We are in a time such as no other in history. Even the grandmother in remote Siberia is getting this fact. Many are saying we are at the end of the 483 prophetic years of the Prophet Daniel’s visions at the point of the rapture, and are about to enter the last 7 years which is tribulation. I know personally believe that we are very close. We have been in the last days since the resurrection of Christ. This period was only going to run around 2000 years before His glorious second coming.
THE BOOK OF DANIEL
THE PROPHET DANIEL WAS OF ROYAL DESCENT AND WAS TAKEN CAPTIVE TO BABYLON AT A YOUNG AGE.
THE BOOK OF DANIEL TEACHES THE IMPORTANT DUTY OF BEING TRUE TO GOD AT ALL COST AND DEMONSTRATES THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD UPON THE FAITHFUL.
HIS PROPHETIC VISIONS PRESENT AN INCREDIBLY VALUABLE BLUEPRINT FOR THE SUCCESSION OF WORLD MONARCHIES, THE LAST OF WHICH WILL SEVERELY PERSECUTE THE SAINTS (THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS OF THE LAST DAYS), BUT WILL BE BROUGHT TO AN END BY THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD DURING THE SEVEN-YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.
DANIEL CHAPTER 1 SYNOPSIS:
DANIEL AND CERTAIN OTHER HEBREW CHILDREN ARE TRAINED IN THE COURT OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. THEY ARE GIVEN CHALDEAN (BABYLONIAN) NAMES.
THEY MAKE A PACT AMONG THEMSELVES NOT TO DEFILE THEMSELVES WITH THE KING’S MEAT (SACRIFICED TO IDOLS) AND EAT ONLY FOOD MADE OF GRAINS AND SEEDS.THEY DRINK NO WINE.
GOD BLESSES THEM AND GIVES THEM KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL IN ALL LEARNING.
DANIEL IS EXPRESSLY BLESSED WITH THE UNDERSTANDING OF ALL VISIONS AND DREAMS. KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR FINDS DANIEL’S SKILL TO BE TEN TIMES BETTER THAN ALL HIS MAGICIANS AND ASTROLOGERS.
DANIEL CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS:
NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAS A TROUBLING DREAM AND CALLS ALL THE MAGICIANS AND ASTROLOGERS TOGETHER FOR AN INTERPRETATION. THEY COULD NOT HELP HIM AND SO HE CAUSED ALL THE WISE MEN OF BABYLON TO BE PUT TO DEATH.
DANIEL INTERPRETS NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM ~
THE GREAT IMAGE, HEAD OF GOLD, BREAST AND ARMS OF SILVER, BELLY AND THIGHS OF BRASS, LEGS OF IRON, AND FEET PART IRON AND PART CLAY ARE THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD.
A STONE (THE MESSIAH JESUS CHRIST) WILL SMASH THE FEET OF THIS EMPIRE (IN THE LAST DAYS).
THE STONE WILL BECOME A GREAT MOUNTAIN AND FILL THE WHOLE EARTH.
DANIEL TELLS THE KING THAT HE IS THE HEAD OF GOLD, THE FIRST WORLD KINGDOM.
THE SECOND KINGDOM WOULD COME (CYRUS OF PERSIA) AND THEN A THIRD KINGDOM (ROME).
THE FOURTH KINGDOM (THE EUROPEAN UNION: A REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE) WOULD BE THE FEET OF IRON AND CLAY.
GOD WILL DESTROY ALL THESE KINGDOMS AND SET UP HIS OWN IN THE LAST DAYS.
AFTER THIS AMAZING DISPLAY, NEBUCHADNEZZAR PROMOTED DANIEL TO REMAIN AT HIS COURT.
DANIEL CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS:
NEBUCHADNEZZAR CREATES A GOLDEN IMAGE AND COMMANDS ALL MEN TO WORSHIP IT.
SHADRACH, MESHACK AND ABED-NEGO (DANIEL’S HEBREW FRIENDS) REFUSE AND ARE CAST INTO THE FIERY FURNACE. BUT THEY WALK AROUND IN THE FIRE WITH THE ANTEMORTAL JESUS CHRIST PROTECTING THEM FROM HARM.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR ORDERS THE THREE TO COME OUT OF THE FIRE. HE HAD WITNESSED THE POWER OF GOD.
SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABED-NEGO ARE THEN FREE MEN.
DANIEL CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS:
DANIEL INTERPRETS NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM OF THE GREAT TREE, AND OF THE KING’S FALL AND MADNESS. (PLEASE READ FOR YOURSELF.)
DANIEL CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS:
BELSHAZZAR, SON OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR, BECOMES KING OF BABYLON. HE HOLDS A FEAST AND IN AN ACT OF BLASPHEMY DRINKS FROM SOME OF THE GOLD AND SILVER VESSELS WHICH CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.
A HAND FROM GOD COMES AND WRITES A MESSAGE ON THE WALL OF THE KINGS PALACE. KING BELSHAZZAR SEES THE HAND.
THE KING WAS AFRAID AND SENT FOR THE ASTROLOGERS AND SOOTHSAYERS. THEY COULD NOT INTERPRET THE MESSAGE.
THEY SEND FOR DANIEL AND HE IS ABLE TO INTERPRET.
THE MESSAGE OF GOD’S HAND WRITING ON THE WALL WAS THAT THE KING’S PRIDE AND IDOLATRY WOULD BE HIS DOWNFALL. (IT IS LIKELY THIS IS WHERE THE SOCIETAL CLICHÉ ” THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL” CAME FROM!)
THAT VERY NIGHT, BELSHAZZAR WAS SLAIN AND DARIUS THE MEDIAN TOOK THE KINGDOM OF BABYLON.
DANIEL CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS:
DARIUS MAKES DANIEL SECOND IN COMMAND (A PRESIDENT) OF THE KINGDOM.
DANIEL WORSHIPS GOD IN DEFIANCE OF A DECREE OF DARIUS. FOR THIS HE IS CAST INTO A DEN OF LIONS.
HIS FAITH SAVES HIM AND DARIUS DECREES THAT ALL PEOPLES ARE TO REVERE THE GOD OF DANIEL.
DANIEL CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS:
WE NOW MOVE INTO THE HARD CORE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL.
HIS VISION FOCUSES ON THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL IN RELATION TO A SUCCESSION OF FOUR MAJOR GENTILE WORLD POWERS: BABYLON, PERSIA, GREECE AND ROME.
“AND FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA….”(THESE ARE 4 SUCCESSIVE WORLD KINGDOMS FROM THE HISTORICAL SEA OF NATIONS.)
- THE WINGED LION = BABYLON (WHICH WAS ACTUALLY THE NATIONAL SYMBOL OF BABYLON)
- THE BEAR = MEDIA/PERSIA (THE KINGDOM WHICH CONQUERED BABYLON OF ASSYRIA)
- THE LEOPARD = GREECE (THE CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT WHO DEFEATED MEDIA/PERSIA.)
AFTER ALEXANDER’S DEATH AT AGE 33, HIS 4 GENERALS DIVIDED THE GREEK EMPIRE. THEY DEFEATED MEDIA/PERSIA (THE 4 HEADS AND 4 WINGS OF DANIEL’S VISION AS SEEN IN DANIEL CH. 7:6.)
DANIEL THEN REFERS US TO HIS VISION OF THE LAST DAYS AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR EUROPEAN UNION ~ THIS IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER THE DEEP STATE IN AMERICA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION INTENDS TO CREATE —
“AFTER THIS I SAW IN THE NIGHT VISIONS, AND BEHOLD A FOURTH BEAST, GREAT AND TERRIBLE, AND STRONG EXCEEDINGLY; AND IT HAD GREAT IRON TEETH: IT DEVOURED AND BROKE IN PIECES, AND STAMPED THE RESIDUE WITH THE FEET OF IT: AND IT WAS DIVERSE FROM ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE BEFORE IT: AND HAD TEN HORNS. I CONSIDERED THE HORNS, AND BEHOLD, THERE CAME UP AMONG THEM ANOTHER LITTLE HORN, BEFORE WHOM THERE WERE THREE OF THE FIRST HORNS PLUCKED UP BY THE ROOTS: AND, BEHOLD, IN THIS HORN WERE EYES LIKE THE EYES OF MAN, AND A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS.”
INTERPRETATION:
“BEAST WITH IRON TEETH” = ROME; IRON TEETH (MILITARY POWER) CONQUERING ALL THE TERRITORY OF THE PREVIOUS GENTILE POWERS.
THE “10 HORNS “ON THE BEAST IS A REFERENCE TO THE LAST DAYS (THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE TEN U.N. “NEW WORLD ORDER” SPHERES:
NUMBER ONE= NAFTA =CANADA, U.S., MEXICO.
NUMBER TWO= EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET
NUMBER THREE= JAPAN
NUMBER FOUR=SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, ISRAEL
NUMBER FIVE= USSR
NUMBER SIX= CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
NUMBER SEVEN=MUSLIM COUNTRIES
NUMBER EIGHT= AFRICA
NUMBER NINE =INDIA AND THE ISLANDS OF SE ASIA
NUMBER TEN= CHINA
YOU SEE THE TEN HORNS ARE CONGLOMERATION OF NATIONS UNIFIED ECONOMICALLY IN BIOSPHERES OR ZONES. THEY ARE SET UP AND IN EXISTENCE BEFORE THE ELEVENTH HORN (OR ANTICHRIST APPEARS ON THE WORLD SCENE.)
NOTE THAT IN DANIEL 7:8 IT SAYS THAT THE FIRST THREE HORNS OR ECONOMIC BIOSPHERES ARE PLUCKED UP BY THEIR ROOTS! IN OTHER WORDS THEY ARE DESTROYED. COULD THIS BE THE US, MEXICO, AND CANADA? WE SHALL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE.
THEN THE ELEVENTH “LITTLE” HORN (THE ANTICHRIST) TAKES CONTROL OF WHAT REMAINS OF THE “10 HORNS” (THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ALL THE OTHER BIOSPHERES.)
THIS VISION OF DANIEL IS A DUAL REFERENCE TO ROME’S RISING UP BOTH IN THE PAST AND IN THE LAST DAYS! MOST BIBLE SCHOLARS AGREE ON THIS!
THE NEXT THING DANIEL TEACHES IS THAT THE ANTICHRIST WILL COME TO POWER IN EUROPE THROUGH THE EUROPEAN UNION.
DANIEL DESCRIBES THE ANTICHRIST’S PERSONALITY ~
HE WILL BE A POLITICAL AND MILITARY GENIUS.
HE WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MEN EVER.
HE WILL BE A GREAT ORATOR.
HE WILL CHANGE THE BASIC LAWS OF MORALITY AND SOCIETY.
HE WILL TURN AGAINST THE JEWS FOR THE LATTER 3-1/2 YEARS OF THE 7-YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.
BUT JESUS CHRIST WILL COME AND DESTROY THE KINGDOM OF THE ANTICHRIST AND CAST HIM TO THE BURNING FLAME.
THEN JESUS CHRIST SETS UP HIS KINGDOM, WHICH IS EVERLASTING.
DANIEL CHAPTER 8 SYNOPSIS:
DANIEL SEES A VISION OF A RAM (MEDIA AND PERSIA), AND A HE GOAT (ALEXANDER AND GRECIA), FOUR OTHER KINGS (THE FOUR GENERALS OF ALEXANDER).
AND THEN, IN THE LAST DAYS, A FIERCE KING (THE ANTICHRIST) WHO SHALL DESTROY THE HOLY PEOPLE (JEWS AND CHRISTIANS); BUT HE WILL BE BROKEN WHEN HE STANDS UP AGAINST THE MESSIAH.
IN OTHER WORDS JESUS CHRIST WILL DESTROY THE ANTICHRIST’S KINGDOM AND POWER.
DANIEL CHAPTER 9 SYNOPSIS:
DANIEL FASTS, CONFESSES AND PRAYS FOR ALL OF ISRAEL.
THE ANGEL, GABRIEL, REVEALS TO DANIEL THE TIME OF THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH, WHO SHALL MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY.
SEE DANIEL 9-23-27—THIS IS THE PROPHECY TIMELINE OF THE 490 YEARS TO THE END OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD OF THE LAST DAYS. ARE WE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST WEEK OF DANIEL —THE LAST 7 YEARS?
MANY ARE TALKING ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 AS THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS DAY FOR THE POSSIBLE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS. OF COURSE AS IT SAYS IN MATTHEW 24:36– But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. However, things never happen out of order with God and one should always look to a time of harvest for these things.
This comes from prophecy minister Gary Stearman in an article entitled Understanding the Times and Seasons—
“In I Thessalonians 5:1, the Apostle Paul makes a curious statement. He says, “But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.”
(Commentary: Paul refers to the rapture of the church here and is making the case that Christians of all people would understand the times they will be living in. They must however understand that the rapture is a shocking and sudden event.)
Stearman continues:
“As we draw nearer to the appointed time of the rise and fall of the Antichrist, we see more and more signs that global government is almost in place. The European Union in conjunction with the United States has become more and more forceful in dictating policy to Israel and the Middle East. The United Nations has become ever more active as a global police force.
Tiny Israel and a besieged Jerusalem await the prophesied Kingdom of Messiah. Like a fulcrum at the center of gigantic geopolitical forces, the Temple Mount withstands the multiplied assaults of time and opposition. The faithful count the days, as they wonder how long things can continue as they are. As with the generations that came before us, we cannot dogmatically say that our studies will pinpoint the long-awaited day. But we are elevated by the thought that maybe we will be the ones who finally understand it.
The answers to prophetic questions are given on a need-to-know basis. If we are the last generation, the Lord will give us the necessary information to interpret the seasons of the Bible in the context of our present times.
It is on this note that we entered upon this study. Concerning the exact time of the rapture, Paul said; ye have no need that I write unto you.” Why? Because the Word and the Holy Spirit give us all the information we need to discern the times and seasons. Knowing this, we comfort and exhort each other till He comes. In the words of Revelation 22:20, “He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
AND THERE IS MORE FOR EVERY IN 2017 TO BE PAYING ATTENTION TO: THERE IS MUCH IN THE WAY OF VIDEOS AND PROPHECY BUZZ AROUND THE SEPTEMBER 23, 2017 THE “WOMAN IN TRAVAIL” CONSTELLATION THAT APPEARS ON THAT DAY AS MENTIONED AS A MAJOR PROPHETIC SIGN OF THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIBULATION ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2017. PAY ATTENTION TO THIS SINCE THIS WILL HAPPEN AS A MATTER OF ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCE. WE ARE IN FASCINATING TIMES.
(THIS CHAPTER IS A MATHEMATICAL MYSTERY I CANNOT DECIPHER (NOR DO I THINK ANYONE ACTUALLY CAN) PLEASE READ THIS FOR YOURSELF.)
DANIEL CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS:
HEREIN THE PROPHET MOVES TO YET ANOTHER VISION. AS DANIEL IS FASTING FOR 3 WEEKS, AN ANGEL APPEARS TO HIM.
THIS ANGEL TELLS HIM, “I AM COME TO MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT SHALL BEFALL THE PEOPLE IN THE LATTER DAYS: FOR YET THE VISION IS FOR MANY DAYS.”
THE ANGEL BEGINS TO TELL DANIEL OF HOW PERSIA WILL FALL TO THE PRINCE OF GRECIA. (A PROPHECY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT TO COME).
DANIEL CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS:
THE ANGEL FURTHERS HIS PROPHECY TO DANIEL OF THE SUCCESSIVE WORLD KINGDOMS.
DANIEL 11:3-4 REFERS TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
IN DANIEL 11:4 ALEXANDER DIES FROM THE FEVER AND HIS KINGDOM IS DIVIDED AMONG HIS 4 GENERALS.
THE ABLEST TWO GENERALS WERE SELEUCUS I NICATOR AND PTOLEMY.
THEY RECEIVED DOMINION OVER SYRIA AND ALL OF THE EAST, EGYPT, LIBYA, AND ETHIOPIA. THESE TWO MEN ARE THE “KING OF THE NORTH” AND “KING OF THE SOUTH”, MENTIONED IN THIS CHAPTER.
DANIEL 11:5-20 IS A SUMMARY OF RELATIONS BETWEEN ALL OF THEM (THE KINGS OF THE SOUTH AND THE NORTH) UP TO THE TIME OF ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES KING OF SYRIA (175-164 BC) WHO THEN BECOMES THE “KING OF THE NORTH.”
DANIEL 11:21-35 DEALS WITH THE TIME OF ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES KING OF SYRIA (175-164 BC) AND HIS RELATIONS WITH THE “KING OF THE SOUTH” AND WITH THE JEWS IN PALESTINE.
THE SHIPS OF CHITTIM MENTIONED IN DANIEL CH.11: 30 ARE ACTUALLY THE SHIPS OF ROME.
DANIEL 11:36-39 APPLIES TO THE EMPEROR OF ROME (DOUBLE REFERENCE: PROBABLY THE HERODIANS AND DEFINITELY A REFERENCE TO THE LAST DAYS REIGN OF THE ANTICHRIST AS EMPEROR OR RULER OF THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE EURPOPEAN UNION).
DANIEL 11:40-45 THIS IS ANOTHER DOUBLE REFERENCE TO BOTH A ROMAN EMPEROR AND TO THE ANTICHRIST’S MILITARY EXPLOITS OF THE LAST DAYS.
DANIEL CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS:
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER IN PROPHECY!
IN THE LAST DAYS, MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL SHALL DELIVER ISRAEL FROM THEIR TROUBLES.
” . . .THERE SHALL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE, SUCH AS NEVER WAS SINCE THERE WAS A NATION (OF ISRAEL) EVEN TO THAT SAME TIME.”
THERE WILL BE A RESURRECTION FOR ALL MANKIND ~ ONE TO EVERLASTING LIFE FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AND ONE TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING CONTEMPT FOR THE WICKED.
IN DANIEL 12:6 THE “ONE” MAN ASKS THE QUESTION, “HOW LONG SHALL IT BE TO THE END OF THESE WONDERS?”
IN DANIEL 12:7 THE “MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN” ANSWERS HIM, “IT SHALL BE FOR A TIME, TIMES AND A HALF, AND WHEN HE SHALL HAVE FINISHED SCATTERING THE POWER OF THE HOLY PEOPLE ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE FINISHED.”
THIS IS A REFERENCE TO THE END OF THE LAST 3-1/2 YEARS OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD (SEVEN YEARS TOTAL) WHEN CHRIST SETS UP HIS EVERLASTING KINGDOM.
THEN DANIEL ASKS GOD, “WHAT SHALL BE THE END OF THESE THINGS?”
GOD ANSWERS, “GO YOUR WAY, DANIEL: FOR THE WORDS ARE CLOSED UP AND SEALED TILL THE TIME OF THE END.” WHAT GOD MEANS HERE IS THAT THE TECHNOLOGY FOR UNDERSTANDING THE “SEALED” PROPHECIES OF DANIEL WOULD NOT COME UNTIL THE VERY LAST DAYS. BECAUSE WE NOW UNDERSTAND DANIEL WE THEREFORE KNOW IT IS THE TIME OF THE END.
DANIEL IS FURTHER TOLD BY GOD,
“MANY SHALL PURIFY THEMSELVES, AND MAKE THEMSELVES WHITE, AND BE REFINED; BUT THE WICKED SHALL DO WICKEDLY; AND NONE OF THE WICKED SHALL UNDERSTAND, BUT THEY THAT ARE WISE SHALL UNDERSTAND.”
WHAT GOD IS TELLING DANIEL IS THAT MANY PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS WILL REALIZE THE TIMES THEY ARE IN AND MAKE BIG CHANGES TO PURIFY THEIR LIVES WHILE THE WICKED JUST WON’T UNDERSTAND AT ALL.
(COMMENTARY: THE PEOPLE WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE ANTICHRIST NEW WORLD ORDER ALREADY IN THEM—LIBERALS {supporting socialism/communism}, GLOBALISTS, ATHEISTS, NEW AGE/METAPHYSICALS, MORMONS AND MANY OTHERS WILL NOT UNDERSTAND THE TIMES AND BE CAUGHT UNAWARE BY BOTH THE THE RAPTURE AND THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. IT IS MEANT TO BE THAT WAY. YOU SEE THERE ARE ONLY TWO KINGDOMS ON EARTH —ONE OF CHRIST AND ONE OF THE DEVIL).
DANIEL 12:11-13 REFERS TO THE DAILY SACRIFICE OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM OF THE LAST DAYS BEING STOPPED BY THE ANTICHRIST AND THE “ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION” BEING “SET UP.”
THIS “ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION” WILL DEFINITELY BE SOMETHING WHICH DEFILES THE REBUILT TEMPLE OF THE LAST DAYS IN AN ATTEMPT TO OUTRAGE THE JEWS (PERHAPS UNCLEAN ANIMAL SACRIFICE I.E. PIGS OR SOMETHING EVEN WORSE!
AT THAT TIME 3-1/2 YEARS OF EVIL WILL OCCUR KNOWN AS “THE GREAT TRIBULATION”.
(OF COURSE THIS WILL FOLLOW THE FIRST 3-1/2 YEAR PERIOD KNOWN SIMPLY AS “THE TRIBULATION”.)
THEN COMES THE PURIFICATION OF THE WICKED AND THE REDEMPTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS BY CHRIST WHO HAVE PURIFIED THEMSELVES DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION.
IN OTHER WORDS, CHRIST WILL DESTROY ALL THE REMAINING WICKED OF EARTH WHO HAVE SURVIVED THE GREAT TRIBULATION.
HOWEVER, THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT ALL THOSE WHO ARE CONVERTED TO CHRIST, POST RAPTURE, DURING THIS AWFUL TIME— THOUGH THEY SUFFER IN THE FLESH (TORTURES AND BEHEADINGS) THEY ARE ETERNALLY SAVED.
NEXT . . . THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET HOSEA.