Daniel 9 - Daniel Recognized That The Time Was Near - KJV

1. Daniel Prayed for His People.

Daniel 9:1-3 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 __________________ 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 ___________________ of ________________. [3] And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and _______________________, with fasting, and ________________, and ashes:

Daniel 9:4-6 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my __________________, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; [5] We have sinned, and have ________________ iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by ________________ from thy precepts and from thy ________________: [6] Neither have we ________________ unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

Daniel 9:7-12 O LORD, _______________________ belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the ________________ whither thou hast driven them, because of their ______________ that they have ______________ed against thee. [8] O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. [9] To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have ______________ against him; [10] Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the ______________. [11] Yea, all Israel have _____________________ thy law, even by ________________, that they might not obey thy voice; ________________ the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is ____________ in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. [12] And he hath ________________ his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by ______________ upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:13-14 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and __________________ thy truth. [14] Therefore hath the LORD ____________ upon the evil, and ____________ it upon us: for the LORD our God is ________________ in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

Daniel 9:15-16 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done ______________. [16] O LORD, according to all thy _______________________, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy ______________: because for our sins, and for the __________________ of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a ______________ to all that are about us.

Daniel 9:17-19 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy ________________ that is ______________, for the Lords sake. [18] O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our ___________________, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our ___________________________, but for thy great ____________. [19] O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, ____________ and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

Do you think the last few Old Testament verses recognize the concept of grace? _________

2. God Sent Gabriel to Further Explain the Vision to Daniel.

Daniel 9:20-23 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and __________________ my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and __________________ my _____________________ before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; [21] Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. [22] And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. [23] At the beginning of thy _____________________s the ___________________ came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: ________________ understand the matter, and ______________ the vision.

1) Who was Gabriel? ______________________________________________

2) Gabriel is mentioned by name in Daniel 8, Daniel 9 and Luke 1. What did he have to say in Luke 1? ______________________________________________

3. Gabriel Gives a Very Specific Explanation. This Time He Specified Seventy Weeks. Remember the Year Day Principle.

Daniel 9:24-27 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the _______________________, and to make an end of sins, and to make _________________________ for iniquity, and to bring in ___________________ _______________________, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. [25] Know therefore and __________________, that from the going forth of the ___________________ to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. [26] And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war ___________________ are determined. [27] And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the ________________ and the oblation to cease, and for the _______________________ of _____________________ he shall make it desolate, even until the _____________________, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

The previous verses place special emphasis on the final week of the seventy week prophecy. During this week the Messiah would make an end of sin. Some Christians have taken the final week of this prophecy and applied it to the end of time. But as Gabriel explains it, the prophecy points to the final week, or seven years, as taking place in the time of the Messiah. It says that in the middle of the week the Messiah would be cut off. In other words, He would die three and one half years after his ministry began. When the Messiah died, there would no longer be a need for temple sacrifices and offerings. These pointed forward to the one sacrifice the Messiah would make for all who would be saved by faith in Him. Once He had died, no one would need these temple sacrifices to teach what the Messiah would accomplish. After He died everyone would be able to study Him rather than observe the sacrificial system.

The Jews were to be allowed seventy weeks, or 490 years, to cooperate more fully with God's plan of salvation. Near the end of this time period the Messiah would come. The time period began with the command to restore the temple in Jerusalem and came to a close three and one half years after the Messiah was crucified in the middle of the week final week. The end of the week came when Stephen was stoned with the approval of the Jewish officials. At that time the Gospel focus turned away from the Jews and more emphasis was placed on the Gentiles.

As it turned out, Saul of Tarsus, one of the greatest persecutors of the church became Paul the Apostle, one of its greatest missionaries. He worked primarily with the Gentiles. The book of Acts tells us that Paul stood by and watched with approval as Stephen was stoned. He later met Jesus on the road to Damascus where he had planned to find Christians to bring back to Jerusalem for trial.

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