Transcript Daniel 8

Daniel 8
March 9, 2001
Studies in the Scriptures Conference
Alan Yeater, Speaker
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The Vision Described (3-14)
Two-Horned Ram (3-4)
Single-Horned Goat (5-8)
Four horns arise in its place
The little horn out of one
of the horns (9-14)
Attack on “Beautiful Land” (9)
Persecution and end of
sacrifices (10-12)
The end of the vision (13-14)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel Meets the Interpreter (15-17)
The “Time of the End”
Daniel’s Reaction (18)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
Identity of the Four Horns (22)
Identity and Power of the Little Horn (23-25)
Destiny of the Little Horn (25)
Veracity of the Vision Confirmed (26)
Daniel Exhausted and Perplexed (27)
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Date and Recipient of the Vision
Date: 551/550 B.C. (7:1; 8:1)
Chapters 7 and 8 occur prior to chapter 5
Chapter 8 is subsequent to chapter 7
Daniel: a vision appeared (8:1)
Described: a vision in the city of Susa
Later became the summer capital of the
Persians
Daniel: there in person or in vision?
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The Vision Described (3-14)
Two-Horned Ram (3-4)
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The Vision Described (3-14)
Two-Horned Ram (3-4)
Single-Horned Goat (5-8)
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The Vision Described (3-14)
Two-Horned Ram (3-4)
Single-Horned Goat (5-8)
Four horns arise in its place
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The Vision Described (3-14)
Two-Horned Ram (3-4)
Single-Horned Goat (5-8)
Four horns arise in its place
The little horn out of one
of the horns (9-14)
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Little Horns:
Similarities and Differences
Similarities:
Both arrogantly oppose God (7:8; 8:11)
“… there before me
was … another horn,
a little one, … had
eyes like the eyes of
a man and a mouth
that spoke
boastfully.”
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Little Horns:
Similarities and Differences
Similarities:
Both arrogantly oppose God (7:8; 8:11)
“… there before me
was … another horn,
a little one, … had
eyes like the eyes of
a man and a mouth
that spoke
boastfully.”
“set itself up to be as
great as the Prince
of the host; it took
away the daily
sacrifice from him,
and the place of his
sanctuary was
brought low.”
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Little Horns:
Similarities and Differences
Similarities:
Both arrogantly oppose God (7:8; 8:11)
Both persecute God’s people (7:21; 8:24)
As I watched, this
horn was waging
war against the
saints and
defeating them.
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Little Horns:
Similarities and Differences
Similarities:
Both arrogantly oppose God (7:8; 8:11)
Both persecute God’s people (7:21; 8:24)
As I watched, this
horn was waging
war against the
saints and
defeating them.
… He will cause
astounding
devastation …
He will destroy
the mighty men
and the holy
people.
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Little Horns:
Similarities and Differences
Similarities:
Both arrogantly oppose God (7:8; 8:11)
Both persecute God’s people (7:21; 8:24)
Differences:
Horn of Ch. 7 is from the 4th world kingdom (7:7)
Horn of Ch. 8 is from the splintered 3rd kingdom
(8:21–23)
“It is important to note that the ‘little horn here grows
out of one of the four which definitely belong to the
Grecian empire. It cannot, therefore be the same little
horn of Chapter 7 which … (is) … connected to the
fourth beast. (Butler, p. 305)
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The Vision Described (3-14)
Two-Horned Ram (3-4)
Single-Horned Goat (5-8)
Four horns arise in its place
The little horn out of one
of the horns (9-14)
Attack on “Beautiful Land” (9)
Persecution and end of
sacrifices (10-12)
The end of the vision (13-14)
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“2,300 Evenings and Mornings”
Various Views:
Refers to number of sacrifices
Literal 3½ years (cf. Dan. 7:25)
The period of desolation
“There would be no basis whatever to
interpret each day as a year, thus arriving at a
temple cleansing millenniums after the
Grecian empire… It must be understood that
this temple cleansing stated in Daniel 8:14
does not historically reach past the empire of
Greece.” (Simpson, p. 102)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel Meets the Interpreter (15-17)
The “Time of the End”
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“Time of the End”
Does not say “the end of time”
Rather, “the time of the end” (17; cf. Hab. 2:2-3)
End in view is the desolation of sanctuary (13)
Vision must be related to the Grecian kings (23)
“The view that the ‘time of the end’ here
has reference to the great tribulations,
supposedly to occur during the latter half
of the 70th week is utterly without
exegetical support from this context or any
combination of texts!” (Butler, p. 310)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel Meets the Interpreter (15-17)
The “Time of the End”
Daniel’s Reaction (18)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel Meets the Interpreter (15-17)
The “Time of the End”
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel Meets the Interpreter (15-17)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
Identity of the Four Horns (22)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
Identity of the Four Horns (22)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel Meets the Interpreter (15-17)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
Identity of the Four Horns (22)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel Meets the Interpreter (15-17)
The “Time of the End”
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
Identity of the Four Horns (22)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel Meets the Interpreter (15-17)
The “Time of the End”
Daniel’s Reaction (18)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
Identity of the Four Horns (22)
Identity and Power of the Little Horn (23-25)
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Antiochus IV — The “Little Horn”
Ruled Syria 175–163 B.C.
Antiochus Epiphanes
“The Glorious Manifestation”
BASILEUS ANTIOCHOU THEOU EPIPHANOU
(King Antiochus God Manifest)
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Antiochus IV — The “Little Horn”
Ruled Syria 175–163 B.C.
Antiochus Epiphanes
“The Glorious Manifestation”
1 Maccabees 1:1 – 6:16; 2 Macc. 9
Identified by Josephus
“And indeed it so came to pass, that our nation
suffered these things under Antiochus
Epiphanes, according to Daniel's vision, and
what he wrote many years before they came to
pass.” (Josephus, Antiquities X:11:7)
Died in Persia in misery: 1 Maccabees 6:5-13
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel Meets the Interpreter (15-17)
The “Time of the End”
Daniel’s Reaction (18)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
Identity of the Four Horns (22)
Identity and Power of the Little Horn (23-25)
Destiny of the Little Horn (25)
Veracity of the Vision Confirmed (26)
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Seal Up the Vision (26)
“Seal” defined: “5640. catham, (Num. 24:15), saw-tham'; a
prim. root; to stop up; by impl. to repair; fig. to keep secret:-closed up, hidden, secret, shut out (up), stop.” (QuickVerse)
The shutting up is here done with the purpose of keeping the
vision intact and we have therefore translated” (cf. Rev. 22:10)
[Leupold, p. 370]
Contrast the commands to Daniel and John regarding “seal up”:
John is given the opposite command in Rev. 22:10
In Dan. 8:26 we are told the reason for shutting up the vision is
that “it pertains to many days in the future.” The vision was
received in 550 B.C. and was completed by 164 B.C. That is less
than 400 years. We invite you to compare Daniel 8:26 with
Revelation 1:3, and 22:6, 10. (McGuiggan., p. 136)
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The Vision Explained (15-27)
Daniel Meets the Interpreter (15-17)
The “Time of the End”
Daniel’s Reaction (18)
Daniel’s Enhanced Understanding (19-26)
Identity of the Ram and Male Goat (20-21)
Identity of the Four Horns (22)
Identity and Power of the Little Horn (23-25)
Destiny of the Little Horn (25)
Veracity of the Vision Confirmed (26)
Daniel Exhausted and Perplexed (27)
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God Knows the Future
The names change, the territories change, but the
principles remain eternal
Great nations struggle, but out of all the agony,
destruction, apostasy, faith, and courage, God’s
immutable purposes roll on, while man makes
moral choices which determine his eternal destiny
Men and their wisdom come and go; men and their
powers rise and fall, and God’s book has proven once
for all that God knows, sees, overrules and uses
history to his own glory, and the glory of all who are
faithful to Him!
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