In the first year of darius the son of ahasuerus, of the lineage of the medes, who was made king over the realm of the chaldeans. This passage is therefore one of the strongest evidences to prove the divine inspiration of the bible. The prophecies found in the book of daniel are the key to unlocking all biblical prophecy. Gods promises are to encourage our prayers, not to make them needless. It is found in aramaic in the book of ezra as an official document of the. A few studies back in the daniel series we looked at the lessons that could be learned from the life of nebuchadnezzar. Four times in the chapter verses 5, 8, 11, 15, daniel acknowledges the peoples sin. This section deals exclusively with the times of the gentiles.
Jews for judaism daniel 9 a true biblical interpretation. Every chapter of daniel is referred to or quoted in the new testament. Grasp the meaning of the word, understand the vision. From chapter 2, verse 4, through chapter 7, daniel is in aramaic, the gentile and diplomatic language of daniel s day. Daniel is praying in the first nineteen verses of this chapter, but then the angel gabriel appears and interrupts his prayer. It is gods assurance that he will intervene to lift israel out of her degenerate spiritual state. Daniel 9 concentrates on the 70 weeks which is a specific time when gods people have to get rid of sin and to finish transgression. Daniel wrote chapter 9 about 538 bc and had lived long enough to have.
In the first year of darius the son of assuerus of the seed of the medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the chaldeans. Many of you are frequently asked why you believe the bible to be the word of. The 70 years in captivity was not chosen arbitrarily but was directly. Daniel received the seventy sevens prophecy in response to his prayer. In the second and seventh chapters, christs first coming is not noticed, for daniels object. In the bible, the prophecy of seventy weeks chapter 9 of the book of daniel is a prophecy given to daniel by the angel gabriel in response to daniel s prayer for god to act on behalf of his people and city i. This chapter 9 is one of the most powerful chapters of prophecy in the entire bible. Only artaxerxes decree to nehemiah refers directly to the restoration of the city. In order to understand this prophecy, one must be very familiar with its context. Daniel was a contemporary of ezekiel who went into babylonian captivity in 597 bc around eight years later than daniel. Gills exposition geneva study bible commentary critical and explanatory keil. For a comprehensive study of the passage, download the study guide pdf download.
Nearly everything mentioned in the prophecy relates to the day of atonement and what is typified in. One of the most important prophecies in the bible appears in daniel 9. In this chapter of daniel, we have what is known as the interrupted prayer. This objection is easily answered as the babylonians used the accession year system of dating also known as. In doing so, he turns from addressing god directly in the second person to speaking of god. Daniel s prayer for the restoration of israel, ver. This verse involves many difficulties, grammatical and exegetical.
Ezekiel mentions daniel three times in his book ezekiel 14. What is here said by the angel is not a direct answer to daniels prayer. Now viewing scripture range from the book of daniel chapter 9. Daniel chapter 9 explained discover the 66 books of the. Unsealing daniels mysteries lesson 9 always on time. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. The ninth chapter of daniel centers clearly upon the person of jesus christ and is one of the few places in scripture where god ties himself to a definite timetable of events. For more information relevant to this passage of daniel nine, see the accompanying appendix pdf download that deals with the following topic. In the beginning of daniel 9 verse 2, this word is used when daniel says that he wants to understand the word of. Daniel 9 prays for his nation and then gabriel comes to him and gives him the prophecy in daniel 9. In the concluding four verses of daniel 9, one of the most. The word translated reconciliation is the same one translated as atonementkapharthroughout leviticus 16.
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week sixty nine of the seventy weeks being accounted for, and the several events observed to be fulfilled in them. Daniel 9 in chapter 2 of daniel, we were introduced to gods plan to place israel under gentile authority for an age o prior to the start of that age, prior to the conquest of nebuchadnezzar, israel was the chief nation on earth under david and later solomon, the nation of israel rose to the peak of its power. Daniel 9 commentary james burton coffman commentaries on. The book of daniel verse by verse chapter 9 daniels. Whilst reading the ninth chapter of the book of daniel, his eye caught the prophecy. Verses daniel learned from the books of the prophets, especially from jeremiah, that the desolation of jerusalem would continue seventy years, which were drawing to a close. Here, in chapter 9, gabriel returns to answer the prayer daniel prayed in the first part of chapter 9 and to explain the unexplained portion of chapter 8the 2,300 days applying especially to the time of the end. He is the god of heaven, whose kingdom will never be destroyed dan 2. The hebrew phrase reads literally seven weeks and sixty and two weeks. Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. Verse 24 begins with seventy sevens niv or weeks in some translations until the restoration of jerusalem. Daniel with book summary versebyverse bible commentary. Critical scholars believe that the book of daniel was written during the mid2nd century. Great difficulty is experienced in discovering what sort of weeks is intended.
The passage may be properly divided into two parts. The logical and direct interpretation of the data is that ezra had returned. This is the clearest prophecy of the messiah in all the old testament. Jan 02, 2020 daniels prayer in verses 319 of the chapter refers to the fulfillment of a specific seventyyear period, the seventy years of the babylonian captivity as prophesied by jeremiah. Lets go to daniel 9 and lets look at the 70 weeks of daniel. This chapter recounts the prophecy of the seventy weeks, probably the most debated portion of the whole prophecy. In these chapters you will find one of the most dominant prophecies. The remainder of the book correlates the nation israel with this program. Ludlow, a companion to your study of the book of mormon 1976, 121. This morning we come to one of the most crucial prophetic passages in scripture for it concerns both events that are still in the future for us and is confirmed by the events predicted that have already taken place. I turned to the master god, asking for an answerpraying earnestly, fasting from meals, wearing. In many respects, this is the high point of the book of daniel.
It is the only old testament passage which refers to the messiah as messiah. It is often claimed that the date given by daniel for the first year of nebuchadnezzars reign contradicts that given by jeremiah so pfeiffer, 1948. He was then cutoff crucified that same week verse 26 and the city of jerusalem and the temple were destroyed in a. Below are some preliminary questions to assist in the study of this passage. If you would like to know gods program for the future, it is essential that you understand this book of daniel. In the first year of his reign, i, daniel, was meditating on the scriptures that gave, according to the word of god to the prophet jeremiah, the number of years that jerusalem had to lie in ruins, namely, seventy. According to the opening verse of chapter 9, the third vision of daniel occurred in the first year.
This scroll was sealed at the end of the book of daniel and opened at the time of the end. Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to annoint the most holy place. The sanctuary in jerusalem had been a place where all the believers in the world had looked to. Daniel 9, new international version niv the bible app. Weeks not of days, but of years, or, seventy times seven years, that is, four hundred and ninety years, each day being accounted a year according to the prophetic way of reckoning, see note on daniel 7. The seventy weeks prophecy foretells a national cleansing. Daniel must have been around 85 to 90 years of age when he wrote down his last visions. Daniel emphasizes on the human side of the controversy.
In the first year of darius son of xerxes a mede by descent, who was made ruler over the babylonian kingdom in the first year of his reign, i, daniel, understood from the scriptures, according to the word of the lord given to jeremiah the proph. I am totally confused by all the different interpretations of this passage. In 1 timothy chapter 6, verse 14, at the appearing of our lord jesus christ, which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only potentate, the king of kings, and lord of lords. The book of daniel begins with king nebuchadnezzar, the ruler of babylon, ransacking jerusalem. He prays to know when the seventy weeks of the captivity are to end. The god of israel is consistently called the most high god in the book of daniel.
Daniel 2, 7, 9, 12 the coming of messiah the prince. For more information on the scattering of israel, refer to brief history of the scattering of israel in the appendix page 415. The contents of the first verse in daniel have been challenged on two counts. The seventy sevens 20 while i was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people israel and making my request to the lord my god for his holy hill 21 while i was still in prayer, gabriel, the man i had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. With that context established, we are ready for daniel 9. On the other hand, it is remarkable that in leviticus 25. Daniel 9 niv bible in the first year of darius son of. Daniel 7, 8, and 1012 specifically concentrate on the activities of nations and the persecuting of gods people. According to this verse, on the tenth and final year of jubilee, god would. In the first year of his reign i daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the lord came to jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of jerusalem. He divides the first sixtynine weeks into two periods, the first of seven weeks and the second of sixtytwo weeks. He ends up taking back the cream of the crop, the most elite and noble israelites, to serve at his court in babylon. In the beginning of daniel 9 verse 2, this word is used when daniel says that he wants to understand the word of the lord to the prophet jeremiah. At the time daniel wrote this prophecy, jerusalem had been destroyed and its citizens killed or deported to babylon.
These difficulties may be said to be present in all the versions of this passage. Daniel chapter 9 commentary northwest college of the bible. From where we stand in time today, the last seven years of daniel s prophecy are still prophetic, still future, but it is with their conclusion that all six purposes of verse 24 will reach their fulfillment. Gabriel informs him concerning the seventy weeks to the coming of christ. Even most liberal scholars who propose multiple authors for the book of daniel agree that the author of daniel chapter 9 also wrote chapter 12. The portion of the vision applying to the time of the end verse 17 was still a mystery to daniel. Nebuchadnezzar and darius the mede found in chapters 16 are far too positive to be. The revelation concerning the coming of the messiah. Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to annoint the most holy place daniel s 70 weeks could not possibly apply to the destruction of the temple in 70 ad as. The detail study of revelation will uncover many new prophecies and understandings of the end times. The implication is that the messiah would be resurrected from the dead after he was killed.
The book of daniel is an excellent prediction of the coming of the messiah and the triumph of his messianic kingdom 2. Jesus spoke highly of daniel, calling him a prophet and indicating that his scheme of prophecy is the same as that laid out by daniel see matthew chapter 24, especially verse 15. The angel informs him that seventy weeks have been decreed for them, and then gives a detailed but cryptic description of those weeks. Book of daniel chapter 9 bible study lessons from a legend. The first year of his reign, i daniel understood by books the number of the years, concerning which the word of the lord came to jeremias the prophet, that seventy years.
The book of daniel contains the crucial foundational passages concerning israel and the coming of the messiah, jesus christ. Book of daniel bible study chapter 9 part 1 lessons from a legend. Porphyry, an intelligent man, produced a detailed verse by verse study of the book of daniel in support of his argument for a second century date in volume 12 of his 15 volume work against the christians which survives in part in jeromes 5th century commentary on daniel wilken, 1984. One of the great, exciting, prophetic portions of the word of god, daniel chapter. Daniel the prophet receives an intriguing prophecy from the archangel gabriel in this passage, known as the seventy weeks prophecy, for gabriel gives a seventyweek time frame for the coming of the messiah. Chapter nine opens up with daniel trying to understand the prophecy of jeremiah in which jeremiah prophesied concerning the exiles that were taken to babylon. Take your bible, will you please, and follow it as we study tonight in the ninth chapter of daniel. The messianic time table according to daniel the prophet. Recall that daniel wrote this chapter as a jewish exile in babylon. In the first year of his reign i daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the lord came to jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in. He did not claim to be, and the gospel writers did not portray him as, a second onias iii. Nov 01, 2017 the book of daniel lays the basis for the book of revelation.
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