At The End Time

Daniel 11-12

The prophecy found in these chapters elaborate on what we have seen with lesser detail in chapter 8-9. I am not going to walk us through the details given in these chapters but we will settle-in on 11:36-12:3. That is where the title comes from this morning. V. 40 identifies the time frame of these events as “At the end time.”

I want to be careful, even in skipping much of the detail given in these chapters because I don’t want to communicate that it is not important. Rather, I want us to hear what this passage is pressing us to recognize and therefore act on.

In fact, I would say that while some of this is fairly plain and obvious to me, there is much that is neither. But I would hasten to add, these parts are not clear only because I am not that familiar with history between 539BC to say 175 AD.

If you would like to research this, I certainly commend you to it. Get a big, thick history book and enjoy, but I will warn you, you can spend days in that search and while you will likely form a very decided opinion, you may not find many who will agree whole-heartedly with your position.

That is why I want us to primarily focus on what we should recognize as the truth on the text and what we are being called to do.

As you begin chapter 11 (we already covered verse 1 last week), the characters are somewhat obvious in v. 2. We see the kings of Persia followed by a very dominant king from Greece who will do whatever he pleases. We saw in chapter 8 that this character is Alexander the Great. The accuracy with which