Sunday 4 August 2019

The Predictions Of Wars From The Book Of Daniel Prophecy

By Steven Carter


Daniel introduces some very interesting prophecies regarding future kings and leaders that waged big wars to conquer vast territories. In the last few chapters, the archangel Gabriel gave him these visions which he would write about in the book of Daniel Prophecy. To know more about these prophecies, check out the summary of events that happened.

Now, these visions were actually found in between chapter ten up to twelve with twelve possibly also talking about the wars that could be signifying the end times. In fact, one may even draw out some similarities between the visions of the chapter and some chapters of Revelations. More like, the visions happen after the third year of Cyrus and before the Revelation times.

Chapter ten already predicted the rise of a prince of Persia that would go to war against a supernatural being. The thing about this chapter is that the supernatural being was the one who told Daniel that he is at war with the prince of Persia along with Michael the Archangel. According to the chapter, Archangel Gabriel gave the visions at the third year of Cyrus.

Now, the next chapter would then state the prediction of another war but this time with the prince of Greece. This actually refers to the Macedonia Greece war that was staged by the conqueror Alexander the Great. Accurately, this also depicts the conquests of the great conqueror as well as his downfall giving rise to the next empire.

After that, the vision then showed the Roman Empire during its rise in sixty four BC up until Seventy AD. In between that was the conquering of Jerusalem by Pompey which happened sometime during Sixty three BC. Finally, the death of the next big prince, which was none other than Julius Caesar, was also showed metaphorically to Daniel through the vision.

Now, the last chapter that states the visions, which is chapter twelve, may be interpreted in different ways. First, it could be interpreted as the appearance of the Messiah and His inevitable death at the cross and his resurrection. Following that would be the shaping of this new kingdom of God leading to various troubles and sacrifices.

On the other hand, Christian millennialism would interpret this chapter as the restoration of Israel in the present day. The end of chapter ten could also interpret the rise of the Antichrist in which he will be one of the big four princes mentioned in the previous chapters taking over the world. Of course, the Antichrist would also fall signifying that the Messiah will come back.

What makes this chapter extremely interesting is that there are so many possible messages that can be deciphered from the book. Another very remarkable thing about these chapters is that they predicted the big wars from big empires even before they happened such as the Macedonia Greek war and more. If one would want to interpret the last chapter as the end of times, then it would make things even more interesting because then there would be more specific details of what to expect leading up to the predictions stated in Revelations.




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