Daniel 8 and 9 show us proof the Bible is accurate. We can look at the time prophecies and calculate the exact dates with precision. It’s amazing more people don’t know about Bible prophecy. The 2300 day vision given to Daniel, the 70 week prophecy, the meaning of 1844, and whether the antichrist is a future event can be understood. Join Seventh-day Adventist international evangelist and author Mark Finley as he studies the longest time prophecy in the Bible.

<p>Daniel 8 and 9 show us proof the Bible is accurate. We can look at the time prophecies and calculate the exact dates with precision. It’s amazing more people don’t know about Bible prophecy. The 2300 day vision given to Daniel, the 70 week prophecy, the meaning of 1844, and whether the antichrist is a future event can be understood. Join Seventh-day Adventist international evangelist and author Mark Finley as he studies the longest time prophecy in the Bible.</p>

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Mark Finley

Exact Proof the Bible is Accurate Using Time Prophecy

If you have your Bible, please take it and turn to Daniel chapter 8.

And we're going to look there at what took place in the life of Daniel at the end of the 8th chapter.

The angel Gabriel had come and Gabriel was explaining Daniel chapter 8 to Daniel.

The heavenly messenger had explained the meaning of the ram, Medo-Persia, the meaning of the he-goat, Greece.

He came down to a prophecy in Daniel 8.14 unto 2, 300 days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

Now God had told the angel Gabriel something.

And I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Uli who called and said, Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.

Now when Gabriel has a message that comes from God, do you think Gabriel is going to be very persistent in following through on the instructions of God.

So Gabriel begins to explain the vision to Daniel.

He explains about the ram, he explains about the he-goat, he comes down to this long time prophecy the 2300 days.

And as Daniel is listening to the prophecy, explained Daniel 8 verse 27, And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick afterward.

I arose and went about the king's business.

I was astonished by the vision, but no 1 understood it.

So did Gabriel accomplish his mission by the end of chapter 8?

How do you know he didn't accomplish his vision?

Because it says nobody understood it, but in Daniel chapter 8 verse 17, Gabriel was commissioned to make this man do what?

But what portion of the vision did Daniel not understand?

The time prophecy, because was the ram explained in Daniel chapter 8?

He began it, but Daniel didn't understand it, and Daniel what?

Now, what would you expect then in Daniel chapter 9?

If Gabriel was told make this man understand the vision, if Daniel doesn't understand it at the end of chapter 8, what would you expect in Daniel chapter 9?

You'd expect Gabriel would come back and make Daniel understand the vision.

How many years took place between Daniel 8 and Daniel 9?

Now you can imagine that Daniel for 13 years is wondering about the vision of Daniel chapter 8.

Have you ever prayed for something for a year, or for 5 years, or for 10 years, or for 12 years?

Have you ever prayed for something and you have not had an immediate answer to your prayers?

1 of the reasons God did not immediately answer Daniel's prayer is because Daniel, God wanted to reveal to you and to me persistence.

The fact that we would earnestly seek him when we don't get immediate answers to our prayers.

That we would not give up, but we would petition God.

Another reason is this, God wanted to allow time to go by so that Daniel would see more eagerly and be more focused on the fulfillment of this prophecy.

And we come now to Daniel chapter 9, and we look there in the 9th chapter of the book of Daniel in verse 1.

Now the Bible does not tell us the day of Christ's second coming, but it does tell us when the time of the end begins.

And we are going to see in this prophecy tonight, 1 of the most amazing prophecies in all the Bible, Because this prophecy actually predicts the exact date that Christ would be baptized.

It predicts the exact date that Christ would be crucified.

It predicts the exact date that the gospel would go to the Gentiles.

And then it takes us down the stream of time and shows us a period of time that would be noted as the time of the end.

This prophecy has led more people to accept the Christian faith than any other in scripture.

It's a prophecy that has silenced many skeptics because it is so mathematically exact and mathematically precise.

In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans.

We know then something about the dating of this chapter.

In the first year of his reign, which is approximately 538 AD, I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet.

What does this text tell us about Daniel?

If you just were reading the text, what would you know about Daniel from this text?

I've got a good student on the front row.

My adults were wondering about that, but my young lady on the front row, that he reads the Bible.

I, Daniel, understood by books the number of years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet.

He was studying the prophecies of Jeremiah.

Now he was studying a specific prophecy of Jeremiah, that he would accomplish 70 years in desolations of Jerusalem.

He was studying the prophecies of Jeremiah and Jeremiah had made a prediction that Israel would go into a 70 year captivity.

So the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem and took Daniel and his friends captive in the year 605.

So if you take 605, you move 70 years forward, you come to approximately 535-536 AD.

So what does Daniel know from Jeremiah's prophecy?

He knows that Jeremiah's prophecy is coming to an end, doesn't he?

Because he knows that the 70-year prophecy is going to run out within the next couple of years.

He knows that Jerusalem would be desolate for that 70 years.

He's been in captivity for at least 68 years.

He went into captivity when he was about 17, So he's about 85.

But he longs for his people to be able to go home.

Have you ever traveled and been out of the country for any extensive period of time and at times you long to go home?

For a number of years I lived in England.

I was responsible for training pastors in about 17 countries and often traveled to the former Soviet Union during the days of communism.

And I can remember there would be times I would be alone.

I was away from my family for over a month.

I was negotiating, working with communist governments, trying to get religious freedom.

And I remember I would walk down the streets of Belgrade, cold, freezing cold, with my coat wrapped around me.

I wouldn't want to speak a word because they would know that I was an American.

I didn't know a word of Yugoslavia at the time.

I'd pull my hat down over my head, but I was staying in a church, sleeping on a little bed in this church, day after day, week after week, and oh, I wanted to go home.

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