STUDY NUMBER EIGHTEEN– DANIEL 9:20-27

v. 20 While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill—
v. 21 while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
v. 22 He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding.
v. 23 As soon as you began to pray, an answer was given, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the message and understand the vision:
v. 24 Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.
v. 25 Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
v. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
v. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing [of the temple] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

QUESTIONS:

1. Read Daniel 9:20-27 and in your own words pull out the main thought of this passage.

2. Make an outline of Daniel’s activities in verse 20.

3. What has Gabriel come to do for Daniel, according to verse 23?

4. What six things are decreed for the people of Israel, according to verse 24?

5. What is Daniel commanded to know and understand, according to verse 25?

6. Who is the “Anointed One” and what will happen to him, according to verse 26?

7. What is the world “ruler who is going to come” going to do, according to verse 26?

8. Outline what this world leader is going to do, according to verse 27.

9. What verse in the study has meant the most to you?

10. What lesson have you learned from this study?

LESSONS FROM THE PASSAGE:

What are some of the lessons we can learn from this particular study?

LESSON #1: “Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear” (Isaiah 65:24).

LESSON #2: “Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, that your joy may be made full” (John 16:24).

LESSON #3: “And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the request which we have asked from Him” (1 John 5:14, 15).

LESSON #4: “While I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice” (verse 21).

LESSON #5: Two wonderful things that come to us as a result of our disciplined prayer life are: (1) insight, and (2) understanding.

LESSON #6: “As soon as you began to pray, an answer was given, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the message and understand the vision” (verse 23).

LESSON #7: The future and grand finale for Israel is described in the remaining verses of this passage.

LESSON #8: The six things that remain to be accomplished are: (1) “to finish transgression,” (2) “to put an end to sin,” (3) “to atone for wickedness,” (4) “to bring in everlasting righteousness,” (5) “to seal up vision and prophecy,” and (6) “to anoint the most holy” (verse 24).

LESSON #9: The city of Jerusalem and the sanctuary will be restored and rebuilt.

LESSON #10: “War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed”
(verse 26).

LESSON #11: “The Anointed One” is Jesus Christ the Messiah who will come and will be crucified.

LESSON #12: The ruler is the future world leader, the man of sin, Satan’s final shot at a kingdom before Jesus Christ comes to set up the eternal kingdom.