Dear Jeff,
I’ve been reading your February newsletter online, I just found your website. A fellow pastor had wanted me to read your material. So I’m in the process of working my way back through the newsletters.
On page 12, I notice that you have Daniel 9:23, being chazown rather than mareh. I think you must be following Strong’s concordance on this. Strong’s is mistaken here.
I recently discovered this while discussing Daniel 9 with a Baptist pastor. I was showing the connection between Daniel 8 and 9, how 9 is a continued explanation of 8, specifically of the mareh of the 2300 days. He pointed out that Strong’s has chazown in this verse. Since this did not agree with my notes from college, nor any comments on this subject I have read, I knew I needed to look into it more. My Young’s concordance had Mareh. So I dug out my Hebrew Bible and checked and it is Mareh.
So Gabriel whom he saw in the chazown tells him to consider the mareh, the 2300 days, not the overall vision. Gabriel had already interpreted the rest of the chazown in 8. It was only the mareh that Gabriel did not explain, other than to say it was true 8:26, and that Daniel did not understand 8:27.
So Daniel 9 a time prophecy explains the mareh a time prophecy. I look forward to reading the rest of your newsletters and the other information on your website. Yours in Christ, Pastor MC.
Response
Dear Pastor MC,
I stand corrected. In the past two months I have been redirected in my thinking and understanding of a few important points in Daniel. Your unsolicited email is an example of how the Lord has personally opened up a few understandings that I had previously not recognized or understood. You are correct in assuming I refer to Strong’s. After your email I went and found that the new Strong’s has made the correction also. Thanks for the input. I intend to present a study on the 1843 chart in California in a few weeks that will be recorded and hopefully part of that presentation will be to restate Mareh and Chazown in Daniel for the record.
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