Through My Bible Yr 02 – December 15

Daniel 9:20-27

Through My Bible – December 15

Daniel 9:20-27 (EHV)

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Daniel 9

Gabriel Explains Jerusalem’s Future

20 While I was still speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, I was casting my prayer for grace, concerning the holy mountain of my God, before the Lord my God, 21 while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the first vision, touched me. I was completely exhausted. [1] It was about the time of the evening sacrifice. 22 He instructed me, “Daniel, now I have come to give you insight with understanding. 23 At the beginning of your plea for grace, a word went out, and I came to declare it to you, because you are very treasured. So pay attention to the word and understand the vision.”

The Vision of Seventy Sevens

24 Seventy sevens [2] are determined concerning your people and your holy city:

    to end rebellion,
    to finish sin,
    and to atone for guilt,
    to bring everlasting righteousness,
    to seal up prophetic vision,
    and to anoint a most holy one. [3]

25 You should know and have insight. From the going out of a word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, [4] a ruler, comes, there will be seven sevens and sixty-two sevens. [5] Jerusalem will be rebuilt with public squares and a moat, but during troubled times.

26 Then after the sixty-two sevens, the anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. Both the city and the holy place will be destroyed by the people of a ruler who is coming, [6] and its end will be with a flood. There will be war until the end, and desolations have been decreed.

27 He [7] will confirm a covenant for the many during one seven. In the middle of the seven, he will cause sacrifice and offering to cease.

On the wing of abominations is one who causes desolation, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who causes desolation.

Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:21 Or he came to me in swift flight
  2. Daniel 9:24 A form of the word seven is used, but it is not the term Daniel uses for an ordinary week of seven days. The “weeks” in this prophecy probably represent periods of seven years.
  3. Daniel 9:24 The Hebrew phrase is not the usual expression for the Holy of Holies. Here it may refer to a holy person, the Messiah.
  4. Daniel 9:25 The Hebrew word used here is the source of the English term Messiah and the Greek term Christ.
  5. Daniel 9:25 The seven sevens extend from Daniel to Nehemiah and the sixty-two sevens from Nehemiah to Christ.
  6. Daniel 9:26 Titus, the Roman general who destroyed Jerusalem in 70 ad
  7. Daniel 9:27 The Messiah

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