 Okay. Good morning and welcome everyone to BC 308, our course on Revelation and Daniel. Maybe I'm just looking at the end time prophetic scriptures from these two books of Daniel and Revelation and people of course cross-reference other texts and passages as well. So can we, good morning, welcome and let's just pray and we will start. Kiran, can I ask you to pray please so we can start? Yes, sir. Father God, we come before you turn once again, thanking you Father for everything, thanking you for the class, thanking you for all the student, Father God. Father God, give you wisdom and knowledge, Father God, that we can understand the subject, Father God, keep Revelation and understanding Father God to the subject. Thank you Father God for everything. Almighty Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So last week we were in chapters seven and then we went into chapter eight of Daniel. I will just quickly review a few things which just to refresh our memory and then we will pick up where we stopped in chapter eight, finish that and my plan is, my hope is that today we can cover that part, cover chapter nine and also if we can go through chapter 11. I know it's kind of pushing it but my hope is if we can go through these chapters we'll be good and we'll see if we can get a chapter 12 today or we will get to chapter 12 next week. All right. So just to quickly review a few things from Daniel that we have covered so far. In Daniel chapter two we had Nebuchadnezzar having his dream and he saw the image, he saw this image of a man but different portions of the man was made of different metals and head of gold, chest of silver, then waist of bronze, legs of iron and feet. There was a mix of iron and clay and from where came ten toes and it was in the time so Daniel interprets it says look these are each of these are represented in various kings and kingdoms and in the time of the final kingdom which was represented by the feet which was a mix of iron and clay which was meaning this was loosely held and part of it was from the legs of iron, the king and the kingdom that was the empire, the kingdom that was represented by the legs of iron, now continued into this fifth kingdom which was a mix of iron and clay and from there were ten toes that emerged and Daniel said it was it was it would be in the time in the times of those kings that God himself the God of heaven will set up a kingdom on the earth. That was very interesting. Daniel chapter two, Daniel chapter five we see a smaller segment of prophecy where Daniel read the writing on the wall and he told king Belchazar was a grandson of king Nebuchadnezzar it's the end of your kingdom and God is handing it over to the Medes and the Persians and very powerfully that actually happened the same day that same day the Medes and Persians came in over through Belchazar he was killed and Darius was appointed the Darius who was a Mede was appointed in charge of that part of the kingdom by Cyrus the king of Persia and then we come to chapter seven where Daniel is recalling of retelling some of the visions he had in the past so he tells us that in Daniel chapter seven in the first year of king Belchazar Daniel has this vision where he sees four beasts come so these are animal like creatures emerging and in chapter seven so if you could turn the video chapter seven I'm just reviewing this and you know if you have questions if you need any clarity please feel free to ask in chapter seven Daniel chapter seven he sees these four beasts come forth and then he also sees after these four beasts the fourth beast this is Daniel seven and verse seven this fourth beast had 10 horns 10 horns Daniel seven were seven so now this sounds very much like the 10 toes of Daniel chapter two right this there's a parallel some some similarity here and then he says while he was thinking about it another little horn Daniel chapter seven verse eight a little horn came over through three of the first the 10 horns and it started speaking pump you know postful things and then he saw verse nine Daniel seven verse nine his vision shifts and he sees the ancient of days so it's very much similar to Daniel chapter two and he says you know I see 10 toes and in the times of those kings god of heaven sets up his kingdom on the earth chapter seven he sees the last beast the bear out of that I mean the fourth pieces were not the bear but a fourth beast very dreadful and out of that fourth piece Daniel seven verse seven come 10 horns and then he's seeing something more he sees another little horn coming up which is speaking very boastful things that was not so seen in chapter two but now we're getting some more insight and then he sees the ancient of days Daniel seven verse nine and god sitting on the throne and the the kingdoms being handed over to the son of man which is the Lord Jesus Christ Daniel seven verse 13 and you know he receives the kingdom so there is a parallel to chapter two but there is additional information which is there is the little horn coming out and then in chapter seven Daniel is also given the interpretation Daniel seven verse 17 he says you know the the great beasts that you saw are actually kings kings and kingdoms that are coming out of the earth right so the four beasts in Daniel seven map to the four kingdoms and then these we saw the mapping in the picture that I showed you it's in the pdf and then he says after that the saints will be given the kingdom so Daniel seven verse 20 the 10 horns that came out of the fourth kingdom fourth king on kingdom that there were 10 horns that came out of it parallel to the 10 toes we saw in Daniel two and then there's another smaller horn that comes and this same or the other horn or the little horn verse 21 it says it starts making war against the saints and prevails against them verse 22 until the ancient of days came and he made judgment in favor of the saints so he's saying you know in the time we basically when this little horn is doing his you know his aggression his persecution his war against the saints that is Daniel 721 the time of this little horn who's attacking the saints when that he's doing he's attacking the saints he's really oppressing the saints until what happened the ancient of days came that was God himself stepped in and established his kingdom right so that was the additional information in chapter seven this little horn that is troubling the saints or he's persecuting the saints and God sets up a kingdom okay so a little bit more additional information just highlighting these things in case we missed it in chapter seven verse 24 Daniel 724 Daniel understands that the 10 horns are 10 kings who arise from this kingdom from which kingdom the fourth kingdom so from that kingdom or from what belong to that region there are 10 kings 10 kings meaning 10 leaders people of influence leaders all right now I remember in our one of our I think in another class somebody asked you know how can we say that 10 kings map to our political leaders today because you know well the simple understanding is that's the language of the bible kings and kingdoms but you translate it to our time which is instead of kingdoms we have nations and instead of kings we have leaders political leaders or you think could be called presidents or prime ministers or whatever other you know however the the government is established and so there is that connection and we see even in the New Testament you know the New Testament talks about slaves and masters we don't understand slaves and masters today we don't use that we talk about employees and employers or the New Testament talks about yeah Romans 13 talks about being subject to authorities now the authorities in the bible times had to do with the roman emperor and soldiers now we don't have that today today we have governments and we have our civil authorities who enforce the law in in the country and we have to be in submission to them so we translate that right so same way going back to Daniel 724 that Daniel is talking about these he says the 10 horns that you saw that that came out of the fourth peace they come out of the fourth kingdom they are 10 kings 10 leaders or coming out and then after that will arise this this little horn who is going to subdue three of these leaders and he's going to speak these pompous words against god he's going to this is Daniel 725 he's going to persecute the saints and the saints will be given to his hand for a time times and half a time we said that's three and a half years that means for three and a half years god will let this man persecute his people right so that is additional information okay so let me just go share the pdf and just kind of explain this i want you to be very clear on that's why i'm uh reviewing this Daniel 7 right so Daniel chapter 2 7 and 8 we will get to 8 so in Daniel uh 2 uh so Daniel chapter 2 the head of gold and this is the four beasts in Daniel chapter 7 so head of gold paddles to the first beast the silver chest paddles the second beast the meter Persian empire the waist and thighs of brass paddles to the Greek empire the legs of iron paddles to the Roman empire now the Babylonian the meter Persian and the Greek empires us called by name in the book of Daniel right we see this in chapter 8 the Roman empire is not called by name but we know because it was the empire that overtook came right after the Greek empire we know that historically and that's why we are confident in saying and it was moved it was very powerful over through everything all the others so we confident that's the Roman empire now what we what we learn is from this region from what was the Roman empire there's going to be a fifth kingdom which is a which is represented by the feed which is a loosely held collection of you know iron and clay piece of iron and clay that means it's not as unified it's loosely held and out of that come the ten toes or the ten horns and then explains to us that these ten horns are really ten kings right so that is something to keep in mind from chapter 7 that there's going to be a region that has this loosely held mix of iron and clay iron representing what belonged what was part of the Roman empire clay representing all the other peoples I mean not all but other peoples and they're a mix of that and then from there come the ten toes or the ten horns that Daniel said are the kings rulers and they will come a little horn will overpower three of these ten horns and that's the time the god of heaven will intervene and god will give this little horn three and a half years a time period of where he will persecute the saints so then we went into chapter 8 any questions on chapter 7 I was just in this reviewing some of the things we saw from chapter 7 any questions so far okay so then yeah I'm reviewing now let's go back to chapter 8 so in chapter 8 Daniel sees two very interesting animals he he sees the ram which represents the Medo Persian kingdom the ram he sees a ram rising up from the east so that's important east that's why we can say the Medes and the Persians and it's also explained for us in chapter 8 and verse 20 that the ram represents the Medes and the Persians and then it moves west this ram has two horns one is a small horn another one's a bigger horn so the small horn represents the Medes the bigger horn represents the Persians who are stronger they came out later then while this is happening there's a goat that comes out of the past which represents the Greek Empire so the goat comes and the goat begins to move east that means it's going towards the ram and it overpowers the ram and in chapter 8 Daniel sees that this goat is moving very fast and it has one horn one horn and so we know that this was the first leader Alexander the Great of the Greek Empire and again we know this represents a Greek Empire because Daniel 821 he says the male goat is the kingdom of Greece so it's told clearly for us the male goat is a kingdom of Greece so Greece Empire comes it moves very fast expands very fast overthrows the Mede-Persian Empire its first leader represented by the first horn is growing very fast but suddenly he is broken the horn is broken that means he dies and sure enough Alexander the Great he expanded his kingdom very fast but he died at a very young age and then his four kingdoms was broken down into four regions now you know these countries that I've listed are not completely all the countries from those four regions there would be Greece and it would actually extend into Bulgaria and modern day modern day Bulgaria and parts of Macedonia so that's Greece and Turkey Syria and Egypt but this generally the areas the countries that were part of this four kingdoms so what Daniel chapter 8 and verse 8 what Daniel saw is this male goat was growing very fast suddenly the horn was broken and that empire the large horn was broken and instead of it four notable ones came that means this four leaders came the kingdom was broken and sure enough when Alexander died Alexander the Great died his kingdom was or his empire was broken into four parts which were taken over by his generals for a period of time and then after that came the Roman Empire which covered all of these areas so what is interesting in chapter 8 is in chapter 8 verse 9 Daniel sees that out of one of these came a little horn that means from these four portions of the Greek Empire which was broken out of one of that came the little horn so that's why we look at with interest the countries that the today's countries that kind of sit in these four regions so we mentioned some of these names Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt but like I mentioned it could be more like Bulgaria, Macedonia and a few other countries which actually sat in or which today's contemporary countries which were part of those four regions into which the Greek Empire was broken so you look into that area with interest and because Daniel 8 and verse 9 says out of them came this little horn that Daniel had spoken of in chapter 7 and we know he this little horn is the Antichrist so he has given us that information chapter 8 right now so this little horn is going to you know attack the people and he's going to oppose the daily sacrifices so this is chapter 8 if you will follow with me I'm looking at verse chapter 8 verse 9 out of one of them came a little horn that means out of one of these four portions of the broken Greek Empire came the little horn chapter 8 verse 9 and who grew exceedingly that means he became very powerful and it grew toward the south toward the east and toward the glorious land that means he began to extend his influence in different directions towards the south towards the east and towards the glorious land the glorious land of course is referring to the land of Israel and verse 10 of Daniel chapter 8 this little horn grew up to the host of heaven that means it was just you know boasting against God and the angels of God and threw down some of these thought some of the stars in the ground trampled them verse 11 he exalted himself as high as the prince of the host that means you know he's exalting himself against the Lord Jesus Christ himself the prince of the host and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away the place of his sanctuary was cast down that means he is you know desecrating the temple he's stopping all the sacrifices and the sanctuary the temple of God itself is cast down then verse 12 he says because of the transgression Hanami was given over to the horn to post the daily sacrifices and he cast truth down to the ground and he did all this in prosper that means you know with force he stopped the sacrifices and threw truth down to the ground verse 13 then I heard a holy one speaking and now the holy one says so that the angels of God talking how long will the vision be concerning the daily sacrifices and the transgression of desolation the giving up both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled under foot you know how long will this happen now this phrase trampled under foot is very interesting because you find it used in revelation chapter 11 and worse verse 1 so if you keep your hand at Daniel 8 go to revelation chapter 11 and read verse 2 revelation chapter 11 and verse 2 here he's talking about in John's having a vision he says in John's vision or revelation it says leave out the court which is outside the temple do not measure it for it has been given to the Gentiles and they will tread the holy city under foot for 42 months that is three and a half years right so they are going so that means this the temple is going to be trampled under foot for 42 months similar language that we just read go back please to Daniel chapter 8 and verse 13 right he says here the sanctuary will be trampled under foot I mean the temple will be the temple will be dishonored desecrated the Gentiles will be trampling under foot so here he's asking how long is this going to happen and he gets the answer in verse 14 Daniel 8 verse 14 for 2300 days then then the sanctuary shall be cleansed so what is this 2300 days right so this 2300 days the word days and if you have a bible that gives you the meaning there in the march and it'll say mornings and evenings that means 2300 or rather not mornings evenings and mornings so the Jewish they started from the evening six p.m till six a.m so 2300 evenings and mornings that's half a day so 2300 evenings and mornings six p.m to six a.m evenings and mornings or mornings anyway but it's correctly put as evenings and mornings which is half a day and therefore you we say this 2300 evenings and mornings is 1150 full days now that means the sacrifices will be stopped and the temple will be desecrated for 1150 full days now this fits into what we already know that for a time times and half a time that is three and a half years or 42 months which is about 1260 days or 1275 days depending on how you calculate it yeah 365 364 days during that so 1001 and 50 is part of this 1000 the three and a half three and a half years so in this three and a half years the second half of the great tribulation for 1150 days this is going to happen okay so that's what is meaning here how long is this going to happen it's going to happen for to verse 14 2300 days evenings and mornings that means 1150 full days which is part of the three and a half years okay and just some you know other thing to keep in mind is in the Jewish calendar they have only depending on the on the year they'll have either 353 354 355 days per year in the English calendar we either have 364 or 365 days in a year they have or 365.4 days in a year but they have you know slightly less number of days in a year okay so there is this variation in if you're doing calculation but here the numbers are very specific 2300 days evenings and mornings which is 1150 days that means during the second half the three and a half years which is a total of 1000 approximately 1260 days so many days the temple will be desecrated okay so did you understand uh Daniel 8 13 and 14 and you know how did or is any questions there is it did you understand Daniel chapter 8 was 13 and 14 then Daniel asks you know how long is the temple going to be trampled under foot that means it's the Gentiles are going to overtake it then he says the angel says for 2300 days which is actually evenings and mornings half a day so for full days it's 1150 which is part of the three and a half years is it clear any clarifications needed right so then Gabriel the angel Gabriel uh continues to speak here to Daniel this is in verse 16 Daniel 8 and verse 16 and he says in verse 17 he says Daniel 8 something understand son of man that the vision refers to the time of the end so he's telling Daniel I want you to understand this vision really you know has to do with the time of the end I mean this is towards the end times so there are there is an immediate fulfillment which is uh the ram and the goat the Medo Persian Empire and the Greek Empire which happened right after Dan during and after Daniel's time but then the part about the uh the little horn who is attacking the glorious land and so on has to do with the time of the end Daniel chapter 8 verse 17 so he's saying look this has to do with the time of the end right so we understand that in this vision that Daniel had in chapter 8 there is the near fulfillment which has to do with the kingdoms that came right away but there's also the part that has to do with the time of the end and we can understand it that it is from this little horn onwards how because as we read on he says here in verse 20 Daniel 8 20 he says the ram is the kings of Medo and Persia which happened during Daniel's time Daniel was alive to see that happen verse 21 the male goat is the kingdom of Greece and the large horn is the first king that was the Greek Empire Daniel wasn't around he had died by this time but the Greek Empire came overtook the Medes and Persians Alexander the Great came he was the first king so that happened right after Daniel you know the the Greek Empire overthrew the Medes and Persians then verse 22 as for the broken horn and the four kings that stood up in this place four kingdoms will arise of that nation but not with its power which happened immediately after Alexander the Great was killed his region was broken and four kingdoms were established but they didn't have the same power and influence as the Greek Empire then you see verse 23 verse 23 begins like this and in the latter time of their kingdom so now he suddenly shifted time he's gone from the near fulfillment which was the Medes and the Persians the Greeks and the four regions that come out of the Greek Empire he's gone from that to in the latter time verse 23 so there's a time gap do you all see that you're with me Daniel chapter 8 verse 23 and in the latter time of their kingdom that means of what's happening in this region when the transgressors have reached their fold as a king shall arise that means this leader is going to rise and we can recognize this leader as that little horn which he had mentioned in verse 9 previously having fears features who understand sinister schemes so he looks fierce he understands how to you know in cunningness and trickery he can control take charge do those things verse 24 his power shall be mighty but not by his own power that means he's empowered by somebody else and we know from the book of Revelation he is actually empowered by the devil he shall destroy fearfully he will prosper and travel he shall destroy the mighty and also the holy people so he's going to have you know it's going to overpower people even those who are mighty many very people already influential is going to take control of them and the holy people referring to the Jewish people themselves God's holy people verse 25 through his cunning he shall call cause the seat to prosper under his rule and he shall exalt himself in his heart he shall destroy many in their prosperity he should even rise against the prince of princes so he's kind of repeating what he had already told us here in verse 9 10 11 of chapter 8 in verse 11 he referred saying he will exalt himself high as the prince of the host here in verse 25 he says he will rise against the prince of princes that's the Lord Jesus himself but he shall be broken without means or without human means the word human has been added there by the translators but he's going to be destroyed supernaturally verse 26 and the vision of the evenings and mornings so verse 26 you connect verse 26 back to verse 14 what was the word what was that verse 14 he said for 2300 days so it says days and I said well that days actually is evenings and mornings so you see that explained in verse 26 and the vision of the evenings and mornings so that's why we are saying here in verse 14 even he said 2300 days that were days it's actually evenings and mornings literally in the in Hebrew there and it is reaffirmed in verse 26 when he specifically calls it the vision of the evenings and mornings so evenings and mornings 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. half a day that's why we say the full day means 1,150 days the vision of the evenings morning which was told us through therefore seal up the vision for it refers to many days and the words in the future have been added but it's correct this look it's it's referring to something out in the future right so in chapter eight there is the near fulfillment of the means in the Persians the Greeks and the four kingdoms that would come out of the Greek Empire the near fulfillment and then there is the far fulfillment which is the future fulfillment which had to do with that little horn or the king who speaks against the prince of princes who's going to come forth and who's going to stop the sacrifices in the evenings and mornings and he's going to desecrate the temple that is out in the future okay that's chapter eight and verse 27 Daniel said I fainted and I was sick for many days I was astonished by the vision but no one understood that means obviously this vision was something that's very hard for him to understand but thank god you know he made a note of he wrote down he recorded all the things that he saw in the vision and obviously at that time for Daniel it was too much to understand what does all this mean and these are things that are going to happen some of the things are going to happen now but some of the things are going to happen in the time of the end in the latter time in so Daniel like what does all this mean but he just recorded it for us and that's what we're able to read and understand today okay so chapter eight is extending things even further Daniel chapter eight so you can connect it back to chapter two chapter seven and chapter eight more details are being given to us of what is going to happen okay I hope all of you have followed me this far before we start off into chapter nine yeah any questions all right so I see a comment in the chat so I am I am assuming everybody is fine so let's move into chapter nine okay so in chapter nine I'm not going to read the whole chapter but I just mentioned the early part of the chapter that means chapter nine verses one to nineteen Daniel begins to pray and he sat his face toward god to pray for his own people and to pray for he realized he had read Jeremiah the prophet's prophecy that there would be 70 years the Jews would be in exile their land would be desolate and now that 70 years was coming to an end Daniel is praying for his people he is also you know asking you know in some way repenting and asking god's forgiveness god's mercy over his people so Daniel is praying and while he is praying and seeking god in this way the angel Gabriel appears to him and begins to speak to him concerning the visions that he had okay so we're not going to read verses one to 19 which is Daniel's prayer but we're going to pick up from verse 20 which is when angel Gabriel appears to Daniel and gives him additional information additional prophecy about the end times so let's start with verse 20 I would like us to just read through till verse 27 of Daniel chapter nine I may request each one to read yeah two verses each Daniel chapter nine verse 20 to 27 two verses each please now while I was speaking praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before the lord my god for the holy mountain my god yes while I was speaking in prayer the man Gabriel whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning being cursed or play flag so please read read it to me about the time of the evening offering okay someone else verse 22 23 and he informed me and talked with me and said oh Daniel I am now come forth to give the skill and understanding at the beginning of vice applications the commandment came forth and I am come to show thee that thou art greatly beloved therefore understand the matter and consider the reason verse 24 70 weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city to finish the transcription to make an end of sins to make reconciliation for equity to bring in everlasting righteousness to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem and until Messiah the prince there shall be seven weeks and 62 weeks the street shall be built again and the world even in trouble sometimes last two okay and after the 62 weeks Messiah shall be cut off but not for himself and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary the end of it shall be with a flood and till the end of the war desolations are determined then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week but in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice an offering and the wing of abomination shall be one who makes desolate even until the consummation which is determined is until the consummation which is determined is poured out on the desolate so we need to understand what he's saying so Gabriel comes to Daniel all right okay Aaron has some problems with the mic no problem no issues okay so Gabriel comes to Daniel so Daniel is praying he's seeking God and Gabriel says you know I've come to help you understand the vision that means Daniel saw the vision which we read in chapter seven and then subsequently another vision in chapter eight and the vision in chapter eight really troubled him so Gabriel says I've come to help you understand the vision and then he begins to say he starts off like this we'll just read verse 24 then we'll go for the break he says verse 24 70 weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city says Daniel I've come to talk to you about 70 weeks now we will explain the 70 weeks or 77s but what I would just point out before we go for the break is he says for your people and your holy city that means this what I'm going what Gabriel is going to talk to Daniel about has to do very specifically concerning the Jewish people and Jerusalem your people and your city in other words whatever he has spoken from verse 24 to 27 primarily has to do with or concerns the Jewish people and to sit their city Jerusalem okay so that's what he says we will come back and discuss and go into the details of the rest of what Gabriel said okay so let's take a quick break now and we'll come back in 10 minutes and get into the same chapter seven or chapter nine sorry be back in 10 minutes thank you