Daniel’s Prayer

Daniel 9:1-19

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• Prophecy is determined by the reading the Holy Bible.
• Coming to God in prayer after understanding Bible prophecy.
•  Prayer to acknowledge the Holiness of God and our sinfulness.
• Prayer acknowledging God’s righteousness in bringing judgment to all of Israel.
• Prayer acknowledging God is righteous to bring judgment to everyone who turns away from Him.
• The Holy Temple in Jerusalem and in our body has become contentious.
• Prayer for the face of God to shine on His sanctuary within us.
• Prayers are made because God is merciful not because we are righteous.

Prophecy is determined by the reading the Holy Bible. “In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans— in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.” Daniel 9:2 The two visions of Daniel, about the four beasts and little horn with human eyes, and then about the East and West war, came under the reign of Belshazzar. He reigned for several short years before Darius conquered and took over Babylon/Chaldea.

Daniel read the book of Jeremiah to determine that Israel would be in captivity for “70 years.” Even Daniel read the Holy Scriptures to understand the prophetic word of God, and he is a very highly regarded prophet of today. This tells us, as followers of Jesus Christ, that we need to read the Holy Bible to understand how prophecy affects us today. Below is the text in Jeremiah which Daniel is referring to,

And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it,

Jeremiah 25:11-13

Coming to God in prayer after understanding Bible prophecy. “Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.” Daniel 9:3 Daniel stands alone as a very, very important prophet for us today, but after he read Jeremiah, he went into prayer. He did everything spiritually and physically possible to make his requests known to God after reading the prophecy in the Holy Scripture. As followers of Christ, after knowing the prophecies of the Holy Bible, we need to come to God in prayer to make our requests known to Him. We don’t know how to pray as we should, but Jesus Christ makes intercession for us,

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Romans 8:26

 Prayer to acknowledge the Holiness of God and our sinfulness. “And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.” Daniel 9:4-6

Prayer acknowledging God’s righteousness in bringing judgment to all of Israel. “O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. 

Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.” Daniel 9:7-12

Every single Jewish person, Israeli, and the government officials of the State of Israel need to come to God through Jesus Christ. Today, we see the destruction of Israel’s Biblical heritage happening in front of our eyes.

Even as I type this, the Israeli citizens are protesting and rioting for their “democratic” rights which means they are demanding the Israeli government to forget about their Biblical heritage. They are protesting and rioting for the same thing as all the other masses around the world, which is for their particular nation to conform to the global “democratic” government of the beast. The masses around the world are put on the same “sheet of music” by the thing which forms what they think, feel, and do to enable the image of the beast to live and speak through them.

The government of the State of Israel is using police and military force against settlers in Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and are in military conflict with Iran, Syria, Lebanon etc. The masses of people worldwide are expressing outrage at Israel’s aggression and the United Nations have deemed Israel’s aggression illegal. Israel is being pressured to conform to the global government of the beast. Even the United States will not stand with Israel against the “democratic” agenda of the global government.

Severe disaster and judgment are coming against Israel by the hand of the global government and global masses around the world. It is the judgment of God against Israel for rejecting Him, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

God is righteous in bringing judgment to everyone who turns away from Him. “As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth. 

Therefore the Lord has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice. And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day—we have sinned, we have done wickedly!” Daniel 9:13-15

As followers of Jesus, we are the children of Israel through Jacob (Jacob’s name was changed to Israel in Genesis 32:27-28.) Through Jacob/Israel, the promise God made to Abraham was fulfilled, to multiply his descendants as many as the sands on the seashore. That promise was fulfilled through Jesus Christ, who multiplied Abraham’s descendants by including the whosoever into the family of God, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

When we turn away from God by discarding the need for Jesus Christ, disaster comes as the wages of sin is death. When we turn to God through Jesus Christ for the remission of sin, then we receive the free gift of eternal life. Today the world follows after the thing which forms what they think, feel, and do which enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them. They deny the existence of God, discard the need for Jesus Christ, and trample on the Holy Spirit. They are being synchronized to the mark of the beast. Therefore, God keeps the disaster in mind, which is global tribulation on this planet as well as for the State of Israel.

The Holy Temple in Jerusalem and in our body has become contentious. “O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.” Daniel 9:16

The State of Israel is a reproach in the eyes of the whole Middle East, to the international community, and to the masses of people around the world. They are a reproach to the global government of the beast because of their aggression in the region around them. Most importantly, they have become that reproach for turning away from God, rejecting His Son Jesus Christ, and ignoring the Holy Spirit.

Today, the Holy Mountain is a place in Jerusalem, which is suffering extreme contentions and violence between the government of the State of Israel and the Palestinians. The Palestinians claim possession of the Holy Temple and call it Al-Aqsa. Just a few days ago, there was a gunfight inside the temple with several people murdered. It was a battle between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Today, our body as the Holy temple of God has become contentious. There is a thing in the world which wants to sit in the temple of God, our body, by forming what a person thinks, feels, and does to enable the image of the beast to live and speak through us, “…it opposes and exalts itself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that it sits as God in the temple of God, showing itself that it is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 However, our body, the temple of God, belongs to him through Jesus Christ, “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? ” 1 Corinthians 6:19

Prayers for the face of God to shine on His sanctuary within us. “Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord’s sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate.” Daniel 9:17

We want God’s face to shine on His sanctuary, which is our body as the temple of the Holy Spirit. It’ necessary to come to God through Jesus Christ for the remission of sin so that the Holy Spirit lives in us. In order for God’s face to shine on His sanctuary, we have to oppose allowing the image of the beast to live and speak through us by rejecting the thing which forms what we think, feel, and do.

Prayers are made because God is merciful not because we are righteous. “O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.” Daniel 9:18-19

As we look around the world, we see the desolation of the sanctuary of God. The churches no longer hold to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Holy Temple Mount in Jerusalem is filled with contentions, and the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit has been made desolate. The global government of the beast has created the desolation of the sanctuary of God through the thing which forms thoughts, feelings and behaviors to enable the image of the beast to live and speak through people. It synchronizes the masses of the world to the mark of the beast.

…if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:9

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1