Daniel 9, and we're going to be looking at verse 24. There are six things listed in Daniel 9. in verse 24, that have to do, just by way of review, that have to do with Daniel's people. And we know that because Daniel 9, 24 starts off, 70 weeks are determined upon thy people, and we talked about that last week. And then it says, we know that this is a Jewish thing because it says then, and upon thy holy city, and that holy city is Jerusalem. So when we're looking at Daniel 9, verse 24, here's the question, see if one of the young people can answer. Is the church in view? Or is national Israel in view? Which one of the young people has the answer? National Israel. Does that make sense? Because as the church, we are in Israel, and so therefore we can't be called Daniel's people. Daniel's people would be Jewish people. And then we looked at these six things that are listed that still have to come to pass prophetically for a nation. Not an individual now, but for a nation in the future. And the first thing, let's see if we can have Wilder find the first thing listed in Daniel 9.24. We talked about it's for thy people and thy holy city. And what comes after thy holy city? To finish what? To finish the transgression. Now, we can't apply that to us as the church because Jesus said on the cross in John 19, He said, it is what? It is finished. So it couldn't be for the church because as far as we know, and by the way, you can know that you know that you know, your transgressions have been finished. It is finished. Jesus settled it on the cross. So this couldn't possibly be for you in Daniel 9 because you would be saying or we would be saying that either A, our soul really isn't saved. Something else has to happen. Or B, we could possibly lose our salvation, which if we're sealed into the day of redemption, we can't lose our salvation. So we understand that. And I think that's where we left off. So As an individual, our transgressions individually after we've trusted Christ are finished. They're dealt with. They're paid for as an individual. But in Daniel 9, verse 24, there's a national scope and view, and national Israel's transgressions have not been Completed. There's still something left that has to happen nationally. This is why when we went through Romans 9, 10, 11, we saw how Israel has been set aside for a time. But there is going to come a time when Jesus is going to go back and deal with them. But right now, it's an individual plan rather than what? individual salvation for everyone now rather than what's going to come into view when Daniel's 70th week comes to pass. That's right, a national cleansing will happen. Okay, so the next one is what? Let's see if we can have Melanie, can you read the next one in Daniel 9 24? It comes after to finish the transgression. What else has to happen? That's right. And to make an end of sins. That's right, Malani. So that's the second thing that needs to happen with Israel, and that's going to happen after the church is called away. Now get 2 Peter 2, and we'll see why this can't be for us. Get 2 Peter 2. 2 Peter 2. I'm sorry, 1 Peter 2. Because that was not right. 1 Peter 2. All of the young people, when you have your eyeballs on this verse, say Amen. All the young people. If you have your eyeballs on it, say Amen. I didn't say the verse that would help 2nd Peter 2 verse 24. When you get it on your eyes, say Amen. Our first Peter 2. Anybody got in a cup of coffee? Preachers asleep. 1st Peter 224 I need. I'd like all young people to read that verse together. Ready go. Very good. So in Daniel 9.24, there has to be an end of sins, but 1 Peter 2.24 says that Jesus and His own self bear our what? Jesus bore our sins. So when you cross-reference Daniel 9.24 with 1 Peter 2.24, you'll see that individually now in the church age, look, Jesus, He already bore my sins and your sins on the tree. Everybody see that? Well, national Israel, it's talking about a national entity in Daniel 9. 1 Peter 2 is talking about an individual thing. And Jesus bore our sins where? In His own... Call out the answer if you have it. In His own body. That's right. And He bore our sins on His own body where? On a what? On a tree. Jesus, by the way, He was born of a virgin and they laid Him in a manger. Dead wood. Living Savior. And then He dies on Calvary's tree on a piece of dead wood. A living Savior. That's pretty good. but He took care of our sins on the cross." Israel nationally has not had their sins taken care of. So there's a national versus an individual view. And when we understand that and we make that distinction, we can sort out these verses. Alright, go back to Daniel 9, verse 24. And so the transgression of Israel has to be finished. The end of the sins of Israel has to be finished. You know, God said some really bad things about Israel. Because they went after what? They went after false gods. And the Lord just rips into them and He's got a lot of hard things that He says to them. Well, He's going to make an end to their sin, but He's also... I don't know, parents, have you ever had your child outside doing something or inside doing something and you're just going to have to call them in and you're just ripping into them? You ever have to do that? Yeah. And what typically comes after all of the dust settles? some type of reconciliation, right? Well, it's the same thing with national Israel. So what's the next thing on the list? Look at the text and let's have Hannah, you read the next one. To make what? That's right. The Lord is going to make reconciliation for that nation. He's going to restore national Israel. He just doesn't leave them where they're at in their sins and their transgression. He's going to restore them, and they're finally going to be reconciled to Him. Why can't that be for us? Because we're not Israel, that's right. Our sins have already been reconciled. That's right. Anybody else? Those are the two basic answers and they're correct. Go to 2 Corinthians 5. 2 Corinthians 5. Lily, can you read this when you get it? 2 Corinthians 5. Verse 19. 2 Corinthians 5. Verse 19. Isaiah 20, and Roger 21. When you're ready, Melanie. 2 Corinthians 5, verses 19. Lily, I'm sorry. God reconciled the world to Himself. Before you were saved, were you God's enemy? after you are saved. Are you God's enemy? That relationship has been reconciled. Now only God can do that. And He hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. I can't reconcile a lost sinner. But we have the word of reconciliation. We have the reconciler who we can point people to. Does that make sense? It's not my job or your job to reconcile every single thing that's going on in this world. Only Jesus can do that. He gave us the word of reconciliation and He gave us the ministry of reconciliation. So, look at verse number 18. What does it say at the end? And hath given to us what? Right, say it again so I know everybody's got it. And hath given to us what? the ministry of reconciliation. As Christians, that is our ministry. If we stand, everybody stand like this, kind of go like this with your hands. We are standing ready to reconcile people. That's how Jesus stands. Now, turn your head and put your hand out like this. That's not how Jesus stands. That's not how we should stand either, by the way. We are trying to have the ministry that God gave us. But only He can do the reconciling. Alright, verse number 20. Go ahead, Isaiah. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. And now God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. Exactly. Be ye reconciled to God. So our message is, you're a sinner. We want you to be reconciled to God. Here's how. Let me tell you about his ministry and the word of reconciliation. Here's what he did to reconcile lost sinners to himself. Be ye reconciled to God. That's essentially what the Gospel message is. We want sinners to be reconciled to God. Once a sinner has been reconciled to God, do you have to go back and be re-reconciled? It's done. Once, it's done. So obviously, if that's true, When it says, make a reconciliation for iniquity in Daniel 9, God must then be dealing with what? That's right. He's got to be dealing with Israel. Not an individual. Okay, so what do I do if I meet a Jewish person today? Which, by the way, you don't have to travel to Israel to meet a Jewish person. There's more Jews living outside of Israel today more than ever. When you meet a Jewish person, you don't have to tell them as an individual, you have to wait for Daniel's prophetic week to happen for you to be saved. No, what do we do? We preach to them the ministry of reconciliation. Why? Because they need to be saved. Why else? We're supposed to preach the gospel to everybody. That's like right there. I might be asking the question wrong, but that's essentially right there. Everybody means everybody is a what? A sinner, an individual sinner. So we preach the gospel to a Jewish person, the same reason we preach the gospel to any other sinner. is because we're all individuals and God is dealing with individuals now. He doesn't have a national plan in place for salvation until Israel. Israel is God's chosen people, His nation, and that nation has to be cleansed. It isn't going to be cleansed now. If every individual Jew got saved in Israel, that wouldn't mean Daniel's prophetic week was fulfilled. By the way, that won't happen. That can't happen because God said that that remnant is finally going to look and that nation will be saved in a day. All those that are living at that point when Christ comes back, they will finally look and live. Who is the individual in the New Testament that pictures What will happen with national Israel right before Christ comes back? Who is the individual in the New Testament? The individual pictures the nation. Everybody got it? Who's on the road to Damascus? Is Paul a Hebrew of Hebrews? Was he the greatest Jew that, I mean, he was. Perfect lineage. And so when Paul on that road to Damascus, what happens? What does he see from heaven? The light. The gospel is going to be the chiefest of sinners. Chiefest of sinners. That's another good connection. So how does that, when Paul sees that light, how does that picture national Israel? Salvation. Because that same light's going to come from heaven before Christ comes back and puts His feet on them. They're finally going to look at light like lightning. Make sense? So there's an individual picture, the Apostle Paul, to a national Jewish salvation. And that's what Daniel 9 is pointing to. We got that, right? They are going to look upon Him in whom they have what? pierced pierced and that that remnant is is going to be saved. I see something here. Okay, we'll move on. What is the next one? in Daniel 9.24. Oh, we forgot to read a verse. Roger, can you read verse 21 in 2 Corinthians 5? For we have made Him to be sin for us, whom you know sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. I've got a question for you, King. Well, it was his body. So. His body bore the sin. That's why it says. In his own body, we looked at that verse, I think earlier. He's the Son of God. And the Bible talks about how the sins of the fathers were passed on. Well, see, Jesus had no sin in Him because His Heavenly Father was sinless. So Jesus had no sin in nature. But yet, He had a fleshly body because of His mother Mary. That's right. The sin was born on His body. And so that body died because the wages of sin is death. That's right. That's right. But death can't hold him. Death can't touch him. That's why when his body died, went in the grave, and he had no problem going right through in the heart of the earth, right through paradise, crossing that gulf, going into hell, doing some preaching. He got right through the bars. Can't hold him. He's got the keys to death and hell. Well, his body did, and that's why the body was what bore our sins. But that's a great thought. Alright, next one in Daniel 9, verse 24. So, Daniel's people, the transgression has to finish, the end of sin has to be made, the reconciliation for iniquity has to be made. God is a reconciling God. And we see the tie-in nationally versus individually. We're just making the national distinction. What's the next one? To bring in everlasting righteousness. Do you have eternal life? Everlasting life? Are you ever going to lose that? You and I will never, ever lose our everlasting life. It wouldn't be everlasting. Let's have the young people come up in the middle of the aisle there. And then we'll have the adults get Jeremiah 31. And the kids come here in the middle. right in the middle. Okay, now, Malani, I want you to go over where your dad is and stand in the middle of the aisle facing us, face up. Okay. When Malani, when Malani trusts Christ as an individual sinner, and she has everlasting life. Now, point forward, Malani. Point forward. Everlasting life. There's a moment in time where she receives life everlasting. That moment where Malani is standing, and then all the way forward to where all the other saints are, where it's everlasting. Does that make sense? Now, Milani, walk forward kind of to where Roger and Tony are sitting. Okay, stop right there. Now, Lily and Hannah, you go to the back where the doors are. Not only does she get everlasting life, that's a starting point with no ending. That's everlasting life. Start, no end. Now, Milani, turn toward your parents. and put your both hands out this way and point toward Walter and then point to the girls in the back. She also has eternal life. Eternal life has no starting point. It's eternity. It's eternal life. It's everything backwards and it's everything forward and it never ends. That's what you and I get when we get in Christ. It's not one or the other. It's we get both of them. Young people, let me hear you say, everlasting life. Everlasting life. Let me hear you say, eternal life. Eternal life. Can you ever lose it? No. No, because by definition, it wouldn't be... everlasting life. That's deep theology, isn't it? Nice work, kids. All right, have a seat. Relax your arms, Melanie. It wouldn't work. So what has to be brought in for national Israel in scope is everlasting righteousness. Jeremiah 31, let's have all the adults read that verse. Jeremiah 31, verses 33 and 34. Go ahead. I will put my law in their hearts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Teach no more. Every man his neighbor, and every man his brother. Say no more, no more, or they shall all know me from the least of them until the greatest of them. Say no more, for I will forgive their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more. That's right. Okay, so, Have you and I ever had an old covenant? No. We've never had a covenant with God. God made a covenant with His national people, Israel. There's going to be a new covenant with them. When God gave the law to Moses, we already went through this, He never gave the Ten Commandments or those 613 commandments to us. But when He gave it to national Israel, they didn't obey. And they were a mess, right? Guess where it's going to be written in their heart when Christ comes back in the Millennial Kingdom? Or guess where it's going to be written? I already gave you the answer. When Christ comes back in the Millennial Kingdom. Where? In their heart. That's going to be the New Covenant. So now it's going to be automatic. They're automatically going to want to do right. In Jeremiah 31, in verse number 1, it says, "...families of who?" Jeremiah 31, verse 1. Families of who? Israel. That's right. And then it should also say that they shall be. Now look at verse 4. It says, what does it say? O what of Israel? O what? O virgin. Right? What's going to happen? That law is going to be written in their heart. They're going to be restored. They were called a harlot. They were a whoring after all other gods. They were called adulterers and adulteresses. Not anymore. Jeremiah 31 is referencing national Israel finally being restored. We don't need to have the Mosaic Law or God's Law written in our hearts, but national Israel will when God comes back during the Millennial Kingdom. Does that make sense? Romans 2 talks about without the Law, we do by nature the things contained in the Law. That is our individual conscience that bears witness that there's a God. But there still has to be something done with Israel's unrighteousness. Now, we got two more. We can get through it. I know this is deep stuff. What's the next one? In Daniel 9, verse 24. Daniel 9. What is it again? That's right. That's right. All right, let's let's do this. Ephesians one. When you get that, Wilder, I want you to stand up and read it nice and loud so we can understand why the sealing up of the vision and the prophecy in Daniel 9 isn't for us as individuals. Ephesians 1, read verse number 13, Wilder, nice and loud. Ephesians 1, 13. I forgot, his mom went downstairs. Can you show him so he can read it? You got it, Hannah? Go ahead and grab your Bible. You can bring it over. Ephesians 1 13 You were what Wilder Say it one more time seal well If you're already sealed, then obviously the sealing in Daniel 9 can't be for us because we've already been sealed. Very good, amen. Ephesians 4, look at verse number 30. Ephesians 4, verse 30. Bible says, why don't we all read that verse nice and loud. Ephesians 4 verse 30, And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Well, when Daniel's prophecy is fulfilled for the Jewish people, they will then finally be sealed up and preserved. Does that make sense? Nationally, they will be sealed up and preserved. So that's the idea of the sealing up of the vision and the prophecy. And then the last one is in Daniel 9.24. Josiah, what's the last one in Daniel 9.24? Right after seal up the vision and the prophecy. To anoint the Most Holy. And Jesus Christ is the most holy. And He will be coming back as the anointed King. Make sense? Ephesians 5.23, what do we have? Ephesians 5.23, what do we have? For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is..." Let's finish the verse, everyone, together. "...the head of the church, and He is the Savior of the body." Right now, we have a head and we have a Savior. Jesus is King. He is. He's King of kings and Lord of lords. But because he purchased the church, he serves as the church's head and as the church's savior. And when he comes back at his second advent, that is when he is going to claim his title of kingship on the earth. That is, he always is the king of kings. but he's going to claim that title of kingship on the earth when he comes back and rules as a righteous king for 1,000 years. It's not that Jesus isn't king now, it's just that Jesus didn't set up His throne to serve as the king on earth yet. Does that make sense? So that's that. By the way, Revelation 1, what does it call us? Go there. Revelation 1. Revelation 1, what does verse 6 call us? Revelation 1, verse 6, unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins and His own blood. In verse 6, let's read it together. And hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father. To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. He hath made us. We are kings and priests unto God. Praise the Lord for that. It doesn't get any better than being in Christ. It doesn't get any better than that. Okay, first time Christ came, His first advent. We'll wrap it up. He came as what? A king or a suffering servant? Melanie, what did He come as His first advent? A suffering servant. So at His second advent, what do you think He's going to come as? Isaiah? Suffering servant or a king? A king. That's right. He is both. But understanding those different advents will greatly help. When Jesus comes back, nobody will censor Him or silence Him or stop Him. And then the last verse, and then we'll close in a word of prayer. Go to Luke 1. Luke 1. Luke 1, verse 31. Let's read starting at verse 30. Let's read at verse number 30 all together. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus." Now let's stop right there. Has that happened? Yes, that has happened. Now look at this, verse 32, And he shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David, and He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there shall be no end." Has that happened yet? That hasn't happened yet. You can very easily look at Jerusalem and see that that is not happening. You can look around the world and you can say, well, you know, if this is supposed to be the millennial kingdom, then we just should all throw in the towel now and quit. That makes sense. You just look around and you realize, okay, yes, this shall come to pass. It just hasn't come to pass yet. So that fulfillment of prophecy will happen. It just hasn't happened yet. So now we're going to do one more lesson because I want to look at the positives for the nation. Those are the negatives that have to happen to the nation. They need to be purified. But we're going to look at the last one we'll do on these dispensations is the life that they will enjoy with King Jesus. And that'll be the positive, and then we'll close it out.