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First Coming (Christ Rejected)

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dom, being about threescore and two years | 15; 3:1; 10:9 |Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three old. times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks c TER G before his God, as he did aforetime. HAF ; j 11 Then these men assembled, and found

Daniel in the Lions’ Den

Daniel praying and making supplication be-

1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 12 Dan. 3:8: fore his God. an hundred and twenty princes, which | gg ~~ ‘~‘|12 Then they came near, and spale before should be over the whole kingdom; the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast 2 And over these three presidents; of thou not signed a decree, that every man whom Daniel was first: that the princes that shall ask a petition of any God or man might give accounts unto them, and the within thirty days, save of thee, O king, king should have no damage. shall be cast into the den of lions? The king 3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the answered and said, The thing is true, acpresidents and princes, because an excellent cording to the law of the Medes and Perspirit was in him; and the king thought to idDan. sians, which altereth not. set him over the whole realm. 13 Then answered they and said before the

5:24-30 MENE... TEKEL... PERES. These are Hebrew words, unfamiliar to the Babylonians, meaning “weighed,” “numbered,” and “divided” respectively. Daniel interpreted these words to mean that Belshazzar’s kingdom had been “weighed in the balances” of divine judgment and “found wanting’; thus the empire would be terminated and given to the Medes and Persians that very night. History records that on that very same night the great city of Babylon, under the co-regency of Nabonidus and Belshazzar was indeed conquered by the Medes and Persians without resistance.

5:31 Darius here is either another name for the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, or another name for Gubaru, the governor appointed by Cyrus over Babylonia and Syria. Darius the Median is not the same person as Darius the Persian, who ruled Persia much later from 521-486 B.c. (see Ezra 4:5). This new king from the Medes obviously saw something special in Daniel, for he appointed the prophet, who was now about eighty-five years old, as one of the administrators in the newly Tonnes govern-

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king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.

14 Then

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words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he Jaboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him. 15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king,

22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before

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thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

| 4, p,, .g a7 tend | 3-53. Matt, 27:66 | 18 Dan.2:1 | 20 Dan. 3:15

that the law of the Medes and Persians is, | 21 Dan.2:4

| 23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take | Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of | hurt was found upon him, because he be| lieved in his God. | 24 And

the

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That no decree nor statute which the king | 99 pan.

brought those men which had accused Dan-

establisheth may be changed. 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto

iel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they

3:28; Heb. 11:33 ea F cae

Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest contin- | 79-19; 24:16, |came at the bottom of the den. ually, he will deliver thee. 17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon

2Kgs. 14:6; Esth. 9:10

| 25 Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that-dwell in all the

the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it |25 Dan. 4:1

| earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

with his own signet, and with the signet of | 26Ps. 99:1; his lords; that the purpose might not be ene

| 26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before

changed concerning Daniel. 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him. 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.

the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end. | 27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

7:14, 27; Luke 1:33

27 Dan. 4:3

20 And when he came to the den, he cried | 98 gyrq1:1,

| 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of

with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and | 2;Dan.1:21 the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee

| Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

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CHAPTER

7

The Four Beasts

21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, | Dan. 2:28;

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Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of

Amos 3:7

7:1-28 Daniel himself had a dream, which was a vision of future world empires. In chapter 2, man’s view of kingdoms and government is that of a beautiful image that people can worship in place of Jehovah. In this chapter we see God's view of those same kingdoms as a series of rapacious beasts ready to devour mankind. History proves God's view is the right one. This vision was actually given to Daniel some fourteen years before the Medes and Persians conquered Babylon in approximately 553 B.c. The “lion” represents Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian Empire. The plucking of the wings refers to his insanity, and the granting of a “human mind” refers to his conversion. The “bear” represents Media-Persia. Being “raised up on one side” (Dan. 8:8, 21-22) refers to the two unequal partners in the empire: the Persians gradually gained the supremacy over the Medes. The three ribs in the bear’s mouth refer to the three provincial

In the first year of Belshazzar king of

kingdoms conquered by the Medes and Persians: Lydia, Babylon, and Egypt. The leopard represents Greece, and its four wings and heads speak of the division of the Greek empire into four sections, following the death of Alexander the Great (cf. Dan. 8:8, 21-22). The “fourth beast” corresponds to the kingdom of iron legs in Daniel 2:33, 40 and symbolizes the Roman Empire. The “iron teeth” speak of Rome’s unequalled military strength, and the trampling and crushing described in verse seven illustrate the imposition of Rome’s culture and laws upon conquered peoples. The “ten horns” parallel the “ten toes” of Daniel 2:41—43 and represent the final form of Gentile power in the End Times. The kingdom of Antichrist is typified by the “little horn” that arises from the ten horns (Dan. 7:25; 8:23-26; 11:36; 2 Thess. 2:3-8; Rev. 13:5-6).

his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth; and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. 5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus

3 Rev. 13:1 4 Jer. 4:7; 13; 48:40; Ezek. 17:3 6 Dan. 8:8, 22 7 Rev. 13:1 8 Ps. 12:3; Dan. 7:20, 21, 24, 25; 8:9; Rev. 9:7; 13:5 9 Ps. 104:2; Ezek. 1:15, 16; Rev. 1:14; 20:4

10 Isa. 30:33; 66:15; Rev. 5:11;

unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

20:4, 12

6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. 8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. 9 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. 10 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. 11 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

11 Rev. 19:20 13 Ezek. 1:26; Dan. 7:9; Matt.

24:30; 26:64; Rev. 1:7, 13; 14:14 14 Ps. 2:6-8; 8:6; 110:1, 2;

145:13; Dan. 2:44; 3:4; 7:27; Mic. 4:7; Matt. 11:27; 28:18; Luke 1:33; John 3:35; 12:34; 1Cor. 15:27; Eph. 1:22; Heb. 12:28 15 Dan. 7:28 17 Dan. 7:3 18 Rev. 2:26, 27; 3:21; 20:4 19 Dan. 7:7

21 Dan. 8:12, 24; 11:31; Rev. Tio, 13:75 17:14; 19:19 22 Dan. 7:9, 18; 1Cor. 6:2; Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:4

7:2-3 The “four great beasts” came from “the great sea,” meaning the peoples around the Mediterranean Sea.

7:9-14 the Ancient of days. This title refers to God the Father, whose description is similar to John’s description of the Father in Revelation 4. The “Son of Man” refers to Jesus Christ, who receives a kingdom of “everlasting

destroyed, and given to the burning flame. 12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

13 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. 14 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. 15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. 16 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.

The Four Kings 17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. 18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. 19 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; 20 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. 21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22 Until the Ancient of days came, and

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dominion” from the Father. This is a clear prediction of the Messiah's coronation to rule as King over the world during the Millennium. 7:21. saints. The “saints” referred to in this chapter are true believers in God that will rule with Christ in His future Millennial Kingdom (cf. Matt. 19:28-29; Luke 22:29-30; Rev. 20:6).

909 23 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. _24 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. 25 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. 26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy if unto the end. 27 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. 28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled

23 Dan. 2:40 24 Dan. 7:7, 8, 20; Rev.

17:12 25 Isa. 37:23; Dan. 2:21; 8:24, 25; 11:28, 30, 31, 36; 12:7; Rev. 12:14; 13:5, 6, 7; 17:6; 18:24 26 Dan. 7:10, 22 27 Isa. 60:12; Dan. 2:44; 7:14, 18, 22; Luke 1:33; John 12:34; Rev. 11:15 28 Dan. 7:15; 8:27; 10:8, 16; Luke 2:19, 51 1 Dan. 7:1

2 Esth. 1:2 4 Dan. 5:19; 11:3, 16 5 Dan. 8:21

7:23-25 The career of the Antichrist is described involving blasphemous words against God (“the most High”) and an intense persecution of the Tribulation saints. The reference to “a time and times and the dividing of time” corresponds to the three and one-half years or forty-two months of the Great Tribulation, the latter half of the seven-year Tribulation period (see Rev. 12:14; 13:5).

7:26-28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. This portion of Daniel's prophecy concludes with the prediction that the Antichrist and the ten-nation confederacy will be defeated when Jesus returns to establish his Millennial Kingdom on earth. Ultimately, the greatness of this kingdom will be everlasting as the Millennial Kingdom is merged with the eternal kingdom of God (see 1 Cor.

15:24). 8:1-2 a vision appeared unto me. This vision, given to

Daniel just prior to the fall of the Babylonian Empire is difficult to understand because it primarily focuses on “the time of the end,” yet it mentions both the Medo-Persian and the Greek empires—empires no longer in existence. After writing in Aramaic from 2:4—7:28, Daniel returns to writing in Hebrew and continues to do so for the remainder of the book.

8:3 The “ram which had two horns” represents MediaPersia (8:20) and predicts the two-nation empire that replaced Babylon. 8:5-9, 14, 22 The male “goat” from the west refers to

me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

CHAPTER

8

The Vision of the Ram and the Goa 1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. 2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. 3 Then! lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great. 5 And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the

Greece, which conquered the Persian empire and is symbolized by the “notable horn.” With lightning speed, Alexander the Great conquered the then-known world by the time he was thirty-two years old. Upon his death, the empire was divided among his four generals: Antigonus, Ptolemy, Lysimachus, and Cassander. The Syrian region of the Greek or Hellenistic empire was given control over the land of Israel (“the pleasant land”). Out of this region of the empire later arose the reign of Antiochus, symbolized in this chapter as the “little horn.” Antiochus,

who assumed the name “Epiphanes” or “glorious one,” became a type of the Antichrist by instigating a wave of anti-Semitism that resulted in the desecration of the temple and the slaughter of thousands of Jews during a sixyear period (2300 days, v. 14) from 171-165 8.c. The

prediction of cleansing in verse 14 was fulfilled when Judas Maccabeus and the Jewish zealots defeated the Greeks (165 B.C.) and cleansed the temple in an elaborate ceremony of dedication known today as Hanukkah.

The accuracy of this prophecy as fulfilled in history has caused many critics to suggest that a “latter Daniel” wrote the book of Daniel because the original Daniel was dead long before the Greeks rose to prominence. However, no such evidence can be found to support this notion, and the discovery of the book of Daniel among the Dead Sea Scrolls has provided ample evidence that the book is of ancient origin and consequently, is prophetic Scripture.

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meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. ¢ ; Gabriel Is God’s Messenger 16 And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vi| sion.

17 So he came near where I stood: and

to stand before him, but he cast him down | 12:11 when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon to the ground, and stamped upon him: and | 12 Dan. 8:4; | my face: but he said unto me, Understand,

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Late 1:19,

10 And it waxed great, even to the host of

heaven; and it cast down some of the host

| shall be. 20 The ram which thou sawest having two

ene

horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

and of the stars to the ground, and stamped | 1:17 21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: upon them. 18 Ezek. 2:2; |and the great horn that is between his eyes

11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the | Dan. 10:9, prince of the host, and by him the daily sac- ors rifice was taken away, and the place of his } 49 pap, sanctuary was cast down. 9:27; 11:27,

12 And an host was given him against the

cee: gan

daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it

.

practised, and prospered. 13 Then IJ heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which |

Pe

21 Dan. 8:5;

11:3

22 Dan. 8:8;

11:4

spake, How long shall be the vision concerning | 94 pan. the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of | 11:36; Rev.

is the first king. 22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand | up out of the nation, but not in his power:

23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full; a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, | and shall destroy the mighty and the holy

desolation, to give both the sanctuary and

U7-13, 17

people.

the host to be trodden under foot?

ee

25 And

through his policy also he shall

14 And he said unto me, Unto two thou- | 8:14: 11:21, | cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he sand and three hundred days; then shall the | 23, 24, 36 shall magnify himself in his heart, and by sanctuary be cleansed. peace shall destroy many: he shall also 8:11-19 Biblical prophecy scholars are divided over whether this vision of Daniel focuses on Antiochus Epiphanes, or the “man of sin” described in the New Testament as the Antichrist—or both. It would seem that both men are in view since Antiochus is the prototype of the Antichrist who is yet to come. Gabriel (mentioned by name for the first time in Scripture) explicitly said that the vision refers to the “time of the end,” and that he was making known to him “what shall be in the last end of the indignation” (v. 19). In the meantime, Gabriel identifies the “ram” as Media-Persia (v. 20) and the “goat” as

Greece (v. 21) in the coming military confrontation for

control of the Near East.

8:23-26 king of fierce countenance. These verses look ahead to the rise of the Antichrist “when the transgressors” have reached their “fullness.” The fact that the Antichrist rules by a power “not... his own” indicates that he will be Satan-incarnate and have satanic supernatural wisdom and powers ascribed to him (Rev. 13). He will even dare to rise against the “Prince of Princes”— Jesus Christ. But God Almighty will soundly defeat the Antichrist and the satanic forces that power him (see Rev. 19:11-16, 18-21, 20:10).

|

911 stand up against the Prince of princes; but | 26 Ezek.

derstood by books the number of the years,

he shall be broken without hand.

whereof the word of the Lorp came to Jere-

nee

26 And the vision of the evening and the | 12:4, 9; Rev. |miah

morning which was told is true: wherefore | 22:10

the prophet,

that he would

accom-

plish seventy years in the desolations of

shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for

21 Den 6:2, | Jerusalem.

many days.

8:16; 10:8,

3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fastdays; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s | 14 Dan. 1:21; | ing, and sackcloth, and ashes: 27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain | 16

business; and I was astonished at the vision, | 5:31; 6:28

4 And I prayed unto the Lorp my God, and

but none understood it.

See

made my confession, and said, O Lord, the

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Paawaos,

9

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great and dreadful God, keeping

the cov-

enant and mercy to them histione him, and

Daniel Prays for His People 3Neh. 1:4, | to them that keep his commandments; 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Aha- | Jer. 29:12, 5 We have sinned, and have committed insuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was 3 hehe iquity, and have done wickedly, and have remade king over the realm of the Chaldeans; | 4:8-10 2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel un-

belled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

Daniel’s Seventy Weeks (Daniel 9:24—27)

The Decree to Restore

The Coming Prince

Messiah the Prince

Messiah Returns Millennial Kingdom

Begins

Messiah “Cut Off” A.D. 30

7 Weeks

Dan. 9:27 (7 yrs.) .

|7 They have dealt treacherously against

fice with harlots: therefore the people that

Treas

the Lorp:

doth not understand shall fall.

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children: now shall a month deyour them

for they have begotten

strange

15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet | 19 Isa. 1:29; | with their portions.

let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto

pagan

8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the

Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor | 5}.4' trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud swear, The Lorp liveth. 2\sa. 29:15 | after thee, O Benjamin. 16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding | 35, 23:5. |9 Ephraim shall be desolate heifer: now the Lorp will feed them as a } Hos. 4:17; rebuke: among the tribes of lamb in a large place. Amos 3:2 made known that which shall

at Beth-aven, in the day of

Israel have I surely be.

17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. | § Isa,aE

10 The princes of Judah were like them that

18 Their drink is sour: they have committed

remove the bound: therefore I will pour out

aa Hh

whoredom continually: her rulers with | 7 Jor 3.29 my wrath upon them like water. shame do love, Give ye. qd\Deut: 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in 19 The wind hath bound her up in her | 28:33 judgment, because he willingly walked after wings, and they shall be ashamed because | 42 Prov, 12:4 | the commandment. of their sacrifices. 12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as. a 4:9 like people, like priest. An idiom meaning that the people and the priests have become the same. The priests were supposed to be separated from the rest of the nation so they could live as unto the Lord (Lev. 8— 10). But since the priests were in this instance no different from the people, then they would experience the coming judgment just like the nation as a whole.

5:5 Judah also shall fall with them. This is not saying that Israel and Judah would fall at the same time, but from the same cause—pride. The fall of Judah in this verse is not a prediction of Sennacherib’s desolations of Judah in 701 B.c., after he had conquered Israel in 722 B.C., but of Judah's fall to Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon in 586 B.C.

4:19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings. A prophecy that Ephraim (a prominent tribe in the Northern Kingdom) was about to find herself swallowed up among the nations. This occurs during the impending Assyrian invasion and through the subsequent years of dispersion among the Gentile nations (cf. 2 Kgs. 17:6; 18:11).

5:9 in the day of rebuke. This is a reference to the purpose of the impending Assyrian judgment. 5:12 as a moth. As the moth slowly destroys clothing, so the Lord would destroy Israel (Job 13:28; Isa. 50:9; 51:8). Similarly, the Hebrew word translated “rottenness”

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moth, and to the house of Judah as rotten-

1320s

6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice;

ness. 30:12: ie and the knowledge of God more than burnt 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and | 7:11; 10:6; offerings. Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim ye 7 But they like men have transgressed the to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet onan covenant: there have they dealt treachercould he not heal you, nor cure you of your | Hos. 13:7,8 | ously against me. wound. 15 Lev. 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniq14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and | 26:40, 41; uity, and is polluted with blood.

as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even i ee 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, I, will tear and go away; I will take away, | 13; Ezek. 6:9; |so the company of priests murder in the way and none shall rescue him. 20:43; 36:31 |by consent: for they commit lewdness. 15 I will go and returm to my place, till they | 1 Deut. acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: oar

10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of

in their affliction they will seek me early.

:i 154 | Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

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aus oa TOD,

6

Israel Isn’t Sincere

72:6: Isa.

11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my

people.

1 Come, and let us return unto the Loro: | "8 for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he

hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

tee 13;

ace ae

2 After two days will he revive us: in the | 5.74-23:29: third day he will raise us up, and we shall | Heb. 4:12 live in his sight. 6 1Sam.

3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to

era

|CHAPTER

7

Israel Rebels | 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit

falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the

know the Lorp: his going forth is prepared | 9-13: 12-7: troop of robbers spoileth without. as the morning; and he shall come unto us | John 17:3 2. And they consider not in their hearts that as the rain, as the latter and former rain | 7 Job 31:33; | I remember all their wickedness: now their

unto the earth.

Hos. 5:7; 8:1 | own doings have beset them about; they are

4 © Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O | 8 Hes. 12:11 | before my face. » Judah, what shall IJ do unto thee? for your | 10 Jer. 5:30

|3

They make

the king glad with

their

goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the | 11 Rev.

wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed

4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after

them

vas by the | 2Ps- 9:16

prophets; I have slain them by the words of | 3 Rom. 1:32 | he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavmy mouth: and thy judgments are as the | 4 Jer. 9:2 light that goeth forth. usually refers to the slow decay of bones or teeth (Prov. 12:4; Hab. 3:16).

5:14 as a young lion to the house of Judah. A young lion paints a picture of judgment that was still developing. Such was the case with the Southern Kingdom—its judgment would not come from the Assyrians, but from the Babylonians (2 Kgs. 25), whose kingdom had not yet come to power. 5:15 1 will go and return to my place. The description is much like a lion returning to his den (see v. 14) until he is ready to seek new prey. The Lord’s place is heaven (cf. Acts 3:19-21). The Lord would not hear israel’s prayers until they underwent the punishment of the dispersion.

Here is one of the passages that teach that a condition for the second coming of Christ is the national regeneration of Israel and her call for Messiah to return and rescue her (cf. Lev. 26:40-42; Jer. 3:11-18; Zech. 12:10; Matt. 23:37-39). Since the nation did not seek the Lord at the _ time of the Assyrian captivity, this must refer to that time

ened. 5 In the day of our king the princes have

when the nation will turn to the Lord during the Tribulation. This will be fulfilled in the future. 6:1-3 After two days will he revive us. In chapter 4, the priests and prophets were said to be the ones leading the nation downward. In the future time of repentance, they will lead the nation back to the Lord. During this time of repentance during the Tribulation, Israel will experience a national confession of sin for a period of two days. On the third day of this process, the entire nation of Israel will become regenerated and saved. The wonderful result of this time will be that Israel will live with her Lord during the entire thousand years of His kingdom. 6:11 O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee. Just as the Lord has had a word of judgment for the Southern Kingdom, so now there is a forecast of blessing. The time of this blessing will be during the restoration and regathering at the second coming of Christ in preparation for the Millennial Kingdom.

928 made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker

7 2Kgs.

sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 7. They are all hot as an oven, and have de-

9 Hos. 8:7

voured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. 3 8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength,

11 2Kgs.

and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth

not. 10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his

15:10, 25,» 30; Isa. 64:7; Hos. 8:4

8 Ps. 106:35 10 Isa. 9:13; Hos. 5:5 15:19; 17:4; Hos. 5:13; 9:3; 11:11; 12:1

12 Lev. 26:14; Deut. 28:15; 2Kgs. 17:13, 18; Ezek. 12:13 13 Mic. 6:4 14 Job 35:9,

face: and they do not return to the Lorp their God, nor seek him for all this.

11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. 12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. 13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. 15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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8

16 Ps. 73:9; 78:57; Hos.

9:3, 6; 11:7 1 Deut. 28:49; Jer. 4:13 2 Ps. 78:34; Hos. 5:15; Titus 1:16

4 2Kgs. 15:13, 17, 25 5 Jer. 13:27 7 Prov.

10:12, 13; 22:8; Hos. 7:9

8 2Kgs. 17:6; Jer. 22:28; 48:38 9 2Kgs. 15:19; Isa. 30:6; Jer. 2:24; Ezek. 16:33, 34 10 Isa. 10:8; Ezek. 26:7; Dan. 2:37; Hag. 2:6

Israel Continues to Worship Idols

13 Jer. 7:21; 14:10, 12

1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lorp, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

14 Jer. 17:27 1 Jer. 44:17

8:8 Israel is swallowed up. Here is the image of Israel's neighboring enemies trying to surround and devour her. Now she has no appeal “among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.” 9:1-3 They shall not dwell in the Lorp’s land. The land of Israel belongs to the Lord (cf. Ex. 15:17; Lev. 25:23), who is responsible for its fertility (cf. Deut. 11:10-12).

2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew if not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. 5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how | long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. 8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein 7s no pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. 10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. 12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lorp accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

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9

God Keeps on Punishing Israel 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

When the people of Israel attributed the productivity of

the land to pagan deities, they forfeited the blessing of living on it in peace and prosperity (Deut. 11:8-21). The word Egypt is used only as a symbol for the slavery of Captivity. Assyria would be the actual country to which Israel would become enslaved in 722 B.c.

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2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the Lorp’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lorp, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lorp? 6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as _ in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man /eft: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

13 Ephraim, as 1 saw Tyrus, is planted in a

2 Hos. 2:9,

12 3 Lev. 25:23; 2Kgs. 17:6; Jer. 2:7; 16:18; Ezek. 4:13; Dan. 1:8; Hos.

8:13:35, 11 4 Lev. 17:11; Deut, 26:14; Jer. 6:20; Hos. 3:4; 8:13

5 Hos. 2:11 6 Isa. 5:6; 32:13; 34:13; Hos. 7:16; 9:3; 10:8

7 Ezek. 13:316; Mic. 2:11; Zeph. 3:4 8 Jer. 6:17; 31:6; Ezek. 3:17; 33:7

9 Judg. 19:22; Isa. 31:6; Hos. 8:13; 10:9

10 Num. 25:3; Judg. 6:32; Ps. 81:12; 106:28; Isa. 28:4; Jer, 11:13; Ezek. 20:8; Hos. 2:15; 4:14; Amos 4:5; Mic. 7:1

12 Deut. 28:41, 62; 31:17; 1Sam. 28:15, 16;

2Kgs. 17:18; Job 27:14; Hos. 5:6 14 Luke 23:29 15 Isa. 1:23 17 Deut. 28:64, 65

1 Nah. 2:2 8 Luke 23:30; Rev. 6:16; 9:6

pleasant place: but Ephraim shall forth his children to the murderer.

bring

14 Give them, O Lorn: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

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1 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multi-

tude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. 2. Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. 3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lorp; what then should a king do to us? 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. 6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. 7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the

9:6 Egypt is used figuratively here as in verse 3. The Egyptian city of Memphis is used as a symbol for a burial place.

nations (cf. Deut. 28:64—67) until the ultimate time of

9:14 Hosea prays that the children of Israel will be miscarried or die in the process of God's impending judg-

10:7 her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. This is a prediction that Israel's king would be swept away by invading forces like a piece of wood is swept away by a powerful stream of water. This occurred in the Assyrian invasion of 722 B.c.

ment.

9:17 they shall be wanderers among the nations. This is a forecast of Israel’s dispersion among the Gentile

ingathering at the Second Coming (Deut. 30:7; Isa. Dan. 12:1; Matt. 24:31; Mark 13:27).

11:12;

930 thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us, 9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. 10 Jt is in my desire that I should chastise

them;

and the people shall be gathered

against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows. . 11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lorp, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. 14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children. 15 So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

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God Still Loves His Sinful Children 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. 5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king,

because they refused to return. 6 And the sword shall abide on his cities,

10 Deut. 28:63; Jer: 16:16; Ezek. 23:46, 47 12 Prov. 11:18; Jer. 4:3

13 Job 4:8; Prov. 22:8; Gal. 6:7, 8

14 2Kgs. 18:34; 19:13 1 Ex. 4:22, 23

2 2Kgs. 17:16

3 Ex. 15:26; Deut. 1:31;

32:10-12; Isa. 46:3

4 Ps. 78:25 5 2Kgs. 17:13, 14; Hos. 8:13; 9:3 6 Hos. 10:6 7 Jer. 3:6-18; 8:5; Hos.

4:16; 7:16 8 Gen. 14:8;

19:24, 25; Deut. 29:23; 32:36; Isa.

63:15; Jer. 9:7; 31:20; Amos 4:11 9 Num. 23:19; Isa. 55:8, 9; Mal. 3:6 10 Isa. 31:4; Joel 3:16; Amos 1:2; Zech. 8:7

11 Isa. 60:8; Ezek. 28:25, 26 1 2Kgs. 17:4 3 Gen.

25:26; 32:2426 4 Gen. 28:12, 19; 35:9, 10, 15 6 Ps. 37:7; Hos. 14:1; Mic. 6:8

7 Prov. 11:1; Ezek. 16:3; Amos 8:5, 8

11:1 called my son out of Egypt. While the context of this statement refers historically to the Exodus, Matthew

applies the passage to Jesus’ return from Egypt with His parents after the death of Herod (Matt. 2:15).

12:2

The Lorp hath also a controversy with Judah.

and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

.

8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. 10 They shall walk after the Lorp: he shall — roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. 11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LorD.

12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

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