Summary
We have seen that The Book of Daniel is divided into twelve chapters
which are themselves dealing with separate phases of the timings of the
Babylonian systems or Empires and their rule of the world under the god of this
world and the Religious system he invented to undermine the nation of Israel
and the tribe of Judah.
The text shows that it is God who determines ruler ship and power. It is
He as the One True God demands loyalty and fidelity in all aspects of the
faith.
As we saw the first Element or chapter dealt with the captivity of Judah
and the selection and movement of the princes of Judah in line with the
Biblical prophecies. They were tested as to their faith and the keeping of the
Laws of God which commenced with the tests of the Food Laws and the
commandments as they applied to their loyalty to the God of the Bible.
Chapter 2 dealt
with the establishment of the time frame of the remainder of the age over the
six Empires from the Babylonian (gold), Medo-Persian (silver); the Greek
(bronze) and the Roman (iron). All these Empires drew their influence from the
Babylonian systems and the religious influences that emerges from there and
which had spread around the world but which were to develop into the world
systems until the time of the end. They would be destroyed by Messiah at his
coming with the Heavenly Host at the end of this age.
Daniel cannot be understood apart from the other Bible texts and
specifically the prophecies work in conjunction with the Book of Ezekiel and
follows on from the prophecies of Isaiah concerning the Messiah and the Plan of
Salvation (No. 001A).
Also the prophecy of Pharaoh’s Broken Arms, when viewed with the Book of
Daniel, shows the sheer magnitude of the system from 605 BCE to 1997 CE and the
beginning of the final Empire of the Beast ending this Age in 2027 CE (cf. Fall of Egypt Part I (No.
036) and Fall of Egypt Part II:
Wars of the End (No. 036_2)).
Ezekiel explains the division of the kings of the North and the South
and the beginning of the two struggling kingdoms and sources of power and
conflict over the age. The prophecy of Daniel Chapter 3 shows that the
underlying conflict between the servants of the God of this earth, symbolized
by the Chaldeans, and the servants of the One True God, who was symbolized by
the Jews and their loyalty to Him. Israel had already been sent into captivity
under the Assyrians in 722 BCE. At the root of this conflict was the idolatry
that symbolized the root cause of sin, which was the worship of any other God
than He who was the One True God. He was
Eloah or Elaha/Elahh who was Ha Elohim - The God who is
Father of all and the Creator. The word “sin” is derived from this worship of
the Moon God Sin of the Babylonians whose worship runs contrary to the Laws of God (L1).
In this second test Shadrach, Meshach and Abed’Nego
were tested and they were cast, by decree of the King, into the fiery furnace
and were saved and brought out of there by an angel of the Lord in the sight of
the king of Babylon.
By this act they were elevated in the sight of the King and in the sight
of all men and became rulers of the area of Babylon under Daniel who had been
previously elevated by explaining the dream of Chapter 2 and its meaning.
Chapter 4 deals
with the vision of the Seven Times and ties Daniel into the sequence of
Ezekiel. Both these prophecies were
sealed until the time of the end and they cannot be understood without the
others. The sequence of the Empires of
Chapter 2 were to commence with the Babylonian system from the Battle of
Carchemish in 605 BCE over two forty year periods to the invasion of Egypt by
Cambyses in 525 BCE, and which was to last for 2520 years and culminate in the
period of the Eighty years from 1916 CE to the end of the Time of the Gentiles
in 1996/7 CE and which saw the final period from 1997-2027 at the end of the
120th Jubilee in Atonement 2027. This was exactly 40 Jubilees or
2000 years from the declaration of the Acceptable Year of the Lord in 27 CE.
And the end of the 6000 years from the expulsion of Adam from Eden and the
appointment of Satan as the god of this world from the expulsion, beginning the
6000 years of his rule from 3974 BCE, thirty years after Adam’s creation in
4004 BCE. The declaration began the
Third or Last Phase of the Age which began the Spiritual Temple of God from 70
CE as prophesied from Daniel chapter 9:24-26.
It was only from this time of Christ and the formation of the church and
then the fall of the Roman Empire that we could proceed to the Fifth and Sixth
Empires of the Feet of iron and miry clay from 590 CE to 1850 CE and then on
into the 20th Century to the Time of Jacob’s Trouble and the end
phase of the eighty years culminating in the Empire of the Ten Toes of iron and
miry clay. The final Sixth Empire of the Ten Toes will be crushed by Messiah
and the Loyal Host over the Last Sabbath cycle of the 120th Jubilee
of this Age. The iron and miry clay signifies that it had the iron of the Roman
system but it was broken into the political disfunction of the nations and that
remained even under the Sixth Empire of the Beast system.
Daniel was not concerned with the prophecy of Messiah. That had been
given through Isaiah. Nor was it concerned with the prophecy of the Warnings of the Last Days
(No. 044) and the placement of Israel and the destruction of the Last
Days, as that has been given through the prophet Jeremiah (4:15-27). Daniel was
concerned solely with the establishment of the Temple of God and Construction
of the Physical Temple and the destruction of the Physical Temple and its
replacement with the Spiritual Temple in 70 CE, which had been formed from the
Sacrifice of Messiah as a human in 30 CE as foretold by Isaiah Chapter 53. The
destruction and replacement is the prophetic focus of Daniel 9:24-26ff. and
only ends with the return of the Messiah with the Loyal Host at the end as
foretold in Chapter 12.
Chapter 5 dealt
with the transfer of power from the Babylonian Empire to the Medo-Persian
Empire. The final occasion of offence
was due to the sacrilege of Belshazzar misusing the gold and silver vessels of
the Temple at a banquet. However, his
father Nabonidas, who ruled conjointly with him, had
re-established worship of the Moon God Sin and had placed his daughter as High
Priestess of the Cult to the West of Babylon. This was the final stage of the
Babylonians and they were given to the Medes and Persians in succession as the
Second Empire of silver.
The prophecy of the
restoration of Israel
The Line of David was given a princess of the Persians in marriage more
or less following on from the prophecies of Esther (F017) and
the extension into the last days as Purim in the Last Days
(F017B) cf. also David and the Exilarchs to the House of Windsor (No. 067).
It is thus obvious that the royal house of the Persians was favourably disposed to the Jews and that house extended
into the Medes with Darius the Mede whose mother was a Persian and sister of
Cyrus.
It was by that connection that the Persians had issued the decree for
the Restoration of Jerusalem and the Temple under Cyrus. The period of
construction extended down to Darius II, the Persian, and to Artaxerxes II for
the Restoration under Ezra and Nehemiah (cf. Sign of Jonah
and the History of the Reconstruction of the Temple (No. 013)).
The extension into the Last Days was prophesied also through the
prophets Habakkuk (F035)
and Haggai (F037). Jerusalem
was retaken by the Australian Light Horse in 1917 on 7 December 1917 which was
24 Chislev according to the Temple Calendar as prophesied by Haggai.
24 Chislev, according to Hillel, was 9 December and so the 20th
century Jews have rearranged the record of activities there (cf. Wikipedia) to
concentrate on the British Garrison that took position on that date (to falsely
support Hillel) after the city had been taken on the 7th December by
the ALH in accordance with prophecy under the Temple calendar both in Haggai
and Habakkuk above.
Chapter 6 notes
that Darius (it was Darius the Mede) set Daniel as one of the three presidents
to whom the Satraps would report. That was later increased to 127 in
total. Subsequently, Daniel was proposed
to be established as head of the kingdom over Satraps and presidents and so
they sought to destroy him. They established a law so that under the law of the
Medes and Persians if the king were to pass that law not even he could undo or
break it. They lied claiming that all the presidents and Satraps agreed as they
obviously did not even tell Daniel, let alone consult with him. Thus his
praying publicly to God three times a day would break the law and force him to
be thrown in the lion’s den.
The king was forced to comply and order him to be thrown into the den.
An angel of God appeared in the den and saved Daniel. As a result all those who conspired against
Daniel were themselves, with their families, destroyed in the den as they had
sought to kill Daniel. This was established as the standard punishment for
those who sought to kill a prophet of God and will be carried out in the Last
Days under the Witnesses (cf. No. 141D)).
So also God was declared the supreme deity and to be acknowledged to be
to the end (6:26). It was He that
delivers and rescues and works signs and wonders both in heaven and on earth
(v. 27).
Chapter 7 speaks
of the Four Beasts that constituted the successive powers of the nations and
last Beast that tore down the nations and was judged by the court before the
Ancient of Days.
The son of man was presented and then given authority over all peoples
and nations and that authority was given to the loyal servants of the Messiah
and the Body of Christ and power was transferred to the Seventy and their
people (Lk. 10:1,17). This was the last
transfer of power of the Seventy plus two; the first being the sons of God to
the elders of Israel at Sinai, from the sons of God as per Deuteronomy 32 (Not
the MT and KJV cf. RSV, LXX and DSS (in v. 8)), to the Sanhedrin at Exodus
(Num. 11:16ff.).
The fourth Beast shall seek to destroy the elect and he shall wear out
the saints of the Most High but they will be given the kingdom and dominion
under the whole heaven and all dominions shall serve them (6:24-27). This is
the final power arising from the final or Sixth Empire of Ten Toes and which
will devour the whole earth. He will again seek to change times and the law, as
did the Fifth Empire of the Feet of iron and miry clay, or Holy Roman Empire
before it.
The Messiah declared the Acceptable Year of the Lord in 27 CE and then
established the Church of God, which was built on the Patriarchs and the
Prophets before them (cf. Establishment of The
Church under the Seventy (No. 122D)).
This sequence was to last until it took over the entire world in the
last Sabbath Cycle of the 120th Jubilee at the Return of the Messiah
and the First Resurrection of the
Dead (No. 143A).
They also introduced Saints’ Days to the pseudo-Christian Church.
The second false system of Hadithic Islam was moved into Mecca from
Becca ca. 699 CE and established there after the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs
and the Abbasid revolution (cf. Becca and the Four
Rightly Guided Caliphs (Q001D)).
In Chapter 8
Daniel is given a vision of the second Transfer of power from the Medo-Persians
to the Greeks. This Empire determined the time of the desecration of the Temple
after the Greeks had been divided and became the Empires of North as the Kings
of the North under the Seleucids and the Kings of the South ruling Egypt under
the Ptolemies.
The prophecy of two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings (v. 14)
commences with the Greek victory at the Battle of the Granicus River (334) and
ends with the sanctuary being restored to its rightful state. Exactly 2300 years from the Battle of the
Granicus River sees the year 1967. This was the year of the Arab–Israeli Six
Day War and the Temple Mount was restored to the State of Israel as a result of
their victory in the war. The sequence is explained in the Commentary on Daniel
Chapter 8.
In Chapter 9
Daniel sees that according to Jeremiah there were so many years left for the
desolation of Israel, in total seventy years. He then turned to God in prayer
and fasting in sackcloth and confessed the sins of Israel. He confessed that
all Israel had sinned against God and the Law of God which is key to retaining
the protection of God.
After he had made supplication, the Angel Gabriel was sent at the
Evening Sacrifice to speak to Daniel.
Daniel then gave the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks of Years that was to
end with the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE at Jerusalem and the closure of
the Temple at Heliopolis in Egypt the same year by order of Vespasian. The
Temple was constructed by Onias IV ca 160 BCE in
accordance with the prophecy in Isaiah 19:19. The Spiritual Temple of the
church had removed to Pella after the martyrdom of James in 63/4 CE at the end
of the 69 weeks of years. This prophecy was to be understood from the time it
was given and so the church knew and understood that they had to flee Jerusalem
and its environs and they went to Pella for protection, as it had requested a
Roman Garrison.
Chapter 10 is
actually a prologue to the prophecies of the transfer to the Roman system and
the conflicts of the kings of the North and South and how Rome was to become
the king of the North in Chapter
11.
Chapter 12 deals
with the Return of the Messiah and the Resurrections of the Dead both the First Resurrection (No.
143A) and the Second Resurrection and
Great White Throne Judgment (No. 143B) at the end of the Millennium.
(cf. Rev. Ch. 20).
The Wars of the End in these last days are examined in the sequence:
Wars of the End Part I:
Wars of Amalek (No. 141C);
Wars of the End Part II:
1260 Days of the Witnesses (No. 141D);
Wars of the End Part III:
Armageddon and the Vials of the Wrath of God (No. 141E);
Wars of the End Part
IIIB: War Against Christ (No. 141E_2);
Wars of the End Part IV:
End of False Religion (No. 141F);
Wars of the End
Part IVB: End of the Age (No. 141F_2);
Wars of the End Part V:
Restoration for the Millennium (No. 141G); and
Wars of the End Part VB:
Preparing the Elohim (No. 141H).
See the
Diagrams listed below.
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