A careful study of Daniel’s Seventy Weeks removes from our future the judgmental devastation indicated in its latter verses. It is only by hermeneutic gymnastics and a suspension of reason that a massive gap may be imported into Daniel in order to interrupt the otherwise chronologically exact time-frame. And this gap is necessary if Daniel’s Seventieth Week is to be projected into our future. But as we have seen, not only is this difficult to do, but it is wholly unnecessary. Daniel’s famous prophecy has found its fulfillment in the first century of our era. Consequently, the pessimistic expectation of many evangelical Christians that is rooted in this passage is without warrant.
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Jason Robertson is a husband and a father and a pastor. He is dedicated to leading and equipping his the Church with God’s word and biblical theology for life ministry, using a combination of pastoral, church planting and evangelism experience. He holds a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is experienced in church planting, evangelism, missions, and the training of pastors and Bible teachers.
Jason has been preaching the gospel since 1985, serving the first ten years of ministry as a Southern Baptist itinerant evangelist out of Milldale Baptist Church in Zachary, LA which ordained him in 1993. He has preached in hundreds of churches in over 30 States and 4 countries. He planted churches in Siberia, Russia in the summers of 1993 and 1994. He founded Murrieta Valley Church in California, which he planted in cooperation with the SBC NAMB in 2001. He also teaches ministry students at California Baptist University.
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