Daniel And The Animals That Told The future

Let me lead you straight through the absorbing dream of the prophet Daniel, to show you a dinky of our future.

Daniel 8, verses 1-4, and 20. The last emperor of Babylon is reigning. Soon Medo-Persia will be replacing Belshazzar and company, as recorded in the celebrated "handwriting on the wall" story of episode five. But before Belshazzar's demise, the God of history intervenes via a foresight to His prophet. Daniel sees a two-horned ram, with uneven horns. It is pushing north, south, and west. No one is able to stop him. Since he is not pushing east, we assume the ram is an eastern power. But no need to speculate any further, for Gabriel, Daniel's guide in most of his visions, tell us that the ram with two horns is the uneven amalgamation known in history as Medo-Persia. The "two-ness" of the ram's horns matches with the uneven sides of the bear of episode seven and the two arms of the statue. Three visions, but one message.

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Verses 5-7, 21. Next comes a goat. From the west. It is flying. Goats don't fly, and neither do leopards. But a flying leopard represents this same nation in episode seven. Medo-Persia, eastern, pushed west, in the great march of Xerxes. But this nation is western, pushing east, and exterior the whole known earth! What a exquisite description of the rise of Greece and its first major push by Alexander the Great, represented here by one horn. But all of this too is not guesswork, for Gabriel tells us that the goat is Greece and that the horn is the "first" or customary king of that emerging empire, whom we know to be Alexander, the one who some say wept because he had conquered the earth so quickly that there were no more challenges.

There is a confrontation between ram and goat and the eventual victory of Greece, which now rules the world some hundred years before Jesus' visit. But you say, why is world history suddenly so important? Is it not true that Bible scholars depend on history sometimes when defending their interpretations of Scripture, and come to the wrong conclusions? Yes, but this is very different! Here, the Holy Spirit Himself, via an angel and a prophet, are the historians. They are giving the interpretations and deliberately pointing us to historical settings. We are compelled by Heaven to look closely at Greece and the politics that follow. When you look long adequate you will see the write back to the demand of the disciples in Matthew 24, about the end of all things, and the sign of that end.

Verse 8, 22. The goat in the foresight grows. Greece expands. But the goat's horn is broken. Alexander dies. Greece does not die, only the horn, the leader. In place of the one horn grow four horns. In place of the one leader there are four leaders with four detach territories. Gabriel points us to more history. He says that four kingdoms will arise from the Greek Empire. Did it happen? Most definitely! The generals of Alexander fought for many years over his inheritance and who would rule what. The conflicts that ensued have been dubbed the "successor wars."

When the dust located there were unquestionably four regions vying for power. One was Greece itself, tied to Macedonia. We might call this area practically "the Balkans" today. Someone else was Egypt. Then there was Asia Minor, or Turkey. By far the largest and therefore the most difficult to operate was the eastern portion of the empire. Today that portion is called Iraq, Iran, Syria, Palestine, and even more territory to the east .

Are you following? Look where the Book of Daniel has gone in just a short time. All the kingdoms of the world from Daniel's day to the end of time. Then just Medo-Persia and Greece. Then just Greece. But we must narrow added to find the one we seek. And Daniel's foresight does just that.

Verses 9-12, 23-25. The heart of Daniel's message here and in other chapters is the defining of Someone else horn on the goat, the territory of the Grecian Empire after Alexander, represented by four horns now, thus four parts. Now Daniel sees a fifth horn. It is small at first. Thus the term "little horn" has been applied to the man represented. He was small at the beginning. "Vile", says the angel in episode 11. Despised. Rejected from royalty. But he does not stay small. Over time, over the ages, he grows to come to be a fantastically essential world power. In this tiny fragment of a verse incommunicable away in your "old" Testament is a incommunicable that is larger than you can imagine. It is the incommunicable of the antichrist.

Daniel And The Animals That Told The future

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