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Blessed
is he that readeth, and they that hear the words
of this prophecy, and keep those things which are
written therein: for the time is at hand.
Revelation 1:3 |
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The
2,300-Day Prophecy
Lesson
22
Marking
Code: TD
Marking Color: Orange
Key Text: Daniel 8:13,14
- Daniel 8:13, 14. In
vision, Daniel heard that the
sanctuary would be cleansed after
2,300 “days.”
Note:
The 2,300-day prophetic period
graphically outlines with unerring accuracy
the very time when the Messiah was to arrive,
the number of years He was to spend in
ministry, the time of His crucifixion, and
His inauguration as our High Priest in the
heavenly sanctuary. The event takes place at
the end of the 2,300 “days” is a
vital interest to every human being. That is
when the great judgment day begins and Christ
carries out His final ministry for human
beings.
- Daniel 8:1-27. Daniel
saw in the vision the rise and fall
of empires – Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. He saw
the rise of a religious-political
power that would trample on
God’s people, the sanctuary, its
priesthood, sacrifice, and altar.
Daniel raises the crucial question:
“How long will truth be trampled
to the ground?” The answer is
for 2,300 days-and then the sanctuary
will be cleansed.
- Numbers 14:34. In
Bible time prophecies, a prophetic
“day” equals a literal year
of actual time.
- Daniel 9:1-3, 20-24.
An angel explains to Daniel that 70
weeks-490 years-were to be “cut
off” from the 2,300 days as
probationary time for the Jewish
nation.
- Daniel 9:25.
The 70 weeks and the 2,300 days were
to begin with the command to restore
and rebuild Jerusalem. Artaxerxes
issued this decree in 457 B.C.
Ezra
6:14; 7:7; 11-13.
- Daniel 9:25.
The 70 weeks were to be subdivided
into seven weeks and 62 weeks. Seven
weeks-49 years-from 457 B.C. brings
us to 408 B.C., when the temple at
Jerusalem was rebuilt.
- Daniel 9:25.
Messiah the Prince was to come after
69 weeks-483 years. This would extend
to the year A.D. 27. Jesus was
anointed by His baptism in autumn of
A.D. 27 exactly on time with the
prophecy!
Mark
1:14, 15. Jesus began His ministry by saying
that the “time is fulfilled”-the
time predicted by the prophecy of Daniel for
the Messiah to appear.
Acts
10:37, 38. Jesus was anointed at His baptism.
- Daniel 9:26, 27.
One week-seven years-still remained
for the Jewish nation. This would be
the period from A.D. 27 to A.D. 34.
Messiah was to be cut off and cause
the sacrifice to cease in the
“middle of the week.” Jesus
was crucified in the spring of A.D.
31-exactly three-and-a-half years
from His baptism in the autumn of
A.D. 27.
Note:
There would be 1,810 more years until the
end of the 2,300-year prophecy, at which time
Christ was to leave the first room (the Holy
Place) of the heavenly sanctuary and begin
His final ministry for humanity in the second
room (the Most Holy Place). Adding 1,810
years to A.D. 34 brings us to A.D. 1844.
According to the prophecy of Daniel 8:13, 14,
this date marks the beginning of the
“cleansing” of the sanctuary-or the
judgment in heaven.
- Hebrews 9:11-15.
This cleansing-or work of
judgment-takes place in the sanctuary
in heaven.
TD-End.
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