 Okay, welcome back everyone to our second lecture today on BC 308 Revelation and Daniel. We are going to start with Daniel chapter 8 Is any question or any questions about the previous chapter Daniel chapter 7? before we move forward into Daniel chapter 8 any questions on Daniel 7 I hope It is clear things were clear One of the things that is useful to do is as we are reading Daniel It is good to map it with other other scripture texts primarily book of Revelation You know, then you can see okay, what was said here in Daniel 7 is given, you know, it corresponds to what God Unveiled to John and more details are given there. We can match the two it makes things so much clear All right, let's now Go into chapter 8 Daniel chapter 8 So what we saw in Daniel 7 is four beasts four kingdoms from the fourth kingdom From there arrives 10 leaders 10 horns and there's a little horn that is speaking on things about God then God himself intervenes he removes the little horn and And then there's the kingdom of God set up and the kingdom is given to the saints of the most high Now, Daniel chapter 8. Let's read it first. I will do the same thing quickly We will read, you know, three maybe three verses to three verses each and then we will again look into the meaning of what we read Let's start Daniel 8 verse 1 on verse In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me To me Daniel after the one that appeared to me the first time I saw the vision and it is so happened while I was looking that I was in Shushan the the Kitadel which Which is in the province of Alam and I saw in a vision that I was by the river alive then I lifted my eyes and I saw there Standing besides the river was around which had two horns and the two horns were high But one was higher than the other and the higher one was The higher one came up last amen I Saw the rain pushing westward northward and southward So that no animal could withstand him nor was there any Could deliver from his hand, but he did according to his soon and became great and As I was considering Suddenly a male goat came from the west across the surface of the whole earth Without touching the ground and the God had a multiple or horn Between his eyes then he came to the ramp that had two horns Which I had been standing beside the river and ran at him with precious power What's having on with someone and I saw him confronting the ram He was moved with rage against him Attacked the ram and broke his two horns There was no power in the ram to withstand him But he cast him down to the ground and trampled him and there was no one that could deliver the ramp from his hand Therefore the male goat grew very When he became strong the large horn was broken and in place of it for notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven What's nine? It became great Even a great art place of the ocean and the regular bond offering was taken away from him And the place of his sanctuary was overthrowing and a rose which was given over to it together with the regular bond Offering the cause of migration and we drove through to the ground at the heart and first part Where's the team? Then I heard a holy one speaking and another holy one said to that certain one who was speaking How long will the vision be concerning the daily sacrifices and the transgression of Desolation the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled on the foot and He said to me for two thousand three hundred days Then the sanctuary shall be cleansed Then it happened when I Daniel had seen the vision and was speaking the meaning that Suddenly there stood before me one having the appearance of a man I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai who called and said Gabriel make this man understand the vision So he came here where I stood and when he came I was afraid and fell on my face But he said to me understand some 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 up right and he said look I'm making mode to you Watch it happen in the later time of the indication for the appointed time the end shall be 20 There I'm which you saw having the two phones They are the kids of media and pressure and the male God is the kingdom of Greece The large home that is between each eye is the first king as The broken home and of and the fall that stood up in his place for kingdom shall arise out of that nation But look with its power Question in three and in the later time of the their kingdom When the transgressors had reached their fullness a king shall arise having fierce features Who understand sinister schemes? His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power He shall destroy fearfully and shall prosper and thrive and shall destroy the mighty and also the holy people Amen Question in five, three, two, three, seven Verse 25 to 27 Through his cunning he shall decide to prosper under his rule and he shall exalt himself in his heart He shall destroy many in their prosperity, he shall even rise against the prince of princes But he shall be broken without human means And the wishful of the evenings and mornings which were stole is true Therefore seal up the vision for it refers to many days in the future And I Daniel fated and was sick for days Afterward I rose and went about the king's business. I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it Right So Here we are Daniel chapter eight Again God is Revealing to Daniel Things that what we call as near term that means some of this happened right then And some of this is in the latter time Which is long to fire Right so both are there right things that happened near term and some in the latter time God's revealing So he's seeing two Animals first is a ram It is moving west So it's rising from the east It's moving west And this ram has two horns, but The second horn is bigger than the small one And he explains to us within this chapter what the ram represents It says in verse 20 The ram which you saw having the tones they are the kings of media and Persia Okay Kings of media and so now we are going to map everything right in chapter two. We saw the image Four parts First one we know Nebuchadnezzar Second he told meets and versions chapter five. He's already told us Okay, then chapter seven We saw the lion than the bear bear mapping to meets and versions Now we're coming to chapter eight. We're seeing the ram And the ram is also needs and perspective. So it's all in length The chest Of chapter two The bear of chapter seven And the ram of chapter eight all representing the kingdoms of the means and the He's giving us more details in chapter eight. He says there'll be two horns The little horn and the second one is bigger. So that actually historically happens The means were the little horn So they were they they came into power But for a short while But when the Persians they are overlapping because they come in from the same region The Persians are more powerful So Persia Is the bible term for what we refer to modern day times it is a country of Iran So meets in the Persians People from that region Iran The empires came from there They moved powerfully and they were extending themselves toward moving west Right So they came they were moving west from Iran and moving west towards The the Mediterranean the conquered Turkey parts of that region. They were moving that side So that's the rap meets and Persians history tells us that and We also know that the first Persian king King Cyrus was the one Who sent the Jews back to go rebuild their City and the temple and all of that. So that's the role they played it. God used it this Persian king Cyrus And after the meets Persians God used him To carry out a purpose that he wanted which is to send the Jews back and rebuild the city and the temple And as I had mentioned as a proper answer it called by name King Cyrus, which is a Persian king So Daniel is seeing the ram Moving west Representing meets and Persians Now as they are the moving they're moving strong suddenly something happens on goat covers And he says here in verse 21 Daniel 8 21 The male goat is the kingdom of Greece Okay, so Daniel is so amazing. I mean see the amazing prophecy because now there are Daniel is prophecy, but for kingdom The Babylonians meets Persians now Greece So the goat He says this goat comes The Greece kingdom of Greece. So you're talking about they're coming up from in and around the Greek Greece the Greeks And he says this goat Has one on home very powerful And the goat is moving east so from Greece The empire is now extending eastward. So conquering the eastern part of Europe Crossing over the mid training crossing over into turkey Moving all the way all the way to Iran and we know that So he said the the this goat had a very big horn and the horn Is its first king verse 21 the male goat is the kingdom of Greece the large horn That is between his eyes is the first king the large horn Is the first king was the first king alexander the great Okay, how do we know looking back at history? So Daniel 821 Daniel actually prophesied about alexander the great. He didn't call him by name But he's mentioned here He is the first first king of the kingdom of Greece the goat And we know literally alexander the great Was the first king from the of the Greek empire He moved very fast So he's saying this goat is like he's moving in such a such speed is not even touching the ground He's moving and literally expanded his kingdom so forcefully so fast all the way He to India So can you imagine from Greece Is moving east he's extending all his kingdom all the way Across you know conquering Iran Iraq all the way to lindia But something happens Daniel said that uh, this is in was 8 Daniel chapter 8 was 8 The male grow goat grew very great But when he became strong The large horn was broken and in place of it four notable ones came Up towards the four winds of heaven So what's happening? He's becoming great. So I mean see literally expanded his kingdom very fast, but he suddenly died And this is history alexander the great Suddenly died at a very young age But in his early 30s something like that So very great king The goat moving east extended its kingdom The first king Was moving very fast, but he suddenly died And then what happened Four of his generals his generals began to To control over four portions of his kingdom again. This is history historical But Daniel already said Was a daniel 8 was a and in place of it four notable ones came up Uh, daniel 8 Verse 22 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 That means out of the greek empire after alexander the great guy. What happened No immediate leader his four generals Took four portions of his empire and they ruled but they did not have The same power that he had that is daniel 8 22 fulfilled history historically now The four portions of his empire broadly generally speak covered The regions of greece and eastern europe covered turkey covered Which modern modern-day turkey covered modern-day syria and the regions in that area that's all along israel and Along syria lebanon jordan that area And another part in northern africa egypt and so on Broadly speaking so four regions four generals were ruling or covering Four portions of the greek empire Very broadly speaking, but why is this important? because daniel said verse nine Out of one of them came a little horn similarly verse 23 so The four kingdoms will happen So that is the near-term history verse 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom That means now he is moving he's going to the latter time the end of the end times in the latter time verse 23 And the transgressors have reached that from that the sin is abounding A king shall arise So that's the little horn So daniel chapter eight is telling us In broad terms where the little horn Or whom we know as the antichrist is going to come from He's going to come From one of these four regions That belonged to the greek empire which was ruled by The four notable ones that means the four generals who belonged to alexander the graves So one of these four areas the little horn or a king shall arise in the latter times So that's why we Of course, we don't know the exact country because these are regions and these countries didn't exist during that time so We are looking very broadly at Eastern europe greek and the other Small small countries around there because that was one portion We're looking at turkey Which is another which was another portion turkey for it has a big land land space Then we're looking at another third region, which is syria lebanon jordan iran iraq all that region And then we're also looking at another portion, which is northern africa egypt and so on because daniel said West night and late west night out of one of them, but one of the four regions The little horn came The antichrist the king who speaks Or who does all these evil things or speaks against the most time the antichrist comes from that region is what daniel said So we're not specifically saying it will be from greece Or turkey or syria egypt. They're just saying these from modern times. These are the regions But remember that there are more countries in these regions Which were governed by the four generals of alexander the great And then he tells us What this little horn He give me is giving us now more details About what this little horn will do now in chapter seven. He said He's going to speak mom first things against the most time I mean, he's going to be blaspheming god that was a daniel seven And he's going to make war with the saints daniel seven Daniel seven He's going to change times and law And for three and a half years of time times and half of time He's going the saints should be given to his hand. That means he's going to It call is going to let this antichrist this antichrist. It's really torment or attack The saints god's going to let that happen right that was chapter seven now in chapter eight He's telling us more of what this little horn will do right worse than It says here was it was nine story out of them that is out of these four one of those four regions came a little horn That's the antichrist He grew exceedingly great Toward the south Toward the east and Toward the glorious land that means he's going to exert influence So this little horn is coming up His influence is going to extend over the south southern part from where every whichever country is coming in the south towards the east more of europe And toward the glorious land that means over history. I mean this little horn God's going to let this happen He's going to exert influence over this region South east and the glorious land That's worse nine And He will even grow to the host of heaven and cast some of the person 10 then late 10 Some of the stars to the god and and trample them that means He's going to as I explained later. He's going to speak against God against Things of god He's going to have so much influence on on the stars Now when we talk about stars Stars represent We will see in revelation 12 Represents the nations of israel. I mean the the 12 stars relation 12 So stars you're reading about stars to the ground revelation 12 the woman The sun the moon the 12 stars 12 tribes It could also represent His influence is empowering from the spiritual realm. He's demonically empowered by The dragon this man So he's exerting influence. He's speaking things against the host of heaven God and angelic thing angelic beings He's going to he's supernaturally empowered By the beast and demonic powers He's attacking people of Israel Verse 10 verse 11, sorry down late 11 He even exalted himself as high as the prince of the host That is against, you know, we see later on He's talking about the prince of princes But that's in verse 25. He is exalting himself against the lord jesus christ The prince of the host the prince of all angelic hosts are the prince of princes. He's exalting himself against the lord jesus And then verse 11 is going to do something more and by him The daily sacrifices were taken away and the place of a sanctuary was cast down now that brings giving us more insight Which was not given in chapter seven this antichrist Is going to do something The daily sacrifices and the sanctuary now We do not know Sorry Right now The temple in Jerusalem is not there. So on the temple mount There are two Muslim structures You know, there is the al-Aqsa mosque And that there is the dome of the rock belonging to the muslims sacred to them But it's built on the temple mount That is where the temples stood And today the jews can only come to the western wall pray there and go But here in daniel Chapter eight verse 11. He's saying The daily sacrifices and the place of a sanctuary the sanctuary place of a sanctuary doesn't exist right now the temple doesn't exist So this is why we say that The temple has to be rebuilt For these prophecies to take place because right now they're not able to do the daily sacrifices So as we will see we will go as we progress in chapter nine And so on what what will the plan that that unfolds is this little one Is to the help of by him influencing three of the 10 leaders who are part of this european union He's going to come into power. In fact, he's going to be supported by 10 leaders. We will see that later in revelation 18 It's going to support about all 10 of these leaders, but he's coming in his influence by taking control of three of them It's going to come to power He's going to come as a man of peace because he will sign a covenant of peace for seven years. He'll establish this peace treaty uh So it's very likely that as part of his covenant of peace This sanctuary will be rebuilt And the daily sacrifices reinstituted There on the temple It's not very likely it should happen because The temple being in place And the daily sacrifices happening Is part of what is going to you know, it's photo so today that temple mound and of course the relation between israel and the Arab nations a very very Say Very big conflict big problem And nobody and people trying to find a solution right that's okay two state solution palestinians should have their own land and so But somehow this man of peace Seems and according to what we're seeing in scripture and daniel revelation He seems to be able to broke a peace for seven years a seven-year peace treaty and This is what brings him into papa Is able to come because nobody else is able to do it and a lot of people in the past have tried a lot of residents have tried That's right. Let's make peace nobody's able to do it But this man of peace will come i mean this man will come he will be able to broke a peace and the temple is Come back into its place daily sacrifices are reinstituted and then the same In the middle of the seven years, he's going to break his covenant. He's going to change So he's establishing a covenant of peace But in the middle of the seven years, he himself is going to change times and loss. We read about that in daniel seven 25 he will change times and loss. He put it all in place Seven years You'll have peace middle of the seven years three and a half years he will change it And it says in verse 11 daniel 8 11 By him the daily sacrifices will be taken away and the sanctuary Will be cast out and he will desecrate the temple We will see more details coming up chapter nine and also in the book of revelation more details and also in second thessalonians chapter two right But that's what he loved and because so the verse 12 Because of the transgression and he's going to do very evil things It says an army was given to him To oppose the daily sacrifices. He will cast truth to the ground. He did all the same process He an army will be done is there are going to be people Nations eyes kings will support him So that he'll have this military power To do this nobody can stop The army will be given to him To oppose the daily sacrifice and do this nobody's going to stop him. We'll see who'll stop him Because he'll have this right, so Daniel then asks the question this is uh was 13 You know, hey, can you tell me About the time How long will this be and then how long is the daily sacrifice going to be stopped and The transcription of desolation going to you know, make this sanctuary desolate and And the giving of both the sanctuary and the and to the and the host to be trampled and if When is this going to happen when all this will be desecrated? So How long that's was 13 Then he says was 14 For 2300 days Then the sanctuary shall be cleansed now 2300 days Want us to understand it as He explains in verse 26 As evenings and mornings Okay a day as evenings and mornings and so 2300 evenings and mornings Uh divide by two is 1150 1150 days Which is about three and a half years you do divide by 365 It'll come 3.15 now It's a slight. I mean, it's not exactly three and a half It comes with something in that range three points some days Just keep in mind that there is a difference between our Gregorian calendar and the Jewish calendar In how many days are in a year? The number of days are slightly different but Verse 14 must be understood in verse 26 because he says the vision of the evenings and mornings So it's an evening and a morning. So this 2300 Evenings and mornings and you will find a footnote Of verse 14 you'll find he's actually talking about 2300 evenings Evening mornings So you divide by two so that you that's the number of days And the number of days is about three and a half years calendar here slight difference between Gregorian and Jewish calendar so Approximately so what he's saying is But three and a half years, which is the second half of the tribulation The daily sacrifices will be stopped And the temple will be desecrated. That means the first three and a half years The sacrifices are happening. The temple is there. The sanctuary is there Then second half of three and a second half second three and a half years Daily sacrifices will stop temple is desecrated and after that 2300 mornings and evenings which is 1150 days or three and a half years Then the temple will be cleansed. That is the millennial temple, which is the antichrist We've taken out of the way everything we cleaned out And there'll be a cleansed clean temple consecrated temple in place So We are seeing more details about what this little one will do He's going to speak blasphemies things and so on And we pick up here again. They're seeing a repetition of this from verse 23 to verse 26 He says This is going to happen in the latter time And so this is after The means versions in Greek all that has happened Then there's a time gap Then in the latter time This king will arise. So remember see there's a time gap between the ram and the goat happening and the You know the four notable ones ruling all that That's happening. That's the near term prophecy being fulfilled, which historically has happened Then there's a time gap We'll see the time gap being explained to us in Daniel chapter nine And then verse 23 Daniel 823 in the latter time of their kingdom. So this is going to the end of time this king will arise verse 24 He will do all kinds of evil things and he will prosper Verse 25 is very cunning very deceitful He'll exalt himself. He'll destroy many people He will rise against the prince of peace princess. I mean against the lord But he's going to be destroyed not with human means when god is going to destroy Verse 26 the vision of the evenings in the mornings, which is what we were talking about He says it is true And it refers to many days in the future. It's talking about things way out into the future This is Daniel chapter it's Is it clear So we're adding little by little, you know to what we started in chapter two chapter five chapter seven Chapter eight Information is being added more details are being given and that is continued in chapter nine. We'll see more more details Any questions, please Go ahead Thank you pastor Here I just Wanted to know like the roman empire is not at all mentioned in this particular vision right and in the first Nebuchadnezzar's dream um It was said that it is a revised roman empire the iron the feet of iron And clay So but here It's not mentioned, but it's jumping from the greece Grecian empire and saying that there will be four notable Kings that arise out and in the latter terms there'll be a little horn. So I'm just confused between Does greece in Rome where they're geographically ruling over the Uh, like grecian empire and roman empire. They were geographically ruling over the same Areas is that's what meant here or Or is it like the the the system will come or the person will come out of This empire or yeah, I was just trying to understand Yeah, you're right in the sense that um Here the focus is on The So the focus here is on The means the versions and the greek empire and There this little horn is where you come from um So that's the focus. So obviously the legs of iron or the fourth beast That kingdom is You know, it's it's not mentioned here uh, so there is a He explains to us about the means the persons the greek And that this little horn that we read but remember the little horn is actually coming from after The fourth kingdom is fourth kingdom happens Is coming from the loosely held I remember the ten horns are actually coming from the the feet The loosely held territory of iron and clay than the tent toes or from what belongs to The fourth beast fourth kingdom from there the ten horns come and then Comes this little horn alongside so in timing This little horn Is actually in timing it is all along with the ten horns than the little horn comes so in timing it's there but He's pointing to the territory from which this little horn is going to come This little horn is going to come from one of those four regions That belongs to the greek empire which was then which was ruled by The four notable ones from who came after alexander the great So that's the the main highlight here There this little horn is coming So As we understand chapter eight We keep the framework and we keep the outline which is you know, there are these four kingdoms mentioned and then the Loose the elder what we call as a revived the revived roman empire We keep all that in mind And also remember the little horn is coming along the same time as the same time as the ten horns So in time that's when it is but the focus in chapter eight is where is this little horn coming From the greek empire To answer your question There are fourth empire the roman empire was much bigger In the greek so the greek empire started out from greece and moved eastward all the way to india The roman empire extended from spain all the way to I didn't it didn't go all the way to india, but all the way to We would say, you know, just around iraq iran covered all of that that iraq part covered there and then extended south to The northern part of africa should covered most of europe across the mediterranean and into the Northern part of africa, let me see if there's this map that included it. Yeah, I'll just show it to you here Very quickly it's in that pdf I'll just share it Yeah, so here we here we can see that the colored part the colored part Is the roman empire at its greatest extent? So you see this is, you know, spain it goes in covers all of The part of europe it didn't cover all of europe, but the major part of europe italy And then cover coming over here this part And then extending over to What would be modern day turkey? Coming over here. So here's syria In coming over here, but here's where iran iraq would be there And this is where you know right now there's a lot of conflict going on Israel, syria, lebanon, jorgen Egypt coming up here. So this is where the roman empire At its greatest The greek empire was more from greek on towards east Towards here Yeah, thank you. I had just like one more question the in this vision Is Are ram the goat all these representing the empires? But then when it comes to the little horn It goes down. Does it go down to a you know a system or world system? or Does it go down to a person because in Even in the vision, uh, we see that the personal pronouns are used even for ram goat And even for the little horn. So I'm trying to understand Whether it is a system of like a world system or is it a person the little horn Yeah, so in these in both the prophecies and you know Daniel two seven and eight The the beasts the midges The animals they are representing king dummies, right? So he tells us here You know, for example, if you look in Daniel seven he says here Daniel seven 17 those great beasts which are four are four kings or kingdoms Which arise again? He says here Daniel seven 23 the fourth we shall be a fourth kingdom So the beasts represent kingdoms the horns represent kings We see this in verse Daniel seven 24 the ten horns are ten kings Right. So prophetic imagery Beasts representing kingdoms Horns representing kings which would be individuals. So that's how we are interpreting this So the little horn is actually a little king an individual who is speaking The animals the beasts and the goats and the ram are representing kingdom or Yeah, empires Sure pastor and One more question like in verse eight when it says four winds of heaven. Does it have any particular meaning or it's just four directions south the uh, like not southeast west just like that or does it have any meaning yeah, so Here we will talk we will say okay. He came into uh influence it's almost like So when we talk about the winds winds of heaven, it's like God is moving God is oppositing this is causing these things to take place but also in terms of you know He's he's going so God is the four winds meaning God is moving on the earth Causing these things to take place because we've been consistent with what we said there in chapter seven was Two the four winds of heaven Were studying on the great sea meaning it's this is the moon, you know, like God is orchestrating A lot of these things similarly here these four notable ones are being God has orchestrated God has put them in their places And causing this thing so like the four winds generally would say it's like God moving on the nations on the seas. We understand it from that perspective Sure, sure. Thank you. Thank you master I'll just answer quickly one question here in the chat Uh rosalind can you give a scripture reference for the seven years peace treaty which will be signed so daniel chapter nine uh verse 27 Daniel 927 He shall confirm a covenant with many for one week Right, so I will explain in our next class A covenant is a peace treaty One week represents seven years. We will look at it in next class daniel 927 Which is then also we will see in revelation We'll also see this in revelation how uh, there is this understanding of Two portions of three and a half years which it may come seven years We will look that look look it up in revelation seven. So this we will you know this peace treaty Seven years we look at it in chapter nine Okay So let's pause for you today I'd encourage you to just recluse chapter seven eight and try to understand it And any questions we'll pick it up next week and then move forward Chapter nine ten and so on Thank you. I want something to close in prayer Dear heavenly father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this day where we learned So many things Jesus God, I pray that you will help us to understand the things go back to the rise and help us to know the truth We thank you for Pastor ashes who's teaching us all this and I thank you for every single person over here Jesus As we are drawing near to the end times God you equip us in a way Maybe we will stand bold for your kingdom Jesus. We give you all the glory and honor and Jesus name and Amen man Thank you everyone Enjoy the rest of the day and we'll see you again