that's just a quick overview of what the series is all about and again the the
foundation is the seven years how many of you have ever been asked that
question are you pre-trib or mid-trib or post-trib or what do you believe about
the seven years okay I see I see a number of hands what happens to me a lot
of times when people ask me this I look at them and I'll say can you show me in
the Bible where the seven years of tribulation is is mentioned where it
specifically says seven years of tribulation show me and you know what
they never can because this may shock you but there is not one verse in the
Bible from Genesis to Revelation from the beginning to the end that
specifically mentions a seven-year period of tribulation at all it's not
there now there are verses that are interpreted in fact there's one major
verse one big one this is really the mother the mother text and the text is
Daniel 9:27 that's the verse that's interpreted to mean the seven years of
tribulation so let's take a look at this we are going to study this verse this is
really the core of our of our program tonight is dealing with this verse
Daniel 9:27 so let's open our Bibles let's take a look at it first I'm gonna
read it then I'm going to show you what how Lindsay how he interprets it and
then we're gonna study it and I hope to bring out some light on this how's that
sound some real light alright Daniel chapter 9
verse 27 the Bible says then he shall confirm the covenant with many for how
long for one week right and in the midst of the week he will cause the sacrifice
and the offering to sea and then it goes on and explains a
little bit more but that is the that's the main part of the text that we are
going to focus on now let me share a quote here from Hal Lindsey how many of
you have heard of Hal Lindsey anybody heard of Hal Lindsey Hal Lindsey is a
best-selling author he wrote a book called the late great planet Earth in
the 1970s had sold millions and millions of copies this was act this was actually
the very first book that I ever read as I was in the process of becoming a
Christian was this book what Hal Lindsey does on page 45 and 46 of the late great
planet Earth as he interprets this and maybe I should explain this in prophecy
and I'll prove this in a little bit a day represents a year and I'll show you
this and so one week which is what the text says would come 2 which would be 7
days which will be how many how many years seven years right one week seven
days seven years not rocket science to figure that out and what Hal Lindsey
does is he refers to this as God's last seven years of dealing with the Jewish
people on page 45 of the late great planet Earth and then he quotes Daniel
9:27 right there and this is the way he interprets the verse you see where it
says then he how Lindsay interprets the he as the Antichrist and then when it
says he would confirm a covenant or the covenant Hal Lindsey applies this to a a
peace treaty that the Antichrist makes with the Jews and he does this for how
long for one week which would be seven years and he applies this to the seven
years of tribulation and then it says in the middle of the week which would be
how Lindsey applies this to mid-trib you see three and a half years in in the
middle of the week he referring to the Antichrist will bring an end to the
sacrifices and the offerings and how Lindsay interprets this to mean that
since the Antichrist puts an end of the sacrifices the sacrifices must have
started and the only way for the sacrifice is to start is guess what has
to be built over there in the Middle East on top of the Temple Mount a temple
there must be another 10 over there the third temple over in
Israel so this is what Hal Lindsey says he quotes this verse and says this is
the Antichrist he breaks his covenant with the Jewish people and then he
causes the Jewish temple worship according to the law of Moses to cease
and he says we must therefore conclude that a third temple will be rebuilt upon
its ancient site in old Jerusalem that's the way he interprets this text it's not
just how Lindsey it's also Tim LaHaye it's also grant Jefferies there's jack
van impe there's John Hagee the list goes on and on and on Chuck Smith of
major Bible prophecies scholars and teachers today who interpret this verse
that way and the Left Behind series is simply a fictionalized series of novels
based upon that interpretation of this text that's really what what left behind
is now we need to study this out and take a look at the context the context
goes back to verse 24 so let's go verse 24 takes us down
eventually to verse 27 and verse 24 says there's a certain time period and what's
that time period 70 weeks right 70 weeks are determined for your people and who
were Daniels people the Jews at this time when this was written Daniel was in
Babylon and the angel Gabriel came and explained to him all about the Jewish
people and the future and he talked about the restoration of the Jewish
people and he gave him this prophecy of seventy weeks seventy weeks would be
determined for your people the Jewish people for your holy city to finish the
transgression to make an end of sins to make reconciliation for iniquity to
bring in everlasting righteousness to seal up the vision and the prophecy and
to anoint the most holy this prophecy is generally understood and it has been for
a long time as a prophecy of a day for a year there's a verse on the screen from
Ezekiel 4:6 where God said I've appointed you each day for a year
Ezekiel wrote that Ezekiel and Daniel were contemporaries they both live at
the same time they were both in Babylon Daniel
was in the palace Ezekiel was among the captives and he said this and there's
another verse in numbers I believe it's 1434 that also talks about a day a day
representing a year now this may be a new concept to you I don't know or maybe
you're very familiar with this but I'm gonna prove to you as we go on I'll
prove to you that this prophecy of seventy weeks is definitely a day for a
year seventy weeks how many days in a week seven seven times seventy comes up
to what 490 right and that would be four hundred and ninety days and if we apply
that to a day for a year it would be 490 years so just thanks seventy weeks
really there's our timeline there is 490 years now the first question we need to
ask is when does this period start well the answer to that is found in verse 25
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next verse verse 25 says the angel said to Daniel know therefore and understand
and you just get the impression that that the Lord really wants us to
understand this know therefore and understand Gabriel said that from the
going forth of the command some Bible say the decree some Bible say the
commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince
and who's that that's Jesus right the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks
and sixty-two weeks and the street shall be built up in the wall even in
troublous times now first of all we have to figure out when this period starts it
starts with a command or the decree to restore and to build Jerusalem now a lot
of history behind this I also like history don't like Mass but like history
there are four options as to when this command when this decree was given and
I'll just tell you quickly and all of this information is inside the book
endtime delusions lots of history behind this they were there were two