THE TIME OF MESSIAH'S COMING REVEALED; CHAPTER ELEVEN

JEHOVAH is the Great Timekeeper. Under his control are all the times and seasons connected with his work. (Acts 1:7) All events that he has assigned to these times and seasons are sure to occur.  They will not fail. 

As a diligent student of the Scriptures, the prophet Daniel had faith in Jehovah's ability to schedule events and bring them about.  Of particular interest to Daniel were prophecies regarding the devastation of Jerusalem.  Jeremiah had recorded God's revelation about how long the holy city would remain desolate, and Daniel gave this prophecy careful consideration.  He wrote: "In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus of the seed of the Medes, who had been made king over the kingdoms of the Chaldeans, in the first year of his reigning I myself, Daniel, discerned by the books the number of the years concerning which the word of Jehovah had occurred to Jeremiah, the prophet, for fulfilling the devastation of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years." -Daniel 9:1, 2; Jeremiah 25:11. 

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From the book:  PAY ATTENTION TO DANIEL'S PROPHECY! 1999