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[JLG]

Daniel 9:11

All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against You.

- Transgression!

- Turning away!

- Refusing to obey!

- As a consequence, the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses has been poured out on them!

- Everything was written!

- Nobody can say: I didn’t know!

- But not only that!

- It has happened continuously!

- It is a full-time corruption!

- It is a full-time spiritual corruption!

- Let’s think about creation and destruction repeating again and again!

- Or Yah.weh could have separated the good ones and the bad ones regularly!

- Meaning if you are bad, you are destroyed all at once, if you turn bad, you are destroyed all at once!

- A kind of constant cleaning!

- But no, he decided to take time to separate the good and the bad ones!

- Then he will bring his kingdom!

- And again another final separation!

- Then no one without exception will be able to rebel against his authority!

 

[JLG]

Daniel 9:12

You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

- Against us!

- Against our rulers!

- A great disaster!

- Thus both the people and the rulers are responsible for the destruction of Jerusalem!

- Nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem!

- And imagine it was only the first destruction of Jerusalem!

- Now think about what happened for the second destruction!

- And at the same time think about what is going to happen to mankind when Jesus comes back to establish Yah.weh’s kingdom!

- Do you hear Daniel’s warning?

 

[JLG]

Daniel 9:13

Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD (Yah.weh) our God by turning from our iniquities and paying attention to Your truth.

- As Daniel clearly says, the Hebrews never did anything to follow Yah.weh!

- Only iniquities!

- And they never paid attention to His truth!

- They were responsible for the disaster that came on them!

- Same for mankind!

- They always fought Yah.weh’s truth!

- The message can’t be clearer for those who want to listen!

- Those who don’t want to listen will never understand!

- Always free will but no excuse!