1. 5
Vision Within a Vision

3. Same Kingdoms → Different Symbols
M.P. Empire
Chest of silver with 2 arms in statue dream.
Bear with Ribs in mouth in 1st vision.
Ram with 2 horns in 2nd vision.

4. Same Kingdoms → Different Symbols
Greece
Belly with hips of brass in statue dream.
Leopard with wings in 1st vision.
He-Goat with horn in 2nd vision.

5. Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly
Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly. But as soon as he was mighty, the large horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.
- Daniel 8:8

6. Primary – Daniel's Lifetime Secondary – Future Sometime
Prophecy Fulfillment
Primary – Daniel's Lifetime
Secondary – Future Sometime
Final – End of Time

7. Final - Anti-Christ "Little Horn" Prophecy
Secondary - Antiochus Epiphanes
170BC
Final - Anti-Christ
End of World

8. Now while 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 in behalf of the holy mountain of my God
- Daniel 9:20

9. while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.
- Daniel 9:21

10. He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.
- Daniel 9:22

11. At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.
- Daniel 9:23

12. "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
- Daniel 9:24

13. So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
- Daniel 9:25

14. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
- Daniel 9:26

15. And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."
- Daniel 9:27

16. 7 an important number 70 weeks = 70 X 7 = 490 years Ezekiel 4:6
70 Weeks Prophesy
7 an important number
70 weeks = 70 X 7 = 490 years
Ezekiel 4:6

17. 70 Weeks Divided into 3 Sections
7 weeks = Daniel to temple
62 weeks = Temple to Christ
1 week = Christ to destruction to Jerusalem

18. 70 Weeks Prophesy Daniel → Temple = 50 years (7 weeks of years = 49)
Daniel → Jesus = 500 years (62 weeks = 434 years)
Jesus → Destruction of Jerusalem = 30 years (30AD-70AD) - (1 week = short period)

19. Chapter 10 - Angels and Nations
Angel sent to give Daniel another vision.
Reveals angelic struggle over nations.

20. Chapter 11 - Kings of North and South
4 Generals succeed Alexander
Ptolemy Soter – BC
Syria dominates area – BC

21. Chapter 11 - Kings of North and South
Antiochus Epiphanes appoints H.P.
Maccabean Revolt – BC
Rome conquers Greece – 145 BC
Rome Controls Jerusalem – 63 BC

22. Chapter 12 - The Time of the End
Daniel speaks of the struggle between the church and the fourth kingdom (Rome).

23. Different Viewpoints / Same Sequence
Rise and fall of 4th kingdom (Rome)
Persecution of Christians
Perseverance of Christians
Defeat of Rome
Reward for Christians

24. Different Viewpoints / Same Sequence
7 weeks — Time
62 weeks — Times
1 week — ½ time
Same Ration — Same Sequence

25. Remember: Four world powers and the church
Same story – different symbols
Same sequence of events as Chapter 2

26. Remember:
Prophecy concerned with sequence of events not just numbers and dates.
Sequence proven historically
Still awaiting final fulfillment
We win!