God’s salvation work, displayed before the universe, is centered in and proceeds from the sanctuary in Heaven.    Purchase the DVDs and study notes at www.SecretsUnsealed.org

God’s salvation work, displayed before the universe, is centered in and proceeds from the sanctuary in Heaven. Purchase the DVDs and study notes at www.SecretsUnsealed.org

Secrets Unsealed

His Way is in the Sanctuary

Stephen Bohr

1. His Way is in the Sanctuary

2. The Sanctuary’s Angels

3. Death and Life in the Sanctuary

4. The Incarnation’s Seven Secrets

5. The Lamb of God Slain

6. Reaping the Sanctuary’s Benefits

7. A People Close to His Heart

8. The Triangle of Sanctification

9. The Sanctuary’s Two Covenants

10. The Bible’s Foundational Prophecy

11. The Chronology of the Judgment

12. The Sanctuary Shall Be Cleansed (Part 1)

13. The Sanctuary Shall Be Cleansed (Part 2)

14. Three Stages of Israel’s History

15. The Prophecy of the 70 Weeks (Part 1)

16. The Prophecy of the 70 Weeks (Part 2)

17. Found! The Ark of the Covenant

18. The Manna Test

19. Disappointment in the Sanctuary

20. As a Thief in the Night

21. God On Trial

22. The Judgment’s Three Stages

23. The Scapegoat and Revelation’s Millennium

24. A Monumental Conversion Experience

25. In Antichrist’s Temple (Part 1)

26. In Antichrist’s Temple (Part 2)

27. The Sanctuary’s Financial Secrets

28. The Holy and the Profane

29. The Two Temples

30. The Sanctuary and the Prophetic Gift

31. Three Inseparable Doctrines

32. Home At Last

Father in heaven, what a privilege it is to call you Father.

We thank you for the awesome opportunity that we have of coming together once again to open your word and understand the message that you have for us at this awesome period in human history.

Father, we cannot understand your word without divine help and that's why we come before your throne in humility expressing our need of wisdom from on high.

We ask father that you will bless us by your presence through the ministry of the angels that you will make things absolutely clear to each 1 of us.

And we thank you, Father, for your presence and for hearing our prayer, because we come to your throne boldly in the name of Jesus.

I'd like to begin by reminding all of you who are present here that the 70-week prophecy is the smaller portion of the prophecy of the 2300 days.

In other words, The 2300 days are the complete prophecy and the 70 weeks are cut off from the prophecy of the 2300 days.

The 70 weeks are the first portion of the prophecy of the 2300 days.

I'd like to begin by reading the prophecy of the 70 weeks as it is written in Daniel chapter 9 and verses 25 through 27.

Daniel chapter 9 and verses 25 through 27.

Immediately after Gabriel comes back and says to Daniel understand the Maré, he goes on to speak immediately about the 70 weeks.

They help explain in other words, the time factor of the 2300 days.

And so we find in Daniel 9 25, know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem, not only to build but to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there shall be 7 weeks and 62 weeks.

The street shall be built again and the wall even in troublesome times.

And after the 62 weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself.

And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

And till the end of the war, desolations are determined.

Then he, that is the prince who is to come, shall confirm a covenant with many for 1 week.

But in the middle of the week, this is the last week, he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.

And on the wing of abominations shall be 1 who makes what?

Don't forget 2 key words it uses the word on the wing of abominations shall be 1 who makes desolate even until the consummation which is determined is poured out on the desolate.

This is the famous prophecy of the 70 weeks and now we want to interpret the meaning of this magnificent prophecy.

We're not going to be able to finish our study in the lecture today.

We're actually going to study 2 parts of the 70 weeks.

Today we are going to study up to the point of the cutting off of the Messiah, and then in our lecture tomorrow we are going to deal with the remaining portion of the prophecy of the 70 weeks.

So let's begin at Daniel chapter 9 and verse 25 where it says, know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem.

Question, Is there a beginning point to the 70 week prophecy?

Is there an ending point to the first 69 weeks at least of the 70 year prophecy, 70 week prophecy?

So there is a clearly defined beginning point and what?

Now it's interesting to notice the word command, from the going forth of the command.

That word command is used a little bit earlier in Daniel chapter 9.

It's actually used in verse 23 where the Bible tells us that God gave the command to Gabriel to explain the Marais to Daniel.

In other words, what we have here is a decree or an order or a command.

Now you notice that this command contemplates 2 things.

Number 1, it contemplates the idea of restoring Jerusalem and also of what?

Now I don't have time to get into all of the details on this but they are not the same thing.

They are related 1 to another but they're not the same.

Restoring and building are 2 separate things although they are related.

Now in order to understand what it means to restore and build Jerusalem, we not need to understand what is meant by Jerusalem.

Now we usually think of Jerusalem as a city composed of buildings and walls and a temple, but Jerusalem means much more than that.

Jerusalem not only means the physical city composed of buildings and walls, it also refers to the social, religious, and political order of the city.

The institutions, the political and the religious institutions of the city.

That is to say, Jerusalem means the commerce, the rulers, the magistrates, the judges, and the civil and the religious laws.

Now it is a fact that Jerusalem lost its sovereignty not when the city was destroyed, it lost its sovereignty in the year 605 when King Nebuchadnezzar came and he took all of the royalty and all of the princes and all of the rulers away to Babylon from Jerusalem.

In other words, Jerusalem lost its political autonomy.

In other words, now the city belonged to someone else and not only that, the institutions by which the city had functioned came to an end because there were no legitimate rulers in the city of Jerusalem.

In fact let's notice second Kings 24 verses 14 through 16 where we find this idea of what is meant by Jerusalem.

Jerusalem does not mean only the physical city, it means the city composed of all of its magistrates, its rulers, its business people, its military leaders, etc.

Now notice 2 Kings chapter 24 and verses 14 through 16.

It says here, speaking about Nebuchadnezzar, also He carried into captivity all Jerusalem.

Now I've always wondered how he could carry Jerusalem into captivity.

He must have had some pretty heavy carts to be able to do that.

What is meant when it says that he carried all Jerusalem into captivity.

Is it talking about the city or is it talking about the leaders of the city, the political and the commercial and the military leaders?

It continues saying, Also he carried into captivity all Jerusalem, all the captains, notice, all the mighty men of valor, these are the warriors, the military, 10000 captives, and all the craftsmen, and the smiths.

None remained except the poorest people of the land.

And he carried Jehoiakim captive to Babylon, the king's mother, the king's wives, his officers, and the mighty of the land He carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Now do you notice that Jerusalem is used in 2 different ways in this passage?

First of all it says that he took Jerusalem captive, but then at the end of the verse it says he took all these into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

It means first of all the political and economic and military leaders of Jerusalem that is the political structure of the city and it also means the physical city itself.

Now I want you to notice also 2nd Kings 14 verse 22 where the words built and restored, the very words are used so that you can see that build and restore though related mean different things.

Second Kings 14 verse 22 it's speaking about Azariah and it says, he that is Azariah built Eloth and restored it to Judah.

What does that mean that he built it and he restored it?

It means that he gave it back to Judah for Judah to what?

And so it says he built Eloth and restored it to Judah after the king rested with his fathers.

So any decree that fulfills this command to restore and build Jerusalem not only needs to include building the physical city, but also what?

Restoring its political, military, and judicial institutions, so that the city can function as a political, and economic, and social entity.

Now there were 4 decrees that were given with regards to Jerusalem.

Let's take a look at those 4 decrees that were given.

The first decree was given by Cyrus and that was given in the year 536 BC.

You can find it in Ezra chapter 1 verses 2 through 4, we're not going to read it we don't have the time, And it's also found in 2nd Chronicles 36 and verse 23.

Now if you read those verses you'll discover that Cyrus only gave permission to build the temple.

It had nothing to do with restoring and building Jerusalem.

It had only to do with the temple, the religious institutions of Israel.

Now after this, after the captivity, several thousand Jews, 50, 000 actually returned to Jerusalem and taking advantage of this decree that Cyrus gave, they began building the temple and they put the foundations of the temple down, but then there was opposition by the people of the land.

And therefore they said it's not time for us to build the temple because we're having all sorts of problems.

And so basically they gave up the idea of building the temple and all of them started building their own houses and remodeling their own houses.

You can find this in the book of Hagiai chapter 1.

It says very clearly there what happened during this period.

So then a little bit later on Darius the first who is Darius the Persian not Darius the Mede not the 1 who conquered Babylon but this is Darius the Persian he gave a decree renewing the decree that was given by Cyrus.

This decree you can read it, it's found in Ezra 6 verses 3 through 12, and it's also found in the books of Nehemiah and Haggai.

And basically Darius I simply ratified and confirmed the decree that had been given by Cyrus.

And this happened as I mentioned in the year 520.

Nothing in this decree about restoring and building the city.

The only thing that you will find in this decree was rebuilding the temple.

And so this decree cannot fulfill the command to restore and to build Jerusalem.

A third decree was given by King Artaxerxes I, also known as Longanimus.

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