Daniel's Visions Unveiled: Insights on Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, & Alexander

DREAMS-VISIONS CHAPTER TWO SEVEN EIGHT NEBUCHADNEZZAR DANIEL’S FIRST DANIEL’S SECOND GREAT IMAGE FOUR BEASTS RAM WITH TWO HORNS FOUR KINGDOMS FOUR KINGDOMS GOAT - LARGE HORN FOUR HORNS ‘LITTLE HORN’ FOUR KINGDOMS BABYLONIAN GOLD HEAD LION NEBUCHADNEZZAR? MEDO-PERSIAN SILVER BREAST BEAR RAM DARIUS AND CYRUS? MACEDONIAN BRASS THIGHSLEOPARD MALE GOAT ALEXANDER? FOUR HORNS FOUR KINGDOMS ROME IRON LEGSBEAST OF IRON ‘LITTLE HORN’ ROME DIVIDED FEET OF IRONTEN HORNS TEN KINGDOMS? POPE AND ANOTHER KINGDOM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? L A S T K I N G D O M THE CHURCH?E V E R L A S T I N G K I N G D O M

REVIEW DANIEL CHAPTER NINE DANIEL UNDERSTOOD THE WRITINGS OF JEREMIAH DANIELPRAYS FOR ISRAEL AND HIS PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED GABRIEL SPEAKS TO DANIEL ABOUT: JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE - RECONSTRUCTED THE COMING OF MESSIAH - THE PRINCE A NEW COVENANT - TO BE GIVEN FINAL DESTRUCTION - OF JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE GABRIEL TELLS DANIEL TO SEAL UP THE VISION

REVIEW DANIEL CHAPTER TEN MESSAGE TO DANIEL DURING THE REIGN OF CYRUS DANIELMOURNED AND FASTED FOR THREE WEEKS DANIEL SAW AN ANGEL IN A VISION AND BECAME HELPLESS AND WEAK DANIELHEARD THE ANGEL SPEAK AND FELL TO THE GROUNDIN A DEEP SLEEP THE ANGEL TOUCHED HIM AND MADE HIM TREMBLE DANIELWAS ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES AND THE ANGELTOLD HIM TO STAND UP THE ANGEL SAID TO DANIEL: I AM SENT TO YOUTO MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND THE VISIONS THE PRINCE OF PERSIAWITHSTOOD ME FOR TWENTY-ONE DAYS BUT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CAME TO HELP ME

REVIEW DANIEL CHAPTER TEN ONE LIKE OF THE SONS OF MENTOUCHED DANIEL’S LIPS DANIEL HAD NO STRENGTH AND WAS UNABLE TO SPEAK THE ANGEL TOUCHED DANIEL AGAIN AND STRENGTHENED HIM THE ANGEL TOLD DANIELTO BE STRONG AND FEAR NOT DANIEL WAS STRENGTHENED THE ANGEL SAID: ‘I MUST GO TO FIGHT THE PRINCE OF PERSIA’ ‘I WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS IN THE SCRIPTURE OF TRUTH’ AND ‘NO ONE UPHOLDS ME BUT MICHAEL’

OUTLINE CHAPTER ELEVEN THREE KINGS IN PERSIA: CAMBYSES, SMERDIS, DARIUS HYSTASPIS THE FOURTH KING - XERXES ANOTHER KING - ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONFLICT BETWEEN EGYPT AND SYRIA SUCCESSOR OF ANTIOCHUS THE GREAT -SELEUCUS THE LIFE AND ACTS OF ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES

READ: DANIEL 10:20 - 11:2 THIS IS THE CONTINATION OF: DANIEL 10:20-21 20 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come. 21 "But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. (No one upholds me against these, except Michael your prince. 1 “In the first year of Darius the Mede, I, even I, stood up to confirm and strengthen him.) 2 “I will tell you the truth: Behold, three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than them all; by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 10:20 - 11:2 20 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia. And when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come. 21 "But I will tell youwhat is noted in the Scripture of Truth. (No one upholds me against these, except Michael your prince. 1 “In the first year of Darius the Mede, I, even I, stood up to confirm and strengthen him.) WHO IS SPEAKING HERE? (GABRIEL)? WHY DID HE COME TO DANIEL? (TELL HIM WHAT IS NOTED IN THE SCRIPTURES)? HOW DID HE DEFINE THE SCRIPTURES? (THE SCRIPTURE OF TRUTH)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 10:20 - 11:2 20 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight withthe prince of Persia. And when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come. 21 "But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. (No one upholds me against these, except Michael your prince. 1 “In the first year of Darius the Mede, I, even I, stood up to confirm and strengthen him.) WHO IS THE PRINCE OF PERSIA? (CYRUS)? WHO IS THE PRINCE OF GREECE? (ALEXANDER)? WHEN DID THIS OCCUR? (IN THE FIRST YEAR OF DARIUS THE MEDE)? WHO DID ‘HE’ CONFIRM AND STRENGTHEN? (MICHAEL OR DARIUS)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:1-2 WHO WAS DARIUS THE MEDE? READ: DANIEL 5:31 31 Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old. (NKJ) READ: DANIEL 6:1 1 It pleased Dariusto set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom; (NKJ) READ: DANIEL 9:1 1 In the first year of Dariusthe son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans: (NKJ)

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:1-2 WHO WAS DARIUS THE MEDE? READ: EZRA 4:4-5 4 The people of the land tried to discourage the people of Judah. They troubled them in building, 5 And they hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. (NKJ) READ: NEHEMIAH 12:22 22 During the reign of Darius the Persian, a record was also kept of the Levites and priests who had been heads of their fathers' housesin the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua. (NKJ) READ: ZECHARIAH 1:1-2 1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 2 "The LORD has been very angry with your fathers. (NKJ)

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:1-2 WHO WAS DARIUS THE MEDE? READ: HAGGAI 1:1-2 1 In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2 "Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying: 'This people says, "The time has not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built."'“ (NKJ) READ: HAGGAI 1:14-15 14 So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, 15 On the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius. (NKJ)

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:1-2 2 “I will tell you the truth: Behold, three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than them all; by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece. READ: DANIEL 10:21 21 "I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. (No one upholds me against these, except Michael your prince. (NKJ) WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF TRUTH? (THE SCRIPTURE OF TRUTH)? ARE THE SCRIPTURES TRUE? WHY?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:1-2 2 “I will tell you the truth: Behold, three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than them all; by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece. WHO ARE THESE THREE KINGS OF PERSIA? (CAMBYSES, SON OF CYRUS)? (SMERDIS, WHO PRETENDED TO BE A SON OF CYRUS)? (DARIUS, SON-IN-LAW OF CYRUS)? WHO IS THIS FOURTH KING? (XERXES, SON OF DARIUS)? WHAT XERXES ABLE TO DO? HOW? (STIR UP ALL AGAINST GREECE)? (HIS RICHES)?

READ: DANIEL 11:3-4 3 “A mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. 4 “When he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken up and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not among his posterity nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be uprooted, even for others besides these.

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:3-4 3 “A mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. WHO SHALL RISE UP AFTER THIS FOURTH KING? (ALEXANDER THE GREAT)? WHY IS HE CALLED ‘ALEXANDER THE GREAT’?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:3-4 4 “When he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken up and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not among his posteritynoraccording to his dominion with which he ruled. For his kingdom shall be uprooted, even for others besides these. WHAT IS SAID OF ‘ALEXANDER THE GREAT’? WHAT SHALL HAPPEN TO HIS KINGDOM? READ: DANIEL 8:22 ‘THE MALE GOAT” 22 "As for the broken horn and the four that stood up in its place, four kingdoms shall arise out of that nation, but not with its power. (HIS KINGDOM WILL BE DIVIDED INTO FOUR KINGDOMS) WILL HIS DESCENDENTS REIGN IN HIS STEAD? (NONE OF HIS POSTERITY SHALL REIGN)?

READ: DANIEL 11:5-7 5 “The king of the South shall become strong, as well as one of his princes; and he shall gain power over him and have dominion. His dominion shall be a great dominion. 6 "At the end of some years they shall join forces, for the daughter of the king of the South shall go to the king of the North to make an agreement; but she shall not retain the power of her authority, and neither he nor his authority shall stand; but she shall be given up, with those who brought her, and with him who begot her, and with him who strengthened her in those times. 7 "But from a branch of her roots one shall arise in his place, who shall come with an army, enter the fortress of the king of the North, and deal with them and prevail.

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:5-7 5 “The king of the Southshall become strong, as well as one of his princes. And he shall gain power over himandhave dominion. His dominion shall be a great dominion. WHO IS THE KING OF THE SOUTH? (PTOLEMY - SON OF LAGUS)? WHO IS ‘ONE OF HIS PRINCES’? (SELEUCUS NICATOR)? WHAT ABOUT HIS POWER AND DOMINION? (HE SHALL BE STRONG AND HIS DOMINION GREAT)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:5-7 6 "At the end of some years they shall join forces, for the daughter of the king of the South shall go to the king of the North to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the power of her authority, and neither he nor his authority shall stand. She shall be given up, with those who brought her, and with him who begot her, and with him who strengthened her in those times. HOW MUCH TIME HAS ELAPSED? (YEARS)? WHAT WILL HAPPEN? (THEY WILL JOIN FORCES)? WHO IS ‘THE KING OF THE SOUTH’? (PTOLEMY)? WHO IS HIS DAUGHTER ? (BERENICE)? WHAT DOES HISTORY TELL US ABOUT BERENICE? (SHE MARRIED ANTIOCHUS THEOS, KING OF SYRIA, WHO WAS ALREADY MARRIED TO LAODICE).

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:5-7 6 "At the end of some years they shall join forces, for the daughter of the king of the South shall go to the king of the North to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the power of her authority, and neither he nor his authority shall stand. She shall be given up, with those who brought her, and with him who begot her, and with him who strengthened her in those times. WHO WILL SHE MAKE AGREEMENT WITH? (KING OF THE NORTH (SYRIA) - ANTIOCHUS THEOS)? WHAT WILL SHE TRY TO DO? (UNITE EGYPT AND SYRIA)? HOW?(BY MARRIAGE)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:5-7 6 "At the end of some years they shall join forces, for the daughter of the king of the South shall go to the king of the North to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the power of her authority, and neither he nor his authority shall stand. She shall be given up, with those who brought her, and with him who begot her, and with him who strengthened her in those times. WILL SHE BE SUCCESSFUL? WHAT HAPPENED? (ANTIOCHUS WILL GO BACK TO HIS FIRST WIFE)? (BERENICE AND HER SON WILL BE MURDERED)? WHO STRENGTHENED HER IN THE PAST? (HER FATHER - PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:5-7 7 "But from a branch of her roots one shall arise in his place, who shall come with an army, enter the fortress of the king of the North, and deal with them and prevail. WHO WILL ARISE FROM HER ROOTS? (HER BROTHER - PTOLEMY EUERGETES)? (HE WILL BE KING OF THE SOUTH)? WHAT WILL HE DO? (HE WILL AVENGE HIS SISTER'S DEATH)? WILL HE BE SUCCESSFUL? (HE WILL DEAL WITH THEM AND PREVAIL)?

READ: DANIEL 11:8-10 8 “He shall also carry their gods captive to Egypt, with their princes and their precious articles of silver and gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the North. 9 “The king of the North shall come to the kingdom of the king of the South, but shall return to his own land. 10 "However his sons shall stir up strife, and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one shall certainly come and overwhelm and pass through; then he shall return to his fortress and stir up strife.

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:8-10 8 “He shall also carry their gods captive to Egypt, with their princesandtheir precious articles of silver and gold. And he shall continuemore years than the king of the North. WHAT WILL HE (PTOLEMY EUERGETES) DO? (HE WILL CARRY THEIR GODS AND PRINCES TO EGYPT ALONG WITH ALL THEIR TREASURES)? WHO IS THE KING OF THE NORTH (SYRIA)? (SELEUCUS CALLINICUS)? HOW LONG WILL HE (PTOLEMY) LIVE ? (FIVE YEARS LONGER THAN THE KING OF THE NORTH)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:8-10 WHO IS THE KING OF THE NORTH? SOUTH? READ: DANIEL 11:9 9 “The king of the Northshall come to the kingdom of the king of the South, but shall return to his own land. (NKJ) 9 So the king of the Southshall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. (KJV) 9 The king of the Northwill invade the realm of the king of the South but will retreat to his own country. (NIV) 9 "The latterwill enter the realm of the king of the South, but will return to his {own} land. (NAS) 9 The lattershall come into the realm of the king of the south but shall return into his own land. (RSV)

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:9 9 “The king of the Northshall come to the kingdom of the king of the South, but shall return to his own land. CAN WE RESOLVE THESE DIFFERENCES? WHO IS KING OF THE NORTH? (SELEUCUS CALLINICUS)? WHO IS KING OF THE SOUTH? (PTOLEMY EUERGETES)? WHO WILL INVADE WHOM? WHERE DID HE RETURN TO? (EGYPT OR SYRIA)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:8-10 10 "However his sonsshall stir up strife, and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one shall certainly come and overwhelm and pass through; then he shall return to his fortress and stir up strife. WHO ARE ‘HIS SONS’, EUERGETES OR CALLINICUS? THE SONS OF CALLINICUS ARE: (SELEUCUS,CERAUNUS AND ANTIOCHUS)? WHAT WILL THEY DO? (HIS SONS WILL STIR UP STRIFE AND ASSEMBLE A MULTITUDE OF GREAT FORCES)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:8-10 10 "However his sons shall stir up strife, and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one shall certainly come and overwhelm and pass through; then he shall return to his fortress and stir up strife. WHO IS THE ‘ONE’ WHO SHALL COME? (ANTIOCHUS THE GREAT)? WHAT WILL HE DO? (HE WILL OVERWHELM THEM AND RETURN TO HIS FORTRESS AND STIR UP STRIFE)?

READ: DANIEL 11:11-13 11 “The king of the South shall be moved with rage, and go out and fight with him, with the king of the North, who shall muster a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into the hand of his enemy. 12 "When he has taken away the multitude, his heart will be lifted up; and he will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not prevail. 13 “The king of the North will return and muster a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come at the end of some years with a great army and much equipment.

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:11-13 11 “The king of the Southshall be moved with rage, and go out and fight with him, with the king of the North, who shall muster a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into the hand of his enemy. WHO IS THE KING OF THE SOUTH? (PTOLEMY PHILOPATER, SON OF EUERGETES)? WHAT WILL HE (PTOLEMY) DO? WHAT SIZE ARMY WILL HE ASSEMBLE? (70,000 SOLDIERS, 5,000 HORSES, 73 ELEPHANTS)? WHY WILL HE ATTACK THE KING OF THE NORTH (HE WAS MOVED WITH RAGE)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:11-13 11 “The king of the South shall be moved with rage, and go out and fight with him, with the king of the North, who shall muster a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into the hand of his enemy. WHO IS THE KING OF THE NORTH? (ANTIOCHUS THE GREAT)? WHAT SIZE ARMY WILL HE ASSEMBLE? (62,000 SOLDIERS, 6,000 HORSES, 102 ELEPHANTS)? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HIS ARMY? (THEY WILL BE GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF HIS ENEMY)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:11-13 12 "When he has taken away the multitude, his heart will be lifted up. And he will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not prevail. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HIM (PTOLEMY)? (HIS HEART WILL BE LIFTED UP)? WILL HE BE SUCCESSFUL IN HIS ENDEAVORS? (HE WILL NOT PREVAIL)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:11-13 13 “The king of the Northwill return and muster a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come at the end of some yearswith a great army and much equipment. WHAT WILL THE KING OF THE NORTH (ANTIOCHUS) DO? (HE WILL MUSTER A GREATER ARMY)? WHEN WILL IT COME TO AND END? (END OF SOME YEARS - 14 YEARS LATER)?

READ: DANIEL 11:14-16 14 “In those times many shall rise up against the king of the South. Also, violent men of your people shall exalt themselves in fulfillment of the vision, but they shall fall. 15 “The king of the North shall come and build a siege mound, and take a fortified city; and the forces of the South shall not withstand him. Even his choice troops shall have no strength to resist. 16 "But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and no one shall stand against him. He shall stand in the Glorious Land with destruction in his power.

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:14-16 14 “In those times many shall rise up against the king of the South. Also, violent men of your peopleshall exalt themselves in fulfillment of the vision, but they shall fall. WHO WILL ARISE AGAINST THE KING OF THE SOUTH? (ANTIOCHUS AND PHILIP KING OF MACEDON, WILL UNITE TOGETHER AGAINST EGYPT)? WHO WILL TRY TO FULFILL THE VISION? (VIOLENT MEN WILL EXHALT THEMSELVES)? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? (THEY SHALL FALL)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:14-16 15 “The king of the Northshall come and build a siege mound, and take a fortified city. And the forces of the Southshall not withstand him. Even his choice troopsshall have no strength to resist. WHO IS THE KING OF THE NORTH? (ANTIOCHUS THE GREAT)? WHAT WILL HE (ANTIOCHUS) DO? (HE WILL TAKE THE FORTIFIED CITY)? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE FORCES OF THE SOUTH? (THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND HIM)? (EVEN HIS CHOICE TROOPS SHALL BE TAKEN)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:14-16 WHAT WILL HAPPEN TP THE FORCES OF THE SOUTH? READ: EZEKIEL 30:22-26 22 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'Surely I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken; and I will make the sword fall out of his hand. 23 'I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them throughout the countries. 24 'Iwill strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man.

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:14-16 WHAT WILL HAPPEN TP THE FORCES OF THE SOUTH? READ: EZEKIEL 30:22-26 25 'Iwill strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down. They shall know that I am the LORD, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. 26 'Iwill scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.'“ (NKJ) WHO RAISES UP NATIONS AND DESTROYS THEM? WHY? (THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:14-16 16 "But he who comes against himshall do according to his own will, and no one shall stand against him. He shall stand in the Glorious Landwith destruction in his power. WHO WILL COME AGAINST HIM? (ANTIOCHUSWILL COME AGAINST PTOELMY’S ARMY)? WILL HE (ANTIOCHUS) BE SUCCESSFUL? (NO ONE SHALL STAND AGAINST HIM)? WHERE WILL HE GO? (HE WILL STAND IN THE GLORIOUS LAND)?

READ: DANIEL 11:17-19 17 "He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do. And he shall give him the daughter of women to destroy it; but she shall not stand with him, or be for him. 18 "After this he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall take many. But a ruler shall bring the reproach against them to an end; and with the reproach removed, he shall turn back on him. 19 "Then he shall turn his face toward the fortress of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:17-19 17 "He shall also set his faceto enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do. And he shall give him the daughter of women to destroy it; but she shall not stand with him, or be for him. WHAT WILL HE (ANTIOCHUS) SET HIS FACE TO DO? (ENTER WITH THE STRENGTH OF HIS KINGDOM)? WHO ARE THE ‘UPRIGHT ONES’ WITH HIM? (CHRISTIANS? SAINTS?) READ: PSALMS 11:7 7 The LORD is righteous, he loves righteousness; his countenancebeholds the upright. (NKJ)

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:17-19 17 "He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy it; but she shall not stand with him, or be for him. WHAT WILL HE (ANTIOCHUS) GIVE TO HIM (PTOLEMY)? (HIS DAUGHTER CLEOPATRA)? WHY WILL HE DO THIS? (TO UNITE EGYPT AND SYRIA)? WILL SHE HONOR HER FATHER WISHES? (SHE WILL NOT STAND WITH HER FATHER)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:17-19 18 "After this he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall take many. But a ruler shall bring the reproach against them to an end; and with the reproach removed, he shall turn back on him. WHERE WILL HE TURN TO? (THE COAST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE ISLANDS OF RHODES, SAMOS, DELOS)? WHO WILL BRING REPROACH AGAINST (ANTIOCHUS)? (THE ROMAN GENERALLUCIUS SCIPIO ASIATICUS)? WHAT WILL HE DO? (HE WILL REBEL AGAINST HIM)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:17-19 19 "Then he shall turn his face toward the fortress of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. WHAT WIILL HE (ANTIOCHUS) DO ? (HE WILL FLEE TO SARDIS AND ANTIOCH)? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HIM (ANTIOCHUS)? (HE WILL BE DEFEATED AND DISAPPEAR)?

READ: DANIEL 11:20-22 20 "There shall arise in his place one who imposes taxes on the glorious kingdom; but within a few days he shall be destroyed, but not in anger or in battle. 21 “In his place shall arise a vile person, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty; but he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue. 22 "With the force of a flood they shall be swept away from before him and be broken, and also the prince of the covenant.

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:20-22 20 "There shall arise in his placeone who imposes taxes on the glorious kingdom; but within a few days he shall be destroyed, but not in anger or in battle. WHO SHALL ARISE IN HIS PLACE? (SELEUCUS PHILOPATER - SON OF ANTIOCHUS)? WHAT WILL HE DO? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HIM? (HE WILL BE DESTROYED BYHIS TREASURER)?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:20-22 21 “Inhis place shall arisea vile person, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty. But he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue. 22 "With the force of a floodthey shall be swept away from before him and be broken, and also the prince of the covenant. WHO WILL ARISE IN HIS PLACE? (A VILE PERSON - ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES) HOW WILL HE SIEZE THE KINGDOM? (BY INTRIGUE AND THE FORCE OF A FLOOD)? WHO IS ‘THE PRINCE OF THE COVENANT’? (THE HIGH PRIEST-ONIAS)?

READ: DANIEL 11:23-24 23 "After the league is made with him he shall act deceitfully, for he shall come up and become strong with a small number of people. 24 "He shall enter peaceably, even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers: he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches; and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:23-24 23 "After the league is made with himhe shall act deceitfully, for he shall come up and become strongwith a small number of people. WHAT WILL HE (ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES) DO? (HE WILL MAKE A TREATY WITH EGYPT AND SYRIA)? WILL HE HONOR THIS TREATY ? HOW WILL HE COME UP?

QUESTIONS: DANIEL 11:23-24 24 "He shall enter peaceably, even into the richest places of the province. And he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers. He shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches. And he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time. HOW WILL HE ENTER? WHERE WILL HE ENTER? WHAT WILL HE DO THAT HIS ANCESTORS DID NOT DO? HOW WILL HE MAINTAIN HIS POWER ? WILL HE BE SUCCESSFUL?

Daniel's Visions Unveiled: Insights on Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, & Alexander