 Okay, let's take a moment to pray together. As we get started today may I request somebody to please pray with the class and We will start. Anyone? Okay Okay, Congo go ahead Dear Heavenly Father, we just thank you so much for this day. Thank you God for another day Lord we pray that as we learn about Your word and what you have to say God I just pray that you would help us Lord that as we learn even about The future things that are going to happen. God, we thank you Lord that you are helping us to be prepared for your return and Then we will stand Pure and righteous before you God. Thank you for helping us and Lord we thank you for a massage Thank you that day, which is continued to lead him and guide him that whatever We're hearing that we would apply it and Before pulling what we do God and Jesus never Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thank you for connecting to the class So what we're going to do today is we'll do a quick review of Daniel just just go through just review the chapters and then we will See if there are any questions any clarifications anyone needs and then we would get into Revelation we'll get started with revelation today. All right, so Please turn with me to Daniel and we just flip through the chapters I'm not going to necessarily explain everything again, but let's glance through the chapters and give a quick overview and then see if there are any questions from anyone in the class so the book of Daniel is is amazing because of It's prophetic nature like the first six chapters are of course historical That I called historical events for us but in that In the first six chapters especially chapter two in Daniel chapter two We saw how King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream And that God gives Daniel the ability to Not really know the dream but also give the interpretation And we said that this dream and this this vision or this dream that Nebuchadnezzar had and the interpretation forms like an outline of all that Would be revealed to Daniel So Nebuchadnezzar has this dream of this huge image in different parts parts of the image are made with different metals and so as Daniel interprets that image to Nebuchadnezzar he basically says These are the kingdoms that are coming after you Yeah, the the head represents you Nebuchadnezzar or the Babylonian empire And then he begins to say that's going to be you know Another empire that comes after you and another kingdom that comes after so he interprets that And all the way till we see in the feet of iron mixed with clay and tento's And Daniel says in the days of that kingdom when that is happening The god of heaven will set up his kingdom on the earth So it's it's just a beautiful outline and it's also pointing to Something big that's going to happen. God is going to set up his kingdom here on earth Daniel chapter 5 we see A short portion where Daniel interpreted the handwriting on the wall and that was the transition The Babylonian empire would come to an end The Medes would come in take over. So that actually happened the way Daniel Interpreter the handwriting that same night Belchers I was killed and the whole transition happened Daniel seven onwards Is where we begin to see the the details Of what was given in chapter two, you know starting to be filled in So in in Daniel seven Daniel has a vision and in this vision he's he's seeing different beasts coming forth and He sees that and He also sees Into heaven he sees What is going to come out into the future when The kingdoms of this world are handed over to the son of man the lord jesus christ and to his saints So he sees that The beautiful thing is in Daniel seven The interpretation is also given to us So in the latter part of Daniel seven um There the angel speaking to Daniel says hey these great beasts are actually representing kings and kingdoms So then we see an immediate parallel with these four beasts with the four portions of that image That Daniel saw earlier So we see a parallel What we see in Daniel seven is from the Of from one of from one of those beasts there is there is There are four heads that emerge. This is Daniel seven or six the leopard And then then from the fourth beast, which is the roman empire. There are ten horns And then we see Daniel Noticing a smaller horn coming And taking control of three of these ten horns So for the first time we are getting a little insight into This little horn Which later on we know is representing the antichrist And how this antichrist this little horn is going to Influence three of the ten horns the ten horns are ten leaders coming out um of the region Of iron mixed with clay iron representing the former roman empire Mixed with clay meaning mixed with all the other peoples of all other races Which is what we are seeing today in Europe Because a major part of europe today was formerly part of the roman empire um And that's what we're seeing we are seeing people of That descent But then there's all mixed with people of all races And so if you're looking out, you know, who are the ten major leaders emerging? And how will this another little horn begin to influence three of them? And then begin to come into prominence and so on and then this little horn is speaking You know great things against the lord in chapter eight We see daniel having you know, it's like zeroing in or zooming in to two certain aspects we see the ram and the goat the conflict taking place And the goat overpowering the ram And then additional details The the horn that comes out of the goat is growing very fast very powerful, but suddenly it's cut off And then four other Leaders emerge out of that little horn now out of that That goat Who take over what was part of the the greek empire? And out of one of those four areas of regions This little horn is coming comes out. So we get a district getting more details on Now where the antichrist is or this little horn the antichrist is Going to come from and And so on and again in chapter eight the the beautiful thing is the interpretation is contained in that chapter Where the angel explains to daniel hate The ram you saw Represents the needs and the persians the goat you saw Represents the kingdom of Greece and so on so the interpretation is given to us there We don't have to search elsewhere. It's right there given to us And we have additional details about what this little horn Which is the antichrist what he would do how he would speak and You know basically blaspheme god and speak things against god daniel nine is a very very interesting chapter because here The angel Gabriel is communicating it's explaining to daniel and is now giving Timing time or duration for the vision And he's giving further details. So it's in that last section of Daniel nine versus 24 to 27. It's just about for For verses But there's so much contained in those verses daniel nine 24 to 27 So this is where be you know the angel gable is talking about 70 weeks And we said each week represents a period of seven years by the 70 weeks or 70 times seven which is 490 years Is broken into two parts There's one part Which is 483 years one period And then there's another period of seven years which we refer to as daniel's 70th week And then the angel explains, you know one part is meant to deal with to deal with the issue of sin transgression and inequity Deal with the sins of the people the other part deals with this Man of sin Who's going to come in who's going to make a covenant of peace for Seven years or for one week and then the middle of the week. He's going to break his covenant And he's going to move so quickly on the wings of desolation and he's going to Do all kinds of abominations. That's you know, evil things before god and and so on so that's very interesting daniel nine because All these details are given and he talks about 483 years from the time of king cyrus to the crucif To the crucifying of the messiah, which is amazing And a prophecy like this is what shocks people Because they say how can daniel be so precise and how can he be so You know, how can you speak about things like this? It's not You know, it's just not possible. So people begin to question the validity of the book of daniel But that's our god, right? Our god is so powerful. He can reveal and although here we're seeing god using prophetic imagery uh, you know using the image of beasts and animals and And figurative language yet god is communicating and And it is understandable. He wants us to search out the meaning and when we search it out It's you know, we're we're austra queer amazed At you know, what we can understand daniel 10 Is more of a insight into what's happening the spiritual realm daniel is praying and We also see that the angel cabrio says, okay, this vision is for the future, right? daniel 11 is the near term short term prophetic scripture, which is basically telling daniel how the northern and the southern kingdoms Egypt and syria are going to be fighting with each other and the we saw his we see historically the two empires from the The northern part and the southern part of israel are in conflict and israel is trapped in the middle of it and then we See specifically in daniel 11 how one of them the The ruler epiphanesis he comes in and he Desicrates the temple is very evil towards the Jewish people, but that was foretold to daniel This is going to happen So up until that time for almost a period of 120 years the near term history is given prophetically to daniel He writes everything down and then suddenly from that We jump into the long term prophetic is prophetic Vision that means he says okay all this is going to happen The near term But now let me tell you what's going to happen towards the end of the times So he jumped straight on to the end and in the end he starts talking about once again what this Antichrist this man would do how much power he would have how much influence he would have how he would take over Being in israel being in in Jerusalem and yet suddenly He's going to get news From the north and from the east The news that comes from the north and the east is going to trouble him meaning There's this build up towards this global conflict Which we know as the battle of armageddon So we see all of that given to us in daniel 11 and so much of what is given in daniel 11 the latter part It correlates so beautifully with what we are going to see in the book of revelation Right, we can see you know a nice Matching this is yeah what was given to daniel then what is unfolding in the book of revelation We can see the correlation Of things being played out which we will see when we get into the book of revelation Daniel 12 is kind of a wrap-up of things daniel is very very Inquisitive curious to know you know when is all this going to happen? and Then here's the conversation between two angelic beings saying hey when is this going to happen and then We gives we give some numbers now some numbers are being given you know and we mentioned This particular phrase A time times and half a time so one plus two plus half three and a half that's repeated That's that period of three and a half years which is Uh the second half of that seven year daniel 70th week during which the temple is going to be desecrated This man of sin is going to set himself up in the temple And he's going to really trouble. He's going to really go after Israel the Jewish people and And We see here some numbers being given daniel 12. We see first of all there's a mention of 1260 days Then 1290 days and then 1335 days So we wonder okay, you know why is there So 1260 days we understand that's three and a half years But then why is this additional 30 days and and you know another 45 days? The reason is not stated but when we put it all together with What we see in the book of ezekiel another book of revelation Then we say well, it's most likely that transition period when the tribulation ends And the lord Jesus sets up this new kingdom to rule and reign on the earth This this 30 days 45 days is most likely the time when Everything is cleansed because there's going to be great destruction at the battle of armageddon And we will see in the book of revelation blood is going to flow for about five inches high That's going to be great devastation, you know, whether it's literal or whether it's just telling us how bad things are going to be That's the description that revelations 16 when you know blood is going to flow for about 130 miles like As high as the horses you know What's called the girl the girdle? So it is it is it's it's a huge time of destruction when you can imagine that the armies of the world have come together And there's conflict happening. It's huge destruction. So it's going to take so we are uh we Speculate or we try to think through that maybe this this time period is that's the time to clean out the temple Uh and get everything organized in the temple. We don't know how long it's going to take to clean all the other things out but to get that all together and to see The temple restored would take about that much time So that's why we have that because those days are given very specific to the temple so We see that so that's how the book of Daniel closes off end of Daniel chapter 12 So before we open up revelation Any questions on Daniel any thoughts anybody has any Questions, please Yes, sir. Thank you sir. So I had some doubt regarding to Till the portion which I read so From the book of sir the Daniel seven I want to know that That when the when Daniel is saying here that I was from word 16 I approached one of those who were standing there and asked him The true meaning of all this So, uh, who is this man actually I want to know that one thing and There is another question I have from the from the chapter Even ninth also because of the ninth also there He was he was fasting and then In the 10th I want you to please help me to understand what is this in the ninth chapter 20 um 25th that's seven sevens and six and two sevens. So I want that And I also want to understand that he will settle that the last scripture He will set up an abomination that causes distillation until then Um, and that is one more thing and in the 10th chapter. I have a little doubt which we will like From the second word He actually says that until the three weeks were over. So he was fasting for three weeks But on the fourth chapter fourth word it says on the 24th day Of the first month. So I just want to know that How these two scriptures connect like is it uh, the after 20 after 21 days of prayer Then the 24th day the god has answered him. I want to know that and again in the same scripture In the 15th word again, it's not 15th word 15 16 says While he was saying this to me I bowed on my face towards the ground and uh, I was speechless Then one man looked like a man touched my lips and I opened my mouth and began to speak I want to know that who this person is also And there's few when one more thing I want to know. Sorry, sir Yeah, these Prayers and petitions And sorry, what you have anything? Yeah one, uh, yeah, uh from Seventh 70 15. I was troubled in the spirit and was the vision passed through my mind And I approached one of the standing there and asked him the true meaning of all this So I just want to know that all the who are all these Scripture the how what who is uh whom the The daniel is written and other things what I asked. Thank you. Okay, fine. So Throughout the book of daniel uh, um, I mean basically it's chapter 7 to 12 um, daniel mentions about You know, he's talking to a man now, uh Who is this man so daniel chapter 9 verse 21 He mentions his name. He says while I was praying I was speaking the man gave real Right daniel 9 21. So that's that's what he mentions his name Gabriel so although in The earlier portion seven and eight He just says, you know, I'm speaking and this man who's speaking to me, right? He doesn't mention the name But in daniel 9 he says the man gave real 9 21 the man gave real so Gabriel is mentioned there now in chapter 10 We know that this man is an angelic being because this man Quote unquote man speaking to daniel says You know, I was sent by god god sent me from the day you started praying and then this Quote unquote man says You know, I there was conflict in the spiritual realm and michael the archangel came and helped me And now when i'm going back i'll have to go you know go past those princes of persia and and Greece and no michael is going to come and help me so uh although all though The term man is used By you know putting all this chapters to you know, what is revealed about this man In all these chapters together. We see that okay. This is an angelic being His name is given to us in one place gabriel We see that he's being assisted by another angel archangel michael And so this is the man who is speaking to um daniel and We all know that gabriel is a messenger angel because you know gabriel comes later on in the new testament to speak to Mary and and it says gabriel so uh to answer question this man Who's speaking to daniel? Is the angel gabriel? uh and explaining to him the the vision Man angelic being um the next question that you asked was in daniel chapter nine um having to do with um versus 24 to 27 so um So just to recap what Uh what gabriel shared with daniel or explained to daniel He's a daniel. I am here to talk to you about 70 weeks So seven zero keep the number 70 weeks so We explained that the term week One week here in this case 70 weeks the each week represents of uh seven years How can we say that so we cross-referenced Genesis 29 verse 27 and 28 where um It is clear that in in in their Usage that means the old testament times people in the old testament In their usage The term week Would be used to represent seven years so, uh Jacob was asked to work for one week for it so but That one week wasn't seven days. It was seven years Right, so we so in their mind that that's that was the usage So we say 70 weeks meaning seven years 70 times seven means 490 years but This 490 years Is broken into two periods Now what is confusing is the way it is communicated in verse 25 He says 62 weeks and seven And means plus 62 plus seven So that's a little confusing because he broke breaks it down into two 62 plus seven but Literally a total of 69 weeks 62 plus 169 So he says, you know, uh, they will be sorry. There'll be seven weeks and 62 weeks. So seven plus 62, right? So seven plus six is simply means 69 So there is this one time period of seven plus 62 which is 69 weeks or 483 years 69 times seven 483 years So Gabriel explains this 46 the seven plus 62 which is 483 years Is for the period from The time when the decree has been issued for the people to go back to Jerusalem to rebuild the city till messiah the prince comes to least crucified for 83 years Then comes the Last week daniel 70th week, which is a period of seven years That is out in the future Okay, and in that context With reference to that last seven weeks. That's where verse 27 comes in He's talking about this man of desolation So what is interesting is daniel 927 Where we read about this Antichrist This same verse daniel 927 is quoted by the lord jesus in matthew 24 verse 15 It's also quoted by the apostle paul in second theselonians chapter 2 versus 1 through 7 And we will see a parallel of this in The book of revelation as we read through especially 11 12 13 you will see This play out there in revelation The point is Daniel 927 is talking about this man What will he do? He will first of all, he will confirm or he will sign or he will set in place Uh covenant meaning a promise or in modern language. We will talk about treaties being signed or Agreements being signed or you know united nations for us to keep signing these things so Bible language it's referred to as a covenant modern language. We use different terms, but basically he's going to Set up A covenant with many for one week. That means he will say Hey for seven years Let there be peace and he's going to get leaders at the table and Do something, you know so that peace is brought in for A seven-year period I don't know. We don't know the details, right? We can only speculate we can only imagine How this would play out and what would happen, etc. But he's going to say hey for seven years Let's have peace and do this. This is so he's going to put in a seven-year peace treaty right But in the middle of that which is three and a half years He himself is going to break it And when he breaks it, he's going to move so quickly And what will he do? He will bring an end. I'm looking at night 27. He will bring an end to sacrifice and offering that means He's going to stop the sacrifices So here again, we can imagine what is being played out What's being played out? He's going to speed street is in some way going to Enable the third temple to come into place with sacrifices offerings going on But in the middle of that he's going to come and stop the sacrifices and offerings So he's going to stop the Jewish people from Practicing their faith, you know their their their worship. It's going to stop it And what's he going to do? We know from Daniel seven Daniel eight And Daniel 11 and then revelation 12 13 We know what this anti-crash is going to do. He's based on second chapter two Basically, he's going to set himself up in the temple Say hey, you worship me You know, so he's going to desecrate the temple. He's going to set himself up as god He's going to speak Evil things against god. So that's what's referred to here saying on the wing Of abominations wing trying to represent how quickly he's going to move But what's he going to do abomination abominations means? Things that displease god Things that god hates right so he is going to move on the wing of abomination This is what he's going to do. He's what he's going to carry out And Shall be one who makes desolate that means one that is representing to this man He's going to make desolate. He is going to be very destructive that's to desolate means to destroy to ravage to you know to basically Ruin things so this man He is going to move very quickly to do abominations evil things And he's going to make desolate means he's going to destroy which then this reference is The temple the worship that's happening in the temple. He's going to set himself up as god Then the last question you meant asked us daniel 10 so Daniel 10 verse 2 says daniel fasted for three full weeks. That's 21 days But daniel 10 verse 4 is referring to the calendar date on the 24th day of the first month So I think the first month is Nissan or something. That's in the jewish calendar, of course And I don't know all the months in the jewish calendar But he's referring to a particular date of the month like example if we say You know the second day of the third month, which is march 2nd So like that he's referring to the 24th day of the first month In which this particular thing happened right, so It doesn't mean that he fasted for 24 days or it doesn't mean that he He So verse 2 saying he fasted for 21 days But he doesn't say You know When he started he doesn't tell us that he's just saying he was you know for 21 days But he's giving us the date the month and the day of the month on which He had this vision So that's that's so don't have to confuse it too 21 days is Uh the time he fasted 24th is the day of the month in which he had the vision Whether they coincided that you know on the 21st day when he finished happened to be the 24th day of the month Could very well be But it really you know doesn't Have to be doesn't matter. It's okay So did we answer all your questions? Shri Kamara did we cover everything? I'm not sure Yes, sir Sir, I just want to if you don't mind. I just want to know one more thing That this 70 weeks as you said that is And this 62 plus seven So this is included in the 70 weeks or these are two separate separate Thing and just one more thing. I just want to know which I missed last time in the determine in the daniel eight 816 says I heard a man's voice from the ulai Calling gabriel tell this man Meaning of this vision. So is this is this a real location or Is it I just want to know that this is a place real place or Or is it something else? It's like that's why calling. Yeah, thank you master. That's two things. Thank you so The answer to both is yes, right? So the in the first one first question 62 plus seven so because He's given us. He's given us total of 70 Yes, so then he says 62 plus seven now he's going to account for that 62 plus seven 69 then One more week covenant. He will make which is in at the last verse 27 so that So 62 7 and 1 That makes 70 right, so it's logical to say that when he started off in verse Was 24 he said i'm going to talk to you about 70 weeks Then in verse 25 67 plus 62 So that's 69 then worse one 27 one So totally is 70. So the answer to that question is yes, the 7 plus 62 is part of that 70 weeks. He's explaining what those 70 weeks Would contain and would entail The second question will I from uh, is a literal place geographical place Uh, but he hears so so we don't have to spiritualize it like as you know some spaces and some place elsewhere. No, it's a little place But he's hearing a voice from that direction. So he's hearing the voice of god from that direction saying hey Gabriel helped this man understand This vision, you know, so just a voice coming from that direction Now he says it's a man's voice meaning the recognition is that way I guess as though a man's speaking so But it's obviously god speaking and god giving instruction to Gabriel saying explain The vision to daniel But his recognition in the spirit is of the sounds like a man's voice And god's voice, you know different people have Recognize it differently. They also samuel Thought it was illy's voice you know When when when he heard the name samuel samuel, he thought illy was calling him. So You know if it was It sounded like illy right so if it was his, you know, if it was a Different kind of voice he may have thought oh my mother is calling me or You know, of course mother wasn't there but you know, he would have recognized it. It's some other somebody else's voice but God's voice to samuel at that moment Sounded like illy. He so he went and he said did you call me? Yeah twice he went illy said no no no I I didn't call you the third time illy realized You know that he's actually hearing the voice of god so Different people have had different experiences Uh, we just saying that you know, you had just examples where the voice of god sounded like a human voice a man's voice and the people Recognize it as such in other cases It sounded like a thunderous voice or sounded like the voice of mighty waters. So on, you know, so Thank you. Thank you very much Any other any any other questions from daniel? Yes, pastor. This is charles Yes, charles um I'm inquiring about um verse 26 of chapter seven Uh, this is the this is the chapter about beasts and And it says but the judgment shall see it and they shall take away his dominion To consume and to destroy it until the end Yes, um The beasts are king domes, but I wanted you to shed more light about Why is this there? Why is is it destroyed? This kingdom Why is it destroyed and to the end? Yeah, so, you know, so, um Here he's talking about the antichrist right This so if you read the preceding verses, uh, he's talking about this man or this little horn Um, you know, if you look at verse 25 he's talking about how he will speak Uh, basically blasphemy against god. He would speak pompous things against the most high and he's going to Really persecute The saints of the most high so he's talking he's speaking in reference to the antichrist You know, so the three and a half years the second half of the tribulation This man the antichrist He's going to do horrific things And especially against the people of god And god is allowing that For that short period of time it's also referred to as the time of jacob's trouble because That's the time jacob representing israel israel is going to face trouble like never before So even if you look at history and say hey Historically the jewish people suffer so much here and here and these different times It's it's going to be nothing compared to what they are going to suffer And the reason is given to us in revelation 12 Why are they going to suffer so much because satan is mad that through them The man child was born. That's jesus christ. That's why right. So why is there so much attack on the jews? revelation 12 I I know I know in the natural there's one reason is because of the land and you know the problem the conflict of the land That's a side issue The main issue the spiritual issue revelation 12 gives explains it to us The reason satan is so angry with the jewish people Is because through them came the messiah Right, we will look at it. But anyway back to what's happening here The antichrist was actually energized the beast is energized by the dragon that satan So this antichrist is going to persecute the jewish people he's going to do terrible things For three and a half years And the end of that he will face his judgment which is revelation 19 the lord himself comes The lord jesus comes so that's what he says, you know the court the judgment will be past that means God will come and vindicate his people He's going to destroy the beast So the bible says revelation 19 20 chapter 20 The beast and the false prophet The we will learn about the false prophet later in revelation meaning a spiritual leader Who has who who gains a lot of control and they're working in tandem This the antichrist and the spiritual leader working together So that's another thing to look out for on the global scene Is there some sort of a spiritual Some sort of a religious system that's coming into force I mean it doesn't necessarily have to be called by you know, like Some religious name it could even be an undercover Religious movement that's coming in to prominence because it'll these two things will work together. Okay You'll see it in revelation. But anyway, what I was going to say is The beast and the false prophet Are going to be destroyed at the battle of arm again. They're going to be The lord jesus is going to execute judgment on them and they'll be sent to hell forever. So that's what verse 26 Is a reference to does it Any other questions on daniel? Thank you so much pastor for the explanation Welcome to us Okay If there are no questions They will jump in now to the book of revelation So let's do a quick introduction. I know we just have about four more minutes before a break. Let's just um Introduce revelation and then we will start going through revelation verse by verse now I know we we We did a little bit of overview of revelation in our second year course On the end times so Many of you would be familiar with that Overview But it's always good to Refresh And review a few things so Just a quick introduction to Book of revelation before we go for a break um We know the book of revelation was the last book of the new testament and of the bible to be written It was written towards the end of the first century around ad 95 somewhere there. You know, these dates are not precise These are rough estimates but somewhere towards the end of the First century so we say around 80 95 it was revelation given to john who was one of the apostles of jesus christ the longest living apostle and john Who had been Banished to the island of patmos Which is Out into the agency from the west coast of modern-day turkey so All of us probably are familiar with turkey because of the recent earthquakes and things that have been happening there On the west coast of turkey we have the Sea port the port city of ephesias and out into the sea from ephesias Was a little island is a little island called patmos So john was banished sent away there because they said okay If you can get rid of the spiritual leader Then we could probably weaken the church and you know believers will Probably fade away. Anyway, so he was sent there now I john was very elderly very old in age and at this time and It one of those days on a sunday. He says he had a we had this whole vision Right and then the lord jesus told him to write it down. So he wrote it down The interesting thing or The The book of revelation the way the lord jesus gave it to john is in three parts And you see this in verse 19 of revelation one So i hope all of all of us have you know a revelation open in front of us We're going to refer to it In relation 119 jesus breaks it breaks it down. He says write the things Which you have seen The things which are And the things which will take place So three three sections to this book Things which you have seen that was revelation one john saw the lord so revelation one Then things which are that is revelation chapters two and three The the seven churches Were there at that time so things which are Things which will take place after this revelation chapter four verse one on Are things out in the future? So if you look at revelation chapter four And verse one John is explicitly invited to heaven he says come up here revelation for one and so he kind of goes he goes He sees a door that's open he goes in through the door And then he says I will show you things which must take place That means things out in the future right so revelation four chapter one are things out in the future So these are the three sections of the book of revelation revelation chapter one which is things which you have seen revelation chapter two and three things which are Revelations after four was one onwards things which will take place which are out in the future All right, so the book of revelations very nicely Put into these three sections and we will look at it of course verse by verse Um, let's pause here for now. I will take our 10 minute break And then we'll continue With the book of revelation Thank you everyone