Who is the little horn in daniel chapter 7
Daniel Chapter 7 - The Identity of the Little Horn Power, Why it’s Not Antiochus Epiphanes – Part 2
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welcome back to angels in the Glen today
we're going to continue our study in
Daniel chapter 7 building off the
patterns of Daniel chapter 2 now in the
first part we saw that we built off the
patterns of Daniel chapter 2 on the
screen you see the metalman image head
of gold chest and arms of silver belly
and thighs of bronze legs of iron feet
of iron and clay followed by a stone and
that stone would go on to a great
mountain filled the whole earth and we
saw the same pattern emerged with a
little bit more detail in Daniel chapter
seven successive world kingdoms followed
by Jesus Christ
followed by God's eternal Kingdom okay
and we saw a lion representing Babylon
then a bear raised up on one side
meaning medo-persian Empire Persia would
grow stronger it had three ribs in its
mouth does that ring a bell
B e el head to conquer Babylon Lydia and
Egypt Babylon Egypt Lydia that was
actually the order that it conquered it
Babylon Lydia Egypt BL e but bell sounds
easier to remember and then followed by
medo-persia came what the kingdom of
Greece that's right
which was a leopard it had four heads
and that those four heads represented
the Fallen Greek Macedonian Empire after
Alexander the Great Falls his generals
would split up the kingdom can you clasp
that idea CL SP Cassander Lysimachus
Seleucid Ptolemy and those are the
divided kingdoms of the Greek Empire
around 300 AD 300 B 300 BC and then it's
followed by a ferocious beast okay it
has iron teeth representing Rome and
that beast would have ten horns okay in
the same way that the legs of iron would
have would continue on it wouldn't fall
entirely the legs of iron will
transition to the feet of what iron and
clay ten toes in
feet ten horns on this beast okay we're
gonna unpack more about those ten horns
and then there was a little horn that
comes up from among it okay and it was
had a mouth and eyes and was speaking
with boastful words and then what
happened we saw a judgment scene the
Ancient of Days took his seat courts at
books were opened
okay so this is a courtroom scene this
is the heavenly courtroom scene Christ
Jesus son of man approaches and is
presented before the Ancient of Days and
he receives a kingdom that it's Dominion
is everlasting it will not pass away it
will never be destroyed okay that's the
pattern
now let's pick it up in verse 15 watch
this
as for me Daniel my spirit was
distressed within me and the visions in
my mind kept alarming me I approached
one of those who were standing by and
began asking him the exact meaning of
all this so he told me and made known to
me the interpretation of these things
okay now this angelic being is going to
give him a summary of the entire Book of
Daniel 7 Tyre chapter of Daniel 7 look
at what he says this is the summary
verse 17 these great beasts which are
four in number are four kings who will
arise from the earth there's no guessing
at what these beasts are four kings who
will arise from the earth verse 18 but
the Saints of the highest one will
receive the kingdom and possess the
kingdom forever for all ages to come
okay God's people possess the kingdom
forever
that's wonderful prophecy gives us hope
this is why prophecy is not just about
history or some symbol symbols that
don't really mean anything
no these symbols mean something and it's
pointing us to a deeper truth that while
there's world successive kingdoms that
are beasts in power that are
antagonistic against God's people in the
end when Christ returns the saints of
God possess the kingdom forever and
forever for all ages to come and it
won't be given to another people
that's the summary of the Book of Daniel
chapter 7 right there now let's get some
more detail here and this is the pattern
I want you to see emerge look at Daniel
7 verses 19 through 22 and let's go
through it and I want to show you this
larger pattern that emerges because
we're gonna get some more detail okay
really important because what we want to
do is we want to identify who this
little horn is we want to accurately
identify who this little horn is from
the Bible verse 19 then I desired to
know the exact meaning of the fourth
beast which was different from all the
others okay exceedingly dreadful with
its teeth of iron and its claws of
bronze and which devoured crushed and
trampled down the remainder with his
feet oh wait a second hold on did you
notice that what's going on with that
verse it says it says with its teeth of
iron and its claws of bronze huh I
thought we were talking about the the
the Roman Empire here right because legs
of iron okay it's got teeth of iron but
then why would it have claws of bronze I
mean doesn't bronze point to the Greek
Empire yeah that's exactly right you
said you know what the Roman Empire
loved old tradition they loved the old
and the ancient okay they respected it
in fact they respected the Greek Empire
even though they had conquered it okay
and so what they did was in fact it's
called the Greco Greco Roman Empire so
to speak because they actually liked the
way the Greeks organized their gods and
goddesses except they said oh you know
what we like the idea of the god of Zeus
but let's call him Jupiter okay and so
what they did was they transition I'm
not here to go through all that history
but they basically they took the gods
that Greek gods and goddesses and gave
them new names for their Roman gods in
fact Greek was the language was a very
popular language the the the educated in
the elite actually wrote and spoke Greek
even Marcus Aurelius one of the famous
emperors in the Roman Empire would
actually write his meditations in Greek
translated today we can read them in
English today so it's no
coincidence that there would the Greek
culture would be influenced on the Roman
Empire okay that's why it has the the
bronze Claus let's keep going verse 20
it says and the meaning of the ten horns
that were on its head the other horn
which came up remember this is that
little horn that came up after the ten
horns and before which three of them
fell namely that the horn which had eyes
and a mouth uttering great Bose and
which was larger in appearance than its
associates
okay we're learning a few more things
about this little horn okay it says the
horn which came up and before which
three of them fell okay three of those
horns fell namely the horn which had
eyes in a mouth or and grace bosun which
was large an appearance in its
associates verse 21 I kept looking and
that horn that little horn was waging
war with the Saints and overpowering
them until the Ancient of Days came and
judgment was passed in favor of the
Saints of the highest one and the time
arrived when the Saints took possession
of the kingdom now I've highlighted some
keywords on the screen there and I want
to basically point this out because a
pattern is emerging in verses 19 20 21
and 22 and that is Rome little horn
judgment look at the pattern that
emerges the fourth beast Rome then we
move to the little horn and then it says
the Ancient of Days came and judgment
was passed in favor of the saints of the
highest one okay so you have Rome little
horn judgment all right that's the
pattern you see okay Rome little horn
waging war judgment and the time arrived
when the saints took possession of the
kingdom now look at the interpretation
in the next four verses okay you're
gonna see the same pattern emerge but
it's gonna be a detailed explanation of
that pattern of Rome little horn
judgment pick it up in verse 23 thus he
said the fourth beast will be a fourth
Kingdom okay no question about it beast
is a kingdom this fourth beast is a
fourth Kingdom on the earth which will
be differ
from the other kingdoms and will devour
the whole earth and shred it down and
crush it that's exactly what Rome would
do verse 24 as for the ten horns out of
this kingdom ten Kings will arise and
another will arise after them so what
are horns and Bible prophecy no question
about it right here Daniel 7 verse 24 10
Kings will arise 10 horns 10 Kings and
another will arise after them another
King will arise after them that's that
little horn back to the scriptures and
he will be different from the previous
ones he's different and will subdue
three kings he'll take them out verse 25
he will speak out against the Most High
and wear down the Saints and the highest
one stop right there whoa one of these
kings is gonna speak out against who
he's gonna speak out against God
Almighty God the Father okay it's
attacking a God he speaks out against
the Most High back to the scriptures and
wear down the saints of the highest one
meaning there'll be persecution of the
Saints and he will intend to make
alterations in times and in law huh
we're learning a little bit more about
what this little horner this little King
is doing okay keep reading on and they
will be given into his hand for a time
times and half a time okay that's a
prophetic time period we're gonna unpack
that in a minute it's verse 26 but the
court will sit for judgment and his
Dominion will be taken away that is the
little horn annihilated and destroyed
forever verse 27 then the sovereignty
the Dominion and the greatness of the
kingdoms under the whole heaven will be
given to the people of the saints of the
highest one remember the whole picture
that you're seeing here in Daniel
chapter 7 is God gives the kingdom to
the Saints of the highest one that's the
message here finish out the scripture
his kingdom will be an everlasting
Kingdom and all the dominions will serve
and obey Him on the screen same pattern
emerges fourth Kingdom Rome another will
arise this is one of the little horn
judgment Rome little horn judgment okay
let's unpack these scriptures even more
because who is this little horn there's
a lot talking about this little horn
okay a lot is going on here this is war
against the Saints okay let's go back to
verse 8 it says Daniel says this while I
was contemplating the horns okay Daniel
is contemplating he's thinking about
he's pondering them he's basically
thinking through about these 10 horns
he's thinking about the successor States
after the fall of the Western Roman
Empire and behold that means look
anytime you see behold in the Bible that
means look look behold another horn a
little one came up among them okay I
want you to get the picture of this a
little horn comes up from where among
the ten horns okay physically
geographically you pictured this
physically geographically you have the
successor states of the Roman Empire
successor States okay those are the
German barbaric tribes the allamani the
Burgundians the the franks the Lombards
you keep going okay
symbolically representing ten okay they
varied in number we talked about that in
Daniel 2 okay a little horn comes up
from among them okay and so they come up
with in that Western Roman Empire
among those barbaric tribes that's where
this King comes up from and it says
three of the first horns were pulled up
by the roots before it if you pull
something out by the roots
what does that mean yeah
that means you've completely eliminated
it
okay you clip something off at the top
not much you take it out by the roots
you've completely removed it it's not
coming back okay and behold this horn
this King possessed eyes like the eyes
of a man and a mouth are in great boasts
let's do this let's identify ten
characteristics of this little horn and
then we're gonna unpack the unpack who
this little horn is it's very important
I want to give you ten characteristics
of this little horn it's a little horn
we got that in verse eight it comes up
from among the ten horns okay
three horns are pulled up by the roots
okay that means three Kings are pulled
it by the roots it has an out eyes and
mouth speaking great Bose verse five or
number five characters number five it
speaks out against the Most High
okay that's clear number six it arises
after the fourth Kingdom and after the
ten horns
now that's very important to understand
and I'm underscoring this and
highlighting this one I want I really
want to drive home this point it arises
after the fourth Kingdom and after the
ten horns now I am NOT trying to insult
your intelligence I want you to look on
the screen and I want to ask this one
simple question I'm gonna ask you this
did the horn arise did the lion have a
horn no the lion did not have a horn
okay the horn that little horn didn't
come up during the Babylonian period no
of course it didn't did the bear have a
horn no of course the bear had three
ribs in its mouth it has no horns what
about the leopard did the leopard have a
horn
no the leopard that that Greek Empire
did not have a horn that is speaking
great boasts and a mouth with eyes and
everything like that no it doesn't now
let me ask you this the next Kingdom
after that this great ferocious beast
did this beast have that little horn
okay pause yes but only after the ten
horns come up okay so that beast
ferocious exceedingly strong has ten
horns and then a little horn comes up
from among them okay and then it removes
three so it arises after the fourth
Kingdom and after the ten horns that
means that that little horn in the
history of time has to be after 476 ad
because it would be 476 ad that the
political entity of the Roman Empire
would end and it transitions into the
successor states the German barbaric
tribes so it has to come up after 476 ad
that's a very important point to
understand that's number six number
seven it's different from the horns it
persecutes the Saints it intends to make
alterations in times and laws that's
number nine and number ten the Saints
are given into his hand for a time times
and half a time now there's more that we
can discuss about this but those are ten
characteristics of this little horn
which we spent basically half the
chapter talking about half of the
chapter of Daniel 7 is basically talking
about the ten characteristics of this
little horn alright now I want to point
this out to you this is a prophetic time
period number ten
Saints are given into his hand for a
time times and a half time meaning that
would be a time prophecy period of a
time times and half a time how do we
translate that how does that translate
into literal days and years that we can
understand well let's take a look at it
on the screen time times and half a time
that would be a prophetic year of a time
would be one prophetic year times plural
with an S would be two prophetic years
and a half a time would be just that a
half of a prophetic year that means we
have three and a half total prophetic
years now remember when we study the day
for your principle in Daniel chapter one
we said that any time you see a day in
Bible prophecy you translate that into a
literal year well
we've got three and a half prophetic
years so how many prophetic days would
that be well let's first convert today's
so how many prophetic days are in a
prophetic year well using a lunar
calendar of 30 days per month 12 months
that means 1 prophetic year would have
360 prophetic days as we keep going
along times to write prophetic years
there would be 360 times 2 would be 720
and a half of a prophetic year would be
180 days if you add those up 360 720 180
1260 days so now we're talking about a
time times and half a ton that's
essentially 1260 prophetic days meaning
day for your principle we would have
1260 literal years that's how long the
time period will be that this little
horn would take the God Saints captive
okay they would be given into his hand
okay here's 10 characteristics of the
little horn on the screen all the way
down to number 10
Saints given into his hand for a time
times and half a time 1260 literal years
we're in the area of the successor
states of the Roman Empire after 476
okay arises after the fourth king and
after the ten horns just take a look at
this take a look at this timeline
horizontally on the screen you've got
Babylon medo-persia Greece Rome 476 okay
western roman empire ends successor
states of the Western Roman Empire
emerge after 476 the German barbaric
tribes and it has that little horn has
to come up okay at the after that time
period and it would take the Saints
cabbage for twelve hundred and sixty
years now before we identify who this
little horn is I want to give you
context and I want you to take a look at
this timeline on the screen the
it's important that we have context
around who this little horn is and and
our human nature's okay if you look in
the timeline you'll see the creation the
flood the exodus Babylonian captivity
destruction of Jerusalem okay at
creation and then you see the timeline
of the Babylonian Empire medo-persia
Greece Rome divided room Europe 2000 ad
just to today okay now I want to point
something out God creates the heavens in
the earth and at creation says Adam you
know have dominion over the the earth
the animals the beasts and he says just
don't eat one of the trees in the tree
Garden of Eden but Adam eats the
forbidden fruit and he falls okay he is
disobedient okay if you move to so this
is an example of deception okay Satan
deceived Eve Adam was so devoted to Eve
that he didn't want to her died and so
he eats the forbidden fruit disobeys God
okay and mankind is plunged into sin
after the flood right remember when we
reached the flood though the righteous
are just Noah and his family eight
people are on the boat they come off the
boat and it's not too many years later
that the Tower of Babel is established
okay
descendants from Noah's the righteous
his righteous family would fall into
apostasy and they would actually build a
tower veiler
putting the strength on themselves
building this tall tower so that if
another flood occurs they would be able
to survive it okay
even after God releases his people and
brings them out of bondage from Egypt
what happens he brings them to his holy
mountain and he gives them the Ten
Commandments and not within just a few
weeks later they're worshiping a golden
calf right after they did all the
miracles of releasing him from Egypt and
bring
through the Red Sea and to his holy
mountain they are now in apostasy their
worship being false gods and false idols
okay this is important to understand
because when we identified this little
horn I want you to see the nature of
humankind and then the pervasiveness of
sin in our own lives why did they go why
did God let the children of Israel go
off into captivity in Babylon because
they had sinned he sent messenger after
messenger after messenger to them and
they continued to despise and mock him
they didn't want to hear it
okay stop sinning stop sinning but then
his his patience runs out and he's got
to take him captive to Babylon and even
after he takes them captive to Babylon
and the seventy years are complete he
brings him back some actually stayed in
Babylon okay and they had neglect for
rebuilding in the house of God they were
more concerned about their own houses
okay by the time you get to Christ you
have self-righteous ritualistic
Pharisees who are just ensconced and
emboldened in their way of life Jesus
would even say you search the scriptures
yet in them they speak of me they missed
the first coming of Christ because they
were so religious and Farris itical in
their ways their hearts were hardened
and they were hard they didn't they had
the scriptures but they didn't
understand them and I'm saying this
because when we identify this little
horn we need to take a look at our own
sinful nature in fact Paul would put
people on guard with the scriptures in
the New Testament that in the church
there would be wolves that would come up
among them acts 20 verse 28 Paul says
this be on guard for yourselves for all
the flock among which the Holy Spirit
has made you overseers to Shepherd the
Church of God which he purchased with
his own blood I know that after my
departure savage wolves will come in
among you not sparing the flock and from
among your own selves men will arise
speaking perverse things to draw away
the disciples after them
you see Paul understand what's going
what's going on from within
Church would come a falling away ships
walls would come in and they would
basically speak perverse things and draw
disciples after themselves okay he would
actually speak of this in multiple
occasions look on the screen here in
Galatians he has to remind them you
foolish Galatians you were doing so well
what caused you to fall away okay why do
you think that you can perfect your own
self by the law it's only through faith
in Christ that you're saved he's got to
correct the errors from early believers
in Philippians he says they all seek
after their own interests not those of
Jesus Christ in first Timothy 5:15 some
have already turned aside to follow
Satan okay
in second Timothy 3:8 so these men also
oppose the truth men of depraved mind
rejected in regard to the faith you see
there's a constant spiritual attack
going on even after the church is
established at Pentecost okay the church
is under attack savage wolves are coming
in Satan wants to distract men from the
truth men and women and children in the
whole world from the truth and he does
this in fact Paul has to emphasize this
in second Thessalonians 2 verse 1 he
says now we request you brethren with
regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ and our gathering together to him
that you do not be quickly shaken from
your composure or be disturbed either by
a spirit or a message or a letter as it
is from us to the effect that the day of
the Lord has come look what he says in
verse 3 let no one in any way deceive
you for it will not come unless the
apostasy comes first okay apostasy
apostasy means falling away meaning a
falling away from the gospel of Jesus
Christ from the Apostolic gospel that
the Apostles preached when Christ rose
from the dead okay he said a falling
away from the church would have to come
first and the man of lawlessness is
revealed the son of destruction who
opposes and exalts himself above every
so-called god or object of worship so
that he takes his seat in the temple of
God display
himself as being God okay a lot of
people are miss applying the scriptures
here because they're thinking a literal
temple in literal Jerusalem when this is
talking about spiritual Jerusalem okay
this is spiritual Babylon okay the
apostasy must happen first first John
2:18 children it is the last hour and
just as you heard that Antichrist is
coming even now many antichrists have
appeared for this we know that is it the
last hour I should say this Antichrist
you might think someone who opposes
Christ or who is against Christ but it
also means at the same time Antichrist
it means someone who stands in the place
of Christ okay a substitute for Christ
alright let's keep going
so look at this we have Babylon
medo-persia Greece Rome divided Rome one
thing I want to point out is this is
that in 312 ad things change okay this
is after the cross of Christ 31 ad in
312 ad Constantine the Great in a dream
or literally he sees a Christian sign in
the sky followed by these words by this
sign you will conquer okay and it's chai
row it's the first symbols of Christ and
he basically has his men paint this
symbol on their shields and he defeats
Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian
bridge okay and now he becomes the sole
ruler of the Western Roman Empire
okay this is in 312 and that changes his
mind towards Christians he actually now
becomes the favored Christianity now
this wasn't true of previous Roman
empires okay previously Christians were
persecuted and it was sporadic I mean
most Romans even after the time of
Christ they were offended by Christians
why were they offended by Christians and
I need to I need to go through this
history sorry bear with me I know this
is a deep Bible study but I need to give
the history so that we understand who
this little horn is so I just need 10
minutes of your time to really
understand the history of this so the
Romans are generally offended by
Christians why they're offended by
Christians because you should be
sacrificing to the Roman gods and they
weren't sacrificing to the Roman gods
and the idea behind it was if you
sacrifice to the Roman gods then the
Roman gods will be benevolent towards us
and they will caused our harvest as
harvest to be plentiful and there won't
be floods and earthquakes and so when
they see the Christians not sacrificing
to the Roman gods they're thinking oh
the Roman gods are gonna bring wrath
upon us so when an earthquake a fire a
flood or there's a bad harvest or severe
weather that destroys crops or something
like that happens they say Christians
they blame the Christians all right now
in fact what's interesting is different
Emperor's had different attitudes
Christians and Emperor Trajan would
actually establish a I guess my words
Don't Ask Don't Tell policy or at least
from what I've read basically it's a
policy that basically says Roman
officials aren't to expose Christians
nor are they to engage in anonymous
accusations now by the time you get to
302 303 ad Diocletian takes a drastic
turn and Diocletian hates Christians and
he persecutes them for 10 years until
Constantine wins at the Battle of
Milvian bridge and it changes everything
and what Constantine does by 313 ad is
he issues the Edict of Milan now the
edict and banana is basically this it
says be benevolent towards Christians
okay he basically says you can be a
Christian freely and openly without
molestation all are free to worship as
he pleases and property that previously
was confiscated he returns to the
Christians Christian churches were
returned and turned back over to the
Christians so he believes they might
have divine favor and preserve and
prosper their success together for the
good of the state okay drastic shift now
it's not that Constantine suddenly
gained religion okay he says oh oh
Christianity
Jesus Christ died for my sins no it's
different he still has embossed on his
coins sol invictus or Unconquered Sun
and that's the Sun God he was still the
chief priests he was the pontiff s
magnimous of the Roman church-state cult
but constancy Constantine sees
Christianity as the means by which he
can hold the empire together because
think about this he has a vast empire ok
he has multiple diverse cultural
identities across the Empire from the
Visigoths the German barbaric tribes to
Africans - to the Greeks and and it's
like how can he keep the Kingdom
together and he realizes Christianity is
a means by which he can do it because it
transcends all those diverse cultural
cultures and he says wow you can be a
Greek you can be Latin you can be a
slave you can be free you can be gentle
you can be Jew you can be poor you can
be rich you can be anything and you can
be a Christian and that's how he says
says so he by transforming the Roman
Empire into a Christian Empire
Constantine can now unify the
splintering Empire and succeed in
holding it together
now here's what something interesting ok
if you look on the screen you see the
Council of Nicaea in 325 AD I need to
unpack that a little bit what that means
is this basically a Christian priest
named arias starts to teach a doctrine
that Christ is not of the same substance
of God okay that Christ was actually a
created being this is what arias
preached okay now arias was gaining
father were followers and the bishop
from Alexandria Egypt excommunicates him
because he believes that Christ wasn't
the same substance as the Father okay
and that's where this teaching would be
called Arianism okay that Christ was not
of the same substance
Constantine picks this up and he says
wait a second wait a second look at this
there are factions developing up in the
church and there's different doctrines
and different beliefs this is not good
so in an unprecedented move by his own
authority he calls the church council
constantine the emperor of rome calls a
church council and says let's settle
this and essentially that's where they
have the Council of Nicaea and at the
Council of Nicaea in 325 AD that would
be the establishment of the fact and the
doctrine that Christ is of the essence
of God in fact it says very god of very
God begotten not made being of one
substance with the father and that would
result in the Nicene Creed because
Constantine Constantine wanted the
church to flourish and he gave them all
sorts of advantages Christian priests
were equal to the priests of the Roman
gods he exempts them from taxes state
and even state responsibilities that
might interfere with their religious
duties um you can even leave your
property to the church okay
now the council of nicea in 325 D wasn't
the final word on arianism but it did
advocate that Christ was one with the
Father and so what happens is there's
still controversy over this that
teaching still is pervasive in fact it's
pervading all levels of society okay
people are talking about it some people
believe that Christ is one with the
father other believe know he was created
being by 380 ad Theodosius the next
emperor basically declares that the
Nicene Creed is the one true faith and
threatens dissenters with legal
penalties at least he tries to he
basically says he calls into being a
single unified Catholic that means
universal a Catholic Christian Church
applying to all mankind and he issues
the Edict of Thessalonica in 380 ad on
the screen you can see that basically
Christianity it becomes the official
state religion of the Roman Empire
amazing now think about this Rome
embraces is a polytheistic Empire
worshiping multiple gods and now by
three hundred eighty AD Rome the Roman
Empire becomes
Christian nation and so the idea of a
heretic now is defined by law and it's
punishable if you offend and break those
particular rules and regulations and
laws of what would define a heretic now
he wanted uniformity throughout his
empire now here's where it gets
interesting Theodosius separate from any
church state religion issue that's going
on a riot breaks out that's unrelated to
any religious Arianism and he deals with
the riots swiftly he basically has all
the people associated with the riot
killed okay he just wants to deal with
it quickly and this this doesn't go over
well with the Bishop of Milan okay and
Ambrose the Bishop of Milan basically
excommunicates Theodosius from the
church okay which is really interesting
because he felt that he he basically
would execute he came from the church
and he wouldn't allow him to take the
Eucharist okay the Lord's Supper I mean
and that was the right that would
separate believers from unbelievers okay
now Theodosius doesn't take any action
for about eight months
okay he's trying to decide what to do
because he he basically is struggling
with this does he turn his back on the
Eucharist and deny Ambrose's authority
because if he did he would reveal that
the Christian Church was in fact not
greater than the emperor now he realizes
that the church in his own mind was
greater than the state and it held the
empire together
so he basically subjects himself to the
authority of the bishop and and offers
several months of penance
and what he does even further after that
is he orders that all Roman temples are
closed and abandoned so that the
Christians could knock them down and
build Christian churches okay he
announces that the Olympic Games will be
held one final time before their
permanent cancellation
and he announces that any act of worship
made in honor of the old Roman gods
would be an act of treachery against the
Emperor himself amazing a vast shift
from a polytheistic religions empire
into a monotheistic single Christian
Empire now one more thing after 380 AD
by 429 ad Emperor Theodosius ii forms a
committee to codify all the laws since
constantine back in 312 because the laws
were written over all over the place and
he wanted to codify put them all reduce
the redundancy clean up loose laws and
everything it takes 22 scholars 9 years
to complete 16 books total covering
political socio nominal cultural
religious subjects and in it the
codified law includes the imposition of
what we'll call orthodoxy okay because
since arianism was a controversy at that
time it was ongoing it had 65 decrees
against heretics I think about this
sixty-five decrees in the state law
against heretics if you don't believe a
certain way if you don't do this if you
don't do that then you can be punishable
by law because of your religious
practice now this is where it gets very
interesting the barbarian tribes are
hearing of Arianism and Orthodox
Christianity and Clovis the first king
of the Franks embraces Catholic
Christianity and he essentially goes
after the Visigoths in 508 ad because
they were Arian okay he embraces the
Theodosia law code the 65° against
heretics and he now is partnering with
the Catholic Church essentially church
and state are merging and under
Belisarius the general Belisarius from
the east under Justinian he would go
after the vista bandulus and
Oster gossin 534 and 538 ad because they
too were Arian so you can see up on the
screen right there okay Catholic
Christianity was the only faith in town
these are the three horns that were
removed okay that little horn power
would what uproot three horns those were
the initial dates when those particular
kingdoms were attacked because of
religion religious differences okay it
had nothing to do with military conquest
it had everything to do with religious
authority and religious orthodoxy okay
those are the three horns that removed
and there was no Baptist
there was no Methodist there was no
Protestant at this time no there was
only one church okay and so I want to
point this out Biden on May 7th in 538
ad on the screen the 3rd Synod of
Orleans would re-establish old church
laws and passing of new ones and this
would be he intends to change times and
law in Daniel 7 okay that happens in 530
ad I'm going to come back to that
particular date May 7th 538 ad as we
continue studying when we get to
Revelation because that would be the
beginning of the time times and half a
time okay and if 538 ad is establishment
of the beginning of the time times and
half a time we identified that as 1260
literal years let's add this to the
screen 1260 literal years would lead us
to 1798 okay now let me ask you this
question there's only one entity that
fits those ten descriptions that we just
identified there's more descriptors
there's more characteristics in Daniel
chapter 7 but I just gave you ten okay
there's only one entity that can fit all
those descriptors in fact we have it's a
little Kingdom it comes up from among
the ten horns three horns are pulled
eyes and mouth speaking great boasts it
speaks out against the Most High it's a
religious entity it arises after the
fourth
after the ten horns it's different from
the other horns it persecutes the saints
it intends to make alterations and times
and law and the Saints are given into
his hand for a time times and half a
time okay there's only one entity that
can be this power what power existed
from 538 to 1798 there's only one power
that existed it's the church state
system of the Middle Ages
okay the saints of God were in this
system okay it wasn't that the people
were bad no they were the Saints they
were taken captive but the system was
corrupted from within and we need to be
careful as individuals when we start to
move away from the Bible and start to
adopt traditions of men and start to
allow the world to creep in the same
thing can happen as what happened during
the Middle Ages when the Word of God is
compromised and traditions of men are
replaced for the laws of God okay and
that allowed this power this church
takes system okay corrupted the church
from within and it caused and it
persecuted the Saints okay this is not
and now that power ended in 1798 I think
about this 1798 birth the general birth
da Napoleon's general storms Vatican
City tapes Pope Pius the six captive
insists to the Italians you have your
freedom back okay now the French
Revolution is the most is the most
significant event in Western
civilization why because the church
state system comes crashing down
monarchy comes crashing down equality
Liberty for all mankind
and so that church date system ends in
1798 judgment was taken okay
Church a system is never before to
that's done away with
okay that was during the Middle Ages but
God's Saints were the ones that were
taken captive okay this isn't against
any one people or anything like that
says these are God's people I want you
to understand that this is where our
church came from this is what happened
this is what happened this happened
during the Middle Ages and I don't have
time to cover all that history but I
just want you to understand that little
lauren power is nothi than the church
state system of the middlee medieval
ages now think about this remember
legs of iron legs of iron and they
transition into what feet of iron and
clay right you have the Roman Empire by
the time you move into the Middle Ages
what do you have a Dan another
descriptor Holy Roman Empire where did
that come from
that's exactly right Holy Roman Empire
Church state system combined all right
this is why our forefathers and Western
civilization at after the French
Revolution would say you know what we
want to make sure this doesn't happen
again and so a first amendment in our
Constitution is essentially there should
be no law established in terms of any
religion right I'm not going to go into
it but they learn our forint founding
fathers learn the lessons of the
medieval ages okay of that Roman
church-state system and they said we're
not going to combine religion and state
again because it only leads to bad
things okay so again this isn't against
the people because remember who in the
end let me go to this last verse right
here who in the end is judgment in favor
of I'm gonna pull this up it's basically
the last verse verse 26 but the court
will sit for judgment and his Dominion
will be taken away annihilated and
destroyed forever
then the sovereignty the Dominion and
the greatness of all the kingdoms of the
whole heaven will be given to the people
of the saints of the highest one these
are the Saints that were persecuted now
the kingdom is given to them his kingdom
will be an everlasting Kingdom and all
dominions will serve and obey Him
amazing scriptures this is all happening
in Daniel chapter 7 now there's one
other thing I want to point out and that
is this just give me two more minutes
and we'll
to a close some people like to identify
that little horn as they don't identify
the Roman church-state system as that
little horn they identified as Antiochus
Epiphanes okay I've got multiple study
Bibles I loved my multiple study Bibles
and for some reason they they conclude I
believe incorrectly that that little
horn in Daniel 7 and Daniel 8 isn't IKEA
as epiphanies I'll tell you why it can't
be because if you take a look at this
graph right here and you take a look at
all the characteristics of the little
horn those 10 characteristics let's see
where this intact as epiphanies actually
appears okay and he appears during the
latter part of the bronze the Greek
Empire okay
you have Cassander Lysimachus Seleucid
and ptolemy okay Antiochus Epiphanes
would come under the Seleucid Empire
okay and it would be 175 to 164 BC
that's when Antiochus Epiphanes would
rule and look where he's at he's before
the cross of Christ okay
now how is it how could in Takas
epiphanies fit all those 10
characteristics of that little horn and
look on the screen okay let's see if
those characteristics apply to in Takas
epiphanies okay a little horn meaning a
little king okay I guess that first one
might apply to him that seems fair he
was a little king it comes up from among
the ten horns and I don't know that that
really doesn't fit because those 10
horns
that's basically the successor states of
the Roman Empire so that's way past 476
so it doesn't fit number two number
three three horns are pulled out mmm he
doesn't fit that one he doesn't he
didn't he didn't uproot three other
kingdoms
like we saw the Visigoth vandals and
Ostrogoths i'm an eyes and a mouth
speaking great i guess you could apply
that to him he did have an eyes he does
have a mouth and he spoke greatly
boasting lea number five speaks out
against the Most High I guess you could
potentially apply that to him in the
sense that he set up
idols in the in the Jerusalem Temple and
sacrifice pigs and everything maybe
that's speaking out against the Most
High it's possible number 6 per rises
after the fourth Kingdom and after the
ten horns no there's no way Rome has to
has to has to continue on after 476 the
successor states of the Roman Church of
the Roman state have to emerge the
barbaric tribes so it doesn't come out
that different from the other horns hmm
I don't think so
Antiochus wasn't different from the
other horns he was just one other King
and in the seleucid empire persecutes
the saints and this one you could say he
did persecute the Saints in a little in
a way you could say that during his time
when he did desecrate the temple he
intends to make alterations and times
and laws I don't think that fits
Antiochus it just doesn't fit him I mean
that fits more with the Roman
church-state system the Saints are given
into his hand for a time times and half
a times that's 1260 literal ríos let me
ask you one last question about this
this is why I don't think Antiochus fits
the description because here you go
through Babylon medo-persia Greece Rome
divided Rome Europe okay we're talking
about a thousand years from the time of
Babylon 605 BC to 476 ad that's over a
thousand years and then the rest of the
chapter in Daniel chapter 7 talks about
this little horn who would be 1260
literal years okay that's about the
right amount of time that you would
apply all those scriptures to it to
spend all that time explaining what the
little horn is doing and then applying
it to someone small king who does what
he did back in 170 60 164 BC ish it just
doesn't fit now look on the screen it
makes much more sense when you take a
look at the broader perspective of
what's going on that's exactly what
happened it is none other than the Roman
church-state system again God's people
were taken captive for that time period
during the medieval church day system
now that system is no longer with us
it doesn't exist today okay but
want to tell you this even though that
it was done away with that system will
emerge again at the very end of time in
a new world king order new world kingdom
order and we're gonna unpack that when
we get to Revelation okay and we're
gonna and we're gonna unmask we're gonna
unmask when we rediscovered Greater
biblical truths related to this study
remember though the message of this is
this judgment is in favor of the Saints
God is not against people but he's
against systems that go against his word
and go against the the knowledge of
Jesus Christ and the saving faith of
Jesus Christ that was corrupted from
within okay we're gonna unpack more of
this in Daniel chapter 8 and 9 10 11 12
and see how this controversy continues
to unfold let's close in prayer father
God we've covered a lot of information
and we just thank you for your word and
we pray that by your holy spirit were
led into all truth Laura truth was not
meant to hurt
it was meant to heal and Lord I pray
that these scriptures would heal your
people and would lead them into a closer
relationship with Jesus Christ in Jesus
name Amen
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