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We left off last week wondering
how the 2300 day prophecy would
answer the challenge the crisis
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of the world today. If you
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previous weeks. We pick up right
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where we left off as the angel
Gabriel helps reveal the answer
to the question of what does
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this mysterious 2300 days mean.
In Daniel 9:24 Gabriel speaks
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Daniel's people are the Jews.
Daniel's city is Jerusalem.
Seventy weeks. Is this kind of
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starting to make sense? Daniel
was given a vision of 2300 days,
in Daniel chapter 8. Now he's
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given a vision of seventy weeks.
We need to do a little math, if
you're not a mathematician, just
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stay with me, because it's
actually all rather simple.
Daniel's city is Jerusalem,
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Daniel's people are the Jews.
The Bible says 70 weeks are
determined. Literally in the
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Hebrew, this means cut off from
a larger piece. Cut off from
what? The 2300 days of Daniel
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chapeter 8. Gabriel says, "I've
come to help you understand What
is he coming to help him
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understand? That which Daniel
did not understand. And what did
he not understand? The 2300
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days." Seventy weeks are
determined. Seventy weeks are
cut off. Cut off from the 2300
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days. And then he says to
Daniel, "Daniel I am giving you
a starting point for the time
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prophecy of the 2300 days."
However, we have weeks and days
We need to keep it simple and
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make it all the same. Seventy
weeks times seven days in a week
is 490 days. The angel Gabriel
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is making this all very simple
for us. The 2300-day prophecy
has something to do with the
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time of the end it has heavenly
sanctuary language. But we have
no beginning point of the 2300
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days,but Gabriel says that 70
weeks have been determined, 70
weeks have been cut off, 490
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days have been cut off from the
2300 days that are specific to
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the Jews. Remember, this cannot
be literal days, because it
refers to the time of the end.
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To help us with our journey, we
must look at one of the most
accepted Biblical principles of
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interpretation of time prophecy.
It is found in Ezekiel 4:6 and
Numbers 14:34, and that is this:
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And so, if we're talking about
prophetic days, we're talking
about literal years. So the 490
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days, the 2300 days are actually
literal years. So here's what
the chart looks like. There are
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2300 years, 490 years have been
dedicated to or have been cut
off for the Jews and Jerusalem.
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However, we still have a
problem, because if we have no
starting point, none of these
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numbers help much at all. Praise
the Lord that the Bible gives us
a starting point. Daniel chapter
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9 and verse 25:
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This word command is literally
translated from the original
Hebrew as decree. Well, that's
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kind of interesting because
Ezra chapter 7 verses 12 to 13:
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Artaxerxes made a decree that
allowed the Jewish people to go
back to Jerusalem and begin to
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rebuild Jerusalem. Thankfully,
from history, we know exactly
when this happened. That date
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was in 457 B.C. Friends, we now
have a starting point which
reveals some of the most
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exciting news that you could
ever see hear. The verse of
Daniel 9 continues:
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Seven plus 62 gives us how much?
69. The Bible says after 69
weeks, the Messiah will come.
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Literally in the Hebrew this
means "the anointed one." But we
learned from Ezekiel 4:6 and
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Numbers 14:34 that a prophetic
day equals how long? A literal
year. So if we go 483 years from
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457, what do we come to? 26 AD.
We have a little bit of a
problem, though. You see, on a
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calculator, your calculator is
zeroed. You have zero on your
calculator. But in history,
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there was no year zero. They
went from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. So
you just need to add a year back
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in. Again, this is not
quick-footed math here, pretty
simple. Make sense to everybody?
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So actually, it takes us to 27
A.D. So did anything interesting
happen in 27 A.D.? Dr. Luke,
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when he was recording his
gospel, begins Luke chapter 3
with these words: "Now, in the
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15th year of Tiberius Caesar."
The 15th year of Tiberius Caesar
was 27 A.D. And immediately
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following that, in
Luke chapter 3, it says,
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Acts chapter 10:38 says,
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Jesus was anointed as Messiah
when the Holy Spirit descended
upon Him at His baptism. Jesus
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was the Messiah when He was
born, but He was anointed for
His mission at His baptism when
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the Holy Spirit fell upon Him.
The book of Daniel predicts with
absolute reliability the year
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that Jesus would be baptized.
Jesus was baptized on time. Then
Daniel 9:26 goes on and says:
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69 weeks plus the 1 week gives
us the 490 years or the full 70
weeks. There's one week in here
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that happens. What happens
during that week? Well, Daniel
9:27 is very clear what happens:
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But what happens?
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So the middle of the week, which
would be about three-and-a-half
years after 27 A.D., which would
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take us to the year 31 A.D. Does
anything happen that brings an
end to sacrifice? Jesus was
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crucified in 31 A.D., exactly on
time. And in the sanctuary, in
the temple, the curtain is torn
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from top to bottom, and with it
ended the sacrificial system.
Exactly as Daniel said, as given
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by Gabriel, who received
his message from God to give to
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Daniel. In Daniel 9, the central
figure is Jesus Christ as
Messiah. This is why, by the
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way, Jesus would say, "For this
is My blood, the blood of the
new covenant, which is shed for
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many for the remission of sins."
You see, Christ was crucified
exactly on time. This is why
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Paul said in Galatians 4:4:
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Why would Paul use that kind of
language? Because Paul
understood the book of Daniel.
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God sent forth His
Son. Romans 5:6 says:
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Paul understood the message of
the book of Daniel. Daniel
chapter 9 tells us that Christ
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was baptized on time, Christ was
crucified on time, and Christ is
now ministering, because He
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ascended into heaven. And
as Paul said in Hebrews 8:
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What about the last
three-and-a-half years. What
happens in A.D. 34? The book of
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Acts records in A.D. 34 what
happened. The deacon Stephen
comes before the religious
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council, and he's given
opportunity to testify on behalf
of Jesus Christ. Stephen gave
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them the history of Israel and
their continued rejection of the
prophets. Stephen was giving the
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Jews as a nation another
opportunity to be maintained as
God's special people, however
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they rejected him and they
stoned Stephen in A.D. 34. That
day marked three things:
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Stephen's speech that Christ was
the Messiah; the Jewish high
priest rejected Stephen's
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reasoning that Jesus was the
Messiah; and in A.D. 34, the
gospel now goes full force to
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the gentiles. Part one of the
prophecy was for the Jewish
people. But there's 1810 years
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left in the prophecy. Simple
math and addition takes us to
the year 1844. If you understand
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history and the history of
Christianity, in the 1840s,
something very special began to
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happen. In the early 1800s,
people began to re-engage with
the book of Daniel and a great
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awakening occurred
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This was vital because in the
18th century and the 19th
century, much of North American
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Christianity believed in
something called
post-millennialism. They
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basically believed that the
earth was getting better and
better and better and better and
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better, and finally, Jesus would
come and reign over this utopian
state that had been achieved
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through human intervention and
human goodness. But as people
began studying the book of
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Daniel all over the world, and
they read Daniel chapter 8:14,
and they say, "2300 days and
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then the sanctuary would be
cleansed." They understand that
only God's intervention could
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bring about a perfect and
harmonious place. They began to
identify Daniel 8:14 as the
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second coming of Christ. While
Jesus said no man knows the day
or the hour. They believed that
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those words were for the time of
Jesus and now He was revealing
the date of His coming. It
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seemed logical and very
exciting. These God-fearing
people began preaching and
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proclaiming the return of Christ
somewhere in the mid-1800s. And
there was an explosion in growth
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in Christianity called the
Second Great Advent Awakening.
It happened in the U.S.,
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happened in Canada. People were
excited. They identified a date
for Christ to return: in 1844.
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And before we laugh at them and
condemn them, I want you to
think now for a moment. Put
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yourself in their shoes. There's
historical record of people
opening up their shops and
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letting people take everything
in it. There is historical
record of farmers not harvesting
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their crops because Jesus was
coming. And the day on which
they predicted that He was going
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to come, of course He did not
come. I want you to put yourself
in those kind of shoes. Imagine
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for a moment. And I want you to
think of something that's
happened in your life that was
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the worst disappointment that
you've ever experienced. And now
magnify that 100,000-fold. These
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people placed everything on the
idea that Jesus was coming back,
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and He didn't. But some
re-examined the prophecy. The
timeline was right. The event
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was wrong. As they examined the
words."For 2,300 days, then the
sanctuary shall be cleansed.
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They saw the connection to the
Day of Atonement,they connected
it to a day of judgement, the
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cleansing of the sanctuary. Here
is the reality in 1844 nothing
happened on the earth. Something
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did happen in heaven. Christ
transitioned in His ministry.
Christ is still in a ministry of
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redemption. But in 1844, He
transitioned into a phase of His
ministry of judgement. The
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judgment because that is what is
needed just before the second
coming? Daniel 2 was Babylon,
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Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome,
divided Rome, second coming.
Daniel chapter 7 gives new
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details. The new details are:
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece,
Rome, divided Rome,
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religio-political power,
judgement, second coming. Daniel
chapter 8: the ram of
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Medo-Persia; the goat of Greece;
the horn of Rome; a horn that
extends out of religiopolitical
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significance. And if the
prophecies all match in Daniel
2, 7, and 8, what should happen
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after the rise of this
religiopolitical power?
Judgement. Daniel chapter 8
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verse 14, Daniel there was given
by God Himself an indication for
people of all time of a
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preparatory message. A
preparatory message because God
wants everyone possible to be in
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heaven.
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In 1844, God began a special
ministry. Friends, Daniel was
accurate about the baptism of
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Jesus, Daniel was accurate about
the crucifixion of Jesus, Daniel
was accurate about the stoning
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of Stephen and the gospel going
to the Gentiles. And friends
Daniel is accurate that the
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judgement hour began in 1844.
And here's the beauty: we have
nothing to be fearful of,
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because First
John 2:1 says this:
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The goal of Christian living is
to live a victorious life in
Him, that we would enjoy peace
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and safety and love right here
on this earth. But then it goes
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on to say, That word literally
translated means "the atoning
sacrifice."This is for our sins,
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and not for ours only, but also
for the whole world. So I want
you to notice the progression.
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First John 2:1 says that Jesus
is our advocate, which means He
is on our behalf. He is standing
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there next to us. He's our
comforter, he is our encourager,
He's there to lift us up when we
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fall down. But the Bible also
says in the judgement that He is
our sacrifice as well. You see -
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and the Bible also says that
Jesus is what? He is the judge,
because Daniel 7 says the
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judgement was given into His
hands. Too often in Christianity
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the Bible is presented as a book
of rules and regulations,
narrowing down and limiting who
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can go and be a part of God's
kingdom. But Jesus says, "No,
no, no, that's not what the deal
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is. That's not what the deal is.
I came into the world not to
condemn the world, but that the
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world might saved through Me. I
came to the world as a human
being, so that way, I can
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sympathize with what's happening
in your life. You're going
through difficulties? I went
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through difficulties as well.
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Are you experiencing loss in
your life? Jesus experienced
loss. Are you experiencing
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rejection in your life? Jesus
experienced rejection. Jesus
experienced everything that
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we've experienced. And the Bible
says that He is our high priest,
which means He's in
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charge. Then the Bible says He
is our judge, which means He's
the one that looks at the
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account of our life. And then
the Bible says He's the one that
advocates and stands next to us
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to encourage us. And then to top
it all off, it says that Jesus
is the sacrifice as well.
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And the question we wrestle with
today is this: What else? What
else could He have done? The
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story of the Bible is the
relentless pursuit of God to
save us and to take us to our
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rightful home. He never intended
for economic decline and people
being bankrupted. He never
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intended for people to die of
cancer. He never intended for
people to die of old age. He
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never intended for the hip
surgery. He never intended for
rejection. He never intended for
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any of that. The story of the
Bible is God doing everything He
can to catch our attention, so
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we would look up and look into
the sanctuary where He is the
high priest, the one who
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sympathizes with all our needs,
that we can come boldly to the
throne and say, "Jesus, I don't
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know what I'm going to do. I'm
at my wit's end and I need You
to do something," and Jesus
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says, "That's okay, I'm going to
encourage you. When it comes
down to judging this thing that
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happened in your life, if you
accept My sacrifice, it will
wipeall of your sins clean. I
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will give you a new start.A new
record in the book of judgment.
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Jesus has done everything in the
sanctuary. We don't have to fear
the judgement. The judgement is
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not something we must cringe.
The judgement is something we
can take joy in, because we know
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Jesus transitioned His ministry
in the year 1844 and it means
one very simple thing: Friends,
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we are in the final hours of
earth's history. We don't know
when, but we know this: We are
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in the final hours. The appeal
of Jesus today, is this: "Come
into the sanctuary. See Me. Give
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your life to Me, and I'll make
all things right. I'll make you
a new man, a new woman, a new
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girl, a new boy. I will lift you
up." And if you keep your eyes
focused on that temple in heaven
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and cling to Jesus you'll be
ready for that day when He comes
in glory with the shout of an
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archangel, with the trumpet of
God. And the dead in Christ will
rise. And First Corinthians says
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that we who are alive and remain
will be changed in the twinkling
of an eye. The message of Jesus
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today is simple: Keep your
eyes on Him in the sanctuary.
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Heavenly Father, we thank You so
much that You are for us, and if
You are for us, who can be
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against us? We pray
in Jesus' name, amen.
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Dear friends, God is doing
everything He can to get you
into heaven. I want to offer you
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today the little booklet,
Pending Your Case in Court by
Joe Crews. In that book, you'll
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find encouragement that you can
stand tall in this hour of
judgement. Here's the
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Friend, I hope you enjoyed
today's program and I hope that
you have found joy in Jesus and
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know that He's doing everything
for you. Please join us again
next week. Until then, remember,
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it is written: "Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by
every word that proceeds from
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the mouth of God."
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