Cleansing the Sanctuary | Landmarks of Prophecy #10 | Pastor Doug Batchelor

welcome once again friends to another presentation in the landmark a prophecy series we're very thankful that each of you are here I want to thank you personally for your faithfulness and in coming night after night I want to thank our friends who are watching all the groups that are gathered both around North America Europe other parts of the world and we're glad that you're joining us for this study tonight's presentation is gonna be one that I'm actually combining a couple of studies into one presentation dealing with the subject of the longest time prophecy and the sanctuary it's based on two chapters in Daniels Daniel chapter 8 in Daniel chapter 9 very important prophecies you know we've titled this series landmarks a prophecy and one of the famous landmarks in the world of course is that Taj Mahal an amazing building a beautiful building spectacular design and architecture built in the 17th century took 20 years roughly to build it 20,000 workers I should say were engaged for many years the the emperor's wife died giving birth to their 14th child and he loved her so much that he wanted to build something that would just commemorate his love for her and so he had the just the best architects in the kingdom that built this beautiful building what many people are not aware of is that he also saw it as a place where people could find redemption when the the emperor dedicated the building he was Emperor Shan Jahan he declared in these words should the guilty seek asylum here like one pardon he becomes free from sin should a sinner make his way to this mansion all his past sins will be washed away the site of this mansion creates sorrowing size and the Sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes in this world this edifice has been made to display thereby the creator's glory very interesting he speaks of a monotheistic creator and that this building was to be a place where a person could find asylum like a city of refuge so it's not just beautiful it also had some representation of a place of worship as well dedicated to his love for his wife what many people don't know is that in 1830 the British had scheduled to demolish the Taj Mahal they were gonna dismantle it and auction the marble in England because during that time nobody was taking care of the grounds it was a dilapidating they said well where are you gonna find a pass a massive pile of marble like this that we could just sell they actually brought equipment to the site ready to demolish it and at the last minute they received word from England they said the prices of marble in Europe have gone so low it isn't worth it anymore to demolish it aren't you glad that the price of marble dropped during that time otherwise it would be no more you know there is a building that the Bible talks about it's called sometimes the tabernacle the temple the sanctuary that is found all the way from Exodus through revelation and is mentioned by most of the major Bible prophets in the context of this building we're gonna learn a lot about salvation tonight and some of the most interesting Bible prophecies that even relate to our day the lesson today is lesson 11 dealing with the subject of cleansing the sanctuary now when the children of Israel came out of Egypt and Moses went up Mount Sinai what did he get up there on top of Mount Sinai Ten Commandments but you know that's not the only thing he got up there the Bible tells us the Lord gave him blueprints just like the Lord gave blueprints to Noah to build the ark he gave blueprints to Moses to build the tabernacle this was to be the central place of worship in the Hebrew economy it was a very specifically designed building that was to teach them about how God saves people and here's a picture at first when they were going through the wilderness they needed a portable tabernacle because they would strike their camp moved to another spot pitch it again strike it move to another spot and all these Levites that were designated to carry it on their shoulders from place to place for 40 years they carried their temple with them finally when they got into the Promised Land they built a permanent permanent one but there were some things that happened here that all illustrated the plan of salvation there was one door how many ways of salvation does Jesus tell us there are one he is the way the truth the life he said I am the door he's the Lamb of God people would bring their lamb through that door and the first thing that happened on the entrance of the sanctuary was there was a sacrifice there were two pieces of furniture that you principally saw when you went in after you went in the door the first thing was what they called the altar this is where the sacrifice took place and where it was burnt and presented to God that represents the cross the next piece of furniture you saw was the Laver it was where this water was and they would wash then before they entered the holy place so in Egypt the children of Israel before they were saved from slavery they sacrificed a lamb then they went through the Red Sea that water is a symbol of like baptism Paul says that in 1st Corinthians chapter 10 they were baptized in the sea when they went down through the red scene came up it was sort of a symbolic baptism Bible tells us that Jesus is the Lamb Jesus is the rock Jesus is the living water everything you look at in the tabernacle tells us about Jesus then you went into what they call the holy place the first room of the tabernacle and by the way all three Tabernacles the one in the wilderness that was portable the beautiful one built by Solomon the one later built during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah they all had the same outline because it was given by God so it's very important first thing you saw when you went into the holy place was this table of showbread jesus said I am the bread of life right the other thing you saw was a lamb stand with seven lamps on it that's because jesus said I am the light of the world and then the third thing you saw was this altar of incense and that's where they would sprinkle incense and the pleasant aroma would waft over the curtain into the Holy of Holies or the most holy place this represents the prayers the intercession of Jesus we pray in his name so before we go any farther we saw three things in the holy place those are the three secret weapons for your being successful as a Christian did you catch it bread light the altar of incense that's reading your Bible that's the bread of life man doesn't live by bread alone but by every word right God said let your light shine be a witness and you need to pray that's that altar of incense those three things are the keys to having a close relationship with God now you went through the veil into what they called the Holy of Holies and there was only one thing in there what was that that was the Ark the golden Ark of the Covenant and there what was inside Ten Commandments will you bear with me for just a moment I just want you to capture a picture of how important this spot was on the planet when you think of the world today if I were to say I'm gonna take a trip to the Holy Land where am I going Israel right and if I'm in the Israel and I say you know I think I'd like to go to the holy city where am I going Jerusalem and if you're in the holy city and you say I'd like to visit the holy mountain today where am I going Mount Zion Mount Moriah where the temple is and if you're on Mount Moriah back in the days of Solomon and David and I said duh I'm gonna go to the holy temple you knew where that was and then in the holy temple you've got the holy place you still with me and then beyond the holy place you have the Holy of Holies and there's one thing in that room it is the holy law of God thy word I have hid in my heart God once stood the new covenant he wants to write that on our hearts right I've written my law on their hearts and in the middle of the law you find the word holy one time all the Ten Commandments the word holy appears once you know where it is it's in the Sabbath commandment because that shows that we give him our time anyway you know I just had to throw that in one more time because I did mention it earlier all right back to back to our presentation so this sanctuary is a very important study for New Testament Christians because when you read revelation when Jesus appears in Revelation chapter 1 he's among seven candlesticks what do you think that means that's the seven candlesticks in the temple Revelation chapter 11 it talks about I saw the temple of God open in heaven the temple on earth was a miniature of a very real temple that God has in heaven when you read the Bible prophecy books of Isaiah in the chapter six in the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord High and lifted up and the Train of his robe filled the temple the vision is in the temple Ezekiel I read it today in my personal devotions chapter 40 he's measuring the temple the visions in the temple Zechariah Daniel the contexts of so many of these great prophecies revelation are in the context of this building there are some secret lessons that we can learn about God and how he saves an even prophecy from studying this so one of the important things that happen with Jesus ministry let's go to the lesson of the story at the beginning of your lesson is the center of worship for the Jewish nation during the time of Christ was the temple now the temple during the time of Jesus was the one that had been rebuilt Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the one of Solomon it lasted about 400 years and then Nebuchadnezzar destroyed it and then years later 70 years later they came back and during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah they rebuilt it but it didn't have quite the former glory but then along came a Roman Jewish King testimony and king named Herod the Great who is quite a builder he loved to build passionate builder he built Masada he built Caesarea he built everywhere he also was pretty heartless he's the one that killed the babies in Bethlehem but to show for political reasons the Jews that he would be a good King he refurbished their temple and it was a beautiful place and it still was the place where they worship so when Jesus came in to teach in the temple you know the people would bring their sacrifices well the religious leaders had turned it into a bazaar where they were selling lambs selling doves selling sacrifices the courtyard at a temple that was supposed to be place of prayer and praise and worship it sound like a flea market and a it was like a stockade auction house everybody was fighting over the price of sacrifices and it was smelled and Jesus walked in there one day and he said my father's house is to be a house of prayer for all nations by the way he's quoting the Old Testament said you've turned it into a den of thieves fire flashed from his eyes he overturned the money changers tables remember reading about this he made a cord a whip out of cords it doesn't say whipped anybody but just his holding it was probably enough and then he said in John chapter 2 verse 16 take these things hence make not my father's house a house of merchandise notice Jesus said my father's house at the end of Christ's ministry when the religious leaders rejected his teaching he said behold your house is left to you desolate that's interesting to consider there's a change now we're gonna go into question number 1 and I've got a lot to cover so you pray for me I'll pray for you because I'm gonna talk fast I'll pray you can listen fast it's very important study alright question number 1 we're gonna this is based on a prophecy in Daniel chapter 8 and it tells us matter of fact open your Bibles we really need to look if you've got your Bibles with the open your Bibles to Daniel 8 you need to at least introduce this before we dive into the question it says in verse 1 Daniel 8 and by the way that's page 1030 and the amazing facts prophecy Bibles I don't think I even mentioned that before but amazing facts has got a lot of these Bible studies most of these Bible studies are in the last half of the Bible here so we developed a prophecy Study Bible that was a commercial wasn't it Daniel 8 verse 1 in the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me to me Daniel after the one that appeared to me the first time I saw in vision and so it happened while I was looking I was in Shushan The Citadel and it was in the province of Elam I saw in vision that I was by the river at Yule ayah and I lifted up my eyes and I saw him there standing by the river was a ram which had had two horns now he starts to have this vision he's above the river and he sees this RAM and he's wondering what does this mean and then later there's a goat if you read the previous chapter he says I was in vision I saw a lion but I saw a bear then I saw a leopard and while he's wondering what these things mean the angel comes and explains that these animals represent different kingdoms and empires that will have some dominating influence over God's people during their reign he foretells the history you know in Daniel 2 you remember we studied that he gave a panorama of the worlds history and their kingdoms through that giant mental image God often repeats these things and uses different parables and dreams to give perspective so now in Daniel 8 let's go into this verse he sees a ram by the river two horns the woman was higher than the other and the higher one came up last then I saw the RAM pushing westward and northward and southward so that no animal could withstand him nor was there any that could deliver from his hand but he did according to his will and became great and as I was considering suddenly a male goat came from the West across the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes one notable horn and he came to the RAM that had the two horns which I had seen standing beside the river and ran at him with furious power and I saw him confronting the RAM he was moved with rage against him and he attacked the RAM and broke his two horns and there was no power in the RAM to withstand him but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him and there was no one could deliver the RAM from his hand therefore the male goat grew very great but when he became strong the large horn was broken and in place of it four notable ones came up towards the four wind of heaven we got a pause there we'll come back to this chapter but I just wanted to read it right from the Bible and they were gonna go in and interpret study what is this dream mean all right question number one Daniel has this amazing vision in Chapter eight in which he sees a ram with two horns whom does this RAM represent later in the chapter the angel comes to Daniel and tells him you can read in verse 20 the RAM which you saw having the two horns are the kings of media and Persia later it says one was one of those horns was bigger than the other started out with a median one but then the Persian kingdom became greater later that Empire was just called the Persian Empire because that other horn now this should also be remembered that if you're a Jew what do they do going through the wilderness what was their occupation Abraham Isaac Jacob Joseph David Shepherds they were very familiar with sheeps and goats Jesus compared the judgment to sheep and goats and so here with these two creatures he illustrates these two great empires well I'm gonna jump right to question number two next Daniel saw the goat with a great hone horn between his eyes what does this mean that's talking about this goat is representing the next king and he attacks the RAM says he comes from the West this is the kingdom of Greece coming from the West says he comes very quickly very fiercely there's no historian that will deny that among the empires ancient empires nobody did it quicker than Alexander the Great he was 32 when he died from the time he was 19 until about 24 he was conquering the world very rapid his soldiers marched faster and farther than just about anybody else and so there's this battle between the two and the goat joy's the RAM Alexander defeated Darius and he conquered the Persian Empire and overtook their territory Daniel 8 verse 21 and 22 the rough goat the angel tells us do we have to guess what it is the rough goat is the king of Greece Greece yes how they said it in King James and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king now this is exactly what happened with Alexander the Great so you came from the West that's where he came from when you're going to fight Persia and he did it with ferocity he did it with great speed in the prior chapter chapter 7 of Daniel Greece is compared to a leopard with four wings because his feet didn't even touch the ground he he went so quickly with his conquering considering they did not have mechanized armies back then no army moved faster in history than alexander the great's army it was just incredible and then it says that at the height of its power in its prime the horn the main principal horn is broken off doesn't wear down it snaps Alexander died suddenly though he could conquer the world he didn't do very well conquering himself and they're still not sure they don't it was after a night a pretty rowdy drinking he fell ill they don't know if someone tried to poison him still not sure we may never know till heaven what exactly happened they don't know if it was malaria it was a fever they don't know if it was alcohol poisoning but very young he died and on his deathbed I think I told you is wife asked him who will rule in your place and he said the strongest and that's what happened it says out of the place of that you can read here in this next section now that being broken where of stood up for it four kingdoms shall stand up from that nation the four principal generals of Alexander the Great then divided his empire among them into four regions and thus then they eventually began to fight among themselves but the kingdom of Greece then lasted longer even than the kingdom of Persia question number three then as you read on says out of one of those four horns a little horn begins to sprout you know like a deer antler you get a fork starts coming off it and I that one horn another one of the four another one starts to sprout and it ends up becoming a very big power what power did this little horn represent you can see the fulfillment of this during the time of Christ what empire followed the Greek Empire Rome x2 18 - rather Claudius Caesar had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome he had control over the whole empire and at that point he was suspicious of the Jews and told them they had to leave so you've got this this go just a review and the principal power is Alexander the Great it's broken off and from it for come up for other horns four divisions four generals of Alexander the Great and one little horn begins to come up from among these but now there's something different about this power this power is one we want to notice because you read on it grows into what we later know as the Antichrist power you read in Daniel 7 verse 8 in this horn were the eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things there's something different about it it later it says it's guilty of blasphemy it's pompous words and it talks about this also in Revelation chapter 17 what this power does Revelation chapter 7 verse 24 he is diverse or different from the first the first kingdoms that we saw there is Babylon medo Persia and Greece they were your typical monarchies led by a government but what happened with Rome Rome not only was the iron monarchy as the Roman Empire be led by Caesars began to fall in its place the Roman power was substituted with a religious power that's telling you what happened historically you've been through fifth grade you've encountered this gradually as the Roman power began to crumble the Christian Church grew but it didn't just stay it became a political religious power as well you know I'm talking about number four Daniel was told that this little horn would defile the sanctuary how long would it be until the sanctuary was cleansed now we're going to get into the longest time prophecy in the Bible and you read in Daniel 8 verse 14 unto there's your answer maybe you don't have it on your screen yet there you go unto stay with me 2300 days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed now go go back to your Bibles for second cleanse from what is something we want to find out if you look in Daniel chapter eight and if we read down here verse twelve because of transgression an army was given over to the horn to oppose the daily sacrifice and he cast down the truth to the ground he did all this and he practiced and prospered so what's happening is the truth of God and the truth of the Bible and the truth of Jesus during this time becomes compromised and yet it prospers well I'm gonna give you a little quick history I won't diverge in this but I think most of us know that during this period of time you know about three four hundred years after Christ originally Christians were persecuted in Rome they fed him to the Lions right I used to wonder as a kid I I'd hear how they burn Christians at the stake and they fed him to the Lions you know they'd make jokes about that all the time and and then all of a sudden Rome becomes the center of Christianity and you go what happened I thought that they weren't allowed there and then all of a sudden it becomes headquarters something obviously changed right and really what happened was with the conversion of Constantine I'll say more about this later what was once considered religio illicit a forbidden religion was persecuted outlawed they were killed they built catacombs they went underground it suddenly became the state religion and it almost overnight became fashionable with a conversion of Constantine to become be a Christian but what happened is a lot of people started coming into the church from the different greco-roman religions that weren't totally converted didn't even know the teachings of Jesus and they tried to bring some of their pagan ideas with them we studied the other night about the truth about hell that people do not go right at death to before judgment or resurrection a place of burning where they burned through all eternity did we we learn there is a lake of fire there isn't punishment but there's misunderstanding that came in from Greek mythology right cast the truth to the ground and practice the idea of purgatory this halfway burning place we found out that that's been now renounced it's not biblical there's nothing in the Bible about that the idea that the Dead go immediately to heaven as soon as they die and then they come back for their bodies or they're in Abraham's bosom waiting we found out that's not in the Bible and a lot of other things the truth was cast to the ground the idea that you don't need to keep the Ten Commandments anymore because once you believe in Jesus you can somehow now ignore his law that's another one of the truths that was cast to the ground all kinds of things began to get corrupted during this time so when would there be a cleansing of the sanctuary alright number five I'm gonna bring it all together stay with me in these questions how did Daniel respond when he saw this little horn power persecute God's people and obscure the truth when Daniel is getting this information about this vision from the angel he just he sees what's happening to his own people and his heart broken and it says in Daniel 8 27 and I Daniel fainted and I was sick certain days he's an older man now you know he came to Babylon probably 15 16 years old 70 years have gone by he's in his 80s maybe even longer and he has this very heavy vision of God's people being persecuted by this Antichrist power and he died he actually swoons practically sick and he can't understand that the angel knows he's going to have to come back and finish explaining this prophecy it's finished in Daniel chapter 9 now you can understand Daniel is a young man before he is carried off captive to Babylon one most beautiful building in the world was not the Taj Mahal back then it was not even the Hanging Gardens the most beautiful building in the world was a multi-billion dollar building built by David who gathered the money and his son Solomon did the construction it had golden rooms it had bronze pillars but bigger than any in the world they even named them two pillars they were so big and Daniel grew up as a boy seeing this majestic temple it was one of the wonders of the world but he lived long enough to know it was destroyed he watched Daniel watched as his people were conquered the city was destroyed Jerusalem the place that God had chosen David had ruled they were scattered as slaves many were slain and the yearning of Daniel's heart for the 70 years he was in Babylon when will the Messiah come when will the son of David come when will we get to go back to Jerusalem at the beginning of Daniel 9 it actually says Daniel is reading the Bible now he didn't have the same Bible we have but he had the prophecies of Jeremiah Isaiah David all the prior prophets Daniel is reading the prophecy of Jeremiah he tells me in chapter 9 and he realizes there Jeremiah says 70 years and God's people will come back and Daniel says Lord 70 years is up the king of Persia is now here when are we going home while he's praying the angel Gabriel comes to him and he says Daniel I've come to give you understanding in the vision and here here you have that at the beginning of your supplications when Daniel starts praying one of the most beautiful prayers in the Bible but one time in my life that I really stayed up all night and read the Bible and prayed and it was with a friend I mean we stayed up all night so excited reading the Bible and praying and we were studying Daniel chapter 9 today I was looking at it again and it just brought tears to my eyes just to think what must have been on Daniels heart when he was praying listen to his prayer that God would forgive his people and let them go back home again and this man really knew God the angel Gabriel was sent from God this is God's right hand angel you know Gabriel you remember Gabriel he's the one who goes to marry hundreds of years later and he hasn't aged a day won't you like having your glorified body and you just will never get old same angel he says at the beginning of your supplications the command went out and I have come to tell you so angel an angel Gabriel has come to explain the vision what vision the one he started having in Chapter eight but he fainted so this is the one that's actually introducing the coming of the Messiah the first coming of Jesus number six in the next chapter the angel explains the prophecy in greater detail how long was the time period not previously described in the vision now get your Bibles turn with me to Daniel chapter 9 this is one page beyond Daniel chapter eight and while Daniels praying he says the angel comes and the angel says I'm gonna read verse 23 Daniel 9 23 at the beginning of your supplications the command went out and I have come to tell you for you are greatly beloved why angels are fast at the beginning of Daniels prayer Gabriel is sent angels don't travel the speed of sound or the speed of light they travel the speed of angels speed of thought anyway they're going fast he's going through the cosmos at the beginning of your prayer the command went out and I've come forth to tell you you are greatly beloved therefore consider the matter and understand the vision now there's no vision in chapter 9 so what vision is the angel talking about the one in chapter 8 he didn't get to finish explaining his Daniel fainted right 70 weeks here we go verse 24 Daniel 9:24 seventy weeks are determined for your people who were Daniels people Jewish nation seventy weeks or determined their means cut off or allotted or remain for your people for what to introduce the Messiah to the world for your holy city to finish transgression to make an end of sins the final sacrifice for sin would be offered to make reconciliation for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness that's Christ who brings that everlasting righteousness to seal up the vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy you know what the word Christ means anointed you know what the word Messiah means it's Hebrew for anointed when the prophet Samuel poured oil on David's head he was anointed with oil Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit he was the anointed of God when God became a man okay so he says seventy weeks are determined for all these things to be accomplished no one understand now here is the starting point for all these prophecies verse 25 no one understand therefore from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks that's a total of 69 but the street shall be built again in the wall even in troublous times that's what happened during the time of Nehemiah they rebuilt the street in the wall in trouble as times and after 62 weeks Messiah shall be cut off but not for himself and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end it will be with a flood until the end of the war desolations are determined Jesus talks about the abomination that makes desolate he'll confirm the covenant with many for one week now the he that confirms a covenant there's two people here when you get the Messiah the Prince counting the other you got a prince that comes to destroy 27 he's going back to the Messiah the Prince he will confirm the covenant with many for a week but in the middle of the week he'll bring an end to the sacrifice and offering and on the wing of abominations shall one who makes desolate until the consummation which is determined be poured out on the desolate so we need to understand this jesus said in Matthew 24 second coming Jesus talks about the abomination of desolation he says written of by Daniel the prophet whoever reads let him understand Jesus is telling you and me tonight I want you to read and understand this okay so this is the prophecies he was referring to in Matthew 24 that he says we should understand all right we just read it now let's go back to our screen here in the next chapter chapter 9 the angel explains that the prophecy from chapter 8 in greater detail how long was the time period not previously described in the vision you can read that Daniel 9:24 he says how much seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon the holy city to seal up the vision and the prophecy now how many days in a week seven always been that way how many days is 70 weeks in seven times seven is forty-nine that be 490 right but in prophecy a day equals a year I'll show you some scriptures on that just a minute so God is telling Daniel there are 490 prophetic years that are going to be a lot of tear people to fulfill their main vision their main mission of the Jews were to introduce the Messiah God said Abraham through your seed all the world would be blessed how is the whole world blessed through his seed principally through Jesus right alright so number seven what is the starting point for the 2300 day and 70 week time prophecies he tells you right there in Daniel chapter 9 verse 25 know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the prince from this point to this point shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks all right threescore and two is sixty-two right scores 2060 two plus seven is how much 69 say got one week missing he tells us what happens in the midst of that last week he makes the sacrifice cease so he breaks it up like that because there's the first seven weeks they're building the wall on the street then you got another 69 weeks and at the end of that 69 week period it says that the Messiah is going to be anointed and begin his ministry so under the messiah the wheat the prince seven weeks threescore and two weeks the starting point is from the going forth of the command to restore and build jerusalem can we know from all the dusty musty records of history when did that happen good news it's given in your Bible it's in Ezra seven seven you can remember that good number Ezra seven seven the decree of King Artaxerxes that's a fun name let's all say that together artaxerxes sounds like a special College course I'm studying artaxerxes that King gave a decree that allowed them to go back it was the the most prominent a variety of decrees that king saying that they could rebuild the city and the walls and the temple and that is 457 BC it is a very clearly established date in history so you got the starting point 457 and he says now it'll be 69 weeks until the Messiah begins his ministry first would be the seven weeks 49 years why they're building the street in the wall in trouble as times then there'd be another 62 weeks total of 69 right now when you're interpreting Bible prophecy what is the principle that you're supposed to use a day equals a year you can read this there's several verses in Ezekiel 4:6 I have appointed to each day for a year you can read numbers 14:34 each day for a year even Jesus established this one time they came to Christ I think is Luke 13 and they said you better be careful Jesus John the Baptist has been arrested this was about six months into Jesus ministry and Jesus said go tell that Fox I teach do cures cast out devils today tomorrow and the third day I will be perfected or completed Jesus didn't keep three more days he taught three more years but he made a prophecy and he used the day for a year principal so when you interpret these prophecies that's the only way it even comes close to adding up all right number eight the aim said that if year two counts sixty-nine weeks from 457 BC you'd come to the Messiah the prince did it happen this is what I why I was up in the cave and I read this I was so excited when I realized how true prophecy is I literally got up I couldn't sit down anymore because I'm so excited and I'm all by myself and I just started jumping up and down and praising God so Wow Christ King right on time the first time just like he said he would why don't more people believe the Bible so now did it happen if you go a day equals a year in prophecy if you go 483 years from 457 BC it comes to the baptism of Jesus in 27 ad Matthew 1:22 and 23 now this was all done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of by the Lord by the Prophet saying behold a virgin will be with child and will bring forth a son and they'll call his name Emmanuel which is being interpreted God with us since specifically in Daniel 9:24 part of the purpose would be to anoint the most holy was Jesus anointed with the Holy Spirit when he was baptized did the Spirit come down like a dove what marked the beginning of Jesus ministry is baptism you know one of the most clearly established dates in the New Testament is Luke chapter 3 verse 1 you have your Bible and the reason is they give so many dates he gives so many corresponding leaders during this time there's very little doubt about when it was historically some of these ancient dates it's hard to pin down but let me tell you what dr. Luke did for us Luke 3 verse 1 now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar that's not that hard to establish Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea that's one more benchmark Herod mean Tetrarch of Galilee his brothers Philip Tetrarch IV Turia through the regions of church on Icarus and licinia's tetrarch of abilene while Anna's and Caiaphas were high priests the Word of God came to John look at all of those different leaders you can triangulate all of those different points will triangulate would be only three he gives about five different leaders there's only one date in history when we know that they all correspond 'add 27 80 it is such a well-established date this is the year that Jesus was baptized that is exactly the right time period after 457 BC mark 1:15 when Jesus began preaching you know what he said the time is fulfilled right after his baptism jesus said the time is fulfilled what time is he talking about he's talking about the time from Daniels prophecy he was anointed he began to preach this is what they were all waiting for every Jew read the prophecy of Daniel 9 wondering when the Messiah would come which also means if they had been studying their Bibles back then the way they should have they could have known the time of his birth because a high priest could not reign until he was thirty years of age a priest couldn't serve until he was thirty Joseph began to rule at thirty David began to rule at thirty priest began to rule of thirty they could have guessed the Messiah would begin his ministry at his 30th birthday and that's when Jesus was baptized did you know that says as Jesus began to be 30 years of age also in Luke all they had to do is count back thirty years from the anointing point make it a guess when he would have been born so we got a couple of charts here that we're gonna put up just to review what we're looking at first we know from 457 you got 69 weeks that would go 483 years to the point of his baptism that would be 27 ad and it happened right on time and then it tells us this is when the decree became our began with King Artaxerxes and up until the time of Christ's anointing he began his ministry he began his public work but then there's one more week you notice it says seventy weeks are determined upon your people we're only dealing with 69 weeks what's happening to that last week it says for one week he will confirm the covenant with his people last week is a time of confirming the covenant with his people okay so you have these time prophecies there you've got the decree and just want to make sure I keep up with my my slides here and then you got the baptism of Jesus you can see it on the screen there in 8027 those are the 69 prophetic weeks they've got one final week there that takes place next go to number nine in your questions question number nine what was to take place next in this prophecy and you can read the answer to that is Daniel chapter 9 verse 26 and 27 it says after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be what cut off but not for himself who was he cut off for for you for me he was cut off from the land of the living Jesus laid down his life in his prime he died for us after that the Messiah would be cut off you know this was something that a lot of the religious leaders just didn't understand and they struggled with because they wanted the Messiah to come and flex his muscles and be combination of King David and Samson and overthrow the Romans and make them a world empire having the Messiah come that would die is a lamb didn't fit in very well with what their their hopes and dreams were then it goes on and it says and he will confirm the covenant with many for one week and in the midst of that week he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease all right I want to pause here real quick got your Bibles this don't miss this this is really really really important go to the book of Hebrews chapter 2 it's in your New Testament Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord for three and a half years Jesus ministered and was confirmed to us by those who heard him Christ I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna say then I'm gonna say it and I'll tell you what I told you because I know this is a deep study and a lot of material you got four hundred ninety or prophecy we all got that the Lord breaks it up in three sections first he says there's seven weeks for 49 years building the street in the wall again in trouble as times that's when they got re-established in the promised land then another 62 weeks of that 409 ninety years ago by that reaches to 70 AD system bein Messiah would be anointed so here we are but this one week left the Messiah is anointed but Jesus doesn't preach seven years he only preaches half of that he preaches three and a half years in person and then he is cut off in the middle of that last week that reaches 234 AD Christ dies in 31 ad he says I will preach I'm gonna train my Twelve Apostles I will preach and he says when he leaves and he goes to heaven he tells the Apostles as the father sent me so send I you but catch this Jesus did not say go to the world first matter of fact he said don't go anywhere wait in Jerusalem until you receive the Holy Spirit and when you receive the Holy Spirit you'll be my witnesses first Jerusalem then Judea I'm an action chapter one then Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth when Christ sent them out preaching after he rose he said go not in the way of the Gentiles but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel he wanted to finish confirming the covenant to his own people first and you know the whole I often hear people say well you know the Jews were the problem with Christianity that's really a Mis statement because the whole early church was Jewish the Bible that we read came from the Jews the Apostles were Jewish when the day of Pentecost thousands were baptized who were they it says in Acts chapter two there were now dwelling in Jerusalem devout Jews out of every nation under heaven and so the Lord specifically kept his promise to Abraham said I'm going to confirm the dear people for a full seven years three and a half years through the Messiah he will be cut off then another three and a half years through those who heard him the Apostles seeing that what we just read in Hebrews he confirmed it then he also did it through those that heard him right you remember when Jesus died on the 10th on the cross what happened in the temple at that time the veil was ripped from top to bottom you can read that in our next question 2nd Corinthians 3 verse 14 because the veil is taken away in Christ two things were torn when Jesus was tried and when he died on the cross the high priest tore his robes how many of you remember that ki Fateh Scott Mandy torres ropes High Priest was never to rend his garments it's in the Levitical law do we have a new priesthood now doesn't the Bible say that we are kings and priests of God you are a royal priesthood and also the veil in the temple was torn you know why because there's a different temple now see there's two temples there's one in heaven and one on earth the Bible says what don't you know that ye plural not just your body but you are the temple of God Paul says you are living in stones built up to a habitation of Lauren Jesus is the cornerstone in this new house Christ said destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up and they got all upset Oh what are you threatening to demolish the temple in and John says he spoke about his body when Christ rose after three days the church is called the body of Christ there is still a temple on earth you and I are the priests you and I are the living stones in that temple and that's why this is such an important subject because not understanding the subject of the temple in the last days and there's still a temple in heaven because when Moses when he made the temple in the wilderness it says he got the pattern from the original in heaven where Christ now intercedes as our high priest we're to be a living temple that God works through here on earth amen all right so just gonna review another chart here so we've got the decree that starts in 457 you reach up to the baptism of Christ for three and a half years Jesus preaches in person he dies in 80 31 he preaches another three and a half years through the Apostles and that would mark then the end of that 490 year prophecy so this all happened perfectly but there's one more prophecy given in Daniel chapter 8 that only has one starting point we got to go back to number 10 to whom did Jesus tell his disciples to first preach Matthew chapter 10 verse 6 he said go not into the way of the Gentiles but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that's what they did they went principally among the Jews and they went to the synagogues as they traveled through Asia for the first three and a half years what warning did Jesus give to the chosen people number eleven he says the kingdom of God shall be taken from you this is Mathew 21:43 kingdom of God is taken from you and it will be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof and now who is that other nation that's my next question twelve who is the other nation spoken of by Jesus which would become his chosen people this is very important Galatians chapter three verse 29 and of you be say with me if you be Christ's then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise now is this pastor Doug making it something uppers just the words of the Bible how many of you have accepted Christ then you are Abraham's seed and all the heirs that all the promises that God gave Abraham belonged to you let me give you another one Romans chapter 2 verse 28 and 29 for he is not a Jew which is one outwardly but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and the Bible says it's circumcision of the heart and not the flesh now don't misunderstand I think I've mentioned I'm half Jewish and I'm happy to embrace that proud of it you know humble sorta way how do you say that but I want everyone to note that doesn't mean God doesn't still have a special work and purpose for the Jewish nation Paul said we are grafted into the stock of Israel when we become Christians there's only one covenant made in the Bible the new covenant is made a new covenant I will make after those days saith the Lord with the house of Israel so if you're gonna accept the new covenant of Jesus and his blood in this sacrifice you become at least the spiritual Jew if you're Christ then you're Abraham see that's why it's still helpful to read the Old Testament because you get adopted into all that heritage of Abraham Isaac Jacob the ligea David in the whole crowd you become spiritual children isn't that exciting Shalom we're all related there are number seven next chart so then you've got the decree going back to chart one more time we'll tie this off you can look in the bottom part of this chart here you got the first 69 weeks Christ is baptized three and a half years he preaches in person three and a half years he preaches through the Apostles at the end of that in 34 ad something happens I go to your Bibles real quick turn to Acts chapter seven in Acts chapter seven Stephen is the first martyr of the Christian Church after he was falsely tried by the same people who tried Jesus he told them the wonderful gospel that Peter had preached at Pentecost three and a half years earlier but instead of repenting and saying what must we do to be stayed saved the Supreme Court the leaders the representatives of the nation plugged their ears they gnashed their teeth they didn't want to hear it they cried out verse 57 acts 7 fifth verse 57 sounds like a Boeing airplane 757 they cried out with a loud voice stopped their ears ran at him with one Accord they cast him out of the city and stoned him and the witnesses laid down their feet their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul who's name is later changed to wow isn't this a pivotal point in history 34 ad the nation officially plugs their ears since we don't want to hear about Jesus anymore they killed his representative the same way they killed Jesus falsely tried taken out of the city by a mob executed clothes are laid down their clothes of Christ were taken away and it says if you read chapter 8 verse 1 now Saul was consenting to his death and in that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem and they were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria except the Apostles they went everywhere preaching there's a great persecution and that just totally seals what happened here in that time period alright so Stephen is stone been in 3480 Wow something just happened my slides has jumped ahead about six slides in one pass alright so at the same time that Stephen is stoned Paul is converted that happens in Acts chapter 7 you know what happens in Acts chapter 10 Peter has a vision and he takes the gospel to the Gentiles Cornelius in his household now they stopped preaching to just choose God tells Peter don't call any man unclean I want everybody who so ever will to come into my kingdom it took them a while to be able to grasp that number thirteen according to the angel who spoke with Daniel what would happen at the end of the 2300 years period of time answer it says in Daniel 8:14 he said unto me unto 2300 days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed all right so now starting at 457 you go 2300 and you know when that comes 2000 that's the longest time period in the Bible that reaches to 1844 it tells us that the sanctuary would be cleansed there's a special cleansing now I've got to tell you real quick once a year the high priest would go into the Holy of Holies at the end of their religious year and he would symbolically go through this ritual that cleanse them from the sins that had built up during the year and their sacrifices in 1840 for a number of very important things happen I'll put a chart up here first of all God began cleansing the sanctuary in heaven he began cleansing the sanctuary on earth a movement arose back that I put together a little list here that I thought was kind of interesting you know what happened in 1844 for one thing Charles Darwin wrote his Origin of Species and you really had the birth of evolutionism of the evolution teaching 1844 guy named Karl Marx by the way Darwin was the child of a pastor Karl Marx he wrote his communist manifesto here at the birth of communism that led to great atheism - those things together first electronic message was sent guy named Samuel Morse Morse code you know what the message was what hath God wrought YMCA was founded Joseph Smith was slain the Baha'i faith looking at Daniel 8 same prophecy they came to the same time period but they said something totally different happened at that time it's interesting other groups Joseph Smith went wolf rather went around the world guy named Joseph wolf and Jewish preacher and the movement that is bringing you this series of studies really found its beginning back then because in 1844 Christians all over the world thought that Jesus was coming they called it the great Advent movement had nothing to do with seventh-day Adventist cuz there were no seventh-day Adventists back then the word Advent means coming they thought Jesus was coming how many of you heard this before they called the millerite movement they were Baptists Methodists and Presbyterians Congregationalists and when Jesus didn't come they said look it's not God's will we have all these different denominations we got to put aside our differences and study the Bible together and find out where have we drifted and all of a sudden the Lord began a movement that brought them all back to the Word of God and that translated into a movement that is now 17 million strong and going around the world and they're helping sponsor these eating's that you're receiving right now people who are saying that Christians in the last days need to return to the Bible revelation tells us there are seven churches the last age of the church is called what Laodicea you know what that means judging of the people and we enter the last phase of the history of the church in 1844 and boy have things changed in the Industrial Age since then friends I look I still have a little lesson left and I'm out of time and but I just wanted to cover as much of this material I told you that it was gonna be intense I want you to know that God's Word never fails look at that Jesus came right on time when he prophesied it some of you may have questions on this subject and I hope that you'll feel comfortable writing those questions in and let me know what you're thinking I've got more I'd like to share with you about this but we're gonna have to just go off the air with prayer I'd like to invite invite Laura to come out and she's gonna sing a few verses of a beautiful song and then we'll close with prayer after we go off the air for our group that's watching Jesus [Music] the whole purpose of this message is that we might be involved in the washing that happened in that sanctuary that's where sin was washed away do you want that experience that's my prayer if Jesus came right on time the first time just as he prophesied and he said I will come again can we believe his word amen let's ask him to help us be ready

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Published: Thu Oct 15 2015