Week 3: Daniel 8 - 12 Flashcards
Daniel 8: language
We switch back to Hebrew now
dan 8: 3rd year of Belshazzar
- When this chapter happens → provides an important setting for vision because babylon is about to fall.
- Only have two creatures, and some horns. So it doesn’t exactly fit with ch. 2 and 7
“I, Daniel” (ch. 8)
…had a similar dream to the one i had before in ch 7
Vision
Hazone = hebrew word. A vivid dream, or vision in the middle of the day.
Locating Daniel: Dan 8:2 (in his goat vs ram vision)
- In susa in the province of elam.
- In modern day Iran, near the capital of the Persian empire. Not in Babylon.
- He had maybe even been there before IRL.
- Persia is the centerpiece of this vision. Not Babylon.
A Ram: Dan 8:3-4
- Rams and goats are used for sacrifice (jewish audience would know this)
- Rams and goats are not daily sacrifices, or sin offerings.
- Old daily sacrifices = lamb
- Rams and goats were used once a year. In Hebrew day of atonement.
Spring = Nisan/Passover
- If no lamb blood, every first born died (the story it originated from)
- Unleavened bread = no bread thats been risen w/ baking powder etc
- 50 days after passover, Pentecost. Celebrated going up mt. sinai giving the 10 commandments. Creation of the law.
Summer = Tishri. feast of trumpets
Beginning of the year.
Yom kippur = day of atonement.
- Tearful. They would be cut off if they didn’t atone.
- didn’t have to go to Jerusalem right away. They would ask if they had wronged anyone.
- Atonement goat = leave goat to die in the wilderness.
- Then there is a huge celebration
- These two animals and this chapter are integral to ideas of sacrifice and atonement
Feast of booths = 1 wk
- sometimes called tabernacles. Made lean-to’s and would camp around Jerusalem. Would party for a week.
- All jewish males had to travel to Jerusalem for celebrations
Two horns (goat and ram vision)
- One came up later, but got longer.
- May represent the Medes and the Persians
- Babylon is irrelevant in this
“West, north, South” (ch. 8)
Exactly the three directions the Persians conquered under Cyrus
A goat: Dan 8:5-5
- From the west = Probably relative to Babylon (Persia to Babylon)
- Not touching the ground,,,So hes flying?? Parallels with the leopard w/ 4 wings
One conspicuous horn
- Alexander the great
- Four conspicuous horns
- Leopard with 4 heads parallel → the 4 generals
A new horn: Dan 8:6-12
- Gender language comes in here. In the language as a whole. Relates to Hebrew and pronoun use. The “them” is feminine. Winds is feminine.
- The horn grows out from one of the winds. Grows up outside Greece. From one of the four winds of heaven.
- This little horn becomes the strongest. It does the same thing as the 4th beast
Horizontal/political campaigns (ch. 8)
- To the East, south, and the beautiful land (Palestine)
- Rome is what fits best with this little horn. Takes over med-persia, Palestine, Babylon.
- Horizontal = earthly kingdom that conquers
Vertical/spiritual campaigns (ch. 8)
Spiritual campaign as well as an earthly one
Sanctuary and sacrificial language
- Throws the sanctuary down
- Tries to be better than the army of the lord
- Leader would claim to be equal to Jesus christ on earth = this is what popes claim
- Temple lies desolate → sacrificial system will be taken down.
Angelic Q&A: Dan 8:13-14
- How long = 2300 evenings mornings.
- Sanctuary restoration after these 2300
2,300 evening-morning
- Gen. ch. 1 → When god creates the world, he says in the evening and the morning = one day.
- This is a prophetic way of speaking about time.
- Sanctuary system = use this way of speaking about time as well.
Nitzdak/tsaddik meaning
Many meanings → Cleanse, reconciliation.
Who is Gabriel?
An angel
March for the “time of the end” (ch. 8)
The vision concerns the time of the end.
Mareh meaning
- Time of the end
- Refers specifically to the 2300 evening morning
- This vision takes us to the end of things. Long range prophesy. Prophetic time.
Interpretation of Ram and Goat: Dan 8:18-22 … Ram =
Kings of medes and persia
Greece
kingdom of greece
First horn
first king of greece / Alexander the great
Four horns
four kingdoms emerging from the Greek kingdom, but wont be as strong as alexander the great
Interpretation of little horn: Dan 8:23-25 –> A king of intrigue
Will destroy who is mighty. Takes a stand against the prince of powers. Concerns the distant future. Daniel has no idea what he saw
Magnify himself (the little horn)
- He takes all the attention to himself
- Broken without human agency = Broken not from people (Heavenly wrath)