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Daniel Prophecy Series

Norman McNulty

Daniel 1—Undefiled in Babylon

Daniel 2—A Vision for the Latter Days

Daniel 3 and 4—The Fiery Furnace and the Fall of Nebuchadnezzar

Daniel 5—The Fall of Babylon

Daniel 6—Daniel in the Lion’s Den

Daniel 7—The Judgment

Daniel 8—The Cleansing of the Sanctuary

Daniel 9 and 10—Daniel’s Two Prayers

Daniel 11, Part 1—The Time of the End

Daniel 11, Part 2—The Glorious Land and the Glorious Holy Mountain

Daniel 12—The Wise Shall Understand

It's good to see you here again this Friday evening to begin the Sabbath.

And we've covered the first 7 chapters of Daniel, can you believe it?

So We've covered a lot of ground and tonight is perhaps 1 of the most important presentations of the entire series, Daniel chapter 8.

So I'm very glad that each 1 of you are here this evening.

Before we get into our presentation, let's have a word of prayer.

Our Father in heaven, we thank you for being with us, for bringing us through this week.

And I thank you for each person who is here.

And I just pray for a special blessing on each 1 of us as we go through Daniel chapter 8 tonight.

Speak through me and may we put our focus on heavenly things.

This is my prayer in the name of Jesus, amen.

So as you can see from the title, the title for this evening is Daniel 8 and the Cleansing of the Sanctuary.

Now just by way of a brief review, we've seen that the book of Daniel is a book about judgment.

The name Daniel means God is my judge and you can see in the stories of the first 6 chapters how Daniel and his friends lived their lives with the understanding that God is their judge.

And then in our last presentation, in Daniel chapter 7, we actually see the judgment scene in heaven introduced.

And we see the ancient of days, the Father moving in his chariot that has wheels of fire.

He's moving from 1 place to another place.

And then the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, comes in the clouds of heaven to the ancient of Days.

So hopefully when you had the quiz this evening, you knew that the question was false, that Jesus coming in the clouds to the Ancient of Days in Daniel 7 refers to the Second Coming because that's false.

That's referring to Jesus coming to the Father at the beginning of the judgment.

So that's some of the highlights of what we've seen so far.

And now let's turn to Daniel chapter 8 and get right in to the message for this evening.

In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.

Remember, the vision of Daniel 2 was Nebuchadnezzar's dream and then God also gave it to Daniel.

And if you wanted to be picky for the quiz, was it Nebuchadnezzar's dream or Daniel's dream?

So in a sense you could say when you ask the question, Daniel had the vision of the metals in chapter 2 and the beasts of chapter 7.

That's a true statement, but the more correct statement is that Nebuchadnezzar, it was his initial vision and then God gave it to Daniel.

But the point is that Daniel 7 was Daniel's first vision.

And then Daniel 8, here he's saying, now I have another vision after the 1 that I had at the first.

And if you see his reaction to the vision of Daniel 7, it said it troubled him and he kept the matter in his heart.

And now, 2 years later, because the vision of Daniel 7 was the first year of Belshazzar, this 1 is the third year of Belshazzar.

So now it is 2 years later and God is giving Daniel further information about prophecies that will take us down to the very end of time.

And notice verse 2, and I saw in a vision, and it came to pass when I saw that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam, and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Uli." So Daniel's down by this river, and he's taken off into vision, and Ellen White has a statement about this vision.

This is Testimonies to Ministers, pages 112 and 113.

The light that Daniel received from God was given especially for when?

The Uli and the Hittikil, the great rivers of Shinar, are now in process of fulfillment and all the events foretold will come to pass when?

So this vision in Daniel chapter 8, the vision that Daniel had by the river of Uli, is especially for these last days and it's in the process of fulfillment and soon come to pass." Now, the other river, the Hittikal, that's the vision of Daniel 11.

And we're going to get into Daniel, it's 10, 11, and 12.

We're going to get into that starting Wednesday night.

So, If you've never studied Daniel 11, I think you'll enjoy the study that we have on that coming up.

That's in even greater detail what we've seen so far.

So based on this statement and based on the fact that it's related to our time, this chapter, this study of this chapter must be very important for us, is it not?

It's in the process of fulfillment and it's soon to come to pass.

Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had 2 horns, and the 2 horns were high, but 1 was higher than the other, and the higher came up last." Verse 4, I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward, so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will, and became great." Now we've seen in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 prophecies that relate to the kingdoms of this world.

And in Daniel 2, we saw metals used to describe the kingdoms of this world.

Now we see a ram, which is another type of beast, different than the lion, bear, leopard, and dreadful beast, but it's another type of beast.

And so far in Daniel 2 and in Daniel 7, the first kingdom has always been which 1?

Babylon, Babylon was the head of golden chapter 2.

So certainly Babylon must be the ram in chapter 8, right?

Because so far everything's always been Babylon.

So if you're studying along, you come to chapter 8, you're like, okay, now Babylon's being represented by a ram, so let me try to figure out how the ram represents Babylon, right?

But if we let the Bible interpret itself, we know what we're talking about.

God probably knew, this is probably why he spells it out, is because he knew that in the first 2 prophetic visions, Babylon was the first kingdom.

So, if you jump ahead to verse 20, you see that the ram represents Medo-Persia.

So, Babylon is missing from Daniel chapter 8.

We're going to talk about why Babylon is missing when we come to verses 13 and 14.

But what we see first off is that we have a ram representing Medo-Persia.

This is the first kingdom that's represented in Daniel chapter 8.

There are 2 horns, and the higher horn comes up last, and we're told again this represents Medo-Persia.

Do you Remember how that compares to the bear in Daniel chapter 7?

The bear was raised up on its side, showing that 1 side of the kingdom was stronger than the other.

We see of the 2 horns, The higher horn is the last 1, and when you study history, Darius the Median was the first king of the empire, but after that all of the kings came from Persia.

So before it even happened, God showed, Persia would be stronger than Media.

The second horn comes up last, and it's higher because it's stronger, just as the bear was raised up on its side.

Now, it's also interesting, this ram pushes in 3 directions.

It pushes westward, this is verse 4, westward, northward, and southward, and this parallels the 3 ribs in the mouth of the bear.

You remember the 3 ribs in the mouth of the bear?

And the 3 ribs in the mouth of the bear, and the 3 ribs in the mouth of the bear and the 3 directions that the ram is pushing in, again, represent the 3 kingdoms that Medo-Persia conquered in its rise to power, Lydia, Egypt, and Babylon.

So we see that the Bible is very precise, that the prophecies are very accurate.

And then finally, we see that the ram became great.

So the power of Medo-Persia is described as a Kingdom having great power and we see that it reigned in history from 539 to 331 BC So so far so good Now again the point about the ram becoming great, we're gonna see how the following kingdoms compare to the great power of Medo-Persia.

Medo-Persia became great, and how does that compare to the kingdoms that come after?

And at this point we're repeating what we've talked about in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 about some of the kingdoms, but it's taking us to some new information.

Verse 5, and as I was considering, behold, a he-goat, or a male goat, came from the west on the face of the whole earth and touched not the ground, and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

And he came to the ram that had 2 horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power." Verse 7, "'And I saw him come close unto the ram and he was moved with color against him and smote the ram and break his 2 horns and there was no power in the ram to stand before him.

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Daniel Prophecy Series

Daniel 8—The Cleansing of the Sanctuary

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