Turning to the book of Daniel, chapter 9
this evening, book of Daniel, and we are
at the 9th chapter, and going through very
carefully from verse 20 to the end of
the chapter, verse 20 right through to verse
27, just 8 verses this evening.
And yet these 8 verses bring before us
one of the greatest prophecies in this whole
bible of ours.
In fact Dr. Ironside and Dr. Schaeffer and
Sir Robert Anderson and many other great prophetic
scholars all stand together believing that this is
the greatest prophecy in this whole bible of
ours.
And I stand there this evening too because
I am sure that when we finish we'll
be thrilled with wonder and love and praise
because of the greatness of this prophetic word.
And I want to bring this great paragraph
before you on the six headings this evening,
just look at your notes, the angelical vision
of the weeks.
This wonderful prophecy is called by all prophetic
students Daniel's seventy weeks.
And it was an angel that brought this
great vision to Daniel, the angel Gabriel.
And then we shall take a moment or
two to think about the scriptural calculation of
the weeks, just how these weeks should be
counted.
And that's very important and we'll take a
lot of time at that this evening.
It's important that we see the national congregation
of these weeks.
See verse 24, the angel is speaking to
Daniel and saying seventy weeks are determined upon
thy people and upon thy holy city.
I don't think you should have any trouble
seeing the people that's being spoken about here.
It is Daniel's people, it is Jews, it
is Israel, it is the holy city of
Jerusalem.
And when we are thinking about the weeks
tonight, we're thinking about what is determined by
God of course upon this Jewish nation and
upon this Jerusalem of theirs.
Then we shall go on to look at
the chronological introduction of the weeks because this
is the crux of the whole matter.
The whole counting of these weeks begins from
the going forth of the commandment to restore
and to build Jerusalem, verse 25.
Know therefore and understand it from the going
forth of the commandment to restore and to
build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince and then
we'll start the counting proper.
But that's the chronological introduction to the weeks.
Then the special revelation of these weeks not
only tells us the moment when the Messiah
would come to earth, but that when he
would come he would be cut off.
And I don't think any of the Israelites
down through the ages seem to get the
hold of that.
And then the chapter ends with another prince
appearing.
There are two princes in this passage.
There's Messiah the Prince, capital N, capital T
in verse 25.
And then in verse 26 there's the people
of the prince that shall come.
And of course the prince that shall come
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
In fact the last word of our chapter
this evening is the word desolate.
But if you look your margin you'll find
the word should be desolato.
It's a noun.
It's a title of the Antichrist.
He's the other prince.
Very often he's like Christ in this book
but he's Antichrist.
And it's the desolator who will be judged
at the end of the chapter.
And so under these headings we're setting off
on the exposition of one of the greatest
prophetical passages in your whole Bible.
Now to get it properly let's remember the
first part of chapter 9.
You remember from verse 3 right through to
verse 19 last week we had this very
thrilling picture of Daniel on his knees praying,
confessing, supplicating before God.
And it was while he was in this
position of supplication it says in verse 20
and we're commencing just now.
And while I was speaking and praying and
confessing my sin and the sin of my
people Israel.
And in case anybody was questioning his people
down the chapter there a little bit you
can see what he says himself.
My people Israel.
And presenting my supplications before the Lord my
God for the holy mountain of my God.
Yea while I was speaking in prayer even
the man Gabriel and you're quite aware that
Gabriel wasn't a man.
You know that he was an angel.
You remember it was Gabriel that brought the
message to Mary.
But he came in the appearance of a
man.
And that's why Daniel's allowed to put it
just like this.
But while I was speaking in prayer even
the man Gabriel whom I had seen in
the vision at the beginning.
Because to fly swiftly.
And that would teach you that Daniel knew
exactly what he was talking about.
He knew he was an angel.
But the angel Gabriel touched me about the
time of the evening oblation.
And he informed me and talked with me
and said oh Daniel I am now come
forth to give thee skill and understanding.
And that's a great thing for all the
young folks to just take note of.
That you know the angel Gabriel was sent
from the heights of glory to touch this
prophet of the Lord to give him two
things.
To give him skill.
And to give him understanding.
Let me say this very carefully.
A skill that you can't find in college.
And an understanding that you won't get in
university.
Don't forget that.
And all God can take up ordinary men.
And he can make them threshing instruments of
his chief.
We must never forget that Peter, the great
Peter was an unlearned and ignorant man.
That's what the bible says.
Let me tell you that in the hands
of God he was a mighty skilled workman
with an understanding far above many.
It was Peter who wrote you know that
the elements at the end of the day
will melt with servant heat.
And they questioned this for years that the
stars, because the word elements are stars, that
the stars should melt.
Now they know now they can melt.
But it took them a long time.
But Peter got skill and understanding from the
Lord.
And so the angel is come to speak
to Daniel to give him both skill and
understanding.
Verse 23.
At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment
came forth and I am come to show
thee.
You know I think it's a great thing
to understand in your heart deeply that God
answers prayer.
At the beginning of your supplications the commandment
came forth.
It seems as Daniel got down on his
knees to supplicate about his nation that God
commanded the angel Gabriel to go and give
him a bit of understanding.
Sometimes I see a little card in prayer
meetings it says prayer changes things.
I don't think that's correct altogether.
I have every sympathy with those who put
it up.
I think you should change it to God
changes things in answer to prayer.
I don't think you should give prayer all
the glory.
Why?
Because so many people just think that prayer
is almost God.
Or let's get it just the way it
should be.
It is God that changes things in answer
to prayer.
And don't forget that.
Because God does hear and answer prayer.
Verse 23.
At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment
came forth and I am come to show
thee for thou art greatly beloved.
That's a very affectionate term.
Because God takes some of his children in
his arms at times and sort of gives
them a special squeeze.
And I think he squeezed Daniel more than
once.
He says for thou art greatly beloved therefore
understand the matter and consider the vision.
And then we come to this great prophetical
statement.
It runs from 24 right down to 27.
I want you to watch the reading very
carefully.
70 weeks are determined upon my people and
upon my holy city.
70 weeks.
The word weeks here is a very old
-fashioned Hebrew word and it's translated weeks.
It's the word Shavuha.
And I know there are one or two
Hebrew scholars here and the moment I say
Shavuha I know that you know immediately that
it means seven.
Translated by our translators with the English word
weeks.
Of course you can see what they were
getting at.
Weeks are made up of seven.
You see if I said to you tonight
that one week from now we're going to
do so.
You would know in your mind what the
word week means.
You would know it means in seven days.
I wouldn't need to come down to explain
to you.
You would know immediately that seven days have
to run the course.
And the moment that the angel came with
this word Daniel knew that he was talking
about 77s.
77s are determined upon my people.
And you know what 77s are don't you?
It's 490 periods of something.
490 could be 490 days.
Could be 490 weeks.
Could be 490 months.
It could be 490 years.
Well you see from the whole context of
the prophecy we shall determine whether it is
moments or days or weeks or months or
years.
But there are 490 periods of something and
we'll leave it at that just now but
we'll clear it up in a moment.
And you will find out of these 77s
when the 490 periods of something have run
the course something will happen to the Jewish
nation.
77s are determined upon my people and upon
my holy city to finish the transgression.
And in the Hebrew Bible the indefinite article
stands like us.
It is the transgression.
Would you like to tell me what the
transgression of the Jewish nation is?
I think you would know wouldn't you?
It's the rejection of their Messiah.
And at the end of these 77, 490
something, this will be gone.
This will be gone.
The transgression will be over.
You see 77s are determined upon my people
and upon my holy city to finish the
transgression and to make an end of sins
and to make reconciliation.
You know the whole Jewish nation as a
nation will be reconciled to God and sinning
will depart and the great transgression will be
gone.
My, this is the mighty prophecy and at
the end of these 77s this nation is
going to be brought back to God.
And then something more is going to take
place.
At that moment will be brought in for
this nation of course everlasting righteousness.
You know at a glance that the Jewish
nation is not there yet.
It's something we need to look into very
carefully here.
Because they still disown Christ as their Messiah.
And you know that they're not reconciled to
God this evening and cannot be while they
reject Christ.
And you know that everlasting righteousness has not
come to this nation.
And then when these 77s are finished not
only will everlasting righteousness be brought in but
at that time the seal will be upon
the vision and prophecy.
This nation will know that all their old
testament prophets were true.
Just about that.
And there'll be another thing happen.
There'll be an anointing of a new holy
place.
And it's strange that the new english bible
puts it just like that.
You see these 77s are determined upon this
Jewish people and this city Jerusalem.
And these things, six things will happen when
these 77s have run their course.
And now he seems to draw nearer to
Daniel in verse 25 and say know therefore
and understand, making the plea through, know therefore
and understand that from the going forth of
the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem
unto Messiah the Prince.
Now there's a period of time for you.
From the going forth of the commandment to
restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the
Prince shall be seven weeks and three score
and two weeks.
Three score and two are 62 and seven
are 69.
So out of these 77s, 69 of them
will be from the going forth of the
commandment until Christ came to the nation.
69 sevens.
I want you to keep the numbers in
your mind so I did them like this.
You see 70 77s is 490 and then
69 sevens is 483.
Now if we think for a moment very
carefully, we're way back in the book of
Daniel and the angel is coming and the
angel is saying you're in Babylon here Daniel
but there's going to come a commandment to
go back and restore the city of Jerusalem.
Know therefore and understand that from the going
forth of the commandment to restore and to
build Jerusalem.
And we must get this quite clear because
there were other commandments that came.
Some were to build the wall.
Some were to build the temple.
But this is to build the city.
So don't get any of the other decrees
mixed up.
So we must seek for this when did
this decree go forth?
Because from the time that that decree goes
forth 490 something must take place before the
Messiah comes.
And you would know right away wouldn't you
that it couldn't be 490 minutes because the
Messiah came a long time after this book
of Daniel.
You would know it wouldn't be 490 days
and you would know it wouldn't be 490
months.
In fact it's quite clear and we shall
prove it is 490 years.
You see I want you to get that
it's 483 from the beginning of the commandment
to Messiah come.
Now this could be worked out very carefully
and some of the great scholars have said
about it.
You know the thing that you must establish
first of all is where the going forth
of the commandment came.
And can I show you that?
That's in the book of Nehemiah and we're
at chapter 2.
And you know that Nehemiah was a prisoner
before our text Erechtheus.
And I want you to notice this chapter
carefully now.
Verse 1.
It came to pass in the month Nisan.
You know that's that's all March.
Came to pass in the month Nisan in
the 20th year of Artax Erechtheus the king
that wine was before him and I took
up the wine and gave it on to
the king and I had not been before
time sad in his presence.
Wherefore the king said unto me why is
thy countenance sad seeing thou art not sick?
This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.
Then I was very sore afraid and said
unto the king let the king live forever.
Why should not my countenance be sad when
the city the place of my father's sepulchre
lies waste?
And you can see he's talking about the
city.
Then the king said unto me for what
dost thou make request?
So just with a breath so I prayed
to the god of heaven in between the
conversation and I said unto the king if
it pleased the king and if I serve
him to find favor in thy sight that
thou wouldest send me unto Judah onto the
city of my father's sepulchre that I may
build it.
And the king said unto me the queen
also sitting by him for how long shall
my journey be and when wilt thou return?
So it pleased the king to send me.
Now that's the time that the commandment went
forth to build the city.
Now that's a date that we can come
pretty near to.
Now I know of course that bible dates
and bible chronology is not just infuturized you
know and there's sometimes a year or two
that well one cannot be absolutely certain but
you would not be very far out.
You know all the great chronological scholars have
got down to this and some of them
have said that this was the year 460
before christ of course 450 years before christ.
Some of them have said that this is
448 BC.
Now the man who did the most research
on these dates and the one that I
think who did best was Sir Robert Anderson.
Sir Robert Anderson of course was a great
christian.
He was a man who loved the lord
with all his heart.
He was a great prophetical scholar.
In fact one of the greatest prophetical books
ever written was a book written by Sir
Robert Anderson called the coming prince.
And as ever you lay your hands on
it no matter what it costs you buy
it.
Sir Robert Anderson was the man who founded
Scotland Yard for the British government.
He was the brain of getting this great
detective force going.
He was the one who laid the foundations.
He was knighted for this.
He was the man who could speak nine
languages.
Now he took up the research for these
dates and he did it in a very
wonderful way.
You know he got the time when christ
rode into Jerusalem.
You remember that time Sunday.
That of course was the beginning of Easter
week and you know that the lord was
crucified in that holy week and you know
that at every Easter there is the full
moon.
So he began a great laboratory.
You can see the brilliant mind he had.
He got the date the exact date of
that full moon when christ was crucified.
And then he began to work backwards over
every moon.
Every moon.
And he was going back 483 years.
This was his figure.
And he came to this figure and it's
accepted by all in sundry today that the
year that the commandment went forth was 445
BC.
Now you know what that means don't you?
It's 445 years before christ was born.
You know how the old testament dates go.
445 then it goes 400 years before christ
then 300 years then 200 then 100 and
then it comes on down and we get
to the year of our lord.
And you know our calendar changes there don't
you?
Because all the dates coming that way they're
BC they're before christ.
And then we start AD.
Our year tonight is 1972 AD.
And there is Anno Domino.
You know the wording.
It means the year of our lord.
And so he comes right down this way.
And he comes to the year of our
lord and then he's got to go on
now because our lord lived on this earth
for 33 years.
Maybe 33 and 6 months.
You see we can get problems into this.
We think that christmas day the 25th of
december every year is christ's birthday but i'm
sure he wasn't born then at all.
I think that there are things stirring up
us in the scripture shouldn't because we think
this.
You see the shepherds were out in the
fields at night with the sheep.
You know that the angel came to the
shepherd on the Judean hills.
Let me tell you that in Judea on
december the 25th there are neither shepherd nor
sheep in the fields.
Let me tell you that.
So it might be that we would have
to shift it up the year a little
bit.
I wouldn't know where to now.
But don't let's get into little intricacies that's
going to puzzle us more.
But the plain fact is here that our
lord was on this earth for 33 and
a half.
Maybe 33 in five months maybe 33 in
six it doesn't matter.
We don't want to get too near it.
But you see sir robert anderson he gets
this date and he works on down and
he went from 4 4 5 bc and
then instead of taking 32 he took instead
of taking 33 he took 32.
Because he said this that when they came
down to one year before christ's then when
christ was born they began 180.
Well maybe it shouldn't have been 180.
Maybe they were losing with the 2-1
so he believed.
And you see he got 4 4 5
and you put 32 to that and you
get 4 7 7.
Now you can see immediately that the figure
we should get is 4 8 3 and
when you get 4 7 7 against 4
8 3 you are six out.
But that's coming pretty close isn't it?
Coming pretty close.
That would nearly do for us you know.
You see if the jews had only taken
any thought to their book and they had
examined this prophecy and they had gone back
and they had noted the time that the
commandment came to build the city they would
have known almost to the year when the
messiah would have come.
They could have told.
They were too slow.
They didn't do their sums properly.
But you know this is very wonderful.
Yet sir robert anderson wasn't absolutely pleased with
this.
This just didn't please him.
There's six years out here.
So he had another go at it and
he got down to think about it.
He must have got down before god because
in a flash he saw this.
I'm counting these years before christ and these
years after christ.
I'm counting them by the old astronomical calendar.
The astronomical calendar has 365 days and a
quarter.
That is our calendar.
We don't work with a quarter.
We just give one extra day and four.
365 days.
Is this how the bible counted years?
And he began to think again.
Are prophetical years and astronomical years and solar
years all the same?
No they're not you know.
And he found something and i'll show you
where he found it.
He found it in the book of genesis.
Let's get back there.
He found it in genesis chapter 7.
Genesis chapter 7.
I'll take your time and find the place.
Verse 11 and it's about the flood.
It's talking about the flood.
In the 600th year of Noah's life in
the second month and they want you to
mark the month.
The 17th day of the month.
In the second month.
In the 17th day of the month.
The same day where all the fountains of
the great deep broken up and the windows
of heaven were opened.
That's the day the flood began.
You've got the month.
The second month.
You've got the day.
17th day of the month.
Now go to chapter 8 and the flood
is over now.
And it says here in chapter 8.
Look down the chapter.
Verse 3.
The waters returned from off the earth continually
and after the end of the 150 days
the water were abated and the ark rested
in the seventh month.
On the 17th day of the month.
It's the same day.
You see the it began on the second
month.
It's resting on the seventh month.
It's five months.
That's correct.
To a day it was five months.
See the last verse of chapter 7.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a
hundred and fifty days.
Did you get that?
Because the many days does that make you
per month?
That makes you thirty days per month.
Five thirties is a hundred and fifty.
So Sir Robert Anderson came to the conclusion
that a prophetical year is made up of
three hundred and sixty days.
Now he went further in his studies and
he came to the book of revelation.
Now watch what he found in revelation.
Revelation and we're at chapter 11.
Revelation 11.
Verse 1.
And there was given me a rod like
a reed like unto a rod and the
angel stood saying rise and measure the temple
of God and the altar and then that
worship therein.
But the court which is without the temple
leave out and measure it not for it
is given unto the Gentiles and they shall
tread they and the holy city shall they
tread on their foot forty and two months.
Along is forty and two months.
It's three and a half years.
For many days would you say.
Now if you count it in your calendar
sense you'll get the wrong answer.
Look at the third verse do you see.
And I will give power unto my two
witnesses and they shall prophesy.
Watch the figure now.
A thousand two hundred and three four days
multiply thirty.
So three and a half.
Three and a half for every month.
Thirty for every month.
For three and a half.
What do you get?
Thirty per month is 360.
Multiply the 360 by three of the half
and there's your figure.
One thousand two hundred and three four days.
It's exact.
So Robert Anderson had found something.
He had found that the prophetical year was
360 days.
Now when he starts to multiply instead of
having six hours he said on to the
very second.
Not a day out.
Not an hour.
And if you geniuses who are going to
count when you go home tonight start it.
I want you to do this.
To remember that you have to put your
late year days in and that will mean
119 of them.
And you have to put your 24 days
in that is part of the month of
Nizam and the part that was the month
of Nizam when Christ was crucified.
There are 24 days here.
But when they're all put in and there
are at often days it's exact to the
day from the day that the commandment was
given to the day that Christ went in
through the gates of Jerusalem to present himself
as the prince.
And remember he hadn't done this to the
nation before.
He had hidden.
He had gone away.
He didn't want them to take him.
But now he's coming as a Messiah.
And this is the day.
And to the very day.
It is 483 years exactly.
And so Robert Anderson by finding out the
prophetical year solved the problem that a many
scholars had never got over.
Now there's a bigger problem than that there.
Let's go back to where we were.
You see read up Daniel chapter 9 and
read it verse 25.
Know therefore and understand that from the going
forth of the commandment to restore and to
build Jerusalem unto Messiah the prince shall be
seven weeks and three score and two weeks.
Six be nine weeks.
And then it says at verse 26 and
after three score and two weeks shall Messiah
be cut off.
You know this is one of the most
interesting things in the scriptures.
You know when I was in Palestine I
was staying away up at the great hotel
in Tiberias.
And the owner of this great hotel was
a Polish Jew.
He had had to run from Poland during
the war and that was very good of
him to get out.
And he built this great massive place.
And I always left the cloud and got
away out early in the mornings to wander
about.
I can nose around on my own best
of all.
And sometimes I'm misunderstood because of that.
But I was up about half past four
every morning and came down the stairs and
this gentleman was going about on his own
and he knew I was from Ireland and
he always called me Paddy.
Good morning Paddy he would say.
For a moment or two I thought he
was calling me Padry and I was all
pleased and then when he called me Pat
I got the message.
And he would say to me come on
we'll have coffee together.
And many times we would get round to
talking about the Messiah.
Now I don't want you to think that
I'm a great person and worker because I'm
the worst in the world.
And I could ride from here till you
found land with you in the plane and
if you didn't speak to me I would
scarcely speak to you.
It isn't because I don't want to it's
because I can't do it.
I don't get any credit for that because
I'm a preacher.
But he got talking to me and I
remember saying this to him one morning.
Will your Messiah be born in Bethlehem?
And he smiled and said yes.
You see it says in the Old Testament
in the book of Micah thou Bethlehem is
not out of thee shall he come forth.
And he knew where it was.
And I knew where it was.
And I said will your Messiah be of
the tribe of Judah?
And again he smiled.
He said he will have to be of
the house and village of David.
And he had said way back in Genesis
that out of Judah shall Shiloh come and
unto him shall the gathering of the people
be.
And again he was quite right.
And then I said to him will your
Messiah be despised and rejected of men?
He didn't ask me.
And I looked.
I said will he be wounded and bruised?
He said you're talking from Isaiah 53 and
that's talking about another man altogether.
He knew where I was you know.
And I accepted what he said to me.
I didn't argue with the man.
I knew he was wrong but I had
to go my way about fishing.
And I said you know that your Messiah
will come through Bethlehem.
You know he will be of the tribe
of Judah.
You don't believe that he will be wounded
and bruised and you don't believe he will
be despised and rejected.
Tell me this will your Messiah be cut
off?
Now I had him really in the neck
now.
Because he can't tell me that this is
about another man because it already says Messiah
the Prince.
And he knew you know.
He said you're at Daniel chapter 9.
I said that's right.
He said I don't understand it.
I said I know you don't.
I said you know there's a time when
your Messiah will come to the nation and
it's the way at the back of the
book and it's Zechariah in case you think
I don't know.
And your nation will say to him what
are these wounds in my hand when your
Messiah have wounds in his hand.
And he said cut.
You're really tightening me up aren't you?
And that's what I intended to do of
course.
You see when you talk to a Jew
who's blind to the great fact that Jesus
Christ is his Messiah.
When you talk to him you must understand
this that he can see all the glory
of the King.
But he can't see the sufferings of the
Savior.
The Jews don't differentiate between the sufferings and
the glory that should follow.
But here's the Messiah cut off.
Now that's very interesting because that brings us
to a theological point tonight that I want
to make a whole lot out of.
You're not in any very home sir.
Now that's good.
You see the doctor's saying no hurry.
There must be no surgery tonight or they're
going to wait a while.
Well let's get this bit quite clear.
You know some of my friends who argue
with me about these prophetic things.
They call themselves a millennialist and so on
and so on.
You know they have to bow to this
that this is the literal way to come
to these things.
Because they don't go any other way.
Because from the going forth of the commandment
to the Messiah it's just 69.
And it's just 69 sevens and it can
be proved to the day.
So that is the literal way for in
fact these scriptures.
Because you see when they come to the
other seven they don't want to go literal
now.
They want to go spiritual now.
Because their whole teachings are upset if they
go on literal now.
But you see they want to do this.
They say to me this is true that
the commandment went forth.
This is true that it's 483 years to
the day until Christ walked in and was
cut off on the cross.
That is true.
But the next seven years brought transgressors in
this world and sinners in this world to
be reconciled to God and give them everlasting
righteousness.
I'll tell you that the book is not
talking about sinners in this world.
It's talking about Jews.
They don't want to accept this.
They don't want to say it's your nation
Daniel.
It's your city.
Oh no.
They want to spiritually apply it now.
I don't think a man is honest who
takes 69 weeks literal and he has to
run to spiritualize the other one to get
out of trouble.
I don't think he's an exporter at all.
I think he's a cook.
I don't give that for your doctrines.
I don't even think you're honest.
You see because they know what I'm going
to say now.
You see if 69 of those weeks comes
from the commandment to the Messiah being slain.
What happens to the 70th one?
Where does it go?
What are we going to do with the
last seven years?
Oh well that's very easy you see.
Because when the Jewish nation rejected their Messiah
and put him on the cross and tried
to crucify him.
Then God dropped dealing with the Jewish nation.
They were cast away not forever, not forever.
God began to take in the church now.
God began to call out a people for
his name.
Is there any man away from Czechoslovakia called
out the same as we are by the
same gospel knowing the same thing.
Why you could rejoice in the way he
talks just because he's saying the things we
know.
Because God has called people out all over
the world.
And the moment is very near when the
Lord is going to take the church right
out.
Just like he said.
The Lord could enter this building and if
some of you are not saved you can
have it.
You'll find the digs in the bank keep
it because we'll be gold.
Believe him.
Yes do what you like with it.
Painted red white and blue or green white
and gold whatever you want.
Sure we go tonight.
I'll tell you this if the Lord came
now and took the church right out.
At that second the prophetic clock would start
again under seven years to go.
Did you get that?
Because this is going to work out exactly
the way God wants it.
And you know we're nearly at the spot
where the last seven are going to start
the remodeling.
And I'll tell you this.
There's another man of sin going to appear
at the same moment.
The moment the church goes then shall that
man of sin the son of perdition be
revealed.
He'll be this other prince that will come.
Pretending to be Christ.
You know I want you to get the
hold of this.
Do you see verse 27?
He, that's this other prince he's talking about.
He shall confirm the covenant with many.
Watch it now.
For one week.
For one seven sir.
Seven years.
You know when the church is taken out
and the antichrist is revealed?
And I believe that he'll be the great
president of the common market.
Say hello Mr Heath is all heathen about
these days because he's got the common market
going.
And I can tell you they're going to
have this great wonderful parliament of Brussels.
And I can tell you they've got to
get the president.
And I'll tell you this.
He'll be the man of sin.
I'm telling you friends that we're on the
verge of disbelief in this world.
You're on the verge.
We're going to go make you no mistakes
about it.
You can debate it whatever way you like
but I'll tell you I can prove it
from a thousand angles.
We're going.
And you know this man will make a
covenant with whom?
With Israel.
And I'll tell you if he makes the
covenant with Israel it'll upset the middle east
a bit.
He'll make it for seven years.
Now just watch exactly what it says in
your bible because it's a great book you
have.
And he shall confirm the covenant for one
week.
And in the midst of the week.
What's the half of seven?
Three and a half.
What did we read when we were back
at revelation chapter 11?
That the holy city shall they tread in
two months?
Did you get that now three and a
half?
You see as the church went tonight this
last seven will begin.
You know somebody said to me once you
know this great gap theory of yours.
This is nowhere else in the scripture is
it not?
I said you haven't read this book.
I'll tell you God has worked in this
gap theory right through.
They'll only do one to prove it.
Let's go to Luke's gospel chapter 4.
Luke's gospel chapter 4 verse 16.
Verse 16 and he that is the Lord
Jesus came to Nazareth where he had been
brought up and as his custom was he
went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day.
Went to church every Sunday you know.
He stood up for to read.
And there was delivered unto him the book
of the prophet Isaiah.
That's the Greek way of saying the Hebrew
word Isaiah.
And when he had opened the book he
found a place where it was written.
The Lord knew the Old Testament very well.
And he's at Isaiah 61.
The spirit of the Lord is upon me
because he has commanded me to preach the
gospel to the poor.
He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted.
To preach deliverance to the captives and recovering
of sight to the blind and set at
liberty them that are bound to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord and he closed
the book.
If you go back to Isaiah, did he
finish the sentence?
Let's have a look at Isaiah 61 do
you see?
Prophecy of Isaiah and it's chapter 61.
This is the place he found and he
opened the book and he began to read
in the synagogue at Nazareth.
Watch it now.
He read from the first verse the spirit
of the Lord is upon me because the
Lord has commanded me to preach good tidings
unto the meek.
He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and
the opening of the prisons of them that
are bound to proclaim the acceptable year of
the Lord and it was there he closed
the book and he stopped at a comma.
Now why did he do that?
You see the next phrase, because the next
phrase is to proclaim the day of vengeance.
How will there be a great gap between
the day of the Lord, the acceptable year
of the Lord and the day of vengeance?
You see we're in the acceptable year of
the Lord.
Now is the accepted time.
Now is the day of salvation and it
has run for nearly 2,000 years and
the moment that Christ comes and takes the
church home then the day of vengeance begins
and there's a long gap between the two
phrases but our Lord knew about it.
In Paul these gams are no gaps in
his book.
My Lord knew where the gaps were and
there's a gap of 2,000 years there
and the day of vengeance is separated from
the acceptable year of the Lord by a
big gap.
Look I want you to get the hold
of this let's go back to Daniel again.
You see the antichrist will come he shall
confirm the covenant with many for one weekend
in the midst of the week he shall
cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.
It's the morning and the evening sacrifice and
for the over spreading of abominations he shall
make it desolate.
You know some of these scholars come to
me and say you see these 69 weeks?
You see this 70th one?
It's all over because Antiochus Epiphanes that's the
way back in the days of Daniel and
afterwards he came along and he profaned God's
house.
In fact he brought a pig into the
house and sacrificed it and poured out swine's
blood.
They say that's all past you know they're
the historicists.
Well I said I'll tell you we see
that 200 years after Antiochus Epiphanes had died
Jesus Christ came and let me tell you
he's worth listening to and he gathers his
own around them in Matthew 24 and he
said to them when thou seest the abomination
of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet
and to him it was still future and
it's still future tonight.
The abomination of desolation is still future.
I'll tell you the church is leaving this
world one of these days and the desolator
is going to appear and he'll make a
covenant and he'll block Israel and let me
tell you he will block the Roman church
as well because he will let the woman
ride the beast for the moment or two.
That's another subject.
So I'll tell you this at the end
of the seven years the Lord will come
back and slay the desolator.
What a prophet.
What a book he is.
Now just before you run I want to
say to you that next week's chapter chapter
10 I believe it's the greatest chapter in
Daniel.
I think I called it chapter 11 one
night by mistake but it is chapter 10
and don't miss it.
I'll tell you this there are 21 days
of prayer here and it's an old man
of 86 years of age down on his
feet for 21 days and he takes no
food.
The bishops don't know a thing about this
you know.
I only argue half time.
Friend this is something that's very important.
Next week also we're having a thanksgiving night.
You don't know how many hours are put
in for you here.
You don't know that I was up this
before six this morning and I was still
there at six tonight but that doesn't matter
the Lord knows.
But once every year we have a thanksgiving
night and there's a lot of young folks
here and they're just left school and they're
thinking of getting married and they have no
money.
Okay all right we're looking past you.
Save up for your wedding that's all right.
And there's a lot of old age pensioners
here and all that heat has given you
very much but very little and this will
give you less.
There must be a hundred of you in
the middle there somewhere and you have an
old rusty five pound note lying about somewhere.
It's there you have it in the sock.
You'll need to dip into the sock next
week.
And if a hundred of you give us
five pounds a piece it's five hundred pounds
and it's not for me.
I'm giving it to two missionaries.
We have a wee lass way out in
Chile tonight Dorothy Foster and she's under the
communistic rule in Chile.
We have a wee fella in France doing
his best to see man and woman saved.
Now I'm halving the offering between them.
Lord will come you know.
You need to give to the Lord now.
God bless you.
God part us in thy fear and with
thy blessing for thy holy name's sake.
Amen.