The Book of

Daniel the Prophet

 DANIEL 7- B
God will Judge
“But the saints of the most High shall take the
kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever,
even for ever and ever.” Daniel 7:18
We have looked at Daniel’s vision in which he saw four
great beasts rise out of an angry sea with winds blowing on
it. We learned they were governments or kingdoms. First
Babylon, the Medo-Persia, followed by Greece and at last a
terrible beast with iron teeth, which was Rome.
But Rome has two parts; first there was Pagan Rome and then
the Papacy grew up and ruled in the same city. The Papacy
was shown by the strange ‘little horn’ with eyes and a
mouth. The little horn plucked up three other horns and then
started to rule the earth. Daniel was worried about this ‘little
horn’ because it persecuted God’s people for 1260 years!
 Daniel saw the strange ‘Little Horn’.
Then suddenly the vision shifted to a Judgment Scene.
“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of
days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the
hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the
fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.” Daniel 7:9
Now we see a wonderful scene. It is a judgment scene. It
seems that God wants very much to tell us that even though
this terrible beast power was going to make things hard for
God’s people, God knew all about it and He would judge
fairly.
Here Daniel saw God coming in and sitting on a judgment
throne. The words ‘thrones were cast down’, means that
seating places were placed in the room, In the east they
often sat on big cushions, you would ‘throw down’ a big
cushion for someone to sit on. We see more of this
judgment in verses 10 & 11:
“A fiery stream issued and came forth from before
him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him:
the judgment was set, and the books were opened. I
beheld then because of the voice of the great words
which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast
was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the
burning flame.” Daniel 10, 11
Jesus let Daniel know that the beast would not always
get away with his cruel work against God’s people. He
would be judged and executed. Over and over in the
Bible Jesus tells His people that He is in charge and
will win at last.
Daniel 7:12 “As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had
their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged
for a season and time.”
In this verse we see that it says although their kingdoms
ended their ‘lives were prolonged’. This is interesting as
when we study the fourth Beast and especially the little
horn kingdom, we can see things from all the other
kingdoms in this Roman Papal kingdom.
 BABYLON
Babylon had what was called the
‘mysteries’ or the ‘mystery
religion’. This came from the
time of Nimrod and his wicked
wife, but the ideas of this secret
religion of the priests came
down through the ages. When
the Jews were in captivity in
Babylon, some of them learned
this ‘mystery religion’ and they
brought it into their own religion
and called it the ‘Kabala’. It was
ideas of magic numbers and
special words and was really just
a bunch of Satan’s lies.
Many organizations today use this
same 'secret' symbolism. Masonry,
witchcraft, some Jewish societies,
Eastern religions, Wicca, Satanists,
and much of it is found in Catholicism.
The methods of the priests, the mass,
the confessional, worship of saints,
and a lot of other things, trace back to
the worship of Nimrod, his wife,
Semeramis, and her illegitimate son
Tammuz. That's where the cross
symbol came from also; it was the
sign of Tammuz, the sun god. Jesus
died on the symbol of the counterfeit
religion: sun worship.
 MEDO-PERSIA

Medo-Persia claimed that when it made a law, no one could

change it. That meant they believed they could make no
mistakes; they were infallible. The Papacy also claims to be
infallible.
When a man claims he is infallible, he is really claiming to be
God. Remember how the king of Medo-Persia tried to force
people to pray only to him? You can’t talk to the Pope, even
today, without first bowing to him and kissing his ring.
 GREECE

Greece developed forms of philosophy and religion that still

plague us today very much. Our whole worldly system of
education is based on Greek philosophy and this makes it
hard for people to understand the real truth of the Bible.
Remember Paul said the Greeks thought the truth about
Jesus was ‘foolishness’? (1 Corinthians 1:23)
 ROME

Of course much of the religion and ways of Pagan Roman Sun

Worship came right into the papacy; so much so that the
Bible doesn’t even use a new beast to show Papal Rome
but just a horn on the same terrible beast.

We have wickedness from all these kingdoms with us today.

We need to study God’s word and not be fooled!
“I saw in the night visions,
and, behold, one like the Son
of man came with the clouds
of heaven, and came to the
Ancient of days, and they
brought him near before him.
And there was given him
dominion, and glory, and a
kingdom, that all people,
nations, and languages,
should serve him: his
dominion is an everlasting
dominion, which shall not
pass away, and his kingdom
that which shall not be
destroyed.” Daniel 7:13, 14
Daniel 7:13, 14
The coming of Christ here
described is not his second
coming to the earth. He
comes to the Ancient of days
in Heaven to receive
dominion, and glory, and a
kingdom, which will be given
him at the close of his work as
a mediator.
It is this coming, and not his
second advent to the earth,
that was foretold in prophecy
to take place at the
termination of the 2300 days,
in 1844.
“I Daniel was grieved in
my spirit in the midst of
my body, and the visions
of my head troubled me. I
came near unto one of
them that stood by, and
asked him the truth of all
this. So he told me, and
made me know the
interpretation of the
things. Daniel 7:15, 16
 Daniel was really
worried when he saw
the things this ‘Little
Horn’ would do against
God’s true people so he
asked one of the
heavenly beings he saw
standing nearby during
the vision to explain it to
him.
 “These great beasts,
which are four, are four
kings, which shall arise
out of the earth. But the
saints of the most High
shall take the kingdom,
and possess the
kingdom for ever, even
for ever and ever.”
Daniel 7:17-18
“Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was
diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth
were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake
in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; And of the
ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which
came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that
had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose
look was more stout than his fellows. I beheld, and the
same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against
them; ” Daniel 7:19-21
It is interesting the Roman government had ten parts and
then later as Rome began to fall it split up into ten nations. It
was after this dividing up that the strange little horn came
up. Then Daniel saw a weird thing, the little horn had eyes
and a mouth speaking great things.
It “had eyes;" showing that claimed to be the
household of faith; "eyes" meaning faith,
spiritual insight;

"mouth speaking great things;" showing that

the church would claim infallibility;

"whose look would be more stout than its

fellows;" showing that he would claim
authority over all, even the kings of other
nations; the other horns.

Having a mouth that speaks - also means

that it passes laws and legislates. It was the
'Little Horn with the Big Mouth!'
 Before the strange 'Little Horn' could totally rule the world,
there were three nations that had to be destroyed. Three of
the nations of the former Pagan Roman Empire, had what
Rome called Arian religious beliefs; incompatible with the
dogmas of the emerging Papacy. They had to be gotten rid
of before that power could totally dominate the consciences
of the people. They were the Heruli, the Vandals, and the
Ostragoths. The last of them was ‘uprooted’ from Rome by
538 AD.
The Holy Spirit represents worldly kingdoms under the
symbol of fierce beasts of prey; but Christ is "the Lamb of
God, which taketh away the sin of the world." John 1:29. In
His plan of government there is no employment of brute force
to compel the conscience.
The "Mystery of Godliness" is the Creator God coming all the
way down to die as a man to rescue fallen man.
The "Mystery of
Iniquity" is a created
being trying to take
the place of the
Creator God!
“I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and
prevailed against them; Until the Ancient of days came, and
judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the
time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.”
Daniel 7: 21,22
“Thus he said, The fourth beast
shall be the fourth kingdom
upon earth, which shall be
diverse from all kingdoms, and
shall devour the whole earth,
and shall tread it down, and
break it in pieces. And the ten
horns out of this kingdom are
ten kings that shall arise: and
another shall rise after them;
and he shall be diverse from
the first, and he shall subdue
three kings.” Daniel 7:23, 24
 “And he shall
speak great words
against the most
High, and shall
wear out the saints
of the most High,
and think to change
times and laws: and
they shall be given
into his hand until a
time and times and
the dividing of time.
Daniel 7:25
 1260 DAYS/YEARS

“and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times
and the dividing of time”

In verse 25 we see for the first time a time prophecy that

shows how long Papal Rome would rule the world! This
same number is found in seven different places in the Bible!
It adds up to 1260 days and because in prophecy a ‘day’
means a real year, it is 1260 years..
A 'time' = a year (a Biblical
year is 360 days)
'times' = 2 years
'Dividing of time' = a half
year
added together = 1260
prophetic 'days' or 1260
literal years.
538 AD - 1798 AD
The last of the three horns was ‘plucked up’ around the time
that the Emperor Justinian in 533 AD, issue the famous
decree giving the power and authority to the Papal Bishop of
Rome. (Giving "him his power, and his seat, and great
authority." Revelation 13:2) and when you add 1260 years to
that, you come to 1798.
It is interesting that the title 'Pontifex Maximus' was held by
the Emperors of Rome, taken from the High Priests of Sun
Worship when the Caesars began to declare they were the
'sun-god' on earth. It meant "Great Bridge Builder" and
declared the owner had power over the souls as well as the
bodies of his worshippers.

When Justinian came to the throne, he did not feel

comfortable to take on himself such a presumptuous title and
refused it. Whereupon the Bishop of Rome quickly snapped it
up. So we have the 'Pontiff' of Rome sitting in the seat of the
Caesars.
What happened in 1798? Well, Berthier, one of Napoleon’s
Generals was sent to Rome, where he took the Pope
captive and Rome lost its power to rule the nations. The
Church of Rome continued as a religion but lost her power
to rule over the governments.
During the years Rome ruled the world it did ‘wear out the
saints of the Most High’, by persecuting and killing millions of
true followers of Jesus. God knows what is happening and He
will care for His people. Even though many dear Christians
died, Jesus was close to each one to give him strength and
help him. If we are faithful to the end, we will see these dear
ones in heaven and hear their stories. No one will be sorry
that he died for Jesus and His truth!
“But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his
dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.”
Daniel 7:26
 Whenever this terrible persecuting power is spoken of in the
Bible prophecies, God is always quick to assure us that it will
be judged and come to its end! For God's faithful ones either of
the past or future - this is a precious assurance.
 We see five points here that help us to know for sure what
this ‘little Horn’ power on the Roman beast really is.
1. It will speak ‘Great Words’ and Blasphemies against God.
2. It will ‘wear out’ God’s people; persecute them.

3. It will think it can change God’s laws that have to do

with time.
4. It will arise after the Roman Empire is broken up to ten
nations; among the nations of Europe and three nations will
be destroyed as this power rises.
5. It will rule for 1260 day/years: 538 AD - 1798 AD

There is no other power on earth that can fit this description

except the Roman Papacy. God wants us to be sure in what
we believe so He gives a lot of evidence.
Jesus assures us in
this chapter 4 or 5
different times that this
beast with the bold
horn will come to it’s
end in the judgment.
Here are some of the
sins of this power:
1: Blasphemy. The Catholic Priests claim to be able to
forgive sins. They do this every day in the confessional,
which is a little room were the people go to confess their
sins to the Priests, who pretend to forgive them.
The popes claim to be the vicars of Christ, that means they
claim to take His place on earth. This is blasphemy against
the Holy Spirit. Jesus said the Holy Spirit, who is the 3rd
Person of the Godhead, would take His place on earth. (In
the Greek text 'Ante' means to take the place of or be a
Vicar of. So Ante-Christ or Antichrist, means to claim to take
the place of, or be the Vicar of Christ. It does not mean, as
commonly supposed, to be against Christ. )
The Pope also claims to be God
and have all the rights of God.
'The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 6
p.48, which describes the pope
as: 'not a mere man, but as it
were God and the vicar of God.'
Pope Leo XIII in one of his
encyclical letters wrote: 'We hold
upon this earth the place of God
Almighty.' Pope Innocent III wrote:
'The pope is not simply a man but
rather God on earth.' He also
wrote: 'The pope is not only the
representative of Jesus Christ but
he is Jesus Christ Himself hidden
under the veil of flesh.'
2: Persecution. The Western Watchman, a Roman
Catholic periodical (December 24, 1908) stated: 'The
church has persecuted. Only a tyro in history will deny
that… Protestants were persecuted in France and Spain
with the full approval of the church authorities. We have
always defended the persecution of the Huguenots and the
Spanish Inquisition.'
Dr J. Dowling, History of Romanism, pages 541-542, states:
'From the birth of Popery in 606, to the present time, it is
estimated by careful and credible historians, that more than
fifty millions of the human family have been slaughtered for
the crime of heresy by popish persecutors, an average of
more than forty thousand murders for every year of the
existence of Popery.'
3: Claim to change God's times and laws.
Catholic literature consistently moves from the first of the Ten
Commandments to the third, which is counted as number two. The
Second Commandment, forbidding idolatry, and warning that God
is a Jealous God, is not found in the Roman Catholic catechism. (It
is in the Catholic Bible)
For many years, the consistent teaching of the Roman Catholic
Church was that Sabbath was changed to Sunday by the action of
the Catholic Church. e.g. Geiermann: Convert's Catechism of
Catholic Doctrine, 1946 ed. page 50. 'The church substituted
Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which
Jesus Christ bestowed upon her… The Third (really the fourth but
they leave out #2) Commandment commands us to sanctify
Sunday as the Lord's Day.'
The Roman Church claims that changing God’s Law and putting
the Sunday in place of the seventh day Sabbath, is the ‘Mark of her
power”!
“And the kingdom and
dominion, and the greatness
of the kingdom under the
whole heaven, shall be given
to the people of the saints of
the most High, whose
kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and all dominions
shall serve and obey
him. Hitherto is the end of
the matter. As for me Daniel,
my cogitations much
troubled me, and my
countenance changed in me:
but I kept the matter in my
heart.” Daniel 7:27,28
Remember in our study about Daniel 2 and the Great Image, we
learned about the Rock that was cut out without hands and
would destroy all the kingdoms and rule forever?
Here we see the same thing. Jesus is telling us that His kingdom
will be set up after the time of the judgment and will never fall.
 The ‘saints’ will be
given the kingdom of
Jesus to be their
kingdom and they will
never more have to
worry about terrible
beast kingdoms, which
persecute them and kill
them for serving Jesus.
On earth the saints may have been poor and despised. They
were often killed or thrown into dungeons without even a trial.
They saw their beloved Bibles torn up and burned and their
children killed or made slaves. It was so unfair; but God has
not forgotten even one of His dear children.
The wicked ones who killed them often thought that nobody
knew what they did in those dark dungeons, but angels were
there, and it is all written down. God’s children will be
honoured and those who persecuted them will have to
answer for their deeds unless they repented while they lived.
God’s side of this
Great Controversy
WILL WIN. Even if
the entire world
tries to stop it.
Make sure YOU
are on Jesus’ side
in this war!
Next: Daniel 8