... I acknowledged my sin to you,
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I
said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD",
and You forgave the
guilt of my sin.
Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You
while You may be
found;
surely when the mighty waters rise,
they will not reach
him.
(Psalm 32:1,2,5,6)
The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him;And verified this promise:
He makes His covenant known to them.(Psalm 25:14)
Turn at my rebuke;And Daniel's inspired prayer and answer, near the end of Jeremiah's prophesied 70 years of captivity in Babylon, concerning the coming of Messiah, reaches to our day, (Daniel 9:1-27; i.e., the whole chapter.)
behold,I will pour out My Spirit unto you,
I will make known My Words unto you.(Proverb 1:23)
Daniel was told, that AT THE END of this world's kingdoms, the very time that The God of Heaven sets up His Kingdom on earth, it would be an information generation, with the growth of knowledge being explosive; but also, it would be a time of great distress, (Daniel 12:4,1).
Since known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world, to encourage His people, God informed Daniel and all who reverence His Word of Daniel 9:24-27 - via His angel Gabriel:
HAVE WE NOT IN FACT PASSED THE MIDDLE of a DECEITFUL "7 YEAR PEACE accord" with "RABin/MANY", that has "CEASED/taken a REST" for 20 months at "MID-POINT" ITS "SACRIFICE AND GIVING" of LAND FOR PEACE, that instead of true "PEACE AND SECURITY", appears to be a pact that will LEAD instead TO the "SUDDEN DESTRUCTION" of Israel, SOON, once all the land and military advantage that might be gained by "PEACE" has been realized?
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In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the
seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the
first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years,
whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would
accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. And I set my face unto
the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth,
and ashes:
And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said,
Seventy weeks [from the above context, "seventy years in the desolations of
Jerusalem", this clearly means 70 x 7 years] are determined upon thy
people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end
of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most
Holy.
Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the
commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince
[shall be] seven weeks and threescore and two weeks [totalling 69 x 7 = 483
years]: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous
times.
And after threescore and two weeks [i.e. at the end of the 483 years from
the "going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem"] shall
Messiah be cut off [killed], but not for himself [i.e. NOT on account of His
own sins, for He was sinless and was that "LAMB of GOD" who was to die for the
sins of the world]: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy
the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and
unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
And he [i.e. the "prince that shall come" of the previous verse, who comes
from the same people who destroyed Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD (CE), i.e
the Romans], shall confirm the covenant with many [Hebrew = "RAB"; note that
RABin, who initially confirmed the "7 YEAR PEACE and SECURITY ACCORD"
comes from the plural of RAB] for one week: and in the midst of the week he
shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation [gifts] to cease, and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (Daniel
9:1-27) O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy
to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; We have sinned,
and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even
by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we
hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our
kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. O
Lord, righteousness [belongeth] unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as
at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
unto all Israel, [that are] near, and [that are] far off, through all the
countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they
have trespassed against thee. O Lord, to us [belongeth] confusion of face, to
our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against
thee. To the Lord our God [belong] mercies and forgivenesses, though we have
rebelled against him; Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to
walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. Yea,
all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not
obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is]
written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against
him. And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against
our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the
whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. As [it is]
written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not
our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities,
and understand thy truth. Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and
brought it upon us: for the LORD our God [is] righteous in all his works which
he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. And now, O Lord our God, that hast
brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast
gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly. O
Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and
thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because
for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people
[are become] a reproach to all [that are] about us. Now therefore, O our God,
hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to
shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. O my God,
incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and
the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications
before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. O Lord, hear;
O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my
God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
And whiles
I [was] speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people
Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy
mountain of my God; Yea, whiles I [was] speaking in prayer, even the man
Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly
swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. And he informed
[me], and talked with me, and said,
O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and
understanding. At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came
forth, and I am come to shew [thee]; for thou [art] greatly beloved: therefore
understand the matter, and consider the vision.
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