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THE INTERPRETAION OF THE VISION. Daniel 8: 15. “And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.” Note the location, it has not changed and neither has the time at the foot of the metal Empire time statue otherwise the angel Gabriel would have told Daniel!
Daniel 8: 16. “And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of ULAI, which called, and said, Gabriel, MAKE THIS man TO UNDERSTAND THE VISION.”
What chezev/vision/s? The chezev that Daniel has seen thus far, which are at the feet of the Metal Empire. The Statue is there for a time discipline for the wise that want to understand the book of Daniel! Neglect that discipline and the vision interpreter wanders in all time spans and to characters long since dead and there is no way Nebuchadnezzar will come back to life until the resurrection and that is after the 1335 days of Daniel 12: 12 where a blessing is promise and received in Rev 19: 1 – 10 before the war verses 11 – 21 where the remnant that’s the LION, BEAR and LEOPARD are put to the sward after the beast is killed by the Lord of Lords king of kings rules, which proves they are the ones around when God sets up His Kingdom as stated in Daniel 2: 44.
Gabriel himself being a devotee of the ‘TIME OF THE END’ and ‘LAST END’ factor of the chezev makes that specific detail known by getting really close to Daniel to push that point and scares the living daylights out of Daniel doing it!
Daniel 8: 17. “SO HE CAME NEAR where I stood: and when he came, I WAS AFRAID, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, UNDERSTAND O SON OF MAN: FOR AT THE TIME OF THE END shall be THE VISION.”
Daniel 8: 18. “Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.”
Daniel 8: 19. “And he said, Behold, I will make thee KNOW WHAT SHALL BE IN THE LAST END of the indignation: FOR AT THE TIME APPOINTED THE END shall be.” How difficult is that to understand? What SHALL BE at the time appointed the end!
I am a moron and even I, yes simple minded me can get that clear fact of the time factor and I know that the vision is certainly not all over the statue of Daniel 2 but at the feet of it only. All verses thus far and the interpretation of them earlier and all to come are for that specific time. As we read what Satan will do in Isaiah 14: to the nations it puts a clear emphasis on the war of Daniel 11 which Daniel mentions in Daniel 10, that for later.
Isaiah 14: “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst WEAKEN THE NATIONS!”
Isaiah 14: 16. “They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is THIS THE MAN that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;” Isaiah 14: 17. “That made the WORLD AS A WILDERNESS, and DESTROYED THE CITIES thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?”
God works to within specific time spans and within His laws so who are these humans that change them from those His servant the angel Gabriel stipulates?
Getting back to Daniel we have two leaders, ie ‘KINGS’not just one in the case of the ancient Medo/Persian empire any rate the angel told us at the ‘vision concerns the time of the end’ and he said ‘last end’ in preceding verses 17 and 19, (iron and clay feet period) so I am absolutely sure this is not about the Medo/Persians at the silver shoulders and arms.
Daniel 8: 20. “The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.” Before you read verse 21 let me show you something that identifies the word Grecia which is a translation from the name Yavan 3120. Please read it through from these two sources one from the Bible the other from the ‘EVERY DAY BIBLE DICTIONARY.’ And yes the angel who said the vision concernes the time of the end and last end in verses 17 and 1 knew what he was talking about.
Credits to THE EVERY DAY BIBLE DICTIONARY. 3120 Yavan { yaw-vawn’}
probably from the same as 3196; TWOT - 855;
AV - Javan 7, Grecia 3, Greece 1; 11
GK - 3430 { ÷w:y: Javan = “Ionia” or “Greece” n pr m 1) a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah n pr loc 2) Greece, Ionia, Ionians 2a) location of descendants of Javan
“Grecian. “Grec’cian, The term Grecian, Hellenist, denotes a Jew by birth or religion who spoke Greek.” “It is used chiefly of foreign Jews and proselytes in contrast with the Hebrews speaking the vernacukar Hebrew or Aramaean.” “Greeks was the term used for non-Jewish people” “Greece, Greeks, Gre’cians.” “The histories of Greece and Palestine are little connected with each other.” “In Geneses. 10:2-5 Moses mentions the descendants of YAVAN as peopling the Isles of the Gentiles; and when the Hebrews came into contact with the Ionians of Asia Minor, and recognized them as the long-lost islanders of the western migration, it was natural that they should mark the similarity of sound between JAVAN Iones.” “Accordingly the Old Testament word which is GRECIA in authorized Version GREECE, GREECS, etc., IS IN HEBREW JAVAN Dan. 8:21;”
‘THE EVERY DAY BIBLE DICTIONARY.’ (Formerly published as peloubet’s Bible Dictionary) Copyright 1925.,Inc, 1913by Holt, Rinehart and Winson 1967., Inc. Copyright 1971 by Zondervan Publishing House. Assigned to Zondervan Publishing House, Grand rapids Michigan.
Geneses 10: The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4AND THE SONS OF JAVAN; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5BY THESE WERE THE ISLES OF THE GENTILES DIVIDED IN THEIR LANDS; EVERY ONE AFTER HIS TONGUE, AFTER THEIR FAMILIES, IN THEIR NATIONS.”
So we have Javan 3120 from which we get Grecia 3120 from which we identify the Gentile nations of the Western migration. I rest my case at the feet of iron and clay period. There are serious problems with the Alexander the Great idea.
Harping back to verses 2, 3, 4, for a moment to where Daniel mentions the geographical location within the vision is important in sifting out the correct interpretation of the vision. The battle between the Greeks and Medo/Persians took place on the Arbella Plains over 1000 miles away from where the ROUGH GOAT attacks the ram and defeats it by the Ulai River in verses 2, 3, 4 and 6.
The timing is way off also to that stipulated by Gabriel in the vision. The Greek Empire was the BRASS CHEST AND BELLY section representing the span portion of the statue in 331BC – 146BC and was far too early to be involved at the FEET OF IRON AND CLAY on that Metal Empire Time Span Statue where these four beasts stand TOGETHER.
Another problem is that we are told that AT THE TIME OF THESE KINGS THE GOD OF HEAVEN WILL SET UP HIS EVERLASTING KINGDOM and that did not occur during the Greek Empire period of BRASS OR ANY OTHER ANCIENT EMPIRE PORTION ON THAT STATUE. Also there is another problem in the we are told specifically that during the reign of these kings the God of Heaven wouls set up His everlasting kingdom and that did not occur but will at the feet of iron and clay.
Daniel 2: 43. And whereas thou sawest IRON MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Daniel 2: 44. And IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS SHALL THE GOD OF HEAVEN SET UP A KINGDOM, which shall never be destroyed: and THE KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
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