If you understand the book of Daniel, you will have a good framework for understanding all that the Bible says about the future.If you understand the book of Daniel, you will have a good framework for understanding all that the Bible says about the future.
Sermon Title: GOD’S END-TIME CALENDAR FOR ISRAEL
Sermon Text: DANIEL 9:20-27 (NASB)
Sermon Series: LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS
By: PTR NESTOR SY
Sermon Notes:
DANIEL 9:20-27 NASB
20 Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, 21 while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering. 22 He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding. 23 At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision. 24 Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. 25 So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. 26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. 27 And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; …and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”
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I. The Circumstances and Prayer of Daniel
DANIEL 9:1-2 NASB
1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans--
2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
JEREMIAH 29:10-11 NASB
10 “For thus says the LORD, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.
11 ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’
DANIEL 9:3 NASB
3 So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.
DANIEL 9:19 NASB
19 “O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”
II. The Coming of Gabriel
DANIEL 9:20-23 NASB
20 Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,
21 while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.
22 He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.
23 At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.
DANIEL 9:25 NASB
25 So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
III. The Content of the Prophecy
A. What is the meaning of the 70 weeks?
week | Hebrew: shabua
“unit or period of seven.”
Two decades:
2 x 10 years = 20 years
Two centuries:
2 x 100 years = 200 years
Seventy weeks could be:
70 x ‘sevens’ of days
70 x ‘sevens’ of weeks
70 x ‘sevens’ of months
70 x ‘sevens’ of years
Seventy weeks could be:
70 x ‘sevens’ of days
70 x ‘sevens’ of weeks
70 x ‘sevens’ of months
70 x ‘sevens’ of years
DANIEL 9:24 NASB
24 Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
70 weeks = 70 ‘sevens’ of years
70 x 7 years = 490 years
B. What are the particulars of the 70 weeks?
1. It specifies the Jewish people
DANIEL 9:24 NASB
24 Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
2. It is a specific period of time
decreed | Hebrew: chathak
“to cut out, to divide”
3. It sets six accomplishments
DANIEL 9:24 NASB
24 Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
C. What is the breakdown of the 70 weeks?
Three distinct periods:
70 weeks (v24) =
7 weeks (v25) + 62 weeks (v25) + 1 week (v27)
D. What happens after the 69 weeks?
1. The prophecy of the Messiah
DANIEL 9:25 NASB
25 So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
Messiah | Hebrew: maschiach
“The Anointed One”
2. The schedule of the Messiah
DANIEL 9:25 NASB
25 So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
FOUR DECREES TO “REBUILD”
- Cyrus (538 BC) – Ezra 1:2-4
- Darius 1 (519/520 BC) – Ezra 6:1,6-12
- Artaxerxes (457 BC) – Ezra 7:11-26
- Artaxerxes (444 BC) – Neh 2:5-8,17-18
NIV: “streets and trench”
CEV: “Streets will be built in Jerusalem, and a trench will be dug around the city for protection”
NEHEMIAH 2:1 NASB
1 And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, that wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
JOHN 12:14-15 NASB
14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written, 15 “FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SEATED ON A DONKEY’S COLT.”
LUKE 19:41-44 NASB
41 When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,
Dr. Hoehner’s computation based on Daniel 9:
The triumphal entry of Jesus was on March 30, 33 AD.
Jesus died at 3PM on April 3, 33 AD.
LUKE 19:41-44 NASB
41 When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,
42 saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.
43 ‘For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,
44 and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
DANIEL 9:26 NASB
26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
DANIEL 9:20-27 NASB
26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
cut off | Hebrew: karath
“to kill, to destroy”
(Gen 9:11; Deut 20:20; Jer 11:19)
cut off | Hebrew: karath
“execution of a person for a crime”
(Lev 7:20; Pro 2:22; Ps 37:9)
LUKE 9:29-32 NASB
29 “Now Lord, You are releasing Your bond-servant to depart in peace, According to Your word;
30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation,
31 Which You have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
32 A LIGHT OF REVELATION TO THE GENTILES, And the glory of Your people Israel.”