Daniel: Prophet of God | Daniel 9 Explained: The Prayer, the Angel, and the Seventy Weeks (Ep. 5)

In the first year of Darius the Mede, the year after Babylon fell, Daniel, now past eighty, read in the prophet Jeremiah that Jerusalem would lie desolate seventy years, and he saw that the seventy years were almost over. He did not sit back and wait. He put on sackcloth and prayed one of the great prayers of the Bible: confessing "we have sinned" though no sin of his is recorded, and asking God to act "not for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies." While he was still praying, the angel Gabriel came at the time of the evening oblation. Episode 5 of our series through the book of Daniel covers chapter 9. Daniel prayed about seventy years, and Gabriel brought him seventy weeks: seventy sevens of years determined upon Daniel's people and his holy city. We follow the count from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem's wall in Nehemiah's day to Messiah the Prince and the Triumphal Entry; Messiah cut off, and the city and sanctuary destroyed by the Romans in AD 70; the gap of the Church age; and the seventieth week still to come, with the covenant, the abomination of desolation that Jesus spoke of, and the end that God has decreed. We close with four lessons on prayer for Christians who live under pressure for their faith. Taught from a dispensational, pretribulational viewpoint for a general audience. Scripture is quoted from the King James Version. ▶ Previous episode, Daniel 8:    • Daniel: Prophet of God | Daniel 8 Explaine...   ▶ Next episode:    • Daniel: Prophet of God | Daniel 10 Explain...   ▶ The Book of Daniel series:    • The Book of Daniel   TOPICS 0:00 Daniel 9 – Daniel Reads Jeremiah by Lamplight After the Fall of Babylon 0:33 Daniel 9:1 – The First Year of Darius the Mede (538 BC), Daniel About 82 1:29 Daniel 9:2 – Jeremiah's Seventy Years and the Land's Unkept Sabbaths (2 Chronicles 36:21) 3:27 Daniel 9:3–19 – Daniel's Prayer of Confession: O Lord, Hear; O Lord, Forgive 7:23 Daniel 9:20–23 – Gabriel at the Time of the Evening Oblation: Greatly Beloved 8:39 Daniel 9:24–25 – Seventy Weeks Determined: 490 Years for Israel and Jerusalem 11:35 Daniel 9:25 – Which Decree? From Cyrus to Nehemiah and Artaxerxes (444 BC) 14:07 Daniel 9:25 – 483 Years of 360 Days to Messiah the Prince: Nisan 444 BC to AD 33 16:00 Daniel 9:26 – Messiah Cut Off; Titus Destroys Jerusalem and the Temple (AD 70) 17:48 Daniel 9:26–27 – The Gap Between the 69th and 70th Weeks: The Church Age 18:23 Daniel 9:27 – The Seventieth Week: The Prince Confirms a Covenant for Seven Years 19:54 Daniel 9:27 – The Abomination of Desolation and the Great Tribulation (Matthew 24:15) 22:00 Four Lessons on Prayer from Daniel 9 for Christians Today 23:21 Next Episode: Daniel 10, Three Weeks of Mourning in the Third Year of Cyrus 23:40 Credits SCRIPTURE: King James Version (1611), public domain. ART: illustrations and short video clips generated with AI for this video. "Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem," Rembrandt, 1630, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. "The Flight of the Prisoners," James Tissot, c. 1896–1902, The Jewish Museum, New York. "Nehemiah Viewing the Ruins of the Walls of Jerusalem," Gustave Doré, 1866. "The Coming Prince," Robert Anderson, title page of the 6th edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, and his portrait (frontispiece, 1910). "Flevit super illam," Enrique Simonet, 1892, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. "The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70," Louis Haghe after David Roberts. The spoils of the temple, relief on the Arch of Titus, Rome, c. AD 81. All public domain. Maps drawn from Natural Earth data (public domain). NARRATION: AI voice, "Bradley – Earnest Narrator" (ElevenLabs). MUSIC: original music generated with AI for Gospel Crier. #BookOfDaniel #Daniel9 #BibleProphecy