Mike Bickle discusses the significance of the 70-weeks prophecy in Daniel 9, emphasizing its role in revealing God's comprehensive plan for salvation, including the restoration of Jerusalem, the coming of the Messiah, and the ultimate triumph over sin and evil. He highlights Daniel's earnest prayer and fasting as a model for believers to actively seek God's promises, stressing that while some promises are guaranteed, others require our participation and intercession. Bickle explains that the prophecy outlines a timeline of 490 years, during which God will fulfill His promises to Israel and the nations, culminating in the establishment of everlasting righteousness and the anointing of the holy place. He encourages listeners to engage deeply with the Scriptures to understand the profound implications of this prophecy for both Israel and the Church.

Well, I have the right to say this, of all four visions, this is the best one. I'm going to say that every single time. I just don't know how you pick one over the other. So this is the best one again. So all four of them are number one. Okay, page 67, let's pray. Father, we thank you for this glorious revelation that you gave Gabriel to reveal to Daniel as a gift to the people that call upon your name. And Lord, I ask you that today you would mark our heart with understanding of this glorious reality that Gabriel revealed from your heart. You are the God who thinks of everything. You've thought it through from the beginning to the end, and we thank you that we know where we're going. In the name of Jesus, amen and amen. Let's look at a Roman numeral two, the introduction. This is the third vision, the third out of four visions. And again, you can call every one of these visions the main one, but this really is the main one, but the other ones are really important too. But Gabriel tells the whole story of salvation in four short verses. He lays out the first coming. He lays out the, well first he lays out the restoration of Jerusalem and his first coming. Then his death, the death of Jesus, and then the destruction of Jerusalem, and then the coming of the Antichrist, then the destruction of the Antichrist, and then the fullness of all of God's promises. All of those, first and second coming, are all laid out in four verses in the most precise and concise way. So this again is his third vision, and it was given to him in 538 B.C. He's in his 80s, and the date 538 is really significant because it's only two years before the Jews are being released out of Babylon right about now, and it's only two years before they arrive in Jerusalem. And so Daniel is stirred up, and so he's thinking the time has come for the promises of the Jewish people to be in Jerusalem, and again it's only two years out before they arrive. And he's crying out, oh God, release the fullness of the restoration that you promised. He was studying the prophecies of Jeremiah, and the prophecies of Jeremiah, which we'll look at in a moment, what Jeremiah had prophesied some years earlier, about 50 years earlier or so, he said, the people of God will go into Babylonian captivity for 70 years. And that captivity had already started when Jeremiah was prophesying this, and he said it will be over in 70 years. And so the good news is it's over, but for the people that were alive then, they thought 70 years, that means we'll never see it, it's not going to happen for us. Although some of those that were very young still made it, and they were very old, and they returned, and they got to see both sides of it. But Jeremiah had prophesied that some 50 plus years earlier, and so Daniel as a teenager was brought into captivity to Babylon, and he had this promise in his heart from his teen years. Now he's in his 80s, and he's going, the 70 years are finished. We made it. And so he's crying out in intercession, God, restore Jerusalem, restore the people of God. Lord, restore the fullness of your purpose even now in this generation. So let's read verse 2. So in the first year of his reign, that's Darius' reign, Daniel, he said, I understood by the books the number of the years specified by the Lord through Jeremiah. And Jeremiah specified that God would accomplish 70 years of desolations in Jerusalem. So it's a 70-year discipline from the Lord. So because of this, because he saw the 70 years was up, it's only two years out. Before the whole 70 years were complete, Daniel said, I set my face towards the Lord by prayer and fasting. Beloved, that's what we're supposed to do. When we have a promise from God, a promise from God, there is a guaranteed dimension to some promises, but other promises, they are invitations that have conditions. Not all promises are guarantees. They're guarantees if we meet the conditions. There are some promises that are guarantees. Jesus is going to come back a second time no matter what anybody does. He's coming back. The devil is going to the lake of fire. The antichrist is going to be defeated. I mean, there are some things that are going to happen no matter what. But there are promises that are related to conditions, and those conditions are seeking God with all of our heart and crying out for him, and Daniel knew that. So Daniel said, here, we're at 68-year mark. The prophecy said 70 years and the restoration would happen. Lord break in and release the fullness of it. He knew what to do with the promise. And when God has given you a promise, you cannot just be idle about it and put it on the shelf and say, well, God, it's your promise. If you want it, you make it come to pass. He says, I want it to come to pass, but in relationship and in partnership with you talking to me. It's you and I together in relationship is the context of it coming to pass. Paragraph number one, let's read the promise of Jeremiah, the prophecy. Again, this was some 50-plus years earlier. Jeremiah said, after 70 years, again, it already began. This is 50, 60 years earlier, and the judgment, one group of Jewish captives were already in Babylon when this prophecy was given. And he said, after 70 years are completed, thus says the Lord, I will visit you. That means the Jewish people that are in Babylon, he says, I will perform my good word, my promises to you. I will cause you to return back to Jerusalem is the idea. But here's the deal. You got to call on my name. You got to pray and seek me. And if you seek me, you will find me. If you search for me, verse 14, I will bring you from Babylon back to Jerusalem. So here Daniel, again, he was in his teens. It's about 70 years later almost. He's in his 80s. And he's saying, I'm going to do what Jeremiah said. So he prays and fasts. Beloved, what a model of how to respond when God gives a promise. Number two, we're not going to go through Daniel's prayer just because we have such limbo. With ten sessions, the whole book of Daniel, that's too much material to cover. So I'll just say this. It's the prototype prayer that verse 3 or technically verse 4 to 19 is the prototype of intercession. And we look at that prayer. And that's a prayer we use even in this hour and the Jewish people use in this hour. It involves mourning over Jerusalem's sin. Not accusation. Not writing them off. Not a haughty attitude. Not, well, you killed the Messiah. Well, what else do you expect? Like some Gentile believers have. But the truth is, the Jews and the Gentiles together killed the Messiah. The idea that the Jewish people killed the Messiah is true. But it's equally true that the Gentiles killed the Messiah as well. And so we've got to tell the whole truth if we're going to tell the truth. And so there's mourning over their sin. Not accusation. Mourning over their condition. Not passively just kind of, I'm busy with my ministry and I've got things going on in my life. The Lord wants us engaging what He's engaged with. And the Lord is engaged with what's happening in your life. But there are global purposes that the people that love Him, He wants us engaged in them. And now we see the actual prayer here. Verse 4 to 19. And then we see God's response. And this is when Gabriel shows up. Now this is the second appearance of Gabriel in the scripture. The first one was in Daniel 8. This one is in Daniel 9. And so he only appears twice in the Old Testament and twice in the New Testament. Both times in the New Testament in Luke chapter 1 to John the Baptist's father. And the second time to Mary to talk about the birth of Jesus. Those are the only four times he appears. And every time he appears, he's talking about either the first or the second coming of Jesus or both. Let's look at page 68. So now Gabriel is standing before him. And he says in verse 21. While I was speaking in prayer. You know which is in verse 4 to 19. While I was in prayer, suddenly there's Gabriel again. It's been now about 13, 14 years. Something like that since his last vision. And so Gabriel is standing before him again. So suddenly he goes, there's the man Gabriel. And he calls him the man Gabriel because he has the appearance of a man. But there's a shining and a brilliance and a radiance about him as well. And he says in verse 22. O Daniel, I have come forth to give you skill to understand the answer to what you're praying for. Now what was he praying for in verse 4 to 19? The restoration of Jerusalem and more. But that's the core point. He says I'm going to give you skill to understand the restoration of Jerusalem. Because it's going to involve far more than the Jewish people being released in 70 years. To go back to build Jerusalem, to restore it. It's a far bigger storyline than what you're thinking. Yes, Zerubbabel is going to lead about 50,000 of the exiles back to Jerusalem. And they are going to restore. But what Gabriel is saying is there's a vastly bigger story to the restoration of Jerusalem than just that restoration right there. He goes, but you're going to need supernatural understanding to understand. To see what it is you're praying for. Because you're praying for one restoration. But God is here. I'm coming here and representing the Father's heart to tell you there's a far bigger restoration. Far beyond Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah, etc. He says verse 23, but here's what you've got to understand, Daniel. You have to consider the matter. Now that isn't being a casual glance at it. He means you have to weigh this thing out. You have to search this out. Because I'm going to tell you right now, Daniel, on the front end. I'm not going to give it to you so clear that you just go, got it, and you're going to run and there it is. You're going to have to search this out. Because the Lord gives the things that are most precious to His heart. He gives them in a way that with the help of the Spirit we can get them if we're hungry for it. But the people that aren't hungry for it, they don't get the privilege of grasping what God's saying and what He's doing. So it's a bit cryptic. It's a bit like, what? And it's like the Holy Spirit saying, I'll help you put the Bible together with the Bible together with historical realities when they come to pass. You'll put this together, but you've got to search it out. Some folks want to put five minutes of effort into this vision, this massively eschatological, end-of-the-age vision of which, I don't mean just end-of-the-age, but this whole panorama of God's story. And they want to study it five minutes and say, that's a little bit confusing. And the Lord says, if you're happy to let it go with that, there, let it go. But if you refuse to go forward without understanding this, He says, I'll give you the understanding. But you've got to do what Daniel did. You've got to consider it. You've got to search it out. And I'll give you supernatural help. And so I want to challenge you to put some effort in this vision. This is a massive implication of this vision, and it's so exciting. As I've poured over this over the years, considering the matter, I just think, oh, God, you're so awesome in your ways. There's such an exhilaration that touches our heart. It's not just so we can make it known to others. It's so that our own spirit is exhilarated by the masterful unfolding of the ancient of days of human history. And the zeal that he has to bring salvation to Israel and to the nations of the earth. So paragraph B, Daniel says, okay, I'm going to go consider this. I'm going to search this thing out. And again, Gabriel urges him, and I can't overemphasize this, that in all four visions that Daniel has, in each of the four visions, there's the searching out element that's required or that is associated with each of the four visions. So you want to be a man or a woman like Daniel, that means you're going to be a person that puts time and energy to search this stuff out. And again, if you're like me, on the front end, it's like, ah, I remember when I first read this some years ago. I go, I don't have any idea what he's talking about. And I can imagine the Holy Spirit saying, just come on, come on, don't give up, don't give up, come on. There's teachers from history you'll draw from. There's the Bible to draw from. Come on, search it out. Read what I've given others in the past. Read what the scripture says. You'll get it, you'll get it, and I want to give you the same. Come on, come on, don't give up. Because when I first looked at this, I thought, I'll never understand this. I mean, I really had that feeling at the front end. I thought, ah, this is not going to happen. But I'll tell you the good news is that a little bit of time and effort, it really does, the pieces connect. So they're not impossible to get. It just takes a little bit of effort. Again, the Lord gives the most precious things to those that care. He says in Daniel chapter 12, verse 10, the angel tells him. He says, Daniel, I want you to know the wicked aren't ever going to understand this stuff. And that's the point. God does not want to cast his pearls before swine. He's going to cast pearls to those that consider them as valuable. And those that treasure the pearls of truth. And they will then discover them. But if they don't treasure them, they will trample them. They will make mockery of them, like the swine will trample the pearls. And so that's what the Lord urged us to do with truth. And he says, that's what I'm doing with truth as well, in essence. Okay, let's look at the certain triumph of the Messiah. Now this third vision is really going back to the first one. Remember Daniel 7, the first vision. And about 15 years earlier, he has this first vision. And he sees the Son of Man coming on clouds. In verse 14, a kingdom is given to him. So he knows that the Son of Man, the Messiah, is going to receive a kingdom. Not just in a heavenly sense. Because Jesus has already received all authority at the Father's right hand. He already has it. But it's not enough that he has the authority. And he breaks in, in a way that's obvious to the nations. Every now and then in history. But he's going to break through. And his full authority will be manifest to everybody in this world. And that's called the millennial kingdom. Let's look at paragraph B. The millennium, now most of you know this. It's a thousand year period. And the word millennium isn't actually in the Bible. The idea is, the word millennium just means a thousand years in essence. And it's the time where Jesus rules for 1,000 years on the earth. We have resurrected bodies. We live in the New Jerusalem. The New Jerusalem has come down to the earth. We live in the New Jerusalem. But we work on the earth. And the New Jerusalem is in proximity to the earth. We don't fully understand it. But we know we reign and rule in a very dynamic and real way with Jesus on the earth during that time. And so we go, I call it the Holy Spirit transport system. Where we go from our house in New Jerusalem to your assignment in Grandview or wherever you might be assigned. That's a joke, okay. Roman numeral 5. Here's okay, so the Lord tells, Gabriel tells him. 70 weeks are determined. There's a 70 week plan. Strategic plan that God has thought through from beginning to end. The whole plan is going to be contained in 70 weeks. And this plan is for your people. That's the people he was praying for in verse 4 to 19. And it's for the holy city Jerusalem. And the reason I'm going to say that. Because a lot of theologians that make this symbolic. Again, they make so many prophecies symbolic. And they remove Israel out of them. And they say this promise is for just born again believers. And it is for us. But it is first for the Jewish people. The people that Daniel was interceding for a few moments ago. He said, Daniel, this promise is for your people and your city. You cannot relegate this to a spiritual fulfillment only of just born again Gentiles. And remove the Jewish people from this promise. It's to the Jewish people and born again Gentiles. Most of us were grafted into the promises of the tree of Abraham. We get to participate in their Messiah and their salvation. And we're so happy. But we never despise the tree and the root system that we're grafted into. And look down at them and say, well, what about you? Well, you deserve what you're getting. But rather, with gratitude and this tremendous sense of honor, we grasp the big story line. And the story line is between God and a city called Jerusalem. And the people around that in a nation called Israel. And we're grafted into it because of God's gracious election. Anyway, there's a 70 year plan. And it's for the people he was praying for. So don't buy into some of those accommodators that will write Israel out of this promise. I mean, it's just amazing that they go opposite of what Gabriel said here. And they say, it's not the Jewish people. It is now symbolic. Israel will be the first nation in which every single person is saved. I mean, that's a staggering reality. I don't mean where 10% or 20%. That would be considered the greatest revival ever. 20% of America was saved. I mean, radically born again. That revival, oh my goodness. It would be so amazing, you know, if 20% of 300 million people suddenly were born again by a revival, a sweeping revival. Well, what if 100% were born again and on fire? Well, that's going to happen. Well, this is a plan that God has for the national salvation of Israel. But it's more than that. God has called Israel more than to be saved. He has given them the primary leadership role in his salvation story in the millennial kingdom. They will have the primary apostolic leadership. And he says, I'm preparing you over 2,000 years, over the last 2,000 years plus the other 2,000 years, going back to Abraham. I'm preparing you for 4,000 years for this primary leadership role. And I'm going to succeed. And this plan has 70 weeks determined to it. Now, paragraph B. This is not so hard to get. If it's the first time you've heard it, you might go, this is confusing. But just throw that away. It's not. How's that? Because that's what I thought when I first read it years ago. In ancient Israel, a week was either 7 days or 7 years. Now, in our culture, a week is only 7 days. So when we say, I'll be there in a week, that means 7 days. But if you told somebody in ancient Israel or just in that culture, I'll be there in a week, they would say a week of years or a week of days. Because are you coming in 7 days or 7 years? Because it could mean both. And probably it didn't happen just that way because it's pretty obvious when they're communicating. But a week of days, 7 days. A week of years, 7 years. Well, most agree. I mean, even the liberal scholars agree. This is a week of years. So when Gabriel says to Daniel, speaking even the language of Daniel's day, there's 70 weeks, 77-year periods. There's 70 periods of 7 weeks. Now, how long is 70 periods of 70 weeks? So just tell your neighbor how many years that is. See how good you are on your geography. I mean, you're... Okay, 490 years. Okay, 490 years. He's telling him, there's going to be 490 years where my purpose unfolds with the nation of Israel to bring them to national salvation and prepare them for world leadership. He goes, and that's the bigger story that you've been praying for. You're praying for the restoration of Jerusalem, part 1. I want to give you part 2, 3, 4. I want to give you the whole story. But you're going to need skill to understand this and to grasp this. So it's a 490-year period that he's talking about. Okay, paragraph C. Gabriel's focus is on the holy city, on Jerusalem. This is, again, for ethnic Israel. And again, the body of Christ, born-again Gentiles, we are grafted into this. And it's our salvation. We're not second-rate in any way in God's heart. God loves us like He loves His own Son, is what He said in John 15. But there is an order when it comes to God's government and God's order of leadership. And He's given that to that city and then that nation. But to that city even more than to the nation. End-time prophecy is Jerusalem-centric. Meaning God's prophetic clock or prophetic calendar. I kind of go back and forth and use both terms. It's related to what's happening in Jerusalem. When the things are happening in Jerusalem that God has on His plan, the clock is running. When Israel is not in the land and having authority over Jerusalem and the temple not functioning, then the prophetic clock stops. It's put on pause. Now that's the mystery to understanding this 490 years. I believe there's three things that go into this prophetic clock moving. And when these three things are not in place, the clock stops. God puts a pause on it. Jerusalem has to be in the land. They have to have jurisdiction or authority over the city. The city must be functioning. The city of Jerusalem, and that might be a little nebulous, exactly what that means in its fullness. And I think of it as Jerusalem being its capital. And the temple must be functioning. When all three of those things are in place, the 490 years are running. The calendar or the clock is running. When those are not in place, God puts a pause on it. So He says 490 years, 70 weeks. The whole plan will happen. And the people of God, we stand back and watch it looking back 2,500 years. It's masterful in the precision of which Gabriel's words were so accurate historically. And because verse 25 and 26 are fulfilled with such accuracy, we know that verse 24 and 27 are going to be fulfilled as well. And you'll put all that together in a few minutes. I've written that a number of times, those different verses. And you'll get familiar with those verses pretty soon. Okay, top of page 69. He declares there's six promises that are going to happen after this 490 years. Now remember, it's 490 years. Israel has to be in the land. They have to be in a functioning city of Jerusalem. And I'm going to add, as their capital. And I'm not sure that Jerusalem has to be the capital. I would think that that's part of it. And the temple has to be functioning. And any time those are not happening, the clock is on pause. And if you understand that point, these 490 years will make sense. If you don't understand that point, then the 490 years is kind of like, I don't get what this 70 weeks or this 490 years even means. He says at the end of them, there's going to be six promises. They're going to be fully manifest. Now these promises, or these six of them, are already partially fulfilled because of Jesus' first coming. Meaning, the people of God are partially experiencing the benefit of them. But only the fullness of them manifest openly for all to see will happen at the time of the second coming. So he lays out these six promises. This is Gabriel now talking to him. He says, 70 weeks. Remember, a week is seven years. So 70 weeks times a unit of seven years. So for 49 weeks, God has determined it. The all-wise God has planned a 490-year plan that his clock will run. And these are the six things that you can count on. Now the blessings of salvation actually go beyond these six, but these are six headliner themes. These are what Gabriel thought were really important. So if Gabriel thinks these are like main headliner themes of salvation, we've got to go with these. He's not saying that every single blessing is contained in these. Probably in an indirect way, every blessing would be. But he says, number one, it says what's going to happen is transgression, the transgression is going to be finished. Number two, God's going to make an end to sins. Now notice sins plural. Notice sins plural. And notice the transgression is singular. And we'll point that out in a minute. The third thing, God's going to make reconciliation for iniquity. Iniquity is in essence sin. You can use the word iniquity in a non-technical sense interchangeably with sin. There's some technical nuances, but that's beyond our purposes here. Next thing, the Lord says, or through Gabriel, God's going to bring in everlasting righteousness, not just to the city of Jerusalem, but that's what he's talking about, but it's going to spread and branch out and touch the whole world. The next thing that's going to happen is God's going to seal up vision and prophecy. The next thing that's going to happen, he's going to anoint the most holy. So Gabriel says, you got it, Daniel? Those are the six. Now again, when I first read those, I go, wow, I get, I get make an end to sin, that makes sense. Okay, everlasting righteousness. Okay, I'll be righteous forever. I get that. Hmm. Okay. Praise God. You know, that's how I read it the first time. And I get this in 70 weeks? Hmm. Don't know exactly what that means. I just, again, I just want to identify with some of you that are going, ah, this is already confusing. That's exactly how I felt. But in a minute, it won't be confusing. Just a little bit of effort. You really, really can get these six things and get these four verses. I want to give you confidence for that. Now, in the most abbreviated way, I'm going to give a minute on each one of the six. I mean, you could give a whole message on each one of these six, but just a minute on each. First, God says his purpose is to finish the transgression. And I think the word the is key, the definite article the, meaning it's a specific transgression, which I believe it means Israel's rebellion towards God is going to be finished once for all. It will never, ever come up again. And the reason that's important, because Israel's had a few seasons of renewal and revival, and then in the next generation, they fall away. And then a little bit of time goes, they get renewed and revived, and they fall away. And what Gabriel's telling Daniel, in essence, you're going to be, Israel's going to be restored in two years. It's going to happen, but I got bad news for you. That's a temporary restoration, because you're going to fall away, but the day's coming when the transgression, the rejection of God, the rebellion is going to be forever in the past, and there's never, ever going to be a relapse. That's what he's saying. Okay, there's a time when all of Israel's saved. Number, paragraph C. It's not just the national rebellion of Israel, and even of the nations. This is going to happen to the nations, too. There will be a time when the nations will no longer rebel again. Though we know at the end of the millennium, there is a momentary rebellion, but Jerusalem is absolutely faithful in that. I mean, Jerusalem says, we will never yield to that again, though there will be a presence of people from around the nations that will enter into that rebellion. That's another subject. That happens at the end of the millennium for just one moment of time, and then it's done, it's put down forever. And there's a reason why the Lord allows that that's very important. Paragraph C, he says, it's not just the national rebellion, but sins, God's plan is to make an end towards sins. This is sins in the plural. This speaks of individual sins in everyday life. Beloved, there's a day where you won't struggle with any issues at all. The sins, the struggles will be over forever. Now that's good. I mean, aren't you glad that God sent the Messiah, and we are grafted in to that salvation, because that's where that salvation is going to bring us. Sins will end forever. Paragraph D. Again, we could spend a lot more time on the glory of each one of these, but I'm just going to give you the feel for it. God's determined to make a reconciliation for iniquity. What I think that means is, is that there's going to be no consequences for the past sins, no penalties is the idea, for past sins that have been repented of. For individuals, for family lines, for nations. Because of the blood of Jesus, the penalty, when Jesus returns, the penalty is gone. Now the rewards are still in place, but there's no penalty at all, because Jesus took the fullness of the debt for us. Now the reason this is important, because in the natural sense, if a criminal, if a guy murders people, he goes before the court, and he's genuinely repentant, genuinely repentant, I mean it's not fake. He still goes to prison for life, or he gets the death penalty. He still has a punishment, even though he repented. That's a normal course of justice. But what God's plan is, is that he put the penalty on another, the son of man, who would come and take our place. So the penalty is not against our family lines. You know the verses that talk about the sins that go on for three and four generations, the generational curses that people talk about, meaning the tendencies that are passed down from one generation to another. And I don't think of them as just a, kind of an invisible curse that comes one to the other. I think there's a natural cause to it, that if people, if fathers engage in certain sins, they end up passing those values, and that whole spirit, they pass that down to their children, and their children have watched their dad in immorality, or they've watched their dad in drunkenness, and they, many times, they just, they embrace that value. So sins are passed down, not just in a mysterious way, but there's social ways to discern that. And so when we come to Jesus, we break that pattern, and Jesus took the curse, and you might have had an immoral, angry, alcoholic father, a father who was a thief, and a murderer, or whatever you put on that list, and through Jesus, we can break it, so those curses don't have to come down to three and four generations. But here's what he's saying. There are no three and four generation repercussions. On family lines, there are no, the murderer is set free. The born-again believer has full, full first-class status in the family of God forever. There are no curses on the land anymore. You know, it says in 2 Chronicles 7, when the Lord spoke to Solomon, he said, fast and pray, repent, and humble yourself and pray, and God will heal the land. There's so much bloodshed that's on the lands, the nations and the cities of the earth, and there's curses related to that bloodshed. Like, for instance, I'm convinced the Civil War was God answering White against white, men were killing each other because they killed the blood, they took the blood of the slaves, and the Lord exacted it from them over the years. And I believe there's blood on the land, and when there's blood on the land, a judgment's coming. I think that we, as a nation, are in very severe problem because we have over 50 million babies' blood shed on this land, and as a nation, we've not cried out for forgiveness, and the Lord's saying, until there's a repentance nationally, the sword is hanging over the land, and that still could happen. But there's, my point is, there's blood and defilement on a land, and there's consequences that come, even though there's righteous people in the land. Well, what he's saying here, there's coming a time that there will be complete reconciliation for all of those sins, those defilements, those curses, they're all gone off of cities, off of nations, off of family lines, off of individuals. Look what it says here in Zechariah 13. In that day, and it's talking about the day of the Lord's return, he says, I will cause the unclean spirit that's on the land of Israel. Now remember, the abomination of desolation has just been in the land for three and a half years. The idol where they're worshiping the Antichrist, and the Antichrist has a headquarters there. So there's a bad spirit in the land. It's going to be tough. Of course, that bad spirit's going to be all over the earth as well, because he'll have, I believe, local Antichrist sanctuaries. That's just my term for it. I believe all across the nations that spirit will defile cities and nations. Well, here's what the Lord said, I'm going to cleanse the land. I'm going to cleanse the land entirely to where there is no access point for judgment or any kind of negative consequences to come to that land. So that's what I believe that paragraph D to make reconciliation for iniquity is talking about. Paragraph E, the next one, to bring in everlasting righteousness. Jesus is going to establish a new world order. Righteousness will not only be expressed in individuals, but in all the social structures. In the millennium, the economic systems, the educational systems, the media systems, there won't be a need for the raiding of movies in the millennium with people in natural bodies because everything in the media will be based in righteousness. Can you imagine that? All the textbooks will be righteous. All of the laws will be righteous. All of the economic policies and the banking systems will be righteous. All of them will be. Because this man, fully man, fully God, will set up an order of which only those that agree with his order will be in government at whatever level, from the top of a nation, the king of a nation, to all the governmental infrastructures, they will agree with this man and everlasting righteousness will be established. Now this is an important one to highlight because those that, they say, all of this has already happened at the first coming and it's not about Israel. There's no future implications. I mean, he did. We are forgiven for our sins and these things we're experiencing in part, but I would say, as I've had friendly debates with different friends over this, are you saying that everlasting righteousness is being manifest on the earth right now? And they say, well, not technically. I go, not technically? I mean, there is no conceivable way that we can find a way to make verse 24 something that's already happening in the nations. I mean, it's just, anyway, don't even go there. But when some of these theologians, brilliant guys, and they love Jesus, it's like they're working hard to get rid of verse 24 from the future to make it all in the past. Because if you do that, then there's no tribulation, there's no end time drama, there's no antichrist, things just continue to get better and better, and things like that is the logic from where they're coming from. They're removing the stigma of the future troubles that are coming to the earth. They're trying to get rid of all of that and put it all in the past, but that's just the ostrich effect. Put our head in the ground, I don't even know if ostriches really do that, but they did it on that one movie, but anyway, the ostrich effect, put their head in the ground and pretend everything will just be better and better. And of course we know things are going to get better in terms of the church. They're going to walk in more power, and the nations are going to come to the Lord, but they're going to get worse. They're going to get better and worse simultaneously. The light will get lighter and the dark will get darker together globally in the same period of time. So it is true things are going to get better, and it is true that things are going to get worse. Both of them are true simultaneously. Top of page 70. To seal up vision and prophecy. And I think the New King James translation that I'm using, the word up throws us off. I think it might be more easily understood to seal vision and prophecy. Most translations, I looked at quite a number, don't have the word seal up, but they have seal vision or seal prophecy or seal the prophet. But the word up, it kind of confuses us because it gives us the exact opposite meaning of what I believe Gabriel is saying because it makes us think that prophecy is going to be hidden from us. It's going to be hidden away, sealed up in a back corner, locked away in a safe. And the word seal is very opposite of that in this context. What he's promising is that God is going to authenticate and he's going to fully bring to pass everything that he promised. That's all of the visions that are in the Bible are going to come to pass. All of the authentic visions and promises he's given his people even those subjective ones that he's given to individuals, they will all come to pass. You know, one thing that occurred to me some years ago is that when God promises something to me those promises though they will undoubtedly all have some fulfillment in this age, but some of those promises have fulfillment for a thousand years on the earth in the age to come. And some people because they only have a vision for their 70 years on the earth that when God promises them something they can only imagine 70 years and the Lord says, no, I'm going to fulfill that far beyond what you imagine. And the promise isn't invalid when you shift over and get your new resurrected body. That promise is still intact. It's my word to you. And so I think that there are promises that we have that are real, that have some fulfillment in this age and even substantial fulfillment, but some of those promises have far larger fulfillment than we think. So when I think of God's going to fulfill, he's going to authenticate, he's going to it's like look at down here in paragraph F towards the end, to seal a document involved closing it closing the document with a seal but it was to authenticate it legally with the seal, which was like a signature. When the king sealed a document put a seal on it, he says I'm binding myself to the contract that's in this document I'm authenticating it with my seal. I'm sealing it, I promise it is my signature. That's what was happening. And so not only are all the promises in the Bible going to come to pass in that secondary sense promises God has given you that come to pass, a lot of them in this age, a lot of some of them fully in this age but there's some of those that will extend beyond and you may get the shock of your life in a good sense, that those promises are still there, like wow, I'm still a messenger I thought that was when I died, I was no longer a messenger. I have an anointing to be a messenger for far beyond this life. Or I'm anointed to be a worship leader, I'm anointed to do this, or anointed to do that some guys think when they die they won't lead worship anymore, it's over I mean maybe this, in your 70 year internship, you're just learning a little bit about worship. What happens with a resurrected body, with the devil in prison, with your worship calling, I mean where's that going? Well we'll just worship around the throne, no there are those holy convocations where several billion gather on the sea of glass like crystal, but beloved there's going to be worship going on all over the new Jerusalem, 1500 mile city, there's going to be worship going on all over the cities and the nations of the earth and your worship calling your teaching calling, your messenger calling your leadership calling, your finance calling is going to actually have some fulfillment even in those days so don't think God's a liar because the devil says it and then oh the word's not true the Lord says don't sell out so quick, get a bigger vision I mean contend for as fullness of it to be released in this age, but don't write this thing off, because I promise you this, the days coming where God's going to fully seal, put his signature and authenticate and fulfill every vision, every prophecy every promise, and not only will they come to pass, we're going to understand them, I mean I can't wait to have that greater understanding of all of these visions, I mean you know that's the day when I hope that these teaching sessions on the video disappear, when I see Daniel like oh boy I really missed it on that, oh gee or I've talked, one of my favorite themes is to talk on Revelation 4 and 5 and then I get up there and go uh no, no, not exactly right like I've had visitors and they say this with great honor and affection we came to Kansas City to learn the harp and bowl model worship, I go the harp and bowl model I go please don't say that, I said the angel that's over here, he doesn't think what we're doing is the harp and bowl model, because what they do up there is way different than what we do down here, so just say our little thing, okay, just call it our little Kansas City thing okay, let's look at paragraph G this final one, and I think there's a sense you can't force it fully, but there's a progression, it's building these promises are building and one by one, layer by layer and I don't want to force that idea into it, but there's some element of that happening, I mean it crescendos with this sixth promise to anoint the most holy now to anoint means to consecrate in other words set it apart as special and holy to God but anoint also means more than set it apart as special to God, anoint means to empower, so God is saying I'm going to set apart as special and I'm going to empower and I believe there's two primary applications, but then I believe that this goes, the fullness of the anointing upon the the greater Aaron high priest the oil that drips off of Aaron the greater Aaron Christ Jesus, the great high priest of the order of Melchizedek that anointing oil will flow all over the nations as well so I think it's about Jesus and it's about the temple, but the implications of it spreading out to the earth coming from him as the epicenter is included in this promise as well number one application is Jesus is the anointed one of course we know that the word Messiah and the anointed one, it's the same word when it says that Jesus is Messiah Jesus is anointed, those are synonymous words, and then the Greek, the word, it's not Messiah, it's Christ, the anointed one, and so Christ is not Jesus' last name, it's his title the anointed one, and if you say it in Hebrew, it's the Messiah, if you say it in Greek it's Christ, and so when you talk to a messianic believer, they will talk about Jesus, Messiah and you talk to a gentile, they talk about Jesus Christ, they talk about the same person but gentiles aren't even aware there's two things going on, and when I first began to talk to messianic believers some years ago, they always talked about body of Messiah, and I said body of who? what? they go, yeah body of Messiah, body of the anointed one, that's what the body of Christ means, and I thought oh, yeah, that's actually more that's really accurate okay, there you have it, okay but here's the thing about Jesus that we have to know, Zechariah 6 that Jesus one of his names in the Old Testament and this name is used six times his name as the Messiah, as a man I mean, he's fully God and he has names that emphasize his deity, but he has names that emphasize what he does in his humanity and one of those names is Jesus the branch and again, that's kind of a strange name at first but it's used six times in the Old Testament Jesus the branch, and the idea is that he's the vine and we're the branches that's a subunit idea, meaning that as the branch, what he's doing branches out progressively and fills the earth like the great vine of God and he branches out through us being branches abiding in him but here's what the meaning of this is the anointing on Jesus this fullness of power being manifest in the natural realm in the millennium, it's going to progressively spread and go through the whole earth and the anointing that's on the anointed one will flow even from him through his people, and he will fill the earth with the anointing and the power and the glory that rests on him, it will be expressed through his people and the nations number two, the holy one is not just the Messiah the holy one is also the temple and some translations will even make that more explicit that to anoint the holy place or the temple itself there's going to be an anointing on the temple, now Jesus is going to build that temple, let's go back up to number one, Zechariah 6-12 I didn't even point that out behold the man whose name is the branch that's the Messiah, that's Jesus he's from his place, that's Jerusalem he will branch out, that means affect all the nations, but look at this he will build the temple of the Lord when he returns, he's going to be the greater Solomon that builds a temple far superior than Solomon he's going to build a temple now you would think if you can do Genesis 1 I mean he did Genesis 1, let there be it all happened he has the power to wave his hand and a temple pop up I mean he can do that, but he's not going to do it that way, he's going to build it in actual participation and cooperation with the people of the earth it says in Isaiah 60 that the kings of nations will bring caravans of gold and silver and spices and all kinds of things in order to build the temple, there's going to be a process like Solomon had and the Lord's enjoying it, I mean the Lord says hey we live forever, we're not in a hurry this whole process is going to unfold with partnership together with the Lord and his people, and so he actually builds a temple I mean this is real, now he doesn't go back to his carpenter profession he didn't pull out the hammer and start hammering away, that's not what he's doing but he oversees it like Solomon did, and the nations will all bring the glory from the nations to build this temple, and there will be obviously supernatural dimensions to it but there will be natural dimensions to this temple too, and it's a remarkable thing when you put all the passages together but number two the glory, the anointing will rest on this temple too, remember in Solomon's day when the glory of God fell on the temple in 2nd Chronicles 5, 6, and 7 and the priests couldn't minister, they were all slain in the spirit, and the glory is there on it, what happens when Jesus builds the temple and he says, come Holy Spirit I mean, maybe all the nations will get slain in the spirit, I don't know but I mean there's going to be a moment when the temple is anointed, whoo I can't even imagine what that's going to be like notice here in Ezekiel 43 this is an important verse to highlight it says this is Ezekiel speaking behold the glory of the Lord filled the temple this is the millennial temple now and now Jesus the son of man has appeared to him so he has this encounter of Jesus and Jesus said to me the man said to me this is the place of my throne and he's pointing at the temple Ezekiel's actually in the temple he's in a visionary mode, far in the future, in the millennium and he's viewing the millennial temple and he sees the leader he sees the Messiah, he sees Jesus and Jesus says this is the place of my throne this is where I will dwell in the midst of Israel, I will be on the land right here in Israel forever in this temple and again when the millennial earth is over and there's a new heaven and a new earth, that temple will continue to be in Jerusalem forever and forever okay look at Isaiah chapter 60 the Lord will arise over you now it's talking about the city of Jerusalem his glory will be seen on you I think this is all about Jesus sitting on his throne in that temple the glory resting on Jerusalem and the kings of the earth, they come to Jerusalem and go wow this is why Jesus called this the city of the great king remember in the sermon on the mount when he said Jerusalem and he paused, right there in Matthew 5 he's talking about, he says if they swear by Jerusalem but he pauses and I just picture him he closes his eyes and goes I'm making this part up, but he pauses and goes yes, the city of the great king, he's the great king it's his city, he goes oh yes, the city of the great king anyway, if you swear by the temple and if you swear by Jerusalem or you know da da da da and so this city, this is why the devil has so much contention over the city, this is why this city is so special and God has created a whole nation around that city it's a city he's after and it's gonna be a city where the new Jerusalem and the earthly Jerusalem converge together in full unity and Jesus' throne in the new Jerusalem and his throne in the earthly Jerusalem will be one throne of the glory of God fully anointed by the father branching out to all the earth amen and amen, I'll just leave you with that those are the six promises, we'll take a 20 minute break and then we're gonna come back and look at verse 25, 26 and 27 what's gonna happen for these promises to come to pass that's why it's awkward music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music Chains, chains, pull me down Come break the chains, draw me near Let your fire burn, consume me Let your jealous flame come Let your fire burn, consume me Let your jealous flame come Is the light of your countenance I'll be satisfied as a lover of you Break the chains, the chains That hinder the love of yesterday Come break the chains, the chains That pull me down Come break the chains, draw me near And let your fire burn, consume me Let your jealous flame come Take away everything Let your fire burn, consume me Let your jealous flame come Is the light of your countenance I'll be satisfied when I awake Rushing river, raging torrent inside I find that I'm hungry for the fullness of God Like a rushing river am I Like a raging torrent inside I find that I'm free falling Crucified, crucified with Christ Yet not I, for one thing I You make all, you make all things Beautiful, beautiful Just in time Just in time, time It's just a matter of time Like a rushing river am I Raging torrent inside Hungry for the fullness of Christ Like a rushing river am I Raging torrent inside Letting go but with Christ I burn Crucified with Christ Just in time It's just a matter of time You make all things beautiful You make all things beautiful Things beautiful Just in time And you will make all things beautiful You make all things beautiful Just in time, time Time will tell Time is gonna tell the truth Time, time will tell So into your hands Into your hands Even through the fire Into your hands We trust Into your hands Cause you make all It's just a matter of time Time, time It's just a matter of time Oh, Zion, listen Oh, cause he will make All things beautiful He will make all things beautiful He will make all things beautiful Just in time He's gonna make all the wrong things right Justice and light And beauty And he will make all Just in time We thank you that you are making all things beautiful We love your appearing We long for your appearing Amen Amen Thank you, Misty You will make all things beautiful in time He already made your song beautiful today though So he did that ahead of time Turn to page 73