Participants: Jim Reinking
Series Code: LDS
Program Code: LDS000010
|
00:34 And in the Book of Daniel,
00:35 we find some fascinating time prophecies. 00:38 We're gonna be in Daniel Chapter 9 to be exact. 00:42 And as a result of our study this evening 00:44 our faith is going to be strengthened 00:46 in the reliability of God's word 00:50 among another, a number of things 00:52 that I think will impress us. 00:54 And indeed, we find these time prophecies 00:56 as I mentioned outlined 00:57 in the apocalyptic Book of Daniel. 00:59 It is chapter 9 that is going to be 01:01 the Old Testament, page 637. 01:07 Old Testament, page 637. 01:09 So it's Daniel 9 01:12 and we're looking at verse 24 to begin with. 01:16 And then we're gonna look at the context 01:18 in which we find these time prophecies 01:21 and these are vital. 01:22 These prophecies are really vital to us. 01:26 And this is what we find as we looked again Daniel 9:24. 01:30 It says, "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people 01:34 and your holy city." 01:36 And I remind you who Daniel is, 01:38 Daniel is a Jew. 01:40 Daniel is a Jew that was taken into captivity 01:43 by King Nebuchadnezzar and is in Babylon. 01:47 Nebuchadnezzar had this practice 01:49 as he conquered one nation after another in what we call 01:53 the Middle East or Mesopotamia, 01:57 his practice was that he would take 01:59 many of the young promising, young people into captivity. 02:03 He would train them for his civil service 02:06 and he would administer 02:07 his vast empire through these individuals. 02:11 And Daniel was chosen to be 02:13 one of the civil servant's of Nebuchadnezzar. 02:18 And so he spends the rest of his life, 02:21 his long life in Babylon. 02:25 And he is a prophet. 02:27 He receives revelations, he has visions 02:31 and so we're gonna be looking in part 02:33 as some of the revelations given to him. 02:34 And specifically when it says here, 02:36 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people" 02:39 it is talking of course of Daniel's people, 02:41 it's taking about the Jews. 02:44 And so we have a time prophecy that relates to the Jews 02:49 and it says when it says, "your holy city," 02:51 of course it's talking about Jerusalem, Jerusalem. 02:56 And again I want to get into the context. 02:58 Look at verse 2, I'm gonna give you the context. 03:01 In verse 2, I want to turn the page here it says, 03:04 "In the first year of his reign," 03:07 that is speaking of speaking of Darius, 03:11 the Mede and his reign. 03:14 He says, "I, Daniel, observed in the books 03:17 the number of the years 03:18 which was revealed as the word of the Lord 03:20 to Jeremiah the prophet 03:22 for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, 03:25 namely, seventy years." 03:29 So, Daniel has been here for decades 03:33 in the ancient city of Babylon. 03:36 And you know, that surprises that the prophet himself 03:38 was a student of prophecy. 03:40 He had been studying the prophecies of Jeremiah. 03:43 Now Jeremiah wrote approximately in generation 03:46 or so before the time of Daniel. 03:50 And among the other things that Jeremiah prophesied about 03:53 he was not a popular prophet 03:55 because he was predicting all of the doom 03:58 that was going to come to Jerusalem 04:01 and because of their sin 04:03 and because of their rebelliousness against God. 04:07 And I want to tell you they just were listening to him. 04:10 They threw him into dungeon, he had to go through 04:13 all the tragedy of not only predicting 04:16 what was gonna happen but seeing the events unfolding. 04:22 And in fact, he also wrote the book of Lamentations. 04:26 Read the book of Lamentations 04:27 as he laments what happened to his people, 04:32 and to the city of Jerusalem. 04:34 It's just heartbreaking 04:35 when you look at that particular book. 04:38 So anyway he's been studying through the prophet Jeremiah 04:42 and he comes across his prophecy calculates out the time 04:46 and it becomes clear to him that 04:48 it's a bad time for this prophecy to be fulfilled. 04:52 It's recorded in Jeremiah 29:10. 04:55 This is the prophecy that he was looking at. 04:57 He says, "For thus says the Lord, 04:59 'When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, 05:02 I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, 05:06 to bring you back to this place.'" 05:09 And so the seventy year prophecy predicted 05:13 a restoration of the Jews back to the city of Jerusalem. 05:21 The restoration of the nation as well will be a part of that. 05:25 And so the first part of Daniel 9 05:28 as he recognizes the time is at hand, 05:30 we find Daniel in earnests 05:32 and intercessory prayer on behalf of his people. 05:36 And during the course of his prayer, 05:37 he is confessing the sins of his people. 05:41 Notice some of the things 05:42 that he was concerned about as we drop down to verse 5. 05:46 Verse 5 he prays, 05:48 "We have sinned, committed iniquity, 05:52 acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your 05:57 commandments and ordinances." 05:59 And my friend, they paid an awful price 06:03 because they've turned away from the Lord. 06:05 They again the city was destroyed, 06:08 they were sending into captivity 06:10 because they had turned away 06:13 from keeping the commandments of God. 06:16 Now they're those-- those are gonna tell us the commandments. 06:18 What are the commandments? 06:20 How important can the commandments be? 06:23 My friend, God himself gave them to us. 06:26 It is the standard by which we are by the grace of Jesus. 06:31 And it is always through the grace of Jesus, isn't it? 06:34 It's through the-- these are the commandments 06:35 that we are to seek to live in harmony with. 06:40 And as we see here, this is one other sins 06:44 and it was not the only sin 06:45 as we come down to look at verse 6 where he says, 06:48 "Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, 06:52 who spoke in Your name to our kings, 06:54 our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land." 06:59 And in addition to having turned away 07:02 from the commandments, 07:04 they had failed to respond to the testimony 07:07 that God gave to them through the prophets. 07:11 And, my friend, how vital is the testimony 07:14 that God has given to us through the prophetic word, 07:18 that is through the scriptures. 07:20 God gives us not only an understanding of truth 07:25 but often He's giving us council, 07:27 He's giving us direction. 07:29 And let me just bear a testimony to it. 07:31 My friend, this is the book to live by. 07:34 You know, we're gonna live by something, aren't we? 07:36 And most people in the world they're gonna be living by 07:38 for their own interests 07:40 and they're gonna be living in accordance 07:42 with their own instincts. 07:46 And, my friend, that really isn't sufficient. 07:51 We need something that is dependable, 07:54 something that's concrete, 07:56 something that we can rely upon. 07:59 And, my friend, that's the Bible. 08:01 And I know many of you have found that 08:03 in your life's experience in the past 08:05 and maybe some of you're coming to it 08:07 or maybe you're even coming back to it. 08:10 I came to it as a young man. I came to it as a teenager. 08:14 And you know at my junior year in high school, 08:16 this is when my faith in Jesus 08:19 and His word was revived in my experience. 08:21 I was 11 years of age when I gave my heart to Jesus 08:24 and was baptized. 08:26 But I had a kind of rebirth experience 08:32 when I was about 17 years of age. 08:35 And I made that determination as a young man 08:37 that I was going to seek to live by the principles 08:41 and the teachings of the word of God. 08:44 I haven't always measured up. 08:46 There had been significant failures in my life. 08:49 I mean, you know, we're human, 08:51 we all will stumble and fall along the way, won't we? 08:54 But there is that purpose that we have determined 08:59 by the grace of God 09:00 that we want to do the right thing. 09:02 We want to live in harmony with what the Bibles teach us. 09:05 But let me tell you, these people have departed, 09:09 they had departed from God, they had departed 09:12 from the teachings of the word of God. 09:15 They had neglected the teachings of the prophets. 09:19 In fact you'll find period of times, 09:21 you know, periods of time in among Ancient Israel 09:25 where they hunted down the prophets to destroy them. 09:28 They didn't like the messages that they were getting. 09:31 And I call it, you know, 09:34 is that spiritual teenage syndrome. 09:38 You could be 60 years of age, 09:40 you could be, you know, 80 years of age 09:42 and going through the spiritual teenage syndrome 09:45 that is this rebelliousness this unwillingness to listen 09:50 and so unwillingness to be teachable. 09:53 And, my friend, they had a bad case of it. 09:56 And that's-- it got them into lot of trouble. 09:59 And, my friend, the same thing can happen to us 10:01 when we willfully depart from the counsels of God's word. 10:06 There's a direct cause in fact a relationship 10:09 that plays out in our lives. 10:12 And, you know, as it says in Galatians Chapter 6, 10:16 you know, it says, "We reap what we sow." 10:20 And my friend, if you want to reap out 10:22 good things in our lives, 10:23 we've got to plant good things into our lives, right. 10:27 And a lot of our lives as we get older 10:29 is some of it is uprooting some of the bad things 10:32 that got planted in maybe very early in life. 10:35 And by the grace of Jesus, 10:36 we can do some uprooting and some replanting. 10:40 We have the opportunity to be growing 10:43 and planting and reaping out the good things 10:48 that had been promised to us in the Jesus Christ. 10:52 And the good things that we find in the book, 10:55 this book that is so dynamic, this book that is so powerful. 11:00 Remember Paul said it, "faith cometh by hearing, 11:03 and hearing by the word of God." 11:07 And so if you want your faith to increase my friend, 11:10 just keep studying the word of God 11:14 prayerfully seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 11:17 Read through 1 and 2 Chronicles 11:20 and 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Samuel. 11:23 Those historical records as we have in the Old Testament 11:27 and you'll find that the record historically is that 11:30 it seemed like the people of God 11:32 were often more in rebellion than they were faithful to him. 11:37 It's a sad history as you look at Ancient Israel. 11:41 And I mean at one point by the time of Jeremiah 11:45 they had gone so far into rebellion again. 11:49 They were worshipping the sun god from the Temple Mount. 11:53 The people of God were worshipping the sun, Baal. 11:57 And unfortunately that was not an isolated incidence 12:00 where they had turned to the other god's 12:03 of the nations surrounding them. 12:06 And so the nation was destroyed, the city laid in ruins 12:13 because they were not listened. 12:15 And the people-- 12:16 many of them were taken into captivity as we noted. 12:19 Again we must be sure to the grace of Jesus 12:22 that we give heed to the teachings 12:25 and principles of God's word. 12:28 And then I take you on down to verse 10 12:30 where he repeats. 12:32 He says, "Nor have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, 12:36 to walk in His teachings which He set before us 12:39 through His servants the prophets." 12:41 Let me tell you, this matter of being a Christian, 12:43 a believer in God is not just a good fuzzy feeling inside. 12:49 There-- there is that, there is joy, there is peace, 12:53 there is all of this love 12:56 that marks our relationship with Him. 12:58 But, my friend, it must be more than 13:00 just a good feeling. 13:04 A relationship calls for a commitment 13:08 and it is like, it is like a marriage of many ways. 13:11 I mean, do you always feel remember it, 13:14 there was, you know the high when you got married, 13:17 when you're accord in and that you got married. 13:20 But then, you know, there was that kind of settling down. 13:22 Did you feel that high emotion that deep love everyday, 13:27 every moment, did you always-- do you always feel that 13:30 in a committed marriage relationship? 13:33 No, there are times when the feelings are not there. 13:36 Are we any less committed 13:39 because the feelings are not necessarily 13:41 always right there? 13:43 No. We are committed. 13:46 And so it is in our relationship with God. 13:48 There will be some high times. 13:50 There will be some wonderful times. 13:52 There will be some deep emotion but it will not always be so. 13:57 Are we any less committed when there is a deep emotion? 14:02 Of course, we must not let emotionalism 14:06 drive our experience with God. 14:09 There is all that love and joy, won't deny it, 14:12 it's an essential part of it. 14:14 But, you know, our faith must go deeper 14:18 where there is a commitment 14:19 regardless of how we feel at heart, right. 14:23 There's got to be commitment that goes deep. 14:26 And by the grace of Jesus, 14:28 He will work that out in our lives. 14:30 And, so my friend, that tells us we must be sure 14:33 that by the grace of Jesus we give heed. 14:37 Not because we are necessarily being compelled, 14:40 certainly not because we are being forced 14:42 because God forces nobody but because we have made 14:46 a conscious decision in our lives 14:49 that this is what we stand for. 14:52 And we got to stand for something, don't we? 14:54 As Christians we've got to stand for something. 14:57 And I want to tell you without the book, 15:00 we have nothing. 15:02 You know, what we'll know about Jesus, little footnote 15:05 and just a little footnote in history. 15:08 That's all we have recorded, 15:09 if you want to go back to the time in Jesus, 15:11 it's just really just a brief reference to Jesus historically. 15:16 So what we know about Jesus Christ 15:18 and, my friend, it wasn't just above from the sky, 15:20 it comes through a revelation of the word of God. 15:24 And so everything depends upon the word of God. 15:27 Paul said in writing to Timothy the young preacher Timothy, 15:31 II Timothy 4:3, 4. 15:34 He says, "For the time will come when they," 15:38 and he is speaking of the people of God, 15:39 "when they will not endure sound doctrine." 15:43 Doctrine is just another word for teaching. 15:47 Teaching is essential. 15:49 Listen remember, remember what it was when-- 15:52 to be really in the throes of that 15:54 first love experience with the one, 15:56 the significant one in your life. 15:59 Remember the joy of spending time together, 16:01 remember that. 16:04 When you remind yourselves of that, don't we? 16:06 You know, we spend every available hour. 16:09 You know, I met my wife 16:10 at the beginning of my sophomore year in college. 16:13 And I had a great roommate, in fact, I just worked with him, 16:16 he is a pastor of the Thousand Oaks Church 16:20 down in Southern California. 16:22 And so, Mike had invited me to come in to work with he 16:25 and Larry Meager who was the senior pastor. 16:29 But I tell you when I met Donna, he hardly ever saw me again. 16:34 Because every available moment 16:36 I had I was spending with this young woman that I discovered. 16:41 I was eating with her. 16:43 You know, I would be studying with her when I could. 16:46 I was spending every available moment with her. 16:49 And when the weekend came we were in church together, 16:52 Saturday night we were together, 16:53 Sabbath afternoon we were together, 16:56 Sunday, we were together as much as we possibly could. 16:59 We just loved to be with each other. 17:01 And the joy of really knowing who she really was 17:06 and, you know, she had this great personality. 17:09 My wife has a great personality. She is just as so vivacious. 17:14 When I brought her home to meet my family, 17:16 my sister Bonnie seven years young than I. 17:19 She said, "finally, we've got somebody 17:21 it's gonna bring some life to this family." 17:24 And that was my wife, Donna. 17:26 But there was this joy of talking, 17:30 getting to know each other, to learn about each other. 17:34 And, my friend, that is the connection between us 17:38 and the God that we love 17:40 the one who died for us and the teachings 17:43 in Revelations of God's word. 17:46 This is what gives content to our relationship to Jesus. 17:52 So "They will not endure sound doctrine, 17:54 but wanting to have their ears tickled." 17:56 What do you think that means, they want their ears tickled? 17:59 Oh, just tell me something that will be interesting. 18:01 And just tell me something that I will enjoy hearing right. 18:06 Just tell me of the good days. 18:09 Well, during the course of the seminar 18:10 we're gonna tell you a lot of good things from God's word. 18:14 But they're gonna be some things 18:15 just human nature being what it is that-- 18:17 it's kind of go against the grain 18:19 of our natural inclinations. 18:22 I don't know but for some of us 18:23 we're gonna find yourself on our knees, 18:25 you know, working prayerfully through some issues in our lives 18:28 as we go through the word of God. 18:30 It's just the way that it is. We all go through that. 18:33 "But they wanting to have their ears tickled, 18:35 they will accumulate for themselves teachers 18:38 in accordance to their own desires, 18:41 and will turn away their ears from the truth, 18:44 and will turn aside to myths." 18:46 And, my friends, when we turn away 18:47 from the truth we end up in err. 18:51 Remember Jesus said it, "You shall know the truth, 18:54 and the truth," will what? 18:57 "Shall set you free." And it is. 19:02 It sets us free from false doctrine in teaching 19:06 from misconceptions of who God and Jesus really truly is. 19:13 So let's go on down to verses 16, 17, 19:17 16, 17 as Daniel continues to pray. 19:20 He says verse 16, 19:22 "O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, 19:24 let now Your anger and Your wrath 19:27 turn away from Your city Jerusalem, 19:29 Your holy mountain, for because of our sins 19:32 and the iniquities of our fathers, 19:35 Jerusalem and Your people have become 19:38 a reproach to all those around us." 19:41 So, one of the things he's asking 19:44 for restoration of the city. 19:48 And that did eventually take place, right. 19:51 Read through Ezra and Nehemiah 19:53 the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, 19:55 it's a record of the restoration on the city. 19:59 But that's not all that he's concerned about. 20:01 In verse 17 he says, "So now, our God, 20:04 listen to the prayer of Your servant 20:06 and to his supplications, 20:07 and for Your sake, O Lord, 20:09 let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary." 20:13 Now the term we would probably be 20:15 most familiar with is temple. 20:20 Let your face shine on your desolate temple. 20:23 That is the temple that Solomon had built. 20:27 This beautiful structure devoted 20:30 and dedicated to the worship of the true God 20:34 laid in ruins because of Nebuchadnezzar. 20:39 And there's some history behind of this, 20:42 he didn't come just once with those Babylonian hordes. 20:47 He came three times. He did to Jerusalem. 20:52 The first, two-times he saw to setup a puppet king. 20:57 You know, what that is? A puppet king. 20:59 That would recognize his sovereignty 21:03 and yet would rule on a limited basis over the people. 21:06 But they kept rebelling against him. 21:09 And so, twice he came back. 21:12 And the third time that he came back, 21:15 he said, I'm not coming back again. 21:17 And that's when the city and that's when the temple 21:21 that Solomon built was destroyed. 21:24 And so, here Daniel is praying for God to restore the city 21:29 and the temple or the sanctuary for restoration of it. 21:34 And so, I take you on down to verses 21 and 22. Guess what? 21:37 Daniel receives an answer to his prayer. 21:41 Verse 21, "While I was still speaking in prayer, 21:43 then the man Gabriel" an angel actually, 21:47 he appeared as a man but he was actually an angel. 21:51 "Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, 21:55 came to me in my extreme weariness 21:57 about the time of the evening offering. 22:01 He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, 22:03 O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you 22:06 insight with understanding." 22:08 So again we-- 22:10 he's been praying about his people 22:11 and, you know, going over the sad history 22:14 what it happened and asking God 22:16 to look favorably upon his people. 22:19 And the angel Gabriel appears 22:22 and he said, I'm going to give you insight. 22:24 I'm gonna give you some understanding 22:25 of some Bible things that relate to your people 22:28 and by the way we will discover to all peoples. 22:31 So let's get back into verse 24, shall we? 22:36 Where he says, "Seventy weeks have been decreed 22:37 for your people and your holy city." 22:39 We've already read that. 22:41 He implied here directly is a period of probation 22:45 that will be given to the people of God 22:48 to end their long period of rebellion against him. 22:54 And it goes on to say, "To finish the transgression, 22:58 to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, 23:02 to bring in everlasting righteousness, 23:04 to seal up vision and prophecy 23:07 and to anoint the most holy place." 23:09 I mean, there's a lot there contained in verse 24 23:12 and of course the question comes what, 23:14 you know, what he's talking about here? 23:17 Or the better question would be who is he talking about? 23:21 "Who is it that would finish 23:22 the transgression among his people? 23:25 Who is it that will make an end of sin, 23:26 who will make atonement for iniquity etcetera, etcetera? 23:30 And the answer is, it's Jesus. 23:35 And so the prophecy we take note of it, 23:36 from the very beginning is messianic 23:40 because these time prophecies deal 23:42 with not only the people of God in the past 23:44 but it deals with Jesus who alone is the answer to sin. 23:49 There is no answer. Is there another answer. 23:53 I'll tell you people are looking for what 23:55 as we like to say in the words of that old song, 23:57 looking for it in all the wrong places. 24:02 You know, they look for it in drugs, 24:04 they look for it in sex, they look for it in materialism, 24:08 they look for it in all so and so many things. 24:13 But my friend, those things all leave us empty. 24:19 It all leaves us empty. 24:22 My friend, if we want, 24:23 if we want to experience salvation, 24:27 if we want to really in a meaningful way, 24:29 in a way that really gets down 24:30 to the roots of the problem of sin in our lives, 24:34 it is a Savior that we need. 24:36 And it is a Savior that is presented here in verse 24. 24:40 He is the only answer, 24:42 He truly is, there's no other way. 24:47 And so, their whole history 24:48 and their whole future was wrapped up 24:51 in the coming of the Savior much as our futures, 24:56 our present and our futures are wrapped up in the Savior. 25:00 But we have this time prophecy seventy weeks. 25:02 Now I got to get back to the time element of this prophecy, 25:06 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people." 25:09 And the principle as you discover it in the Bible 25:12 is a fairly simple one. 25:13 We find it 25:16 and also here in Ezekiel 4:6 on the screen 25:19 where it says, and if you look at the context 25:21 it's speaking about time prophecy. 25:24 Where is says, "I have appointed thee 25:26 each day for a year." 25:30 So in time prophecy one prophetic day 25:33 represents simply one year. 25:38 Are you with me? 25:39 "I have appointed thee each day for a year." 25:43 So one prophetic day represents one literal year. 25:47 So we're looking at the seventy week prophecy. 25:49 Let's do some calculating. 25:52 We're gonna break it down into day. 25:53 Seventy weeks, of course in a week 25:55 there are seven days 25:56 and that's why we are multiplying 70 by 7. 26:00 And 70 times 7 give's us 490 prophetic days, okay. 26:07 Or what? 490 literal years. 26:14 And what does this is relate to? 26:16 To the people of God. 26:19 God was giving them from the time of Daniel 26:22 another 490 years. 26:25 I ask you, how patience is God with us and with His people. 26:30 Extremely patience. He is extremely patience. 26:34 I mean, after all of this horrible history 26:37 He was still willing to give them time 26:41 by the by His grace to work this all out. 26:43 I'm always working out by grace, I hope you know that. 26:48 He is so abundantly patient. 26:51 And, my friend, He's been so patient with you. 26:54 He's been patient with me. 26:56 And maybe for some of us 26:57 He's been patiently waiting for years 27:02 for us to come to the light. 27:04 God has a purpose for your life, my friend. 27:08 He's got a purpose for my life in this. 27:11 It's not just a intellectualizes. 27:15 It's to lead us into that which says, 27:18 I'm gonna put it. 27:19 It's gonna give us more meaning in our lives 27:23 than we've ever known. 27:25 And it will give us a sense of direction 27:28 and a sense of the future that God has. 27:31 Again that's why we are in a prophecy. 27:33 So, 490 years. 27:35 But, you know, as we look at these time prophecies 27:37 we must have a starting point, right, 27:40 or else we just have 490 years. 27:41 I don't know when it begins so I don't know when it ends. 27:45 But the starting point is given to us in the very next verse. 27:47 Look at it, verse 25 27:49 and we have another part of the time prophecy 27:52 in it as well. 27:54 It says, "So you are to know 27:56 and discern that from the issuing," 27:58 from is the key word, 27:59 "from the issuing of a decree to restore 28:02 and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince 28:06 there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks," 28:09 added up that 69 weeks. 28:12 It's a part of the seventy week prophecy, 28:14 "it will be built again, with plaza and moat, 28:18 even in times of distress." 28:21 So we have 69 weeks of prophetic time. 28:23 But notice, it says, "from the issuing of a decree 28:27 to restore and rebuild Jerusalem." 28:32 From the issuing of a decree. 28:34 And we know that decree was issued in 457 BC 28:40 by the Persian King Artaxerxes that decree. 28:45 We have that decree recorded in the Bible 28:48 you'll find it in Ezra Chapter 7. 28:50 You'll find the decree listed right there in Ezra Chapter 7. 28:55 And this is a well established date. 28:58 So 457 is the starting point of the time prophecies. 29:02 So let's deal with the 70 weeks prophecy. 29:05 First of all since that's what we came to 29:07 we know as 490 years and the starting point 29:11 they're found from 457-490 years takes us down to 34 AD. 29:18 By the way Jesus died in 31 AD. 29:22 God was really patient with them as I said. 29:25 And by the way I should point out some thing 29:27 because whenever you do these calculations 29:30 and you're moving from BC to AD time, 29:33 there's something you have to take in consideration 29:35 if you want to be accurate in your calculation. 29:38 So as you're moving in BC times as you look back, 29:40 you know, let's, you know, 457. 29:42 What's the next year? Was it 458-456? 29:46 What is it? 29:48 456, you're right followed by 455 then 450-- 29:52 you're with me. 29:54 Okay, as you're moving, 29:55 as you're moving down 490 years. 29:57 If you were just take one year at a time account them, okay. 29:59 457 is one, 456 is two, 455 is three 30:04 you would eventually come down to the year 1 BC. 30:08 What's the next year? 30:10 And there's no year zero, 1 AD. 30:14 So, you go when you go from BC to AD time, 30:17 we have two 1s. 30:19 We go from 1 BC to 1 AD. 30:21 Which means when you make out 30:23 your calculation 490 years from 457, 30:26 you're actually the calculation you would end up will be 33. 30:31 So you have to add that extra 1 back in. 30:34 You didn't know you're gonna get 30:35 so much math tonight, did you? 30:37 You have to add that extra 1 back in to be accurate. 30:42 And so it's 34 AD. 30:44 And, my friend, that is when probation came to an end 30:48 for the Nation of Israel. 30:51 Now next Saturday night, 30:53 I'm gonna be preaching on the 144,000 30:55 and we're gonna be talking about 30:56 God's purpose for the Jews in the end time. 30:58 We're gonna be talking about tribulation. 31:00 We're gonna be talking about the antichrist 31:02 that night as well. 31:05 So anyway we'll talk a little bit more 31:07 but it does relate to the prophecy 31:09 that we're looking at. 31:10 In verse 25, we have 69 weeks of prophetic time 31:14 that relate to what? To the coming of whom? 31:18 To the coming of Jesus. 31:21 And again as we look at the time, 31:23 time element 69 weeks 31:25 we're gonna get it break it down into days again. 31:27 So we're multiplying it 31:30 by 7 and 69 times 7 gives us 483 prophetic days 31:37 or 483 literal years. 31:40 And we've already got our starting point. 31:43 We have our starting point, don't we? 31:45 It's 457 AD. 31:48 And due to calculation out it takes us to 27 AD. 31:53 Remember, we have to add that extra 1 in right, 31:57 27 AD to the messianic, friends. 32:01 It isn't that fascinating to find a prophecy here that-- 32:06 what is it over 400 years before the coming of Jesus, 32:09 the predicted the date for the coming of Jesus 32:12 and its right in the Old Testament. 32:15 I mean, that is predicted prophecy in through the years. 32:21 And so, I want you to notice something as we're working 32:23 through the context verse 24 it's messianic. 32:26 Verse 25, it's talking about the Messiah, 32:29 coming of the Messiah 32:30 the Prince talking about the coming of Jesus. 32:33 My friend, He is the focal point of history. 32:37 He is the focal point of history. 32:39 So what happened in 27 AD? 32:42 Take a look with me at Luke 3, 32:45 the New Testament, page 46. 32:48 Page 46 Luke 3, and beginning with verse 21. 32:53 And I'll say right off the top it was not the birth of Jesus 32:58 because Jesus was not born in 27 AD 33:00 but something else important happened here 33:03 as we find it in here Luke 3 and beginning with verse 21. 33:08 This is what happened in 27 AD, 27 AD. 33:13 It says, "Now when all the people were baptized, 33:16 Jesus was also baptized and while He was praying, 33:18 heaven was opened. 33:20 And the Holy Spirit descended upon Him 33:22 in bodily form like a dove, 33:24 and a voice came out of heaven, 33:26 'You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased."' 33:32 It was the baptism of Jesus that took place in 27 AD. 33:36 And by the way when we talk about the Messiah, 33:38 again remember the name Messiah 33:42 means literally the anointed one. 33:46 And I believe you can make a case for the fact 33:49 that it was at His baptism 33:51 when the Holy Spirit came down upon Him 33:53 that He was anointed 33:55 and that He was set apart to proceed with the next 33:58 three-and-half years of His ministry. 34:02 Okay, but notice verse 23. 34:05 "When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was," how old? 34:11 "About thirty years of age." 34:14 Have you ever considered the wasted years of Jesus. 34:20 Think of all of the good He could have been doing. 34:23 You know, I have two wonderful sons 34:26 and I do love them. 34:27 I assume you love your kids. 34:30 You know, we all have problems, 34:32 we'll have challenges, right. 34:34 We have them, our kids sometimes have them. 34:35 But I love my sons. 34:38 And but I still have my older son at 27, 34:46 that he's still somewhat living at home. 34:49 And so and my wife 34:51 and I will have these conversations from time to time. 34:53 And Thursday night we have them over for dinner. 34:56 At least they seem to enjoy to come, 34:58 come over enjoy some of mom's good, 35:01 home cooking. 35:02 And so we did, we have mashed potatoes and gravy, 35:05 they love mashed potatoes and gravy. 35:08 And she made some brownies for a treat. 35:11 And they actually stayed and visited with us for a while. 35:16 And then they were gone 35:17 and we found ourselves in conversation again. 35:21 You know, 27. 35:23 And, my son, my son, my older son I'll tell him, 35:27 you know, it's not hard to get me talking about my boys 35:30 but they're not my boys, they're my young man now. 35:33 My 24-year-old Kevin, he is a people person. 35:37 He's just got this mellowness, kind of like Gayle. 35:40 This mellowness, people love Kevin. 35:45 He is just great working with people. 35:48 He is. 35:50 He just interacts so well with people. 35:51 They just love him at whatever job he has. 35:55 They just love him. 35:57 And that makes me feel very good. 35:58 I like the fact that people really love my son, Kevin. 36:01 Now my oldest, my oldest has a good personality too 36:04 but my oldest son is brilliant. 36:08 You know, I'll tell you anybody 36:10 that can go through their high school years 36:12 and Kevin say to me, 36:14 "Dad, I never cracked a book out of class." 36:17 I think it's straight A's, I can tell you that. 36:19 But got straight A's through geometry 36:23 never having cracked a book out of class. 36:26 To me has a high degree of intelligence. 36:29 I, who struggled with geometry 36:32 all those fractions and theorems anybody else relate to that. 36:37 I hated geometry, it almost took me down. 36:40 Now algebra I did all right with 36:43 but geometry was tough. He got straight A's. 36:46 And he dig it into the, 36:48 you know, he went into the community college 36:50 and took a business course and one day this years ago, 36:54 some years ago I saw him looking 36:56 reading through his text books, 36:58 sitting in an easy chair just reading. 37:01 And I found that he had a test. 37:05 One of the few times, I never seen him study. 37:08 He was reading though, he was reading. 37:10 And when he took his test, 37:11 now when I studied for test I was underlining, 37:14 I was taking notes, 37:15 I was going over my notes making sure 37:17 I was memorizing certain things that aren't-- 37:21 is that the way it is for most of us? 37:23 He just have read the text. 37:25 The teacher even didn't really know him 37:28 because when she got he got done grading the test 37:31 and bought the back to the class. 37:34 He was looking for David. 37:37 Is David Reinking here? 37:40 And said, David, you got the highest score on the test. 37:45 And all he did was to read the textbook. 37:49 He has almost a photographic mind. 37:52 It's a wonderful thing and of course 37:54 he got it from my side of the family. 37:57 And I wish I could say that. 37:59 And really if you see something 38:01 or he hears something he has a very high retention, 38:04 that's a beautiful thing to have, isn't it. 38:07 Man, I could have used that with all the schooling I had. 38:10 I had a sweat through it all. 38:13 It didn't come always easily, hardly ever came easily. 38:18 And so I'm no fore pointing 38:19 I'm just gonna get that out right upfront. 38:22 And I really related to President Bush 38:25 when in a graduation, 38:27 you know, I've been asked to speak 38:29 at a graduation exercise at some famous university 38:33 who looked out among the multitudes of students 38:36 that were graduating. 38:38 And smiles saying, 38:40 you know, I'm gonna paraphrase it now. 38:43 I'm a testament that you see students, 38:47 you too can succeed in life. 38:51 I probably relate more to that then those who are so brilliant. 38:55 But, you know, so if we've had these conversations. 38:59 What are they gonna do? 39:01 When are they gonna start? I mean, by 22-23, 39:05 I had finished my undergraduate degree 39:07 I was already in the ministry. 39:09 I can't believe they turned us-- 39:10 they turned us loose at 23 Gayle. 39:14 Can you image that? 39:16 At the time I thought 23, man, 39:18 and you know, I'm passed 21 39:21 I'm into educate, I'm ready to hit the road 39:24 and started doing to preach. 39:25 I didn't realize how green I really was. 39:28 But anyway I wonder I'm gonna little bit away 39:32 from notes here but anyway 39:35 I wonder what Mary must have been thinking, 28. 39:40 He's still in the carpenter shop. 39:43 That angel did come to me, right. 39:45 I do remember that, right. 39:48 And said that he's the Son of God, 29, 39:52 still in the carpenter shop. 39:55 I'm wondering if they had those kinds of thoughts. 40:00 Probably, but then at 30, 40:02 then when this one that it really took off. 40:04 Boy, sure it happens before 30. 40:08 From my standpoint by the time 40:10 that I retire and that's-- 40:12 you know, few years down the road yet, 40:15 I just hope that this is subtle matter in my home. 40:18 Now I just anyway-- 40:19 I'm sorry to bring up all these personal matters 40:21 but anyway I was just wonder 40:22 how much Mary and Joseph as long as they loved 40:25 had these questions about him. 40:29 So, out in the Messiah the Prince 40:30 but there was a reason, 40:31 actually there was a reason 40:33 why Jesus waited so long 40:36 before he began his earthly ministry. 40:39 We find in Mark 1:14-15. 40:42 This is what Jesus was preached, 40:43 at the very beginning of His ministry. 40:45 It says, "Jesus came into Galilee, 40:47 preaching the gospel of God, 40:49 and saying, 'The time is fulfilled, 40:52 and the kingdom of God is at hand."' 40:54 Amen. 40:56 My friend, the reason why Jesus had waited so long. 40:59 Is that He had an understanding 41:01 and a comprehension and the very prophecy 41:03 that we're looking at in Daniel 9:25. 41:06 He did, I'm gonna show you 41:08 that He was acquainted 41:09 with these prophecies of Daniel 9. 41:13 And so when 27 AD came, 41:16 He knew this was the appointed time. 41:20 And he went out proclaiming the time is fulfilled, 41:23 the time of prophecy is fulfilled. 41:28 And then, we move into the next verse. 41:32 Oh, we got to go back to Daniel 9. 41:34 The next verse being Daniel 9:26. 41:37 It says, "then after the sixty-two weeks," 41:41 that prophetic time of verse 25. 41:43 "The messiah will be cut off," 41:46 it's predicting the death of Jesus. 41:48 That language is in Isaiah 53, 41:51 it's reference to the suffering Christ 41:54 where it speaks of his being cut off 41:56 from the land of the living 41:57 is the terminology there in Isaiah 53. 42:00 It's a reference to his death, 42:02 so it predicts His death, 42:03 of course we owe everything 42:05 to the substitutionary death of Jesus, don't we. 42:09 Everything. 42:10 And I'm starting we have a connection. 42:13 And have nothing, "and the people of the prince 42:16 who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. 42:23 And its end will come with a flood, 42:25 even to the end there will be war, 42:28 desolations are determined." 42:31 I can't just imagine how Daniel must have felt 42:34 when he heard those words here, 42:35 he's praying for the restoration 42:37 and the city and of the sanctuary. 42:40 And now, you know, having heard of the prophecy 42:41 about the coming of the Messiah 42:43 the Prince that must have been exciting to hear that. 42:45 Because he knew something 42:46 about the coming of the savior 42:48 but then they hear that the city 42:51 and the sanctuary and having been rebuild 42:54 would be destroyed again. 42:57 By the way for much the same reason 42:59 as why have been destroyed in the first place. 43:02 Because they've hardened their heart against him. 43:06 And in the end as a nation they rejected him. 43:10 The source of all salvation. 43:13 That was horrible consequences. 43:15 So it would be destroyed again, 43:18 the city that would be rebuilt. 43:23 And as Jesus come down to the end 43:25 of His earthly ministry as He begins prophetically. 43:32 Again some of those astounding prophecies 43:34 of the Bible are words 43:36 that are embedded in the gospels 43:39 that came from Jesus Himself, Matthew 24, 43:42 Luke 21 of their passages hat record these prophecies. 43:45 These prophecies that were made 43:47 in the last week of His earthly ministry, 43:51 the cross was just before Him. 43:53 He was looking down to the end of time. 43:56 He's looking forward to His coming. 44:00 And He also begin to pickup on these prophetic themes 44:03 that were reading here in Daniel 9. 44:05 And Luke 19 verse beginning with verse 43 44:07 Jesus declared, "For the days," 44:09 He's looking at Jerusalem. 44:10 "For the days shall come upon you 44:13 when your enemies will throw up a bank before you, 44:17 and surround you, and hem you in on every side, 44:20 and will level you to the ground 44:21 and your children within you, 44:23 and they will not leave in you 44:25 one stone upon another, 44:26 because you did not recognize 44:29 the time of your visitation." 44:33 Was that talking about the time of your visitation? 44:35 That is the time of His coming. 44:38 And, my friend, they should have known 44:42 the whole Old Testament, 44:43 there's all these messianic prophecies 44:45 including the prophecies 44:47 we're looking at tonight in Daniel 9. 44:51 And you see, my friend, 44:52 they were not faithful students of the prophecies. 44:57 And those that they did interpret 44:59 they often were misinterpreting. 45:02 And that tells me how vitally important it is 45:06 for us as believers having understanding the prophecy. 45:09 We cannot afford to repeat the mistakes that they did it. 45:13 When they didn't recognize the time of their visitation. 45:16 And, my friend let me tell you 45:17 there's another divine visitation just before us. 45:21 Again I don't know, if it's gonna be in our life times. 45:23 But Jesus gonna visit this planet again. 45:27 And we cannot afford to ignore the prophecies 45:29 that predict the coming of Jesus. 45:32 This is not gonna go on and on. 45:34 And Luke 21:20 and Luke 21:20-21. 45:39 Jesus said, "But when you see 45:40 Jerusalem surrounded by armies, 45:43 then recognize that her desolation is at hand." 45:46 Let me say what is desolation. 45:47 He was quoting directly 45:51 it's the very word we saw there, 45:53 desolations are determined. 45:55 "Then let those who are in Judea flee 45:57 and let those who are in the city depart." 45:59 It's going to be sign to you, 46:01 he said to his people. 46:03 When you see this happening, 46:05 you know, it's time to get out. 46:07 And, my friend, we see the signs 46:09 of the times being fulfilled in the end time. 46:11 We know the time is near. 46:14 And by the grace of Jesus, 46:15 we will be ready, won't we? 46:17 We're gonna be ready by the grace of Jesus. 46:19 We're gonna trust Him in this. 46:22 We truly are. 46:23 And indeed it did happen, 46:25 you know, the destruction 46:26 of Jerusalem in the sanctuary 46:27 that have been restored, it happened. 46:29 And on either August 29 or August 30 of 70 AD. 46:34 I'm gonna give you a little bit 46:35 of the historical background to all of this. 46:37 There was this rebellion 46:39 that broke out among the Jews 46:41 after the death of Jesus is called, 46:44 it's Jewish Revolt of 66 AD-- stretched from 66-70 AD. 46:52 Nero was emperor in Rome. 46:55 News reaches the capital. 46:57 The Jews are in revolt and they are determined 47:00 that they're gonna throw off their head 47:02 and yoke of the Romans. 47:04 And so in 67, 47:06 when--was received the Roman 67 AD 47:09 Nero appoints Vespasian 47:13 to put down the rebellion by the way. 47:17 Josephus, we call in the Jewish historian 47:20 actually was Jewish general. 47:23 That was defeated by the Roman forces 47:26 that came down to put down the revolt. 47:30 But he had pro-Roman legions. 47:35 And he was kept in the cabinet of the Romans. 47:37 He--I mean, they were many battles 47:39 that were fought, it didn't 47:40 just happen at Jerusalem 47:42 that you know they were fighting 47:43 all the way on down to Jerusalem. 47:45 And so he was defeated 47:46 and he ended up with those Roman forces 47:50 before the gates of the city of Jerusalem. 47:53 And he records in his-- and we have it. 47:57 Usually I have a nice thick copy of it for those 48:00 who like to buy it if they want to study this period of time. 48:03 If you like me, I love history. 48:05 So you're get little bit 48:07 of the history before we're done. 48:08 Josephus records these things as I said it was Nero 48:11 that was emperor in Rome. 48:13 And it was Vespasian here he is, 48:15 we didn't have photographs back in that time. 48:16 But they should, they did some really 48:18 beautiful work in stone, didn't they? 48:20 You know, you see all the facial features 48:23 of these renowned men of old. 48:26 And Vespasian was given 48:28 Roman soldiers 48:31 in fact there were legions already in Syria. 48:35 They were preparing for an expedition into the east, 48:40 is what Nero had been preparing for. 48:42 So they took these forces and all the supplies 48:45 and this expeditionary force of the Romans 48:49 came down from Syria to put down the Jewish Revolt. 48:53 As I said Vespasian was at the head of it. 48:56 And Titus, his son was one of his generals. 49:00 He was given the XV Apollinaris, 49:03 a legion that is the legion from Alexandria. 49:07 A legion had some 5 to 6,000 soldiers in it. 49:10 And by the way in Roman times 49:12 when you're enlisted in the army, 49:15 it was for a period of some 20 to 25 years. 49:20 You're assigning over your life 49:22 but if you have the promise of land and great riches, 49:26 you know, at the end of it or during the process of it. 49:29 Anyway so Titus, but in 69 AD, 49:35 we find that Nero dies. 49:38 And these are power vacuum 49:40 and Vespasian receives words of it, 49:42 he leads the force, he leads the several legions. 49:46 I'm forgetting how many several legions 49:48 in the command of the command of his son, Titus. 49:52 And to deal with Jerusalem 49:55 and he makes his way back to Rome, 49:57 Vespasian does and he secures 49:58 the emperorship for himself 50:02 and for his son, Titus, 50:04 they became co-emperors. 50:06 You know, just to put it 50:08 in his historical context as we're looking 50:09 at the fulfillment of this prophecy. 50:12 And, you know, it's all recorded 50:16 the out of defenses of the city were breached. 50:19 The Jewish defenders made their way to the Temple Mount, 50:23 it was like a fortress itself. 50:25 And Titus had given orders 50:28 that the temple was to remain intact, 50:31 the Romans in fact had been embellishing that temple. 50:34 They didn't want to destroy it 50:35 but the heat of the battle that followed. 50:39 A fire brand was thrown into the interior of the temple, 50:42 and remember the interior was lying 50:44 by the seeders of Lebanon 50:45 and overlaid with gold 50:46 and you know how that can burn. 50:49 And Josephus records how Titus 50:51 try to get to soldiers have put it out 50:53 but in the heat of the battle 50:55 he and finally he took some of his general staff 50:57 he went into the temple itself. 51:00 And he got some things out. 51:02 And the things we know historically got out, 51:04 he got all the gold's furniture out. 51:06 He got the Table of Shewbread out, 51:08 he got the trumpets out. 51:10 Remember the feast of trumpets 51:11 while they had trumpets. 51:12 And he got the Seven-Branch Candlestick out. 51:16 And when he finished, 51:18 when he finished this battle 51:20 and defeating the Jews. 51:22 He erected this Ark of Triumph 51:23 we would call it, at the southern approach 51:25 to the city of Rome. 51:27 The Appian way, the superhighway 51:29 of that day went right through this arches, 51:31 it still stands of the day, 51:33 you know, I took that picture 51:34 of course you can see it, 51:35 it's a little bit slided. 51:38 It still stands and you can see 51:40 on the inside of it, it shows them 51:42 coming back with some of the booty 51:44 from the defeat of the Jews, 51:46 this was a significant of military campaign. 51:49 And you see them 51:51 bringing back to Seven-Branched Candlestick. 51:52 And they used to say, 51:55 who knows what happened to it. 51:57 Except I was reading, 51:59 a book on the Emperor Justinian. 52:02 And it talks about the Constantinople 52:05 and this point 52:07 but the seat of power in Rome 52:09 has shifted to Constantinople. 52:11 And his General Belisarius had, 52:14 had a famous battle 52:16 and had defeated the Vandals. 52:19 And when he came back 52:20 Justinian had this reception 52:26 and this triumphal entry of this general. 52:30 And in the record, it talks 52:32 about how they brought out this Seven-Branched, 52:34 this was 534 now, 500 years later 52:37 brought out this Seven-Branched Candlestick. 52:40 And put it up 52:42 on in central place in their celebrations, 52:47 I think it was to be a reminder of other past victories 52:52 that other Roman generals have had. 52:55 And that's the last we know of it 52:56 and of course the last 52:57 coming back to what happened 52:59 to Jerusalem the last defenders 53:02 the last remnants of the rebellion 53:06 made their way to Masada. 53:09 And general Silva was entrusted 53:10 of putting down the famous, the famous, 53:14 you know, some 900 of them. 53:16 In fact, you can still see the today, 53:18 see right here this is the parameters. 53:21 Oh, I'm sorry, it's right here actually. 53:23 These are the parameters 53:24 of the Roman of the Romanian camp _. 53:28 And they built this ramp took a lot of effort 53:32 but they were determined us to, 53:34 you know, make an end of it. 53:37 And, of course, when they came up their all 900 53:39 they committed a suicide of these, 53:42 you know, they have been killed. 53:43 They were not gonna be taken by the Romans. 53:46 Anyway that some of the historical background. 53:48 But let me take you back to Daniel 9 53:51 as we finish this up as we wrap it up 53:53 because there's one other verse 53:54 that we must look at. 53:55 Daniel 9:27 where he says, 53:58 "And he will make a firm covenant 54:00 with many for one week." 54:02 Now there are those who are interpreting Daniel 9:27 54:05 those who teach the rapture 54:07 that this was talking now 54:08 but the antichrist is some on holly alliance. 54:11 That's gonna happen in the end time. 54:14 And, my friend, it is not what we find contextually 54:17 because verse 24 is messianic. 54:20 Verse 25 is messianic. 54:22 Verse 26 is messianic. 54:25 And verse 27 is messianic. 54:29 If we want the antichrist, 54:30 if we want tribulation in the book of Daniel, 54:33 we don't get it from Daniel 9:27. 54:37 We can get it from other passages 54:39 and scriptures of Daniel 12 54:40 and Daniel 7 and Daniel 8. 54:42 Particularly Daniel 8, 54:44 you can find the antichrist but not here. 54:46 This was talking about Jesus. 54:48 And He came and fulfillment of the covenant promises. 54:51 He came to ratify the covenant 54:53 by the spilling of His blood 54:55 on the cross of Calvary, didn't He? 54:57 "So he will make a firm covenant 54:59 with many for one week." 55:01 And, you know, the interpreted 55:02 that time has suspended between verses 26-27, 55:05 where does it indicate that? 55:08 Is mental fit the theory? 55:12 And they apply this week down 55:14 to the end of time 55:16 when the week clearly fits 55:18 between the 69 and 70th week, 55:22 that week of prophetic time at the coming on Jesus. 55:27 From 27-34 AD that's the seven years, 55:31 that's and by the way that's the only place 55:33 where you can find the seven years. 55:34 And when we discover 55:35 it has nothing to do with the rapture 55:37 that's not my subject I know. 55:40 When we understand the seven years 55:41 has nothing to do with the rapture 55:43 but it deals with Jesus coming to confirm 55:45 His covenant with the many. 55:47 Then, my friend, it really again the whole system 55:52 of belief begins to fall apart, 55:54 the seven years is not even applicable to the end times. 55:59 And certainly has some applications, 56:01 so anyway he will make it from covenant 56:02 with the many for one week. 56:04 But in the middle of the week, 56:06 he will put a stop to sacrificing grain offerings. 56:11 And they're talking about, 56:12 you know, the interpretation of restored temple 56:14 and the Antichrist will come to the restore 56:16 and temple put it and sacrifice and grain offering. 56:19 You know, my friend, 56:20 that is what Jesus did 56:21 when He came to the cross of Calvary 56:23 and fulfilled all of the prophecies 56:25 of the Old Testament that predicted 56:26 His death on the cross of Calvary. 56:30 And it was right in the middle, 56:31 in the middle of week 56:32 he would stop sacrificing grain offering. 56:34 And it was right in the middle of the week in 31 AD 56:37 that Jesus died, right. 56:40 We know that historically 56:42 all of those animal sacrifices 56:45 that were the basis of the temple system 56:48 of the Old Testament 56:49 where fulfilled in the coming of Jesus. 56:51 And so when Jesus died on the cross of Calvary, 56:55 He brought an end to sacrifice to see. 57:00 That which symbolized 57:02 and prophetically predicted 57:03 His coming was fulfilled 57:05 when in His death and so with His death. 57:10 The sacrificial system comes to an end 57:12 and so it will be at the coming 57:16 of our Lord Jesus Christ 57:17 as prophecies been fulfilled in the past, 57:19 it is going to be fulfilled in the future. 57:23 That's what the Bible tells us. 57:24 We can know this for certain. |
Revised 2014-12-17