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Hello friends. Welcome to 3ABN
Today. My name is Ryan Day and
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we are excited that you
are joining us today. That's a
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mouthful. We're excited that
you're joining us. This is not
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like your average Today program.
We do all kinds of different
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Today programs so you might be
watching for the very first time
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and be wondering what in
the world is 3ABN Today. This is
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kind of the Three Angels
Broadcasting Network flagship
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program. It happens every day
and we have different types of
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Today programs that we.
Sometimes it might be just a
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simple interview where we
interview someone about their
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testimony, their story. It could
be a Today music program where
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we have musical guests that
provide us you know the gospel
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message through song. It could
be a Bible topic in which we
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take on a Bible topic for an
entire hour. There's multiple
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different types of Today
programs that we do. Today we're
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kind of amalgamating two. We're
doing the interview style along
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with a Bible topic because I got
my good friend, my brother from
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another mother Brother
James Rafferty. How are you, my
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brother If you haven't
recognized by now we're excited
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because James has written a book
and it's entitled Messiah, okay
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get this, Messiah The 70-week
Prophecy and the Gospel of Luke.
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I'm going to tell you right up
my friends, I've read this book.
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It doesn't take very long to
read it. It's about 40, I don't
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know, what is about 48 pages,
47 pages. There it is on your
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screen. You need this book in
your library. In fact, you need
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more than one, you need as many
as you can get because this is a
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great evangelistic tool. And
I know you're probably saying
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right now why do I need to take
the time out to order multiple
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copies and distribute these?
Well you're going to find out
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during this hour. So get
your pen pad, your pen, writing
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utensil, something to take notes
because we're going to be
jumping through not
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too, too, too many jumps
but we're going to be taking a
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journey through the gospel of
Jesus Christ that's found in the
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book of Daniel and, of course,
the book of Luke. And we're
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going to be studying the 70-week
prophecy. And my friends, I'm
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telling you, it's a powerful
book. And so James is going to
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kind of...I'm going to kind of
facilitate but James is going to
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lead us through this powerful
study. I'm excited about it and
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we're excited that you
and Rese are with us as a part
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of 3ABN team. Tell us
what you do here James.
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I am director of discipleship
ministry and that basically
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means that I come along side
people, maybe they're brand new
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believers, maybe they've left
the church and are coming back
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of maybe they're just been
in the church a long time and
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they're just wanting to
learn how to tighten up that
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relationship with Christ. And I
try to come along side them and
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share with them the things that
I've learned in the last you
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know few decades of being in
the church and being in ministry
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just to encourage them in the
scriptures. You know, just what
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their needs are, my experience,
etc., etc., and just do that on
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one on one basis or sometimes
with groups, in group settings,
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I'll meet with people who are
studying the Bible. Sometimes
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it's programs on 3ABN
and just kind of step in
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and answer questions and stuff.
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There you go.
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So I just love doing that and I
think it's really important for
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us not just to preach and to
teach but also to disciple along
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side people and to get into
their lives with them just to
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nurture them. Yeah.
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That's right. Jesus said make
disciples of all nations. So
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that's what we're doing. And
we're excited. Man I'm excited
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Like I told James before
we started this interview that
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we're doing now. He didn't know
this but the 70-week prophecy
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that's like my bread and butter
brother. This is one of my
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favorite prophecies. This is the
one prophecy that really hooked
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me in and just kind of wet
my appetite to really study more
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and it even further confirmed to
me that I knew I was a part of
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God's remnant church, the
Seventh-day Adventist church. So
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we got lots to talk about
but because this is a little
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different we're doing some Bible
study along with this interview
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and talking about your book.
Would you mind having a prayer
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for us my brother?
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Let's pray. Father, we just want
to thank you right now for this
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opportunity. We want to
think you for each viewer that's
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listening. We want to thank you
for the word that you've given
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us and especially the connection
between the books of Daniel and
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Luke, the Old Testament prophecy
of Daniel and the New Testament
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gospel of Luke and how both
of them point to the Messiah
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directing our eyes to Jesus
Christ. We just want to lift up
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this program Father. We pray
that it will be a light and a
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blessing to many people drawing
them to you. We pray these
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things in Jesus' name, Amen.
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Amen. Praise the Lord. All right
So Messiah, the 70-Week Prophecy
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and the Gospel of Luke. I have
to ask you as the author because
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we know that when a person takes
the time to write a book and to
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bring their thoughts and all
that the Lord has given them and
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put it into a book, there has
to be an inspiration or a reason
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behind why this topic or why
this particular book. So let's
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start there.
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Well like you I'm a convert and
I came into the Adventist church
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from another denomination,
specifically Catholic, but also
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I was part of Calvary Chapel and
a Pentecostal group for a while
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before becoming a Seventh-day
Adventist. I came into the
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church like you did loving
prophecy. My first prophetic
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series that I attended was
on Daniel. And it was a little
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challenging for me, the
2300 day prophecy was a little
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challenging but it was just
amazing, incredible just to see
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that thing just play out and hit
all the right dates realizing it
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was written you know hundreds
of years before Christ came and
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of course thousands of years
before we are here today. So
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but I always struggled just a
little bit with identifying the
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beginning date of the 2300-day
prophecy which was 457 B.C.
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I knew there were Bible
verses but the history, like the
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historical statements and
as time went on I saw a lot of
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people really coming against
this prophecy. Not just people
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you know outside of Adventism
but people even inside of
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Adventism coming up with
different interpretations,
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different applications,
interpretations that had some
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weight but didn't seem to be as
sound. And then I saw Adventists
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kind of slipping away here and
there you know just saying no we
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missed it on that. That was a
face-saving idea. It was to save
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1844; ah the 2300-day prophecy
is not really what we thought it
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was. (Right right) And I started
just really praying about it
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Ryan and I thought, you know
there's got to be...If Satan is
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coming, if the devil is coming
to undermine the principle
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truths of the Bible, especially
those that are focused on the
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Messiah, God must also have
extra ammunition. He's got a
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a little bit of extra stuff you
know. (Right) There's got to be
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something, there's got to be
a way. And the thing for me that
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was vital. I love our message
but I really believe that every
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doctrine that we teach should
be established in Christ (Yes).
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It should be established in
Messiah. The foundation of our
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doctrines is Christ, it's the
character of God, not just some
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theological idea that we've come
up with you know or even a face
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saving idea. It's a truth that
points us to Jesus. And so I
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started...I don't know how I...
how it worked, but you know I
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love Daniel, I love Revelation.
I know that Daniel is a prophecy
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that talks about Gabriel and
for some reason this idea popped
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into my head of Gabriel. And I
thought Gabriel is mentioned by
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name because people were talking
to me about...I heard every once
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in a while people talk about the
two angels, Gabriel and you know
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there's someone else and I'm
like no there's only Gabriel.
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There's Michael and there's
Gabriel and that's it. You know
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there's no other names, and I
thought Gabriel, Gabriel, he's
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mentioned in Daniel and then
he's never mentioned again until
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the book of Luke and in the book
of Luke when he's mentioned he's
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talking about the Messiah. Wait
a minute. And all of a sudden a
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light went on. I thought this is
amazing, this Gabriel connection
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There you go.
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So one of the chapters in here
is entitled The Gabriel...it's
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the second chapter technically.
The Gabriel Connection. I want
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to come back to that real
quickly because I know there's
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probably someone who just tuned
in and hear you using all this
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language. Could you give us just
the juiced quick version of what
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is the 70-week prophecy. Okay
because we're about to dive into
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this, to talk about the Gabriel
connection and all the different
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points but what is the 70-week
prophecy and why is it so
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significant that
we understand it?
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The 70-week prophecy is a
smaller bite size portion of a
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large prophecy we call the
2300-day prophecy. And that
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prophecy is established in
Daniel 8, specifically verse 14.
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Right? Unto 2300 days then shall
the sanctuary be cleansed and
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made right. And Daniel is beside
himself. Like he's been giving
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these prophecies. He's given the
interpretation in Daniel 2, then
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his own prophecy in Daniel 7,
another one in Daniel 8 and this
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thing comes out of nowhere
for him because. You got to
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understand Daniel's in captivity
under the Babylonian power which
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is about to fall. And you
understand in Daniel 7 and 8
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even though the Babylonian power
has fallen already in Daniel
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chapter 5 in Daniel 7 and 8
it hasn't because Daniel 7 and 8
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are still under the reign
of Belshazzar, right? So Daniel
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knows that the Babylonian power
is going to fall. According to
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Jeremiah they were going to be
in captivity for 70 years and he
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knows that so he's anticipating
that when he gets this vision
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of this, 2300 days and
then shall the sanctuary be made
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right or cleansed. And he's
thinking, the sanctuary, that's
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the earthly sanctuary, 2300,
wait a minute and he's sick
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about it. He's like 2300 more
days and in his mind he's
struggling with the
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idea that even be literal, he
can't...Either way, it doesn't
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make sense to him. And so he's
sick, he doesn't get it. He's
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thinking I thought we were going
to be going back sooner than
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this, now I thought...And he's
really struggling. And so what
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happens is in Daniel chapter
9 he begins to pray and you know
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what I love about his attitude
is Daniel basically says
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something that a lot of
theologians today aren't willing
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to say. He says, God, I don't
understand this. I don't get it.
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I don't have the answer. This
is confusing me. And whenever
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you come to God with this
attitude of you know teach me
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and then he's fasting so he's
got this humility of knowledge
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and he's got this humility
of attitude and this humility of
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action. So his attitude is like
one of confession and repentance
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He's confessing his sins, the
sins of his people and then the
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whole prayer is predicated
on God's glory. Like for your
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name's sake. Father, I want you
to show me this truth for your
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name sake. Many times when we
study the Bible we want to come
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to an understanding of truth
it's for our name's sake you
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know so that we can be right
and they can be wrong and we can
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write our book and you know put
them in their place. Daniel was
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all about Messiah, he's
all about Jesus, he's all about
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God, he's all about
God's kingdom, God's character.
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And as he comes to God
with these attitudes of okay the
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attitude of humility of
knowledge, humility of action,
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fasting and praying, humility of
attitude including himself with
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the sins of others and
then humility of motive.
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Motive yeah I was looking at
it right here in your book and
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actually, I put a question
here about this because how many
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people misinterpret not just
this prophecy but so much more
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about Bible prophecy in general
because they miss this humility
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aspect. (Yes) It's all
about them. It's all about their
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knowledge and their...But
they're not focusing on flipping
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the script and humbling
themselves before God in these
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four ways that you brought out:
Humility of knowledge, humility
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of action, humility of attitude,
humility of motive. That's a
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mouthful.
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Really Ryan and we could say
that those found principles are
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vital principles of prophetic
understanding. (Yes) Right? Yes
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Not necessarily interpretation
but understanding because it's
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not...he's simply trying to
understand what God has revealed
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to him in chapter 8. Right?
And as he incorporates these
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principles guess what happens.
An angel comes and this angel
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Daniel was told was sent to
him when he started praying. So
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we're talking about some...He
was caused to fly swiftly is the
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way the Bible puts it. To
fly swiftly, whatever that means
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right. Woof, he's there.
And this angel actually says his
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name, tells him who he is. I am
Gabriel. (All right here we go)
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And there's something really
amazing about that because
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that's...this is only one of the
two times the name Gabriel is
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used. I am Gabriel. And I've
come to show you something. So
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what he does is he breaks down
the 2300-day prophecy, he breaks
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it into these subsets and the
first subset that he reveals to
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Daniel is the 70 weeks. He says
70 weeks are cut off, determined
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for your people, Daniel, for
the Jews, right? And there are
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things that are going to
take place in the 70-week time
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prophecy. In the first seven
weeks the temple's going to be
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built and the wall even
in troublous times. And then
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there's going to be seven weeks
added to a 62 weeks and with
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that combination, 62 and 7 which
is 69, Messiah's going to come.
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And He's going to be anointed,
that word Messiah means to
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anoint right? And then in the
70th week in the last week of
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that prophetic time period
Messiah's going to be cut off
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right in the middle of that week
He's going to be cut off. Not
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for Himself, right, but for the
people. In other words, this is
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pointing to the cross, it's
pointing to Calvary. So what we
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see in the 70-week prophecy is
we see the prediction of Messiah
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being born, baptized and
crucified for us and all of this
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takes place in a subset of
the 2300-day prophecy that is
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specifically determined or cut
off, given to the Jewish nation.
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Yes, that's a beautiful. There
you go. I think that was like
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70 weeks in like four or
five minutes. That's tough to do
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because it's a big prophecy.
But let's go back now to this
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Gabriel connection because
that's where you kind of launch
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us. And I have to admit man
I have studied this prophecy
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through and through. Of course
I knew Gabriel is mentioned in
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Daniel and I knew Gabriel is
mentioned in the book of Luke
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but I never made the connection
like you did in your book
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brother, it was genius. (Me too)
It's powerful to see that the
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two times that Gabriel is
mentioned it's in connection
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with the
fulfillment of this prophecy.
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Well the second time was the
fulfillment and the first time
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was the prediction.
Prediction fulfillment.
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You actually said here last part
of this book I'm reading it says
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In Daniel, Gabriel comes to
foretell. In Luke, he comes to
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announce, confirming that what
he had foretold to Daniel is
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about to happen.
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God does that, you know God
does that, right? He reveals a
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connection that we haven't seen
for years. This book was first
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published several years ago. I'd
never seen the connection before
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that time just like you. I'd
never seen the connection before
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that time, right? God opens
up to our minds things that we
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hadn't seen before and all of a
sudden it clicks and I think the
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reason He's doing that is
because He really wants to firm
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up this understanding of this
prophecy you know. Sir Isaac
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Newton called the 70-week
prophecy in Daniel chapter 9
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the foundation of
Christianity, right?
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So we know this
is vital. We know
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Satan is upset with this
prophecy because it points to
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Jesus. Not just Him coming, but
it also points to what He was
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going to accomplish for us and
we'll get into that as we go on.
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That's another thing, just
really quickly, because if you
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remove the 70-week prophecy, of
course there's other Messianic
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prophecies describing His
character, what He's going to
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come do, all these different
things. But the 70-week prophecy
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this is the way I see it
in my mind, it's the ultimate
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confirmation because it provides
that time frame. It's like God
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is finally telling His people
remember for 4000 years I've
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been telling you that He's
coming. Now I'm going to tell
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you the exact year that He's
going to arrive. It's so awesome
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It's powerful. That's why I
love this prophecy. All right so
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Gabriel connection.
Let's go from there.
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So in Daniel chapter 9 you have
Gabriel coming to Daniel and
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actually announcing who he is.
It's in Daniel chapter 9, verse
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21. Yea, while I was speaking
in prayer even the man Gabriel
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whom I had seen in the vision
at the beginning being caused to
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fly swiftly touched me about the
time of the evening oblation.
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And then it goes on to say he
informed me and talked with me
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He said, Oh
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Daniel, I am now come forth to
give you skill and understanding
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At the beginning of that
supplication the commandment
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came forth and I am come to
show thee for thou art greatly
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beloved. Therefore understand
the matter and consider the
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vision. So here Gabriel is
mentioned by name. Now it's
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really interesting: You find
Gabriel mentioned by name in
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Daniel and Daniel only. And we
know that Daniel comes later in
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the Old Testament. You know it's
a book that was written you know
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just a few hundred years before
Messiah comes, right? And then
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it's like Gabriel, God puts him
on a siesta. Now I'm not saying
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he wasn't active, it's just that
his name was never brought forth
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His name was never mentioned
until you get to the actual
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fulfillment of the thing he
predicted. He predicts Messiah's
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going to come. As Messiah is
about to be born Gabriel shows
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up again. Gabriel by name shows
up again. And I think that is
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deliberate on God's part. God
is trying to make a connection
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here. He's trying to show us
that the very thing he predicted
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in Daniel, chapter 9 is now
being fulfilled in Luke chapters
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1 and 2 and 3 where Gabriel
comes to inform Elizabeth and
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inform Mary and then we see
of course, Christ being born and
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we see Him being baptized at
a specific time in history. Now
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this is what I love about the
book of Luke. When you connect
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Daniel and Luke, Daniel is a
historic book based on prophecy,
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right? So it's all kinds of
history in here but it's not
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like days and dates and kings
and names. Not really. I mean
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you actually have Augustus
Caesar and Tiberius Caesar
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identified in Daniel chapter
11 verses 20 and 21, but not by
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name. But then you get to Luke.
Luke is now fleshing out this
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prophecy and he's putting dates
and names years and people into
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the prophecies of Daniel. So we
get into Luke, John doesn't do
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it. Matthew doesn't do it, Mark
doesn't do it. Luke's the only
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one. He's the historian. He's
the historian, right? And he
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starts naming stuff. Let's just
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look in Luke chapter 1 or
chapter 2 I should say. In Luke
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chapter 2 where we find Luke...
And the book of Luke begins with
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this declaration to a noble
person. This is something that
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is for noble people to
understand, I was an eye witness
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of this. I want to give you a
detailed record of what happened
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And then in Luke chapter 2 he
says, verse 1, It came to pass
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in those days there went out a
decree from Caesar Augustus that
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all the world should be taxed.
And this taxing was first made
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when Quirinius the governor of
Syria and then verse 3: And all
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went to be taxed, everyone
to his own city and Joseph also
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went from Galilee out of the
city of Nazareth into Judea unto
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the city of David which is
called Bethlehem because he was
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of the lineage of David to
be taxed with who? Verse 5. Mary
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his espoused wife who was great
with child. Who was that child?
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Jesus. So now we know according
to Luke's gospel when Jesus was
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born. He was born under the
reign of Augustus Caesar right?
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And this is exactly what we see
in prophetic language in Daniel
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but there's no names. There's no
actual history. Now we can look
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up the reign of Augustus Caesar.
We can know when he began his
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reign, when he ended his reign.
When was that? Ah ha. Jesus was
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born under Caesar Augustus,
right? Then you go over to Luke
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chapter 3 and you see a
transition now taking place from
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Augustus Caesar to Tiberius
Caesar. Now in the fifteenth
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year of reign of Tiberius Caesar
Pontius Pilot being governor of
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Judea, etc., right? So this is
his earmark. This is what Luke
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is famous for. Luke is famous
for nailing down the dates. God
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inspired him to do that for our
sake. Now you can go and you can
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find the reign of Tiberius
Caesar and you can know when it
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began and when it ended. You can
find the 15th year of Tiberius
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Caesar and you can nail down the
baptism of Jesus because...You
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want me to keep going on this?
(Oh absolutely) Because when you
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get past this identification
of the 15th year you follow the
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verses up and you come to
verse 22. It begins before that
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because John in verse 16 is
baptizing, right? And everyone's
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coming in to be baptized
and then we find that Jesus also
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comes to be baptized. Verse
21: Now when all the people were
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baptized, it came to pass that
Jesus also being baptized and
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praying that heaven was opened
and the Holy Ghost descended in
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a bodily shape like a dove upon
Him and a voice came from heaven
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which said, Thou art my beloved
son in whom I am well pleased.
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So now you have Jesus being
baptized in the 15th year of
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Tiberius Caesar. Now when Jesus
was baptized the Holy Spirit
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comes Jesus was anointed with
the Holy Spirit. That's what it
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says in the verse here and
it says that also in Acts. He's
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anointed with the Holy Spirit
and as He's anointed with the
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Holy Spirit we have the
fulfillment of this prophecy
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that says after threescore and
seven weeks shall Messiah come.
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That word Messiah means the
Anointed One. The Anointed One.
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So you've got the seven weeks
and threescore and two weeks.
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You've got the 69 weeks. That's
483 days and of course we either
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take that literally or
prophetically. So we believe
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that those are prophetic days
not literal days because the
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literal doesn't fit anything,
it doesn't fit anything. Because
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nothing actually happens but if
you put the prophetic day/year
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principle in there and you allow
those to be prophetic days then
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they become literal years.
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Okay so where do we get the
prophetic...Let's talk about
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that because again someone
watching at home listening to us
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talk about this and they just
heard you talk about turning
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days into years or the prophetic
day for year principle where do
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we get that and what's
the premise behind that?
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Okay so the premise behind that
is that God in a couple places
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in the Bible like Ezekiel
chapter 4 and verse 6 and
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Numbers chapter
34 and verse 24...
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Numbers 13:34 I think it
is. Let's confirm it, let's
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confirm it. That's a good point
because I think it's Numbers 13
00:23:02.21\00:23:05.35
verse 34. Okay you go to Numbers
13 verse 34 and I'll go to
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Numbers 34:24.
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Okay, there you go. So this
is important because if you get
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if you can't get the time frame
right, get that principle right,
00:23:14.56\00:23:17.39
then your whole vision is thrown
off. So Numbers 13 and I believe
00:23:17.43\00:23:21.63
it's verse 34. According to
the number of days in which you
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spied out the land, 40 days,
for each day you shall bear your
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guilt one year namely 40 years
and you shall know my rejection.
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So there's the year for day
principle in Numbers chapter 13
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verse 34 and then when you get
to Ezekiel, I think it's chapter
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4 verse 10...
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It's not 13:34 though is it?
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Oh, it is 14:34. (14:34) We're
going to get it right one day.
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(Gotcha) Numbers chapter 14
verse 34. Write that down my
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friend. And that's a proof text
for the fact that you see the
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year/day principle or the
day for a year principle applied
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there and then the next one I
think is Ezekiel chapter 4 verse
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6 (Yes) I have given
you a day for a year.
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So we look at that principle and
we use that in prophetic time if
00:24:03.27\00:24:09.08
it fits. Sometimes it doesn't
fit. Noah preached for 120 years
00:24:09.11\00:24:12.08
They were 120 literal years.
(right) It wasn't a day for a
00:24:12.11\00:24:16.05
year. So we look at that
principle and we apply it if it
00:24:16.08\00:24:18.92
fits, whoo well it does. Because
when you have Jesus being
00:24:18.95\00:24:23.43
baptized in the 15th year
of Tiberius Caesar that ends up
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being 27 A.D. and you have
historical accounts right? You
00:24:27.36\00:24:30.97
can Google references and I
put about five of them in there.
00:24:31.00\00:24:32.93
Yes, yes I saw that. That's
actually one of the things that
00:24:32.97\00:24:35.70
I noted here is that in the book
that James has written, Messiah
00:24:35.74\00:24:40.08
The 70-Week Prophecy and
the Gospel of Luke you actually
00:24:40.11\00:24:42.94
provide the historical sources
for support of this 27 A.D. time
00:24:42.98\00:24:49.82
which is crucial (It is) Because
it's incredible because when I
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was, and I want to talk
about this but this particular
00:24:54.62\00:24:57.39
prophecy is used and
misinterpreted by a lot
00:24:57.43\00:24:59.89
of Evangelical Christians to
support a futurist, at least the
00:24:59.93\00:25:03.57
last week which we're going to
talk about, is used to support
00:25:03.60\00:25:06.84
a futurist understanding of the
unfolding of prophetic events.
00:25:06.87\00:25:09.80
Past this, you know, preach the
rapture theory, past the rapture
00:25:09.84\00:25:14.91
and all these things, and we're
not here to talk about that, but
00:25:14.94\00:25:16.58
yet if you get the timing wrong
then you also get the dates
00:25:16.61\00:25:20.58
wrong you know they don't line
up. It doesn't make sense. Now
00:25:20.62\00:25:22.48
you open the door for what
they've done. You start hacking
00:25:22.52\00:25:25.52
away at the prophecy and
applying it to someone or
00:25:25.55\00:25:28.49
something else and it doesn't
belong. In this case, I love how
00:25:28.52\00:25:30.86
you emphasize in this book
that it's all about Christ.
00:25:30.89\00:25:33.53
Everything points to
Jesus Christ and so I love the
00:25:33.56\00:25:36.77
historical evidence that you
provided in here, the sources
00:25:36.80\00:25:39.53
that we can go look up and
see how that date is solidified.
00:25:39.57\00:25:43.67
Another thing and I know I
won't talk about this, I'm just
00:25:43.71\00:25:45.34
excited about this. I've
never seen anyone take on this
00:25:45.37\00:25:48.84
prophecy and start calculating
the timing (in the New
00:25:48.88\00:25:52.65
Testament) from the yeah well
not just in the New Testament
00:25:52.68\00:25:54.82
but from 27 A.D. and working
backward and forward. In this
00:25:54.85\00:25:59.22
case you confirmed the dates but
establishing 27 A.D. first. Most
00:25:59.25\00:26:02.82
people start with you know from
the going forth of the command
00:26:02.86\00:26:05.49
to restore and build Jerusalem
which is verse 25 of Daniel
00:26:05.53\00:26:08.93
chapter 9. We usually start in
kind of a chronologic way, not
00:26:08.96\00:26:11.60
necessarily a wrong way to do it
but yet I love the way you did
00:26:11.63\00:26:15.47
it because it places the
emphasis immediately on Christ.
00:26:15.50\00:26:17.67
Why don't we go and find the
legitimate time in which this
00:26:17.71\00:26:21.44
is all about the Messiah,
the arrival of the Messiah, the
00:26:21.48\00:26:24.31
anointing of the Messiah, the
work that He's coming to do and
00:26:24.35\00:26:26.48
then from there do the math
back, do the math forward, and
00:26:26.51\00:26:29.72
it all adds up. I
love that book, I love it.
00:26:29.75\00:26:31.39
So beautiful isn't it? And
that's really how God has done
00:26:31.42\00:26:34.59
it. What's really interesting
is this. You know God in his
00:26:34.62\00:26:37.96
fore knowledge knew that the 457
date might be a little difficult
00:26:37.99\00:26:40.70
challenging for some people. It
was for me. But the A.D. 27 date
00:26:40.73\00:26:44.90
is rock solid, right? And
it's not just rock-solid in
00:26:44.93\00:26:49.34
historical references. You
can find historical references.
00:26:49.37\00:26:50.81
It's rock solid in the Bible.
Luke here is telling us that
00:26:50.84\00:26:54.08
in the 15th year of
Tiberius Caesar Jesus Christ was
00:26:54.11\00:26:57.68
Messiahed, He was anointed, he
was filled with the Holy Spirit
00:26:57.71\00:26:59.98
He was baptized and anointed.
That's the fulfillment of the
00:27:00.02\00:27:03.35
very prophecy, the very
thing that Daniel predicted that
00:27:03.39\00:27:07.06
Gabriel told Daniel was going
to happen. Now you start walking
00:27:07.09\00:27:11.53
backwards and in the book we
did we walked backwards, started
00:27:11.56\00:27:14.03
with A.D. 27 and we just start
walking...I mean I want to be
00:27:14.06\00:27:17.67
legit. Let's walk backward every
single year, just walk this
00:27:17.70\00:27:20.70
count backwards and what you
do when you count it backwards
00:27:20.74\00:27:23.10
is you come to...understanding
the year zero goes from A.D. 1
00:27:23.14\00:27:29.14
to B.C. 1 so you're going
right to there. Taking that into
00:27:29.18\00:27:32.65
consideration you walk backward
483 years from 27 A.D. and you
00:27:32.68\00:27:36.52
come to 457 B.C.
00:27:36.55\00:27:39.35
Something had to happen in 457.
And I just want to go back here
00:27:39.39\00:27:42.59
for a moment because you
mentioned that some people may
00:27:42.62\00:27:45.13
find the 457 date problematic.
I mean a lot of people go to a
00:27:45.16\00:27:48.16
completely different date
and it's based on the fact that
00:27:48.20\00:27:50.57
there are four different decrees
given between Ezra and Nehemiah
00:27:50.60\00:27:54.07
and some people choose one
of those other ones but there's
00:27:54.10\00:27:56.54
only one that fits the 457 date
and that's Ezra 7. So and you
00:27:56.57\00:28:00.18
bring that out in the book. By
the way. I just got to mention
00:28:00.21\00:28:02.41
this. If you're just now tuning
in we're talking with Pastor
00:28:02.44\00:28:04.68
James Rafferty about this
incredible, powerful prophecy
00:28:04.71\00:28:07.98
of the 70-week prophecy found
in Daniel chapter 9 and the
00:28:08.02\00:28:11.29
connection that we find in the
gospel of Luke. I've read the
00:28:11.32\00:28:17.36
book. My friends look. You may
be like me. I'm not a big reader
00:28:17.39\00:28:18.73
I mean I like to read when I'm
in the mood to read but I'm not
00:28:18.76\00:28:20.90
a big reader. It's a quick read.
I think I read this thing in
00:28:20.93\00:28:24.43
like an hour and it's only like
47 pages but it's packed with
00:28:24.47\00:28:27.64
just so much incredible
knowledge in regard to this
00:28:27.67\00:28:31.34
prophecy, the importance of this
prophecy and of course it's all
00:28:31.37\00:28:33.48
about Jesus Christ. And I just
want to give you a little bit of
00:28:33.51\00:28:37.91
a tease heads up, on how you can
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00:29:03.07\00:29:05.81
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00:29:05.84\00:29:09.98
questioning is Jesus Christ
really the Messiah or He just
00:29:10.01\00:29:11.95
some fairy tale book character
from the Bible that people just
00:29:11.98\00:29:15.08
run with. This proves
historically and without a doubt
00:29:15.12\00:29:18.65
biblically that only
Jesus Christ could complete this
00:29:18.69\00:29:23.29
prophecy, be the one to fulfill
this prophecy and of course be
00:29:23.32\00:29:26.43
the true and real Messiah. So
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Well, let's go from there James.
00:29:31.23\00:29:33.97
Let's continue on in our
conversation. You just nailed
00:29:34.00\00:29:36.57
down the fact that if we go from
27 A.D. We do the proper, proper
00:29:36.60\00:29:41.04
calculations, it's backward
483 years back from 27 A.D. it
00:29:41.08\00:29:45.48
undoubtedly leads us to 457 B.C.
00:29:45.51\00:29:48.75
Yep, yep. So we got the timeline
but it fits the timeline. Then
00:29:48.78\00:29:54.19
we've got the history, all right
The history fits because you've
00:29:54.22\00:29:56.46
got Luke the historian
confirming the prophecy that
00:29:56.49\00:30:00.46
Daniel predicted. So you've got
two factors here that are vital.
00:30:00.50\00:30:04.07
But there's two more that we
need to look at and that is the
00:30:04.10\00:30:06.77
content of the prophecy.
This is where it really to me is
00:30:06.80\00:30:12.31
powerful and beautiful. A lot
of people will kind of overlook
00:30:12.34\00:30:15.14
this when they're studying the
2300-day prophecy. I see a lot
00:30:15.18\00:30:18.08
of people...I'm not talking
about a lot of different people
00:30:18.11\00:30:20.68
I'm talking about a lot of
Adventist people right? Because
00:30:20.72\00:30:23.15
we're in the Adventist church.
We talk to Adventists and we do
00:30:23.18\00:30:26.65
evangelism and there's something
about the 2300-day prophecy that
00:30:26.69\00:30:29.92
causes us to emphasize the
timeline and not the actual
00:30:29.96\00:30:35.16
actions that are taking place
in it, like the events that are
00:30:35.20\00:30:38.50
taking place, the purpose of it
right? If we could really nail
00:30:38.53\00:30:41.90
down the purpose and really
emphasize the purpose I think a
00:30:41.94\00:30:45.97
lot more people wouldn't have
any problem with the timeline.
00:30:46.01\00:30:47.58
I'm going to tell you why I
believe that. I was in Pakistan
00:30:47.61\00:30:51.11
doing a series of meetings, an
evangelism series of meetings,
00:30:51.15\00:30:53.21
for pastors. So I was preaching
to about 300 pastors. Now the
00:30:53.25\00:30:59.15
first time I went there were 200
and some pastors there, most of
00:30:59.19\00:31:02.79
them were...120 were Pentecostal
and I was in the city of Lahore
00:31:02.82\00:31:06.53
Lahore, Pakistan. This was
in 1997 or 97, 98 excuse me. I
00:31:06.56\00:31:12.20
went back in 99. I was there in
97 and planted seeds. There were
00:31:12.23\00:31:15.57
about 12 pastors and we had a
little study on Revelation and
00:31:15.60\00:31:19.61
they wanted more. So I went
back to Lahore in 97 or in 98
00:31:19.64\00:31:23.65
In 98 we started going through
I had four days, four meetings a
00:31:23.68\00:31:28.45
day. We started going through
Daniel and Revelation and we got
00:31:28.48\00:31:31.55
to Daniel chapters 7, 8, and 9,
excuse me, Daniel 8 and 9. And
00:31:31.59\00:31:37.83
we got into the 2300...Aww, all
these power points up there you
00:31:37.86\00:31:39.76
know and all the dates and
everything. I went through the
00:31:39.79\00:31:42.96
whole thing and as I was going
through the prophecy, you know,
00:31:43.00\00:31:47.00
it wasn't the timeline
that impressed them. What would
00:31:47.04\00:31:50.91
impress them is when we got to
these verses in Daniel chapter
00:31:50.94\00:31:53.81
9 where it says that He is
going to make an end of sins and
00:31:53.84\00:31:59.15
reconciliation for iniquity
and bringing everlasting
00:31:59.18\00:32:01.18
righteousness, seal up the
vision of prophecy and after
00:32:01.22\00:32:03.69
threescore, verse 26, and two
weeks shall Messiah be cut off
00:32:03.72\00:32:06.35
but not for Himself. And I was
explaining that this was talking
00:32:06.39\00:32:09.92
about Christ and this was
talking about how He came to do
00:32:09.96\00:32:12.76
away with their sins and
our transgressions and our
00:32:12.79\00:32:15.00
iniquities, how He came to bring
in everlasting righteousness
00:32:15.03\00:32:16.97
because we can't save ourselves
how He came to establish the
00:32:17.00\00:32:21.04
vision and to establish the
prophecy, the timeline and the
00:32:21.07\00:32:23.87
contents, right? It's not just
the prophetic timeline but it's
00:32:23.91\00:32:25.97
the vision itself. What is the
vision telling us is going to
00:32:26.01\00:32:29.18
happen? He's going to make an
end of sins, and reconciliation
00:32:29.21\00:32:31.18
for transgression, do away with
iniquity. Who else can do that?
00:32:31.21\00:32:34.48
I was emphasizing all that and
then I got to verse 26 where it
00:32:34.52\00:32:37.55
says He's going to be cut
off but not for Himself. And I
00:32:37.59\00:32:40.79
explained cut off is a term that
means second death, it means He
00:32:40.82\00:32:45.69
was dying for the sins of the
world, it's a soul sacrifice,
00:32:45.73\00:32:48.56
Isaiah 53, and I pointed
that all out. And you know in
00:32:48.60\00:32:50.73
Pakistan I'm speaking and then
there's a translator translating
00:32:50.77\00:32:54.50
into Urdu. So I'm speaking, I'm
talking about this, He shall be
00:32:54.54\00:32:59.14
cut off but not for Himself
and then he translates and the
00:32:59.17\00:33:03.98
Pentecostal pastors, like
120 of them were standing up and
00:33:04.01\00:33:09.35
they're raising their hands and
they're praising God and they're
00:33:09.38\00:33:10.75
doing all this, there's just all
this commotion is going on. And
00:33:10.79\00:33:14.26
I'm like...And we had to stop.
What's going on? Well the guy
00:33:14.29\00:33:16.96
that was, Ezekiel Zerro, he
was translating me, he was their
00:33:16.99\00:33:21.10
pastor, he was like the Billy
Graham of Pakistan. Cool guy.
00:33:21.13\00:33:25.03
He was a song writer, he was a
singer, he was just...you would
00:33:25.07\00:33:28.17
have loved him. He passed way
tragically in a car accident.
00:33:28.20\00:33:30.41
But he was such an amazing...
And he knew his Bible so well.
00:33:30.44\00:33:35.54
Better than all the Adventist
preachers that whenever I did
00:33:35.58\00:33:38.85
meetings where he was I would
always have him translate for me
00:33:38.88\00:33:41.18
He was just right there with me.
00:33:41.22\00:33:42.58
He probably knew where
you were going before you did.
00:33:42.62\00:33:44.55
He knew it. He knew the word.
He was just like Yes, I got it,
00:33:44.59\00:33:46.42
I got. Go over the outline. Yes,
yes, I got it. So I said what's
00:33:46.45\00:33:50.13
happening? He said he said just
wait a minute I'll find out. And
00:33:50.16\00:33:53.90
so he asked you know and he said
Oh he said they are so excited
00:33:53.93\00:33:57.77
They have never heard this
before. They've never heard
00:33:57.80\00:34:00.77
anything like this before.
They thought that these verses
00:34:00.80\00:34:04.97
applied to the antichrist.
That's what they thought and
00:34:05.01\00:34:07.94
they've never heard anything
like this. And they said it
00:34:07.98\00:34:10.15
makes sense then. But, he said,
they want you to do the meeting
00:34:10.18\00:34:14.42
again and they want you to
go slower and they want to ask
00:34:14.45\00:34:18.85
questions. They want to know
what do you mean day-for-a-year
00:34:18.89\00:34:20.79
right? So we were talking about
Ezekiel 4:6, Numbers 14:34. What
00:34:20.82\00:34:26.49
about the day-for-a-year. We've
never heard this before. And
00:34:26.53\00:34:29.70
Messiah being cut off. That's in
Daniel. Messiah, that's Jesus?
00:34:29.73\00:34:34.24
And so the next night, I was up
all night just doing more Power
00:34:34.27\00:34:38.91
Point, more details, or
whatever. The next day we went
00:34:38.94\00:34:40.51
through this slowly and they
loved it. And they said you know
00:34:40.54\00:34:44.51
just a few weeks ago we had a
pastor from America come in to
00:34:44.55\00:34:48.58
Lahore and give us a series on
basically left behind, and the
00:34:48.62\00:34:52.25
antichrist and applying the 70th
week to the end of time. And
00:34:52.29\00:34:54.66
they said this is completely
different and they said we
00:34:54.69\00:34:58.56
really believe that what you're
saying here is what is, this is
00:34:58.59\00:35:02.00
See right there, man. You just
touched a nerve with me. I grew
00:35:02.03\00:35:05.23
up evangelical. I grew up in the
Pentecostal Church. I haven't
00:35:05.27\00:35:08.54
always been a Seventh-day
Adventist. This prophecy is the
00:35:08.57\00:35:13.38
one that really got me
because even when I was in those
00:35:13.41\00:35:16.68
churches and I was being taught
the left behind series, the
00:35:16.71\00:35:19.41
pretribulation rapture theory
you know all this futurist stuff
00:35:19.45\00:35:22.02
antichrist coming in the middle
of the week and he's going to
00:35:22.05\00:35:25.05
stop you know the sacrifices in
the newly built temple, all this
00:35:25.09\00:35:28.22
stuff, there was just something
off about it and even in my
00:35:28.26\00:35:32.49
teenage mind as a young boy and
I didn't fully understand it but
00:35:32.53\00:35:35.70
I just knew something didn't
seem right that when I'd read
00:35:35.73\00:35:40.64
Daniel 9 it seemed like there
was a clear connection between
00:35:40.67\00:35:43.67
all of the texts but yet there
was this thing called a gap
00:35:43.71\00:35:46.81
theory where they were taking
the last week that only Jesus
00:35:46.84\00:35:49.44
Christ can fulfill but I didn't
know that at the time where they
00:35:49.48\00:35:53.01
isolate that last week, they
bring it down to the end of time
00:35:53.05\00:35:54.48
and this is where it touches
a nerve with me because the vast
00:35:54.52\00:35:57.72
majority of Christianity today
some of them not really knowing
00:35:57.75\00:36:00.96
they're doing it, some probably
know it but just are going with
00:36:00.99\00:36:04.49
the agenda, they're taking
the glory away from Christ and
00:36:04.53\00:36:09.00
placing it on some antichrist.
It's so sad my brother and
00:36:09.03\00:36:12.13
that's why this prophecy is
so important that we understand
00:36:12.17\00:36:14.57
it. I'm glad that you've written
this book. I'm glad that we're
00:36:14.60\00:36:17.67
talking about this because we
need to set the record straight
00:36:17.71\00:36:19.61
Only Jesus Christ can confirm
the covenant, only Jesus Christ
00:36:19.64\00:36:22.58
can take away sins, He's the
only one that can be cut off.
00:36:22.61\00:36:24.85
And so I'm glad that you're
talking just keep going...
00:36:24.88\00:36:29.02
It's beautiful, it's powerful
and it's amazing really when you
00:36:29.05\00:36:32.95
look at this...Let me just
transition now from this to the
00:36:32.99\00:36:37.29
final. We've looked at the time
frame, you know the prophetic
00:36:37.33\00:36:40.90
time frame, we've looked at the
historical confirmation of that
00:36:40.93\00:36:43.97
time frame in the book of Luke
of course with references to
00:36:44.00\00:36:46.63
history that were in the book
and now we look at the content
00:36:46.67\00:36:49.10
in other words, the application
to Christ. He's the only one
00:36:49.14\00:36:51.94
that can make reconciliation
for iniquity and bring in
00:36:51.97\00:36:55.51
everlasting righteousness
and you know make an end of sins
00:36:55.54\00:36:57.85
and then now the last things
we want to do is we want to make
00:36:57.88\00:37:01.45
now another connection to
the New Testament. Does the New
00:37:01.48\00:37:05.55
Testament confirm post-Christ,
post-resurrection, confirm this
00:37:05.59\00:37:11.23
time prophecy? Okay, I want
us to look at least one verse
00:37:11.26\00:37:14.60
Now there's many verses in the
New Testament, they're all over,
00:37:14.63\00:37:17.07
but this one is found in Romans
chapter 5. Do you know where
00:37:17.10\00:37:20.84
I'm going?
00:37:20.87\00:37:22.20
Now the reason why I love these
verses is because they've always
00:37:22.24\00:37:28.04
been some of my favorite verses
in the Bible because just of
00:37:28.08\00:37:31.65
what they communicate. But
there's a little tidbit in here
00:37:31.68\00:37:34.48
that actually ties in exactly
what we've read in Daniel
00:37:34.52\00:37:37.92
chapter 9 with the events that
are going to be fulfilled by
00:37:37.95\00:37:43.12
Christ along with the time
prophecy itself. It's like Paul
00:37:43.16\00:37:46.53
is just juicing it all down to
just putting...the whole thing
00:37:46.56\00:37:50.27
is just like boom right here.
It's Romans chapter 5 verses
00:37:50.30\00:37:54.94
6-10. You've got to read these
really slowly, right, and get
00:37:54.97\00:38:00.84
all the meaning that's in here.
00:38:00.88\00:38:02.41
There's some
context clues that pop out.
00:38:02.44\00:38:04.98
Yes, okay. Starting with verse
6. For when we were yet without
00:38:05.01\00:38:08.22
strength in due time Christ died
for the ungodly. For scarcely
00:38:08.25\00:38:15.42
for a righteous man would one
die yet peradventure for a good
00:38:15.46\00:38:18.96
man, some would even dare to
die. But God commended His love
00:38:18.99\00:38:23.47
toward us in that while we were
yet sinners Christ died for us.
00:38:23.50\00:38:27.87
Much more than being now
justified by His blood we shall
00:38:27.90\00:38:34.28
be saved from wrath through Him
for if when we were enemies we
00:38:34.31\00:38:39.75
were reconciled to God by the
death of His Son much more being
00:38:39.78\00:38:44.29
reconciled we shall be saved by
His life. You know these words
00:38:44.32\00:38:50.43
are almost being quoted
from Daniel. He shall make
00:38:50.46\00:38:53.70
reconciliation for iniquity.
I mean He shall bring in
00:38:53.73\00:38:58.13
everlasting righteousness which
is how we're justified. But the
00:38:58.17\00:39:00.44
key verse here, I mean the
key phrase here that many of us
00:39:00.47\00:39:03.20
don't look at because we're
so gospel-focused in the New
00:39:03.24\00:39:05.31
Testament which is beautiful but
we got to remember that the New
00:39:05.34\00:39:08.38
Testament is not just about the
gospel, it's also about prophecy
00:39:08.41\00:39:11.21
it's also about timeline. In due
time. And that word there that
00:39:11.25\00:39:17.82
phrase there means at the
set time. That's what the Greek
00:39:17.85\00:39:21.82
means, at the set time. God set
a time for Messiah to come. In
00:39:21.86\00:39:26.96
fact I'll challenge our
viewers just go through the New
00:39:27.00\00:39:29.86
Testament now, go read in John,
and read in Luke, read and look
00:39:29.90\00:39:33.64
for these phrases where Jesus
says My time has not yet come.
00:39:33.67\00:39:40.08
And then He says, My time
has come. You know and then he
00:39:40.11\00:39:44.78
warned in Luke chapter 21 and we
can look at this, He warns there
00:39:44.81\00:39:47.38
are going to be false Christs
that are going to say the time
00:39:47.42\00:39:48.98
is at hand, pointing to
the future which is I think the
00:39:49.02\00:39:52.22
whole idea of left behind.
The time...That's the set or
00:39:52.25\00:39:56.39
appointed time. The time the
Christ fulfilled, the time that
00:39:56.42\00:39:59.79
Paul said was set when He
reconciled us, justified us,
00:39:59.83\00:40:02.93
right, by his death, the time
that was predicted by Daniel
00:40:02.96\00:40:05.67
the time that Jesus early
in His ministry hasn't come yet
00:40:05.70\00:40:09.20
and the time that Jesus later
in His ministry has come, right,
00:40:09.24\00:40:14.08
is a time that according to
Luke's gospel people are going
00:40:14.11\00:40:16.21
say into the future. You've
got the whole thing right there
00:40:16.24\00:40:19.08
I mean, there it is. We're not
just talking about Daniel, we're
00:40:19.11\00:40:21.95
not just talking about Luke,
we're not just talking about the
00:40:21.98\00:40:23.79
history, we're talking here not
even just about what Christ has
00:40:23.82\00:40:26.45
accomplished. We're talking here
about clear confirmation in the
00:40:26.49\00:40:30.89
New Testament of this set time.
00:40:30.93\00:40:32.36
You even have it in the fact
that you know the record of the
00:40:32.39\00:40:34.93
gospel shows multiple times when
the devil tried to kill Christ
00:40:34.96\00:40:37.77
multiple times you know
through the Pharisees before his
00:40:37.80\00:40:42.30
appointed but He somehow
miraculously escaped. It wasn't
00:40:42.34\00:40:45.87
His time. It wasn't His time yet
00:40:45.91\00:40:47.34
The set time had not come.
And this is all through the New
00:40:47.38\00:40:49.81
Testament. So what I'd like to
say to our viewers and of course
00:40:49.84\00:40:52.51
all the verses are in the book
is that this prophecy is not
00:40:52.55\00:40:59.55
just predictive, right, it is
confirmed. It is not just shown
00:40:59.59\00:41:04.73
historically but the historical
references are in the Bible.
00:41:04.76\00:41:07.33
Right here in the Bible.
And it is not just about a time
00:41:07.36\00:41:11.73
prophecy. Seventh-day Adventists
listen up closely. This is not
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just about a time prophecy.
This is about a Messiah. This is
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about the man who came to be one
with us for all eternity, who
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became part of the human race,
became the Son of Man for all
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eternity. God becoming a man in
the person of Jesus Christ. Not
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considering it something to be
held onto to be equal with God
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but emptied Himself of His
divinity and taking on the form
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of a man and coming in the form
of man, becoming a servant. And
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not only becoming a servant
but becoming obedient, not only
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obedient but obedient unto death
and not only unto death but even
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the death of the cross, right?
This is Philippians chapter 2
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the seven steps that Christ
took to redeem us. Philippians
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chapter 2 verse 5 all the way
down to 8 and then going on, God
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is going to highly exalt Him and
give Him the name which is above
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every name. At the name of Jesus
every knee shall bow and every
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tongue shall confess. This
is about Messiah. This is about
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Jesus. And of course the devil
wants to come in and apply this
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to someone else and to something
else way down the end of time.
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Because at the end of time when
this doesn't happen a lot of
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people are going to be
dumbfounded and even had been
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that you know and all this time
they could have been directed to
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Messiah and what He accomplished
for us, the seven tasks that
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have been accomplished in Daniel
chapter 7 fulfilled and we could
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go through all the verses and
show how each one of those tasks
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were fulfilled and confirmed
in the New Testament. Just a
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beautiful picture.
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That's powerful, that's powerful
So we're getting down to the
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last few minutes here but I want
you to talk about and I thought
00:42:36.42\00:42:38.29
this was interesting, may not be
much interesting for others but
00:42:38.32\00:42:40.19
I like patterns but I want
you to talk about this Messiah
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temple, because when you're
looking at Daniel 9 verses 24
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through 27 I really, really
liked here in your book I think
00:42:48.20\00:42:51.80
it's the title on the Mes...
Let's see where is it. It's the
00:42:51.83\00:42:54.70
one on clarification. So you're
clarifying some things and you
00:42:54.74\00:42:57.67
show here this interesting
breakdown of the verses from
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verse 24 to 27 how there's these
verses that clearly are speaking
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to the Messiah and then those
pertaining to the Jerusalem
00:43:06.25\00:43:09.62
temple or the results of them
rejecting the Messiah. So talk a
00:43:09.65\00:43:13.82
little bit about the breakdown
of how you came up with this.
00:43:13.86\00:43:16.29
I thought it was pretty cool.
00:43:16.32\00:43:17.66
Okay so you have a prophetic
outline basically and the
00:43:17.69\00:43:20.70
prophetic outline is in Daniel
chapter 7 (sic) verses 24 to 27
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basically, God has told
Daniel through Gabriel that this
00:43:25.40\00:43:29.27
prophecy applies to two things,
the Messiah and the Temple.
00:43:29.30\00:43:32.14
Because Daniel is all about the
temple being rebuilt That's what
00:43:32.17\00:43:34.94
his whole focus is. And Gabriel
wants to direct him not just
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to the temple but to the thing
that the temple symbolized which
00:43:38.41\00:43:42.05
was the sacrifice. The temple is
all about the sacrifice, that's
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Messiah. So a lot of people when
they read these verses they're
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focusing on thing or maybe
even the other thing. They're
00:43:49.16\00:43:51.19
focusing on the temple itself
or they're focusing on the
00:43:51.23\00:43:53.80
antichrist and they're
not focusing on Christ and the
00:43:53.83\00:43:56.26
temple, Christ and the temple,
Christ and the temple. So in
00:43:56.30\00:43:59.17
every verse you have a prophetic
prediction of the temple and a
00:43:59.20\00:44:03.14
prophetic prediction of Christ.
Let's break it down. The first
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verse is verse 24 and it
basically says that Messiah is
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going to finish transgression,
He's going to make an end of sin
00:44:10.15\00:44:12.35
He's going to make
reconciliation for iniquity and
00:44:12.38\00:44:14.98
He's going to bring in
everlasting righteousness. He's
00:44:15.02\00:44:18.85
going to seal the vision and
the prophecy and He's going to
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anoint the Most Holy. All right.
Those are the seven tasks and I
00:44:20.32\00:44:22.26
think they parallel or connect
with Revelation chapter 10 and
00:44:22.29\00:44:25.49
the seven thunders. We'll get
into that later. The little book
00:44:25.53\00:44:27.60
was opened, the little book
of Daniel was opened and John's
00:44:27.63\00:44:32.03
like I get it. Finally, that's
what it was talking about.
00:44:32.07\00:44:36.00
Because I think that Jews
actually thought this prophecy
00:44:36.04\00:44:37.71
applied to them. Like
they needed to do away with the
00:44:37.74\00:44:40.91
iniquity before
the 70 weeks was up.
00:44:40.94\00:44:42.28
That's the way I interpreted
it years ago. I thought man the
00:44:42.31\00:44:43.75
Jews are going to do all these
things. That's impossible. But
00:44:43.78\00:44:46.61
all things are possible
only through Christ and so the
00:44:46.65\00:44:48.68
Messiah's going to
perform those things.
00:44:48.72\00:44:50.79
The Messiah right? Exactly, Okay
And then the last part of this
00:44:50.82\00:44:53.69
verse also says or excuse me the
first part of this verse also
00:44:53.72\00:44:57.23
says 70 weeks are determined
upon my people and upon my Holy
00:44:57.26\00:44:59.86
City. So you have the Holy
City and you have Messiah, okay?
00:44:59.89\00:45:03.47
That's the first interpretation,
verse 24. Then you go to verse
00:45:03.50\00:45:06.63
25. Messiah, it says, know
therefore and understand that
00:45:06.67\00:45:09.90
from the going forth of the
command to restore and build
00:45:09.94\00:45:12.17
Jerusalem unto Messiah the
Prince, there'll be seven weeks
00:45:12.21\00:45:15.08
and 62 weeks. Right. So that's
Messiah again. Then you go to
00:45:15.11\00:45:19.11
the temple. The streets shall be
built again and the wall even in
00:45:19.15\00:45:22.25
troublous times. Now notice that
there's a division here between
00:45:22.28\00:45:26.89
the seven weeks and 62. The
seven weeks are allotted to that
00:45:26.92\00:45:30.93
phrase there the streets shall
be built again and the wall in
00:45:30.96\00:45:34.46
troublous times.
00:45:34.50\00:45:35.90
Hey I'm glad that you explained
that. I'm going to let you
00:45:35.93\00:45:37.27
explain it further because a lot
of people get a little confused
00:45:37.30\00:45:38.63
by the time they get to
verse 26 and after the 62 weeks
00:45:38.67\00:45:42.67
Messiah shall be cut off but not
for Himself. They think wait a
00:45:42.70\00:45:44.94
second I thought it was 69,
you know 69 weeks and at the
00:45:44.97\00:45:48.18
beginning of that 70th. But
yet you're showing how there's a
00:45:48.21\00:45:50.95
separation, the seven
then the 62 weeks comprise...
00:45:50.98\00:45:54.42
You know when you have a full
plate of food sometimes it's
00:45:54.45\00:45:58.15
good to cut it up in little
bites, you know what I'm saying?
00:45:58.19\00:46:00.72
And this is what he continues to
do. Gabriel continues to break
00:46:00.76\00:46:05.43
off these little sections to
get up to understand. But what's
00:46:05.46\00:46:07.96
really interesting is when you
break off these little sections
00:46:08.00\00:46:10.00
and you see how they were
fulfilled, how Jerusalem and the
00:46:10.03\00:46:14.80
temple was built you know in the
New Testament it says 45 years
00:46:14.84\00:46:16.17
we built. Well you know 7 x 7
is 49 prophetic days that's 49
00:46:17.41\00:46:22.01
years right. So the Jews
confirmed this. They say it was
00:46:22.04\00:46:25.15
45 years so we know that within
the 49 years this temple was
00:46:25.18\00:46:29.15
rebuilt, this city and its walls
were built even in troublous
00:46:29.18\00:46:30.55
times. You look at the book of
Nehemiah you look at the book of
00:46:30.59\00:46:34.42
Ezra and you realize it was
troublous times but they were
00:46:34.46\00:46:36.96
able to rebuild. So that's why
it's broken off. But it's not
00:46:36.99\00:46:39.59
broken off from the timeline
that points us down to Messiah
00:46:39.63\00:46:42.33
because we've already been told
69 weeks. Now what we do is we
00:46:42.36\00:46:46.53
say seven weeks and 62 weeks
and put them together, right? No
00:46:46.57\00:46:48.90
problem right there. Then verse
25. Verse 25 says Know therefore
00:46:48.94\00:46:52.44
and understand from the going
forth, oh we did verse 25. Verse
00:46:52.47\00:46:56.28
26 okay. Messiah shall be cut
off but not for Himself. There's
00:46:56.31\00:47:00.12
Messiah and then the temple.
And the people of the prince who
00:47:00.15\00:47:02.72
shall come shall destroy the
city and the sanctuary and the
00:47:02.75\00:47:07.09
end shall be with a flood till
the end of the war. Desolations
00:47:07.12\00:47:10.53
are determined. Alright so
Messiah was cut off, that's A.D.
00:47:10.56\00:47:14.56
31, Jesus Christ was crucified
right. And then A.D. 70 a prince
00:47:14.60\00:47:19.63
comes, a Roman prince right
and he destroys the city and the
00:47:19.67\00:47:24.21
temple. He desolates it. Not one
stone left upon another. We're
00:47:24.24\00:47:27.48
just quoting from the New
Testament now, right? And this
00:47:27.51\00:47:29.81
is historical, we know this.
Josephus plead with the Jews,
00:47:29.84\00:47:33.98
even Titus plead with the Jews.
We don't want to destroy your
00:47:34.02\00:47:36.08
temple but the prophecy said
that the temple's going to be
00:47:36.12\00:47:38.19
destroyed. It's interesting how
human politics can't stop Bible
00:47:38.22\00:47:41.86
prophecy right? Bible prophecy
is going to be fulfilled even
00:47:41.89\00:47:44.93
though human politics tries to
step in there and stop because
00:47:44.96\00:47:48.26
the Romans had invested in
this temple. They didn't want to
00:47:48.30\00:47:50.10
destroy it right. And it says
here and this is the key and
00:47:50.13\00:47:54.10
this is the challenge I have to
all the evangelical friends and
00:47:54.14\00:47:58.21
it will lay desolate until
the consummation. It will lay
00:47:58.24\00:48:00.91
desolate until the consummation.
So when you look at that you
00:48:00.94\00:48:05.01
realize and this is verse 27
which lets read it here. Then,
00:48:05.05\00:48:09.02
verse 27, he shall confirm the
covenant with many for one week
00:48:09.05\00:48:11.49
In the middle of the
week He shall bring an end to
00:48:11.52\00:48:14.29
sacrifice and offering. And
that's Messiah again. So he dies
00:48:14.32\00:48:19.46
in the middle of the week, we've
read that in verse 26. Verse 27
00:48:19.49\00:48:22.40
is just reiterating now. In the
middle of the week he confirms
00:48:22.43\00:48:26.10
the covenant for one week and in
the middle of the week he brings
00:48:26.13\00:48:28.77
an end to sacrifice and offering
When Jesus died the curtain of
00:48:28.80\00:48:31.87
the temple was rent in two from
top to bottom. Not from bottom
00:48:31.91\00:48:34.84
to top, from top to bottom.
That was a divine hand that was
00:48:34.88\00:48:39.21
signaling the end of sacrifice,
the end of those sacrificial
00:48:39.25\00:48:41.42
services. The Lamb, the Passover
lamb had just been slain. The
00:48:41.45\00:48:46.49
fulfillment of all of those
types had just come and then it
00:48:46.52\00:48:48.52
says in the end of verse 27
on the wing of abomination shall
00:48:48.56\00:48:51.76
be the one who makes desolate
even until the consummation
00:48:51.79\00:48:55.26
which is determined and is
poured out upon the desolate. So
00:48:55.30\00:48:58.23
this last phrase you've
gone Messiah, temple, Messiah,
00:48:58.27\00:49:01.94
temple, Messiah temple, Messiah,
temple, Messiah temple. This
00:49:01.97\00:49:03.81
last phrase puts the cherry on
top for our evangelical friends.
00:49:03.84\00:49:06.94
Listen that temple's going to
lay desolate until the very end.
00:49:06.98\00:49:10.75
Till the consummation, till the
thousand year judgment, until
00:49:10.78\00:49:14.88
that which is determined is
poured out upon the desolate.
00:49:14.92\00:49:17.59
That temple's laying desolate
and just to confirm that God
00:49:17.62\00:49:20.79
says I think I'm going to put
a mosque on that temple site. I
00:49:20.82\00:49:26.76
think I'm You're talking
about the Dome of the Rock.
00:49:26.80\00:49:28.73
I'm going to allow a billion
people a billion plus people to
00:49:28.76\00:49:30.67
be all about that mosque so that
you know that I'm serious about
00:49:30.70\00:49:33.87
this prophecy. You know...
00:49:33.90\00:49:35.27
Talk about a gospel confirmation
I mean this is exactly, verse 26
00:49:35.30\00:49:41.51
27 is where Jesus says you know
as spoken by the prophet Daniel
00:49:41.54\00:49:47.62
You know the abomination
of desolation as spoken by the
00:49:47.65\00:49:49.92
prophet Daniel. These are
the texts, right here. And even
00:49:49.95\00:49:53.05
confirmed by Luke because when
you see Jerusalem surrounded by
00:49:53.09\00:49:55.69
armies then you shall
know your desolation is near.
00:49:55.72\00:49:59.09
So there it is right? It's going
to lay desolate till the very
00:49:59.13\00:50:01.36
end. So we can rebuild
that temple in our minds and our
00:50:01.40\00:50:05.53
theology. We can even have all
the stones and everything ready
00:50:05.57\00:50:07.54
to put up there, but they're
not going up. Not going up. That
00:50:07.57\00:50:11.07
mosque is not coming down. That
temple is not going up. That's
00:50:11.11\00:50:13.68
what the Bible says and I
believe in following the word of
00:50:13.71\00:50:15.74
God 100 percent.
00:50:15.78\00:50:17.35
Wow! Praise the Lord. Praise
the Lord. So we're going to be
00:50:17.38\00:50:20.22
taking a break in just a moment.
We've got about a minute and
00:50:20.25\00:50:22.58
then we're going to take a
little bit of break. We'll come
00:50:22.62\00:50:24.02
back to Pastor James for
some final thoughts. My friends,
00:50:24.05\00:50:27.56
James's book The Messiah, it's
entitled Messiah, the Seventy
00:50:27.59\00:50:31.59
Week Prophecy and the Gospel
of Luke. That's what we've been
00:50:31.63\00:50:34.13
talking about the last hour.
Powerful prophecy. It all points
00:50:34.16\00:50:38.27
to Jesus Christ, points to who
He is, the timing of it all in
00:50:38.30\00:50:42.00
regards to only He being the one
to fulfill not just the prophecy
00:50:42.04\00:50:45.37
but also what the prophecy
is about. Just Christ coming to
00:50:45.41\00:50:49.24
save us, not from Rome's
suppression at that time as the
00:50:49.28\00:50:53.95
Pharisees thought but obviously
Christ came to save us from our
00:50:53.98\00:50:56.25
sin. This is a
great evangelistic tool
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I've been told that they're
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00:51:16.24\00:51:18.77
Adventist friends because I know
a lot of Seventh-day Adventists
00:51:18.81\00:51:22.21
that don't know the full
truth and significance of this
00:51:22.24\00:51:23.58
prophecy. It's all made simple
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Prophecy and the Gospel of Luke.
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