Daniel Chapter 7 - The Identity of the Little Horn Power, Why it’s Not Antiochus Epiphanes – Part 2

[Music] [Music] welcome back to angels in the Glen today we're going to continue our study in Daniel chapter 7 building off the patterns of Daniel chapter 2 now in the first part we saw that we built off the patterns of Daniel chapter 2 on the screen you see the metalman image head of gold chest and arms of silver belly and thighs of bronze legs of iron feet of iron and clay followed by a stone and that stone would go on to a great mountain filled the whole earth and we saw the same pattern emerged with a little bit more detail in Daniel chapter seven successive world kingdoms followed by Jesus Christ followed by God's eternal Kingdom okay and we saw a lion representing Babylon then a bear raised up on one side meaning medo-persian Empire Persia would grow stronger it had three ribs in its mouth does that ring a bell B e el head to conquer Babylon Lydia and Egypt Babylon Egypt Lydia that was actually the order that it conquered it Babylon Lydia Egypt BL e but bell sounds easier to remember and then followed by medo-persia came what the kingdom of Greece that's right which was a leopard it had four heads and that those four heads represented the Fallen Greek Macedonian Empire after Alexander the Great Falls his generals would split up the kingdom can you clasp that idea CL SP Cassander Lysimachus Seleucid Ptolemy and those are the divided kingdoms of the Greek Empire around 300 AD 300 B 300 BC and then it's followed by a ferocious beast okay it has iron teeth representing Rome and that beast would have ten horns okay in the same way that the legs of iron would have would continue on it wouldn't fall entirely the legs of iron will transition to the feet of what iron and clay ten toes in feet ten horns on this beast okay we're gonna unpack more about those ten horns and then there was a little horn that comes up from among it okay and it was had a mouth and eyes and was speaking with boastful words and then what happened we saw a judgment scene the Ancient of Days took his seat courts at books were opened okay so this is a courtroom scene this is the heavenly courtroom scene Christ Jesus son of man approaches and is presented before the Ancient of Days and he receives a kingdom that it's Dominion is everlasting it will not pass away it will never be destroyed okay that's the pattern now let's pick it up in verse 15 watch this as for me Daniel my spirit was distressed within me and the visions in my mind kept alarming me I approached one of those who were standing by and began asking him the exact meaning of all this so he told me and made known to me the interpretation of these things okay now this angelic being is going to give him a summary of the entire Book of Daniel 7 Tyre chapter of Daniel 7 look at what he says this is the summary verse 17 these great beasts which are four in number are four kings who will arise from the earth there's no guessing at what these beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth verse 18 but the Saints of the highest one will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever for all ages to come okay God's people possess the kingdom forever that's wonderful prophecy gives us hope this is why prophecy is not just about history or some symbol symbols that don't really mean anything no these symbols mean something and it's pointing us to a deeper truth that while there's world successive kingdoms that are beasts in power that are antagonistic against God's people in the end when Christ returns the saints of God possess the kingdom forever and forever for all ages to come and it won't be given to another people that's the summary of the Book of Daniel chapter 7 right there now let's get some more detail here and this is the pattern I want you to see emerge look at Daniel 7 verses 19 through 22 and let's go through it and I want to show you this larger pattern that emerges because we're gonna get some more detail okay really important because what we want to do is we want to identify who this little horn is we want to accurately identify who this little horn is from the Bible verse 19 then I desired to know the exact meaning of the fourth beast which was different from all the others okay exceedingly dreadful with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze and which devoured crushed and trampled down the remainder with his feet oh wait a second hold on did you notice that what's going on with that verse it says it says with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze huh I thought we were talking about the the the Roman Empire here right because legs of iron okay it's got teeth of iron but then why would it have claws of bronze I mean doesn't bronze point to the Greek Empire yeah that's exactly right you said you know what the Roman Empire loved old tradition they loved the old and the ancient okay they respected it in fact they respected the Greek Empire even though they had conquered it okay and so what they did was in fact it's called the Greco Greco Roman Empire so to speak because they actually liked the way the Greeks organized their gods and goddesses except they said oh you know what we like the idea of the god of Zeus but let's call him Jupiter okay and so what they did was they transition I'm not here to go through all that history but they basically they took the gods that Greek gods and goddesses and gave them new names for their Roman gods in fact Greek was the language was a very popular language the the the educated in the elite actually wrote and spoke Greek even Marcus Aurelius one of the famous emperors in the Roman Empire would actually write his meditations in Greek translated today we can read them in English today so it's no coincidence that there would the Greek culture would be influenced on the Roman Empire okay that's why it has the the bronze Claus let's keep going verse 20 it says and the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head the other horn which came up remember this is that little horn that came up after the ten horns and before which three of them fell namely that the horn which had eyes and a mouth uttering great Bose and which was larger in appearance than its associates okay we're learning a few more things about this little horn okay it says the horn which came up and before which three of them fell okay three of those horns fell namely the horn which had eyes in a mouth or and grace bosun which was large an appearance in its associates verse 21 I kept looking and that horn that little horn was waging war with the Saints and overpowering them until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the Saints of the highest one and the time arrived when the Saints took possession of the kingdom now I've highlighted some keywords on the screen there and I want to basically point this out because a pattern is emerging in verses 19 20 21 and 22 and that is Rome little horn judgment look at the pattern that emerges the fourth beast Rome then we move to the little horn and then it says the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the highest one okay so you have Rome little horn judgment all right that's the pattern you see okay Rome little horn waging war judgment and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom now look at the interpretation in the next four verses okay you're gonna see the same pattern emerge but it's gonna be a detailed explanation of that pattern of Rome little horn judgment pick it up in verse 23 thus he said the fourth beast will be a fourth Kingdom okay no question about it beast is a kingdom this fourth beast is a fourth Kingdom on the earth which will be differ from the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and shred it down and crush it that's exactly what Rome would do verse 24 as for the ten horns out of this kingdom ten Kings will arise and another will arise after them so what are horns and Bible prophecy no question about it right here Daniel 7 verse 24 10 Kings will arise 10 horns 10 Kings and another will arise after them another King will arise after them that's that little horn back to the scriptures and he will be different from the previous ones he's different and will subdue three kings he'll take them out verse 25 he will speak out against the Most High and wear down the Saints and the highest one stop right there whoa one of these kings is gonna speak out against who he's gonna speak out against God Almighty God the Father okay it's attacking a God he speaks out against the Most High back to the scriptures and wear down the saints of the highest one meaning there'll be persecution of the Saints and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law huh we're learning a little bit more about what this little horner this little King is doing okay keep reading on and they will be given into his hand for a time times and half a time okay that's a prophetic time period we're gonna unpack that in a minute it's verse 26 but the court will sit for judgment and his Dominion will be taken away that is the little horn annihilated and destroyed forever verse 27 then the sovereignty the Dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the highest one remember the whole picture that you're seeing here in Daniel chapter 7 is God gives the kingdom to the Saints of the highest one that's the message here finish out the scripture his kingdom will be an everlasting Kingdom and all the dominions will serve and obey Him on the screen same pattern emerges fourth Kingdom Rome another will arise this is one of the little horn judgment Rome little horn judgment okay let's unpack these scriptures even more because who is this little horn there's a lot talking about this little horn okay a lot is going on here this is war against the Saints okay let's go back to verse 8 it says Daniel says this while I was contemplating the horns okay Daniel is contemplating he's thinking about he's pondering them he's basically thinking through about these 10 horns he's thinking about the successor States after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and behold that means look anytime you see behold in the Bible that means look look behold another horn a little one came up among them okay I want you to get the picture of this a little horn comes up from where among the ten horns okay physically geographically you pictured this physically geographically you have the successor states of the Roman Empire successor States okay those are the German barbaric tribes the allamani the Burgundians the the franks the Lombards you keep going okay symbolically representing ten okay they varied in number we talked about that in Daniel 2 okay a little horn comes up from among them okay and so they come up with in that Western Roman Empire among those barbaric tribes that's where this King comes up from and it says three of the first horns were pulled up by the roots before it if you pull something out by the roots what does that mean yeah that means you've completely eliminated it okay you clip something off at the top not much you take it out by the roots you've completely removed it it's not coming back okay and behold this horn this King possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth are in great boasts let's do this let's identify ten characteristics of this little horn and then we're gonna unpack the unpack who this little horn is it's very important I want to give you ten characteristics of this little horn it's a little horn we got that in verse eight it comes up from among the ten horns okay three horns are pulled up by the roots okay that means three Kings are pulled it by the roots it has an out eyes and mouth speaking great Bose verse five or number five characters number five it speaks out against the Most High okay that's clear number six it arises after the fourth Kingdom and after the ten horns now that's very important to understand and I'm underscoring this and highlighting this one I want I really want to drive home this point it arises after the fourth Kingdom and after the ten horns now I am NOT trying to insult your intelligence I want you to look on the screen and I want to ask this one simple question I'm gonna ask you this did the horn arise did the lion have a horn no the lion did not have a horn okay the horn that little horn didn't come up during the Babylonian period no of course it didn't did the bear have a horn no of course the bear had three ribs in its mouth it has no horns what about the leopard did the leopard have a horn no the leopard that that Greek Empire did not have a horn that is speaking great boasts and a mouth with eyes and everything like that no it doesn't now let me ask you this the next Kingdom after that this great ferocious beast did this beast have that little horn okay pause yes but only after the ten horns come up okay so that beast ferocious exceedingly strong has ten horns and then a little horn comes up from among them okay and then it removes three so it arises after the fourth Kingdom and after the ten horns that means that that little horn in the history of time has to be after 476 ad because it would be 476 ad that the political entity of the Roman Empire would end and it transitions into the successor states the German barbaric tribes so it has to come up after 476 ad that's a very important point to understand that's number six number seven it's different from the horns it persecutes the Saints it intends to make alterations in times and laws that's number nine and number ten the Saints are given into his hand for a time times and half a time now there's more that we can discuss about this but those are ten characteristics of this little horn which we spent basically half the chapter talking about half of the chapter of Daniel 7 is basically talking about the ten characteristics of this little horn alright now I want to point this out to you this is a prophetic time period number ten Saints are given into his hand for a time times and a half time meaning that would be a time prophecy period of a time times and half a time how do we translate that how does that translate into literal days and years that we can understand well let's take a look at it on the screen time times and half a time that would be a prophetic year of a time would be one prophetic year times plural with an S would be two prophetic years and a half a time would be just that a half of a prophetic year that means we have three and a half total prophetic years now remember when we study the day for your principle in Daniel chapter one we said that any time you see a day in Bible prophecy you translate that into a literal year well we've got three and a half prophetic years so how many prophetic days would that be well let's first convert today's so how many prophetic days are in a prophetic year well using a lunar calendar of 30 days per month 12 months that means 1 prophetic year would have 360 prophetic days as we keep going along times to write prophetic years there would be 360 times 2 would be 720 and a half of a prophetic year would be 180 days if you add those up 360 720 180 1260 days so now we're talking about a time times and half a ton that's essentially 1260 prophetic days meaning day for your principle we would have 1260 literal years that's how long the time period will be that this little horn would take the God Saints captive okay they would be given into his hand okay here's 10 characteristics of the little horn on the screen all the way down to number 10 Saints given into his hand for a time times and half a time 1260 literal years we're in the area of the successor states of the Roman Empire after 476 okay arises after the fourth king and after the ten horns just take a look at this take a look at this timeline horizontally on the screen you've got Babylon medo-persia Greece Rome 476 okay western roman empire ends successor states of the Western Roman Empire emerge after 476 the German barbaric tribes and it has that little horn has to come up okay at the after that time period and it would take the Saints cabbage for twelve hundred and sixty years now before we identify who this little horn is I want to give you context and I want you to take a look at this timeline on the screen the it's important that we have context around who this little horn is and and our human nature's okay if you look in the timeline you'll see the creation the flood the exodus Babylonian captivity destruction of Jerusalem okay at creation and then you see the timeline of the Babylonian Empire medo-persia Greece Rome divided room Europe 2000 ad just to today okay now I want to point something out God creates the heavens in the earth and at creation says Adam you know have dominion over the the earth the animals the beasts and he says just don't eat one of the trees in the tree Garden of Eden but Adam eats the forbidden fruit and he falls okay he is disobedient okay if you move to so this is an example of deception okay Satan deceived Eve Adam was so devoted to Eve that he didn't want to her died and so he eats the forbidden fruit disobeys God okay and mankind is plunged into sin after the flood right remember when we reached the flood though the righteous are just Noah and his family eight people are on the boat they come off the boat and it's not too many years later that the Tower of Babel is established okay descendants from Noah's the righteous his righteous family would fall into apostasy and they would actually build a tower veiler putting the strength on themselves building this tall tower so that if another flood occurs they would be able to survive it okay even after God releases his people and brings them out of bondage from Egypt what happens he brings them to his holy mountain and he gives them the Ten Commandments and not within just a few weeks later they're worshiping a golden calf right after they did all the miracles of releasing him from Egypt and bring through the Red Sea and to his holy mountain they are now in apostasy their worship being false gods and false idols okay this is important to understand because when we identified this little horn I want you to see the nature of humankind and then the pervasiveness of sin in our own lives why did they go why did God let the children of Israel go off into captivity in Babylon because they had sinned he sent messenger after messenger after messenger to them and they continued to despise and mock him they didn't want to hear it okay stop sinning stop sinning but then his his patience runs out and he's got to take him captive to Babylon and even after he takes them captive to Babylon and the seventy years are complete he brings him back some actually stayed in Babylon okay and they had neglect for rebuilding in the house of God they were more concerned about their own houses okay by the time you get to Christ you have self-righteous ritualistic Pharisees who are just ensconced and emboldened in their way of life Jesus would even say you search the scriptures yet in them they speak of me they missed the first coming of Christ because they were so religious and Farris itical in their ways their hearts were hardened and they were hard they didn't they had the scriptures but they didn't understand them and I'm saying this because when we identify this little horn we need to take a look at our own sinful nature in fact Paul would put people on guard with the scriptures in the New Testament that in the church there would be wolves that would come up among them acts 20 verse 28 Paul says this be on guard for yourselves for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to Shepherd the Church of God which he purchased with his own blood I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you not sparing the flock and from among your own selves men will arise speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them you see Paul understand what's going what's going on from within Church would come a falling away ships walls would come in and they would basically speak perverse things and draw disciples after themselves okay he would actually speak of this in multiple occasions look on the screen here in Galatians he has to remind them you foolish Galatians you were doing so well what caused you to fall away okay why do you think that you can perfect your own self by the law it's only through faith in Christ that you're saved he's got to correct the errors from early believers in Philippians he says they all seek after their own interests not those of Jesus Christ in first Timothy 5:15 some have already turned aside to follow Satan okay in second Timothy 3:8 so these men also oppose the truth men of depraved mind rejected in regard to the faith you see there's a constant spiritual attack going on even after the church is established at Pentecost okay the church is under attack savage wolves are coming in Satan wants to distract men from the truth men and women and children in the whole world from the truth and he does this in fact Paul has to emphasize this in second Thessalonians 2 verse 1 he says now we request you brethren with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him that you do not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as it is from us to the effect that the day of the Lord has come look what he says in verse 3 let no one in any way deceive you for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first okay apostasy apostasy means falling away meaning a falling away from the gospel of Jesus Christ from the Apostolic gospel that the Apostles preached when Christ rose from the dead okay he said a falling away from the church would have to come first and the man of lawlessness is revealed the son of destruction who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship so that he takes his seat in the temple of God display himself as being God okay a lot of people are miss applying the scriptures here because they're thinking a literal temple in literal Jerusalem when this is talking about spiritual Jerusalem okay this is spiritual Babylon okay the apostasy must happen first first John 2:18 children it is the last hour and just as you heard that Antichrist is coming even now many antichrists have appeared for this we know that is it the last hour I should say this Antichrist you might think someone who opposes Christ or who is against Christ but it also means at the same time Antichrist it means someone who stands in the place of Christ okay a substitute for Christ alright let's keep going so look at this we have Babylon medo-persia Greece Rome divided Rome one thing I want to point out is this is that in 312 ad things change okay this is after the cross of Christ 31 ad in 312 ad Constantine the Great in a dream or literally he sees a Christian sign in the sky followed by these words by this sign you will conquer okay and it's chai row it's the first symbols of Christ and he basically has his men paint this symbol on their shields and he defeats Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian bridge okay and now he becomes the sole ruler of the Western Roman Empire okay this is in 312 and that changes his mind towards Christians he actually now becomes the favored Christianity now this wasn't true of previous Roman empires okay previously Christians were persecuted and it was sporadic I mean most Romans even after the time of Christ they were offended by Christians why were they offended by Christians and I need to I need to go through this history sorry bear with me I know this is a deep Bible study but I need to give the history so that we understand who this little horn is so I just need 10 minutes of your time to really understand the history of this so the Romans are generally offended by Christians why they're offended by Christians because you should be sacrificing to the Roman gods and they weren't sacrificing to the Roman gods and the idea behind it was if you sacrifice to the Roman gods then the Roman gods will be benevolent towards us and they will caused our harvest as harvest to be plentiful and there won't be floods and earthquakes and so when they see the Christians not sacrificing to the Roman gods they're thinking oh the Roman gods are gonna bring wrath upon us so when an earthquake a fire a flood or there's a bad harvest or severe weather that destroys crops or something like that happens they say Christians they blame the Christians all right now in fact what's interesting is different Emperor's had different attitudes Christians and Emperor Trajan would actually establish a I guess my words Don't Ask Don't Tell policy or at least from what I've read basically it's a policy that basically says Roman officials aren't to expose Christians nor are they to engage in anonymous accusations now by the time you get to 302 303 ad Diocletian takes a drastic turn and Diocletian hates Christians and he persecutes them for 10 years until Constantine wins at the Battle of Milvian bridge and it changes everything and what Constantine does by 313 ad is he issues the Edict of Milan now the edict and banana is basically this it says be benevolent towards Christians okay he basically says you can be a Christian freely and openly without molestation all are free to worship as he pleases and property that previously was confiscated he returns to the Christians Christian churches were returned and turned back over to the Christians so he believes they might have divine favor and preserve and prosper their success together for the good of the state okay drastic shift now it's not that Constantine suddenly gained religion okay he says oh oh Christianity Jesus Christ died for my sins no it's different he still has embossed on his coins sol invictus or Unconquered Sun and that's the Sun God he was still the chief priests he was the pontiff s magnimous of the Roman church-state cult but constancy Constantine sees Christianity as the means by which he can hold the empire together because think about this he has a vast empire ok he has multiple diverse cultural identities across the Empire from the Visigoths the German barbaric tribes to Africans - to the Greeks and and it's like how can he keep the Kingdom together and he realizes Christianity is a means by which he can do it because it transcends all those diverse cultural cultures and he says wow you can be a Greek you can be Latin you can be a slave you can be free you can be gentle you can be Jew you can be poor you can be rich you can be anything and you can be a Christian and that's how he says says so he by transforming the Roman Empire into a Christian Empire Constantine can now unify the splintering Empire and succeed in holding it together now here's what something interesting ok if you look on the screen you see the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD I need to unpack that a little bit what that means is this basically a Christian priest named arias starts to teach a doctrine that Christ is not of the same substance of God okay that Christ was actually a created being this is what arias preached okay now arias was gaining father were followers and the bishop from Alexandria Egypt excommunicates him because he believes that Christ wasn't the same substance as the Father okay and that's where this teaching would be called Arianism okay that Christ was not of the same substance Constantine picks this up and he says wait a second wait a second look at this there are factions developing up in the church and there's different doctrines and different beliefs this is not good so in an unprecedented move by his own authority he calls the church council constantine the emperor of rome calls a church council and says let's settle this and essentially that's where they have the Council of Nicaea and at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD that would be the establishment of the fact and the doctrine that Christ is of the essence of God in fact it says very god of very God begotten not made being of one substance with the father and that would result in the Nicene Creed because Constantine Constantine wanted the church to flourish and he gave them all sorts of advantages Christian priests were equal to the priests of the Roman gods he exempts them from taxes state and even state responsibilities that might interfere with their religious duties um you can even leave your property to the church okay now the council of nicea in 325 D wasn't the final word on arianism but it did advocate that Christ was one with the Father and so what happens is there's still controversy over this that teaching still is pervasive in fact it's pervading all levels of society okay people are talking about it some people believe that Christ is one with the father other believe know he was created being by 380 ad Theodosius the next emperor basically declares that the Nicene Creed is the one true faith and threatens dissenters with legal penalties at least he tries to he basically says he calls into being a single unified Catholic that means universal a Catholic Christian Church applying to all mankind and he issues the Edict of Thessalonica in 380 ad on the screen you can see that basically Christianity it becomes the official state religion of the Roman Empire amazing now think about this Rome embraces is a polytheistic Empire worshiping multiple gods and now by three hundred eighty AD Rome the Roman Empire becomes Christian nation and so the idea of a heretic now is defined by law and it's punishable if you offend and break those particular rules and regulations and laws of what would define a heretic now he wanted uniformity throughout his empire now here's where it gets interesting Theodosius separate from any church state religion issue that's going on a riot breaks out that's unrelated to any religious Arianism and he deals with the riots swiftly he basically has all the people associated with the riot killed okay he just wants to deal with it quickly and this this doesn't go over well with the Bishop of Milan okay and Ambrose the Bishop of Milan basically excommunicates Theodosius from the church okay which is really interesting because he felt that he he basically would execute he came from the church and he wouldn't allow him to take the Eucharist okay the Lord's Supper I mean and that was the right that would separate believers from unbelievers okay now Theodosius doesn't take any action for about eight months okay he's trying to decide what to do because he he basically is struggling with this does he turn his back on the Eucharist and deny Ambrose's authority because if he did he would reveal that the Christian Church was in fact not greater than the emperor now he realizes that the church in his own mind was greater than the state and it held the empire together so he basically subjects himself to the authority of the bishop and and offers several months of penance and what he does even further after that is he orders that all Roman temples are closed and abandoned so that the Christians could knock them down and build Christian churches okay he announces that the Olympic Games will be held one final time before their permanent cancellation and he announces that any act of worship made in honor of the old Roman gods would be an act of treachery against the Emperor himself amazing a vast shift from a polytheistic religions empire into a monotheistic single Christian Empire now one more thing after 380 AD by 429 ad Emperor Theodosius ii forms a committee to codify all the laws since constantine back in 312 because the laws were written over all over the place and he wanted to codify put them all reduce the redundancy clean up loose laws and everything it takes 22 scholars 9 years to complete 16 books total covering political socio nominal cultural religious subjects and in it the codified law includes the imposition of what we'll call orthodoxy okay because since arianism was a controversy at that time it was ongoing it had 65 decrees against heretics I think about this sixty-five decrees in the state law against heretics if you don't believe a certain way if you don't do this if you don't do that then you can be punishable by law because of your religious practice now this is where it gets very interesting the barbarian tribes are hearing of Arianism and Orthodox Christianity and Clovis the first king of the Franks embraces Catholic Christianity and he essentially goes after the Visigoths in 508 ad because they were Arian okay he embraces the Theodosia law code the 65° against heretics and he now is partnering with the Catholic Church essentially church and state are merging and under Belisarius the general Belisarius from the east under Justinian he would go after the vista bandulus and Oster gossin 534 and 538 ad because they too were Arian so you can see up on the screen right there okay Catholic Christianity was the only faith in town these are the three horns that were removed okay that little horn power would what uproot three horns those were the initial dates when those particular kingdoms were attacked because of religion religious differences okay it had nothing to do with military conquest it had everything to do with religious authority and religious orthodoxy okay those are the three horns that removed and there was no Baptist there was no Methodist there was no Protestant at this time no there was only one church okay and so I want to point this out Biden on May 7th in 538 ad on the screen the 3rd Synod of Orleans would re-establish old church laws and passing of new ones and this would be he intends to change times and law in Daniel 7 okay that happens in 530 ad I'm going to come back to that particular date May 7th 538 ad as we continue studying when we get to Revelation because that would be the beginning of the time times and half a time okay and if 538 ad is establishment of the beginning of the time times and half a time we identified that as 1260 literal years let's add this to the screen 1260 literal years would lead us to 1798 okay now let me ask you this question there's only one entity that fits those ten descriptions that we just identified there's more descriptors there's more characteristics in Daniel chapter 7 but I just gave you ten okay there's only one entity that can fit all those descriptors in fact we have it's a little Kingdom it comes up from among the ten horns three horns are pulled eyes and mouth speaking great boasts it speaks out against the Most High it's a religious entity it arises after the fourth after the ten horns it's different from the other horns it persecutes the saints it intends to make alterations and times and law and the Saints are given into his hand for a time times and half a time okay there's only one entity that can be this power what power existed from 538 to 1798 there's only one power that existed it's the church state system of the Middle Ages okay the saints of God were in this system okay it wasn't that the people were bad no they were the Saints they were taken captive but the system was corrupted from within and we need to be careful as individuals when we start to move away from the Bible and start to adopt traditions of men and start to allow the world to creep in the same thing can happen as what happened during the Middle Ages when the Word of God is compromised and traditions of men are replaced for the laws of God okay and that allowed this power this church takes system okay corrupted the church from within and it caused and it persecuted the Saints okay this is not and now that power ended in 1798 I think about this 1798 birth the general birth da Napoleon's general storms Vatican City tapes Pope Pius the six captive insists to the Italians you have your freedom back okay now the French Revolution is the most is the most significant event in Western civilization why because the church state system comes crashing down monarchy comes crashing down equality Liberty for all mankind and so that church date system ends in 1798 judgment was taken okay Church a system is never before to that's done away with okay that was during the Middle Ages but God's Saints were the ones that were taken captive okay this isn't against any one people or anything like that says these are God's people I want you to understand that this is where our church came from this is what happened this is what happened this happened during the Middle Ages and I don't have time to cover all that history but I just want you to understand that little lauren power is nothi than the church state system of the middlee medieval ages now think about this remember legs of iron legs of iron and they transition into what feet of iron and clay right you have the Roman Empire by the time you move into the Middle Ages what do you have a Dan another descriptor Holy Roman Empire where did that come from that's exactly right Holy Roman Empire Church state system combined all right this is why our forefathers and Western civilization at after the French Revolution would say you know what we want to make sure this doesn't happen again and so a first amendment in our Constitution is essentially there should be no law established in terms of any religion right I'm not going to go into it but they learn our forint founding fathers learn the lessons of the medieval ages okay of that Roman church-state system and they said we're not going to combine religion and state again because it only leads to bad things okay so again this isn't against the people because remember who in the end let me go to this last verse right here who in the end is judgment in favor of I'm gonna pull this up it's basically the last verse verse 26 but the court will sit for judgment and his Dominion will be taken away annihilated and destroyed forever then the sovereignty the Dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms of the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the highest one these are the Saints that were persecuted now the kingdom is given to them his kingdom will be an everlasting Kingdom and all dominions will serve and obey Him amazing scriptures this is all happening in Daniel chapter 7 now there's one other thing I want to point out and that is this just give me two more minutes and we'll to a close some people like to identify that little horn as they don't identify the Roman church-state system as that little horn they identified as Antiochus Epiphanes okay I've got multiple study Bibles I loved my multiple study Bibles and for some reason they they conclude I believe incorrectly that that little horn in Daniel 7 and Daniel 8 isn't IKEA as epiphanies I'll tell you why it can't be because if you take a look at this graph right here and you take a look at all the characteristics of the little horn those 10 characteristics let's see where this intact as epiphanies actually appears okay and he appears during the latter part of the bronze the Greek Empire okay you have Cassander Lysimachus Seleucid and ptolemy okay Antiochus Epiphanes would come under the Seleucid Empire okay and it would be 175 to 164 BC that's when Antiochus Epiphanes would rule and look where he's at he's before the cross of Christ okay now how is it how could in Takas epiphanies fit all those 10 characteristics of that little horn and look on the screen okay let's see if those characteristics apply to in Takas epiphanies okay a little horn meaning a little king okay I guess that first one might apply to him that seems fair he was a little king it comes up from among the ten horns and I don't know that that really doesn't fit because those 10 horns that's basically the successor states of the Roman Empire so that's way past 476 so it doesn't fit number two number three three horns are pulled out mmm he doesn't fit that one he doesn't he didn't he didn't uproot three other kingdoms like we saw the Visigoth vandals and Ostrogoths i'm an eyes and a mouth speaking great i guess you could apply that to him he did have an eyes he does have a mouth and he spoke greatly boasting lea number five speaks out against the Most High I guess you could potentially apply that to him in the sense that he set up idols in the in the Jerusalem Temple and sacrifice pigs and everything maybe that's speaking out against the Most High it's possible number 6 per rises after the fourth Kingdom and after the ten horns no there's no way Rome has to has to has to continue on after 476 the successor states of the Roman Church of the Roman state have to emerge the barbaric tribes so it doesn't come out that different from the other horns hmm I don't think so Antiochus wasn't different from the other horns he was just one other King and in the seleucid empire persecutes the saints and this one you could say he did persecute the Saints in a little in a way you could say that during his time when he did desecrate the temple he intends to make alterations and times and laws I don't think that fits Antiochus it just doesn't fit him I mean that fits more with the Roman church-state system the Saints are given into his hand for a time times and half a times that's 1260 literal ríos let me ask you one last question about this this is why I don't think Antiochus fits the description because here you go through Babylon medo-persia Greece Rome divided Rome Europe okay we're talking about a thousand years from the time of Babylon 605 BC to 476 ad that's over a thousand years and then the rest of the chapter in Daniel chapter 7 talks about this little horn who would be 1260 literal years okay that's about the right amount of time that you would apply all those scriptures to it to spend all that time explaining what the little horn is doing and then applying it to someone small king who does what he did back in 170 60 164 BC ish it just doesn't fit now look on the screen it makes much more sense when you take a look at the broader perspective of what's going on that's exactly what happened it is none other than the Roman church-state system again God's people were taken captive for that time period during the medieval church day system now that system is no longer with us it doesn't exist today okay but want to tell you this even though that it was done away with that system will emerge again at the very end of time in a new world king order new world kingdom order and we're gonna unpack that when we get to Revelation okay and we're gonna and we're gonna unmask we're gonna unmask when we rediscovered Greater biblical truths related to this study remember though the message of this is this judgment is in favor of the Saints God is not against people but he's against systems that go against his word and go against the the knowledge of Jesus Christ and the saving faith of Jesus Christ that was corrupted from within okay we're gonna unpack more of this in Daniel chapter 8 and 9 10 11 12 and see how this controversy continues to unfold let's close in prayer father God we've covered a lot of information and we just thank you for your word and we pray that by your holy spirit were led into all truth Laura truth was not meant to hurt it was meant to heal and Lord I pray that these scriptures would heal your people and would lead them into a closer relationship with Jesus Christ in Jesus name Amen as always we've got the study guides download them print them out write notes build upon your knowledge of the Bible share them with others teach it yourself if you want to we'll see you next time

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Published: Mon Jan 06 2020