John Tweedie - When Kingdoms Clash

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - When Kingdoms Clash | May 12, 2026

Why does the old testament
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End with the book of malachi and the new testament?
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Begin with the book of matthew leaving a gap of 400 years.
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The answer next, on the prophetic connection.
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Soft music
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You know, biblical scholars point to a curious 400 year gap
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Between the end of the old testament
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With the book of malachi
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And the beginning of the new testament
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With the gospel of saint matthew.
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They refer to these
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Approximately 400 years as the silent years.
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But perhaps the bible
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Is not really silent about these 400 years,
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Because they seem to be alluded to.
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In chapter 11 of the book of daniel.
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And it comes after the division of the greek empire,
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Which had been led by alexander the great, who took control
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Of the armies of greece at the age of 20
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But died prematurely at the age of 32.
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And we know from history that that greek kingdom
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Then was divided between four of alexander's generals.
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But the strongest parts of that divided kingdom were
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The kingdom of syria in the north, and the
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Kingdom of egypt in the south.
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So we speak as one of the king
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Of the north versus the king of the south.
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And those two kingdoms clashed
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After the greek empire was divided.
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But the thing about scripture is that
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There may be more than one meaning in this.
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And it's
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Not just the history of a clash between the king of the north
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And the king of the south.
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Then shortly after, daniel saw the vision,
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But also a clash that is to come in the future
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Between a future kingdom of the north
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And another kingdom of the south.
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And we have these underlying and overlapping
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Prophetic glimpses throughout the book of daniel.
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Things that have happened in the past, that point
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To things that are going to happen in the future.
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As we have already seen in the previous episode.
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A messenger was immediately sent from heaven in response
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To daniel's urgent petition
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For understanding in the wake of a very disturbing vision
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That god had given him about
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What was to happen to his people in the latter days.
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This prophetic explanation continued in chapter 11.
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Historically, chapter 11 seems to be at first referring
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To the clash between the middle
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Persian empire and the rising greek power,
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And then eventually that will be overtaken by rome.
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But of course, there's again this parallelism that we see
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Throughout daniel.
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And it has a future, application as well, because these are
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The terminology that is used later.
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Obviously, it relates to other periods of history, too.
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Again, we have to get away from this
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Linear western thinking and understand that it's non-linear,
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That there's a parallel meaning going on.
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This is a middle eastern prophecy being unraveled for us,
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And i believe it has to do with the end of times
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And the clash between empires and kingdoms, wars
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And rumors of wars preceding the time of the return of jesus.
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While chapter 11 seems to be a continuation
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Of the messenger's explanation to daniel in chapter ten,
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The prophetic context of the message in chapter 11
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Seems to extend far into the future.
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The majority opinion about the prophecy daniel gets in chapter
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11 is he's seeing greece, but not the greece
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So much of alexander.
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But after alexander the great builds a massive empire.
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He dies and that empire splits into multiple kingdoms.
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A kingdom in greece, a kingdom in egypt,
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A kingdom in the assyrian empire,
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The ptolemies and the seleucids, as they're called
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Kings of one side being called ptolemy,
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The other called antiochus
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The first, second, third, fourth, fifth.
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They go on and that israel is going to be caught.
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And whereas alexander ruled over unite, a greek empire is
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Greece will
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Break up into multiple empires
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That will fight amongst each other,
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With israel literally sandwiched in the middle,
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Changing sides back and forth, originally
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Ending up on the side of the ptolemies
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And then ending up on the side of the solutions
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Which will ultimately lead to the
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To the hellenistic persecution of the jews.
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In the hanukkah story, when the greeks outlawed
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History's first religious ideological war,
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Which that when the maccabees come to play and grant
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And get and buy a brief period of respite
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For the jewish people of independence on autonomy.
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But of course, that is all eclipsed by that
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Final great empire, which is rome,
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Which will one of the downsides of the greeks
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Fighting amongst each other is weakened and divided.
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They become very quick and easy prey for the roman empire,
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Which will not only gobble up all of alexander's empire,
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But ultimately the jewish people in israel.
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So he's really getting a preview of the major
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Historical events of arguably the entire second temple period.
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In verse 36,
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Daniel refers to a king
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Who shall do according to his own will,
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But the description he gives of this king,
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Especially in the verses that follow, suggests
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That daniel may have seemed,
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And this is why he was greatly troubled.
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Clear images of the antichrist, who is to appear
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At the end of days and persecute the saints of god.
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In verse 36.
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Once again you have a reference to what i believe in.
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The end times is the antichrist who blasphemes against the
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Most high god.
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And this is in the context of kingdom
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Rising against kingdom and nation
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Against nation, empire against empire.
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The very things that jesus prophesied
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Would take place before his return.
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In matthew chapter 24,
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Some scholars also believe that the messenger's
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Explanation in chapter 11 could be a prophetic,
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If veiled, description of events that were to occur
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During the bible's so-called silent years, that is,
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During the 400 year gap that exists
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Between the writings in malachi,
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The last book of the old testament period,
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And matthew, the first book of the new testament period.
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It's not as if,
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God is completely silent here because he has foreshadowed it
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By telling daniel a few of the details that will come.
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We also read in the book of samuel,
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And i think there's one
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Other reference in the bible that it had been many years
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Since god had spoken to his people
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Or god had not sent a message to his people for some time.
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Again, that doesn't mean completely silent,
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And it doesn't mean no one's hearing from god.
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But it's not the nation as a whole.
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It's not a prominent prophet or figure as a whole.
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But in this case, daniel has already seen some of it,
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That that kind of helps us bridge the gap
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Through what we would now call the silent years.
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I don't think they're completely silent.
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Yeshua also gives us a little bit of a look
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Back on a few of the passages that he's talking about.
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One passage comes to mind where what you show
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Is doing a teaching
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And he refers to a, a happening, a current event
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That has happened in the past in his teaching.
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So he's referring back to a few things.
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Daniel's referring forward to a few things.
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We do have to piece it together, but i don't think they're all
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Completely silent in.
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Don't go away.
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After this short break.
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Doctor john tweedie returns with his teaching.
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What has happened in israel over
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The past two years is heartbreaking.
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Lives lost, families
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Torn apart, children suffering hunger and homelessness.
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The people of israel are going through a time of overwhelming
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Pain and despair.
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But hope can still be found even in the deepest darkness.
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Today, as christians, we stand together with god's
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In the distance, the horns of a team
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In galilee in 1187.
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This was the setting for a major battle
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Between the christian knights, the crusaders,
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And the muslim army under saladin,
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And the christian knights were defeated here.
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The battle was fought in july.
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They were wearing heavy armor,
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And in fact the muslim warriors that
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Set the fields on fire and the knights
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Perished here in a terrible slaughter.
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In chapter 11, we're learning about
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The empires that clashed in ancient history.
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And of course, many battles have been fought throughout the
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Ancient near east.
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Now, as we've already seen in earlier episodes,
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Daniel's dreams and visions revealed the future.
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But up until now, it's the future primarily concerning
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The gentile nations, the empires that were to come,
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The babylonians, the middle persians, the greeks and
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The romans.
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When we get
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To chapter nine and through the end of daniel to chapter 12,
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The focus is still on the gentile nations,
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But the big difference is that israel is caught in the middle
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Of clashes between these various empires.
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And in fact, when daniel 11 opens, we read these words
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Also in the first year of darius the mean.
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And some people pronounce the name darius, but darius
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The mede, i even i stood up to confirm and strengthen him.
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Now, this may be the figure or the angelic figure
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Speaking to daniel, who somehow strengthens darius the mede,
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Because the kingdom of the medes and persians
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Lasted for quite a while.
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In fact, we're told in verse two, and i will tell you
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The truth, behold, three more kings will arise in persia.
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This is after darius,
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And the fourth shall be far richer than them all.
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By his strength, through his riches
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He shall stir up all against the realm of greece.
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But that will be a terrible mistake.
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Verse three.
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Now this figure speaking to daniel is giving him
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History in advance.
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These are prophetic words that are being spoken here.
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Verse three.
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Then a mighty king shall arise,
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Who shall
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Rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
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Now we, looking back from the perspective of history,
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Know that this is a reference to alexander the great.
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And in verse four we're still talking about alexander.
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And when he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken up
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And divided toward the four winds of heaven.
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And in fact, alexander died at the age of 32 prematurely,
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But his kingdom was then divided between four of his generals.
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And that's exactly what the prophecy is alluding
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To toward the four winds of heaven.
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But not among his posterity, nor according to his dominion,
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Meaning not to his offspring that would have normally
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Taken place, but to these four generals who rise up,
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According to his dominion with which he ruled.
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For his kingdom shall be uprooted,
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Even for others beside those now was we move forward.
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Now we find out that the king of the south,
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One of the generals, ptolemy and the king of the north, syria,
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The seleucids.
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They are the strongest of the four.
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And so we read in verse five, also the king of the south
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Shall become strong as well as one of his princes,
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And he shall gain power over him and have dominion.
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His dominion shall be a great dominion.
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So now we have two strong divisions of the greek empire,
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The king of the south and the king of the north,
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And they will likely clash, except for one thing.
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The daughter of the king of the south is given in marriage
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To the son of the king of the north.
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And so her name was bernice,
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And she was the daughter of ptolemy philadelphus,
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And she is given to antiochus theos, the third king of syria.
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This is the way things were done in the ancient world
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To try to avoid more wars, more clashes.
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Sometimes
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Sons and daughters
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Were married off so that the kingdoms had a bridge,
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That would prevent further conflict.
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And then we read on,
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And at the end of some years they shall join forces
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For the daughter of the king of the south.
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So go to the king of the north to make an agreement.
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But she shall not retain the power of her authority,
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And neither he nor his authority shall stand.
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But she shall be given up with those who brought her,
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And with him who begot her, and with him
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Who strengthened her in those times.
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In fact, barrenness is killed, and that's what we're told.
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But from a branch of her roots one shall arise in his place,
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Who shall come with an army.
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And to the fortress
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Of the king of the north, and deal with them and prevail.
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So as the story continues in the next verses,
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Things shift back and forth, and relatives assume power
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And the kingdoms continue to fight one way or another.
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And then we come to verse 21,
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And here we have, another one of the shifts.
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But this is one of the kings that will arise
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From these kingdoms, in fact, from the greek kingdom.
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And he will be antiochus epiphanies, who was a very cruel
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Tyrant, particularly where israel was concerned.
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So we read in verse 21 or verse 28, rather
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There shall arise in his place, meaning this last ruler,
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One who imposes taxes on the glorious kingdom,
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Meaning israel.
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But within a few days he shall be destroyed,
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But not in anger or in battle.
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And then, and this is antiochus epiphanies,
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And in his place shall arise a vile person,
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To whom they will not give the honor of royalty.
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But he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom
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By intrigue.
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So we see that antiochus
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Epiphanies was a cunning and deceitful person.
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He would win by any means possible.
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Verse 25,
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He shall stir up his power and his courage
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Against the king of the south, because he represents syria
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In the north
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With a great army,
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And the king of the south shall be stirred up
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To battle with a very great and mighty army.
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But he shall not stand
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For there shall devise plans against him.
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Yet those who eat of the portion of his delicacies
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Shall destroy him.
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His army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down
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Slain, meaning he was undermined from within.
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Both these kings heart shall be bent on evil,
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And they shall speak lies at the same table.
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But it shall not prosper.
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For the end will be, will still be at the appointed time.
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Now antiochus epiphanies makes another attempt
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To take over egypt in verse 28, while returning to his land
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With great riches,
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His heart shall be moved against the holy covenant,
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So he shall do damage and return to his own land.
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So on his way back from battling with egypt,
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Antiochus epiphanies turns his attention to the holy land,
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And it tells us he does damage, but he will do far more damage
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After this.
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And then we read in verse 29,
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At the appointed time he shall return and go toward the south,
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But it shall not be like the former or the latter.
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So he makes another attempt to attack
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The kingdom of the south, which is egypt.
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And it says in verse 34, ships from cyprus
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Shall come against him.
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So now he's fighting not just egypt, but also cyprus.
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Therefore he shall be grieved
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And return and rage against the holy covenant.
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And do damage.
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So he takes his frustration and anger out once again
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On the holy people of israel.
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So he shall return and show regard for those who forsake
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The holy covenant, and forces shall be mustered by him,
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And they shall define the sanctuary fortress.
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I believe this is the temple in jerusalem.
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Then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, meaning
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That the jews were sacrificing according to the law of moses.
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He's going to take them away and place their
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An above abomination of desolation.
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Now this is the idol,
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That he places in the holy of holies
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In the temple and he desecrated the temple of god in jerusalem.
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And we're told historians tell us that he sacrificed
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A pig in the altar, which was a sacrilege.
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Now, this causes the people of israel, led
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By the maccabees, the maccabean family, to rise up against him.
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And in fact, they defeat him.
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And that defeat is celebrated with the festival of lights
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Called in the jewish tradition, hanukkah.
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And there's actually a reference to that in john 1022.
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Not was
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The feast of dedication in jerusalem, and it was winter.
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It was in fact the feast of rededication.
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Because what happened was,
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After the sacrilege of antiochus epiphanies,
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The killing of the pagan, the altar,
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The placing of the image, the abomination of desolation
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Which jesus actually references in matthew 2415.
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After all of that, the maccabees rededicated the temple,
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And there is a tradition where the oil,
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For the lamps was a miracle, a provision
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The lamps in the temple kept burning for eight days.
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And that's the feast of rededication
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That the jews celebrated
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In the time of jesus and in fact, celebrate today.
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They call it hanukkah.
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But listen to these words.
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And jesus walked in the temple, in solomon's porch.
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Then the jews surrounded him and said to him,
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How long do you keep us in doubt?
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If you are the christ, tell us plainly.
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So those lingering questions about jesus identity,
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Especially by the pharisees and others
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Who wondered about him, his power to do miracles,
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But yet could he be the long awaited messiah?
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Now, in chapter 11 of daniel
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In verse 36, we have a prophetic shift.
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We've been looking at antiochus
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Epiphanies, who desecrated the temple then.
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But now we shift and we are speaking
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About the antichrist that is to come.
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And that's one of the
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Challenges of daniel, because you have in the text
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Double meanings
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They can apply to a person in the immediate near future,
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Or they can apply to someone in the distant future.
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So antiochus is going to rise up,
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In the near future, according to daniel's time.
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But the antichrist hasn't risen yet, and he's coming
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At the end of days.
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But these verses seem to point to him
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In which case antiochus is simply a
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A type of antichrist with the character of antichrist.
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So we read in verse 36,
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Then the king shall do according to his own will.
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He shall exalt and magnify himself above.
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Every god shall speak blasphemies against the god of
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Gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished,
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For what has been determined
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Shall be done meaning according to god's timetable.
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And i could easily take you to revelation chapter 13.
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We have almost the same description of the antichrist
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That daniel includes here, and then this intriguing verse.
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He shall regard
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Neither the god of his fathers nor the desire of women,
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Nor regard any god, for he shall exalt himself above them all.
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The final verses of chapter 11, beginning at verse 40,
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Are the key verses where our times are concerned.
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The end of days just before the second coming of the messiah.
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And we read these words in verse 40.
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At the time of the end the king of the south
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Shall attack him, meaning this antichrist figure
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And the king of the north shall come against him
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Like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships.
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And he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them,
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And pass through them.
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Now we're reading about the king
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Of the south and the king of the north again,
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And we've already read about them in ancient times.
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But these are military alliances that are in the future,
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And perhaps they're being formed
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Today as i'm giving this teaching.
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And then he antichrist shall enter the glorious land
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Of israel, and many countries shall be overthrown.
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But these shall escape from his hand.
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He doom moab and the prominent people of ammon.
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Now those three areas today form the kingdom of jordan.
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So it's interesting.
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Jordan is not part of this, alliance between these military,
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Leaders.
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Verse 42,
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He shall stretch out his hand against the countries
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And the land of egypt shall not escape.
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He shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver,
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And over all the precious things of egypt.
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Also the libyans and ethiopians shall follow at his heels.
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So we're hearing ancient names that represent countries
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That exist today, and then this.
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But news from the east and north shall trouble him.
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Therefore he shall go out
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With great fury to destroy and annihilate many.
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And here is perhaps the key verse in this whole chapter.
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And he by interpretation, antichrist shall plant
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The tents of his palace
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Between the seas and the glorious holy mountain.
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So i believe the seas could refer to the mediterranean
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To the west
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And the dead sea to the east, and then between the two
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Jerusalem and the holy temple mount.
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And then yet
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He shall come to his end, and no one will help him. why?
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Because he goes to a place called armageddon in israel,
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Which is just over the green hills behind me,
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And there he is confronted by the christ,
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King of kings and lord of lords, and the armies of heaven.
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And that is the end of the antichrist.
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But a lingering question who is this
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Individual, and could he be in the world today?
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Stay tuned for more from doctor
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John tweedy after this break.
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So we're left with an intriguing question
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When will the antichrist appear?
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In all my study of the bible, and particularly
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The new testament?
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It's clear to me, and it seems clear in scripture
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That his rise to prominence
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Occurs just before the second coming of christ.
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But we will know his character by the things that he does.
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He will be a deceiver.
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He will be an individual with great powers of persuasion.
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He will be able to form alliances between nations,
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But they will ultimately have the goal of destroying israel.
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And one of the key things is,
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And this may not be obvious at first,
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He will probably appear as a friend of israel,
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But scripture clearly teaches that he turns against israel,
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Probably at the middle of the seven year tribulation period
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That we've seen so much about
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In this series, and certainly in other series.
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And his treatment of israel will bring the return of christ.
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And of course, there will be this clash
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Between the antichrist and his armies
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And the armies of heaven under jesus,
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Who is described in revelation,
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Revelation 19 as king of kings and lord of lords.
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Now, i believe, will be an age of widespread deception.
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The apostle paul, in his first letter to timothy
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In chapter four, says, now the spirits expressly says that
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In the latter times, the days before the coming of christ,
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Some will depart from the faith,
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Giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.
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So it will be an age of widespread deception,
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And people will move far away from god.
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Listen, we are living in times like these.
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There will also be
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Realignments of nations into military power blocs.
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We have brexit, which means britain exiting
00:26:52.380 --> 00:26:55.950
The european union.
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There are other stirrings within the european union.
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I just heard one dictator say that he wants to form
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An alliance of islamic armies to rise up and destroy israel.
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We could be living in the days of the appearance
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Of the antichrist.
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John Tweedie - When Kingdoms Clash

May 12, 2026 | 27:23

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