Daniel is seeking God based on a biblical promise concerning Israel’s captivity coming to an end (Daniel 9:1-3). God answered Daniel with a vision of what was coming to the nation of Israel in the future, specifically regarding the 70 sets of 7 years laid out for the Jewish people. These prophecies include the very date the Messiah would enter Jerusalem. Sir Robert Anderson calculated the time of the Messiah based on the numbers in Daniel 9:24-27 as precisely 173,880 days, from March 14, 445 BC to April 6, 32AD. At that time, before entering Jerusalem on a donkey (predicted in Zechariah 9:9), Jesus said this:

Luke 19:41-42
41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes."
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Jesus lamented that the Jews, who had a precise prediction from Daniel hundreds of years earlier about His coming, didn’t understand that.

Friend, have you missed God’s timing on issues in your life? God often has a clear word about our family, work, struggles, hopes, and dreams laid out in His word. Are we in a place of fellowship to listen to it? Are we genuinely seeking wise counsel from the Lord concerning His word? Have we asked God’s Spirit to rightly divide His truth into our lives specifically? Is He Lord over all your life?

Jesus often expected His hearers to know the Word of God. He would say to us by the Spirit today, "Have you not read?" (Matthew 12:3, 5, 26, 19:4, 22:31)

Life Lesson: Jesus expects us to know prophecy.

Lord,
Thank you for giving me a solid word from scripture that I can trust. Thank you for confirming Your Word through fulfilled prophecy in the Bible. Please help me to be consistent in reading Your word and listening to Your Spirit in all I do, trusting that You will speak into my life.
In Jesus' name. Amen.

Living to tell what He died to say,
Pastor David McGee

Senior Pastor
The Bridge
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