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

1. Daniel Prayed for His People.

Daniel 9:1-3 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans - [2] in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the __________________ of the ___________________ of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years. [3] So I gave my ________________ to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and _______________________, with fasting, ________________ and ashes.

Daniel 9:4-6 I prayed to the LORD my God and ________________ and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and _________________________ for those who love Him and keep His commandments, [5] we have sinned, ________________ iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and __________________. [6] "Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the ______________, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land.

Daniel 9:7-12 "_______________________ belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day -to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the ________________ to which You have driven them, because of their __________________ deeds which they have ________________ against You. [8] "Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. [9] "To the Lord our God belong __________________ and forgiveness, for we have ______________ against Him; [10] nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His ________________ which He set before us through His servants the ______________. [11] "Indeed all Israel has _____________________ Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him. [12] "Thus He has ________________ His words which He had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great ______________; for under the whole heaven there has not been done ______________ like what was done to Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:13-14 "As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquity and giving ________________ to Your truth. [14] "Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and ____________ it on us; for the LORD our God is ________________ with ____________ to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.

Daniel 9:15-16 "And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made a name for ______________, as it is this day -we have sinned, we have been wicked. [16] "O Lord, in accordance with all Your ________________ acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy ______________; for because of our sins and the __________________ of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a ______________ to all those around us.

Daniel 9:17-19 "So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate ________________. [18] "O my God, ____________ Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our ___________________ and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not __________________ our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great __________________. [19] "O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, ____________ Your city and Your people are called by Your 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 Now while I was speaking and praying, and __________________ my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and __________________ my _____________________ before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, [21] while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision __________________, came to me in my extreme ________________ about the time of the evening offering. [22] He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding. [23] "At the ________________ of your _____________________s the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of 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 have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the _______________________, to make an end of sin, to make ________________ for iniquity, to bring in ___________________ _______________________, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. [25] "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild ________________ until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. [26] "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the ________________. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; ___________________ are __________________. [27] "And he will make a firm ______________ with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to ________________ and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a ______________ ___________________, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes 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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