STUDY: THE LAST THREE OF THE SEVEN PLAGUES—REVELATION

1. REVELATION 16:10-21

2. EXODUS 14 & 15

3. GREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 635-637

FIVE BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES: PROPHECY

1. INTERPRETATION—BIBLICAL TYPOLOGY EXAMPLE—ABRAHAM & ISAAC

2. STRUCTURAL STUDY EXAMPLE—PATTERNS & EVENTS

3. HOW TO STUDY REFERENCES—SPIRIT OF PROPHECY

EXAMPLE—PASSAGES-VERSES-MANUSCRIPTS

4. ASK QUESTIONS WHEN STUDYING THE BIBLE

5. OLD TESTAMENT—FOUNDATIONAL WRITINGS

1. PERSPECTIVE—PART ONE REVELATION 16:10, 11

THE SEAT OF THE BEAST: FIFTH PLAGUE

WHERE IS THIS SEAT OF THE BEAST LOCATED? DAN 7 & REV 13

WHO SITS ON THE THRONE (LEADERSHIP) OF THIS BEAST?

WHERE IS THE KINGDOM OF THIS BEAST? REV 13:3

WHO ARE THOSE SUBJECTS OVER WHICH THIS BEAST RULES? REV 13:7

WHAT DOES “SEATING” REPRESENT? REV 17:1, 2 WHAT DOES “WATERS” REPRESENT? REV 17:15

QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERSREVELATION 16:10, 11

BIBLE: ‘THEY GNAWED THEIR TONGUES IN PAIN’ WHY? JAMES 3:5-10 & ZECHARIAH 14:12, 13

1. THE BEAST TOOK PLEASURE IN TELLING LIES CONTRARY TO GOD’S LAW—SABBATH 2. THE BEAST FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM (GOD’S REMNANT PEOPLE) JOHN 4:20-243. JERUSALEM (O.T.) WAS LOCAL—ISRAELITES JERUSALEM (N.T.) IS GLOBAL—JOHN 4:244. JERUSALEM (O.T) IS EARTHLY JERUSALEM (N.T.) IS HEAVENLY

HEB 11:10, 15, 16

CONTRASTS & COMPARISONS: JERUSALEM (O.T. & N.T.)

JERUSALEM: LOCAL & GLOBAL

JERUSALEM: LITERAL & SPIRITUAL

JERUSALEM: EARTHLY & HEAVENLY

LITERAL CITY—JERUSALEM—HEAVEN

SPIRITUAL CITY—JERUSALEM—EARTH

(GOD’S REMNANT PEOPLE—GLOBAL)

A CLOSE-UP EXAMINATIONFIFTH PLAGUE

THE SEAT OF THE BEAST: REV 16:10, 11 & REV 13:10

FULL OF DARKNESSTHEY GNAWED THEIR TONGUES IN PAIN

THEY WERE FULL OF SORESTHEY KILLED JERUSALEM—THE SWORD

NOTE: BUT NOW…THEY KILL ONE ANOTHER INSTEAD OF JERUSALEM

REV 13:10 & ZECHARIAH 14:12, 13

2. PERSPECTIVE—PART TWO REVELATION 16:12-16

THE EUPHRATES RIVER: SIXTH PLAGUE

THE EUPHRATES RIVER DRIED UPAS A RESULT OF THE DRYING UP OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER—THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH IS PREPARED

WHERE IS THE EUPHRATES RIVER LOCATED TODAY?

WHAT IS MEANT BY THE DRYING UP OF ITS WATER?

WHO ARE THOSE KINGS FROM THE EAST?HOW IS THE WAY PREPARED FOR THEIR ARRIVAL?

THE FALL OF ANCIENT BABYLON & THE EUPHRATES RIVER—O.T.

READ DANIEL 5 JEREMIAH 50—51 & ISAIAH 41-47

THE EUPHRATES RIVER: ASSET & LIABILITY FOR BABYLON

EUPHRATES: ASSET A CONTINUAL FLOW OF

WATER WATER TO SUSTAIN LIFE EUPHRATES—FLOWING…

ANY INVASION WAS IMPREGNABLE INVINCIBLE IMPENETRABLE BABYLON—SUPERPOWER

EUPHRATES: LIABILITY A DRYING UP OF THE

WATER WATER TO SUSTAIN LIFE

—CUT EUPHRATES—DRIED UP

CONDITIONS FOR ANY INVASION WAS FAVORABLE

PREGNABLE VINCIBLE PENETRABLE BABYLON—UNDERDOG

EUPHRATES RIVER—DANIEL 5

QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERSDANIEL 5—JEREMIAH 50—51—ISAIAH 41-47

WHAT CAUSED THE DRYING UP OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER?

WHO ENGINEERED THE DRYING UP OF EUPHRATES RIVER?

HOW WAS THE DRYING UP OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER ENGINEERED?

WHERE (CARDINAL POINT—DIRECTION) DID THIS PERSON COME FROM?

WERE THE BABYLONIANS COMFORTABLE WITHIN THOSE WALLS—FORTRESS?

AND WERE THEY IN A DRUNKEN STUPOR WHEN THE INVASION TOOK PLACE?

SYMBOLISMS—BABYLON LITERAL-SPIRITUAL-GLOBAL

REVELATION 17:1, 2

O.T. BABYLON

CITY—LITERAL EUPHRATES RIVER–

LITERAL

KING—LITERAL PEOPLE—LITERAL

IDOL—LITERAL ISRAELITES—LITERAL WINE—LITERAL

N.T. BABYLON

CITY—SPIRITUAL EUPHRATES RIVER—

SPIRITUAL

KING—SPIRITUAL PEOPLE—SPIRITUAL

IDOL—SPIRITUAL ISRAEL—SPIRITUAL WINE—SYMBOLIC

QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS

REVELATION 17:1, 2, 5, 15 WHICH OF THE ANGELS SPEAKS TO JOHN IN

REVELATION 17:1? WHICH ONE OF THE ANGELS SPEAKS OF THE

HARLOT FORNICATING WITH THE KINGS OF THE EARTH?

WHO/WHAT DOES THIS HARLOT REPRESENT? WHAT IS THE NAME GIVEN TO THIS HARLOT

WOMAN? REVELATION 17:5 WHAT ARE THE WATERS ON WHICH THE HARLOT

SITS? WHAT WOULD THE KINGS AND INHABITANTS OF

THE EARTH END UP DOING WITH THE HARLOT?

REVELATION 17:1, 2

THE ‘MANY WATERS’ OF ANCIENT BABYLON REPRESENTS THE EUPHRATES RIVER

(SYMBOLIC & SPIRITUAL TERMS)REVELATION 17:1

THE HARLOT REPRESENTS BABYLON REVELATION 17:5

NOTE: IF BABYLON IS A WORLDWIDE SYSTEM—THEN JERUSALEM MUST BE WORLDWIDE ALSO

(REVELATION 17:15 & JOHN 4:23, 24)

NOTE: IF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH COMMIT FORNICATION WITH BABYLON—HER DAUGHTERS WILL ALSO DO LIKEWISE

RELIGIOUS-COMMERCIAL-POLITICAL INTERMARRIAGES

REVELATION 18:3 & REVELATION 17: 11-16

ONENESS BETWEEN CHURCH & STATE

STORY ILLUSTRATION: READ THE BOOK OF ESTHER THE KING IN COHORTS WITH HAMAN

HE (KING) TRUST HIS POLITICAL ADVISOR DECEPTION OF THE KING BY HAMAN

THE KING AWAKES FROM HIS DECEPTION AND DELVES INTO A FURY

NOW HE TURNS AGAINST HAMAN HER DAUGHTERS TURNS AGAINST HER—BABYLON

REVELATION 17:16, 17

RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL PANDERINGS

REVELATION 17:1-2, 11-16

WHO ARE THE ENEMIES OF GOD?

1. ROMAN CATHOLICISM—FALSE WORSHIP SYSTEM

2. PROTESTANTISM—FALSE WORSHIP SYSTEM

3. THE KINGS OF THE EARTH—FALSE TRADITIONAL SYSTEM

CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES OF COMPROMISE

NEWT GINGRINCH—ROMAN CATHOLICISM

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1916297,00.html

JEB BUSH—ROMAN CATHOLICISM

http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=34357

TONY BLAIR—ROMAN CATHOLICISM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3087473.ece

REVELATION 16:17-21

AIR: SEVENTH PLAGUEEXODUS 14-15 & ISAIAH 66:22-23 & ESTHER

VOICESTHUNDERSLIGHTNINGS

A GREAT EARTHQUAKE—ISLANDS-MOUNTAINS DISAPPEAR

FIRST—UNIFICATION—CHURCH & STATEUNDER THE SEVENTH PLAGUE—CHURCH AND STATE WILL BE DIVIDED

REVELATION 16:13, 14, 19

ISRAELITES’ ORDEAL IN EGYPT

EXODUS 14:1-9ISRAELITES—CAPTIVES IN EGYPT

GOD SENT MOSES TO PHARAOH: ‘LET MY PEOPLE GO’

CAPTIVES IN EGYPT—PHARAOH MADE IT DIFFICULT FOR THEM (ISRAELITES) TO WORSHIP GOD ON HIS HOLY SABBATH DAY

GOD’S PEOPLE EXPERIENCED DELIVERANCE OUT OF EGYPTIAN BONDAGE

PHARAOH IN HOT PURSUIT AFTER THE ISRAELITES EN ROUTE TO CANAAN

BIBLICAL ACCOUNT—MOUNT SINAI IN ARABIA

GALATIANS 4:25 & EXODUS 14:9

GOD DELIVERS THE ISRAELITES FROM PHARAOH

THE SONG—MOSES

DEUTERONOMY 32

REVISION: THE LAST THREE PLAGUES

EXODUS 14:19, 20, 21, 26-28

FIFTH PLAGUE: DARKNESS EXODUS 14:20

SIXTH PLAGUE: EUPHRATES RIVER EXODUS 14:21

THE WATERS WERE DRIED UP EGYPTIANS RISE UP AGAINST THEM

(ISRAELITES)EXODUS 14:26-28

SEVENTH PLAGUE: AIR REVELATION 16:17PSALMS 77:16-20VOICES-THUNDERS-LIGHTNINGS-EARTHQUAKE

WHAT IS ARMAGEDDON?

ARMAGEDDON IS A SPIRITUAL WARFARE BEING FOUGHT AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE OPPOSE TO THE ISRAEL OF GOD—AND THOSE WHO ARE OPPOSE TO

THE GOD OF ISRAEL

THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON FIRST BEGAN IN GOD’S LIVING ROOM—EZEKIEL 28:1-18

EXODUS 14:23 & REVELATION 13:15

GOD’S ISRAEL—THE APPLE OF HIS EYE

ZECHARIAH 2:8 & PSALMS 17:8

GOD HARDENED PHARAOH’S HEART

WILL GOD ALSO HARDEN THOSE IN THE LATTER DAYS WHO DEFY HIS HOLY LAW?

EXODUS 14:17, 18 & REVELATION 16:9; 2:21; 9:20

3. PERSPECTIVE: ELLEN G. WHITEGREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 635-637

GOD’S PEOPLE DELIVERED WHEN THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SHALL BE WITHDRAWN FROM THOSE WHO HONOR THE LAW OF GOD, THERE WILL BE, IN DIFFERENT LANDS, A SIMULTANEOUS MOVEMENT FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION. AS THE TIME APPOINTED IN THE DECREE DRAWS NEAR, THE PEOPLE WILL CONSPIRE TO ROOT OUT THE HATED SECT. IT WILL BE DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN ONE NIGHT A DECISIVE BLOW, WHICH SHALL UTTERLY SILENCE THE VOICE OF DISSENT AND REPROOF. THE PEOPLE OF GOD SOME IN PRISON CELLS, SOME HIDDEN IN SOLITARY RETREATS IN THE FOREST AND THE MOUNTAINS--STILL PLEAD FOR DIVINE PROTECTION, WHILE EVERY QUARTER COMPANIES OF ARMED MEN, URGED ON BY THE HOSTS OF EVIL ANGELS, ARE PREPARING FOR THE WORK OF DEATH. IT IS NOW, IN THE HOUR OF UTMOST EXTREMITY, THAT THE GOD OF ISRAEL WILL INTERPOSE FOR DELIVERANCE OF HIS CHOSEN. WITH SHOUTS OF TRIUMPH, JEERING, AND IMPRECATION, THRONGS OF EVIL MEN ARE ABOUT TO RUSH UPON THEIR PREY, WHEN, LO, A DENSE BLACKNESS, DEEPER THAN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT, FALLS UPON THE EARTH. THEN A RAINBOW, SHINING WITH THE GLORY FROM THE THRONE OF GOD, SPANS THE HEAVENS AND SEEMS TO ENCIRCLE EACH PRAYING COMPANY. THE ANGRY MULTITUDES ARE SUDDENLY ARRESTED. THE OBJECTS OF THEIR MURDEROUS RAGE ARE FORGOTTEN.

ISAIAH 17:12, 13

WOE TO THE MULTITUDE OF MANY PEOPLE, WHICH MAKE A NOISE LIKE THE NOISE OF THE SEAS; AND TO THE RUSHING OF NATIONS, THAT MAKE A RUSHING LIKE THE RUSHING OF MIGHT WATERS! THE NATIONS SHALL RUSH LIKE THE RUSHING OF MANY WATERS: BUT GOD SHALL REBUKE THEM, AND THEY SHALL FLEE FAR OFF, AND SHALL BE CHASED AS THE CHAFF OF THE MOUNTAINS BEFORE THE WIND, AND LIKE A ROLLING THING BEFORE THE WHIRLWIND.

ELLEN G. WHITEGREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 655-657

DESOLATION OF THE EARTH

THE PEOPLE SEE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DELUDED. THEY ACCUSE ONE ANOTHER OF HAVING LED THEM TO DESTRUCTION; BUT ALL UNITE IN HEAPING THEIR BITTEREST CONDEMNATION UPON THE MINISTERS. UNFAITHFUL PASTORS HAVE PROPHESIED SMOOTH THINGS; THEY HAVE LED THEIR HEARERS TO MAKE VOID THE LAW OF GOD AND TO PERSECUTE THOSE WHO WOULD KEEP IT HOLY. NOW, IN THEIR DESPAIR, THESE TEACHERS CONFESS BEFORE THE WORLD THEIR WORK OF DECEPTION. THE MULTITUDES ARE FILLED WITH FURY. “WE ARE LOST!” THEY CRY, “AND YOU ARE THE CAUSE OF OUR RUIN;” AND THEY TURN UPON THE FALSE SHEPHERDS. THE VERY ONES THAT ONCE ADMIRED THEM MOST WILL PRONOUNCE THE MOST DREADFUL CURSES UPON THEM. THE VERY HANDS THAT ONCE CROWNED THEM WITH LAURELS WILL BE RAISED FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION. THE SWORDS WHICH WERE TO SLAY GOD’S PEOPLE ARE NOW EMPLOYED TO DESTROY THEIR ENEMIES.

ZECHARIAH 14:12, 13

AND THIS SHALL BE THE PLAGUE WHEREWITH THE LORD WILL SMITE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM; THEIR FLESH SHALL CONSUME AWAY WHILE THEY STAND UPON THEIR FEET, AND THEIR EYES SHALL CONSUME AWAY IN THEIR HOLES, AND THEIR TONGUE SHALL CONSUME AWAY IN THEIR MOUTH. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, THAT A GREAT TUMULT FROM THE LORD SHALL BE AMONG THEM; AND THEY SHALL LAY HOLD EVERY ONE ON THE HAND OF HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND HIS HAND SHALL RISE UP AGAINST THE HAND OF HIS NEIGHBOUR.

COMPARISONS: GOD’S ISRAEL-LOCAL-GLOBAL-SPIRITUAL DIMENSION

THE WICKED RUSH UPON GOD’S ISRAEL (JERUSALEM-LITERAL & SPIRITUAL) EXODUS 14:9, 10

DARKNESS FALLS UPON PHARAOH’S ARMIES—NOT UPON GOD’S ISRAEL (EXODUS 14:20)

THE MULTITUDES WERE SUDDENLY ARRESTED (THE WATERS DRIED UP) EXODUS 14:21, 22

THE MULTITUDES WERE FURIOUS—GOD DROWN THOSE WHO FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM (EXODUS 14:26-28)

ELLEN G. WHITEGREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 636-637

GOD’S PEOPLE DELIVEREDIN THE MIDST OF THE ANGRY HEAVENS IS ONE CLEAR SPACE OF INDESCRIBABLE GLORY, WHENCE COMES THE VOICE OF GOD LIKE THE SOUND OF MANY WATERS, SAYING: “IT IS DONE.” REVELATION 16:17. THAT VOICE SHAKES THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. THERE IS A MIGHTY EARTHQUAKE, “SUCH ASA WAS NOT SINCE MEN WERE UPON THE EARTH, SO MIGHTY AN EARTHQUAKE, AND SO GREAT,” VERSES 17, 18. THE FIRMAMENT APPEARS TO OPEN AND SHUT. THE GLORY OF THE THRONE OF GOD SEEMS TO FLASHING THROUGH. THE MOUNTAINS SHAKE LIKE A REED IN THE WIND, AND RAGGED ROCKS ARE SCATTERED ON EVRY SIDE. THE WHOL EARTH HEAVES AND SWELLS LIKE WAVES OF THE SEA. ITS SURFACE IS BREAKING UP. ITS FOUNDATION SEEM TO BE GIVING WAY. MOUNTAINS ARE SINKING. INHABITED ISLANDS DISAPPEAR.

ELLEN G. WHITEGREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 649-650

GOD’S PEOPLE DELIVERED

UPON THE CRYSTAL SEA BEFORE THE THRONE, THAT SEA OF GLASS AS IT WERE MINGLED WITH FIRE,--…ARE GATHERED THE COMPANY THAT HAVE “GOTTEN THE VICTORY OVER THE BEAST, AND OVER HIS IMAGE, AND OVER HIS MARK, AND OVER HIS NUMBER OF HIS NAME.” WITH THE LAMB UPON THE MOUNT ZION, “HAVING THE HARPS OF GOD,” THEY STAND , THE HUNDRED AND FORTY AND FOUR THOUSAND THAT WERE REDEEMED FROM AMONG MEN; AND THERE IS HEARD, AS THE SOUND OF MANY WATERS, AS THE SOUND OF GREAT THUNDER, “THE VOICE OF HARPERS HARPING WITH THEIR HARPS.” AND THEY SING “A NEW SONG” BEFORE THE THRONG, A SONG WHICH NO MAN CAN LEARN SAVE THE HUNDRED AND FOURTY AND FOUR THOUSAND. IT IS THE SONG OF MOSES AND THE LAMB--A SONG OF DELIVERANCE ..FOR IT IS THE SONG OF THEIR EXPERIENCE--AN EXPERIENCE SUCH AS NO COMPANY HAVE EVER HAD.

ELLEN G. WHITE’S GENERAL COMMENTS ON DANIEL 11

SHE HAS WRITTEN MORE THAN—100, 000 PAGES OF PUBLICATIONS

YET—THERE ARE ONLY THREE REFERENCES TO DANIEL 11

1. REFERENCE: NEW & OLD TESTAMENT—NO MENTION OF DANIEL 11

2. REFERENCE: SHE SPEAKS IN GENERAL—DANIEL 11—BUT MAKES NO MENTION OF ITS VERSES

3. REFERENCE: SHE ALLUDES TO DANIEL 11 WITH REGARD TO VERSES 40-45—BUT DOES NOT USE THE BIBLE’S

TERMINOLOGY

1. REFERENCE TESTIMONIES TO MINISTERS AND GOSPEL

WORKERS, p. 112

CHAP 3. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

The light that Daniel received from God was given especially for these last days. The visions he saw by the banks of the Ulai and the Hiddekel, the great rivers of Shinar, are now in process of fulfillment, and all the

events foretold will soon come to pass. {TM 112.3}

2. REFERENCE TESTIMONIES FOR THE CHURCH, VOL 9,

p. 14.1

The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecy of the eleventh chapter of Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment. Soon the scenes of trouble spoken of in the prophecies will take place. {9T 14.2}

3. REFERENCE MANUSCRIPT RELEASES, VOL 13, p. 394

EGW QUOTES ON DANIEL 11:31-36

We have no time to lose. Troublous times are before us. The world is stirred with the spirit of war. Soon the scenes of trouble spoken of in the prophecies will take place. The prophecy in the eleventh of Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment. Much of the history that has taken place in fulfillment of this prophecy will be repeated. In the thirtieth verse a power is spoken of that "shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.“

[Verses 31-36, quoted.] {13MR 394.1}

NOTE: DANIEL 11:31-39 records ancient history

NOTE: DANIEL 11:40-45 records similar scenes in the last days.

NOTE: DANIEL 11 begins with

Medo-Persia

SEVERAL DIMENSION TO ROME: DANIEL 7

1. FIRST STAGE—ROMAN EMPIRE

2. SECOND STAGE—TEN HORNS

3. THIRD STAGE—LITTLE HORN

4. FOURTH STAGE—THE BEAST: REV 13:10 DEADLY WOUND—INACTIVITY

QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS

• WHY DOES DANIEL 8 NOT BEGIN WITH THE KINGDOM OF BABYLON?ANS. BECAUSE DANIEL 8 WAS GIVEN 12 YEARS BEFORE BABYLON HAD ITS FALL—550 BC

• WHY DOES DANIEL 8 BEGIN WITH MEDO-PERSIA?ANS. BECAUSE DANIEL 8 EMPHASIZES THE PROPHECIES OF THE 2300 DAYS—AND THE 2300 DAYS BEGIN WITHMEDO—PERSIA

NOTE: IF IT BEGAN WITH BABYLON—IT WOULD GIVE US THE IMPRESSION THAT THE 2300 DAYS BEGAN WITH

BABYLON

SO BY STARTING WITH PERSIA—THE BIBLE IS SAYING THAT THE RULERSHIP OF

THE 2300 DAYS BEGINS WITH MEDO-PERSIA

VISION OF THE RAM—TWO HORNS: UNTIL WHEN….?

READ DANIEL 8

BREAK IT DOWN—DANIEL 8

THE VISION—DANIEL

• A RAM—TWO HORNS—ONE HIGHER THAN THE OTHER

• A HE-GOAT—NOTABLE HORN—EYES

• A HE-GOAT—NOTABLE HORN BREAKSFOUR NOTABLE HORNS REPLACES THAT HORN

APPLICATION & SYMBOLIZATION—VISION—DANIEL 8

1. THE RAM—MEDO-PERSIA 2. THE HE-GOAT (NOTABLE HORN)—GREECE 3. THAT NOTABLE HORN (BROKEN) FOUR

NOTABLE HORNSFOUR DIVISIONS—GENERALS (PAGAN ROME)

4. FROM THESE FOUR DIVISIONS—LITTLE HORN5. THE LITTLE HORN GROWS (PAPAL ROME)

HE SETS UP THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION—AND TAKES AWAY THE DAILY

HE EXPANDS:• GEOGRAPHICALLY • VERTICALLY• HORIZONTALLY

RETRACING THE ESTABLISHED KINGDOMS OF DANIEL 8

WE HAVE MOVED FROM…

• MEDO-PERSIA• GREECE• FIRST KING OF GREECE• FOUR DIVISIONS OF GREECE• GEOGRAPHICAL EXTENSION OF PAGAN ROME• TO THE WORK (PROUD ASCENSION) OF PAPAL

ROME

ALL THESE HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN DANIEL 7—IN THE SAME SEQUENCE

DANIEL 11:1, 2-4 & DANIEL 8:3,4, 22

DANIEL 11—PERSIA

1. PERSIA

2. GREECE

3. NOTABLE HORN

4. FOUR DIVISIONS

DANIEL 8—PERSIA

1. PERSIA

2. GREECE

3. GREECE

4. GREECE

ELLEN G. WHITE

CHRIST TRIUMPHANT—DANIEL 11

The light that Daniel received direct from God was given especially for these last days. The visions he saw by the banks of the Ulai and the Hiddekel, the great rivers of Shinar, are now in process of fulfillment, and all the events foretold will soon have come to pass.

{CTr 335.4}

DANIEL 11 & DANIEL 8—PAGAN ROME

• DANIEL 11:22—JERUSALEM’S CONQUEST (A.D. 70—DANIEL 9)

• WHO IS THE PRINCE OF THE COVENANT?• WHO BROKE THE PRINCE OF THE COVENANT?

(IMPERIAL—PAGAN ROME)

• DANIEL 11:31—THE KING OF THE NORTH• DANIEL 7 & REVELATION 12—ROME

• REV 12:6—WOMAN FLEES—WILDERNESS—PAPAL ROME

THE FOURTH STAGE—ROME ANTICHRIST—PAPAL POWER

THIS POWER IS THE SAME AS:

• THE KING OF THE NORTH• THE MAN OF SIN

• THE DRAGON BEAST

POLITICAL & RELIGIOUS STRENGTH OR INFLUENCE AND PERSUASION

READ DANIEL 11:31-39, 44

DANIEL 11:31 SAYS: ‘AND ARMS SHALL STAND ON HIS PART…’

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?THE CIVIL POWER IS GOING TO ASSIST THIS

RELIGIOUS POWER TO:

• POLLUTE THE SANCTUARY DAN 11:31 & DAN 8:10-12

• TO ALLOW HER TO HAVE A FLATTERING AND DECEPTIVE TONGUE—DAN 11:32

• THIS BEAST (LITTLE HORN) USED FOUR TYPES OF METHODS TO PERSECUTE GOD’S PEOPLE

DAN 11:33 & DAN 7& 8

HISTORY: ROME’S MERCILESS EXTIRPATION OF CHRISTIANS—

DARK AGES

FOUR METHODS—DANIEL 11:33

1. ROME—SWORD (NOT THE BIBLE BUT THE STATE TO HER DIRTY WORK)

2. ROME—FLAME OR THE STAKE

3. ROME—CAPTIVITY OR IMPRISONMENT

4. ROME—SPOIL—PROPERTY CONFISCATION OR CRUSADES

DANIEL 11:33—‘MANY DAYS’

HOW LONG IS MANY DAYS? (DAN 7:25—REV 12:6—DAN 11:34-36)

• DOES THIS LITTLE HORN SPEAK GREAT THINGS AGAINST THE MOST HIGH? DAN 11:36 & 2THESS 2 & DAN 7 & 8

LITTLE HORN: DURING HIS RULERSHIP—LAWS • DOES THIS LITTLE HORN PROSPER? DAN 11:36• WHO IS THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS? DAN 11:37—HE

DISREGARDS CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES• HE DOES NOT DESIRE WOMEN—LAW-CELIBACY

DAN 11:37• HE HONOURS THE GOD OF THE FORCES—STATE

QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS

READ DAN 11:37, 38 & REV 17:5 WHAT PERIOD IS THESE VERSES DESCRIBING?

• WHICH STAGE OF PAPAL ROME?• HAVE THESE VERSES BEEN FULFILLED? • WHEN DID THE FULFILLEMT END? 1798• ARE THESE SCENES GOING TO BE REPEATED—

AND ARE WE GOING TO SEE SIMILAR THINGS IN THE FUTURE? REV 13:10, 12

• IS THIS LITTLE HORN GOING TO BEHAVE IN THE LAST DAYS LIKE HE DID IN PAST TIMES?NOTE: NOT THE SAME PROPHECY—BUT THE HISTORICAL SCENES ARE GOING TO BE SIMILAR IN THE END TIME—REV 13:10

WHAT DID THE PAPACY KILL WITH?

ROMANS 13:1-4

• WHAT DOES THE SWORD REPRSENT IN THIS CASE? (HIGHER POWERS-GOVT)

• WHO BEARS THE SWORD? • WHO WAS IT THAT GAVE THE DEADLY WOUND

TO THE PAPACY? • DID THE PAPACY USE THE CIVIL POWER TO

KILL GOD’S PEOPLE? YES• WHO WAS THIS CIVIL POWER? • WHO OR WHAT COUNTRY HELPED PAPAL ROME

HEAL ITS DEADLY WOUND?REV 13:10-12

REGARDING DANIEL 11:40-45—NO HELP FROM ELLEN G. WHITE ON EXPLAINING

THESE VERSES:

‘AND NONE SHALL HELP HIM’

SO LET’S MOVE ON TO DANIEL 12:1, 2

GREAT CONTROVERSY, p. 637

Graves are opened, and “many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth” “awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” [Daniel 12:2.] All who have died in the faith of the third angel's message come forth from the tomb glorified, to hear God's covenant of peace with those who have kept his law. “They also which pierced Him,” [Revelation 1:7.] those that mocked and derided Christ's dying agonies, and the most violent opposers of his truth and his people, are raised to behold him in his glory, and to see the honor placed upon the loyal and obedient.

DANIEL 12:1, 2—SEQUENCES OF EVENTS UNFOLD

1. ‘MICHAEL STANDS UP’

2. ‘AT THAT TIME’ (TIME OF TROUBLE) GOD’S PEOPLE WILL BE DELIVERED

3. ‘MANY WHO SLEEP IN THE DUST OF THE EARTH SHALL ARISE’

NOTE: GOD’S PEOPLE DELIVERED IS FOUND IN GREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 635-636

WITH REGARD TO DANIEL 12:1

DANIEL 12:1

IN RELATION TO DANIEL 12:1—WHERE WOULD WE EXPECT TO FIND ELLEN G. WHITE’S COMMENTS

ON ‘MICHAEL STANDING UP’—AND THE TIME OF TROUBLE?

SEE GREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 613-614

Chapter XXXIX - “The Time of Trouble”

“At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.” [Daniel 12:1.]

WHERE WOULD WE EXPECT TO FIND ELLEN G. WHITE’S COMMENTS ON THE PREVIOUS VERSES—SUCH AS DANIEL 11:40-45?

DANIEL 11:40-45—THE KING OF THE NORTH BEGINS HIS CONQUEST IN BABYLON

• BABYLON—KING OF THE NORTH MOVES WEST AND CONQUERS LEBANON & SYRIA

• THEN THE KING OF THE NORTH MOVES SOUTH AND CONQUERS THE HOLY LAND—GLORIOUS LAND

• YET AGAIN—THE KING OF THE NORTH CONQUERS EDOM & MOAB—EAST OF JERUSALEM

• THEN HE CONTINUES MOVING SOUTH TOWARD EGYPT-LIBYA-ETHIOPIA

DANIEL 11:44—BUT WHILE HE WAS DOWN IN THE SOUTH—SOMETHING WAS HAPPENING

IN THE NORTH-EAST….

THE MAP OF ISRAEL

SO WHERE IS JERUSALEM WITH REFERENCE TO BABYLON (THE KING OF THE NORTH) AT THAT POINT?

NOTE: JERUSALEM IS NORTH EAST AT THAT TIME—BABYLON

QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS

READ DANIEL 11:40-45• WHAT DOES THE KING OF THE NORTH DO WHEN

HE HEARS TIDINGS COMING FORM THE NORTH AND THE EAST?

• WHAT DO THESE TIDINGS PROMPT THE KING OF THE NORTH TO DO?

• IS THERE A CLOSE CONNECTION BETWEEN TIDINGS FROM THE NORTH AND EAST—AND HIM GOING WITH GREAT FURY TO KILL?

GREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 603-604

Chapter XXXVIII - The Final Warning

“I saw another angel come down from Heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” “And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” [Revelation 18:1, 2, 4.] {GC88 603.1}

This scripture points forward to a time when the announcement of the fall of Babylon, as made by the second angel [Revelation 14:8] of Revelation 14, is to be repeated, with the additional mention of the corruptions which have been entering the various organizations that constitute Babylon, since that message was first given, in the summer of 1844. A terrible condition of the religious world is here described. With every rejection of truth, the minds of the people will become darker, their hearts more stubborn, until they are entrenched in an infidel hardihood.

In defiance of the warnings which God has given, they will continue to trample upon one of the precepts of the decalogue, until they are led to persecute those who hold it sacred. Christ is set at naught in the contempt placed upon his Word and his people. As the teachings of Spiritualism are accepted by the churches, the restraint imposed upon the carnal heart is removed, and the profession of religion will become a cloak to conceal the basest iniquity. A belief in spiritual manifestations opens the door to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils, and thus the influence of evil angels will be felt in the churches. {GC88 603.2}

Of Babylon, at the time brought to view in this prophecy, it is declared, “Her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” [Revelation 18:5.] She has filled up the measure of her guilt, and destruction is about to fall upon her. But God still has a people in Babylon; and before the visitation of his judgments, these faithful ones must be called out, that they “partake not of her sins, and receive not of her plagues.” Hence the movement symbolized by the angel coming down from Heaven, lightening the earth with his glory, and crying mightily with a strong voice, announcing the sins of Babylon. In connection with his message the call is heard, “Come out of her, my people.” These announcements, uniting with the third angel's message, constitute the final warning to be given to the inhabitants of the earth.

Fearful is the issue to which the world is to be brought. The powers of earth, uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree that all, “both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,” [Revelation 13:16.] shall conform to the customs of the church by the observance of the false sabbath. All who refuse compliance will be visited with civil penalties, and it will finally be declared that they are deserving of death. On the other hand, the law of God enjoining the Creator's rest-day demands obedience, and threatens wrath against all who transgress its precepts. {GC88 604.2} With the issue thus clearly brought before him, whoever shall trample upon God's law to obey a human enactment, receives the mark of the beast; he accepts the sign of allegiance to the power which he chooses to obey instead of God. The warning from Heaven is, “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation.”

[Revelation 14:9, 10.] {GC88 604.3}

READ REVELATION 7:1-3

THE SEALING OF GOD’S PEOPLE: Seal Is a Settling Into Truth….it is not any seal or mark that can be seen, but a settling into the truth, both intellectually and spiritually, so they cannot be moved--just as soon as God's people are sealed and prepared for the shaking, it will come. (MS

173, 1902). {4BC 1161.6}

THOSE WHO DELIGHT AND LOVE TO OBEY-OBSERVE-&-KEEP HIS SABBATH DAY HOLY

DANIEL 11:44

But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

• WHAT DIRECTION IS NORTH?

• WHO DWELLS IN THE NORTH?

ISAIAH 14:13, 14

NOTE: GOD’S POINTS OF COMPASS ARE THE NORTH AND THE EAST

MATTHEW 1:1 & AMOS 8:11, 12

REASONS FOR THIS?

1. GOD IS LIGHT—AND LIGHT ORIGINATES IN THE EAST AND REACHES ITS HIGHEST INTENSITY WHEN IT IS DIRECTLY OVERHEAD—NORTH

2. LUCIFER BECAME JEALOUS OF GOD’S GOVERNANCE—AND VOWED TO ASCEND UNTO THE NORTH AND USURP GOD’S AUTHORITY

3. GOD’S SEALING MESSAGE COMES FROM NORTH-EAST

REVELATION 7:2 & REVELATION 14:6, 7

WHAT IS BABYLON GOING TO DO WHEN THE SEALING MESSAGE (TIDINGS FROM THE

NORTH-EAST) IS PREACHED?

DANIEL 11:32, 33, 44 & REVELATION 12:17

GREAT CONTROVERSY: Chapter XXXVIII

READ: The Final Warning, p. 603

WHO THEN IS THE KING OF THE SOUTH?

• AND WHAT COUNTRY THEN SYMBOLICALLY IN ANCIENT TIMES REPRESENTED THE KING OF THE SOUTH?

NOTE: THE COUNTRY OF EGYPT—THEN—WAS THE KING OF THE SOUTH IN BIBLE TIMES

• WHAT DID IT (EGYPT) REPRESENT? • DID IT DEFY THE TRUE KING (GOD) OF THE

NORTH? EXODUS 5:1-4

READ: ‘THE BIBLE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION’

GREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 265-266

IN WHAT DIRECTION IS THE KING OF THE NORTH MOSTLY CONCENTRATED?

READ DANIEL 11:40-45

NOTE: JUST AS THE KING OF THE NORTH IS ABOUT TO DELIVER THE FINAL DEATH BLOW TO GOD’S PEOPLE (JERUSALEM) IN OTHER TO SILENCE THEIR PREACHING—GOOD NEWS (TIDINGS OUT THE NORTH AND THE EAST)

GOD WILL INTERPOSE ON BEHALF OF HIS PEOPLE—DANIEL 11:45

THE ‘KING OF THE NORTH’ HAS DUAL MEANING

WHY DIDN’T ELLEN G. WHITE USE THE BIBLE TERMINOLOGY REGARDING

DANIEL 11:40-45?

THERE’S A REASON…ELLEN WHITE HAD A BIG PROBLEM IN THE 1870’S. AND THIS IS THAT, THAT URIAH SMITH SHIFTED THE ADVENTIST VIEW OF THE ‘KING OF THE NORTH’ MEANING FROM THE PAPACY TO TURKEY. CONSEQUENTLY, JAMES WHITE AND URIAH SMITH GOT INTO A FIGHT OVER THIS, WHICH EVENTUALLY HAD ITS TOLL UPON THE CHURCH BACK THEN. AND SO, ELLEN WHITE, EVEN SHE KNEW THAT JAMES WHITE WAS RIGHT, COULD NOT SIDE WITH HIM, AND OPPOSE URIAH SMITH. WHY? BECAUSE HE WAS THE EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE REVIEW AND HERALD BACK THEN.

SO WHAT ELLEN WHITE SAID TO HERSELF, IS THAT, I AM GOING TO WRITE AND EXPLAIN THIS PROPHECY WITHOUT USING THE LANGUAGE. AND SOMEDAY, SOMEONE WHO’S SMART ENOUGH, AND WHO’S LED BY GOD’S DIVINE ENLIGHTENMENT, IS GOING TO DISCOVER MY CONCEPT ABOUT THIS PROPHECY; EVEN IF SHE DID NOT USE THE LANGUAGE. SHE KNEW THAT IT WAS NOT PRESENT TRUTH THEN, BUT KNEW THAT SOMEDAY, KNOWLEDGE WOULD INCREASE. THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND AND INTERPRET IT TODAY. http://www.hkea.org.au/daniel11.pdf

HOW WOULD SHE HAVE KNOWN THIS IF SHE WAS NOT INSPIRED?

BECAUSE SHE WENT ON TO EXPLAIN THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL

11:40-45) IN BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER!