOSE OF THE 70 PROPHETIC WEEKS:
• =1= “TO FINISH THE TRANSGRESSION” = TO PUT AN END TO ISRAEL’S REBELLION AGAINST GOD.
• ISRAEL HAD CONSISTENTLY BROKEN GOD’S LAW AND COMMANDMENTS.
• THIS TRANSGRESSION WILL END AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST WHEN CHRIST WILL RULE ON DAVID’S THRONE. (EZE 39:24-25)
• =2= “TO MAKE AN END OF SIN” = TO FORGIVE ISRAEL OF THEIR SINS.
• SIN WAS JUDGED AT THE CROSS, BUT IT STILL REIGNS IN THE WORLD. BECAUSE THE NATION OF ISRAEL HAS NOT ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR MESSIAH, THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR SINS.
• AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, THE NATION OF ISRAEL WILL RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR MESSIAH. (ROM 11:26-27)
• =3= “TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR INIQUITY” = TO FORGIVE ISRAEL FOR THEIR SUPREME SIN OF THE REJECTION OF CHRIST AT CALVARY.
• WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES AGAIN, THEY WILL ACCEPT HIM AND THIS SIN WILL BE ATONED FOR (ZEC 12:10).
• =4= “TO BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS” = TO MAKE RIGHTEOUSNESS A WAY OF LIFE FOR ISRAEL.
• IT IS ONLY BY RECEIVING JESUS CHRIST INTO OUR HEARTS THAT WE HAVE RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHEN THE JEWS RECEIVE CHRIST AT THE SECOND COMING, THEY WILL BE MADE A RIGHTEOUS NATION OF PEOPLE. THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS FOR AN ETERNAL LIFE WITH CHRIST. (JER 23:6)
• =5= “TO SEAL UP THE VISION AND PROPHECY”

= DANIEL’S VISION WAS SEALED (DAN 12:9) UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END. IN REVELATION THE VISION IS OPENED (REV 5:1-6:1).

• AT CHRIST’S SECOND COMING, WE SEE ALL PROPHECY FULFILLED. THERE WILL BE NO MORE NEED FOR VISIONS AND PROPHECY AS CHRIST WILL BE PRESENT, COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY WITH HIS PEOPLE. (JOE 2:27-28)
• =6= “TO ANOINT THE MOST HOLY” = THIS REFERS TO THE HOLY OF HOLIES IN THE MILLENNIAL TEMPLE.
• DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL DESECRATE THE TEMPLE (MAT 24:15, 2THE 2:4 REV 13:15).
• WHEN CHRIST COMES, HE CLEANSES IT (DAN 12:11 EZE 43:2, 4-5)

• “FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMANDMENT TO RESTORE AND TO BUILD JERUSALEM” (25) = THE FIRST OFFICIAL DECREE FOR RE-FORTIFYING JERUSALEM AND REBUILDING THE WALLS WAS ISSUED BY ARTAXERXES I LONGIMANUS IN 454 BC (NEH 2:1, 4-9).
• “UNTO MESSIAH, THE PRINCE” = USING A SOLAR YEAR OF 365 ? DAYS, 483 YEARS BRINGS US TO 30 AD WHEN CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED.
• “SEVEN WEEKS AND THREE SCORE AND TWO WEEKS” =

7 WEEKS = 49 YEARS
62 WEEKS = 434 YEARS
1 WEEK = 7 YEARS
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70 WEEKS = 490 YEARS

• “the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times” = IT TOOK 49 YEARS (7 WEEKS) TO COMPLETE THE TEMPLE AND THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• THEN 434 YEARS (62 WEEKS) UNTIL CHRIST CAME. THERE REMAINS 7 YEARS (1 WEEK) LEFT TO BE FULFILLED WITH AN UNSEEN AND UNDETERMINED INTERVAL BETWEEN THE 69TH WEEK AND THE 70TH WEEK.
• “MESSIAH BE CUT OFF BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF” (26) = JESUS IS CRUCIFIED ON THE CROSS FOR THE SINS OF MANKIND.
• “PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE THAT SHALL COME” = THE PRINCE TO COME IS THE ANTI-CHRIST. THE PEOPLE ARE THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIM. THIS COULD NOT REFER TO CHRIST AS THEY COME TO DESTROY.
• “SHALL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY” = TITUS, EMPEROR OF ROME, DESTROYED JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE IN 70 AD. THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL SEEK TO DO IT AGAIN IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
• THERE IS A PROPHETIC DOUBLE REFERENCE HERE, SO THERE ARE 2 FULFILLMENTS.
• “THE END OF IT SHALL BE WITH A FLOOD” = WHEN PROPHECY BEGINS TO BE FULFILLED IN THE END TIME, THE EVENTS START SMALL AND INCREASE IN FREQUENCY AND INTENSITY AS THE YEARS DRAW CLOSER TO THE SECOND COMING JUST LIKE A WOMAN IN THE LABOR OF CHILDBIRTH.
• “UNTO THE END OF THE WAR” = LITERALLY, UNTO THE END SHALL BE WAR. ONE OF THE SIGNS OF THE END TIME WILL BE WAR.
• “HE SHALL CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK” (27) = HE IS THE ANTI-CHRIST. HE WILL SIGN A SEVEN-YEAR (1 WEEK) PEACE TREATY WITH THE JEWS. THIS IS THE EVENT THAT BEGINS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.
• “IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK HE SHALL CAUSE THE SACRIFICE AND

OBLATION TO CEASE” = AFTER THREE AND A HALF YEARS INTO THE TRIBULATION, THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL BREAK HIS PEACE TREATY AND TURN AGAINST THE JEWS.

• “OVERSPREADING OF ABOMINATIONS” = IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION, THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL ERECT A STATUE OF HIMSELF IN THE JEWISH TEMPLE AND DEMAND WORSHIP.
• “UNTIL THE CONSUMMATION” = THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL DESECRATE THE TEMPLE FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS UNTIL THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION IS COMPLETE.
• “THAT DETERMINED SHALL BE POURED UPON THE DESOLATE” = THE PRE-DETERMINED JUDGMENT OF ETERNAL DEATH IN THE LAKE OF FIRE WILL FINALLY BE FULFILLED AS THE ANTI-CHRIST AND FALSE PROPHET ARE CAST IN THAT LAKE AT THE END OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. (REV 19:20-21)
• AN IMPORTANT NOTE:
• THERE IS A PARENTHESIS OF TIME OF ABOUT 2,000 YEARS BETWEEN VERSE 26 AND VERSE 27.
• AT THE END OF YOUR NOTES I GIVE YOU TWO CHARTS OF INTERPRETATIONS OF DANIEL’S 70 WEEKS. ONE IS THE POPULAR VERSION BASED ON SECULAR HISTORY FOR DATES. THE OTHER IS THE VERSION BASED ONLY ON THE BIBLE FOR DATES.
• APPLICATION:
• GOD’S TIME TABLE IS A GOOD VIEW OF PROPHECY AND SETS THE TIME LINE FOR EVENTS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
• WE MUST REMEMBER THAT GOD DEALS IN SPECIFICS AND NOT GENERALITIES. HIS PLAN IS SPECIFIC, PERFECT, AND ASSURED.
• WE MUST REMEMBER THAT GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES. HE FULFILLS EVERY SPECIFIC DETAIL OF HIS PLAN TO BRING ABOUT THE ULTIMATE VICTORY OF HIS PEOPLE.
• WE MUST REMEMBER THAT GOD IS SOVEREIGN IN WHAT SEEMS TO BE A CHAOTIC WORLD. GOD’S PLAN IS ON TRACK. THERE IS NOTHING, AND THERE IS NO ONE WHO WILL BE ABLE TO UPSET IT.

DANIEL’S 70 WEEKS OF YEARS
DAN 9:24-27
(the most Biblically consistent reckoning)

1 prophetic week = 7 years
1 solar year = 365 ? days
1 year must be subtracted when changing from BC to AD

FULFILLED IN HISTORY				454BC	COMMAND TO REBUILD JERUSALEM NEH 2:1,9
	69 WEEKS =483 YEARS (SOLAR)
				30 AD	THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE MESSIAH
THE UNSEEN PERIOD OF DANIEL’S PROPHECY (THE CHURCH AGE)
YET TO BE FULFILLED		1 WEEK = 7 YEARS	3 ? YR     3 ? YR	T R I B U L A T I O N	ANTI-CHRIST CONFIRMS PEACE TREATY WITH JEWS
					ANTI-CHRIST BREAKS PEACE TREATY WITH JEWS BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON

70 WEEKS =490 YRS

DANIEL’S 70 WEEKS OF YEARS
DAN 9:24-27
(the most popular reckoning)

1 prophetic week = 7 yrs.
1 year = 360 days

FULFILLED IN HISTORY				445BC	COMMAND TO REBUILD JERUSALEM NEH 2:1, 9 (March 13, 445 BC)
	69 WEEKS = 483 YEARS = 173,880 days
				32 AD	THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF THE MESSIAH (April 6, 32 AD)
THE UNSEEN PERIOD OF DANIEL’S PROPHECY (THE CHURCH AGE)
YET TO BE FULFILLED		1 WEEK =	3 ? YR 3 ? YR	T R I B U L A T I O N	ANTI-CHRIST CONFIRMS PEACE TREATY WITH JEWS
		7 YEARS			ANTI-CHRIST BREAKS PEACE TREATY WITH JEWS BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON

70 WEEKS =490 YRS

HOMEWORK
DANIEL 10
THIS IS A SELF STUDY. PLEASE DO NOT SEND HOMEWORK ANSWERS TO THE TEACHER FORCORRECTION.

• APPLICATION OF DANIEL 9
• TAKE WHAT YOU LEARNED ABOUT DANIEL’S PRAYER IN CHAPTER 9. EACH DAY THIS WEEK TRY USING DANIEL’S PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER TO MODEL YOUR OWN PRAYERS.
• WRITE DOWN THE PRINCIPLES YOU TRIED:
• PREPARATION FOR DANIEL 10
• READ DANIEL 10:1-21
• MAKE A LIST OF THE CAST OF CHARACTERS IN THIS CHAPTER.
• WHO DO YOU THINK THE “CERTAIN MAN” IS IN VERSE 5?
• RE-READ DANIEL 10:12-14
• WHO IS THE PRINCE OF THE KINGDOM OF PERSIA?
• EXPLAIN WHAT YOU THINK IS HAPPENING HERE.
• WHO DO YOU THINK THE PRINCE OF GREECE IS? (20)
• MEMORY VERSE: COL 2:9-10