Gabriel begins the explanation of the vision to Daniel (Daniel 8:14-19)

Let's open in prayer Father your word is truth, and it is from your word that we learn of the

Lord Jesus Christ So this morning as we look into the Old Testament book of Daniel. We know that he is there

He said so himself and therefore it is true Let us always rely on your word on your word first on your word always

Look to secondary sources as we need but father your word is truth And so this morning as we look at the book of Daniel again in chapter 8

Bring it to our minds illuminate us help us to be those kinds of followers of the Lord Jesus Christ About which it was said they really loved one another and we'll thank you for that in Jesus name

Amen so as We travel through the book of Daniel it neat we need to keep

Before our minds something that I believe is very important and that is that through the millennia there have been and there always will be people who want to disprove the

Bible and There's only really a couple of reasons to disprove the Bible and it's because of the implications of what

Scripture says if Jesus is Lord the implications are massive and If the scripture is about him

Then that is where those implications emanate from and so because of that throughout the millennia people will always look for ways

To point out that the scripture isn't true and in the book of Daniel there are numerous attempts to do that we talked early on about the attempt to make it

Appear that Daniel was a false prophecy or was a history rather than the prophecy it claims to be because a certain

King didn't didn't appear in history and then oh whoops he appeared in history and And so it is it is the contention of serious biblical scholars and always has been because of what scripture says that the scripture is true and History will come alongside that eventually and if it hasn't it's because we haven't dug deep enough and it's really that simple and so this morning is we're going to be looking at a section that has

Not terrible contention, but five billion different ideas about what it means

And I know my wife has told me a trillion times not to exaggerate but It will be incumbent upon us to remember first and foremost that the scripture is true what what what it says in Daniel chapter 8 is truth and as we try to organize our thoughts about the dates involved from the

Beginning of the destruction of Jewish worship in this time period in the 160s

To the end of that destruction is a three -year approximately three -year ten -day period and over the decades and centuries

Scholars have tried to fit that time period with different interpretations now There's some there's some spurious interpretations and and I've ignored those but I've I've tried to give credence to the better ones and I personally believe that we're talking about 2300 evenings and mornings

Which is eleven hundred and fifty days there's the morning sacrifice and the evening sacrifice and I'm going to go through the the

Context and the explanation, but I just want to get this out at the beginning So you'll have something to hang your your

Daniel hat on as we go through it. I Believe there's ample evidence to support that but what

I believe first is the Daniel chapter 8 is true and That if I don't make the case for the eleven hundred and fifty

Morning sacrifices and the eleven hundred and fifty evening sacrifices actually in reverse order because you remember in the book of Genesis It says in the evening in the morning with the first day

And that is kind of our template is to where that concept came from in the Hebrew mind and in our minds

If I don't make the case It is important to me that you all remember that the scripture is true and Cornell was just number in a post.

Okay? Because I've been there before But I will do my best to show you why

I think it's it's eleven hundred and fifty evening sacrifices and eleven hundred and fifty morning Sacrifices and it comfortably fits within that three year period where the

Jews lost their ability to Sacrifice in the temple and then restored it when the Maccabees overthrew the

Seleucids So with that as a long Blowhard introduction, let's read

Daniel chapter 8 verses 1 Through 20 Daniel chapter 8 verses 1 through 20 in the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king a vision appeared to me

Daniel subsequent to the one which appeared to me previously and I looked in the vision and it came About while I was looking that I was in the citadel of Susa Which is in the province of Elam and I looked in the vision and I myself was beside the

Uli Canal Then I lifted my gaze and looked and behold a ram which had two horns was standing in front of the canal

Now the two horns were long but one was longer than the other with the longer one coming up last

I saw a ram budding westward northward and southward and no other beast could stand before him

Nor was there anyone to rescue them rescue from his power, but he did as he pleased to magnify himself

While I was observing Behold a male goat was coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground and the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes

And he came up to the ram that had the two horns which I had seen standing in front of the canal and rushed at Him in his mighty wrath

And I saw him come beside the ram and he was enraged at him and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns and the

Ram had no strength to withstand him So he hurled him to the ground and trampled on him and there was none to rescue the ram from his power

Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly But as soon as he was mighty the large horn was broken and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds

Of heaven and out of one of them came forth a rather small horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south toward the east and toward the beautiful land and It grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth and it

Trampled them down it even magnified itself to be equal with the commander of the host and it removed the regular sacrifice from him

And the place of his sanctuary was thrown down and on account of transgression The host will be given over to the horn along with the regular sacrifice and it will fling truth to the ground and perform its will

And prosper then I heard a holy one speaking and another holy one said to that particular one who was speaking

How long will the vision about the regular sacrifice apply? while the transgression causes horror so as to allow both the holy place and the host to be trampled and he said to me for 2300 evenings and mornings

Then the holy place will be properly restored and it came about when I Daniel had seen the vision that I sought to understand it and behold standing before me was one who looked like a man and I heard the voice of a man between the banks of you lie and called out and said

I Heard the voice of a man between the banks of the you of you lie and he called out and said

Gabriel give this man an understanding of the vision So he came nearer to where I was standing and when he came

I was frightened and fell on my face But he said to me son of man understand that the vision pertains to the time of the end now while he was talking with me

I sank into a deep sleep with My face to the ground and he touched me, but he touched me and made me stand up right and he said behold

I'm going to let you know what will occur at the final period of the indignation for it pertains to the appointed time of the

End the ram which you saw with the two horns represented the kings of media and Persia And we'll end there because we won't make it past.

I don't believe we'll make it past verse 19 this morning so last week

We get this magic out here last week

We finished up kind of in the middle So I'm going to back up a bit and Talk about the fact that scribes are such scholars scribes

Yeah, those two scholars over the centuries have ascribed this 2 ,300 days that we're looking at in verse

Yeah It's only in verse 14 I was thinking of another thing, but yeah in verse 14 they have looked at that as 2 ,300 years 2 ,300 days and Some have ascribed it to be 2 ,300 evenings and mornings now

For the most part that is the standard understanding of that verse The entire chapter deals with a vision we talked about that is based on earth and not in the heavenlies

Note all so that the word the word in verses 11 12 and 13 for regular sacrifice is the word tamid t -a -m -i -y -d and Is actually just the word regular the word sacrifice is added in English translations

Because it would be confusing to an English reader if just the word regular was printed there to the

Jewish reader However, the word regular would be well understood as meaning the daily burnt offering that was given in the morning and in the evening or in the evening and in the morning is is how the order would have been in the

Jewish mind and So one man looked at this particular word and this grouping here and here here's the here's his

Analysis of it He said my own exegetical examination of the term tamid was partly motivated to see if it was really necessary to connect the showbread and candlestick with the regular

Essentially to discern if the regular meant the entire setup of the holy place in the temple including the furnishings

Or if it was restricted to the whole burnt offering that was Replenished on the altar twice a day

He says what caught my attention was that in Daniel 8 11 and 12 the reason the Hebrew term for burnt offering

Ola was not included In those passages was because for the Jews it was redundant in those particular instances the article of the is added to tamid making what is elsewhere an adverb meaning continual into a noun with a particular idiomatic meaning

That noun form of the word ha tamid Designates a particular thing that is continual the never -ceasing whole burnt offering in the altar at the on the altar

Dedicated entirely to God to honor him with nothing eaten by the priests The word sacrifice is added in English translations of those passages only because writing the regular or the continual would be confusing for us

Though not for the original Jewish readers Actually, it would have been better for the supplied word to have been Offering because the whole burnt offering was purely for the honor and pleasure of God not in expiation for sins

Which is in Exodus 29 38 through 42 this ties in with what verse 8 11 says the rather small horn

Removed the regular from him. He removed it from him from God The Jews lost it.

They lost the ability to sacrifice, but it was it was Antiochus's Attempt to remove something that would return but that would continually focus the

Jews on Yahweh. He wanted to be God and men make really bad gods and He wanted to remove from their for the foremost of their their vision the regular sacrifice

Which was for God this sacrifice was for God It was for God's pleasure that got taken away not an expiatory sacrifice expiatory sacrifice for human sins a standard reference work the theological word book of the

Old Testament says this This word is most frequently used in an in an adjectival

Genitive construction with Ola for the continual whole burnt offering made to God every morning and evening that lists a whole raft of scriptures

Every morning and the continual sacrifice the word is used alone Not modifying another to designate the daily burnt offering in Daniel 8

Numbers 4 7 refers to the bread of continuity meaning the bread that was always there So this is a specific word and it refers to that daily burnt offering that was offered by the

Jews by the Hebrews For God this was for God. This was to praise to honor to bless him so it is likely then and context and translation can support this that the 2300 evenings and mornings and notice that the translation is 2300 evening mornings the word and is supplied it's a it's a it's a common statement in Hebrew in ancient

Jewish custom But for us the article gives us gives us context and meaning because it was an evening and a morning sacrifice so It this refers to the twice daily sacrifice, which was a continual sacrifice.

It was supposed to never go out Many attempts have been made to reconcile this portion of Daniel with the record in first Maccabees, which is not inspired

Maccabees is not inspired, but it's a good solid history However, it is

I said reliable history there is one attempt by an earlier content commentator to postulate that the

Jews were using a 360 day year calendar the that calendar that Herodotus had come up with as Formulated by a actually he didn't come up with it

He used it a fifth century Greek astronomer named Meton came up with this the Meton calendar

This has been proven to not be a tenable explanation Because the Jews would not have used such an outdated calendar which would have been outdated by this time

At the time of the Maccabean Revolt, they most certainly would have used the Seleucid calendar So with this as a basis for understanding the connection between the eleven hundred and fifty days and the description in Maccabees We can see that the regular sacrifice must have been disrupted before the actual abomination of desolation

This would account for the extra time needed to reconcile the eleven hundred and fifty days of twice daily sacrifices in Daniel 8

Within the three years and ten days between the desecration of the temple in 1st Maccabees 54 154 and its restoration 452 so looking at the text of 1st

Maccabees we find this 1 Maccabees 7 10 7 3 1 Maccabees 1 7 through 10

Not used to that and After Alexander had reigned 12 years he died then his officers began to rule each in his own place they all put on crowns after his death and so did their sons after them for many years they caused many evils on the earth and From them came forth a sinful root

Antiochus Epiphanes Son of Antiochus the king he had been a hostage in Rome the king had been a hostage in Rome He began to reign in the 137th year of the kingdom of the

Greeks So after the death of Alexander four kings took his place who were then succeeded

Succeeded by various rulers one of these later was Antiochus Epiphanes first Maccabees 120 and 21 after subduing

Egypt Antiochus returned to the 100 and returned in the 143rd year he went up against Israel and came to Jerusalem with a strong force

He arrogantly entered the sanctuary and took the golden altar and the lampstand for the light and all of its utensils

So the Seleucid era began around in the spring of 11 311 BC as The Jews reckoned it the

Greeks began their se dates Seleucid era dates Six months earlier in the fall of 312

BC over a century after Herodotus death the Jews used that calendar during the Maccabean period

We get the date for Antiochus abomination of desolation from one Maccabees 154 through 59 54 and 59 then

One Maccabees 129 through 38 and 20 and I've got a wrong number there.

Oh chapter 29. No, I'll find out when I get here Have you ever copied and pasted the wrong thing it's one of my superpowers

Yeah Two years later the king sent to the cities of Judah a chief collector of tribute and he came to Jerusalem with a large force

Deceitfully he spoke peaceable words to them and they believed him but he suddenly does that ever happen in our day

Boy Deceitfully he spoke peaceable words to them and they believed him But he suddenly fell upon the city dealt it a severe blow and destroyed many people of Israel He plundered the city burned it with fire and tore down its houses and its surrounding walls

And they took captive the women and children and seized the cattle Then they fortified the city of David with a great strong wall and strong towers

And it became their citadel and they stationed there a sinful people lawless men these strengthened their position

They stored up arms and food collecting the spoils of Jerusalem. They stored them there and Became a great snare it became a great snare

It became an ambush against the sanctuary an evil adversary of Israel continually on every side of the sanctuary

They shed innocent blood. They even defiled the sanctuary Because of them the residents of Jerusalem fled.

She became a dwell a dwelling of stranger She became a strength. She became strange to her offspring and her children forsook her so then two years passed after which we learned a chief collector of tribute a chief collector of tribute

Arrives in Jerusalem with a large force That would be 145

SE Seleucid area era He wreaked havoc around the temple posting troops in the city and defiling the sanctuary.

This would necessarily Have caused the regular to cease since Since offerings could never be given if the holy place was defiled by the entry of unclean

Gentiles The result was that her sanctuary became desolate as the

Maccabees posit at that time and the people for sick At that time and the people forsook worshipping there.

This is when we should understand the hot tummy offered Offerings were interrupted. However, the exact date this began as far as I can tell is nowhere given in the histories

So we know it's we know that the the regular sacrifices ceased earlier than the abomination of desolation

But we don't have an exact date and that's okay Daniel 8 is still true.

I don't know what the 29 meant. I'll find out and get back to you next week First Maccabees 141 through 59.

Oh I do know what it meant Some of you do already don't you it's the first verse in that group?

Yeah, well, I've never been the sharpest knife in the drawer Okay, then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people and that each should give up his customs

Just go along with the crowd That would never happen today I'm sure glad all the

Gentiles accepted the command of the king many even from Israel gladly Adopted his religion there are one of the princes one of the

Priests at the time took a Hellenistic name Jason and he actually introduced Greek wrestling outside the temple in The period of the

Maccabees now the the foremost thing to remember about that is the Greeks wrestled naked

This was part of the abomination that was going on. It was horrifying and to traditional

Devout Jews this was nothing short of an insurrection that would have to restore this it was awful

Unbelievable, okay back to where I was Many even from Israel gladly adopted his religion

They sacrificed two idols and profaned the Sabbath and the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem in the cities of Judah He directed them to follow customs strange to the land to forbid burn offerings and sacrifices and drink offerings in the sanctuary to profane

Sabbaths and feasts to defile the sanctuary and the priests to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols to sacrifice swine and Unclean animals and to leave their sons uncircumcised they were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane

So that they would forget the law and change all the ordinances Marvelous I mean

Seriously sinisterly marvelous and forget all the origin change all the ordinances and whoever does not obey the command of the king shall die

In such words he wrote to his whole kingdom, and he had appointed inspectors over all the people

I think it was 87 ,000 inspectors over all the people and commanded the chiefs of Judah to offer sacrifice city -by -city

Many of the you know if people listen to this later on without the historical context they're gonna wonder what that means

But you know don't you and that's why we had to have the word sacrifice added So change all the ordinances, okay?

Many of the people everyone who forsook the law joined them and they are they did evil in the land they drove Israel into hiding

In every place of refuge they had now on the 15th day of Chislev in the 145th year they erected a desolating sacrifice sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering

They also built altars in the surrounding cities of Judah and burned incense at the doors of houses and in the streets

The books of the law which they had found they tore to pieces and burned with fire Where the book of the

Covenant was found in possession of anyone or if anyone adhered to the law the decree of the king Condemned him to death

They kept using violence against Israel against those found month after month in the cities and on the 25th day of the month

They offered sacrifice on the altar which was on the alt which was upon the altar of burnt offering So the commentator who worked out of this out

Has come to some of these interesting collusions and as I studied I came to this basically the same conclusion

So shortly after the official letters arrived Which decreed that burnt offerings were to cease and altars replaced by pagan altars on which unclean animals were to be sacrificed

Inspectors were appointed to ensure compliance with Antiochus dictat The result was that they sacred they erected a desolating sacrifice upon the altar of burnt offering the regular hot tommy

However had already been stopped earlier by a chief collector of tribute so we have the cessation of the regular sometime prior to the desecration of the altar a

Desecration triggered by erecting a pagan altar upon it, which was first used ten days after it was set up three five three

So three three hundred and fifty four day years and one or two thirty day intermediary or intercalary months

After this the Maccabees were victorious over the Seleucid forces and rebuilt the altar Rededicated and resumed the regular once again this fulfilled the prophecy of Daniel 8 14

So as discussed earlier the Jewish use of the Metonic cycle indicates that less than 2300 evening mornings were missed between the desolation and restoration of the altar perhaps 2264 or 2204 either way the remaining missed regular burnt offerings of the 2300 fell between the desecrating of the

Sanctuary by a chief collector of tribute and the erection of the abomination of desolation on the altar by a later inspector

Precision may elude us in the historical data yet all of the data of both history and scripture

Smoothly reconciled with each other and that is what is matters here so the the the adoption of a new calendar the

Seleucid calendar that's going to complicate things and Then us looking back thousands of years later at this mishmash of calendar years

So it wasn't until not not too long ago that scientists were able to come up with a much better way of Reconciling the missing day when you have a 360 day year a 355 day year is 354 day year ours is a 365 day year with one day added every four years and That doesn't quite do it.

I don't remember what the second edition is but every so many years They have to add another one to somebody in here I mean, it's not important, but I'm a nerd and I would like to know what that is.

I suppose I could look it up At any rate the point is the Sun our revolution around the

Sun is like 365 .24 or whatever and there's no such thing as a .24

day I mean God could have done that if he wanted to but he chose not to so the Reconciliation of these dates is what has eluded people all these years

I believe this is a pretty good analysis of the situation and sets up an understanding that the the three years and ten days give or take or occurred between the initial removal of the regular which was before the abomination of desolation and then the restoration of the kingdom by the

Maccabees in their revolt against the Seleucids and So Daniel 814 is true no matter what but this at least in my mind gives a reasonable

Explanation of the dates involved now if anybody wants that in writing so that you can understand what the 29 was

I'll be glad to give it to you. Just let me know any questions about 814 and And why it's important is to just remember that scripture is true

And if we put our minds to it We can figure out how history aligns with it or If the guy hasn't showed up yet like Belsh's are we just got to wait until he's discovered, but scripture is true

So to repeat the 2300 evening mornings refer to an 1150 day time period which fits very neatly inside The history given to us in one

Maccabees and to repeat again one Maccabees is not our our anchor Daniel is our anchor

Maccabees is a Good history that gives us some time periods to look into and file these dates into and see how they work out

So then in verse 15 Daniel says when I Daniel had seen the vision

I sought to understand it and behold standing before me was one who looked like a man So this is the first instance of an angel being named in Scripture It's important to note that Daniel says that the person standing before him looked like a man

He was seeking deeper understanding of this vision the implication of this verse is that the angel appeared suddenly of course

The Lord could anticipate that Daniel was going to be asking questions And so he made available one who could explain even before Daniel asked this is the same angel

That announced John the Baptist birth to Zacharias and to Jesus and Jesus birth to Mary in Luke chapter 1 19 and 26

Verse 16 and I heard the voice of a man Between the banks of Uli and he called out and said

Gabriel give this man an understanding of the vision So the origin of the voice is not named.

We don't know who the voice was that called out some think it was the angel Michael Calvin believes it was the

Lord Jesus Christ the word for man in verse 15 comes from the Hebrew Geber which refers to a man or a warrior and Sounds like the beginning of Gabriel's name to this word is added the word

L Which is the word for God forming the name man of God or warrior of God Gabrielle?

Gabriel the only other entry angel mentioned in the scriptures is the angel Michael in Jude 9 and in Revelation 12 7 in Contrast angels are mentioned multitudes of times in non scriptural apocrypha

Supposedly the names of the Archangels if you want are a Michael Gabriel Raphael Jeremiah Uriel Raguel Remy L.

Zerich heel Salafi L Jele do L Barra keel

Sarah quell fan UL and don't eat the salad So but those are all in extra scriptural apocrypha and therefore

We can look at them and say oh wow cool names, but the only two that are named in the scriptures are

Gabriel and Michael Scriptural is careful in only naming those who had specific responsibilities in any event

Gabriel was instructed to give Daniel an understanding of the vision now I notice here that he doesn't say a full understanding, but an an understanding of the vision

Daniel 8 17 so he came to where I was standing and when he came I was frightened and I fell on my face and but he said to me son of man

Understand that the vision pertains to the time of the end So apparently when the angel approached

When the angel approached it was terrifying because remember Daniel was the man who's now remember this

Daniel was the man who stood up to Nebuchadnezzar even though it meant death He was the man who had friends like Shadrach Meshach and Abednego Abednego Abednego Abednego I was doing the

Archangels again So maybe he was an archangel hey, we could start our own church. Give me a break

This was a man who was who was used to being put in places where he had to make a decision to do the right thing and He was terrified apparently we thought by nothing, but when this angel came to him.

He said it said that It was terrifying he was I was I was frightened and I fell on my face now

The first thing Gabriel declares is that this vision pertains to the time of the end So it has end times implications as verse 19 indicates it has something to do and as verse 19 and it implicates it

It has something to do with something called the indignation Here Daniel prostrated himself out of fear

This is a very is this is very similar to what John did when the angel appeared to him in Revelation 19910 the angel came to John then he said to me right

Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb and he said to me These are the true words of God then

I fell at his feet to worship him But he said to me don't do that do not do that I am a fellow servant of yours and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus worship

God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy so angels a true angel is not going to want to be worshipped a true messenger of God whether it's an angel or a

Human will direct all worship to the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit always keep that in mind

Now verse 18 while he was talking with me I sank into a deep sleep with my face to the ground and he touched me and made me stand upright

So it's unlikely. I mean I could you picture this You're you're in the face of the angel

Gabriel, and he's gonna dictate to you the end times I don't think that's what happened

It is unlikely that this is indicating that Daniel went to sleep he would hardly do so in an exciting time like this

It's much more likely that he fainted and this is a nice way of putting it The Hebrew word for deep sleep referred to refers to being stunned or stupefied

And this is understandable since he was in the presence of an incredible mighty angel Eventually Gabriel touched him and woke him up and helped him to stand upright

Come back to come back to awake Daniel. I have I have an explanation for you verse 19

He said then he said behold I'm going to let you know what will occur at the final period of the indignation for it pertains to the appointed time of the

End what is the indignation? Daniel here refers to something called the indignation

This is a general reference to the fact that God at various times through Israel's hit at various times throughout

Israel's history Was greatly angered at their behavior and had to chastise them He used many agencies throughout history including the

Gentile nations There will be a final period of indignation just before the second coming of Christ but some of the applications of God's and of God's indignation included number one conquest and subjugation by a

Syrians approximately 740 BC Isaiah 10 5 woe to Assyria the rod of my anger and the staff in whose hands is my indignation and then

Isaiah 10 3 25 for in a very little while my indignation will be spent and my indignation my anger will be directed to their

Destruction so he would use Gentile nations And then he would he would come to Israel's rescue once they had come around as it were number two conquest and captivity by Babylon 597

BC Daniel or lamentation 2 6 and he has Violently treated his tabernacle like a garden booth he has destroyed his appointed meeting place the

Lord has caused to be forgotten the appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion and he has despised king and priest in the indignation of his anger

So that's Jeremiah and his lamentations recording what God did in in the

Babylonian captivity and then in Zechariah 1 12 Then the angel of the Lord said O Lord of hosts

How long will you have no compassion for Jerusalem in the cities of Judah which you have been with which you have been indignant these?

70 years and then last it will continue through the time of the tribulation in the

Antichrist Daniel 11 36 Then the king will do as he pleases and he will exalt and magnify himself above every

God and will speak monstrous things against the God of gods And he will prosper and the until the indignation is finished for that which is decreed will be done

So the indignation began approximately 737 40 BC and will continue until the second coming of Christ It parallels the times of the

Gentiles the fact that there is a former portion of the indignation Indicates that there's a former and a latter

So this former again is that which began with the captivity of Assyria? The latter stretches from the end of the

Babylonian captivity until the second coming of Christ one commentator put it this way He said it could be said that the indignation is the title of God's program for Israel and the times of the

Gentiles Is the title of God's program for the Gentiles based during the same basic period of history?

So Daniel received this vision during the former portion of the indignation But through Daniel God predicted the

Medo -Persian ascendancy and the Grecian conquest and then later the Roman conquest But including the horrible things that Antiochus Epiphanes did to the

Jewish nation So God in the former portion of the indignation predicts what is to come in the second the latter part of the indignation

So now regarding the fulfillment of this there are four main views that have emerged over the centuries regarding this section of Scripture number one is

The historical view and the historical view is that all of Daniel has been fulfilled.

This is largely supported by liberals and some Amillennials it is generally the liberal view that the little horn of Daniel 7 is the same as the small horn of Daniel 8 conservative scholarship rightly disputes this conservative amillenarians also dispute this they separate the two

So this conflating of the two horns results in the view that the time of the end refers only to the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes and the few short months just before his death

Other references to the time of the end in Daniel in Daniel clearly referred to the end of the Gentile domination

Which would be the end times? So that's the first view the historical view than that is that all of Daniel 8 has been fulfilled

The second view and which is held by very few people is the futuristic view the view that the that it is entirely future

This view is taken by some who also conflate the horn of 7 and the horn of 8 as being the same They posit a future

Roman Empire fulfillment The problem here is that there are significant differences between the two horns in Daniel 7 and Daniel 8 they arise from different beasts their horns are different in number in the end result is different if the horn and if the horn in the fourth kingdom of Daniel 7 is

Rome in the third kingdom represented by the goat in Chapter 8 certainly not Rome The Messianic Kingdom according to Daniel 7 was going to be erected after the final world

Empire This is not true of the period following the goat in chapter 8 the rule that similarities do not prove identity

Applies here. There are many factors that contrast the two chapters and their contents so this is one of the it's a it's a it's an idea, but it's the least accepted one number three and This is a fairly logical one the view based upon I shouldn't say fairly.

It's it's it's logical I can see how people would would gather this particular view would come to this particular view

It is based on the principle of dual fulfillment of prophecy that Daniel 8 is intentionally a prophetic reference

Both to Antiochus Epiphanes now fulfilled and to the end of the age and the final world ruler who persecutes

Israel before the second advent This is the idea That past fulfilled prophecy foreshadows a future event that will completely fulfill the passage and this view is very well

Defended by Pentecost J. Dwight Pentecost. Here's what he said He said the keys to understanding chapters 7 through 12 of Daniel's prophecy is to understand

Daniel is focusing his attention on This one great ruler and his kingdom which will arise in the end time and while Daniel may use historical reference and refer to events

Which to us have been fulfilled Daniel is thinking of them only to give us more details about this final form of Gentile world power and its ruler who will reign on the earth in Daniel chapter 8 we have another reference to this one

Daniel describes a king who is going to conquer the Medo -Persian Empire This is a historical event that took place several centuries after Daniel lived

There is there was an individual that came out of the Grecian Empire who was a great enemy of the nation Israel We know him as Antiochus Epiphanes Antiochus Epiphanes was a ruler who sought to show his contempt for Palestine the

Jews and the Jewish religion by By going to the temple in Jerusalem with a sow which he slaughtered and putting its blood upon the altar

This man was known as the one who desolated or the desolator, but this passage in Daniel 8 is

Speaking not only of Antiochus in his desolation and his desecration of the temple it is looking forward to the great desolator who would come the one who was called the little horn in Daniel 7 and And in Daniel 8 23 we read of this one in his ministry so that's

Pentecost defense of this idea that the few what they call the

Dual fulfillment Daniel 8 is intentionally a prophetic reference to both Antiochus Epiphanes now fulfilled and To the end of the age and the final world ruler who persecutes

Israel before the second advent. I can see how he got that The fourth view which is the one that I subscribe to in which

I think most post premillennial dispensationalists Subscribed to isn't much different from the third view.

This is the view that the passage is prophecy historically fulfilled But intentionally typical of similar events and personages at the end of the age

Typology in Scripture. There's a lot of typology in Scripture. You have to just be really careful when you try to make something a type

Because if you impose a type on something that God never intended for it to be a type you end up with a lot of heretical teachings

So so this view regards the chapter is historically fulfilled But foreshadowing a future world ruler who will dominate the world at the end of the times of the

Gentiles and it is this view that most conservative premillennial expositors hold and Here's how that is that is described by John Walvord It may be concluded that many premillennial expositors find a dual fulfillment in Daniel 8

Some achieve this by a division of the first part of the chapter as historically fulfilled and the last part prophetically future

Prophetically future Some regard the whole chapter is having in some sense a dual fulfillment historically as well as in the future but most of them find the futuristic elements emphasized especially in the interpretation of the vision a

Variation of the you that the last part of the chapter is specifically futuristic is found in the interpretation that has much to commend itself

This variation regards the entire chapter this variation regards the entire chapter has historically fulfilled in Antiochus but to varying degrees foreshadowing typically the future world ruler who would dominate the

Situation at the end of the times of the Gentiles and his he would be the Antichrist so this view

I believe imposed the least number of Disturbances on the text.

This is the most clearly We take as it says we compare it with Daniel 8

Daniel 9 Revelation and we see that this is also speaking of the Antichrist typically, but it is a fulfilled it is a fulfilled prophecy

Antiochus Epiphanes was the desolator and The Maccabees revolted and took him down and they did it in a period when when he had begun to introduce into Hebrew custom horrifying

Grecian concepts that Would desecrate their temple would destroy their faith in God would change their idea about what is right and wrong

We live in such a time we live in such a time when there are those who would want you to change your ideas about what is right and wrong and Daniel lived through this

Now if the Lord is going to tarry we will live through this how we stand

Will be recorded But we really I really don't care what's recorded about me What I want to be recorded is that the church stayed true to the

Lord Jesus Christ And We need to be a part of that and I the things that I see coming and I'm no prophet and you are glad I'm not

Because there's no such thing today Which means I would be equivalent of a unicorn there may have been unicorns

We'll talk about that some more time We need to hold true just as Daniel did now

There's going to be times when you're going to be on your face out of fear, and that's okay But the time to stay on your face will come and pass and the time will be to get back up I believe so so I don't recall

Titus taking the he was asking if a world ruler a ruler in 70

AD with the name appended Epiphanes Titus Epiphanes went in and ravaged

Jerusalem Titus did go in and ravaged Jerusalem. He did I don't recall there being a nickname

I believe he tried to set himself up as God But see Antiochus Epiphanes said

Thaos Antiochus Epiphanes Thaos he had a coin struck he used the word

God He said God Antiochus Appearing God, that's who he wanted to be remembered by and that's so yes

Titus did come in and destroy the temple I Don't recall there does anybody here

I have no recollection of a Titus having a nickname of Epiphanes or taking that nickname. I'll look into it some more all right

Any other questions, so I would like to just end it in this morning

Sunday. Yes, Peter Well, he was fearful of Gabriel and Gabriel was doing his best to make sure

Daniel note needed to know you don't need to fear me We don't need to fear the servants of God. We need to properly fear

God so So that's how I'm gonna end this I'm gonna say fear not

Let's pray father there are times that we are going to come into position places of fear in our lives, but Absolutely, nothing will stop your sovereign march through the through time in bringing the

Lord Jesus Christ to his throne And so let us be a part of that Lord Let us get up off our faces when we're fearful and look to you look to your scripture

We thank you that you have given us this wondrous word that we can always prepare to and find you find you

Explaining and lifting up the Lord Jesus Christ and let us do that as well in the days to come Even if they are difficult, and we'll thank you for your strength for your guidance for your mercy