The seventy "Sevens"

Daniel 9:18-27

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. He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:

“Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.

He saw the answer to his prayer that same year, but Israel's troubles were not over. God now shows Daniel something of what lies ahead.

Verses 24-27 are very difficult, and numerous interpretations have been suggested. God has ordained a period of 70x7 in which the salvation of his people will be completed. For the Jews, the number seven itself symbolized completeness and perfection. It may therefore be best to take the numbers symbolically, through the period of time between the decree to rebuild and restore Jerusalem and the beginning of Jesus' ministry comes very close to the 7 +62 weeks = 483 days, standing for the same number of years. This is the total reached if we take the figures literally though there is more than one possible starting point, and even the end date is not absolutely fixed. Verse 26 seems to point to the death and rejection of Christ and the destruction of the Temple which followed in AD 70- with a wider reference at the end. But the subject of verse 27 is not at all clear. 'He' is taken by some to be the Messiah, by others to be the destroying prince of the previous verse.

Why?

This is the angle said to Daniel about the vision he saw in visions.

One day is one year, so there are 490 years, and the Holy Place will be destroyed. Here means Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

God's way and the time of the Lord we can't fully understand, and we don't have to know. What we have to do is obey God's word and be faithful to the Lord. 

Response who am I before Jesus when we pray to the Lord with all my heart.

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這段是聖經中最難解的經文之一，因為我們能夠了解的太少了。

但以理為自己和本國的民認罪，關心神的國，神的名。當但以理開始禱告時，神讓天使加百列來告訴但以理。特別將神救恩計劃的藍圖。70個7包括下列的事

完成救恩計劃即止住罪過，除淨罪惡、贖盡罪孽。

引進永義：彰顯永義：基督再來

封住異象和預言：耶穌再來，預言、異象已經成就，所以就不再有了。

膏至聖者： 耶穌基督掌權。

為了神的百姓、為神國的人民。神不僅只是復興聖所，神關心永恆！

69個7：受膏者，是指耶穌基督。重建聖殿到耶穌來臨

最後一個7：耶穌基督死而復活，聖城重建又被提多將軍拆毀，教會建立直到末世的教會時期。

基督使祭祀與供獻止息。教會時間中間有敵基督出現，可憎行毀壞最後要被除去。

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How?

Pray to the Lord with all my heart, my mind and my strength.