Welcome to Anchors Of Truth,
live from Plantation, Florida.
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God's Answer To
Daniel's Pray Is The Messiah,
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with Ralph Ringer.
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Well, we're coming down
to the last of five Anchors
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on a very special week.
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We have done, I
think we're up around 110
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individual Anchors programs.
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And these last four have
been among the most memorable,
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the most spiritual.
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And as far as the take
on the Bible, really just
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fun to hear and very
spiritually uplifting.
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It really is.
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And, you know, it's an amazing
thing how we are learning
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so much, I am, I'm learning
so much, about the flow of
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God's plan of salvation.
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God was never caught,
never caught, unexpected.
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I like the way Alex put
that this morning, yeah.
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It wasn't a surprise to
God, didn't pop up on Him.
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- No, that's right. -
He never had a plan B.
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No, He didn't have to.
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He went with plan A all the way.
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That's right.
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And that His people have carried
the message all the way through,
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a remnant of His people.
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And you know something?
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It's going to be a
remnant of His people
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that finish the work as well.
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So we are not
unaccustomed to the remnant.
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Now we don't want to take
all of Brother Ralph's time
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here this afternoon.
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And we'll take as much
as we feel like we need to,
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Ralph, but we want to
leave him plenty of time
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to cover the
message that he has for us.
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Indeed, our
speaker is Ralph Ringer.
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He of NAD Jewish Ministries.
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And he is the
anchorman of the Anchors series
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for this particular time.
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And we're happy to
welcome you here to this last
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presentation from
Plantation, Florida.
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The sun has come out finally
after a couple days of rain.
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The sun is out and it's
a beautiful Sabbath day.
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And we're so pleased
to be in this church.
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We've had ten solid days
of rain and we were starting
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to get an ark
ready almost by now.
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But we are so
happy to see the sun.
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And what a great beautiful
Sabbath we're having here today.
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Just before we begin,
let's have a word of prayer.
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Father in heaven, we
thank You in Jesus' name
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for the wonderful
truth of Your Word.
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Father, every day when we
come, we find something fresh.
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Help us to again find
Jesus afresh in Your Word
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as we study today.
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Thank You, Lord.
In Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen, amen.
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We want to take this opportunity
to thank the 3ABN crew.
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They've been in Florida away
from their homes for many weeks
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with GYC, and now this Anchors.
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Ralph Ringer is
going to be speaking on,
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God's Answer To
Daniel's Prayer Is The Messiah.
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And that's another
intriguing topic, Jim.
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But before he does, we
get to hear the first family
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of this church.
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Pastor and Sister
Schlussler are behind us there.
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And the song that
they're going to be doing is,
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Mikamocha.
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And then after that,
our speaker Ralph Ringer.
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Who among the gods
is like You, O Lord?
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Who is like You,
majestic and holiness,
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awesome and glory.
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Working wonders, O Lord.
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Mi chamocha
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ba'elim Adonai?
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Mi chamocha
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nedar bakodesh,
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nora t'hillot,
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oseh feleh,
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oseh feleh?
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Mi chamocha
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ba'elim Adonai?
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Mi chamocha
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nedar bakodesh,
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nora t'hillot,
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oseh feleh,
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oseh feleh?
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Who is like Thee,
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O Lord, among the gods?
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Who is like Thee?
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Lord, there is none else.
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You are awesome in praise,
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doing wonders, O Lord.
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Who is like Thee, O Lord?
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Mi chamocha
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ba'elim Adonai?
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Mi chamocha
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nedar bakodesh,
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nora t'hillot,
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oseh feleh,
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oseh feleh?
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Thank you for the music.
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God's answer to
Daniel's prayer is the Messiah.
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Many people have a very
difficult time understanding
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Daniel chapter 9.
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And we're going to look
at Daniel 9, a deeper look.
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We are especially
looking at verses 24 through 27.
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But to get the setting,
let's go back to verse 2.
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And we're just
going to summarize now
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the first part of the
chapter leading up to verse 24.
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In verse 2, Daniel
understood Jeremiah's prophecy
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of the 70 years of
desolation for Jerusalem.
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However, Daniel
realized it was at his time
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in writing this that
the time was about to end,
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or had ended about that time.
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And he had had a vision.
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Verses 3 through 15,
Daniel's prayer for his
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and his people's sins.
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Now why was he
praying for their sins?
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Back in chapter 8 and verse
14, he had this vision about,
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2300 days, then the
sanctuary was to be cleansed.
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He was troubled by it.
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It said he was
sick certain days.
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He just couldn't get
this out of his mind.
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He didn't understand it.
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But some way in his mind,
I think that he was thinking
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this 2300 days was
added to the end of that
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70 years of Jeremiah.
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So some way, that time
of 70 years of Jeremiah
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was going to be lengthened
maybe by this 2300 days.
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And he didn't
want that to happen.
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A prayer of intercession
in verses 3 through 15.
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He prays for his sins.
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He prays for the
sins of his people.
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And in verse 16, he says,
turn the anger from Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem had gone away
from God and they had been taken
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captive in Babylon.
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And now he's saying,
"Lord, turn Your anger away
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so that we can get
back to Jerusalem."
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Verse 17, he asks for God's
face to shine on the sanctuary.
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Remember, it was 2300
days then the sanctuary
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was to be cleansed.
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So the sanctuary; he
wanted the temple to be built
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back again in Jerusalem.
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Then in verse 18, he
talks about not delaying
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"for Your city and for
Your people" the blessing
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and the
restoration that was promised.
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God's answer to
Daniel's prayer was the Messiah.
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There was no one else
in Israel or all of Israel
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that could fulfill
what needed to be done
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to get back right with God.
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Only the Messiah could do that.
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And so, what we find
starting in verse 24...
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In fact, this was so important
that God sent the angel Gabriel
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all the way from heaven
down to Daniel to tell him
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what this vision that
he had seen should mean.
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But more than that,
to answer his prayer
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about his sins,
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the sins of Israel,
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and the
restoration of God's people.
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In verse 24, we read...
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Now, we're going
to come back to that,
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but let's read
the rest of the verse.
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Now, when we talk about
the 70 weeks for his people
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and for his city...
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And it goes on and
finishes that verse by saying,
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"...and to seal up
the vision and prophecy,
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and to anoint the Most Holy."
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Now the 70 weeks,
we're going to come back to
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the rest of the verse
and look in detail about it.
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But the only part of verse 24
that deals just with the people
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and the city of Jerusalem,
the Israelites and the city,
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was the first line.
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"Seventy weeks are
determined upon your people
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and upon your city."
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The rest of it, we will see,
directly refers to the Messiah.
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That was God's
answer to the prayer.
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You want reconciliation for
sin, you want your sins forgiven
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that you've prayed for in
the first part of this chapter.
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You want God's people
to be back in Jerusalem.
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And you want them to be secure.
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You want them to be
restored in harmony with God.
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That's only going
to happen in one way.
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And that's the Messiah coming.
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And so he goes down, and
we'll see the breakdown of such.
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But let's look at the 70 weeks.
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Daniel 9:24-27 is the most
complete Messianic prophecy
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in all the Scripture.
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It has all kinds of
details, which we'll see.
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But it even has a timeline
exactly when He's coming,
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how long, and what He's
going to do while He's here.
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And so, let's notice in
Ezekiel 4:6 to understand
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Daniel and Revelation.
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Both are apocalyptic literature.
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That's a big word
meaning it's written in symbols.
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That's why you have so many
beasts and seals, and all the
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other kinds of things.
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It's written in symbols.
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Remember, Daniel
was a captive in Babylon
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as the book of
Daniel was written.
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John was on the isle
of Patmos, a prisoner,
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when the book of
Revelation was written.
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And so it was written in
symbols to get the word out.
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And I don't have time
to go into more of that.
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But the symbols are
found in the rest of Scripture.
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In Ezekiel 4:6,
and also Numbers 14:34
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that's not listed on
the screen here, tells us,
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"each day for a year."
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That was just like, Israel
wandered in the wilderness
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for 40 years, and
each day for a year.
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Because they had searched
the land out 40 days, remember.
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And so, this symbol was used.
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We can make sure that it
works out, as we will see
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in a few moments.
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So the 70 weeks, they
were 70 prophetic weeks.
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How many days
are there in a week?
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Seven.
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So 7 times 70 is how many?
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That's 490 prophetic days.
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Each day equaling a year
would be 490 literal years.
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But when did the prophecy start?
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Now we need to remember...
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And sometimes, there
are many Bible students
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that will try to jump
for the 2300 days immediately
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and use the 70
weeks as a jump off point.
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But they have really
missed some of the deepest
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prophecies about the
Messiah, and the importance.
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Yes, it is the
beginning, the first 490 years
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of the 2300 years of
the prophecy of Daniel 8:14.
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But now let's
notice when it starts.
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Starting in
verse 25 of Daniel 9...
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Now let's stop
right here for a moment.
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Why do we have it saying, "seven
weeks and sixty-two weeks?"
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Very simple, Jerusalem
would be built in the 7 weeks.
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And then you go 62
more weeks to the Messiah.
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That's a total of 69.
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And by the way, Messiah
the Prince just mentioned there
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in verse 25, now notice it
mentions Messiah another time.
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"...and the wall,
even in troublous times..."
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Do you get the picture?
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Seven weeks or 49
years, Jerusalem is
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going to be rebuilt.
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Okay?
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And then, another 62 weeks until
the Messiah will be cut off,
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but not for Himself.
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That's the Messiah
the Priest, or the Savior.
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So the Messiah the
Prince, Messiah cut off but
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not for Himself,
and the anointed One.
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We're going to come
back to that anointed One.
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Three times in this passage
it refers to the Messiah.
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By the way, "three"
just happens to be one of the
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numbers for God.
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And so let's go on now.
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So when did that decree
to go and build Jerusalem...
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We can look in Ezra chapter 7.
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There was more than one decree.
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But there was only one
that not only was made,
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but the provisions and the
monies to do it were given.
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And it was accomplished.
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That's the one
we have in Ezra 7.
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And that happened in 457 BC.
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If we fast forward...
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And some of you mathematicians,
69 times 7 is how much?
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Well you've got it on the screen
if you're not a mathematician.
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It's 483 years.
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483 years; 457 to AD 27.
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Now the word, "Messiah,"
means, "the anointed One."
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At what time and at
what point was Jesus anointed
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by the Holy Spirit?
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It was at His
baptism, wasn't it?
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The Holy Spirit came
down in the form of a dove.
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The voice from heaven
saying, "This is My beloved Son,
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in whom I am well pleased."
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So here... Oh, wait a minute.
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If you follow this
through, now if you're a real
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technical person, there's
no year zero from BC to AD.
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That's why it's 27,
if you're doing the math.
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But wait a minute.
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At His baptism; His anointing.
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He lived 30 years
as an average man.
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In His day, 30 years was the
average lifespan of a person,
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of a man.
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He lived as the average
person a perfect sinless life
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before He had the three
and a half years of ministry.
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He was
baptized, He was anointed,
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and He had three and a
half years of public ministry.
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And so let's go back
to Daniel 9:24 though,
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what it said about the Messiah.
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There are six prepositional
phrases in verse 24.
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And the antecedent to
those prepositional phrases
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is in Daniel 9:27.
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Now, being the
Director of Jewish Ministries,
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North American Division, I
go to the World Jewish Advisory
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that happens about
every couple of years.
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I have learned a
tremendous amount.
00:21:08.49\00:21:10.50
And scholars from four
continents, Jewish scholars,
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that really study the issues.
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And in 2006, 2008, and
especially this last year, 2013,
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there were some
special things that I learned
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from those that
Hebrew is a native language.
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They are there.
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And in 2008, I remember learning
about these phrases and how
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all these phrases
refer to the Messiah.
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And then in 2013,
that all the verbs...
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Because in these
three day meetings, we have
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a couple days where it goes
deep into some of the things
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of Scripture.
00:22:05.57\00:22:06.89
And I came back...
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Especially when I
learned all these phrases.
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Because they were
talking about them in Hebrew,
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and things were so deep.
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These were all
Ph.D. Jewish scholars.
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And it was so deep,
I got the gist of it.
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But the Hebrew was a
little deeper than I could
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fully understand,
but I got the message.
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And I said, I've got to get
this into the English language
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and other people can understand.
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And I'm all excited sharing with
my English professor daughter
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about these Hebrew verbs.
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And not only that,
there were six of them.
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And not only six, there
were sets of two, two, and two,
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and three and three.
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And that was more...
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And with the antecedent,
that seventh one made it
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even more
impressible and more important.
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And I was trying to share this.
00:22:56.24\00:22:57.94
And my daughter,
who has Medieval English
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Literature Ph.D., who had
to have a reading knowledge of
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Hebrew, Greek, a whole
bunch of other languages,
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about seven languages...
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And I'm sharing with
this about the Hebrew,
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because she knew some Hebrew.
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And she says, "Well, Dad..."
00:23:13.06\00:23:14.51
You know how our kids are.
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"Well, Dad, it's
in the English too."
00:23:16.03\00:23:19.48
And I said, "What do you mean?"
00:23:19.51\00:23:20.86
You see, I never
did good in English.
00:23:21.22\00:23:22.96
I gave her
everything I had, so that's why
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I didn't have any English.
00:23:24.85\00:23:25.88
I tease her of that, but
it's really, I never had any.
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And she got it from her
mom, but don't tell her that.
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And she says, "There are
six prepositional phrases."
00:23:33.79\00:23:37.31
I said, "There are?"
00:23:38.02\00:23:39.48
And she says,
"Yeah look, it says,
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'to finish...', 'to make...',
'to make...', 'to bring...'"
00:23:41.69\00:23:44.59
"Oh, hey, they are
prepositional phrases."
00:23:45.65\00:23:49.08
Except the
antecedent is in verse 27.
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So we've got the
same thing in English.
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So I don't have to
teach her a Hebrew lesson.
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I wouldn't be a
good teacher anyway.
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Sasha would have to do that.
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But let's look at all six
of these and how no Israelite,
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except the
Messiah, could fulfill it.
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Let's look.
00:24:06.89\00:24:07.95
"To finish the transgression."
00:24:07.98\00:24:10.32
I don't have time
to go into detail.
00:24:10.52\00:24:12.76
"The transgression," is
refering to the rebellion
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of sin that happened
in the Garden of Eden.
00:24:17.03\00:24:20.51
Eve and then Adam,
and their rebellion.
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Every person since Adam
and Eve sinned on this earth
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has sinned in rebellion against
God, except the Messiah, Jesus.
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So Jesus finishes the sin.
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Daniel had been praying
for his sins and the sins
00:24:41.68\00:24:45.07
of his people.
00:24:45.10\00:24:46.47
And God is saying,
"Okay, I'll answer that.
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But the only way I can
answer it is in the Messiah.
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I'm going to send the Messiah."
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Secondly...
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And you see there in the
parenthesis there, the numbers.
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The numbers aren't
in the original verse.
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That's what I put in so you
can see how the six are there.
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And the second one,
"To make an end of sins."
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Jesus was the...
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Not only did He bring
about the end of the rebellion,
00:25:17.04\00:25:20.86
because He was
totally in harmony with God,
00:25:20.89\00:25:23.42
but He lived the sinless life.
00:25:23.81\00:25:26.67
He was tempted in all
points like us, but without sin.
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So now we have the
perfect sinless life.
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Thirdly, "To make
reconciliation for iniquity."
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"To make
reconciliation for iniquity."
00:25:45.44\00:25:48.46
Well, wait a minute.
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How was reconciliation made?
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If you find, and I
don't have it on the screen,
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Romans chapter 5 and verse 10.
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I wish we had time to go through
a lot in Romans chapter 5.
00:26:01.45\00:26:04.70
But in verse 10 it says,
"For if when we were enemies
00:26:05.68\00:26:10.48
we were reconciled
to God through..." What?
00:26:10.51\00:26:14.21
"...the death of His Son..."
00:26:14.41\00:26:17.32
Oh, we're reconciled
by the death of Jesus.
00:26:18.38\00:26:21.78
So when we look at that
third one, this is the cross.
00:26:21.81\00:26:26.46
The Messiah that
came to die for us.
00:26:27.26\00:26:31.03
The fourth one, "To bring
in everlasting righteousness."
00:26:31.23\00:26:34.69
Notice the last
part of that verse.
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It says, "...much
more, having been reconciled,
00:26:38.09\00:26:42.84
we shall be
saved by His..." What?
00:26:42.87\00:26:46.17
His life?
00:26:46.95\00:26:48.26
Wait a minute.
00:26:49.13\00:26:50.16
We're reconciled by
His death, by His blood.
00:26:50.19\00:26:54.74
We're saved by His life.
00:26:54.77\00:26:56.80
Oh, have you heard of
righteousness by faith?
00:26:56.83\00:26:59.28
The apostle Paul is
always talking about how we're
00:27:00.07\00:27:02.02
saved by His righteousness.
00:27:02.05\00:27:03.76
That's why Jesus had
to live the perfect life,
00:27:04.42\00:27:07.59
before He died
the perfect death.
00:27:07.62\00:27:09.97
So not only does He wash
away our sins, His perfect life
00:27:10.62\00:27:15.15
stands instead
of our sinful life.
00:27:15.18\00:27:20.23
That's how we're
perfect before God;
00:27:21.59\00:27:23.75
by Jesus' death
and by Jesus' life.
00:27:23.78\00:27:27.03
So here, "to bring in
everlasting righteousness;"
00:27:28.38\00:27:31.60
there has never
been and never will be
00:27:31.63\00:27:34.81
any Jew, anyone of Daniel's
people, of Daniel's city,
00:27:34.84\00:27:39.81
that lived the perfect
life except the Messiah.
00:27:39.84\00:27:43.11
And this prophesied the Messiah.
00:27:44.50\00:27:46.38
Then number five, "And to seal
up the vision and prophecy."
00:27:48.05\00:27:52.01
"To seal up..."
00:27:52.04\00:27:53.18
That's to ratify, make sure.
00:27:53.38\00:27:56.75
To ratify. Oh, wait a minute.
00:27:58.13\00:28:00.44
All the Messianic prophecies
throughout the Old Testament,
00:28:00.47\00:28:04.54
and especially this one,
are all going to be confirmed
00:28:04.57\00:28:09.14
and ratified in the life
and ministry of the Messiah.
00:28:09.17\00:28:13.31
Number six, "And to
anoint the Most Holy."
00:28:15.39\00:28:19.27
Now I have the New Kings
James here, and that's why
00:28:20.42\00:28:22.81
"Most Holy," both
words are capitalized.
00:28:22.84\00:28:27.95
In the New King
James, the pronouns and
00:28:28.40\00:28:30.93
any other titles or
names that refer to the Father,
00:28:30.96\00:28:34.34
to Jesus, or the Holy
Spirit are capitalized.
00:28:34.64\00:28:37.36
When the translators look and
they see that direct lineage.
00:28:37.46\00:28:42.55
And I'm going to
refer back to that later.
00:28:42.58\00:28:44.62
But showing the "Most
Holy" refers to the Messiah.
00:28:44.82\00:28:48.14
Now I know there are
some scholars that say,
00:28:48.17\00:28:50.64
"Well, that was
anointing the Most Holy Place
00:28:50.67\00:28:54.03
in the sanctuary, the temple."
00:28:54.06\00:28:57.72
But wait a minute.
00:28:57.82\00:28:58.85
That whole temple was a symbol,
and especially the Most Holy,
00:28:58.99\00:29:03.61
was a symbol of God and
God's presence among His people.
00:29:03.71\00:29:07.12
Wasn't it?
00:29:07.15\00:29:08.18
And why was Jesus...
00:29:08.35\00:29:09.95
One of His names
is called, Emmanuel.
00:29:09.98\00:29:12.90
Which means what?
00:29:12.93\00:29:13.97
God with us.
00:29:14.18\00:29:16.96
And so what we
have is, He was here.
00:29:16.99\00:29:21.87
And He was in the temple.
00:29:21.90\00:29:24.42
He said, "Destroy this temple,
in three days I'll rise again."
00:29:24.71\00:29:29.82
He was that Most Holy.
00:29:30.00\00:29:32.26
Do you see, everyone of
these verbs and of these phrases
00:29:33.03\00:29:40.26
all point to the Messiah.
00:29:41.39\00:29:43.49
And only the
Messiah could fulfill them.
00:29:43.97\00:29:46.94
No one else could.
00:29:47.49\00:29:48.84
This is God's
answer to Daniel's prayer.
00:29:48.87\00:29:52.07
And if you look at the texts
on the screen there, Luke 3:21,
00:29:53.76\00:29:58.50
etcetera, those are pointing
about the anointing of Jesus.
00:29:58.53\00:30:02.36
Now let's go to
verse 27, the antecedent.
00:30:04.21\00:30:07.15
Now just in case some of you
read the last part of verse 26
00:30:07.18\00:30:10.65
and the last part of verse
27; seem to be talking about
00:30:10.93\00:30:16.32
not the Messiah but the enemy.
00:30:16.92\00:30:19.83
This is a typical Jewish thing.
00:30:20.23\00:30:22.32
And I'm glad the
scholars said that.
00:30:22.35\00:30:25.75
I've said it for a long
time, but now I'm glad to have
00:30:25.78\00:30:28.18
some scholars
backing me up on it.
00:30:28.21\00:30:29.98
The Jewish way is, they
talk about this and then
00:30:30.66\00:30:33.44
they show the contrast.
00:30:33.47\00:30:34.52
And then they come back to this.
00:30:34.55\00:30:35.71
That's just the
Jewish way of doing it.
00:30:35.74\00:30:37.45
And that's why it
was done that way.
00:30:37.48\00:30:38.98
And I won't say
any more about that.
00:30:39.52\00:30:40.89
Let's go to the first
part of verse 27 of Daniel 9.
00:30:40.92\00:30:45.77
Now let's stop
right here just a minute.
00:30:59.36\00:31:00.94
He's going to confirm
the covenant with many.
00:31:01.54\00:31:04.27
Now wait a
minute, who is the "many?"
00:31:04.92\00:31:06.55
That goes back to verse 24.
00:31:07.02\00:31:08.83
Daniel and his
people and his city, right?
00:31:09.43\00:31:12.47
He's going to confirm that He's
going to fulfill what He said
00:31:12.57\00:31:18.24
He would do, but He's
going to do it in the Messiah.
00:31:18.27\00:31:21.77
Because, now as
the antecedent to those
00:31:21.80\00:31:24.81
six prepositional phrases,
"In the middle of the week
00:31:24.84\00:31:29.05
He shall bring the end
of sacrifice and offering."
00:31:29.08\00:31:32.73
What does that mean?
00:31:33.97\00:31:35.13
Now Alex, this morning I
saw that you didn't sacrifice
00:31:36.30\00:31:39.21
a lamb at the worship service.
00:31:39.24\00:31:41.57
Why didn't you do that?
00:31:42.07\00:31:43.38
Oh, you couldn't catch him.
00:31:44.73\00:31:46.16
I think there's a
better reason than that.
00:31:46.52\00:31:48.66
As John the Baptist
said, "Behold, the Lamb that
00:31:51.50\00:31:55.49
takes away the
sin of the world."
00:31:55.52\00:31:57.58
Twenty-seven times in
the book of Revelation,
00:31:58.92\00:32:02.44
Jesus is
referred to as the Lamb.
00:32:02.47\00:32:05.76
He is the sacrifice.
00:32:07.10\00:32:09.32
Daniel was praying for his
sins and the sins of his people.
00:32:11.18\00:32:15.57
And the only way those
sins could be washed away
00:32:15.60\00:32:19.29
is the Lamb of God, the Messiah.
00:32:19.32\00:32:21.60
The Priest died on
the cross of Calvary.
00:32:22.14\00:32:25.36
This is the antecedent to
those six prepositional phrases.
00:32:27.37\00:32:31.84
He did it in the
midst of that week.
00:32:32.38\00:32:35.04
Remember, 69 weeks took us
down to the time of the baptism.
00:32:35.07\00:32:40.34
It left one more week.
00:32:41.24\00:32:43.14
And in the midst of
that week, He causes
00:32:43.34\00:32:47.52
the sacrifice to cease.
00:32:47.55\00:32:50.27
We don't sacrifice lambs
now because the Lamb of God,
00:32:50.30\00:32:53.71
Jesus Christ, has died
on the cross of Calvary
00:32:53.74\00:32:56.74
for the sins of all the
people, for reconciliation
00:32:56.77\00:33:00.72
for not only Israel,
but also for the Gentiles.
00:33:00.75\00:33:04.65
Now when we look at
this, there are some people...
00:33:07.00\00:33:11.44
When I started ministry, there
was almost no one doing this.
00:33:12.38\00:33:15.39
There were no ministers,
no really denominations,
00:33:15.42\00:33:19.59
talking about this at all.
00:33:19.86\00:33:22.07
But now with the idea, and Alex
referred to it this morning,
00:33:22.17\00:33:26.04
the idea of a
pre-tribulation rapture,
00:33:26.07\00:33:30.26
or catching away at some point.
00:33:30.29\00:33:32.40
And they try to throw this...
00:33:32.60\00:33:34.74
And this is the verse
they use for seven years
00:33:35.28\00:33:37.73
of tribulation, or whatever.
00:33:37.76\00:33:39.17
And they throw it clear
over to the end of time.
00:33:39.20\00:33:41.59
But wait a minute.
00:33:43.79\00:33:44.93
If that is
correct, there is no Messiah
00:33:45.19\00:33:48.90
and there never can be.
00:33:48.93\00:33:50.45
Think about it.
00:33:51.62\00:33:52.78
He had to fulfill.
00:33:52.81\00:33:54.44
This is the antecedent
to all six of the ones
00:33:54.47\00:33:58.32
listed in verse 24.
00:33:58.35\00:34:00.19
And if this doesn't apply
there, what Jesus came and did
00:34:00.72\00:34:05.11
on earth is all a waste.
00:34:05.14\00:34:07.44
It shows this.
00:34:10.42\00:34:11.98
And where else in the Bible
do we have a continuous prophecy
00:34:12.01\00:34:16.55
that you break off one part
and you throw it way over there?
00:34:16.58\00:34:19.93
That doesn't make sense
just to a common person,
00:34:20.97\00:34:24.02
let alone a scholar
looking at prophecy.
00:34:24.05\00:34:28.02
But it's like so
many other things.
00:34:28.75\00:34:30.68
There are so many
teachings today where people,
00:34:30.71\00:34:33.74
they already believe something.
00:34:34.06\00:34:35.51
They look at the Bible
to see if they can prove
00:34:35.54\00:34:38.04
what they already believe.
00:34:38.07\00:34:39.33
They're not
interested in knowing truth.
00:34:39.36\00:34:41.24
They're trying to
prove their point.
00:34:41.27\00:34:43.56
And that is what has happened.
00:34:44.15\00:34:45.97
People today, you know...
00:34:46.00\00:34:48.25
Many of the Jews, because
they were looking for a King,
00:34:48.35\00:34:51.50
when a Savior came
they didn't accept Him.
00:34:51.53\00:34:55.26
Many did, as we pointed out.
00:34:55.57\00:34:57.38
But the majority did not.
00:34:57.41\00:35:00.48
And Revelation points
out, the same thing is
00:35:01.20\00:35:04.04
going to be at the end of time.
00:35:04.07\00:35:05.10
They're looking for a Savior,
a rapture, and not for a King
00:35:05.13\00:35:10.55
that's going to
settle all the scores.
00:35:11.09\00:35:13.02
And so what we have,
the devil deceives the Jews.
00:35:14.27\00:35:17.99
And the Christians, the
majority of professed Christians
00:35:18.02\00:35:23.46
the same as the
majority of the Jews,
00:35:23.49\00:35:26.01
that they don't accept
Him as Savior or as King.
00:35:26.21\00:35:30.18
But this Daniel 9
prophecy said He's going to come
00:35:30.98\00:35:34.33
as a Prince or a King, and He
was the Messiah that is cut off
00:35:34.36\00:35:39.46
but not for Himself; our Savior.
00:35:39.49\00:35:41.37
We need to accept Him as both,
and the sequence that was given.
00:35:42.60\00:35:47.14
And by the way, Aaron was
anointed before the first king,
00:35:47.17\00:35:51.70
in the Old Testament.
00:35:51.73\00:35:53.74
That's should have
given a little light.
00:35:53.77\00:35:55.33
The fact that;
wait a minute, hey.
00:35:55.36\00:35:58.69
The Savior comes
and then the King comes.
00:35:58.72\00:36:01.35
And they got it backwards.
00:36:01.68\00:36:04.12
And today, many Christians are
getting it backwards as well.
00:36:04.15\00:36:08.01
So what we look at
here, from 457 to AD 27,
00:36:08.27\00:36:12.38
Jesus died on
the cross in AD 31.
00:36:12.59\00:36:15.65
But what happened
three and a half years later?
00:36:16.19\00:36:19.31
You see, that only takes us
half way through this last week.
00:36:19.34\00:36:22.59
Well, "the gospel
goes to the Gentiles"
00:36:24.11\00:36:26.50
was mentioned in this series.
00:36:26.53\00:36:28.27
In AD 34 and we look at
the stoning of Stephen...
00:36:28.30\00:36:31.01
And we're going to
look at that a little more
00:36:31.04\00:36:32.87
closely in a moment.
00:36:32.90\00:36:34.09
But they say the
gospel goes to the Gentiles.
00:36:34.91\00:36:36.95
And that's right.
00:36:36.98\00:36:38.07
And so what happened?
00:36:39.57\00:36:41.54
In those three and a
half years, the words of Jesus
00:36:41.57\00:36:45.55
in Acts 1:8 are fulfilled.
00:36:45.83\00:36:48.25
He said, "You'll
be My witnesses..."
00:36:48.28\00:36:49.86
Do you remember where it starts?
00:36:50.07\00:36:51.49
Jerusalem.
00:36:51.79\00:36:52.82
Then He says Judea.
00:36:53.01\00:36:55.03
Then He says Samaria.
00:36:55.36\00:36:57.37
And then where?
00:36:57.40\00:36:58.43
The uttermost
parts of the world.
00:36:58.46\00:37:00.38
You see, it starts
in Jerusalem and Judea.
00:37:01.35\00:37:04.64
And for three and a
half years, the gospel went
00:37:04.67\00:37:07.48
just to the Jews.
00:37:07.88\00:37:08.92
So all of the early
church, 100%, were Jews.
00:37:08.95\00:37:13.52
And then as we go on,
let's look at Acts 7; Stephen.
00:37:15.19\00:37:21.46
By the way,
there was a transition.
00:37:21.49\00:37:23.28
In the four gospels, the word,
"disciples," refer basically
00:37:23.48\00:37:27.87
to the twelve, and a
little later to the seventy.
00:37:27.90\00:37:30.13
The same in the first
five chapters of Acts.
00:37:30.46\00:37:34.83
That's basically
the way it was used.
00:37:34.86\00:37:36.75
But in Acts 6, the
word, "disciple," changes.
00:37:36.78\00:37:39.81
And it's for all the
church, all the believers.
00:37:39.84\00:37:43.15
And those who had
been called disciples
00:37:43.18\00:37:45.68
are now called apostles.
00:37:45.71\00:37:46.90
The rest of the book of Acts,
every time it says, "disciples,"
00:37:46.93\00:37:50.34
refer to the whole church.
00:37:50.44\00:37:51.87
And when it says, apostles...
00:37:51.90\00:37:54.81
That's why Paul was an
apostle, Apollos was an apostle.
00:37:54.84\00:37:57.97
They were leaders.
00:37:58.00\00:37:59.40
Apostles are leaders.
00:38:00.01\00:38:01.18
And the whole
church were disciples.
00:38:01.21\00:38:05.94
And that goes along
with what Peter talks about,
00:38:05.97\00:38:08.15
the priesthood of all believers.
00:38:08.51\00:38:10.42
You see, the priests were to
share the symbols of the gospel.
00:38:10.45\00:38:13.77
They were to show how Jesus came
to save them from their sin.
00:38:13.80\00:38:19.44
We are all commissioned
to share the gospel.
00:38:19.47\00:38:22.79
So we are priests,
the priesthood of God,
00:38:22.82\00:38:26.07
under the High Priest, that
we'll look at in just a moment.
00:38:26.27\00:38:29.31
But in Acts chapter 7
verse 55, Stephen, a deacon,
00:38:29.89\00:38:33.78
was called on the red
carpet of the Sanhedrin.
00:38:34.08\00:38:36.93
It was a super Sanhedrin.
00:38:37.39\00:38:39.03
Seventy people,
men, and the Sanhedrin.
00:38:39.06\00:38:42.98
And there were about 50 priests.
00:38:43.01\00:38:44.80
So there were about 120 there.
00:38:44.83\00:38:47.19
All the hierarchy of Israel,
as a nation and as a religion.
00:38:47.22\00:38:54.35
And he tells them the
liturgy of what had happened.
00:38:55.41\00:38:58.99
And they didn't like
it, because he pointed out
00:38:59.77\00:39:02.09
the things that they had
done wrong, and the history,
00:39:02.88\00:39:05.83
and how they had...
00:39:05.86\00:39:07.30
But they kept their mouths
shut and sat in their seat
00:39:07.49\00:39:11.38
until starting verse 55.
00:39:11.41\00:39:14.70
This is Acts 7:55.
00:39:15.52\00:39:19.58
What was it? They
saw him standing...
00:39:54.79\00:39:57.46
He says, "I see Jesus standing
at the right hand of God."
00:39:57.76\00:40:01.01
What did that mean?
00:40:01.68\00:40:02.91
Well, very simply.
00:40:03.85\00:40:05.52
That meant that Caiaphas
was no longer the leader.
00:40:07.64\00:40:11.83
And neither was the Sanhedrin.
00:40:12.50\00:40:15.91
We're going to get to
that in just a moment.
00:40:15.94\00:40:17.61
But let's look at Acts 9:4-5
when Paul, as Saul he was then,
00:40:18.26\00:40:27.01
the light came
down and struck him.
00:40:27.04\00:40:28.95
He said, "Who is it, Lord?"
00:40:28.98\00:40:31.15
And He said, "I am
Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
00:40:31.18\00:40:35.22
It is hard for you to
kick against the goads."
00:40:35.56\00:40:38.62
Or the pricks, or the thorns.
00:40:38.66\00:40:40.47
Well what was He talking about?
00:40:40.64\00:40:41.86
Saul heard Stephen, saw
his face as an angel's face.
00:40:42.20\00:40:47.52
He was convicted and he
was pricked in his heart.
00:40:47.55\00:40:50.63
Oh, wait a minute.
00:40:51.33\00:40:52.36
And so the stoning of
Stephen started the process
00:40:52.39\00:40:56.33
of converting Saul to Paul, who
was the apostle to the Gentiles.
00:40:56.36\00:41:05.11
This is what started
the process of the gospel
00:41:05.74\00:41:09.45
going to the Gentiles
from a leadership position.
00:41:09.48\00:41:13.31
Then let's go on.
00:41:16.72\00:41:18.02
In Romans 11:13, he said he
was the apostle to the Gentiles.
00:41:27.76\00:41:34.08
Change of leadership.
00:41:36.66\00:41:38.05
A change of leadership.
00:41:54.34\00:41:56.25
By the way, this fits in
the whole pattern of Daniel.
00:41:56.54\00:41:59.80
Daniel chapter 2, God changes
the governmental leadership.
00:42:00.02\00:42:04.85
You know, Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome,
00:42:04.88\00:42:08.36
the divided condition.
00:42:08.39\00:42:09.85
Daniel 7, He uses beasts.
00:42:09.88\00:42:12.28
And it even involves religions.
00:42:12.31\00:42:15.13
Daniel 8, the same thing.
00:42:15.16\00:42:17.09
God sets up and takes
down nations and religions.
00:42:17.12\00:42:22.79
And so we find that in Daniel
9, it is perfect harmony for
00:42:23.52\00:42:28.43
the high priest
and the Sanhedrin
00:42:28.46\00:42:31.05
to be changed by God
to Messiah the Prince
00:42:31.08\00:42:35.90
and Messiah the Priest.
00:42:35.93\00:42:39.39
You see, that fits in with
and answers Daniel's prayer.
00:42:40.21\00:42:43.70
He wanted God's people to
be back in harmony with Him.
00:42:43.73\00:42:48.46
The Messiah brings it all about.
00:42:48.56\00:42:50.81
And let's see, even as He
talked to Pilate, before Pilate,
00:42:53.50\00:42:57.41
Pilate asked Him,
"Are You King, then?"
00:42:57.61\00:43:00.89
And notice Jesus' words.
00:43:01.15\00:43:03.12
"Everyone that is in
the truth hears My voice."
00:43:15.88\00:43:21.96
Now let's go on and
notice what He says before
00:43:22.31\00:43:25.37
Caiaphas the
priest, the high priest.
00:43:28.62\00:43:31.56
Oh, when He said,
"The right hand of power,"
00:43:49.73\00:43:52.92
you see, the Sanhedrin realized
it, and the high priest.
00:43:53.13\00:43:57.34
That's when he
said, "He has blasphemed.
00:43:57.37\00:43:59.30
He's claiming to be God."
00:43:59.33\00:44:00.78
And that's when they
took Him off to Pilate.
00:44:00.81\00:44:03.53
He said he's going to see
Him, the next time he saw Him,
00:44:04.68\00:44:06.84
he's going to see Him
come in the clouds of heaven.
00:44:06.87\00:44:09.33
So the right hand of the
throne, the right hand of God,
00:44:09.51\00:44:12.79
or power,
etcetera, referring to Jesus,
00:44:12.82\00:44:17.29
five times in
the book of Hebrews
00:44:17.49\00:44:19.48
and 25 times in the Bible;
all referring to the Messiah.
00:44:19.51\00:44:24.06
Now as we go on, Hebrews 12:2...
00:44:26.40\00:44:31.25
There we find it in Hebrews.
00:44:44.75\00:44:46.32
Notice in Revelation 3:21.
00:44:46.52\00:44:48.76
And then in Revelation 19:14-16.
00:45:00.01\00:45:03.90
And some say, "Why is
the wrath of God here?"
00:45:37.29\00:45:40.49
Because those who have the
mark of the beast were going to
00:45:40.52\00:45:43.17
kill His people.
00:45:43.20\00:45:44.51
He is protecting His people.
00:45:44.54\00:45:46.42
He is bringing an end
to this great rebellion
00:45:46.45\00:45:49.42
and this great controversy.
00:45:49.45\00:45:51.14
And this, He comes back as
King to rule with a rod of iron,
00:45:51.17\00:45:55.36
that was prophesied, to
take care and settle this
00:45:55.39\00:45:58.71
situation once and for all.
00:45:58.74\00:46:01.65
Hebrews chapter 9 verse 11.
00:46:02.27\00:46:05.82
And then in verse 24...
00:46:18.60\00:46:20.36
Jesus is referred to in the
book of Hebrews sixteen times
00:46:32.89\00:46:37.79
as the High Priest.
00:46:37.82\00:46:39.90
If we go on in Hebrews
chapter 6 verses 19 and 20...
00:46:42.08\00:46:45.69
That's the Most Holy Place.
00:46:50.11\00:46:51.77
Now we find that Melchizedek
is mentioned nine times
00:47:04.38\00:47:08.18
in the book of Hebrews,
eleven times in the Bible.
00:47:08.21\00:47:11.02
And one of those
in Psalm 110 verse 4.
00:47:11.79\00:47:15.58
And I wish I had more
time to go into all of that.
00:47:21.83\00:47:24.55
But let's go on,
Hebrews 7 verses 11 through 17.
00:47:24.58\00:47:28.26
Notice, the
priesthood being changed.
00:47:51.27\00:47:53.31
You want eternal life?
00:48:30.89\00:48:32.24
That comes only through
the Messiah, the Priest.
00:48:32.27\00:48:36.20
The High Priest
that brings endless life.
00:48:36.23\00:48:39.61
Now let's notice, there
are three things that brought
00:48:46.90\00:48:49.21
separation between
Jews and Christians.
00:48:49.24\00:48:54.43
And especially between
the Jewish believers and the
00:48:55.11\00:48:58.79
Christians in the second
through the fifth century.
00:48:58.82\00:49:01.51
Because of the persecution,
because the Christians
00:49:12.85\00:49:16.75
were looked at as a sect
of Judaism, and for the first
00:49:17.61\00:49:22.09
century basically,
the Jews outnumbered the
00:49:22.12\00:49:26.80
Gentiles in the church.
00:49:26.83\00:49:28.17
While Gentiles came in,
there were still more Jews.
00:49:28.20\00:49:30.67
But that transition
about the turn of that century,
00:49:30.70\00:49:33.94
a little before, a little
after, changed so that there
00:49:33.97\00:49:36.94
were more Gentiles
than now Jews in the church.
00:49:36.97\00:49:40.23
And Rome had
persecuted the Jews.
00:49:41.38\00:49:46.64
And the Jews were
causing trouble and bringing up
00:49:46.67\00:49:50.17
rebellion, and many of
them wanted to bring separation.
00:49:50.20\00:49:53.88
Well I won't go through
all the history of all of that.
00:49:53.91\00:49:56.86
But suffice it to say that the
church wanted to make a change,
00:49:56.89\00:50:02.21
and many of the leadership did.
00:50:02.31\00:50:04.32
And so what happened is, in
order to change the Sabbath,
00:50:04.35\00:50:09.84
they needed two
things to help it to happen.
00:50:09.87\00:50:12.28
Number one,
replacement theology.
00:50:12.31\00:50:14.83
The church replaces the Jews.
00:50:14.86\00:50:17.16
Now they're in
charge and they can change.
00:50:17.19\00:50:19.25
Secondly, the
clergy is over the laity.
00:50:19.28\00:50:22.43
It's no longer the
discipleship of all believers.
00:50:22.46\00:50:24.92
The clergy is here and
the people had to listen
00:50:24.95\00:50:27.37
to what the clergy said.
00:50:27.40\00:50:28.56
And with those two
things helping to enable
00:50:28.59\00:50:33.22
the change of the
Sabbath to happen.
00:50:33.42\00:50:35.48
And that's how it came about.
00:50:36.85\00:50:39.23
But not only was it
the change of the Sabbath,
00:50:39.26\00:50:41.89
they threw out any of
the things that dealt with
00:50:41.92\00:50:44.75
the feast days.
00:50:45.40\00:50:46.43
They threw out everything
mostly of the Old Testament.
00:50:46.46\00:50:49.42
They brought in pagan things
like Christmas and Easter,
00:50:49.45\00:50:55.00
the pagan ceremonies.
00:50:55.03\00:50:56.27
And they made them,
you know, of the birth
00:50:56.30\00:50:59.86
and the resurrection.
00:50:59.89\00:51:01.11
Two wonderful things in the
Bible, but they brought those
00:51:01.14\00:51:04.38
things in, and all of
this turned away the Jews.
00:51:04.41\00:51:07.94
They didn't want
anything to do with that,
00:51:08.44\00:51:10.32
the Jews that believed.
00:51:11.21\00:51:12.24
And pretty soon, as they
died off through the Dark Ages,
00:51:12.27\00:51:16.14
things continued to go on.
00:51:16.17\00:51:18.40
But now let's come on
into the New Testament.
00:51:18.43\00:51:20.46
We have just a short time
and a long ways to go here.
00:51:20.49\00:51:23.00
Notice that.
00:52:00.17\00:52:01.43
Here, it's talking
about his own countrymen
00:52:01.67\00:52:05.57
and how all these
things, all these blessings...
00:52:05.60\00:52:07.92
That's been
pointed out this weekend
00:52:07.95\00:52:09.85
during this series.
00:52:10.99\00:52:12.26
But going on in Romans
9 verses 2 through 8...
00:52:12.36\00:52:15.81
You see, what happened in AD 34,
the gospel goes to the Gentiles.
00:52:49.68\00:52:54.41
They added to the Jews.
00:52:54.44\00:52:56.69
In other words, the
Jews that already believed.
00:52:56.72\00:52:58.39
Now the Gentiles that
believed were all added to them.
00:52:58.42\00:53:01.16
And we'll look at that a
little bit more in a moment.
00:53:01.55\00:53:04.33
But I want you to
notice it says here...
00:53:04.57\00:53:07.35
Notice the word
"remnant" here in verse 27.
00:53:17.45\00:53:20.78
Notice, at the end of
time when the work is finished,
00:53:30.45\00:53:34.99
he said a remnant
of them will be there.
00:53:35.02\00:53:37.73
Now also in Romans
10 verses 1 through 4...
00:53:38.39\00:53:43.02
And I see my time.
00:53:44.67\00:53:45.89
You're going to need to
read those verses on your own.
00:53:45.92\00:53:50.33
He's talking about they
were trying to establish
00:53:50.36\00:53:52.49
their own righteousness instead
of the righteousness of God.
00:53:52.52\00:53:55.41
But in chapter 11, and we
want to look at especially
00:53:55.76\00:53:59.16
these first four verses...
00:53:59.19\00:54:00.56
A lot of people say
they're gone, they're cast away.
00:54:04.41\00:54:06.75
Notice the next two
words. What are they?
00:54:06.95\00:54:09.27
Notice he says, "Certainly not.
00:54:22.96\00:54:24.82
They haven't been cast away."
00:54:24.85\00:54:26.45
And God has not
cast away His people.
00:54:26.48\00:54:31.26
When we say He has, then
we're calling God a liar,
00:54:31.29\00:54:35.24
whether we mean to or not.
00:54:35.27\00:54:36.92
And then going
on, he's using Elijah.
00:54:37.59\00:54:41.08
And Elijah says to the
Lord, "I'm the only one left.
00:54:41.28\00:54:45.22
They're killing the prophets."
00:54:45.25\00:54:46.28
And notice what he
goes on and says...
00:54:46.31\00:54:48.42
Notice these next two lines.
00:54:54.91\00:54:56.90
This is now probably
close to between 20 and 30 years
00:55:05.40\00:55:12.20
after the gospel goes to
the Gentiles after AD 34.
00:55:12.23\00:55:16.11
And he says there is now
a remnant of Israel here.
00:55:16.14\00:55:20.78
Now as we go on, and
since Pastor Alex did so well
00:55:21.41\00:55:25.93
with the first part
of Romans 11 here, 15 on,
00:55:25.96\00:55:30.21
in his sermon this morning,
I won't go to all of that.
00:55:30.24\00:55:33.60
But just mention
this, here is the tree.
00:55:33.63\00:55:37.19
Branches were cut
off of the olive tree.
00:55:37.77\00:55:40.26
Wild branches were grafted in.
00:55:40.29\00:55:42.53
And wait a minute.
00:55:44.14\00:55:45.17
The wild branches
were grafted back in.
00:55:46.11\00:55:49.24
Just before, just
before the end here...
00:55:51.14\00:55:56.16
And...
00:55:56.36\00:55:57.86
I'm not going to have
a chance to read here in
00:56:00.54\00:56:03.06
Acts of the
Apostles, 380 and 381.
00:56:03.09\00:56:05.68
I'm going to ask you to go
home and read it for yourself.
00:56:05.71\00:56:08.97
We've got to wrap this up.
00:56:09.00\00:56:10.76
But it's the only...
00:56:12.00\00:56:13.70
It tells, at the end
that the Jews, a special work
00:56:13.73\00:56:17.65
should be made for them.
00:56:17.68\00:56:19.31
In fact, there's one that you
won't have very easy access to.
00:56:19.34\00:56:23.31
In a moment, we'll read it.
00:56:23.34\00:56:26.29
In Romans 11
verses 25 through 27,
00:56:26.32\00:56:29.53
he didn't want them
to be ignorant about the
00:56:30.23\00:56:34.71
blindness of the Jews that
help to bring in the fullness
00:56:34.74\00:56:41.64
of the Gentiles has come in.
00:56:41.67\00:56:43.62
And then it goes on and says,
"So all Israel will be saved."
00:56:43.65\00:56:47.63
All of the
believers, Gentiles believers,
00:56:47.98\00:56:51.46
all of the Jewish believer;
they're all on the same tree.
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You know, all the
branches are put in together.
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This Manuscript,
66, May 25, 1905,
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"The time has come
when the Jewish people
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are to be given light."
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And, "The Lord wants us
to encourage and sustain men
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who will labor in
right lines for this people."
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I have some more.
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In the walls, over the
gates; the names will be there.
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It will be the believing
Jews and believing Gentiles
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that are going to finish
the work in all the world.
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Then Jesus comes.
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