God’s salvation work, displayed before the universe, is centered in and proceeds from the sanctuary in Heaven.    Purchase the DVDs and study notes at www.SecretsUnsealed.org

God’s salvation work, displayed before the universe, is centered in and proceeds from the sanctuary in Heaven. Purchase the DVDs and study notes at www.SecretsUnsealed.org

Secrets Unsealed

His Way is in the Sanctuary

Stephen Bohr

1. His Way is in the Sanctuary

2. The Sanctuary’s Angels

3. Death and Life in the Sanctuary

4. The Incarnation’s Seven Secrets

5. The Lamb of God Slain

6. Reaping the Sanctuary’s Benefits

7. A People Close to His Heart

8. The Triangle of Sanctification

9. The Sanctuary’s Two Covenants

10. The Bible’s Foundational Prophecy

11. The Chronology of the Judgment

12. The Sanctuary Shall Be Cleansed (Part 1)

13. The Sanctuary Shall Be Cleansed (Part 2)

14. Three Stages of Israel’s History

15. The Prophecy of the 70 Weeks (Part 1)

16. The Prophecy of the 70 Weeks (Part 2)

17. Found! The Ark of the Covenant

18. The Manna Test

19. Disappointment in the Sanctuary

20. As a Thief in the Night

21. God On Trial

22. The Judgment’s Three Stages

23. The Scapegoat and Revelation’s Millennium

24. A Monumental Conversion Experience

25. In Antichrist’s Temple (Part 1)

26. In Antichrist’s Temple (Part 2)

27. The Sanctuary’s Financial Secrets

28. The Holy and the Profane

29. The Two Temples

30. The Sanctuary and the Prophetic Gift

31. Three Inseparable Doctrines

32. Home At Last

Let's pray our loving Father in heaven once again we thank you that we can gather in your presence to open your holy word and to understand the great things that have taken place are taking place and soon will occur in this world.

As we study Daniel chapter 8 today, we need the special guidance of your Holy Spirit.

We ask Father that you will give us understanding, that we might be able to comprehend this magnificent chapter of Scripture.

I ask Lord that you will help us to see its importance for our own personal walk with Jesus and we thank you for hearing our prayer for we ask it in Jesus name, amen.

I'd like to begin by reviewing what we've studied in our last 2 lectures.

Basically I want to go through the sequence of powers that are mentioned in Daniel chapter 2 and Daniel chapter 7.

The first power and we'll go to Daniel 7 as our example the first power is a lion represents what kingdom?

The third kingdom, the leopard kingdom is what?

Then we have a terrible dragon beast that has iron teeth, and what nation does that represent?

Then from the head of that dragon beast come forth what?

And those represent the divisions of the Roman Empire into which the Roman Empire was divided when it broke up in the year 476.

A little horn, a nasty little horn and does all kinds of wicked things and it rules for how long?

It rules for 1260 years and that period begins when?

In the year 538 when the Ostrogoths were defeated, the third of the 3 horns was ripped out by the Rus, and it continued until what date?

And then you notice that we have the next scene is what?

So after what date does the judgment take place?

It has to be after 1798, but it also happens before probation closes, before Jesus comes, because we noticed in Revelation chapter 14 it says, fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment has come while the gospel is still being preached, probation can't have closed if the gospel still being preached, and only after the third angels message Do you have Jesus sitting on a cloud with a sickle coming to harvest the earth?

And so we noticed in our study that the judgment takes place sometime between 1798 and the close of probation, although we are not told exactly what the precise date is, all we have is the parameters.

But the prophecy that we're going to study in this evening's lecture as well as our next 1 regarding Daniel chapter 8.

We're going to notice that scripture pinpoints the exact date when that judgment was going to begin.

So let's turn in our Bibles to Daniel chapter 8 and the first thing that we're going to notice in this chapter is that it does not begin with Babylon like chapter 7 and like chapter 2.

In fact in Daniel chapter 8 the vision begins with Medo-Persia.

Now you might be wondering, Pastor Bohr, why does the vision of Daniel 8 begin with Medo-Persia If Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 began with Babylon, now the traditional interpretation that has been given in the Adventist church is that Babylon is about to pass from history.

But the fact is that this vision is taking place in the year 550 BC and Babylon was not going to fall for another 11 years.

There is another more important reason why Babylon is not in this vision of Daniel chapter 8 and let me explain the reason succinctly.

You see, the 2300 days that are mentioned in this prophecy begin during the period of the Persian Empire.

And so the vision begins, now listen carefully, the vision begins where the 2, 300 days begin.

You see the 2, 300 days do not begin in the kingdom of Babylon, they begin during the period of the kingdom of Persia.

And therefore, the 2300 day prophecy begins with Persia and that's the reason why this vision begins with Persia and not with Babylon.

It's a very important reason and we will have reason to come back to this a little bit later.

Now let's go to Daniel chapter 8 and verse 1 and move through this magnificent prophecy.

It says there in verse 1, in the third year of the reign of King Beltshazzar, I mentioned that this is the year 550 BC.

It says in the third year of the reign of King Belchazzar a vision appeared to me to me Daniel after the 1 that appeared to me the first time.

Which is the 1 that appeared to him the first time?

The 1 that is found in the previous chapter, in Daniel chapter what?

The word for vision here is a very important word you see in Daniel 8 there are 2 different words for vision and unless we understand that we're not going to reach correct conclusions as we study this chapter The word that is used here for vision where it says the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me is the Hebrew word Shazom.

Remember that because it's very very important.

I saw in the vision, once again the word Chazon, I saw in the vision and it so happened while I was looking, notice the emphasis on eyesight here, that I was in Shushan, which is 1 of the capitals of the Middle Persian Empire, the citadel, which is the capital, which is in the province of Elam.

And I saw in the vision, once again, the third time that the word chazon is used to describe the vision.

So it says in verse 2, I saw in the vision chazon, and it so happened while I was looking that I was in Shushan, the citadel, which is in the province of Elam, and I saw in the vision, that is Chazon, that I was by the river Ulai.

Then I lifted my eyes and saw, notice once again the emphasis on vision, seeing, there's tremendous emphasis on this.

Then I lifted my eyes and saw and there standing beside the river was a what?

But now notice what it continues saying, which had 2 what?

So this is 1 nation that is composed of 2 kingdoms.

In other words, dual kingdoms in 1 nation.

So it continues saying which had 2 horns and the 2 horns were high but 1 was higher than the other and the higher 1 what came up last.

So you have 2 horns, 1 is higher than the other and the higher 1 comes out how?

Now you should have received 2 sheets tonight.

1 of the sheets has the dynasty of the Medes and Persians.

Now if you look at that chart, we're not going to look at it carefully right now because we don't have the time.

From the year 539 when the Medes and Persians began to rule, till the year 522, All of the kings were Medes except for Cyrus who was half Mede and half Persian.

But from the year 522 till the year 331, almost 200 years, every single king was Persian.

So what was the nation that became more powerful last it was the Persians and interestingly enough after Daniel chapter 8 every time that this kingdom appears in prophecy it's no longer called Medo-Persia, it is called Persia, because the Medes have basically disappeared and now Persia is ruling.

Prophecy is specific and exact on this point.

Now this battle that we're going to see here at the beginning of Daniel chapter 8 is taking place on a horizontal level on earth.

There is no indication that these nations are in controversy or in conflict with God.

This is a geographical fight among nations on a horizontal level.

There's no fight against God in the early part of the chapter.

Oh, by the way, do you remember that the bear was raised up on 1 side?

I saw the ram, which represents the Medes and Persians, pushing westward, northward, and southward.

How many ribs did the bear have in its mouth in Daniel 7?

And here the ram conquers in 3 directions.

Westward would be Babylon 539, northward would be Lydia 546, and southward would be Egypt in the year 525.

And it continues saying, so that no animal could withstand him, nor was there any that could deliver from his hand.

But he did according to his will and became great.

Go with me to Daniel chapter 8 and verse 5.

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