David Palmisano
April 14, 2024
In our text today we will unpack the prophecy of Daniel’s “seventy-weeks” and learn it’s not the Atomic clock that matters, it’s God’s clock and our times are in His hands.
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Daniel 9:20-21 While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my
people Israel and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill—
21 while I was still
in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in
swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
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God centered prayers keep our heart and mind on
home.
Daniel 9:5-6a …we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we
have turned away from your commands and laws. 6 We have not listened…”
Daniel 9:16a “Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, turn away your anger and
your wrath from Jerusalem, your city, your holy hill.”
Daniel 9:18-19 “We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of
your great mercy. 19 Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, hear and act! For your sake, my God, do not delay, because
your city and your people bear your Name.”
Philippians 3:20 (NLT) But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus
Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.
1 Peter 2:11 (NLT) Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and
foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very
souls.
John 17:4,13,15-16,24 “I have finished the work
you gave me to do (…) I am coming to you now, (…) My prayer is not that you
take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16
They are not of the
world, even as I am not of it. (…) “Father, I want those you have given me to
be with me where I am…”
Matthew 6:9-13 “‘Our Father in heaven (home), hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your
will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. (The Kingdom of God is coming to
earth) 11 Give
us today our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, (confession) as we also have forgiven our
debtors. 13 And
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Daniel 9:22-23 He (Gabriel) instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to
give you insight and understanding. As soon as you began to pray, a word went
out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore,
consider the word and understand the vision:
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Prayer connects our spiritual gifts with our
human efforts.
2 Timothy 1:6 (NLT) This is why I remind you to fan into flames the
spiritual gift God gave you...
1 Peter 4:10-11 God has given [maker] each of you a gift from his great variety of
spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another [manner]. 11 … Do it with all the
strength and energy that God supplies [means]. Then everything you do will
bring glory to God through Jesus Christ [motive]...
Daniel 9:24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to
finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring
in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the
Most Holy Place.
Romans 11:33-34 (NLT) Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and
knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his
ways! 34 For
who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to give him advice?
Daniel 9:25-26 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and
rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven
‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench,
but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and
will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city
and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the
end, and desolations have been decreed.
· Prophecy is given to us so that we would be a witness to God when the time comes.
Nehemiah 2:5,8 (NLT) I [Nehemiah] replied, “If it please the king, and if
you are pleased with me, your servant, send me to Judah to rebuild the city
where my ancestors are buried.” And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the
royal park, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the
citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will
occupy?” And because the gracious hand of my God was on me, the king granted
my requests.
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Periods 1 & 2 = 483 years X 360 days =
173,880 Pro. days.
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173,880 / 365 (GC) days = 476.4 years.
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-445BC + 476.4 years = March/April 32AD.
Matthew 27:46,50 “It was about the 9th hour [time of the evening sacrifice], Jesus shouted
[It is finished!] and he released His spirit. At that moment the curtain in the
sanctuary of the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom,…[A new covenant]
Daniel 9:27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of
the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he
will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is
decreed is poured out on him.
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Period 1: 445BC (49yrs) Nehemiah rebuilds
Jerusalem
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Period 2:
32AD Jesus revealed as Messiah (Palm Sunday)
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Parenthetical Period: Age of the Church &
Gentiles
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Period 3: 7 years of Tribulation
Matthew 24:6-7 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not
alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in
various places.
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Idol: Any person, place, or thing that
you look to as your source to determine or influence your decisions apart from
the living and True God and His Word.
Matthew 24:15,21 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes
desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—
For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the
world until now—and never to be equaled again.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will
be caught up (raptured) together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in
the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;
then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully,
even as I am fully known.
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Psalm 22:16 They pierced my hands and my
feet. (1044BC)
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Psalm 22:18 They divided my clothes among
them and cast lots for my garments. (1044BC)
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Psalm 69:21 They gave me vinegar to
drink. (~1000BC)
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Isaiah 53:8 For he was cut off from the
land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.
(~700BC)
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Zechariah 9:9 See, your king comes to
you, righteous and victorious, riding on a donkey. (520BC)
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Zechariah 11:12 I told them, “If you
think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.” So they paid me thirty
pieces of silver. 13 And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the
handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver
and threw them to the potter at the house of the Lord. (500BC)
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