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00:05 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:15 ♪ I want to spend my life removing pain ♪ 00:26 ♪ Let my words heal a heart that hurts ♪ 00:36 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:56 ♪ ♪ 01:06 Hello friends. Welcome to 3ABN Today. My name is Ryan Day and 01:12 we are excited that you are joining us today. That's a 01:15 mouthful. We're excited that you're joining us. This is not 01:19 like your average Today program. We do all kinds of different 01:22 Today programs so you might be watching for the very first time 01:25 and be wondering what in the world is 3ABN Today. This is 01:29 kind of the Three Angels Broadcasting Network flagship 01:32 program. It happens every day and we have different types of 01:36 Today programs that we. Sometimes it might be just a 01:38 simple interview where we interview someone about their 01:41 testimony, their story. It could be a Today music program where 01:45 we have musical guests that provide us you know the gospel 01:48 message through song. It could be a Bible topic in which we 01:51 take on a Bible topic for an entire hour. There's multiple 01:54 different types of Today programs that we do. Today we're 01:57 kind of amalgamating two. We're doing the interview style along 02:00 with a Bible topic because I got my good friend, my brother from 02:04 another mother Brother James Rafferty. How are you, my brother 02:08 If you haven't recognized by now we're excited because James has 02:14 written a book and it's entitled Messiah, okay get this, Messiah 02:18 The 70-week Prophecy and the Gospel of Luke. I'm going to 02:23 tell you right up my friends, I've read this book. It doesn't 02:25 take very long to read it. It's about 40, I don't know, what is 02:28 about 48 pages, 47 pages. There it is on your screen. You need 02:32 this book in your library. In fact, you need more than one, 02:36 you need as many as you can get because this is a great 02:38 evangelistic tool. And I know you're probably saying right now 02:41 why do I need to take the time out to order multiple copies and 02:45 distribute these? Well you're going to find out during this 02:47 hour. So get your pen pad, your pen, writing utensil, something 02:50 to take notes because we're going to be jumping through not 02:53 too, too, too many jumps but we're going to be taking a 02:57 journey through the gospel of Jesus Christ that's found in the 03:01 book of Daniel and, of course, the book of Luke. And we're 03:03 going to be studying the 70-week prophecy. And my friends, I'm 03:06 telling you, it's a powerful book. And so James is going to 03:08 kind of...I'm going to kind of facilitate but James is going to 03:11 lead us through this powerful study. I'm excited about it and 03:14 we're excited that you and Rese are with us as a part 03:16 of 3ABN team. Tell us what you do here James. 03:20 I am director of discipleship ministry and that basically 03:23 means that I come along side people, maybe they're brand new 03:26 believers, maybe they've left the church and are coming back 03:28 of maybe they're just been in the church a long time and 03:32 they're just wanting to learn how to tighten up that 03:34 relationship with Christ. And I try to come along side them and 03:38 share with them the things that I've learned in the last you 03:40 know few decades of being in the church and being in ministry 03:44 just to encourage them in the scriptures. You know, just what 03:48 their needs are, my experience, etc., etc., and just do that on 03:52 one on one basis or sometimes with groups, in group settings, 03:55 I'll meet with people who are studying the Bible. Sometimes 03:59 it's programs on 3ABN and just kind of step in 04:01 and answer questions and stuff. 04:03 There you go. 04:04 So I just love doing that and I think it's really important for 04:05 us not just to preach and to teach but also to disciple along 04:09 side people and to get into their lives with them just to 04:12 nurture them. Yeah. 04:13 That's right. Jesus said make disciples of all nations. So 04:16 that's what we're doing. And we're excited. Man I'm excited 04:18 Like I told James before we started this interview that 04:21 we're doing now. He didn't know this but the 70-week prophecy 04:24 that's like my bread and butter brother. This is one of my 04:27 favorite prophecies. This is the one prophecy that really hooked 04:30 me in and just kind of wet my appetite to really study more 04:34 and it even further confirmed to me that I knew I was a part of 04:37 God's remnant church, the Seventh-day Adventist church. So 04:39 we got lots to talk about but because this is a little 04:43 different we're doing some Bible study along with this interview 04:46 and talking about your book. Would you mind having a prayer 04:48 for us my brother? 04:49 Let's pray. Father, we just want to thank you right now for this 04:51 opportunity. We want to think you for each viewer that's 04:54 listening. We want to thank you for the word that you've given 04:56 us and especially the connection between the books of Daniel and 05:01 Luke, the Old Testament prophecy of Daniel and the New Testament 05:04 gospel of Luke and how both of them point to the Messiah 05:07 directing our eyes to Jesus Christ. We just want to lift up 05:10 this program Father. We pray that it will be a light and a 05:14 blessing to many people drawing them to you. We pray these 05:17 things in Jesus' name, Amen. 05:21 Amen. Praise the Lord. All right So Messiah, the 70-Week Prophecy 05:25 and the Gospel of Luke. I have to ask you as the author because 05:29 we know that when a person takes the time to write a book and to 05:34 bring their thoughts and all that the Lord has given them and 05:36 put it into a book, there has to be an inspiration or a reason 05:39 behind why this topic or why this particular book. So let's 05:43 start there. 05:44 Well like you I'm a convert and I came into the Adventist church 05:47 from another denomination, specifically Catholic, but also 05:52 I was part of Calvary Chapel and a Pentecostal group for a while 05:54 before becoming a Seventh-day Adventist. I came into the 05:57 church like you did loving prophecy. My first prophetic 06:01 series that I attended was on Daniel. And it was a little 06:06 challenging for me, the 2300 day prophecy was a little 06:08 challenging but it was just amazing, incredible just to see 06:11 that thing just play out and hit all the right dates realizing it 06:17 was written you know hundreds of years before Christ came and 06:20 of course thousands of years before we are here today. So 06:23 but I always struggled just a little bit with identifying the 06:27 beginning date of the 2300-day prophecy which was 457 B.C. 06:30 I knew there were Bible verses but the history, like the 06:35 historical statements and as time went on I saw a lot of 06:40 people really coming against this prophecy. Not just people 06:42 you know outside of Adventism but people even inside of 06:45 Adventism coming up with different interpretations, 06:48 different applications, interpretations that had some 06:52 weight but didn't seem to be as sound. And then I saw Adventists 06:56 kind of slipping away here and there you know just saying no we 06:59 missed it on that. That was a face-saving idea. It was to save 07:03 1844; ah the 2300-day prophecy is not really what we thought it 07:06 was. (Right right) And I started just really praying about it 07:09 Ryan and I thought, you know there's got to be...If Satan is 07:13 coming, if the devil is coming to undermine the principle 07:17 truths of the Bible, especially those that are focused on the 07:20 Messiah, God must also have extra ammunition. He's got a 07:23 a little bit of extra stuff you know. (Right) There's got to be 07:27 something, there's got to be a way. And the thing for me that 07:30 was vital. I love our message but I really believe that every 07:35 doctrine that we teach should be established in Christ (Yes). 07:39 It should be established in Messiah. The foundation of our 07:43 doctrines is Christ, it's the character of God, not just some 07:47 theological idea that we've come up with you know or even a face 07:49 saving idea. It's a truth that points us to Jesus. And so I 07:55 started...I don't know how I... how it worked, but you know I 07:58 love Daniel, I love Revelation. I know that Daniel is a prophecy 08:05 that talks about Gabriel and for some reason this idea popped 08:10 into my head of Gabriel. And I thought Gabriel is mentioned by 08:15 name because people were talking to me about...I heard every once 08:18 in a while people talk about the two angels, Gabriel and you know 08:23 there's someone else and I'm like no there's only Gabriel. 08:24 There's Michael and there's Gabriel and that's it. You know 08:27 there's no other names, and I thought Gabriel, Gabriel, he's 08:31 mentioned in Daniel and then he's never mentioned again until 08:36 the book of Luke and in the book of Luke when he's mentioned he's 08:41 talking about the Messiah. Wait a minute. And all of a sudden a 08:42 light went on. I thought this is amazing, this Gabriel connection 08:46 There you go. 08:48 So one of the chapters in here is entitled The Gabriel...it's 08:51 the second chapter technically. The Gabriel Connection. I want 08:54 to come back to that real quickly because I know there's 08:56 probably someone who just tuned in and hear you using all this 08:59 language. Could you give us just the juiced quick version of what 09:04 is the 70-week prophecy. Okay because we're about to dive into 09:07 this, to talk about the Gabriel connection and all the different 09:09 points but what is the 70-week prophecy and why is it so 09:12 significant that we understand it? 09:14 The 70-week prophecy is a smaller bite size portion of a 09:19 large prophecy we call the 2300-day prophecy. And that 09:23 prophecy is established in Daniel 8, specifically verse 14. 09:25 Right? Unto 2300 days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed and 09:30 made right. And Daniel is beside himself. Like he's been giving 09:34 these prophecies. He's given the interpretation in Daniel 2, then 09:37 his own prophecy in Daniel 7, another one in Daniel 8 and this 09:40 thing comes out of nowhere for him because. You got to 09:44 understand Daniel's in captivity under the Babylonian power which 09:48 is about to fall. And you understand in Daniel 7 and 8 09:50 even though the Babylonian power has fallen already in Daniel 09:53 chapter 5 in Daniel 7 and 8 it hasn't because Daniel 7 and 8 09:57 are still under the reign of Belshazzar, right? So Daniel 10:01 knows that the Babylonian power is going to fall. According to 10:06 Jeremiah they were going to be in captivity for 70 years and he 10:09 knows that so he's anticipating that when he gets this vision 10:13 of this, 2300 days and then shall the sanctuary be made right or 10:17 cleansed. And he's thinking, the sanctuary, that's the earthly 10:21 sanctuary, 2300, wait a minute and he's sick about it. He's 10:23 like 2300 more days and in his mind he's struggling with the 10:29 idea that even be literal, he can't...Either way, it doesn't 10:33 make sense to him. And so he's sick, he doesn't get it. He's 10:36 thinking I thought we were going to be going back sooner than 10:38 this, now I thought...And he's really struggling. And so what 10:41 happens is in Daniel chapter 9 he begins to pray and you know 10:45 what I love about his attitude is Daniel basically says 10:50 something that a lot of theologians today aren't willing 10:51 to say. He says, God, I don't understand this. I don't get it. 10:55 I don't have the answer. This is confusing me. And whenever 10:58 you come to God with this attitude of you know teach me 11:00 and then he's fasting so he's got this humility of knowledge 11:04 and he's got this humility of attitude and this humility of 11:08 action. So his attitude is like one of confession and repentance 11:12 He's confessing his sins, the sins of his people and then the 11:17 whole prayer is predicated on God's glory. Like for your 11:20 name's sake. Father, I want you to show me this truth for your 11:23 name sake. Many times when we study the Bible we want to come 11:26 to an understanding of truth it's for our name's sake you 11:28 know so that we can be right and they can be wrong and we can 11:30 write our book and you know put them in their place. Daniel was 11:33 all about Messiah, he's all about Jesus, he's all about 11:36 God, he's all about God's kingdom, God's character. 11:38 And as he comes to God with these attitudes of okay the 11:41 attitude of humility of knowledge, humility of action, 11:43 fasting and praying, humility of attitude including himself with 11:48 the sins of others and then humility of motive. 11:50 Motive yeah I was looking at it right here in your book and 11:52 actually, I put a question here about this because how many 11:56 people misinterpret not just this prophecy but so much more 12:01 about Bible prophecy in general because they miss this humility 12:04 aspect. (Yes) It's all about them. It's all about their 12:09 knowledge and their...But they're not focusing on flipping 12:13 the script and humbling themselves before God in these 12:15 four ways that you brought out: Humility of knowledge, humility 12:18 of action, humility of attitude, humility of motive. That's a 12:22 mouthful. 12:23 Really Ryan and we could say that those found principles are 12:26 vital principles of prophetic understanding. (Yes) Right? Yes 12:30 Not necessarily interpretation but understanding because it's 12:34 not...he's simply trying to understand what God has revealed 12:39 to him in chapter 8. Right? And as he incorporates these 12:44 principles guess what happens. An angel comes and this angel 12:49 Daniel was told was sent to him when he started praying. So 12:53 we're talking about some...He was caused to fly swiftly is the 12:58 way the Bible puts it. To fly swiftly, whatever that means 13:01 right. Woof, he's there. And this angel actually says his 13:06 name, tells him who he is. I am Gabriel. (All right here we go) 13:12 And there's something really amazing about that because 13:15 that's...this is only one of the two times the name Gabriel is 13:20 used. I am Gabriel. And I've come to show you something. So 13:22 what he does is he breaks down the 2300-day prophecy, he breaks 13:27 it into these subsets and the first subset that he reveals to 13:29 Daniel is the 70 weeks. He says 70 weeks are cut off, determined 13:35 for your people, Daniel, for the Jews, right? And there are 13:38 things that are going to take place in the 70-week time 13:41 prophecy. In the first seven weeks the temple's going to be 13:44 built and the wall even in troublous times. And then 13:47 there's going to be seven weeks added to a 62 weeks and with 13:51 that combination, 62 and 7 which is 69, Messiah's going to come. 13:55 And He's going to be anointed, that word Messiah means to 13:59 anoint right? And then in the 70th week in the last week of 14:03 that prophetic time period Messiah's going to be cut off 14:05 right in the middle of that week He's going to be cut off. Not 14:08 for Himself, right, but for the people. In other words, this is 14:13 pointing to the cross, it's pointing to Calvary. So what we 14:15 see in the 70-week prophecy is we see the prediction of Messiah 14:19 being born, baptized and crucified for us and all of this 14:25 takes place in a subset of the 2300-day prophecy that is 14:28 specifically determined or cut off, given to the Jewish nation. 14:32 Yes, that's a beautiful. There you go. I think that was like 14:35 70 weeks in like four or five minutes. That's tough to do 14:39 because it's a big prophecy. But let's go back now to this 14:42 Gabriel connection because that's where you kind of launch 14:43 us. And I have to admit man I have studied this prophecy 14:46 through and through. Of course I knew Gabriel is mentioned in 14:49 Daniel and I knew Gabriel is mentioned in the book of Luke 14:51 but I never made the connection like you did in your book 14:54 brother, it was genius. (Me too) It's powerful to see that the 14:57 two times that Gabriel is mentioned it's in connection 15:01 with the fulfillment of this prophecy. 15:03 Well the second time was the fulfillment and the first time 15:06 was the prediction. Prediction fulfillment. 15:08 You actually said here last part of this book I'm reading it says 15:09 In Daniel, Gabriel comes to foretell. In Luke, he comes to 15:14 announce, confirming that what he had foretold to Daniel is 15:17 about to happen. 15:19 God does that, you know God does that, right? He reveals a 15:24 connection that we haven't seen for years. This book was first 15:26 published several years ago. I'd never seen the connection before 15:30 that time just like you. I'd never seen the connection before 15:31 that time, right? God opens up to our minds things that we 15:35 hadn't seen before and all of a sudden it clicks and I think the 15:39 reason He's doing that is because He really wants to firm 15:41 up this understanding of this prophecy you know. Sir Isaac 15:45 Newton called the 70-week prophecy in Daniel chapter 9 15:48 the foundation of Christianity, right? 15:51 So we know this is vital. We know 15:53 Satan is upset with this prophecy because it points to Jesus. 15:57 Not just Him coming, but it also points to what He was 15:59 going to accomplish for us and we'll get into that as we go on. 16:02 That's another thing, just really quickly, because if you 16:04 remove the 70-week prophecy, of course there's other Messianic 16:07 prophecies describing His character, what He's going to 16:11 come do, all these different things. But the 70-week prophecy 16:14 this is the way I see it in my mind, it's the ultimate 16:17 confirmation because it provides that time frame. It's like God 16:20 is finally telling His people remember for 4000 years I've 16:24 been telling you that He's coming. Now I'm going to tell 16:27 you the exact year that He's going to arrive. It's so awesome 16:31 It's powerful. That's why I love this prophecy. All right so 16:36 Gabriel connection. Let's go from there. 16:38 So in Daniel chapter 9 you have Gabriel coming to Daniel and 16:42 actually announcing who he is. It's in Daniel chapter 9, verse 16:46 21. Yea, while I was speaking in prayer even the man Gabriel 16:50 whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning being caused to 16:53 fly swiftly touched me about the time of the evening oblation. 16:56 And then it goes on to say he informed me and talked with me 17:00 He said, Oh 17:01 Daniel, I am now come forth to give you skill and understanding 17:03 At the beginning of that supplication the commandment 17:05 came forth and I am come to show thee for thou art greatly 17:07 beloved. Therefore understand the matter and consider the 17:09 vision. So here Gabriel is mentioned by name. Now it's 17:14 really interesting: You find Gabriel mentioned by name in 17:19 Daniel and Daniel only. And we know that Daniel comes later in 17:24 the Old Testament. You know it's a book that was written you know 17:27 just a few hundred years before Messiah comes, right? And then 17:30 it's like Gabriel, God puts him on a siesta. Now I'm not saying 17:34 he wasn't active, it's just that his name was never brought forth 17:37 His name was never mentioned until you get to the actual 17:41 fulfillment of the thing he predicted. He predicts Messiah's 17:45 going to come. As Messiah is about to be born Gabriel shows 17:49 up again. Gabriel by name shows up again. And I think that is 17:54 deliberate on God's part. God is trying to make a connection 17:57 here. He's trying to show us that the very thing he predicted 17:59 in Daniel, chapter 9 is now being fulfilled in Luke chapters 18:03 1 and 2 and 3 where Gabriel comes to inform Elizabeth and 18:08 inform Mary and then we see of course, Christ being born and 18:12 we see Him being baptized at a specific time in history. Now 18:17 this is what I love about the book of Luke. When you connect 18:20 Daniel and Luke, Daniel is a historic book based on prophecy, 18:25 right? So it's all kinds of history in here but it's not 18:28 like days and dates and kings and names. Not really. I mean 18:32 you actually have Augustus Caesar and Tiberius Caesar identified 18:36 in Daniel chapter 11 verses 20 and 21, but not by name. But 18:41 then you get to Luke. Luke is now fleshing out this prophecy 18:45 and he's putting dates and names years and people into the 18:51 prophecies of Daniel. So we get into Luke, John doesn't do it. 18:55 Matthew doesn't do it, Mark doesn't do it. Luke's the only 18:58 one. He's the historian. He's the historian, right? And he 19:01 starts naming stuff. Let's just 19:04 look in Luke chapter 1 or chapter 2 I should say. In Luke 19:09 chapter 2 where we find Luke... And the book of Luke begins with 19:14 this declaration to a noble person. This is something that 19:19 is for noble people to understand, I was an eye witness 19:23 of this. I want to give you a detailed record of what happened 19:25 And then in Luke chapter 2 he says, verse 1, It came to pass 19:30 in those days there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that 19:34 all the world should be taxed. And this taxing was first made 19:37 when Quirinius the governor of Syria and then verse 3: And all 19:41 went to be taxed, everyone to his own city and Joseph also 19:44 went from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judea unto 19:49 the city of David which is called Bethlehem because he was 19:53 of the lineage of David to be taxed with who? Verse 5. Mary 19:57 his espoused wife who was great with child. Who was that child? 20:03 Jesus. So now we know according to Luke's gospel when Jesus was 20:09 born. He was born under the reign of Augustus Caesar right? 20:14 And this is exactly what we see in prophetic language in Daniel 20:18 but there's no names. There's no actual history. Now we can look 20:22 up the reign of Augustus Caesar. We can know when he began his 20:24 reign, when he ended his reign. When was that? Ah ha. Jesus was 20:27 born under Caesar Augustus, right? Then you go over to Luke 20:30 chapter 3 and you see a transition now taking place from 20:34 Augustus Caesar to Tiberius Caesar. Now in the fifteenth 20:37 year of reign of Tiberius Caesar Pontius Pilot being governor of 20:40 Judea, etc., right? So this is his earmark. This is what Luke 20:46 is famous for. Luke is famous for nailing down the dates. God 20:49 inspired him to do that for our sake. Now you can go and you can 20:54 find the reign of Tiberius Caesar and you can know when it 20:57 began and when it ended. You can find the 15th year of Tiberius 21:00 Caesar and you can nail down the baptism of Jesus because...You 21:05 want me to keep going on this? (Oh absolutely) Because when you 21:09 get past this identification of the 15th year you follow the 21:12 verses up and you come to verse 22. It begins before that 21:17 because John in verse 16 is baptizing, right? And everyone's 21:20 coming in to be baptized and then we find that Jesus also 21:24 comes to be baptized. Verse 21: Now when all the people were 21:27 baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized and 21:31 praying that heaven was opened and the Holy Ghost descended in 21:34 a bodily shape like a dove upon Him and a voice came from heaven 21:38 which said, Thou art my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 21:42 So now you have Jesus being baptized in the 15th year of 21:47 Tiberius Caesar. Now when Jesus was baptized the Holy Spirit 21:50 comes Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit. That's what it 21:52 says in the verse here and it says that also in Acts. He's 21:55 anointed with the Holy Spirit and as He's anointed with the 21:57 Holy Spirit we have the fulfillment of this prophecy 22:02 that says after threescore and seven weeks shall Messiah come. 22:08 That word Messiah means the Anointed One. The Anointed One. 22:11 So you've got the seven weeks and threescore and two weeks. 22:13 You've got the 69 weeks. That's 483 days and of course we either 22:19 take that literally or prophetically. So we believe 22:20 that those are prophetic days not literal days because the 22:25 literal doesn't fit anything, it doesn't fit anything. Because 22:27 nothing actually happens but if you put the prophetic day/year 22:30 principle in there and you allow those to be prophetic days then 22:32 they become literal years. 22:33 Okay so where do we get the prophetic...Let's talk about 22:35 that because again someone watching at home listening to us 22:38 talk about this and they just heard you talk about turning 22:41 days into years or the prophetic day for year principle where do 22:44 we get that and what's the premise behind that? 22:45 Okay so the premise behind that is that God in a couple places 22:49 in the Bible like Ezekiel chapter 4 and verse 6 and 22:55 Numbers chapter 34 and verse 24... 23:00 Numbers 13:34 I think it is. Let's confirm it, let's 23:02 confirm it. That's a good point because I think it's Numbers 13 23:05 verse 34. Okay you go to Numbers 13 verse 34 and I'll go to 23:08 Numbers 34:24. 23:11 Okay, there you go. So this is important because if you get 23:14 if you can't get the time frame right, get that principle right, 23:17 then your whole vision is thrown off. So Numbers 13 and I believe 23:21 it's verse 34. According to the number of days in which you spied 23:26 out the land, 40 days, for each day you shall bear your guilt 23:30 one year namely 40 years and you shall know my rejection. So 23:36 there's the year for day principle in Numbers chapter 13 23:38 verse 34 and then when you get to Ezekiel, I think it's chapter 23:41 4 verse 10... 23:42 It's not 13:34 though is it? 23:44 Oh, it is 14:34. (14:34) We're going to get it right one day. 23:46 (Gotcha) Numbers chapter 14 verse 34. Write that down my 23:50 friend. And that's a proof text for the fact that you see the 23:53 year/day principle or the day for a year principle applied 23:57 there and then the next one I think is Ezekiel chapter 4 verse 24:00 6 (Yes) I have given you a day for a year. 24:03 So we look at that principle and we use that in prophetic time if 24:09 it fits. Sometimes it doesn't fit. Noah preached for 120 years 24:12 They were 120 literal years. (right) It wasn't a day for a 24:16 year. So we look at that principle and we apply it if it 24:18 fits, whoo well it does. Because when you have Jesus being 24:23 baptized in the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar that ends up 24:27 being 27 A.D. and you have historical accounts right? You 24:31 can Google references and I put about five of them in there. 24:32 Yes, yes I saw that. That's actually one of the things that 24:35 I noted here is that in the book that James has written, Messiah 24:40 The 70-Week Prophecy and the Gospel of Luke you actually 24:42 provide the historical sources for support of this 27 A.D. time 24:49 which is crucial (It is) Because it's incredible because when I 24:54 was, and I want to talk about this but this particular 24:57 prophecy is used and misinterpreted by a lot 24:59 of Evangelical Christians to support a futurist, at least the 25:03 last week which we're going to talk about, is used to support 25:06 a futurist understanding of the unfolding of prophetic events. 25:09 Past this, you know, preach the rapture theory, past the rapture 25:14 and all these things, and we're not here to talk about that, but 25:16 yet if you get the timing wrong then you also get the dates 25:20 wrong you know they don't line up. It doesn't make sense. Now 25:22 you open the door for what they've done. You start hacking 25:25 away at the prophecy and applying it to someone or 25:28 something else and it doesn't belong. In this case, I love how 25:30 you emphasize in this book that it's all about Christ. 25:33 Everything points to Jesus Christ and so I love the 25:36 historical evidence that you provided in here, the sources 25:39 that we can go look up and see how that date is solidified. 25:43 Another thing and I know I won't talk about this, I'm just 25:45 excited about this. I've never seen anyone take on this 25:48 prophecy and start calculating the timing (in the New 25:52 Testament) from the yeah well not just in the New Testament 25:54 but from 27 A.D. and working backward and forward. In this 25:59 case you confirmed the dates but establishing 27 A.D. first. Most 26:02 people start with you know from the going forth of the command 26:05 to restore and build Jerusalem which is verse 25 of Daniel 26:08 chapter 9. We usually start in kind of a chronologic way, not 26:11 necessarily a wrong way to do it but yet I love the way you did 26:15 it because it places the emphasis immediately on Christ. 26:17 Why don't we go and find the legitimate time in which this 26:21 is all about the Messiah, the arrival of the Messiah, the 26:24 anointing of the Messiah, the work that He's coming to do and 26:26 then from there do the math back, do the math forward, and it 26:29 all adds up. I love that book, I love it. 26:31 So beautiful isn't it? And that's really how God has done 26:34 it. What's really interesting is this. You know God in his 26:37 fore knowledge knew that the 457 date might be a little difficult 26:40 challenging for some people. It was for me. But the A.D. 27 date 26:44 is rock solid, right? And it's not just rock-solid in 26:49 historical references. You can find historical references. 26:50 It's rock solid in the Bible. Luke here is telling us that 26:54 in the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar Jesus Christ was 26:57 Messiahed, He was anointed, he was filled with the Holy Spirit 27:00 He was baptized and anointed. That's the fulfillment of the 27:03 very prophecy, the very thing that Daniel predicted that 27:07 Gabriel told Daniel was going to happen. Now you start walking 27:11 backwards and in the book we did we walked backwards, started 27:14 with A.D. 27 and we just start walking...I mean I want to be 27:17 legit. Let's walk backward every single year, just walk this 27:20 count backwards and what you do when you count it backwards 27:23 is you come to...understanding the year zero goes from A.D. 1 27:29 to B.C. 1 so you're going right to there. Taking that into 27:32 consideration you walk backward 483 years from 27 A.D. and you 27:36 come to 457 B.C. 27:39 Something had to happen in 457. And I just want to go back here 27:42 for a moment because you mentioned that some people may 27:45 find the 457 date problematic. I mean a lot of people go to a 27:48 completely different date and it's based on the fact that 27:50 there are four different decrees given between Ezra and Nehemiah 27:54 and some people choose one of those other ones but there's 27:56 only one that fits the 457 date and that's Ezra 7. So and you 28:00 bring that out in the book. By the way. I just got to mention 28:02 this. If you're just now tuning in we're talking with Pastor 28:04 James Rafferty about this incredible, powerful prophecy 28:08 of the 70-week prophecy found in Daniel chapter 9 and the 28:11 connection that we find in the gospel of Luke. I've read the 28:17 book. My friends look. You may be like me. I'm not a big reader 28:18 I mean I like to read when I'm in the mood to read but I'm not 28:20 a big reader. It's a quick read. I think I read this thing in 28:24 like an hour and it's only like 47 pages but it's packed with 28:27 just so much incredible knowledge in regard to this 28:31 prophecy, the importance of this prophecy and of course it's all 28:33 about Jesus Christ. And I just want to give you a little bit of 28:37 a tease heads up, on how you can get this book and we're going 28:39 going to talk about this before the program ends but you want 28:42 to call 3ABN. Call our call center (618) 627-4651. Again 28:48 that number right there on your screen (618) 627-4651 and it'll 28:55 prompt you to connect with the call center. Call our 3ABN call 28:59 center and ask for I'm going to tell you, not just one copy. Get 29:03 as many copies as you can because this is a great 29:05 evangelistic tool. There's a lot of people out there that are 29:10 questioning is Jesus Christ really the Messiah or He just 29:11 some fairy tale book character from the Bible that people just 29:15 run with. This proves historically and without a doubt 29:18 biblically that only Jesus Christ could complete this 29:23 prophecy, be the one to fulfill this prophecy and of course be 29:26 the true and real Messiah. So I just want to stop there. Again 29:29 call that number, call the call center and we're going to get 29:31 you as many copies as you'd like Well, let's go from there James. 29:34 Let's continue on in our conversation. You just nailed 29:36 down the fact that if we go from 27 A.D. We do the proper, proper 29:41 calculations, it's backward 483 years back from 27 A.D. it 29:45 undoubtedly leads us to 457 B.C. 29:48 Yep, yep. So we got the timeline but it fits the timeline. Then 29:54 we've got the history, all right The history fits because you've 29:56 got Luke the historian confirming the prophecy that 30:00 Daniel predicted. So you've got two factors here that are vital. 30:04 But there's two more that we need to look at and that is the 30:06 content of the prophecy. This is where it really to me is 30:12 powerful and beautiful. A lot of people will kind of overlook 30:15 this when they're studying the 2300-day prophecy. I see a lot 30:18 of people...I'm not talking about a lot of different people 30:20 I'm talking about a lot of Adventist people right? Because 30:23 we're in the Adventist church. We talk to Adventists and we do 30:26 evangelism and there's something about the 2300-day prophecy that 30:29 causes us to emphasize the timeline and not the actual 30:35 actions that are taking place in it, like the events that are 30:38 taking place, the purpose of it right? If we could really nail 30:41 down the purpose and really emphasize the purpose I think a 30:46 lot more people wouldn't have any problem with the timeline. 30:47 I'm going to tell you why I believe that. I was in Pakistan 30:51 doing a series of meetings, an evangelism series of meetings, 30:53 for pastors. So I was preaching to about 300 pastors. Now the 30:59 first time I went there were 200 and some pastors there, most of 31:02 them were...120 were Pentecostal and I was in the city of Lahore 31:06 Lahore, Pakistan. This was in 1997 or 97, 98 excuse me. I 31:12 went back in 99. I was there in 97 and planted seeds. There were 31:15 about 12 pastors and we had a little study on Revelation and 31:19 they wanted more. So I went back to Lahore in 97 or in 98 31:23 In 98 we started going through I had four days, four meetings a 31:28 day. We started going through Daniel and Revelation and we got 31:31 to Daniel chapters 7, 8, and 9, excuse me, Daniel 8 and 9. And 31:37 we got into the 2300...Aww, all these power points up there you 31:39 know and all the dates and everything. I went through the 31:43 whole thing and as I was going through the prophecy, you know, 31:47 it wasn't the timeline that impressed them. What would 31:50 impress them is when we got to these verses in Daniel chapter 31:53 9 where it says that He is going to make an end of sins and 31:59 reconciliation for iniquity and bringing everlasting 32:01 righteousness, seal up the vision of prophecy and after 32:03 threescore, verse 26, and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off 32:06 but not for Himself. And I was explaining that this was talking 32:09 about Christ and this was talking about how He came to do 32:12 away with their sins and our transgressions and our 32:15 iniquities, how He came to bring in everlasting righteousness 32:17 because we can't save ourselves how He came to establish the 32:21 vision and to establish the prophecy, the timeline and the 32:23 contents, right? It's not just the prophetic timeline but it's 32:26 the vision itself. What is the vision telling us is going to 32:29 happen? He's going to make an end of sins, and reconciliation 32:31 for transgression, do away with iniquity. Who else can do that? 32:34 I was emphasizing all that and then I got to verse 26 where it 32:37 says He's going to be cut off but not for Himself. And I 32:40 explained cut off is a term that means second death, it means He 32:45 was dying for the sins of the world, it's a soul sacrifice, 32:48 Isaiah 53, and I pointed that all out. And you know in 32:50 Pakistan I'm speaking and then there's a translator translating 32:54 into Urdu. So I'm speaking, I'm talking about this, He shall be 32:59 cut off but not for Himself and then he translates and the 33:04 Pentecostal pastors, like 120 of them were standing up and 33:09 they're raising their hands and they're praising God and they're 33:10 doing all this, there's just all this commotion is going on. And 33:14 I'm like...And we had to stop. What's going on? Well the guy 33:16 that was, Ezekiel Zerro, he was translating me, he was their 33:21 pastor, he was like the Billy Graham of Pakistan. Cool guy. 33:25 He was a song writer, he was a singer, he was just...you would 33:28 have loved him. He passed way tragically in a car accident. 33:30 But he was such an amazing... And he knew his Bible so well. 33:35 Better than all the Adventist preachers that whenever I did 33:38 meetings where he was I would always have him translate for me 33:41 He was just right there with me. 33:42 He probably knew where you were going before you did. 33:44 He knew it. He knew the word. He was just like Yes, I got it, 33:46 I got. Go over the outline. Yes, yes, I got it. So I said what's 33:50 happening? He said he said just wait a minute I'll find out. And 33:53 so he asked you know and he said Oh he said they are so excited 33:57 They have never heard this before. They've never heard 34:00 anything like this before. They thought that these verses 34:05 applied to the antichrist. That's what they thought and 34:07 they've never heard anything like this. And they said it 34:10 makes sense then. But, he said, they want you to do the meeting 34:14 again and they want you to go slower and they want to ask 34:18 questions. They want to know what do you mean day-for-a-year 34:20 right? So we were talking about Ezekiel 4:6, Numbers 14:34. What 34:26 about the day-for-a-year. We've never heard this before. And 34:29 Messiah being cut off. That's in Daniel. Messiah, that's Jesus? 34:34 And so the next night, I was up all night just doing more Power 34:38 Point, more details, or whatever. The next day we went through 34:40 this slowly and they loved it. And they said you know just a 34:44 few weeks ago we had a pastor from America come in to Lahore 34:48 and give us a series on basically left behind, and the 34:52 antichrist and applying the 70th week to the end of time. And 34:54 they said this is completely different and they said we 34:58 really believe that what you're saying here is what is, this is 35:02 See right there, man. You just touched a nerve with me. I grew 35:05 up evangelical. I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. I haven't 35:08 always been a Seventh-day Adventist. This prophecy is the 35:13 one that really got me because even when I was in those 35:16 churches and I was being taught the left behind series, the 35:19 pretribulation rapture theory you know all this futurist stuff 35:22 antichrist coming in the middle of the week and he's going to 35:25 stop you know the sacrifices in the newly built temple, all this 35:28 stuff, there was just something off about it and even in my 35:32 teenage mind as a young boy and I didn't fully understand it but 35:35 I just knew something didn't seem right that when I'd read 35:40 Daniel 9 it seemed like there was a clear connection between 35:43 all of the texts but yet there was this thing called a gap 35:46 theory where they were taking the last week that only Jesus 35:49 Christ can fulfill but I didn't know that at the time where they 35:53 isolate that last week, they bring it down to the end of time 35:54 and this is where it touches a nerve with me because the vast 35:57 majority of Christianity today some of them not really knowing 36:00 they're doing it, some probably know it but just are going with 36:04 the agenda, they're taking the glory away from Christ and 36:09 placing it on some antichrist. It's so sad my brother and 36:12 that's why this prophecy is so important that we understand 36:14 it. I'm glad that you've written this book. I'm glad that we're 36:17 talking about this because we need to set the record straight 36:19 Only Jesus Christ can confirm the covenant, only Jesus Christ 36:22 can take away sins, He's the only one that can be cut off. 36:24 And so I'm glad that you're talking just keep going... 36:29 It's beautiful, it's powerful and it's amazing really when you 36:32 look at this...Let me just transition now from this to the 36:37 final. We've looked at the time frame, you know the prophetic 36:40 time frame, we've looked at the historical confirmation of that 36:44 time frame in the book of Luke of course with references to 36:46 history that were in the book and now we look at the content 36:49 in other words, the application to Christ. He's the only one 36:51 that can make reconciliation for iniquity and bring in 36:55 everlasting righteousness and you know make an end of sins 36:57 and then now the last things we want to do is we want to make 37:01 now another connection to the New Testament. Does the New 37:05 Testament confirm post-Christ, post-resurrection, confirm this 37:11 time prophecy? Okay, I want us to look at least one verse 37:14 Now there's many verses in the New Testament, they're all over, 37:17 but this one is found in Romans chapter 5. Do you know where 37:20 I'm going? 37:22 Now the reason why I love these verses is because they've always 37:28 been some of my favorite verses in the Bible because just of 37:31 what they communicate. But there's a little tidbit in here 37:34 that actually ties in exactly what we've read in Daniel 37:37 chapter 9 with the events that are going to be fulfilled by 37:43 Christ along with the time prophecy itself. It's like Paul 37:46 is just juicing it all down to just putting...the whole thing 37:50 is just like boom right here. It's Romans chapter 5 verses 37:54 6-10. You've got to read these really slowly, right, and get 38:00 all the meaning that's in here. 38:02 There's some context clues that pop out. 38:05 Yes, okay. Starting with verse 6. For when we were yet without 38:08 strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely 38:15 for a righteous man would one die yet peradventure for a good 38:18 man, some would even dare to die. But God commended His love 38:23 toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. 38:27 Much more than being now justified by His blood we shall 38:34 be saved from wrath through Him for if when we were enemies we 38:39 were reconciled to God by the death of His Son much more being 38:44 reconciled we shall be saved by His life. You know these words 38:50 are almost being quoted from Daniel. He shall make 38:53 reconciliation for iniquity. I mean He shall bring in 38:58 everlasting righteousness which is how we're justified. But the 39:00 key verse here, I mean the key phrase here that many of us 39:03 don't look at because we're so gospel-focused in the New 39:05 Testament which is beautiful but we got to remember that the New 39:08 Testament is not just about the gospel, it's also about prophecy 39:11 it's also about timeline. In due time. And that word there that 39:17 phrase there means at the set time. That's what the Greek 39:21 means, at the set time. God set a time for Messiah to come. In 39:27 fact I'll challenge our viewers just go through the New 39:29 Testament now, go read in John, and read in Luke, read and look 39:33 for these phrases where Jesus says My time has not yet come. 39:40 And then He says, My time has come. You know and then he 39:44 warned in Luke chapter 21 and we can look at this, He warns there 39:47 are going to be false Christs that are going to say the time 39:49 is at hand, pointing to the future which is I think the 39:52 whole idea of left behind. The time...That's the set or 39:56 appointed time. The time the Christ fulfilled, the time that 39:59 Paul said was set when He reconciled us, justified us, 40:02 right, by his death, the time that was predicted by Daniel 40:05 the time that Jesus early in His ministry hasn't come yet 40:09 and the time that Jesus later in His ministry has come, right, 40:14 is a time that according to Luke's gospel people are going 40:16 say into the future. You've got the whole thing right there 40:19 I mean, there it is. We're not just talking about Daniel, we're 40:21 not just talking about Luke, we're not just talking about the 40:23 history, we're talking here not even just about what Christ has 40:26 accomplished. We're talking here about clear confirmation in the 40:30 New Testament of this set time. 40:32 You even have it in the fact that you know the record of the 40:34 gospel shows multiple times when the devil tried to kill Christ 40:37 multiple times you know through the Pharisees before his 40:42 appointed but He somehow miraculously escaped. It wasn't 40:45 His time. It wasn't His time yet 40:47 The set time had not come. And this is all through the New 40:49 Testament. So what I'd like to say to our viewers and of course 40:52 all the verses are in the book is that this prophecy is not 40:59 just predictive, right, it is confirmed. It is not just shown 41:04 historically but the historical references are in the Bible. 41:07 Right here in the Bible. And it is not just about a time 41:11 prophecy. Seventh-day Adventists listen up closely. This is not 41:13 just about a time prophecy. This is about a Messiah. This is 41:18 about the man who came to be one with us for all eternity, who 41:22 became part of the human race, became the Son of Man for all 41:23 eternity. God becoming a man in the person of Jesus Christ. Not 41:28 considering it something to be held onto to be equal with God 41:30 but emptied Himself of His divinity and taking on the form 41:34 of a man and coming in the form of man, becoming a servant. And 41:39 not only becoming a servant but becoming obedient, not only 41:41 obedient but obedient unto death and not only unto death but even 41:46 the death of the cross, right? This is Philippians chapter 2 41:48 the seven steps that Christ took to redeem us. Philippians 41:53 chapter 2 verse 5 all the way down to 8 and then going on, God 41:56 is going to highly exalt Him and give Him the name which is above 41:59 every name. At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every 42:01 tongue shall confess. This is about Messiah. This is about 42:04 Jesus. And of course the devil wants to come in and apply this 42:07 to someone else and to something else way down the end of time. 42:10 Because at the end of time when this doesn't happen a lot of 42:14 people are going to be dumbfounded and even had been 42:16 that you know and all this time they could have been directed to 42:19 Messiah and what He accomplished for us, the seven tasks that 42:23 have been accomplished in Daniel chapter 7 fulfilled and we could 42:27 go through all the verses and show how each one of those tasks 42:29 were fulfilled and confirmed in the New Testament. Just a 42:31 beautiful picture. 42:34 That's powerful, that's powerful So we're getting down to the 42:36 last few minutes here but I want you to talk about and I thought 42:38 this was interesting, may not be much interesting for others but 42:40 I like patterns but I want you to talk about this Messiah 42:43 temple, because when you're looking at Daniel 9 verses 24 42:48 through 27 I really, really liked here in your book I think 42:51 it's the title on the Mes... Let's see where is it. It's the 42:54 one on clarification. So you're clarifying some things and you 42:57 show here this interesting breakdown of the verses from 43:02 verse 24 to 27 how there's these verses that clearly are speaking 43:06 to the Messiah and then those pertaining to the Jerusalem 43:09 temple or the results of them rejecting the Messiah. So talk a 43:13 little bit about the breakdown of how you came up with this. 43:16 I thought it was pretty cool. 43:17 Okay so you have a prophetic outline basically and the 43:20 prophetic outline is in Daniel chapter 7 (sic) verses 24 to 27 43:25 basically, God has told Daniel through Gabriel that this 43:29 prophecy applies to two things, the Messiah and the Temple. 43:32 Because Daniel is all about the temple being rebuilt That's what 43:34 his whole focus is. And Gabriel wants to direct him not just 43:38 to the temple but to the thing that the temple symbolized which 43:42 was the sacrifice. The temple is all about the sacrifice, that's 43:45 Messiah. So a lot of people when they read these verses they're 43:49 focusing on thing or maybe even the other thing. They're 43:51 focusing on the temple itself or they're focusing on the 43:53 antichrist and they're not focusing on Christ and the 43:56 temple, Christ and the temple, Christ and the temple. So in 43:59 every verse you have a prophetic prediction of the temple and a 44:03 prophetic prediction of Christ. Let's break it down. The first 44:05 verse is verse 24 and it basically says that Messiah is 44:10 going to finish transgression, He's going to make an end of sin 44:12 He's going to make reconciliation for iniquity and 44:15 He's going to bring in everlasting righteousness. He's 44:18 going to seal the vision and the prophecy and He's going to 44:20 anoint the Most Holy. All right. Those are the seven tasks and I 44:22 think they parallel or connect with Revelation chapter 10 and 44:25 the seven thunders. We'll get into that later. The little book 44:27 was opened, the little book of Daniel was opened and John's 44:32 like I get it. Finally, that's what it was talking about. 44:36 Because I think that Jews actually thought this prophecy 44:37 applied to them. Like they needed to do away with the 44:40 iniquity before the 70 weeks was up. 44:42 That's the way I interpreted it years ago. I thought man the 44:43 Jews are going to do all these things. That's impossible. But 44:46 all things are possible only through Christ and so the 44:48 Messiah's going to perform those things. 44:50 The Messiah right? Exactly, Okay And then the last part of this 44:53 verse also says or excuse me the first part of this verse also 44:57 says 70 weeks are determined upon my people and upon my Holy 44:59 City. So you have the Holy City and you have Messiah, okay? 45:03 That's the first interpretation, verse 24. Then you go to verse 45:06 25. Messiah, it says, know therefore and understand that 45:09 from the going forth of the command to restore and build 45:12 Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince, there'll be seven weeks 45:15 and 62 weeks. Right. So that's Messiah again. Then you go to 45:19 the temple. The streets shall be built again and the wall even in 45:22 troublous times. Now notice that there's a division here between 45:26 the seven weeks and 62. The seven weeks are allotted to that 45:30 phrase there the streets shall be built again and the wall in 45:34 troublous times. 45:35 Hey I'm glad that you explained that. I'm going to let you 45:37 explain it further because a lot of people get a little confused 45:38 by the time they get to verse 26 and after the 62 weeks 45:42 Messiah shall be cut off but not for Himself. They think wait a 45:44 second I thought it was 69, you know 69 weeks and at the 45:48 beginning of that 70th. But yet you're showing how there's a 45:50 separation, the seven then the 62 weeks comprise... 45:54 You know when you have a full plate of food sometimes it's 45:58 good to cut it up in little bites, you know what I'm saying? 46:00 And this is what he continues to do. Gabriel continues to break 46:05 off these little sections to get up to understand. But what's 46:08 really interesting is when you break off these little sections 46:10 and you see how they were fulfilled, how Jerusalem and the 46:14 temple was built you know in the New Testament it says 45 years 46:17 we built. Well you know 7 x 7 is 49 prophetic days that's 49 years 46:22 right. So the Jews confirmed this. They say it was 45 years 46:25 so we know that within the 49 years this temple was rebuilt, 46:29 this city and its walls were built even in troublous times. 46:30 You look at the book of Nehemiah you look at the book of Ezra and 46:34 you realize it was troublous times but they were able to 46:36 rebuild. So that's why it's broken off. But it's not broken 46:39 off from the timeline that points us down to Messiah 46:42 because we've already been told 69 weeks. Now what we do is we 46:46 say seven weeks and 62 weeks and put them together, right? No 46:48 problem right there. Then verse 25. Verse 25 says Know therefore 46:52 and understand from the going forth, oh we did verse 25. Verse 46:56 26 okay. Messiah shall be cut off but not for Himself. There's 47:00 Messiah and then the temple. And the people of the prince who 47:02 shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary and the 47:07 end shall be with a flood till the end of the war. Desolations 47:10 are determined. Alright so Messiah was cut off, that's A.D. 47:14 31, Jesus Christ was crucified right. And then A.D. 70 a prince 47:19 comes, a Roman prince right and he destroys the city and the 47:24 temple. He desolates it. Not one stone left upon another. We're 47:27 just quoting from the New Testament now, right? And this 47:29 is historical, we know this. Josephus plead with the Jews, 47:34 even Titus plead with the Jews. We don't want to destroy your 47:36 temple but the prophecy said that the temple's going to be 47:38 destroyed. It's interesting how human politics can't stop Bible 47:41 prophecy right? Bible prophecy is going to be fulfilled even 47:44 though human politics tries to step in there and stop because 47:48 the Romans had invested in this temple. They didn't want to 47:50 destroy it right. And it says here and this is the key and 47:54 this is the challenge I have to all the evangelical friends and 47:58 it will lay desolate until the consummation. It will lay 48:00 desolate until the consummation. So when you look at that you 48:05 realize and this is verse 27 which lets read it here. Then, 48:09 verse 27, he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week 48:11 In the middle of the week He shall bring an end to 48:14 sacrifice and offering. And that's Messiah again. So he dies 48:19 in the middle of the week, we've read that in verse 26. Verse 27 48:22 is just reiterating now. In the middle of the week he confirms 48:26 the covenant for one week and in the middle of the week he brings 48:28 an end to sacrifice and offering When Jesus died the curtain of 48:31 the temple was rent in two from top to bottom. Not from bottom 48:34 to top, from top to bottom. That was a divine hand that was 48:39 signaling the end of sacrifice, the end of those sacrificial 48:41 services. The Lamb, the Passover lamb had just been slain. The 48:46 fulfillment of all of those types had just come and then it 48:48 says in the end of verse 27 on the wing of abomination shall 48:51 be the one who makes desolate even until the consummation which 48:55 is determined and is poured out upon the desolate. So this last 48:58 phrase you've gone Messiah, temple, Messiah, temple, Messiah 49:01 temple, Messiah, temple, Messiah temple. This last phrase puts 49:03 the cherry on top for our evangelical friends. Listen that 49:06 temple's going to lay desolate until the very end. Till the 49:10 consummation, till the thousand year judgment, until that which 49:14 is determined is poured out upon the desolate. That temple's 49:17 laying desolate and just to confirm that God says I think 49:20 I'm going to put a mosque on that temple site. I think I'm 49:26 You're talking about the Dome of the Rock. 49:28 I'm going to allow a billion people a billion plus people to 49:30 be all about that mosque so that you know that I'm serious about 49:33 this prophecy. You know... 49:35 Talk about a gospel confirmation I mean this is exactly, verse 26 49:41 27 is where Jesus says you know as spoken by the prophet Daniel 49:47 You know the abomination of desolation as spoken by the 49:49 prophet Daniel. These are the texts, right here. And even 49:53 confirmed by Luke because when you see Jerusalem surrounded by 49:55 armies then you shall know your desolation is near. 49:59 So there it is right? It's going to lay desolate till the very 50:01 end. So we can rebuild that temple in our minds and our 50:05 theology. We can even have all the stones and everything ready 50:07 to put up there, but they're not going up. Not going up. That 50:11 mosque is not coming down. That temple is not going up. That's 50:13 what the Bible says and I believe in following the word of 50:15 God 100 percent. 50:17 Wow! Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. So we're going to be 50:20 taking a break in just a moment. We've got about a minute and 50:22 then we're going to take a little bit of break. We'll come 50:24 back to Pastor James for some final thoughts. My friends, 50:27 James's book The Messiah, it's entitled Messiah, the Seventy 50:31 Week Prophecy and the Gospel of Luke. That's what we've been 50:34 talking about the last hour. Powerful prophecy. It all points 50:38 to Jesus Christ, points to who He is, the timing of it all in 50:42 regards to only He being the one to fulfill not just the prophecy 50:45 but also what the prophecy is about. Just Christ coming to 50:49 save us, not from Rome's suppression at that time as the 50:53 Pharisees thought but obviously Christ came to save us from our 50:56 sin. This is a great evangelistic tool 50:59 I've been told that they're just asking for a suggested 51:03 donation of at least five dollars for this so it's an 51:05 inexpensive book. We have lots of them at the call center. 51:09 There's lots and lots of copies so you can call in and order as 51:12 many as you want, be handing these out. Hand these out to 51:16 your Jewish friends, evangelical friends, even your Seventh-day 51:18 Adventist friends because I know a lot of Seventh-day Adventists 51:22 that don't know the full truth and significance of this 51:23 prophecy. It's all made simple and clear for any and all ages 51:26 to read right here in this book. 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