"Daniel: Sovereignty of God" by Phil Hartnady Part 12

No. Morning. I'm leaving. All right. We have a lot of material to cover today because today's last day of the class and because I chose to be sick last week. Miss chapter 11.

So we'll cover chapters 11 and 12 today, and it's going to take every single bit of time that we've got today to get through these. Chapter 11 of Daniel is where we'll begin this morning. Let me be very clear about this. When you read Daniel 10, 11 and 12, you need to read them as one chapter, okay? Because down through time, the books have been taken

and deliberately broken off into chapters does not mean that one chapter ends and a new thought starts in the next chapter. So when you study Daniel 10, 11, and 12, study them as one chapter that just continues a single vision of Daniel. All right? So, I can't do that. I can't, I can't do that name. How he does that? I can't, I can't, yeah, let's just this way, I don't lie around. Dancing in church, now I'm going to hell.

Let me be clear about chapters 10, 11, and 12. We've established that. You need to study 10, 11, and 12 as one chapter. Also, there is a predominant theme throughout the book of Daniel that you all have hopefully come to see by now and that we are dealing with how many world kingdoms. It's from chapter two on through the end of the book, how many kingdoms are we dealing with? Dealing with four. What are they? First one is the

The Babylonian Empire. The second is the Medes and the Persians. The third is the Greeks. And the fourth is the Romans. Nothing in the book of Daniel goes outside of those four kingdoms. Now why do I say that? I say that because there are pre-millennialists who will use this to establish Jesus' world rule when he comes back the second time.

They see Jesus sitting on the throne of David in the city of Jerusalem and ruling for a thousand years. This is pre-millennial Babel and it does not conform to Bible history. It does not conform to what the rest of the Bible says about Jesus coming. What does the Bible say about Jesus coming in 1 Thessalonians? We will meet him in the air and forever and forevermore we shall be with him. Comfort one another with these words.

Two things you have to remember. 10 through 12, read as one chapter. Anything outside of the realm when you're discussing these chapters with someone, anything outside the realm of those four kingdoms does not come into play here. And chapters 11 and 12 together will demonstrate that. Chapter 11 is the most specific reference and parallel to history that we find in the Bible.

Although people are not named as the chapter unfolds, the people who have lived this history in this chapter can be revealed. In other words, if you set down chapter 11 and you set down history right next to it, they are an exact parallel. And again, this is the most specific. A lot of the names you will not know. We will go over them and name these people, but it's up to you. If you're curious about chapter 11,

Just go home and Google some of these names and read about some of these people. You will see that Daniel 11 and history fall into an exact parallel with regard to how this unfolds. All right. So let's begin chapter 11. And as for me, well, this is a continuation from chapter 10. And as for me in the first year of Darius, the meat I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. And now I will show you the truth. The whole three more kings shall arise in Persia.

three more kings shall arise in Persia and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them and he will become strong through his riches and he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. Then a mighty king shall arise who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills and as soon as he has arisen his kingdom shall be broken and divided into toward the four winds of heaven

but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he rule, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others before or besides these. Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he, and shall rule, and his authority shall be a great authority. After some years, there shall be an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement,

but she will not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his arm shall not endure, but she shall be given up, and her attendants, who he who fathered her, and he who supported her in those times. And from a branch from her roots, one shall arise in his place. He shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail. He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their metal images, and their precious vessels of silver and gold,

And for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north. Then the latter shall come into the realm of the king of the south, but shall return to his own land. His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces which shall keep coming and overflow and pass through and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress. Then the king of the south moved with rage. Excuse me, shall come.

shall come out and fight against the king of the north, and he shall raise a great multitude, but it shall be given into his hand. When the multitude is taken away, his heart shall be exalted. He shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail. For the king of the north shall again raise a multitude greater than the first. And after some years he shall come on with a great army and abundant supplies, and in those times many shall rise against the king of the south, and the violent among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they shall fail.

Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siege works and take a well fortified city and the forces of the south shall not stand. And even his best troops for there shall be no strength to stand. But he who comes against him shall do as he wills and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land with destruction in his hand. He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom. And he shall bring terms of an agreement and perform them.

He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom, but it shall not stand or be to his advantage. Afterward, he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall capture many of them, but a commander shall put an end to his insolence. Indeed, he shall turn his insolence back upon him. Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall and shall not be found.

Then shall arise in his place, one who shall send an executor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he shall be broken, and neither in anger nor in battle, and in his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. He shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom through flattery. Army shall be utterly swept away before him and broken even the prince of the covenant.

And from the time that an alliance is made with him, he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people. Without warning, he shall come into the richest parts of the province. He shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers' fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.

And he shall stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. The king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he shall not stand for plots shall be devised against him. Even those who eat his food shall break him. His army shall be swept away and many shall fall down slain. And as for the two kings, their heart shall be bent on doing evil. They shall speak lies in the same table, but to no avail.

for the end is yet to be at the time appointed. He shall return to his land with great wealth, but his heart shall be set against the Holy Covenant, and he shall work his will and return to his own land. At the time appointed, he shall return and come into the south, but it shall not be this time as it was before. For ships have kiddom shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the Holy Covenant.

He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant. Forces from him shall appear, profane the temple and the fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering, and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate. He will seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. And the wise among the people shall make many understand for some, though for some days,

they shall stumble by sword and flame by captivity and plunder. When they stumble, they shall receive a little help, and many shall join themselves to them with flattery. Some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time. And the king shall do as he wills, he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every God, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of God's,

He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished for what is decreed shall be done. He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all. He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these, a god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts. He shall deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god, those who

acknowledge him, he shall load with honor. He shall make them rulers over many and shall divide the land for price. At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack him, but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind with chariots and horsemen with many ships, and he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through. He shall come into the glorious land and tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand, Edom and Moab and the main part of the Amorites.

their ammonites. He shall stretch out his hand against the countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape. He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver and all the precious things of Egypt and the Libyans and the Kushites shall follow in his train. But news from the east and the north shall alarm him and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction. And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain, yet he shall come to his end

with none to help him. Everybody clear on that? Everybody understand what's going on? Got it? We can move on to chapter 12. You got everything? Okay, let's go through this. Four more kings, chapter 11, verse one. Sit up to confirm and strengthen him. Verse two talks about four future kings. They'll show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise on the fourth shall be richer than all of them.

And so what we see here is Daniel being told that there are three more kings that are going to arise. And the fourth king is going to be strong and rich and oppose the realm of Greece. And so as we look at history, this fourth king would be Xerxes. And if we want to read about, you want to read about Xerxes, you can read the book of Esther. That's, he's A, has Urias, that's Xerxes. And so if you remember,

There are kingdoms to the north, and there are kingdoms to the south, and there is right in between what? Israel. Israel is right in between. And so Israel is going to be a part of all of this that's going on. They're going to be continually in the middle of these battles between the kings of the north and the kings of the south. And so the Persian Empire tried to wipe out the Jewish people during the reign of Xerxes, this king that he's talking about.

And that's through the plot of Haman. We read that in the book of Esther. And so if you read the book of Esther, you'll read about the time the Persians tried to wipe out the Jewish people. Now the Greek Empire tried to wipe out the Jewish people also against the reign of Antiochus IV, or Antiochus Epiphines. He attempted to kill every Jew who did not renounce their commitment to God and embrace his culture. But out of this, so these four kings shall arise, and when he shall become strong through his riches, and this is Xerxes,

He shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. And we remember that Xerxes led a mighty army to fight against the Greeks and lost at the battle of Salamis in 480 BC. And he then died, Xerxes died at the hands of an assassin when he was 55. And so as soon as he is arisen,

Verse two ends up that he shall come against the kingdom of Greece. And that's what we just talked about. Then verse three, a mighty king shall arise who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills. Who's this great king? We've talked about him before. Who? Alexander the Great. Okay, Alexander the Great would rise up as a mighty king with great dominion, do as he wills. And when he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken up. Remember, he ruled for only 13 years and then he died at the age of 39.

I'm sorry. Right. It did not go to his sons, and that's what it says here. It does not go to his posterity. It divided to the four winds of heaven, but not among his posterity, nor according to his dominion, for his kingdom shall be uprooted, even for those beside him. So that's verse four, when the kingdom shall be plucked up. So there were the four that were divided. The two we want to concentrate on are the king of the north and the king of the south. The king of the south is who? Where is the kingdom of the south?

Egypt, and that's the Ptolemies. And so throughout chapter 11, when we talk about the kingdom of the south, or the king of the south, we're talking about the Ptolemic Empire, the Ptolemic Empire. The other is the solusids, and from that will arise, solusid the first, solusid the second, Antiochus the first, Antiochus the second, Antiochus the third, Antiochus the fourth, down through that. So the four winds of heaven,

So Alexander's dominion is divided up among these four. And again, the children of Israel are caught in between Egypt and the kingdoms to the north, which would be Babylon in that area. And I showed you the slide a few weeks ago that showed how that was divided. So the kingdoms of the north and the kingdom of the south. I'm sorry. Right. Okay, so first five.

The king of the south shall be strong. That's tall me the first. This is tall me the first. He shall be the king of the south. King of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he. He had a prince whose name was Salusius, not related directly to the Salusius of the kingdom of the north, but the Salusius rose to power and took dominion over the area of the kingdom of the north. So he took

His, this prince became stronger than Ptolemy and ruled in his authority was a great authority. Verse five, verse six, after some years. And so we talk about, well, after some years, the solusids and the Ptolemies fought for over 130 years. And who's right in between? Israel. Israel is always in between. They're getting caught between the battles of the Ptolemies and the solusids. Now,

Solusius Nicator, who is the prince that we talked about in verse five, he set up an alliance. For some years, they shall make an alliance, verse six. So he's going to make an alliance, which means that he's going to join these two kingdoms together through marriage. So he's going to send his daughter, he's going to send his daughter, Bernice, to marry the kingdom of the north. So there's peace for a time.

And by this time now, when she is married, she has married, Ptolemy II. So Ptolemy I is dead, and now Ptolemy II. Ptolemy II now is in charge of the kingdom of the south, Antiochus II, or Theos, Antiochus Theos is in charge of the kingdom of the north. And so Ptolemy Philaeodelpheus, which is Ptolemy II, marries Bernice. And so there's a period of time when the marriage works,

until Tommy II dies. And so after some years, that 130 years of fighting, they shall make an alliance in the daughter of the king of the south, Bernice, shall come to the kingdom of the north to make an agreement. So once Tommy II dies, Antiochus now puts his plan into place to take away Bernice and go back to his former wife, Laodice. And you can read all about this. This is all in history. You can read all about this.

I'm just giving you the kind of the reader's digest version. But Laodice was his former wife of Ptolemy and she didn't trust her husband. She didn't trust Antiochus a second. So what does she do to him? She murdered him. She murdered him and the child has child and all of her attendants. And so what we see here is that she makes an agreement, verse six, but she shall not retain the strength of her arm and he and his arm shall not endure.

but she shall be given up in her attendance, all of those who got poisoned and died. He who fathered her and he who supported her in her times. So after the murder of Antiochus II, Laodice had Bernice and her infant son and all her attendance killed. So after this reign of terror, Laodice sets up her son, Solusius II, on the throne of the kingdom of the north. All right? So from her branch, from a branch of her roots, Solusius II.

one shall arise in his place and he shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north and he shall deal with them and he shall prevail." And that's verse seven. So the angel now tells Daniel that a root from her from her lineage, solutions to second, is going to prevail over them and sure enough this was fulfilled in the person of Ptolemy, Ptolemy III Evergattes was his name Ptolemy Evergattes. And so

He's the brother of Bernice. He avenges the murder of his sister, and Ptolemy III invades Syria and takes over from Solusius II. He shall continue for many more years. Ptolemy III lived for four years past the reign of Solusius. And so he shall also carry off into Egypt. And he took away all the gold in the silver from Egypt and carried it back. So Ptolemy II now is

The prevalent, the predominant one now, he has conquered the kingdom of the north. And so the sons of the king, verse 10, the sun shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces. And so what we see here is that the sons of the king of the north would continue to battle with Ptolemy III and one of his kings, one of the sons would conquer the land of Israel.

And now he stands as a buffer between the south and the north, and it seems like Israel is always that in between. They're either ruled by the kingdom of the north, or they're ruled by the kingdom of the south, and it goes back and forth, and most of the battles are fought in between their over their land. So, Seleucious III comes to the throne, and he's just Seleucious III. Calianus the Great is Antiochus III,

And both are successful, successful generals, but Salutius only rules for a short time. He fell off a horse and broke his neck. And that's how he died. But he was succeeded by his brother. So in this furious battle in verse 10, and they shall pass through and shall carry the war to the fortress, in this furious battle, Annie Ochus III takes back the Holy Land from the dominion of the Ptolemy.

The Ptolemies are out and now solutions are in the Antiochus group from the north. Now they're in charge of Israel. So now what happens in verse 11? Well, the king of the south moved with rage, shall come out and fight against the king of the north. There should be great multitude, but should be given into his hand. And so that's what happened. The angel tells Daniel that the king of the south is going to attack.

This was a battle of 75,000 soldiers on the south, 75,000 soldiers on the north, 78,000. And so they came to this great battle. And this was the fact that he did not prevail would be fulfilled when Antiochus III once again, defeated at the Battle of Arabia. Because of that loss, he was forced to give back dominion of the children, the land of the children of Israel to tolerate the fourth.

And so now in verses 13 through 16, now that Ptolemy is back again in charge of the land of Israel, now the king of the north is going to come back. And he's going to occupy 14 years later, he's going to occupy the land, the glorious land, which is the land of Israel. And so, verses 13 for the king of the north shall again raise a multitude.

And so he raises this, and this is Ptolemy Epiphines, and not Antiochus Epiphines, but this is Ptolemy Epiphines, the king of the solutions. And the king of the north, again, is Ptolemy IV. And Antiochus III invades the land of Israel. He gains final control over the armies of Ptolemy V now. And the Jews living in the land of Palestine are in what they call the children of Israel there.

helped him defeat the king of the south. This was because the Jewish people resented the rule of the Ptolemies. They would rather be ruled by the Solusids than by the Ptolemies. Violent men of your people shall exalt themselves in fulfillment of this vision. And that's in verse 16. I should stand in the glorious land of destruction, I'm going to face. In terms of agreement for them, he shall give the daughter to destroy them. That's in verse 17.

So the king of the south now in verse 17 gives his daughter, whose name is Cleopatra, not the Cleopatra that you're thinking of. She's 100 years later. This is just another woman named Cleopatra. She's seven years old. She's seven years old. She's given to the king.

So he shall set his face, he shall set his face to enter with the strength of the whole kingdom and upright ones with him. Thus he shall do he shall give him the daughter of a woman of women, the daughter of women to destroy it, but she will not stand with him or before him. So this is Cleopatra. Again, not the Cleopatra you're thinking about. This is another Cleopatra. And so the king of the north who rules now over the over the land of Israel would attempt to again dominate and destroy the king of the south.

And this is fulfilled in Antiochus III when he gave his daughter Cleopatra to Ptolemy V of Egypt. He did this hoping to gain permanent influence and eventual control over Egypt, but to his great disappointment, Antiochus III's plan did not succeed because Cleopatra was faithful to her Egyptian husband and not to her father. And so she turned against her father, the king of the north, and she was faithful to her husband who was Ptolemy.

And again, this is not the famous Cleopatra. The Cleopatra you're all thinking of comes along about a hundred years later, okay? So verse 18, afterwards he shall turn his face to the coastlands. And so after the disappointing effort through the daughter, the king of Cleopatra, the king of the north now, he's going to try to get retribution. And so he stumbles in falls, and this was fulfilled under in verse 19, he shall stumble and fall and shall not be found.

This was so filled with Antiochus. This third returned or turned his attention toward the areas of age of minor in Greek. And this is when he was helped by someone very famous that you all would know. His main general was a man named Hannibal. And Hannibal was a general from Carthage, but a Roman general defeated Antiochus in Greece. And so his plans to humiliate Greece, but he was humiliated instead. And so after this defeat,

And the August the third had an inglorious end needing money badly for his treasure. He resorted to pillaging a Babylonian temple and he was killed by the local citizens. So now for the first time, for the first time Rome enters the scene. Okay. So their taxes are levied against the kingdom of the north. And so in verse 20, we find then shall arise

in his place, one who shall send an Exeter, an Exactor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom, the glory of the kingdom. Someone's going to impose taxes. And so after Salutius the fourths in glorious end, his successor would raise taxes. But this comes in the form of Antiochus or Salutius the fourth, the older son of Antiochus. And he sought to tax the dominion, including the people that lived in Israel to increase his revenues.

His plan to pillage the Jerusalem temple was set aside when his ambassador had what was called an angelic vision of warning. And so, salutius IV is assassinated, probably by his brother, Antiochus Epiphine. So now we're down to Antiochus IV. This is the infamous Antiochus Epiphines. And if you're not a student of history, this is probably one of the most boring lessons that you've probably ever heard in your life. But for those of you that

take this and parallel this along with the historical and the biblical account it is absolutely stunning the amount of the amount of specificity in these two in this versus the historical account and so if I'm if I'm going into way too much detail just it's my last class come back next week you'll see somebody new all right so verse 21 go ahead well I think that I think we demonstrated that before because the angel told

The angel told Daniel, what did he say? He said, I have to go back and fight against the angel that's protecting the Persians. So do we know that, do we know that the, does the Bible tell us there are good angels and bad angels? You know, they're good angels and evil angels? Yes, there are. The Bible very clearly talks about that. Now we get into this talk about angels. We get into some, we have to just go where the Bible tells us to go. We can't, we can't be making a lot of assumptions. We know that there are good angels and we know that there are bad angels. In this instance,

When Daniel is talking to the angelic messenger, he says that he is the one, his name is Michael, whose name means, oh, I wrote it down. Who is like God? Michael's name means who is like God. Michael is the defender or the protector of the children of Israel according to this because he says, I have to go back in chapter 11, he has to go back and take care of the children of Israel.

And so he is the protector of the children of Israel. Now, what does the Bible, what does Hebrew say about angels? What are angels? What are they called? They're called ministering spirits. Now, to what level or what degree do they minister? The Bible doesn't tell us. There are some people who will tell you, oh, I have a guardian angel. That's not biblical. That's a biblical.

There's no such thing as nothing mentioned in Holy Scripture about a guardian angel, but there are angels and there are good angels and bad angels. Now, my question and what I'm researching and studying right now and I'm trying to get better about understanding this is do these angels that protect the children of Israel, Michael and Gabriel and the others and the evil that protect the Persians and protect all the evil empires

How does that play out in the New Testament? How does that play out with the death of Christ? Because we know that the devil's power was limited at the cross. And when his power was limited, what does that affect? The underlying question there is, do angels, are there still ministering spirits that protect countries, both for evil and for good? The answer to that is I don't know. I'm trying to gain a better foothold on understanding that, and that's really an area where

where you can go home and you can crack open your Bible and you can read about what the Bible has to say about angels. Do what? They do, yes. So that doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking about. That's a side, that's something y'all can go home and study about and then you can come up to me and say, I found this, I found this out about angels. What do you think about it? And we can talk about it. But it's a very interesting, it's a very interesting concept that's introduced in chapter 10 that there are angels that protect peoples.

And whether that, whether that guardianship of those peoples, the children of Israel, the Persians, the Romans, obviously the Persians and the Romans, evil angels. And so that's, that's just something completely aside. So chapter, chapter 11 verse 21. Okay. In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. He shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. Who is this?

This is one we've talked about before. This is Antiochus Epiphines, okay? He was the little horn that are, they emerged out of the middle of the Rams. He's the one that emerged out of the middle of the head of the, in chapter nine, eight, wherever that was. Anyway, this is Antiochus Epiphines. They called him, the Jews called him Antiochus Epimanes, E-P-I-M-A-N-E-S, the mad man.

Antiochus, Antiochus Epiphines, he is a vile person. Antiochus IV comes to the throne. He does not come to the throne legitimately. He kills his brother, the previous king, and his potential heir, the son of Seleucia III, is now imprisoned in Rome. And so Antiochus Epiphines is empowered to take over the kingdom in verses 21 through 24.

He shall come to the kingdom peaceably. Well, aside from the murder of his older brother, he didn't use terror to gain power. What did he use? He used a flattery. He uses flattery. Smooth promises. He uses intrigue. One example is he flattered. You mayn't ease the king of the Pergamans and Atlas's brother and got their assistance. He flattered the Romans and sent ambassadors to court their favor and pay them the arrears of the tribute that was owed by his father.

He flattered the Syrians and gained their concurrence. And this is all from Clark's commentary. So Antiochus the Ford took the title Epiphines, which means illustrious or God-man. And the Jews derisively called him Epimani's, meaning the mad man. So the vile person fails to conquer the king of the south, verses 22 through 27. Army shall be utterly slept away. So this is Antiochus Epiphines.

in a variety or a bunch of sorties against Ptolemy Philopater. And he carries on a feud between the North and the South while pretending to be friends and alliances to try to catch them off guards. Epiphines did not stand. The Bible says his army was swept away. He was defeated in his second campaign against Egypt. And he came back to the land of Israel.

The people had misunderstood. They thought he had been killed in battle. And when he came back, they were celebrating everything. And let me tell you, he went off the deep end. He was truly a man. He was truly a mad man. When he returned, he attacked the land. He attacked the people. He attacked the temple in Israel. And based on all of this, if we just distill all of this down, the Maccabees arose against him.

after he had taken the temple and slaughtered a pig on the altar and made the priest a drink, the blood of the pig, and killed, I think, I don't remember what it was, 1.5 million people. He killed 80,000 Jews, took 40,000 more prisoners, sold another 40,000 slaves, plundered the temple, robbed it of approximately a billion dollars of treasures by modern calculations, and the tarot could only last for so long.

because God had appointed it into it. And so the willful king in verse 36, as you get toward the end of the chapter, all of this is talking about this in verse 32, he seduces with flattery, those who violate the covenant. And he plunders, stumbled by sword and flame, captivity and plundered in verse 33. When they stumble, they shall receive a little help

And then the king will do as he wills, exalts himself among others. He exalted himself as God. He's important, mostly as historical figure. Many people call him the anti-Christ. I suppose that's a fitting, it happened to him for him. He did much damage. God, however, would accomplish his will. Verses 37 through 39. I'm trying to just whip down through this so we can get to chapter 12.

The Maccabean, the Maccabees rose against him. Daniel is described, the angel describes for Daniel a confederation of kings in verses 40 through 45. Now, there are some, there are some who attribute this to Antiochus Epiphines, the latter portion of this chapter from 37 down through 45, or what's entitled the final conflict,

There is a willful king that enters into this. And there are some who will diverge from Antiochus Epiphines and say that this is the entrance of the Romans. Because when we say the kingdom of the north, we can either mean the Seleucid Empire, which was directly north, Babylon and all that, or what's exactly north of Egypt? Rome. Rome is north of Egypt. So that could be another kingdom. So there are some scholars who will say this is all.

leading up to after Antiochus amplifies this willful king that arises is a Roman king. Or they will say that it waits until chapter 11 for the Romans to really, for them to really come to the fourth. Everything that I read, everything that I read says that this through chapter 10 verse 45 through the end of the chapter is leading up to the Maccabean, is leading up to the Maccabean revolt, okay?

Because in chapter and verse 40, he shall come into the glorious land and tens of thousands shall fall. And we talked about that. That's Antiochus Epiphines. He will stretch out his hand against countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape. He should become rulers of treasure and gold and silver and all the precious of Egypt, verse 43. The news from the east and the north shall alarm him. The news from the east and the north would be from Parthia, which is to the east of

to the east of where he is ruling and to the north would be Rome. And so here I think the kingdom of the north now shifts from the Seleucid Empire. I think it shifts, and most scholars tend to agree on this one point, although there, and you will find if you, there are four or five different versions of this that people go. And I'm trying to stay with the scholars that I read within the Bible framework. So it's very possible that this latter end of chapter 11 is talking about

Those that are pitching their palatial tents between the sea and the glorious land mountain. Now we're talking about the Romans. We've moved from Antiochus Epiphines and news from the east and the north shall alarm him and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction. He shall come to an end with none to help him. And so as we go into chapter 11, there is a flow from chapter 10. This is why this is why

I'm sorry as we go from chapter 11 to chapter 12. There's that flow from chapter 10 11 and 12 which all need to be studied together because With the way this is broken up chapter 12 verses 1 through 4 Really need to be in chapter 10 Okay, so if we read the end of chapter we read the end of chapter 11 Where he pitches his tense he we pitches his tense

He pitches his palatial tense between the sea and the glorious holy mountain, yet he shall come to his end with none to help. At that time, at that time, at the end of that, when he should have none to help, Michael, the great prince, the great prince who has charge of your people. And again, this is, this is Michael whose name means who is like God. He is coming to the fore to protect his, to protect his people.

And his people are the children of Israel. There shall be a time of trouble as such as never has been since there was a nation till now. What does that remind you of? Someone turned to Matthew 24 verse 21 and read that when you get there. And someone else then also be turning to Luke 21 verse 20. So Matthew 24 21 and Luke 21 20.

In both of these instances, this is Jesus talking about the abomination of desolation. Right. So the abomination of desolation, when Daniel talks about it, is Antiochus Epiphines. That's coming. That's in the history. That's in the future. Jesus talking about the abomination of desolation is not referring to Antiochus. That's in the past, hundreds and hundreds of years in the past. Now what he's dealing with, Jesus is dealing with,

is the abomination of desolation, which makes a complete destruction of the children of Israel when Titus comes in 70 AD and levels the city of Jerusalem and leaves not one stone on top of another. So when you're reading Matthew 24 in the early part of that whole chapter, Jesus is talking about what's going to happen in AD 70. You're going to flee to the hills. They're going to leave. And sure enough, when AD 70 came,

It was not a Christian within the walls of Jerusalem. All the Christians had fled. And so as we begin to look at chapter 12, 13 verses, this is the shortest chapter in the book of Daniel. This is the shortest chapter. No. So chapter 11, down through verse four, should be read as part of chapter, part of chapter 11, chapter 12, sorry, chapter 12.

The end of chapter, the end of chapter 11, the first four verses in chapter 12 should be read as part of chapter 11. So you notice that he says, and what is Matthew 24? Go back to Matthew 24. What does that say? Somebody find it? Go back up to, go back up to verse 15. Go back up to verse 15 to that chapter. I think that's probably more relevant to what we need to see. Cause Jesus is going to say the same, same thing that Daniel says here.

So if you read Matthew chapter 24, there's a point in there where Jesus says, there is going to be a time of trouble such as never has been since this, there was a nation till that time. And that's a direct reflection of what Daniel says in chapter 12. So now Antiochus Epiphines is gone. Now chapter 12 deals exclusively with that last empire. Now we're dealing with the Romans and now we're dealing with AD 70. That's correct.

Michael stands watch. Now we have a different, we have a different scene, we have a different scene, but we need to get through these first four verses. So the first four verses are those who sleep in the dust of the earth. This is talking, this, this is talking about these are, this is now talking about the people will be delivered. Christ delivered us. Everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. So these are the early Christians.

Many of these will sleep in the dust of the earth. They shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. This is not the final resurrection. This is the resurrection of a cause. This is the resurrection that Christ brought to the front when he died on the cross. He brought salvation to those and those who chose obtained everlasting life. Some who didn't choose chose shame and everlasting contempt.

And then again, those who are wise, those who understood what Christ said, those who became Christians, shall shine like the brightness of the sky above, and those who turn many to righteousness shall be like stars forever and ever. But you Daniel shut up the words and sealed the book until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase. Now, really 12-5 is the beginning of chapter, really beginning of the new thought. And I Daniel looked and behold two others stood.

So imagine Daniel standing on the banks of the Tigris River, one of the four rivers that flowed from the Garden of Eden. He's standing on the banks of the Tigris. There's an angel standing on the bank next to him. There's an angel standing on the other side of the river and in between standing over the waters is another angel, another angelic messenger. But this angelic messenger in

Verse 7, someone said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream. Verse 7, and I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, raises right and his left hand toward heaven. Who is the angel that is above the waters? Who do you think? It's the pre-incarnate Christ. He's standing above the waters. What happens in the Old Testament when you raise your hand to swear?

Who are you swearing to? You're swearing to God, right? What happens if you raise both of your hands to swear? You are swearing to the almighty God. You are swearing to Yahweh. And this person, this angelic being who is the preying incarnate Christ is swearing to him who lives forever that it would be for a long time, times and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end,

all these things shall be finished. Titus finished all of this in 70 AD. Now the dates that can be a whole, that can be a whole other class. The dates that are here are apocalyptic dates. And if you want to know more about that, I've got all these notes, but we're not going to get to the end of the chapter. So, right. Right. And then the third. Right. So,

What we see here then as we finish to bring this to a close is this chapter 12 deals exclusively with the Roman Empire deals exclusively with 70 AD. And I apologize for not being here last week. So we could have done chapter 11 and we could have done a lot more with chapter 12 this week. But if you have questions after you reach chapter 12, just come to me and we can talk about it. Thank you for your attendance throughout the, throughout the 13 weeks. I hope you've enjoyed Daniel as much as I have.