Pastor Steve

The earlier part of Daniel 11 has spoken of kings and alliances and battles. We have been able to give specific names and dates to these predictions. The same thing should be true for this section, even though we have not yet witnessed the rise or observed the careers of those prophesied. We have no…

Gaius Popillius Laenas served as one of two consuls of the Roman Republic. He was sent to prevent war between Antiochus IV and the Ptolemaic Egyptian king. On being confronted with the Roman demands that he abort his attack on Alexandria is supposed to have drawn a circle around the king in the sand with…

The wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword, and flame, by captivity and plunder..…

Daniel saw only the earthly scene in chapter ten (as we do), and his mind was troubled. But God showed that He was in control of history. We are not told much about the spirit world in the Bible – only glimpses into the unseen world around us – but we are told what we…

Daniel has been mourning here in chapter 10, for the trials God had shown were to come upon his people, and he had sought assurance from God that they would not be destroyed by the particularly intense persecution that the last part of the preceding vision describes. In fact, he may have been troubled by…

There are many different interpretations trying to tell what the ninth chapter of Daniel mean. In Hebrew the word “seven,” means “a group of seven” something. It could mean a week because a week is a group of seven days, but it does not actually mean week. And in this case, it is a group…