May 01, 2024

Daniel 9:1-27 Worksheet

Main Idea: God’s people are marked by humble confession and great confidence in the righteousness and faithfulness of God.

Let your prayers ______ from your study of the scriptures (9:1-2).

“Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.” Corrie ten Boom

Daniel is reading the book of Jeremiah, “that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be seventy.” 

Jer. 25:1-14 & 29:1-11; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Ezra 1:1; Isaiah 44:6-20

Daniel believed the ___________ of scripture from God as he was exiled and held captive in a godless land. And as he was moving rapidly toward the end of his life, he still had great _______ for his people in light of the sure and certain promises of the word of God. 

He never lost confidence in the ___________ of God, rather it drove him to action and to in this case to his knees. 

When we immerse ourselves in scripture, it will _________ us to pray. 

Let your prayers ___________ take you into the presence of God (9:3).

“Where the mind isn’t brimming with the Bible, the heart is not generally brimming with prayer.” - John Piper

A humble and ___________ attitude is the same approach David took toward the Lord in Prayer. 

Daniel took a threefold posture with “fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.”

____________ is the withholding of food from the body for the sake of prioritizing something else, such as prayer. 

Sackcloth was a _________ material. 

Ashes symbolized complete _______. 

Daniel turned to the Lord with a _________ heart, a burden he could hardly bear. He could not bear it without God’s help and strength. 

Let your prayers be characterized by _________ and full confession of sin (9:4-14).

“The great people of the earth today are people who pray, (not) those who talk about prayer.”

Daniels prayer begins with the ________ and it is saturated with the Bible. There are allusions to Leviticus (26:40) and Deuteronomy (28:64) and Exodus (34:6) and Psalms (44:14) and Jeremiah (25:11). 

The prayer itself can be analyzed in a number of ways, including by its structure and its content. Three movements: 

Adoration (v.4)     2. Confession (vv.5-14)    3. Petition (vv. 15-19)

Daniel confesses the reality of his sin and the people’s sin because he has been called to carry their ________ as his own even though he did not cause the burden. He feels responsible for the people under his care.

Terms used to describe Israel and Judah’s sin:

Daniel has taken the ____ of prosecuting attorney and has built an irrefutable case against those who “bear God’s name” (vv. 18-19).

Daniel puts himself on the side of God’s rebellious people by using the personal “we” or “us” or “our” more than twenty times! 

_________ on God’s people and shame  on God’s city (v.12) is the righteous ________ they have invited on themselves.

“To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.” - Billy Graham

Let your prayers move to petition and pleas ____________ in God’s character (9:15-19).

“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude – an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.” - A.W. Pink

Daniel sees the righteousness of God both as the basis for God’s judgment of the people (v.7) and also the basis for his own prayer for forgiveness (v.16). How can this be?

Scripture: “righteousness” basically means “__________.” Sometimes it is defined as “conformity to a norm.” In the case of God the norm to which He conforms is His own being and character. He is _____ to Himself; He always acts in character.  

Daniel’s plea begins to build as he asks God to “hear the prayer and the petitions of your servant. Make your face shine” (v.17)

Listen and ____. Do not delay. Do it not for our ______, for we are undeserving. Lord, do it for your own sake! Do it because it will bring glory to your name and show the nations just who you are and what you are like.

“God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil.” - E.M. Bounds

God hears the passionate prayers of his ___________ children (9:20-23)

James 4:3

“You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong ________, so that you may spend it on your pleasures” 

What we pray, How we pray, Who we pray to are all important to God.

Daniel _________ to God (9:20-21) [Example]

Daniel is praying to the right person with the right posture, something that always characterizes real and authentic praying. 

God __________ Daniel’s prayer (9:21-23)

Gabriel tells Daniel that the moment he began praying “an answer went out, and I have come to give it.” 

“For you are treasured by God.” (v.23)

God has a prophetic ______ to bring about our salvation (9:24-27).

In his time God deals with sin (9:24)

During the seventy-sevens, six things will occur:

Rebellion will be ___________

An end to _____ is to be made.

Atonement for _________ will take place.

Everlasting _____________ is to be brought in.

Vision and prophecy will be ___________ up.

The most holy place or Holy One will be ____________.

In his time God sends Messiah Jesus (9:25-26)

Three events take place during the 490 years:

First is the _____________ of Jerusalem (v.25) during the first seven weeks, or forty-nine years. 

Second is the __________ and _________ of Messiah (v.26) during the seven plus 62 weeks, or 483 years.

Third is the _______________ by the antichrist (the coming ruler of the people) and his defeat (v.27) in the final or seventieth week. 

“Going out of the word” is a reference to the decree of Artaxerxes I to Ezra in 458 BC or the decree given to Nehemiah in 445/444 BC.

The temple, city, and walls would be rebuilt, but ________ would accompany the rebuilding every step of the way.

Verse 26 informs us that after the ___ weeks (plus the prior seven, equaling 69 weeks, or 483 years), the anointed ruler, the Messiah, “will be cut off and will have nothing.”

In his time God judges his people (9:26)

The Messiah is ____________. 

Judgment ___________ from what Gabriel calls “the people of the coming ruler.”

In his time God ______________ his enemies (9:27).

Verse 27 deals with the 70th week, the last seven years of history prior to the coming of God’s kingdom in its full and glorious manifestation. 

This begins when the ruler makes “a ______ covenant with many for one week” (v.27). 

There is a “firm covenant” that the antichrist or the coming ruler will make with many.

After a certain point (roughly 3.5 years) he will break his covenant and will put an end to sacrifice and offering. 

Worship of the true God, or anyone other than him is or will be __________ and forbidden (Rev. 13). 

“The abomination of desolation will be on a wing of the temple” speaks of the spreading ___________ that will continue until God stops it and in the process pours out his judgment and wrath on the antichrist.