INTER-TESTAMENT (400 YEARS W/NO VOICE)

PERSIAN RULE

BOOKS DEALING WITH PERSIA DANIELESTHEREZRANEHEMIAHHAGGAIZECHARIAHMALACHI

REBUILDING JERUSALEM KING CYRUS ALLOWS JEWS TO RETURN ZERUBBABEL & JOSHUA (HIGH PRIEST) NO KING STILL RULED OVER BY PERSIANS

LEADERSHIP IN PLACE ISRAEL RUN BY A COUNCIL OF ELDERS AND PRIESTS FORMED AN ECCLESIASTICAL COURT WHICH INTERPRETED THE LAW & FORCED OBEDIENCE THIS WAS THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE (120 MEMBERS) – NUMBERS 10

PERSIAN RULE

DANIEL’S PROPHECIES

4 BEASTS IN DANIEL Daniel 7: lists 4 Empires and calls them each by a BEAST “They Rise Up Out of the Sea” ► LION/(Gold)-BABYLON ► BEAR/(Silver)-PERSIA ► LEOPARD /(Bronze/Brass) ► BEAST/(Iron)

WHO IS THE LEOPARD? WHO IS THE BRASS/BRONZE?

THE VISION OF RAM BY THE RIVER DANIEL SEES A RAM WITH 2 HORNS THE 2 HORNS WERE HIGH ONE WAS HIGHER THAN THE OTHER THE HIGHER CAME UP LAST RAM PUSHED WEST, NORTH AND SOUTH NO BEAST COULD STAND BEFORE HIM OR BE DELIVERED FROM HIS HANDS HE DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL AND BECAME GREAT RAM = PERSIA (DANIEL 8:20)

A GOAT A GOAT CAME FROM THE WEST HE CAME TOWARDS THE WHOLE EARTH HE DID NOT TOUCH THE GROUND HAD A NOTABLE HORN BETWEEN ITS EYES GOAT = LEOPARD/BRASS

GOAT VS. RAM GOAT WITH THE ONE HORN RAN TO THE RAM WITH 2 HORNS WITH FURY AND POWER THE GOAT BROKE THE RAMS 2 HORNS THERE WAS NO POWER TO STAND BEFORE HIM HE WAS CAST TO THE GROUND AND STAMPED ON NON COULD DELIVER THE RAM OUT OF HIS HAND PERSIANS DEFEATED

WHO IS THIS? LEOPARDBRASS/BRONZEGOAT

THE INTERPRETATION RAM WITH 2 HORNS = MEDIA-PERSIA GOAT = GREECE GREECE CONQUERS PERSIA

NEXT EMPIRE IN LINE LEOPARD = GREECIAN EMPIRE (DANIEL 7:6) BRASS/BRONZE = GREECIAN EMPIRE (DANIEL 2) GOAT = GREECIAN EMPIRE (DANIEL 8)

HORN = GREAT KING HORN ON THE GOAT = 1 ST KING 1 ST KING = ALEXANDER THE GREAT

ALEXANDER’S CONQUEST

ABOUT ALEXANDER CONQURED QUICKLY RULED THE WORLD BY AGE 30 ALLOWED JEWS TO PRACTICE FAITH SET UP HEADQAURTERS IN BABYLON

THE FALL OF A KING ALEXANDER’S DOMINANCE COMES TO AN END DID ALEXANDER DIE IN BATTLE? DIED IN BABYLON POISONED (ALOCOHOL?)

GRECIAN EMPIRE DIVIDED 4 HORNS WILL REPLACE THE BROKEN HORN 4 HORNS = 4 KINGS OR KINGDOMS EMERGING FROM THIS NATION (GRECIAN) 4 KINGS WILL BE POWERFUL BUT WILL NOT HAVE THE POWER AS THE 1 ST (ALEXANDER THE GREAT)

DIVIDED AMONGST 4 GENERALS

4 GRECIAN KINGDOMS: 1.North/Selucus Central Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq & Central Asia 2. South/Ptolemy Egypt and North Africa 3. West/Cassander Greece and South Eastern 4. East/Lysimachus Western Turkey

CONFLICT BETWEEN NORTH & SOUTH NORTH VS. SOUTH SELUCID VS. PTOLEMY PROPHECIED: DANIEL 11 ISRAEL CHANGED POSSESSION 5 TIMES DURING CONFLICT

NORTH WINS GENERAL PTOLEMY DIES ANTIOCHOUS EPHIPHANIES III (SYRIAN GENERAL) TAKES CONTROL OF ISRAEL ALLOWED JEWISH FAITH & PRACTICE

GREEK INFLUENCE SPREAD GREEK LANGUAGE CITIES/ARCHITEXTURE GODS & RELIGION (HELLENISM)

LANGUAGE CHANGE IN SCRIPTURES OLD TESTAMENT = HEBREW/ARAMAIC NEW TESTAMENT = GREEK SPOKEN: (GREEK/LATIN/ARAMAIC)

ANTIOCHOUS EPIPHANIES IV DID NOT FAVOR JEWISH CULTURE/FAITH CIRCUMCISION OUTLAWED FORCED HELLENISTIC VIEWS (KILLED THOSE WHO WOULD NOT FOLLOW) DESECRATES THE HOLY TEMPLE (OFFERED PIGS TO ZEUS ON ALTAR)

IS HE “THE LITTLE HORN”? COMES OUT OF THE 4 GRECIAN KINGDOMS THE LITTLE HORN = A FIERCE KING HE WILL HAVE SINISTER SCHEMES SPEAKS BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD

LITTLE HORN = ANTICHRIST HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGHTY BUT NOT BY HIS OWN POWER (SATAN’S) WILL ARISE IN THE LATTER DAYS HE SHALL COME AGAINST PRINCE OF PRINCES (JESUS) SEAL UP THIS VISION UNTIL THE LAST DAYS ANTIOCHOUS EPIPHINIES IV = PICTURE OF ANTICHRIST

JEWISH REVOLT HIGH PRIEST MATTATHIAS 5 SONS: JONAHTAN MACCABEUS SIMON MACCABEUS JUDAH MACCABEUS JOHN GADDI ELIEZER THE MACCABEES

MACCABEE ARMY REVOLTED AGAINST JEWS CONVERTED TO HELLINSM GATHERERD GUERRILLA WARFARE TYPE ARMY ATTACKED SELUCID DYNASTY RE-TOOK JUDEA & THE HOLY TEMPLE

TEMPLE RE-DEDICATED LIGHT 8 CANDLES (WHY 8 ? - SUKKOT?) 9 TH (SHAMASH = SERVANT) FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS (CELEBRATED BY CHRIST) DEDICATE = HANUKKAH

HASMONEAN RULE SIMON MACCABEUS SET UP RULE UNDER THE NAME HASMONEAN (DERIVES FROM SIMON’S GRANDFATHER (ASMONEOUS)) ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT FOR SHORT PERIOD JERUSALEM GROWS FROM 5,000-25,000 PEOPLE ANOTHER EMPIRE RISING

THE ROMAN EMPIRE 63 B.C. POMPEII AND ROMAN ARMY INVADE JERUSALEM CONTROL THE MIDDLE EAST 37 B.C. HEROD PLACED IN CHARGE OF JUDEA AUGUSTUS/MARC ANTHONY (ROMANS) SUPPORT HIS CLAIM AS KING OF THE JEWS

BOOK FOR THIS TIME PERIOD THE MACCABEES I & II JOSEPHUS: “WAR OF THE JEWS”

WHERE IS OUR PROMISED SAVIOR? DANIEL’S: 70 WEEKS x 7 PROPHETS: PROPHECY OF A SAVIOR/KING COMING TO SET THEM FREE FROM THEIR ENEMIES PEOPLE LOOKING FOR A MESSIAH

DESCRIPTION OF THIS KING FROM THE LINEAGE OF DAVID (ISAIAH 1, 11) FROM THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM (MICAH 5) FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (GENESIS 49:10) BORN FROM A VIRGIN (ISAIAH 7:14) A MESSENGER IN THE WILDERNESS WILL PAVE HIS WAY (ISAIAH 40:3) WILL ENTER JERUSALEM ON A DONKEY (ZECHARIAH 9:9) WILL BE SOLD FOR 30 PIECES OF SILVER (JEREMIAH/ZECHARIAH 11:12) WILL BE BETRAYED BY A CLOSE FRIEND (PSALM 41:9) HANDS AND FEET WILL BE PIERCED (PSALM 22:16) FORESAKEN BY HIS DISCIPLES (ZECHARIAH 13:7) GRAVE AMONGST THE WICKED-HE DID NO EVIL (ISAIAH 53:9) WILL BE RAISED UP AMONGST THE BRETHREN (JEWS) (DEUTERONOMY 18:15) THE LORDS BEGOTTEN SON (PSALM 2:7) WILL BECOME GREAT LIGHT TO GENTILES IN GALILEE (ISAIAH 9:1-2) WILL SPEAK IN PARABLES (PSALM 78:1-2) HE WILL BIND UP & HEAL BROKEN HEARTED (ISAIAH 61:1-3) FOLLOWS THE ORDER OF MELCHIZADEK (PSALM 110:1, 4) HE WILL BE REJECTED BY HIS OWN (ISAIAH 53:1-4) HATED WITHOUT REASON PSALM (35:19) WILL BE PRAISED BY THE YOUTH PSALM (8:1-2)

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: OPRESSED & AFFLICATED W/ NO RETALIATION (ISAIAH 53:7) TORTURED (ISAIAH 50:6) BODY WILL EMBARE MARKS OF ABUSE (PSALM 22:16-17/ISAIAH 52:14) WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS (SINS) (ISAIAH 53:4-6, 10-11) FEET & HANDS PIERCED (PSALM 22:15-16/ZECHARIAH 12:9-10) CONSIDERED A CRIMINAL (ISAIAH 53:12) MANY SHAKE THEIR HEADS WHILE HE SUFFERS (PSALM 22:7-8/109:25) BURIED IN TOMB OF A RICH MAN (ISAIAH 53:8-9) BODY NOT DECAYED (PSALM 16:9) REVILED & MOCKED BY A CROWD (PSALM 22:7-8) CLOTHES GAMBLED FOR (PSALM 22:18) LOVED ONE’S WILL SEE HIS SUFFERING (PSALM 38:10-11) WILL BE FORSAKEN BY GOD (PSALM 22:1-2) WILL BE GIVEN VINEGAR TO DRINK (PSALM 69:21) WILL COMMEND HIS SPIRIT TO GOD (PSALM 31:5) WILL BE CUTOFF BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF (DANIEL 9:26) WILL BE RESURRECTED (PSALM 16:10-11/49:15) WILL ASCEND TO THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD (PSALM 68:18)

MATTHEW 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. THE SPECIAL SACRIFICE

“THE WORD MADE FLESH”