Through My Bible Yr 02 – December 15

Daniel 9

Gabriel Explains Jerusalem’s Future

²⁰ While I was still speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, I was casting my prayer for grace, concerning the holy mountain of my God, before the Lord my God, ²¹ while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the first vision, touched me. I was completely exhausted. ^[1] It was about the time of the evening sacrifice. ²² He instructed me, “Daniel, now I have come to give you insight with understanding. ²³ At the beginning of your plea for grace, a word went out, and I came to declare it to you, because you are very treasured. So pay attention to the word and understand the vision.”

The Vision of Seventy Sevens

²⁴ Seventy sevens ^[2] are determined concerning your people and your holy city:

²⁵ You should know and have insight. From the going out of a word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, ^[4] a ruler, comes, there will be seven sevens and sixty-two sevens. ^[5] Jerusalem will be rebuilt with public squares and a moat, but during troubled times.

²⁶ Then after the sixty-two sevens, the anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. Both the city and the holy place will be destroyed by the people of a ruler who is coming, ^[6] and its end will be with a flood. There will be war until the end, and desolations have been decreed.

²⁷ He ^[7] will confirm a covenant for the many during one seven. In the middle of the seven, he will cause sacrifice and offering to cease.

On the wing of abominations is one who causes desolation, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who causes desolation.