STATUE & BEASTS IN DANIEL
(Daniel 2:32) (Daniel 7)

Jackson Snyder, August 24, 2003

The Apocrypha* may be needed for this study

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Kingdoms (The Statue = Kingdoms) Kings (Dan 7:17 – Beasts = Kings)

Head of Gold - Babylon Nebuchadnezzar the Golden

Lion / Eagle / Man

Breast of Silver – Medes Astyages (or Darius)(Dan 5:30, *14:1)

Bear eating flesh

Belly of Bronze - Persia Cyrus the Anointed

Leopard w/ Wings and Heads

Legs of Iron – Macedonia Alexander the Great

“Iron” Teeth, 10 Horns

~ Macedonian Empire split – 4 Dynasties, 10 kings ~
~ Unsuccessful marriage alliance between Seleucids and Ptolemys 202 BC ~

Feet of Iron & Clay - Seleucia Antiochus* (Horn 11 on beast 4)

Daniel 7:8,20,21, 11:21-32

“Made war with the saints and prevailed”

~ The description of the ‘little horn’ dates the book of Daniel. ~

~ Anything beyond this point is considered prophetic. ~

~ This is why Judaism doesn’t seat Daniel among the prophets. ~

~ NO ROMANS HERE, DARBYISTS! ~

*Antiochus IV, surnamed "Epiphanes" succeeded his brother Seleucus (B.C. 175). His career and character are prophetically described by Daniel (11:21-32). He was a "vile person." In a spirit of revenge he organized an expedition against Jerusalem, which he destroyed, putting vast multitudes to death in the cruelest manner. From this time, the Jews began the great war of independence under their heroic Maccabean leaders with some success, defeating the armies of Antiochus that were sent against them. Enraged at this, Antiochus marched against them in person, threatening to utterly exterminate the nation; but on the way he was suddenly arrested by the hand of death (B.C. 164). (Christian Answers http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/antiochus.html.)

Now let’s look back in time to Daniel' prophecy. There is an earlier mention of this “abomination of desolation" that Jesus knew all about. Daniel writes:

Armies shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate (Daniel 11:31).

Daniel's prophecy came to pass in 167 B.C. when the *Antiochus Epiphanes, the Seleucid Emperor marched against Jerusalem from the east, conquered it then set up the image of Jupiter in the holy place. He then had pigs sacrificed on the temple altar, which was the abomination that "desolated" the holy place. The Jewish community raised an army around the Maccabee family that defeated the Emperor after several years of war. The temple was “cleansed,” and sacrifices were once again instituted. This event is remembered today as Hanukkah - the Feast of Lights. (You can read about it all in the first and second books of the Maccabees.) (From “What Does Jesus Say . . .” 3/6, J Snyder, 1995)

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