Review: Verse 1 says: In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom-in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. So let’s take a moment and review what the chapter is about. We began our study of this chapter last week, and I want to conclude it tonight. Well, Daniel 9 is when God showed us how He wound up the clock of history. That’s one of my little chores every Saturday. I have two clocks in my home I have to wind up with a key in the old fashion way. And the place where that clock was wound was in Daniel 9. We need to be watching what’s happening in Syria and Iran and Iraq with great interest because the clock of prophecy is ticking in our time zone, in our own lifespan. And you shouldn’t be intimidated by people saying, ‘Well, that’s a worst-case analysis,’ because lately, the worst is coming through.” What that requires you to do is take your security very seriously. Here’s another quotation in the article from an Israeli official: “The region is full of bad choices.
It means that we will be encircled by an area which will be no man’s land at the end of the day.” He said that Israel just has to “Wait, and keep the castle.” What we see now is a collapsing of a historical system, the idea of the national Arabic state. But we have to be very, very cautious not to take part in this struggle. The newspaper quoted the man who just stepped down as Israel’s national security advisor, who said: “What we have to understand is everything is going to be changed – to what, I don’t know. The “moat’ is a high-tech border fence, intensified military deployments, and sophisticated intelligence.
Introduction: There’s a front-page today on today’s New York Times website entitled: “Region Boiling, Israel Takes Up Castle Strategy.” The gist of the article is that as the stability of the Middle East collapses and one Arab nation after another destabilizes, Israel has in effect dug a moat around itself and assumed a defense posture while the Arab world goes up in flames.
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