"The Messiah is Cut Off"

The Outline:

I. THE STORIES (1:1-6:28)

II. THE VISIONS (7:1-12:13)

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

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

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

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

  2. The Six Purposes to be Accomplished (9:24)

  3. The First Sixty-Nine Weeks Predicted (9:25)
  4. The Messiah will be Cut Off (9:26)
  5. The Covenant of One Week (9:27)

Appendix: ‘GAPS’

In Israel’s National Timeline

Contrast:

  1. ACCORDING TO: 1KINGS 6:1; TEMPLE BEGAN 480 YEARS AFTER EGYPT
  2. BUT: ACTS 13:18-21; 40years IN THE WILDERNESS 450 years UNDER JUDGES 40 years UNDER SAUL
  3. PLUS WE KNOW: 40 years UNDER DAVID 3 years UNDER SOLOMON GIVES A TOTAL: 573 years

Consider:

  1. JUDGES 3:8; 8 years under OCCUPATION 3:14; 18 years under OCCUPATION 4:2-3; 20 years under OCCUPATION 6:1; 7 years under OCCUPATION 13:1; 40 years under OCCUPATION

TOTAL: 93 years out of the Land or under occupation, and therefore outside the ‘national time-line’ calculation

  1. THIS LEAVES EXACTLY: 480 years COUNTED IN THE NATIONAL TIMELINE OF ISRAEL’S HISTORY.

Conclude:

  1. A CONCLUSION CAN BE DRAWN THAT WHEN ISRAEL IS UNDER OFFICIAL DISCIPLINE AS A NATION, GOD’S TIMETABLE IS POSTPONED OR UNCOUNTED, AND A ‘GAP’ OCCURS.

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