rhbc 168: faithful when evil rules

#11 - “Faithful When Evil Rules”

Series: Living Faithfully in Babylon

I. God Warns of Continuation of Tensions (1:1-20)

1. Prophecies already fulfilled (11:1-32)

a. About Persia (11:1-2)b. About Greece (11:3-4)c. About Egypt and Syria (11:5-

20)d. About Antiochus, Epiphanes

and Syria (11:21-35)

2. Prophecies yet to be fulfilled (11:36-12:13)a. About the tribulation and

Antichrist (11:32-12:1)b. About the promised kingdom

(12:2-3)c. Final Instructions to Daniel

(12:4-13)

“The Mighty King”– Alexander The Great

II. God Warns of Antiochus the Tyrant (11:21-27)

Antiochus III Antiochus IV

III. God Warns of Merciless Torment (11:28-31)• Antiochus IV killed 80,000 Jews• Antiochus IV sold 40,000 Jews

into Slavery. • Antiochus IV Plundered and Desecrated the Temple

IV. God’s Witness is There will Always be Those who Stand True (11:32-35)

Brian Grasso Kim Davis David Daleiden

Godly Heroes

V. God Warns that the Antichrist Will Inflict Terror (11:36-39)

V. God Warns that the Antichrist Will Inflict Terror (11:36-39)

The Antichrist will:• Deify himself (8:25)• Disguise his cruelty with peace

promises (8:24)• Be destroyed supernaturally

(8:25; Rev. 19:19,20)

The Antichrist will be:• Dramatic in appearance (8:23)• Destined to do evil (8:23)• Dynamic in leadership (8:23)• Demonic in power (8:24)• Destructive in his reign (8:24)• Deceitful in his practice (8:25)

VI. God Warns of a Worldwide Threat (11:40-44)

VII. God’s Witness of a Messianic Triumph (11:49)

Zechariah 14:1-4 “A day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence. I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.”

“Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations as He fights on a day of battle. On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south.”

Zechariah 14:9 “On that day Yahweh will become King over all the earth—Yahweh alone, and His name alone. “

Revelation 16:16 “So they assembled them at the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon”.