The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible - Part Twenty-One - F Aug 16, 2020 by: John Herbert | Series: The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible Audio Study Notes PDF https://s3.amazonaws.com/cornerstonejax/sermonfiles/T029_20200816.mp3 Refresh A Recap from the Sermon Lk 21:24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. We will continue looking at Daniel's 70th seven today. The full text of this message can be found by clicking the PDF button. Sunday August 16th 2020 The Word of God A Survey of the Bible – Lesson 21F The Remains of the Day 1). Jer 25:8 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My words, 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, “and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. As we have seen in our studies, the Babylonian captivity foreshadows the final captivity that God will use to bring his wayward son to repentance during the times of the Gentiles which began with Nebuchadnezzar – Lk 21:24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Jer 29:10 For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive. According to the revelation given to Daniel, recorded in Daniel Chapter 9, Israel’s ‘captivity’ would encompass 490 years rather than 70, but at the full end of those 490 years Israel will call out and pray to the God of their fathers as seen in Jeremiah 29:12-13 and God will respond to this with deliverance and restoration, as promised in v14. a). And following Israel’s repentance and restoration God will fulfill that recorded in Jeremiah Chapter 25, 12 ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. As we know, 7 years still remain of the 490 that must be completed, before all that is prophesied will be fulfilled. These are the 7 years we know as the tribulation, that are given a specific name in Jeremiah – Jer 30:7 Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob's trouble, But he shall be saved out of it. 8 ‘For it shall come to pass in that day,’ Says the Lord of hosts, ‘That I will break his yoke from your neck, And will burst your bonds; Foreigners shall no more enslave them. 9 But they shall serve the Lord their God, And David their king, Whom I will raise up for them. The time of Jacob’s trouble is pictured in foundation through the type of Cain wandering the earth having killed his brother, which foreshadows Israel’s dispersal [captivity] among the Gentile nations, and this time of trouble for Jacob is also seen through the type of Noah’s flood where on the one hand, Noah and his family were protected through it, and on the other, the future judgment and destruction of Gentile world power is seen – Jer 30:11 For I am with you,’ says the Lord, ‘to save you; Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, And will not let you go altogether unpunished.’ And woven into the fabric of these last seven years of Daniel’s 70th seven, the time of Jacob’s trouble, is the role of the Babylonian kingdom. b). The Babylonian captivity began the times of the Gentiles and is inextricably connected to the end of those times. Something made clear through the 4 parts of the great image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream standing exclusively in Babylon and restated again, from a different vantage point, through Daniel’s vision of the 4 great beasts. c). The Babylonian connection takes us in one direction back to Nimrod, the first king of Babylon, who forms a foundational type for the prince who is to come. And this same connection carries us forward in the other direction to the one whom Nimrod typifies, who is clearly shown to be both the complete embodiment and final form of the three parts of the Babylonian kingdom that precede him, by drawing from the imagery of the great beasts of Daniel Chapter 7 – Re 13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. The beast rising up out of the sea is the prince who is to come, who will come out of the Gentile nations. He is the last king of Babylon, foreshadowed through the first king, Nimrod. He will be a worldwide ruler, foreshadowed through Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the worldwide ruler of his day who took the southern 2 tribes of Benjamin and Judah into captivity and conquered the Assyrian empire which had, about 100 years before, taken the northern 10 tribes of Israel into captivity, thereby placing all the Jewish people, dispersed throughout the then known world, under the hand of this one man. d). The beast coming from the sea, is the seed of the serpent from Genesis Chapter 3. And in the verses from Revelation Chapter 13, his father, the dragon, that serpent of old, will give him ‘his power, his throne and great authority.’ An event that takes us to the mid-point in the tribulation when he will destroy the city and the sanctuary and usher in the time of ‘great tribulation, such as had not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be’. e). When this individual was first introduced in the Book of Revelation, in Chapter 6, he was the rider on the white horse who had been given a ‘stephanos’ crown. But when we see him again in Revelation Chapter 13, the 10 crowns in his possession are now ‘diadema’. 2). Through Nimrod we had also seen the connection of this man with Assyria Ge 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh………. And we see the same connection again through Nebuchadnezzar’s conquest of the Assyrian empire. a). And through Daniel we are given the precise geographical region within the old Assyrian empire from which this man will come – Da 8:8 Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven. 9 And out of one of them came a little horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Glorious Land. 10 And it grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the ground, and trampled them. 11 He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host; and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down. The male goat, the large horn, is Alexander the Great, who had previously conquered the Babylonian empire, at that time in the hands of the Medes and the Persians. We will remember that upon Alexander’s death, the large horn being broken, the empire was divided between his 4 generals, the 4 notable horns, who are seen in the empire to the north, the south, the east and the west. And it is from within one of these divisions that the beast, the little horn, will come. And the little horn growing ‘exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east and towards the Glorious Land’ [Israel], pictures the reemergence to domination of the final form of the Babylonian kingdom that had faded from the scene with Alexander’s 4 generals. Power Point – Slide 1 b). And Scripture plainly states that the beast, the prince who is to come, the seed of the serpent, will be an Assyrian, coming from within the area of the old Assyrian empire – Isa 10:24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of Egypt. Power Point – Slide 2-4 That which the Assyrian will attempt to do in the last 7 years of Daniel’s 70th seven, has already been set out through the type of Israel in Egypt in the days of Moses. 2). Ex 1:8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; 10 come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses. Egypt in Scripture is used as a type of the world, and so prophetically, Exodus 1:8 takes us to that future day when there will be a new king over the entire world who is the antithesis of the One pictured in Joseph, having Satan’s power, throne and great authority. a). And as the type and the antitype follow one another exactly, the new king, the Pharaoh over Egypt was an Assyrian – Isa 52:4 For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at first Into Egypt to dwell there; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. As a foreign invader of the land of Egypt, the Assyrians were concerned that Israel’s numbers could be used against them in the case of war. But what is really at the heart of the problem Pharaoh had with the Jewish people is revealed in a later Chapter of Exodus – Ex 4:22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn. Israel is the son that God has adopted as His firstborn, the son He has chosen to rule. The Assyrian Pharaoh knew this, and the future Assyrian will also know it very well. And attention is drawn to this same truth through the sign given in - Re 12:1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. The woman is the nation of Israel pictured in a setting of ultimate authority, wearing a ‘stephanos’ crown of 12 stars portending both government and rulership. Ex 1:13 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor. 15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah; 16 and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.” The command of the king of Egypt to kill Israel’s sons foreshadows the attempt to kill God’s only begotten firstborn Son, the Seed of the Woman, Mt 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men. And it also takes us to the attempt to eradicate the Jewish people that follows the appearance of the great sign, signifying Israel’s coming rule – Re 12:2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. 3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 She bore a male child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up to God and His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days…………………….13 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child……………….17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. The harshness of the persecution of the taskmasters in the days of the Assyrian Pharaoh in Egypt form the type for the events of Daniel’s 70th seven, the final 7 years remaining to bring Israel to repentance, the time of Jacob’s trouble. a). And in the type, the harshness of their treatment caused the Jewish people to cry out to the God of their fathers for deliverance – Ex 3:7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” And in response to the cry of the sons of Israel God sent Moses, the one whom the Jewish people had previously rejected, to bring Israel out of Egypt to a good and large land flowing with milk and honey. b). And in the antitype, Israel’s persecution at the hands of the future Assyrian will be so great that they will have no alternative but to cry out to the God of their fathers in repentance, in hope of deliverance – 2 Ch 7:13 When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. The cry of the sons of Israel will come at the end of the final 7 years of Daniel’s 70th seven. God will hear, and then send the One greater than Moses, whom the Jewish people had previously crucified, to deliver them from the hands of the Assyrian, to bring them back to the land covenanted to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – Re 19:11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. 13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. 15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. And here we enter into events that will follow the end of the tribulation, that follow the conclusion of the final 7 years of Daniel’s 70th seven, the completion of the 490 years allotted to the Jewish people and the end of Man’s Day. 3). And then, in addition to all we have so far looked at, there is a whole Book of Scripture, that presents through a type, the rise and fall of the future Assyrian, the last king of Babylon, the prince who is to come – Es 3:1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. 2 And all the king's servants who were within the king's gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage. Within the picture here, King Ahasuerus represents God the Father and Haman the beast, the prince who is to come. a). Now we will remember that we have learned from Daniel that ‘the Most High rules in the kingdom of men’, and therefore even the seed of the serpent, although given power, a throne and great authority by Satan, can only have that position at God’s behest. And as we have seen, God will appoint him to rule in order to accomplish His purpose for His chosen people. b). We will see in v2 that all those in the king’s gate ‘bowed and paid homage to Haman’, except Mordecai the Jew. And in this we will find echoes from Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image in one direction – Da 3:4 Then a herald cried aloud: “To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, 5 that at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the gold image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up; 6 and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.” And a foreshadowing of the worship of the dragon and beast in the other direction – Re 13:4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” 5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. But the problem for Haman was not so much Mordecai’s lack of deference but his position in the king’s gate – Es 5:9 So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai. Being in the king’s gate portends rulership. We will remember the promise to Abraham – Ge 22:17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. Mordecai in the king’s gate looks to the position that Israel is destined to occupy. The very thing declared to Pharaoh in Exodus Chapter 4 and seen in the great sign in Revelation Chapter 12. c). Haman’s anger however is not restricted just to Mordecai – Es 3:5 When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was filled with wrath. 6 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai. And here we find ourselves once again in the middle of Daniel’s 70th seven, the mid-point in the tribulation - Ps 83:1 Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” 5 For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You………. But God had also promised Abraham – Ge 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you…… And further back to Cain – Ge 4:15 And the Lord said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” This will have to wait until next time though – if the Lord is willing. The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible - Part Twenty-One - F Aug 16, 2020 Speaker: John Herbert Series: The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible Category: Sunday Morning https://s3.amazonaws.com/cornerstonejax/sermonfiles/T029_20200816.mp3 Download Audio x
Refresh A Recap from the Sermon Lk 21:24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. We will continue looking at Daniel's 70th seven today. The full text of this message can be found by clicking the PDF button. Sunday August 16th 2020 The Word of God A Survey of the Bible – Lesson 21F The Remains of the Day 1). Jer 25:8 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My words, 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, “and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. As we have seen in our studies, the Babylonian captivity foreshadows the final captivity that God will use to bring his wayward son to repentance during the times of the Gentiles which began with Nebuchadnezzar – Lk 21:24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Jer 29:10 For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive. According to the revelation given to Daniel, recorded in Daniel Chapter 9, Israel’s ‘captivity’ would encompass 490 years rather than 70, but at the full end of those 490 years Israel will call out and pray to the God of their fathers as seen in Jeremiah 29:12-13 and God will respond to this with deliverance and restoration, as promised in v14. a). And following Israel’s repentance and restoration God will fulfill that recorded in Jeremiah Chapter 25, 12 ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. As we know, 7 years still remain of the 490 that must be completed, before all that is prophesied will be fulfilled. These are the 7 years we know as the tribulation, that are given a specific name in Jeremiah – Jer 30:7 Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob's trouble, But he shall be saved out of it. 8 ‘For it shall come to pass in that day,’ Says the Lord of hosts, ‘That I will break his yoke from your neck, And will burst your bonds; Foreigners shall no more enslave them. 9 But they shall serve the Lord their God, And David their king, Whom I will raise up for them. The time of Jacob’s trouble is pictured in foundation through the type of Cain wandering the earth having killed his brother, which foreshadows Israel’s dispersal [captivity] among the Gentile nations, and this time of trouble for Jacob is also seen through the type of Noah’s flood where on the one hand, Noah and his family were protected through it, and on the other, the future judgment and destruction of Gentile world power is seen – Jer 30:11 For I am with you,’ says the Lord, ‘to save you; Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, And will not let you go altogether unpunished.’ And woven into the fabric of these last seven years of Daniel’s 70th seven, the time of Jacob’s trouble, is the role of the Babylonian kingdom. b). The Babylonian captivity began the times of the Gentiles and is inextricably connected to the end of those times. Something made clear through the 4 parts of the great image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream standing exclusively in Babylon and restated again, from a different vantage point, through Daniel’s vision of the 4 great beasts. c). The Babylonian connection takes us in one direction back to Nimrod, the first king of Babylon, who forms a foundational type for the prince who is to come. And this same connection carries us forward in the other direction to the one whom Nimrod typifies, who is clearly shown to be both the complete embodiment and final form of the three parts of the Babylonian kingdom that precede him, by drawing from the imagery of the great beasts of Daniel Chapter 7 – Re 13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. The beast rising up out of the sea is the prince who is to come, who will come out of the Gentile nations. He is the last king of Babylon, foreshadowed through the first king, Nimrod. He will be a worldwide ruler, foreshadowed through Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the worldwide ruler of his day who took the southern 2 tribes of Benjamin and Judah into captivity and conquered the Assyrian empire which had, about 100 years before, taken the northern 10 tribes of Israel into captivity, thereby placing all the Jewish people, dispersed throughout the then known world, under the hand of this one man. d). The beast coming from the sea, is the seed of the serpent from Genesis Chapter 3. And in the verses from Revelation Chapter 13, his father, the dragon, that serpent of old, will give him ‘his power, his throne and great authority.’ An event that takes us to the mid-point in the tribulation when he will destroy the city and the sanctuary and usher in the time of ‘great tribulation, such as had not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be’. e). When this individual was first introduced in the Book of Revelation, in Chapter 6, he was the rider on the white horse who had been given a ‘stephanos’ crown. But when we see him again in Revelation Chapter 13, the 10 crowns in his possession are now ‘diadema’. 2). Through Nimrod we had also seen the connection of this man with Assyria Ge 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh………. And we see the same connection again through Nebuchadnezzar’s conquest of the Assyrian empire. a). And through Daniel we are given the precise geographical region within the old Assyrian empire from which this man will come – Da 8:8 Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven. 9 And out of one of them came a little horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Glorious Land. 10 And it grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the ground, and trampled them. 11 He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host; and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down. The male goat, the large horn, is Alexander the Great, who had previously conquered the Babylonian empire, at that time in the hands of the Medes and the Persians. We will remember that upon Alexander’s death, the large horn being broken, the empire was divided between his 4 generals, the 4 notable horns, who are seen in the empire to the north, the south, the east and the west. And it is from within one of these divisions that the beast, the little horn, will come. And the little horn growing ‘exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east and towards the Glorious Land’ [Israel], pictures the reemergence to domination of the final form of the Babylonian kingdom that had faded from the scene with Alexander’s 4 generals. Power Point – Slide 1 b). And Scripture plainly states that the beast, the prince who is to come, the seed of the serpent, will be an Assyrian, coming from within the area of the old Assyrian empire – Isa 10:24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of Egypt. Power Point – Slide 2-4 That which the Assyrian will attempt to do in the last 7 years of Daniel’s 70th seven, has already been set out through the type of Israel in Egypt in the days of Moses. 2). Ex 1:8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; 10 come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses. Egypt in Scripture is used as a type of the world, and so prophetically, Exodus 1:8 takes us to that future day when there will be a new king over the entire world who is the antithesis of the One pictured in Joseph, having Satan’s power, throne and great authority. a). And as the type and the antitype follow one another exactly, the new king, the Pharaoh over Egypt was an Assyrian – Isa 52:4 For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at first Into Egypt to dwell there; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. As a foreign invader of the land of Egypt, the Assyrians were concerned that Israel’s numbers could be used against them in the case of war. But what is really at the heart of the problem Pharaoh had with the Jewish people is revealed in a later Chapter of Exodus – Ex 4:22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn. Israel is the son that God has adopted as His firstborn, the son He has chosen to rule. The Assyrian Pharaoh knew this, and the future Assyrian will also know it very well. And attention is drawn to this same truth through the sign given in - Re 12:1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. The woman is the nation of Israel pictured in a setting of ultimate authority, wearing a ‘stephanos’ crown of 12 stars portending both government and rulership. Ex 1:13 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor. 15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah; 16 and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.” The command of the king of Egypt to kill Israel’s sons foreshadows the attempt to kill God’s only begotten firstborn Son, the Seed of the Woman, Mt 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men. And it also takes us to the attempt to eradicate the Jewish people that follows the appearance of the great sign, signifying Israel’s coming rule – Re 12:2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. 3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 She bore a male child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up to God and His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days…………………….13 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child……………….17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. The harshness of the persecution of the taskmasters in the days of the Assyrian Pharaoh in Egypt form the type for the events of Daniel’s 70th seven, the final 7 years remaining to bring Israel to repentance, the time of Jacob’s trouble. a). And in the type, the harshness of their treatment caused the Jewish people to cry out to the God of their fathers for deliverance – Ex 3:7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” And in response to the cry of the sons of Israel God sent Moses, the one whom the Jewish people had previously rejected, to bring Israel out of Egypt to a good and large land flowing with milk and honey. b). And in the antitype, Israel’s persecution at the hands of the future Assyrian will be so great that they will have no alternative but to cry out to the God of their fathers in repentance, in hope of deliverance – 2 Ch 7:13 When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. The cry of the sons of Israel will come at the end of the final 7 years of Daniel’s 70th seven. God will hear, and then send the One greater than Moses, whom the Jewish people had previously crucified, to deliver them from the hands of the Assyrian, to bring them back to the land covenanted to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – Re 19:11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. 13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. 15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. And here we enter into events that will follow the end of the tribulation, that follow the conclusion of the final 7 years of Daniel’s 70th seven, the completion of the 490 years allotted to the Jewish people and the end of Man’s Day. 3). And then, in addition to all we have so far looked at, there is a whole Book of Scripture, that presents through a type, the rise and fall of the future Assyrian, the last king of Babylon, the prince who is to come – Es 3:1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. 2 And all the king's servants who were within the king's gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage. Within the picture here, King Ahasuerus represents God the Father and Haman the beast, the prince who is to come. a). Now we will remember that we have learned from Daniel that ‘the Most High rules in the kingdom of men’, and therefore even the seed of the serpent, although given power, a throne and great authority by Satan, can only have that position at God’s behest. And as we have seen, God will appoint him to rule in order to accomplish His purpose for His chosen people. b). We will see in v2 that all those in the king’s gate ‘bowed and paid homage to Haman’, except Mordecai the Jew. And in this we will find echoes from Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image in one direction – Da 3:4 Then a herald cried aloud: “To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, 5 that at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the gold image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up; 6 and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.” And a foreshadowing of the worship of the dragon and beast in the other direction – Re 13:4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” 5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. But the problem for Haman was not so much Mordecai’s lack of deference but his position in the king’s gate – Es 5:9 So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai. Being in the king’s gate portends rulership. We will remember the promise to Abraham – Ge 22:17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. Mordecai in the king’s gate looks to the position that Israel is destined to occupy. The very thing declared to Pharaoh in Exodus Chapter 4 and seen in the great sign in Revelation Chapter 12. c). Haman’s anger however is not restricted just to Mordecai – Es 3:5 When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was filled with wrath. 6 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai. And here we find ourselves once again in the middle of Daniel’s 70th seven, the mid-point in the tribulation - Ps 83:1 Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” 5 For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You………. But God had also promised Abraham – Ge 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you…… And further back to Cain – Ge 4:15 And the Lord said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” This will have to wait until next time though – if the Lord is willing.