Part 10 of 11 in Daniel Prophecy Series given at the Maraval, Trinidad SDA church. This is similar to the sermon “When Michael Stands Up” from December 31, 2010 at GYC in Baltimore, MD, but it has an updated view on the glorious land and the glorious holy mountain.

<p>Part 10 of 11 in Daniel Prophecy Series given at the Maraval, Trinidad SDA church. This is similar to the sermon “When Michael Stands Up” from December 31, 2010 at GYC in Baltimore, MD, but it has an updated view on the glorious land and the glorious holy mountain.</p>

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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

As the elder was saying, it's good to meet together in the house of God on Sabbath.

And tonight we are down to the next to last presentation in our series.

It's hard to believe that we're all the way towards the end of the book of Daniel.

And tonight we are going to be looking at the last section of Daniel chapter 11, which is probably 1 of the most important, but perhaps least studied sections in the Adamist Church.

So I'm looking forward to going through these verses this evening.

Before we do that, let's have a word of prayer.

Our Father in heaven, we thank you for this Sabbath day, and I pray that you will be with us as we go through these last few verses of Daniel chapter 11.

And as we see the signs around us, may we be awake to the fact that you're coming with Jesus in the clouds as very soon.

So be with us this evening, I pray in Jesus' name, Amen.

So, On Wednesday evening we got through the first 40 verses of Daniel chapter 11.

And tonight we are going to go verses 41 to 45 and look just at the first phrase of Daniel chapter 12 because it's a continuing thought.

Now, in our previous presentation, I read a few quotes that I'm going to read just for the sake of reminding us just how important this chapter is.

Now, How many of you were here on Wednesday night when we went through the first 40 verses?

The Testimonies, Volume 9, page 11 says, The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating.

They are strengthening for the last great crisis.

Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones.

You know, what's happening right now, even here in Trinidad, with this limited state of emergency, This is just a little foretaste of what's going to happen at the very end.

Because at the end, they're going to declare martial law like this, but it's going to be for all day, every day.

Now, I don't know when that's going to happen, I'm just saying there is coming a time where around the world, whether it's Trinidad or the United States or wherever, this is what it's going to be like all the time.

So praise God, even in this limited state of emergency, we can be here tonight, amen?

Alright, and then continuing, this connects to Daniel 11, Testament of the Holy Spirit, volume 9, page 14.

The world is stirred with the spirit of war.

The prophecy of the eleventh chapter of Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment.

Soon the scenes of trouble spoken of in the prophecies will take place." So when you read that last sentence there, she refers to it as scenes of trouble.

So when we look at the last few verses of Daniel 11, there is a key element that's very positive, but there's also a lot of trouble packed into those last few verses.

So when we look at verses 41 through 45, we are going to see scenes of trouble that she's speaking of.

Now, I also read a quote from Manuscript Releases, Volume 13, page 394, that talks about how the history that had been fulfilled already in Daniel 11 would be repeated.

And I'm just going to read the bolded part here.

The prophecy in the 11th of Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment.

Much of the history that has taken place in fulfillment of this prophecy will be repeated.

Then she quotes verses 30 through 36, and then she says, seen similar to those described in these words will take place.

Now, What we saw in those verses, 30 through 36, was that military force stood up on behalf of the king of the north or papal Rome.

That will be repeated and we've already seen a fulfillment of that to some extent in the last half of verse 40, and we talked about that, with the alliance that President Reagan of the United States and John Paul II of the Vatican formed and they came together to bring down Eastern Europe and communism and the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

So that part of the history has already started to repeat itself, as Ellen White said it would.

Then we also saw in Daniel 11 verse 31, it talks about the abomination of desolation, which is a union of church and state, that part of the history will be repeated, and that point is yet future.

There may be limited, isolated cases of church-state Union where the papacy is regaining supremacy, but globally speaking it has not happened yet.

So that's still in the future and we're going to talk about that.

Then when church and state unite with the abomination of desolation, Persecution follows just as it did during the 1260 years when church and state united in what is known as the abomination of desolation.

It's an abomination for the church, which is supposed to represent God, to unite itself with the world.

And when they do that, persecution of God's true people follow.

That happened in the Dark Ages during the 1260 years, Daniel 11 33 through 35 talk about that.

But then we saw that the King of the North received a deadly wound at the end of the 1260 years, and it will receive its final death, so to speak, at the end of Daniel 11.

Military force supporting the King of the North or papal Rome, church and state uniting, persecution of the saints, and then the final end of papal Rome.

So that's in a nutshell what we're going to look at.

So when we look at the very next verse, because we went through verse 40, this is what we read.

He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many shall be overthrown, but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon." Now just by way of curiosity, how many of you have spent time studying the glorious land at the end of Daniel 11.

Okay, well that's not necessarily a bad thing, because I won't necessarily be contending with various opinions on this.

There are a couple of different schools of thought on this, but I'm going to try to show you from the Bible why I believe what I believe the glorious land is.

Because once we understand what the glorious land is, and here's the key point, It says the king of the north is going to enter into the glorious land and it says, in the King James, it says many countries shall be overthrown but the word countries is actually a supplied word so it really should read and many shall be overthrown.

Now the glorious land was first seen in Daniel chapter 11 in verse 16, referring to literal Judea.

So the glorious land for Daniel was his homeland, Israel.

And he was a captive, well actually by this time he was a servant in the court, or high up in the court of Medo-Persia.

But Judea, Jerusalem, that would always be his homeland, and the glorious land in Daniel 11 verse 16, when it talks about how Rome would enter into the glorious land there, that was referring to literal Israel.

However, in verse 40, we see a shift to the time of the end where the king of the south pushes at the king of the north or gives the king of the north a deadly wound.

We saw in our study, What year did the time of the end begin?

I heard several of you mention that so that's good.

That's when France gave Papal Rome a deadly wound when the Pope was taken captive by General Berthier of Napoleon.

And the King of the South is referred to as the power that gives the deadly wound of Papal Rome.

And we saw that the king of the south was atheistic France initially beginning in 1798.

Now when we studied the first 30 verses of Daniel 11 we saw that Egypt was always the king of the south but France, atheistic France, represented spiritual Egypt once the time of the end began.

And in fact, in Revelation 11 verse 8, it talks about a power that would be called spiritually Sodom and Egypt.

So the Bible itself says there will be a spiritual Egypt at the end of time that would rise up against papal Rome at the end of the 1260 years.

So what I'm saying is that at the time of the end, when we look at, for example, the king of the south and the glorious land, they are not the same exact thing as they were in the first 30 verses.

In the first 30 verses, they were literal nations in specific locations of that time.

But at the time of the inn, they represent spiritual powers that may have literal locations, but they represent the same spirit of the powers that preceded them.

So with the king of the south you have spiritual Egypt being France because Egypt was atheistic and Ellen White corroborates that.

And then We now see that as the king of the north makes a comeback, and we saw that at the end of verse 40, he makes a comeback with chariots, horsemen, many ships, he enters into the countries and passes over.

He makes a comeback against atheism, against communism.

We saw that after atheistic France rose up onto the scene to bring atheism back to life at the time of the end, we saw that the Communist Manifesto was written in 1844 in France, that gave rise to communist Europe and the Soviet Union, but we saw that the United States and Papal Room teamed up together to bring Communism down and the end of verse 40 saw most, if not all of its fulfillment by the late 1980s and early 1990s.

So then, the very next thing in the prophecy that we will expect to see after the fall of communism is in verse 41 where it says, he shall enter also into the glorious land and many shall be overthrown." Now the glorious land, if the king of the south represented spiritual Egypt and if the glorious land was Judea or Israel in the first part of the chapter, then it would reason that the glorious land would represent God's people at the last days.

Because in the first part of the chapter, the glorious land represents God's people.

And in the last half of the part of the chapter, it would also stand to reason that the glorious land would represent God's people.

Now, 1 other way that I explain this is to jump ahead to verse 45, because in verse 45, it talks about the glorious holy mountain.

And it talks about how the king of the north shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain.

Now this is where things become interesting.

And I invite you to turn to Joel chapter 2, verse 32, which gives us a description of the glorious holy mountain.

And here Joel 2.32 says, and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered.

For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call." So here in Joel chapter 2 verse 32, it describes Mount Zion, which is in Jerusalem, and it gives a spiritual term for what Mount Zion and Jerusalem represent, and it describes Mount Zion and Jerusalem as the remnant.

Now have you heard of the remnant in Bible prophecy?

Revelation 12, 17 here, the dragon was wroth with the remnant of her seed, went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

There is a church at the end of time, the church that we are part of, that keeps all the commandments of God and has the testimony of Jesus, which is the spirit of prophecy.

Now, Joel 2.32 shows that Mount Zion and Jerusalem represent the remnant in the last days.

In Psalms 48 verses 1 and 2, it shows that Mount Zion is described as the mountain of holiness or God's holy mountain.

So Mount Zion is the glorious holy mountain, which is Jerusalem, but Joel 2.32 says that this represents the remnant.

1 other verse I will give you is that if you just stick to the book of Daniel itself, in Daniel 9, 16, and Daniel's prayer, when he's praying to the Lord, he prays regarding thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain.

So it seems in the Bible that the writers in the Bible use Jerusalem, the Holy Mountain, and the remnant interchangeably, and at the end of time, the glorious holy mountain represents God's remnant church.

Now, what does that mean with respect to the glorious holy mountain?

Series

Daniel Prophecy Series

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

Transcript

Description

Parent Series

Sponsor

Recorded

Attachments

The Prophetic Timeline of Daniel 11

42m

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

Daniel 11—Where Are We Today?

1h

Daniel Prophecy Series

Daniel 11, Part 1—The Time of the End

45m

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

When Michael Stands Up

1h

Daniel Prophecy Series

Daniel 12—The Wise Shall Understand

1h 1m

Make It Loud

1h

This Generation

41m

Daniel Prophecy Series

Daniel 5—The Fall of Babylon

58m

Bible Study On Daniel 11

1h 38m

The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Last Days

46m

SWYC 2006 Plenary Sessions

The Final Conflict

1h 10m

Bits & Pieces

38m

Sound Doctrine