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Daniel 11 Pt 1 The Divine Purpose of Bible Prophecy
The Divine Purpose of Bible Prophecy
To strengthen our faith in our God
Before we enter into the study of Daniel 11 which describe history up to the end of the world lets look at the purpose of Bible prophecy so that a proper foundation is laid when we examin all the dates and characters involve.
Matthew 17:1-9
2 Peter 1:16-18
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
At the transfiguration God chose to give the followers of Jesus strong proof that he was the promised Messiah, that in their bitter sorrow and disappointment they should not entirely cast away their confidence.
These disciples were favored with a glimpse of the future glory of the Saviour, that they might be strengthened to endure the test and trial of their faith. They were to bear testimony to the other disciples concerning what they had seen, that their faith also might be strengthened.
If God gave the the disciples and eyewitness view to strengthen their faith, to aid them to endure the test and trial of their faith, What would prophecy , being more sure than that eyewitness view , do for our faith to endure trials of the future?
Answers : “Now we ( you and I ) have a more Sure Word of prophecy
Is Prophecy surer as an eyewitness account? No! More sure!
What does the bible mean when it uses the word sure ?
Psalms 19:7
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Perfect ,Certain; unfailing; infallible.Romans 2:2 When God is sure we know it is truth
2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
2 Peter 1:10
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.
Prophecy is Love
So bible sure is :
Perfect. Certain. Unfailing. Infallible.
You can have confidence in, Rest assured.
Doubtless.
Question : Who is : Perfect & Infallible ,You can have confidence in, Rest assured Rest Assured & Doubtless?
Answer : God is, Jesus is,The law is !
Is God love? Is Jesus Love? Is the law love? If prophecy shares the same characteristics As
God the father and God the son and as Love the character of Christ then can we say prophecy is love ?
Through the right understanding of the events past present and future Christ is beckoning us to come to Him . He can cleanse and purify us for citizenship above.
What does prophecy do for you if you take heed?
Prophecy is Light
2 Peter 1:19
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Connected to Prophecy is Light.
If the church receives Prophecy it receives what ? light !
If the church does not receive prophecy it rejects the light / the day star.
First deal with the day star
What is the star that is seen in the day? It's the Sun!
Who is the day star?
Malachi 4:2 Christ
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Luke 1:78-79 Tells us what the healing is,which will give us evidence of who the day star is
78 Through the tender mercy of our God;whereby the dayspring (anatole) from on high hath visited us,79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
So when we take heed of prophecy the Sun of Righteousness brings healing.Even when death is hanging over us,
Prophecy allows the dayspring to give light to guide our feet in the way of peace.
So the Day star brings to you and I, to the church light ,healing, restoration, remedy,life from death.
Isaiah 1:5-6
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more:
the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it;but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
If the members of the church are sick in sin as Isaiah 5 says then what do they really need ?
Jeremiah 17:14 To be saved Salvation.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Ezekiel 37:10
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Prophecy is Light .
So The Light in prophecy is designed to do what ? Save us!
Prophecy is an instrument of salvation.
God gave us Prophecy to wake us up from slumber, revive us,
Set us on the right path to the kingdom. The path of the just.
When the books of Daniel and Revelation are better understood, believers will have an entirely different religious experience. They will be given such glimpses of the open gates of heaven that heart and mind will be impressed with the character that all must develop in order to realize the blessedness which is to be the reward of the pure in heart.
Prophecy an instrument of perfection / sealing mechanism for the saints
Back to 2 Peter 1:19
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
What do we notice in “Light in dark place, day dawn, day star in the heart”
A progressive work!
What stage will you consider when the day star has risen in your heart? End ! The goal accomplished, work finished in you ,perfection .
Colossians 1:27-28
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Let's look at what the light does some more as it shines into the heart.
Ephesians 5:13-14
13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
What is the meaning of make manifest: to show, to take notice, to be seen.
Does the light of bible prophecy make known to us what is wrong in our Christian experience?
Does the light of the 3rd Angel's message manifest our position? Yes ! Our readiness or Not? Yes!
If the light of prophecy is blocked,hindered in the church what would happen ? our wrongs would not be seen ,the church would be unready,the members will be lost.
perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
There is a boundary to the mercy of God, for He does not always strive with men. A record is kept of all the blessings offered and how those blessings are treated; and if we neglect our duty we shall soon see, as did the Jews, that the anger of God is not withheld but we shall be given over to the power of Satan. While it seems astonishing to us that the Jews rejected Christ, we ourselves will act out the same thing if we refuse the light for this time.
The light of prophecy still burns for the guidance of souls, saying, “This is the way, walk ye in it.” It shines on the pathway of the just to commend, and on the way of the unjust to lead to repentance and conversion. Through its agency sin will be rebuked and iniquity unmasked.
If those who have received the light will appreciate and respect the testimonies of the Lord, they will see the religious life in a new light. They will be convicted. They will see the key that unlocks the mysteries that they have never understood. They will lay hold of the precious things that God has given them to profit withal and will be translated from the kingdom of darkness into God's marvelous light.
Those who despise the warning will be left in blindness to become self-deceived. But those who heed it, and zealously go about the work of separating their sins from them in order to have the needed graces, will be opening the door of their hearts that the dear Saviour may come in and dwell with them.
Blessings and peace .
Thursday, June 2, 2022
Daniel 11:45 Enforced state religion
Daniel 11:45
“And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”
Plant means to establish by work
What is a used for Tabernacle? Holy things, worship.
Numbers 1:50
“But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.”
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Numbers 4:4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
What is the Palace used for ? for Kings
Esther 1:5
And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
Ezra 4:14
|Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;
2 Chronicles 9:11
And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
So you see a combination of Church craft and Statecraft,this is nothing short of State enforced religion.
So enforced state Religion will be put between the seas and the glorious Holy Mountain.
What does seas mean?
Revelation 17:15
“And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”
Daniel 11:26
Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
Between the seas (people) where? In the glorious holy mountain!
What is the glorious Holy mountain?
Ezekiel 20:40 the house of Israel
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Daniel 9:20 the people of Israel
“And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;”
Zechariah 8:3 The Holy Mountain of the Lord Zion
Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
State enforced Sunday worship will be between the multitudes and nations and kindred and tongues and the Holy mountain of God.
Who is the Holy mountain of god?
Isaiah 51:16And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
So state enforced Sunday worship , the mark of the Beast will be between people in the Holy mountain of God. What does that mean ?
State enforce religion will cause a shaking a separation among the people in the church in Zion, in modern Spiritual Israel
What does it mean “Yet He shall come to his end”?
Ezekiel 7:3-5
3Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 4And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
Psalm 37 the end of the wicked
35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
38But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
39But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
40And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
He comes to his end but God's people are saved
Daniel 12:1 “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.”