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margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>the</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> 16<sup>th</sup> day of month #3, Sivan 16 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:62.25pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>in</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> the 5930<sup>th</sup> year, more or less, following the beginning recorded in Genesis 1<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:62.25pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>and</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> in the 2026<sup>th</sup> year following the beginning recorded in Luke 1:26-33<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:62.25pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:62.25pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>[Monday, the 1<sup>st</sup> day of the week, May 31 in the 2010<sup>th</sup> <a href="../../NTCh/TheRegnalYearsAndDatesOfRomanEmperors.htm#TiberiusCaesarsReignBrief">year of Caesar Tiberius</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:62.25pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>(<span class=GramE>per</span> current Gregorian reckoning.)]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:62.25pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:62.25pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Dear Toby, my Brother in Daniel s Messiah and my old time Friend,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>This last weekend I had the distinct privilege of attending one of the Matteson School s Inspirational meetings. The featured speaker was 23 y/o Jesse Zwiker from Switzerland who has just spent a year in Honduras helping to establish <a href="http://www.vidaprojects.org/ibcenglish">the Central American Bible School</a>.<br> <br> The theme of his series of sermons was Hebrew vs. Greek thinking. We learned how very deeply we are colored in our patterns of thought by a Greek mindset, and how such a mindset is blinding us from many of the most important teachings within the Holy Scriptures.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>In particular I was struck by Jesse s illustration as he drew it on the board: A Hebrew man walking. The question being asked was this: Where does this Hebrew man perceive his future, in front of his face or else behind his head and back? Ditto for his past, in the direction of his nose or behind him?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>The correct answer: A true Hebrew person wouldn t ever consider the direction into which his eyes and nose are pointing as being his future! A true Hebrew person is best thought of as a person who is walking backwards while constantly focusing his eyes and his thought upon past experiences from which everything of value may be learnt. Quite the opposite is true of the typical Greek mind!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>With that illustration in mind, consider God s question to Adam per Genesis 3:9& Thus, from the very beginning God has forever been guiding and saving each one among His Sons and Daughters by means of His still small voice reminding each of us, and teaching each of us, by means of whatever we may be willing and prepared to accept and apply out of the lessons being built into each our experiences in life& <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Those sermons are available to all at the <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/mattesoninstitute/media">Matteson School website</a>& &nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>& <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Again, I hope I m not coming across to you too strongly, that is, in any manner such as would tend to make you reject rather than appreciating and welcoming whatever messages God may be willing to send your way by means of such words as I am sharing with you from time to time? Please try to perceive my communications to you as proof of my valuing, not only our lifelong friendship, but, in particular, your present communications to me, your Newsletters, that is, while carefully considering the pros and the cons for each particular within your Newsletters.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Shalom, May the Peace of God rest over each our families and homes  as well as over each and all of our relationships,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Your</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'> Brother in Daniel s Messiah,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Gunnar Anders Smårs Jr ©<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>PS. Consider this thought: If you don t allow yourself to pursue the best available truth, that is, present truth, then what example are you providing for your followers? Aren t you giving them an apparent excuse for doing like you are doing, and, in so doing, missing all the associated blessings of God? Consider the lessons available in the form of the story of Cain and Able! For instance: One got the blessings inherent in following the Savior to the T, the other one failed to be blessed& And what were the consequences? Cain lost his one and only brother& What a tremendous loss& in consequence, as I see it, from not having learned how fragile life is& <br> <br> Also, why allowing yourself from being held back by such people as are always very reluctant do follow Christ into anything that seems new and unfamiliar to them? Let me tell you from my own experience: You are missing out on many and tremendous blessings that you would have been able to share also with all such as you are associating with: Friends, family, all!!!!!!! That is, with each and everyone willing to be willing to do the will of God. Those <span class=GramE>that are</span> not willing& Well, why should you allow them the power to set your pace of growing and of walking into the Kingdom of God?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span lang=SV style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:SV'>Från:</span></b><span lang=SV style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:SV'> tobyjoreteg@gmail.com [<span class=GramE>mailto:tobyjoreteg</span>@gmail.com] <b>För </b>Toby Joreteg<br> <b>Skickat:</b> Sunday, May 30, 2010 10:21 PM<br> <b>Ämne:</b> <span class=SpellE>Daniel's</span> <span class=SpellE>Messiah</span>: <span class=SpellE>Newsletter</span> #11<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=SV style='mso-ansi-language: SV'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dear Friends<span class=GramE>,</span></span><br> <br> I pray that God's Name will be glorified in this Newsletter! For the newcomers, please go to my website: <a href="http://www.TobyJoreteg.com">www.TobyJoreteg.com</a>, click on &quot;Articles&quot; and then you can read or print the previous ones.<br> <br> By His Grace!<br> <br> Toby Joreteg<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Newsletter #11</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Sanctuary Message</span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Background</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In the previous newsletter #10 we studied how Daniel presented two issues to God in prayer (Daniel chapter 9). The first one concerned his people whom he compassionately interceded for. After the 70 years of captivity in Babylon, Daniel questioned that they had truly repented. God answered by showing His magnificent grace. After the 70 years had come to an end, He would give them an additional 490 years to stop their rebellion. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> How do you reckon that, that is, the beginning and end of the 490 years?  Your words,  After the 70 years had come to an end, He would give them an additional 490 years to stop their rebellion, seem to indicate that counting from either 539 BCE or 534 BCE there should be a 490 year prophecy ending in about 48 BCE or 43 BCE?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - Are you referring to the 490 years ending with the beginning of Herod the <span class=SpellE>Great s</span> reign over Jerusalem in 43 BCE? Cf. that date as displayed in the diagram under <a href="http://adamoh.org/TreeOfLife.wan.io/OTCh/Centuries1to7BCE/TreeOfLifeTimeSeventyWeekProphecyYearForDayCombined.htm#DiagramShowingBoth">this link</a>! For surely your words can hardly be a reference to a 490 year period beginning in 457 BCE, or isn t that true? Or isn t there quite a few years difference between 539 BCE and 457 BCE  82 years to be exact?)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - And please do not forget the literal day for a day fulfillment of this  seventy seventies prophecy of Daniel  Which fulfillment does indeed begin with the beginning of Cyrus own family and with the beginning of his reign as king after the fall of Babylon at the end of the 70 years! Cf. <a href="http://adamoh.org/TreeOfLife.wan.io/OTCh/Centuries1to7BCE/TreeOfLifeTimeSeventyWeekProphecyLiteralDays.htm#DiagramFull">this link</a>!]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The second issue in Daniel s prayer was the desolation of God s Temple in Jerusalem. Would the ruins continue to be a heckling reason for the surrounding nations? Would it ever be rebuilt? If not, the temple ruins would be the symbol of a defeated God? A people without a sanctuary meant a people without a powerful God. Such a people, could easily be conquered and subdued. The Israelites could potentially end up in captivity again. Therefore, the Sanctuary issue was very important to Daniel. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> <b>Notice this:</b> The true image of God, that is, the true temple of God, is nothing less than each our families as based upon a covenant between  male and female in pursuit of Genesis 1:27. To what extent is this the reality of that, for each of us, - me in particular  being a  heckling reason for surrounding people to dishonor God? What can each of us do in order to fulfill God s purposes of restoring and rebuilding those Temples of God to what they each were intended to be??? What can each of us do in order not to keep giving of each our God-given powers towards the whole sale destruction of those families of God, which whole sale destruction is being continually supported today by whatever State that each of us happen to be associated with?]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dream or Vision</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Before we continue we need to look at some other aspects. The common understanding is that God communicates to people in dreams when they are <span style='color: red'>[a]</span>sleep and in visions when they are awake. Most of the time, this observation appears to be correct. But if we study all the passages about visions and dreams, we find that in the book of Daniel that is not always the case. Therefore I suggest a somewhat different concept. A dream appears to be a one-way communication from God s messenger to a human being whereas a vision is a two-way interaction. </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <span class=GramE>Your</span> People </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This subtitle is not so important for this particular newsletter but for our future studies it is vital, especially when we come to Daniel 10-12. We have understood that Daniel interceded for his people. Therefore it seems very logical that the response concerns the same people, doesn t it? Daniel 9:24:</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Seventy  sevens are decreed for <b>your people</b> and <b>your holy city</b> to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. (NIV)&nbsp; </span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The message concerns Daniel s people and Gabriel simply calls them  your people. It must have felt very precious and reassuring to Daniel to hear God s messenger speak of Jerusalem as  your holy city. The fact that he calls it  holy shows God s approval of them as a nation. With these words he knew that God, in spite of all that had happened, still considered Jerusalem as His City. A city is not holy unless it is dedicated to the Lord. So Daniel is comforted. Daniel s people the Israelites are still God s people. </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Atone for Wickedness</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The fact that they still were God s people did not mean that God accepted their sinful behavior. He asks for a change of heart. This is so important that it s stated three times. First, God wants them to (1)  finish transgression. Then He asks that they (2)  put an end to sin and lastly that they should (3)  Atone for wickedness. These are the things that Daniel s people were requested to do. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Yes!!! And to what degree are we, that are here today, even beginning to admit each our participation in, and responsibility for, the whole sale attacks against, and slaughtering of, each our families, that is being perpetrated by each our State today???<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> And please don t ever forget <a href="http://adamoh.org/TreeOfLife.wan.io/OTCh/Centuries1to7BCE/Daniel9vs490years.htm#WholesaleDivorceActionOfEzra">Ezra s and his people s great sin</a> in this very particular! Which sin  a whole sale destruction of each their own families - was based upon nothing less than a mistaken belief re God s way of saving each of us out of the errors that we are each continually committing.]</span><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Everlasting Righteousness</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>But God had something else in mind as well. After having asked these three things of Daniel s people, He now let Daniel know of His long term plan. Already in the third request  to atone for wickedness we see that God had the Messiah in mind. The Israelites needed to repent and to atone for their sins but God knew that perfect Atonement was necessary.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>God is not interested in  short term righteousness  but eternal. That is why the next phrase emphasizes,  to bring in <i>everlasting</i> righteousness. God wanted to take care of the sin-problem once and for all. He knew that little lambs sacrificed on an altar would only bring righteousness<s><span style='color: red'>,</span></s> if the true Lamb of God came to die for all sinners. This Lamb was Jesus Christ, God s only begotten Son.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Toby, there is a very real danger in this last paragraph of yours, as it is currently written& If you or I are returning, i.e. refusing acceptance, to God each our own God given responsibility for admitting, and repenting from, each our participation in our collective, as well as private, sins against God, then aren t we fooling ourselves into being just as wicked as the most wicked of any people?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - That is, wouldn t it be better to correct your above paragraph into something that is not allowing for an interpretation of your words to the exclusion of the concepts being conveyed by means of my bracketed comments as introduced into your own words below?:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[  </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>God is not interested in  short term righteousness <span style='color:red'>[only]</span>  but eternal. That is why the next phrase emphasizes,  to bring in <i>everlasting</i> righteousness. God wanted to take care of the sin-problem once and for all <span style='color:red'>[by providing in the life of Yeshua, for each one among us (cf. <span class=SpellE>Deu</span> 5:2-5!,) a most excellent example of how each one among the Sons of Men (cf. Matt 8:20& ) are to take personal responsibility for each action in which they participate.]</span> He knew that little lambs sacrificed on an altar would only bring <span class=GramE>righteousness<span style='color:red'>[</span></span><s><span style='color:red'>,</span></s><span style='color:red'>]</span> if <span style='color:red'>[each one among us takes personal responsibility for following in the footsteps of]</span> the true Lamb of God <span style='color:red'>[that]</span> came to die for all sinners. This Lamb was Jesus Christ, <span style='color:red'>[one of]</span> God s only begotten Son<span style='color:red'>[s and Daughters (cf. Exodus 4:22!)]</span>.<span class=GramE><span style='color:red'> ]</span></span><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Anoint the Most Holy</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Could Daniel s people bring in  everlasting righteousness? Of course, not! The Father was the only One who could do this through the ultimate sacrifice of His perfect Son& <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> through whom the Father can more clearly convey to each one among us each our responsibility for ourselves and for each other.]</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>So their part was to <i>accept</i> the Messiah and His death on the cross& <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> and the example thereby conveyed unto each one amongst us... (Cf. Hebrews 2:17!)]</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - I found much value in the message shared with us through Dennis <span class=SpellE>Priebe s</span> book Face to Face with the Real Gospel. Perhaps you would too? Indeed, I feel that that book may be most helpful in helping our beloved Seventh-day Adventist Brothers and Sisters better understand one another s point of view re many things that now seemingly seems to split our denomination in two, that is, due to our inability to understand where each of us are coming from. In other words: A book truly in the spirit of true and valuable At-One-Meant.]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>as</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> the atonement for their sins. So, what about the last phrase in Daniel 9:24;  to anoint the Most Holy? The innermost part of the Temple was called  the Most Holy. What do you think Daniel had in mind? I am sure he thought about the rebuilding of the Temple and then the consecration of it.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>But God had a deeper meaning in mind. In our previous studies we have found that Jesus is the True Sanctuary (Isaiah 8:13-14, John 2:19-21 and Revelation 21:22). In Matthew 12:6 Jesus speaks about Himself as  one <i>greater</i> than the Temple. With that in mind, the  anointing of the Most Holy could very well refer to the Messiah. The  anointing of the Messiah would be the people s <i>acceptance</i> of Him as their Lord and King. Jesus was anointed and accepted by God at the time of His baptism, Acts 10:38. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - Yes Toby, I fully agree with you that, as a representative  person among the family of God, Yeshua too, is very much a part of that covenant between  male and female, as well as between  the Father in heaven and  His bride, His people. Indeed, exactly as is true for each of us, so also His, Yeshua s, DNA is proof positive of a most sacred Act of Covenanting between a certain male and a certain female, each of whom may likewise be identified through each their own DNA. The same is true for each of us, or don t you fully agree with that?]</span><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Seal up the Vision</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Now it is important to go back to the phrase in Daniel 9:24 that we skipped before;  to seal up vision. There are two words in Hebrew that translate to  seal. One means to  close up,  keep secret,  shut out or  stop but that word is not the word used in Daniel 9:24. The word there is one that is used when  making a deal with someone. That word for  seal consequently means  to ratify,  to make sure,  to establish or  to confirm. </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thus God s  deal with Daniel s people was that they not only should stop their sin and rebellion, not only to anoint the Messiah, but also that they should  seal up& prophecy! They were  to make sure that this prophecy was fulfilled. That was their part of the deal. They should be  for the Messiah and not  against Him.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - Now, if we stop to consider the lessons inherent in <a href="http://adamoh.org/TreeOfLife.wan.io/OTCh/Centuries1to7BCE/TreeOfLifeTimeSeventyWeekProphecyLiteralDays.htm#DiagramFull">the literal day for a day fulfillment</a> of Daniel s  seventy seventies prophecy  and its most emphatic emphasis upon the beginnings inherent in the covenant between  male and female, isn t this lesson being even more firmly established, yes,  sealed& , ratified& , made sure& , established& , confirmed& , by <a href="http://adamoh.org/TreeOfLife.wan.io/OTCh/Centuries1to7BCE/TreeOfLifeTimeSeventyWeekProphecyYearForDayCombined.htm#DiagramShowingBoth">the dual year for a day fulfillment</a> of the same  seventy sevens prophecy of Daniel?!!! Please cf. the links provided!] &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thus far we have seen that the prophecy firstly concerned Daniel s people and their standing before God. Secondly, the focus was on the Temple building in Jerusalem. Thirdly, God had introduced the bringing in of everlasting righteousness, namely the Messiah. This aspect strengthens and actually dominates the rest of Daniel 9.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - But why stop at the symbols being used for the corresponding reality, that is, symbols such as 1) any concept of a people, e.g. Daniel s people, 2) the Temple building in Jerusalem, and 3) the Messiah as represented by a man named Yeshua?  Isn t so doing tantamount to relic worship, that is, to  idolatry? Isn t the Second of the Ten Commandments clear enough to warn us from committing such wickedness?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - Or aren t we even in danger of creating for ourselves merely another relic out of the term  Messiah and out of that man, Yeshua, who was to be our example and object lesson as to how to apply in each our own lives the teachings of God? Perhaps this way of thinking is just another example of our Greek way of thinking, of spiritualizing real things into mere philosophy without a corresponding application in each our own life? <span class=GramE>That is, in contrast to a truly Hebrew way of thinking and being?</span> Cf. Jesse <span class=SpellE>Zwiker s</span> <span class=GramE>sermon held this last Sabbath eve at the Matteson School Inspirational gathering, which sermon are</span> available at <a href="http://www.mattesonskolen.no/media-2">the <span class=SpellE>Mattesen</span> School web site</a>!]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Consider the Message and Understand the Vision</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>After these introductory comments we will now study the  message, that Gabriel spoke of, Daniel 9:23. Daniel s questions had been answered, and now it was very important that Daniel would  consider the message and understand the vision. The reason is simple. God wanted to take Daniel beyond his own horizon and let him understand the divine importance of this vision.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The next verse, Daniel 9:25, starts with  Know and understand this: Gabriel is about to focus on God s special agenda. Now Daniel needs to listen carefully! What Gabriel says next confirms that our interpretation of  the message and  the vision is correct<span class=GramE>,& </span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - In my ears those words of yours are ringing just a bit too close to saying that  Daniel was in need of listening carefully&  and to carefully  consider the message and understand the vision&  but  we, the formal professors of SDA-ism, do not, because  we may safely and without further ado [make an] ass[-of-]u[-and-]me that  </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'>our interpretation of  the message and  the vision is correct<span style='color:red'> ! To be sure, I am not convinced I have good reasons for supporting, or identifying with, such a Pharisaical stand of self-righteousness& <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Remember too, that the Hebrew word Pharisee means nothing less than  separated. Cf. Strong s G5330 and H6567! Then please do compare that Hebrew word with a less Pharisaical and a more correct, honest, and pure definition or the Hebrew words behind  holy and  sanctified as may be perceived from Strong s ##H6918, 6922, 6942, 6944!]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Daniel 9:25:</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Know and understand this: From the issuing of the <b>decree</b> to <b>restore</b> and <b>rebuild Jerusalem</b> until the <b>Anointed One, the ruler, comes</b>, there will be seven  sevens, and sixty-two  sevens. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. (NIV) </span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>There is some controversy regarding when the 490-year prophecy began. There are namely four decrees concerning the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the Temple. Now, afterwards, we can go back in history to see which one of the decrees that fit the best.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - I ve now created <a href="http://adamoh.org/TreeOfLife.wan.io/OTCh/Centuries1to7BCE/TableReDaniel9v25-27InitialAndFinalEvents.htm">a brand new table</a> for the purpose of bringing to the surface the discoveries that God has allowed me to see re the initial and final events of the prophecy found in Daniel 9:25-27. Hopefully you ll find this table helpful in more clearly perceiving each of the distinct and different fulfillments of that prophecy as I ve seen them? Please do not omit pressing each of the links within the links I am providing, if, and to the extent of, your having a real interest in discovering the real truth of each of these particulars.]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Cf. also all the data being presented within my PowerPoint presentation as available under item #15 under <a href="http://adamoh.org/TreeOfLife.wan.io/OTCh/Centuries1to7BCE/GateWayToDanielsPropheciesAndOTHistoryFromAboutHisTime.htm#PowerPointPresentation">this link</a> of mine!]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The dictionaries tell us that the Hebrew word for  restore denotes <i>repetition</i>. That is interesting since it actually supports that there were several decrees. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Yes, that may be  interesting&  but to imply that we are necessarily dealing with a case of multiple  repetition is necessarily putting too much into that word! Think about it:  Pete and  Re-Peat, the second is  the repetition of the first  which certainly does not necessarily imply that there <span class=GramE>is yet another or more repetitions</span> to follow! Same with  store vs.  re-store, etc.!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Considering the light now available upon these events, it is little more, nor better, than wishful thinking to insist that this decree should be associated with 457 BCE and Artaxerxes I, in view of the much stronger evidence and the firm support for the 7<sup>th</sup> year of Artaxerxes, as referenced by Ezra, applying to Artaxerxes II and the year 397 BCE!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> I just noticed something re those years, 457 BCE vs. 397 BCE& There is a 60 year difference! Just the same as there is a 60 year difference between the two separate year for a day fulfillments of Daniel s  seventy sevens prophecy! <span class=GramE>Coincidence?</span> <span class=GramE>Or God s providence?</span> <span class=GramE>A distinct hint from God for each of us, me and you?</span> It certainly seems quite typical for the God that I ve come to know and recognize!!! Remember the meaning of the name Isaac?!!! Laughter, as in God s humor while teaching us things of eternal value!]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>If there was only one it would have been possible to calculate the exact time for the coming of the Messiah. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - But such a consideration is no excuse for not carefully considering all the available facts, or for not correcting our own past errors as to the details of each our own past understanding and reckoning, is it???! I for one certainly do not think so!!!!!!!]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>That was obviously not God s plan and the same appears to be true for the second coming.  No one knows the day or the hour&  <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Ditto! Please see my last comment above!]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Anointed One</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Daniel 9:25 introduces  Messiah the Prince (NKJV) or  the Anointed One, the ruler (NIV). For most people this clearly refers to the Messiah. The word  Messiah means  the anointed so the two Bible versions above are in agreement. The word for  Prince could also have been translated to  ruler. Therefore there are no conflicts there either. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>  Most people& , this is not a very convincing basis, certainly not a solid one!, for building anything valuable upon, is it?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Cf. also the considerations under <a href="http://adamoh.org/TreeOfLife.wan.io/OTCh/Centuries1to7BCE/Daniel9vs4900days.htm#WhoIsTheMessiahThePrince">this link</a> re the real meaning of the Hebrew words behind the English  Messiah the Prince. ]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It is important to notice that  the ruler in this context refers to  the Anointed One. Therefore, when we see the same word  ruler or  prince in the next verse, Daniel 9:26, it refers to the same Messiah.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Yes, Toby, that is one very important application of that Bible passage. However, please don t ever forget that God is the Creator of all the various dimensions of this universe! There are, most of the time, more dimensions than one built into the words of the Holy Scriptures. So long as each of us is truly looking at the creation our Creator is setting before us, reality is still one and the same, isn t it? The same goes for the words of the Holy Scriptures. The words of God do have more than one true application in real life. Let s not be too bigoted& Nor too narrow minded! When we are, we may easily lose many of the rich blessings our Savior has in store for us& ]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Hebrew word in this passage for  Prince or  ruler is  <span class=SpellE>nagid</span>.  <span class=SpellE>Nagid</span> occurs only three times in the Book of Daniel. Each time there is a clear connotation to Jesus Christ. The three verses I am referring to are Daniel 9:25, 26 and 11:22. There are other instances when the translators use  prince or  ruler where the original is not  <span class=SpellE>nagid</span>. There we need to be careful and consider the possibility of  other rulers.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Seven Seventies </span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We have already established that this prophecy covers 490 years. In Daniel 9:24 we read about  seven seventies (seventy: referring to periods or units of 70 years) which equals 490 years. When this prophecy is broken down into smaller increments of time we should use the same principle. Daniel 9:25 begins speaking about  seven sevens which consequently equals 49 years. Then we read about  seven sixty-twos that consequently equals 434 years. In 9:27 we read about  seven ones which is another seven years. If we add them all together: 49 + 434 + 7 they equal 490 years. This means we need to continue to understand these times as literal years. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - It is true that we need  </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>to understand these times as literal years<span style='color:red'>, yet, notice that a true and literal year for a day fulfillment of a prophecy does not rule out the possibility that there is also a literal day for a day fulfillment& or even yet another year for a day fulfillment. Do you see that? Cf. the various links provided under item #1 of <a href="http://adamoh.org/TreeOfLife.wan.io/OTCh/Centuries1to7BCE/GateWayToDanielsPropheciesAndOTHistoryFromAboutHisTime.htm">this link</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> On another note& We must be careful not to hold on too tightly unto yesterday s  present truth, that is, such truth as represented the best available light upon a certain thing until yesterday, but which thing is no longer in full harmony with the truth that is now being revealed to us! There is a distinct difference between  truth and  present truth. Perhaps there is a need for us to further consider the similarities and the differences between those two terms?]</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>After</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> the 49 years and <i>during</i> the 434 years, the streets and the trench/wall around Jerusalem would be built. That means it took a long time to rebuild the City. The prophecy correctly tells us that it would happen during  troublesome times. Let s now go to the next verse and read from Dan 9:26:</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be <b>cut off</b> and will <b>have nothing</b>. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. (NIV)</span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>It is important to remember the <i>order</i> of the  sevens. First came  seven sevens (49 years) and then the  seven sixty-two s (434 years). This means that when the Bible says  After the  seven sixty-two s it actually says after the 49 + 434 years, which equals 483 years. Thus, after these 483 years something extremely important was to happen. The prophecy brings us from 457 B.C. to 27 A.D which is the time when Jesus was baptized. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Or so we have been taught to believe in consequence of the best available light given us over these things as of yesteryear& <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - The testing questions before us are much the same as they have been before: Are we, I and you, willing to accept God s guiding us step by step out of the darkness of Babylon? Are we, I and you, being led by  Tradition and the Bible or  by the Bible and the Bible only? <span class=GramE> Sola Scriptura or the Tradition of men?</span>  Sola Scriptura or the tradition recognized as yesterday s  present truth as formerly accepted by true Seventh-day Adventists? Do you find fault with that kind of thinking?]</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In these two verses, Daniel 9:24 and 25 God specifically answered Daniel s two questions. In addition to that God also foretold the coming of the Savior, the Messiah.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Be Cut off</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The next thing mentioned in Daniel 9:26 is that the  Anointed <span class=GramE>One</span> will be cut off. For most scholars this phrase simply implies that sometime after the 483 years, i.e. sometime after His baptism, the Messiah would  be cut off. The expression  cut off means to  be killed. We know that this certainly happened at the cross in A.D. 31. Thus Christ s death confirmed this prophecy.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Toby, re your words:  </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We know that this certainly happened at the cross <span style='color:#0070C0'>in A.D. 31</span>.<span style='color: red'> Please notice that there is a distinct difference between <span class=SpellE> <span style='color:#0070C0'>a</span></span></span><span style='color:#0070C0'> lie</span><span style='color:red'> and between  present <span class=GramE>truth</span>. One is not the other& Yet,  present truth can become <span class=SpellE> a</span> lie, and frequently does& It is up to each of us to make certain that we are following in the footsteps of the one at the helm, our Savior, Christ! If and when we do not, we will necessarily and by default be changed from being honest seekers for the truth, to being better characterized as liars! That is, such persons as  </span>continue to be a heckling reason for the surrounding nations& <span style='color:red'>  And isn t that exactly the basis upon which Moslems are supposedly building when involved in acts of terror against the  Christian and Jewish nations? Remember 9 11?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> As Yeshua said (<u>emphasis</u> added:)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:maroon'>Matthew 11:29 KJV</span></b><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Georgia","serif"'>&nbsp; <u><span style='color:red'>Take</span></u></span></span><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'> my yoke</span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'> upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and <u>ye shall find rest</u> unto your souls.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'>[</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:maroon'>Matthew 10:38 KJV</span></b><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Georgia","serif"'>&nbsp; <span style='color:red'>And</span></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'> he that <span class=SpellE>taketh</span> not his cross, and <span class=SpellE><u>followeth</u></span><u> after</u> me, is not worthy of me.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'>[</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:maroon'>Matthew 16:24 KJV</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>&nbsp; Then said Jesus unto his disciples, <span style='color:red'>If any</span> <i><span style='color:gray'>man</span></i> <span style='color:red'>will <u>come after me</u>, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and <u>follow me</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'>[</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:maroon'>Matthew 10:21 KJV</span></b><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Georgia","serif"'>&nbsp; Then</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, <span style='color:red'>One thing thou <span class=SpellE>lackest</span>: go thy way, <u>sell whatsoever thou hast</u>, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, <u>take up the cross, and follow me</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'>[</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:maroon'>Luke 9:23 KJV</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>&nbsp; And he said to <i><span style='color:gray'>them</span></i> all, <span style='color:red'>If any</span> <i><span style='color:gray'>man</span></i> <span style='color:red'>will come after me, <u>let him deny himself</u>, and take up his cross <u>daily</u>, and <u>follow me</u>.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> And as Ellen White said& Notice that  </span><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'>a</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'> lie</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> may equally well be understood as  </span><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'>any</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'> lie</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> (</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#0070C0'>emphasis </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#00B050'>[and <span class=SpellE>bracked</span> comments]</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'> <span class=GramE>added:</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One who sees beneath the surface, who reads the hearts of all men, says of those who have had great light: &quot;They are not afflicted and astonished because of their moral and spiritual condition.&quot; Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul <span class=SpellE>delighteth</span> in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before Mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.&quot; &quot;God shall send them strong delusion, that they should </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'>believe a lie</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>,&quot; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved,&quot; &quot;but had pleasure in unrighteousness.&quot; Isaiah 66:3, 4; 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 10, 12.&nbsp; {8T 249.2}<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <u>The heavenly Teacher inquired: &quot;What stronger delusion can beguile the mind than the pretense that you are building on the right foundation and that God accepts your works </u></span><a name=Re34AD01><u><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00B050'>[not excluding yesteryears  present truth re e.g. 27 A.D., 31 A.D., and 34 A.D.</span></u></a><span style='mso-bookmark:Re34AD01'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#00B050'>,]</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:Re34AD01'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'> </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>when in reality you are working out many things according to worldly policy </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00B050'>[not excluding administrative expediency and fears reminiscent of those of king Saul re his followers beginning to leave him& cf. 1 Samuel 13:8-9!]</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'> <span class=GramE>and</span> are sinning against Jehovah? <u>Oh, it is a great deception, a fascinating delusion, that takes possession of minds when men who have once known the truth, mistake the form of godliness </u></span><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00B050'>[adhering blindly to yesterday s  present truth ]</span></u><u><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'> for the spirit and power thereof </span></u><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#00B050'>[ever pursuing today s  present truth</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00B050'>; ]</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'> when they suppose that they are rich and increased with goods and in need of nothing, while in reality they are in need of everything.&quot;&nbsp; {8T 249.3}<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; God has not changed toward His faithful servants who are keeping their garments spotless. But many are crying, &quot;Peace and safety,&quot; while sudden destruction is coming upon them. <u>Unless there is thorough repentance, unless men humble their hearts by confession and receive the truth as it is in Jesus, they will never enter heaven. When purification shall take place in our ranks, we shall no longer rest at ease, boasting of being rich and increased with goods, in need of nothing. </u>&nbsp;{8T 250.1}<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Who can truthfully say: &quot;Our gold is tried in the fire; our garments are unspotted by the world&quot;? I saw our Instructor pointing to the garments of so-called righteousness. Stripping them off, He laid bare the defilement beneath. <u>Then He said to me: &quot;Can you not see how they have pretentiously covered up their defilement and rottenness of character<span class=GramE>? <span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>'</span></span></u>How <span class=GramE>is the faithful city</span> become an harlot!' My Father's house is made a house of merchandise, a place whence the divine presence and glory have departed! For this cause there is weakness, and strength is lacking.&quot;&nbsp; {8T 250.2} <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Especially solemn is the apostle's statement regarding those who should refuse to receive &quot;the love of the truth.&quot; &quot;For this cause,&quot; he declared of all who should deliberately reject the messages of truth, &quot;God shall send them strong delusion, that they should </span><a name=Re34AD02><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'>believe a lie </span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:Re34AD02'><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00B050'>[e.g. re the years 27, 31, and 34 A.D.:]</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:Re34AD02'></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'> that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.&quot; Men cannot with impunity reject the warnings that God in mercy sends them. From those who persist in turning from these warnings, God withdraws His Spirit, leaving them to the deceptions that they love.&nbsp; {AA 266.2}<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>&nbsp;[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I saw that Satan was working through agents in a number of ways. He was at work through ministers who have rejected the truth and are given over to strong delusions to </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#0070C0'>believe a lie </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>that they might be damned. While they were preaching or praying, some would fall prostrate and helpless, not by the power of the Holy Ghost, but by the power of Satan breathed upon these <span class=GramE>agents,</span> and through them to the people. While preaching, praying, or conversing, some professed Adventists who had rejected present truth used mesmerism </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#00B050'>[cf. NLP, <span class=SpellE>Neuro</span>-Linguistic Programming, a means for effectively hypnotizing, mesmerizing, large groups of people]</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> to gain adherents, and the people would rejoice in this influence, for they thought it was the Holy Ghost. Some even that used it were so far in the darkness and deception of the devil that they thought it was the power of God, given them to exercise. They had made God altogether such a one as themselves and had valued His power as a thing of <span class=SpellE>nought</span>.&nbsp; {EW 43.4}<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some of these agents of Satan were affecting the bodies of some of the saints--those whom they could not deceive and draw away from the truth by a <span class=GramE>Satanic</span> influence. Oh, that all could get a view of it as God revealed it to me, that they might know more of the wiles of Satan and be on their guard! I saw that Satan was at work in these ways to distract, deceive, and draw away God's people, just now in this sealing time. I saw some who were not standing stiffly for present truth. Their knees were trembling, and their feet sliding, because they were not firmly planted on the truth, and the covering of Almighty God could not be drawn over them while they were thus trembling.&nbsp; {EW 44.1}]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Paul's second Epistle to the Thessalonians, he exhorts to be on guard and not depart from the faith. He speaks of Christ's coming as an event to immediately follow the work of Satan in spiritualism in these words: &quot;Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#0070C0'>believe a lie</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.&quot; {Con 91.3} <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the Epistle of Paul to Timothy, he foretells what will be manifested in the latter days. And this warning was for the benefit of those who should live when these things should take place. God revealed to His servant the perils of the church in the last days. He writes, &quot;Now the Spirit <span class=SpellE>speaketh</span> expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.&quot; {Con 92.1}<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <u>I saw that the saints must have a thorough understanding of present truth</u>, which they will be obliged to maintain from the Scriptures. They must understand the state of the dead </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00B050'>[not excluding such imperfect  present truths, held by such dead, as has since been corrected;]</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'> for the spirits of devils will yet appear to them, professing to be beloved relatives or friends, who will declare to them unscriptural doctrines. They will do all in their power to excite sympathy and will work miracles before them to confirm what they declare. The people of God must be prepared to withstand these spirits with the Bible truth that the dead know not anything, and that they who thus appear are the spirits of devils.&nbsp; {EW 262.2}<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <u>We must examine well the foundation of our hope; for we shall have to give a reason for it from the Scriptures</u>. This delusion will spread, and we shall have to contend with it face to face; and unless we are prepared for it, we shall be ensnared and overcome. But if we do what we can on our part to be ready for the conflict that is just before us, God will do His part, and His all-powerful arm will protect us. He would sooner send every angel out of glory to make a hedge about faithful souls, than have them deceived and led away by the lying wonders of Satan.&nbsp; {EW 262.3}<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I saw the rapidity with which this delusion was spreading. A train of cars was shown me, going with the speed of lightning. The angel bade me look carefully. I fixed my eyes upon the train. It seemed that the whole world was on board. Then he showed me the conductor, a fair, stately person, whom all the passengers looked up to and reverenced. I was perplexed and asked my attending angel who it was. He said, &quot;It is Satan. He is the conductor, in the form of an angel of light. He has taken the world captive. They are given over to strong delusions, to </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#0070C0'>believe a lie</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";color:red'> that they may be damned. His agent, the highest in order next to him, is the engineer, and others of his agents are employed in different offices as he may need them, and they are all going with lightning speed to perdition.&quot;&nbsp; {EW 263.1}<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I asked the angel if there were none left. He <span class=SpellE>bade</span> me look <u>in the opposite direction</u>, and I saw a little company <u>traveling a narrow pathway</u>. All seemed to be firmly united by the truth. This little company looked careworn, as if they had passed through severe trials and conflicts. And it appeared as if the sun had just arisen from behind a cloud and shone upon their countenances, causing them to look triumphant as if their victories were nearly won.&nbsp; {EW 263.2}]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>There is another possible understanding of the expression  cut off. The Hebrew word could also be translated to  to cut a covenant, according to Brown-Driver-Brigg s Hebrew Lexicon. This option describes very well what actually happened at the cross and goes hand in hand with what we have concluded in earlier studies. This thought of  cutting a covenant leads us to the next part of Daniel 9:26. </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Old Testament describes God s relationship with His people as a marriage, Jeremiah 3:8, 14, 20, etc. According to the Law there are two acceptable reasons for the breaking of a marriage covenant. The first approved reason is adultery. God sent one prophet after another to the Israelites pleading with them to turn away from their spiritual adultery. The second approved reason is the death of the husband, Rom 7:2. This happened when Jesus died on the cross. With this in mind, we understand that Jesus not only <i>died</i> on the cross but at the same time a <i>divorce</i> took place. The Covenant was cut!&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> That s an interesting application of the word you are talking about  and of the event being associated with that word! I never thought of that one before. Thanks Toby!]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Have Nothing</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>When the Messiah had been killed, Daniel 9:26 continues to say that He  will have nothing. Most Bible versions today translate it in this way. I believe that is the best translation as it accurately describes Jesus position. But it is true in several ways.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>When He died on the cross, taking all the sin of the world on Himself, He was totally alone. Up to this point Jesus had been <i>one</i> with the Father but at that moment He had to be separated from His Father, Matthew 27:46, to be  made to sin. Jesus cried with a loud voice:  My God, My God, why have <span class=GramE>You</span> forsaken Me? In that perspective He truly had  nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Toby, please notice this carefully!: When Yeshua said those words he was still very much alive! He had been experiencing that separation for some time already. Indeed, the separation began with Judas selling of Yeshua into the hierarchy of men. That is, Yeshua had been experiencing this separation increasingly ever since the Monday night proceeding the Friday when he was crucified. Remember his experience in the garden of Gethsemane? For details of timing, please cf. the table under <a href="../../NTCh/TimingOfTheEventsOfThePaschalPesachWeek.htm">this link</a>! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> At his death, Yeshua exited the jurisdiction of men, thus actually returning into the realm of none but his Father in heaven& Or, as suggested by your own words above: When Yeshua died, he was effectively  divorced from the hierarchy of men& <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>[ - You might notice here the deception inherent in the Roman Catholic thinking and teaching re Purgatory and Satan as the king of the Kingdom of Death and as the owner of each and every one that is dead. That s yet another one of Satan s many lies! Let s be sure to follow in our Savior s footsteps as He is leading us out of those erroneous teachings of ours, that is, out of yesteryears  present truths. ]</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A second fulfillment very likely concerned His relationship with His covenant people. When He died on the cross the divorce from the Israelites was a fact and from that perspective, He  had nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> But Toby please& If that were to be true  which it is certainly not  then He would be equally divorced from each and every true and honest righteous man and women as well, including also Enoch, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and many others& Not only those who reckoned their citizenship in heaven merely upon their formal citizenship within the Kingdom of Judah and/or within the Kingdom of Israel. That species of theology of yours does not hold water! It is inconsistent with itself! Isn t that obvious?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Let s make certain that we, I and you, are not making a very similar error& That is, by relying upon a formal membership in a State registered Seventh-day Adventist Church& and/or upon our holding on to various lies in the form of various particulars within the current creed of SDA s, that is, the 28 doctrines being taught in the abominable book Seventh-day Adventists Believe& - Please remember, and do not forget, the reasons for our beloved Seventh-day Adventist pioneers insistent refusal to accept any species of creed beyond that of the Holy Scriptures as a whole!]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Now Romans 7:2 was fulfilled as well as what He said in Matthew 21:43:  The kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it. The physical pain must have been excruciating for the Lord but the pain of this total separation from God and the carrying of the sin of the world must have been much worse! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> What s the point of constantly emphasizing such pains of our own imaginations as are not being directly shared with us in the Holy Scriptures? Who is using such preaching for purposes of turning each our minds away from far more important and valuable teachings available to us in the Word of God, which teachings have the power of transforming the quality and quantity of each our lives and of each our most important relationships? What part may the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican <span class=GramE>be</span> playing in promoting such deceptive teaching?]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Summary</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:110.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Daniel prayed and interceded on behalf of his people and was very worried about their status before God. God quickly assured Daniel that they still were His Covenant people. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:110.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Toby, do you really believe that Daniel was only perceiving himself as having a relationship with his Maker solely through his nation? No personal relationship between him and God such as is being so strongly emphasized by Moses per Deuteronomy 5:2-5?]</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:110.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>However, God firmly rejected their rebellion towards Him and told them to finish transgression and put an end to sin. To really show them His mercy, He gave them 490 years to repent.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:110.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Again, isn t that kind of thinking expressive of a belief in collective salvation of a people as a whole, that is, while rejecting God s saving each and every one among us on a daily and moment to moment basis - as well as in the sense of saving each of us in regards to many and various particulars within each our lives? Cf. Jonah 3:8 and the king s words re the ways of each <span class=GramE>man,</span>  </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>let them turn <span class=SpellE>every one</span> from his evil way& </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> !]</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:110.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>When Daniel prayed about the temple building in ruins in Jerusalem God plainly told him that it would be rebuilt. With that statement Daniel was assured that God s name would be restored among the surrounding nations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:110.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> What makes you believe that that Temple was so very important in and of itself? Didn t God Himself tell David differently? What is more important: The mirror image, or the original being in front of the mirror?]</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:110.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Then God brought in His agenda and gave a wonderful prophecy concerning the Messiah. However, neither did they recognize the Anointed One nor accept Him. He was rejected and crucified and thus the  divorce was a fact. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'>[ -</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:red'> Let s each do our best not to misapply these things& Let s each do our best not to  believe <span class=GramE>a[</span><span class=SpellE>ny</span>] lie! &nbsp; Let s each do our best in following the example being set by our Savior as He keeps on guiding each of us out of the darkness and confusion of Babylon& which is obviously still all too much coloring each our ways of thinking and doing& ]</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:110.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Toby Joreteg MD, PhD</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><a href="http://www.tobyjoreteg.com/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"'>www.TobyJoreteg.com</span></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:83.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:76.5pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:62.25pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:62.25pt;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:62.25pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Without recourse.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> All Rights Reserved. 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