Daniel 12 is a continuation of Daniel 11 in which Daniel receives a prophecy of future events for Israel from an angel, perhaps Gabriel. The prophecy is given to Daniel in the first year of Darius the Mede. It includes details regarding four future kings of Persia and then the kingdom of Greece which would eventually defeat the Persian Empire.
DANIEL 11-12
Particular details are given regarding the evil Greek king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the precursor to the Antichrist. In Daniel 11:31, we see Antiochus commit the first abomination of desolation in a Jewish temple. “And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that makes desolate.”
The reference to “the time of the end” in Daniel 11:35 indicates there has been a jump into the future from the time of Antiochus. The chronological gap between Antiochus (vs. 21-34) and the end time (vs. 36-45) was common in the Old Testament. Many prophecies concerning the first and second coming of Christ, though presented together, were separated by thousands of years in their fulfillment.
Starting with Daniel 11:36, the prophecy has shifted from Antiochus to the Antichrist. The timing for vs. 36 is the middle of Daniel’s 70th Week (Daniel 9:27), at the beginning of the Great Tribulation (see Matthew 24:21). Daniel also writes about this in chapter 9. “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate” (Daniel 9:27).
We’re now discussing the man of whom Antiochus Epiphanes is our clearest model, the Antichrist, called ‘the king’ here. Notice the similarity between Daniel 11:36, (“And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god”) and 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 (“And that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God”).
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DANIEL 11-12
Particular details are given regarding the evil Greek king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the precursor to the Antichrist. In Daniel 11:31, we see Antiochus commit the first abomination of desolation in a Jewish temple. “And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that makes desolate.”
The reference to “the time of the end” in Daniel 11:35 indicates there has been a jump into the future from the time of Antiochus. The chronological gap between Antiochus (vs. 21-34) and the end time (vs. 36-45) was common in the Old Testament. Many prophecies concerning the first and second coming of Christ, though presented together, were separated by thousands of years in their fulfillment.
Starting with Daniel 11:36, the prophecy has shifted from Antiochus to the Antichrist. The timing for vs. 36 is the middle of Daniel’s 70th Week (Daniel 9:27), at the beginning of the Great Tribulation (see Matthew 24:21). Daniel also writes about this in chapter 9. “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate” (Daniel 9:27).
We’re now discussing the man of whom Antiochus Epiphanes is our clearest model, the Antichrist, called ‘the king’ here. Notice the similarity between Daniel 11:36, (“And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god”) and 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 (“And that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God”).
The End of the Age According to Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and John
Daniel 12 is a continuation of Daniel 11 in which Daniel receives a prophecy of future events for Israel from an angel, perhaps Gabriel. The prophecy is given to Daniel in the first year of Darius the Mede. It includes details regarding four future kings of Persia and then the kingdom of Greece...
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