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DANIEL 11:36-45
LESSON #14
THE WILLFUL KING OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
- THIS SELEUCID KING IS VERY IMPORTANT TO BIBLE PROPHECY BECAUSE HE IS A PRE-FIGURE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST. THEREFORE, WHAT WE LEARN ABOUT HIM GIVES US A GLIMPSE INTO WHAT THE ANTI-CHRIST OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD WILL BE LIKE, AND SOME OF THE EVENTS THAT HE WILL SET IN MOTION DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
- FOR EXAMPLE:
- FROM THE HISTORICAL RECORD, WE KNOW THAT ANTIOCHUS EPHIPHANES KILLED 80,000 JEWS AND SOLD 40,000 INTO SLAVERY.
- WE KNOW THAT ANTIOCHUS EPHIPHANES FORBADE THE JEWS THE PRACTICE OF THEIR RELIGION.
- INSTEAD OF ALLOWING THE CELEBRATION OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES, HE BROUGHT IN THE FEAST OF BACCHAEUS, THE GOD OF PLEASURE AND WINE.
- HE FORBADE ANYTHING JEWISH SUCH AS THE PRACTICE OF THE SABBATH AND THE READING OF THE TORAH ON THE PENALTY OF DEATH.
- HE SET UP GAMES OUTSIDE THE JEWISH TEMPLE WITH EVERYONE REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE NAKED, INCLUDING WOMEN AND JEWISH PRIESTS.
- JEWISH WOMEN WHO CIRCUMCISED THEIR BABY BOYS WERE MARCHED THROUGH THE CITY OF JERUSALEM WITH THE DEAD BABY TIED AROUND THEIR NECKS. THE MOTHER WAS THEN THROWN OFF THE CITY WALL TO HER DEATH.
- READ DAN 11:36-45
- ANTIOCHUS IV EPIPHANES AND THE ANTI-CHRIST OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
- ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES DID NOT FULFILL ALL THE DETAILS IN DANIELS PROPHECIES SUCH AS:
- HE DID NOT CLAIM TO BE GOD.
- HE DID NOT FORSAKE HIS FATHERS GODS, BUT WORSHIPPED GREEK GODS.
- HE DID NOT INTRODUCE A NEW GOD.
- THEREFORE, WE CAN BE ASSURED THAT ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES WAS A PREFIGURE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST YET TO COME WHO WILL FULFILL ALL THE DETAILS ACCORDING TO THE PROPHETIC LAW OF DOUBLE FULFILLMENT.
- SINCE ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES IS A TYPE OR PRE-FIGURE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST, THE QUESTION IS HOW FAR DO WE TAKE THE LIKENESS? WILL THE ANTI-CHRIST FULFILL EVERY DETAIL THAT ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES FULFILLED IN HISTORY?
- THERE ARE SOME INTERPRETERS OF BIBLE PROPHECY WHO SAY, NO.
- YET THERE ARE SOME WHO INCLUDE EVERYTHING LIKE THE DECEPTIONS WITH EITHER EGYPT OR A SOUTHERN ARAB LEAGUE OF NATIONS. (EZE 38-39). IF WE INCLUDE EVERYTHING, THEN THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL INVADE EGYPT 3 TIMES BEFORE HE SUCCEEDS (VERSES 25, 29, 40).
- BECAUSE OF THESE TWO DIFFERING OPINIONS, I PREFER TO TEACH IT ALL AS THOUGH THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL COMPLETE ALL THE DETAILS FROM DAN 11:21-45.
- REVIEW OF DAN 11:21-35
- THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL BE A VILE PERSON WHO WILL GAIN POWER BY FLATTERY (21). HE WILL BEGIN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD BY CONFIRMING A MIDDLE EAST PEACE TREATY TO PROTECT THE JEWS. (21). THIS PEACE TREATY WILL HAVE A DURATION OF 7 YEARS WHICH HE WILL BREAK AFTER 3 ½ YEARS, THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. (DAN 9:27) HOWEVER, DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION, THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL GAIN THE FAVOR OF THE JEWS (23) WHO WILL ACCEPT HIM AS THEIR MESSIAH.
- WHEN RUSSIA, EGYPT AND A SOUTHERN LEAGUE OF ARAB NATIONS ATTACK ISRAEL, (EZE 38-39) THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL COME TO ISRAELS AID. (25) HOWEVER, EGYPT WILL ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE RUSSIA IN THIS ATTACK AND INCUR THE WRATH OF BOTH RUSSIA AND THE ANTI-CHRIST. (25b-27)
- THE DECEPTION:
- EGYPT AND RUSSIA WILL PLOT THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL OVER THE CONFERENCE TABLE (27). HOWEVER, THE LEADER OF EGYPT WILL DECEIVE RUSSIA IN THE ATTACK AND ATTEMPT TO TAKE SPOIL FOR THEMSELVES BEFORE THE APPOINTED TIME. (28) RUSSIA WILL TURN ON EGYPT (29) AND ATTEMPT AN INVASION. HOWEVER, ROMAN WAR SHIPS FROM THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL POSITION THEMSELVES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN OFF OF CYRUS (30). THIS WILL DISCOURAGE RUSSIA IN THEIR ATTACK ON EGYPT. INSTEAD THEY WILL HASTILY ATTEMPT THE ORIGINAL ATTACK ON ISRAEL. (31). HOWEVER, RUSSIA WILL BE TOTALLY DEFEATED EITHER BY THE ANTI-CHRIST OR BY SOME MIRACLE BY GOD. (EZE 39)
- AS A RESULT OF THE END OF THIS RUSSIAN WAR, THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL COME OUT LOOKING LIKE A PEACEMAKER. HE WILL HAVE GAINED THE RESPECT OF THE WORLD AND OF ISRAEL. THEREFORE, THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL APPEAR AS ISRAELS MESSIAH. HE WILL MOVE HIS HEADQUARTERS TO JERUSALEM AND SET HIS IMAGE IN THE HOLY TEMPLE (31) IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION. JEWS WHO ARE WISE AND KNOW GOD, WILL RECOGNIZE HIS DECEPTION AND OPPOSE HIM. (32-33). THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL TURN ON THE JEWS WHO OPPOSE HIM AND DESTROY MANY OF THEM. (33) THOSE HE DOES NOT DESTROY WILL BE TAKEN CAPTIVE AND PUT INTO A PENAL COLONY IN EGYPT. (33) (DEU 28:68)
IN REGARDS TO THE ANTI-CHRIST:
- THE WILLFUL KING AND THE TIME OF THE END
- WILLFUL KING (36) = THERE ARE TWO MAJOR INTERPRETATIONS:
- =1= HE IS AN UNREGENERATE JEW (THE FALSE PROPHET OF REV 13:11-18) WHO WILL BE IN LEAGUE WITH THE ANTI-CHRIST.
- =2= HE IS THE LITTLE HORN OF CHAPTER 7 AND THE HEAD OF THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE (THE ANTI-CHRIST OF REV 13:1-10).
- THIS IS THE INTERPRETATION I PREFER BASED ON THE DETAILS IN DAN 11 COORDINATED WITH REV 13. THEREFORE, THIS INTERPRETATION IS THE BASIS FOR THIS LESSON.
- “DO ACCORDING TO HIS WILL”(36) =
- THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL BE AN ABSOLUTE DICTATOR
- “EXALT AND MAGNIFY HIMSELF” (36) =
- THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL MAKE HIMSELF A GOD. (2THE 2:3-4 REV 13).
- “SPEAK MARVELOUS THINGS AGAINST THE GOD OF GODS” (36) = AN ARTFUL ORATOR WHO WILL SPEAK AGAINST GOD.
- NOT “REGARD THE GOD OF HIS FATHER” (37) =
- THE ANTI-CHRIST MAY BE A SYRIAN JEW WHO DOESN’T ACKNOWLEDGE JEHOVAH.
- HE MAY BE A JEW OF ROMAN EXTRACTION WHO DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE JEHOVAH.
- HE MAY NOT BE A JEW BUT COME FROM SYRIA, THE SAME LOCATION AS ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES.
- “NOR THE DESIRE OF WOMEN” (37) =
- POSSIBLY A HOMOSEXUAL.
- JEWISH MOTHERS DESIRED TO BE THE MOTHER OF MESSIAH, BUT THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL NOT REGARD HIS JEWISH HERITAGE. THEREFORE, HE WILL THINK NOTHING OF CLAIMING THAT HE IS THE JEWISH MESSIAH.
- THE THREE GODS OF THE ANTI-CHRIST:
- =1= “HONOR THE GOD OF FORCES (FORTRESSES) (38) =
- FORCE OR POWER WILL BE HIS GOD, AND HE WILL RULE BY INTIMIDATION. (REV 13:15)
- =2= “A GOD…SHALL HE HONOR WITH GOLD, SILVER.” (38) =
- THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL SET THE PATTERN FOR THE WORLD FALSE RELIGION LED BY THE FALSE PROPHET IN THE WORSHIP OF SATAN. (REV 13, 17, 18)
- HE WILL HONOR WORLDLY WEALTH AND USE IT TO GAIN POWER.
- =3= “A FOREIGN GOD” (39) = A WORLD FALSE RELIGION LED BY THE FALSE PROPHET IN ROME WILL HELP TO BRING THE ANTI-CHRIST TO POWER.
- “CAUSE THEM TO RULE” = THE 10 GEOGRAPHIC AREAS OF THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE WILL GIVE THE ANTI-CHRIST HIS POWER. HE WILL LET THEM RULE THEIR TERRITORIES FOR A SHORT WHILE BEFORE HE CONSOLIDATES WORLD POWER INTO HIS OWN HANDS.
- “TIME OF THE END” (40) = THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
- “KING OF THE SOUTH” =
- EGYPT OR A UNITED ARAB LEAGUE OF ISLAMIC NATIONS. (EZE 38-39)
- “KING OF THE NORTH” =
- RUSSIA (EZE 38-39)
- “ENTER INTO THE COUNTRIES” (40) =
- COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
- “GLORIOUS LAND”(41) =
- ISRAEL
- “EDOM, MOAB,…AMMON SHALL ESCAPE” = (TWO POSSIBLE MEANINGS)
- SECTIONS OF JORDAN CONTROLLED BY ISRAEL. (EZE 25:14)
- SECTIONS OF JORDAN WHERE GOD WILL PROTECT JEWS FLEEING FROM THE ANTI-CHRIST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION IN THE CITY OF PETRA, JORDAN. (REV 12:6)
- “POWER OVER THE TREASURES OF GOLD AND SILVER” (43) =
- CONTROL OF WORLD’S WEALTH AND MONEY SYSTEM. (REV 13:16-17)
- “EGYPT, LIBYA, ETHIOPIA AT HIS STEPS” (43) =
- ALL THE NATIONS OF AFRICA WILL FOLLOW HIM.
- “TIDINGS OUT OF THE EAST” (44) = PERHAPS FROM CHINA
- “OUT OF THE NORTH” (44) = FROM RUSSIA (EZE 38-39)
- “PALACE BETWEEN THE SEAS IN THE GLORIOUS HOLY MOUNTAIN” (45) =
- BETWEEN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND DEAD SEA IN JERUSALEM, THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL SET UP HIS RULE OF THE WORLD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION.
- IT WILL BE IN THE JEWISH TEMPLE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN JERUSALEM.
WHAT DO YOU LEARN ABOUT THE ANTI-CHRIST AND HIS KINGDOM FROM THIS SECTION OF SCRIPTURE (VS. 36-45)?
HOMEWORK
DANIEL 12
THIS IS A SELF-STUDY. PLEASE DO NOT SEND HOMEWORK ANSWERS TO THE TEACHER FOR CORRECTION.
- APPLICATION OF DANIEL 11
- IN STUDYING SUCH INTRICATE PROPHECY OF WHICH THERE ARE OVER 100 SPECIFIC DETAILS GIVEN IN THIS CHAPTER ALONE, WHY DO YOU THINK GOD CHOSE TO PUT INTO HIS WORD CERTAIN EVENTS AND CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS, SKIPPING OVER MANY UNACCOUNTED FOR YEARS, MANY MORE PROMINENT PEOPLE, MANY MORE PROMINENT EVENTS?
- THINK ABOUT GOD’S WORKING OUT HIS PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE. AS YOU LOOK BACK AT YOUR PAST, WRITE DOWN SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHT EVENTS, SOME OF THE PROMINENT PEOPLE WHO HAVE PLAYED A BIG PART IN YOUR SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT.
- PREPARATION FOR DANIEL 12
- READ DANIEL 12:1-13
- FROM WHAT YOU KNOW OF YOUR STUDY OF DANIEL, WHO OR WHAT IS:
- THE “TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS NEVER WAS” IN VS. 1?
- THE “TIME OF THE END” IN VS. 4 AND VS. 9?
- THE “MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN” IN VS. 6?
- “HE…(WHO) SCATTERS THE POWER OF THE HOLY PEOPLE” IN VS. 7?
- THE “ABOMINATION THAT MAKETH DESOLATE” IN VS. 11?
- WHAT DO YOU LEARN ABOUT RESURRECTION IN VERSE 2-3?
- MEMORY VERSE: REVELATION 2:26
