The Strange Parenthesis

: 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.

• • 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

1. By sending Israel into captivity, God was keeping His covenant
2. The Captivity brought blessing to the
3. 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