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It Is Written Canada

All Eyes Looking in the Wrong Direction

Chris Holland

All Eyes Looking in the Wrong Direction- Part 1

All Eyes Looking in the Wrong Direction- Part 2

God's book, the Bible, still relevant in today's complex world.

It is written sharing messages of hope around the world.

We left off last week wondering how the 2300 day prophecy would answer the challenge of the crises of the world today.

Now, if you missed last week's show, you can go to our website www.itiswrittencanada.ca or you can go to our YouTube channel youtube.com forward slash IIW Canada and you can view the previous week's programs.

But today we are going to pick up right where we left off.

Now you'll remember that as the angel Gabriel helps reveal the answer to the question of What does this mysterious 2300 days mean?

Daniel chapter 9 and verse 24 picks up where we left off last week and Gabriel says these words, 70 weeks are determined for your people and for your city.

Now, I want you to think about this, because hopefully it's starting to make sense.

Daniel was given a vision of 2300 days in Daniel chapter 8.

Now we need to do a little math and if you're not a mathematician just stay with me because it's actually all rather very simple.

Now, literally in the original Hebrew, this means that it is cut off from a larger piece.

70 weeks are cut off from a larger piece.

That 70 weeks is cut off from the 2, 300 days of Daniel chapter 8.

In fact, Gabriel says, I've come to help you understand.

What is he coming to help him understand?

And then he says to Daniel, Daniel, I'm going to give you a starting point for the time prophecy of the 2300 days.

Now something that we need to do to help ourselves.

So we need to keep it simple and make it all the same.

70 weeks, 7 days in a week, equals 490 days.

The angel Gabriel is making this all so simple for us.

The 2300 day prophecy has something to do with the time of the end and it has heavenly sanctuary language.

But we have no beginning point for the 2300 days.

Now Gabriel comes and says that 70 weeks or 490 days have been cut off from the 2300 days that are specific.

You know, I want you to remember this cannot be literal days because Daniel 8 says that it refers to the time of the end.

Now, to help us with our journey, we need to look at 1 of the most accepted biblical principles of interpretation of time prophecy.

It's found in Ezekiel 4, 6 and also in Numbers 14, 34.

For each prophetic day, I have laid upon you a year.

Now so, if we're talking about prophetic days, we're actually talking about literal years.

So the 490 days, the 2300 days are actually literal years.

So here's what the chart would look like.

490 of those 2300 have been dedicated or have been cut off specifically for the Jews and Jerusalem.

And so 2300 years and 490 years, it just don't help us very much because We don't have a starting point.

And so 2300 years and 490 years, it just don't help us very much because we don't have a starting point.

Praise the Lord that the Bible does give us a starting point.

Daniel chapter 9 and in verse 25 says these words, know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem.

Now the word here command is literally translated from the original Hebrew as decree.

Because in Ezra Chapter 7, verses 12 and 13, the Bible tells us about a decree.

Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace and so forth, I issue a decree that all those of the people of Israel and the priests and the Levites in my realm who volunteer to go up into Jerusalem may go with him." Artaxerxes made a decree.

That decree allowed the Jewish people to go back to Jerusalem and begin to rebuild Jerusalem, thankfully from history.

A starting point that reveals some of the most exciting news that you could ever see and ever hear.

Now the verse of Daniel 9 continues on and it says this, Know therefore from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there shall be 7 weeks and sixty-two weeks.

7 plus sixty-two gives us sixty-nine weeks.

The Bible says that after 69 weeks of the 70 weeks, the Messiah would come.

Literally in the Hebrew, this is the word, the anointed 1.

Now we just learned from Ezekiel 4, 6 and Numbers 14, 34 that a prophetic day equals a literal year.

So if we take 69 times 7, which is 483, 483 years from 457 BC takes us to what number?

Now, there's a little bit of a problem though.

You see on a calculator in our number system The calculator is zeroed.

We have a 0 But in history, there is no year 0.

See, in history, they would have gone from 1 BC to 1 AD.

Now, this is not some quick footed math here.

It's very simple and hopefully it makes sense.

Now did anything interesting happen in 27 AD?

Because remember the prophecy said that this is when the Messiah would show up.

Luke, when he was recording his gospel, he begins Luke chapter 3 with these words.

Now in the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar, Why do I emphasize that point?

The 15th year of Tiberius Caesar was exactly 27 AD.

Immediately following that, in Luke chapter 3, The Bible goes on to say this, when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized.

This is fascinating because in Acts chapter 10 And in verse 38, the Bible reads, God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil.

Jesus was anointed as the Messiah when the Holy Spirit descended upon Him at His baptism.

Jesus was the Messiah when He was born, but He was anointed for His mission at His baptism when the Holy Spirit fell upon him.

The book of Daniel predicts with absolute reliability the year that Jesus would be baptized.

Furthermore, the prophecy goes on though to give us even more detail.

In Daniel chapter 9 and verse 26, it says this, after the 62 weeks Messiah shall be cut off, then he shall confirm a covenant with many for 1 week.

Now 69 weeks plus the 1 week gives us that 70 weeks or 490 years.

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