Okay, this is Belle writing right now. If any of you are upset by math and numbers, you may be getting either bored or upset by now. Just stick with us. We move into Revelation in the next post.
I know these dates and numbers are very important or else God wouldn't have given them to us so we could know what would happen in the last days. God is a God of great detail. Just read about the instructions of how to build the Sanctuary in Exodus and how to sew the priests clothing! Details are important to God because each detail has a meaning.
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So does this mean Octavian is the horn of Daniel Chapter 8? Yes, and no.
The angel Gabriel told Daniel that this particular vision “…pertains
to the time of the end.” (Daniel 8: 17)
How can it pertain to the end of time when we know Egypt became a
province of Rome over 2000 years ago? That
is because this vision has a dual application.
We saw in chapter one of this book that Jesus’ prophecy in Matt. 24: 6-8
applied to both the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE and to the end of the world at
the end time. So, too, does the vision
of the horn in Daniel Chapter 8 apply to two time periods; the emperors of Rome
in ancient times and the power that grows from Rome in the end times. One produces the other and, just like from
parents to children, similar traits are passed down.
So if we look at the power that
followed Greece in Daniel Chapter 8 as being a twofold prophecy, we can break
it down like this.
Ancient Times End Times
Rome Offspring of Rome
Emperor Blasphemous Horn
Destroyed
Temple Trample the Holy
Place
at Jerusalem
be
worshipped and removes Jesus’ sacrifice
Daniel 8: 11 and 14 say that the horn “…removed the regular
sacrifice from Him (meaning God), and the place of His sanctuary was
thrown down…For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be
properly restored.” In Gen. 1: 5 we
see that an evening and a morning is another way of saying ‘one day’, and we
have proven that a day in prophecy is actually one year, so here we have a
timeline of 2300 years. The first thing
we must determine is where this timeline starts.
We understand that this vision applies to
events in both ancient times and the end times.
It also applies to the old system of religion practiced by the Jews (the
“…small horn which grew…toward the Beautiful Land” where the temple in
Jerusalem was) and to the new system set up by the sacrifice Jesus made for us
and that he is offering in our place in heaven (the horn “…grew up to the
host of heaven…and it removed the regular sacrifice from Him…”), so the
2300 years must cover Rome and its offspring, and time periods before and after
Jesus was crucified.
We saw that the 70-week probation period given in Daniel Chapter 9
was the last chance for the Jewish nation to get with the program. They failed and the spread of the gospel to
all people began with the scattering of Christians. After the vision containing the 2300 days,
but before giving Daniel the 70-week prophetic warning for the Hebrews, the
angel Gabriel told Daniel that he had come to give him ”…insight with
understanding.” (Dan. 9: 22)
How does the 70-week prophecy of Daniel 9 give help in understanding
anything else? Part of what it gives us
is a starting point for the previous vision’s timeline…457 BCE. So if the 2300 years also begins in 457 BCE,
then its end would be 1844 CE. Did
anything important happen in the year 1844?
Not that we can see with our mortal eyes because Daniel 8: 14 says that
at the end of the 2300 years the “…holy place will be properly restored”
and, as we have seen, this applies to what Jesus does for us in heaven. We will go into more detail about this in
later chapters.
