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The Strange Parenthesis
April 14, 2024: refers to systems of communication that rely on figurative representations, or symbols.
- In the Old Testament, prostitution is symbolic of and to God
Hosea married Gomer, who was a .
- Her prostitution symbolized Israel’s to God
- God Israel when they were a notion of idolaters
- God “” them at Mt Sinai when they accepted His Covenant
- In the Promised Land of Caanan Israel forsook God and followed the of the land
- Like Gomer
- Israel began as an
- “ Jehovah”
- eventually to her idolatry
Hosea’s 3 Children:
#1: Son Jezreel “God ” Future: ““
#2: Daughter Lo-Ruhamah “not ” Future: ““
#3: Son Lo-Ammi “not ” Future: “”
- The future new names reflect Israel’s future relationship to God, when all of them will be “the sons of the living God.”
The God of the Covenant:
- Daniel the personal Name of God.
- In our Bibles, the word “LORD” or “Lord” in all caps is the English version of found in the Old Testament.
- The name to Yahweh’s ability to keep covenants or promises, his relational nature, his ability to , etc.
- this Name for God is often linked to other names.
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- Jehovah-Jireh – The Lord Will (Genesis 22:14)
- Jehovah-Shalom- The Lord my (Judges 6:24)
- Jehovah-Raah – The Lord my (Psalm 23)
God’s Plan for Israel:
- God revealed to Jeremiah that the people of Israel would be taken to Babylon and be exiled from their land for years
- By sending Israel into captivity, God was keeping His covenant
- The Captivity brought blessing to the
- When Daniel made this discovery about the seventy years, he had been in Babylon for approx.
God’s Response to Daniel’s Prayer:
- God sent the to Daniel.
- Gabriel told Daniel about seventy periods of 7 years, or years.
Period #1: (7 Weeks) 49 years (Dan. 9:25).
During this period, the Jews will rebuild the in troubled times.
Period #2: (62 Weeks) 434 years (Dan. 9:26).
(7 x 7 = 49; 7 x 62 = 434; total = 483)
- Gabriel said there would be 483 years from the decree in verse 24 to the coming of “the , the ruler.”
Period #3: (1 Week) 7 years (Dan. 9:27)
The pronoun “he” refers to “the that shall come” (v. 26),
- this is, the .
- The final 7 years of the prophetic that Gabriel gave Daniel
- the period that we know as “the ” or “the day of the Lord.”
The Strange Parenthesis:
- Gabriel didn’t tell Daniel what would happen the sixty-ninth and the seventieth “weeks.”
- the period of time between weeks 69 and 70 has to do with the