Today’s Reading: Daniel 9:24-27 (English Standard Version)
24 “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.t25 Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Itst end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.27 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,t and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”
Takeaways:
- I love the use of numbers in the Bible. Seven and seventy are used a ton of times.
- There is a decree to rebuild Jerusalem. Look in Revelation and you will see this again.
- The temple will be rebuilt.
- There is a promise of the coming Messiah. What am I doing to prove that I eagerly await His return?