09_06 Bible Study Lesson Guide for Daniel 11

Document #09_06 is a Bible Study Lesson Guide for Daniel 11. The SDA denomination does not have one, because no theologian has done the research to unfold this chapter. This chapter has much to contribute to our 3 Angel’s Messages. Verses 40 to 42 do not fit history as they must, as the theologians have preconceived the text. Not once, but twice! The Papacy is not the king of the north in this chapter. There are not just two powers in v.40. There are three! This chapter unfolds Jesus’ last great unfulfilled prophecy – Mt. 24:15 – the “abomination that maketh desolate” [Yes, it is unfulfilled!]. This chapter reveals the beginning of the career of the Papacy, and the very early institution of worship of his “image” – an idol of MARY that he created to further attract all Pagans into his “church.” Finally, there is a connection in v. 45 to the Trumpets of Rev. 8!

The time has come for this chapter to reveal its secrets. Amos 3:7. See the document 08_02, Sequence of Events, to see what this means to our Message.

Bible Study Lesson Guide for Daniel 11

Daniel 11 is the most literal chapter on prophecy in the two books of prophecy, Daniel and Revelation, beginning the history right where Daniel was at the time, Cyrus having taken Babylon for the Medo-Persian Empire. (Remember the image of Daniel 2 – there would be four great known world kingdoms – Babylon : here fallen, Medo-Persia: here presently ruling, followed by Greece – Alexander, and then lastly by Rome – Pagan and Papal Rome. All of them are destroyed by the coming Kingdom of Jesus – “the stone that smote the image upon its feet…and that became a great mountain [kingdom] that filled the whole earth.” Daniel 11 will cover the history, king by king [and some queens also, so that the march of history is clearly presented] till the Second Coming of Jesus.)

Uriah Smith, in his definitive book, DANIEL and the REVELATION, takes us up through time in this outline, filling in the details from history. You can even find Cleopatra and Antony in verses 17 to 19. By these verses, we are into the Pagan Roman Era. Suffice it to say, at this point, that the verses are leading up to new and important information regarding the latter phase of the Pagan Era into the Papal Era.
At verse 30, we arrive at Constantine, Emperor of Rome, and a pivotal point in the history of these nations. Here, in this verse, the “little horn” of Daniel 7 has his real introduction into the history. It is at this point we will take up the prophetic history, rather than reiterate all the kings who precede it. You may pick up all of that from Uriah Smith’s book.

Why do we begin here? As our studies to this point have revealed, we are now in the final stages of the prophecy of the “little horn power.” We are in dangerous, deceptive times, and must be warned by this prophecy. We must proclaim what is really going on, making history right now, by unfolding Daniel chapter 11!

It is so important because it unveils the secret of the next great prophecy by Jesus Himself! Since the Great Awakening of 1843, although much clarification of the revelation that “the hour of His Judgment is come” has prepared the way, we haven’t foreseen the next great prophetic revelation by Jesus. It is time! Check out Amos 3:7. Holy Spirit is unfolding it, by unfolding Daniel 11.
To what prophecy, by Jesus Himself, do I refer? Matthew 24, verses 14 and 15: especially verse 15. The context, according to verse 14, is NOW! “This gospel of the kingdom [is NOW being preached in all the world by Television] for a witness unto all nations: and then shall the END come!”
“When ye therefore [at this time] shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains…” Verse 15.

We now know how to find the verse or verses in Daniel that Jesus is referring to. We will use Holy Spirit’s prescription for Bible Study, to “rightly divide the Word of God,” from Isaiah 28, verses 9 and 10: “line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.” We take a Cruden’s Concordance, and look up the key words from the warning by Jesus, “abomination” and “desolation” to find where they are used together in the Book of Daniel.

Are you ready? They are actually used in THREE places in Daniel. The first one refers to the desolation of Jerusalem and Judaea by the Romans, in 70 A.D. Daniel 9, verse 27. (It is actually a separate notation in the Concordance because it uses the plural form “abominations” rather than the singular, as in the other two notations.) This one is the fulfillment of Luke’s statement of the prophecy, which is different than the same (most commentators wrongly believe) statement of what Jesus said, in Matthew 24:15 and Mark 13:14. We will now see that that is because Jesus mingled what would soon come to pass, with what would come to pass again, at the end of time!
The next two notations in the Concordance are: Daniel 11, verse 31, and Daniel 12, verse 11. NOTE: parallel verses. [Please Read] These verses have not yet found fulfillment, as Daniel 12:11 gives a time prophecy for an event in history in the other, parallel verse, Daniel 11:31. That event came nearly 500 years after the time of Jesus! It is the date when the “little horn power” – the Papacy – began to be “set up” (Daniel 12:11) or put in “place” (Daniel 11:31). Other Bible versions rightly use “set up” for both verses.
To get the right context, and to understand who is being spoken of in verse 31, we must pick up the historical event in verse 30. In this verse, the historical entry of Constantine into the progression of kings, we find him having “intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.” These two verses are overflowing with information. Constantine is “against (note my capital letters) the Holy Covenant.” He is against the disruptive Jews and true Christians who are always evangelizing throughout his Empire, with their Holy Covenant.
So, he has a strategy session – “intelligence” – with them that forsake the Holy Covenant. What is the Holy Covenant? This question is crucial to the real understanding of Daniel 11! The Ten Commandments, contained in the Ark of the Covenant, are the Holy Covenant! Right?
Then, who are “them that forsake the Holy Covenant?”

Here’s the history. Constantine, in 321 A.D., had a strategy session with the bishop of Rome, desiring to unite his Empire. The bishop of Rome suggested that Constantine should unite the religions of the Empire, which would unite the many factions in it. The bishop was willing to “forsake the Holy Covenant” by supporting the changing of the Fourth Commandment by Constantine!! Constantine claimed to have been converted to Christianity (the “Christianity”of the bishop of Rome) and Constantine wrote the first “keep Sunday holy” Law of that brand of Christianity. The bishops of Rome, from then on, (“them” that forsake the Holy Covenant) supported this change of the Commandments!
Further, the bishop of Rome, by 325 A.D., instituted the worship of Mary, “a god whom his fathers knew not…” Dan. 11:38. Her idols, later the “image of the beast” Rev. 14:9, were very attractive to Pagan worshippers in place of their many goddesses. These changes brought the Pagans of the Empire into the “Christian” church, with their Emperor! The idols of Mary are an important new part of our Message – the 3 Angel’s Messages!

Then Constantine even moved his Capital to Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey) in 330 A.D., leaving the whole Western Empire to the bishop of Rome! Wow! Did that ever “set up” the bishop of Rome!

NOT QUITE.
In Divine punishment of both the Pagan Roman Empire and the bishops of Rome, the whole Western Empire (Europe) was broken up into the ten toes of the great image of Daniel 2, by the barbarian tribes that swept in from the north. [The ten toes are the kingdoms that eventually formed the broken-up Empire of Rome.]
Between Daniel 11, verse 30, and Daniel 11, verse 31, there is nearly 200 years separating those two verses! Not till 508 A.D., exactly pinpointed by the parallel verse time prophecy in Daniel 12:11, [the 1290 simply precedes the 1260 by 30 years] did the bishop of Rome convert a barbarian king (king of the Franks – now France) to his brand of Christianity. This king, Clovis by name, used his armies to support the bishop of Rome. Note verse 31: “And arms shall stand on his [the bishop of Rome’s] part, and they [the bishops of Rome] shall pollute the Sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily [the daily work of Jesus in the heavenly Sanctuary] and they shall place [set up] the abomination that maketh desolate:” [the papal system of religion and politics – the uniting of church and state, to persecute all dissenters against their brand of Christianity!]
So: “…the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet…” that Jesus was referring to for the end times, is the Papal system of religion and politics.
Its head is the pope, “the man of sin” that Paul the apostle referred to in Second Thessalonians, chapter 2.

Now we can deduce that the event Jesus was referring to must be set out in the detail in Daniel 11. Daniel 12 begins with what will happen to Israel because of the “abomination,” so verse 45 of Daniel 11 is probably it!
However, theologians have stumbled over verse 40 of Daniel 11, and we cannot correctly advance until we unfold that verse. Theologians have tried, and constantly fail, to make the Papacy the king of the north in that verse. And so, that verse, and those that follow, do not fit history. The verses must fit history. Therefore, we have
misunderstood the text. Jesus has now revealed the answer. Its time has come! [Remember Amos 3, v. 7.]
The Papacy is not the king of the north in verse 40. We preconceived that there are only two powers in verse 40, because most of Daniel 11 has been about the king of the north versus the king of the south and vice versa, many times over. We failed to note the introduction to prominence of “them that forsake the Holy Covenant!” Once he has been given power as “pope,” in 538, 30 years after he has been “set up” by Clovis, his developed characteristics are revealed, in detail, in verses 36 to 39! All of the rest of the chapter, from verse 30 to verse 45 are about this power, down through time till “he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”
Verses 40 to 42 are a parenthesis; (…..) an interruption to the characteristics of the Papacy, to insert the history of the events of 1798 that gave him his “mortal wound” (Rev. 13, verse 3) that would be healed. We would put these verses in brackets, but the original writers of the Old Testament didn’t have such tools for use in their writing. Verse 43 and on, he again takes up his power. In 1929, the “mortal wound” is healed, by Mussolini, who gave the pope a tiny kingdom, a number of acres in Rome called the Vatican. He was again a “horn” kingdom, a very little one. In verse 43, allied with Hitler, he is given great power once more!

Notice verse 43. Hitler shipped the treasures of Europe and of Egypt to the Papacy! The Nazis documented it all on film, which has been run in documentaries on TV! Even the “ethnic cleansing” of the land of Ethiopia of the SABBATH KEEPERS, leaving the land “at his steps” [Catholic or die] was also documented on television!
I personally saw both documentaries!
Verse 44: Hitler was obviously directed by the pope of that time, Pious XII, [1939 – 1958] to attack Russia, the major Atheistic power, to try to force it to also be “at his steps!” The “east” and the “north” easily refer to Atheistic China and Russia! It is the Papacy that is credited, by God through Daniel, with Hitler’s attack on Russia; “with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.” WE are right on the verge of the fulfillment of verse 45! So close, it almost happened January 1, 2000! Because we hadn’t done our homework on this prophecy of Jesus, we didn’t recognize this almost fulfillment! Here, we need to backtrack to verses 36 to 39, that precede the parenthesis. The Papacy is officially introduced, not as the king of the north, but as “the king.” He is a third power in the parenthesis!
Look carefully at his characteristics in verses 36 to 39. He shall not do according to the will of God. He shall exalt himself [and make himself God, “sitting in the temple of God (St. Peter’s Basilica) showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4.] “Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers [Jesus], nor the desire of women” [marriage forbidden for priests and nuns] and shall “magnify himself above all” [even Jesus!] But he shall honor the god of forces [using Satan’s method – forcing all to obey him rather than the God of the Bible!].
The next point, even to the first half of the next verse, is incredibly important: “And a god whom his fathers knew not [the idol, of MARY, that he set up to take the place of the goddesses of the Pagans, to further attract them into the “Christian” church] shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things
[denoting a female god] …whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory:” – the “image of the beast!”
He has even ascribed unto her the place of mediator between God and man, taking the place of Jesus Himself!

The idol of MARY is a “graven image” forbidden by both the first and second Commandments of God! See, right NOW, Exodus 20, verses 3 to 5.

Now to the parenthesis: verses 40 to 42. “At the time of the end…” Daniel himself asks when shall be the time of the end, in Daniel 12. The answer is verse 7: “…it shall be for a time, times, and an half…” Expositors agree that this refers to 1798, the end of the time allotted to the Papal power persecuting God’s true followers. See Rev. 12, verse 14 compared to verse 6. When the Papacy was “taken out of the way” [of the Bible] Daniel’s book was to be unsealed. Daniel 12, verse 9. That event revealed that the prophetic “days” represented literal years!
The historic events of 1798 also reveal the proper THREE players in Daniel 11, verse 40. In that chapter, the king of the south [south of Israel] is always Egypt. The king of the north [north of Israel] varies according to the prophecy of Daniel 11. The Papacy is not the king of the north. He is “the king,” actually king of all of the kings of Europe [the ten toes] of the north.

Thus iron Rome is mingled with the potter’s clay. The Holy Roman Empire received its mortal wound in 1798. By whom did the pope get “taken out of the way?” In that very year, Napoleon became king of Egypt! “At the time of the end, shall the king of the south push at him…” Who? the king, the one just fully introduced in the preceding verses! Napoleon’s general Berthier gave the Papacy its “mortal wound:” …but the Vatican elected a new pope after that pope died in exile; and Napoleon couldn’t prevent it!
Just over 130 years later, the Papacy’s mortal wound was healed by Mussolini. The “little horn” has NOW again risen to political and religious power.
Napoleon had taken Egypt from the control of the king of the north – the Turkish power – which remained king of the north till 1840. Still in the year 1798, they declared war against Napoleon to take it back. “And the king of the north shall come against him [Napoleon] like a whirlwind…” to verse 42, “and the land of Egypt shall not escape.” The Turkish power took back Egypt. This ends the parenthesis. The rest of the chapter continues to be about “the king” from before the parenthesis!

We already have the history of the career of the Papacy till verse 45, so we can now paraphrase that verse thus:
“And the pope shall plant the tabernacles [temporary location] of his palace [his government] between the seas, in the glorious holy mountain [Jerusalem]: yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”
“his government” – combined New World Order,
New World Church, both ruled by the pope!
Separation of church and state fully removed!
Where? “in the glorious holy mountain.”
“glorious holy mountain” = Jerusalem.
“line upon line” leads to Daniel 9, v. 16:
“…thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain…”

Remember that the pope represents the “little horn power” and is the “abomination of desolation” spoken of by Jesus in Matthew 24, verse 15. The above action by the pope can only come to pass when the Jewish nation receives the pope into Jerusalem as “the vicar of the son of God!” Why would they do such a thing?

The apparition of MARY in the heavens above [Read the ADDENDUM to this lesson guide!] will convince the secular Jews, and the Jews of the Messianic Jewish Movement [thus the whole nation] that the pope is the leader of the true church of God! They will make an alliance with the Papal power instead of depending upon the real Jesus to protect them from all of their enemies around them! That will be an “indignation” to Jesus, [see v. 36] who will then destroy Jerusalem and Judaea, as He did twice before – first by the Babylonians, then by the Romans! Who among the Messianic Jews will heed our warning from Jesus in Matthew 24, v. 15, and especially its parallel in Mark 13, v. 14, about the “abomination of desolation” and escape to the mountains across the Jordan River?
The pope is “the man of sin!” He represents abominations to Jesus – Sun worship, and idol worship of MARY! He is not the representative of Jesus on this earth! [See the reasons for the first desolation, in Ezekiel chapter 8].

Unfolding Daniel 11 reveals who the “little horn” is, and what the abomination of desolation is. The soon-to-come-to-pass third fulfillment of the abomination of desolation is the subject of the prophecy of Jesus from Mt.24, v. 15. Its result has happened twice in the past. It will happen again, soon!
Get ready! Make your calling and election sure with Jesus! Do not be found by Jesus, worshipping the beast and his image, or having received his “mark!” [Revelation 14, verse 9, the Third Angel’s Message]. Worship the Creator of heaven and earth, Jesus Himself! [See John 1: 1-3, 10, and 14]. Learn your Message – the Three Angel’s Messages of Revelation 14!

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