October 27
Daniel 9 & Mark 8
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Daniel 9

Chapter 9

9:1In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, a Mede by birth, who was ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans: 2In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be 70. 3So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
4I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed:
Ah, Lord-the great and awe-inspiring God who keeps His gracious covenant with those who love Him and keep His commands-
5we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled, and turned away from Your commands and ordinances.
6We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.
7Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel-those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where You have dispersed them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward You.
8Lord, public shame belongs to us, our kings, our leaders, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
9Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord our God, though we have rebelled against Him
10and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following His instructions that He set before us through His servants the prophets.
11All Israel has broken Your law and turned away, refusing to obey You. The promised curse written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against Him.
12He has carried out His words that He spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing on us so great a disaster that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done under all of heaven.
13Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not appeased the Lord our God by turning from our iniquities and paying attention to Your truth.
14So the Lord kept the disaster in mind and brought it on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all He has done. But we have not obeyed Him.
15Now, Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and made Your name renowned as it is this day, we have sinned, we have acted wickedly.
16Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, may Your anger and wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of ridicule to all those around us.
17Therefore, our God, hear the prayer and the petitions of Your servant. Show Your favor to Your desolate sanctuary for the Lord's sake.
18Listen, my God, and hear. Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city called by Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You based on our righteous acts, but based on Your abundant compassion.
19Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and act! My God, for Your own sake, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.
20While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before Yahweh my God concerning the holy mountain of my God- 21while I was praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the first vision, came to me in my extreme weariness, about the time of the evening offering. 22He gave me this explanation: "Daniel, I've come now to give you understanding. 23At the beginning of your petitions an answer went out, and I have come to give it, for you are treasured by God. So consider the message and understand the vision:
24Seventy weeks are decreed
about your people and your holy city-
to bring the rebellion to an end,
to put a stop to sin,
to wipe away iniquity,
to bring in everlasting righteousness,
to seal up vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the most holy place.
25Know and understand this:
From the issuing of the decree
to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
until Messiah the Prince
will be seven weeks and 62 weeks.
It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,
but in difficult times.
26After those 62 weeks
the Messiah will be cut off
and will have nothing.
The people of the coming prince
will destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The end will come with a flood,
and until the end there will be war;
desolations are decreed.
27He will make a firm covenant
with many for one week,
but in the middle of the week
he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.
And the abomination of desolation
will be on a wing of the temple
until the decreed destruction
is poured out on the desolator."

Mark 8

Chapter 8

8:1In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He summoned the disciples and said to them, 2"I have compassion on the crowd, because they've already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. 3If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance."
4His disciples answered Him, "Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to fill these people?"
5"How many loaves do you have?" He asked them.
"Seven," they said. 6Then He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks, broke the loaves, and kept on giving them to His disciples to set before the people. So they served the loaves to the crowd. 7They also had a few small fish, and when He had blessed them, He said these were to be served as well. 8They ate and were filled. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces. 9About 4,000 men were there. He dismissed them 10and immediately got into the boat with His disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.
11The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, demanding of Him a sign from heaven to test Him. 12But sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, "Why does this generation demand a sign? I assure you: No sign will be given to this generation!" 13Then He left them, got on board the boat again, and went to the other side.
14They had forgotten to take bread and had only one loaf with them in the boat. 15Then He commanded them: "Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."
16They were discussing among themselves that they did not have any bread. 17Aware of this, He said to them, "Why are you discussing that you do not have any bread? Don't you understand or comprehend? Is your heart hardened? 18Do you have eyes, and not see, and do you have ears, and not hear? And do you not remember? 19When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?"
"Twelve," they told Him.
20"When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?"
"Seven," they said.
21And He said to them, "Don't you understand yet?"
22Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Him and begged Him to touch him. 23He took the blind man by the hand and brought him out of the village. Spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, "Do you see anything?"
24He looked up and said, "I see people-they look to me like trees walking."
25Again Jesus placed His hands on the man's eyes, and he saw distinctly. He was cured and could see everything clearly. 26Then He sent him home, saying, "Don't even go into the village."
27Jesus went out with His disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the road He asked His disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"
28They answered Him, "John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, one of the prophets."
29"But you," He asked them again, "who do you say that I am?"
Peter answered Him, "You are the Messiah!"
30And He strictly warned them to tell no one about Him.
31Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, be killed, and rise after three days. 32He was openly talking about this. So Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.
33But turning around and looking at His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind Me, Satan, because you're not thinking about God's concerns, but man's!"
34Summoning the crowd along with His disciples, He said to them, "If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. 35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me and the gospel will save it. 36For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life? 37What can a man give in exchange for his life? 38For whoever is ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."

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