How often people take up the study of prophecy from a purely intellectual standpoint, and yet surely there is nothing to move our hearts toward God like occupation with His marvelous purpose in regard to the coming of His own blessed Son into the world again and the setting up of His glorious kingdom.ĭaniel felt in his soul that the people were not in a fit state for restoration, and he took the place of confession before God. This stirred his heart to prayer-which in itself is most suggestive. He realized, therefore, that the seventy-year cycle must be nearly completed. He was then but a youth, and now had become an old man. It had been definitely foretold that following the destruction of the city and Temple and the enslavement of God’s earthly people in Babylon, a period of seventy years would elapse ere they would be restored to their own land and be permitted to rebuild the Temple, and eventually the city of Jerusalem itself.ĭaniel had been carried away in one of the first of the campaigns against Palestine. In these books he learned that God would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. 29:10-14), and probably the second book of Chronicles (36:21), for another. He refers to the book of Jeremiah for one (Chap. He tells us that he had been studying the books of some of the prophets who had gone before him. Those who have given much study to the book of Daniel will remember that the chapter begins with an account of Daniel’s personal exercises. The term is well given, for if we understand the outline indicated here, we shall find that all the prophetic Scriptures fall into place without forcing them, and that so simply as to make it evident that we have here the backbone of the entire prophetic system of the Bible. Sir Edward Denny was, I think, perhaps the first prophetic student to designate this chapter, “The Backbone of Prophecy.” He may, of course, have borrowed the term from someone else, but if so, the present writer has never found it used by anyone who wrote earlier than this particular teacher. We have in the ninth chapter of the book of Daniel the most remarkable time prophecy of the Holy Scriptures.
Chapter II, The Great Prophecy Of The Seventy Weeks
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