The Judgment

Three great warnings

in the last days.

Revelation 14:6 ESV

Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.

First Warning

Revelation 14:7 ESV

And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Covered topic

how to worship God

according to Bible.

Focus on

“judgment has come”

There is great call

in the last days

judgment upon us.

prepare your heart!

When does Judgment begin?

How can I be ready?

To answer that,

review some details.

•Apocalyptic Prophecy

•Prophet Daniel

Beginning in Daniel 2:1, the Bible says, "Now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him.

Then the king gave the command to call the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

And the king said to them, “I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to know the dream.”

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

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DANIEL 2:5–6 "The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, ‘My decision is firm: if you do not make known the dream to me, and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made an ash heap.

However, if you tell the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honor. Thereforetell me the dream and its interpretation.’"

•Now there's a choice,

•right?

•Tell me and I

•shall reward you,

•Or don't tell me

•and you shall die.

•And Nebuchadnezzar

•wasn’t kidding.

•He meant it.

•They can’t just

•make something up.

•He would know.

•Again, they said,

•“tell us the dream

•and we will interpret.

•He said,

•Okay,

•enough with you.

DANIEL 2:12 For this reason the king was angry and very furious, andgave the command to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

•Danielwasn’t there.

•nor his three friends.

•Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

•Taken as slaves.

•training to be counselors

•Now death decree.

•Daniel goes home,

•tells his 3 friends

•and they pray.

•Like their life

•depends on it…

•God loves to hear

•simple and sincere prayer.

•It doesn’t need to be complex.

•Daniel must have been

•a man of faith

•because he is able

•to get some sleep.

Daniel 2:31-35, “You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image!" No surprise that God would relate to an idol worshiper by showing him an idol. "This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome.

Daniel 2:31-35, “You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image!" No surprise that God would relate to an idol worshiper by showing him an idol. "This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome.

This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.”

•King thinks,

•that it,

•that’s the dream!

•This prophecy is

•the great backbone

•of all other

•apocalyptic prophecy.

Head of Gold

•It represented Babylon,

•that great kingdom

•that ruled from

•605 to 539 BC.

•Daniel said

•“you're the head of gold."

•Babylon was powerful.

•Walls think.

•Golden lions

Daniel 2:39 says, "But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours;"

•The head of God

•= Babylon

•Now, next metal

•= next kingdom

•Medo-Persian kingdom.

•Remember,

•I told you

•we would let the

•bible interpret itself.

•It is doing just that.

•It gives us symbols

•Then,

•It tells us what

•the symbols mean.

•Medo-Persia would

•follow after Babylon.

•But even Medo-Persia

•wouldn't last forever.

Daniel 2:39 goes on to say, "Then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth."

•We've all heard of

•Alexander the Great,

•who led Greece

•and dominated the world.

•But he was like

•a shooting star,

•dying at the age of 33

•in Babylon.

•Greece ruled from

•331 to 168 BC.

•So we find three kingdoms

•ruling in succession,

•Babylon,

•Medo-Persia,

•and Greece.

•If we were to guess

•what would come next,

•we would probably say,

•“another kingdom.”

•And you would be right..

•The Bible says,

"And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others."

•Greece was vanquished by

•the armies of Rome,

•depicted in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream

•as legs of iron.

•Historians even refer to

•Rome as

•"The Iron Kingdom."

•This is amazing.

•Daniel lived in

•600 BC

•Rome did not come

•into power until

•168 BC

•That is

•over 400 years

•in advance!

•As we will see

•in chapter 8

•He names the countries

•by name.

•If we were to guess

•what would come next,

•we would probably say,

•“another kingdom.”

•And you would be wrong..

Daniel 2:41 says, "Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay."

•Rome would not

•be conquered.

•It would fall apart

•from within.

•Then it was

•attacked by

•barbarian tribes.

Daniel 2:42,43

Daniel 2:43 ESV

As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.

•Area that Rome ruled.

•Broke into 10 nations.

•Mostly

•western Europe.

•North Africa

•God says,

•it will be divided.

•and it won’t

•come back together.

•That didn’t stop

•them from trying…

•Napoleon

•Joseph Stalin

•Adolf Hitler

•The Bible says,

•“they will mingle with the seed of men”

•This is referring to

•royal intermarriage.

•In Neb’s dream

•last thing he sees.

•A big rock

•comes out of sky

•smashes the image

•on the feet

•It turns to powder

•blows away

•Then, the rock

•turns into mountain

•fills the whole earth.

•How does Daniel,

•interpret this part

•of the dream?

Daniel 2:44 says, "And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed;" Babylon came and went, Medo-Persia came and went, Greece is gone, the empire of Rome is gone. And one day the God of Heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. "The kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.”

“Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this.

The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”

•That great Rock

•represents Jesus

•2nd coming!

•Jesus will set up

•a kingdom

•that will

Timeline

Babylon

Medo-Persia

Greece

Rome

Divided Europe

Second Coming

•Story ends well.

•for those who love Jesus

•Move to chapter 7

•repeat and enlarge.

Chapter 7

•This time it is Daniel

•who has an amazing dream.

Daniel 7:1–3 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter.

Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another.

•I promised

•we would let

•the Bible interpret itself.

•A this is symbolic

•and Daniel

•explains what it means.

Daniel 7:23 “Thus he said: ‘As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces.

•Daniel gives us

•the key to unlock

•the imagery of

•the rest of the

•chapter.

Beast = Kingdom

4 beasts = 4 kingdoms

familiar?

Daniel 7:4 The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted upfrom the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.

Daniel 7:5 And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’

Daniel 7:6 After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

•Four beast.

•Remember

•what do the beast represent?

•The are kingdoms

•So this is a succession

•of four kingdoms.

•Sound similar?

Lion = Babylon

Bear = Medo-Persia

Leopard = Greece

4th Beast = Rome

Daniel 2

Daniel 7

Side by Side

Timeline

Babylon

Medo-Persia

Greece

Rome

But what happens next?

Daniel 7:8 I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

How many horn are there?

Sound familiar?

Ten toes

Ten horns.

Nations that Rome

split into.

Timeline

Babylon

Medo-Persia

Greece

Rome

Divided Europe

Little Horn

Names of nations then

What next?

•Repeat and Enlarge

•This adds details

•The little horn.

•What next?

Daniel 7:9–10 “As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire. A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.

•Another new detail

•Next,

•court

•judgment

•Final Step in vision?

Daniel 7:13–14 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.

•Sound familiar

•it should

•Same scene

•Jesus Coming.

•Lets go to

•Babylon

•605-539 BC

•Medo-Persia

•539-331 BC

•Greece

•331-168 BC

•Rome

•168BC - 476 AD

•Divided Kingdoms

•476AD - ??

1260 years...

Extra Material

•Little Horn Dominion

•Judgement

•Second Coming

Timeline

Babylon

Medo-Persia

Greece

Rome

Divided Europe

Little Horn

Judgment

Second Coming

•Let’s Go

•Chapter 8

Daniel 8:1 In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.

What does he see in vision?

Daniel 8:3 I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.

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Daniel 8:4 I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.

What does he see?

•He sees a ram.

•What are its characteristics?

•How man horns does it have?

•Yes 2

•What about the horns?

•Raised up on one side.

•Does that remind you of something?

•What other animal was raised on one side?

•That is right

•The bear

•This time,

•Daniel’s angel

•tells us exactly

•who it is.

•It is the kingdom of Medo-Persia

•What happens next?

Daniel 8:5–8 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the canal, and he ran at him in his powerful wrath.

I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns. And the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled on him. And there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power. Then the goat became exceedingly great, but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.

•What does he see?

•A goat.

•It kills the Ram.

•Characteristics of the goat?

•One notable horn.

•four come up.

•moves so fast

•doesn’t touch ground.

•Remind you of anything?

•Yes

•leopard had 4 wings

•goat had 4 horns

•goat didn’t touch ground

•leopard flew.

Let the Bible

interpret itself.

Daniel 8:21–22 And the goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king. As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.

•God specifically says

•it is Greece.

•This is phenomenal.

•God names this superpower

•about 180 year

•before it came to power.

•Think about this

•US is one super power now.

•How long ago

•Did US start?

•250 years…

•We were nowhere near

•being a superpower

•right away.

•If somebody would

•have predicted

•“US will be superpower”

•back in 1800

•crazy.

•Nobody would have

•believed such a thing.

•Same about Greece.

•Now if you have

•been following

•very closely;

•You should have a question

•What about Babylon???

•By this time,

•Babylon has already

•been conquered.

•Daniel lived through

•it all.

•And he tells the story

•in chapter 5.

•We are not going

•to read that now.

•Because we are

•going to come

•back to this

•in a future study.

Timeline

Babylon

Medo-Persia

Greece

Rome

•What happens next?

Daniel 8:9–12 Out of one of them came a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land. It grew great, even to the host of heaven. And some of the host and some of the stars it threw down to the ground and trampled on them.

It became great, even as great as the Prince of the host. And the regular burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown. And a host will be given over to it together with the regular burnt offering because of transgression, and it will throw truth to the ground, and it will act and prosper.

•What happens next?

•This should sound

•very familiar.

•There was a little horn power

•in chapter 7 as well.

•We already

identified

antichrist

Beast

Little Horn

•If you are following

•very closely

•you should have

•another question.

•What about the

•4th Kingdom

•Rome.

•In the previous chapter

•the little horn power

•came out of Rome

•This time

•it goes straight from

•Greece to Little Horn

•This signifies,

•there is such a

•connection between

•Rome and Little Horn

•That they are

•practically the same thing.

•What happens next?

Timeline

Babylon

Medo-Persia

Greece

Rome

Little Horn

Next?

Daniel 8:13–14 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one who spoke, “For how long is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled underfoot?” And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”

•What happens?

•You may be unclear.

•One thing is for sure.

•This is sanctuary imagery

•“cleansing of the sanctuary”

•We will come back to that.

•Second,

•This is parallel

•on the timeline

•with the judgment

•from chapter 7.

•How does Daniel feel

•after the vision is

•explained by Gabriel?

Timeline

Babylon

Medo-Persia

Greece

Rome / Little Horn

Judgment

Gabriel explains

the judgment...

Daniel 8:26–27 The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true, but seal up the vision, for it refers to many days from now.” And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king’s business, but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it.

•How does Daniel feel

•He is not happy.

•He is confused.

•He is sick.

•He doesn’t understand.

•Wait,

•Gabriel explained…

•He told him

•what the beast are

•named the empires

•Gabriel explained most

•but he does not explain

•the part about

•2300 days

•cleansing of the sanctuary.

•Let’s move on

•Chapter 9

•In chapter 9

•Daniel is praying

•Asking for help

•wisdom

•confession

•70 years prophecy

•What happens next?

Chapter 9

Daniel 9:20–22 While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice. He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you insight and understanding.

•God wants

•His servant Daniel

•to understand!

•Okay great,

•lets hear

•this explanation.

Then Daniel 9:24 says, "Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity,

to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy."

•First thing,

•70 weeks are determined

•For what?

For who?

•for your people

•for your holy city

•finish the transgression

•make an end of sins

•make reconciliation for iniquity

•bring in everlasting righteousness

•anoint the Most Holy

•What does this?

•Jesus

•talking about

•coming of Messiah

•And.

•This is about Israel

•coming to repentance.

•Now,

•this clearly couldn’t

•all happen in

•one year and four months,

•or 70 literal weeks.

•Introduce

•Interpretive tool

•prophetic time

•Day-for-a-year.

•explain context

•going into promised land

•spy out Canaan

•12 spies.

Numbers 14:34 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’

Ezekiel 4:6 And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.

•Day represents a year,

•70 weeks,

•or 70 times 7 days

•would be 490 years.

•God was giving Israel

•490 years

•to come to repentance.

•But,…

•When did the

•490 years begin

•and end?

Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.

•We are given

•the birth date.

•You don’t ask a lady

•How old are you?

•But if you can

•figure out

•birth date

•You can calculate it!

•What is the birth date?

•“from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem”

•From the time

•of the decree

•until Messiah

•would be 69 weeks

•or 483 years.

Where do we find the decree?

•In the Book of Ezra,

•there is a decree

•in chapter 7.

•Artaxerxes told Nehemiah

•he could go back

•and restore

•and rebuild Jerusalem.

•When was the decree issued?

•We know because

•the Persians were meticulous

•record keepers.

•457 BC has been

•nailed down in history.

•From our starting point

•in 457 BC

•to Messiah the Prince

•would be 483 years.

•Those 483 years

•bring us down

•to the year 27 AD,

•bearing in mind

•that the timeline

•of history goes

•from 1BC to 1AD,

•without a year zero.

When we start

in 457 BC,

decree was issued,

add 69 weeks,

or 483 years,

we get to 27 AD.

Messiah,

or Jesus,

should appear in 27 AD.

The word 'Messiah'

means the “anointed one.”

So when was Jesus anointed?

At His baptism.

And when was that?

Luke 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysaniastetrarch of Abilene,

What happened that year?

Luke 3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened,

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Luke 3:22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

•Jesus was baptized

•in the fifteenth year

•of the reign of Tiberius Caesar.

•That was the

•year 27 AD.

Jesus was baptized

right on time,

Galatians 4:4 says that Jesus came “in the fullness of time."

•In Mark chapter 1,

•Jesus is baptized,

•and after His baptism,

•He says,

"The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand."

•What happens next?

Daniel 9:26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.

•Jesus was cut off

•when He died

•on the cross.

•Let’s review

•There was a decree

•in 457 BC.

•After 69 weeks,

•Jesus would be anointed,

•which happened

•when He was baptized

•in the year 27 AD.

•He died on the cross

•in the middle

•of the 70th week.

• That was 31 AD.

•Half week left.

Daniel 9:27 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

•The 70 weeks

•end in 34 AD.

•What happened

•at the end

•of the 70 weeks?

•Remember,

•God gave Israel

•490 years

•to come to repentance.

•They didn't.

•What happened at the end

•of the 70 weeks?

•The Bible makes it

•very, very clear.

•3.5 years later

•did the Jews change?

•did they repent?

•No,

•Stephen, deacon

•preaching to them.

Acts 7:57–59 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him. Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

What happens as a result?

Acts 8:1 And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Gospel goes to Gentiles!

•Amazing Prophecy,

•But we have to ask,

•Why did God

•give this vision

•Gabriel came

•to explain vision

•from chapter 8.

•How does this

•explain vision from

•chapter 8?

Read Dan 9:24 again.

Then Daniel 9:24 says, "Seventy weeks are determined for your people …

•This word “determined”

•in Hebrew means

•cut off?

•You ask

•cut off what?

•The larger total

Daniel 8:14 And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”

Therefore, 2,300 days

would represent 2,300 years.

That makes more sense.

If we start in Daniel's day

and add on 2,300 years,

that brings you many days

into the future.

This was a

symbolic time period

representing literal years.

But Daniel still didn't

have all of the information.

•This whole prophecy

•is about Jesus Christ.

•First part

•first coming

•Second part

•second coming

•judgment.

The first half

of the prophecy

was designed to

get people ready

for the first coming

of Christ.

Yet when Jesus came

to Earth the people said,

"We have no king but Caesar."

They said

"Crucify Him,

give us Barabbas!”

They rejected Him!

Comparison Chart

Timeline is right

historicist method right

Gabriel said

Persia and Greece

Before coming

time of judgment

Verse about 2nd coming:

Revelation 22:12 ESV

“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.

immediate preceding verse:

Revelation 22:11 ESV

Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”

What will happen?

sort between

righteous and unrighteous.

Revelation 14:7 And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

It’s true.

Judgment has come.

Jesus coming soon

time to seek salvation

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Not much time left.

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