Chapter 9Chapter 9The Coming of King Jesus

Why do we tend to place our allegiance on earthly powers when we know the future?

Why do we tend to place our allegiance on earthly powers when we know the future?

Jesus Christ came to put an end to sin and will return to conquer death and sin once and for all.

Daniel 920 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.

Daniel 922 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.

Matthew 7:7,11"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. . . . If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!”

Daniel 924 “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.

Daniel 926 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.”

Symbolic View- The “seventy sevens” represent three periods of

time ending in the first century A.D. - The first period extends from Cyrus’ decree for

Jewish exiles to return until the time Ezra and Nehemiah began rebuilding Jerusalem (around 440–400 B.C.)

- The second period stretches from around 400 B.C. until the coming of Jesus Christ

- The last seven years represent the period prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70

Literal View- There are 490 years divided into 3 periods of time: 49 years, 434 years, and 7 years- The first period begins with the decree of Ezra to rebuild Jerusalem and ends with the completion of the work (around 400 B.C.)- The second period begins at the end of the first and concludes with the inauguration of Christ’s kingdom (either his baptism or entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday)

Literal View- The Messiah would be rejected by the people, he would suffer alone on the cross- Jerusalem would be destroyed by the Romans- The third period would begin at a later date when Anti-christ appears and establishes a final government to overthrow Christ- Tribulation will ensue and Anti-christ will make an abomination of desolation half-way through- After sevens years of tribulation, Christ will return in glory, conquering Anti-christ

Daniel 924 “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.

Daniel 925 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.

Daniel 926 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 927 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.”

Matthew 2415 “Therefore when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), [16] then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. . . . [22] Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.”

29 “But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. [30] And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. [31] And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.”

Why do we tend to place our allegiance on earthly powers when we know the future?

Jesus Christ came to put an end to sin and will return to conquer death and sin once and for all.