God's Time and our Salvation

Fulness of Time

Gal 4:4-7
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

God's Time
Before the world was created God had an a plan of salvation ready in the event that humanity should fall.
[25] Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, [26] But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: (Rom 16:25-26 KJV)

Year of Jesus' Death
The only event in the life of Jesus that was assigned a date in the Biblical record was the date for Jesus' baptism, which occurred "in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar" (Luke 3:1,21), or 27 A.D., a date prophesied over 500 years earlier in the prophecy of Daniel 9:25.

Precise Time of the Baptism of Jesus Fortold

All other events in Jesus life, even His birth, must be dated relative to this date. For example, we know when Jesus was born because the Bible says that the year He was baptized, 27 A.D., "Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age." Luke 3:21-23 Therefore He must have been born around 3 B.C. (27 A.D. minus 30 years = 3 B.C.).

God tells before it comes to pass so we will know it is He

To confirm that Jesus was indeed the promised Messiah ("anointed one"), the divine Savior of the world, God sent Daniel the spectacular prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 which not only prophesied over 500 years in advance the very year of Jesus' baptism and "anointing" with the Holy Spirit, but also the very year of His death and its meaning as a saving act on our behalf!

Each of the last three verses of the Daniel 9:24-27 prophecy foretold events that were to take place relative to both Jerusalem and the Messiah.

Daniel 9:25 foretold the very year He would be anointed and become the Messiah, which occurred exactly as prophesied, in A.D. 27.

Daniel 9:26 foretold that "after the sixty-two weeks (i.e., sometime after 27 A.D.), Messiah shall be cut off" (put to death).

Daniel 9:27 prophesied about the last seven years of the 490 year prophecy, the seven years after 27 A.D., and it explicitly states that "in the middle of the week (the middle of the final 7 years of the prophecy), He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering." These phrases–"cut off" and "bring an end to sacrifice and offering"–are direct references to Jesus' death. The "Messiah shall be cut off," put to death, and "bring an end to" the lamb sacrificial system of the Old Testament, "in the middle of" the final 7 years of this prophecy, or three and a half years after 27 A.D., which would be 31 A.D.–the very year Biblical scholars and chronologists have determined that Jesus was crucified!

The exact year of the death of no other person in history has been foretold like this. By foretelling over 500 years in advance of the very years that the world's Messiah would be anointed for His saving mission and then die, God provided important evidence to sincere, honest-in-heart seekers that Jesus was indeed the Messiah of God, the One to whom we must look for salvation and hope.

But far more important than the year Jesus died is the meaning of His death. And that also has been revealed in this spectacular prophecy.


Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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