As-Salaam-Alaikum to our
Muslim brothers and sisters,
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shalom to our Hebrew cousins,
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and peace be upon you
to our Christian friends.
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Welcome to "The
Descendants of Abraham."
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We pray that you
will be blessed with us
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for the rest of this program.
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And we're gonna try to answer
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a question in
the next few weeks,
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that many of our Muslim
brothers and sisters have
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and that question is, can
the Holy Bible be trusted?
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And we pray that as we
go through this journey
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that you will see, it is
a book that can be trusted.
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Many of our Muslim
brothers and sisters
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as you read the
Quran you will see
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that it talks about
the people of the book.
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And that is another
subject that we will touch on.
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Who are the people of the
book, and what is the book,
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that-that they're asking about?
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Let's first go to the
Bible to 2 Peter 1:21,
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let's read that together.
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"Prophecy never
came by the will of man,
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but holy men of God spoke
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as they were moved
by the Holy Spirit."
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And let's read
another verse here
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in 1 Timothy 3:16
and that verse says,
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"All Scripture is
given by inspiration of God,
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and is profitable for doctrine,
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for reproof, for correction,
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for instruction
in righteousness."
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The Holy Bible does
not contradict itself.
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Let's take a look at some
of facts regarding the Bible.
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There are 66 books in the Bible
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and these 66 books were written
on 3 different continents.
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The Holy Bible was written
in 3 different languages.
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It was written by 40 people
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who were from
every walk of life.
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It was written over
approximately 1500 years.
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Most of these people
have never met each other
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and yet the 6 books in
harmony with each other.
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The Bible does
not contradict itself
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as many people claim
it does, it does not.
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The book is indeed
the Holy Word of God.
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It would be impossible
to have this kind of harmony
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among 40 different authors.
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God's Holy Spirit
moved on these men
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and in their own words,
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the instructions
that God gave them,
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the word that He showed them,
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they wrote down in
their human language.
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God will never trust
His word to just one person.
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Let's go to Proverbs
11:14 and it says this,
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"Where there is no
counsel, the people fall,
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but in the multitude of
counselors there is safety."
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And again to the scripture
of 2 Peter 1:19 and 20,
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"And so we have the
prophetic word confirmed
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which you do well to heed
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as the light that
shines in a dark place,
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knowing this first that
no prophecy of scripture
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is of any
private interpretation."
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Brothers and sisters,
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the Holy Bible
contains prophecies
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given to us by our Father God.
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The discovery of
the Dead Sea scrolls
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and I believe
that was providential,
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confirms that these prophecies
were given hundreds of years
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prior to the
birth of Jesus Christ.
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Over the next few weeks,
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we will take a look
at some of those amazing
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and accurate prophecies.
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You see brothers and sisters,
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God does not
leave us in darkness.
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He will never
leave us in darkness.
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He guides us and He
has given us His book,
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the instructions that
we need to follow Him.
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The Holy Book is logical,
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it appeals to the
intellect and to the conscience.
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The Holy Scriptures were given
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to our Hebrew
brothers and sisters first,
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and they were supposed
to spread God's message,
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the gospel message to
the rest of the world,
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to all the nations
about a coming Redeemer.
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This Redeemer is the same one
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that the Hebrews
followed in the desert
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in the pillar of cloud by day
and the pillar of fire by night.
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That same pillar of cloud
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and pillar of
fire is with us today
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in the form of
these Holy Scriptures.
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Today we will
look at the prophecy
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regarding the Messiah that
was given to the Prophet Daniel.
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This prophecy is recorded
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in the 9th Chapter
of the Book of Daniel.
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We are going to
look at Daniel 9:24-27
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and we're going to
break that down a little bit.
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But before we move
on, we must recognize
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that in Bible prophecy
one day equals one year.
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So we will look at
what the Bible teaches us
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in the Book of Numbers 14:34
and the Book of Ezekiel 4:6.
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Let's look first
at Numbers 14:34,
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"According to the
numbers of the days
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in which you spied
out the land, forty days,
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for each day you shall
bear your guilt one year,
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namely forty years,
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and you shall
know My rejection."
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And now in Ezekiel,
the Book of Ezekiel 4:6,
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"And when you
have completed them,
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lie again on your right
side, then you shall bear
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the iniquity of the
house of Judah forty days.
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I have laid on you
a day for each year."
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So following God's one day
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equals one year
prophetic principle.
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We will take a
look at the prophecy
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as it is recorded
in the Book of Daniel.
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Now let's look at
Daniel 9:24, it says, here,
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"70 week are
determined for your people
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and for your holy city,
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to finish the transgression
to make an end of sins,
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to make
reconciliation for iniquity,
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to bring in
everlasting righteousness,
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to seal up vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the Most Holy."
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This part of the prophecy
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is a synopsis of
the whole prophecy.
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It tells us that
there's a certain time period
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for the
prophecy to be fulfilled.
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It tells us what will happen
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and why these
things must take place.
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And as we will see the events
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and the timing of
these events are very precise
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and just as the
Prophet Daniel recorded.
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Let's us now read the rest
of the breakdown of the prophecy
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as outlined in Daniel 9:25-27
and we'll read all of these,
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little at the
time, breaking it down.
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Let's go to Daniel 9:25 first,
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"Know therefore and understand,
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that from the going
forth of the command
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to restore and build Jerusalem,
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until Messiah the Prince,
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there shall be seven
weeks and sixty-two weeks,
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the street shall be built again,
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and the wall, even
in troublesome times."
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And now Daniel 9:26, "And
after the sixty-two weeks,
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Messiah shall be cut
off, but not for Himself."
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And now Daniel 9:27,
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"Then he shall
confirm a covenant
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with many for one week,
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but in the middle of the week
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He shall bring an end
to sacrifice and offering."
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So we see here
that there are 70 weeks
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which equals 490 days,
which equals 490 years.
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Because going by the year,
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day year principle,
prophetic principle.
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Now we need to know
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when the 490 years
of the prophecy beings.
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Verse 25 gives us the answers.
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It says that from the time
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that the command to
restore and rebuild Jerusalem
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is given until
the Messiah appears
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shall be 69 weeks or 483 days
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which equals 483 years.
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That command was
given by King Artaxerxes,
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the Persian King in 457 B.C.
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You can read the
decree for yourself
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in the Book of Ezra 7:12-26,
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Ezra 7:12-26.
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And if we had time
we'll read that right now
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but you can, you can read that
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and you will see
the king's decree
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to rebuild
Jerusalem started in 457 B.C.
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So 457 B.C. is
our starting point
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for the rest of this prophecy.
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So did the Messiah appear
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at the end of the
69 weeks or 483 years?
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Well, let's take a
look, 483 years later,
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would take us to the
later part of 27 A.D.
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So king, Persian King Artaxerxes
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gave the command to
rebuild in 457 B.C.,
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483 years later is 27 A.D.
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And what happened
in that year in 27 A.D.
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Well, that is when
Jesus the Christ was baptized
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or anointed as
the prophecy says,
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anointing the Most Holy.
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Jesus Christ was
baptized in the Jordan River
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by John the Baptist
and also by God himself
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when the-the Holy
Spirit in the form of a dove
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came upon Him in
the River Jordan.
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So the Messiah did appear
at the end of the 69 weeks
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or 483 years exactly as
the Prophet Daniel predicted.
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The only person that
this prophecy fits is Jesus.
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There is no one else that was
around that this prophecy fits,
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no one was at that
time anointed or baptized,
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just Jesus Christ
came exactly on time.
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The word Messiah
means the anointed one.
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At his baptism Jesus Christ
was anointed by the Holy Spirit
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and as God and-and God
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as it is written in verse
24 and to anoint the Most Holy
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and God anointed Jesus Christ
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who was considered Most Holy.
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Now the last
week of the 70 weeks
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of that prophetic period,
let's take a look at that.
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Let us take a look
again at Daniel 9:27
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and see what it say.
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Daniel 9:27 says,
"Then he shall confirm
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a covenant with
many for one week,
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but in the middle of the week
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He shall bring an end
to sacrifice and offering."
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The week seven days which equals
seven years is mentioned here
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and that is the last
week of the 70 week prophecy.
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The seven year time
period begins in 27 A.D.
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and it ends in 34 A.D.
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So what does the prophecy say
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will take place in
the seven year period?
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As we have learned Jesus
began His ministry 27 A.D.
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and Jesus proclaimed the
gospel of the kingdom of God
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through the time that
He walked on this earth.
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In the Book of Mark
1:15, we read what Jesus say,
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He says, "The time is fulfilled,
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and the kingdom
of God is at hand.
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Repent and
believe in the gospel."
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He was reminding our
Jewish brothers and sisters
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that this prophecy of Daniel 9
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which was being
fulfilled exactly on schedule,
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the Messiah was now dwelling
among them as prophesied.
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Three and half
years after His baptism,
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Jesus was crucified in 31 A.D.
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So in the middle of the
week just as the prophecy says,
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he was cut off.
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And in the middle of
the week it also says,
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he shall bring an end
to sacrifice and offering.
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So here it was just
as the prophecy told us,
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he was cut off
and brought an end
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to sacrifice and offering.
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At the exact moment that
Jesus Christ died on the cross,
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we read in Matthew 27:50, 51
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in the following account,
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"And Jesus cried out
again with a loud voice,
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and yielded up His spirit.
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Then behold, the
veil of the temple
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was torn in two
from top to bottom."
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Brothers and sisters at the
exact time that Christ said,
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it is done, it is
finished and died on the cross.
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The veil in the temple was
torn in two from top to bottom.
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Now the reason it is mentioned
in scripture from top to bottom
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and so that we can know
the man did not do this,
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the veil was very heavy,
it was very thick and high.
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So man could not have
done that it had to be God,
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who tore that veil.
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And that was to show us
that it fulfilled the prophecy
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that Daniel gave
where it will bring an end
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to sacrifice and offering.
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The Lamb of God,
who is Jesus Christ
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was the final
sacrifice and offering.
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The end of sacrifices
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in the Jewish
temple came to a halt,
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no more would God accept
the sacrifices of animals.
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As a matter of fact
as we study the scripture
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we will see that the
sacrifice of the animals
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truly would not
take our sins away
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but it pointed forward to
the sacrifice of Jesus Christ,
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the Son of God,
because it is only Him
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that could remove our sins.
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It is only His
purity, His blood,
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His cleansing blood
that can remove our sins,
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not the animals.
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Those were just symbols
for the true Lamb of God.
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We now come to the
last three and half years
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of that seven year timeframe
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during the
remaining three and half years
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after Christ was crucified,
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the disciples of Christ
obeyed His instruction to them.
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In Matthew 10:5, 6 here is what
Jesus told His disciples to do
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before He
departed from the earth.
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He said, "These twelve Jesus
sent out and commanded them,
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saying, Do not go into
the way of the Gentiles,
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and do not enter a
city of the Samaritans.
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But go rather to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel."
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Jesus Christ
instructed His disciples
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to go back to the
children of Israel and remember
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they also were
Israelites, they were Hebrews,
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they were Jewish and he said,
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don't go outside,
stay in Jerusalem,
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take this gospel message even
where after I live this earth,
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after I'm crucified take this
gospel message to the people.
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When the apostles obeyed Christ
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by sharing the gospel
message with the Jewish nation,
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unfortunately
the Jewish Sanhedrin
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rejected Jesus as the Messiah.
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The people
responded by stoning Steven
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an apostle, disciple of Christ.
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And they stoned him to death
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and persecuted the
followers of Christ.
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Many of these men
were eye witnesses
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to the miracles of Jesus
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and share their
personal experiences
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with the Jewish people.
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As Steven was
being stoned to death,
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God was with him.
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In the Book of Acts 7:55, 56
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we read the following account,"
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But he, being full
of the Holy Spirit,
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gazed into heaven
and saw the glory of God,
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and Jesus standing at the
right hand of God, and said,
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"Look I see the heavens opened
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and the Son of Man standing
at the right hand of God.
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Steven, as he was
being stoned to death,
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saw Jesus Christ who had
risen at the right hand of God.
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There is no
reason for Steven to lie.
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He was an eyewitness and
he is passing this on to us
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that Jesus did
rise from the dead
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that He was resurrected
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and He is standing
at the right hand of God
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interceding for us.
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The stoning of Steven
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who was the
first martyr for Christ
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ended the 70 week
prophecy written in Daniel 9.
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The disciples then began taking
the gospel message of salvation
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to the other
nations of the world
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as they were
instructed to do by Lord Jesus.
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We read in Acts 13:46, 47,
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"Then Paul and
Barnabas grew bold and said,
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it was necessary
that the word of God
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should be spoken to you first,
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but since you reject it,
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and judge yourselves
unworthy of everlasting life,
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behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
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For so the Lord
has commanded us,
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'I have set you as a
light to the Gentiles,
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that you should be for salvation
to the ends of the earth."'
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Brother and sisters as we saw
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the final seven years
of the prophecy of Daniel 9
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was allocated to our
Jewish brothers and sisters
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as a chosen nation to hear
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and accept the
gospel invitation.
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They were chosen when Moses went
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and he brought them
out of the land of Egypt
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and they remain
the chosen nation
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and Jesus wanted to take
this gospel message to them.
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He gave them this time
period to really repent
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and to turn from
their-- from their ways
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and to take this
message but unfortunately,
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sadly they
rejected Him as the Messiah.
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The message of salvation
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through Christ was
then given to the Gentiles.
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You know, when Daniel said
that Christ would be cut off,
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when He was crucified.
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At that time, when
Daniel was writing there was no,
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no record of crucifixion,
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no record at that
time and yet we will see
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as we continue to study
the prophecy were specifically
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in the Book of Isaiah
crucifixion was mentioned
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and this cut off happened.
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The Jewish nation now
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was no longer the
chosen nation of God.
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After the stoning
of Steven that end.
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Now does that mean
that the Jewish people
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cannot be saved, absolutely not?
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Anyone that accepts
Jesus Christ as the Son of God,
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as their Savior are
counted spiritual Jews.
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There is no longer chosen nation
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but there is a chosen people.
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Let's look at Galatians 3:27-29,
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what he says about this,
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"For as many of
you as were baptized
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into Christ have put on Christ.
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There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither slave nor free,
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there is
neither male nor female,
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for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.
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And if you are Christ's
then you are Abraham's seed,
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and heirs
according to the promise."
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Isn't not a wonderful promise
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that we have
been given all of us?
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Brothers and
sisters stay with us,
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we will be right back.
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When you get to the
Descendants of Abraham,
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you can be sure
that you're lighting
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the way for all in
search of the Creator God
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and His message of love
and forgiveness to all nations.
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You know, through this
prophecy of the 490 years
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we see how a
compassionate loving God
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gave the Israelites 490
years to repent of their sins,
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to turn away
from worshiping idols
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to sacrificing their children
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on the altar false
gods and many of the sin--
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sinful practices
that they picked up
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along the way through the,
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you know, after they
went to the Land of Canaan.
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And he pleaded
with them to return
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to the worship of
the true God of Abraham.
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Can the Bible be trusted?
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Absolutely, yes it can.
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It is a book, that is inspired
by the Holy Spirit of God
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and as you can see it proves
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that Jesus the
Christ is the Messiah.
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Remember brothers and sisters,
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this prophecy
was given to Daniel
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by the Angel Gabriel 500 years
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before Christ
even came to earth.
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Let's look at
the Book of Amos 3:7,
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"Surely the Lord
God does nothing,
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unless He reveals His secret
to His servants the prophets.'
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And then Deuteronomy 29:29,
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"The secret things
belong to the Lord our God,
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but those things which
are revealed belong to us
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and to our children forever,
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that we may do all
the words of this law."
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I know that the information
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and interpretation of
this prophecy of Daniel 9
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that was shared with you today.
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It's a lot of information
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and I don't expect
you to absorb it all.
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So we hope that you
will go to our website,
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contact us, email us
00:27:26.78\00:27:28.39
and we will be happy to
answer any questions for you.
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This information will be up
00:27:31.81\00:27:33.45
on the website in
a couple of weeks.
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God bless you and keep you
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and we hope to
see you next week.
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