RHBC 168: Faithful When Evil Rules

1. #11 - “Faithful When Evil Rules”
Series: Living Faithfully in Babylon

2. I. God Warns of Continuation of
Tensions (1:1-20)

3. 1. Prophecies already fulfilled (11:1-32)
a. About Persia (11:1-2)
b. About Greece (11:3-4)
c. About Egypt and Syria (11:5-20)
d. About Antiochus, Epiphanes and
Syria (11:21-35)

4. 2. Prophecies yet to be fulfilled (11:36-
12:13)
a. About the tribulation and
Antichrist (11:32-12:1)
b. About the promised kingdom
(12:2-3)
c. Final Instructions to Daniel
(12:4-13)

6. “The Mighty King”– Alexander The Great

7. II. God Warns of Antiochus the Tyrant
(11:21-27)
Antiochus III Antiochus IV

8. III. God Warns of Merciless Torment
(11:28-31)
• Antiochus IV killed 80,000 Jews
• Antiochus IV sold 40,000 Jews
into Slavery.
• Antiochus IV Plundered and
Desecrated the Temple

9. IV. God’s Witness is There will Always
be Those who Stand True
(11:32-35)

10. Brian Grasso Kim Davis David Daleiden
Godly Heroes

11. V. God Warns that the Antichrist Will
Inflict Terror (11:36-39)

12. V. God Warns that the Antichrist Will
Inflict Terror (11:36-39)
The Antichrist will:
• Deify himself (8:25)
• Disguise his cruelty with peace
promises (8:24)
• Be destroyed supernaturally
(8:25; Rev. 19:19,20)

13. The Antichrist will be:
• Dramatic in appearance (8:23)
• Destined to do evil (8:23)
• Dynamic in leadership (8:23)
• Demonic in power (8:24)
• Destructive in his reign (8:24)
• Deceitful in his practice (8:25)

14. VI. God Warns of a Worldwide Threat
(11:40-44)

15. VII. God’s Witness of a Messianic
Triumph (11:49)

16. Zechariah 14:1-4 “A day of the LORD is
coming when your plunder will be
divided in your presence. I will gather
all the nations against Jerusalem for
battle. The city will be captured, the
houses looted, and the women raped.
Half the city will go into exile, but the
rest of the people will not be removed
from the city.”

17. “Then the LORD will go out to fight
against those nations as He fights on a
day of battle. On that day His feet will
stand on the Mount of Olives, which
faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount
of Olives will be split in half from east
to west, forming a huge valley, so that
half the mountain will move to the
north and half to the south.”

18. Zechariah 14:9 “On that day
Yahweh will become King over all
the earth—Yahweh alone, and His
name alone. “

19. Revelation 16:16 “So they
assembled them at the place called
in Hebrew, Armageddon”.