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Prayer Songs Offering Bible Study Song Lord’s Supper Announcements Prayer

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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”

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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.

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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

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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

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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