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Slide1
In every age a battle has raged
between the forces of light and darkness!
Eph 6:12
“we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Slide2God has a plan and is looking for partners!
Ex 32:26
“Who is on the LORD'S side?”
Slide3God has a pattern of revealing his plan to his “partners”!
Amos 3:7-8
“Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing,
but he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets.”
“
these things …are written for our admonition,
upon whom the ends of the world are come!”
1 Cor. 10:3
Slide4He found such a man in Daniel!
Daniel 1:17
”
As for these four children,
God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom:
And Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.”
Slide5God revealed His future plans to Daniel,
And inspired him to record them for us!
“
Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed
till the time of the end
.
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried;
but the wicked shall do wickedly:
and none of the wicked shall understand;
but the wise shall understand.”
Dan. 12:10,11
Slide61. The Kings Dream Daniel 2
19 “
Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision.
26
“Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation?
28
“there is a God in heaven that
revealeth
secrets, and
maketh known to the king what shall be in the latter days.
Slide7“
Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed,
are these”
vs 28
A. Gold Head: Babylon
vs 37-38 605 - 539 BC
B. Arms / chest of Silver:
Medo
: Persia vs 39539 – 331 BC
C. Belly/Thigh of Brass:
Greece vs 39
331-168 BC
Legs of Iron: Rome vs 40
168 BC-476 AD
Slide8Vs 35, 45
Daniel 2:34-35
“
a stone was cut out without hands,
Daniel 2:34-35
Slide9Daniel 2:44
“ And in the days of these kings (Represented by the 10 toes)
shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed…
but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms,
and it shall stand for ever.”
Slide102. The Four beasts of Daniel 7
Slide11“I
saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
7:1-3
“
Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed:
And four great beasts came up from the sea,
divers one from another”
2. Daniel’s Dream of the Beasts. Daniel 7
Slide122. Four Beasts of Daniel 7.
A
. Lion: vs 4 Babylon. 605 - 539 BC
“
The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings:
I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man,
and a man's heart was given to it.”
Humbling of King Nebuchadnezzar. Ch. 4
(7 years of Lycanthropy)
Slide132. Four Beasts of Daniel 7.
B. Bear:
Medo
/Persia. 605 - 539 BC
Daniel 7:5
“a second, like to a bear,
and it raised up itself on one side,
1)
Persian Empire eventually dominated.
and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it:
2)
King
Cyrus had already defeated Persia,
Media, and Lydia.
and they said unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.”
Slide14C
. Leopard with wings: vs 6 Greece 331-168 BC
“which had four wings of a fowl”
4) Wings
represent the speed
of Conquest.
Daniel 8:5 described Greece as
:
“an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground:
the goat had
a notable horn
between his eyes.”
21
“the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.”
Slide15Alexander the Great conquered Greece, Persia, Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Gaza, Mesopotamia, Egypt,
and Bactria,
and extended his own empire as far as India
in less than 11 years!
Slide16C. Leopard with wings: Greece 331-168 BC
7:6 “the beast had also four heads”
2) 4 heads Represent division of the empire.
After Alexander’s death in 327 BC His
empire was divided among his 4 generals.
Cassander
(Macedonia, Greece)
Lysimachus (Thrace, Asia, Cappadocia)
Ptolemy (Egypt; Judea, Cyprus)
Seleucus
(Syria; Babylon, Armenia)
Slide177:6
“the beast had also four heads”
This is reaffirmed in the vision in Ch. 8
Dan 8:8
“the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.”
22
“
Now that
(horn)
being broken, four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation,
but not in his power.”
His son was assassinated!
Slide18“
a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces,
and stamped the residue with the feet
of it”
1) The Roman Empire ruthlessly extended it’s power and influence further and longer than any preceding empire.
D. Dreadful Beast. Vs 7
Rome 168 BC – 476 AD)
Slide192) Characteristics of this “beast” would
dominate in the last days. 7:7-9
“
it had ten horns…there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.”
Vs 21
“I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them”
a) A reference to the Antichrist of Rev. 13
Slide20b) Coming of Christ.
Vs 21 “Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.”
Slide21c) Final Judgment. Vs 9
“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit…and the books were opened”
Slide22Dan 7:12-14
“I saw… one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days.
his dominion is an everlasting dominion…
And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people…should serve him:
and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”
d) The Reign of Jesus Christ. 7:12-14
Slide23Slide24God has a Plan! Daniel 4:32
“until thou
know that the most High
rules in the kingdom of men.”
If in the 6
th
Century BC, God revealed the future of World Kingdoms to Daniel with such accuracy,
Can we not believe what Daniel reveals about the end times?
Slide25God has a Plan!
Ez. 21:27
“I will overturn, overturn, overturn, …
until he come whose right it is;
and I will give it him.”
Slide26Amos 3:7-8
“Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth
his secret unto his servants the prophets.
The lion hath roared, who will not fear?
the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Amos 4:12
“Therefore thus will I do unto thee…
and because I will do this…,
prepare to meet thy God!”
Amos 7:8
“I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people”
Slide27“Heaven and earth shall pass away
But my
words shall not pass away”
Mt. 24:35;
Mk. 13:31;
Lk 21:33
“Who is on the Lord’s Side?”
Ex. 32:26
Slide28He found an Esther willing to work with Him.
Esther 4:14 “For if thou altogether
holdest
thy peace at this time,
then shall deliverance arise to the Jews from another place;
but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed:
and who
knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Vs. 16
“I will go in unto the King…
if I perish, I perish!”
Slide29What are you willing to do in order to Partner with God’s Plan?
“
When the Son
of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?”
Luke 18:8