Walk With Me

Seventy Weeks, One Hope

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Hello, everybody. Welcome to today's episode of Walk With Me. I am your host, JJ. So good to have each and every one of you here. So good to see all the new listeners and new subscribers in so many countries now. I think guys, the last analytic showed we were in six or seven different countries, which is really great. I'm really humbled by this, and I thank God for each and every one of you. So good to have our sponsors, Drew Bar's Lyricist, with our intro and outro, and the squizz of creations with the swag and the tumblers. So good to have each and every one of you. Love each and every one of you, and I am thankful for you. This is gonna be posted the day after Thanksgiving. So I really hope that you guys had a great, wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and your loved ones, and you had something that you are truly thankful for. And even if it is just waking up another day, no matter how bad things can be, uh it could always be worse, right? And thank be thankful for people who have taught you things, the people who have shown you things, the people who are there to listen to you vent, listen to you go through things, and and even if you're just thankful for the word of God, as long as you find something to be thankful for, all right. We're gonna get right into our uh lesson today. Because we are on week seven, week seven of our end-time Bible study, and thank you all so much. And keep in mind this all started from a question that was in the inbox. So if you have any biblical questions or concerns or or even things you want to discuss, you just email me at walkwithme bible study at gmail. Walk with me bible study at gmail. Now, if it's a simple hey, this is where you find this answer, I will more than likely just copy and paste the scripture and send it back to you, or we can have a discussion. But if it's a complex question like this one is, uh then I will uh go ahead and make an episode or series of episodes out of it. If you want your name to be mentioned in the answer, then go ahead and put your name in the subject line. If I don't see your name in the subject line, I'm not I'm going to assume that you want privacy, which is okay. It's okay. The Bible says to work out your own fear, or work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. So, and I understand that a lot of people are shy and res reticent and and you know don't really want that kind of attention to be drawn to them at first. So, if you want your name to be mentioned on there, all you have to do is put your name in the subject line. So, with that being said, we're gonna get right into our episode this week. And we do have a couple rules for this podcast. A couple rules. First rule is when we have a podcast, we always kind of short on time. There's a lot of information to be covered, so I will just read a scripture to you, or even mention the scripture, but your job is to read a verse or two above or verse or two below, but preferably the whole chapter, because context is key to everything. You can take scriptures out of context and build an entirely incorrect doctrine on that. I've seen it happen, I've been a part of these doctrines. So I and then once you read the verse above it or verse or two below, and you go, hey, wait a minute, that's not what it says. It should it goes as far as to shake your very faith in Christ, which is not good. So, because as far as this Bible study is concerned, you always want to read the entire context. Second rule is tell somebody else about it. There are a lot of people who may not tell you that they're curious about biblical things, but so many people now are getting kind of on edge because you kind of know something's going on in the spiritual world. Tell somebody about the podcast, like it, share it, subscribe if you're listening to it on iHeart or YouTube. Uh, we will soon be going into Rumble. I'm not exactly sure how that process, vibration process, works. Um, but I hope to have all of the episodes will eventually be lowered onto Rumble. With that being said, we're going to get right into the uh episode for today. And speaking of reading the entire uh Bible or context of everything, keep in mind that just for a little recap, we are exploring how Daniel, the book of Daniel, and the book of Revelation are sister books when it comes to talking about the end time prophecy. I do want to mention before we get there that this is not the only time. Jesus talked about end time all the time. But as far as books are concerned, Daniel and Revelation are sim or sister books. Whereas Daniel's perspective was as a thing to come, and John and Revelator's perspective was a thing to have happened, and that's not to say that it had happened when he was on the island of Papla. This is just how he saw it, and this is how he wrote it. Okay, so when we're looking at um Daniel, we have to establish a very important aspect of this entire walk with God, not just the end time, but the entire walk with God is by putting the importance of putting how critical Bible study is in relationships. You can't go out and and take an engine down or take an engine apart without studying mechanics, without studying engineering. You don't become a world-famous scientist without studying math. It's the same concept. You have to study the word of God, you have to take it the way it is written, not the way you want it to be, but the way it is written. So, and by following Daniel's example, we kind of start learning what being familiar with the word of God is all about. For instance, in there's a passage that Daniel is talking about where he actually referred to Jeremiah chapter 25. Now read it. It's going to be Jeremiah 11 and 12. And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon 70 years, and it shall come to pass that when 70 years are accomplished, what that I will punish the king of Babylon. Now, he's actually looking at it because he's already read, he already understands what Jeremiah has said. He already understands that there's a prophecy going on in that modern that modern day of Israel. Not this modern day, but that modern day of Israel. So that has to be very encouraging to Daniel, who's also familiar with what was taught in Leviticus 26, 33, and 34. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and I will draw the sword after you, and your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. Then shall the land empty her, enjoy her Sabbath, as long as by us desolate, you should be in your enemy's land. Even then shall the land rest and enjoy her Sabbath. So keep in mind now, Israel had been in this place for 980 years from the occupation under Joshua until they went into captivity. Every seventh year was to be a sabbatical year, and that law had been ignored by the Jews for 490 years. So literally half the time that they were there, they didn't follow the law of Sabbath. So there were exactly 70 sabbatical years in the total period which had not been celebrated. So this is actually how this is where studying comes into um comes into play here because you say, Oh God, when were you going to release us? When are you going to release us? When the Sabbaths were completed, when those Sabbath years had been made up. So God said the land would enjoy the rest during that time. And this was another time that the captivity of Israel was coming to an end. Now, this is also mentioned in Chronicles 30, 2 Chronicles 36, 21. Now, here's the thing: Daniel would never have been aware of any of these things that were going on, or how long the captivity was supposed to last if he had not been studying the Bible as it was at that time. If he would know anything about Leviticus, Jeremiah, and Chronicles, he would not have known any of these things. And so when these things happen, it'll be easy to kind of misattribute them to something else. So just as you know, Daniel was showing us an example about being a Bible student, he also gave us an example about what being a man of prayer is about. And right about here in the book of Daniel, we see where Daniel had possibly one of the most life-changing prayers that you can ever have. And even though Daniel was considered one of the perfect men in the Bible, he also was someone who was confessing sin before God. He identified himself with the people that were sinning. And this is a problem that sometimes we saints get out of structure with. We forget that we were in sin at one point. So in Daniel 9 and 4 and 5, he actually confessed himself in the prayer, during the prayer of the what they call the intercession prayer. And I prayed unto the Lord my God and made my confession. We have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled, even by deporting from thy precepts and from thy judgment, or you have from thy judgment, which is Daniel 95. Some of the most difficult things, the most humbling things you could ever admit to God, is that I have sinned. Now, in this verse, Daniel made that confession, uh, that difficult confession both for himself and for the entire nation of Israel. Now you might say, well, who gave him the authority to pray for Israel like that? Well, God gave him that authority. And he said his kind of set his grace to seek God. And that in itself takes a lot of things, a lot of dedication to do. He was literally doing that to have the future of Israel revealed. He wasn't doing it just because it was Sunday morning or Wednesday night Bible study. When God's conditions were met, this answer is swift and certain. In fact, Daniel's prayer was unfinished. If you look, he was yet praying, the answer came. If you read uh Daniel 9, 20 to 21, uh, and God sent one of his best messengers, who we call Gabriel, with the answer. And at the very beginning of Daniel's prayer, Gabriel had already been commissioned and sent. It was like God already knew what God what Daniel was going to pray for, wrote out the answer, and just kind of held Gabriel back until Daniel started praying. And understand something. When Gabriel arrived, and this is a very, very humbling, humbling thing. When Gabriel arrived, the first thing he told Daniel was that he was greatly beloved. Now that that would actually teach us that God has special delight of people who serve him faithfully and as faithfully as Daniel has. Now, and let me ask you something, Walpers. Do you feel that it's possible, as this is remotely possible, for anyone else, for any greater honor to say you are greatly beloved? Thank God. So if God is if there was any other higher honor that we could earn on earth, is there any other way you can say we are uh greatly beloved? Is there any other greater honor? This means Daniel had a special place in God's heart, and because God is no respectable person, that also means that if we are true and faithful like Daniel, we can have a special place in God's heart, too. So, well what was the answer, JJ? And I'll tell you what the answer is. There was no amen, including Daniel's prayer, first of all. So while he was still praying, Gabriel touched. He's like, Hey, I'm here. Hey, whoa, whoa, hey, I'm here. Okay, calm down. I'm here. And this was right about the time there's supposed to be an evening sacrifice. And we know that Gabriel appeared to Daniel like a man. Because this is what uh Gabriel called it. He came to give Daniel wisdom, understanding, um, and the what was going to be the future of Daniel's people. Now, we also got to fully understand that the message that Gabriel brought was relative to the nation of Israel only, it referred to thy people and thy holy city. It had no application, and this is where a lot of people kind of start making making up stuff. It had no application to us as Gentiles, but this was Gabriel's message, Gabriel's message from God was only an aspect to the Israeli people, the Israelite people. Okay, now that's kind of very important to understand how what makes the difference between Daniel and Revelation. Because in in Revelation, there is no real distinction, but in Daniel, there is a dictating. There's going to be two sets of prophets. Don't get it, don't get me wrong here. But this answer from Daniel's first prayer is going to be from God, and it's going to be concerning God's people. So let's talk about these three key words in this prophet. One, you had determined, you had weeks of years, and you had 70 weeks. Alright, so determined, weeks of years, and then 70 weeks. So what does that word determine? Now, that word in the in the Daniel text was only about fixing or determining what was going to happen. This is that means nothing was going to change. Once this thing was set, it was like concrete, it's not changing, it's not moving. So this thing, this said this um anytime you see where God says, I have determined itself, it is settled and finished, it is done. It is just a matter of time before everything plays out. Weeks of years. Now, this term that we talk about, 70 weeks, literally means 77. What? Yes, because the week is seven. So you have and you have seven days, and then you have seven days times seven. So that would be seventy weeks, and God has always been um real particular about using the numbers that we have a week of years, you have a week of millennia, you have a week of eight. Now, the context in each instance is gonna make clear the exact meaning, so that's why it's very important, very, very, very, very important. We always stay within context, and in this case, it is clear that this is a week of years. So this is a week of years with seven times seven, which is 49. Right now, in Genesis, we read that seven years is called a week. What? Yeah, these seven years is called the week. Fulfill her week, and we will give this. We will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. Genesis 29, 27. I read again. Fulfill her week, and we will give thee also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. So when Laban received Jacob by giving him Leah, Siddhartha, he told them that he could fulfill her week for work seven additional years. So therefore, when Gabriel told Daniel that 70 weeks were fixed for the nation of Israel, he actually said there are 490 years predetermined for God's plan to be fulfilled for Israel. Now, if we consider that and we then we go back and we start doing the math in other instances, it starts to make more sense. For instance, the time from Abraham to Canaan. Now, if you were if you followed our dispensation, um our dispensation podcast at the very beginning, then it then it it makes sense. It makes sense, and the reason why it makes sense is because the 490 years is now listed as 70 weeks, and so from Joshua who setting up the kingdom was another 490 years, ergo 70 weeks, from kingdom to captivity, another 490 years, then of course that's another 70 weeks, from the return of the Jews to the close of God's dealing with Israel, which is another 490 years, or otherwise 70 weeks. So these 70 weeks were really divided into three periods of time: one seven weeks, which is 49 years, 62 weeks, which is 434 years, and then one week of seven years. I know if it was algebra, it would totally just blow your mind, right? So the period of the 70 weeks has to um begin with some sort of decree or uh a judgment to restore and build those so from that point will exactly be 483 years to the crucifixion of Christ. Now, to find the date from this that this dependence fourth, if you look at Jeremiah 2 and 1, you'll see it. And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, the 12th year of our Artabi King. According to this scripture, now we we look at that, we look we look at the scriptural setting, and we begin our calculation from the month of Nisan in the 20th years of King Arta, and all the reference books should agree, but they don't, as far as the date of the calculation we don't agree. Uh, like you look at some reference books, they may show a different status or a different time when that decree was issued, but the Bible says that it should be somewhere in the month of April 445 before Christ. So if we take that vertical year to be 360 days in length, it has to have been calculated that this would have to be the end of April, somewhere in the April, end of April of AD 32, which is where Jesus would have been posted. So we could talk about calculating dates, and this is where people end up getting mixed up. Um, if you don't get this right start date, then you're not going to get the right end date. And if you don't get the right formulaic expression, then you won't get it either way. But whether it would be profitable or it makes sense to you to do so, I doubt it. Because that's how a lot of people end up with saying given these dates of you know October 29th, 2025, and you know, and people end up getting led astray by these things, only to find out that it not only do the people who do it get just way off into different contexts, uh, way off into spirit of error. But the people that they're trying to lead, maybe not even intentionally, maybe they're really thinking that they got it right, they end up causing people to lose faith in not in God, but in themselves, while they think that they're losing faith in God. So the simple statement, and this is where we always say when I was in sales, is they keep it simple and stupid, right? The simple statement of God's word is this it is sufficient. When 69 weeks happen, it will go until the Messiah be cut off. After this, the Jerusalem would be destroyed, not by Antichrist, but by people of the prince or the people of the Antichrist. Antichrist does not come upon the scene in person until the 70th week, not the 69th week, right? So between the 69th week and the 70th week is a fullness of time for the Gentiles and what we call the church dispensation. I know that seemed like it was a lot unpacked, right? But in order to really go through that, we gotta go through, we got to revisit what we call the dispensation period. And we kind of touched on it a moment ago, but we have to go into it deeper to try to figure out what this means. So the there is a prophetic thread uh that takes place during the time between the 69th and the 70th week, and this happens for the following reasons. Now, even though these these periods are set, there are times when God will take out blocks of these times. The fulfillment of these events in verse 24 cannot be found anywhere in known history, so these events are probably still in the future. You have the transgression that has to be finished, you have to make an end for sin, have to make a reconciliation for iniquity, you have to bring in everlasting righteousness, you have to seal up the vision and prophecy, and you have to anoint a most holy place. So now, keep in mind now, and well, this is probably gonna be where we kind of wrap up today. Keep in mind that do not let this rise. When you say anoint the holy place, it is given in the original S to anoint the most holy place. So you really it's not like anointing a particular church building. Now, and some teachers will claim honestly that this is the reference to the anointing of Jesus the Jordan, but actually it refers to the building of the temple in the millennial kingdom, and so this is where people start miscounting. So when you think that um the most anointing, the the anointing of the most holy place has been done, it really hasn't been. It has yet to have been accomplished. So until that happens, there's an there's another timer that will start. Now, the reason why this prophecy is really silent about what we call the church age is because it this prophecy again in Daniel only deals with Israel. This the church is the fullness of the Gentiles. Remember, the church has to deal with just the Gentile, and any Israel, Israelite that converts to Christianity is now considered Gentile. If you don't believe me, ask any uh any Jew, and nothing against Jews, like this is not an anti-Semitic target. If you if any any Jew that converts to Christianity, the Jews don't view them as Jewish anymore or Israelite anymore, they view them as a Gentile. So now the the the conclusive and the final part of this truth is given by the Lord himself on the Mount of Olives. See Matthew 24, two days before he was to be cut off, which would be crucified. He dealt with these events. Matthew 24, 4 through 14, in the first half of the week is the beginning of sorrow, which we call the tribulation. And then Matthew 24, 15 and 19, middle of the week, which is called the abomination of desolation, and then verses 20 to 22, which we call great tribulation. So now keep in mind revelation can only be understood when we figure out that there's a prophetic parentheses in that 70 week, and that 70th week is still in the future. Alright, we covered some heavy stuff tonight. Covered some heavy stuff. I told you we was gonna, and this is the kind of way I like to do my Bible studies, like you think of a kind of a plane approaching an airport sort of deal. Come in and you can circle at 35,000 feet, go to 20,000 feet, you can go to 10,000 feet, you go to 5,000 feet, you come in for land. We've just gone from the 35,000 birds eye level down to about the 25,000 folding titles. And I don't want that to discourage you because there's a lot to unpack. But by studying it and unpacking it, it allows you, me, anyone else who is really interested in living for God and understanding what is to happen to not be discouraged or or deceived. But there will be people, I don't I some of them have very good intentions. I will say it again. Some of the people really have good intentions, but they just have bad information. And there are some people who just want to profit off your confusion. I'm not gonna lie about that. But when we understand how God is talking and how God is speaking to us, when God is speaking to us, when this guy is referring to us as Christians, prefergo the Gentile church or the my people part, which generally refers to Israel, then we understand exactly um what we are we got coming up, what what is coming up and what is coming down the pipe for each and every one. Alright. I know it was a deep episode. I love you all, right? I do, I absolutely love you all, and thank you all for liking, sharing, commenting. Uh the comments in the in the inbox. I I'm thoroughly enjoying them. Thank you all so much. Love each and every one of you. Thank you all again. Big shout out to Officer Tatum for letting us talk about the podcast and his podcast.

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