Daniel 9:27; Season 11, Episode 9 (30min)

"The Wing of Abominations"

The Outline: 

  I.  THE STORIES  (1:1-6:28)

 II.  THE VISIONS  (7:1-12:13)

1. The Four Beasts of Empires  (7:1-28)
2. The Horns of a Ram and a Goat  (8:1-27)
3. The Timetable of Seventy Weeks  (9:1-27)
4. The Man of Glory  10:1-9)
5. The Battle of Angels  (10:10-11:1)
6. The Wars and Intrigues of Kings  (11:2-28)
7. The Abomination of Desolation  (11:29-45)
8. The Time of Trouble  (12:1-13)

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C.  The Timetable of Seventy Weeks  (9:1-27)

1. The Setting(9:1)
2. The Reading from Jeremiah(9:2)
3. The Prophet’s Prayer(9:3-19)
4. The Angel’s Arrival(9:20-23)
5. The Decree of Seventy Weeks(9:24-27)

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5.  The Decree of Seventy Weeks(9:24-27)

1. The Six Purposes to be Accomplished  (9:24)
2. The First Sixty-Nine Weeks Predicted  (9:25)
3. The Messiah will be Cut Off  (9:26)
4. The Covenant of One Week  (9:27)

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Appendix:  ALTERNATIVES TO THE 7-YEAR PLACEMENT

• Some associate it around Jesus’ death on the cross after approximately 3 ½ years of ministry because His sacrifice for sin put an end to the sacrifices
• And some who place it there also apply the last “week” of Daniel’s 70 Weeks as the last week of days in Jesus life, making Jesus’ death on Wednesday of that week
• But that puts Jesus’ death as identical to the “abomination of desolation” which cannot be so. Jesus was crucified completely outside the city and could never be said to have desecrated it
• And Daniel’s 70 Weeks prophecy was never about “weeks” of days centered around the Sabbath day, but based on the 7-year calendar for Sabbath Years in Israel’s calendar cycle
• Some place the 7-year period around the destruction of the temple in ad70 by Titus and the Roman army with very convincing descriptions of the event and parallel to that of the Tribulation
• But that puts a definition on the “abomination of desolation” that was never applied in Scripture; Demolition of the Temple is not at all the same as the Defilement
• The destruction by Nebuchadnezzar (586bc) was not defined in those terms. Whereas Daniel’s own prophecy of the desecration (Daniel 11:31) that was later fulfilled by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (167bc) is clearly identified the same way as this to be done by “the prince who is to come”
• The specific short term fulfillment of the “abomination” by Antiochus Epiphanes becomes a confirmation and illustration of the long range prophecy of the “prince who is to come” and his “abomination” in the middle of the 70^th Week
• So then we are left with a ‘mystery.’ In fact that is what the New Testament itself calls it and is exactly what Paul claims to have been revealed through him as His stewardship to deliver; It is “the church” the “body” of Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:16); It is also called by Paul “one new man” (Ephesians 2:15)
• See: Ephesians 3:1–12, for a complete passage that explains Paul's perspective in being the recipient for the revelation of this Mystery.