And in the Book of Daniel,
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we find some
fascinating time prophecies.
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We're gonna be in
Daniel Chapter 9 to be exact.
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And as a result of
our study this evening
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our faith is
going to be strengthened
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in the reliability of God's word
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among another,
a number of things
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that I think will impress us.
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And indeed, we find
these time prophecies
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as I mentioned outlined
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in the
apocalyptic Book of Daniel.
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It is chapter 9
that is going to be
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the Old Testament, page 637.
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Old Testament, page 637.
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So it's Daniel 9
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and we're looking at
verse 24 to begin with.
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And then we're
gonna look at the context
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in which we find
these time prophecies
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and these are vital.
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These prophecies
are really vital to us.
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And this is what we find as
we looked again Daniel 9:24.
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It says, "Seventy weeks have
been decreed for your people
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and your holy city."
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And I remind you who Daniel is,
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Daniel is a Jew.
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Daniel is a Jew that
was taken into captivity
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by King Nebuchadnezzar
and is in Babylon.
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Nebuchadnezzar had this practice
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as he conquered one nation
after another in what we call
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the Middle East or Mesopotamia,
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his practice was
that he would take
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many of the young promising,
young people into captivity.
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He would train them
for his civil service
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and he would administer
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his vast empire
through these individuals.
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And Daniel was chosen to be
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one of the civil
servant's of Nebuchadnezzar.
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And so he spends
the rest of his life,
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his long life in Babylon.
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And he is a prophet.
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He receives
revelations, he has visions
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and so we're
gonna be looking in part
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as some of the
revelations given to him.
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And specifically
when it says here,
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"Seventy weeks have
been decreed for your people"
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it is talking of
course of Daniel's people,
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it's taking about the Jews.
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And so we have a time prophecy
that relates to the Jews
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and it says when it
says, "your holy city,"
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of course it's talking
about Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
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And again I want to
get into the context.
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Look at verse 2, I'm
gonna give you the context.
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In verse 2, I want to
turn the page here it says,
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"In the first
year of his reign,"
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that is speaking
of speaking of Darius,
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the Mede and his reign.
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He says, "I, Daniel,
observed in the books
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the number of the years
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which was revealed
as the word of the Lord
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to Jeremiah the prophet
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for the completion of
the desolations of Jerusalem,
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namely, seventy years."
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So, Daniel has
been here for decades
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in the ancient city of Babylon.
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And you know, that surprises
that the prophet himself
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was a student of prophecy.
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He had been studying
the prophecies of Jeremiah.
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Now Jeremiah wrote
approximately in generation
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or so before the time of Daniel.
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And among the other things
that Jeremiah prophesied about
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he was not a popular prophet
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because he was
predicting all of the doom
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that was going
to come to Jerusalem
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and because of their sin
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and because of their
rebelliousness against God.
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And I want to tell you
they just were listening to him.
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They threw him into
dungeon, he had to go through
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all the tragedy of
not only predicting
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what was gonna happen but
seeing the events unfolding.
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And in fact, he also
wrote the book of Lamentations.
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Read the book of Lamentations
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as he laments what
happened to his people,
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and to the city of Jerusalem.
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It's just heartbreaking
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when you look at
that particular book.
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So anyway he's been studying
through the prophet Jeremiah
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and he comes across his
prophecy calculates out the time
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and it becomes clear to him that
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it's a bad time for this
prophecy to be fulfilled.
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It's recorded in Jeremiah 29:10.
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This is the prophecy
that he was looking at.
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He says, "For
thus says the Lord,
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'When seventy years have
been completed for Babylon,
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I will visit you and
fulfill My good word to you,
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to bring you
back to this place.'"
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And so the seventy
year prophecy predicted
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a restoration of the Jews
back to the city of Jerusalem.
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The restoration of the nation
as well will be a part of that.
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And so the
first part of Daniel 9
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as he recognizes
the time is at hand,
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we find Daniel in earnests
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and intercessory prayer
on behalf of his people.
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And during the
course of his prayer,
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he is confessing
the sins of his people.
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Notice some of the things
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that he was concerned about
as we drop down to verse 5.
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Verse 5 he prays,
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"We have sinned,
committed iniquity,
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acted wickedly and rebelled,
even turning aside from Your
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commandments and ordinances."
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And my friend,
they paid an awful price
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because they've
turned away from the Lord.
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They again the
city was destroyed,
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they were sending into captivity
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because they had turned away
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from keeping the
commandments of God.
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Now they're those-- those are
gonna tell us the commandments.
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What are the commandments?
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How important can
the commandments be?
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My friend, God
himself gave them to us.
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It is the standard by which
we are by the grace of Jesus.
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And it is always through
the grace of Jesus, isn't it?
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It's through the--
these are the commandments
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that we are to seek
to live in harmony with.
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And as we see here,
this is one other sins
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and it was not the only sin
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as we come down to look
at verse 6 where he says,
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"Moreover, we have not listened
to Your servants the prophets,
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who spoke in Your
name to our kings,
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our princes, our fathers
and all the people of the land."
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And in addition
to having turned away
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from the commandments,
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they had failed to
respond to the testimony
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that God gave to
them through the prophets.
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And, my friend, how
vital is the testimony
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that God has given to us
through the prophetic word,
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that is through the scriptures.
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God gives us not only
an understanding of truth
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but often He's
giving us council,
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He's giving us direction.
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And let me just
bear a testimony to it.
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My friend, this is
the book to live by.
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You know, we're gonna
live by something, aren't we?
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And most people in the
world they're gonna be living by
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for their own interests
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and they're gonna
be living in accordance
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with their own instincts.
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And, my friend, that
really isn't sufficient.
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We need something
that is dependable,
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something that's concrete,
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something that we can rely upon.
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And, my friend,
that's the Bible.
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And I know many of
you have found that
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in your life's
experience in the past
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and maybe some of
you're coming to it
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or maybe you're
even coming back to it.
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I came to it as a young
man. I came to it as a teenager.
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And you know at my
junior year in high school,
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this is when my faith in Jesus
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and His word was
revived in my experience.
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I was 11 years of age
when I gave my heart to Jesus
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and was baptized.
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But I had a kind
of rebirth experience
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when I was
about 17 years of age.
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And I made that
determination as a young man
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that I was going to seek
to live by the principles
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and the teachings
of the word of God.
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I haven't always measured up.
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There had been
significant failures in my life.
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I mean, you know, we're human,
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we all will stumble and
fall along the way, won't we?
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But there is that
purpose that we have determined
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by the grace of God
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that we want to
do the right thing.
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We want to live in harmony
with what the Bibles teach us.
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But let me tell you,
these people have departed,
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they had departed
from God, they had departed
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from the teachings
of the word of God.
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They had neglected the
teachings of the prophets.
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In fact you'll
find period of times,
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you know, periods of
time in among Ancient Israel
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where they hunted down
the prophets to destroy them.
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They didn't like the
messages that they were getting.
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And I call it, you know,
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is that
spiritual teenage syndrome.
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You could be 60 years of age,
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you could be, you
know, 80 years of age
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and going through the
spiritual teenage syndrome
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that is this rebelliousness
this unwillingness to listen
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and so
unwillingness to be teachable.
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And, my friend, they
had a bad case of it.
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And that's-- it got
them into lot of trouble.
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And, my friend, the
same thing can happen to us
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when we willfully depart
from the counsels of God's word.
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There's a direct
cause in fact a relationship
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that plays out in our lives.
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And, you know, as it
says in Galatians Chapter 6,
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you know, it says,
"We reap what we sow."
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And my friend, if
you want to reap out
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good things in our lives,
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we've got to plant good
things into our lives, right.
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And a lot of our
lives as we get older
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is some of it is
uprooting some of the bad things
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that got planted in
maybe very early in life.
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And by the grace of Jesus,
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we can do some
uprooting and some replanting.
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We have the
opportunity to be growing
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and planting and
reaping out the good things
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that had been promised
to us in the Jesus Christ.
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And the good things
that we find in the book,
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this book that is so dynamic,
this book that is so powerful.
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Remember Paul said it,
"faith cometh by hearing,
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and hearing by the word of God."
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And so if you want your
faith to increase my friend,
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just keep
studying the word of God
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prayerfully seeking the
guidance of the Holy Spirit.
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Read through 1 and 2 Chronicles
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and 1 and 2 Kings
and 1 and 2 Samuel.
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Those historical records as
we have in the Old Testament
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and you'll find that the
record historically is that
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it seemed like the people of God
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were often more in rebellion
than they were faithful to him.
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It's a sad history as
you look at Ancient Israel.
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And I mean at one
point by the time of Jeremiah
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they had gone so far
into rebellion again.
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They were worshipping the
sun god from the Temple Mount.
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The people of God were
worshipping the sun, Baal.
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And unfortunately that
was not an isolated incidence
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where they had
turned to the other god's
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of the nations surrounding them.
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And so the nation was destroyed,
the city laid in ruins
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because they were not listened.
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And the people--
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many of them were taken
into captivity as we noted.
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Again we must be
sure to the grace of Jesus
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that we give
heed to the teachings
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and principles of God's word.
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And then I take
you on down to verse 10
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where he repeats.
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He says, "Nor have we obeyed
the voice of the Lord our God,
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to walk in His
teachings which He set before us
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through His
servants the prophets."
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Let me tell you, this
matter of being a Christian,
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a believer in God is not just
a good fuzzy feeling inside.
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There-- there is that,
there is joy, there is peace,
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there is all of this love
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that marks our
relationship with Him.
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But, my friend,
it must be more than
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just a good feeling.
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A relationship
calls for a commitment
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and it is like, it is
like a marriage of many ways.
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I mean, do you
always feel remember it,
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there was, you know the
high when you got married,
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when you're accord in
and that you got married.
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But then, you know, there
was that kind of settling down.
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Did you feel that high
emotion that deep love everyday,
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every moment, did you
always-- do you always feel that
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in a committed
marriage relationship?
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No, there are times when
the feelings are not there.
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Are we any less committed
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because the
feelings are not necessarily
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always right there?
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No. We are committed.
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And so it is in our
relationship with God.
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There will be some high times.
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There will be
some wonderful times.
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There will be some deep emotion
but it will not always be so.
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Are we any less committed
when there is a deep emotion?
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Of course, we must
not let emotionalism
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drive our experience with God.
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There is all that love
and joy, won't deny it,
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it's an essential part of it.
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But, you know, our
faith must go deeper
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where there is a commitment
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regardless of how we
feel at heart, right.
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There's got to be
commitment that goes deep.
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And by the grace of Jesus,
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He will work
that out in our lives.
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And, so my friend, that
tells us we must be sure
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that by the grace
of Jesus we give heed.
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Not because we are
necessarily being compelled,
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certainly not
because we are being forced
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because God forces
nobody but because we have made
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a conscious
decision in our lives
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that this is what we stand for.
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And we got to stand
for something, don't we?
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As Christians we've
got to stand for something.
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And I want to tell
you without the book,
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we have nothing.
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You know, what we'll know
about Jesus, little footnote
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and just a little
footnote in history.
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That's all we have recorded,
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if you want to go
back to the time in Jesus,
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it's just really just a brief
reference to Jesus historically.
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So what we know
about Jesus Christ
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and, my friend, it
wasn't just above from the sky,
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it comes through a
revelation of the word of God.
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And so everything
depends upon the word of God.
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Paul said in writing to Timothy
the young preacher Timothy,
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II Timothy 4:3, 4.
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He says, "For the
time will come when they,"
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and he is speaking
of the people of God,
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"when they will not
endure sound doctrine."
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Doctrine is just
another word for teaching.
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Teaching is essential.
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Listen remember,
remember what it was when--
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to be really in
the throes of that
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first love
experience with the one,
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the significant
one in your life.
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Remember the joy of
spending time together,
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remember that.
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When you remind
yourselves of that, don't we?
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You know, we spend
every available hour.
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You know, I met my wife
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at the beginning of my
sophomore year in college.
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And I had a great roommate,
in fact, I just worked with him,
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he is a pastor of
the Thousand Oaks Church
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down in Southern California.
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And so, Mike had invited
me to come in to work with he
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and Larry Meager who
was the senior pastor.
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But I tell you when I met Donna,
he hardly ever saw me again.
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Because every available moment
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I had I was spending with this
young woman that I discovered.
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I was eating with her.
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You know, I would be
studying with her when I could.
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I was spending every
available moment with her.
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And when the weekend came
we were in church together,
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Saturday night we were together,
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Sabbath
afternoon we were together,
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Sunday, we were together
as much as we possibly could.
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We just loved to
be with each other.
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And the joy of really
knowing who she really was
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and, you know, she had
this great personality.
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My wife has a great personality.
She is just as so vivacious.
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When I brought her
home to meet my family,
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my sister Bonnie
seven years young than I.
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She said,
"finally, we've got somebody
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it's gonna bring
some life to this family."
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And that was my wife, Donna.
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But there was
this joy of talking,
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getting to know each other,
to learn about each other.
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And, my friend, that is
the connection between us
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and the God that we love
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the one who died
for us and the teachings
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in Revelations of God's word.
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This is what gives content
to our relationship to Jesus.
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So "They will not
endure sound doctrine,
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but wanting to have
their ears tickled."
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What do you think that means,
they want their ears tickled?
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Oh, just tell me something
that will be interesting.
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And just tell me something
that I will enjoy hearing right.
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Just tell me of the good days.
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Well, during the
course of the seminar
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we're gonna tell you a lot
of good things from God's word.
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But they're gonna be some things
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just human nature
being what it is that--
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it's kind of go
against the grain
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of our natural inclinations.
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I don't know but for some of us
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we're gonna find
yourself on our knees,
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you know, working prayerfully
through some issues in our lives
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as we go
through the word of God.
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It's just the way that it
is. We all go through that.
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"But they wanting to
have their ears tickled,
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they will accumulate
for themselves teachers
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in accordance to
their own desires,
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and will turn away
their ears from the truth,
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and will turn aside to myths."
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And, my friends,
when we turn away
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from the truth we end up in err.
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Remember Jesus said it,
"You shall know the truth,
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and the truth," will what?
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"Shall set you free." And it is.
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It sets us free from
false doctrine in teaching
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from misconceptions of who
God and Jesus really truly is.
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So let's go on
down to verses 16, 17,
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16, 17 as Daniel
continues to pray.
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He says verse 16,
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"O Lord, in accordance
with all Your righteous acts,
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let now Your
anger and Your wrath
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turn away from
Your city Jerusalem,
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Your holy mountain,
for because of our sins
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and the
iniquities of our fathers,
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Jerusalem and
Your people have become
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a reproach to
all those around us."
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So, one of the
things he's asking
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for restoration of the city.
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And that did
eventually take place, right.
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Read through Ezra and Nehemiah
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the books of Ezra and Nehemiah,
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it's a record of the
restoration on the city.
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But that's not all
that he's concerned about.
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In verse 17 he
says, "So now, our God,
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listen to the
prayer of Your servant
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and to his supplications,
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and for Your sake, O Lord,
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let Your face shine on
Your desolate sanctuary."
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Now the term we
would probably be
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most familiar with is temple.
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Let your face shine
on your desolate temple.
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That is the temple
that Solomon had built.
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This beautiful structure devoted
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and dedicated to the
worship of the true God
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laid in ruins
because of Nebuchadnezzar.
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And there's some
history behind of this,
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he didn't come just once
with those Babylonian hordes.
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He came three
times. He did to Jerusalem.
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The first, two-times he
saw to setup a puppet king.
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You know, what
that is? A puppet king.
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That would
recognize his sovereignty
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and yet would rule on a
limited basis over the people.
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But they kept
rebelling against him.
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And so, twice he came back.
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And the third
time that he came back,
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he said, I'm not
coming back again.
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And that's when the city
and that's when the temple
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that Solomon
built was destroyed.
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And so, here Daniel is praying
for God to restore the city
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and the temple or the
sanctuary for restoration of it.
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And so, I take you on down
to verses 21 and 22. Guess what?
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Daniel receives an
answer to his prayer.
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Verse 21, "While I was
still speaking in prayer,
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then the man
Gabriel" an angel actually,
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he appeared as a man but
he was actually an angel.
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"Gabriel, whom I had
seen in the vision previously,
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came to me in my
extreme weariness
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about the time of
the evening offering.
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He gave me instruction
and talked with me and said,
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O Daniel, I have now
come forth to give you
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insight with understanding."
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So again we--
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he's been
praying about his people
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and, you know,
going over the sad history
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what it happened and asking God
00:22:14.22\00:22:16.50
to look
favorably upon his people.
00:22:16.53\00:22:18.98
And the angel Gabriel appears
00:22:19.01\00:22:22.29
and he said, I'm
going to give you insight.
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I'm gonna give
you some understanding
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of some Bible things
that relate to your people
00:22:25.62\00:22:28.17
and by the way we will
discover to all peoples.
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So let's get back
into verse 24, shall we?
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Where he says,
"Seventy weeks have been decreed
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for your people
and your holy city."
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We've already read that.
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He implied here directly
is a period of probation
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that will be given
to the people of God
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to end their long period
of rebellion against him.
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And it goes on to say,
"To finish the transgression,
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to make an end of sin, to
make atonement for iniquity,
00:22:58.37\00:23:02.48
to bring in
everlasting righteousness,
00:23:02.51\00:23:04.49
to seal up vision and prophecy
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and to anoint
the most holy place."
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I mean, there's a lot
there contained in verse 24
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and of course the
question comes what,
00:23:12.54\00:23:14.13
you know, what
he's talking about here?
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Or the better question would
be who is he talking about?
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"Who is it that would finish
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the
transgression among his people?
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Who is it that
will make an end of sin,
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who will make atonement for
iniquity etcetera, etcetera?
00:23:26.80\00:23:30.17
And the answer is, it's Jesus.
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And so the
prophecy we take note of it,
00:23:35.07\00:23:36.69
from the very
beginning is messianic
00:23:36.72\00:23:40.09
because these
time prophecies deal
00:23:40.12\00:23:42.04
with not only the
people of God in the past
00:23:42.07\00:23:44.47
but it deals with Jesus
who alone is the answer to sin.
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There is no answer.
Is there another answer.
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I'll tell you
people are looking for what
00:23:53.87\00:23:55.65
as we like to say in
the words of that old song,
00:23:55.68\00:23:57.86
looking for it in
all the wrong places.
00:23:57.89\00:24:02.35
You know, they
look for it in drugs,
00:24:02.38\00:24:04.13
they look for it in sex,
they look for it in materialism,
00:24:04.16\00:24:08.21
they look for it in
all so and so many things.
00:24:08.24\00:24:13.49
But my friend, those
things all leave us empty.
00:24:13.52\00:24:19.36
It all leaves us empty.
00:24:19.39\00:24:22.39
My friend, if we want,
00:24:22.42\00:24:23.96
if we want to
experience salvation,
00:24:23.99\00:24:27.79
if we want to
really in a meaningful way,
00:24:27.82\00:24:29.83
in a way that really gets down
00:24:29.86\00:24:30.89
to the roots of the
problem of sin in our lives,
00:24:30.92\00:24:34.32
it is a Savior that we need.
00:24:34.35\00:24:36.68
And it is a Savior that is
presented here in verse 24.
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He is the only answer,
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He truly is,
there's no other way.
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And so, their whole history
00:24:47.15\00:24:48.84
and their whole
future was wrapped up
00:24:48.87\00:24:51.95
in the coming of the
Savior much as our futures,
00:24:51.98\00:24:56.29
our present and our futures
are wrapped up in the Savior.
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But we have this time
prophecy seventy weeks.
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Now I got to get back to the
time element of this prophecy,
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"Seventy weeks have been
decreed for your people."
00:25:06.49\00:25:09.22
And the principle as
you discover it in the Bible
00:25:09.25\00:25:11.98
is a fairly simple one.
00:25:12.01\00:25:13.21
We find it
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and also here in
Ezekiel 4:6 on the screen
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where it says, and if
you look at the context
00:25:19.62\00:25:21.66
it's speaking
about time prophecy.
00:25:21.69\00:25:24.54
Where is says, "I
have appointed thee
00:25:24.57\00:25:26.90
each day for a year."
00:25:26.93\00:25:30.21
So in time
prophecy one prophetic day
00:25:30.24\00:25:33.94
represents simply one year.
00:25:33.97\00:25:38.56
Are you with me?
00:25:38.59\00:25:39.92
"I have appointed
thee each day for a year."
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So one prophetic day
represents one literal year.
00:25:43.12\00:25:47.19
So we're looking at
the seventy week prophecy.
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Let's do some calculating.
00:25:49.60\00:25:52.00
We're gonna
break it down into day.
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Seventy weeks,
of course in a week
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there are seven days
00:25:55.01\00:25:56.15
and that's why we
are multiplying 70 by 7.
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And 70 times 7 give's us
490 prophetic days, okay.
00:26:00.49\00:26:07.52
Or what? 490 literal years.
00:26:07.55\00:26:14.49
And what does this is relate to?
00:26:14.52\00:26:16.95
To the people of God.
00:26:16.98\00:26:19.82
God was giving them
from the time of Daniel
00:26:19.85\00:26:22.58
another 490 years.
00:26:22.61\00:26:25.16
I ask you, how patience is
God with us and with His people.
00:26:25.19\00:26:30.63
Extremely patience.
He is extremely patience.
00:26:30.66\00:26:34.22
I mean, after all of
this horrible history
00:26:34.25\00:26:37.76
He was still
willing to give them time
00:26:37.79\00:26:40.98
by the by His grace
to work this all out.
00:26:41.01\00:26:43.85
I'm always working out by
grace, I hope you know that.
00:26:43.88\00:26:48.25
He is so abundantly patient.
00:26:48.28\00:26:51.69
And, my friend, He's
been so patient with you.
00:26:51.72\00:26:54.01
He's been patient with me.
00:26:54.04\00:26:56.05
And maybe for some of us
00:26:56.08\00:26:57.32
He's been
patiently waiting for years
00:26:57.35\00:27:02.12
for us to come to the light.
00:27:02.15\00:27:04.71
God has a purpose
for your life, my friend.
00:27:04.74\00:27:07.98
He's got a purpose
for my life in this.
00:27:08.01\00:27:11.34
It's not just a
intellectualizes.
00:27:11.37\00:27:15.50
It's to lead us
into that which says,
00:27:15.53\00:27:18.65
I'm gonna put it.
00:27:18.68\00:27:19.86
It's gonna give us
more meaning in our lives
00:27:19.89\00:27:23.10
than we've ever known.
00:27:23.13\00:27:25.42
And it will give us
a sense of direction
00:27:25.45\00:27:28.35
and a sense of the
future that God has.
00:27:28.38\00:27:31.60
Again that's why
we are in a prophecy.
00:27:31.63\00:27:33.10
So, 490 years.
00:27:33.13\00:27:35.50
But, you know, as we
look at these time prophecies
00:27:35.53\00:27:37.56
we must have a
starting point, right,
00:27:37.59\00:27:40.11
or else we just have 490 years.
00:27:40.14\00:27:41.91
I don't know when it begins
so I don't know when it ends.
00:27:41.94\00:27:45.01
But the starting point is given
to us in the very next verse.
00:27:45.04\00:27:47.42
Look at it, verse 25
00:27:47.45\00:27:49.41
and we have another
part of the time prophecy
00:27:49.44\00:27:52.87
in it as well.
00:27:52.90\00:27:54.23
It says, "So you are to know
00:27:54.26\00:27:56.23
and discern that
from the issuing,"
00:27:56.26\00:27:58.50
from is the key word,
00:27:58.53\00:27:59.90
"from the issuing
of a decree to restore
00:27:59.93\00:28:02.80
and rebuild Jerusalem
until the Messiah the Prince
00:28:02.83\00:28:06.86
there will be seven
weeks and sixty-two weeks,"
00:28:06.89\00:28:09.88
added up that 69 weeks.
00:28:09.91\00:28:12.77
It's a part of the
seventy week prophecy,
00:28:12.80\00:28:14.68
"it will be built
again, with plaza and moat,
00:28:14.71\00:28:18.14
even in times of distress."
00:28:18.17\00:28:21.54
So we have 69
weeks of prophetic time.
00:28:21.57\00:28:23.44
But notice, it says,
"from the issuing of a decree
00:28:23.47\00:28:27.23
to restore and
rebuild Jerusalem."
00:28:27.26\00:28:32.42
From the issuing of a decree.
00:28:32.45\00:28:34.27
And we know that
decree was issued in 457 BC
00:28:34.30\00:28:40.53
by the Persian King
Artaxerxes that decree.
00:28:40.56\00:28:45.20
We have that decree
recorded in the Bible
00:28:45.23\00:28:48.13
you'll find it
in Ezra Chapter 7.
00:28:48.16\00:28:50.95
You'll find the decree listed
right there in Ezra Chapter 7.
00:28:50.98\00:28:55.48
And this is a
well established date.
00:28:55.51\00:28:57.98
So 457 is the starting
point of the time prophecies.
00:28:58.01\00:29:02.89
So let's deal with
the 70 weeks prophecy.
00:29:02.92\00:29:05.39
First of all since
that's what we came to
00:29:05.42\00:29:07.54
we know as 490 years
and the starting point
00:29:07.57\00:29:11.45
they're found from 457-490
years takes us down to 34 AD.
00:29:11.48\00:29:18.69
By the way Jesus died in 31 AD.
00:29:18.72\00:29:22.35
God was really
patient with them as I said.
00:29:22.38\00:29:25.48
And by the way I
should point out some thing
00:29:25.51\00:29:27.58
because whenever you
do these calculations
00:29:27.61\00:29:30.63
and you're moving
from BC to AD time,
00:29:30.66\00:29:33.86
there's something you
have to take in consideration
00:29:33.89\00:29:35.67
if you want to be
accurate in your calculation.
00:29:35.70\00:29:38.34
So as you're moving in
BC times as you look back,
00:29:38.37\00:29:40.84
you know, let's, you know, 457.
00:29:40.87\00:29:42.75
What's the next
year? Was it 458-456?
00:29:42.78\00:29:46.33
What is it?
00:29:46.36\00:29:48.39
456, you're right
followed by 455 then 450--
00:29:48.42\00:29:52.91
you're with me.
00:29:52.94\00:29:54.29
Okay, as you're moving,
00:29:54.32\00:29:55.50
as you're moving down 490 years.
00:29:55.53\00:29:57.09
If you were just take one year
at a time account them, okay.
00:29:57.12\00:29:59.65
457 is one, 456
is two, 455 is three
00:29:59.68\00:30:04.18
you would eventually
come down to the year 1 BC.
00:30:04.21\00:30:08.44
What's the next year?
00:30:08.47\00:30:10.29
And there's no year zero, 1 AD.
00:30:10.32\00:30:14.34
So, you go when you
go from BC to AD time,
00:30:14.37\00:30:17.67
we have two 1s.
00:30:17.70\00:30:19.03
We go from 1 BC to 1 AD.
00:30:19.06\00:30:21.69
Which means when you make out
00:30:21.72\00:30:23.13
your calculation
490 years from 457,
00:30:23.16\00:30:26.32
you're actually the calculation
you would end up will be 33.
00:30:26.35\00:30:31.61
So you have to add
that extra 1 back in.
00:30:31.64\00:30:34.43
You didn't know you're gonna get
00:30:34.46\00:30:35.49
so much math tonight, did you?
00:30:35.52\00:30:37.87
You have to add that
extra 1 back in to be accurate.
00:30:37.90\00:30:42.39
And so it's 34 AD.
00:30:42.42\00:30:44.84
And, my friend, that is
when probation came to an end
00:30:44.87\00:30:48.34
for the Nation of Israel.
00:30:48.37\00:30:51.27
Now next Saturday night,
00:30:51.30\00:30:53.26
I'm gonna be
preaching on the 144,000
00:30:53.29\00:30:55.60
and we're gonna be talking about
00:30:55.63\00:30:56.82
God's purpose for
the Jews in the end time.
00:30:56.85\00:30:58.63
We're gonna be
talking about tribulation.
00:30:58.66\00:31:00.55
We're gonna be
talking about the antichrist
00:31:00.58\00:31:02.16
that night as well.
00:31:02.19\00:31:05.62
So anyway we'll
talk a little bit more
00:31:05.65\00:31:07.74
but it does
relate to the prophecy
00:31:07.77\00:31:09.36
that we're looking at.
00:31:09.39\00:31:10.57
In verse 25, we have
69 weeks of prophetic time
00:31:10.60\00:31:14.04
that relate to what?
To the coming of whom?
00:31:14.07\00:31:18.71
To the coming of Jesus.
00:31:18.74\00:31:21.15
And again as we
look at the time,
00:31:21.18\00:31:23.63
time element 69 weeks
00:31:23.66\00:31:25.68
we're gonna get it
break it down into days again.
00:31:25.71\00:31:27.65
So we're multiplying it
00:31:27.68\00:31:30.04
by 7 and 69 times 7
gives us 483 prophetic days
00:31:30.07\00:31:37.56
or 483 literal years.
00:31:37.59\00:31:40.94
And we've already
got our starting point.
00:31:40.97\00:31:43.62
We have our
starting point, don't we?
00:31:43.65\00:31:45.28
It's 457 AD.
00:31:45.31\00:31:48.01
And due to calculation
out it takes us to 27 AD.
00:31:48.04\00:31:53.69
Remember, we have to
add that extra 1 in right,
00:31:53.72\00:31:57.78
27 AD to the messianic, friends.
00:31:57.81\00:32:00.98
It isn't that fascinating
to find a prophecy here that--
00:32:01.01\00:32:06.58
what is it over 400 years
before the coming of Jesus,
00:32:06.61\00:32:09.82
the predicted the date
for the coming of Jesus
00:32:09.85\00:32:12.91
and its right in
the Old Testament.
00:32:12.94\00:32:15.73
I mean, that is predicted
prophecy in through the years.
00:32:15.76\00:32:21.03
And so, I want you to notice
something as we're working
00:32:21.06\00:32:22.98
through the context
verse 24 it's messianic.
00:32:23.01\00:32:26.00
Verse 25, it's
talking about the Messiah,
00:32:26.03\00:32:29.26
coming of the Messiah
00:32:29.29\00:32:30.32
the Prince talking
about the coming of Jesus.
00:32:30.35\00:32:33.10
My friend, He is the
focal point of history.
00:32:33.13\00:32:37.83
He is the focal
point of history.
00:32:37.86\00:32:39.82
So what happened in 27 AD?
00:32:39.85\00:32:42.23
Take a look with me at Luke 3,
00:32:42.26\00:32:45.96
the New Testament, page 46.
00:32:45.99\00:32:48.26
Page 46 Luke 3, and
beginning with verse 21.
00:32:48.29\00:32:53.91
And I'll say right off the top
it was not the birth of Jesus
00:32:53.94\00:32:58.29
because Jesus
was not born in 27 AD
00:32:58.32\00:33:00.59
but something else
important happened here
00:33:00.62\00:33:03.57
as we find it in here Luke
3 and beginning with verse 21.
00:33:03.60\00:33:08.49
This is what
happened in 27 AD, 27 AD.
00:33:08.52\00:33:13.16
It says, "Now when all
the people were baptized,
00:33:13.19\00:33:16.17
Jesus was also baptized
and while He was praying,
00:33:16.20\00:33:18.91
heaven was opened.
00:33:18.94\00:33:20.67
And the Holy
Spirit descended upon Him
00:33:20.70\00:33:22.55
in bodily form like a dove,
00:33:22.58\00:33:24.62
and a voice came out of heaven,
00:33:24.65\00:33:26.42
'You are My beloved Son,
in You I am well-pleased."'
00:33:26.45\00:33:32.36
It was the baptism of
Jesus that took place in 27 AD.
00:33:32.39\00:33:36.46
And by the way when we
talk about the Messiah,
00:33:36.49\00:33:38.64
again remember the name Messiah
00:33:38.67\00:33:42.33
means literally
the anointed one.
00:33:42.36\00:33:46.52
And I believe you can
make a case for the fact
00:33:46.55\00:33:49.25
that it was at His baptism
00:33:49.28\00:33:51.01
when the Holy
Spirit came down upon Him
00:33:51.04\00:33:53.53
that He was anointed
00:33:53.56\00:33:55.24
and that He was set
apart to proceed with the next
00:33:55.27\00:33:58.54
three-and-half
years of His ministry.
00:33:58.57\00:34:02.15
Okay, but notice verse 23.
00:34:02.18\00:34:05.48
"When He began His ministry,
Jesus Himself was," how old?
00:34:05.51\00:34:11.41
"About thirty years of age."
00:34:11.44\00:34:14.51
Have you ever considered
the wasted years of Jesus.
00:34:14.54\00:34:20.25
Think of all of the good
He could have been doing.
00:34:20.28\00:34:23.95
You know, I have
two wonderful sons
00:34:23.98\00:34:25.99
and I do love them.
00:34:26.02\00:34:27.84
I assume you love your kids.
00:34:27.87\00:34:30.72
You know, we all have problems,
00:34:30.75\00:34:32.55
we'll have challenges, right.
00:34:32.58\00:34:33.97
We have them, our
kids sometimes have them.
00:34:34.00\00:34:35.90
But I love my sons.
00:34:35.93\00:34:38.03
And but I still
have my older son at 27,
00:34:38.06\00:34:45.97
that he's still
somewhat living at home.
00:34:46.00\00:34:49.79
And so and my wife
00:34:49.82\00:34:51.00
and I will have these
conversations from time to time.
00:34:51.03\00:34:53.89
And Thursday night we
have them over for dinner.
00:34:53.92\00:34:56.34
At least they
seem to enjoy to come,
00:34:56.37\00:34:58.72
come over enjoy
some of mom's good,
00:34:58.75\00:35:01.43
home cooking.
00:35:01.46\00:35:02.49
And so we did, we have
mashed potatoes and gravy,
00:35:02.52\00:35:05.59
they love mashed
potatoes and gravy.
00:35:05.62\00:35:08.27
And she made some
brownies for a treat.
00:35:08.30\00:35:11.44
And they actually stayed
and visited with us for a while.
00:35:11.47\00:35:16.87
And then they were gone
00:35:16.90\00:35:17.96
and we found
ourselves in conversation again.
00:35:17.99\00:35:21.81
You know, 27.
00:35:21.84\00:35:23.75
And, my son, my son, my
older son I'll tell him,
00:35:23.78\00:35:27.96
you know, it's not hard to
get me talking about my boys
00:35:27.99\00:35:30.78
but they're not my boys,
they're my young man now.
00:35:30.81\00:35:33.82
My 24-year-old Kevin,
he is a people person.
00:35:33.85\00:35:37.36
He's just got this
mellowness, kind of like Gayle.
00:35:37.39\00:35:40.68
This mellowness,
people love Kevin.
00:35:40.71\00:35:45.36
He is just great
working with people.
00:35:45.39\00:35:48.58
He is.
00:35:48.61\00:35:50.04
He just interacts
so well with people.
00:35:50.07\00:35:51.93
They just love him
at whatever job he has.
00:35:51.96\00:35:55.35
They just love him.
00:35:55.38\00:35:57.50
And that makes
me feel very good.
00:35:57.53\00:35:58.63
I like the fact that people
really love my son, Kevin.
00:35:58.66\00:36:01.40
Now my oldest, my oldest
has a good personality too
00:36:01.43\00:36:04.16
but my oldest son is brilliant.
00:36:04.19\00:36:08.35
You know, I'll tell you anybody
00:36:08.38\00:36:10.33
that can go through
their high school years
00:36:10.36\00:36:12.14
and Kevin say to me,
00:36:12.17\00:36:14.32
"Dad, I never
cracked a book out of class."
00:36:14.35\00:36:17.59
I think it's straight
A's, I can tell you that.
00:36:17.62\00:36:19.62
But got straight
A's through geometry
00:36:19.65\00:36:23.28
never having
cracked a book out of class.
00:36:23.31\00:36:26.88
To me has a high
degree of intelligence.
00:36:26.91\00:36:29.50
I, who struggled with geometry
00:36:29.53\00:36:32.49
all those fractions and theorems
anybody else relate to that.
00:36:32.52\00:36:37.12
I hated geometry,
it almost took me down.
00:36:37.15\00:36:40.61
Now algebra I did all right with
00:36:40.64\00:36:43.29
but geometry was
tough. He got straight A's.
00:36:43.32\00:36:46.03
And he dig it into the,
00:36:46.06\00:36:48.34
you know, he went
into the community college
00:36:48.37\00:36:50.65
and took a business course
and one day this years ago,
00:36:50.68\00:36:54.21
some years ago I saw him looking
00:36:54.24\00:36:56.80
reading through his text books,
00:36:56.83\00:36:58.45
sitting in an easy
chair just reading.
00:36:58.48\00:37:01.62
And I found that he had a test.
00:37:01.65\00:37:05.65
One of the few times,
I never seen him study.
00:37:05.68\00:37:08.06
He was reading
though, he was reading.
00:37:08.09\00:37:10.47
And when he took his test,
00:37:10.50\00:37:11.87
now when I studied for
test I was underlining,
00:37:11.90\00:37:14.59
I was taking notes,
00:37:14.62\00:37:15.81
I was going over
my notes making sure
00:37:15.84\00:37:17.94
I was memorizing
certain things that aren't--
00:37:17.97\00:37:21.52
is that the way
it is for most of us?
00:37:21.55\00:37:23.24
He just have read the text.
00:37:23.27\00:37:25.15
The teacher even
didn't really know him
00:37:25.18\00:37:28.05
because when she got he
got done grading the test
00:37:28.08\00:37:31.85
and bought the
back to the class.
00:37:31.88\00:37:34.55
He was looking for David.
00:37:34.58\00:37:37.18
Is David Reinking here?
00:37:37.21\00:37:39.97
And said, David, you got
the highest score on the test.
00:37:40.00\00:37:45.29
And all he did was
to read the textbook.
00:37:45.32\00:37:49.16
He has almost a
photographic mind.
00:37:49.19\00:37:52.32
It's a wonderful
thing and of course
00:37:52.35\00:37:54.09
he got it from my
side of the family.
00:37:54.12\00:37:57.54
And I wish I could say that.
00:37:57.57\00:37:59.70
And really if you see something
00:37:59.73\00:38:01.15
or he hears something he
has a very high retention,
00:38:01.18\00:38:04.65
that's a beautiful
thing to have, isn't it.
00:38:04.68\00:38:07.22
Man, I could have used that
with all the schooling I had.
00:38:07.25\00:38:10.58
I had a sweat through it all.
00:38:10.61\00:38:13.45
It didn't come always
easily, hardly ever came easily.
00:38:13.48\00:38:17.98
And so I'm no fore pointing
00:38:18.01\00:38:19.47
I'm just gonna get
that out right upfront.
00:38:19.50\00:38:22.92
And I really
related to President Bush
00:38:22.95\00:38:25.91
when in a graduation,
00:38:25.94\00:38:27.69
you know, I've
been asked to speak
00:38:27.72\00:38:29.42
at a graduation exercise
at some famous university
00:38:29.45\00:38:33.07
who looked out among
the multitudes of students
00:38:33.10\00:38:36.92
that were graduating.
00:38:36.95\00:38:38.61
And smiles saying,
00:38:38.64\00:38:40.13
you know, I'm
gonna paraphrase it now.
00:38:40.16\00:38:43.57
I'm a testament
that you see students,
00:38:43.60\00:38:47.47
you too can succeed in life.
00:38:47.50\00:38:51.81
I probably relate more to that
then those who are so brilliant.
00:38:51.84\00:38:55.93
But, you know, so if
we've had these conversations.
00:38:55.96\00:38:59.69
What are they gonna do?
00:38:59.72\00:39:01.26
When are they gonna
start? I mean, by 22-23,
00:39:01.29\00:39:05.26
I had finished my
undergraduate degree
00:39:05.29\00:39:07.32
I was already in the ministry.
00:39:07.35\00:39:09.14
I can't believe they turned us--
00:39:09.17\00:39:10.76
they turned us
loose at 23 Gayle.
00:39:10.79\00:39:14.43
Can you image that?
00:39:14.46\00:39:16.86
At the time I thought 23, man,
00:39:16.89\00:39:18.92
and you know, I'm passed 21
00:39:18.95\00:39:21.68
I'm into educate,
I'm ready to hit the road
00:39:21.71\00:39:24.13
and started doing to preach.
00:39:24.16\00:39:25.71
I didn't realize
how green I really was.
00:39:25.74\00:39:28.76
But anyway I wonder
I'm gonna little bit away
00:39:28.79\00:39:32.22
from notes here but anyway
00:39:32.25\00:39:35.15
I wonder what Mary
must have been thinking, 28.
00:39:35.18\00:39:40.01
He's still in
the carpenter shop.
00:39:40.04\00:39:43.56
That angel did
come to me, right.
00:39:43.59\00:39:45.64
I do remember that, right.
00:39:45.67\00:39:48.03
And said that he's
the Son of God, 29,
00:39:48.06\00:39:52.28
still in the carpenter shop.
00:39:52.31\00:39:55.03
I'm wondering if they
had those kinds of thoughts.
00:39:55.06\00:40:00.54
Probably, but then at 30,
00:40:00.57\00:40:02.47
then when this one
that it really took off.
00:40:02.50\00:40:04.41
Boy, sure it happens before 30.
00:40:04.44\00:40:06.91
From my standpoint by the time
00:40:08.42\00:40:10.59
that I retire and that's--
00:40:10.62\00:40:12.65
you know, few
years down the road yet,
00:40:12.68\00:40:15.05
I just hope that this is
subtle matter in my home.
00:40:15.08\00:40:18.33
Now I just anyway--
00:40:18.36\00:40:19.88
I'm sorry to bring up
all these personal matters
00:40:19.91\00:40:21.69
but anyway I was just wonder
00:40:21.72\00:40:22.84
how much Mary and
Joseph as long as they loved
00:40:22.87\00:40:25.84
had these questions about him.
00:40:25.87\00:40:29.00
So, out in the
Messiah the Prince
00:40:29.03\00:40:30.54
but there was a reason,
00:40:30.57\00:40:31.79
actually there was a reason
00:40:31.82\00:40:33.01
why Jesus waited so long
00:40:33.04\00:40:36.03
before he began
his earthly ministry.
00:40:36.06\00:40:39.47
We find in Mark 1:14-15.
00:40:39.50\00:40:42.06
This is what Jesus was preached,
00:40:42.09\00:40:43.40
at the very
beginning of His ministry.
00:40:43.43\00:40:45.45
It says, "Jesus
came into Galilee,
00:40:45.48\00:40:47.94
preaching the gospel of God,
00:40:47.97\00:40:49.51
and saying, 'The
time is fulfilled,
00:40:49.54\00:40:52.64
and the kingdom
of God is at hand."'
00:40:52.67\00:40:54.70
Amen.
00:40:54.73\00:40:56.00
My friend, the reason
why Jesus had waited so long.
00:40:56.03\00:40:59.12
Is that He had an understanding
00:40:59.15\00:41:01.25
and a comprehension
and the very prophecy
00:41:01.28\00:41:03.67
that we're
looking at in Daniel 9:25.
00:41:03.70\00:41:06.33
He did, I'm gonna show you
00:41:06.36\00:41:08.68
that He was acquainted
00:41:08.71\00:41:09.74
with these
prophecies of Daniel 9.
00:41:09.77\00:41:13.28
And so when 27 AD came,
00:41:13.31\00:41:16.06
He knew this was
the appointed time.
00:41:16.09\00:41:20.05
And he went out proclaiming
the time is fulfilled,
00:41:20.08\00:41:23.66
the time of
prophecy is fulfilled.
00:41:23.69\00:41:28.43
And then, we move
into the next verse.
00:41:28.46\00:41:32.59
Oh, we got to go
back to Daniel 9.
00:41:32.62\00:41:34.95
The next verse
being Daniel 9:26.
00:41:34.98\00:41:37.74
It says, "then after
the sixty-two weeks,"
00:41:37.77\00:41:41.13
that prophetic time of verse 25.
00:41:41.16\00:41:43.49
"The messiah will be cut off,"
00:41:43.52\00:41:46.19
it's predicting
the death of Jesus.
00:41:46.22\00:41:48.57
That language is in Isaiah 53,
00:41:48.60\00:41:51.35
it's reference to
the suffering Christ
00:41:51.38\00:41:54.29
where it speaks
of his being cut off
00:41:54.32\00:41:56.33
from the land of the living
00:41:56.36\00:41:57.95
is the terminology
there in Isaiah 53.
00:41:57.98\00:42:00.55
It's a reference to his death,
00:42:00.58\00:42:02.19
so it predicts His death,
00:42:02.22\00:42:03.58
of course we owe everything
00:42:03.61\00:42:05.42
to the substitutionary
death of Jesus, don't we.
00:42:05.45\00:42:09.44
Everything.
00:42:09.47\00:42:10.93
And I'm starting
we have a connection.
00:42:10.96\00:42:13.73
And have nothing, "and
the people of the prince
00:42:13.76\00:42:16.84
who is to come will destroy
the city and the sanctuary.
00:42:16.87\00:42:23.57
And its end will
come with a flood,
00:42:23.60\00:42:25.35
even to the end
there will be war,
00:42:25.38\00:42:28.34
desolations are determined."
00:42:28.37\00:42:31.53
I can't just imagine
how Daniel must have felt
00:42:31.56\00:42:34.35
when he heard those words here,
00:42:34.38\00:42:35.95
he's praying for the restoration
00:42:35.98\00:42:37.35
and the city and
of the sanctuary.
00:42:37.38\00:42:39.99
And now, you know,
having heard of the prophecy
00:42:40.02\00:42:41.87
about the coming of the Messiah
00:42:41.90\00:42:42.99
the Prince that must have
been exciting to hear that.
00:42:43.02\00:42:45.87
Because he knew something
00:42:45.90\00:42:46.93
about the coming of the savior
00:42:46.96\00:42:48.56
but then they hear that the city
00:42:48.59\00:42:51.57
and the sanctuary
and having been rebuild
00:42:51.60\00:42:54.83
would be destroyed again.
00:42:54.86\00:42:57.74
By the way for
much the same reason
00:42:57.77\00:42:59.47
as why have been
destroyed in the first place.
00:42:59.50\00:43:02.95
Because they've hardened
their heart against him.
00:43:02.98\00:43:06.03
And in the end as a
nation they rejected him.
00:43:06.06\00:43:10.50
The source of all salvation.
00:43:10.53\00:43:13.11
That was horrible consequences.
00:43:13.14\00:43:15.58
So it would be destroyed again,
00:43:15.61\00:43:17.97
the city that would be rebuilt.
00:43:18.00\00:43:22.97
And as Jesus
come down to the end
00:43:23.00\00:43:25.88
of His earthly ministry
as He begins prophetically.
00:43:25.91\00:43:32.63
Again some of those
astounding prophecies
00:43:32.66\00:43:34.23
of the Bible are words
00:43:34.26\00:43:36.94
that are embedded in the gospels
00:43:36.97\00:43:39.19
that came from
Jesus Himself, Matthew 24,
00:43:39.22\00:43:42.18
Luke 21 of their passages
hat record these prophecies.
00:43:42.21\00:43:45.69
These prophecies that were made
00:43:45.72\00:43:47.48
in the last week of
His earthly ministry,
00:43:47.51\00:43:51.20
the cross was just before Him.
00:43:51.23\00:43:53.59
He was looking
down to the end of time.
00:43:53.62\00:43:56.53
He's looking
forward to His coming.
00:43:56.56\00:44:00.32
And He also begin to
pickup on these prophetic themes
00:44:00.35\00:44:03.18
that were
reading here in Daniel 9.
00:44:03.21\00:44:05.40
And Luke 19 verse
beginning with verse 43
00:44:05.43\00:44:07.80
Jesus declared, "For the days,"
00:44:07.83\00:44:09.69
He's looking at Jerusalem.
00:44:09.72\00:44:10.82
"For the days
shall come upon you
00:44:10.85\00:44:13.80
when your enemies will
throw up a bank before you,
00:44:13.83\00:44:17.35
and surround you, and
hem you in on every side,
00:44:17.38\00:44:20.15
and will level you to the ground
00:44:20.18\00:44:21.86
and your children within you,
00:44:21.89\00:44:23.54
and they will not leave in you
00:44:23.57\00:44:25.10
one stone upon another,
00:44:25.13\00:44:26.72
because you did not recognize
00:44:26.75\00:44:29.06
the time of your visitation."
00:44:29.09\00:44:33.22
Was that talking about
the time of your visitation?
00:44:33.25\00:44:35.68
That is the time of His coming.
00:44:35.71\00:44:38.63
And, my friend,
they should have known
00:44:38.66\00:44:42.03
the whole Old Testament,
00:44:42.06\00:44:43.88
there's all these
messianic prophecies
00:44:43.91\00:44:45.90
including the prophecies
00:44:45.93\00:44:47.64
we're looking at
tonight in Daniel 9.
00:44:47.67\00:44:51.25
And you see, my friend,
00:44:51.28\00:44:52.47
they were not faithful
students of the prophecies.
00:44:52.50\00:44:57.32
And those that
they did interpret
00:44:57.35\00:44:59.38
they often were misinterpreting.
00:44:59.41\00:45:02.83
And that tells me how
vitally important it is
00:45:02.86\00:45:06.20
for us as believers having
understanding the prophecy.
00:45:06.23\00:45:09.88
We cannot afford to repeat
the mistakes that they did it.
00:45:09.91\00:45:13.24
When they didn't recognize
the time of their visitation.
00:45:13.27\00:45:16.33
And, my friend let me tell you
00:45:16.36\00:45:17.50
there's another divine
visitation just before us.
00:45:17.53\00:45:21.21
Again I don't know, if
it's gonna be in our life times.
00:45:21.24\00:45:23.47
But Jesus gonna
visit this planet again.
00:45:23.50\00:45:27.29
And we cannot afford
to ignore the prophecies
00:45:27.32\00:45:29.54
that predict
the coming of Jesus.
00:45:29.57\00:45:32.32
This is not gonna go on and on.
00:45:32.35\00:45:34.31
And Luke 21:20
and Luke 21:20-21.
00:45:34.34\00:45:39.33
Jesus said, "But when you see
00:45:39.36\00:45:40.80
Jerusalem surrounded by armies,
00:45:40.83\00:45:43.00
then recognize that
her desolation is at hand."
00:45:43.03\00:45:45.99
Let me say what is desolation.
00:45:46.02\00:45:47.69
He was quoting directly
00:45:47.72\00:45:51.70
it's the very word we saw there,
00:45:51.73\00:45:53.39
desolations are determined.
00:45:53.42\00:45:55.27
"Then let those
who are in Judea flee
00:45:55.30\00:45:57.21
and let those who
are in the city depart."
00:45:57.24\00:45:59.96
It's going to be sign to you,
00:45:59.99\00:46:01.73
he said to his people.
00:46:01.76\00:46:03.54
When you see this happening,
00:46:03.57\00:46:05.84
you know, it's time to get out.
00:46:05.87\00:46:07.91
And, my friend, we see the signs
00:46:07.94\00:46:09.56
of the times being
fulfilled in the end time.
00:46:09.59\00:46:11.50
We know the time is near.
00:46:11.53\00:46:14.13
And by the grace of Jesus,
00:46:14.16\00:46:15.92
we will be ready, won't we?
00:46:15.95\00:46:17.71
We're gonna be ready
by the grace of Jesus.
00:46:17.74\00:46:19.69
We're gonna trust Him in this.
00:46:19.72\00:46:22.23
We truly are.
00:46:22.26\00:46:23.54
And indeed it did happen,
00:46:23.57\00:46:25.00
you know, the destruction
00:46:25.03\00:46:26.39
of Jerusalem in the sanctuary
00:46:26.42\00:46:27.45
that have been
restored, it happened.
00:46:27.48\00:46:29.91
And on either August
29 or August 30 of 70 AD.
00:46:29.94\00:46:34.85
I'm gonna give you a little bit
00:46:34.88\00:46:35.91
of the historical
background to all of this.
00:46:35.94\00:46:37.84
There was this rebellion
00:46:37.87\00:46:39.41
that broke out among the Jews
00:46:39.44\00:46:41.90
after the death
of Jesus is called,
00:46:41.93\00:46:44.87
it's Jewish Revolt of 66
AD-- stretched from 66-70 AD.
00:46:44.90\00:46:52.06
Nero was emperor in Rome.
00:46:52.09\00:46:55.51
News reaches the capital.
00:46:55.54\00:46:57.51
The Jews are in revolt
and they are determined
00:46:57.54\00:47:00.92
that they're gonna
throw off their head
00:47:00.95\00:47:02.25
and yoke of the Romans.
00:47:02.28\00:47:04.60
And so in 67,
00:47:04.63\00:47:06.50
when--was
received the Roman 67 AD
00:47:06.53\00:47:09.64
Nero appoints Vespasian
00:47:09.67\00:47:13.31
to put down the
rebellion by the way.
00:47:13.34\00:47:17.34
Josephus, we call
in the Jewish historian
00:47:17.37\00:47:20.22
actually was Jewish general.
00:47:20.25\00:47:23.87
That was defeated
by the Roman forces
00:47:23.90\00:47:26.93
that came down to
put down the revolt.
00:47:26.96\00:47:30.45
But he had pro-Roman legions.
00:47:30.48\00:47:35.07
And he was kept in
the cabinet of the Romans.
00:47:35.10\00:47:37.92
He--I mean, they
were many battles
00:47:37.95\00:47:39.57
that were fought, it didn't
00:47:39.60\00:47:40.63
just happen at Jerusalem
00:47:40.66\00:47:42.14
that you know they were fighting
00:47:42.17\00:47:43.42
all the way on
down to Jerusalem.
00:47:43.45\00:47:45.83
And so he was defeated
00:47:45.86\00:47:46.89
and he ended up
with those Roman forces
00:47:46.92\00:47:50.84
before the gates of
the city of Jerusalem.
00:47:50.87\00:47:53.92
And he records in
his-- and we have it.
00:47:53.95\00:47:57.52
Usually I have a nice
thick copy of it for those
00:47:57.55\00:48:00.86
who like to buy it if they want
to study this period of time.
00:48:00.89\00:48:03.95
If you like me, I love history.
00:48:03.98\00:48:05.93
So you're get little bit
00:48:05.96\00:48:06.99
of the history
before we're done.
00:48:07.02\00:48:08.05
Josephus records these
things as I said it was Nero
00:48:08.08\00:48:10.99
that was emperor in Rome.
00:48:11.02\00:48:13.19
And it was Vespasian here he is,
00:48:13.22\00:48:15.14
we didn't have
photographs back in that time.
00:48:15.17\00:48:16.69
But they should,
they did some really
00:48:16.72\00:48:18.09
beautiful work in
stone, didn't they?
00:48:18.12\00:48:20.57
You know, you see
all the facial features
00:48:20.60\00:48:23.06
of these renowned men of old.
00:48:23.09\00:48:26.31
And Vespasian was given
00:48:26.34\00:48:28.24
Roman soldiers
00:48:28.27\00:48:31.90
in fact there were
legions already in Syria.
00:48:31.93\00:48:35.60
They were preparing for
an expedition into the east,
00:48:35.63\00:48:40.19
is what Nero had
been preparing for.
00:48:40.22\00:48:42.47
So they took these
forces and all the supplies
00:48:42.50\00:48:45.29
and this expeditionary
force of the Romans
00:48:45.32\00:48:49.63
came down from Syria to
put down the Jewish Revolt.
00:48:49.66\00:48:53.93
As I said Vespasian
was at the head of it.
00:48:53.96\00:48:56.56
And Titus, his son
was one of his generals.
00:48:56.59\00:49:00.06
He was given the XV Apollinaris,
00:49:00.09\00:49:03.95
a legion that is the
legion from Alexandria.
00:49:03.98\00:49:07.49
A legion had some 5
to 6,000 soldiers in it.
00:49:07.52\00:49:10.33
And by the way in Roman times
00:49:10.36\00:49:12.08
when you're
enlisted in the army,
00:49:12.11\00:49:15.53
it was for a period
of some 20 to 25 years.
00:49:15.56\00:49:20.66
You're assigning over your life
00:49:20.69\00:49:22.36
but if you have the promise
of land and great riches,
00:49:22.39\00:49:26.35
you know, at the end of it
or during the process of it.
00:49:26.38\00:49:29.76
Anyway so Titus, but in 69 AD,
00:49:29.79\00:49:35.70
we find that Nero dies.
00:49:35.73\00:49:38.71
And these are power vacuum
00:49:38.74\00:49:40.01
and Vespasian
receives words of it,
00:49:40.04\00:49:42.56
he leads the force, he
leads the several legions.
00:49:42.59\00:49:46.10
I'm forgetting how
many several legions
00:49:46.13\00:49:48.54
in the command of the
command of his son, Titus.
00:49:48.57\00:49:52.83
And to deal with Jerusalem
00:49:52.86\00:49:55.48
and he makes his
way back to Rome,
00:49:55.51\00:49:57.04
Vespasian does and he secures
00:49:57.07\00:49:58.80
the emperorship for himself
00:49:58.83\00:50:02.59
and for his son, Titus,
00:50:02.62\00:50:04.08
they became co-emperors.
00:50:04.11\00:50:06.92
You know, just to put it
00:50:06.95\00:50:07.98
in his historical
context as we're looking
00:50:08.01\00:50:09.92
at the
fulfillment of this prophecy.
00:50:09.95\00:50:12.89
And, you know, it's all recorded
00:50:12.92\00:50:16.14
the out of defenses of
the city were breached.
00:50:16.17\00:50:19.63
The Jewish defenders made
their way to the Temple Mount,
00:50:19.66\00:50:23.08
it was like a fortress itself.
00:50:23.11\00:50:25.68
And Titus had given orders
00:50:25.71\00:50:28.44
that the temple
was to remain intact,
00:50:28.47\00:50:31.23
the Romans in fact had
been embellishing that temple.
00:50:31.26\00:50:34.65
They didn't want to destroy it
00:50:34.68\00:50:35.85
but the heat of the
battle that followed.
00:50:35.88\00:50:39.03
A fire brand was thrown
into the interior of the temple,
00:50:39.06\00:50:42.02
and remember the
interior was lying
00:50:42.05\00:50:44.23
by the seeders of Lebanon
00:50:44.26\00:50:45.79
and overlaid with gold
00:50:45.82\00:50:46.94
and you know how that can burn.
00:50:46.97\00:50:49.35
And Josephus records how Titus
00:50:49.38\00:50:51.47
try to get to
soldiers have put it out
00:50:51.50\00:50:53.09
but in the heat of the battle
00:50:53.12\00:50:54.97
he and finally he took
some of his general staff
00:50:55.00\00:50:57.28
he went into the temple itself.
00:50:57.31\00:50:59.99
And he got some things out.
00:51:00.02\00:51:02.28
And the things we
know historically got out,
00:51:02.31\00:51:04.11
he got all the
gold's furniture out.
00:51:04.14\00:51:06.53
He got the Table
of Shewbread out,
00:51:06.56\00:51:08.50
he got the trumpets out.
00:51:08.53\00:51:10.10
Remember the feast of trumpets
00:51:10.13\00:51:11.22
while they had trumpets.
00:51:11.25\00:51:12.57
And he got the
Seven-Branch Candlestick out.
00:51:12.60\00:51:16.70
And when he finished,
00:51:16.73\00:51:18.24
when he finished this battle
00:51:18.27\00:51:20.15
and defeating the Jews.
00:51:20.18\00:51:22.38
He erected this Ark of Triumph
00:51:22.41\00:51:23.93
we would call it, at
the southern approach
00:51:23.96\00:51:25.83
to the city of Rome.
00:51:25.86\00:51:27.95
The Appian way, the superhighway
00:51:27.98\00:51:29.80
of that day went
right through this arches,
00:51:29.83\00:51:31.58
it still stands of the day,
00:51:31.61\00:51:33.46
you know, I took that picture
00:51:33.49\00:51:34.53
of course you can see it,
00:51:34.56\00:51:35.59
it's a little bit slided.
00:51:35.62\00:51:38.13
It still stands and you can see
00:51:38.16\00:51:40.57
on the inside of
it, it shows them
00:51:40.60\00:51:42.28
coming back with
some of the booty
00:51:42.31\00:51:44.26
from the defeat of the Jews,
00:51:44.29\00:51:46.35
this was a significant
of military campaign.
00:51:46.38\00:51:49.96
And you see them
00:51:49.99\00:51:51.03
bringing back to
Seven-Branched Candlestick.
00:51:51.06\00:51:52.93
And they used to say,
00:51:52.96\00:51:55.55
who knows what happened to it.
00:51:55.58\00:51:57.72
Except I was reading,
00:51:57.75\00:51:59.32
a book on the Emperor Justinian.
00:51:59.35\00:52:02.48
And it talks
about the Constantinople
00:52:02.51\00:52:05.94
and this point
00:52:05.97\00:52:07.00
but the seat of power in Rome
00:52:07.03\00:52:09.29
has shifted to Constantinople.
00:52:09.32\00:52:11.85
And his General Belisarius had,
00:52:11.88\00:52:14.90
had a famous battle
00:52:14.93\00:52:16.85
and had defeated the Vandals.
00:52:16.88\00:52:19.34
And when he came back
00:52:19.37\00:52:20.89
Justinian had this reception
00:52:20.92\00:52:26.48
and this triumphal
entry of this general.
00:52:26.51\00:52:30.44
And in the record, it talks
00:52:30.47\00:52:32.48
about how they brought
out this Seven-Branched,
00:52:32.51\00:52:34.06
this was 534
now, 500 years later
00:52:34.09\00:52:36.99
brought out this
Seven-Branched Candlestick.
00:52:37.02\00:52:40.45
And put it up
00:52:40.48\00:52:42.60
on in central place
in their celebrations,
00:52:42.63\00:52:47.15
I think it was to be a
reminder of other past victories
00:52:47.18\00:52:52.57
that other Roman
generals have had.
00:52:52.60\00:52:55.40
And that's the
last we know of it
00:52:55.43\00:52:56.69
and of course the last
00:52:56.72\00:52:57.87
coming back to what happened
00:52:57.90\00:52:59.44
to Jerusalem the last defenders
00:52:59.47\00:53:02.36
the last
remnants of the rebellion
00:53:02.39\00:53:06.04
made their way to Masada.
00:53:06.07\00:53:09.06
And general Silva was entrusted
00:53:09.09\00:53:10.61
of putting down
the famous, the famous,
00:53:10.64\00:53:14.52
you know, some 900 of them.
00:53:14.55\00:53:16.02
In fact, you can
still see the today,
00:53:16.05\00:53:18.92
see right here
this is the parameters.
00:53:18.95\00:53:21.05
Oh, I'm sorry, it's
right here actually.
00:53:21.08\00:53:23.28
These are the parameters
00:53:23.31\00:53:24.39
of the Roman of
the Romanian camp _.
00:53:24.42\00:53:28.19
And they built this
ramp took a lot of effort
00:53:28.22\00:53:32.34
but they were determined us to,
00:53:32.37\00:53:34.94
you know, make an end of it.
00:53:34.97\00:53:37.16
And, of course, when
they came up their all 900
00:53:37.19\00:53:39.01
they committed a
suicide of these,
00:53:39.04\00:53:42.14
you know, they have been killed.
00:53:42.17\00:53:43.64
They were not gonna
be taken by the Romans.
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Anyway that some of
the historical background.
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But let me take
you back to Daniel 9
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as we finish this
up as we wrap it up
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because there's one other verse
00:53:53.10\00:53:54.22
that we must look at.
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Daniel 9:27 where he says,
00:53:55.81\00:53:58.41
"And he will
make a firm covenant
00:53:58.44\00:54:00.44
with many for one week."
00:54:00.47\00:54:02.41
Now there are those who
are interpreting Daniel 9:27
00:54:02.44\00:54:05.54
those who teach the rapture
00:54:05.57\00:54:07.16
that this was talking now
00:54:07.19\00:54:08.27
but the antichrist is
some on holly alliance.
00:54:08.30\00:54:11.49
That's gonna
happen in the end time.
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And, my friend, it is
not what we find contextually
00:54:14.44\00:54:17.49
because verse 24 is messianic.
00:54:17.52\00:54:20.08
Verse 25 is messianic.
00:54:20.11\00:54:22.89
Verse 26 is messianic.
00:54:22.92\00:54:25.44
And verse 27 is messianic.
00:54:25.47\00:54:29.52
If we want the antichrist,
00:54:29.55\00:54:30.79
if we want tribulation
in the book of Daniel,
00:54:30.82\00:54:33.75
we don't get it
from Daniel 9:27.
00:54:33.78\00:54:37.79
We can get it
from other passages
00:54:37.82\00:54:39.46
and scriptures of Daniel 12
00:54:39.49\00:54:40.63
and Daniel 7 and Daniel 8.
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Particularly Daniel 8,
00:54:42.31\00:54:44.17
you can find the
antichrist but not here.
00:54:44.20\00:54:46.24
This was talking about Jesus.
00:54:46.27\00:54:48.19
And He came and fulfillment
of the covenant promises.
00:54:48.22\00:54:51.45
He came to ratify the covenant
00:54:51.48\00:54:53.68
by the spilling of His blood
00:54:53.71\00:54:55.11
on the cross of
Calvary, didn't He?
00:54:55.14\00:54:57.55
"So he will make a firm covenant
00:54:57.58\00:54:58.97
with many for one week."
00:54:59.00\00:55:01.15
And, you know, the interpreted
00:55:01.18\00:55:02.44
that time has
suspended between verses 26-27,
00:55:02.47\00:55:05.80
where does it indicate that?
00:55:05.83\00:55:08.17
Is mental fit the theory?
00:55:08.20\00:55:12.84
And they apply this week down
00:55:12.87\00:55:14.41
to the end of time
00:55:14.44\00:55:16.02
when the week clearly fits
00:55:16.05\00:55:18.49
between the 69 and 70th week,
00:55:18.52\00:55:22.76
that week of prophetic
time at the coming on Jesus.
00:55:22.79\00:55:27.64
From 27-34 AD
that's the seven years,
00:55:27.67\00:55:31.23
that's and by the
way that's the only place
00:55:31.26\00:55:33.25
where you can
find the seven years.
00:55:33.28\00:55:34.60
And when we discover
00:55:34.63\00:55:35.67
it has nothing to
do with the rapture
00:55:35.70\00:55:37.68
that's not my subject I know.
00:55:37.71\00:55:40.15
When we
understand the seven years
00:55:40.18\00:55:41.76
has nothing to
do with the rapture
00:55:41.79\00:55:43.59
but it deals with
Jesus coming to confirm
00:55:43.62\00:55:45.77
His covenant with the many.
00:55:45.80\00:55:47.81
Then, my friend, it
really again the whole system
00:55:47.84\00:55:51.97
of belief begins to fall apart,
00:55:52.00\00:55:54.78
the seven years is not even
applicable to the end times.
00:55:54.81\00:55:59.64
And certainly has
some applications,
00:55:59.67\00:56:01.45
so anyway he will
make it from covenant
00:56:01.48\00:56:02.87
with the many for one week.
00:56:02.90\00:56:04.69
But in the middle of the week,
00:56:04.72\00:56:06.46
he will put a stop to
sacrificing grain offerings.
00:56:06.49\00:56:11.05
And they're talking about,
00:56:11.08\00:56:12.12
you know, the interpretation
of restored temple
00:56:12.15\00:56:14.76
and the Antichrist
will come to the restore
00:56:14.79\00:56:16.51
and temple put it and
sacrifice and grain offering.
00:56:16.54\00:56:19.33
You know, my friend,
00:56:19.36\00:56:20.48
that is what Jesus did
00:56:20.51\00:56:21.64
when He came to
the cross of Calvary
00:56:21.67\00:56:23.51
and fulfilled
all of the prophecies
00:56:23.54\00:56:25.59
of the Old
Testament that predicted
00:56:25.62\00:56:26.96
His death on the
cross of Calvary.
00:56:26.99\00:56:29.99
And it was right in the middle,
00:56:30.02\00:56:31.26
in the middle of week
00:56:31.29\00:56:32.32
he would stop
sacrificing grain offering.
00:56:32.35\00:56:34.61
And it was right in the
middle of the week in 31 AD
00:56:34.64\00:56:37.66
that Jesus died, right.
00:56:37.69\00:56:40.58
We know that historically
00:56:40.61\00:56:42.28
all of those animal sacrifices
00:56:42.31\00:56:45.86
that were the basis
of the temple system
00:56:45.89\00:56:48.15
of the Old Testament
00:56:48.18\00:56:49.39
where fulfilled in
the coming of Jesus.
00:56:49.42\00:56:51.94
And so when Jesus died
on the cross of Calvary,
00:56:51.97\00:56:55.32
He brought an end
to sacrifice to see.
00:56:55.35\00:57:00.12
That which symbolized
00:57:00.15\00:57:02.35
and prophetically predicted
00:57:02.38\00:57:03.66
His coming was fulfilled
00:57:03.69\00:57:05.52
when in His death
and so with His death.
00:57:05.55\00:57:10.52
The sacrificial
system comes to an end
00:57:10.55\00:57:12.75
and so it will be at the coming
00:57:12.78\00:57:15.97
of our Lord Jesus Christ
00:57:16.00\00:57:17.52
as prophecies been
fulfilled in the past,
00:57:17.55\00:57:19.89
it is going to be
fulfilled in the future.
00:57:19.92\00:57:22.97
That's what the Bible tells us.
00:57:23.00\00:57:24.22
We can know this for certain.
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