🎵Music🎵
Good morning, welcome to our services today
here at Faithful Word Baptist Church.
It's very good to see you all here on this Sunday morning.
If you would all please find your seats as we begin with our
congregational singing this morning.
Let's all go in our hymnals to hymn number 421.
This morning, number 421, the first Noel.
421.
And we'll start on that first verse together, number 421.
421, let's sing it out.
🎵The first Noel🎵
🎵The angel did say🎵
🎵Was uncertain for shepherds and fields as they lay🎵
🎵In fields where they, they keep in their sheep🎵
🎵One of the winter's night that was so deep🎵
🎵Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel🎵
🎵Born is the King of Israel🎵
🎵And by the light of that same star🎵
🎵Revise that came from country far🎵
🎵To see for a king was their intent🎵
🎵And to follow the star wherever it went🎵
🎵Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel🎵
🎵Born is the King of Israel🎵
🎵This star to die to the North West🎵
🎵Or Bethlehem it took its rest🎵
🎵And there it did🎵
🎵We'll stop and stay right over the place🎵
🎵Where Jesus lay🎵
🎵Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel🎵
🎵Born is the King of Israel🎵
🎵That entered in those words when free🎵
🎵Foreverently upon their knee🎵
🎵And offered there in His presence🎵
🎵Their gold, and her, and frankincense🎵
🎵Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel🎵
🎵Born is the King of Israel🎵
Amen, let's go to Madison to open this up in the word of prayer.
Our Father in Heaven, thank you for this beautiful day that you've given us and another opportunity to worship you.
Lord, we pray that you would be pleased with the singing of hymns and songs and spiritual songs unto you, Lord.
We pray that you also bless and fill Pastor Anderson with your spirit and give us ears to see and eyes to hear the wonders of Thy law.
We ask your blessing on this service, in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
Amen, number 423 is next.
Joy to the world, the Lord is come, number 423.
Sing it out nice and loud all together on this first verse, 423.
🎵Joy to the world, the Lord is come🎵
🎵Let earth receive her King🎵
🎵Let every heart prepare Him room🎵
🎵And heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing🎵
🎵And heaven and heaven and nature sing🎵
🎵Joy to the world, the Savior reigns🎵
🎵Let men their songs employ🎵
🎵But fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains🎵
🎵Remake the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy🎵
🎵Remake the ear, repeat the sounding joy🎵
🎵No more sins and sorrows grow🎵
🎵The Lord declares the ground🎵
🎵He comes to make His blessings known🎵
🎵For as the curse is found🎵
🎵He rules the world with truth and grace🎵
🎵And makes the nations prove🎵
🎵The glories of His righteousness🎵
🎵And wonders of His love, and wonders of His love🎵
🎵And wonders and wonders of His love🎵
This time we'll go through our announcements together.
If you don't have a bulletin, slip up your hand nice and high.
We'll get to you with one.
On the inside, we have our service times.
Sunday mornings at 1030 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at 6.
Wednesday nights at 7 is our Bible study.
This week will be in Ezekiel, chapter number 18.
We've got the soul-winning times listed there below,
as well as salvations and baptisms.
Across the page, congratulations to the Areola family
on the birth of Chloe Noel.
That's a Christmasy name.
And she was born on Saturday, December 11th at 9.21 a.m.,
weighing 7.9 pounds.
Is that how we're doing it?
Are we getting all decimal now?
Is that what that means?
Or is that 7 pounds, 9 ounces?
Is it 7.9?
No one knows.
Okay, we don't know.
It's either 7 pounds, 9 ounces
or 7 pounds, 14 and a half ounces.
We don't know, but it's a good size baby, all right?
It's a great size, 18 and a half inches.
And so congratulations to the Areola family.
And then the annual Christmas caroling is Tuesday,
December 21st, so it's not this coming Tuesday,
but it's next Tuesday.
And we're going to meet here at 5.30.
We'll get organized.
We'll get out there, go caroling for about an hour.
And if you've never done this before, you know,
you don't want to just kind of go to the grave
never having done this.
It's one of those things that you have to do
at least once in your life.
And we make it the easiest
because we'll put you in a group with like 30 other people.
You can fade to the back if you have to.
So anyway, it's a great opportunity
to go Christmas caroling next Tuesday.
And then December 26th,
we're going to have the cookie bake-off at 4.30 p.m.
We'll have our normal church services that day,
10.30, 6 o'clock in the evening.
And then there will be prizes awarded for
first, second, and third place
in the categories of best tasting, best looking,
and most festive.
And so there are really nine prizes
that are being given out, nine chances to win.
And so that is on the 26th.
On the back, there's a home school field trip
to Rooster Cogburn's Ostrich Farm.
And that is scheduled for Friday, January 10th at 10.30 a.m.
And the rules are listed there.
What's it supposed to say?
Oh, Friday the 7th.
Okay, the 10th is not a Friday.
It is a Friday, but it's Friday the 7th, apparently.
That doesn't sound right either.
Are we sure about that?
Okay, all right.
Friday the 7th.
So make a note of that.
Friday the 7th at 10.30.
Make sure you read the rules there
and pay attention to those.
And then below that, the St. Croix Mission Strip,
U.S. Virgin Islands is coming up January 16th through 22nd.
If you're going, you know, now's the time
to really get serious about it, pull the trigger,
because Brother Raymond is trying to get lodging together
and get it organized.
If you're interested in going,
but you're on the fence about it,
reach out to Brother Raymond and just let him know
that you're thinking about going,
just so that he can at least kind of know.
I know there are a lot of people who are signed up
and actually have their flights booked
and they're ready to roll,
but I know a lot of people
have just kind of vaguely expressed interest.
So talk to Brother Raymond.
Talk to myself.
Talk to Brother Daniel Rider.
Reach out and get more info if needed
and keep us in the loop on that.
January 16th through 22nd.
It's going to be a good one.
And then below that,
some other small town soul winning trips are coming up.
This weekend in San Jose, Arizona, not California.
And then the one after that on the 31st and the 1st,
I guess you're still not sure which town that's going to be?
It depends on if we finish San Jose.
Okay, it might be a San Jose part two
or it might be something else.
And then we're going back for a single day trip,
Globe Claypool, and that should be a Saturday, I believe.
Am I right?
What are we doing here?
All right, so the bulletin's a little bit interactive this morning, okay?
So you cross out the 10 at the top, make it a 7.
Cross out that Friday and make it a Saturday.
Saturday the 8th, if my calculations are correct.
So we'll be finishing Globe and then getting into Claypool.
That is about it for announcements.
And so with that, let's go ahead and sing our next song.
Come lead us.
All right, in the cover of your hymnal,
you should find the insert with the two songs.
We'll start with O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.
If you don't have an insert, please raise your hand.
We'll sing on that first verse.
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive in Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here,
Until the Son of God appears.
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel,
Shall come to you, O Israel.
O Come, O Come, great Lord of mine,
Whom to your tribes on Sinai's line,
In ancient times did gale along,
In cloud and majesty and awe.
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel,
Shall come to you, O Israel.
O Come, O Come, great John Jesse,
Stand unto your own and rescue them,
From depths of hell your people will stay,
And give them victory o'er the grave.
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel,
Shall come to you, O Israel.
O Come, O Come, bright and morning star,
And bring us comfort from afar,
Dispel the shadows of the night,
And turn our darkness into light.
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel,
Shall come to you, O Israel.
Amen. If you flip that sheet over, we'll sing What Child Is This.
One child is this, who lay to rest, On Mary's lap, it's sleeping.
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, While shepherds watch are keeping.
This, this is Christ the King, Whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
It takes to bring him love, The faith, the Son of Mary.
While I see him touch me this thing, Their arms and eyes are feeding.
Good Christian fear for sinners here, The silent Word is pleading.
This, this is Christ the King, Whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
It takes to bring him love, The faith, the Son of Mary.
So bring him incense, golden burn, The Peasant King to all here.
The King of kings, salvation brings, Let loving hearts implode him.
This, this is Christ the King, Whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
It takes to bring him love, The faith, the Son of Mary.
At this time, we'll pass the offering plates around.
As the plates go around, let's turn our Bibles to Revelation chapter number 13.
Revelation chapter number 13, as we always do, we'll read the entire chapter, beginning
in verse number 1.
Follow along silently with Brother Raymond as he reads Revelation 13.
Revelation chapter 13 and verse 1, the Bible reads,
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, And saw a beast rise up out of the sea,
Having seven heads and ten horns, And upon his horns ten crowns,
And upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard,
And his feet were as the feet of a bear, And his mouth as the mouth of a lion.
And the dragon gave him his power, And his seat, and great authority.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death,
And his deadly wound was healed, And all the world wondered after the beast.
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast,
And they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast?
Who is able to make war with him?
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies,
And power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
And he opened his mouth and blasphemy against God,
To blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, And them that dwell in heaven.
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,
And to overcome them, And power was given him over all kindreds,
And tongues, and nations.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
Whose names are not written in the book of life,
Of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.
If any man have an ear, let him hear.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity.
He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.
Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth,
And he had two horns like a lamb, And he spake as a dragon,
And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,
And causeth the earth and them which dwell therein,
To worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
He doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven,
On the earth and the sight of men,
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles,
Which he had power to do in the sight of the beast,
Saying to them that dwell on the earth,
That they should make an image to the beast,
Which had the wound by a sword and did live.
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast,
And the image of the beast should both speak,
And cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
Free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand
Or in their foreheads, and that no man might buy or sell,
Save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast,
Or the number of his name. Here is wisdom,
Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast,
For it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred,
Three score and six.
Brother Thomas, will you pray for us?
Father in heaven, thank you for this opportunity, Lord, to be in church.
Lord, we just ask you to bless Pastor Anderson
as he preaches your word, Lord, and give us all ears to hear and hearts to understand.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen.
The title of this sermon this morning is Daniel's 70th Week.
Daniel's 70th Week.
Now, we're going to go back to the book of Daniel and look at that,
but the reason that I had you just read Revelation chapter 13
is so that it would be fresh in your mind as we read this.
Of course, Revelation chapter 13 is the famous chapter about the Antichrist,
and he receives the deadly wound, and everybody in the world is worshipping the Antichrist,
and then the false prophet comes along and tells people that they should worship the Antichrist,
and that they should actually make an image to the Antichrist,
and that, you know, whoever would not worship that image would be killed,
and then he causes everyone to receive a mark in their right hand or in their forehead,
the proverbial 666, that they can't buy or sell without that mark in the right hand or their forehead.
So I wanted that all to be kind of fresh in your mind, what we just read in Revelation 13,
as we approach Daniel chapter 9.
So if you would, turn back in your Bible to Daniel chapter 9,
because what I really want to talk about this morning is Daniel's 70th Week,
or the 70 weeks of Daniel that are brought up in Daniel chapter 9.
The reason I'm preaching about this is because recently there's been some really bad teaching on this
from some independent fundamental Baptists that are teaching some wrong doctrine on this.
So I just want to set the record straight and show you what the Bible says,
and that this idea of Daniel's 70th Week still coming in the future is correct,
and it's biblical, and it's a part of end times prophecy.
Now, whenever I preach on end times prophecy, I realize this is a complicated subject.
It's a difficult subject for a lot of people who aren't really well versed in the Bible,
and maybe you're here this morning and you haven't really read the Bible that much,
or you're not really up on end times Bible prophecy.
You know, I beg of you to just hang with me this morning and try to just understand as much as you can.
I'm really going to break this down and try to make it simple.
Don't worry about the stuff you don't understand.
Worry about what you do understand, and track with me and pay attention to the best of your ability,
because this is really good stuff, it's important stuff in the Bible,
and, you know, we may even be living in those times.
It may happen in our lifetime, and so we want to know what the Bible says about these things.
So Daniel chapter 9, there's this passage beginning in verse 24.
It's just a short little passage, just a few verses, 24 through 27,
and this is where we derive this term, Daniel's 70th Week.
I'm going to show you what this passage teaches.
I'm going to explain to you the false teaching that's out there, and then I'm going to prove to you that it's wrong, okay?
So look if you would at verse 24, it says,
70 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.
That's a tall order, right? That's a lot that's going to happen there,
and it mentions things that we would associate with, of course, Jesus Christ dying for us,
things about salvation, making an end of sins, making reconciliation for iniquity,
and then also it talks about bringing in everlasting righteousness,
sealing up the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
We'll come back to those things, but this is what the 70 weeks is about.
Look at verse number 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 in two weeks,
the street shall be built again and the wall even in trouble as times.
The first thing I want you to notice is that the 70 weeks is broken up, okay?
That wasn't an idea that I came up with.
The Bible breaks this up into seven weeks and then 62 weeks, and then that's only 69,
so then you have one 70th week. Does everybody see that?
So this is broken into three components.
You've got a seven-week period, you've got a 62-week period, and you've got the final week, Daniel's 70th week.
Okay, now another thing I want to mention is that when the Bible used the term week here,
this is not always referring to a week of days.
In this case, it's a week of years.
A week is seven days.
This week is seven years.
So 70 weeks is actually 490 years because it's seven times 70.
Daniel's 70th week is seven years in length.
Virtually everyone agrees on that.
In fact, I've never heard of anyone not agreeing that these weeks are weeks of years.
That's not even debated.
Okay, let's move on.
It said here that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, verse 25,
unto the Messiah, the prince, that's obviously Jesus Christ, shall be seven weeks and threescore in two weeks.
The street shall be built again and the wall even in trouble as times.
Now what this is referring to is that the book of Daniel is being written while the Jews are in captivity in Babylon.
So the temple has been destroyed, the first temple.
Jerusalem has been destroyed.
The nation of Judah has been decimated.
Okay, they're scattered into all nations.
They're in captivity in Babylon, many of them.
And the prophecy here is stating that the wall is going to be built again.
The street is going to be built again.
Jerusalem is going to be built again.
That's what we're talking about.
Does everybody understand that context?
Okay, but it's going to be in trouble as times.
Because remember in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, while the wall is being built,
there's all kinds of strife and fighting going on and so forth.
Verse 26, after threescore in two weeks, shall Messiah be cut off.
Okay, now remember, first comes the seven weeks, then the 62 weeks, then Messiah is cut off.
Everybody understand that?
So 69 weeks, Messiah is cut off.
But not for himself.
Isn't this a great prophecy showing that the Messiah is going to do some kind of substitutionary atonement?
Right, because the Jews, they were looking for the Messiah to just be a great king of Israel that would lead them back to their former glory.
But in the book of Daniel, it says here that Messiah is going to be cut off.
And he's not going to be cut off for himself.
You know who he's going to be cut off for?
For you. For me.
He's cut off for us.
He was bruised for our iniquities, right?
He's wounded for our transgressions.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him and by his stripes, we are healed.
The Lord had laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Jesus died for our sins. He's cut off but not for himself.
Everybody following so far? Let's keep going.
After threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off.
We understand that that's Jesus dying for us.
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 under the end of the war, desolations are determined.
Now stop right there and think for a minute, okay?
After Jesus dies on the cross, after that, someone's going to come and destroy Jerusalem and the temple.
Did that happen?
Yes, it did.
In AD 70, that happened, okay?
So yes, the temple was rebuilt in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah.
They rebuilt the city, they rebuilt the wall, they rebuilt the temple.
But then hundreds of years later, after these 69 weeks of years are fulfilled, then the Messiah comes.
The Messiah is cut off but not for himself.
And then the people of the prince that shall come, they destroy Jerusalem and destroy the temple for a second time.
Does everybody understand that?
Now this happened in AD 70.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, of course, was born around the time that we start counting.
The whole point of AD means Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.
BC means before Christ, okay?
Nowadays, academics like to call it CE and BCE.
I just call that the Christian era and before the Christian era.
Because it doesn't matter whether you call it BC or BCE, you're still counting down from what?
The birth of Christ.
Whether you like it or not, every atheist, when they sign a check to donate to Planned Parenthood,
is saying, hey, it's been 2021 years since the birth of Christ.
That's what they're saying.
So, Jesus is born around that time, right? 2021 years ago, that's about when Christ was born.
So, he started his ministry when he was about 30 and his ministry lasted about three and a half years.
So, you know, somewhere in the neighborhood, roughly, of 33 AD is going to be when Jesus Christ died on the cross, right?
As a result of rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ, he prophesied in Matthew 21 that their city would be burned and destroyed and that's what happened.
He looked at the temple in Matthew 24 and said, not one stone shall be left upon another that should not be thrown down.
That happened in 70 AD.
The temple was destroyed and the city was burned.
But not only that, here's what's really interesting about what happened in 70 AD is that the war that this took place in, called the Jewish-Roman War, is a war that lasted for seven years.
Okay?
So, you've got a seven year war and guess when the temple is destroyed right in the middle of that seven year war.
Three and a half years into the seven year war is when the temple is destroyed.
Hmm.
Okay, let's keep reading.
Think about that.
The seven year war and the temple is destroyed right in the middle.
The Bible said Messiah is going to be cut off, not for himself, and then the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
That happened in 70 AD.
And the end thereof shall be with a flood and under the end of the war, desolations are determined.
That's that Jewish-Roman War that lasts for seven years.
Everybody following so far?
Verse 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 ablation to cease and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate even until the consummation and that determined be poured upon the desolate.
We know this as the abomination of desolation that Jesus will refer to in the book of Matthew.
Now, again, seven year war, in the middle of it, the temple gets destroyed, so this makes perfect sense.
You know, he confirms the covenant with many for a week, in the midst of the week, he causes the sacrifice and the ablation to cease and makes it desolate and whatever.
Pretty easy to understand here.
Pretty clear.
It jives with what we know.
It jives with history.
It makes sense.
Okay?
Now let me give you the wrong interpretation that's being brought out here.
The wrong interpretation that people are teaching is to say that verse 27 is not about the Antichrist but that it's about Jesus.
Okay, now let's stop and analyze that.
They're claiming that the prince that shall come in verse 26 is Jesus and that Jesus is the one acting in verse 27.
Let's look at this again.
Verse 26, don't let me lose you now.
And after three score and two years 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.
Let me tell you something.
The prince that shall come there is Titus, the Roman general who later becomes the Roman emperor, and the people of the prince that shall come destroy the sanctuary and the city.
Who destroyed the sanctuary and the city in 70 AD?
The Roman army.
The people of the prince that shall come.
Now they say, well, you know, it's God that destroyed it.
Because, stop and think for a minute, God is the one who prophesied that it would be destroyed.
And so yes, the Romans were a tool in his hand.
Yes, he did use the Romans to destroy the temple.
But wouldn't it be a mega stretch to call the Roman army the people of Christ?
Folks, that's crazy.
That's ridiculous.
We could call them God's instrument of vengeance.
We could call them God using this army to carry out his punishments on Jerusalem.
But it's a little bit of a stretch to call them the people of Jesus.
The people of Jesus Christ.
Now my friend, the people of Christ are Christians.
The people of God are saved believers in Christ.
Okay, no.
The people of the prince that shall come.
The prince that shall come is Titus the prince who later becomes Caesar of the whole Roman Empire.
And he comes and destroys Jerusalem.
The people, because notice, it doesn't say the prince will destroy the temple.
Who's going to destroy it?
The people of the prince that shall come.
Who are the people of the prince that shall come?
The Roman soldiers.
Everybody get this?
Pretty simple.
The people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
And the end thereof shall be with the flood and under the end of the war desolations are determined.
Verse 27.
And he.
Now this is the key word here.
He.
It's not Jesus, my friend.
It's the prince that shall come.
What is the most recent noun that we just saw that this could be an antecedent of?
Right?
The pronoun has an antecedent.
Whenever we see a he, it's referring to a person.
Who's the person that we just mentioned?
The prince that shall come, which was referring to literally the Roman prince, Titus, who
destroyed the temple in 70 AD.
Everybody got it?
He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week and in the midst of the week he shall
cause the sacrifice and the ablation to cease.
Did Titus do that?
Yes he did.
By destroying the temple.
And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the ablation 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.
Let's insert Jesus and see if it works.
If they're claiming that the prince that shall come is Jesus, let's insert.
They're claiming well Messiah the prince, the prince that shall come, they're both called
prince.
Well you know what?
Prince too, but that don't make him Jesus, okay?
That's a pretty common term.
And he is formerly known as prince anyway, because now he's in hell.
But anyway, the point is, it says here, okay, the people of the prince that shall come,
did Christians come and destroy the sanctuary, because that's the people of Christ.
No Romans did.
Now let's plug it into verse 27.
And Jesus shall confirm the covenant with many for one week and in the midst of the
week he shall cause the sacrifice and the ablation to cease.
Did Jesus do that?
No, he did not do that.
Now let's say well he had a three and a half week ministry and in the middle of it he died
for our sins and that made the sacrifices stop.
First of all, no, the sacrifices didn't stop, number one.
But number two, you say well they were supposed to stop though, okay, well then tell me this.
What happened three and a half years after Christ died on the cross?
And the answer is nothing.
There's no evidence of any significant event.
They make things up like, oh, you know, Stephen was stoned or something.
Three and a half years.
How do you know that?
Where does the Bible say that Stephen was stoned three and a half years after Christ
died on the cross?
Can somebody show me that in the Bible?
Because that's made up.
It's not in the Bible.
Well, it's the first three and a half years they ministered to the Jews and then after
three and a half years they start going to the Gentiles.
Really that's not what the Bible says, because what the Bible says is that they're supposed
to wait in Jerusalem until they be endued with power from on high and then they're supposed
to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He didn't say, hey, keep evangelizing Jerusalem for three and a half more years.
Is that the instruction that God gave the apostles?
No way.
He said go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He did not say hang out for three and a half years.
He said hang out till the day of Pentecost, which was literally weeks away.
And after Pentecost, after they're endued with power from on high, they are supposed
to immediately go preach the gospel to every creature, go teach all nations.
Okay.
So no, Jesus Christ is not the one carrying out the abomination of desolation.
Folks, no, it's the anti-Christ who carries out the abomination of desolation, not Jesus
Christ.
Now you say, well, I thought it was Titus.
Here's the thing, and again I'm not going to rehash this because I just preached about
it on Wednesday night.
Prophecies in the Bible have dual fulfillment, triple fulfillment.
There's usually a shadow fulfillment and then a more literal, more dramatic fulfillment
in the end.
So what we have is we have an abomination of desolation that took place in the second
century B.C.
We have an abomination of desolation that took place in the first century A.D. and then
in the end times there's going to be another abomination of desolation.
Now hang with me because I'm going to prove all this from the Bible right now.
Now when people say that Daniel chapter 9 verse 27 is not about the anti-Christ or that
it's not about the Roman prince, which it is about both of those things, this is what
they'll say.
You're putting that into, you're adding that into the text, you know, the context about
Jesus and you're inserting that.
You didn't get that from the context.
They'll say the context has nothing to do with the anti-Christ.
Okay, let's examine that claim and see if the context has to do with the anti-Christ.
Let's see if we can find the anti-Christ in this passage.
But here's the thing, we're not just going to read Daniel 9 by itself, we're going to
go back to Daniel 7 and 8 and read 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
So go back to chapter 7 and let's actually get the context, my friend, because sorry
the context isn't just four verses, the context is the whole passage, the context is the whole
book of Daniel, the context is starting in chapter 7, all the prophecies, okay?
Now look, when I say, well there was an abomination of desolation back then but there's another
big one coming in the future, here's what you have to understand.
The book of Revelation clearly prophesies that there is going to be a time of trouble
on this earth such as the world has never seen.
Everybody familiar with that verse?
There is going to be a time of tribulation on this earth such as the world has never
seen and God is going to pour out his wrath on this world in an unprecedented way and
it is going to affect the entire world.
I mean the Bible talks about basically like meteors crashing into the earth, water turning
into blood, ships being destroyed in the seas, literally billions of people dying.
This is what is described in the book of Revelation.
Now let me ask you this, did that happen in the second century B.C.?
No.
Did that happen in the first century A.D.?
You know the Jewish-Roman war was kind of a big deal if you're living in Jerusalem but
guess what, if you're living anywhere else in the world it was probably not even a blip
on your radar.
You really think if you're living in Egypt or Asia Minor or Greece or Persia or India
or China that you really even notice the Jewish-Roman war happening in the first century A.D.?
You think you would even notice or care?
You might hear something about it, some Jews come screaming and running into town, you
know, telling you about it, but it wasn't a big deal my friend.
Now it was a huge deal if you're living, if you're a Jew, especially if you're living
in Palestine, it's a huge deal if you're living in Jerusalem.
But was that really the worldwide cataclysm that the Bible describes in Revelation?
No way.
And let me tell you something, Christ didn't return in the clouds, there was no rapture,
there was no Christ returning in the clouds, there was no millennial reign of Christ, none
of that happened my friend, why?
Because it was only a shadow of things to come.
So yes, Romans chapter 9, or excuse me, Daniel chapter 9 is literally referring to the Jewish-Roman
war, Titus, destruction of the temple, I get that.
But sorry, that's just a shadow, the big main event is still coming in the future with the
worldwide implications, not just a local thing in the second century B.C. or a local
thing in the first century A.D., okay?
Now, let's go back to Daniel chapter 7 and see if we can get through some of this, okay?
Look at verse 7, Daniel chapter 7 verse 7, after this I saw in the night visions and
behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron
teeth, it devoured and break in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it and
it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns.
Now look, the beast with ten horns, straight out of Revelation 13, am I right?
Let's keep going.
I considered the horns and behold, there came up among them another little horn, so notice
the little horn, before whom were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots and
behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things.
Now from studying Revelation, we know that the ten horns are ten kings, because the Bible
just spells that out for us, ten horns are ten kings, one of these, one little horn,
rises up, defeats three, and it says he was given a mouth speaking great things.
Now isn't that what it said in Revelation 13, that the Antichrist, there was given unto
him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies?
Sound familiar?
Okay, now look at verse 19.
Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, this is the interpretation of what
was stated in verses seven and eight, then I would know the truth of the fourth beast,
which was diverse from all others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron and his
nails of brass, which devoured, break in pieces and stamped the residue with his feet.
And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other, remember that other little
horn which came up and before him three fell, even of that horn that had eyes and a mouth
that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows, I beheld, pay
attention, and the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them.
Now do you remember in Revelation 13, we just read it, that the Antichrist says that he
made war with the saints and overcame them.
Here it is, made war with the saints and overcame them.
Who is the little horn?
This is not a trick question, alright?
We're talking about the Antichrist.
Now here's the thing, of course, Titus is a shadow of that in the first century A.D.,
of course the Roman Empire is a shadow of that, this great dreadful beast that breaks
in pieces, you know the Roman military machine is a shadow of that, but remember the main
event is still to come with the Antichrist, Antiochus Epiphanes is only a shadow, Titus
is a shadow, the Antichrist is the main event.
He's the one who in Revelation 13 says will be worshiped locally or by the whole world.
And by the way, did you notice that Revelation says over and over again, every kindred, every
tongue, every nation, every tribe, is this local?
It cannot be local if it's every kindred, every nation, every tribe, he opens his mouth
and speaks great things in blasphemies, it's given unto him to make war with the saints
and overcome them, it's exactly described in Daniel chapter 7, the little horn, everybody
got that?
Let's keep going, verse 23, and he said the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon
the earth, again, Roman Empire back then, but it's a future kingdom that's still to
come as well, shall be diverse from all kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth and shall
tread it down and break it in pieces and the ten horns out of the kingdom, out of this
kingdom are ten kings that shall arise and another shall rise after them and he shall
be diverse from the first and he shall subdue three kings and he shall speak great words
against the most high and shall wear out the saints of the most high.
Again, Revelation 13 said he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God and against heaven
and the angels and he makes war with the saints, it says that he'll wear out the saints of
the most high, verse 25, and think to change times and laws and they shall be given into
his hand, watch this, until a time, times, and the dividing of time.
Now, times, in order to have a plural you've got to have at least two, right?
Times, time, and the dividing of time, that's three and a half.
And guess what?
The Bible says in Revelation 13, how long is the anti-Christ reign going to last?
Power was given unto him to continue 42 months.
Now, 42 months, let me save you the math, is three and a half years.
So isn't it interesting that the little horn does all the things that the anti-Christ does
and he does it for three and a half years and the anti-Christ does it for 42 months?
This is not hard to follow, folks.
Everybody got it?
But the judgment shall sit and they shall take away his dominion to consume and destroy
it unto the end, verse 27, and the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom
unto the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high whose
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and all dominion shall serve and obey him.
So what happens at the end of that three and a half years of the anti-Christ reign?
The millennial reign of Christ, the saints take the kingdom, it's an everlasting kingdom
of righteousness, it's Jesus Christ ruling and reigning on this earth, millennial reign
of Christ.
Now, go to chapter 8.
With that in mind, what we just read in chapter 7, now go to chapter 8.
General chapter 8 verse 9, and out of one of them came forth a little horn which waxed
succeeding great.
Now who is the little horn?
Didn't we just establish that in chapter 7?
The little horn's the anti-Christ.
And out of them came forth a little horn which waxed succeeding great toward the south and
toward the east and toward the pleasant land and it waxed great even to the host of heaven
and it cast down some of the host of the stars to the ground and stamped upon them.
Again, if you're up on your revelation reading, again, we just read it.
The dragon is the one, Satan is the one who drags down one-third of the stars of heaven
to cast them to the earth, symbolic of one-third of the angels following Satan, etc.
If you're familiar with that, it's in Revelation 12.
Yea, he magnified himself, verse 11, even to the prince of the host and by him, by him,
the daily sacrifice was taken away and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
By whom was the daily sacrifice taken away?
By Jesus?
Or by Satan?
Or by the anti-Christ?
Folks.
The funny is that I listen to these guys two-hour broadcasts where they talk about how, oh Daniel
70th week, you know, that verse about Jesus and it's not future, it's not still coming,
it's all been fulfilled, all that, okay?
And they said, here's all the mentions of the abomination of desolation.
But it's funny, they never mentioned Daniel chapter 8.
They want to talk about chapter 11, they want to talk about 12, they want to talk about
chapter 9.
Isn't it funny, they don't want to mention chapter 8 because let's keep reading.
It says right here that he, by him, the daily sacrifice was taken away and the place of
his sanctuary was cast down and a host was given him against the daily sacrifice to who?
The little horn.
Not Jesus.
By reason of transgression and it cast down to the truth to the ground and it practiced
and prospered.
Then I heard one saint speaking and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake,
how long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the what?
The transgression of desolation.
Now here's the problem and I'm not accusing these pastors of doing this but here's a perfect
example of the problem of studying a subject using the concordance and not actually knowing
the Bible and knowing the material is that if you just search abomination of desolation
you're not going to find every relevant passage.
If I search hell, if I just type the word hell in, is that going to give me every verse
on hell?
Because a lot of the best verses on hell don't use the word hell.
They call it the furnace of fire or they call it the lake of fire or something like that.
So in order to really find all the information you have to really read the whole book of
Daniel and know the whole book of Daniel and again I'm not accusing these guys of just
doing a Bible search but I'm just using this as an illustration to show how saying well
look I got every mention of the abomination of desolation on a list right here I got every
mention really no you don't because guess what the transgression of desolation is identical
in context to the abomination of desolation.
It's described the same way, it's explained the same way, it's just being called the transgression
instead of the abomination because it's talking about the same thing.
The daily sacrifice being taken away, transgression of desolation, abomination of desolation etc.
So it says how long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression
of desolation to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden underfoot?
And he sent it to me under 2,300 days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Now if you would jump over to Daniel chapter 11, Daniel chapter number 11 and let's get
another mention of the abomination of desolation, Daniel chapter 11 verse number 31 it says
an arm shall stand on his part and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength and shall
take away the daily sacrifice and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
Okay so the same person that takes away the daily sacrifice is the same person who does
what according to verse 31 that you're looking at right now.
It's the same person that places the abomination that makes desolate.
So you can't say oh Jesus took away the daily sacrifice, Daniel 9.27 is about Jesus, wrong.
Because the one who takes away the daily sacrifice is the same one who does what?
Sets up the abomination.
Now again the literal specific context in Daniel chapter 11 is about Antiochus Epiphanes,
the Greek prince in the second century B.C. when he came in, corrupted the temple and
put up a statue of Zeus in the temple at Jerusalem.
That was the abomination of desolation.
He stood up this abomination of a pagan idol in the house of God and he desecrated the
temple.
He offered a sacrifice of a pig or whatever history tells us, you know.
We don't know the details.
But scripture prophesized this event and history reports it but you know we don't know how
accurate exactly the details are.
But we know that the Bible is accurate.
That the temple is desecrated in the second century B.C. by a Greek prince and so forth
in some way.
Same thing with the Romans.
The Romans come in and they set up idolatry in Jerusalem after destroying the temple,
taking away the daily sacrifice, etc.
Now in the second century B.C. the building itself wasn't destroyed but it was destroyed
in the sense it was defiled, desecrated, and made unfit for the worship of the Lord by
bringing in all kinds of abominations and so forth.
Now go to Daniel chapter 12 verse 11.
We'll look at the last mention of the abomination of desolation in Daniel.
Daniel chapter 12 verse 11.
It says, and from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination
that make it desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Notice that in both places, in every place, the sacrifice being taken away and the abomination
of desolation being set up go hand in hand.
They're done by the same person.
They both happen at the same time.
They're a package deal.
Am I right?
Okay.
And notice that it always talks about the abomination of desolation being set up.
Being erected.
Being set up.
As something that is placed or set up, okay?
And again, what is this referring to?
It's referring to an idol in second century B.C., an idol in first century A.D.
Okay, so where is this idol going to be in the end times?
Go to Revelation 13.
Go to Revelation chapter 13.
And while you're turning to Revelation 13, I'm going to refer to you, or I'm going to
read for you actually Matthew 24 where it mentions this.
We're turning to Revelation 13.
But Matthew 24 says this in verse 15, when you therefore see the abomination of desolation
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, whoso readeth let them understand,
then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains, etc.
Now stop and think for a minute.
Obviously there's a short term implication there about, you know, 70 A.D. because Jesus
was talking around 33 A.D. and he's talking about 70 A.D. so there's, but then there's
the big one that's later that we're reading about Revelation 13, okay?
Revelation 13 clearly has not happened yet, okay?
I think we can all agree on that, okay?
Now in Matthew 24, he said, you'll see the abomination of desolation stand in the holy
place.
So where is the abomination of desolation going to stand?
In the holy place.
But notice the abomination of desolation is also described as being set up.
Now does everybody understand the fact that set up is not something that you do to yourself?
If somebody said Pastor Anderson was set up, does that mean I stood up on my own?
No.
If the Bible says the abomination of desolation is set up, that means it's set up by someone
else.
But then it also says the abomination is standing in the holy place, standing where it ought
not.
It was set up and it's standing there.
Like let's see, bringing in an idol of Zeus or whatever false god and setting it up and
now it's standing there in the holy place where it ought not.
Pretty easy to understand, right?
Let's see if that jives with Revelation chapter 13.
Look at verse number 1, I stood upon the sand of the sea, saw a beast rise up out of the
sea, having seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads
the name of blasphemy and the beast which I saw was likened to a leopard and his feet
was the feet of a bear and his mouth is the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his
power and his seat and great authority.
Of course it's all heavily symbolic and allegorical.
But he says, and the beast which I saw was likened to a leopard and his, I already read
that, sorry.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and
all the world wondered after the beast and they worshipped the dragon which gave power
unto the beast and they worshipped the beast saying, who is likened to the beast?
Who is able to make war with him?
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was
given unto him to continue forty and two months, okay?
Now we know that's the same as the little horn from Daniel 7 and Daniel 8.
He opens his mouth, everybody's worshipping him, they're worshipping him, nobody's like
him, he's got a great mouth speaking blasphemies, he's going to continue forty and two months
just like the little horn continues for a time, times and half a time until the saints
take the kingdom and he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name
and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven and it was given unto him to make war
with the saints and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds and
tongues and nations, not a local thing, all kindreds and tongues and all that dwell upon
the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb
slain from the foundation of the world.
Jump down to verse 11.
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb
and he spake as a dragon and he exercised with all the power of the first beast before
him and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose
deadly wound was healed and he doeth great wonders so that he maketh fire come down from
heaven on the earth and the sight of men and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by
the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast.
Watch this.
Saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast and
that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship
the image of the beast should be killed.
Now hold on a minute.
I know they set up an image in the second century BC.
I know they set up one in the first century AD, but did those images talk?
When the Greeks and later the Romans set up a pagan god in the temple at Jerusalem in
the holy place, did it talk?
Did anyone who refused to worship it worldwide be persecuted even unto death?
Folks, this is obviously still coming in the future.
The antichrist is going to have an image made unto him.
That image of the antichrist is the abomination of desolation, okay?
When you see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, you know, that's
when you know that you are halfway through Daniel's 70th week because at the midpoint
of the week, in the midst of the week, and it doesn't necessarily have to be the exact
center to the day, but in the midst of the week, in the middle of the week at some point
in the middle, about three and a half years in, there is going to be an image set up.
The daily sacrifice is going to stop and an image to the antichrist is going to be set
up, which is going to be set up and it's going to stand in the holy place, and it is going
to be the abomination of desolation.
Now is it just a coincidence that the Bible says that the antichrist's reign is going
to last for three and a half years, that he takes power at the midpoint of the week,
which means that would leave how much time left?
About three and a half years.
Folks, it fits like a glove.
Or if you want, you can take a round peg and try to jam it into a square hole and say,
no, it's Jesus who's making the sacrifice go away.
It's Jesus who makes it desolate.
Folks, that's not what the Bible says and we all saw it together.
We were all here.
We were all in Daniel 7 and 8.
We all saw it in chapter 11 and 12 of Daniel.
It's right here.
This is the abomination of desolation, my friend.
And it's analogous to what happened back then with a pagan idol, except this is more extreme
because this is an image to the antichrist that can speak because obviously we're in
a day of different technology.
You know, people probably wondered if it was going to be like a statue that came to life
or something.
Whereas we could look at this and say that it might be done through technology.
You know, who knows what this will be because it might be a technology that hasn't even
come out yet of some kind of a, you know, I mean, I could think of it as like a hologram
or something, but it could be something way beyond even our imaginations.
We don't know what this is.
So I'm not saying it's a hologram.
I'm just saying like you could open your mind to all these different ideas of the type of
image that can speak.
I mean, we all look at speaking images every day.
I mean, somebody right now is watching this sermon and this is like an image speaking.
That doesn't make me the abomination.
I'm just saying I'm a talking image on somebody's screen right now.
Okay.
So we see that this stuff is very clear.
In Revelation 13, we see this exact thing being played out that was prophesied back
in Daniel.
And again, Daniel had some short term stuff he was preaching about, but he's also looking
deeper into the future at the big one.
You look all the time in the Old Testament, they'll say things like the day of the Lord's
at hand.
It's about to happen.
Okay.
Why?
Because there were a whole bunch of little day of the Lord's back then, but isn't there
one big day of the Lord coming when the sun and moon shall be darkened and the stars fall
from the sky and all these cataclysms happen worldwide.
Okay.
That's still coming in the future.
Well guess what?
Yes, there was a Daniel 70th week that happened in the first century A.D. and it was the week
of the Jewish-Roman war and in the middle of that is when Titus desecrated the temple,
burned the city, destroyed the sanctuary, and so forth, but my friend, there's the big
one that's still coming that's global in scale that's worldwide.
Go back if you went to Daniel chapter number 9.
So again in Daniel chapter 9, these are the attacks that are being made on the position
that we've all taught and studied and believed and we've all understood for years, which
independent fundamental Baptists in general have understood that the Daniel 70th week
is a seven year period that's coming and it's going to lead up to the millennium and whatever.
But the criticism that's being made is, well, Daniel 9.27, there's no mention of the Antichrist
in the context.
But hold on a minute.
Doesn't the context include chapter 8?
Or is it just like we get to the beginning of chapter 9 and it's like, no more context.
Folks, why don't we back up to chapter 8 and we saw in chapter 8 who it was that did it.
Who done it, folks?
It was the little horn who is exactly the same as the person described in Revelation
13.
That's the context.
Okay, so very clear.
Let's read it again now with all that we have in mind.
Verse 24, 70 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.
Now look, of course you could say, well, Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit as baptism.
Amen.
Oh, Jesus ruling and reigning in our hearts right now.
Amen.
You know, you try to tell people that there's going to be a millennial reign of Christ and
sometimes they'll come at you like, well, he's reigning right now.
But hold on a second, is he really ruling this world right now?
Because right now this world's a mess and the Bible calls Satan the god of this world.
And the Bible talks about the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness
in high places.
That's what we have right now in power, folks.
Now is Christ ruling in my heart?
Yes.
Is he ruling in your heart?
Yes.
That's a shadow fulfillment.
But let me tell you something, a literal fulfillment is coming when Christ will literally rule
and reign on this earth.
Amen?
Amen.
Okay.
Well, guess what?
Yeah, Jesus Christ was anointed with the Holy Spirit at his baptism, but you know what's
actually going to literally happen?
He's literally going to get anointed.
Literally like, like anointed.
You know what it means to be anointed?
When you study the Bible, what does anointed mean?
What does it literally?
Pouring oil on somebody's head is a real anointing.
It's where we get the word ointment.
Right?
Ointment?
Put on some ointment?
Like, like, oh man, I got a bee sting, let me put on a little ointment, okay?
That comes from the word anoint, which is the practice throughout the Old Testament
where prophets and, and priests and kings would be anointed, wouldn't they?
And they would literally pour oil on Saul's head, and now you're anointed king of Israel.
Pour oil on David's head.
Now he's king of Israel.
One day Jesus Christ will return.
There's a literal second coming of Christ coming.
Christ is going to return, literally on this earth.
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner
as you've seen him go into heaven.
Christ will return and Christ will rule and reign on this earth from Jerusalem for a thousand
years and he will be anointed king.
He will literally be anointed.
So when the Bible says here to anoint the most holy, when does that happen?
That happens, guess what, you're not going to believe this, at the end of the 70th week
is when that happens.
70 weeks are determined to do X, Y, Z and one of those things is what?
Anointing the most holy, bringing in everlasting righteousness, all we have to do is compare
that to Daniel where it talked about bringing in a righteous kingdom, an everlasting righteous
kingdom.
That's the reign of Christ.
He gets anointed at the end, it's the last thing in the 70th week, Christ gets anointed,
it's the last thing here, and then he rules and reigns literally.
Now you say, no, he's anointed as baptism.
Yes he was, that's only the shadow fulfillment.
That wasn't a literal anointing, he's not literally reigning on this earth, he will
literally get anointed as literal king of this literal earth that's still coming.
And here's the problem with their interpretation of saying, oh no, no, no, it's, you know,
Christ's ministry three and a half years, you know what the problem with that whole
theory is?
What's the second three and a half years?
Stoning of Stephen, chapter and verse.
Give me chapter and verse that the stoning of Stephen took place three and a half years
after Jesus died on the cross.
It's made up.
Well, three and a half years, that's when they go to the Gentiles.
They're supposed to go to the Gentiles right after Pentecost, that's what God told them
to do.
Okay?
It doesn't matter whether they did it, they were told, go teach all nations, go into all
the world.
This made up second three and a half years after Christ died on the cross, it's just
that.
It's made up.
You know, if it's that significant, if it's that important, wouldn't there be a Bible
verse about it?
Wouldn't there be one verse in Acts telling us, well, so three and a half years went by
and then this happened.
Wouldn't there be one inkling?
But there isn't because it's made up.
Now obviously, yeah, Christ's ministry is three and a half years.
You know when Elijah prayed that it might not rain on the earth, you know how long he
prayed that it might not rain?
For three years and six months.
That's symbolic, isn't it?
Is it Daniel's 70th week, though?
Jesus Christ's ministry is three and a half years, that's significant, symbolic.
Is it Daniel's 70th week, though?
No.
In fact, there's not even a verse that explicitly says that Jesus' ministry was even three and
a half years.
I mean, it probably was, it seems to have been about three and a half years, but that's
not even explicitly stated in the Bible.
Is that really what we're going to make the linchpin of our doctrine?
So we see that.
Let's keep moving.
I'm almost done.
So the 70 years ends with Christ being anointed literal, the 70th week, the final 70th week,
the big one ends with Christ being anointed at the beginning of the millennium.
Know ye, know therefore, verse 25, and understand that from the going forth of the commandment
to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince, that's Jesus, shall be
seven weeks and threescore in two weeks, the streets shall be built again and the wall
even in trouble's times and after threescore in two weeks shall Messiah be cut off but
not for himself.
So when does Messiah get cut off?
Does it say he gets cut off in the middle of the 70th week?
Is that what it says?
No, it says after 69 weeks, boom, he gets cut off.
You're counting.
Count 69 weeks, Messiah cut off.
Does it say count 69 weeks and then add three and a half years and then boom, Messiah cut
off.
Is that what it says?
No.
After 69 weeks, Messiah is cut off but not for himself, for me, for you, okay?
Then there's a gap.
There's a gap because the 70th week doesn't begin immediately when Jesus dies on the cross,
does it?
Because that would mean that the temple was destroyed in 37 AD or something, right?
When was the temple actually destroyed?
70 AD.
But you know what?
We're not the ones who chopped up the 70 weeks.
God did.
He said there's seven, then there's 62, and then there's one.
These are separate increments of time.
So it says the streets shall be rebuilt again and the prince and the wall even in trouble's
times after threescore in two weeks shall the Messiah be cut off, shall Messiah, sorry,
be cut off but not for himself and the people of the prince shall come shall destroy the
city and the sanctuary, that's the Romans, people of the prince shall come, and the end
thereof shall be with a flood and at the end of the war desolations are determined 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 ablation to cease and for the overspreading of abominations
he shall make it desolate.
Why would that be different than what we saw in chapter 8 or chapter 11 or 12 or Mark
13 or Revelation 13?
He shall make it desolate even under the consummation and that determinant shall be poured upon
the desolate.
Last couple objections.
The other objection that these guys brought up is they said, well, show me in the Bible
a seven year period in the end times other than Daniel 9.27.
Folks, do you really think it's a coincidence that over and over again in the book of Revelation
we have mention of 42 months, time, times, and half a time, 1260 days, 1290 days, what
do these all add up to?
Is that a coincidence?
If we have a 1260 days and we have a 1290 days and we have a 42 months and we have a
three and a half years and what are they divided, why is this thing cut in half?
Because what happens in the middle?
Abomination of desolation.
No, no, there's no seven years in Revelation, no, no.
Folks, you have to read Revelation blindfolded in order to not see a seven year period because
guess what, three and a half plus three and a half is seven.
So if we have a whole bunch of talk about three and a half over here and we have a whole
bunch of talk about three and a half over here and the two things, it's talking about
two different periods of time, one of which is 1260 days and one of which is 1290 days
and different things are happening that are not compatible with one another, that means
we have seven years, folks, because three and a half plus three and a half is seven.
So is Daniel 9 the only place where we're getting seven years?
And you know what's funny, these people say like, oh, get rid of the chart, don't look
at charts, we don't need charts, just believe the Bible, we don't need a chart.
You know why they don't like charts?
Because their view doesn't chart well.
To make a chart, you have to have data that makes sense.
You know, folks, let's have a meeting about our profit and loss, but let's not talk about
a chart.
I mean, if you went to a business meeting and said, put that chart away, because it's
like the stock price and the sales, put those charts away, let's just talk about what a
great year it's been, you know.
Of course you don't want to pull out a chart because you can't chart your position because
your position makes no sense, your chart will look like a tumbleweed, right?
Your chart is going to be so complex and make no sense and be indecipherable and it'll be
so easy to pull colors of your chart, you'll probably have to, you know, you'll probably
make your chart, you'll probably have to like fold it and make like a, like a little origami
horse or something to make it all line up.
You probably can't even lay it out in two dimensions because it doesn't make sense.
That's why they don't like the chart because the chart is something we can actually look
at and be like, nope, doesn't add up, nope, doesn't make sense.
But it's easy for them to just get up and just say like, oh, the abomination of desolation,
well, hmm, that's the Jews continuing to sacrifice for 40 years after Christ dies on the cross.
Is that, is that what it seemed like we were reading about?
Oh, the abomination of desolation, that's the Maccabees in the temple, freedom fighters
in the temple.
What?
Oh, the abomination, oh, oh no, that's the Roman army standing where they are not.
Which one is it?
What are we, what, what, eh, eh, eh?
I mean, you've got to figure out what are these people even talking about?
I can tell you exactly what the abomination of desolation is.
Pastor Jimenez can tell you exactly what the abomination of desolation is and we can prove
it from scripture.
We can show you, here's an image being set up at the midpoint.
Here's desolating or desecrating the temple and it's being set up yet it, and it stands
as well and it's being set up, it's being erected.
You know, we could, we could, we could explain these things, this half-baked theory, this
half-baked idea saying there's no future, Daniel's 70th week, is absurd in light of
the fact that Revelation brings up three and a half years over and over again, okay.
And then the last, the last objection is they said, you know, I think people are going to
be pretty uncomfortable when they realize that they've been taking a verse about Jesus
and making it about the Antichrist, about, about Daniel 9.27.
Everybody in Daniel 9?
Everybody in Daniel, Daniel 9.27?
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 ablation 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.
You know, people are going to be pretty uncomfortable when they find out they've been saying that
was the Antichrist and it was really Jesus Christ.
Okay, here, let's just flip that over.
You're literally taking a bunch of verses about the Antichrist setting up the abomination
of desolation and making it about Jesus.
So what now?
I mean, think about that.
We could just flip that right over.
You know, so their claim is, their claim is that virtually every independent fundamental
Baptist in America is taking this verse about Jesus and making it about the Antichrist when
in reality I would say that everybody's rightfully reading it about the Antichrist and you got
a couple guys over here saying it's Jesus and it makes no sense.
I hope that the sermon was understandable this morning.
I tried to make it clear.
If something went over your head, don't worry about it.
This is a difficult subject.
Keep reading your Bible.
Keep studying.
I hope you were able to pull something out of this sermon.
If nothing else, you know, hey, Jesus died for our sins and he's coming back someday.
Amen?
All right.
Let's bow our heads now.
Word of prayer.
Thank you so much for your word, Lord, and thank you so much for Bible prophecy.
It's a edifying study.
It's interesting, Lord.
And I pray that we would all study to show ourselves approved, Lord.
And I pray that people would not be sucked in by errors or carried about with every wind
of doctrine.
And Lord, I know that there are people who disagree with us on end times.
Maybe they believe in a pre-Trib rapture or they're Preterist or Amillennial or whatever.
Lord, I, you know, I realize that there are people who are goofed up on this, but, uh,
and I, and I realize that even good people can be goofed up on these things because it
is a difficult subject, Lord, but I pray that you would just open people's understanding
and eyes to these truths from your word.
And in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.
Take your hymnals, please.
And turn to hymn number four hundred and twenty-four.
Four hundred and twenty-four.
Oh, come all ye faithful, joyful, and triumphant.
Come and behold Him coming to Bethlehem.
Come and behold Him, born the King of Hell.
O come, let us adore Him. O come, let us adore Him.
Christ the Lord. Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation,
O sing, all ye cry, most of men of God.
Glory to God of glory in the highest. O come, let us adore Him.
O come, let us adore Him. O come, let us adore Him.
Christ the Lord. Yea, Lord, we greet Thee,
for this happy morning gives us to Thee, we adore Him.
Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing.
O come, let us adore Him. O come, let us adore Him.
O come, let us adore Him. Christ the Lord.
Amen. Great singing this morning. You all dismissed.
Thank you.