Seventy Weeks, One Hope

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We're gonna get right into ouruh lesson today.
Because we are on week seven,week seven of our end-time Bible

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And speaking of reading theentire uh Bible or context of
everything, keep in mind thatjust for a little recap, we are
exploring how Daniel, the bookof Daniel, and the book of
Revelation are sister books whenit comes to talking about the
end time prophecy.
I do want to mention before weget there that this is not the

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only time.
Jesus talked about end time allthe time.
But as far as books areconcerned, Daniel and Revelation
are sim or sister books.
Whereas Daniel's perspective wasas a thing to come, and John and
Revelator's perspective was athing to have happened, and

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that's not to say that it hadhappened when he was on the
island of Papla.
This is just how he saw it, andthis is how he wrote it.
Okay, so when we're looking atum Daniel, we have to establish
a very important aspect of thisentire walk with God, not just

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the end time, but the entirewalk with God is by putting the
importance of putting howcritical Bible study is in
relationships.
You can't go out and and take anengine down or take an engine
apart without studyingmechanics, without studying
engineering.
You don't become a world-famousscientist without studying math.

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It's the same concept.
You have to study the word ofGod, you have to take it the way
it is written, not the way youwant it to be, but the way it is
written.
So, and by following Daniel'sexample, we kind of start
learning what being familiarwith the word of God is all
about.
For instance, in there's apassage that Daniel is talking

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about where he actually referredto Jeremiah chapter 25.
Now read it.
It's going to be Jeremiah 11 and12.
And this whole land shall be adesolation and an astonishment,
and these nations shall servethe king of Babylon 70 years,
and it shall come to pass thatwhen 70 years are accomplished,
what that I will punish the kingof Babylon.

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Now, he's actually looking at itbecause he's already read, he
already understands whatJeremiah has said.
He already understands thatthere's a prophecy going on in
that modern that modern day ofIsrael.
Not this modern day, but thatmodern day of Israel.
So that has to be veryencouraging to Daniel, who's
also familiar with what wastaught in Leviticus 26, 33, and

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34.
And I will scatter you among theheathen, and I will draw the
sword after you, and your landshall be desolate and your
cities waste.
Then shall the land empty her,enjoy her Sabbath, as long as by
us desolate, you should be inyour enemy's land.
Even then shall the land restand enjoy her Sabbath.
So keep in mind now, Israel hadbeen in this place for 980 years

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from the occupation under Joshuauntil they went into captivity.
Every seventh year was to be asabbatical year, and that law
had been ignored by the Jews for490 years.
So literally half the time thatthey were there, they didn't
follow the law of Sabbath.

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So there were exactly 70sabbatical years in the total
period which had not beencelebrated.
So this is actually how this iswhere studying comes into um
comes into play here because yousay, Oh God, when were you going
to release us?
When are you going to releaseus?
When the Sabbaths werecompleted, when those Sabbath
years had been made up.

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So God said the land would enjoythe rest during that time.
And this was another time thatthe captivity of Israel was
coming to an end.
Now, this is also mentioned inChronicles 30, 2 Chronicles 36,
21.

Now, here's the thing (09:06):
Daniel would never have been aware of
any of these things that weregoing on, or how long the
captivity was supposed to lastif he had not been studying the
Bible as it was at that time.
If he would know anything aboutLeviticus, Jeremiah, and
Chronicles, he would not haveknown any of these things.

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And so when these things happen,it'll be easy to kind of
misattribute them to somethingelse.
So just as you know, Daniel wasshowing us an example about
being a Bible student, he alsogave us an example about what
being a man of prayer is about.
And right about here in the bookof Daniel, we see where Daniel

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had possibly one of the mostlife-changing prayers that you
can ever have.
And even though Daniel wasconsidered one of the perfect
men in the Bible, he also wassomeone who was confessing sin
before God.
He identified himself with thepeople that were sinning.

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And this is a problem thatsometimes we saints get out of
structure with.
We forget that we were in sin atone point.
So in Daniel 9 and 4 and 5, heactually confessed himself in
the prayer, during the prayer ofthe what they call the

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intercession prayer.
And I prayed unto the Lord myGod and made my confession.
We have sinned and havecommitted iniquity and have done
wickedly and have rebelled, evenby deporting from thy precepts
and from thy judgment, or youhave from thy judgment, which is
Daniel 95.
Some of the most difficultthings, the most humbling things

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you could ever admit to God, isthat I have sinned.
Now, in this verse, Daniel madethat confession, uh, that
difficult confession both forhimself and for the entire
nation of Israel.
Now you might say, well, whogave him the authority to pray
for Israel like that?
Well, God gave him thatauthority.

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And he said his kind of set hisgrace to seek God.
And that in itself takes a lotof things, a lot of dedication
to do.
He was literally doing that tohave the future of Israel
revealed.
He wasn't doing it just becauseit was Sunday morning or

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Wednesday night Bible study.
When God's conditions were met,this answer is swift and
certain.
In fact, Daniel's prayer wasunfinished.
If you look, he was yet praying,the answer came.
If you read uh Daniel 9, 20 to21, uh, and God sent one of his

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best messengers, who we callGabriel, with the answer.
And at the very beginning ofDaniel's prayer, Gabriel had
already been commissioned andsent.
It was like God already knewwhat God what Daniel was going
to pray for, wrote out theanswer, and just kind of held

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Gabriel back until Danielstarted praying.
And understand something.
When Gabriel arrived, and thisis a very, very humbling,
humbling thing.
When Gabriel arrived, the firstthing he told Daniel was that he
was greatly beloved.
Now that that would actuallyteach us that God has special

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delight of people who serve himfaithfully and as faithfully as
Daniel has.
Now, and let me ask yousomething, Walpers.
Do you feel that it's possible,as this is remotely possible,
for anyone else, for any greaterhonor to say you are greatly

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beloved?
Thank God.
So if God is if there was anyother higher honor that we could
earn on earth, is there anyother way you can say we are uh
greatly beloved?
Is there any other greaterhonor?
This means Daniel had a specialplace in God's heart, and

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because God is no respectableperson, that also means that if
we are true and faithful likeDaniel, we can have a special
place in God's heart, too.
So, well what was the answer,JJ?
And I'll tell you what theanswer is.
There was no amen, includingDaniel's prayer, first of all.
So while he was still praying,Gabriel touched.

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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 thetime there's supposed to be an
evening sacrifice.
And we know that Gabrielappeared to Daniel like a man.
Because this is what uh Gabrielcalled it.
He came to give Daniel wisdom,understanding, um, and the what

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was going to be the future ofDaniel's people.
Now, we also got to fullyunderstand that the message that
Gabriel brought was relative tothe nation of Israel only, it
referred to thy people and thyholy city.
It had no application, and thisis where a lot of people kind of
start making making up stuff.

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It had no application to us asGentiles, but this was Gabriel's
message, Gabriel's message fromGod was only an aspect to the
Israeli people, the Israelitepeople.
Okay, now that's kind of veryimportant to understand how what

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makes the difference betweenDaniel and Revelation.
Because in in Revelation, thereis no real distinction, but in
Daniel, there is a dictating.
There's going to be two sets ofprophets.
Don't get it, don't get me wronghere.
But this answer from Daniel'sfirst prayer is going to be from

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God, and it's going to beconcerning God's people.
So let's talk about these threekey words in this prophet.
One, you had determined, you hadweeks of years, and you had 70
weeks.
Alright, so determined, weeks ofyears, and then 70 weeks.

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So what does that worddetermine?
Now, that word in the in theDaniel text was only about
fixing or determining what wasgoing to happen.
This is that means nothing wasgoing to change.
Once this thing was set, it waslike concrete, it's not
changing, it's not moving.

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So this thing, this said this umanytime you see where God says,
I have determined itself, it issettled and finished, it is
done.
It is just a matter of timebefore everything plays out.
Weeks of years.
Now, this term that we talkabout, 70 weeks, literally means
77.

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What?
Yes, because the week is seven.
So you have and you have sevendays, and then you have seven
days times seven.
So that would be seventy weeks,and God has always been um real
particular about using thenumbers that we have a week of
years, you have a week ofmillennia, you have a week of

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eight.
Now, the context in eachinstance is gonna make clear the
exact meaning, so that's whyit'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 withseven times seven, which is 49.
Right now, in Genesis, we readthat seven years is called a

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week.
What?
Yeah, these seven years iscalled the week.
Fulfill her week, and we willgive this.
We will give thee this also forthe service which thou shalt
serve with me yet seven otheryears.
Genesis 29, 27.
I read again.
Fulfill her week, and we willgive thee also for the service

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which thou shalt serve with meyet seven other years.
So when Laban received Jacob bygiving him Leah, Siddhartha, he
told them that he could fulfillher week for work seven
additional years.
So therefore, when Gabriel toldDaniel that 70 weeks were fixed
for the nation of Israel, heactually said there are 490

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years predetermined for God'splan to be fulfilled for Israel.
Now, if we consider that and wethen we go back and we start
doing the math in otherinstances, it starts to make
more sense.
For instance, the time fromAbraham to Canaan.
Now, if you were if you followedour dispensation, um our

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dispensation podcast at the verybeginning, then it then it it
makes sense.
It makes sense, and the reasonwhy it makes sense is because
the 490 years is now listed as70 weeks, and so from Joshua who

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setting up the kingdom wasanother 490 years, ergo 70
weeks, from kingdom tocaptivity, another 490 years,
then of course that's another 70weeks, from the return of the
Jews to the close of God'sdealing with Israel, which is

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another 490 years, or otherwise70 weeks.
So these 70 weeks were reallydivided into three periods of

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one seven weeks, which is 49 years, 62 weeks, which is 434
years, and then one week ofseven years.
I know if it was algebra, itwould totally just blow your
mind, right?
So the period of the 70 weekshas to um begin with some sort
of decree or uh a judgment torestore and build those so from

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that point will exactly be 483years to the crucifixion of
Christ.
Now, to find the date from thisthat this dependence fourth, if
you look at Jeremiah 2 and 1,you'll see it.
And it came to pass in the monthof Nisan, the 12th year of our
Artabi King.

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According to this scripture, nowwe we look at that, we look we
look at the scriptural setting,and we begin our calculation
from the month of Nisan in the20th years of King Arta, and all
the reference books shouldagree, but they don't, as far as
the date of the calculation wedon't agree.

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Uh, like you look at somereference books, they may show a
different status or a differenttime when that decree was
issued, but the Bible says thatit should be somewhere in the
month of April 445 beforeChrist.
So if we take that vertical yearto be 360 days in length, it has

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to have been calculated thatthis would have to be the end of
April, somewhere in the April,end of April of AD 32, which is
where Jesus would have beenposted.
So we could talk aboutcalculating dates, and this is
where people end up gettingmixed up.
Um, if you don't get this rightstart date, then you're not

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going to get the right end date.
And if you don't get the rightformulaic expression, then you
won't get it either way.
But whether it would beprofitable or it makes sense to
you to do so, I doubt it.
Because that's how a lot ofpeople end up with saying given
these dates of you know October29th, 2025, and you know, and

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people end up getting led astrayby these things, only to find
out that it not only do thepeople who do it get just way
off into different contexts, uh,way off into spirit of error.
But the people that they'retrying to lead, maybe not even
intentionally, maybe they'rereally thinking that they got it

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right, they end up causingpeople to lose faith in not in
God, but in themselves, whilethey think that they're losing
faith in God.
So the simple statement, andthis is where we always say when
I was in sales, is they keep itsimple and stupid, right?

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The simple statement of God'sword is this it is sufficient.
When 69 weeks happen, it will gountil the Messiah be cut off.
After this, the Jerusalem wouldbe destroyed, not by Antichrist,
but by people of the prince orthe people of the Antichrist.
Antichrist does not come uponthe scene in person until the

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70th week, not the 69th week,right?
So between the 69th week and the70th week is a fullness of time
for the Gentiles and what wecall the church dispensation.
I know that seemed like it was alot unpacked, right?
But in order to really gothrough that, we gotta go

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through, we got to revisit whatwe call the dispensation period.
And we kind of touched on it amoment ago, but we have to go
into it deeper to try to figureout what this means.
So the there is a propheticthread uh that takes place
during the time between the 69thand the 70th week, and this

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happens for the followingreasons.
Now, even though these theseperiods are set, there are times
when God will take out blocks ofthese times.
The fulfillment of these eventsin verse 24 cannot be found
anywhere in known history, sothese events are probably still
in the future.
You have the transgression thathas to be finished, you have to

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make an end for sin, have tomake a reconciliation for
iniquity, you have to bring ineverlasting righteousness, you
have to seal up the vision andprophecy, and you have to anoint
a most holy place.
So now, keep in mind now, andwell, this is probably gonna be
where we kind of wrap up today.
Keep in mind that do not letthis rise.

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When you say anoint the holyplace, it is given in the
original S to anoint the mostholy place.
So you really it's not likeanointing a particular church
building.
Now, and some teachers willclaim honestly that this is the
reference to the anointing ofJesus the Jordan, but actually
it refers to the building of thetemple in the millennial

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kingdom, and so this is wherepeople start miscounting.
So when you think that um themost anointing, the the
anointing of the most holy placehas been done, it really hasn't
been.
It has yet to have beenaccomplished.
So until that happens, there'san there's another timer that

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will start.
Now, the reason why thisprophecy is really silent about
what we call the church age isbecause it this prophecy again
in Daniel only deals withIsrael.
This the church is the fullnessof the Gentiles.
Remember, the church has to dealwith just the Gentile, and any

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Israel, Israelite that convertsto Christianity is now
considered Gentile.
If you don't believe me, ask anyuh any Jew, and nothing against
Jews, like this is not ananti-Semitic target.
If you if any any Jew thatconverts to Christianity, the
Jews don't view them as Jewishanymore or Israelite anymore,

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they view them as a Gentile.
So now the the the conclusiveand the final part of this truth
is given by the Lord himself onthe Mount of Olives.
See Matthew 24, two days beforehe was to be cut off, which
would be crucified.
He dealt with these events.

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Matthew 24, 4 through 14, in thefirst half of the week is the
beginning of sorrow, which wecall the tribulation.
And then Matthew 24, 15 and 19,middle of the week, which is
called the abomination ofdesolation, and then verses 20
to 22, which we call greattribulation.

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So now keep in mind revelationcan only be understood when we
figure out that there's aprophetic parentheses in that 70
week, and that 70th week isstill in the future.
Alright, we covered some heavystuff tonight.
Covered some heavy stuff.
I told you we was gonna, andthis is the kind of way I like

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to do my Bible studies, like youthink of a kind of a plane
approaching an airport sort ofdeal.
Come in and you can circle at35,000 feet, go to 20,000 feet,
you can go to 10,000 feet, yougo to 5,000 feet, you come in
for land.
We've just gone from the 35,000birds eye level down to about

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the 25,000 folding titles.
And I don't want that todiscourage you because there's a
lot to unpack.
But by studying it and unpackingit, it allows you, me, anyone
else who is really interested inliving for God and understanding
what is to happen to not bediscouraged or or deceived.

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But there will be people, Idon't I some of them have very
good intentions.
I will say it again.
Some of the people really havegood intentions, but they just
have bad information.
And there are some people whojust want to profit off your
confusion.
I'm not gonna lie about that.
But when we understand how Godis talking and how God is

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speaking to us, when God isspeaking to us, when this guy is
referring to us as Christians,prefergo the Gentile church or
the my people part, whichgenerally refers to Israel, then
we understand exactly um what weare we got coming up, what what

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is coming up and what is comingdown 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 theinbox.
I I'm thoroughly enjoying them.
Thank you all so much.

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Love each and every one of you.
Thank you all again.
Big shout out to Officer Tatumfor letting us talk about the
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And thank you to see you all today.