DANIEL 11:40-45 The latter part of Daniel 11:40-45 has been declared to be unfulfilled prophecy. This warns us to be cautious in its application and not to be overly speculative. However we may have some clues that will help us in understanding this prophecy today better than we have in the past. At the same...
Category Archives: DanielDANIEL 11:41 Edom, Moab and Amman In Daniel 11:40-45 we have an apocalyptic view of what will happen in the time of the end with the King of the North and its final demise, as stated in 11:45. In detail we have dealt with this in another special study about this scripture passage. However questions... This chapter forms the completion of the vision which started in chapter ten. In chapter ten we read about the hold up which had taken place and the struggle between the powers of darkness and of heaven. Chapter eleven gave us pretty historical detail and covering the same period in history as Daniel seven and eight, and which was based on the metallic image of Daniel two. In Daniel 11 we continue what we started in chapter 10. It is a literal prophecy covering the same period as Daniel 2, 7 and 8 except for the fact that as in Daniel 8 it does not start with Babylon. With chapter 10 we start the last part of the prophetic section of the book of Daniel. In fact the last three chapters are one vision and is the fourth prophetic line of history. Chapter two presents the first line illustrated by a metallic image and taking us from neo-Babylon till the end of time. Chapter seven is the same historic line illustrated by wild animals and covering the same historic period as chapter two. The third line is in chapters 8 and 9 and covers the same minus Babylon and concentrating on the sanctuary and its abuse by the little horn. The fourth line as we will notice takes us over the same period, starting with Medo-Persia till the end of times. |
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