 Good morning, and welcome everybody to BC 308, our class on revelation and Daniel we have been journey through the prophetic scriptures given in the book of Daniel and so Gonna continue that today May I invite somebody please to pray with us as a class and then we will get started could somebody please pray with us together Please go ahead of me Father God we are so very thankful to you for a beautiful morning We thank you father for teaching us your great mysteries father and Father as we are in your presence father We seek your wisdom to understand your mysteries to understand your word to understand what is about to come father Be prepared for the day of your coming father and to be enriched in your word So that we can give the hope to the world father Uses for your glory as we apply the word to our lives Help us that this word may richly dwell in us and bring glory to your name and your name only bless pastor bless all the students who are here and who would be listening to the lectures and Let all things glorify you in all ways father help us guide us and fill us with your wisdom and favor So that we can accomplish what you have called us to in Jesus's name. We ask and pray amen Amen. Amen Thank you, and good morning. Welcome once again All right, so we're great. We are in Daniel chapter 9 so I'll just do a quick review we'll see if there are any additional questions and Then we will move forward Our goal is Today in the two lectures we have hopefully will try to finish the rest of what we need to see in Daniel and maybe even get into The beginning of at least revelation chapter 1 Let's see if we can do that today. All right, so Daniel the book of Daniel we We are just a very brief over here. I don't want to go into too many details Daniel chapter 2 We saw that Daniel had It was a situation where an epic and as I had a dream and you know Daniel gave him the dream Of course God revealed it to Daniel Daniel gave him the dream and he interpreted Interpreted the dream and that dream was the image this he saw this big image and different parts of the image were made of different metals and Then Daniel Interpreted and said, you know, these are representing different kingdoms that are going to come after you King Nebuchadnezzar and He gave the order and then he also said, you know There's this huge rock that wasn't carved by man's hands meaning it came from heaven This was a heavenly kingdom Which would crush all of this and this will crush all the kingdoms of the earth and it will become a very powerful King of big mountain So what we said was Daniel chapter 2 is An outline of what will is to come. It's like God said, okay Here's the book cover But there's, you know, many more chapters in it a lot more detail in it You know, I'm gonna show you so Daniel chapter 2 then we come into Daniel chapter 5 Where Daniel, you know, reads the handwriting on the wall and he Tells King Belchers that at that time, you know, your kingdom is going to be handed over to The Meads and the Persians and sure enough that happens Daniel 5 From Daniel chapter 6 through 12, which is the portion that we've been joining through Yeah, or let's say Daniel 7 through 12 that we're general portion to be joining through our Daniels records of his visions that he had at different points in time and All of that is recorded for us So in Daniel 7 Daniel is shedding a vision that he actually had during the reign of King Belchers. That means during the Babylonian kingdom and In that vision Daniel 7 is very strange because he sees beasts like creatures animals coming out and You know, he sees four different creatures One of the things we have been emphasizing is in much of the prophecy here and Daniel and also in revelation that we will see a lot of the understanding is given in The chapter or in the book itself So we don't have to go too far to try to understand what The meaning of the visions that Daniel has had right so we could see it right there in the chapter or within the book No, we can and we will cross reference other prophecies so we can cross reference Zechariah or Joel or Ezekiel or Jeremiah Isaiah we can cross reference them and say hey, they also prophesied about similar things right but in understanding the visions the meaning is Essentially in that chapter or even in that book. So Daniel 7 Going back to Daniel 7 then has this vision of the beast. He also sees into heaven He sees got the father the son of man and he sees the kingdoms being handed over and then the ancient Interprets helps Daniel understand, you know, these beasts that he's seeing are different kingdoms and then he specifies You know the bear you saw kingdom of Meads and Persians Then the Greeks And he specifying the kingdoms Daniel chapter 8 which we saw Again further details about the ram and the goat and and and how they're clashing and then how there is the little horn that comes and how that little horn then You know that there are the little horn comes out of those four empires that come out of The divisions of the Greek Empire Daniel chapter 8 So we saw that and what is so amazing is When we look back at history, so we have the privilege of looking back at history We can see that everything Daniel saw into time being fulfilled exactly the way he saw it Then especially when you look at Alexander the great coming into power How he takes control of so so much of the empire moving eastward And then suddenly he dies and then four other leaders come in his his place So we saw that Then he came to Daniel chapter 9 Which we spent time on last week And we so in Daniel 9 Daniel is praying and he's praying about the prophecy of Jeremiah Saying okay the 70 years are coming to an end So which means that you know, we are going to be heading back to Jerusalem as Jeremiah prophesied And he's praying for the people is repenting for the sins and at that time Gabriel the angel Gabriel comes to him And gives him more details so each and every chapter as it moves along is giving more and more detail about Things to come And stand your line and we looked at verses 24 to 27 And in this passage Daniel 9 24 to 27 Gabriel the angel Gabriel is talking to Daniel about 70 weeks and we explained that the term weeks as understood in the old testament Is appeared a week represents a period of seven years. So that's how they understood it and we cross referenced in Genesis 29 Versus 27 and 28 where Leib and when he's telling Jacob he says, you know, I want you to work for a week for Rachel And a week meeting seven years, you know, so you have to work seven years So that week represents seven years. And so when we Look at what Gabriel told Daniel. He said look in these 490 years Two big things are going to be accomplished. And I'm looking at Daniel 9 24 just quickly reviewing and we'll see if any questions are there Two big things are going to happen one there is going to be the Ending or dealing with transgression and sins and iniquity Which is what Jesus Christ did on the cross Then there is also going to be a bringing in ushering in of everlasting righteousness the fulfillment of vision and prophecy and the anointing of the most holy that means it's the ushering in of the Millennial kingdom And it's the establishing the fulfillment of age of all the prophetic scriptures pointing to the end of the age and Christ the Lord being Anointed or set up as king So two major things So He says Gabriel explains 62 plus seven that is 69 years 483 years 69 69 times seven 483 years Will elapse from the time There is the command to go back and rebuild Jerusalem until the messiah comes right and Then the messiah is going to be killed or crucified and And that's verse 26 of daniel 9 And then the city is going to be destroyed. That's Jerusalem is going to be destroyed And till the end there'll be war and desolations around in and around Jerusalem So we saw 483 years now Remember that you know, okay, so if you read um historical accounts and so on The dates are disputable meaning You know the the dates that we have of historical periods are only estimates that historians have made Based on you know, what they could find and sometimes it's a single historian who makes those dates and everybody has agreed to that and gone by it and so on so uh historically A date given by for especially for the The means and the purchase those and those empires that period of time There is a dispute on those dates Right, so you you'll read if you read online or reading books. There'll be this dispute on the dates 539 bc So there's a there's a dispute of about I don't know 50 60 years something like that But I wouldn't you know, I wouldn't worry about it simply because remember the historians who estimated those dates They actually lived in a different period of time. So somebody living in the ad Was estimating dates of the bc period And everything's an estimation that there's a thing. Okay, approximately. This was when The king lived and this is when he died and so on so there is that Okay, different 50 60 some years Don't worry too much about it This is it What the angel Gabriel told daniel daniel 483 years so precisely that time Things were fulfilled king cyrus issued the decree go back and rebuild Jesus Christ came We'll go by this account for 83 years historians may argue there's a gap of 50 60 years or like this that um You know, you're not worried Yeah, and as he says comment, you know the difference in the calendar systems. That's all of that there So it's all an estimate But this prophecy the factors it was fulfilled There was a command to go back to able jerusalem jesus came and he was crucified right, so We see that So that takes care of 69 weeks or 483 years then there's one week left Right because he said i'm going to talk to you about 70 weeks One period seven years left So that week one period Is suddenly Is from the time the messiah came and jerusalem was destroyed that last seven years is towards the end of the age He's on what basis do we say it because He set things up from chapter two He said in the days of those kings there will be god setting up his kingdom That means he's taking he's saying, you know, what i'm going to show you is from now That is the book of nezerstein All the way till god is setting up his kingdom. So that's a huge span of time Right that he set that up in chapter two itself and then we see repeated in seven and eight that There are things that are things that are happening in the shot in your term And then there is this prophecy of this antichrist this man will come will speak great, uh, you know Pompey's things against god and speak against the prince of the princes and all of that Where does that fit in? right So we can see here that that In daniel chapter nine angel gabriel is saying, you know that that thing about this This man will come and will speak all those pompous things That's in this last seven years The last seven year period right because we can see that Where's daniel 927? Then that means there's a gap From the time the messiah is cut off and the city is destroyed and the sanctuary is destroyed as the temple is destroyed There's a gap between daniel 926 and daniel 927 Then this man is going to come Daniel 927 He's going to confirm a covenant for with many for a week one week. So this is the last week. He's talking about This man comes and he's going to be around for that one week Seven year period right and what's he going to do? He's going to have a covenant. He's going to put up a You know in our modern language we say a peace treaty or a peace accord He's going to have a covenant for one week But in the middle of the week that means three and a half years He's going to do something He's going to stop the sacrifices The offering and he's going to move very fast doing abominations And he's going to make desolate. He's going to destroy be very destructive in what he does until The end the end of the seven year period when the time has been determined So this passage daniel 926 24 to 27 is very very amazing because He's talking about two big things that are going to be established the Sacrifice for sins bring an end to iniquity and the usher again of that everlasting kingdom righteousness and the anointing of the most holy two major things And it's going to take place in What he says is 70 weeks But there is this big gap in between them The first part was fulfilled precisely Everything he said was fulfilled Therefore we can look with absolute confidence for that last one week And the things that he said in that last one week to be fulfilled Okay, so quick review Any questions so far on anything we've seen in daniel Before we start off in chapter 10 kong, please go go ahead faster like you were in in daniel chapter nine verse twenty six sorry twenty 25 uh when you were explaining about like how uh um and before that i'll tell you how you're explaining about like historians are kind of like uh uh estimating the time or that but i'm asking like uh couldn't i'm like the jewish people they uh study uh they consider daniel as a prophet and they uh I think they read uh This prophecies and all that couldn't they know like uh what time uh the messiah were coming out so like uh some of them they don't uh They don't think that the messiah Has come yet like they they still uh are believing that The messiah will come like and I just want to know like how uh how could they The jewish people some of them like still not believe that um The messiah has not yet come like because uh it it tastes like uh In verse 25 that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until messiah the prince read like uh in verse 25 There shall be uh seven weeks and 62 weeks uh and in that verse like i'm just thinking like how uh Couldn't the jewish people uh know that Jesus is the messiah uh according to all the prophecies and all of that and like uh Why don't they uh believe that uh I mean according to this prophecy for us now it's like very clear uh of how the timeline It is because you give us like the outline of all of this Like for the but for the jewish like i'm just wondering Yeah, yeah, yeah, so um I can think of two reasons uh i will mention two reasons One is a practical and one is a spiritual So the practical is When you read all of these scriptures You you see that the messiah is coming to set up a kingdom right so Their expectation is or what they were looking for and which they continue to look for is Hey, the messiah is going to come But he's going to set up a kingdom He's going to be king Which is there in daniel chapter seven and other places So that was one of the things they were looking for and in fact Even the disciples of jesus were looking for that You know in an act chapter one This is after his resurrection the last question the disciples of jesus ask jesus is Lord will you at this time set up the kingdom? So they were still like okay fine jesus died on the cross. They said okay, maybe this wasn't the messiah because hey, he died Uh, no kingdom You know, we're still under the roman's at that at that time Right, and so they're all just this illusion that jesus appeared to them and you know He showed himself alive many times and then they were convinced. Yeah, jesus is alive But in their minds still one question You're supposed to be king You're supposed to set up the kingdom Where is that? You know, so the point is the jews when they are looking for the messiah among many things They're looking for someone who's going to set up the kingdom So, you know They could therefore take this 483 years Now that that we've we've understood uh, and just you know reposition it in different ways And and and and then say okay, you know, we're still looking forward for the messiah. Maybe these 483 years uh Represents, you know, not just how we explained it like, you know seven weeks Uh, so each week representing seven years. They could just explain it some other way Because they're trying to put it all together and say hey one man is going to come And he's going to be king You know, for example, I say You know unto us a son child is born unto us a son is given The government shall be upon his shoulder He he will be given the throne of his father david and he will unto the increase of his government or his kingdom there will be no end So they are looking for somebody like that Right and jesus doesn't fit that yet Because he came first time he came to deal with sin to put away iniquity to deal with transgression He's going to come again to bring in usher and righteousness And to fulfill all prophecy and to be anointed as the most holy So in our mind, it's clear that there there is a you know, like a two part or two stage fulfillment, but They disqualify jesus because They don't see the second part being fulfilled in him and their expectation is for everything to be fulfilled At the same time. So that's one problem The second problem is a spiritual problem where so that's a practical thing. They're looking for that a king king and a kingdom The second problem is a spiritual problem where They parcel paul writes in second currently in chapter three and then he kind of leads that into Leads into chapter four He says, you know when the jewish people are reading the scriptures the old testament It's like there's a veil upon their eyes You know, so they read the scriptures and it's like they're blinded They can't see they're reading the scriptures, but they can't See that the scriptures are actually pointing to jesus and even during jesus time, you know, he he rebuked the religious leaders of his time and the The Pharisees and the scribes and he said, you know You search the scriptures. He's telling them search the scriptures Because they are they which testify of me You know, so they were they were scholarly people They had read the scriptures. That's what qualified them to you know be in that position of leadership But yet they could not see That the scriptures were pointing to jesus. So there's a spiritual problem um They're blinded and then paul leads into chapter four of second currently and says that god of this world Has blinded the minds of those who do not believe but paul also tells us that that that blindness that veil is Taken is removed and the heart turns to the lord and so The light of the gospel has to shine and When they receive that understanding then They can see the glory of god in the person of christ So two problems the practical and then there is the spiritual Any other questions till chapter nine of daniel all right, so let's move forward then in chapter 10 um there isn't um too much of um, you know and new We see a new Information there. I'll just point out. So what what we see in chapter 10 is that We are given a window Into the unseen world Right, so daniel is it has been really troubled um by this vision and um And then he says You know, he's he's he's he's in this time of just prayer and in his praying on for 21 days and he's he's really In a good way Disturbed by the vision because he's trying to understand like what is all this me You know, I'm trying to you know, you can try to imagine then it's trying to You know what we would say wrap his minds around All that god has been showing him and so he's been very disturbed and In a good sense. I'm not saying, you know, he's in a bad way But in a good way, he's he's trying to seek out. He's trying to understand What this means and so he's seeking god and at this time gabriel comes back to him and speaks to him And I'm just zero in of uh on a few things here in daniel 10 Uh, uh, the first of all this point at verse 14. So please follow with me daniel 10 Where's 14? Gabriel says i've come to make You understand What will happen to your people in the latter days For the vision refers to many days yet to come Okay, so he's come to help daniel understand What will happen to your people? That means Specifically We're talking about The jewish people we're talking about the nation of israel. So, look, I've come to help you understand This is very specific to your people Your nation In the latter days, that means It's going to happen way out in the future Many of these things right, so he's talking about things to come So daniel, uh, gabriel has come to speak to daniel about that But in daniel chapter 10, we also get an insight into this what's happening the dynamic of the unseen world So daniel has been praying for 21 days And then, you know, gabriel says in verse 12 He says It says to not fear daniel from the first day that you set your heart to understand to humble yourself before Your god your words were heard And I have come because of your words But where's the team? But the prince of the kingdom of persia Which stood me 21 days And behold michael one of the chief princes came to help me For I had been left alone there with the kings of persia All right, so in that one verse verse 13 is some tremendous insight into the spiritual world Okay, so I'm so it's it's not necessary. So in chapter 10, we're not looking necessarily at the prophetic scriptures. We're just looking at the spiritual world What has been happening? What is happening? so The angel is telling angel gabriel says You know daniel when you start to pray God immediately sent me So this there's it's not like god delayed or god was just waiting for you to pray and pray and pray and then he will answer your prayer No, from the time you began to see god for understanding God sent me to bring you this, you know to come to you and talk to you But there was some interference. There was some Obstacle along the way in the spiritual world He talks about the kingdom verse 13 the prince Of the kingdom of persia Then he also mentions verse 13 the end of that verse the kings of persia So prince singular chief The kings plural So what happened this angel gave right He was coming to bring the message to daniel But there was the prince and the kings Of persia who opposed him over Locking him trying to prevent him So now obviously these are not earthly kings You know, we're not talking about some you know King cirrus or king or dairies or you know, we're not talking about those physical kings you're talking about these demonic powers over this region Particularly here in this case he specifies it says it's persia So over that reason They were demonic powers operating There was a prince that means the main person or not person main human power in charge and they were kings meaning other rulers under this prince right So it it it parallels what the apostle paul wrote in Ephesians 6 we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against rulers of darkness against spirits of wickedness in the heavenly realms So look there's a there's an hierarchy in the heavenly realms on the spiritual world of demonic powers and so that's kind of you know, that's very nicely Or we have a beautiful insight into how that is how the dynamic of what's happening here in daniel 10 and worcester t so these demonic powers were And the other thing we can say is that they they are They operate according to territory. They are you know, they have geographic assignments Or they're assigned to various territories. So there are these princes. There are these there's kings and There's a hierarchy of demonic powers that are operating over different regions territories geographic territories So these demonic powers are opposing gabrie from getting through daniel was just continuing in prayer And then we see michael i'm still at looking at daniel 10 13 michael One of the chief princes so on on on on the Heavenly angel side that is god's side god the angels of god They also have hierarchy. You can see michael is one of the chief princes means there's Other chief princes others who are of that same rank So michael and we associate michael as a warring angel Gabriel as a messenger angel. So michael comes to Gabriel's assistance And helps make a way past these demonic powers And then he gets through to daniel So verse 19 he says oh man greatly beloved of god Be speed to you and he strengthened And look at verse 20 21 and let's read a few verses here He says then he said do you know why i've come to you So he said okay now, you know why i've come to you And now i must return to fight with the prince of persia When i've gone forth Indeed the prince of greece will come But i will tell you what is noted in the scripts of truth. No one upholds me against these michael your prince Also in the first year of dairies the mead i even i stood up to confirm and strengthen him And i will tell you the truth i'm looking at daniel 11 verse two Behold three more kings will arise in persia and the fourth shall be far greater. So now he's this time He's talking about earthly kings daniel 11 two Shabbat earthly kings But in daniel 10 verse 20 he says I must return as i'm going back I love to press through the prince of persia whom he has already referenced in team And he talks about the prince of greece The Principality the power over That region greece But that person is also going to get involved Not a person but that demonic power is also going to get involved and He says in verse 21 daniel 21 it's michael your prince so that means michael Who is one of the chief angelic beings has been assigned to israel your prince He is going to help me Overpower these other two principalities that is the prince of greece and the prince of persia So a very interesting insight into the spiritual realm that there are demonic powers We're talking about angels that are contending against each other right there are the powers of darkness and there are angelic angels of god and there is that Conflict happening or resistance happening right Now we don't think about it very often but This is a beautiful insight into that realm the unseen realm Okay, so that's what we uh, that's just a side note from chapter 10 But in terms of prophetic scriptures was 14 Of daniel 10 gable is saying i'm come to speak to you about your people I'm going to come to speak to you about things that are referred to many days Into time Okay Are you all with me so far? okay now We All right, thank you So now we are going to move into chapter 11 now Chapter 11 of daniel daniel is a very Interesting chapter it's also very powerful chapter in terms of prophecy but it's also Something that extends over a long period of time Okay, and so you can see in and and i would point you to the PDF notes that i've shared with you of daniel 11 Where there are different kingdoms basically starting from that time He's taking the gable is sticking daniel through To succeeding kingdoms that would come And pointing out what certain kings and kingdoms will do all right, so i'm going to I'm going to share the PDF and and just use the PDF as a reference as we go through chapter 11 Right, so Chapter 11 Verses one through four He is mentioning About verse two daniel 11 verse two right now We're not going to read the whole chapter because it is very long There's about 45 verses in daniel 11 and a lot of it is About certain kings and what would those kings do different empires? So I will just kind of break it down according to the notes and we just kind of go through it that way So please follow with me here So daniel 11 1 to 4 right here. He's talking about three more kings who will arise in persia And the four shall be far richer than them but then them all by his strength through his riches He will stir up all against the realm of greece. So you're saying okay in your persian king Here's what's going to happen. There's going to be syris And then there's going to be three more kings. Now all of this is historically Valid or that means has been validated Exactly. All right, so there were four kings And i'm dispensing the names here We're not going to get into the history of the persian empire, but it's validated right And there are he's saying yeah, there are three more kings will arise the fourth will be Coming up will be the you know, the most powerful most influential of them all and then was A mighty king shall arise I was three We shall rule with great dominion do according to as well And when he has risen His kingdom shall be broken up and divided toward the four winds of heaven So these persian kings will go against greece That's verse two end of verse two And then our mighty king will arise That's verse three Alexander the great Right, he will arise. Okay And he's going to rule And when he's risen his kingdom will be broken up and divided towards the four winds So that's what happened After he came into power His kingdom Was divided and given to us four generals right so the He did become great. He did become powerful and rule But then we saw earlier that he was suddenly cut off. He died very young And his kingdom was divided and so on and But what is interesting is in verse four, he says But not among his posterity That means None of his descendants Took over It's very interesting even that detail has been given right so this great king would come that's Alexander the great from greece He would be very powerful But His kingdom will be broken. It won't be given to his descendants It would be This divided into four parts and we see that happen. Okay Then versus five 232 So that's a long passage chapter five which took to chapter five to Chapter verse five to 32 of chapter 11 he's talking about The south and the north the south with reference to egypt there's an empire there and Then the north referring to syria referring to the syliusid princes so the two different empires From the south and from the north and how they're going to engage with each other So that's spelled out for us here from worse versus five to 32 right And and historically, you know, you could look into all these and remember all these dates are approximate but historically these are the different rulers of these two dynasties from the north From the north from the south And you could see how they engaged with each other. You know, you can trace them through based on what they did And what daniel had been given information What is interesting here is The pointing out of The king, let's see here Yeah, so antiochus epiphanous he He was a very wicked king. So that's in verses 21 to 32 So he was a very wicked king and he, you know, he did Very harsh things against the jewish people versus 21 to verse 32 And he He also came and he desecrated The the sanctuary he Did terrible things against The jewish people. So that was also fulfilled versus 21 to 32 right as as Gabriel had given information to daniel Then Gabriel starts talking about a willful king Starting there in verse 36 now With verse 32 to verse 35. It's talking about the jewish people. How they withstood the Antiochus epiphanous How they withstood that he that in spite of all the, you know, evil things antiochus epiphanous did They were certain jewish people who stood strong Who, you know, were bold and you know, during his his time they They they stood firm. So that's verses 32 to 35 And then from verse 36 we start seeing something different coming out We start seeing him talking about a king Who's going to speak blasphemies Against the god of gods Okay, so from verse 36 onwards It helps us connect back to some of the things we read in chapter seven Chapter eight chapter nine About this man who's going to come Towards the latter times in the last seven-year period this little horn and one of the common or repeated characteristics is This man is going to speak blasphemies against god So you don't find that mentioned or you don't find that being stated About all these other kings that you know that in the kingdom of the north and the south and all those kings How they're going to fight with each other none of those things are stated so this trait of speaking blasphemies against the prince of the princes against their prince against The god of gods Is very specific in the book of daniel seven eight nine and now in chapter 11 to this little horn to this Man who moves on the wings of desolation or wings of abomination and who causes desolation Very specific to that king or that man or that ruler So we see that beginning in verse 36 of daniel chapter 11 okay, so We go for a break now and when we come back we're going to pick up in verse 36 and and and just look at that because That we can see a clear shift In what gabriel is saying saying look all these kings are going to come they're going to fight with each other And uh, there's going to come one king Uh, and he's going to really attack the people. He's going to desecrate it He's going to defile the sanctuary the fortress and all of that he's going to do But the people are going to withstand him then Verse 36 there's a change Okay, so we'll pick up with that then and I will go from there Okay, let's take a break and I will come back and Pick up in daniel chapter 11 from verse 36