결론 (다니엘서)

Satan has defied God's providence, has corrupted people, and has deceived mankind with all kinds of schemes.
No matter how good the faith is, if you do not know the truth, you will be deceived by Satan and go the wrong way.
Because the Jews did not understand God's history, they did not recognize Jesus as a messiah and even killed him.

Even at the end, Satan will delude people with all kinds of tricks.
So we must know how God's history has flowed, and what will happen in the future.
Details of the last time are based on the Revelations, and in this section, we will learn about the historical flow and Daniel.

* So let's look at Daniel and the Seven Churches of Revelation.

1. Daniel

Daniel was taken prisoner by Babylon, a Satanic worship country.
But he served God without idolatry, and received the recognition of King of Babylon, and received many words and fantasies from God.
But Daniel's revelation is generally hard to know because it is written in symbolic techniques.
Therefore, we should consider comprehensively based on historical background and biblical knowledge.

a) A great image (Chapter 2)

One day, the king of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar slept, but the contents of the dream did not come to mind, so he called various wizards to tell the contents, but they could not answer.
Then the angry King Nebuchadnezzar ordered them to die, and the danger came to Daniel, a Jewish student studying Babylon.
So Daniel prayed to God to find out the dream, and told Nebuchadnezzar

What King Nebchatnesar saw in his dream was a great image.
The head was a gold, the arms and chest were silver, the thighs were bronze, the legs were iron, and the feet and toes were made of iron and mud.
But a stone flew in and broke this image down, which showed what is going to happen.

1. Gold empire: Neo-Babylonia, 605-539 BC

Dan.2:37~38 "You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory;
"and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all--you are this head of gold.

The golden head of the statue is Babylon, ruled by Nebuchadnezzar.
Babylon was a great empire that unified the Middle East following Assyria.
Babylon boasted a huge empire and capital, and decorated the palace with gold.

Dan.2:39 "But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.

The hegemony of Mesopotamia has been transferred from the Semitic country of Babylon to the rule of Medae and Persia, which belong to the Indo-Europeans.
Persia's national power was supported by taxes that were made by silver

3. Bronze empire: Greece; 331-168 BC

Dan.2:39 "But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.

Armed with bronze helmets, bronze shields and bronze spears, the Greek army conquered the world under the command of King Alexander.

4. Iron empire: Rome; 168 BC -AD 476

Dan.2:40 "And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.

Armed with iron weapons, Rome has a modern military system, conquering the Greek Empire and Phoenicia and achieved the largest empire.

Dan.2:41~42 "Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay.
"And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.

The Roman Empire was destroyed by Germanic invasion and divided into 10 strong and weak countries.

(Year AD) (Name of tribe) (Nation of the present day)

1. 351 Alemanni Germany;
2. 351 Franks France;
3. 406 Burgundians Switzerland;
4. 406 Suevi Portcal;
5. 406 Vandals, Africa;
6. 408 Visigoths, Spain;
7. 409 Anglo-Saxons Britton (UK);
8. 453 Ostrogoths, Italy
9. 453 Lombards, Italy
10. 476 Heruli Italy

The foot of the statue does not mean Europe alone.
The foot of the statue also means today's world, consisting of a great power (iron) and a weak power (clay).
The fact that iron came down to the feet means that the Roman Empire continues to this day without being destroyed, and the Roman Catholic Church maintained the Roman empire with the help of the Holy Roman Empire.
The United States established around the time of the destruction of the Holy Roman Empire (1798) when George Washington(Freemason) become first president.(1789)

The United States and Rome have many resemblances, including that they have made an empire with strong military power, and they use eagle as a symbol of the state.
The world government will be established as the empire centered on the United States and the European Union after the World War, the Great Economic Depression and natural disasters.
The Antichrist who solves the impasse becomes the head of the world government, and everyone worships the Antichrist, and the kingdom of Satan is realized finally the image is completed.

Dan.2:34~35 "You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
"Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

To this foot of the statue, "a stone was cut without hands" struck the image's feet and broke the statue to powder without traces.
And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
So what is the stone that are not made by human hands?

1Pet.2:4 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious

Mark12:10 "Have you not even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.

Jesus is a living stone who was abandoned by the Jews but was chosen by God.
Jesus also said that he is the headstone of the corner that the builders rejected.
In other words, Jesus will come to destroy the world government, the kingdom of Satan.
And there will be a kingdom in which Jesus becomes the king and governs.

b) Four beasts (Chapter 7)

The illusions of the four beasts seen by Daniel are as follow.

	Chapter 2 - Metal Image	Chapter 7 - 4 Beasts
Babylon	Gold head	Lion with eagle's wings
Persia	Silver breast and arms	a bear with three ribs
Greece	a bronze stomah and thigh	4-winged 4-headed leopard
Rome	2 iron legs	a terrible beast with iron teeth
division of empire	ten toes	ten horns

Dan.7:4 "The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings. I watched till its wings were plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

1. Babylon is symbolized as a lion, and it is also shown in the sculpture of Babylon wall.
The Bible also described Babylon as a lion in the forest, and as a fierce eagle.

2. However, Babylon, an aggressive early lion in the founding country, later became fragile with a human mind and disappeared.

3 Babylon became an empire when Nebuchadnezzar was crowned, but it was destroyed by Persia in 539 BC, in 70 years later.

2. second beast - bear with 3 rib - persia

Dan.7:5 "And suddenly another beast, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said thus to it: 'Arise, devour much flesh!'

A bear characterized by slow, persistent, indefatigable bravery and cruelty, is appropriate to represent Persia.
In particular, the nature of Persia's foolish law, which can not be changed forever once enacted, is well suited to the characteristics of bears.

1 The expression "Bear was raised up on one side," indicates that this country was made up of two countries that were not balanced.
Media and Persha were the same races, co-existing around the Iranian plateau, but the Medae was absorbed by Persha by the capture of the Medae capital Ecbatana around 550 BC.

2 The expression "three ribs were bitten between the teeth of the mouth" of the bear reveals the three countries to be conquered by Perisia.
Cyrus conquered Lydia, a power-nation of Asia Minor, ruled by Croesus, in December 547 BC.
After eight years of strengthening national power, Cyrus finally conquered Babylon, the ruler of Mesopotamia, in 539 BC.
King Cambyses II, who succeeded his father Cyrus became an empire by conquering Egypt in 525 BC
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3 "devour much flesh" means Persia fought a lot of wars to secure a wider territory.

Dan.7:6 "After this I looked, and there was another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

1. A leopard is a small but fast and brave beast.

In addition, the wings that symbolize rapid action emphasize agility.
The Greek army led by Alexander the Great moved quickly and conquered a wide world.

Following his father Philip, Alexander, who was crowned at the age of 20, was 22 years old. In 334, with 35,000 troops and 70 Dalant military funds, consisting of a long spear-using Palanx infantry unit and cavalry, they crossed the Hellespont Strait to conquer Persia.

The Greek army defeated Persia in the Issus War of 333 B.C. to take control of the small Asiatic region.
In 332 BC, Alexander conquered Egypt and became a pharaoh himself.
In 331 BC, Persia was destroyed in the Battle of Arbela by the Greek army.
In 330 B.C. the Greeks marched eastward and conquered India.
Alexander tries to advance further across the Indus River, but returns to Babylon by the entreaties of his men to return.

In 323 B.C. Alexander who suffered from heavy drinking, died at 33 years of age from fever.
It's amazing that all of this was done by a young man in his 20s within 10 years.

2. Why is the leopard has 4 head?

The head represents a leader.
Alexander, who was ahead of death, told about his successor that "a strong man will take over".

After Alexander died at a young age without leaving a successor, the Great Empire became a battlefield for powerful men.
Selucus received Persian territory from Brigia to India, and Lysimachus received Asia Minor and Thrace,
Ptolemy made Egypt and Palestine his kingdom, and Cassander was the king of Macedonia and Greece.

In this way, Alexander's empire was divided into four kingdoms:
Alexander's empire, divided into four, was later absorbed by the Roman Empire, the fourth beast, one by one.

Dan.7:7 "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

Dan.7:23 "Thus he said: 'The fourth beast shall be A fourth kingdom on earth, Which shall be different from all other kingdoms, And shall devour the whole earth, Trample it and break it in pieces.

1) Iron Empire

Represented as a dreaded beast with iron teeth, Rome is known as the Iron Empire.

2) A beast with ten horns

Dan.7:24 The ten horns are ten kings Who shell arise from this Kingdom. And another shell rise after them; He shell be different from the first ones, And shell subdue three kings.

This ten horns were given the interpretation: "ten kings Who shell arise from this Kingdom".
This ten horns were given the following properties:

Independent countries to be separated from the Roman Empire
Countries to be established within the realm of the Roman Empire
Countries to be built with the fall of the Roman Empire
Countries to survive for a considerable period of time until the seccond coming of Christ

Let's find out about the small horn that came out of the ten horns of the scary and amazing beast.

Dan.7:8 "I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words.

Dan.7:24~25 The ten horns are ten kings Who shall arise from this kingdom. And another shall rise after them; He shall be different from the first ones, And shall subdue three kings.
He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand For a time and times and half a time.

1. The identity of small horn

a. It happens in Rome.

b. It happens after the beast (Roman Empire) is divided into ten horns (ten countries).

c. It has the same point as other ten countries (horns), but it is different in that it has eyes and mouth.
Small horn is a kingdom ruled by the king.

d. It is arrogant, such as confronting God in big words.

e. Change the time and the law at will.

F. It is a force that will persecute God's true people for a long time.

g. The prime period to be survived is "one, two, and half" or 1260 years.

The kingdom that meets the above seven conditions is Roman Catholic.

2. Seven churches of Revelation;

Revelation was written by John the Apostle in Island in A.D.96.
Revelation is mainly about the end of the world, and Jesus encouraged and rebuked the Seven Churches.
These seven churches represent the "characteristics" of the seven churches that will appear until Christ comes back.

So let's look at the flow of the seven Christian churches.

Rev.2:4 "Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

The part that Christ reproachs for this church is "forsake of first love."
Jesus want them to repent and do the first works.

Rev.2:6 "But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

The purpose of Nicolaitans is to establish a "Clergy System" within the church:
This is to separate the lay believer and the clergy and to rule people, and Jesus hates it.
Because the head of the church is only Jesus Christ, and all believers are equal.

The Ephesus Church was not deceived by this authoritarianism, and found that they were liars and false apostles.
The Ephesus Church contains the general characteristics of the early church from 30 A.D. to 70 A.D.

2. Smyrna Church (Rev. 2:8-11)

Rev.2:10 "Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

The devil is about to throw some of christians into prison, that they may be tested, and they will have tribulation ten days.
Be faithful until death, and Jesus will give them the crown of life.

"10 days" are symbol of "10 great persecutions" that began in 64 A.D. in Nero until 310 A.D. in Iocledian during the reign of the Roman Empire.

Rev.2:14 "But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

In Pergamos churh there are those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

Rev.2:15 "Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

In Pergamos church there were those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing Jesus hate.

This period is from A.D.312, when the accession of Constantine the Great began, to the time of Boniface III's rise to the position of "Universial Bishop" in A.D. 606.

Rev.2:20 "Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

Jesus's rebuke for the Thyatira Church was not only because they tolerated a woman called "Jezeebel," who calls herself a prophetess, in the church, but also because they let her to teach and seduce people to commit sexual misconduct.
She seduced people to eat sacrifice dedicated to idols.

Jezebel married Ahab, the king of Israel, as the princess of the Kingdom of Tyre, who served the idol.
Jezebel forced Israel to worship Baal, and killed prophets of all states he knew.

In the New Testament era, there is only the Pope who has committed the evil act of serving idols like Isabel in the church and acted as a prophet.
Catholics became idolaters by worshiping Mary, similar to the goddess Asdarod, who was served by Jezebel.

This period is from A.D. 606 until 1520, when the Reformation took place.

Rev.3:1~33 "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, 'These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.
"Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God.
"Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

Jesus says that Sardis Church lived by name but actually died.
This church has only form and doctrine, but there is no life.
The church without God's ability and life has only formal worship.

Religious reformers removed the false doctrines of Roman Catholicism, but they did not completely escape Roman Catholic traditions such as baptism and classism.
They turned people's minds from idols to God, but they did not wait for Jesus's return.

The Sardis Church lasted from A.D.1520 to 1750.

Rev.3:8 "I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

Rev.3:10 "Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

The word Philadelphia means brotherly love.
This church is a church that emphasizes the love between brothers.

There are three references to this church.

First, they had a little strength but they kept jesus' word without denying Jesus.
In this era, they had a spiritual revival.
This revival was initiated by George Whitefield in 1739 A.D., followed by John Wesley, Charles Finney and DL Moody.

Second, they had an open door in front of them and no one could close it.
In 1793, William Carey went to India by boat, shouting world missions, where he opened the door of missions.
Soon after, the Lord continued to open the doors to China, Japan, Korea, Africa and several small islands.

Third, you have exempted the time of the test, because you kept the word of patience.
This test is about the tribulations that will come to the whole world.
Philadelphia church is the only church among the seven to be praised.

The Philadelphia church period is from 1750 to 1900.

This church is a church that has received no praise from Christ and has only heard the blame.

Rev.3:15~16 "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
"So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

The characteristic of the Laodiceans Church is that it is not cold nor hot, but lukewarm, and Jesus vomits them out of his mouth.
This is because their faith life is not active, but passive, complacent and formal.
Most christians think that they fulfilled their duty to believe in ideological salvation and to attend worship.

Rev.3:17 "Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.

The Laodiceans Church symbolizes the modern church, and they are externally rich and perfect, but spiritually poor and miserable.
Modern large churches have built magnificent church buildings, and they boast colorful windows, beautiful choirs, and many members.
But they don't know they're secularized because they don't pursue holiness.

Rev.3:18 "I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

To buy gold refied in the fire from Jesus and to be rich is means to realize the truth by participating in Jesus' crucifixion suffering.
Buying white clothes and not letting your naked figures be revealed is means being a model for repentance and righteous behavior.
To anoint your eyes with eye salve is means to be born again and to see spiritually.