Daniel 7 – 9 and How to Fix the Debt

Daniel 7 - 9

Up until this point in the book, Daniel has been interpreting the dreams of others. In chapter 7, he describes his dreams and visions. His vision concerns four beasts that represented kingdoms and terrified Daniel. He seeks and receives an explanation of the vision. Finally, Daniel sees someone “like a son of man coming with the clouds of heaven… He was given authority, honor, and sovereignty over all the nations of the world, so that people of every race and nation and language would obey him. His rule is eternal—it will never end. His kingdom will never be destroyed.” (Even so come, Lord Jesus.)

In chapter 8, Daniel describes another vision, this one about a ram with two long horns and a male goat with one very large horns between his eyes. The goat tramples the ram and becomes very powerful. The goat’s large horn is broken off to be replaced by four prominent horns pointing in the four directions of the earth. From one of the prominent horns dames a small horn with great power.It extended toward the south and east and toward “the glorious land of Esrael.” It attacks the heavenly army and even challenged the Commander of heaven’s army by cancelling the daily sacrifices and by destroying his Temple. Daniel overhears two holy ones talking about how long the rebellion that causes desecration (or the abomination that causes desolation) will continue and how long the Temple and heaven’s armies would be trampled on. The answer was 2300 days and the Temple will be made right again.

The angel Gabriel tells him the meaning of the vision, that it relates to the time of the end. The two-horned ram represents the kings of Media and Persia. The male goat represents the king of Greece and large horn between his eyes represents the Greek Empire. The Greek Empire will break into four kingdoms but none as great as the first. A master of deception will take over nd destroy many without warning. He even takes on the Prince of princes in battle, but he will be broken, though not by human power. He tells him that none of these things will happen for a long time. All of this made Daniel sick for several days. He was greatly troubled by his vision and could not understand it.

Did you every wake from a dream with a terrible feeling of dread, uncertain of what caused it, maybe not even remembering what you dreamed?

I think we are near those end times and that Jesus, the Prince of princes, will return soon. The Middle East is in crazy chaos right now with the devil and his minions attacking everything we stand for. Pray for America. Pray for those being attacked by the demon extremists.

Daniel 9, which takes place in the first year of the reign of Darius the Meade who became king of the Babylonians. Daniel was reading the word of the Lord which had been revealed to Jeremiah and learned that Jerusalem must lie desolate for seventy years. He prays and fasts and confesses that they have sinned and done wrong. He recognizes their rebellion and refusal to listen to the prophets. He recognizes that God has kept his word and done to them exactly what he warned. He asks the Lord to forgive his people.

While he is praying, Gabriel appears and explains the vision. He basically gives Daniel a way to know when Messiah (the Anointed One) will appear and when he will be killed, “appearing to have accomplished nothing.” He talks about how the Antichrist will make a treaty with people for a period of seven years, but after half this time, will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration until his fate is finally poured out on him.

Tomorrow, we’ll finish reading Daniel – chapters 10 - 12.

How to Fix the Debt

I’ve seen this before but thought it was worth repeating.

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