ADVENT MEDITATION, Dec 11: Would there be a way to know when the Messiah was to be born? God even gave that information to us! Writing over 500 years before the Christ was born, the prophet Daniel was given special insight from the angel, Gabriel, on the future of his nation, Israel/Judah. You will remember that Daniel is one of the captives taken away to Babylon in 605 BC. He is writing prophecies while in exile in Babylon. We are looking at a prophecy that is written after the Medes and Persians had conquered Babylon. In Daniel 9:24ff, we read that 70 weeks or sevens were being determined for Daniels people and for the holy city (Jerusalem). That is 490 years! So whatever he is about to speak involves a period of 490 years total. What was going to happen in those 490 years? This verse says, ...To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins,To make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy. To anoint is the wording for Messiah which means anointed one. Verse 25 of chapter nine then says the prophetic clock for bringing Messiah in is 69 of those sets of seven or 483 years and the clock starts from the command to restore and build Jerusalem. (The Jewish calendar year is 360 days long rather than our 365 1/4 days). We know that the command to restore and build Jerusalem by Artaxerxes in March, 445 BC. More complex than we can do here, that brings us to the date of April, 32 AD for the end of that prophetic 483 years. Verse 26 tells us that the end of the 483 years Messiah is cut off. This is the date that He rode the colt in to town for what we call Palm Sunday. Subtract about 30-33 years from this cut off and we will see that God had told us when Messiah would be born! God is so precise! https://youtube/results?search_query=o+come+o+come+emmanuel+selah
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:22:20 +0000
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