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Seventy Weeks: A Prayer of Confession and a Promise to Shine Like the Stars | Daniel 9–12
Episode Overview
Today we finish Daniel with chapters 9 through 12. It begins with Daniel reading Scripture. He is working through Jeremiah, comes across the promise of seventy years, does the arithmetic, and realizes the time is nearly up. What he does next is worth noticing: he does not celebrate, he repents. His prayer is one of the great confessions in Scripture, and he includes himself throughout—we have sinned, we have done wrong—despite being the most obviously faithful man in the book.
The answer comes through the angel Gabriel with a timeline of seventy weeks, dense and much debated…
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