I have found that Chris does an excellent job of comparing scripture to scripture, rather than comparing scripture to modern viewpoints put out there by popular pastors of the day. This is fascinating stuff, but you may have to stop and go back a few times to catch all that he's saying. I also recommend his book "False Christ", by Chris White, as an excellent biblical study on the topic.
Daniel 7 is considered by some to be the most important chapter in the
book of Daniel, others even consider it the most important chapter in
the entire Old Testament for reasons which we will get into later, but
certainly one of those reasons is because of its prophetic significance.
In
Daniel Chapter 7 Daniel has a vision of 4 beasts: a lion, bear, leopard
and a "diverse beast". These beasts are identified as kings and/or
kingdoms by the angel who interprets Daniel's dream starting in verse
17.
The question is which kingdoms are being referred to with these beasts.
Most
conservatives believe that Daniel 7 is simply a retelling of Daniel 2.
In other words the dream that Nebuchadnezzar had in Daniel 2 of a
multi-metal statue which represented the four kingdoms of Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome are again described here in Daniel 7.
I
don't agree with that view, but I do agree with them that the fourth
beast in Daniel 7 is the kingdom of Antichrist, however because of their
insistence that this chapter is simply a mirror image of Daniel 2, they
are forced to defend the position that the Antichrist must somehow come
from something they call the Revived Roman Empire (RRE) because in
Daniel chapter 2 the last section of the statue is clearly talking about
Rome, so if this chapter is the same as that one then the fourth beast
is Rome.
But as I will demonstrate not only is that not necessary
it could cause many people to miss the signs of the Antichrists
kingdom. For more information on why the belief of the RRE is based on a
bad exegesis of Daniel chapter 2, please see my video or audio on
Daniel 2, which should be linked in the notes, that study should be
considered a companion study to this one.
I would also recommend a
4 part paper by Charles Cooper who is a former professor of
Hermeneutics at Moody Bible Institute called "Daniel 2 and Daniel 7
Equal or not Equal."
Video by Chris White
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