Participants: Pr. David Asscherick
Series Code: DP
Program Code: DP000014
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00:15 What we're going to discover here today
00:18 is that this sanctuary, that God gave to Moses, is actually 00:24 a divine picture or a divine miniature and model 00:28 of the great plan of salvation. 00:30 Let's begin by looking right there in the paragraph 00:35 that begins "The key blank that unlocks the judgment is found." 00:38 The key, that would be the first word, that unlocks the judgment 00:43 is found in the Israelite sanctuary. 00:46 We've already spent some time looking at where 00:49 the judgment comes in the great sweep of time. 00:52 We'll go over that a little bit more as we move on 00:54 into the presentation, but you remember there was Babylon, 00:58 Medopersia, Greece, Rome, little horn and then the judgment 01:01 followed by the second coming. 01:03 Here it says the key that unlocks the judgment, 01:05 this judgment that we're trying to discover, 01:07 is found in the Israelite sanctuary. 01:09 The cleansing of the sanctuary was a day of judgment 01:13 for Israel, symbolizing the final judgment. 01:17 The Day of Atonement, the cleansing of the sanctuary 01:20 was a day of judgment symbolizing the final judgment. 01:23 The cleansing of the sanctuary was on the day of atonement. 01:29 The Day of Atonement divides into three words: at one meant 01:33 or at one with, that's exactly right, 01:35 otherwise known as Yom Kippur. 01:36 In order to understand the day of atonement we must understand 01:39 at least in a basic sense the purpose and drama 01:43 of the Israelite sanctuary. 01:45 There were two main services. How many services everyone? 01:48 Two main services that were carried out in the sanctuary. 01:50 There were many ceremonies and rituals but they can be 01:52 roughly divided into two main categories: 01:55 the daily service and the yearly service. 01:58 Take notes an briefly describe both of these services below. 02:04 Here is a picture of the Israelite sanctuary, 02:09 how it would have looked. 02:11 We'd like to begin by taking a look at the Israelite sanctuary. 02:16 You can sort of see it there. 02:18 The outer courtyard here where the large altar is, 02:20 than the laver where the priest would wash 02:22 before entering the tabernacle proper. 02:23 The tabernacle proper was composed of two parts. 02:26 The first was the holy place and there where three articles 02:29 of furniture in the holy place. 02:31 How many articles of furniture? Three. 02:32 As you walked in to your immediate left there would be 02:34 the seven branched candlestick. 02:37 To your right would be the table of shewbread 02:38 that had 12 loaves of bread. 02:40 As you walked right up in front of you there was a large curtain 02:43 and that curtain separated the holy place 02:46 from the most holy place. 02:47 This side of the curtain was the altar of incense. 02:52 So three articles of furniture, than as you would move pass that 02:56 through the heavy curtain there would be a single article 02:59 of furniture, holy furniture, in the most holy place 03:02 of the heavenly sanctuary. What was that? 03:04 The Ark of the Covenant. 03:05 This kind of an overview, trying to understand this sanctuary 03:11 from a Biblical perspective. 03:14 What we're going to discover is that this was not something 03:17 that God invented to keep the Israelites busy, 03:19 that is essential. 03:20 God didn't say "You know I've got this idea." and He started 03:24 to invent this sort of capricious and arbitrary drama: 03:26 "You go here and you do here.", sort of a game. 03:28 As if the Israelites were marionettes 03:30 just going about this drama that had no meaning 03:32 or significance. 03:33 As a matter of fact there was tremendous significance, 03:36 and tremendous foreshadowing in the Israelites' sanctuary. 03:39 And that's what I want to show you just now. 03:40 Open your Bible to the book of Hebrews. 03:46 That is in the New Testament. Go with me to Hebrews chapter 8. 03:52 You'll get through the Galatians, Ephesians, 03:54 Philippians, Colossians, than you come into the "Ts", 03:57 Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Hebrews. 04:02 We're going to Hebrews chapter 8. 04:05 These verses are not in your study guide 04:10 but I highly recommend that you write them down. 04:12 Hebrews chapter 8, verse 1 it says: 04:16 "Now the point in what we are saying is this: 04:24 we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand 04:30 of the Majesty in heaven," Who is that high priest? 04:32 Jesus Christ. 04:33 Look at verse two: "a minister of the sanctuary 04:38 and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected and not man." 04:45 Look at verse two, it says that we have a high priest 04:48 but is a high priest in the true tabernacle, the one 04:51 that God erected and not man. 04:53 What we're going to discover is that there are actually 04:55 two sanctuaries. How many sanctuaries? Two. 04:59 An earthly and a heavenly. What we're going to see 05:03 is that the earthly sanctuary was a model or a pattern, 05:07 or a copy, or a miniature of the heavenly sanctuary. 05:12 That's why the author of Hebrews says that we have a high priest 05:15 who is in the true tabernacle, the one that God made 05:18 and not man. 05:20 Same chapter look at verse 5. 05:22 It says: "Who serve the copy and shadows of heavenly things 05:26 as Moses was the divinely instructed when he was about 05:29 to make the tabernacle. This is God speaking to Moses 05:32 on the top of Mount Sinai: "See that you make all things 05:37 according to the pattern shown you on the mountain." 05:42 Notice that God says to Moses "I want you to make everything 05:46 according to the pattern." When I was growing up 05:49 frequently my grandparents would baby-sit me. 05:52 I never had the privilege of meeting my biological father. 05:55 My mother was a single mother and we lived in Wyoming, 05:58 and it was very difficult for her to hold down a job 06:00 and to take care of me and my younger brother. 06:02 So we'd spent a lot of time at my grandparents' house. 06:04 I loved spending time at my grandparents' house because 06:07 they had a beautiful apple tree behind the old house, 06:10 and I loved to climb up on the apple tree and hop up 06:12 on the garage and just really enjoyed spending time 06:14 with my grandparents. 06:16 But every now and then or probably once every week or two 06:18 my grandmother would take a trip to the most boring place 06:22 in the Universe. It's called "The fabric store." 06:28 She would have my brother and I go. You can't even 06:30 get into trouble in a Fabric store. There's just nothing 06:33 to break there, there's nothing to do. It's just a great, big, 06:38 black hole of boredom. 06:40 My brother and I, we'd go to the Fabric store there 06:46 and my grandmother would spend what seemed like hours 06:49 going through these little shelves of patterns, 06:52 little white envelopes with ladies standing like this 06:55 and guy standing like this. And she would buy these things 06:57 and it looked somewhat interesting I suppose. 06:59 Finally after what seemed like a tremendous long period of time 07:04 we would eventually leave the Fabric store and we'd go home 07:07 and she'd bought 6 or 7 of these white packets 07:11 and I was thinking "Maybe there's something exciting 07:13 in these white packets." The first time I saw her open 07:15 of those things up she pulls it out and it's brown paper. 07:20 I was like "You've got to be kidding!". 07:23 We've spent all afternoon in this silly store and you buy 07:27 brown paper. She'd take those fabric sections, yards, 07:32 and different things that she had purchased, and she would 07:34 lie them out and then she would put these patterns 07:38 on top of them. She'd put a what? Patterns on top of them 07:42 and cut them out and if she everything out just exactly 07:45 as the pattern prescribed, she could put together 07:48 the articles of clothing that were being advertised 07:50 on the front of the envelope. 07:53 So a pattern is an exact replica or a copy. 08:02 So God was speaking to Moses on top of Mount Sinai and said: 08:04 "Moses, listen to me very carefully. This is critical. 08:06 You need to make everything to the exact specificity 08:10 that I'm spelling out for you here. It has to be exactly 08:14 like the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain." 08:18 Had to be like what? Like the pattern. 08:20 The idea here is that Moses didn't just dream this up. 08:22 Moses wasn't sitting around with Aaron and some of the other 08:25 Israelites elders and say: "What would be interesting? 08:27 What could we do to keep all these people busy?" 08:29 No, no, no. God had revealed this pattern, 08:33 this three fold pattern of the Israelite sanctuary 08:36 that would eventually become Solomon's temple, etc. 08:39 So the sanctuary in the wilderness that was mobile 08:42 became the temple in Jerusalem. Are we all clear on that? 08:46 It always consisted of three major parts. How many parts? 08:50 Three major parts. 08:51 The outside was the courtyard, then the holy place, 08:55 and the most holy place. Now we're in Hebrews chapter 9. 08:58 Look at verse 23: "There for it was necessary that the copies 09:09 of the things in the heavens should be purified with these 09:12 but the heavenly things themselves 09:14 with better sacrifices then these." Verse 24: 09:18 "For Christ has not entered the holy place as made with 09:21 hands which are copies or figures of the true but 09:27 into heaven itself now to appear 09:29 in the presence of God for us." 09:31 What's the word that occurs in verse 23 and 24? Copy or figure 09:36 or pattern, depending on the translation 09:38 that you're reading from. 09:39 The idea is that when Jesus Christ became our great 09:41 high priest, He entered the true tabernacle, the one that God 09:45 had built and not the one that Moses built 09:47 on the Sinai desert floor. Are we all clear? Yes or no? 09:50 The larger picture that we're trying to paint here is this: 09:54 this Israelite sanctuary was a pattern, a copy, a model 09:59 of the true tabernacle that's in heaven. If that makes sense 10:02 I want you to say "Amen". Amen! 10:03 The point is that this isn't something that Moses dreamed up. 10:06 This was something that God specifically commanded 10:10 and ordained to incredible specificity and exactitude 10:14 to be constructed exactly as He said. So far so good. 10:18 Sometimes we find Exodus and Leviticus difficult to read 10:22 because Exodus and Leviticus is basically a "how to" manual 10:26 for the sanctuary. It's a "how to" manual, 10:29 how to conduct yourselves into various rituals and ceremonies 10:33 that surrounded this sanctuary, and the reason 10:36 that it's so specific... 10:37 Sometimes the details in Leviticus are almost laboriously 10:40 difficult to read... is that God wanted them carried out 10:43 in just a certain way. If that's clear say "Amen". 10:47 You might be wondering "Why? Is God an old fuddy-duddy. 10:51 It's His way or no way? Why was God so specific about this?" 10:55 What we're going to discover is that this sanctuary foreshadowed 11:00 Christ and the plan of salvation. 11:02 This sanctuary foreshadowed what? 11:04 Christ an the plan of salvation. 11:09 Keep you finger in Hebrews because we're going to return. 11:11 I want to show you one more verse to this effect. 11:13 It's in the book of Acts. Go to Acts chapter 8. 11:20 Here we're going to find the... actually Acts chapter 7. 11:33 Here we find Stephen delivering his sermon 11:39 to the elders of Israel. 11:42 In Acts chapter 7, verse 44, something very interesting here 11:46 that Stephen says just before he's stoned: "Our fathers 11:53 have the tabernacle of witness where in the wilderness, 11:58 as he appointed instructing Moses to make it according 12:03 to the pattern that he had seen." 12:06 Is it crystal clear that this sanctuary was built 12:09 after a pattern that God revealed to him? If that's clear 12:12 say "Amen". 12:13 There are other texts that could be cited but that hopefully 12:15 gets us off the ground. I'm going to go 12:16 to the book of Revelation, chapter 11, the last verse 19. 12:32 John the Revelator saw the ark in the heavenly temple. 12:38 Revelation chapter 11 verse 19. 12:41 It says: "Then the temple of God was open in heaven and the ark 12:56 of His covenant was seen in His temple." 13:00 If His temple is in heaven and the ark is in the temple, 13:02 then where is the ark? In heaven. It says: 13:05 "And there were thunderings and lightnings and noises 13:08 and an earthquake and great hail." 13:10 Here is the point. John in heavenly vision saw a glimpse 13:14 of the heavenly temple, the real deal. 13:18 This is the real McCoy, this is the one after which 13:21 the sanctuary in the Sinai desert floor was patterned. 13:25 John looks into heaven and he sees the temple of God 13:28 and he must have been...Where must have been looking in order 13:31 to see the ark? Which of the compartments? 13:36 He must have been looking into the most holy place and voila! 13:40 There's the ark of the covenant. 13:41 This helps us to see that everything that was taking place 13:45 on the Sinai desert floor had a purpose. Had a what? A purpose. 13:49 Let's go find out what actually was taking place 13:52 in that sanctuary. I've given you a place there, two places 13:56 to write out the two primary services 13:59 that were carried out there, in the Israelite sanctuary. 14:02 What we're going to discover is these were a foreshadowing 14:06 of salvation, a foreshadowing of Christ. 14:09 This sanctuary is all about Jesus Christ. About who? 14:13 Jesus Christ. 14:15 The first service is the daily service. 14:18 Let's go back to Hebrews chapter 9. 14:27 Let's pick it up in verse 6. 14:38 The author of Hebrews says this: "Now when these things 14:42 had thus been prepared, the priests went always 14:46 into the first part of the tabernacle, 14:48 performing the services." They went how often? Always. 14:54 Hebrews chapter 9 verse 6: "Now when these things 14:56 had thus been prepared, the priests went always (often) 14:59 into the first part of the tabernacle, 15:01 performing the services." Verse 7 "But into the second 15:03 part the high priest went alone once a year not without blood." 15:12 That's a double negative "not without blood" which would mean 15:15 "with blood", "which he offered for himself and for the sins 15:20 of the people, committed in ignorance." In verses 6 and 7 15:23 we have a very simple articulation here of basically 15:29 much of Exodus and much of Leviticus, and that is 15:30 that there were two primary services: 15:33 the daily service and the yearly service. The which service? 15:38 the daily and the yearly. Let's walk through the daily service. 15:43 We'll make this very simple so that we can all get 15:45 our fingers rapped around it. 15:47 You're an Israelite and you're living there on the Sinai desert 15:50 or somewhere in the wilderness, or perhaps later at the time 15:54 of one of the two temples that had been constructed, 15:57 and you've committed a sin and you know it. 16:00 Your job was to go get a lamb. A what? A lamb. 16:06 There were various offerings and I want to point out 16:08 that we're simplifying this so that we all can get our fingers 16:10 rapped around it. There is more specificity 16:12 but we're going to keep it very simple here. 16:13 So you would go get a lamb and you would bring that lamb 16:17 to the sanctuary. To where? To the sanctuary. 16:20 And you would bring it specifically to the gate 16:22 that entered into the courtyard. 16:24 There a priest would greet you. 16:26 Your job was to take and confess your sins, 16:31 specifically your sin onto the head of that lamb. 16:34 So far so good everyone? Yes or no. 16:36 What would happen then is that you would be handed a knife. 16:39 This must have been the most terrible, difficult part 16:42 of the whole endeavor. You then had to take that knife 16:46 and split the throat of the lamb upon which 16:50 you would just confessed your sin, and the lamb would be there 16:52 writhing in pain as it would die, and as it would die 16:56 blood would come dripping from its neck. 16:59 The priest would then take a bowl, a receptacle, 17:02 hold it under the neck of the lamb and catch some of the blood 17:06 that was flowing out. 17:08 You, as the sinner, guess what you do next. Nothing. 17:14 You walk away. 17:16 You're forgiven. Can you say "Amen"? You're forgiven. 17:20 But guess what? The process of forgiveness has just begun. 17:25 And that's one of the great glories 17:27 of the plan of salvation. 17:29 For us, for the sinner. We kneel down in the evening, we say: 17:32 "Oh Lord, I got angry at my wife.", 17:34 "Today I got angry at my husband.", 17:35 "Today I cut somebody off on traffic.", "Today I wasn't 17:38 totally honest with a workmate.", etc. 17:39 We kneel down, we confess and we get up and say: 17:41 "There it is! Hoo! So glad I got that out!" 17:44 Beloved it's just not that simple from God's perspective. 17:48 That's what the sanctuary helps us to see 17:50 is that from God's perspective sin is sticky business. 17:55 Sin is what? The supreme object of God's love is sinners 18:02 but the supreme object of God's hatred is sin 18:05 and God has to perform this very difficult operation 18:08 where He separates the supreme object of His love 18:10 from the supreme object of His hatred. He has to separate them 18:14 and still keep us alive and intact. 18:18 The sanctuary is a picture of how difficult it is 18:22 to deal with this thing called sin. You would have confessed 18:24 your sin there, onto the lamb. The lamb was then slain, 18:27 the blood was caught, and then the priest would go 18:30 into the holy place. Into the where? The holy place. 18:35 And he would take some of that blood and he would put it 18:37 onto the horns, these 4 horns, that came up off of the altar 18:42 of incense. 18:43 Thus signifying that that guilt had gone from you to the lamb, 18:50 to the blood, to the sanctuary. Does that make sense? 18:55 Let's say that again. So who did the guilt go from? 18:58 From you to the lamb, to the blood, to the sanctuary 19:02 and you walk away forgiven but God still has an issue on this 19:06 and namely sin. 19:09 It's important to recognize that God could not have just said 19:12 to Adam and Eve in the garden: "Well, you made a mistake, 19:15 I really wish you hadn't done that but you know, 19:17 here is the sin, we'll just lift up the old rug 19:18 of the Universe, sweep it under there and let's try again." 19:23 When Adam and Eve sinned, and whenever you and I sin, 19:27 it is though something tangible, something palpable 19:29 comes into existence that God has to deal with. 19:33 It's a little bit like this radioactive material 19:37 that's created as a buy product of all these nuclear reactions 19:40 and nuclear energies. That stuff is created 19:42 and it has to be dealt with so do with sin. 19:45 Something kind of comes into existence in a very real, 19:49 substantive way, and what God is saying here is that: 19:52 "Sure for you, you're forgiven, you walk away, you're cleansed, 19:56 you are righteous in my sight now because of the slain lamb 20:00 but that doesn't make the sin go away. 20:02 The sin has to be dealt with." 20:03 Are we all in the same page everyone? 20:05 The other day, my little boy Jabe, and my youngest boy 20:08 decided to run around the house with a marker because 20:11 he couldn't find any paper and now I have 20:13 a chair and the floor, the fire place 20:17 and the windowsill covered with my boy's marker art. 20:22 And you say "Oh, that's so cute." It's cutish. 20:24 Let's just put it that way. Cutish. 20:28 I can reprimand my boy and I can spank my boy and I can say: 20:31 "Jabe, we don't do those things, there is a place for drawing." 20:34 But at the end of the day, after he's received his punishment, 20:38 and he's running back around the house, 20:39 playing like a little schoolchild, guess what? 20:42 There's still a marker all over my house. 20:45 Still something to be dealt with even after the punishment 20:49 has been administered, and even after he's off the hook 20:54 so to he'd sin. Are we all clear? 20:56 You would confess your sins, this was the daily service. 20:58 This was happening 359 days out of the Hebrew calendar year. 21:02 There were 360 days in a Hebrew calendar year and so 359 days 21:05 Israelites...and if you've read the Old Testament you know 21:07 the Israelites were very good sinners, isn't that true? 21:10 Almost as good as us. 21:13 That sin was going into the Sanctuary. So far so good? 21:20 Which necessitated the yearly service. 21:26 Before I get to the yearly service let me says this: 21:31 John the Baptist when he saw Jesus he said 21:34 "Behold the lamb of God 21:35 that takes away the sin of the world." 21:38 The reason that that made sense, "Behold the lamb of God", 21:41 was that the Jews understood exactly was he was saying. 21:44 Oh, so He is the one to whom all of those lambs pointed. 21:49 Look at Hebrews chapter 10 verse 4. 21:56 It says: "Fot it is not possible that the blood of bulls 22:03 and goats should take away sin." It's not possible. 22:09 Look at verse 11: "And every priest stands ministering daily 22:13 and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never 22:18 take away sin." 22:20 Do you see that? Yes or no? 22:22 These lambs that were slain, the various animals that were slain 22:26 in the Old Testament sanctuary service, did that blood ever 22:29 take away actual sin? No. 22:32 The significance of those sacrifices was that they pointed 22:36 forward to Jesus' sacrifice which could take away sin 22:42 as the altar of Hebrews says once and for all. 22:45 And that's really the author of Hebrews point. 22:47 He says basically I'll prove to you, because there were many 22:50 Jewish Christians that were sliding back 22:51 to these old sacrifices and he's saying "Hey, it doesn't work. 22:57 It's only as a reference or a pointing forward 23:00 to the sacrifice of Jesus.", and he says "I'll prove you 23:02 that it doesn't work." 23:03 They have to do it over and over and over again. 23:07 He says "If it's not working why do they have to keep doing it?" 23:10 Does that make sense? 23:11 All of those sacrifices pointed forward to Jesus, 23:13 and when John says "Behold the lamb of God that takes away 23:16 the sin of the world." What he's saying is "Here is the one 23:19 to whom all of those sacrifices pointed." Amen? Amen! 23:25 That's incidentally why you and I don't bring lambs 23:26 to church today. 23:28 There is a sacrifice that has fully met 23:31 all of the just requirements of a Holy God, and that sacrifice 23:35 was in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen? 23:37 It's totally useless now to offer those various sacrifices. 23:41 Because God has been totally satisfied, His justice 23:45 has been satisfied with the sacrifice of true lamb of God, 23:50 Jesus Christ. Amen? Amen! 23:52 We move to the yearly service. 23:55 You have the daily service. Day after day the sin's going 23:59 from the sinner to the lamb, to the blood, to the sanctuary. 24:02 So into the sanctuary. 24:06 At the end of the year you've got to clean the sanctuary up. 24:10 Just like I have to go clean up that marker that my boy has done 24:13 all around my house. 24:14 What happens here is that the high priest...Who? 24:19 The high priest would go alone into the most holy place 24:27 with the blood of a goat that had been killed. 24:31 We don't have the time to go into all of the details 24:34 but you can read it in Leviticus chapter 16. 24:36 I'll give it to you in a brief overview here. 24:39 It's Leviticus chapter 16. 24:40 The high priest would go in with this blood and he would take 24:44 this blood and he would apply it to the mercy seat 24:47 of the ark of the covenant. 24:48 That is to say the cover of the ark of the covenant 24:51 where the two cherubim were, and that bright, shining light, 24:55 the Shekinah glory, and he would apply that blood there 24:59 as a symbol of the cleansing of the sanctuary 25:03 on the day of atonement. Which means this is the day 25:08 that the sin has been going in and now the sin 25:12 is going to go out and be cleansed by the blood of Jesus 25:17 or what pointed forward to the blood of Jesus. 25:20 So far so good everyone? 25:22 That was called the day of atonement 25:23 because this was the day when Israel would once again 25:27 be clean, be cleansed ceremonially, ritually 25:31 in the sight of God, and God would be at one with His people. 25:37 If that makes sense say "Amen". 25:40 The daily service-sin is going in, the yearly service-sin is 25:43 going out and the sanctuary is cleansed. 25:47 Go back to Hebrews chapter 9, verse 6 25:52 This verse should make much better sense now. 25:57 It says: "Now when these things had thus been prepared 26:00 the priests went always into the first part of the tabernacle 26:04 performing the service." Verse 7 "But into the second part..." 26:09 Who went? And how did he go? Alone. How often? Once a year. 26:14 And what did he have? Which he offered for who? "For himself 26:18 and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance. Verse 8: 26:21 "the Holy Spirit indicating that this was the way 26:23 into the holiest of all which was not yet made manifest 26:26 while the first tabernacle was standing." This is a reference 26:31 to Moses' tabernacle. 26:33 Very fascinating here to note something. 26:35 Jesus was not only the lamb, Jesus was the high priest. 26:41 That's why we say that the whole sanctuary points to Jesus 26:45 and to the salvation offered to us in Jesus Christ. Amen? 26:47 Very powerful. 26:48 Once again, I just want to underscore here 26:50 God was not just giving them something to keep them busy 26:53 in the wilderness. He wasn't saying "What I'm I going to do 26:56 with all these people. I've got to keep them busy, 26:57 I've got to keep them out of trouble, I've got to keep them 26:58 off the streets." No. 27:00 He was trying to show them salvation and how it works. 27:05 Here is Christ and He is the lamb. 27:08 In fact you've got Christ all over the sanctuary. 27:11 Christ is the bread and the Holy Spirit is the seven branched 27:15 candlestick that's constantly burning, 27:16 the prayers of the saints, the incense wafting up over 27:19 in the most holy place. You have the cherubim there 27:21 and the throne of God, the ten commandments. 27:24 It's all about Jesus Christ. Very powerful. 27:28 Jesus, our high priest, entered into the true tabernacle 27:33 which the Lord pitched and not man. 27:34 Didn't we read that already? That's in chapter 8, verse1. 27:43 This is the main point, we've already read this 27:45 but it should register now. 27:46 This is the main point of the things that we were saying: 27:49 "We have a high priest who is seated at the right hand 27:52 of the throne of the majesty in heavens, the Minister 27:55 of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle 27:58 which the Lord erected and not man." 28:01 Jesus entered into heaven itself as our great, high priest 28:07 ministering in the heavenly sanctuary, 28:09 and that is one of the great themes 28:11 of the whole book of Hebrews. 28:12 What was happening was many Jewish Christians 28:14 were backsliding into the old system, they were backsliding 28:18 and going back to the old offerings. 28:20 The author of Hebrews, who I believe to be Paul, 28:22 basically was writing to them saying "No. They had a covenant 28:25 we have a better covenant, they have a temple 28:27 we have a better temple, they had a high priest we have 28:29 a better high priest, they had a sacrifice we have 28:31 a better sacrifice. It's all about Jesus. There's no point 28:34 to be going backwards, we should be going forwards 28:37 with the Lord. 28:39 Three compartments. Those three compartments were not arbitrary, 28:45 they foreshadowed the three fold ministry of Jesus 28:49 as lamb, as intercessor and as carrying out judgment. 28:55 Very important to notice that. 28:58 In fact, if you wanted to divide this up write this right there 29:01 on your little outline. 29:03 The plan of salvation, 29:04 as depicted in the sanctuary service, 29:05 delivers us from the three fold power of sin. 29:09 Sin has a three fold power on your life and on my life 29:12 before we come to the Lord Jesus Christ. 29:14 When Jesus Christ died on the cross, that was the equivalent 29:17 of dying in the courtyard. 29:19 He was the lamb that was slain in the courtyard. Where? 29:23 When Jesus Christ died on the cross He delivers us 29:25 from the penalty of sin 29:27 because He paid the penalty on the cross. 29:28 Can you say "Amen"? 29:30 The wages of sin is death and Jesus died our death 29:32 so that we can live His life. 29:36 In the second compartment of the sanctuary power is given. 29:40 We say "power" because you have there on the left 29:43 the 7 branched candlestick, representing the Holy Spirit. 29:46 It was always burning that marvelous flame. 29:48 On the right you have the bread. 29:49 The bread symbolizing Jesus and particularly the Bible. 29:55 Isn't that what Jesus said in John chapter 6 and 7? 29:57 He said "I am the bread of life." 30:02 You have this analogy of Jesus as the bread, 30:04 and the word is the bread, and so we have the Holy Spirit 30:06 on the left, we have the Bible on the right, the bread of life, 30:10 and then we have the altar of incense representing the prayers 30:13 of the saints, the Bible says. 30:14 And so with prayer and the Spirit and Bible study 30:18 we have power over sin in our lives. Amen? 30:20 Watching Must See TV does not get you power 30:23 over sin in your life. 30:24 But prayer and Bible study and spending time in ministry 30:29 and with the Holy Spirit, that does get you power in your life 30:31 over sin. 30:32 The cross gets us victory over the penalty of sin, 30:34 the wages of sin is death. 30:36 The holy place gives us the power to overcome sin. 30:39 But even if we have victory over sin in our lives, 30:42 and I want to prays the Lord Jesus Christ 30:44 that He can get victory. Can you say "Amen"? 30:46 Prays His Holy Name! He doesn't just say to the alcoholic 30:50 "IYou're forgiven." He gives the alcoholic power 30:51 to stop being an alcoholic. Amen? 30:53 He doesn't just say to the abuser "I forgive you.", 30:55 He says "I'll give you the power to be kind, to be gracious 30:58 to your spouse or whoever you're abusing." 31:00 God promises victory not just forgiveness. Amen? 31:05 What good would that be to bring only forgiveness 31:07 and not victory? 31:09 When our heart is transformed, when our life is changed 31:13 we don't want to continue to wallow in the vomit of sin. 31:15 We don't want to continue to wallow in the manure of sin. 31:18 We want out! 31:20 This is way it says in Mathew chapter 1, verse 21 that 31:23 they will call His name Jesus, for He will save His people 31:26 from their sins. 31:28 It doesn't say that He will just save them from the penalty 31:30 of their sins, but that He will save them from the sin itself. 31:34 Are we all together? 31:36 Even if we have victory over the power of sin into certain areas 31:40 of our lives, we still live in a sinful world. 31:44 We are still surrounded by the presence of sin. 31:47 Are we all together on that? 31:48 On the day of atonement it symbolizes that final judgment 31:52 when sin was wiped out of the sanctuary 31:54 and all of God's people were clean, the sanctuary was clean, 31:57 God of course has always been clean, 31:59 and now God and His people are at one with one another. 32:04 The cross from the penalty, the intersession of Jesus 32:07 and the holy place from the power and His judgment ministry 32:11 and the most holy place of the sanctuary 32:13 from the very presence of sin. Can you say "Amen"? 32:15 Very powerful! I wish I had more time to go into that 32:18 but I just don't. 32:19 Turn the page there in your study guide. 32:21 The key that unlocks the judgment is found 32:23 in the Israelite sanctuary. 32:25 The cleansing of the sanctuary was a day of judgment 32:27 which symbolizes the final judgment. 32:30 Think of it this way. 32:31 Your sin could not be taken out of the sanctuary 32:35 if it had never gone in. Does that make sense? 32:39 The only sins that were cleansed on the day of atonement 32:47 were the ones that have been confessed 32:48 in one of the other 359 days of the year and had gone in. 32:52 Does that make sense? 32:53 If you have been rebellious against God and you said 32:55 "Well, this all sanctuary - shmanctuary thing." 32:58 At the end of the year when God is at one with His people 33:01 the Bible says "You are cut off." 33:04 Symbolizing the final judgment. 33:05 That's why the people in the Old Testament, the Israelites, 33:08 where outside of that sanctuary while the high priest 33:10 was in the very presence of God. 33:14 We are told that in the garment that the high priest wore 33:18 there were little pomegranate bells around the hem 33:20 of his garment so that they could hear him moving around 33:22 doing his various things, 33:24 because he was going into the presence of God, 33:27 between the cherubim, and it said that if he had 33:29 any unconfessed sin in his own life he'd die on the spot. 33:34 and they'd tie a rope around his leg. 33:36 They'd drag him out because you couldn't go in there. 33:41 Only the high priest could go in there because only Jesus 33:44 can go into the presence of God on our behalf, 33:46 as pointing forward to that. 33:48 This was serious stuff. 33:52 This wasn't religious games. This was serious stuff. 33:55 It symbolized the day of judgment because nothing 33:57 could come out of there that hadn't first gone into there. 34:01 We go to the back page. 34:03 The imagery ceremonies and drama of the heavenly sanctuary 34:07 pointed to Jesus. In fact Jesus was the very heart 34:12 of this sanctuary. 34:13 Jump down to the three compartments 34:15 and the three phases. 34:16 The altar represented the cross. 34:20 The holy place represents the intersession, 34:23 the mediation of Jesus. 34:26 Most holy place-judgment. 34:30 You have deliverance from the penalty, 34:34 deliverance from the power and deliverance from the presence. 34:38 Let's say it together: have deliverance from the penalty 34:42 and the power and the presence. Excellent! 34:49 Let's go to our next study guide. 34:52 Let's pick it up. We're going to jump to the second page. 35:00 Second study guide. Here we go. 35:04 I'll put this up again tomorrow but I want you to see 35:08 how these visions lay right beside one another 35:11 in very beautiful systematic fashion. 35:16 Daniel chapter 2. Babylon, Medopersia, Greece, Rome, 35:19 and the second coming. 35:21 Head of gold, chest and arms of silver, 35:23 belly and thighs of bronze, long legs of iron and then divided 35:26 Rome down at the bottom and the stone would strike 35:28 the image and the whole thing would smash to smithereens. 35:30 That stone grows and becomes a great mountain. 35:33 In Daniel 7 we review and enlarge, remember? 35:38 We see the Babylon beast which is the lion with eagle's wings 35:40 followed by Medopersia represented by the bear 35:42 that was raised up one side 3 ribs and mouth. 35:45 What would this have to do with the sanctuary? 35:47 You'll see in just a moment. 35:48 Greece was the fore headed leopard, moving very rapidly, 35:50 very fast, then pagan Rome was that beast with 10 horns. 35:54 Out of those 10 horns came a little horn. 35:57 What happened after that? 35:59 We saw that sequence 3 times in Daniel 7: Rome, little horn 36:05 and then judgment. Then we went to Daniel chapter 8. 36:08 We saw a ram. The ram represented Medopersia 36:12 that became great. 36:14 The goat represented Greece, which became very great, 36:18 the Bible says. 36:19 Then there was that little horn representing both the pagan 36:23 and the little horn phases, the Papal phases of Rome. 36:26 It says that it became exceedingly great. 36:31 The ram is great, the goat was very great and the little horn 36:38 was exceedingly great. Some people have tried to say 36:40 the little horn in Daniel 8 is a Seleucid king by the name of 36:44 Antiochus Epiphanies, but it's very hard to reconcile that. 36:48 Antiochus Epiphanes was the man who ruled for 12 years in Syria 36:52 and here you have this progression from great, 36:54 Medopersia, to very great, Greece, to exceedingly great, 36:58 this little horn, and Antiochus was nothing 37:01 compared to Alexander the Great, 37:03 much less the whole Macedonian Empire. 37:05 Whoever this is, it has to be very great 37:09 in the scope of history. Has to be what? Very great! 37:14 We see here exactly what we would expect in Daniel 7. 37:17 Pagan Rome, the little horn, and the next thing that we saw 37:20 in Daniel chapter 8 was the cleansing of the sanctuary 37:23 which corresponds with the judgment, the next thing 37:27 is the second coming. 37:28 You have these prophecies that lay down every time 37:31 God's reviewing and then He's enlarging. 37:35 Go to Daniel chapter 8. We're going to hustle 37:39 but we're going to do it by His grace. 37:44 Daniel chapter 8. I lot of this you can fill in on your own. 37:52 We've already been over quite a bit of this as a matter of fact. 37:55 Jump down to the bottom of page two. 37:59 But first look at Daniel chapter 8. 38:02 Daniel hears this little horn speaking blasphemies words, 38:06 making war against God's people, God's Son. 38:08 I think we have that slide here. 38:11 The little horn attacked God's people, God's Son, 38:17 God's sanctuary, God's truth. 38:19 Remember that transition we saw in Daniel chapter 7? 38:23 It was this predatorial beast, but in Daniel chapter 8 38:26 it switches to a ram and a goat, which were clean beasts, 38:31 sanctuary beasts. 38:32 Immediately the mind is drawn to this sanctuary. 38:35 You have in Daniel chapter 8, verse 14: "And he said to me 38:42 for 2300 days then the sanctuary will be cleansed." 38:48 Daniel basically wanted to know how long is this garbage 38:52 going to go on, this little horn making war 38:54 against God's people, God's Son, 38:55 God's sanctuary, God's truth. 38:57 Then he overhears two angels talking and one says: 38:59 "How long" and the other says "2300 days, then the sanctuary 39:03 will be cleansed." Now you know what it means 39:05 "the sanctuary will be cleansed". 39:06 The final judgment. 39:07 Verse 15: "Then it happened when I, Daniel, had see the vision 39:12 I was seeking the meaning and suddenly there stood before me 39:14 one having the appearance of a man." This is Gabrielle. 39:17 Verse 16: "And I heard a man's voice between the banks 39:19 of the Ulai, who called and said 'Gabrielle, make this man 39:23 understand the vision.'" Look at that word "understand". 39:27 Verse 17: "So it came near where I stood and when he came 39:31 I was afraid and I fell on my face and he said to me 39:34 'Understand son of man, for your vision refers to the time 39:37 of the end'. The vision refers to when? Time of the end. 39:41 Did Daniel understand the vision? No. 39:43 Gabrielle comes to explain it to him in two times: 39:46 "I want you to understand, I want you to understand." 39:49 He tries to explain but Daniel ends up fainting. Verse 26. 39:55 Gabrielle speaking: "And the vision of the evenings and 39:58 the mornings thus the 2300 days, which was told is true 40:02 therefore seal the vision for it belongs to 40:05 many days in the future." Look at verse 27. 40:07 "And I, Daniel, fainted and I was sick for days, after I arose 40:13 and was about the king's business, I was astonished 40:15 by the vision, but no one understood it." 40:17 Did Daniel understand it? No. 40:20 Here is what happens. Then we transition to Daniel chapter 9. 40:25 At the bottom of the study guide, page 2. 40:28 "Putting the pieces together", Daniel 9, 40:30 in the explanation of the vision. Are we all there? 40:33 In Daniel 9 we find Daniel seeking to understand 40:37 the troubling vision of Daniel 8. 40:40 He seeks the Lord in prayer and supplication. 40:42 Verse 4 to 19 record one of the most powerful 40:45 and beautiful prayers in all over the Bible. 40:47 In the middle of the prayer the angel Gabrielle comes 40:49 to answer Daniel's prayer. 40:51 The answer is found in the form of the angel explaining 40:53 the meaning of the troubling vision of Daniel chapter 8. 40:56 The vision of Daniel had to do with the pompous words 40:58 in the wars of the antichrist, the little horn. 41:02 These words in wars called to session the heavenly court 41:04 for the purpose of judgment and vindication of God's people 41:07 who had been wrongly accused by the Roman church. 41:10 The terrible record of this power is doubly compounded 41:13 by the fact that it carried out all of its persecutions 41:16 and blasphemies in the name of God. Turn the page. 41:23 Here is Daniel. Daniel does not understand the vision 41:29 and he begins to pray. What does he begin to do? Pray. 41:33 "Oh God, I don't understand the vision. I need You" 41:35 to explain it to me." You can see some of that prayer 41:41 beginning in verse one. 41:43 "In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, 41:47 of Median descent, who was made king 41:48 over the kingdom of the Chaldeans, in the first year 41:50 of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books 41:52 the number of the years which was revealed 41:54 as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet 41:56 for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem," 41:59 Jeremiah had said in his scroll that Israel would go 42:02 into captivity, Judah would go into captivity for 70 years. 42:05 Daniel had been into captivity for 70 years at this point 42:08 and so he's seeking, he's doing what you and I should be doing, 42:10 we should study our Bibles, and he says "I understood it." 42:14 Look at verse 3: "So I gave my attention to the Lord God 42:18 to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, 42:20 sackcloth and ashes. I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed 42:23 and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, 42:26 who keeps His covenant and loving kindness 42:27 for those who love Him and keep His commandments, 42:30 we have sinned, committed iniquity, 42:33 acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside 42:36 from Your commandments and ordinances. 42:38 Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, 42:41 who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, 42:42 our fathers and all the people of the land." 42:44 Verse 11: "Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your law" 42:51 And the whole prayer goes down through verse 19. 42:53 It's one of the longest and most beautiful prayers 42:55 in all the Bible. 42:56 Daniel is pouring his heart out to God: "God we blew it. 43:00 We know now why you let the Babylonians come and destroy 43:03 our city and take us here into captivity. 43:05 It's because we disobeyed You, we broke Your covenant. 43:08 Oh God, have mercy on us. In Jeremiah you said 43:10 it would only last for 70 years, the 70 years is almost done. 43:12 I'm an old man now, I came here as a boy. 43:16 Please!" 43:17 At the end of that prayer guess who comes back? 43:21 Gabrielle comes back. Look at verse 20. 43:23 "Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin 43:27 and the sin of my people Israel, 43:29 and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God 43:32 in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, 43:34 while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabrielle, 43:37 whom I had seen in the vision previously, 43:39 came to me in my extreme weariness 43:41 about the time of the evening offering." 43:43 Verse 22 and notice the first thing that Gabrielle says: 43:48 "O Daniel, I have now come forth 43:50 to give you insight with understanding." Exactly! 43:55 That's what we'd expect. 43:56 Because we end Daniel. Does he understand? 43:59 No, he doesn't understand but does he want to understand? 44:01 He is pouring his heart out to God and Gabrielle shows up 44:04 and the first thing he says is: 44:05 "I've come to help you understand." 44:08 Understand what? The vision that he had just seen 44:12 of these 2300 long years. A day in the Bible prophecy is a year. 44:16 Gabrielle comes and says: "I'm going to help you to get it 44:19 and don't faint this time." 44:21 You're still there in your study guide. 44:26 Can you keep up with me? 44:29 We're on page 3. You're doing a great job. 44:31 Take a breath. Here we go. 44:33 Top of page 3. You're getting it, I can tell that. 44:37 It is imperative to remember that a day 44:40 in end time Bible prophecy represents a year 44:43 of actual literal time. 44:44 Not only are beasts, horns, women, water symbolic, 44:48 so is time in time prophecy. 44:50 As we learned last lesson the vision of Daniel 8, 44:52 the 2300 days extends all the way down to the distant future, 44:56 according to the NIV Version Daniel 8,26. 44:59 As the angel returned to explain the 2300 days vision 45:02 he begins by telling Daniel of another time period. 45:06 This period would last 70 prophetic weeks 45:11 or 490 prophetic days. 45:14 70 prophetic weeks or 490 prophetic days. 45:19 How did we get 490? 70 times 7. So far so good. 45:24 You're getting it. 45:26 According to the angel Gabrielle this was a time period 45:28 specifically eluded to the Jewish nation. 45:32 Let's go back to the Bible. 45:34 I want you to see this. Verse 23, Daniel 9,23. 45:38 We're going to get this by the grace of God. 45:41 "As soon as you began to pray, an answer was given, 45:45 which I have come to tell you," 45:47 Gabrielle speaking to Daniel, 45:49 for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the message 45:52 and understand the vision." Two time he says it. 45:55 "Understand it, understand it. I really want you to." 45:58 Here is the explanation, verse 24. 46:01 First words out of Gabrielle's mouth 46:02 when it comes to the actual explanation. Verse 24. 46:06 "Seventy weeks are determined for your people 46:10 and your holy city." How many weeks? 46:13 70, are determined for who? your people and your holy city." 46:18 Who's Daniel people? Israel. 46:21 Wasn't he crying out and saying "Oh, Israel has sinned." 46:24 Gabrielle shows up and says: 46:25 "Seventy weeks are for your people and your city." 46:29 What city would that be? Jerusalem. 46:32 Let's go to our guide. 46:34 The angel Gabrielle returns, he begins by telling Daniel 46:37 of another time period, a period of 70 prophetic weeks. 46:40 This time period is the key to understanding the 2300 days. 46:44 You say "How do you know that?" 46:46 It's a piece of cake. 46:49 he's asking for understanding, Gabrielle comes back and says 46:52 "I'm going to help you to understand. Sit down Daniel, 46:54 put your schoolboys cap on, I'm going to help you understand 46:57 this vision." And the first thing he says is: 46:58 "Seventy weeks of this are for your people." So far so good? 47:02 Pretty simple really. 47:03 "Seventy weeks are determined for your people." 47:05 There is a list of 6 things here, 47:07 you can write them all down later. There're all in verse 24. 47:09 Everyone of these comes from verse 24. 47:11 It says: "Seventy weeks are determined for your people" 47:15 I'll come right back to that slide. 47:17 You've got 6 things needed to be accomplished 47:19 during these 70 weeks and there're all in verse 24. 47:22 Seventy weeks are determined for your people, number one: 47:25 to finish the transgression, number 2: to make an end sins, 47:27 number 3: to make reconciliation for iniquity, 47:29 number 4: to bring in everlasting righteousness, 47:32 number 5: to seal up the vision and prophecy, 47:34 number 6: to anoint the Most Holy. 47:36 All of them right there you can write them in. 47:39 Everyone of them comes from verse 24. 47:41 So far, does the vision make sense? 47:44 Gabrielle basically shows up, says: 47:45 "I've come to explain the 2300 days. Seventy weeks are cut off 47:50 for your people." 47:51 Seventy weeks are cut off for the Jews, 47:53 in which period of time 6 things have to happen. 47:57 How many things? 47:59 By the way, you know for a fact that a day in Bible prophecy 48:02 equals a year. 48:04 Because 70 weeks would be 48:06 not even a year and a half in real time. 48:10 52 days in a year? So 70 weeks is a year and a half. 48:14 Can all of that happen in a year and a half? No. 48:16 In fact will see that in just a moment. 48:18 The prophecy itself demands that we're talking a day for a year. 48:23 A day for a what? A year. 48:25 From Daniel's perspective, he's already been in captivity 48:28 for almost 70 years. 48:29 If Gabrielle shows up and says "Ohoo, only 70 weeks to go!" 48:34 This would have been cause for celebration not for concern. 48:37 He says "Seventy weeks are cut off for your people." 48:40 Seventy weeks for Jews, 6 things to accomplish. 48:43 If this makes sense I want you to say "Amen". 48:46 We're still there in our study guide. 48:48 Judgment fall in 70 AD when Jerusalem 48:52 was sack by the Roman army. 48:54 Verse 25 gives us a starting point for these time prophecies. 48:58 Let's go back to the slide. 49:00 This is what we know so far. 49:01 The 70 weeks are 490 years and he says 70 weeks or 490 years 49:06 was the time eluded for the Jewish nation. 49:09 That's what we know so far. 49:10 Any questions? That's pretty simple. 49:13 Look at verse 25. 49:16 "Know therefore..." What's the word? "Understand". 49:20 That word comes up again and again in Daniel 8 and 9. 49:23 "Know therefore and understand that from the going forth 49:27 to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah", 49:36 who's Messiah the Prince? Jesus Christ. 49:38 The word "Meshia", "Messiah" and "Hristos" are the same words, 49:43 they mean "anointed". 49:45 From the going forth of the command, 49:48 the restoration of Jerusalem, to the Anointed Prince will be 49:54 "seven weeks and sixty two weeks. 49:57 The street shall be built again and the wall, 50:00 even in troublesome times." 50:02 Sixty-two plus seven is what? Sixty-nine. 50:07 Basically here is what he says: 50:09 "Seventy weeks are cut off for your people." 50:10 Then he gives us a starting point. 50:12 From the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, to the time 50:18 of the Messiah is 69 weeks. If that makes sense say "Amen". 50:22 Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed at this point 50:26 and what's going to happen is that Babylon is going to become 50:29 Medopersia, and the you can go read about it in Ezra, 50:33 what would happen is that God moved upon the heart 50:39 of the king there in Persia to let the Jews go back 50:43 to their home land and rebuild the temple. 50:46 Isn't that powerful? 50:47 He says from the going forth, when that decree came 50:50 and it came from a man named Artaxerxes. 50:52 You can read all about it in Ezra chapter 7. 50:55 You say "Is his name Artaxerxes?". It really is. 50:59 Artaxerxes issues a decree and he basically says to the Jews: 51:04 "Get out of here. Go on. I'm letting you go. 51:06 Go back and rebuild your temple, go back and rebuild your land. 51:10 Go! You're out of here. And if you need anything 51:13 you can pay for it out of my treasury." 51:15 Powerful! God moved the heart of that pagan king. 51:19 He said "Get out." 51:20 The children of Israel began to go and rebuild their city, 51:25 rebuild their temple, and when that decree went forward 51:29 it was in 475 BC. 51:31 It was the seventh year of Artaxerxes. 51:35 Artaxerxes came to power in 464, and in 475 he says "Go". 51:42 It says that day is 475 BC. 51:50 Gabrielle explains after 69 weeks or 483 literal years. 51:55 Do the math, is very simple. 51:57 490 years is 70 weeks. How many weeks? 52:02 If we're talking about 69 weeks we would subtract 7 years. 52:08 Which we be what? 483. 52:09 He says "Hey, 70 are cut off for the Jews, and from the time 52:14 that decree happens, until the Messiah, is 69 weeks. 52:19 So far so good? It's pretty simple. 52:22 Let's put in on the board so you can see it. 52:26 475, you move forward, 483 years, 52:30 that brings you to exactly 27 AD. 52:37 Brings you to what? 27 AD. 52:43 What happened in 27 AD? 52:46 Jesus of Nazareth was baptized. 52:51 He was baptized. 52:53 You can read it in Luke chapter 3, it says in your study guide. 52:56 Luke was a fantastic historian, he said that this happened 53:01 in the 50th years of the rein of Tiberius Caesar. 53:05 He began to rule in 12 AD, you move 15 years that brings you 53:12 to 27 AD. 53:14 Jesus was baptized in 27 AD. 53:17 Jesus was what? Baptized in 27 AD. 53:20 He was anointed, according to Peter in Acts chapter 10, 53:23 He was anointed by the Holy Spirit. 53:27 Remember the Holy Spirit descended upon Him? 53:30 He heard that voice saying "This is My beloved Son 53:33 in whom I'm well pleased." 53:37 I want you to think about that. 53:40 This is so powerful! 53:43 Gabrielle comes to explain the vision and he says: 53:45 "Seventy weeks are cut off for your people." O.K 53:51 From the going forth of the command to restore 53:53 and rebuild Jerusalem, Daniel is saying "Yes, got it." 53:56 "Daniel, for 483 days or prophetic days literal years, 54:02 then the Messiah will come. The one you're looking for." 54:06 The one we are all looking for. He's going to come. 54:10 And sure enough, right on time. 54:13 In the fall of 27 AD a man named Jesus of Nazareth 54:19 walked away from His father's carpenters bench 54:24 and He walked down to the river Jordan. 54:28 John saw Him. 54:32 He said: "Look, it's the Lamb of God 54:38 who takes away the sin of the world." 54:42 I imagine everybody... 54:44 Here comes Jesus of Nazareth, walks down into that water, 54:49 speaks to His elder cousin John, John was His cousin, 54:53 6 months older, He says: "John, I need you to baptize Me. 54:59 Right now." John says: "You've got to be kidding. 55:03 I have need to be baptized by You." 55:06 "Suffereth this for now, thus it becometh us to fulfill 55:10 all righteousness." 55:12 The Bible says put Him down in that water, 55:16 baptized Him. And the Bible says as He was coming up 55:19 a voice from heaven "Behold my beloved, this is My beloved Son 55:25 in whom I am well pleased." 55:30 The Holy Spirit came upon Him. 55:32 In Acts chapter 3 Peters says He was anointed 55:34 by the Holy Spirit. 55:35 Whenever you anoint something with oil 55:38 that symbolizes the Holy Spirit. 55:41 The oil is the Holy Spirit. 55:42 When I go to anoint people I anoint them with olive oil. 55:46 Jesus was anointed with the real deal. 55:48 The Holy Spirit comes upon Him. 55:51 I want you to look at Daniel chapter 9 as we close this. 55:56 Verse 24, "Seventy weeks were determined for your people 55:59 and for your holy city to finish the transgression, 56:01 to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for inequity, 56:04 to bring an everlasting righteousness, 56:05 to seal up the vision and the prophecy, 56:07 to anoint the most holy. Know therefore and understand Daniel 56:10 that from the going forth of the command and the restore 56:12 and build of Jerusalem, 475, until Messiah comes, 56:16 the Anointed Prince, there will be sixty-nine weeks, 56:19 seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. The street will be built again 56:23 and the wall, even in troublesome times." 56:26 How did Jesus know when to leave His carpenter's bench? 56:31 How did He know? 56:33 I'll tell you how He knew. 56:35 He knew the book of Daniel. 56:39 When Jesus is baptized in Mark chapter 1 do you know what 56:44 He said? The time is fulfilled. 56:48 Mark chapter 1, verses 15 and 16. 56:50 Jesus is baptized, He said "The time is fulfilled". 56:53 What time? 56:54 How did He know that it was time to stop sawing and go down 57:00 and be baptized? 57:01 How did John know that it was time 57:02 to start preaching in the wilderness of Judea? 57:04 They knew this prophecy. 57:06 There was a set out of time the Messiah will come. 57:11 That's just the beginning of this prophecy. 57:14 It's what? The beginning. 57:16 Sometimes people say to me "How do you know Jesus is the guy?" 57:22 One of the ways I know is because He perfectly fulfilled 57:27 this prophecy of the Messiah. 57:30 It was given 500 years before His time. 57:35 Baptized, anointed by the Holy Ghost, 57:40 that gets us through the first 69 weeks of this prophecy. 57:45 Do you see that everyone? 57:46 That's the first 69 weeks, it gets us to 27 AD. 57:49 We still have another week. 57:53 What happens then? 57:55 We'll see you tomorrow night. |
Revised 2014-12-17