“Our God Reigns” Series from Daniel
Lesson Ten: “Seventy Sevens”
Daniel chapter 9
Conquerors Sunday School Class – Sunday, December 18, 2022
Our Lesson’s Theme Verse is found in this passage of Scripture…
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”
Daniel 9:24
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Today’s Lesson Thought can be summed up in this one simple Statement…
“God Always Keeps His Promises!”
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Lesson:
‘Seventy Sevens’ I : The Reading of the Sacred Word from Jeremiah
A: The Time—The First Year of Darius (Daniel 9:1)
B: The Test—The Book of Jeremiah (Daniel 9:2)
C: The Theme—Seventy Years of Captivity (Daniel 9:2)
II : The Review of the Shameful Wickedness of Judah
A: God’s Prophet was Repentant (Daniel 9:3-4)
B: God’s People were Rebellious (Daniel 9:5-6, 9-11)
C: God’s Procedure was Righteous (Daniel 9:7-8, 12-14)
D: God’s Pardon was Requested (Daniel 9:15-19)
III : The Revelation of the Seventy Weeks on Jerusalem
A: God’s Messenger to Daniel (Daniel 9:20-23)
B: God’s Message for Daniel (Daniel 9:24-27)
Conclusion:
As we can so plainly see in Daniel 9:26-27, this great and terrible seven year period of great tribulation and sorrow will indeed come, but it is all in God’s great plan for His chosen people, the nation of Israel, to be drawn unto Him!
And we know these things to be true because even as Jesus came the first time into this world as a lowly babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, He came for one purpose, and that purpose being to become the Saviour of the world!
Now, the time awaits when He will ultimately do away with the devil and all sin and will, at that great day, be declared to be King of kings and Lord of lords!
You and I, as God’s dear children, have a glorious day awaiting us, but folks, the chosen people of God, the nation of Israel also has a great and glorious day awaiting them as they will indeed receive all the promises ever made unto them by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob…what a day that will be!
Stand ready, dear child of God, for our Redemption draweth nigh!
Daniel stood amazed as he contemplated all that God had planned for his people, the Jews!
But you and I also, as God’s redeemed and born again children, should never forget all that God has planned for us in Heaven one day!
As we remember how that God first gave His only begotten Son for each of us so many years ago, let us never forget that He is coming back again one day—and wouldn’t it be great if it were today?!?!
Never forget…God always keeps his Promises!