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Daniel 9:24-27 Seventy Weeks HCSB TESB

Daniel 9:24-27 Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city--to bring the rebellion to an end, to put a stop to sin, to atone for iniquity,

to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.

Know and understand this; From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an Anointed One, the ruler, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat, but in difficult times.

After those sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming ruler will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.

Isaiah 42:5-9 This is what God, the LORD, says--who created the heavens and stretched them out. who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk on it--

"I am the LORD. I have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will hold you by your hand. I will watch over you, and I will appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

in order to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.

I am the LORD. That is my name, and I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.

The psst events have indeed happened. Now I declare new events; I announce them to you before they occur."

Isaiah 53:7-10 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter and like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not open his mouth.

He was taken away because of oppression and judgment; and who considered his fate? For he was cut off from the land of the living; he was struck because of my people's rebellion.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, but he was with a rich man at his death, because he had done no violence and had not spoken deceitfully.

Yet the LORD was pleased to crush him severely. When you make him a guilt offering, he will see his seed, he will prolong his days, and by his hand, the LORD'S pleasure will be accomplished.

Isaiah 55:4-5 Since I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples,

so you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you." For the LORD your God, even the Holy One of Israel, has glorified you."

The Proclamation of Three Angels

Revelation 14:6 Then I saw another angel flying high overhead, with the eternal gospel to announce to the inhabitants of the earth--to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

Nehemiah Sent to Jerusalem

Nehemiah 2:1-8 During the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,

so the king said to me, "Why are you sad, when you aren't sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart." I was overwhelmed with fear

and replied to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"

Then the king asked me, "What is your request?" So I prayed to the God of the heavens
and answered the king.

"If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor with you, send me to Judah and to the city where my ancestors are buried, so that I may rebuild it."

The king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, "How long will your journey take, and when will you return?" So I gave him a definite time, and it pleased the king to send me.

I also said to the king: "If it pleases the king, let me have letters written to the governors of the region west to the Euphrates River, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.

And let me have a letter written to Asaph, keeper of the king's forest, so that he will give me timber to rebuild the gates of the temple's fortress,