June 14, 2014

“Know and Discern”

Blessings folk!

Yesterday we saw that the Lord tells us that 490 years are determined…

• to finish the transgression
• to make an end of sins
• to make reconciliation for iniquity
• to bring in everlasting righteousness
• to seal up the vision and prophecy
• to anoint the most Holy

Most of us could likely make a biblically educated deduction to what these mean.
Let us hold back on that.
Simply observe the next two verses…they are packed.

Daniel 9:25-26
25 So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

Look at the facts.

• “You” are to know. This is speaking to Daniel and ultimately to us. How do I know? Because these events did not happen in the lifetime of Daniel. Some have already occurred. Some have not. The phrase “even to the end” infers some things. End of what?
• We are to discern. These things can be known. The Lord has given us what we need to understand.
• There will be a decree issued...another one. The first is from God and is the information that we are examining. This second decree will be by man. The decree will be to rebuild Jerusalem
• The decree to rebuild Jerusalem begins a time element that relates to the coming of Messiah the Prince!
• There will be “7 weeks” (49 years)
• There will be “62 weeks” (434 years)
• Jerusalem will be rebuilt...with plaza, with moat, even in times of distress
• After the 62 weeks Messiah will be cut off and have nothing
• And the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.
• there is a prince to come
• we know some of his lineage...his people
• “Its” (city/sanctuary?) will come with a flood
• even to the end there will be war
• desolations are determined.

These things are determined.
God knows.

These verses give the prophetic timetable for the coming of the Lord, His death, the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple (which occurred in 70 A.D.) and the coming of the prince.

Are you ready?
Are you prepared in the Lord?
Do you know?
Are you seeking the discernment of the Lord?

By the way, did you notice that 7 weeks were determined...then 62 weeks...a total of 69 weeks.

But, Daniel had been told that 70 weeks were determined.
Hummmm….
70 minus 69 equals 1.
There is a “week” (7 year time period) remaining.
This time is properly referred to as the “70th week of Daniel”.
Now you know why...