The Most Amazing Prophecy

It was a very dark period in the history of the nation of Israel. A people without a land of their own. God's punishment for Israel for their disobedience came in the form of a payback! Israel had to pay God back for not following the seven (7) year rule to let the land rest. God determined upon the people of Israel that they owed him 70 weeks of years (7 x 70=490) or 490 years.

"Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolation's have been decreed. He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."              Daniel  9:24-27

Out of this dark period arose a young prophet of God named Daniel. He was  used by God as a beacon of light to remind the people of Israel of his promise. His light still shines today, for our generation, to let us know that we are approaching the End Times!

Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, conquered Jerusalem in 606 B.C. and returned home with the finest young men of Israel. One of these young men was named Daniel. Daniel was given the finest education and training possible by the Babylonian Kingdom. Daniel was gifted with great wisdom and prophetic abilities by God because of his great faithfulness. As a result of his great capabilities, Daniel was promoted from a Jewish slave to Royal advisor and later First Minister of all of Babylon, the greatest of all the ancient empires.

While Daniel lived in the Royal palace, the remainder of the Jewish people lived under the rule of the Babylonian army in Jerusalem. There was another prophet of God named Jeremiah who spoke to these people. Jeremiah declared that "this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon for seventy years"   (Jeremiah 25:11)