Daniel read the prophecy of Jeremiah, concerning the intending captivity of the Jewish nation for 70yrs. As at the time the prophecy was given, another prophet by the name Hananiah rose up, and speaking against the prophecy of Jeremiah, claiming that 70yrs wouldn’t be spent in captivity, only 2yrs (Jeremiah 28:2 – 6). That was the seventy years Daniel was praying about, saying that the 70yrs was/should have been over…
Text: Revelation 7:1, Daniel 9:24, Jeremiah 29:10, Acts 13:45, Genesis 29:27, Romans 11:7 , Micah 4:1,Revelation 1:11, 19 – 20, Luke 21:24, Daniel 11:20, Revelation 11: 1 – 7, Revelation 14:1, Revelation 7:1
Hananiah types the Pentecostal church of today, telling you all sorts about the possibility of a near utopic state of the world, while William Marrion Branham is a type of Jeremiah in this present age. The whole crowd in the days of Jeremiah accepted the prophecy of Hananiah, perhaps, cheering him on, as he was saying just the things they wanted to hear, but hat was contrary to the word of the Lord through His true prophet, Jeremiah.
… It was then God sent the angel Gabriel to him, that came to give him skill and understandingof the will of God, just so he wouldn’t be praying amiss. Daniel was praying about the 70yrs God already concluded.
That you spend hours praying doesn’t mean God will answer. It has to be according to His word, and His will for your life.
What made Daniel to be greatly beloved as stated by the angel was his devotion to God, his humility, character, quality of God’s nature in his life (evidenced by his refusal to eat of the king’s meal).
The angel didn’t use the word “years” as used by the prophet Jeremiah many years back, rather “weeks”.
After 69wks, God turned to the gentiles (Acts 13:45, Romans 11:11), after the Jews had turned down Christ. This leaves the Jewish world with one week.
When Jacob was to marry the daughter of Laban, he was asked to serve for 7yrs, to get Rachael. But Laban instead gave him Leah, and was instructed to “… fulfill her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years” (Genesis 29:26).
At the beginning of the last week of Daniel, the temple would have been built.
The 144,000 didn’t defile themselves with women spoke of spiritual defilement.