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Angels and End Times Part 4 (Daniel 11:28-35) | Adult Sunday School

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Let's open in prayer Father it is your word. We look to for truth for correction for instruction

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That we might honor everything you do and everything you say so that we might glorify you because you have spoken to us through your word and it is there we find comfort and And help in time of need

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We ask you this morning Lord as we study your word that it would be instructional for us But not just instructional that it would deepen our relationship with your son the

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Lord Jesus Christ for it is there We find him and he is in the Old and in the New Testament He is the embodiment of everything perfect and we look for that.

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Thank you for this. Thank you for this time Give us instruction. We ask in Jesus name Amen, so I'd like to read chapter 11 from verses 14

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Through 30 that's it's my intention to get to chapter 14 or excuse me chapter 11 verse 30 today boy.

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You didn't know Daniel had 14 chapters. Did you well, you don't have my Bible I'm on page 11 58

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Which is the correct page? Daniel chapter 11 14 through 30 now in those times many will rise up against the king of the south

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The violent ones among your people will also lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they will fall down Then the king of the north will come cast up a siege mound and capture a well -fortified city and the forces of the south will

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Not stand their ground not even their choicest troops where there will be no strength to make a stand But he who comes against him will do as he pleases and no one will be able to withstand him he will also stay for a time in the beautiful land with destruction in his hand and He will set his face to come with the power of his whole kingdom bringing with him a proposal of peace

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Which he will put into effect He will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it

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But she will not take a stand for him or be on his side Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many but a commander will put a stop to his scorn against him

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Moreover, he will repay him for his scorn So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be found no more

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Then in his place one will arise who will send an oppressor through the jewel of his kingdom yet within a few days

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He will be shattered though neither in anger nor in battle and in his place a despicable person will arise on whom the honor of kingship has not been conferred but he will come in a time of time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue and the overflowing forces will be flooded away before him and shattered and Also the

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Prince of the Covenant and After an alliance is made with him. He will practice deception and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people

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In a time of tranquility, he will enter the richest parts of the realm and he will accomplish what his father's never did nor his ancestors

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He will distribute plunder booty and possessions among them and he will defies he will devise his schemes against strongholds but only for a time and He will stir up his strength and courage against the king of the south with a large army

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So the king of the south will mobilize an extremely large arm large and mighty army for war but he will not stand or schemes will be devised against him and those who eat his choice food will destroy him and his army will overflow but many will fall down slain as For both kings their hearts will be intent on evil and they will speak lies to each other at the same table

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But it will not succeed for the end is still to come at the appointed time Then he will return to his land with much plunder

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But his heart will be set against the Holy Covenant and he will take action and then return to his own land at the appointed

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Time he will return and come into the south But this last time it will not turn out the way it did before for ships of Chiton will come against him

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Therefore he will be disheartened and will return and become enraged at the Holy Covenant and take action

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So he will come back and show regard for those who forsake the Holy Covenant So as we go through this section

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I would like to call your attention again to the incredible precision with which Daniel was instructed about what is to happen in the

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Times to come just beyond him a couple three hundred years beyond him and when we get to it in the end times

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This is one of the reasons that Infidels that the falls that unbelievers that liberal scholars

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Cannot believe this is a prophecy because it is just too accurate What a marvelous thing to see

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God predicting the future To see it come to pass and again This is a comfort to us that what he has said has happened and what he has said for later will happen it will happen exactly as he predicted and In those times as Daniel is taught later on or is instructed later on the people who live in those times

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Will have an understanding that the people who didn't live in those times did not In much the same way that as we look back on the histories that have been written about the times from 530

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BC to 164 BC 145 BC and see how they came to pass exactly as was predicted in the first 35 verses of Daniel What a remarkable thing

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But we shouldn't look on it as remarkable other than from a human standpoint from the standpoint of the sovereign

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God of the universe This is his plan and everything comes to pass at his appointed time.

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Exactly Jim has has made the statement and I love it. The world is falling apart exactly on schedule and That is so true

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So true And as we watch these times you will also notice that nothing has come

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Nothing has changed under the Sun. Nothing is new the intrigues of the past are Identical at least in substance to the intrigues of today

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People betray each other they lie to each other. They use power for nefarious reasons

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They destroy they annihilate and yet there's always a remnant. I want you to think about the words

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Refine refine reform and purge as we continue through this whatever

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God does One of the things that he is always doing is he is refining Reforming and purging his people.

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He's making them more like Christ He's bringing them back to being like Christ and he's purging from the ranks of believers

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Those who really aren't of us so that they will go out from us so that it will be known that they were never of us

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And those are the things that are happening in this section of Scripture They will happen in every other section of Scripture that we read through Daniel here

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With that as an introduction last week We looked at the time that many would rise up against the king of the south verse 14

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The violent ones among your own people will also lift themselves up in order to fulfill a vision But they will fall down So Philip the fifth of Macedonia joined with Antiochus three to take and plunder

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Egypt and it didn't happen in the way They wanted Ptolemy I better not jump my own jump my own shark here

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They were joined by some of the violent pro Seleucid Jews who thought that a victory of Antiochus three would be in their best interest

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This is always a bad idea to try and help God fulfill prophecy He he's it's not like he's up there going.

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I sure hope people do this so that this prophecy will come to pass God doesn't wring his hands

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Yeah Yeah, I am God I don't need your help well put this of course failed when the forces of Ptolemy five defeated

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Antiochus three Ptolemy for his advisor so Sebius who was involved in bringing the child King Ptolemy five to power had retired

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His place was taken by another of the clique and the gothic lease Who provoked an insurrection against the child king and was killed during the intrigue

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Antiochus three had made serious inroads into Egypt Assisted by Philip the fifth or Philip five and the

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Jewish revolutionaries The battle was still lost and the seesaw our power struggle for Palestine continued

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So again, remember this is Palestine Israel the beautiful and caught in the middle of battles back and forth

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Depredations occurred deaths occurred Destruction occurred and it was all fought back and forth across The the south the south and the north

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Syria what we call Syria today and Egypt destruction ensued verse 15

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We're going to take up 17 as we left off at verse 16 I just want to remind ourselves of the con the context so then the king of the north will come and Cast up a siege ramp and capture a well -fortified city and the forces of the south will not stand their ground and even their choices

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Troops for there will be no strength not even their choices troops are really there will be no strength to take a stand

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So we're still looking at Antiochus three Harking back to 13 verse 13 this portion of the prophecy describes part of the return campaign that Antiochus waged against the south against Egypt a

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Siege ramp was was mounted up was built to take the city aside on and we looked at that last week on the map known

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As said on the the Gulf there or on the southern portion of the sea of the Mediterranean Sea This would have been

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Antiochus threes first major thrust into Palestine in 203 BC by 199

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BC He did hold most of Palestine Antiochus three did but in continuing one of the generals of the armies of Egypt named

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Scopus drove him back but in continuing seesaw fashion Antiochus three came back and defeated

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Scopus at Penaeus and then it's side on where Scopus had retreated to the first general of Egypt Scopus who was able to command

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Who was an able commander was followed by three other especially picked generals remember their names were?

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Europa's Monocles and demonious Demoenius I guess is how you would actually pronounce that and none of them could stand their ground

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It says in the scriptures against the king of the north all three generals attempted to retake side on but they could not

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Verse 16, but he who comes against him will do as he pleases and no one will be able to withstand him

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He will also stay for a time in the beautiful land. Remember the beautiful land is Israel With destruction in his hand so he comes against him again describes

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Antiochus three in his victory He was able to do as he pleased that is to impose his imperial wool his imperial will

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Yeah, he pulled the wool over their eyes his imperial wool on the Egyptians. He spent time in Palestine is specifically

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Israel and Brought authority over all of Israel the Hebrew word translated as destruction

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Remember we talked about it actually means completion and for a time Antiochus had complete control of all of Palestine of all that area

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He did not pillage Palestine at this time though if destruction is implied It would be the destruction and implication of the authority that he held over the land of Palestine His rule his word would have been rule would have been law and the

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Jews the Israelites at the time would have had no freedom To practice their their religion toward Yahweh as they would have wished

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So this was the destruction that had come with that Will launch into verse 17

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He will set his face to come with the power of his whole kingdom bringing with him a proposal of peace this intrigue is interesting

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Which he will put into effect He will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it But she will not take a stand for him or be on his side

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This woman had a mind of her own Antiochus proposed to gain control over all of Egypt since he did not attack

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Egypt at this time the idea here is that he had The power of controlling all the land just to the north of Egypt in other eastern territories and other eastern territories

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This gave him a strong position to negotiate with Egypt. They were on the border of Egypt Egypt would be looking and seeing the missiles on the border if you will and so he knew the

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Egyptians knew that Their time might be up At this time Antiochus struck a cheat a treaty with with Egypt which would have been

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Ptolemy five Epiphanies look how they all take each other's Manifestation of God epiphany is a great one

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Antiochus okay now here's the first time you're going to hear the name that you've all heard For so many decades since you're well some of you for so many decades since you were in high school so Antiochus gave his daughter

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Cleopatra How many of you heard of Cleopatra and I asked last week Did you know there were seven of them and the one you've all heard about and I heard about was number seven

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This is number one Cleopatra to Ptolemy five

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Epiphanies they constructed this bargain in 197 BC but the marriage actually took place in 193

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BC because Ptolemy was still only 10 years old and They knew you probably ought not to get married at 10

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So at 14 Ptolemy five married Cleopatra one who was the royal princess of Egypt one of the purposes of giving his daughter in marriage would be to have an insider in the

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Egyptian throne room and to begin to insert his own wishes into the policies of Egypt and Antiochus was preparing to war against Rome itself and would need

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Egypt as a staging area So we find out from historical records that exactly as this verse shows

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Cleopatra one did not assist her father Antiochus three She rather became a proper wife to Ptolemy five and supported him

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History records that the Egyptians actually gave direct assistance to the Rome's to Rome against Antiochus This completely fulfills the phrase this phrase which says but she will not take a stand for him

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But beyond or beyond his side. She was not on the side of her of Antiochus three or her father

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She took the side of her husband Ptolemy and in that in that way.

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There was more resistance going on. So Historically Again, it is remarkable.

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It's not remarkable to us But it's got to be remarkable to people who hate the scriptures that this was fulfilled exactly as predicted any questions or comments number 17 verse 18

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Then he will turn his face to coastlands to the coastlands and capture many but a commander will put a stop to his scorn

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Against him moreover. He will repay him for his scorn So, let me see if this got put in the wrong place

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It's not happening. So Technology strikes again

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Okay, but whoa right there. That's a good one. Yeah, we'll stay there. Okay So the coastlands mentioned here are verified historically as being the

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Aegean area, which would be the Aegean Sea the Greek area Hellespont All of those areas right there that you can see or I guess the

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Aegean area right there in 197 BC the year the treaty with Ptolemy the fifth convent commenced and Tychus re -campaigned in this area and he was successful for a time

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He will capture many he was successful for a time He took the islands in the sea and much of Asia Minor and Greece and in 196

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BC He subdued part of Thrace at this point in 195.

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He was joined by the well -known enemy of Rome Hannibal Hannibal from cartridge and he

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Carthage cartridge that shows you what I'm thinking of from Carthage and he was encouraged to invade

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Greece and he established a stronghold of Thermopylae So he was joined with the guy who had just defeated

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Hannibal or just just been defeated I guess I should say or hadn't yet been defeated

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But he was a well -known enemy of Rome. Let me put it that way because that's how the scripture puts it The commander spoken of here was a general a

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Roman general named Lucius Cornelius Scipio poor guy the younger brother of Scipio Africanus who had defeated

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Hannibal in 202 BC at the Battle of Zama during a treaty conference in Lysimaca Thrace in Lysimaca Thrace Antiochus III in a pompous and superior manner

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Made it very clear that he believed Rome had no business in Asia We're not interested

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He's here's what he said Asia did not concern you the Romans and you are and we are not subject to their orders

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You are not subject. They are not subject to your orders Asia does not concern you this

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Roman general indeed repaid Antiochus III for his scorn as the scripture says in 191

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BC Antiochus III was uprooted from Thermopylae and driven out of Thrace and then in the following year defeated at Magnesia and Lydia of Asia Minor a

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Peace ensued in 188 BC that he was forced to accept and he had to abandon all of his conquered territory in Asia Minor To the

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Romans this truly repaid him for his scorn. The scripture was exactly accurate That's the best way to repay someone for their scorn

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I actually saw and it it's kind of related a video of two

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MMA fighters were in the press release press time one of them was just taunting the other just pushing him and Pointing and putting his fist in his face when the fight actually occurred.

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The other guy just beat him to a living pulp So that's the kind of repayment that happened here

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He had to withdraw he lost and he would have known that this was a repayment for his scorn

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Verse 19 and then I'll ask if there's any questions Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land

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But he shall stumble and fall and not be found following these significant defeats Antiochus III returns to the cities of his land and little is known of him after this

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He was murdered in 187 BC while he was on a tax collecting exercise in Susa No, this is not a diatribe against the

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IRS But that's what happens sometimes to tax collectors

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At least in 180 BC one in the 187 BC So he was murdered on a tax collecting mission.

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So he verse verse 19 He shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land He was going to go to his own land and extract what he could but he stumbled and fell and was no more found

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So any questions about 18 and 19? Understand that the reason

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I'm going into such detail is that this history is undergirding what is to come when

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Antiochus Epiphanes takes over and Antiochus Epiphanes is The Antichrist type he's a type of the

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Antichrist and it's all for our understanding Nothing is different in 187

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BC from 2023 AD Or whenever it is now, I'm not predicting

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I don't do that scripture says not to do that I'm gonna obey that but sometime the Antichrist is going to come and this information will be instructive to the people of God who are in that time for their

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Understanding of how to propagate the gospel if nothing else verse 20 Then in his place one will arise who will send an oppressor through the jewel of his kingdom.

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What's the jewel of his kingdom? Israel yet within a few days. He will be shattered though.

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Not an anger nor in battle Specific prophecy Antiochus 3 was succeeded by was succeeded by Seleucus for philopator 187 to 176

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Who was his son? So Antiochus son Antiochus 3 son was Seleucus for The son inherited a still fairly sizable kingdom including

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Syria Palestine Mesopotamia Babylonia and now what is called near Iran Iran media and Persia or for our purposes the word translated here as oppressor is the

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Hebrew word for You guessed it collector Comes from the idea of one who drives or impels and then one who collects taxes

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He had inherited a big kingdom, but a bankrupt kingdom with an annual an annual payment required by the

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Romans of 1 ,000 talents today that would be somewhere near two billion dollars and just like today back then two billion dollars was a sizable chunk of money and difficult to come up with it would have kind of been unfathomable to a guy who is required to repay this to the

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Upcoming power of the world. It is certain that the word oppressor though singular here does imply more than one tax collector for this amount

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Would have required a lot of plundering And the jewel of the Empire was Palestine the man that fits the bill for the oppressor named here

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It was the prime minister under Seleucus and his name was Heliodorus Second Maccabees chapter 3 again good history not scripture

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Relates the story of Heliodorus as attempt to seize the riches of the temple only to be dwarf only to be thwarted by a divine apparition

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Seleucus for Philopator Ruled for 11 years and then died in 176

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BC This is a much shorter time than the 37 year reign of his father and is aptly described as a few days

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The description is apt Heliodorus had had sent Seleucus for his son

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Demetrius to Rome as a hostage. We'll get back to that We'll come back to that for Seleucus is kingship

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So Rome allowed kingships, but you had to send a hostage so that if you did things that they didn't want they would kill the hostage and the hostage was this man's son now life was cheap back then but we're going to assume that that Seleucus Loved his son

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Demetrius at any rate It is unknown for certain how

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Seleucus for died, but he was most likely murdered by Heliodorus. That's a that's a

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What would you call that It's just supposition it's not in the scripture it's supposition and it's not actually in history

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We don't really know upon his murder. The first great personage of this entire section comes to the throne

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Antiochus Epiphanes the fourth from 175 to 164 and this is the one that all of this history is

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Giving us the context for at least in this time period Antiochus is known as the little horn of chapter 8 and he is a type of the

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Antichrist Because of that typology the angel fleshed out this story of this

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King in far more detail for Daniel The Antichrist himself will be dealt for in verses 36 through 45 so the first Seven Seleucid rulers were given front row significance by the angel to prepare a basis for the coming of Antiochus Epiphanes for now

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I'm going to drop the four just for purposes of not saying more than I need to but the Antiochus Epiphanes We're talking about now is the bad one from 164

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BC the Maccabean Antiochus Epiphanes who? attempted to destroy Israel Leon would so he was a

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Who is predictive of the Antichrist? Antiochus Epiphanes was predictive of the Antichrist in his commentary

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Leon would elaborates this way He says the reason for the detailed history just considered is really to give background for the presentation now of the eighth

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Seleucid prince or eighth Seleucid ruler Antiochus Epiphanes for the first seven as well as their

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Ptolemaic Counterparts were not of significant of sufficient significance in themselves for mention though Their combined history has had the importance of showing the ravages of warfare that flowed back and forth over Palestine But the record given of them briefly stated has prepared for the introduction now of this one who was indeed of major significance the matter to keep in mind as the text described him is that his life and activities are

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Predictive of the life and activities of the Antichrist to come so for our purposes as students of Scripture This is the most important aspect of Antiochus Epiphanes Secondary or primary but secondary is the damage the horror he brought to Israel at the time the

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Jews have been hated forever and They're hated today and this is how

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Rulers will act towards Israel if they have the power to do so and nothing has changed any questions about verse 20 verse 21 in his place here we go a

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Despicable person will arise on whom the honor of kingship has not been conferred But he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue

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From the outset Antiochus Epiphanes was characterized as one who should be despised

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He took the name Epiphanes, which means God manifest and has the connotation of an illustrious or glorious one his contemporaries considered him evil and even mad and Nicknamed him at the monies or Epiphanes Which means madman?

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Antiochus the madman that's what his Contemporaries called him even the people of his own kingdom

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Now, I don't know if there were fact -checkers at the time But I suspect they would have said something like this is not entirely accurate

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Fact -checkers and there would have been they would have covered that mean with a little opaque

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Covering that says you need to read this information first. He was a madman He was he was not crazy in the sense that he was he was bereft of his senses, but he did things that just were unusual even for the times in Another remarkable display of divine accuracy several hundred years before it even happened

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The angel predicts that this particular King would not inherit the kingdom, which was normal But would rather take it by deception as mentioned in the last verse following Seleucus for his death his son

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Demetrius Remember Demetrius who had been sent to Rome as a hostage should have inherited the throne

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He should have been the one that took over the throne Demetrius was Antiochus for his nephew You never seen the connections when you look at the people in power today this wife is the manager of NBC and this husband is a part of the

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CDC and their nephew who runs the Same thing it's called nepotism and it's existed since time immemorial at any rate

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Seleucus for As mentioned in the last verse following Seleucus for his death his son Demetrius had been sent to Rome as a hostage should have inherited the throne

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Demetrius was Antiochus for his nephew and The son of Seleucus philopator lover of father

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There was another potential inheritor to the throne at the time also named Antiochus who was a baby an official named

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Andronicus murdered the baby and Was subsequently put to get put to death by Antiochus Epiphanes Antiochus for Antiochus Epiphanes was in Athens when his brother

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Seleucus was Assassinated and he returned home and proclaimed himself King Heliodorus had attempted to take the throne, but it disappeared and was not heard from again.

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That's what happens just when the original usurpers including Heliodorus thought they were secure and Antiochus for came when

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Antiochus Epiphanes came and took the throne by deception as the scripture says The intrigues were worthy of a book

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Unbelievable and probably has been a book somewhere maybe even a B movie or a

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C movie Leon wood details these details Did I say that twice

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I did it is known that Antiochus accomplished his goal by first winning over the support of Iomanes king of Pergamos Through flattery and then doing the same with key figures in Syria itself or the north what we call the north what they called the north

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There is reason to believe that he promised attractive gains for their assistance And it is known that Rome in an endeavor to keep balance of power in the east actually helped

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Antiochus at the time They actually helped him Keep that in mind for what comes later

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Antiochus likely capitalized on Rome's help in making empty promises to those who gave the aid

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This is normal for despicable people to make promises that they either can't or won't keep

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Once Antiochus had secured the throne he began his campaigns against both Egypt and against Rome Even though Rome gave him aid verse 22

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The overflowing forces will be flooded away before him and shattered and also the

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Prince of the Covenant Okay So this is in a reference to an attempt by Egypt to retake the north

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The literal translation is arms of the overflow Will shall be overflowed

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In other words the invading armies of Egypt which flowed over the north would themselves be overflowed by Antiochus by Antiochus's army

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This is also as one commentator mentions a general reference to all of the armies that Antiochus repelled in his commentary

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Walvoord John Walvoord mentioned several of the armies that were swept away during this time period Here's what he said the forces of that Antiochus overwhelmed include in part the troops of Heliodorus whom

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Antiochus routed with the assistance of the Pergamonian allies and in part the Egyptian forces which sought to deprive him of Coil Syria soon after his ascension to the throne when

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Antiochus learned that the Egyptians were about to attack him He invaded Egypt in 170 BC and defeated the

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Egyptians at the battle that occurred between Mount Cassius and Pelusium an area on the southeast east coast of the

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Mediterranean Sea halfway between Gaza Pelusium halfway between Gaza and The Nile Delta, so this is where that battle occurred.

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It is unknown for certain who the Prince of the Covenant was there are two plausible candidates and History records them as being destroyed by both of them as being destroyed by Antiochus.

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The first is Ptolemy six Philometer lover of his mother Who was the king of Egypt at the time this six and had succeeded his father

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Ptolemy Epiphanes in 181? So the first guy that could have been the Prince of the Covenant is

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Ptolemy six Since there was an agreement between Antiochus four or Antiochus Epiphanes and the father of this

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Ptolemy It would be appropriate to call him the Prince of the Covenant. The agreement was between Antiochus and the father so this man whom

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Antiochus destroyed would be appropriate to be calling him the Prince of the Covenant a Second candidate and in my mind just my mind only probably a less likely candidate and I'll explain why

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Whom Antiochus had obliterated was the Jewish high priest Ananias three whom Antiochus four killed in 171

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BC Antiochus four was assisted in killing this priest by the priests own brother

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Menelaus Either of these two men would satisfy this particular phrase in God's Word But because the preponderance of this history deals with kings killing kings killing kings killing kings

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It is my personal opinion that it is most likely referring to Ptolemy six That's my opinion, but it's not referring to the to the

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Jewish Prince priest high priest is referring to Ptolemy six any questions

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I know this is a lot of history and And it's intriguing

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But what it will do is it will give us a basis for understanding what comes later and for what?

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Happens in the time of the Antichrist these kinds of things are going to be happening promises made and unkept destruction alliances

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Allying with people and then killing those people Unbelievable depredations and they will be even worse than what

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Antiochus did verse 23 After an alliance is made with him He will practice deception and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people

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So contextually since this section is dealing with Egypt. This alliance is most certainly with that nation

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There was no formal alliance known from history. So this would have been an informal alliance Antiochus is for Antiochus Epiphanes sister or yeah his sister

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Cleopatra one was still in power in Egypt and Thus a friendly relationship with that nation would have been normal Antiochus entered this relationship for purely selfish reasons.

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He sided with Ptolemy six against Ptolemy six his rival Ptolemy your goodies

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He his rival was Ptolemy your goodies so that he could consolidate his power in Egypt That's the only reason he went into this alliance.

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And again commentator Leon what explains this he said deceit is now predicted Is now predicted on Antiochus's part in relation to Egypt remember it's predicted and it happened

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History shows that he offered friendship at first as just noted, but then he later withdrew it when he became strong Antiochus's father

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Antiochus the Great had promised the two states Syria and Palestine to Egypt as a dowry with Cleopatra on Her marriage to Ptolemy Epiphanes.

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It may be assumed that Antiochus reiterated the promise on his first coming to the throne We can assume that In order to foster the friendship he then needed it is known that he rescinded this promise in 170

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BC however five years after coming to power By marching through both areas asserting the control of Syria over them and making the attack on Egypt set forth in verse 25

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Which we will see later. So he continued the promise. She's a dowry Here are the lands that are part of her dowry and then later he reneged on it if the

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Prince of Oregon will marry the Prince of Montana. I'll give you Washington who would want Washington, but you know

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Maybe they could dethrone J. Who knows so despite the smaller size of the

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Northern Kingdom as Compared with the rising kingdoms of his day Antiochus did gain power vis -a -vis the nations around him

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So his deception with the nations around him brought him some more power Verse 24 in a time of tranquility.

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This is yes, right. She ruled the kingdom

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It was it was Effectively by default ruled from her by her when he was young But once he got older, he began to come into his own until he was you know, until the thing of all

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Kings happens Yeah, so In a time of tranquility, he will enter the richest parts of the realm and he will accomplish what his father's never did nor his

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Ancestors he will distribute plunder booty and possessions among them and he will devise his schemes against strongholds, but only for a time

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So Antiochus is motor up modus operandi In matters of war was attack without warning

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Attack without warning attack without warning This was the sense of the idea in a time of tranquility when it seemed peaceful his enemies would have been off their guard and thus very

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Susceptible and at that point Antiochus would attack he did this for the most part on the richest parts of his kingdom

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Looking for the most plunder that he could grab in the least amount of time with the least resistance Unlike his father who plundered his kingdom for his personal benefit and pleasure

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Antiochus seems to have done So to distribute the riches to the poor parts of the country

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Thus buying their favor. This is known as welfare a form of welfare.

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Pardon me Robin Hood. Yeah, I Suppose at any rate he would plunder his richer parts give it to the poorer parts.

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This is the violent way of taxation It is also likely that he distributed some of his plunder to his political friends shoring up their support

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First Maccabees comments on this particular aspect of the avarice in verse first Maccabees 3 verse 30

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He feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer Nor to have such gifts to give so liberal as it did before for he had abounded above the kings that were before Before him and in his concern he plundered his own country

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Was easier than plundering other countries because he had the army and they didn't

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So, can you see why they called him despicable? Even his own countrymen.

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They would have called him. They would have hated him his own subjects. I should say The strongholds that Antiochus devised schemes against were in his own country

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The purpose was to prevent them from getting strong enough to support a revolution That was the other reason get money from him

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But also beat him down so that they could never become strong enough to root to revolt

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Since he was often away on campaigns He did not want any one part of his kingdom becoming strong enough to subvert him.

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So that was one of the purposes What a horrifying purpose but only for a time scriptural says scripture says

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Seems to refer to the idea that Antiochus his idea would only work as long as God permitted him that latitude

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It all comes back to what is this? What is the king of the universe's timetable because that is what is important After a reign of 12 years

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Antiochus Epiphanes died in 164 BC the remaining verses in this chapter elaborate on Antiochus and then later on on the coming

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Antichrist So even though we know that Antiochus died within 12 years of this We're going to still see some more of his campaigns fleshed out if I can get through them any comments on verse 24 25 he will stir up strength.

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We're still talking about him and courage against the king of the south of the large army So the king of the south will mobilize an extremely large and mighty army for war but he will not stand for schemes will be devised against him as Mentioned in verse 23 once Antiochus firmed up his home base.

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He marched on the king of the south Egypt Interestingly this verse comments both on his strength and his courage

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One commentator remarked that quote the proper emotional attitude is necessary If one's strength is to be used most effectively unquote

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In order to continue these battles even on a man of despicable character.

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It must have been trying must have been difficult You would think and this is just an aside

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You would think his conscience if he had one had to bother him that he was killing his own countrymen plundering them

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Taking their booty and distributing it to kings around him to other parts of the kingdom. So he would have had to stir up his courage

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Egypt was ruled at this time by Paul Ptolemy Philometer who was one of two sons of Cleopatra and was

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Antiochus's nephew In 170 BC as noted in the exposition of verse 23 when

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Ptolemy Philometer realized that Antiochus Epiphanes was not going to keep his father's promise to Egypt Ptolemy attempted to seize control of Syria and Palestine Antiochus fielded a very large army, but apparently

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Ptolemy fielded an even larger army as the scripture says The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia online gives this abbreviated description says

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Ptolemy six surname Philometer fond of his mother Older son of Ptolemy five whom he succeeded in 182

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BC For the first seven years of his reign his mother Cleopatra as you pointed out

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Acted as Queen Regent and peace was maintained until with Syria until 173

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BC Antiochus Epiphanes invaded then invaded Egypt defeated the Egyptians at Pelusium and secured the person of Philometer Whom he spared hoping to employ him as a tool to gain ascendancy over Egypt Philometer brother was now proclaimed king by the

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Alexandrine Alexandrians in Egypt Philometer's brother with the title of Yurgates When Antiochus retired

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Philometer made peace with his brother conceding him a share of the government in 170 BC this displeased

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Antiochus Epiphanes Who marched against Alexandria, but was stopped beneath the walls by the

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Roman Embassy in obedience to whom he withdrew So the battle was fought at Pelusium just beyond the very eastern edge of the

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Nile Delta, which is what I mentioned earlier Increasingly interestingly Antiochus for had campaigned to the very border of each of Egypt due to treachery the schemes devised against him

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Ptolemy six was defeated, but Antiochus did not have him killed Verse 26 this is more of the intrigue those who eat his choice food will destroy him and his army will overflow

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But many will follow him will fall down slain excuse me So those who eat his choice food

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This is a flowery way of saying his trusted his trusted counselors the very men who ate at his table betrayed him and Even though his large army was in the vernacular of ancient battles overflowing

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He lost the battle and many of his soldiers were killed Ptolemy six was taken captive by Antiochus Epiphanes Verse 27 as for both

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Kings their hearts will be intent on evil and they will speak lies to each other At the same table, but will not it will not succeed for the end is still to come at the appointed time

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What is it about lying that you and you you continually have to lie in order to support the last lie?

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And you know what? It's a very difficult way to live because you have to remember all the lies Now, how did

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I lie that time? I better remember that so I don't know if they wrote him down or what?

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but he would have had to maintain a pretty good record of his lies in order to continue the the scam the schemes

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Hopefully unknown to the other each King was bent internally on evil towards the other

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How's that going to turn out? Antiochus professed professed friendship for Ptolemy bringing into the discussion their blood -tie relationship

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Well, we're brothers. We're you're my nephew and we need to be in this together It's probably how he said it as mentioned in the piece from online cycle the online cyclopedia earlier the people of Alexandria Egypt Coronated Ptolemy Yerges is king.

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He was later nicknamed Faisal Which is Greek for pot -bellied.

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I Don't think it was a beloved nickname Because he was overweight Antiochus for pretended to be a friend to the older brother whom he had captured in battle as A hedge against the upstart

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King Ptolemy seven likely Antiochus planned to join with one brother Against the other to take back

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Egypt. He installed Ptolemy six as king in Memphis So Antiochus lied to Ptolemy four and Ptolemy four pretended to believe while always secretly distrusting him

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This is not a foundation for a good ruling relationship or any other kind of relationship

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Antiochus departed for Syria and very close after that the two brothers formed an agreement with the other brother the older brother

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Ptolemy six marrying his sister Cleopatra to Who then became

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Queen to the two brothers likely planned to rest Egypt from Antiochus control?

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This precipitated Antiochus attempt to break up the combination, but that's when he was stopped by Rome in 168

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BC and so the end Still future by the prediction of the angel

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Resulted in their plans failing for it was not the time of the end specified by God but rather by those men and so God reminds

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Daniel in this verse in this prediction from the angel that Though the angel through the angel that everything is on his timetable not man's so Daniel's hearing these things looking into the future and seeing all these combinations of kings against kings and them attempting to Impose their will on kingdoms and God reminds

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Daniel though. It's not he says For the end is still to come at the appointed time.

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This is not the end Daniel. It's my timetable that matters Well, we're gonna have to stop there if we take nothing from this section and I believe we can take a lot looking at the history and the

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Deception and the evil that goes on in the hearts of men in every age Who are not redeemed by the

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Savior? that history is an evil thing to remember but there are some good things to remember as well and Those good things are that God he predicted this and then what happened

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It came to pass It came to pass got exactly as God predicted and what he has predicted for the rest of time

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Will come to pass and I just want to remind us that that's a comfort. That is a comfort to us.

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I I'm finding more and more for myself more and more encouragement and comfort as I read through the scriptures

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I'm I try to read through the Bible and for those of you who are OCD like I used to be and maybe still am man if I missed a day

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I had to make it up and I'm just continually reading when I miss a day because I'm reading something else.

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I Started that day. Don't don't let that throw you off. So you don't make it by December 31st maybe you make it by March 2nd, then start

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March 3rd for your next read -through and Nobody will die But you will learn more about the scripture.

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So I'm in John right now in my read -through But I like a dummy I started reading Revelation the other day and I forgot how exciting that was too.

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So This book is the best book in the Bible because we're in it

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Whatever book you're in That's God's best for you at the time as we read through.

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Let's just remember God gives us these things for Peter no, he doesn't give us these things for Peter that Peter you had a question

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God gives us these things for instruction for correction for rebuke rebuke rebuke and reproof

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Let us take them that way and remind ourselves that there's comfort in all of that He brings us back

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To level with Christ He moves us on understanding that what he said is true and that his timetable his sovereignty will always be

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Paramount Peter you had a question Yes, anytime

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I read from non canonical books including first second third fourth Maccabees I will never read from Bell in the

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Dragon, but from first second third and fourth Maccabees they are for Historical context they are not scripture any questions before we close.

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Are you comforted? It's it's going to be exactly as God said it's going to be exactly on his timetable

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Nothing will be lost. Not one jot nor one tittle. Nothing will be added. Not one jot nor one tittle

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It will be perfect according to Scripture. Let's pray Father, thank you for your word.

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It is the most magnificent thing You have given us other than your son the Lord Jesus Christ who is the embodiment of the word?

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We thank you for both We look to you for instruction for correction for reproof and for comfort and rebuke as needed but for comfort