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819. Bible Study: Daniel 9 (70 "sevens"; End of the Age, Return of Jesus) · Faith by annm2705

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  Today we have Chapter 9 from the book of Daniel.
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  Dear Lord, please. Give us.
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  Lots of wisdom and insight as we cover this chapter.
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  Very challenging one. Help us to understand what you
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  want us to know from this chapter.
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  We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. So I will read.
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  I'm actually not going to read from the NIV version that I have
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  the Bible that I have, and I'm going to read from the New King
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  James Version online because there are some things that are
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  important this time that to cover.
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  So this is about Daniel's. Prayer for the people it's.
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  In Daniel Chapter 9 verse one in the.
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  First year of Darius. The son of.
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  Azurus, Xerxes is what it. Says in the NIV version.
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  Of the lineage of the. Medes, who is made king over the
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  realm of the Chaldeans. This.
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  Is kind of interesting too if you look up the Chaldeans
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  because it's it's kind of like it stretches over multiple
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  current lands today, like portions of different lands.
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  Such as? Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.
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  So it's it's really interesting. That he was made king.
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  Over the. I mean, it was in the year of
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  the king who covered that, that realm of the Chaldeans.
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  So in the 1st. Year of his reign I.
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  Daniel understood by the books the number of years specified by
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  the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that he
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  would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
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  So Daniel was apparently studying the books.
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  The prophetic books. That Jeremiah.
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  Had written he had access to those, and he understood that it
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  was. Going to be 70 years that they
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  were going to not have Jerusalem.
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  So then verse 3 says then I set my face.
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  Toward the Lord God to. Make request by prayer and
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  supplications with fasting sackcloth and ashes.
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  This is. Something like sackcloth and
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  ashes is more of a sign of mourning.
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  That's what they would do. And fasting.
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  Throughout Scripture we see. Occasionally where they fast and
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  they pray and that's something. That I think is probably.
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  Important for us. Today as well.
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  As I'm learning more about that, just understanding fasting, but
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  it seems like when people really wanted to reach God and when
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  they had visions and communications with God, often
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  it seems like fasting was involved and then.
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  Jesus also said. When you get into the other side
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  of things, when he was healing someone who had demons, he said
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  that they these kind only come out through prayer and fasting.
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  So prayer and fasting seems to have some kind of a connection
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  in the spiritual realm with with God.
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  Or maybe I I don't quite understand it, but I'm just
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  observing that it talks about it in Scripture.
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  So in verse 4. It says and I prayed.
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  To the Lord my. God and made confession and.
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  Said. O Lord.
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  Great and awesome God who keeps his covenant and mercy.
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  With those who love him. And.
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  With those who keep his. Commandments.
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  So here also Daniel is. Recognizing that God is great,
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  He's awesome, He keeps his covenant, and He shows mercy to
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  those who love him. And those who keep his.
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  Commandments, I think that's important too, is that he has
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  mercy on those who love him. And those who keep.
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  His commandments. There are rewards for.
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  Being obedient to God, essentially we have sinned and
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  committed iniquity. We have done wickedly and.
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  We have done wickedly and. Rebelled even by departing from
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  your precepts and your judgments.
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  Neither have we heeded. Your servants, the prophets.
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  Who spoke? In your name to our kings and
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  our Princess, to our fathers and all the people of the land.
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  So Daniel's just recognizing that, you know, we didn't
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  listen. To the prophets who spoke.
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  In your name, and who came to the kings, and our Princess, and
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  our fathers. And all the people so.
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  There were lots of warnings, but the people did not listen to
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  that and Daniel is recognizing that he's speaking on behalf of
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  his nation to God in verse 7, it says.
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  O. Lord, righteousness belongs.
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  To you, but to us. Shame of face.
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  As it is this day. To the men of Judah, to the
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  inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far
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  off, in all the countries in which you have driven them.
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  Because again, we always he's Daniel's understanding.
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  Why God did this? Because.
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  Of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against you.
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  So Jeremiah talked about it. So I'm sure as Daniel's reading
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  this, he's seeing. That OK, we did get what God
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  said would happen. Through Jeremiah, and it's
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  because of our unfaithfulness. Verse 8.
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  O Lord, to us belongs. Shame of face to our.
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  Kings, our Princess and our fathers, because we have sinned
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  against you. To the Lord our God.
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  Belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against
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  him, so he's recognizing that God does have mercy.
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  And he does have forgiveness. Even though people have rebelled
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  against him, in verse 10, he says we have not obeyed the
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  voice. Of the Lord our God to.
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  Walk in his laws. Which he set before us.
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  By his servants, the prophets. The prophets were.
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  Always pointing people. Back to God's laws.
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  And telling them that they needed to essentially repent,
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  turn to God, and become obedient to the.
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  Laws. In verse 11 it says yes, all
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  Israel has transgressed, transgressed your law and has
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  departed so as not to. Obey your voice, therefore the
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  curse. And the oath written in the law
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  of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us
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  because we have sinned against him.
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  So I was curious like. Where is that curse written?
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  And you can find that. I guess in a.
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  Couple of different places that curses and sworn judgments.
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  You can find it in Leviticus chapter 26 verse 33 and
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  Deuteronomy chapter 28. Verses 63 through 60. 7.
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  Is what the study Bible? Refers to and so.
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  If you want to find out what the curses.
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  And judgments were in the. There were blessings and curses
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  that were pronounced. In those books.
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  Deuteronomy and Leviticus. So verse 12 and he.
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  Has confirmed his words. Which he spoke.
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  Against us and against. Our judges who judged us.
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  By bringing upon us a great. Disaster for under the whole.
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  Heaven, such has never been done.
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  As to what? Has been done to Jerusalem.
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  So Jerusalem saw a complete devastation, they all.
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  Were exiled from there and. You know, just like Jeremiah had
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  warned them in verse 13. As it is.
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  Written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us.
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  Yet. We have not made our.
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  Prayer before the Lord our. God, that we might turn from our
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  iniquities and understand your truth.
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  That's always the objective, like when God puts people
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  through trials or he allows people to suffer, He's.
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  Wanting them to wake up. To realize that his laws are.
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  Good. And to come into agreement, come
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  into covenant with him. To say yes, God, I, I agree with
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  your laws. I want to follow them.
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  I want to be obedient. That's what God is ultimately
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  looking for as somebody to turn to Him.
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  And Daniel's recognizing this. He's he said we.
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  Haven't done it. We haven't prayed, we haven't
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  turned and and then. Therefore they have what?
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  They are experiencing verse 14 says therefore the Lord has.
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  Kept the. Disaster in mind and brought it
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  upon us. For the Lord our God.
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  Is righteous in all the. Works, which he does though.
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  We have not obeyed his. Voice.
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  He keeps reminding, he keeps repeating that about we have not
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  been obedient and God is righteous and.
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  Because of that all this. Disaster is coming on us in
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  verse 15 and now our. O Lord our God, who brought your
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  people out of. The land of Egypt with a mighty
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  hand and made yourself a name. As it is this day we have.
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  Sinned we have done wickedly. O Lord, according to.
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  All your righteousness, I pray. Let your anger and your fury.
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  Be turned away from your city, Jerusalem, your holy mountain.
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  Because for our. Sins and for the iniquities.
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  Of our. Fathers, Jerusalem and your
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  people. Are reproach to all those.
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  Around us now, therefore our God.
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  Hear the prayer of your. Servant and his supplications,
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  and for the Lord's. Sake cause your face to.
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  Shine on your sanctuary Which? Is desolate.
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  Oh my. God incline your ear and.
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  Hear open your. Eyes and see our desolations and
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  the city. Which is called by your.
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  Name. For we do not present our.
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  Supplications before you. Because of our righteous deeds,
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  but because of your great. Mercies.
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  So he's saying. You know, like I can't.
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  Justify this I can't justify. Anything.
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  There's no righteous deeds. That we have to give you.
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  We're asking. You know I'm asking this.
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  Because of. Your great mercies.
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  I'm asking for you to have mercy on us.
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  A lot. Of times I think we can probably
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  end up praying like that to God too.
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  In verse 19 he says. O Lord, here, O Lord, forgive, O
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  Lord. Listen and act, do not delay.
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  For your own sake my. God for your.
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  City and your people. Are called by your.
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  Name so all along God. Always said he would have.
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  He would have a name. For himself, his name would be
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  honored, and he would Jerusalem would be his.
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  Place and I think Daniel. 'S probably recognizing that and
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  saying, you know? How is this?
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  Happening now God's own. City that he.
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  Claimed you know is is being destroyed and no one's allowed
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  to stay there anymore. Because they were disobedient.
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  Now here comes the 70 weeks prophecy, and there's a.
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  Lot to talk about here. Now, while I was speaking,
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  praying and confessing my. Sin.
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  And the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication
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  before the Lord. My God, for the holy.
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  Mountain of my God, yes, while I while.
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  I was speaking in. Prayer, Gabriel.
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  I'm going to skip over. Because this this version.
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  Says the man. Gabriel, but the other one just
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  says Gabriel which I believe. Was an Angel, so it's another
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  translation issue. But yes, while I was speaking in
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  prayer, Gabriel whom? I had.
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  Seen. In the vision at the beginning,
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  being caused to fly swiftly reached me about the time of the
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  evening offering. And he?
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  Informed me and talked with. Me and said.
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  Oh Daniel, I have now come. Forth to give you skill.
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  To understand we know that angels according to the Bible.
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  Are messengers. They're messengers from God.
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  Just like before where the. Angel, I don't know if.
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  It was. Before but I talked about.
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  It in a prior chapter. It may be coming up where it
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  said as soon as you prayed. We basically.
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  Came, but we were resisted by the king of Persia.
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  This is something in the. Spiritual realm that was
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  happening. So in verse 23.
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  It says at the. Beginning of this is the the
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  Gabriel still speaking at the beginning.
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  Of your supplications, the command.
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  Went out. And I have come to.
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  Tell you for you are greatly beloved therefore.
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  Consider the matter and understand the vision.
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  Now he gives them the prophecy 70 weeks.
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  Now another thing is called 70 sevens and it actually in Hebrew
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  it it is called Sabua and I will I guess I could play that Sabua.
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  Strong's Age, 7620. Chavua.
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  Chavua. OK Shavuot, I was saying it
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  wrong. Anyway, it's a 7 or a period of.
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  Seven days or years or weeks, so that's where.
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  We get these. You know the the.
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  Seven years instead of so 70 sevens, but it's called here 70
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  weeks are determined, but that has been understood to actually
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  be years so. Year, I guess. 70, yeah, 70
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  weeks. OK, 70 weeks.
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  OK. Are determined for your people
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  and. For your holy city.
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  To finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make
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  reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting
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  righteousness. To seal up.
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  Vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy so there's
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  a lot of things that are determined for these 70 weeks
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  Caesar Daniel's final 70 weeks in prophecy and there's a whole
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  lot of things that happen so I'll I'll just.
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  Repeat what it said. It's for your people.
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  And for your holy city to finish the transgression, which you
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  know, it doesn't seem like that has happened yet to make an end
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  of sins that hasn't happened yet to make reconciliation.
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  For iniquity, will that happen? With Jesus's death on the cross
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  to bring in everlasting righteousness will the people.
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  Judah, the tribe of Judah. Are the people?
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  Who are in exile? I wouldn't say they.
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  Are we are? Seeing Everlasting Righteousness
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  right now, I don't think that's happened.
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  To seal up. Vision and prophecy.
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  I think you know Jesus when he fulfills as he said before that
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  he came to fulfill the law and what the prophet said.
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  So until Jesus returns. This.
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  Is not going to be sealed up. The prophecy is not going to be
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  not going to end until. Jesus fulfills it.
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  And it says and to anoint the most holy.
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  So that's an interesting thing. There's lots of different ways
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  to interpret that, so I'm not going to.
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  Because there's lots of ways. So verse 25 then says now
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  therefore and know therefore and understand that from the going
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  forth of the command to. Restore.
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  And build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince.
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  There shall be 7 weeks and 62 weeks the.
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  Street or the open square? Shall be built again and the the
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  word it actually could mean Moat and this is really interesting.
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  So it says the the open. Square shall be built again, and
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  the Moat even in troublesome times.
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  Now, there's something that is very interesting about this as.
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  I did in the prior. Podcast I found like just
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  different translation things that seem to make sense about
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  all these numbers of years and I started to do that in this for
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  these looking at the 70 weeks and the. 62 plus the. 7 sevens
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  and and it. As I did I.
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  Recalled that there were some. Other people great resources
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  that did way. More investigation on this and
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  actually went into what? The earlier church.
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  When you say. Church Fathers, the earlier
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  believers. What they had researched and
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  actually has something very interesting, a ton of research.
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  In fact, he the author. Of this book has written what
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  has written a couple different books that I think if you're
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  interested in this and to learn more about this and to see
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  another. Thought about how this could be
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  fulfilled. And you may really want to look
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  at it. Because he.
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  Comes up with a lot of evidence that supports that this, this 70
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  or this. This week, that everybody.
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  'S looking forward to in Bible prophecy started in 2020 and.
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  He's his theory, I will say, is that we are actually.
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  In the tribulation and he gives some examples of why and the
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  things that we may have missed. And I think it's it's.
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  True that we all need to, really.
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  Humble ourselves in terms of thinking we know the way that
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  it's going to play out. Because if we.
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  Remember what happened when Jesus came the first time is the
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  many people Jewish people didn't recognize the way that he came
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  and they. Thought he's going to be.
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  Coming in as a powerful commander, he's going to, you
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  know, change everything and yes. That is what Jesus is.
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  Going to do when he returns, but they were anticipating that it
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  was going to happen right away right then and it didn't and so.
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  Likewise, I think we all need to be very humble and even if we've
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  been taught something. Through others that we should
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  just be. Open minded always.
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  Stick to the word of. God and you know, check it
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  against. What the word of God?
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  Says and it's. It's interesting because this.
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  Author's website is called. End times are not end times.
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  Well, I think it's called No, I'm end times Berean.
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  Now I'm forgetting what is actually it's called because I
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  think it is the anyway, I was going to give you his I think it
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  is N times Berean. So yeah, EN d * t IMES Berean
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  BER ean and the Bereans, if you aren't aware they were actually.
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  People who would always. Take what was spoken about the
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  gospel and when it was given to people.
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  They were always double. Checking with scripture.
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  To see what people were. Saying they were known for that.
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  And so anyway, this is his website, endtimesberean.com.
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  Is. Something you might want to
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  check. Out because he gives it's like.
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  You can download the book for. Free or you can buy.
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  It the manuscript is called Witnessing the End and it is 448
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  pages long, but you can download it and.
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  Go through. And find these chapters that
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  really go into depth about the. Let's see, I think it might be
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  page 167 if you. Start there.
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  Specifically, that relates to the decree to rebuild.
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  Jerusalem. It's actually page 155, but on
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  the. PDF if you type.
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  In 167 out of the four. 48 You'll get to the right page.
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  The decree. The decree to rebuild.
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  Jerusalem that everyone missed and this is where there's new
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  information that you have not heard before unless you've been
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  to his website because I've not seen anyone that.
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  Has noticed this or brought this up but he gives all the.
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  Factual information and it was the restoration and rebuilding
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  of Jerusalem around 1537 AD and then when he plugs in these
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  days. He gets.
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  To the year 2020 and his. I guess his theory is that 2027
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  would be when. Jesus would.
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  Return and it's. It's interesting because I.
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  Actually discovered this author a while ago.
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  And from a video. Because he also has a.
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  YouTube account and so it's the same name end time spree and if
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  you want to check out any of. His YouTube videos.
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  But what happened? And I'm going to segue for a
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  minute again, but what happened? Is because of.
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  Something that happened to me and I just.
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  Caught a video of his. And it caught my attention
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  simply because I had this dream. I had this.
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  Dream in 2021 and it happened on 7.
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  Days after I got baptized. I had a dream about being at an
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  engagement party that I knew. Was for me.
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  And here's the interesting thing.
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  Over time, I didn't quite understand this dream and I
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  really didn't think anything of it until other things.
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  I started studying more end times and then I started
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  wondering if this is related in any way.
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  And it may or it may not be, but I can tell you that having that
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  dream, it wasn't just a an isolated dream.
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  The very night of my baptism, I had a dream that was the very
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  first spiritual dream that I had with the name of Jesus in it.
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  And then this stream didn't have the name of Jesus in it.
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  So that's why I wasn't sure that it was anything.
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  Related biblically, but it was. Interesting that it occurred
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  seven days after my baptism. And if you think about like a
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  Galilean wedding is seven days a week long.
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  And then in this stream, I was surprised.
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  I didn't know how this happened, but interestingly enough that I
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  had made the commitment to God that I wasn't going.
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  To be an A hypocrite. Anymore.
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  And that's what my baptism was. So then seven days later I had
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  this dream about an engagement and.
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  But there's this. Counter There's this bar in my
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  dream. There's a little bit more to it,
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  but not much, and there's a date or a placard on the.
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  Bar. That has a date on it and it was
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  12 blank, 2026. And that was just the strangest
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  thing, like. I had the.
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  Stream in 2021. I'm not thinking about 2026.
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  But it just like this. Dream stayed with me.
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  It was one. It was.
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  A very vivid, very detailed. Dream and there was more details
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  to it, but I won't bore you with that.
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  But that date just stood out and so over time there were
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  different interactions that I had.
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  With people randomly that. I wasn't necessarily seeking,
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  but something would all of a sudden make me recall that
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  dream. And one of the things that later
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  on, sometime later, I can't remember how long, I, I was
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  always thinking, OK, so December 2026 was my initial thought.
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  And then later on I. Realized that what if this was
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  actually a Hebrew? Date and which?
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  12 would be the day. And then there was a blank don't
• 26:31
  know what month and then 2026 and so I thought.
• 26:35
  Oh, I wonder if there's anything.
• 26:36
  That's significant about, you know, the 12th day of some, you
• 26:41
  know, month in the year of 2026. So I found that.
• 26:48
  If you look up the Jewish holidays that.
• 26:51
  Are coming up in 2026. Rosh Hashanah is on September
• 26:58
  12th, 2026. It's actually September 11th
• 27:02
  through 13th, so. There's like a three day.
• 27:04
  Span of Rosh Hashanah, the feast of trumpets.
• 27:08
  That's very interesting when you talk about end times eschatology
• 27:14
  and. There's theories that obviously
• 27:16
  that. People think that Jesus may
• 27:18
  return sometime on a year, you know, during the.
• 27:21
  Fall festivals or the fall? Feast so I just.
• 27:25
  Thought that was a really. Interesting coincidence, and I'm
• 27:30
  never going to Not until the end of 2026 will I know whether this
• 27:35
  was just some. Crazy dream that I.
• 27:37
  Had that meant absolutely nothing or if this was something
• 27:44
  that is real and actually is coming up and it seems hard to
• 27:50
  believe because there's just, I mean, there's a lot of things
• 27:55
  that are prophetically happening.
• 27:57
  There's no doubt about the things that are forming.
• 28:00
  That are prophetically but it's so hard to.
• 28:03
  Think that something like that could potentially happen next
• 28:08
  year, but it could and it won't be until the end until.
• 28:13
  The year is completed whether? That'll be like gone from my
• 28:16
  mind anymore. But the important part is, I
• 28:19
  mean like people. Would say, well, why would God
• 28:22
  do that? Well, obviously God has.
• 28:24
  Spoken to people in the past to warn them and from that when I
• 28:30
  started making those connections about eschatology and studying
• 28:35
  that and start seeing all the things that are prophetically
• 28:38
  happening right now, I started talking to people about knowing
• 28:43
  Christ I mean that's the important part is that if we're.
• 28:47
  Clueless. And we're going along in life
• 28:49
  and have no idea. That Jesus is a potentially, you
• 28:54
  know, could. Return at any moment, which is
• 28:56
  the condition I was in before I started studying this I I didn't
• 29:00
  even know Jesus was ever going to return again I mean, the only
• 29:03
  thing that I thought would ever happen in my life is that
• 29:05
  someday I would die and at the point before I read the.
• 29:08
  Bible. I was just.
• 29:09
  Hoping that God would think I was good enough.
• 29:12
  I didn't even understand salvation and so finally when I
• 29:16
  read the Bible and I understood salvation and then these things
• 29:22
  started happening so many things.
• 29:25
  And anyway, it's 2026 has been on my mind since 2021 and it's.
• 29:33
  A good. Part of the reason why I
• 29:36
  committed to doing. These podcasts.
• 29:40
  That I started back in 2020. Two, I think is when I started
• 29:44
  them and it's. Just to keep me focused.
• 29:47
  And to keep my eyes on this. So anyway, it's something that
• 29:51
  we're actually called. To do to read scripture.
• 29:54
  But. This.
• 29:57
  Finding this Christa his I can't remember his name too I.
• 30:03
  Apologize, but it's. Christian Weidner is the name.
• 30:08
  Of the author. He has a PhD and he's has this.
• 30:13
  It's called Witnessing the end. Daniels, 70 sevens and the final
• 30:20
  decree everyone missed and it's really good.
• 30:25
  There's there's so much detail in there.
• 30:27
  If you want something that you can really check, double check.
• 30:31
  He's done so much research that obviously.
• 30:35
  There's 448. Pages here, so it's very.
• 30:38
  Well researched. And he's educated, obviously.
• 30:43
  And it's it's something definitely worth looking at,
• 30:48
  especially if you know the. If if.
• 30:53
  People are not prepared personally if if, if a person
• 30:58
  doesn't have the Holy Spirit, if they don't have a a relationship
• 31:03
  with Jesus, if they don't believe yet.
• 31:06
  I mean, this is potentially, this could be a.
• 31:10
  Significant. Year coming up, then there's one
• 31:12
  more what someone else I think that has a.
• 31:17
  Doctorate as. Well, that I would recommend
• 31:21
  taking a look at because. He has some.
• 31:22
  Really great studies. And this is his name is Ken
• 31:27
  Johnson, and he has a. Website called Bible Facts dot.
• 31:32
  Org It's just. Spelled out Bible.
• 31:35
  Facts.org and he's done a lot of research.
• 31:40
  With the Dead Sea. Scrolls and if people aren't
• 31:43
  familiar with that, I think it was about the same time that
• 31:47
  Israel became a nation or very. Close to it there was a cave
• 31:51
  where they actually. Found some pottery that contains
• 31:54
  some scrolls and. There are numerous scrolls.
• 31:58
  That have been found and what the scrolls are doing are
• 32:01
  actually supporting that what we are reading in our Bibles today.
• 32:05
  Are actually accurate. Enough to the main you know,
• 32:09
  there might be some words here and there like we do find out.
• 32:12
  As I was. Talking about in the last
• 32:14
  podcast but overall the message throughout the Bible has not
• 32:20
  changed and. So he does a lot of very, very.
• 32:23
  Deep Studies on Monday nights. He has a YouTube channel also so
• 32:28
  if you want to listen to any of his studies about some of the
• 32:31
  different. Books, but he gets really.
• 32:32
  In depth in more like prophetic books and eschatology and the
• 32:37
  one thing that is important or significant also.
• 32:42
  To the year of. This year coming up 2020. 6 Is
• 32:48
  that historically throughout the Bible, what he through the Dead
• 32:53
  Sea Scrolls there was a group called the.
• 32:55
  Essenes who were a sect. Of believers who.
• 33:01
  Had a calendar and apparently. All these.
• 33:04
  Significant events line up specifically on different.
• 33:11
  Feast days of the. Calendar.
• 33:13
  I mean, it's there's. A lot of research.
• 33:15
  Again, and there's an he actually has an interactive
• 33:18
  calendar from the made from what he found in the Dead Sea Scrolls
• 33:23
  that you can actually interact with and go back and look like
• 33:27
  any date and ever any year and see what the calendar was from
• 33:32
  the dead. Sea Scrolls.
• 33:33
  The Essenes. Time versus today and also like
• 33:37
  what the Jewish calendar or the Pharisees calendar is.
• 33:41
  So it has like 3 calendars in one.
• 33:43
  Hard to explain. I'm not doing a good job of
• 33:45
  that, but. If you go to the website.
• 33:46
  It'll all make sense anyway. These are just a couple of
• 33:50
  resources. But one of the things that Ken
• 33:52
  Johnson discovered was that on Jubilee years, when there was a
• 33:58
  transition between the 50 years, there were sometimes very
• 34:03
  significant prophetic things that happened.
• 34:06
  And so again, that just makes this 2026 the beginning of a new
• 34:13
  Jubilee year. I think it's in March of 2026.
• 34:17
  And. So certainly there's if
• 34:20
  historically. Things have happened on that
• 34:23
  50th year mark, then this is one of those cycles that everyone's
• 34:29
  should be watching. So again, the whole point of it
• 34:33
  is not so much to be date setting, although the only
• 34:37
  reason I have any date is because one showed up in my
• 34:39
  dream. I didn't ask.
• 34:41
  For it. But it did show up and I can't
• 34:44
  ignore it. Because I've had over, I think
• 34:49
  it's like 80. Seven dreams now.
• 34:52
  That were like biblical. Kind of dreams were Jesus name.
• 34:57
  The power of Jesus was. In my dream and lots of
• 35:03
  different things. I mean, I'm not going to get
• 35:05
  into all of that, but I don't, I haven't just.
• 35:08
  Had like a couple. Dreams here or there, it's been
• 35:11
  ever since the night. That I got baptized.
• 35:13
  And they happen when I have no expectation of them and I can go
• 35:18
  stretches where I don't have them and all of a sudden want to
• 35:21
  pop up. So I I was noticing that they
• 35:24
  were certainly happening in times that were written down on
• 35:31
  like special times on the Dead Sea Scroll calendar.
• 35:35
  So I did notice that when I was trying to figure out they seemed
• 35:38
  very random and then I started noticing that there were they
• 35:42
  were occurring on. Close to those states, so.
• 35:44
  Very strange whatever has been happening to me since I.
• 35:47
  Got baptized. As far as dreams go and anyway,
• 35:52
  so I can't ignore it because of those things.
• 35:56
  And so that's the whole reason why I do what I do and.
• 36:01
  Why? I really hope that you will.
• 36:06
  Take the next step and. Really dig deeper if you.
• 36:09
  You aren't at a. Place where you are, where you
• 36:11
  say that are, where you know. That that you are a believer and
• 36:15
  that. You have the Holy Spirit.
• 36:17
  I mean, that's really the only preparation that any of us need
• 36:20
  to have is have a relationship with God, to acknowledge Jesus
• 36:28
  and never, you know, never disclaim him, never, you know,
• 36:33
  just make sure that you truly believe and if you truly
• 36:38
  believe, he will send the. Holy Spirit, so that's.
• 36:42
  The only preparation and. As we have talked about.
• 36:45
  Here that you know if. If you have the holy.
• 36:48
  Spirit, you're going to start to be more obedient than you were.
• 36:51
  Before you had the holy. Spirit.
• 36:53
  But it does say that remember in verse.
• 36:57
  Let's see I forgot what verse it is.
• 36:59
  Verse 4 it said Lord the great. And awesome God who keeps his
• 37:04
  covenant of love with. Those who love.
• 37:06
  Him and keep his commandments so.
• 37:11
  Jesus also said if you. Love me, obey my commandments.
• 37:13
  So there is a connection between us obeying God, which is showing
• 37:21
  God that we love Him so. And God does protect and he has
• 37:25
  mercy, and he can shelter and he can provide for anyone who is,
• 37:33
  who's committed to him, who has decided that yes, I want.
• 37:37
  You God to be the. Lord over my life.
• 37:40
  So I encourage you if you're not there yet to, you know, I guess.
• 37:47
  Subscribe to the podcast. Because I'll be in the.
• 37:50
  Word every day. I mean, that's my goal at least.
• 37:53
  And. Read the Bible for yourself.
• 37:55
  I mean, it's not you can't do any of this through anyone else.
• 37:58
  You just need a relationship directly with God.
• 38:00
  Anyone needs a relationship directly with.
• 38:02
  God. And so that's the important part
• 38:05
  is. To pray to God.
• 38:07
  But it staying in the. Word grows our faith.
• 38:11
  So that's why it's so important. So I've rambled again, I'm going
• 38:15
  to go back to verse 25 and and then we'll wrap it up and I'll
• 38:20
  go through the study guide and the questions and answers that
• 38:24
  they address. So in verse 25 from Daniel
• 38:28
  Chapter 9 know therefore and understand that from the going
• 38:32
  forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until.
• 38:35
  Messiah, the Prince there. Shall be 7 weeks and 62 weeks
• 38:40
  this. The Plaza shall be built.
• 38:42
  Again, and the Moat, even in troublesome times.
• 38:47
  Verse 26. And after the 60.
• 38:49
  Two weeks. Messiah shall be cut off.
• 38:52
  But not for himself and the people of the.
• 38:55
  Prince. Who is to come shall destroy the
• 38:58
  city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall.
• 39:02
  Be. With the flood, or maybe it's
• 39:05
  like a flood, I'm not sure. And until the end of the war,
• 39:10
  desolations are determined. That's very much like what Jesus
• 39:14
  said in Matthew 24. There will be.
• 39:16
  Wars and rumors of. Wars.
• 39:17
  That's all going to continue until the end.
• 39:20
  In verse 27 it says then he shall confirm a covenant with
• 39:24
  many for one week, but in the middle.
• 39:27
  Of the week he shall. Bring an end to sacrifice and
• 39:30
  offering, and on the wing of abominations shall be one who
• 39:34
  makes desolate even until the. Consummation which is determined
• 39:38
  is. Poured out on the desolate.
• 39:41
  There's a lot. Of interpretation on that and
• 39:44
  what I've. Understood is that this does
• 39:49
  refer to the lawless. One or the Antichrist that has
• 39:53
  been talked about. It also return talks about the
• 39:57
  return of. Jesus talks the Messiah.
• 40:00
  Shall be cut off has. Been understood to mean when
• 40:03
  Jesus died on the cross and it makes sense when it says but not
• 40:08
  for himself. Like he died on the cross for us
• 40:11
  and. So there's a lot more.
• 40:13
  Interpretation here, but I'm just.
• 40:14
  Going to read what? The study Bible has to say about
• 40:17
  that. And.
• 40:17
  Those. Other resources that I provided.
• 40:21
  With endtimesparian.com and Bible facts.
• 40:26
  Dot org those two websites. There's going to be a lot more
• 40:29
  information for. You very well researched.
• 40:32
  OK, now the questions and answers from the Study Bible why
• 40:37
  did Jeremiah Jeremiah. 'S prophecy.
• 40:41
  Prompt Daniel to pray, Jeremiah had assured the people that the
• 40:46
  captivity would end after 70 years since the first captives
• 40:52
  have been taken from Jerusalem. About 538 BC.
• 40:58
  Daniel realized the. 70 years were nearly over.
• 41:02
  Since repentance was required. Before God would.
• 41:05
  Return his people to their homeland.
• 41:07
  Daniel repented as if everyone of Judah sins had been his own.
• 41:13
  That's kind of interesting. That the study Bible.
• 41:15
  Points that out because. That's applicable to us.
• 41:18
  Too, we need to repent. We need to recognize.
• 41:22
  That we. Have been rebellious to God and
• 41:26
  ask for forgiveness. I mean, that's very key to
• 41:28
  repairing our relationship. With God OK?
• 41:31
  Next question, why did Daniel. Plead with God.
• 41:34
  In fasting and in sackcloth. And ashes.
• 41:39
  Help. Why did?
• 41:40
  Daniel plead with God in fasting and in sackcloth and.
• 41:44
  Ashes help to. Change God's mind.
• 41:46
  These practices had had. Long been signs of mourning in
• 41:51
  the Middle Eastern. Culture, Daniel.
• 41:53
  Was expressing his grief and shame.
• 41:56
  Over the. Sins of the people.
• 41:58
  He was not trying to. Impress God with self denial.
• 42:02
  Expressing sincere grief for. Sin is still.
• 42:05
  Appropriate, whether or not it's done with fasting, cloth and
• 42:09
  ashes. Why did Daniel consider himself
• 42:12
  guilty for the nation's sin which he had not committed?
• 42:17
  Confessing on behalf of the Jewish nation was a long
• 42:20
  standing. Practice of priests, prophets.
• 42:23
  And kings in our culture we commonly emphasize the
• 42:28
  confession of individual sin. But in the past, the people of
• 42:32
  God were much less individualistic.
• 42:37
  In any case, we can acknowledge our own dependence on God by
• 42:41
  humbly identifying with the sins of those around us, as Daniel
• 42:47
  did. Exactly what happened to
• 42:50
  Jerusalem after attacking Jerusalem in.
• 42:53
  Six O 5 BC the. Babylonians returned in 597 BC
• 42:58
  and took an estimated. 10,000 captives.
• 43:03
  In 588 BC, Nebuchadnezzar's army undertook an 18 month.
• 43:09
  Siege of the city. Jerusalem was eventually looted,
• 43:13
  and the palace and temple were burned, along with the city
• 43:17
  walls and fortifications. While Jerusalem and the temple
• 43:21
  were not literally leveled, the destruction was thorough enough
• 43:25
  that most of the inhabitants were cut off from their homeland
• 43:30
  and center of worship for about 70 years.
• 43:33
  Why did Daniel? Ask God to act.
• 43:36
  For the sake of his name, the oppressed condition of the
• 43:40
  Jewish people in exile caused the surrounding nations to
• 43:43
  believe. That the God of Israel.
• 43:45
  Was not sovereign. Over all the world.
• 43:48
  So, Daniel. Asked God to deliver the Jewish.
• 43:52
  People from captivity for the sake of God's own reputation or
• 43:57
  name. What does this prophecy?
• 44:00
  Mean the 70 sevens. Could.
• 44:03
  Be 70 weeks, but many think they are 77.
• 44:09
  Year periods or 4. 190 years. Some believe the six goals in
• 44:15
  verse 24 were met during and shortly after Jesus earthly
• 44:20
  ministry, which occurred about 490 years.
• 44:25
  After the. Rebuilding of Jerusalem was
• 44:27
  decreed. Others think the goals began to
• 44:29
  be met in the 1st 69 sevens or 483 years, but that complete
• 44:37
  achievement of these goals will not happen until the 70th 7
• 44:41
  year. Period which they.
• 44:43
  They say has been delayed until the end of history from
• 44:48
  Revelation chapter 21, the Anointed 1.
• 44:52
  Is Christ? And his being put to.
• 44:55
  Death is his. Crucifixion.
• 44:57
  Jerusalem's destruction came at the hands of the Roman
• 45:02
  allegiance, the people. Of the rule who would?
• 45:04
  Come in AD 70, some think ruler. Refers to a future leader.
• 45:11
  Who will make a peace? Treaty with Israel.
• 45:13
  Only to turn against that nation and demand worship himself.
• 45:18
  Revelation 13, verse 8. While we may not understand.
• 45:23
  Such. Prophecies.
• 45:24
  With certainty, we can take comfort in the fact that God
• 45:28
  holds the future in His hands. Again, if you look at end
• 45:32
  timesparian.com, there's going to be a lot of detail in these.
• 45:37
  Numbers of years that are identified in that question and.
• 45:42
  Answer that I just read. So what was the?
• 45:45
  Abomination that causes desolation.
• 45:48
  This first happened in 168 BC when Antiochus.
• 45:53
  The 4th Epiphanes. Desecrated the.
• 45:57
  Temple with a Pagan altar. Some believe it happened again
• 46:00
  around 8040 when the Emperor. Caligula tried.
• 46:05
  To desecrate the temple. And again in 8070, when the
• 46:09
  Romans finally destroyed Jerusalem, Jesus predicted a
• 46:13
  similar desecration which may be yet to come.
• 46:17
  I think a lot. Of people do think.
• 46:19
  That was yet to come. And this is something else too,
• 46:22
  that that Christian Widener who wrote that.
• 46:25
  Book. He's also hypothesized that
• 46:29
  October 7th. 2020. Three could have been the
• 46:35
  abomination of Desolation. So.
• 46:38
  That's another interesting you. Can probably find that on.
• 46:40
  His YouTube video but pretty interesting thoughts to
• 46:44
  consider. I'm open minded.
• 46:46
  To it and I guess. Especially because of the.
• 46:49
  Dream I had with the date and you know if if what he's saying
• 46:53
  is. True, it could very well be.
• 46:56
  I also there was another. Eschatology person who speaks.
• 47:05
  On these things, he's not. Just an everyday person like I
• 47:08
  am, but. He's actually.
• 47:11
  Compared the the time after Christ returns another theory
• 47:16
  where it it'll probably it could potentially be a year and 10
• 47:20
  days and he's took that comparison from the time.
• 47:23
  Period of Noah's Ark. How long it lasted and.
• 47:27
  The wrath of God and so. If Jesus did.
• 47:30
  Return in 2026 and then. There was like a year.
• 47:35
  After that would be. 2027 and it would line up with what
• 47:40
  Christian Widener has also. Come up with.
• 47:43
  So it's just. Very interesting when you start
• 47:45
  finding people that have similar time frames and and then again
• 47:51
  there's that whole Messiah 2030 which it's all about the same
• 47:55
  time frame. So there's a.
• 47:57
  Lot of people who are highly. Educated.
• 48:00
  I'm not considering myself one of them.
• 48:02
  I'm talking about like a dream I've been.
• 48:04
  Studying since then to try to understand this better.
• 48:07
  But there are people who have doctorate degrees that are.
• 48:12
  You know have theories about this and they're none of.
• 48:15
  Them are saying this. Is a date.
• 48:17
  They're just saying that they found things that.
• 48:20
  Really make it a possibility. And that we all need to keep an
• 48:24
  open mind and keep our eyes open and pay attention to what's
• 48:27
  going on in the world. And that's the way.
• 48:28
  I approach it too. So if this interests you.
• 48:32
  Check out those other websites. Because you'll learn a lot from
• 48:35
  them and I hope you subscribe to.
• 48:39
  This podcast. And that you come back.
• 48:41
  Next time, and if you feel this is beneficial.
• 48:44
  Please share with other people. Because the most important thing
• 48:47
  is that. We.
• 48:48
  Have a relationship with God. And that we believe, and we are
• 48:53
  thankful and grateful for everything that Jesus did for us
• 48:56
  to make it. Possible for us?
• 48:57
  To be in God's. Kingdom and.
• 49:00
  That we are prepared by. Having the Holy Spirit.