Living Holy Until the End

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Living Holy Until the End
Daniel 8.1-27
A Time For Hope Discovering Hope in Gods
Supernatural Power
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The God of Heaven knows the future.
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He revealed world history before they were ever
history.

• All the events occurred after Daniel recorded
  this vision in 551 BC.
• Modern scholars deny the authenticity of Daniel
  and believe he wrote after the event occurred.

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He revealed world history before they were ever
history.

• The Two horned Ram is Media Persia.
• The two-horned ram represents the kings of Media
  and Persia.   8.20 (NLT)

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He revealed world history before they were ever
history.

• The Male Goat with one horn is Greece under
  Alexander the Great.
•  The shaggy male goat represents the king of
  Greece, and the large horn between his eyes
  represents the first king of the Greek Empire.
  8.21 (NLT)

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He revealed world history before they were ever
history.

• The four horns is Greece under Lysimachus,
  Cassander, Seleucus Ptolemy.
• The four prominent horns that replaced the one
  large horn show that the Greek Empire will break
  into four kingdoms, but none as great as the
  first. 8.22 (NLT)

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He revealed world history before they were ever
history.

• The small horn is Antiochus Epiphanies.
• He desecration of the Jewish Temple for 2300
  days.
• He was stopped by God through Judas Maccabeus.

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God is revealing world history which will happen
tomorrow.

• Son of man, he said, you must understand that
  the events you have seen in your vision relate to
  the time of the end. ...Then he said, I am here
  to tell you what will happen later in the time of
  wrath. What you have seen pertains to the very
  end of time.
• 8.17, 19 (NLT)

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Prophecy can have a near completion and a far
completion.

• The Little horn is Antiochus Epiphanies as well
  as the Antichrist.

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Antichrist will come

• When sin is at its height.
• At the end of their rule, when their sin is at
  its height, a fierce king, a master of intrigue,
  will rise to power.

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Matthew 24.12-16

• Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of
  many will grow cold. But the one who endures to
  the end will be saved. And the Good News about
  the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole
  world, so that all nations will hear it and then
  the end will come. The day is coming when you
  will see what Daniel the prophet spoke aboutthe
  sacrilegious object that causes desecration
  standing in the Holy Place. (Reader, pay
  attention!) Then those in Judea must flee to the
  hills.
• (NLT)

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God gave us prophecy so we would live holy lives.

• Prophecy should affect us.
• Then I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for
  several days. Afterward I got up and performed my
  duties for the king, but I was greatly troubled
  by the vision and could not understand it. 8.27
  (NLT)

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• John McArthur
• Abandoned by God
• http//www.symphonyofscripture.com/?p1510

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2 Timothy 3.1-5

• You should know this, Timothy, that in the last
  days there will be very difficult times. For
  people will love only themselves and their money.
  They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God,
  disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful.
  They will consider nothing sacred. They will be
  unloving and unforgiving they will slander
  others and have no self-control. They will be
  cruel and hate what is good. They will betray
  their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with
  pride, and love pleasure rather than God. They
  will act religious, but they will reject the
  power that could make them godly.
• (NLT)

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God is calling us to live holy lives.

• Prophecy is from God
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• Above all, you must realize that no prophecy in
  Scripture ever came from the prophets own
  understanding, or from human initiative. No,
  those prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit, and
  they spoke from God.
• 2 Peter 1.16-21 (NLT)

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God is calling us to live holy lives.

• The prophecy are from God to make us holy.
• By his divine power, God has given us everything
  we need for living a godly life. ... And because
  of his glory and excellence, he has given us
  great and precious promises. These are the
  promises that enable you to share his divine
  nature and escape the worlds corruption caused
  by human desires.
• 2 Peter 1.3-4

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God is calling us to live holy lives.

• We must respond to the promises.
• In view of all this, make every effort to respond
  to Gods promises.
• 2 Peter 1.5 (NLT)