At that Time... Last half of Chapter 2

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Also looking at verses 25-45 we have a reference to the king of the south in verses 25-29 and 40. He is one of the major characters all the way from verse 5. Therefore, Scripture has just put all verses from verse 5 to verse 45 into end time events.

For my last point on the significance of Daniel chapter 11 being put into end time events with Daniel Chapter 2, 7 and 8, I want ask a question. If God was giving a prophecy to the Jews, so they would know what would happen to them in the future from 559 BC to 167 BC [according to the historical interpretation, God starts out with Cyrus the 2nd (559-530) in Daniel 11:1, then goes to Artaxerxes (464-423) in Daniel 11:2, then to Alexander the Great (334-323) in Daniel 11:3-4, then to Ptolemy Philedelpus (285-247) in Daniel 11:5, then to quite a few others from verse 6 to 19, and then to Antiochus Ephiphanes (175-163) in Daniel 11:20-31] why in the heavens does God not reveal what happens to the Israelites in the most crucial events of their history up to that time? What is more disastrous than them getting occupied by the Romans, the coming of their Messiah and them missing it, the dispersion of their people throughout the world, and them ceasing to have a country for the next 1878 years? If God doesn’t do this, then why in the world would He put in the minor events that happen from 559 BC to 167 BC? The climatic event of 167 BC was the abomination of desolation according to the historical interpretation, but Jesus said the abomination was not a past event, but a future event. Therefore, their interpretation was really not what Scripture was talking about. Looking at this logically, the historical interpretation doesn’t add up, because all the variables of a prophetic equation must equal and balance the physical events in history. Therefore, the historical interpretation’s conclusion to its theory is wrong, because Jesus said that its conclusion did not happen in 167 BC but was a future event.

Here is a list to show how the kingdoms in Daniel chapters 2, 7-12 correlate to each other.

DanieI 2: Babylon=Gold; Media=Silver; Persia=Silver; Greece=Bronze; Four Kingdoms=not listed; Ten Kings=Clay and Iron; Antichrist=Iron.

Daniel 7: Babylon=not listed; Media=The Lion; Persia=The Lion; Greece=The Bear; Four Kingdoms=Leopard; Ten Kings=Fierce Beast; Antichrist=Little Horn.


Daniel 8: Babylon=not listed; Media=2nd horn of Ram; Persia=1st horn of Ram; Greece=Goat; Four Kingdoms=Successor; Ten Kings=Ten Horns; Antichrist=another horn.


Daniel 11: Babylon=not listed; Media=Commander; Persia=King of the South; Greece=King of the North; Four Kingdoms=not listed; Ten Kings=Not listed; Antichrist=Second king of the North.


Rev. 6: Babylon=not listed; Media=not listed; Persia=1st Rider; Greece=2nd Rider; Four Kingdoms=Third Rider; Ten Kings=not listed; Antichrist=fourth rider.


Rev.17: Babylon=the Wh0re; Media=not listed; Persia=not listed; Greece=not listed; Four Kingdoms=not listed; Ten Kings=ten horns; Antichrist=the beast.

You may have noticed Revelation chapter 6 on the graph. These are the four horsemen of the Apocalypse; they correspond to the kings of Persia, Greece, the four kingdoms and the antichrist.

Rev 6:2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

In Daniel 7 we see that the four beasts are Media-Persia, Greece, the four kingdoms and the antichrist’s kingdom. In the first four seals of Revelation 6 there are the four horses and four riders. The first rider is a conqueror with a bow and a crown. The second rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. The third rider is holding a pair of scales in his hand. The fourth rider was named Death and he was given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine, plague and by the wild beasts of the earth. So, here we have four different rulers and they so perfectly fit together with the four beasts of Daniel 7. The forth rider we know is the antichrist. The first rider is Persia and the second is Greece. These riders and their weapons fit right in with the ****** battles they have in Daniel 11. This leaves the third rider chronologically between Greece and the antichrist. This third rider has no implements of war; just a pair of scales in his hand. In Daniel chapter 8, the only thing that is said about the four kingdoms is that they emerge from the fallen kingdom of Greece and they will not have the same power as the fallen king of Greece. They grow up towards the four winds of heaven and in the later part of their reign the antichrist will arise. Not much is said about the third horse and rider. It is a black horse and its rider holds a pair of scales. The part about “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!” just happens to be said in the original Greek. It uses the Greek standards of money and measurements. “A chronix of wheat for a denarius, and three chronix of barley for a denarius, and do not damage the oil and the wine!” This statement is said about the economic condition during the time of the four kingdoms. The interesting thing is that they use the Greek forms of measurement, which gives us a clue and support that this horse and rider is of Greek origins.

Since we know that the fourth rider is the antichrist that gives us insight that the other three horsemen are also rulers. This also further supports the conclusion that the prophecies about Media-Persia and Greece are correct.

In the last two chapters we saw that the prophecies of Daniel 2, 7-12 are relevant end time prophecies concerning Babylon, Media-Persia, and Greece. And that the four horsemen of the apocalypse in Revelation are the kingdoms of Media-Persia, Greece, the four kingdoms that come out of the fallen kingdom of Greece, and the antichrist.


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All texts were taken from:
Holy Bible, New International Version

Chapter three may take me just a little time to post due to all the maps. Thank you for your patience.