EASTER AND HISTORY:THE DANIEL 9 FACTOR

Yaweh: the God over History

“Where is God?”God doesn’t micro-manage our

individual lives…He allows Free Will…Yet God interrupts Human

History.

Easter: the HistoryNow on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was* still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. John 20:1

This rock slab was about 2 tons!

”taken away” !

(two very scary dudes sitting there…)

Easter: the HistoryShe ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb. John 20:2-3

The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first; and stooping and looking in, he saw* the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in. John 20:4-5

John was stunned!

Easter: the HistoryAnd so Simon Peter also came*, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw* the linen wrappings lying there, and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself. John 20:6-7 (NASB95)

An “empty mummy”

Removed the “hood”

Easter: the History

So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. John 20:8

People were shaken!Lives were changed!Something happened!Hundreds met, talked with the Risen Christ.(1 Cor. 15)

Easter: the HistoryBy 49 a.d. – Riots in Rome

(Seutonius, in Claudius 25)By 64 a.d. – Nero Persecution,Pilate / Jesus Crucifixion

(Tacitus, in Annuls 15,44)A group of scared, uneducatedfishermen from Galilee werepermanently changed into bold,excited missionaries and martyrs.

Easter: the HistoryWhy would they lie?How could theyconceal a conspiracyinvolving hundredsof eye witnesses?

Why couldn’t theystamp it out?

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

480 Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

“Where is God?” Moving through history…

A Chosen PeopleOld Testament

FoundationProphecy

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

480 Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

“A period of seventy sets of seven has been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish their rebellion, to put an end to their sin, to atone for their guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.” Daniel 9:24A vast Scope of Time!

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

Time Frame: In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom… Dan. 9:1

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

Daniel is Excited: 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 (from Jeremiah 25:9-11)

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

Daniel Prays to God… I went on praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people, pleading with the LORD my God for Jerusalem, his holy mountain Dan. 9:20

Something Tremendous Happens… As I was praying, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, came swiftly to me at the time of the evening sacrifice.22 He explained to me, “Daniel, I have come here to give you insight and understanding Dan. 9:21

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

A Glimpse of Future Hope…A period of seventy sets of seven has been decreed for your people…Dan. 9:24

70 x 7 = 490 YearsDescribes time until the end of human history“…to bring in everlasting righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision …” Dan. 9:24

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

HOPE: “to confirm the prophetic vision…”

“So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’. 9:25

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

“from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem

until Messiah the Prince comes,

will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’

7 sevens and 62 sevens7 X 7 = 49yrs. 62 X 7 = 434 yrs.

49 + 434 = 483 years

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

“from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem

until Messiah the Prince comes,

Convert Hebrew Lunar years to our Solar years

Lunar years = 360 days each483 years = 173,880 lunar year days / 365¼ (Solar Days) = 476 Solar Years

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

“from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem

until Messiah the Prince comes,

476 Years!?Neh. 2:1-9 “In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes …letters to rebuild the gates, walls of Jerusalem

Encyclopedia BritanicaVol. 1 p. 598

465-20=445 bcNisan (Spring) =

444 bc !

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

until Messiah the Prince comes,

476 Years!444 bc!

Neh. 2:1-9 During the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes’ reign…letters to rebuild the gates, walls of Jerusalem

- 444 (BC)+476 =32 (AD)+ 1 (No “0” yr) =33 (AD)

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33 AD, 22 Nissan

Luke 19:37 And as He was now approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, 38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" 39  And some of the Pharisees in the multitude said to Him, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples." 40 And He answered and said, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!"

476.06 = Precise Days.06 = 22 Days

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster

476 Years…

444 bc!

This passage accurately predicts the date of the coming of Christ over 500 years before the fact!Was it forged later by Christians?The pre-Christian date of Daniel 9 is irrefutable! (Even skeptics don’t take this route.)

The date for this 444 bc decree is accepted by all.Could the New Testament authors fake the dating of Christ?

Impossible! Tiberius, Augustus, Herod, Quirinius, Pilot, Passover on a Friday

Yaweh: the God over History

605 bc Babylonians

540Persia

280 Greeks

160 Rome

33 adEaster444 bc!

?2007 ad

“I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols. Everything I prophesied has come true, and now I will prophesy again. I will tell you the future before it happens.” Isaiah 42:8-9

John 5:40“Come to Me, that you may have life.”

- Jesus Christ

Paul’s Description of Easter

"He gave up his divine privileges…" Phil. 2:7

"Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus“ v5

“regard one another as more important than yourselves” v3

The Victory of Sacrifical Love

“Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil2:11)