121 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 1 - Book 11 - The Anti-Christ, Departure

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 11 THE ANTI-CHRIST: DEPARTURE: ESCAPING REMNANTS Revelation 11-13 Let's get back into prophecy. Before we go back to Daniel, I'd like you to turn to II Peter Chapter 1. I have a reason for spending as much time in prophecy as I do. I don't teach prophecy simply because it's sensational, or exciting, although it is. I simply like to teach prophecy on the basis of these verses of Scripture. 2 Peter 1:17 2 Peter 1:18,19 Prophecy! 2 Peter 1:20 I hope people realize, that is how I teach. 2 Peter 1:21 The word "holy" means set apart. Holy men of God spake, not as they dreamed it up, not as they had remembered what they heard around a camp fire, or what had been handed down from generation to generation): but these holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." It is to show beyond a shadow of a doubt that this Book is the Word of God. Because the same God that fulfilled the first ninety percent of prophecy, is the God that's going to finish the last ten percent. The main reason we are studying prophecy now, is, as we come through the Old Testament, we reach to Daniel. Now, back here in Chapter 8, let me show you how accurate prophecy has been. Daniel 8:1 "In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first." Daniel 8:3 Three books of our Bible were written outside of the land of Israel. Daniel is one of them. None of those three books were written in Israel. The symbolism here is that the ram was indicative of the Medes and Persian empire. The crown of the Medes and Persians had the likeness of a ram. And so, there's no doubt from history and archaeology, that Daniel is seeing the vision concerning the empire of which he was a part, and that was the Medes and Persians represented by the two horns. The horns in Scripture always refer to kings or the top guy in control. The Medes and Persians are the two kings. Verse 4: Daniel 8:4 Daniel 8:5 It's a he-goat, and we know from archaeology that the Grecian Empire emblem was the goat. What was Alexander the Great? Daniel 8:6 Let's break that verse down. No, you have a fight between two empires. So, the Grecian Empire is going to run head-on into the Medes' and Persians' Empire. Alexander overran the Medes' and Persians' Empire, and ruled the greatest empire on earth by the time he was 33 years old. "...and ran unto him in the fury of his power." Daniel 8:20,21 "The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia (it's plain isn't it?): and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king (Alexander the Great)." Daniel 8:22 The great empire that Alexander the Great set up so swiftly, was immediately divided between four of his Generals. And so the empire became a quadrangle. Daniel 8:23 The very same descriptive words connected to him are also descriptive of this Man of Sin. Let's look at verse 24, still speaking of Antiochus The Great, in history shortly following Daniel's vision: Daniel 8:24 See, he came down and persecuted the Nation of Israel. Daniel 8:25 Now Daniel brings this same personality, this Antiochus The Great, out of Syria, who, like I said, was a blip on history's radar. Now verse 21 . Without realizing it, Daniel is leaping about 2500 years of history, bringing us to this end-time individual. Daniel 11:21a "...and obtain the kingdom by flatteries." Daniel 11:22 Come over to verse 36: Daniel 11:36 "And the king (this world ruler coming on the scene in the end time) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done." He will finally get to the place where he'll have almost absolute power over the whole world. The global economy, global politics, global religion, global currency. It's world-wide and everything is being prepared for the coming in of this world leader. Take our Social Security system. That you can be like God. See this guy is believing it concerning himself, that he is greater than God; he is God. "...and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished:" In other words, when the Tribulation ends, and he goes to his doom. Daniel 11: 37 "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all." Daniel 11:38 You remember in Daniel Chapter 9, when Daniel says that this man, the prince that's going to come out of the revived Roman Empire, is going to sign a seven-year treaty with the Nation of Israel. And this seven-year treaty is going to run its course according to prophecy. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible