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Welcome back to our Encouraging Concepts Bible study series focused on the powerfully PROPHETIC picture portrayed in the Old Testament book of Daniel painted as a panoramic landscape of World History in FIVE successions “written” in ardent ADVANCE some 2,600 years ago… “The Book of Daniel: Prophecy PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE!”
The Book of Daniel: Prophecy PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE (Chapter 9: Verses 1-2)
1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; 2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem – Daniel 9:1-2
OPENING POINTS TO PONDER: Pinpointed PRIOR to the past one hundred and fifty years of blatant Biblical IGNORANCE ingrained among the unsuspecting flock of “God” abroad, there was absolutely NO confusion concerning this simple powerful PROPHECY denoting the tantamount TIMETABLE surrounding the heavenly apt anointing and Divinely determined death of our loving “Lord Jesus Christ” the “Only Begotten Son” Himself as “Israel’s” mandated – Coming PROMISED Messiah!
And there is certainly NO single poignantly PROPHETIC utterance of which is more CRUCIAL in the Theological fields of Biblical Interpretation, faith-defending Apologetics and end-times Eschatology than THIS particular powerful passage. And it is with right reference unto its immense IMPORTANCE within the perfectly PROPHESIED predictions of these summoned “Seventy Weeks” of which were faithfully FULFILLED where we find the chronologically indispensable KEY to absolutely ALL other associated PROPHECIES found throughout – The New Testament!
Chapter 9: Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks!
It was several years BEFORE this trying “time” early on during the jaded “Jewish” captivity of a FULL sordid “seventy years” in belligerent “Babylon” from where “God” had already “given” the descriptive “dream” unto “King Nebuchadnezzar” of which “Daniel” insightfully “interpreted” as crassly chronicled earlier in chapter 2 by an eerie “image” erect. Then in in chapter 7 there is a reiteration of that prophetically PROMISED picture in a much more explicit and completely comprehensive way via a series of FOUR gorily “great beasts” in kind. Now here in chapter 9 there is a PROPHETIC praise pronouncement propagated via a series of poignant PRAYERFUL vitally vast “visions” of the most IMPORTANT insight imaginable – PROMISED Prophecy!
Indeed “we” can intently identify the true TIMING of this chronology as taking place only ONE yielded “year” lamenting LATER than the previous challenging chapter eight as such…
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans – Daniel 9:1
Therefore, it was NOW narrated in the “first year” of the newly APPOINTED dictator “Darius” of whom was Sovereignly set over the ranking “realm of the Chaldeans” as the sown “seed” of the “Medes” through a pragmatic posterity to the illustrious “Ahasuerus” himself…
BIBLICAL BACKGROUND: Incidentally, ”Ahasuerus” rendered “reign” would become “twenty seven provinces” throughout “India even unto Ethiopia” in the acclaimed dire “days” of Queen “Esther” as was PROPHETICALLY provided unto “Darius” in kind:
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) – Esther 1:1
This HISTORICAL narrative had taken place during the 68th year of insolent “Israel’s” perfectly PROPHESIED capricious “captivity” with TWO more “years” coming, ONE under “Darius the Median” and ONE under “Cyrus the Persian” at which time “Cyrus” would “command” jaundice “Jerusalem” to be reestablished as such:
So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian – Daniel 6:28
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah – Ezra 1:1-2
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up – 2 Chronicles 36:22-23
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up – Isaiah 44:28
And now here in these historically PROPHETIC promptings we find that “Daniel” had rightly “understood” by the sacred WRITINGS wrought within “word of the Lord” concerning his “Jewish” brethren ousted from “Jerusalem” in their dire “desolations” depicted through the Holy bemoaned “books” especially in the PROPHECY proliferated by “Jeremiah the prophet” concerning the total “number of the years” their complacent “captivity” in beguiled “Babylon” was to be – Soon COMPLETE!
Thus, the powerful PROMISES penned in the “books” beheld by “Daniel” had legitimately led him to the absolute ANSWERS he soundly sought through his personal PRAYER posture:
In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem – Daniel 9:2
THEOLOGICAL THOUGHTS: These beautiful “books” of which “Daniel” had uniquely “understood” may have also included some of the OTHER properly poised PROPHETIC wrought “writings” of their chided chronology of his country “Jerusalem” within the HISTORICAL narrative fomented by the “Prophet Jeremiah“ himself.
And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish – Jeremiah 27:8-10
And BY the “first year” of “Darius the Mede” the godly aged man “Daniel” discerns from the journal of “Jeremiah” that jaded “Judah’s” justified “captivity” was soon coming to an anticipated END itself. Therefore, “God” had firmly FORETOLD that He was using “Nebuchadrezzar” to corporately PUNISH the nigh “nation” of irrational “Israel” to severely “serve the king of Babylon” for a very specific a period of “seventy years” succinctly…
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands – Jeremiah 25:8-14
And what “God” is now SAYING to the nigh “nation of Israel” in this powerful PROPHECY is not only will He go through the desperate world-wide DIASPORA along with them in which “they” have been Divinely “driven” out among “all the nations” fully, He also has an incredibly GLORIOUS fixed “future” yet planned in this ADVANCED narrative provided especially “for” them as “spoken” of by the prophet “Jeremiah” some 100 years in print PRIOR to this message from “Daniel” in kind:
For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon – Jeremiah 29:10-15
PROPHETIC PROMISE: There is indeed COMING a tremendous “time” when the wicked “world” will run its caustic course. The precisely PRMOISED magnificent “Messiah” in His grand “greatness” will rightly RETURN to eagerly ESTABLISH His literal long-awaited 1000-year Millennial majestic “Kingdom” upon the earth.
And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him – Daniel 7:27
Our loving “Lord Jesus Christ” and magnificent “most High” will finally FREE the hiding “Hebrew” host FROM their physical and spiritual bondage. His great GLORIOUS earthly empire will righteously REIGN throughout the entire planet. This is the WONDERFUL message for “Israel” Sovereignly sent by our grand “God” Himself and this “beloved Daniel” was aptly appointed as yet another – HUMBLE Herald!
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