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00:32 This is amazing.
00:34 This is amazing. 00:35 The only downside about this is, 00:38 oh, Pastor Ivor Myers, 00:41 but we are so glad that we can get together 00:43 and continue our study in the Book of Daniel. 00:46 We've gone through some incredible challenges 00:49 in the last few months. 00:51 We know that we left off in Daniel Chapter 7. 00:54 And our viewers are eager for us to finish this book, 00:57 Daniel 8, Daniel 9, Daniel 10, 00:59 Daniel 11, Daniel 12. 01:04 But we've had a lot of hindrances 01:07 and we're living in amazing times. 01:10 Things are happening in the world today 01:11 that are unprecedented, 01:13 and I think that perhaps we could look at it this way, 01:16 the delay in getting the rest of this book finished 01:20 is going to play in God's favor, 01:22 because the prophecies 01:25 that we're going to be talking about 01:26 are going to be even more present truth now 01:30 than they could have been a few months ago. 01:31 We have some amazing insights 01:34 that God is revealing to us 01:36 in these last chapters of Daniel. 01:38 So we're going to look at that, 01:39 we're going to pick up in Daniel Chapter 8 today. 01:42 And we're going to continue through, 01:43 we're going to finish this up, 01:44 we're going to make sure we finish this up 01:47 through Daniel Chapter 12. 01:49 And I'm glad that we're all here, 01:51 so to speak, right? 01:53 That's the good news. 01:55 And that we're going to be able to just ask God to guide us 02:00 and to look at these verses and these chapters 02:03 with the eyes of heaven, in the time in which we live. 02:06 So we're going to begin with a word of prayer. 02:08 Jason, can I ask you to pray for us 02:10 and then I'm going to jump right in to our scripture 02:13 here in Daniel Chapter 8. 02:14 All right, let's pray. 02:16 Dear Heavenly Father, we thank You so much 02:17 for the wonderful opportunity 02:19 that we have to study Your Word. 02:21 And, Lord, we just ask that You would send Your Holy Spirit 02:23 to lead and guide us into all truth. 02:25 Help us to retain what we're studying. 02:27 And please be with the viewers as well. 02:30 And help them to learn a lot from this too. 02:33 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 02:34 Amen. 02:36 All right. Let's just start with verse 1. 02:38 Yvonne, would you be willing to just read us verse 1, 02:41 just the first verse, 02:43 no more than that, just the first verse? 02:45 Sure. 02:46 "In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar 02:50 a vision appeared to me, 02:52 to me, Daniel, 02:54 after the one that appeared to me the first time." 02:56 Okay, so just pausing right there 02:59 so that we can kind of recalibrate. 03:02 We left off in Daniel 7. 03:04 Daniel 7 was a vision that was given to Daniel 03:07 in the first year of Belshazzar. 03:10 Okay, so Daniel 7 was given 03:12 in the first year of Belshazzar, 03:13 now we have Daniel 8 given in the third year. 03:18 Okay, so the first year and the third year 03:20 now, there's something significant about that, 03:22 that we just want to mention here, 03:24 and that is, is that this vision is given to Daniel, 03:29 both visions, 03:30 when Babylon is still a power 03:33 that is in control of the world. 03:35 Belshazzar is the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. 03:39 But in this vision in chapter 8, 03:41 Babylon isn't mentioned. 03:43 We're gonna start with Medo-Persia 03:44 and then go to Greece and then go to Rome. 03:46 But Babylon isn't mentioned. 03:47 So we need to think about this. 03:49 God is actually speaking through Daniel 03:51 so when we read Daniel 8, 03:53 we think, oh, Daniel 8, that's after Daniel's 5, 03:55 that's after Belshazzar, 03:57 you know, had that vision of the hand 04:00 that wrote mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, 04:01 and that's after Babylon fell. 04:03 No, actually it isn't. 04:05 It's after in sequence 04:06 in the book sequence Daniel 8 is after 04:08 but the vision was actually given before, 04:12 which is really interesting 04:13 because it kind of enlightens us 04:15 when we think about Daniel coming into that feast, 04:19 and reading that writing and making that announcement. 04:21 He'd already had this vision 04:23 and this vision had already in Daniel's mind 04:26 sealed Babylon's fate. 04:29 He already knew that 04:30 Babylon wasn't part of the future. 04:31 Does that make sense? Yeah. 04:33 He already knew that. 04:34 It was really clear to him, right? 04:35 So it's really important for us to see that 04:37 sometimes when you read through Danny, 04:39 it's just kind of read through, 04:40 we don't make a connection 04:41 between the actual timing of some of these visions. 04:44 We're gonna see the same thing 04:46 when we get to Daniel Chapter 9, 04:48 no Chapter 10. 04:50 No, Chapter 9, 10, 9. 04:51 Chapter 9, Chapter 11. 04:53 Yes, same thing. 04:55 It's really important for us to make the connections 04:57 as to where they are in the context of experience. 05:02 So, that's the first point you want to look at. 05:05 Now we want to move into the second verse. 05:09 Jason, could you read that for us, 05:11 Daniel 8:2? 05:12 "I saw in the vision, 05:14 and it so happened while I was looking, 05:18 that I was in Shushan, the citadel, 05:21 which is in the province of Elam, 05:23 and I saw in the vision that I was by the River Ulai." 05:28 River Ulai, that's it. Ulai, yeah. 05:30 Keep reading for us. Okay. 05:31 "Then I lifted my eyes and saw, 05:33 and there, standing beside the river, 05:36 was a ram which had two horns, 05:38 and the two horns were high, 05:40 but one was higher than the other, 05:42 and the higher one came up last. 05:44 I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward, 05:49 so that no animal could withstand him, 05:52 nor was there any 05:54 that could deliver from his hand, 05:57 but he did according to his will 05:58 and became great. 06:00 And as I was considering, 06:02 suddenly a male goat came from the west, 06:05 across the surface of the whole earth, 06:07 without touching the ground, 06:09 and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. 06:13 Then he came to the ram that had two horns, 06:15 which I had seen standing beside the river, 06:18 and ran at him with furious power. 06:21 And I saw him confronting the ram, 06:23 he was moved with rage against him, 06:26 attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. 06:29 There was no power in the ram to withstand him, 06:32 but he cast him down to the ground 06:33 and trampled him, 06:35 and there was no one 06:36 that could deliver the ram from his hand. 06:39 Therefore the male goat grew very great, 06:43 but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, 06:46 and in place of it 06:48 four notable ones came up 06:49 toward the four winds of heaven. 06:51 And out of one of them came a little horn 06:54 which grew exceedingly great 06:56 toward the south, toward the east, 06:58 and toward the Glorious Land. 07:00 And it grew up to the host of heaven, 07:03 and it cast down some of the host 07:05 and some of the stars to the ground, 07:07 and trampled them. 07:08 He even exalted himself 07:10 as high as the Prince of the host, 07:12 and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, 07:16 and the place of His sanctuary was cast down. 07:20 Because of transgression, 07:21 an army was given over to the horn 07:23 to oppose the daily sacrifices, 07:26 and he cast truth down to the ground. 07:29 He did all this and prospered. 07:31 Then I heard a holy one speaking, 07:33 and another holy one 07:35 said to that certain one who was speaking, 07:37 'How long will the vision be, 07:39 concerning the daily sacrifices 07:41 and the transgression of desolation, 07:43 the giving of both the sanctuary 07:45 and the host to be trampled underfoot?' 07:48 And he said to me, 07:50 'For two thousand three hundred days, 07:52 then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.'" 07:54 All right. Let's stop right there. 07:56 So this is basically the vision right here 07:59 that Daniel has, 08:01 the vision of Daniel 8. 08:02 What's going to follow now in verses 15, 08:04 all the way through the end of the chapter 08:07 is an understanding of the vision. 08:10 The vision is given and then a man is commanded, 08:13 an angel is commanded, the messenger is commanded 08:15 to give Daniel understanding of the vision 08:17 because it's a difficult one. 08:18 And I really love this because we need help. 08:23 And God is always willing to give us help. 08:26 Daniel was given direct help, 08:29 right after he was shown this vision, 08:31 and we can have the same help from heaven 08:34 whenever we read the Word of God. 08:36 All we have to do is pray and ask the Holy Spirit 08:37 to guide our minds, 08:39 and God will actually bring us understanding. 08:42 And so, Daniel asks for this understanding, 08:44 and immediately there's a response. 08:46 But I want us to go back now 08:48 and just take a look at this vision 08:50 and see what we can glean from it 08:51 before we go into the interpretation. 08:53 First of all, in verse 1, 08:56 "He sent it to me 08:57 or in the third year 08:58 of the reign of King Belshazzar, 09:00 a vision appeared unto me even unto me, Daniel, 09:02 after that which appeared unto me 09:03 in the first now at the first." 09:05 There's two ways you can interpret this phrase 09:07 after that, 09:08 it could be after in time, which is obvious, 09:12 because it's the third year of Belshazzar 09:14 and the other vision was the first year of Belshazzar 09:16 or it could be after in-kind. 09:18 Just like the vision that I saw earlier, 09:22 it was very much like the vision I saw earlier. 09:24 And we know this is going to be the case 09:26 because even though 09:28 the early vision was four beasts 09:30 that were different than the beast in this vision, 09:32 and the one before that 09:33 Nebuchadnezzar had was an image. 09:35 We know that 09:37 this is following the same track 09:38 of repeat and enlarge prophecy, 09:41 because we are actually told in the interpretation. 09:44 And let's just jump there for a second, 09:45 we're actually told who these animals, 09:48 these first two animals represent. 09:50 Jason, read for us, verses 21 09:55 and, or 20 and 21. 09:58 Okay. 10:00 "The ram which you saw, having the two horns, 10:02 they are the kings of Media and Persia. 10:06 And the male goat is the kingdom of Greece. 10:09 The large horn that is between its eyes 10:12 is the first king. 10:13 Okay, so going back now, 10:15 you remember in Daniel Chapter 2 10:17 we had Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. 10:20 In Daniel 7, we had Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. 10:23 Now we have Medo-Persia and Greece. 10:27 So we're following 10:28 the same basic track of history, 10:31 Babylon is gone, 10:32 because as we mentioned earlier, 10:34 Daniel was shown the demise of Babylon, 10:36 which took place in Daniel Chapter 5. 10:39 Medo-Persia 10:40 then is the first kingdom that's mentioned, 10:41 then Greece, and then there's this fourth kingdom 10:44 that's going to follow that isn't described by name, 10:47 but it's described by characteristic. 10:49 And we're going to look at some of those characteristics. 10:51 Because basically in Daniel Chapter 8, 10:54 you have a very little time given to Medo, 10:56 kind of, to get our footing. 10:58 And then Greece, 10:59 you know, gives us more understanding 11:01 where we are. 11:02 And then the rest of the vision is all about that fourth power. 11:05 I mean, the whole thing is, 11:07 is dedicated to that fourth power 11:09 and what he does. 11:11 Something really interesting that we see here, Ivor, 11:14 and I just wanted you to comment on this a little bit. 11:16 In Daniel 7, we had an attack on the law of God. 11:21 In Daniel 8, we have an attack on the sanctuary of God. 11:26 Do you see that in these verses? 11:28 I just think it's significant 11:29 that we're seeing 11:31 a two pronged attack against God 11:33 in Daniel 7 and Daniel 8. 11:36 Yeah, and I will add this here. 11:40 You know, at the end of this chapter, 11:42 we see that Daniel doesn't understand the vision. 11:46 And that's very significant, 11:48 because, remember, in Daniel's mind, 11:54 you have this 70 year prophecy 11:58 that's about to come to completion. 12:01 Right where the children of Israel 12:04 have been in captivity 12:06 and God said, you'll be there 70 years, 12:10 and then I'm going to bring you back. 12:12 Right? Right. 12:13 And you will be restored to your city, 12:15 and there's going to be the temple. 12:17 Well, when Daniel is seeing this vision. 12:21 And remember from Daniel 2, 12:23 he sees four kingdoms, 12:25 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome. 12:28 He knows that these kingdoms 12:29 aren't gonna rise and fall in like, 12:30 you know, five years, ten years, right? 12:33 There's no way four kingdoms are going to do that. 12:35 Here in Daniel 8, 12:37 he's seen these kingdoms of Medo-Persia, 12:41 and then Greece, 12:43 and then something about the sanctuary. 12:47 And you can imagine in his mind, 12:49 the sanctuary being cleansed, like, 12:51 so we're talking about after Greece, 12:54 we're going to be dealing with the sanctuary, like 12:56 he's thinking that 12:58 sanctuary is going to be rebuilt pretty soon. 13:00 Right. Right? 13:01 Because the 70 years will end, yeah. 13:03 Yes, 70 years are ending, right? 13:05 And so you can understand why he's confused, 13:08 because he's like, wait a minute, 13:10 Greece, 13:12 you know, this other kingdom is gonna rise, 13:13 and then this little horn that rises after that, 13:16 and what is going to... 13:19 This must be confusing to him. 13:22 So number one, this is significant, 13:25 because what we're going to see, 13:27 and I'm going to mention this here. 13:31 There is something very specific 13:33 about the prophecies of Daniel, 13:36 if you read all the other prophets 13:39 in the Old Testament, 13:40 Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, all the Minor Prophets, 13:44 Micah, Nahum, Haggai, 13:49 you'll see something very specific 13:51 with these prophets, right? 13:53 What you're gonna see is that 13:54 God was speaking to the prophet, 13:57 to give the people a message, 14:02 going to Israel and say unto them, 14:04 say unto Israel, say unto Israel. 14:07 The Book of Daniel doesn't do that. 14:10 In fact, in the end of the Book of Daniel, 14:12 you see God telling Daniel to seal up the book, 14:16 because it is for the time of the end. 14:19 Yeah, yeah. 14:21 This is a very important distinguishing point, 14:24 because listen, 14:25 a lot of these prophecies 14:27 in the Book of Isaiah and Jeremiah, 14:29 people will take those prophecies 14:30 and apply them to things 14:32 that are to happen in the future, 14:34 when they have already been fulfilled. 14:37 They were speaking to the people of that time. 14:39 The Book of Daniel 14:41 purposely catapults us into events 14:44 that are supposed to happen in the future. 14:48 And this is one of the reasons why Daniel is so confused 14:51 because he's thinking 14:53 sanctuary should be rebuilt sometime soon here. 14:58 You know, he's thinking should be cleansed 15:00 or purified or restored 15:02 sometime soon here, 15:04 but now I'm seeing his vision about a sanctuary, 15:07 the sanctuary being restored or purified or cleansed. 15:11 After sometime, after like these empires, 15:15 he's confused about this. 15:17 Gotcha. 15:18 In fact, he's seen the sanctuary being cast down 15:22 after the Grecian power has come and gone. 15:25 He was like, 15:26 well, the sanctuary isn't even up yet. 15:28 How can it be cast down? Yeah. 15:29 How can it be cast down? 15:30 So sanctuary is cast down right now. 15:32 Right. 15:33 We're in Babylon, sanctuary is destroyed. 15:36 So he's looking at this vision, 15:38 and in his mind, he's thinking of the now. 15:41 Yeah, yep. 15:43 This is crucial to understand. 15:44 He's thinking of the now, 15:46 not realizing that 15:48 God is showing him things to come 15:51 that are beyond his time. 15:55 Right? Really important. 15:57 And this is where, yeah, 15:58 this is where Daniel 9 is going to come in 16:00 and even amplify 16:01 what's happening in Daniel Chapter 8. 16:04 But I'll jump back and share this as well. 16:06 In Daniel 2... 16:10 In Daniel 2, 16:11 we have Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome. 16:17 And this Roman Empire 16:22 divides into 10 kingdoms. 16:25 And these 10 kingdoms has a clay element 16:29 that comes up among them. 16:30 And I think we talked about this 16:32 in one of our last studies 16:33 how the clay is symbolic 16:35 of a professed people of God, right? 16:39 You are the potter, we are the clay. 16:42 Here's an element rising up within the Roman Empire 16:46 that is a religious power 16:48 claiming to have God as its maker. 16:51 And yet it is mingling with the iron. 16:55 It is mingling with the world 16:58 in a way that is not appealing to God, 17:00 that is not pleasing to God. 17:02 And that's why the stone is cut out with our hands 17:04 destroys the image, 17:05 not on the head, not on the chest and arms, 17:07 but on the feet of iron mingled with clay. 17:11 Quick object lesson, 17:14 believers should not mingle with worldiness. 17:18 Right? 17:19 So that's number one. 17:21 When we get to Daniel 7, we see the same thing. 17:25 But now we have the fourth beast, 17:27 this beast with iron teeth, 17:30 paralleling the legs of iron in Daniel 2, 17:32 and it has 10 horns. 17:35 And then a little horn, 17:37 now wants you to notice that in Daniel 2, 17:41 there's only four kingdoms, 17:44 which means the toes of iron and the clay 17:47 are really an extension of the fourth kingdom, 17:50 which is Rome. 17:52 So what God is doing is using one symbol Rome, 17:57 to apply to two different powers. 18:01 Pagan Rome, 18:03 and then this religious power that comes out of Rome. 18:06 It's all the fourth kingdom. 18:07 Right. 18:09 In Daniel 7, 18:10 you have the same thing, 18:12 this little horn 18:13 which parallels the clay of Daniel 2 18:16 that rises among the 10 toes, 18:18 we have the little horn rising among the 10 horns. 18:21 But remember this, 18:22 the little horn is on the head of the fourth beast. 18:27 Right. 18:28 So it's really one power. 18:30 It's part of the fourth. 18:31 It's part of the fourth. Yep. 18:33 Right? 18:34 So when we identify this little horn 18:36 as rising sometime after Rome, 18:38 and I'm going somewhere very important with this. 18:40 This little horn rises sometime after the fall of Rome. 18:44 Right. 18:46 When we get to Daniel 8. 18:50 For a lot of people, 18:51 this little horn appears to come out of Greece. 18:56 It does not come out of Greece. 18:59 It comes after Greece. 19:03 In fact, the Bible says 19:04 in the latter end of their kingdom, 19:06 in other words, 19:07 when the Grecian kingdom is declining, 19:10 is when this little horn is rising. 19:12 Right. 19:13 Right? 19:15 The little horn is now one symbol, 19:20 describing two powers. 19:22 We know that Rome came after Greece. 19:24 But if you look at the description 19:26 of the little horn, 19:27 it matches the description of the little horn in Daniel 7. 19:31 Why do we just go through this whole thing? 19:34 Because it's this little horn 19:36 that rises after the fall of Rome 19:40 that is desecrating the sanctuary, 19:43 which leads us to a very important conclusion. 19:47 Whatever the sanctuary is, that is being desecrated, 19:51 it cannot be the literal temple in Jerusalem 19:56 because that temple was destroyed in 70 AD. 20:03 It was destroyed in the Roman Empire. 20:07 So if the little horn rises after Rome, 20:10 whatever sanctuary it is attacking, 20:13 must be something that is not yet known 20:17 or understood to the children of Israel. 20:20 Okay, good point. 20:22 Really good point, Okay, let's get back into our texts, 20:25 just so that we can kind of summarize 20:27 a little bit of what you're saying here. 20:28 I want to get back into our text. 20:31 We're starting with verse 3, 20:32 where we have ram 20:34 that is pictured here with two horns 20:38 and the two horns were high, 20:39 but one was higher than the other, 20:41 and the higher came up last. 20:42 Do you remember this? 20:43 Now as we correlate this with the bear, 20:46 the bear was higher on one side, 20:48 the Medes and Persians were connected 20:51 and the Persians came up after the Medes 20:55 and became stronger than the Medes, 20:57 but they were one power, they're connected together. 20:59 That's been depicted here in this verse, 21:01 just like it was depicted in the verse in Daniel 7. 21:04 And what's happening in Daniel 7, 21:06 as Ivor's bringing out in Daniel 8, 21:08 as Ivor's bringing out is, 21:09 as we move through history, 21:12 there's more information, there's more details. 21:14 And that's what, 21:16 what's taking place in Daniel Chapter 8, 21:17 we're getting more details here that are going to help us 21:19 but it's really important, 21:22 as you pointed out, Ivor, 21:23 that we don't forget the past details, 21:25 because the new details add to those past details, 21:29 and give us more understanding of the prophecy. 21:31 So we know for example, as Ivor said that 21:34 the little horn is part of the Roman power, 21:37 and so that 21:39 that power that desecrates the sanctuary 21:41 that takes place after Rome falls there at camp, 21:43 therefore, it can't be 21:45 the literal sanctuary in Jerusalem, 21:46 which was destroyed in AD 70. 21:48 Okay, we also in the context of they see, 21:52 in verse 4, 21:54 the ram pushing in all these different directions. 21:57 He's pushing westward and northward 21:59 and southward, okay? 22:01 So that indicates the direction he's coming from. 22:05 Okay, he's pushing northward and westward and southward. 22:08 So what direction was left out? 22:11 East, so he's coming from the east, right? 22:13 Medo-Persians came from the east. 22:15 Now, if you go down here a little further, 22:17 as he's considering the horn, another horn comes up. 22:21 It says, 22:22 "I was considering, behold, a goat came, 22:24 excuse me, not little horn, a goat came up. 22:26 And that wasn't a horn that was a ram. 22:28 So you got a ram and a goat. 22:29 Verse 5, "The goat came from the west." 22:32 So this is a power from the west, 22:33 the other powers are power from the east, 22:35 these directions are really important. 22:37 As you go down a little further, 22:40 he destroys Medo- Persia, 22:41 this is, of course, Greece 22:44 and Alexander the Great, 22:46 the notable horn is Alexander the Great. 22:48 And then it says in verse 8, 22:50 "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: 22:52 and when he was strong, the great horn was broken." 22:54 Alexander conquered the world in a very short time, 22:57 and then he died. 22:59 And as he died, 23:00 his, his complete territory 23:04 was divided eventually into four parts 23:07 and those four parts are depicted here, it says, 23:09 "And when he was strong, the great horn is broken 23:11 and for it came up four notable ones 23:13 toward the four winds of heaven." 23:15 So you got four notable ones for the four winds of heaven, 23:19 north, south, east and west, 23:20 and out of one of them, 23:22 out of those four directions, 23:24 because remember, we've been talking about 23:25 directions all the way through here. 23:27 We've been talking about the east, 23:28 we've been talking about the south, 23:29 we've talking about the west, 23:31 we've been talking about the north, 23:32 coming from the west, coming from the east. 23:33 So keep it consistent out of one of them, 23:35 that is one of those four winds, 23:36 one of those directions, 23:38 came forth a little horn, 23:40 which waxed exceedingly great toward the south, 23:43 toward the east, 23:45 and toward the pleasant land, 23:46 which is the west. 23:48 So what direction is he coming from 23:50 if he's going toward the south, the east and the west? 23:51 North. He's coming from the north. 23:53 So this is the first time in Scripture 23:55 that we have an identification of the king of the north. 23:59 Yes. 24:01 The king of the north 24:02 is first identified in Daniel 8, 24:03 that will help us when we get to Daniel 11, 24:05 because in Daniel 11, 24:07 all this directional activity 24:09 and all of this directional identification 24:11 is going to be amplified. 24:14 And Daniel 11 24:15 is king of the north, king of the south, 24:16 king of the north, kind of the south, 24:18 king of the north, king of the south, 24:19 and people get lost in there. 24:21 But if you start right here, 24:22 you're going to identify the king of the north as Rome. 24:25 Rome is the first time 24:27 that we see the king of the north 24:29 identified in it's in Daniel 8, 24:31 because he's coming to the south, 24:32 he's going to the east, 24:34 he's going to the pleasant land, 24:35 which is west, so the only direction 24:37 he's coming from is the north. 24:38 And Alexander's kingdom was, 24:42 as it says here in verse 8, 24:46 it was spread out toward the four winds of heaven 24:52 or the four corners of the earth, 24:54 the four directions of heaven. 24:55 So now we look at Rome in its first stages 25:00 and the very first stage that we have 25:02 is this pushing toward these different directions. 25:04 Rome continues to conquer the world, 25:06 including Palestine, including God's glorious land, 25:10 the pleasant land it's called here in verse 9. 25:13 "So Rome lands in Israel, in Judah." 25:19 And then it says in verse 10, 25:21 "It waxed great even to the host of heaven. 25:25 And it cast some of the host of the stars to the ground 25:27 and stamped upon them." 25:29 Now what direction is this power going in? 25:35 Don't answer at once, Pastor Myers. 25:39 Now this power is going up, okay? 25:42 Now this power is going up, right? 25:46 At first he was horizontal, but now he's going vertical. 25:49 And it's, you know, we're thinking, well, 25:51 is against heaven really? 25:52 Yes, he's going against heaven. 25:55 So now this is where we would see a transition 25:57 from pagan Rome, to papal Rome. 26:01 This is where that transition takes place. 26:02 We've seen that transition in Daniel Chapter 7, right? 26:05 We've seen that transition a little bit in Daniel 2, 26:07 with the clay and the iron, 26:10 but now it's going to be emphasized even more, 26:12 amplified if you will. 26:14 He's going toward heaven. 26:15 He's casting some of the hosts and the stars to the ground, 26:18 he stampede upon them, that's persecution. 26:20 Verse 11, 26:21 "He's magnifying himself to the prince of the host 26:25 taking the daily away, 26:27 and casting down the place of his sanctuary." 26:30 Now, that can't be the sanctuary in Jerusalem 26:32 as we've noted, 26:33 because this is after the transition 26:35 from pagan Rome to papal Rome. 26:37 The sanctuary that he's casting down, 26:39 at least in intent and purpose is God's heavenly sanctuary. 26:44 A host is given him against the daily. 26:47 We're going to identify what that is 26:49 in our next session by reason of transgression, 26:51 and it cast the truth to the ground 26:53 and it practiced and prospered. 26:55 So this is identifying the power of papal Rome, 27:00 as it transitions from pagan Rome. 27:03 In verses 9 and 10, 27:06 you've got that transition taking place there 27:07 and then you've got a specific attack 27:09 against the heavenly sanctuary, the heavenly host, 27:12 the prince of the host and the daily whatever that is. 27:15 And all of this is taking place 27:18 in the context of Daniel Chapter 8. 27:22 These are the... These verses are identifying for us 27:25 in symbolic language, 27:26 the attack against the sanctuary in heaven, 27:28 Daniel Chapter 8. 27:29 So we're running out of time right now. 27:30 We're gonna come back, we've really got to dissect. 27:32 We jumped ahead a little bit, we're going to go back 27:34 and we're going to go through these verses 27:36 point by point, symbol by symbol 27:38 and really identify, 27:39 really dissect and identify what's taking place here. 27:42 That sound good? Sounds great. 27:44 It's great. We're all out of time. 27:45 You know, time flies. 27:47 It does, it really does. 27:48 The time just flies by. Yeah. 27:49 So anyway, we're really thankful 27:51 that you could join us. 27:52 We're looking forward to continue 27:53 in Daniel Chapter 8. 27:55 So don't go away. We will be back soon. |
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