Daniel 9
Prayer

Daniel himself was a student of prophecy. It was because of what he learned from it that he then began to pray and got the following revelation in chapter 9.

1. 539 BC Daniel’s vision comes as a result of prayer prompted by prophecy

Made: Passive voice because Cyrus had appointed him

2. Jeremiah 25:11 & 29: 10 This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place.

11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.|
13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
14 I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."

70 years were owed for...

490 years of violating of the Sabbath year: Lev. 25:1-7; 26:33-35; II Chron. 36:17-21

  • Daniel took the Scriptures literally. He knew he was in a strategic position. Darius was thinking of putting him into an office over the three major provinces of Persia.

3-4 Sackcloth: a sign of punishing self or repentence

Ashes: a sign of Mourning

  • Daniel didn’t just sit by but set himself to prayer
  • What we find out about God:

1. "Lord" means: "master" for Heb. Adoni
2. LORD: is the substitute for Jehovah and used 7x’s in this prayer but not any where else in this book. Jehovah: the name for God appears when the special covenant relationship with Israel is discussed.
3. great
4. awesome
5. keeps His covenant
6. lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments
7. Daniel: one of two the OT of any evil against...

We: full identification with national sin
What was Israel’s condition?

  • sinned
  • committed iniquity
  • acted wickedly
  • rebelled
  • turned aside from They commandments and ordinances
  • not listened to thy servants the prophets (Daniel probably heard Jeremiah speak)

6.

7. Far off: scattered all over their world

Isaiah 11:11 – a second return

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11. Deut. 28 (esp. 15, 36 ff)

12. nothing so bad has ever happened before... what is it going to take to bring people back to God

16. Scope of Daniel’s anxiety is the people and Jerusalem

23. Daniel was "greatly beloved"
NT John was "the beloved"

24. Over view of next 4 verse

"Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.

1. 70 sevens something in parts weeks of years: as we say decade they dealt with 7 year segments.

determined: set apart or set out
thy people: Israel

2. 490 years between

a. Abraham to Exodus
b. Exodus to the Temple
c. Temple to Artazerxes’ edict
d. Edict to the Triumphal Entry

** the clock stopped each time Israel went into servetude

3. Where in the NT do we get the number 490? (Matt. 18:22)
4. 7 + 62 = 69 weeks
5. Decrees that qualify:

a. Cyrus in Ezra 1 (537)
b. Darius in Ezra 6
c. Artazerxes in Ezra 7 (458)
d. Artazerxes in Nehemiah 2 (445 BC)

  • 430 years added to any of these puts us in the time of Christ
  • (Sir Robert Anderson’s The Coming Prince)
  • Three of the edits are for rebuilding the Temple
  • The 4th is for the rebuilding of Jerusalem: March 14, 445 BC (Neh. 2)
  • "streets shall be built in troublous times" a good commentary on Neh.
  • 360 days to a prophetic year (same of the Babylonian year) with 30 day months
  • Messiah the Prince: when did he present Himself as Prince of King?
  • Zech. 9:9 "Behold they king cometh upon the ... "
  • Luke 19:28 Bethany was about 2 ½ miles from Jerusalem
  • verse 38 as it is a quote from Psalm 118
  • verse 39 the Pharisees ask Christ to rebuke thy disciples
  • The triumphal entry was on the 10th of Nisian (April 6. 32 AD) the 4th passover of Jesus’ ministry
  • 130,880 days after the decree (69 x 7 x 360)
  • OT was translated into Greek about 285 BC... long before Rome

QUESTIONS ON 9:24-27

a. To what or to whom do these seventy weeks pertain?
for your people and your holy city,

b. According to this prophecy, when will the seventy weeks start?
the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem

c. What will happen during the first sixty-nine weeks?
Jerusalem will be rebuilt with plaza and moat, even in times of distress

d. What will happen after sixty-two weeks?
the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing

e. Who will destroy the city and the sanctuary?
the people of the prince
Luke 21:20-24

f. What city and what sanctuary are gong to be destroyed?


Jerusalem and the Temple

g. How is the end of the it and the sanctuary going to come?
with a flood

h. What is going to happen until the end?
war, desolations

i. Who is the "he " that will make a firm covenant with the many?
anti-christ

j. How long will he make this covenant for?


7 years (1 week)

k. What is going to happen in the middle of this time?
covenant will be broken

l. What or who is coming on the wing of abominations?
"one who makes desolate"

m. What will happen as a result?
a complete destruction of the one who makes desolation

26. CUT OFF: "Karat" Lev. 7, Psalm 37, Proverbs 2 it is use to speak of execution i.e. of capital punishment

After the 69th week… People of the Prince shall come (here it is the anti-christ). There is a gap like that in Isaiah 61: 1, 2 where the last phrase is left off.