The Most Amazing Prophecy in Human History

1. The Most Amazing Prophecy in Human History Daniel 9

2. Claims of Christ John 5:26“The Father has life in himself, and he has granted that same life-giving power to his Son.”

3. Claims of Christ John 5:25“I assure you that the time is coming, indeed it’s here now, when the dead will hear my voice—the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen will live.”

4. Claims of Christ John 5:24 “I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.”

5. Who Is Jesus Christ?

7. Daniel 9:24 “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.”

8. Context (Dan 9:2): Daniel’s exile in Babylon is coming to an end, so what’s the future of Israel?

9. "Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city …” (Dan 9:24)

10. Context: Two 490 Year Periods 490 years you BLEW IT 490 years TRY AGAIN Dan. 9:1-11 Dan. 9:24

11. “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince comes,there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ (Daniel 9:25)

12. From the issuing of a decree to rebuild Jerusalem Until the Messiah 7 sevens and 62 sevens 49 + 434 = 483 years Step 1: Calculate the Years. will be... 7 X 7 = 49yrs. 62 X 7 = 434 yrs.

13. Or, 476 of our Solar years Step 2: Convert to Solar Years From the issuing of a decree to rebuild Jerusalem Convert Hebrew Lunar years to our Solar years Until the Messiah Lunar years = 360 days each483 years = 173,880 lunar year days will be... / 365¼ (S.L.D.) = 476.06 Solar Years 7 sevens and 62 sevens 7 X 7 = 49yrs. 62 X 7 = 434 yrs. 49 + 434 = 483 years

14. Step 3: Dating the Decree From the issuing of a decree to rebuild Jerusalem Until the Messiah will be 476 years 25b “it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.” When? 7 sevens and 62 sevens

15. The date of the decree (Nehemiah 2)

17. 465 BC - 20 yrs=445Nissan=Spring= 444 bc Step 3: Dating the Decree From the issuing of a decree to rebuild Jerusalem Until the Messiah will be 476 years 7 sevens and 62 sevens Neh.2:1 “In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes”

18. - 444 (BC)+476 32 + 1 (No “0” yr) 33 AD

19. Luke 19:37

20. Luke 19:41 And when He approached, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.”

21. Luke 19:43 "For the days shall come upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank before you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side, 44 and will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."

22. This passage accurately predicts the date of the coming of Christ over 500 years before the fact!

23. How do you explain this?

24. John 5:40 “and you are unwilling to come to Me, that you may have life.” Implication: new life in him