UNFOLDING THE WORD With Dr. Gary Kuhne

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week

The 70^th Week, the final 7 years that ends the “Times of The Gentiles” will be followed by the 2^nd Coming of the Messiah. This 70^th Week is known as the Great Tribulation period. This period will be the time in which the Anti-Christ is seen, when terrible persecution breaks out against the Jews and Christians, and the Messiah returns to defeat the Anti-Christ and usher in the promised Messianic Kingdom, the Millennial Rule of the Lord Jesus Christ. Just as the 69 weeks of years exactly unfolded as predicted leading to the 1^st Coming, so the final 7 years of Great Tribulation will exactly unfold leading to the 2^nd Coming.

The Angel Gabriel tells Daniel that God’s ultimate answer for the Jews (and the Gentiles) is tied to the 70 weeks prophecy, which turns attention to the 1^st and 2^nd Coming of the promised Messiah. The 1^st Coming of the Messiah would happen in 69 weeks of years, or 483 years following the edict to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the wall and gates of the city. While the Edict of Cyrus for the Jews to return to Jerusalem was given in 538BC, the edict did not include the right to rebuild the walls and gates. Not until Artaxerxes issued an Edict in the 20^th year of his reign (445BC) did the Jews have permission to rebuild the walls (given at the time of Nehemiah). Given the Hebrew way of counting years, this would place the 1^st Coming of the promised Messiah in the 30-33AD timeframe – clearly highlight Christ in the period of His 3 years of public ministry as the promised Messiah! After being rejected by the Jews, the 70 years has a gap between the 69 weeks and the 70^th week, an era called the “times of the Gentiles”. The 70^th week begins in the final 7 years of that era, a count-down known as the Great Tribulation Period, which then is followed by the 2^nd Coming. This final 7 years will be examined in Part 3.

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

The opening part of Chapter 9 provides a look at the multiple lessons about prayer to be gained by Daniel’s prayer for the promised return of the Jewish people from Exile to Judea and Jerusalem. The final lesson is the challenge for people to stop rebelling against God so the need for Divine discipline could stop. The Angel Gabriel comes at the end of the time of prayer and affirms that God heard Daniel’s prayer. He also brought the 70 weeks prophecy, underscoring that the real and lasting solution for the Jews would not be the return from exile, but the 1^st and 2^nd Coming of the promised Messiah. The specifics of this “70 Weeks” prophecy will be examined over the next two sessions.

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

Chapter 9 opens with a brief break from the Prophetic Visions and finds Daniel praying about the promised return of the Jews from their 70 years of exile. The prayer of Daniel provides multiple lessons about prayer, including the need to confess our sin when we pray, the need to see God properly when we pray, the need to see ourselves properly when we pray, and the need to see that we deserve the outcomes of disobedience in our lives. The lessons about prayer will conclude in the next session.  

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.