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The Antichrist - Part 1: Daniel 8

The prophetic chapters 2 and 7 the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament Teaching We would want to rise from the Roman Empire for the last world empire, led by a man who will be characterized by a profane mouth, changes in laws and times, as well as persecution of the people of God, known in circles of believers of many denominations as the "Antichrist" is.

While skeptics all forecasts about the appearance of the coming New World Order often abstempteln as "conspiracy theories", so know the faithful that the biblical prophecies have about the man not so slight of hand, after all, have the predictions of the previous empires met precisely.

In 8th chapter of his book describes the living at the court of Babylon Jewish prophet Daniel, as he has once again come visions of world empires. This time the Almighty is in his future descriptions that He gives to His servant Daniel, which is in Babylon following Empire Medo-Persia as a ram, whose horns of a higher than the other, again pointing to the power differentials between the Medes and Persians, as already in the vision of the silver arms in Daniel 2, and erected on one side bears in Daniel 7

The Greek Empire, which conquered Medo-Persia and detached from the world domination would be represented in this vision by a goat, with a "notable horn between his eyes," which in turn represents Alexander the Great. After the decline of the horn to grow in its place four other horns, which is the division of his empire under Alexander's four generals.

now makes Daniel a leap in time and describes - as in Daniel 7, a "little horn" which here would emerge from one of the 4 parts of the Greek empire, and to the south and east, and the promised land powerful would. From the following verses, we know it here in this small Horn, as well as in the 7th Chapter, again dealing with the Antichrist.
Daniel describes this horn part of the heavenly host, So the angel that would raise the earth ( V.10), an event that is confirmed in the Book of Revelation of John, and described in more detail:

"And the great dragon, that ancient serpent, who called the Devil and Satan is, who deceives the whole world was thrown to the ground, and his angels were cast out with him ... cast down the accuser of our brethren, who accuses them day and night before our God ... Woe to the earth and the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows he has little time. " (Offb.12 :9-12)
Here is described that moment in world history, in which Satan himself in the drive body of the Antichrist to take his demons who take possession of his successors, for 3 ½ years of rule over the earth.

Daniel also describes how the little horn, the Antichrist will take away the daily sacrifice ( V.11) . This is a first indication that the time of the Antichrist and his final world order of the Jewish temple rebuilt in Israel and the Jewish ritual sacrifices must be reinstated. An event which not only devout Christians but also orthodox Jews look with anticipation. It is known that preparations for the reconstruction of the temple has been under way for decades, and this can be built at any given time within a very short time. In the next verse

Announces Daniel that the little horn will throw the truth to the ground.

For believers has always been the word of God is the measure of truth .

We see here the first evidence for the Antichrist to the biblical view of things and description discard ban is yes, and declare his ideology as the only valid will.

It is the angel Gabriel in this chapter Daniel explained his vision, and he repeated three times that this prophecy refers to the time of the end of the world. Therefore, we know Furthermore, these visions have not been fulfilled, as often interpreted by Bible scholars.
Finally, Gabriel us an insightful description of the man who will enslave the end of the world towards the human race:

"And at the end of that kingdom, when the transgressors, the measure will have made full, stand up a king, insolent brow and . dark secrets knowledgeable
And his power will be strong, but not by his own power, and he is amazing cause destruction, and act and prosper, and he shall destroy strong and the people of the Holy
And through. his prudence will allow the deception in his hand; and he will lift himself in his heart, and by spoil many false peace. And against the Prince of princes, he shall also stand up, but are crushed without human hands. " (Daniel 8:23-25)

that his power will lie not in its own strength, as Gabriel explains in verse 24, but in the another is also confirmed by John in the Apocalypse:
"And they worshiped the dragon who gave the beast his power." (Rev.13: 4)

is the 13th chapter of Revelation, the Antichrist as "the described animal, "which has similar characteristics as the four monsters Daniel once saw in his vision to rise from the sea . This animal has seven heads, symbolic of the 7 world powers throughout history to control the world would, and one of those heads has 10 horns, similar to the fourth monster from Daniel's vision in chapter 7 . Only that the Antichrist will not be described only as "little horn", but as of that animal or monster itself, which embodies all the empires in themselves, as if that final world empire of the Antichrist, the ultimate fulfillment of all that is what his predecessor only partially reached brought.

The dragon is the dark lord's power, is, as in the previously mentioned verse Rev. 12:9 describes the devil or Satan. Who has a Christian doubts about the existence of the devil, should remember that the devil will total at least 111 times in the books of the Bible, and thus may constitute a reality of the Judeo-Christian faith.

Gabriel also predicts the fate of the last ruler of the world, namely that he is going to be crushed without human hands ", but not without first" to destroy the people of the saints. " After the Antichrist, the largest religious persecution in history, the " great tribulation ," those darkest 3 1 / 2 years of humanity will bring upon the earth, he will come to an abrupt end, and not by a human hand, but by the same weapon and the same tool that once produced the world sebst:
Paul, in his second letter to the then municipality of the Greek city of Thessaloniki, gives us some of the most telling lines about the show and the destruction of the Antichrist from the same it becomes clear that Jesus - as assumed by many Christians today - will not return before the show:
"We beseech you, brethren, concerning the return of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering with Him, that ye be not shaken quickly will in the disposition, even frightened, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as if the Lord's day already there would be.
you let no one in any seducing a way, because this day is not, unless that first come a falling away and revealed to be the man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself over everything what is God or an object of worship, so that it is in the temple of God, pretending that he himself was God.
... then the lawless one will be revealed, the will of the Lord Jesus hinwegtun by the breath of his mouth and destroyed by the brightness of his coming, it is based, whose coming on the power of Satan. He will perform with great power and deceptive characters and miracles. "
(2 Thessalonians 2:3-4,8-9)

In chapter 19 of Revelation and in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 the defeat of the Antichrist and his Army in the legendary battle of Armageddon against the heavenly army of the future conqueror and eternal ruler Jesus Christ described in more detail.
From these chapters we can see that these prophecies have not yet met, as some interpretations, as we in the recent history still not powerful generals, together with hosts "in the mountains of Israel" have come to see (Hes.39: 4). This event is for which lies ahead of us battle of Armageddon reserved.

But there are other characteristics of the Antichrist and his kingdom of darkness are imminent, about which we give the following chapters of the book Daniels digestion. was

Kristal Summers Follada

Bible Prophecy Part III - Daniel Chapter 7

While the image by God to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar of the kingdoms of this world in the second chapter of the book of the prophet Daniel was still relatively flattering, it is the portrait of this same world empires He sent His own intimate vision of the Prophet in the 7th Chapter of the same book are less flattering.

described in Daniel 7 in the meantime the influential guide the court Baylon Ascended Daniel, as he has a night vision to rise in the four world powers, from Babylon to Rome up as a terrifying monster from the sea of Menschwenmassen:

"I looked in my face at night, and behold, the four winds of heaven broke loose on the great sea.
And four great beasts came up from the sea, different from that of another. -
The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings, I looked its wings were torn up, and picked it up from the earth and how a man put on his feet and he was given a human heart. " (Daniel 7:2-4) In verse 16 Daniel

reported as a "box beside and, presumably an angel, he interprets his vision and declares that this - as in Nebuchadnezzar dream - is to the kingdom, again starting with the Babylonian, which is described here as a lion with eagle's wings, which are plucked, and which is placed on his feet, and is provided with a human heart.
This allegory refers in all probability to the experience of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had to make when he failed to give glory to God for his kingdom, and then for seven years to the madness Victim was and how an animal lived outdoors. The prophet Daniel had warned him, unfortunately in vain, as one can read in Daniel chapter 4. After seven years, the humiliated king known that there is God, the power, fame and honor awards. So to speak, a new "human" heart and given it was built on the earth.

The following on Babylon empire of Medo-Persians is shown in Daniel's vision as a flesh-eating bear:

"And behold, another, another beast, like a bear, and it sat up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth, and they spoke to him: Arise ! On, devour much flesh "(Dan.7: 5)
that the bear is gone up on a page indicates - as with the arms of the statue in Daniel 2 suggests that one half of the dual kingdom of Medo-Persia was stronger than the others. The Medo-Persians conquered the known world to them with great aggressiveness and pushed further to the west than the previous world empires, Egypt, Assyria and Babylon - represented by three ribs in its mouth.
"After this I looked, and behold, another, like a cheetah, and it had four wings of a bird on his back, and the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to him." (Dan.7: 6)
The Cheetah - the animal which is on land fastest capable of moving - here depicts the following to Persia Greco-Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great, who was with a much smaller army than the Persians in a position to him known civilized world at breathtaking speed conquer. After Alexander's death his kingdom was divided into 4, symbolized by the four wings and heads.
"After this I looked in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and very strong, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and what was left it trampled with its feet, and it was different from all the animals that were before him, and it had ten horns. "(Dan.7: 7)
The fourth monster, clearly more impressive than the previous symbol, again Rome, in Daniel 2 as the" will of iron legs, "and here with" iron teeth "presented . As the legs in Daniel 2, "crushed" and this animal all the other kingdoms of the Western world and "crushes it underfoot."
Similar to the feet of the statue in Daniel 2 with their 10 toes, so this monster has 10 horns, the As we learn in verse 24 of the angel of Daniel interprets his vision, "10 Kings" will be, which will result from the Roman Empire, of which we later in the Book of Revelation more remains to be learned.
But first, give us Daniel still some outstanding and remarkable details of the fourth monster in his vision:
"While I achtgab on the horns, behold, another little horn rose up between them, and three from the first horns were before plucked out, and behold, in this horn were eyes like human eyes and a mouth speaking great things. "(Dan.7: 8)
From the Book of Revelation, we know that the ten horns are kings or rulers, to the "beast," the ruler of the last, seventh world government will give their power, by one of the "small Horn "is presented," "has" a big mouth speaketh great things ":
" And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom, but receive power as kings one hour with . the beast "(Revelation 17:12)
A mouth that big, blasphemous things speak, is one of the biblical characteristics of the last ruler of the world, the upcoming leader of the New World Order, the Antichrist, whose kingdom is the coming of the kingdom of God immediately preceding:
"And it has given him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and it has given him authority, forty-two . Contribute to months "(Revelation 13:5) The angel
or" box beside and "interpretation of Daniel's vision, has this to say to that little horn with a big mouth:
" And the ten horns out of that kingdom (the Roman Empire) will be up ten kings: and another shall rise after them, and this will be different from the one before, and will humiliate three kings.
And he will speak words against the Most High and destroy the saints, and he will reflect on changing times and laws, and they are a time and times and half a time are placed in his hand "(Daniel 7:24;. 25)

addition to his property, a large, to have profane mouth, we are quite prepared Eigenschften the next great anti-Christian leader of the world is conveyed: it is 3 of the 10 kings that come out Roman out of the realm "lower," "to reflect times and laws change," and "destroy the Saints. "
In the book of Revelation confirms this:

." And there was given unto him to lead the holy war and to overcome them "(Revelation 13:7).

In other words, is that coming world empire or the new world order marked by a persecution of believers and God's faithful, in other parts of the Bible and by Jesus himself is also "the great tribulation" mentioned.

In Daniel 7:25 we get the first indication of how long those "tribulation" is: ". A time and times and half a time"


from different parts of the Bible, we know that this is 3 ½ years, on 42 months or 1260 days.

While it is true to interpret those prophecies by many Bible scholars so that their performance is said to have taken place in the past, such as under the Roman Emperor and persecutor of Christians, Nero, but the vision of Daniel is not over yet:

"I looked in visions of Night, and behold, with the clouds of heaven came one like a son of man, and He came to the Ancient of Days and was brought before them. And to Him was given dominion
and glory and kingship, and all peoples, nations and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall never be destroyed "(Daniel 7:13. , 14)

precisely, as in Daniel 2 that is also here that last, replaced by far the most unfortunate of the empires of man, abruptly from the everlasting kingdom of God, an event that has that taken place yet not obvious because the peaceful and glorious reign of Jesus Christ on earth are hardly be compared with the reign of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages.

The factor will take in Daniel 2, existing empires and was depicted as a stone from the sky, we described here much more clearly than "Son of Man", which is coming with the clouds of heaven. Through the Gospels does Jesus ever even passed, "the Son of Man," as if he was the faithful of that time we wanted to make clear today that he was the person and his dignity, of which Daniel spoke here. He also describes his second coming very similar to Daniel here:

"But immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and give the moon its light does not ... and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
And then the sign of the Son of man appear in heaven, and then see all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they will come to the Son of Man on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory "(Matthew 24:29,30. )

In our next study, we learn more about the future machinations of the "little horn, the Antichrist, that next leader of the new world order, which may be in our opinion, not too far in the future from us.