Gabriel Explains the Prophecy - Daniel 9:20-27 (GNT)
20 I went on praying, confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel and pleading with the Lord my God to restore his holy Temple. 21 While I was praying, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, came flying down to where I was. It was the time for the evening sacrifice to be offered. 22 He explained, Daniel, I have come here to help you understand the prophecy. 23 When you began to plead with God, He answered you. He loves you, and so I have come to tell you the answer. Now pay attention while I explain the vision.
THE REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM
24 Seven times seventy years is the length of time God has set for freeing your people and your holy city from sin and evil. Sin will be forgiven and eternal justice established, so that the vision and the prophecy will come true, and the holy Temple [b] will be rededicated. 25 Note this and understand it: From the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until God's chosen leader comes, seven times seven years will pass. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses, and will stand for seven times sixty-two years, but this will be a time of troubles. 26 And at the end of that time God's chosen leader will be killed unjustly. [c] The city and the Temple will be destroyed by the invading army of a powerful ruler.
ISRAEL'S FUTURE SEVEN-YEAR TRIBULATION
The end will come like a flood, bringing the war and destruction which God has prepared. 27 That ruler will have a firm agreement with many people for seven years, and when half this time is past, he will put an end to sacrifices and offerings. The Awful Horror [d] will be placed on the highest point of the Temple and will remain there until the one who put it there meets the end which God has prepared for him.
Footnotes: (b) 9:24 - Temple; or altar. (c) 9:26 - One ancient translation "unjustly"; the Hebrew is unclear. (d) 9:27 - A pagan image set up in the Jerusalem Temple by foreign conquerors.
OTHER PASSAGES WHICH DESCRIBE DANIEL'S SEVENTIETH WEEK
Jeremiah 30:7 - Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even The Time of Jacob's Trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Matthew 24:3-4; 29-30 - And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. - - - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
See also: Mark 13:3-26; Luke 21:6-27; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12; Revelation Ch. 6 - 19.
THE TRIBULATION IS THE SEVENTIETH WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27, AND IT IS INTENDED FOR ISRAEL. THE CHURCH AGE, UNKNOWN TO THOSE DURING OLD TESTAMENT TIMES, IS THE PERIOD BETWEEN DANIEL'S SIXTY-NINETIETH AND SEVENTIETH WEEKS: IT WILL END PRIOR TO THE TRIBULATION WITH THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH!
(JOHN 14:1-3; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:50-54; 1 THESSALONIANS 2:10; 4:13-18; 5:9; ETC.) .
TIME IS VERY SHORT; ACCEPT GOD'S GIFT OF SALVATION BY TRUSTING IN
THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST, WHILE YOU STILL HAVE TIME!
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