The Accuracy of Prophecy

The Seleucids and Ptolemies (2-20)

Antiochus IV (21-35)

A Future AntiChrist (36-45)

What Can We Learn?

The battle between good and evil rages on, and will not stop

This passage speaks of 13 kings

This is 6 kings of the south and 7 kings of the north

Rome is also eluded to in the form of “ships from Kittim (Cyprus)” in v 30

Regime change will not solve this problem

Evil requires our help

v30 - Those who forsake the covenant

v32 - he will seduce with flattery

doctrinal, moral and spiritual blindness

Prophecy should encourage us

v2 - truth

v33 - The wise will make many people understand

yes some will fall, but they are being refined, purified and made white

v27, 35, 40- appointed time, “The time of the end”, at the time of the end