Podcast #14 The “Little Apocalypse”

Podcast # 13 The Rest of the Story

This week we began our study of Christ’s prophecies contained in the “little apocalypse,” also known as the Olivet Discourse. An account of this discourse is included in the three synoptic gospels. Synoptic is derived from the Greek meaning “same eye,” indicating that the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke recall the life of Christ from a similar perspective. All three tell a very similar account of the Olivet Discourse. Only John’s gospel does not include the little apocalypse, because St. John wrote the “major apocalypse.” Instead of devoting a single chapter to the subject, St. John wrote an entire book.

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A great deal of ink has been spilled in the Christian era concerning the various prophecies of the Book of Daniel. There is a great deal more that I could say and write about it. But what do you need to know for the purposes of our study? How does the Book of Daniel relate to the Book of Revelation and what do you need to take with you that will help you to understand the New Testament prophecies, especially the Apocalypse?

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Podcast #12 – Daniel Chapter 9

In Chapter 9 of Daniel we saw that Daniel was reading the prophecies of Jeremiah concerning the Babylonian Captivity. There Daniel discovered that God had foreordained the captivity to last for a period of 70 years. A bit of simple arithmetic and Daniel realized that the 70 year period had almost been completed. Daniel also realized that his people still had not repented of the sins that caused the captivity, so he began to confess the sins of his people and to do penance and reparation for them. Please keep in mind that the previous interpretations all pointed to a time during the reign of the Roman Emperors in which God would establish His Kingdom on earth.

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You will find an index listing of all the handouts used in this program with links so you can view them, download them or print them out HERE.

This is, for most people, the most difficult chapter in the Book of Daniel; it is also the most important. We have created a rather large handout consisting of charts to help you to organize the information. We will place it on the website in Word 2000 format to make it easier to download the information. If you need it in some other format, please let us know and we will be happy to try to provide that for you. We can also make it available as a series of jpeg images.

Chapter 9 is broken into three basic parts:

· Part 1 is verses 1 and 2.

· Part 2 is verses 3 – 19.

· Part 3 is verses 20-27.

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Podcast #11 - Daniel Chapter 8

The eighth chapter of Daniel focuses on two of the four empires discussed in Chapter 7, the Medo-Persian Empire and the Grecian Empire. There are no deep mysteries contained in this chapter, since the angel Gabriel interprets Daniel’s vision concerning these two.

At first Daniel sees a mighty ram with two horns, one higher than the other. This alone should be a major clue as to the identity of this beast, since it is so similar to the description of the bear that was raised up on one side in the previous chapter. Sure enough, Gabriel tells Daniel the ram is the Medo-Persian Empire and, like the raised side of the bear, the higher horn represents Persia that became the stronger of the two.

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