 Okay Welcome back everybody to the second lecture BC 308 revelation and Daniel we are in chapter 7 and We are reading through it worse by worse. Let's pick up with verse 10 please so revelation chapter 7 and You are going to go forward So so far Daniel has shared his vision with us in where he sees where he has seen these four images of all four Animal-like creatures these beasts that have come out of the sea representing the nations now the Multitudes of people and then he is seeing the vision of the ancient of days. He's seeing God What's going to happen? Let's read verse 10 somebody could read three verses. Please first and onwards And a stream of fire was pouring out for me There were many thousands of people there People dare to serve him and millions of people stood before him the car began its Session and the books were open. Well, I was looking at I could still hear a little Horn breaking and posting as I watched the fourth beast was killed and its body was thrown into the flames and destroyed The other beast and their power taken away, but they were permitted to go on living for a limited time Hmm a season and a time Okay, so he sees the ancient of thank you. He sees the ancient of days that is God he sees the throne and then he sees like a Judgment Session the books are opened People thousands of people are standing before the ancient of days and Then this little horn remember the little horn that he saw He's still speaking boastful things, but this little horn is destroyed Till the beast was slain so this is again representing that horn was representing Of a beast and it was slain and For the rest of the beasts so he saw four beasts come out the rest of the beasts they had their dominion taken away and Their lives were yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time so the peoples Continued for a beer of time. We'll come back and interpret this later. Okay, I don't want to jump into the interpretation. I'm just We just need to understand what he is seeing. Okay, let's continue with that Where's the Dean onwards three versus please as my reason continue that night I saw someone like a son of man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached The Ancient one and was lead into his presence. He was given authority on her and Sovereignly over all the nation of the world so that people of every race and nation and language would obey him His rule is internal. It will never end. His kingdom will never be destroyed That I Daniel was troubled by all I had seen and my reasons terrified me Okay verse 16, please So I approach one of those standing beside the throne and asked him what it all mean He explained it to me like this These four huge based represent for kingdoms that will arise from the earth but in the end of But in the end the holy people of the most high will be given the kingdom and they will rule over forever and ever Okay, now what's getting very interesting So he sees all of this and of course Daniel is troubled He's like, okay. What is all this mean? What am I seeing? I see I've seen this big see I've seen the the the winds stirring up to see and then I've seen these four beasts coming Then from the fourth beast there are ten horns and then I'm seeing another horn come This this little horn is speaking big things and this little little horn overpowers three of the ten that I saw It's big all these big pompous things and then I'm seeing and I see the ancient of days He's seeing courts. He's seeing a court session all the people standing before God and then he's seeing this little horn being destroyed and being thrown into a Burning flame and then he is seeing the other beasts are Continuing for a little bit of time and then he sees The son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, you know, this is the same. This is worse 13 Daniel 7 was 13 This is the same language Jesus used When he was speaking to the people and in his earthly ministry says he said many times you will see the son of man Coming in the clouds of heaven Exactly those words from Daniel 7 13 so The Jewish people who knew the scriptures knew what he was talking about He was referring to himself as This son of man that Daniel had prophesied or written about You will see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven Hey, this is Jesus Hey, Jesus used the same thing about himself. So This son of man verse 14 he receives all the power and all the dominion Right, he receives all of that now Daniel is with greed. He's troubled So what does all this mean and then one of you know, perhaps it must be one of those angelic beings that he's seeing standing by the throne And it gives him the interpretation says Daniel were 17 Those great beasts So now we're getting the meaning They are representing four kings and kingdoms kingdoms so four kingdoms now If you compare this which you know, we will do towards the end of this chapter if you compare this with what Daniel saw earlier and I mean The what never could never saw in chapter 2 you will see parallels right parallels So for kingdoms for kings and their kingdoms The beasts each one of the beast represents For kings and their kingdoms which come out of the earth and is among the people Where's 18 can we let's go on from and verse 18 But the saints Of the most time that means God's people They will receive the final kingdom which They will possess forever and ever meaning there that kingdom of the of the Messiah It's going to be that kingdom that endures forever and ever and the saints are going to be part of that Okay, verse 19. Let's read on please Then I know I would know the truth of the fourth beast which was Diverse from all the other exceeding red bull whose teeth War of iron and his nails of brass which devoured break in pieces and stamped the residue with his feet and of the Ten homes that were in his head and Of the other which came up and before whom three felt even of the home that had eyes and a mouse that Speak with great things whose look was more soft than his fellows I Behold beheld and the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them Verse 22 onwards until the inching of days came and judgment and Was given to the saints of the most high and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom Thus he said the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth which shall be devised diverse from the kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth and Shall trade it down and break it into pieces and The ten homes of this kingdom are ten things that shall arise and another cell rise after them and he shall be diverse from the first and he shall subdue three things and he shall speak great words against the most high and Shall wear out the sins of the most high and think change times and laws and They shall be given into his hand until our time and times and the dividing of time Good now What's 26 onwards then the court will pass judgment and all his power will be taken away and completely destroyed then the sovereignty power and Greatness of all the kingdoms Kingdoms under heaven will be given to the holy people or the most high His kingdom will last forever and all rules will serve and obey him That that was the end of the reason I Daniel was Steadified by my thought and my face was With fear, but I gave this thing to myself All right, so Daniel is trying to understand right so in chapter 7 Daniel has got some understanding not full but some that the four beasts are Four kings and kingdoms that are going to come out from the nations But then he's given the assurance that look ultimately There is going to be the kingdom of the most high God's kingdom Which will be administered by the saints God's own people But in between something is going to happen There are going to be these ten Horns that come out of the fourth kingdom and then there's going to be one other horn Little horn that will come out and overpower three of the kings Now the horns he gets an understanding in verse 24 That the ten horns are ten kings who come out of the They were part of that fourth kingdom So they come out of that So the ten horns are actually ten kings or ten leaders and Then there's going to be another one another leader arise another king who will arise Who's going to overpower three of them? It's going to get control of them And verse 25 this other horn Are the leader who comes He is going to speak palm words pompous words Against the most high So we're getting some information about this other leader who's coming verse 25 and He is going to persecute the saints the most time and he's gonna persecute he's gonna go after God's people the saints of the most time and He's going to try to change times and law That is verse 25 That means he's gonna try To influence the very fabric of what is happening The the times and the law he's gonna try to change things the way things are being done and what is right? What is wrong? You know, you know basically control and dominate the lives of people and verse 25 also says That the saints will be given into his hand that means he will be able to persecute the people of God It's almost like God is abandoning or God is letting this this this leader Have power over his own people is gonna trouble them so much for how long for a time times and half a ton one two and half that means three and a half a Time that's one times. That's two and a half So for three and a half Years We will we will see this repeated So I'm kind of getting ahead a little bit in the interpretation But you know more information is going to come to us in the coming chapters That this leader he is going to speak against God the most time He is going to persecute Trouble the people of God and they will be given into a ceremony. God's gonna let it happen But it's only it's going to be for three and a half years time times and half a time That's three and a half years and then His dominion will end and like we saw earlier in verse 11 he's going to be thrown into the burning flame Okay, so Daniel has got this now I'm going to jump a little bit ahead because Some information is not given to us yet, but just to give you an idea of you know How we understand what we are Seeing here and learning here. I'm going to get ahead and then you know, we will we will see it in scripture. Let me Share my screen and this is basically the notes that I've shared with you All right, so what is Daniel seeing? What we will understand is That let me make it smaller. Okay, you're able to see my screen that there is there is parallel between Daniel chapter 2 and Daniel chapter 7 and More information will come for us in chapter 8 and we understand this But The image or that he saw in chapter 2 Parallels these beasts the four beasts that he saw let me make a little smaller so you can see the full thing The four beasts that he saw in chapter 7 the head of gold We already know it's the Babylonian Empire because Daniel said it's the Babylonian Empire the Preston arms of silver we know it's a meter Persian Empire because in chapter 5 Daniel tall King Belchazar your kingdom has ended and will be given to the means So the means and the Persians they came in and they overthrew the Babylonian Empire, so we know this already Okay But now the portions of this Image parallels the head parallels the lion with the wings the Chest with arms Parallels the bear with three ribs this the the belly and the thigh Parallels the leopard with wings That he saw in chapter 7 the legs of iron parallels this beast that he saw With ten horns, which was very very strong and powerful then What we saw in chapter 2 is the feet are a mix of iron and clay and There are ten toes but what he is saying here is in chapter 7 there are ten horns that come and The ten horns So the ten toes correspond to the ten horns So that means these ten horns therefore are coming out of this Loosely held Mix of iron and clay We're putting these two things together here Right, which is also correct because it's coming out of this beast These ten horns are coming out of this beast and then there arises another little horn We don't know from where he hasn't told us yet That overpowers three of these horns That's what he's told us in chapter 7 and Then that little horn is the one that speaks things against God and persecutes the people of God and eventually is thrown in to the fire and these four beasts Or these four kingdoms are allowed to continue for some time before they are also are finally Ended that's worse 12 of chapter 7 so there is a panel here Now as of now till chapter 7 We only know Babylonian Empire and Medo version Till chapter 7 we know these two empires. We don't have information about these other empires yet okay, now I just want to pause here and Ask have is it clear now and is Yeah, everyone is following with me so far The paddle between chapter 2 and chapter 7 Yeah, and One other thing in chapter 2. He said he saw this rock coming and Crushing everything and becoming a great mountain Chapter 7 it's amplified for us. I mean it's made very clear for us. What is that it is? the kingdom of the Most High God the ancient of days which would be in the hands of the Son of Man that is Jesus Christ and It will be the saints of the Most High that means the people of God Who will be administering that that that mountain that covers the whole earth? It will be administered by the saints of the Most High that is also we can Arrive by putting these two things side by side chapters 2 and chapter 7. Yeah Any questions okay, so now we're going to go into chapter 8 I I didn't give the notes for chapter 8, but that's okay. We're just gonna read through it I'll give you the notes next time I plan to you know at least capital chapter 7 which we have done Okay, so let's go into chapter 8. How don't you have a question go ahead? Yeah, I'm sorry This chapter 7 verse 25 25, how can we interpret this scripture pastor because many nowadays Many church leaders used to misinterpret this Verses I mean this verse So yeah, how can we? Okay, so we know we know Daniel 7 25 We know it is speaking about the Antichrist Now why we why do we know that because there are so many other scriptures which we're going to read some more In Daniel itself when he's going to talk more about this This this man who speaks things against God and what he will do he's going to give us more information in Daniel itself Then we read you know Jesus referred to the same Referring to him as the abomination desolation Jesus referred to this in Matthew 24 verse 15 the Apostle Paul wrote about it in second Thessalonians chapter 2 and Then in Revelation 13 is again once again the same Person the Antichrist is referred to any with the same language he speaks things against God and so on so we put all these multiple scripture texts and we say definitely This person that Daniel is referring to in Daniel 7 which he will explain to us further in the coming chapters if speaking about the Antichrist and I think Dan at Revelation 13th chapter would be like, you know that The final confirmation that yeah, this is his effort to us the beast Who does the same thing he speaks speaks pompous words against the most I Chapter 12 in Revelation 12 we see very clearly that he goes persecuting The saints of the most are the Jewish people and everyone who believes in Jesus Christ Right revelations after 12 very clear So we can say with confidence that based on all these references that Daniel 725 is referring to the Antichrist Is that okay? Yes, must I thank you? All right, so we're going to make progress now as we go further We're going to get a little bit, you know Whatever he has shared with us till now about the image of chapter 2 The beasts of chapter 7 more information is going to be given to us in the coming chapters So we'll be adding it to whatever we've understood so far. Okay, so let's go in to chapter 8 Now chapter 8 verse 1 Starts off very much like how chapter 7 started He's saying in the third year of the reign of King Belch's are so that means Chapter 7 said in the first year that's 533 PC Now he's saying in the third year of King Belch's are so he's saying look I had another vision and this happened in the third year So that's 530 35 PC This is what this is a vision Daniel so and obviously he had recorded it as he saw it Okay, so this is again very interesting because he's going to give us more information Let's read again three verses each please and you will go forward with that chapter 8 verse 1 In the third year of the reign of Belch's a vision appeared to me Daniel after the one that appeared to me the first time I saw in the vision And it is so happened while I was looking that I was in Shusa the citadel which is in the province of Lump I saw in the vision that I was by the river Ulai then I lifted my eyes and saw Standing beside the river was a ram which had two horns and the two horns were high But one was higher than then the other and the other Higher one came up the lost Okay, it was four on us, please I watched the ram putting with his horns to the waist the north and the south no animal could stop him or escape His power he did as he pleased and drew Erigan Well, I was wondering what this mean a good came rushing out Of the waist moving so fast that his feet didn't touch the crown. He had one prominent Horn between his eyes He came towards the ram which I had seen standing beside the river and rushed at him with all his force Okay, now So he's having this vision now one of the things is In in in in these images We try to keep the meaning of What we are seeing consistent So In chapter seven Who is 24? he said The 10 horns represent 10 kings So for us horns We will interpret as kings horns as Kings So what is he seeing so far in chapter eight? He sees a ram Okay, it's an animal Now the beasts in chapter seven represented Kingdoms kings and kingdoms so we're going to continue with that same Meaning obviously typology Here again a ram. It's going to represent a king and a kingdom And it had two horns so I mean it's two kings but One king was Higher meaning more powerful than the other and what was more powerful came out later And it was moving west so that means it started from the east And it was moving it was for it was moving west and north and south So this this ram Started in the east and was moving west It was moving north and south And it was just doing whatever it wanted to do Became great. It says Then in verse five It's a goat. Okay, so the beasts are representing kings or kingdoms But this goat had just one horn a notable horn Just one But this goat was moving west So that Sorry, it came from the west. Sorry Was fine. It came from the west And It started moving towards the horn. That means it was moving east because The ram is coming from east The goat started in the west One notable horn moving east With furious power and it's moving very fast. It says verse six Very fast Okay, so let's read on verse seven Yeah, I'll read And I saw him Confronting the ram He was moved with rage against him Attacked the ram and broke his two arms There was no power in the ram to withstand him But the but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him And there was no one that could deliver the ram from his hand Therefore the male goat grew very great But when he became strong the large horn was broken and in place of it for not Not able once Came up toward the four winds of heaven And out of One of them came little horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south Toward the east and toward the glorious land Okay So now he's saying okay You're seeing this ram You're seeing this goat Then this goat comes very powerful and it destroys the two horns that the ram had Kills the kings the destroys This overpowers the ram This goat is moving very fast. It's becoming very strong. But while it is becoming strong It's one horn It says there is broken the horn representing the king So the horn the one horn was very was very strong the large horn is becoming very big very great broken And instead There are four notable horns That come out of that goat four and verse nine And out of one of them came the little horn What was the little horn? Oh, we read about the little horn in chapter seven, right? He says Verse eight chapter seven verse eight. He said I saw a little horn come Uh, now he's telling us where that little horn is going to come from It's going to come from one of the four horns that came out of the goat the goat had One very strong horn. It was very strong, but it was suddenly broken Then from that came four And from one of them came the little horn Okay, and this little horn Became very great toward the south Toward the east And toward the glorious land the glorious land is land of Israel So this little horn Is extending its influence toward the south the regions of the southern south to it towards the toward the east And also toward the glorious land Okay, interesting keep these thoughts in mind As we go along He's going to tell us what these things mean Okay, let's go from verse 10. Please This power reached to the heavens where it attacked the heaven army Throwing some of heavenly beings and some of the stars to the ground and dumpling them It even challenged and commander of heavens army by cancelling the daily sacrifice of Offered to him and by destroying his temple The army of heaven was trained trained from Responding to this rebellion. So the daily sacrifice was held and truth was overthrown The horn succeed and everything it did Hmm, okay What's the team? Then I hear two holiness taking talking to each other one of them asked how long will How long will the events of this reason last how long will the rebellion that Causes this destruction stop the daily sacrifices How long will the temple and heaven's army be trampled on? Then Then other reply it it will take 2030 Evenings and mornings then the temple will be made right again Yeah Let's go on what's 15 As I danyan was trying to understand the meaning of this reason someone who looked like A man stood in front of me and I heard a human voice calling out from the uray river Gabriel tell this man the meaning of his reason Okay, somebody else were 17 on So he came near where I stood And when he came I was upright and fell on my face, but he said to me understand son of man That the vision refers to the time of the end Now as he was speaking with me I was in a deep sleep with my face to the ground But he touched me and stood me upright And he said look I am making known to you what shall happen In the later time of the indication indignation For at the appointment time The end shall be Okay, now he's going to give the meaning of the beasts first 20 The ramp which you saw having two horns. They are the kingdom Kings of media and Yeah, and the male goat is the kingdom of Greece The large horn that is between its eyes is the first King As for the broken horn And the four that stood up in its place four kingdom shall arise Out of that nation But not with its power verse 23 on Somebody can till the end somebody to read it chapter eight And in the later times of the kingdom when the transcasors Are come to the full a king of fears Continence and understanding dark sentences Shall stand up and his power shall be mighty but not By his own power And he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and practice And shall destroy the mighty and the body people and Through his policy Also, he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand and he shall Magnify himself in his heart and by peace shall be destroyed shall destroy himself in his heart and by peace Shall destroy many he shall also stand up against the prince of peace But he shall be broken with it without Hand and the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true Wherefore said now up The vision for it shall be for many days and I Daniel painted And was sick certain days after what I rose up and did the king's business and I was asked to miss at the season but none understood it All right, so There's a lot of information here. We will cover some and then we'll continue this next week So let's see what so Daniel saw this vision He saw a ram With two horns The ram the beasts of course, they are representing kingdoms two horns the second one horn was bigger than the other and the second one The bigger one came up after the small horn And this started in the east and was moving towards the west the west Then from the west a goat comes Very powerful very strong It has one horn growing very strong And it overpowers the ram and it destroys the horns of the ram But while it's very powerful it's moving the east It's big horn suddenly is broken And then from that come four horns And one of them Is the little horn that was speaking pompous things against god and this time He tells us more things in verses nine through 14 of what what about this little horn This little horn It's going to extend its influence Towards the south towards the east and towards the glorious land that is the land of Israel And then it's also going to speak things against the prince of the most style It's going to speak things against Jesus Christ himself And verse 11 chapter 8 verse 11 It's going this this this leader this horn represents a leader. This leader Is going to stop the daily sacrifices And and the place is going to destroy the place of the sanctuary And He's going to once again repeat in verse 12. He's going to oppose the daily sacrifices to to god And his truth is going to he's going to cast truth to the ground. It means he's not going to be It doesn't care about truth He's going to just speak deception lies And is repeating for a third time in verse 13 That the daily sacrifices will be stopped And he's going to make the sanctuary of god desolate destroy it right and then it's the verse 14 gives us the time period of 2300 mornings and evenings that would be about 1150 days And then he says Gabriel Gabriel says, you know, I'll help you understand what all this means And he tells us first of all in verse 17 This is with regards to the time of the end or These are things concerning the end times Concerning the end times So he says Daniel I want you to understand what's going to happen in the latter times the time of indignation means there is great trouble being Happening So he starts in verse 20 says the ram that you saw represents the kings of media and Persia so now he's giving us the meaning the ram is media and persia So immediately you connect back to what you saw in chapter seven and what you saw in chapter two The media and persia in chapter two was the the breast the chest of silver The media and persia in chapter seven was the bear with ribs that came out leaning on one side In chapter eight. It's the ram with two horns because media and persia The second is it does the second one is longer persia was more powerful than the means Right, so that's he's saying that's the ram Then after that verse 21 what you're seeing is The the goat is Greece And sure enough now Daniel did not live to see this but sure enough in history it was fulfilled after the means and the persians the Greeks came into power Greece came into power and The first the the horn that you saw was the first king that was alexander the great So he was very powerful And under alexander the great the greek empire Expanded very fast very fast. He reached all the way till northern india You know alexander the great he moved east so It started in the west So, yeah, he started in the west and he moved east and he was conquering conquering He came to the northern part of india. So that's he's talking about here verse 21 The goat is Greece The the horn is the first king which alexander the great But what happened alexander the great died when he was very young He was was very powerful when he died. I think in his early 30s. He died That's exactly what happened And then when he died His huge empire the greek empire the greek kingdom was divided into four regions four parts Exactly happened There were four leaders So that's what he says in verse 22 Four kingdoms will arise Four parts So basically it was the region around Greece Turkey Syria and egypt for you know broadly speaking geographic regions His kingdom was divided into four parts Now, what do we know? He said That out of these four parts and going back to verse nine will come the little horn So generally from these areas He's saying Greece turkey Syria egypt now When the greek kingdom or the greek empire was broken into four parts. It didn't break. It wasn't what exactly the way today's National boundaries are like greek and turkey and syria and egypt We are just mentioning these areas because today we can understand them But the regions are around that And what daniel chapter eight says eight and verse nine out of one of these areas Will come the little horn the king who is going to be the antichrist And he and that will happen verse 23 in the latter times. So there's a time gap The end of the greek empire to verse 23 There's a time gap. Why because he said in the latter times He said after this four kingdoms had this step, you know four kingdoms come out He jumps And in the latter time This is going to happen So let me pause here. We will explain chapter eight Once again, it will pick up chapter eight once again next week First there's a lot of information here details and we have to put it all together with chapter two What we saw in chapter five chapter seven put it all together You're with me so far It's clear Clear faster very interesting Yeah, very interesting, right? It's it gets a lot of information is there and then we put it all together It's a you know get a clear picture of what? What all of these things mean? Okay, let's pause here. We'll continue this next week Could somebody close in prayer and then we will dismiss Okay, go ahead Maybe I don't know operate in the opening, but add and can you pray and close really dismiss Sure Oh, we can't hear you Sorry Father we just Father we come before you turn one second father We want to just thank you for the god. There is so much revelation father god We are just studying for the good thinking you father go to your knowledge and understanding for the culture We are just receiving father god your revelation book of Daniel father thinking you thinking The mighty Jesus Amen amen. Thank you everyone Uh, please go ahead take your break and then we will meet again in the next class. God bless Thank you, sir