WEBVTT 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:09.599 I invite you to open your Bibles now to the book of Daniel. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:14.400 Chapter twelve. 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:28.079 Of the progression in those songs that our soul is anchored in Christ. 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:36.079 And in light of that, we have victory over sin and the world and the flesh and the devil over death. 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:43.119 And then in light of that, we look forward to the day where we soar with Christ in worlds unknown. 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:48.320 And it's a fitting progression because that's what is covered in Daniel chapter 12. 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:56.159 Normally through the book of Daniel, we've just worked through the verses as we've gone through the sermon, what I call the read and ramble approach to preaching. 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:02.880 But tonight, it's 12 verses, or 13 verses, so I want to read them all for us before we begin. 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:04.560 Daniel 12, verse 1. 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:10.719 At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who is charged for your people. 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:16.159 And there shall be a time of trouble, such as has never been since there was a nation until that time. 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:19.200 But at that time your people will be delivered. 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:36.159 Every one whose name shall be found written in the book, and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt, and those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars for ever and ever. 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:42.079 But you, Daniel, shut up the words of these books, seal this book until the time of the end. 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:46.799 Many will run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase. 00:01:47.680 --> 00:02:00.879 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood on this bank of the stream, and one on that bank of the stream, and someone said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, How long shall it be until the end of these wonders? 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:13.120 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who's above the waters of the stream, he raised his right hand and his left hand towards heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and a half a time. 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:18.479 And that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end, all these things would be finished. 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:20.479 I heard, but I did not understand. 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:24.560 Then I said, O my Lord, what shall be the outcome of these things? 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:27.680 He said, Go your way, Daniel. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.120 For the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:41.199 Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:51.599 And from that time, from the regular burnt offering, and it's taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days. 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:56.879 Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days. 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:05.039 But go your way until the end, and you shall rest, and you shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days. 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:12.960 This is how the book of Daniel ends, and this closing chapter certainly has a theme to it, this theme of time. 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:16.240 Your time is ticking away. 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:20.719 Nothing is more precious to us than time. 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.759 Nothing in the world has more value than time. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:28.879 We understand that things get their value from the law of supply and demand. 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:33.280 When there is a large supply of something, the demand is limited. 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:37.360 And when there's large demand for something, supply itself is limited. 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:40.080 And as one grows, the other decreases. 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:44.319 Nothing proves that law more than the nature of time. 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.680 I mean, there is no more valuable commodity in the whole world than time, is there? 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:54.639 It's so valuable that you would sell all you had to get more of it. 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:56.639 But nothing can buy it. 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.360 Doesn't stop you from trying, though. 00:03:59.919 --> 00:04:04.159 Everything else you have in life possesses value inversely. 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:10.479 And what I mean by that is the value of everything else decreases as your time decreases. 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.759 If you have a lot of time, you might spend your money on things. 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:15.199 You might put value in money. 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:18.879 You might get this car or that house or whatever, if you had a lot of time. 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:26.639 If your time is limited, and you know that your time in life is about to run out, you would perhaps not value those things as much. 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.920 It reminds me of the way the Israelites were supposed to value their real estate. 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:35.040 Their real estate had value in as much as the calendar approached the year of Jubilee. 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:40.639 If it was close to the year of Jubilee, a real estate transaction was basically meaningless because you had to give the land back in a year. 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:46.160 Granted, the Israelites never followed that calendar, which is why they're an exile in the book of Daniel. 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:48.959 But that's the nature of time. 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:53.040 Listen, you can lose money in life. 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.759 And you can just make it back tomorrow. 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:02.399 You can get swindled on a, you know, by an electrician or something, but you'll make more money next week. 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:07.279 You can get sick, and then you can get healthy again. 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:11.279 You can lose your money, you can lose your health, you can recover both of those. 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:14.000 But if you lose time, you're never getting it back. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:14.959 Do you understand that? 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.360 There's no way to recover lost time. 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:18.720 It's gone. 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:24.399 Beyond that, you have been allotted only a certain amount of time. 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:29.839 And here's the real dagger in the heart is that you don't know how much time that is. 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:37.680 I mean, you can tell by external appearances how wealthy someone is in the worldly sense. 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.519 Or at least you can tell by external experiences how much debt they have. 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:45.040 You can see their car, you can see their house, you can see their clothes, man. 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.360 That guy's either really wealthy or really in debt. 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:49.839 And in our culture, more likely the latter. 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:56.399 But you can't tell from external experiences or external appearances how much time somebody has left. 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.399 There's no giveaways. 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:03.279 You think the person with stage four cancer has less time in life than you do? 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:06.160 You have no idea. 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:07.839 No idea at all. 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:18.399 Not only have you been allotted a certain amount of time, not only is it the most valuable thing that you have in this world, and have you only been given X amount of it, but beyond that, listen to this. 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:20.560 You're spending it right now. 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:23.600 Right now, there's a run in your bank account. 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:25.680 Right now it's being taken from you. 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.800 And so it's fitting that the book of Daniel ends with this description of time. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:36.800 Now there's two different times that are described in Daniel chapter 12. 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.199 There's two different streams of truth in this passage. 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:41.920 And we're going to try to swim in both of the streams tonight. 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.199 We're going to go back and forth between the two different clocks that Daniel has ticking down. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.480 I'm going to use the clock analogy here because it's basketball season right now. 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:52.000 There's a basketball game, some of you guys have watched, I'm sure. 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:54.480 And you know, in basketball, there's two different clocks. 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:56.639 There's the game clock, and then there's the shot clock. 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:03.120 And generally speaking, with two exceptions, the shot clock runs out first before the game clock. 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.000 And you strategize based on both of them. 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:08.560 And that's kind of what we have going on in Daniel chapter 12. 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.199 There's two different clocks that are ticking away. 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:14.319 But the theme in this chapter is certainly time. 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.879 And to point that, that's the most common word in Daniel 12. 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:18.480 The word time is, that's the most common word. 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.959 It's used, I don't know, eight or ten times in this chapter, depending on what English translation you're looking at. 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:26.319 But you see the beginning in verse 1, at that time shall arise Michael. 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:27.839 Obviously, this is the focus of the passage. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:29.199 It's going to be all about that time. 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:31.120 Verse 4, at the time of the end. 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.240 Verse 7, time, times, time point five. 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.439 Verse 9, shut this up, Daniel, until the end of time. 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.519 Verse 11, from that time forward. 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.000 I mean, it is the main refrain of this passage. 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:46.720 But the crux of this passage, the main point of it, is down in the middle of verse 5. 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:51.439 I, Daniel looked, and behold, two others stood, two different angels. 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:53.600 Remember, Daniel is having this in the Tigris River. 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:54.560 He's outside of Babylon. 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:58.800 He left Babylon to pray to God and get his answer and to stir up the exiles to go back. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:07.759 And he encounters this Theophany or Christophany, Christ, and an embodiment form, some kind, not an incarnation, but Christ in the appearance of a man and these angels that are with him. 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:09.439 And now he sees the angels again. 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.600 He sees the man dressed in white, the matching the description of Christ in Revelation 1. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.480 And he has a question for them in verse 6. 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:20.240 How long shall it be until the end of these wonders? 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:22.399 That's the main theme of this chapter. 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:23.439 It's all about time. 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:25.040 Daniel's at the end of his life here. 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:28.079 He's probably 85, 90 years old in that window. 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.240 And he has seen his time run out. 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:32.240 He has spent his life. 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:47.759 Born in the Judah Empire, raised there, at 14 or so, taken to the Babylonian Empire, raised the rest of his life there, serving with distinction there, becoming the prime minister. 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:52.559 Then the Persian Empire, being the prime minister there in his 80s, and now he's walked away from that. 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.240 He's just what he's given it all up. 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:56.080 He's walked away out in the wilderness. 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.879 We don't know if he ever gets back to Babylon, likely not. 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:03.440 I mean, it seems reasonable enough that he dies after this, after writing this book. 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:06.720 His time is up. 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.519 And that's why this chapter closes with this question about time. 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:12.960 Verse 5, how long? 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:15.600 And then verse 6, how long shall it be? 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:18.159 How much time do we have left here? 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:21.120 You can almost hear the tick tock in this chapter. 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:25.840 You can almost see the hourglass slipped over in the sand running out. 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.799 I'm gonna follow these two clocks tonight. 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:29.759 Let me give you an outline. 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:31.519 Two clocks that are ticking away. 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:34.720 Apologies to DC talk for stealing that lyric. 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:39.759 You old school 90 Christian rockers get that joke. 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.480 Your first shot clock that's ticking down. 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:43.759 Israel's time of judgment. 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.600 Israel's time of judgment is numbered. 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:47.519 God has fixed Israel's time of judgment. 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.480 That's the main stress in this chapter, verse one at that time. 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.720 That time here, the antecedent is chapter 11, which is the abomination of desolation. 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:58.159 Remember, chapter 11 is giving you this massive survey. 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.039 Daniel's prayer is how come the exile's not over? 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.519 You've called us to return, but the Israelites are still out. 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:06.879 Wait, is this you know 400, 450 BC out there? 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:09.039 The Israelites are still wasting away in captivity. 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:11.360 They're not going back to Jerusalem like they were told to go back. 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:12.720 Daniel's trying to shoo them back. 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:13.919 Ezra is trying to draw them back. 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.399 So the Rubble is trying to drive them back. 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:18.399 Cyrus is commanding they go back. 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:21.200 I mean, everybody's trying to get them back, and they're not going. 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:22.960 They're happy in Persia. 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:25.919 They're happy in the Arabian desert. 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:26.720 They're happy out there. 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:29.200 They've got the nice house and the two camel garage. 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:31.360 They're just living the life out there. 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:32.960 And they don't want to go back. 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:34.399 And so that's Daniel's prayer. 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:37.519 How much longer until they come back? 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:42.159 And God's answer to him is that you think this is still the exile? 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:46.720 I have all kinds of punishment for your people, Israel, Daniel. 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:48.879 All kinds of punishment. 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:52.480 They have atoned in as much as any captivity can atone for anything. 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:54.559 They've atoned for the years of Jubilee they skipped. 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:56.000 They've made up for that. 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:57.759 But they are still under discipline. 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:06.720 They're still under chastisement from God because they've rejected his word, scorned his prophets, worshipped idols, disobeyed him, disbelieved him, all of that. 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.200 Basically, for the whole Old Testament. 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:15.360 And so Daniel 11, paralleling Daniel 8, describes all the judgment that is going to come on them. 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:20.159 Describes nation after nation punishing Israel, kingdom after kingdom. 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:26.080 And we understand looking back on this, just in God's amazing providence how that's prepared the world for the gospel. 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:32.159 I mean, the New Testament is written in Greek, which most of the world read during the time of Christ. 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:33.440 How did that happen? 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.759 How did they go from writing in Hebrew to writing in Greek? 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:37.519 Well, it came through this captivity. 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:49.039 It came through the Persians ruling Israel and then them getting conquered by the Greeks, and then all the things we looked at last week, bringing the Greek Empire into Israel. 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:51.679 That's how they started writing Greek. 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:52.639 That's prepared the world. 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:59.120 The Roman Empire takes over the world then, adopts the Greek language, so the gospel can go everywhere without borders in all the Greek language. 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:00.480 This is all God's plan. 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:07.600 He's doing lots of things here, but in all of Daniel 11, he's punishing Israel for their sin, and he's preparing Israel to receive the gospel. 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:08.480 That's at this time. 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:16.000 And it goes all the way from there through 69 of those 70 weeks of judgment, all the way to the arrival of the Messiah, and there's still that last week left. 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.080 The last of the 70 weeks is still left. 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:24.639 There's still seven years of judgment for Israel that has not yet been poured out at the arrival of the Messiah. 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.960 Daniel 9 talks about the Messiah being broken off. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:30.639 He's cut off from his people Israel. 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:33.120 He's rejected, he's crucified. 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:35.840 The temple itself will be destroyed in 70 AD. 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:37.200 And that's still not the judgment. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:39.120 There's still seven more years. 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:41.039 There's a long jump in the book of Daniel. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:42.399 It doesn't describe that time. 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:44.960 There's a break between the 69th and the 70th week. 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:46.320 That's where the church fits in. 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:50.240 That's where we are now in that time period between the 69th and 70 week. 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:52.559 That 70th week is still in the future. 00:12:52.639 --> 00:13:00.720 And the last part of Daniel 11, starting around verse 36 or so, picks up with that 70th week and describes the full Antichrist coming. 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.600 He looks a lot like the judgment Israel's gone through before. 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:05.519 I mean, all these kingdoms work the same way. 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:09.279 From the Babylonians, when they conquered Jerusalem, what did they do to the temple? 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:10.720 They tore it down. 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:15.039 When the Persians conquered, they didn't let him rebuild. 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.720 They finally command the temple to be rebuilt, and you got the book of Ezra and Nehemiah in there. 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:21.360 And the Greeks conquer it, and what do they do to the temple? 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:22.240 They tear it down. 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.120 They put a Zeus altar in the middle of it. 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:32.080 And then it gets rebuilt later by Herod, and then it gets torn down by the Romans. 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:36.320 It's going to be rebuilt again, and then it's going to get defiled by the Antichrist. 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:39.360 It's the same movie over and over and over again. 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:41.759 And that's how verse 1 begins. 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:43.840 At that time, Michael will arise. 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:47.360 At the end of that tribulation, the 70th week. 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:48.879 He is the great prince. 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:51.440 He's the angel who is charge of your people. 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:56.240 And there will be a time of trouble, such as never been since there was a nation until that time. 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:58.879 This is quoted by Jesus in Mark 13. 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:02.879 This is described in 1st and 2 Thessalonians as the abomination of desolation. 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:09.440 It's described in verse 13 of this chapter as the abomination, or sorry, verse 11 of this chapter is the abomination of desolation. 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:10.879 There's no doubt about when this is. 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:11.840 This is still future. 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:13.200 This has not happened yet. 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:15.759 The 70th week is still future. 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:20.399 Jesus quotes this verse pointing forward with it. 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:23.519 But remember, you have to ask yourself, what's happening? 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:25.279 Who is this punishment for? 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:28.639 And the stress here in verse 1, notice the stress in this phrase. 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.039 It is for your people in verse 1. 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:32.799 Charge of your people. 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:37.200 And it'll be more extreme than anything Israel has ever seen. 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:44.240 All this is answering the question if Jeremiah's 70 years of judgment are over, how come Israel is still being judged? 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:47.200 And God says there is a lot more coming. 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:52.960 And by the way, there are those that want to say this is talking about judgment on the church or judgment about God's people of all ages. 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:54.000 I don't buy that. 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:58.559 There seems to be a very stark difference between the judgment on Israel and the judgment on the church. 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:02.399 Daniel, in many ways, operates like the book of Revelation of the Old Testament. 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:08.559 Daniel is told to seal this book up because the Jews aren't onoring it, they aren't believing it. 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:19.200 In contrast to the book of Revelation, when John writes these same punishments, I mean, things in Daniel chapter 8, Daniel chapter 9, Daniel chapter 11, even the stuff in Daniel chapter 12, it's described in the book of Revelation. 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:20.559 John doesn't say seal it up. 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:22.080 John says, unseal it. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:22.960 Get it out there. 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:24.399 Let everybody know. 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:26.399 It's a huge difference. 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:28.000 The same content. 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.879 Daniel was supposed to seal it up, John's supposed to get it out. 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:34.080 And that's because Daniel is written about the judgment for the Jews. 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:37.840 Revelation is written from the church's perspective, what's going to happen there. 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.200 So Daniel 12 ends with seal this up. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.679 You get that down at the end there, seal this up. 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:44.799 Well, we'll look at verse 7. 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:47.600 I heard the man clothed in linen. 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:50.639 I think this is the image of our Lord again. 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:52.399 He was above the waters of the stream. 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:54.080 He's exalted above the angels. 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:57.200 He swears by him who lives forever. 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.600 And I don't think that's a non-triune phrase. 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.639 I think that all three members of the Trinity can swear by one another. 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:03.919 This is said in Hebrews 6. 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:05.919 When Christ takes an oath, who's he gonna take it by? 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:07.120 You know, somebody greater than him? 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:07.840 Of course not. 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.240 He's gonna swear by God himself. 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:15.919 Notice the oath that Christ, or whoever this angel is, takes in verse 7. 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:20.639 That when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end, these things will be finished. 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:27.039 In other words, the Antichrist is gonna defile the temple, as described in chapter 11, and after that, God's gonna judge him, and then it's over. 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:28.799 That's the answer to Daniel's prayer. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:30.240 How much more judgment? 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:32.639 Seventy weeks of seven years. 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:38.960 This last one worse than the other 69, and when that week is completed, Daniel, the judgment is over. 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:41.840 How long will that be? 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:45.679 Well, in the middle of verse 7, time, times, and a half a time. 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:49.919 It sounds confusing, but remember this whole thing is given in that kind of language. 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:51.759 So you can count on your fingers. 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:52.240 Okay? 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:53.120 Time. 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:54.080 That's one. 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:55.039 You keeping up? 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.039 Times, how many is times? 00:16:57.679 --> 00:16:59.440 So you're up to three. 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:00.000 Good job. 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:01.039 And a half of a time. 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:01.759 How much is that? 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:02.960 Three and a half. 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:04.160 You guys are doing great at this. 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:04.799 Good job. 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:06.400 I don't care what your math teacher says. 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:08.400 You're keeping up just fine. 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:10.319 It's a three and a half year period. 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:17.680 A three and a half year period from the time the Antichrist defiles the temple to the time the judgment on them is completed. 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:26.720 Again, this parallels exactly what is described in the book of Revelation, where there's a seven-year tribulation, the midpoint of it is marked by the Antichrist defiling the temple. 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:29.039 It's described in 1st and 2 Thessalonians both. 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:31.920 It's described in Mark 13, it's described in the Olivet discourse. 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:38.079 This is not unique to this passage here, but this is one of the places it describes it at the middle of the tribulation. 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.920 It says in verse 11 that the daily sacrifice will come to a completion. 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:50.319 From that time, the regular burnt offering was taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate is set up. 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.319 There will be three and a half years. 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:54.240 There's that phrase again. 00:17:54.559 --> 00:18:01.839 So remember, the Antichrist builds the temple and signs his peace treaty, letting Israel sacrifice in the temple at the middle of the tribulation. 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:06.640 He violates that treaty, he defiles the temple, just like has happened before. 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:10.559 Remember, this is what the Romans did and the Greeks did and the Babylonians did. 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.079 And then God will pour out wrath on them. 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:16.480 It'll be a devastating war for three and a half years. 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:18.640 It's the second half of the tribulation. 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:22.079 But then there's a weird phrase in there, verse 12. 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:24.720 You got an extra 45 days tucked in there. 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:25.359 You see that? 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:29.279 1290 days to 1,335 days. 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:30.640 What's up with the 45 days? 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:38.160 Well, this lets you know there's a month and a half, 45 days between the end of the tribulation and the start of the kingdom. 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:42.240 This is the only place in the Bible that 45 days is described, but that does make sense. 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:43.440 Christ is going to come back. 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.160 You see this battle, I think, in the described in Zechariah. 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:56.640 It happens quick and suddenly, Zechariah 11 and 12, when the Lord comes back, he splits the Mount of Olives and this just bloodshed in Israel as the Israelites are converted. 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:01.839 So when they begin to be converted, their judgment is over, and the Lord is going to set up his kingdom. 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:07.680 That takes about six weeks, about a month and a half, or 45 days. 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:12.880 And that's what that's how I understand that that break there. 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:19.920 I mean, the impressive thing about here is this massive event in world history in the future, God knows to the number of days that it's going to happen. 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.440 He is keeping track of time. 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:26.240 All of this fulfills the judgment on Israel. 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:28.480 You just think of Romans 11, verse 17. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.279 Speaks of Israel as a branch that is broken off. 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:38.880 Romans 11, 17, some of the branches are broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, speaking of the Gentiles in the church, were grafted in among the others. 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:41.119 You now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree. 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:42.640 Don't be arrogant towards the branches. 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:46.559 In other words, don't be arrogant towards the Jews because you're saved through their Messiah. 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:50.240 Remember, it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:52.079 It's the Old Testament that supports the church. 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:54.160 It's not you that gives meaning to the Old Testament. 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:56.160 It's the Old Testament that supports the church. 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:58.640 So don't be arrogant towards the Jews. 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:03.359 You might say, branches are broken off so that I may be grafted in, Paul says. 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:04.160 Well, that's true. 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:06.400 But they were broken off because of their unbelief. 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:07.839 You stand fast through faith. 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:12.559 So don't become proud, but rather stand in awe of what God has done through Israel. 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:17.519 If God didn't spare the natural branches, He won't spare you either. 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:21.440 So the point is, Israel's judgment is running down. 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:23.200 They have seven years of judgment left. 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:32.240 They're still under a curse right now because they've rejected the Savior, but it's not an act of purging of Israel like will happen in the final week of the final tribulation. 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:33.440 So that's the countdown. 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.079 Understand that God knows how much suffering is in Israel's future. 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:37.839 He knows it to the exact day. 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:40.640 The clock has been tipped over and their time is running out. 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:42.720 Now in this chapter, let's look at the second clock. 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:43.839 There's a second clock ticking. 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:46.720 It's not just about Israel, it's about every human. 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:51.119 Not just is Israel's time of judgment numbered, but your time in this world is numbered. 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:53.039 Your time of life is numbered. 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:58.559 It's numbered to the day. 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:07.359 Does God have a plan for your life in the same way he has a plan for the Israelite people? 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:09.039 And the answer has to be yes. 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:10.880 God's sovereignty is meticulous. 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:12.880 He doesn't just care generally about nations. 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:14.960 God cares about you personally. 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:22.960 If he cares about you personally, if it is appointed for a person once to die and then the judgment, does God know the number of your days before you're born? 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:24.079 And the answer has to be yes. 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:25.599 This is Ephesians 2 verse 10. 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:27.680 He has appointed your good deeds to walk in them. 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:31.279 He knows how long you live, he knows how many breaths you'll take. 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:34.400 He knows how many times your heart will beat. 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:37.920 He's got the clock ticking. 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:41.920 And it's numbered to the day. 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:44.480 And what happens when your time runs out? 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.400 This is what you see at the middle of verse 1, back up at the start of this passage. 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:51.519 The Israelite people will be delivered, and then it shifts here. 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:52.720 We go to our second clock. 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.079 Everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. 00:21:57.039 --> 00:21:59.759 In other words, there's a book, and there are names written in it. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.440 And if your name is written in it, you will be delivered from this judgment. 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:06.319 You will be resurrected in the last day. 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:09.920 It seems like a strange place to just throw out a book idea. 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:11.279 Hey, there's a book out there. 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:13.119 If your name is in it, it's important. 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:14.160 Check it out. 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:17.039 But understand, this is a theme that's also all over the Bible. 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:18.319 Let me rattle off some verses for you. 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:19.759 Malachi 3, verse 16. 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:22.799 It says that God has a book of remembrance with names written in it. 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:30.400 In fact, in Malachi 3, 16, this book contains all the names of those who fear God, quote, and they will be mine, Yahweh says. 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:36.799 In fact, Malachi 3 goes on to say he's going to come into the world and make everybody whose name is in the book belong to him. 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:42.079 Luke 10, verse 20, the disciples come back after casting out demons and they're high-fiving each other. 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:49.039 And Jesus says, Don't rejoice that you have authority over demons, rather rejoice that your name is written in the book of heaven. 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:56.240 Revelation 13, verse 8 calls the book the book of the lamb that was slain. 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:59.519 Revelation 17, verse 8 calls it the book of life. 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:04.160 Revelation 21, 27 combines those titles and calls it the Lamb's Book of Life. 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:06.160 So this is a book that has lots of titles. 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:11.839 The Lamb's Book of Life, subtitle, God's Book of Remembrance, subtitle, Yahweh's Ownership Scroll. 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:20.799 Revelation 20, verse 12 says that book will be opened up at the judgment seat, and those whose names are recorded in it will rise to eternal life. 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:26.000 And everyone whose name is not in it will be cast into the lake of fire. 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:30.319 And that's what you see here back in Daniel 12, verse 2. 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:36.079 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will wake up, some to everlasting life. 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:43.440 Now notice this the phrase many here, how many dead people will receive a bodily resurrection? 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:45.039 A hundred percent. 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:47.920 Every dead person will receive a bodily resurrection. 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:50.240 Anybody who's ever died will receive a bodily resurrection. 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:52.079 Why the phrase many here? 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:58.079 Well, one answer is because he's speaking specifically of Israel, but I think the better answer is that this resurrection is split. 00:23:58.319 --> 00:24:03.519 First is the resurrection of life, as Daniel describes in verse 2, summed to everlasting life. 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:13.839 Next, later, after the kingdom, comes the second resurrection, Jesus says, of those who are going to be condemned, and they're going to suffer a second death. 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.960 They'll be physically received their bodies and cast into hell. 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:24.240