It Is Written

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00:15 ♪[music ends]♪♪
00:18 >>John Bradshaw: Thanks for joining me on "It Is Written."
00:21 We're looking at Daniel 7 in our continuing series
00:24 on the book of Daniel.
00:26 Daniel 1-6 is basically a collection of stories.
00:30 When you get to Daniel 7, there's a change of emphasis.
00:34 We're looking at the prophecies of Daniel now.
00:37 In Daniel 7 we're going to look at, among other things,
00:40 the identity of the beast of Bible prophecy.
00:43 We'll see beasts that rise up out of the sea,
00:46 horns and wings and seas and animals,
00:48 symbols that help us to unlock the Bible's mysteries.
00:52 We'll see that Revelation builds on the book of Daniel,
00:56 and we'll identify the connection
00:57 between Daniel 7 and Revelation 13.
01:00 And we're going to see that some of the interpretations
01:03 of Bible prophecy that have been offered over the years
01:05 have been...creative.
01:09 [whoosh]
01:10 ♪[orchestral music swells]♪
01:12 [tinkling sound of wind-blown sand]
01:13 [whoosh, distant bell rings]
01:17 [wind blowing, sand swishing]
01:21 [recording of Mikhail Gorbachev speaking Russian]
01:24 You might remember people saying years back
01:26 that the beast of Bible prophecy was Mikhail Gorbachev.
01:29 Now, he was the premier of the Soviet Union
01:32 when Eastern European communism came to an end
01:34 in the early 1990s.
01:36 Mr. Gorbachev had a prominent birthmark,
01:39 often referred to as a port-wine stain,
01:42 on his forehead, which led thinking people--I kid you not--
01:47 to decide that Mikhail Gorbachev was the antichrist.
01:52 That mark on his forehead evidently had something to do
01:55 with the mark of the beast.
01:57 He died in August of 2022
01:59 without ever really giving off antichrist vibes.
02:03 Now, he did do commercials for Pizza Hut,
02:06 but you'd have to really dislike pizza to think that
02:09 that qualified him to be the antichrist.
02:12 It's worth mentioning this confusion
02:14 because it will help us to study the Bible carefully,
02:17 which we should.
02:19 And I have to say I don't expect everyone will agree
02:22 on any one interpretation of the Bible.
02:25 There are--how many denominations?
02:28 So, here's what we'll agree on:
02:29 That the Bible is the inspired Word of God,
02:32 that Jesus is the Son of God,
02:35 that Jesus died for our sins, that all people are sinners,
02:38 and that people are saved by grace through faith
02:41 in Jesus Christ.
02:42 Now, what else?
02:43 We believe God loves us.
02:45 We believe in baptism.
02:47 Oh, wait a minute, already someone's saying,
02:51 "Ah, but what kind of baptism?"
02:52 So, given that there's agreement and disagreement,
02:56 let's be gracious as we attempt to uncover the meaning
02:59 of Daniel, chapter 7.
03:02 We keep in mind that the first six chapters of Daniel
03:04 are stories, but once we get to Daniel 7,
03:07 we're now into prophecy.
03:09 Don't worry that prophecy is too hard to understand.
03:12 If you pray, think, read carefully,
03:15 and follow a few basic rules,
03:17 you'll find the prophecies of Daniel can be understood.
03:21 So, let's look at Daniel 7, starting in verse 1:
03:25 "In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon
03:28 "Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed:
03:32 then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters."
03:37 So, where are we in time? Babylon fell in chapter 5.
03:41 In Daniel 6 it said Darius the Mede was king.
03:45 But now in Daniel 7 we're back to Belshazzar
03:49 being king of Babylon.
03:50 So, why the chopping and changing?
03:53 Now, that's because Daniel grouped the stories together
03:56 in the first half of the book
03:57 and then the prophecies in the second half of the book.
04:00 The book was not compiled strictly chronologically.
04:04 It's just the way the book was put together.
04:06 "Daniel spake and said, 'I saw in my vision by night,
04:10 "'and, behold, the four winds of the heaven
04:12 "'strove upon the great sea.
04:15 "'And four great beasts came up from the sea,
04:18 diverse one from another.'"
04:20 Let's look at them together:
04:22 "The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings:
04:26 "I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked,
04:28 "and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand
04:31 "upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
04:34 "And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear.
04:37 "And it raised up itself on one side,
04:40 "and it had three ribs in the mouth of it
04:42 "between the teeth of it:
04:43 "and they said thus unto it, 'Arise, devour much flesh.'
04:47 "After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard,
04:51 "which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl;
04:54 "the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
04:59 "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold
05:02 "a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible,
05:05 "and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth:
05:09 "it devoured, and brake in pieces,
05:10 "and stamped the residue with the feet of it:
05:13 "and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it;
05:17 and it had ten horns."
05:19 Four beasts: a lion, a bear, a leopard,
05:25 and then something that Daniel can't classify,
05:28 which has 10 horns.
05:30 Daniel said, "I considered the horns, and, behold,
05:33 "there came up among them another little horn,
05:36 "before whom there were three of the first horns
05:39 "plucked up by the roots:
05:41 "and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man,
05:46 and a mouth speaking great things."
05:48 We'll find that that little horn and the beast of Revelation 13,
05:52 the one with the mark,
05:54 the one the whole world follows in the end of time,
05:57 we'll find that they are the same entity.
06:00 Back in 1999, the "Los Angeles Times" reported on the plethora
06:05 of people identified over the years as the antichrist,
06:09 referring to the confusion on the subject
06:11 as "Pin the Tail on the Antichrist."
06:14 They mentioned Bill Gates had been named by some,
06:16 as well as King Juan Carlos of Spain, who abdicated the throne
06:20 in 2014 amid scandals and allegations.
06:23 Studying the Bible isn't about making sensationalistic guesses.
06:28 We want to ascertain what the Bible is really saying
06:33 by comparing scripture with scripture.
06:36 Daniel had his dream at the start of Belshazzar's reign,
06:39 around 540 B.C., and it was quite a dream.
06:43 Daniel said he "saw...the four winds of the heaven"
06:46 as they "strove upon the great sea."
06:49 In prophecy, the sea or waters represents people.
06:55 Revelation 17:15, "Then he said to me,
06:58 "'The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits,
07:01 are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.'"
07:05 Water or seas represents multitudes of people.
07:10 What Daniel saw was strife and warfare
07:13 among the people of the world,
07:15 opening the way for us to understand verse 3:
07:18 "And four great beasts came up from the sea,
07:20 diverse one from another."
07:22 So, what are these beasts?
07:24 We have a clear answer from the Bible,
07:26 from this very same chapter.
07:29 Notice what verse 17 says:
07:31 "These great beasts, which are four,
07:34 are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth."
07:38 And to nail that down even tighter, we see verse 23:
07:42 "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth."
07:47 So, a beast is a kingdom or, you could say, a nation.
07:52 So, the power in Revelation cannot be Mikhail Gorbachev
07:57 or King Juan Carlos of Spain-- or Ronald Reagan.
08:01 Oh, no joke.
08:03 Some said former President Reagan was the antichrist
08:06 because his name was Ronald, six letters,
08:08 Wilson, six letters, Reagan, six letters--
08:13 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 6-6-6.
08:18 Now, that's not how prophecy is to be interpreted.
08:23 And it can't possibly be true because the beasts spoken of
08:26 in Daniel 7--and, therefore Revelation 13--
08:28 represent a kingdom or a nation.
08:32 So, Daniel here was seeing the rise and the fall of nations.
08:37 Verse 4:
08:38 "The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings:
08:42 "I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked,
08:45 "and it was lifted up from the earth and made stand
08:48 upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it."
08:52 For the sake of time, let's take a shortcut
08:54 and introduce a principle of prophetic interpretation.
08:58 Back in Daniel 2, King Nebuchadnezzar dreamed
09:01 of a statue constructed from various materials.
09:04 The head of the statue was made of gold,
09:06 the chest and arms were of silver,
09:08 the midsection was made of bronze,
09:10 and the legs were made of iron.
09:13 Then there were the feet, which were made of iron and clay.
09:16 Those various metals represented kingdoms.
09:19 The head of gold, that was Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon;
09:23 the chest and arms of silver, Medo-Persia;
09:26 the belly and thighs of brass, Greece;
09:29 and the legs of iron represented Rome.
09:32 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome--
09:35 that's the foundation in the book of Daniel.
09:39 And it resurfaces several times,
09:41 even providing a platform for understanding
09:43 the book of Revelation.
09:45 Daniel 2 is foundational.
09:48 What follows in the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation
09:52 is built on that.
09:54 Now, here's the shortcut I mentioned.
09:57 In prophecy there's a principle known as "repeat and enlarge."
10:03 That's where God says something and then He says it again
10:07 but enlarges upon it, giving more information.
10:11 He does that in Daniel and Revelation.
10:14 The information in Daniel 2 is repeated in Daniel 7
10:18 and enlarged upon, with additional information given.
10:23 Daniel enlarges upon what he wrote in Daniel 2.
10:26 So, the beast--
10:29 actually, let me pause here and point something out.
10:32 That word "beast" is not an insult.
10:35 It sort of sounds like one, but it isn't. It's a symbol.
10:38 It could just as easily say "animal" as "beast."
10:43 In Daniel 7 you're seeing animals,
10:44 which represent something else,
10:47 just like an eagle represents the United States
10:50 or a kiwi represents New Zealand.
10:52 So, why did God use symbols in prophecy instead of just
10:57 coming out and telling us what He was talking about?
10:59 Wouldn't that remove a lot of guesswork,
11:01 save a lot of confusion?
11:03 Well, maybe, but that's not the point.
11:06 Symbols can get a point across.
11:09 Satan is described as "a roaring lion"
11:12 in 1 Peter, chapter 5.
11:14 That's evocative.
11:15 It, it gives you more understanding.
11:18 Symbols also serve specifically to obscure what is being said,
11:24 which sounds counterintuitive but isn't.
11:27 It might be that what was written was sensitive,
11:30 and it wouldn't be wise to spill all the beans.
11:33 When John wrote Revelation,
11:35 he was a prisoner under house arrest.
11:38 Some of what he wrote would not have been pleasing
11:40 to the Roman authorities,
11:41 so codifying it would have been prudent.
11:45 And then there's another aspect of this.
11:47 For your own good, God wants you to dig a little.
11:52 The fact that gold is harder to get to than topsoil
11:56 doesn't stop people digging for gold--because it's worth it.
12:01 You know that verse:
12:02 "And you will seek me and find me,
12:04 when you search for me with all your heart."
12:07 Jeremiah 29:13.
12:09 That's the principle.
12:10 God isn't making it difficult, but He's asking us
12:14 to apply ourselves so we can understand His Word.
12:19 Now, if we parallel Daniel 7 with Daniel 2,
12:21 then we discover--well, let's have Daniel state it for us.
12:25 "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth."
12:28 That's Daniel 7:23.
12:30 We know from our study of Daniel 2
12:32 the fourth kingdom or nation mentioned is Rome.
12:35 So, the first one, the lion with eagle's wings?
12:39 Babylon. We read that "a man's heart was given to it,"
12:42 a reference to the conversion of Nebuchadnezzar.
12:45 Following Daniel 2, the second beast is therefore
12:48 Medo-Persia, the joint kingdom of the Medes and the Persians.
12:52 And yes, we can figure that out even without Daniel 2.
12:55 Daniel 5 and Daniel 6 made that clear.
12:58 It's "raised up...on one side" because the Persians
13:01 were more powerful than the Medes, and it has three ribs
13:03 in its mouth because Medo-Persia conquered
13:05 three significant nations on its way to power.
13:09 The third kingdom, the leopard, now, that would be Greece,
13:12 corresponding to the midsection of brass in Daniel 2.
13:15 It "had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl;
13:18 the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it."
13:22 Daniel 7, verse 6.
13:23 Leopards are fast animals.
13:26 This one had four wings,
13:28 representing the incredible speed with which Greece,
13:31 under Alexander the Great, conquered the ancient world.
13:35 Four heads?
13:36 When Alexander died, he didn't leave Greece under the power
13:41 of a single individual, but it was divided among four generals.
13:46 And then, the fourth beast, Rome,
13:49 which was "dreadful and terrible,
13:51 and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth."
13:56 In Daniel 2 Rome was represented by the legs of iron,
14:00 and now we're given more information.
14:04 Daniel said, "I\it was diverse from all the beasts
14:06 that were before it; and it had ten horns."
14:09 So, here's a wrinkle: 10 horns.
14:12 Not difficult. This is Rome giving way to...something.
14:17 In Daniel 2 you had Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome,
14:21 and then feet of iron and clay.
14:24 Now, we're not explicitly told in Daniel 2,
14:28 but we can imagine that the average foot has how many toes?
14:32 Right, five.
14:34 Two feet in Daniel 2--10 toes. Here in Daniel 7, 10 horns.
14:40 In Daniel 2, Rome gives way to 10 nations
14:44 that come up out of its ashes.
14:46 In Daniel 7, same thing, but the symbol is different.
14:51 This time it's 10 horns.
14:54 Verse 24 says, "The ten horns out of this kingdom
14:56 are ten kings that shall arise."
15:00 Rome gives way to 10 nations, just like it does in Daniel 2.
15:05 That's the repeat part.
15:08 When the Roman Empire disintegrated,
15:10 10 nations rose up out of its ruins:
15:12 the Suevi, Alamanni, Lombards, Anglo-Saxons,
15:16 Vandals, Visigoths, Franks,
15:18 Heruli, Ostrogoths,
15:19 and the Burgundians.
15:21 They became people groups in Europe today:
15:22 Burgundians--Swiss;
15:24 uh, Anglo-Saxons, uh-- the English;
15:27 Alamanni--now, if you're a Spanish speaker,
15:29 you'll know that "Alemania" is Spanish for "Germany."
15:32 So, those nations became people groups that we recognize today.
15:37 Then Daniel says, "I considered the horns, and, behold,
15:41 "there came up among them another little horn,
15:44 "before whom there were three of the first horns
15:46 "plucked up by the roots:
15:48 "and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man,
15:53 and a mouth speaking great things."
15:56 And we can identify that.
15:58 Now we're enlarging. This is new information.
16:03 Daniel 7 introduces us to a judgment scene,
16:05 and it states that ultimately "the beast"--the nation--
16:08 "was slain, and his body destroyed, and given
16:12 to the burning flame."
16:13 In verses 13 and 14, Jesus, after this judgment time,
16:18 is brought before the Father and receives an eternal kingdom.
16:21 Daniel states he doesn't really understand this vision.
16:26 "I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body,
16:29 and the visions of my head troubled me."
16:31 He asks the angel, and he's told of four mighty nations,
16:35 and that God's people would inhabit God's kingdom
16:38 forever and ever.
16:39 We have access to everlasting life through faith in Jesus.
16:44 Everyone has that opportunity,
16:46 but, sadly, not everyone will take it.
16:50 I hope you'll take it and see that God offers you more
16:54 in this life, as well as the world to come.
16:57 Now, verse 23:
16:59 "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,
17:02 "which shall be diverse from all kingdoms,
17:04 "and shall devour the whole earth,
17:06 and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces."
17:09 And that's true of the kingdom of Rome.
17:12 It was a mighty power, extending across a broad swath
17:15 of the planet from just south of Scotland,
17:18 taking in England and Wales, western Europe,
17:20 and then across Europe and North Africa,
17:23 north and south of the Mediterranean to as far
17:25 as the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea.
17:30 So, 10 horns--10 nations will come out of the Roman Empire,
17:35 but "another shall rise after them;
17:38 "and he shall be diverse from the first,
17:41 and he shall subdue three kings."
17:44 So, it's obvious we're not looking at Bill Gates here
17:48 or a supercomputer or a silicon chip--
17:51 or a Jew in the Middle East.
17:54 A commonly held view is that the power that rises up
17:57 in earth's last days is a Jewish man in the Middle East.
18:01 It's said that the antichrist has to be a counterfeit Christ,
18:06 and because Jesus was a Jewish man,
18:08 this entity has to be a Jewish man.
18:10 Which sounds reasonable-- could be right, I suppose,
18:15 except that's not the direction the Bible appears to lean.
18:20 What's happening in Daniel is that four kingdoms rise,
18:25 the last one divides into 10 nations,
18:28 and out of the midst of those nations, uh,
18:30 another small nation rises up and assumes a certain role.
18:35 Doesn't sound like a Jewish man.
18:37 I'm going to run something by you.
18:40 Jesus died and went to heaven and left the disciples in charge
18:44 of the brand new early Christian church.
18:47 Over time, this church began to lose its way.
18:51 Jesus said the church of Ephesus had lost its first love.
18:56 The church of Thyatira allowed apostasy to flourish.
19:00 Over time the church was influenced by paganism.
19:04 And by the Middle Ages a rash of unbiblical ideas
19:07 permeated Christianity, to the extent that when people
19:10 promoted baptism by immersion in the Middle Ages,
19:14 they were persecuted, and many of them were put to death.
19:17 The Bible was outlawed.
19:21 In the 15th century, the church in England dug up the remains
19:26 of the Bible translator John Wycliffe and burned them.
19:29 One hundred years later, William Tyndale was executed
19:33 for the crime of translating the Bible into English.
19:38 Martin Luther was persecuted.
19:40 Protestants were murdered by the millions,
19:43 according to historians.
19:45 The church had people praying to the dead,
19:48 buying forgiveness, confessing their sins to human beings,
19:53 and living in superstition.
19:55 It was a mess.
19:56 The church of that day was so corrupt
19:59 Luther and Tyndale and others identified it
20:03 as the small kingdom in Daniel 7
20:05 and the nation brought to view in Revelation 13.
20:09 Now, does that check out, according to the Bible?
20:13 Well, consider the identifying marks in Daniel 7.
20:16 It's said to be small, and that it arises
20:20 among the other 10 horns, and where were they?
20:23 Remember, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome,
20:26 and the 10 nations arise out of what was the Roman Empire.
20:31 So this little horn must arise in Europe.
20:34 In it "were eyes like the eyes of a man."
20:37 There would be a man at its head,
20:40 and it would have "a mouth speaking great things"
20:42 and--Revelation adds-- "blasphemies."
20:46 Verse 25 says that whoever this power is,
20:49 it will "speak great words against the Most High."
20:52 It will "wear out"--or persecute--God's people.
20:55 It will "think to change" God's law,
20:58 and it will rule for 1,260 years--
21:02 "a time...times and half a time."
21:05 That is a year, two years, and half a year,
21:10 1,260 days.
21:12 And we remember that a day in prophecy represents a year,
21:16 so, 1,260 years.
21:20 Only the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church
21:23 fulfills those specifications, not a single person,
21:28 not individual church members.
21:30 This represents a government, a nation,
21:33 which is what the Vatican is, a very powerful, sovereign nation.
21:38 It has a man at its head. It persecuted God's people.
21:42 It rose up in western Europe.
21:44 It ruled for 1,260 years
21:47 before having its authority removed by the emperor Napoleon
21:51 in the year 1798.
21:53 It's different from the other 10 nations
21:55 as it's a combination of church and state,
21:58 and it thought to change God's law,
22:01 actually amending the Ten Commandments in its teachings.
22:05 This prophecy points in only one direction.
22:09 Could the prophecy in Daniel 7 possibly point
22:12 to King Charles of the U.K.
22:14 or former President Ronald Reagan?
22:18 No. That's just not possible.
22:22 Daniel 7 unfolds before you as you read.
22:26 Four powerful kingdoms: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome.
22:30 Then Rome divides; it did that in 476 A.D.;
22:34 then the 10 horns, then the little horn, and then judgment,
22:39 meaning Jesus will be returning soon.
22:44 Beyond the rise and fall of nations,
22:45 Daniel 7 tells us that God is in control.
22:48 God sets up kingdoms and takes them down.
22:51 Prophecy is fulfilling, and the Protestants reformers
22:54 were accurate in their interpretation of the prophecies
22:57 of the Bible. Now, uh, one thing.
23:00 Someone is waiting for me to address the idea
23:02 that the little horn is a man named Antiochus Epiphanes,
23:06 a Roman general.
23:07 I'm going to save that for Daniel 8,
23:10 which we'll look at soon.
23:11 And what I'll share about that then will be as clear as clear.
23:17 Now, let's review. What do we see in Daniel 7?
23:19 We've shifted away from the stories and into the prophecies
23:22 of Daniel, pointing to events in earth's last days,
23:25 leading up to the return of Jesus.
23:27 We see a progression,
23:29 the rise and fall of nations, building upon Daniel 2.
23:32 In Daniel 2, the kingdoms are represented by metals:
23:35 gold, silver, brass, and iron.
23:37 In Daniel 7, animals: a lion, a bear, a leopard,
23:42 and something Daniel doesn't really identify
23:44 because there was no animal known to him that could
23:47 adequately express this kingdom's ferocity and power.
23:50 Then, just as in Daniel 2, the kingdom in Daniel 7 divides
23:55 into 10 nations, and in the midst of them rises up
23:59 a small but very powerful nation.
24:03 It would speak great things and make war against the saints.
24:07 But then, judgment would come.
24:10 Jesus will receive His kingdom.
24:12 And speaking of that small kingdom,
24:15 "They shall take away his dominion to consume
24:17 and...destroy it unto the end."
24:20 Now, notice verse 27:
24:22 "And the kingdom and dominion,
24:23 "and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven,
24:26 "shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High,
24:29 "whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
24:32 and all dominions shall serve and obey Him."
24:36 So, it's not all about beasts and horns.
24:38 Daniel is a book of salvation.
24:41 God informs us about how certain things will happen
24:44 in this world. He's alerting us to coming world events
24:47 and the trouble that will accompany them.
24:50 But the net result is that "the kingdom and dominion...
24:53 shall be given to the...saints of the Most High."
24:56 And what did we read?
24:57 His "kingdom is an everlasting kingdom."
25:00 So, Jesus triumphs, as do those who have faith in Him.
25:05 We live in an evil world where the devil is at war
25:08 with the teachings of the Bible.
25:10 But those who trust in Jesus will reign with Him,
25:13 will live with Him forever.
25:15 You can look beyond life in this troubled world
25:18 to a time when Jesus returns, for you,
25:21 and takes you to be with Him for eternity.
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27:10 can be made plain as we read and prayerfully study the Bible.
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27:44 Until then, remember:
27:45 "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone,
27:49 but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'"
27:52 ♪[dramatic, triumphant theme music]♪
28:25 ♪[music ends]♪♪

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