Dan 9:25a “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut
off, but not for Himself; and the people of the prince who is to come shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary.”
From the command of King
Cyrus to rebuild the temple of God to the completion of wall of Jerusalem is
7x7 = 49 years.
From the command to the
death of the Messiah is 69x7 = 463 years.
The Messiah’s death was not for Himself but for all mankind as the
sacrificial Lamb.
The birth of Jesus, the Son of God:-
John 1:14 And the Word
became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of
the only begotten of the Father, full
of grace and truth.
Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb of God
1. In the animal shed as the Lamb of
God.
Luke 2:7-12 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped
Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room
for them in the inn.
2. In swaddling cloths as the sacrificial Lamb – all newly born lambs meant for sacrifices are wrapped with
swaddling clothes to prevent them from blemishes.
3. Lay in the manger as food and water for His sheep – the manger is used for holding the feed and possibly water for
feeding the sheep and also other livestock. Our Lord Jesus is the bread of life.
John 6:48 “I am the bread of life.”
4. Shepherds testified
the Birth of the Lamb of God
Luke 2:11-12 “For there is born to you this day in the city of
David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You
will
find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”
The shepherds were
joyfully testifying the birth of the Messiah (Christ) as the Lamb of God drawing
parallels to the birth of their lambs.
Luke 2:17-18 Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known
the saying which was told them concerning this Child. And all those who heard
it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
Ministry of Jesus
His three and a half years ministry filled with exceptional signs
and wonders, love, compassions, and humility had convinced many Jews to accept
Him as their Messiah. These converted Jews were persecuted by the blind Priesthood.
Why Priesthood rejected Messiah?
Without Daniel’s prophecies, the Priesthood and Jews were expecting
the Messiah to come as a Deliverer, annihilating the Romans, and then
established His Millennium Rule in Jerusalem. They, including Jesus’ disciples
could not accept Him as a Lamb of God nailed to the cross.
Rejecting the Book of Daniel
Luke 16:31 “But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and
the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ”
Without the book of
Daniel, the Jewish leaders were deceived and missed their chance of salvation
for rejecting Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, as their Messiah.
Must understand Book of Daniel
Mark 13:14a “So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand),”
Our Lord warned the Jews
that Daniel was God’s prophet and that they must read the book of Daniel in
order to understand Endtime
Prophecies. Similarly, in the last days and without the understanding
of the book of Daniel, many Christians will be deceived and will lose their salvation.
