Oh I think the chosen Daniel verse is excellent. But then Daniel gets all crazy with the end-times stuff and loses me.
Like verses 11 & 12: “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
What if I give up at 1,313 days?
Daniel is probably the most interesting book of the OT, if not the bible. The Jewish version of the Apocalypse, it was written before Christ and purports to be prophetic, but forgot the part about Christ’s birth and the subsequent (much later) expansion of Christianity.
Of course, perhaps this was a different end time and it DID happen in a relative sense, which is fine. Just tell Jack Van Impe.
OK, I’m not sure I understand your 1st post then.
“Oh I think the chosen Daniel verse is excellent. But then Daniel gets all crazy with the end-times stuff and loses me.”
Daniel is such a great book.
“Like verses 11 & 12: “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.”
So meaningful. I couldn’t possibly do it justice. I would strongly a Bible study on Daniel. Chuck Missler’s is good: http://www.khouse.org/6640_cat/biblestudy/daniel/
“Daniel is probably the most interesting book of the OT, if not the bible.”
tough call!
“The Jewish version of the Apocalypse, it was written before Christ and purports to be prophetic, but forgot the part about Christ’s birth”
Christ is ALL over the OT.
“and the subsequent (much later) expansion of Christianity.”
Paul says something about that, the Church being a “mystery”. Again, a proper study would do it justice.
Notice Daniel uses the time measurement of 'days' (sun) whereas other places the time measurement is months (lunar).
What if I give up at 1,313 days?
But Christ said 'time' for the elect's sake would be shortened. Guess that means one would need to know how much time was then allotted for Daniel's days to know if giving up at 1,313 would cause any a problem.
Daniel is probably the most interesting book of the OT, if not the bible. The Jewish version of the Apocalypse, it was written before Christ and purports to be prophetic, but forgot the part about Christ’s birth and the subsequent (much later) expansion of Christianity. Of course, perhaps this was a different end time and it DID happen in a relative sense, which is fine. Just tell Jack Van Impe.
I like Daniel and the instruction he gives the student of the WORD. Paul says was Written to give us even to this day the script of admonition as to what would be at the end of this flesh age.
Christ existed in Daniel's days as Christ was even in the Garden of Eden, it was just before He fulfilled John 3 wherein the first requirement to see the kingdom of God was to be born from above.
Solomon pens in Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. 10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See this is new?' it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
So that is why Paul says we have the 'script' to know what happened to them was/is our warning upon whom the ends of the age are come.
Mr. Impe notwithstanding.