Week 3: Daniel 8 - 12 Flashcards

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Daniel 8: language

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We switch back to Hebrew now

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dan 8: 3rd year of Belshazzar

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  • 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
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“I, Daniel” (ch. 8)

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…had a similar dream to the one i had before in ch 7

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Vision

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Hazone = hebrew word. A vivid dream, or vision in the middle of the day.

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Locating Daniel: Dan 8:2 (in his goat vs ram vision)

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  • 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.
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A Ram: Dan 8:3-4

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  • 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.
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Spring = Nisan/Passover

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  • 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.
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Summer = Tishri. feast of trumpets

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Beginning of the year.

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Yom kippur = day of atonement.

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  • 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
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Feast of booths = 1 wk

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  • 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
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Two horns (goat and ram vision)

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  • One came up later, but got longer.
  • May represent the Medes and the Persians
  • Babylon is irrelevant in this
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“West, north, South” (ch. 8)

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Exactly the three directions the Persians conquered under Cyrus

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A goat: Dan 8:5-5

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  • From the west = Probably relative to Babylon (Persia to Babylon)
  • Not touching the ground,,,So hes flying?? Parallels with the leopard w/ 4 wings
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One conspicuous horn

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  • Alexander the great
  • Four conspicuous horns
  • Leopard with 4 heads parallel → the 4 generals
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A new horn: Dan 8:6-12

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  • 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
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Horizontal/political campaigns (ch. 8)

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  • 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
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Vertical/spiritual campaigns (ch. 8)

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Spiritual campaign as well as an earthly one

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Sanctuary and sacrificial language

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  • 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.
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Angelic Q&A: Dan 8:13-14

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  • How long = 2300 evenings mornings.
  • Sanctuary restoration after these 2300
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2,300 evening-morning

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  • 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.
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Nitzdak/tsaddik meaning

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Many meanings → Cleanse, reconciliation.

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22
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Who is Gabriel?

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An angel

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23
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March for the “time of the end” (ch. 8)

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The vision concerns the time of the end.

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Mareh meaning

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  • 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.
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Interpretation of Ram and Goat: Dan 8:18-22 … Ram =

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Kings of medes and persia

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Greece

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kingdom of greece

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27
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First horn

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first king of greece / Alexander the great

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Four horns

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four kingdoms emerging from the Greek kingdom, but wont be as strong as alexander the great

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Interpretation of little horn: Dan 8:23-25 –> A king of intrigue

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Will destroy who is mighty. Takes a stand against the prince of powers. Concerns the distant future. Daniel has no idea what he saw

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30
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Magnify himself (the little horn)

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  • He takes all the attention to himself
  • Broken without human agency = Broken not from people (Heavenly wrath)
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31
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Daniels response to the mareh

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  • 2300 thing → daniel has no clue. He layed in bed for a while.
  • Ends with a question.
32
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Daniel 9: Israels Repentance and the Messiah:

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In the time of the new king. A different Darius than from the lion’s den.

33
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Temporal marker: dan 9

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First year of his reign.

34
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Jeremiah’s prophesy: Dan 9:2-3

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  • Read these on your own. That Israel would be in captivity.
  • Isaiah 44:24-45:7
  • Jeremiah 25:1 - 14
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Daniel’s prayer of repentance: Dan 9:4-19

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  • After reading Jeremiah he prays this. A long prayer.
  • We have broken commandments, been sinners, etc.
36
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Solomon’s prayer in 2 chronicles 6:36-39

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  • Daniel is fulfilling this prayer
  • Solomon saw ahead and thought about the future of his people after the temple was built.
  • Daniel is praying this prayer “on the other side” of Solomon’s prayer
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Gabriel comes: Dan 9:20 - 21

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  • Gabriel only shows up at the birth of jesus and in ch. 8 & 9
  • This chapter is about the coming of the Messiah
  • Seems like this is Gabriel’s job → to tell people about Messiah
38
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Links to Dan 8

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  • Same guy in ch. 8 (Gabriel)
  • Same time sequences
39
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Evening offering

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Mentioned specifically → calls back to ch. 8

40
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Verse 23 “vision”

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Mareh = About the end times (yet again)

41
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Seventy “sevens”

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“For your people to give an end to transgressions”

42
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2 chronicles 36:21

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Last few verses → god sent Israel into captivity cause the land needed to rest

43
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List of purposes for the 70 “sevens” (things jews had to do but actually jesus does these)

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  1. Put an end to sin
  2. To atone for wickedness
  3. To bring in everlasting righteousness
  4. To seal up the vision and
  5. the prophecy
  6. To anoint the most holy place
44
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Decree to restore Jerusalem

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  • Decree → 7 sevens (49 years) → 62 sevens (434) → Messiah shows up
  • So we’re gonna have 49 + 434 yrs till Messiah shows up
45
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Sabbatical year

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  • The jews took off a year every 7 years. So the 8th year there was nothing planted. This was good ecology too.
  • In exile for 70 years so that the land could enjoy its sabbath → sabbatical year had not been kept leading up to this.
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After going back to the land of Israel

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  • they start rebuilding the temple.
  • 3 different decrees by various kings. Only 1 decree got the temple rebuilt = 457 BC is when that decree went out.
  • So 49 years later, the temple is rebuilt. Good news!
47
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Messiah the prince: dan 9:25

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  • Messiah means = anointed one.
  • Kings, prophets, were anointed
  • The work “6 tasks” will be up to the Messiah to do it
48
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Messiah will be “cut off”

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  • To die and all of your offspring end. You no longer have a place in Israel.
  • A technical term
  • The jews did not want to hear this. They didn’t want a suffering messiah.
49
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People of the “prince”

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  • The Jewish people
  • Israelite rebellion caused the destruction of the temple
50
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Covenant with many for one “seven”

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  • Jesus confirmed a covenant
  • Tried to make a covenant after his death for seven years
51
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End to sacrifice and offering

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  • Messiah brings an end to this sacrificial system with his death
  • Points forward to jesus as the lamb
52
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Desolations decreed

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  • 70 AD when temple was destroyed
  • Jesus uses with exact “desolation” phrase when he prophesied about it falling
  • 1.3 million Jewish people died
53
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Jesus’s beginning of ministry/the years leading up to him

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  • i got so confused at this part ngl but basically
  • Jesus reads Isaiah in temple –> starts ministry around 27/28 AD –> Ministry lasted abt 3 yrs –> this “beginning” of ministry lines up with the prophecy about 7 70’s
  • Jesus died in 31 AD
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Steven → 34 AD

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  • Selected as a greek leader of the church
  • Starts preaching in the streets, Jews get so mad at him that he gets stoned on the spot
  • Jewish people rejected the last messenger of Jesus to the Jewish people
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Saul → 34 AD

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  • Saw Steven’s stoning
  • Starts putting messianic jews into prison. Was a rabbi.
  • On the way to Damascus, he is given a vision from Jesus, Jesus calls him out for hurting his children.
  • Saul didn’t eat for 3 days.
  • Talks to the corinthian church about seeing jesus illuminates the law
  • Jesus tells him to spread the gospel to the whole world.
56
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Even if Daniel was written in 150 BC

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Then this prophecy is STILL amazing on how its fulfilling timelines w/ the coming of the Messiah and the destruction of the Jewish temple

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Work of michael the prince, ch. 10 - 11

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  • Chapter 11 is difficult so he won’t ask too many questions on it. But he wants us to see that its an expansion on ch. 2,
  • Kings of the north and the south fight forever. Trying to own Palestine.
  • Youtube: “God gave me this land”
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Temporal Marker: Daniel 10:1

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Third year of Cyrus. Not Darius??

59
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“Understanding”

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In verse 12: Came to give Daniel understanding

60
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Clothes

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  • High priests robe was blue = blue symbolized the ten commandments
  • 10 commandments were made of sapphire
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Daniel’s Mourning: Dan 10:2-3

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Praying his people will let him go

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Introduction to the great vision: Daniel 10:10 - Prince of Persia

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  • Cyrus himself
  • Euphemism for the devil
63
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“Twenty-one days”

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3 weeks

64
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Michael

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  • Chief prince of Israel
  • “One who is like God”
65
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Familiar vision: daniel 11:1-4 …. Persia

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  • Xerxes decided he would fight against Greece
  • Greece’s “mighty king” = Alexander the great
  • Greece defeated Persia
66
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Wars of the Kings of the North and South: Dan 11:5-39

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  • North = anyone north of Palestine
  • South = anyone south of Palestine
  • Summary → the rise and fall of everybody
  • No one retains power
67
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Prince of the covenant (vs. 22)

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  • Speaking about Rome now???
  • Nobody has power now. What is determined is war. No peace.
68
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Last-day War: Dan 11:40-45

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  • Beautiful land = Palestine
  • Still very little consensus about what these 5 verses mean
  • Tim rossenbalm …. Rosenberg…. ? Anyway hes a pastor w/ a theory
  • King of North = Church coupled with the West
69
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Daniel 12: Conclusion to Daniel –> Michael stands up

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To help them

70
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Time of trouble

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  • Never been like it in the world before
  • Like,,,,really bad,,,,,
71
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Two resurrections?

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  • Multitudes who sleep in the earth will awake, some to everlasting life and some to contempt
  • Talking about a last day resurrection.
  • Two groups. Why?
  • Why bad people resurrected?
72
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Sealing the book: Dan 12:4 –> Time of the end

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“Not a prophecy you’ll understand until after it has happened”

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Knowledge increasing

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  • “Many will go here and there”
  • Proposed: technology + travel
  • Knowledge that helps us understand Daniel
74
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Final prophecy: Dan 12:5-7 –> Swearing by him who lives forever

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  • This angel shows up again in rev. Ch. 10
  • Raises both hands.
  • Daniel seals up the prophecy
75
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Daniel’s final questions: Dan 12:8-12

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Daniel seals up the prophecy
- 1,290 days & 1,335 days mentioned

76
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Daniel’s promise: Dan 12:13

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  • Go your way till the end
  • Jewish way of thinking about death = you will rest.
  • “Thanks for being faithful”