Part 6 of 6 in a series at GYC 2010. “Crash Course on Daniel: Lessons from the Past for Living in the Present” given on December 31, 2010

GYC 2010: No Turning Back

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

A Crash Course on Daniel: Lessons from the Past for Living in the Present

Norman McNulty

Why Does 1844 Matter?

Daniel 11—Where Are We Today?

When Michael Stands Up

Okay, well I'm going to offer a word of prayer and then we're going to get right in to our final presentation on the book of Daniel for our seminar here this week.

So let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.

Father in heaven, I thank you so much for bringing us through all of these sessions that we've had and for the things that we've learned and as we see just how soon your coming is, I pray that we would get our lives in order and that we would be ready for your soon coming.

And as we discuss the last part of Daniel 11 and chapter 12, may it help us in our walk with you.

So our presentation for our last session is entitled, When Michael Stands Up.

And that of course is referring to Michael standing up in Daniel chapter 12 verse 1.

Now, I'm just going to give a brief rundown of what we saw in the last session.

What we saw in the last session is that there was a great controversy struggle between Christ and Satan to get the information of Daniel 11 to Daniel as Daniel fasted and prayed for 3 full weeks.

Once Michael came, the conflict was decided and Gabriel could then reveal to Daniel the information that we've been looking at.

We've gone down through history and we saw that there was the Medo-Persian kingdom and then Greece and the division of Greece into 4, and then the king of the north and the king of the south developed out of that division of Greece with a northern and southern division, and then eventually pagan Rome replaced Greece as the king of the north, or the northern division of Greece as the king of the north, and then papal Rome eventually replaced pagan Rome as the king of the north, and verses 31 through 40 describe the 1290 years, beginning in verse 31, of papal supremacy.

And I didn't mention this in my presentation, but now would probably be the time to do so.

Someone already came up and asked me in the break about the 1290 and the 1335, our reference point for the beginning point of those prophecies is Daniel 1131 where it talks about arms standing on his part, the daily being taken away, and placing the abomination that maketh desolate.

In Daniel 12, 11, and 12 it refers back to Daniel 11, 31 and says that is your reference point for the beginning of the 1290 and the 1335.

1290 takes us 508 to 1798 and 1335 takes us 508 to 1843.

I've heard someone even say that they can't believe that the climax of Daniel 12 would be talking about Clovis in 508.

Well that would be like saying the climax of Daniel 8.14 was talking about the decree of Artaxerxes in 457 BC.

So don't let people confuse you and Ellen White makes it clear that there's no more time prophecy after 1844.

So we come down to verse 40, which we did, we saw Papal Rome as the king of the north beginning in verse 31, then we see Papal Rome continues as the king of the north, it receives the deadly wound in the first half of verse 40 and then we saw the comeback that it made in the last half of verse 40 by bringing down the communist Soviet Union through the alliance of Ronald Reagan and the Pope, Pope John Paul II.

And so as I said in our last presentation, I believe that we really are living on the edge of eternity.

And I'm going to go through these quotes briefly again where Ellen White says in Volume 9 of the Testimonies, page 11, that great changes are soon to take place in our world and the final movements will be rapid ones.

And I believe that we are going to be talking about the final movements of Earth's history in our presentation this morning right now.

And then the very same chapter, page 14, she says the prophecy of the 11th chapter of Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment.

Soon the scenes of trouble spoken of in the prophecies will take place.

And in her day, the last half of verse 40 had not taken place.

So we're living closer to the fulfillment of Daniel 11 than even she was in her day.

And then here's the quote that we used last time where she talks about history will be repeated from this prophecy.

How scenes similar to verses 31-36 which is the papal supremacy will take place.

And so here's our road map for this final presentation.

Arms stood on the part of the King of the North in Daniel 1131.

We saw how military force of state through the United States and the alliance of Reagan and John Paul fulfilled this history repeating itself.

We will then see that a church-state union will be formed again, the abomination of desolation, which is the national Sunday law at the end of time.

Then we will see persecution of the saints just as we did in verses 31 to 36 of chapter 11.

And then King of the North comes to its final end just as it received the deadly wound at the end of the passage she quoted.

We ended at the end of verse 40 and now we're going to get into some areas that people have interest in studying.

Things like the glorious land, the glorious holy mountain, and so forth in the last days.

So let's look at Daniel chapter 11 starting in verse 41.

This is referring to the King of the North, it says, He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown.

And notice the word countries is supplied so it's better read, many shall be overthrown.

So the King of the North sometime after the time of the end began in 1798, Sometime after it makes the comeback against the King of the South, the King of the North also enters into the glorious land.

So the question is, what is the glorious land?

Now the king of the south, which this I believe helps us to understand what the glorious land is, the king of the south in verse 40 as we saw in our last presentation was France, which is described in Revelation 11 verse 8 as spiritual Egypt.

So in verse 40, the king of the south is spiritual Egypt.

So if the king of the south is spiritual Egypt, it would make sense to me that the glorious land would also represent a spiritual entity at the end of time.

Because in Daniel 11, 16, what was the glorious land?

That was the glorious land that Rome entered into in 63 BC.

Here at the end of time, the king of the north, now as papal Rome, as spiritual Rome, once again enters into the glorious land.

And the way I explain the glorious land is I believe it's better understood if you also know what the Glorious Holy Mountain is.

The Glorious Holy Mountain is seen in Daniel 11, 45, when the king of the north plants the tabernacles of his palace between the seas and the Glorious Holy Mountain.

Now the question is, what is the glorious Holy Mountain?

If you look throughout Scripture, the glorious Holy Mountain, you can see Psalms chapter 48 verses 1 and 2 gives us a description and I will read this passage.

Psalm 48 verses 1 and 2 says, Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God and the mountain of His holiness.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, the city of the great king." So I believe the glorious holy mountain is representative of spiritual Mount Zion.

Mount Zion was a mountain, or is still a literal mountain on the north side of the city of Jerusalem and that is a picture of literal Mount Zion on the north side of Jerusalem.

Now when you look at a few other verses, Psalms 2 verse 6 describes Mount Zion as God's holy hill.

And Joel chapter 2 verse 32, to me, gives some very helpful evidence for what the glorious holy mountain is symbolic of.

In Joel 2.31 it talks about the dark day in May 1917-18, just before the great and terrible day of the Lord.

But then notice verse 32, it says, And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered.

Notice this, For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call." Now get this, the glorious holy mountain we saw from Psalms 48 is spiritual Mount Zion, And we know that Mount Zion is in Jerusalem.

Here in Joel chapter 2 verse 32, it talks about how deliverance is in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem.

Well that's basically being redundant because Mount Zion is in Jerusalem.

And so, Scripture is saying that spiritual Mount Zion or spiritual Jerusalem are the same thing and a synonym is used again at the end of verse 32 when it says, as the Lord has said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.

I believe that the glorious holy mountain represents spiritual Mount Zion, which is synonymous with spiritual Jerusalem, which is synonymous with God's end time remnant.

Revelation 12, 17 makes it clear, they keep the commandments of God, have the testimony of Jesus Christ, which we know from Revelation 19.10 is the spirit of prophecy.

So the spiritual remnant at the end of time must be the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Now here's another point of illustration that I want to use.

We're in Baltimore, Maryland right now, so you want to ask yourself the question, are the glorious land and the glorious holy mountain the same thing?

The glorious land represents spiritual Israel, I believe.

And The glorious holy mountain, I believe, represents the remnant.

Are the United States and Baltimore, Maryland the same thing?

If I'm in Baltimore, Maryland, am I in the United States of America?

If I'm in Utah, am I in Baltimore, Maryland?

No, but I'm still in the United States, right?

So can you be in the glorious land but not in the glorious holy mountain?

But if you're in the glorious holy mountain, are you in the glorious land?

So this helps me to understand what the glorious land and the glorious holy mountain are, spiritually speaking, at the end of time.

I believe that the glorious holy mountain represents the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist church, which is the remnant church of Bible prophecy.

Once you understand that the glorious holy mountain represents God's remnant church, then the glorious land, I've heard some people say is the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, I don't think that's accurate.

And some people say it's the United States of America and that's clearly problematic because if the glorious holy mountain represents the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, then how could the Glorious Land be 1 country in the world?

So, some people teach that the Glorious Land is the United States of America, and again, it's not a salvational issue, but that's just what I believe.

And I believe it makes sense if you follow correct principles of interpretation here.

So if the glorious holy mountain is the worldwide Seventh Theodonist Church, the remnant church of Bible prophecy, I believe that the glorious land represents worldwide Protestant Christianity that is separate from Papal Rome, and this would include the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but the Seventh-day Adventist Church is the portion of the glorious land within the glorious holy mountain known as the remnant.

So notice what happens when the king of the north, papal Rome, enters into the glorious land.

It says in verse 41, He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many shall be overthrown.

And again, the word countries is supplied.

So here it says, many shall be overthrown.

Series

A Crash Course on Daniel: Lessons from the Past for Living in the Present

When Michael Stands Up

Transcript

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Parent Series

Parent Conference

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Daniel Prophecy Series

Daniel 12—The Wise Shall Understand

1h 1m

Michael's Winning Role in the Great Controversy

Daniel’s Great Controversy Prayer

1h

Purging the Filth in the Remnant

1h

Daniel Prophecy Series

Daniel 5—The Fall of Babylon

58m

A Crash Course on Daniel: Lessons from the Past for Living in the Present

Why Does 1844 Matter?

1h

The Prophetic Timeline of Daniel 11

42m

Alistair Huong: Them That Dwell on the Earth

Daniel: The Greatly Beloved

51m

Steve Wohlberg -The Character of God Controversy

The Character of God Controversy, Part 3

56m

Islam and Daniel 11

1h

Alistair Huong: Book of Daniel

Daniel Bible Study: Chapter 9 (Part 2)

57m

Bible Study On Daniel 11

1h 38m

Norman McNulty Weekend

01 Prophetic Peril in America

48m

Sound Doctrine