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MAIN ARGUMENT: Trust and obey Jesus to be delivered from your own sin, the sin of others, and God’s righteous wrath.

GOD’S COMING WRATH

Jeremiah 10:10; Isaiah 48:22; Hebrews 9:27-28

God’s wrath is good and brings salvation for those who heed it.

God’s wrath is slow but faithful according to God’s holy, loving character.

Exodus 34:6-7; Romans 5:7-9

God’s wrath is controlled, righteous, necessary, and foretold .

Jesus is the promised Savior from sin and God’s righteous wrath .

Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

Luke 21:16-24; Matthew 24:15; Daniel 9:1-27

Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Daniel 9:1-23

Daniel 9:24–25 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment 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.

EXPLANATIONS

• The Hebrew word for “weeks” (šāvûa’) used here simply means “sevens” like the way we use “dozens.” The only way one can know whether it refers to seven days, months, years, or something else is the context. This context only makes sense as “sevens” of years. (Note: Daniel 10:2-3

“

šāvûa’ yamim,” or “week of days”

to distinguish.)

• Israel received 70 years of exile in connection to the 70 Sabbatical Years and 10 Jubilee Years (490 years) with which they did not honor God. (Daniel 9:2; Leviticus 24:8, 25:1-4; 26:43; Jeremiah 25:1-12; 29:1-23; Esp. 2 Chronicles 36:20-22)

• Daniel is now learning that after the decree(s) of the rebuilding of Jerusalem and its walls in the 6th century, another 490 years would be fulfilled for their Ultimate Jubilee and “acceptable year of the LORD” in the final “seven.” (Daniel 9:24-27; Isaiah 61:1-2)

• Those 490 years will be divided by the first seven (7x7 = 49 yrs) of actual rebuilding of Jerusalem and its walls, the next sixty-two (7x62 = 434 yrs) of nothing significant, and the final seven (7x1 = 7 yrs) being the long-awaited year of release. (Daniel 9:24-27)

Daniel 9:26–27 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 desolations 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 sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

EXPLANATIONS

• In the middle of that final “seven” (of years), the Messiah will confirm/establish the (promised new) Covenant and be “cut off.” In doing so, the Messiah will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings of animals to God, making desolate the holy place (signaled through the tearing of the veil) until its final desolation is fully poured out by “the people of the prince (leader) that shall come.” (Daniel 9:26-27)

• All of this finishes (completes) the transgressions of the people of Israel, makes an end of sins (brings forgiveness for sin), makes reconciliation for iniquity (atones for guiltiness), brings in the everlasting righteousness (of God’s reign in the Messiah), seals up (fulfills) the vision and prophesy, and anoints the most holy (Person/Place=Christ the new Temple). (Daniel 9:24)

Q: Do you grasp the magnitude of Jesus fulfilling Daniel’s prophesy?

Jesus is the Prophet-King to trust and obey .

Mark 13:14–16 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.

Remember how Jesus put it in Matthew 23:33-38?

Q: Have you turned from sin with faith in Christ to save you from God’s good wrath?

Q: Do you urgently flee what you know deserves God wrath—sin?

Q: Do you believe God’s wrath is good ?

THE PROPHET-KING

MAIN ARGUMENT: Trust and obey Jesus to be delivered from your own sin, the sin of others, and God’s righteous wrath .