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Prayer Songs Offering Bible Study Song Lord’s Supper Announcements Prayer. Last study Babylon & Medio-Persia Today Greece Next study Rome. F rom M alachi t o C hrist: Between the Testaments. 605 2:36 2:39 2:39 2:40. 549 7:4 7:5 7:6 7:7-8, 24-25. 547 8:3,4,20 8:5, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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PrayerSongs
OfferingBible Study
SongLord’s Supper
AnnouncementsPrayer
From Malachi to Christ:Between the Testaments
Last studyBabylon & Medio-PersiaTodayGreeceNext studyRome
605
2:36
2:39
2:39
2:40
549
7:4
7:5
7:6
7:7-8, 24-25
547
8:3,4,20
8:5,21-2223-25
536
11:1-2
11:3-4
11:511:611:21-3511:32b-35
11:36-45
Babylon 626-539 BC
Media-Persia 539-330 BC
Greece 330-63 BC Alexander the Great
Egypt 323 BCSyria 204 BC
Antiochus Epiphanes 175 BCMaccabees 168 BC
Rome 63 BC
The Kingdom of Greece
then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the
earth. Dan. 2:39
The Kingdom of Greece
After this I kept looking, and behold, another one, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it. Dan.7:6
Daniel 8:5-8, 21-22
Greece/Alexander the Great
Medio-Persia
5 While I was observing, behold, a male goat was coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground; and the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. 6 He came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the canal, and rushed at him in his mighty wrath. 7 I saw him come beside the ram, and he was enraged at him; and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns, and the ram had no strength to withstand him. So he hurled him to the ground and trampled on him, and there was none to rescue the ram from his power. 8 Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly. But as soon as he was mighty, the large horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven… Dan. 8:5-8
21 The shaggy goat represents the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn that is between his eyes is the first king. 22The broken horn and the four horns that arose in its place represent four kingdoms which will arise from his nation, although not with his power. Dan. 8:21-22
3And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases. 4 But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, for his sovereignty will be uprooted and given to others besides them. Dan. 11:3-4
In 332 BC Alexander enters Jerusalem to destroy it. Jaddua the high priest met him with a copy of the book of DanielJosephus, Antiquities, 11-337
“And when the book of Daniel was showed him, wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, (7:6; 8:3-8, 21-22; 11:3) he supposed that himself was the person intended; and as he was then glad, he dismissed the multitude for the present, but the next day he called them to him, and bade them ask what favors they pleased of him.”Josephus, Antiquities, 11-337
Daniel’s 1st prophecy of Alexander the Great 547 BCAlexander the Great rose to power 330 BC547-330 = 217 years prior to fulfillment
Grecian impactEgypt & Syria
When Alexander died, kingdom divided between 4 generals, the two predominant ones Ptolemy (Egypt) and Selecus (Syria)
Ptolemies and Selucids constantly fought for control of Jews
During 25 years after Alexander’s death, Jerusalem changed hands 7 times
During time Ptolemies had nominal control, there were so many wars an exact count is impossible
Grecian impactEgypt (Ptolemies)
Major impact during this period: The Septuagint (LXX)
Koine (common) Greek was the universal language and there was a need for the OT to be translated for Jews in Egypt and elsewhere
The Septuagint was the “Bible” of the 1st century, used by Jesus, apostle and NT writers, quoted from extensively in NT
In spite of its flaws whenever it was quoted by inspired men it was referred to as “scripture”
The Dead Sea Scrolls 250 BC-70 AD
Prior to finding the scrolls, our "youngest" OT mss was the
Masoretic text dated about 1,000 A.D., making the "gap" between the
last OT prophet, Malachi, and the youngest mss. about 1400 years.
Thus the scrolls did at least two things: (1) narrowed the "gap" to just a few hundred years and (2)
provided invaluable evidence for the accuracy with which the old manuscripts were copied.
Grecian impactSyria (Seleucids)
Major impact during this period:Hellenism
Hellenism was the Greek way of living, sometimes good, more often not good
Jews of the Dispersion tended to be more broadminded, adapted Hellenism more readily than Palestinian Jews
Pharisees and Sadducees developed, in part because of Hellenism
Pharisees: Hebrew nationalistsSadducees: More liberal toward Hellenism
Grecian impactSyria (Seleucids)
Major impact during this period:Hellenism
Hellenism was the Greek way of living, sometimes good, more often not good
Jews of the Dispersion tended to be more broadminded, adapted Hellenism more readily than Palestinian Jews
Pharisees and Sadducees developed, in part because of Hellenism
Pharisees: Hebrew nationalistsSadducees: More liberal toward Hellenism
Grecian impactSyria (Seleucids)
Antiochus Epiphanes , most vicious and violent persecutor of Jews. Priesthood could be bought, religion of Jews began to deteriorate
Sent emissary to Palestine who built an altar to Zeus to have sacrifices built upon it
Mattathias refused to offer the sacrifice, young man stepped forward to do so and Mattathias killed both the young man and the Syrian emmisaary
He and his sons fled to the hills and began guerrilla warfare against the Syrians.
Mattathias died a year later and his son Judas the Maccabean took his place
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