Striving
7/24/10
Pro 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Pro 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
The counsel of the Lord shall stand.
Counsel - Hebrew definition--
H6098
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From H3289; advice; by implication plan; also prudence: - advice, advisement, counsel ([-lor]), purpose.
Listen to the Lord. If we receive instruction and counsel from the Lord we will be wise in our latter end. Advice from the Lord. The Bible offers us God's advice, God's counsel. The purpose of the Lord is revealed in His word. We know that God created man in His own image. We know that God is Love. We know that God's mercy has kept us alive, God's grace has made it so we can be as we were intended without sin's corruption in us. When the Bible tells us there are many devices in a man's heart it is sooooo true! We have so many things going on in our heart of hearts, things we don't even like take place. We can clearly see our own wickedness.
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
How sad a state we can find ourselves in when our own heart seems to betray us. We know what we SHOULD be about, but our hearts betray us by leading us elsewhere. There are MANY devices in a man's heart- NEVERTHELESS the counsel of the Lord …that SHALL STAND. We can't know our own hearts, but we can know they are wicked. What we can know is that God' s counsels will stand true and we can trust in God's counsels, not our own. God is true even when we are not. Is it that we don't want to be true? No, because sometimes we desperately want to be true to God, but what we want isn't what we do. We have to trust in God fully leaving no room for doubt at all. If we think we can stand on our own we have already fallen and are only deluded into thinking we are still standing. We have to hear the counsels of the Lord. We have to search His word daily for those counsels. Will searching save us? No. Only Christ can save us. We have to place ourselves where God can reach us, where He can teach us, where He can speak to us. If we wish to be counseled by the Lord we have to go to where the counsel is given. The living word of God will counsel us. The living word of God will be a sword for us and why do we need swords? To protect ourselves from that which would kill us. The sword of the Spirit of the Word of God kills anything that would destroy us spiritually. We have to have the Word of God in our hearts.
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Pro 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Pro 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
The counsel of the LORD that shall stand! Anything we devise will falter, but the Lord's counsels will stand. May we seek the counsel of the Lord now and always so that we may be protected even from our own hearts. God's will be done in us by His grace, through His mercy, in the righteousness of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior now and forever!
Amen.
7/23/11
Prophecy - 37
History rich. We are very history rich. We are blessed with the recorded
history we have, blessed beyond measure. To many people history is dull and very
boring to trudge through. And yes, I imagine it can be tiresome to those who
have absolutely no interest in the past. Any serious Bible student knows that
prophecy is proven by history. Even if it's a prophecy for something to happen a
day later, history proves it comes to pass.
Do we need to be serious Bible students? Or do we just have to be
casual Bible readers? Give it some thought, this isn't something to take
lightly. Is it just fine to read a single Bible verse once a day? Or once a
week?
Who am I to answer these questions? Seriously.
Every single one of us needs to walk the walk we are called to and not
everyone is called to walk the same walk. Am I copping out? I don't think so.
It's true, I can't judge a single person for how often or how much of the Bible
they read. I could be accountable to read so much more than I do, we all have
to answer to God in our own way, we really, really do.
Having said all that I have to say I think we need to study the Bible
diligently if we are called to do so. If the opportunity is ours we need to take
it. I suppose I'm feeling the need to say this because I know how long and
detailed all this is, and how tedious to read it can be. Every bit of it though
is confirmation of prophecy, and as confirmation of prophecy we are assured that
every single word of God's prophecy WILL come to pass without any doubt
whatsoever. People ask how can you know the Bible is real, they ask how can
you know God is real, they say that the Bible and all that prophecy stuff are
fairy tales, fables, nonsense. As history has proven the truth of prophecy HOW
can there be doubt? How can there be a single shred of doubt? There can't
be.
May God help us as prophecy unfolds in history.
*******
(KoN- King of North KoS- King of South)
Dan 11:10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a
multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass
through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.
'Seleucus II Callinicus or Pogon...was a ruler of the Hellenistic
Seleucid Empire (KoN), who reigned from 246 to 225 BC.
After the death of this father, Antiochus, (KoN) he was proclaimed king by
his mother, Laodice in Ephesos, while her partisans at Antioch murdered Berenice
and her son, another Antiochus.
This dynastic feud began the Third Syrian War.
Ptolemy III (KoS), who was Berenice's brother and the ruler of Egypt,
invaded the Seleucid Empire (KoN) and marched victoriously to the Tigris or
beyond. He received the submission of the Seleucid Empire's eastern provinces,
while Egyptian fleets swept the coast of Asia Minor.
Seleucus (KoN) managed to maintain himself in the interior of Asia
Minor. When Ptolemy (KoS) returned to Egypt, Seleucus recovered Northern Syria
and the nearer provinces of Iran. However, Antiochus Hierax, a younger brother
of Seleucus (KoN), was set up as a rival in Asia Minor against Seleucus by a
party to which Laodice herself adhered.
At Ancyra (about 235 BC) Seleucus (KoN) sustained a crushing defeat and
left the country beyond the Taurus to his brother and the other powers of the
peninsula. Seleucus then undertook an anabasis to regain Parthia, the results of
which came to nothing. According to some sources, he was even taken prisoner for
several years by the Parthian king. Other sources mention that he established a
peace with Arsaces I, who recognized his sovereignty.
In Asia Minor, Pergamon now rose to greatness under Attalus I.
Antiochus Hierax, after a failed attempt to seize his brother's dominions when
his own were vanishing, perished as a fugitive in Thrace in 228 or 227 BC.
About a year later, Seleucus (KoN) was killed by a fall from his horse.
Seleucus II married his cousin Laodice II, by whom he had five children and
among them were: Antiochis, Seleucus III Ceraunus and Antiochus III the Great.
He was succeeded by his elder son, Seleucus III Ceraunus, and later by his
younger son Antiochus III the Great. (KoN)'
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_II_Callinicus>
Sons--
He was succeeded by his elder son, Seleucus III Ceraunus (KoN), and
later by his younger son Antiochus III the Great. (KoN)
Prophecy-- ONE shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through:
then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.
Let's take a look at these sons- will ONE of them overflow, pass
through, return?
SON ONE-
'Seleucus III Soter, called Seleucus Ceraunus (... 243 BC –
223 BC), was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Kingdom, the eldest son of
Seleucus II Callinicus and Laodice II. His birth name was Alexander and was
named after his great uncle the Seleucid official Alexander. Alexander changed
his name to Seleucus after he succeeded his father as King. After a brief reign
of three years (225 BC-223 BC), Seleucus was assassinated in Anatolia by members
of his army while on campaign against Attalus I of Pergamon. His official byname
"Soter" - Greek: S?t?? means "Saviour", while his nickname "Ceraunus" …'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_III_Ceraunus
SON TWO-
'Antiochus III the Great (Greek:.. 241–187 BC, ruled
222–187 BC), younger son of Seleucus II Callinicus, became the 6th ruler of the
Seleucid Empire as a youth of about eighteen in 223 BC. Ascending the throne at
young age, Antiochus was an ambitious ruler. Although his early attempts in war
against the Ptolemaic Kingdom were unsuccessful, in the following years of
conquest Antiochus proved himself as the most successful Seleucid King after
Seleucus I himself. His traditional designation, the Great, reflects an epithet
he briefly assumed after his Eastern Campaign (it appears in regnal formulas at
Amyzon in 203 and 202 BC, but not later). Antiochus also assumed the title
"Basileus Megas" (which is Greek for "Great King"), the traditional title of the
Persian kings, which he adopted after his conquest of Coele Syria.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great
Surely it is obvious one son rose far up above the other and passed Him
by, stirring up a fortress.
Dan 11:11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and
shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he
shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his
hand.
Dan 11:12 And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall
be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be
strengthened by it.
Read this--
'The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was a battle
fought on 22 June 217 BC near modern Rafah between the forces of Ptolemy IV
Philopator, king of Egypt (KoS) and Antiochus III (KoN)the Great of the
Seleucid kingdom during the Syrian Wars. It was one of the largest battles of
the Hellenistic kingdoms of the Diadochi and was waged to determine the
sovereignty of Coele Syria.'
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raphia>
King of the South (KoS) and King of the North (KoN) fighting.
Who took away the multitude?
'Antiochus (KoN) initially set up his camp at a distance of 10 (about 2
km) and then only 5 stades (about 1 km) from his adversary's.(KoS) Many
skirmishes took place before the battle due to this proximity. One night,
Theodotus the Aetolian, formerly an officer of Ptolemy, sneaked inside the
Ptolemaic camp and reached what he presumed to be the King's tent but Ptolemy
was absent and so failed to assassinate him.
After 5 days of skirmishing, the two Kings decided to array their
troops for battle. Both placed their Phalangites in the center. Next to them
they fielded the light armed and the mercenaries in front of which they placed
their elephants and even further in the wings their cavalry. They spoke to their
soldiers, took their places in the lines — Ptolemy(KoS) in his left and
Antiochus(KoN) in his right wing — and the battle commenced.
In the beginning of the battle, the elephant contingents on the wings
of both armies moved to charge. Most African elephants, the species used by
Ptolemy, retreated in panic before the impact and ran through the lines of
friendly infantry arrayed behind them, causing disorder in their ranks. At the
same time, Antiochus had led his cavalry to the right, rode past the left wing
of the Ptolemaic elephants charging the enemy horse. At the same time, the right
wing of Ptolemy was retreating and wheeling to protect itself from the panicked
elephants. Ptolemy rode to the center encouraging his phalanx to attack, while
on the Ptolemaic far right, Ptolemy's cavalry was routing their opponents.
Antiochus (KoN) routed the Ptolemaic (KoS) horse posed against him and
pursued the fleeing enemy en masse, believing to have won the day, but the
Ptolemaic (KoS) center eventually drove the Syrians back and soon Antiochus(KoN)
realized that his judgment was wrong. Antiochus(KoN) tried to ride back, but by
the time he rode back, his troops were routed and could no longer be regrouped.
The battle had ended.
After the battle, Antiochus(KoN) wanted to regroup and make camp outside
the city of Raphia but most of his men had already found refuge inside and he
was thus forced to enter it himself. Then he marched to Gaza and asked Ptolemy
(KoS) for the customary truce to bury the dead, which he was granted.
According to Polybius, the Syrians suffered a little under 10,000 foot
dead, about 300 horse and 5 elephants, 4,000 men were taken prisoner. The
Ptolemaic losses were 1,500 foot, 700 horse and 16 elephants. Most of the Syrian
elephants were taken by the Ptolemies.' (KoS)
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raphia>
Clearly the King of the South won!
Who took away the multitude? The king of the South!
But…
Dan 11:12 '...but he shall not be strengthened by it.'
Dan
11:13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude
greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a
great army and with much riches.
Dan 11:14 And in those times there shall
many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people
shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
Did this happen as Scripture said it would? Did this prophecy come
true? It's God's prophecy, it came true!
'The Battle of Panium (also known as Paneion) was fought in 200 BC
between Seleucid (KoN) and Ptolemaic (KoS) forces as part of the Syrian Wars.
The Seleucids were led by Antiochus III the Great, while the Ptolemaic army was
led by Scopas of Aetolia. The Seleucids (KoN) won the battle. Details of this
battle are not clear, but it is known today that major factor in the Seleucid
victory was that the Seleucid army used the cataphract in a decisive manner. The
cataphracts attacked the Egyptian cavalry on the flanks and drove the enemy
cavalry off, leaving the backs of the enemy infantry to the front of the line
exposed. The Seleucid cataphracts then attacked their infantry in the rear, thus
leading to an Egyptian rout. The specific equipment used by these relatively
early cataphracts is not clearly known.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Panium
we have to realize all the time passing here- soon another force was going to
come into play and it came in gradually not all at once, kingdoms were formed by
winning battles. Great kingdoms are formed by winning A LOT of battles and
conquering many. We know from our previous prophetic visions that after Greece,
and after the four divisions and after that kingdom begins to wan then the Roman
kingdom would begin its rise.
Now
Let's see if this isn't the beginning of Rome's influence here-
Dan 11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount,
and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand,
neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.
'Palestine had passed from the Egypt-based Ptolemaic rule to that of
the Syrian-oriented Seleucids after Antiochus III was first checked at battle of
Raphia in 217 B.C., but then succeeded against his Egyptian foe at Panion in 198
B.C. Antiochus III's triumph in Palestine was to be short-lived, however, for
his ambitions in Greece crossed the Roman dare-line. '
'The Romans thrashed the Syrian monarch in Thrace in two land battles
and a naval campaign at Corycus that served notice that the Romans were now a
factor to be considered on water as well as land.'
'A client of Rome, Ptolemy V Epiphanes (KoS) assumed the throne of
Ptolemaic Egypt in 205 BC at the tender age of 5, only to see his dominion
wracked by civil war and reduced by the invading armies of Antiochus III (KoN)
of Persian and Philip V of Macedonia, who had plotted a secret alliance to
divide the Ptolemaic kingdom between them. In 201 BC, an attempt by Antiochus
(KoN) to seize Palestine and Gaza was rebuffed by the Ptolemaic army.(KoS) In
200 BC, Antiochus again struck out from Syria with an army of invasion. The
Ptolemiac army under Scopas (Skopes) marched north to block their route at the
head of the Jordan valley. But Antiochus had already reached the high ground at
Mt. Hermon and made his camp there to await the Ptolemiac approach.'
Pasted from <http://www.warandgamemsw.com/blog/576813-the-battle-of-panion-200-bc/>
Rome steps into the picture but not the all conquering Rome we know of
history- this was it's beginning and in its beginning there were failures.
Dan 11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount,
and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand,
neither his chosen people, (ROMANS) neither shall there be any strength to
withstand.
Neither his chosen people- why are these the chosen people, because the
King of the South chose Roman to align with, these was also God's chosen to
become the next great kingdom.
Antiochus (KoN) prevailed over the KoS (Ptolemiac Army) and the Romans
help them.
So what happened next?
Dan 11:16 But he that cometh against him (KoN) shall do according to
his own will, and none shall stand before him (KoS -Roman power rising) : and he
shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
'War against Rome and death
Main article: Roman–Syrian
War
Antiochus (KoN) then moved to Asia Minor, by land and by sea, to
secure the coast towns which belonged to the remnants of Ptolemaic (KoS)
overseas dominions and the independent Greek cities. This enterprise brought him
into antagonism with Rome, since Smyrna and Lampsacus appealed to the republic
of the west, and the tension became greater after Antiochus (KoN) had in 196 BC
established a footing in Thrace. The evacuation of Greece by the Romans gave
Antiochus his opportunity, and he now had the fugitive Hannibal at his court to
urge him on.
In 192 BC Antiochus invaded Greece with a 10,000 man army,
and was elected the commander in chief of the Aetolians. In 191 BC, however, the
Romans under Manius Acilius Glabrio routed him at Thermopylae and obliged him to
withdraw to Asia. The Romans followed up their success by attacking Antiochus in
Anatolia, and the decisive victory of Scipio Asiaticus at Magnesia ad Sipylum
(190 BC), following the defeat of Hannibal at sea off Side, delivered Asia Minor
into their hands.
By the Treaty of Apamea (188 BC) the Seleucid king
(KoN) abandoned all the country north of the Taurus, which Rome distributed
amongst its friends. As a consequence of this blow to the Seleucid power, the
outlying provinces of the empire, recovered by Antiochus, reasserted their
independence. Antiochus mounted a fresh expedition to the east in Luristan,
where he died in an attempt to rob a temple at Elymaïs, Persia, in 187
BC.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great
'The Battle of Pydna in 168 BC between Rome and the Macedonian
Antigonid dynasty saw the further ascendancy of Rome in the Hellenic/Hellenistic
world and the end of the Antigonid line of kings, whose power traced back to
Alexander the Great.
Paul K. Davis writes that "Pydna marked the final
destruction of Alexander's empire and introduced Roman authority over the Near
East."[1]'
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pydna>
The Iron rule of Rome was coming up fully doing away with the last
remnants of Greece rulership.
Dan 11:16 But he that cometh against him (KoN) shall do according to
his own will, and none shall stand before him (KoS -Roman power rising) : and he
shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
The dividing rule of North and South was slipping away as Rome became
ruler over all the land.
Within the Roman rule however there was a lot of internal strife and
there were many years of fighting amongst themselves.
Now we have to look at prophecy and it say- HE shall stand in the
glorious land. Where is the glorious land?
Eze 20:6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring
them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing
with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands
Jer 3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give
thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said,
Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Zec 2:12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy
land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
So the one to rise and none stand against him would do so in the
glorious land (Palestine)- let's look at history but first let's read
this--
Dan 11:16 But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own
will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land,
which by his hand shall be consumed.
'Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey ... (September 29, 106
BC – September 29, 48 BC), was a military and political leader of the late Roman
Republic. '
'Pompey in the east
….
'Pompey in the Temple of Jerusalem, by Jean Fouquet
At Pompey's approach, Mithridates strategically withdrew his forces.
Tigranes the Great refused him refuge, so he made his way to his own dominions
in the Cimmerian Bosporus. Pompey secured a treaty with Tigranes, and in 65 BC
set out in pursuit of Mithridates, but met resistance from the Caucasian
Iberians and Albanians. He advanced to Phasis in Colchis and liaised with his
legate Servilius, admiral of his Euxine fleet, before decisively defeating
Mithridates. Pompey then retraced his steps, wintered at Pontus, and made it
into a Roman province. In 64 BC, he marched into Syria, deposed its king,
Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, and reconstituted this, too, as a Roman province.[34]
In 63 BC, he moved south, and established Roman supremacy in Phoenicia and
Coele-Syria.[35]
In Judea, Pompey intervened in civil war between Hyrcanus II, who
supported the Pharisee faction against Aristobulus II and the Sadducees in
Judaea's civil war. The armies of Pompey and Hyrcanus II laid siege to
Jerusalem. After three months, the city fell.[36]
"Of the Jews there fell twelve thousand, but of the Romans very few....
and no small enormities were committed about the temple itself, which, in former
ages, had been inaccessible, and seen by none; for Pompey went into it, and not
a few of those that were with him also, and saw all that which it was unlawful
for any other men to see but only for the high priests. There were in that
temple the golden table, the holy candlestick, and the pouring vessels, and a
great quantity of spices; and besides these there were among the treasures two
thousand talents of sacred money: yet did Pompey touch nothing of all this, on
account of his regard to religion; and in this point also he acted in a manner
that was worthy of his virtue. The next day he gave order to those that had the
charge of the temple to cleanse it, and to bring what offerings the law required
to God; and restored the high priesthood to Hyrcanus, both because he had been
useful to him in other respects, and because he hindered the Jews in the country
from giving Aristobulus any assistance in his war against him." (Josephus,
Antiquities of the Jews, book 14, chapter 4; tr. by William Whiston, available
at Project Gutenberg.)
During the war in Judea, Pompey heard of Mithridates' suicide; his army had
deserted him for his son Pharnaces.[34] Rome's Asian protectorates now extended
as far east as the Black Sea and the Caucasus. Pompey's military victories,
political settlements and annexations in Asia created Rome's new frontier on the
east.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey
But Pompey had others that would stand before him - who is this person?
Who would continue what Pompey had begun?
Dan 11:17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his
whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give
him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side,
neither be for him.
Dan 11:18 After this shall he turn his face unto the
isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the
reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to
turn upon him.
'Gaius Julius Caesar[2] (13 July 100 BC[3] – 15 March 44 BC)[4] was a
Roman general and statesman. He played a critical role in the gradual
transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
In 60 BC, Caesar entered into a political alliance with Crassus and Pompey
that was to dominate Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass
power through populist tactics were opposed within the Roman Senate by the
conservative elite, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of
Cicero. Caesar's conquest of Gaul, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory
to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to
cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first
invasion of Britain. These achievements granted him unmatched military power and
threatened to eclipse Pompey's standing.
The balance of power was further upset by the death of Crassus in 53
BC. Political realignments in Rome finally led to a standoff between Caesar and
Pompey, the latter having taken up the cause of the Senate. Ordered by the
senate to stand trial in Rome for various charges, Caesar marched from Gaul to
Italy with his legions, crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC. This sparked a civil war
from which he emerged as the unrivaled leader of the Roman world.
After assuming control of government, he began extensive reforms of Roman
society and government. He centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic and was
eventually proclaimed "dictator in perpetuity". A group of senators, led by
Marcus Junius Brutus, assassinated the dictator on the Ides of March (15 March)
44 BC, hoping to restore the constitutional government of the Republic. However,
the result was a series of civil wars, which ultimately led to the establishment
of the permanent Roman Empire by Caesar's adopted heir Octavius (later known as
Augustus). Much of Caesar's life is known from his own accounts of his military
campaigns, and other contemporary sources, mainly the letters and speeches of
Cicero and the historical writings of Sallust. The later biographies of Caesar
by Suetonius and Plutarch are also major sources.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
'REIGN OF JULIUS CAESAR (48 - 44 BC)
Julius Caesar, who lived from
100 - 44 BC, finally settled his struggle with Pompey in 48 BC at the Battle of
Pharsalus. In this battle Pompey was killed, and Julius Caesar then became the
undisputed ruler of the Roman Empire. Antipater, who had previously supported
Pompey, was an excellent diplomat and managed to convince Julius Caesar that he
was now loyal to him. Julius Caesar allowed him to remain in his position of
power in Palestine.
Julius Caesar also manifested a very lenient attitude toward the Jewish
people throughout his kingdom, and granted them many special favors, among which
was the right of full religious freedom. A year after Julius Caesar came to
power Antipater died, and his son Herod became Procurator of Judea. Three years
later, in March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated.'
Pasted from <http://www.zianet.com/maxey/Inter5.htm>
Dan 11:17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his
whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give
him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side,
neither be for him.
Dan 11:18 After this shall he turn his face unto the
isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the
reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to
turn upon him.
The upright ones? God's chosen people. The Jewish people and Julius
Caesar got along well together.
Who was the daughter of women?
'Cleopatra VII Philopator (...Late 69 BC[1] – August 12, 30 BC) was the
last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
As pharaoh, she consummated a liaison with Julius Caesar that
solidified her grip on the throne. She later elevated her son with Caesar,
Caesarion, to co-ruler in name.'
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_VII>
'...but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him. After this
shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his
own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own
reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.' (Dan. 11:17,18)
After Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, she aligned with Mark Antony in
opposition to Caesar's legal heir, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (later known
as Augustus). '
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_VII>
'Caesar even took steps to transform Italy into a province, and to link
more tightly the other provinces of the empire into a single cohesive unit. This
addressed the underlying problem that had caused the Social War decades earlier,
where individuals outside Rome and Italy were not considered "Roman", and thus
were not given full citizenship rights. This process, of fusing the entire Roman
Empire into a single unit, rather than maintaining it as a network of unequal
principalities, would ultimately be completed by Caesar's successor, the emperor
Augustus. '
*
'On the Ides of March (15 March; see Roman calendar) of 44 BC, Caesar was
due to appear at a session of the Senate. Mark Antony, having vaguely learned of
the plot the night before from a terrified Liberator named Servilius Casca, and
fearing the worst, went to head Caesar off. The plotters, however, had
anticipated this and, fearing that Antony would come to Caesar's aid, had
arranged for Trebonius to intercept him just as he approached the portico of
Theatre of Pompey, where the session was to be held, and detain him outside.
(Plutarch, however, assigns this action to delay Antony to Brutus Albinus.) When
he heard the commotion from the senate chamber, Antony fled.[74]
According to Plutarch, as Caesar arrived at the Senate, Tillius Cimber
presented him with a petition to recall his exiled brother.[75] The other
conspirators crowded round to offer support. Both Plutarch and Suetonius say
that Caesar waved him away, but Cimber grabbed his shoulders and pulled down
Caesar's tunic. Caesar then cried to Cimber, "Why, this is violence!" ("Ista
quidem vis est!").[76] At the same time, Casca produced his dagger and made a
glancing thrust at the dictator's neck. Caesar turned around quickly and caught
Casca by the arm. According to Plutarch, he said in Latin, "Casca, you villain,
what are you doing?"[77] Casca, frightened, shouted, "Help, brother!" in Greek
("?de?f?, ß???e?!", "adelphe, boethei!"). Within moments, the entire group,
including Brutus, was striking out at the dictator. Caesar attempted to get
away, but, blinded by blood, he tripped and fell; the men continued stabbing him
as he lay defenceless on the lower steps of the portico. According to Eutropius,
around 60 or more men participated in the assassination. He was stabbed 23
times.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
'Cause it to turn upon him' Dan. 11:18 Indeed Julius Caesar caused
those he thought his own to turn upon him.
Prophecy- History.
So much to learn, so much to study and by the grace of God we will
understand this as we are meant to understand. Step by step, bit by bit it does
unfold and will continue to unfold.
You might have notice I'm taking a lot of my reference from the online-
wikipedia. Why? Because it's a source that EVERYONE can contribute to, not just
one person's opinion. We need to have a source that is non-bias in a lot of way
and strictly informational. Not that people don't post their opinions but if any
one finds out it is just an opinion and not a fact then they're called on it
right away. Is it perfect, no, not by any means. By the grace of God we will
be able to learn truth and only His truth.
In His amazing LOVE!
Through HIS righteousness, only HIS righteousness!
Amen.
Pro 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Pro 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
The counsel of the Lord shall stand.
Counsel - Hebrew definition--
H6098
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?e^tsa^h
ay-tsaw'
From H3289; advice; by implication plan; also prudence: - advice, advisement, counsel ([-lor]), purpose.
Listen to the Lord. If we receive instruction and counsel from the Lord we will be wise in our latter end. Advice from the Lord. The Bible offers us God's advice, God's counsel. The purpose of the Lord is revealed in His word. We know that God created man in His own image. We know that God is Love. We know that God's mercy has kept us alive, God's grace has made it so we can be as we were intended without sin's corruption in us. When the Bible tells us there are many devices in a man's heart it is sooooo true! We have so many things going on in our heart of hearts, things we don't even like take place. We can clearly see our own wickedness.
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
How sad a state we can find ourselves in when our own heart seems to betray us. We know what we SHOULD be about, but our hearts betray us by leading us elsewhere. There are MANY devices in a man's heart- NEVERTHELESS the counsel of the Lord …that SHALL STAND. We can't know our own hearts, but we can know they are wicked. What we can know is that God' s counsels will stand true and we can trust in God's counsels, not our own. God is true even when we are not. Is it that we don't want to be true? No, because sometimes we desperately want to be true to God, but what we want isn't what we do. We have to trust in God fully leaving no room for doubt at all. If we think we can stand on our own we have already fallen and are only deluded into thinking we are still standing. We have to hear the counsels of the Lord. We have to search His word daily for those counsels. Will searching save us? No. Only Christ can save us. We have to place ourselves where God can reach us, where He can teach us, where He can speak to us. If we wish to be counseled by the Lord we have to go to where the counsel is given. The living word of God will counsel us. The living word of God will be a sword for us and why do we need swords? To protect ourselves from that which would kill us. The sword of the Spirit of the Word of God kills anything that would destroy us spiritually. We have to have the Word of God in our hearts.
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Pro 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Pro 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
The counsel of the LORD that shall stand! Anything we devise will falter, but the Lord's counsels will stand. May we seek the counsel of the Lord now and always so that we may be protected even from our own hearts. God's will be done in us by His grace, through His mercy, in the righteousness of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior now and forever!
Amen.
7/23/11
Prophecy - 37
History rich. We are very history rich. We are blessed with the recorded
history we have, blessed beyond measure. To many people history is dull and very
boring to trudge through. And yes, I imagine it can be tiresome to those who
have absolutely no interest in the past. Any serious Bible student knows that
prophecy is proven by history. Even if it's a prophecy for something to happen a
day later, history proves it comes to pass.
Do we need to be serious Bible students? Or do we just have to be
casual Bible readers? Give it some thought, this isn't something to take
lightly. Is it just fine to read a single Bible verse once a day? Or once a
week?
Who am I to answer these questions? Seriously.
Every single one of us needs to walk the walk we are called to and not
everyone is called to walk the same walk. Am I copping out? I don't think so.
It's true, I can't judge a single person for how often or how much of the Bible
they read. I could be accountable to read so much more than I do, we all have
to answer to God in our own way, we really, really do.
Having said all that I have to say I think we need to study the Bible
diligently if we are called to do so. If the opportunity is ours we need to take
it. I suppose I'm feeling the need to say this because I know how long and
detailed all this is, and how tedious to read it can be. Every bit of it though
is confirmation of prophecy, and as confirmation of prophecy we are assured that
every single word of God's prophecy WILL come to pass without any doubt
whatsoever. People ask how can you know the Bible is real, they ask how can
you know God is real, they say that the Bible and all that prophecy stuff are
fairy tales, fables, nonsense. As history has proven the truth of prophecy HOW
can there be doubt? How can there be a single shred of doubt? There can't
be.
May God help us as prophecy unfolds in history.
*******
(KoN- King of North KoS- King of South)
Dan 11:10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a
multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass
through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.
'Seleucus II Callinicus or Pogon...was a ruler of the Hellenistic
Seleucid Empire (KoN), who reigned from 246 to 225 BC.
After the death of this father, Antiochus, (KoN) he was proclaimed king by
his mother, Laodice in Ephesos, while her partisans at Antioch murdered Berenice
and her son, another Antiochus.
This dynastic feud began the Third Syrian War.
Ptolemy III (KoS), who was Berenice's brother and the ruler of Egypt,
invaded the Seleucid Empire (KoN) and marched victoriously to the Tigris or
beyond. He received the submission of the Seleucid Empire's eastern provinces,
while Egyptian fleets swept the coast of Asia Minor.
Seleucus (KoN) managed to maintain himself in the interior of Asia
Minor. When Ptolemy (KoS) returned to Egypt, Seleucus recovered Northern Syria
and the nearer provinces of Iran. However, Antiochus Hierax, a younger brother
of Seleucus (KoN), was set up as a rival in Asia Minor against Seleucus by a
party to which Laodice herself adhered.
At Ancyra (about 235 BC) Seleucus (KoN) sustained a crushing defeat and
left the country beyond the Taurus to his brother and the other powers of the
peninsula. Seleucus then undertook an anabasis to regain Parthia, the results of
which came to nothing. According to some sources, he was even taken prisoner for
several years by the Parthian king. Other sources mention that he established a
peace with Arsaces I, who recognized his sovereignty.
In Asia Minor, Pergamon now rose to greatness under Attalus I.
Antiochus Hierax, after a failed attempt to seize his brother's dominions when
his own were vanishing, perished as a fugitive in Thrace in 228 or 227 BC.
About a year later, Seleucus (KoN) was killed by a fall from his horse.
Seleucus II married his cousin Laodice II, by whom he had five children and
among them were: Antiochis, Seleucus III Ceraunus and Antiochus III the Great.
He was succeeded by his elder son, Seleucus III Ceraunus, and later by his
younger son Antiochus III the Great. (KoN)'
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_II_Callinicus>
Sons--
He was succeeded by his elder son, Seleucus III Ceraunus (KoN), and
later by his younger son Antiochus III the Great. (KoN)
Prophecy-- ONE shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through:
then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.
Let's take a look at these sons- will ONE of them overflow, pass
through, return?
SON ONE-
'Seleucus III Soter, called Seleucus Ceraunus (... 243 BC –
223 BC), was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Kingdom, the eldest son of
Seleucus II Callinicus and Laodice II. His birth name was Alexander and was
named after his great uncle the Seleucid official Alexander. Alexander changed
his name to Seleucus after he succeeded his father as King. After a brief reign
of three years (225 BC-223 BC), Seleucus was assassinated in Anatolia by members
of his army while on campaign against Attalus I of Pergamon. His official byname
"Soter" - Greek: S?t?? means "Saviour", while his nickname "Ceraunus" …'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_III_Ceraunus
SON TWO-
'Antiochus III the Great (Greek:.. 241–187 BC, ruled
222–187 BC), younger son of Seleucus II Callinicus, became the 6th ruler of the
Seleucid Empire as a youth of about eighteen in 223 BC. Ascending the throne at
young age, Antiochus was an ambitious ruler. Although his early attempts in war
against the Ptolemaic Kingdom were unsuccessful, in the following years of
conquest Antiochus proved himself as the most successful Seleucid King after
Seleucus I himself. His traditional designation, the Great, reflects an epithet
he briefly assumed after his Eastern Campaign (it appears in regnal formulas at
Amyzon in 203 and 202 BC, but not later). Antiochus also assumed the title
"Basileus Megas" (which is Greek for "Great King"), the traditional title of the
Persian kings, which he adopted after his conquest of Coele Syria.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great
Surely it is obvious one son rose far up above the other and passed Him
by, stirring up a fortress.
Dan 11:11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and
shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he
shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his
hand.
Dan 11:12 And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall
be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be
strengthened by it.
Read this--
'The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was a battle
fought on 22 June 217 BC near modern Rafah between the forces of Ptolemy IV
Philopator, king of Egypt (KoS) and Antiochus III (KoN)the Great of the
Seleucid kingdom during the Syrian Wars. It was one of the largest battles of
the Hellenistic kingdoms of the Diadochi and was waged to determine the
sovereignty of Coele Syria.'
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raphia>
King of the South (KoS) and King of the North (KoN) fighting.
Who took away the multitude?
'Antiochus (KoN) initially set up his camp at a distance of 10 (about 2
km) and then only 5 stades (about 1 km) from his adversary's.(KoS) Many
skirmishes took place before the battle due to this proximity. One night,
Theodotus the Aetolian, formerly an officer of Ptolemy, sneaked inside the
Ptolemaic camp and reached what he presumed to be the King's tent but Ptolemy
was absent and so failed to assassinate him.
After 5 days of skirmishing, the two Kings decided to array their
troops for battle. Both placed their Phalangites in the center. Next to them
they fielded the light armed and the mercenaries in front of which they placed
their elephants and even further in the wings their cavalry. They spoke to their
soldiers, took their places in the lines — Ptolemy(KoS) in his left and
Antiochus(KoN) in his right wing — and the battle commenced.
In the beginning of the battle, the elephant contingents on the wings
of both armies moved to charge. Most African elephants, the species used by
Ptolemy, retreated in panic before the impact and ran through the lines of
friendly infantry arrayed behind them, causing disorder in their ranks. At the
same time, Antiochus had led his cavalry to the right, rode past the left wing
of the Ptolemaic elephants charging the enemy horse. At the same time, the right
wing of Ptolemy was retreating and wheeling to protect itself from the panicked
elephants. Ptolemy rode to the center encouraging his phalanx to attack, while
on the Ptolemaic far right, Ptolemy's cavalry was routing their opponents.
Antiochus (KoN) routed the Ptolemaic (KoS) horse posed against him and
pursued the fleeing enemy en masse, believing to have won the day, but the
Ptolemaic (KoS) center eventually drove the Syrians back and soon Antiochus(KoN)
realized that his judgment was wrong. Antiochus(KoN) tried to ride back, but by
the time he rode back, his troops were routed and could no longer be regrouped.
The battle had ended.
After the battle, Antiochus(KoN) wanted to regroup and make camp outside
the city of Raphia but most of his men had already found refuge inside and he
was thus forced to enter it himself. Then he marched to Gaza and asked Ptolemy
(KoS) for the customary truce to bury the dead, which he was granted.
According to Polybius, the Syrians suffered a little under 10,000 foot
dead, about 300 horse and 5 elephants, 4,000 men were taken prisoner. The
Ptolemaic losses were 1,500 foot, 700 horse and 16 elephants. Most of the Syrian
elephants were taken by the Ptolemies.' (KoS)
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raphia>
Clearly the King of the South won!
Who took away the multitude? The king of the South!
But…
Dan 11:12 '...but he shall not be strengthened by it.'
Dan
11:13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude
greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a
great army and with much riches.
Dan 11:14 And in those times there shall
many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people
shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
Did this happen as Scripture said it would? Did this prophecy come
true? It's God's prophecy, it came true!
'The Battle of Panium (also known as Paneion) was fought in 200 BC
between Seleucid (KoN) and Ptolemaic (KoS) forces as part of the Syrian Wars.
The Seleucids were led by Antiochus III the Great, while the Ptolemaic army was
led by Scopas of Aetolia. The Seleucids (KoN) won the battle. Details of this
battle are not clear, but it is known today that major factor in the Seleucid
victory was that the Seleucid army used the cataphract in a decisive manner. The
cataphracts attacked the Egyptian cavalry on the flanks and drove the enemy
cavalry off, leaving the backs of the enemy infantry to the front of the line
exposed. The Seleucid cataphracts then attacked their infantry in the rear, thus
leading to an Egyptian rout. The specific equipment used by these relatively
early cataphracts is not clearly known.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Panium
we have to realize all the time passing here- soon another force was going to
come into play and it came in gradually not all at once, kingdoms were formed by
winning battles. Great kingdoms are formed by winning A LOT of battles and
conquering many. We know from our previous prophetic visions that after Greece,
and after the four divisions and after that kingdom begins to wan then the Roman
kingdom would begin its rise.
Now
Let's see if this isn't the beginning of Rome's influence here-
Dan 11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount,
and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand,
neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.
'Palestine had passed from the Egypt-based Ptolemaic rule to that of
the Syrian-oriented Seleucids after Antiochus III was first checked at battle of
Raphia in 217 B.C., but then succeeded against his Egyptian foe at Panion in 198
B.C. Antiochus III's triumph in Palestine was to be short-lived, however, for
his ambitions in Greece crossed the Roman dare-line. '
'The Romans thrashed the Syrian monarch in Thrace in two land battles
and a naval campaign at Corycus that served notice that the Romans were now a
factor to be considered on water as well as land.'
'A client of Rome, Ptolemy V Epiphanes (KoS) assumed the throne of
Ptolemaic Egypt in 205 BC at the tender age of 5, only to see his dominion
wracked by civil war and reduced by the invading armies of Antiochus III (KoN)
of Persian and Philip V of Macedonia, who had plotted a secret alliance to
divide the Ptolemaic kingdom between them. In 201 BC, an attempt by Antiochus
(KoN) to seize Palestine and Gaza was rebuffed by the Ptolemaic army.(KoS) In
200 BC, Antiochus again struck out from Syria with an army of invasion. The
Ptolemiac army under Scopas (Skopes) marched north to block their route at the
head of the Jordan valley. But Antiochus had already reached the high ground at
Mt. Hermon and made his camp there to await the Ptolemiac approach.'
Pasted from <http://www.warandgamemsw.com/blog/576813-the-battle-of-panion-200-bc/>
Rome steps into the picture but not the all conquering Rome we know of
history- this was it's beginning and in its beginning there were failures.
Dan 11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount,
and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand,
neither his chosen people, (ROMANS) neither shall there be any strength to
withstand.
Neither his chosen people- why are these the chosen people, because the
King of the South chose Roman to align with, these was also God's chosen to
become the next great kingdom.
Antiochus (KoN) prevailed over the KoS (Ptolemiac Army) and the Romans
help them.
So what happened next?
Dan 11:16 But he that cometh against him (KoN) shall do according to
his own will, and none shall stand before him (KoS -Roman power rising) : and he
shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
'War against Rome and death
Main article: Roman–Syrian
War
Antiochus (KoN) then moved to Asia Minor, by land and by sea, to
secure the coast towns which belonged to the remnants of Ptolemaic (KoS)
overseas dominions and the independent Greek cities. This enterprise brought him
into antagonism with Rome, since Smyrna and Lampsacus appealed to the republic
of the west, and the tension became greater after Antiochus (KoN) had in 196 BC
established a footing in Thrace. The evacuation of Greece by the Romans gave
Antiochus his opportunity, and he now had the fugitive Hannibal at his court to
urge him on.
In 192 BC Antiochus invaded Greece with a 10,000 man army,
and was elected the commander in chief of the Aetolians. In 191 BC, however, the
Romans under Manius Acilius Glabrio routed him at Thermopylae and obliged him to
withdraw to Asia. The Romans followed up their success by attacking Antiochus in
Anatolia, and the decisive victory of Scipio Asiaticus at Magnesia ad Sipylum
(190 BC), following the defeat of Hannibal at sea off Side, delivered Asia Minor
into their hands.
By the Treaty of Apamea (188 BC) the Seleucid king
(KoN) abandoned all the country north of the Taurus, which Rome distributed
amongst its friends. As a consequence of this blow to the Seleucid power, the
outlying provinces of the empire, recovered by Antiochus, reasserted their
independence. Antiochus mounted a fresh expedition to the east in Luristan,
where he died in an attempt to rob a temple at Elymaïs, Persia, in 187
BC.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great
'The Battle of Pydna in 168 BC between Rome and the Macedonian
Antigonid dynasty saw the further ascendancy of Rome in the Hellenic/Hellenistic
world and the end of the Antigonid line of kings, whose power traced back to
Alexander the Great.
Paul K. Davis writes that "Pydna marked the final
destruction of Alexander's empire and introduced Roman authority over the Near
East."[1]'
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pydna>
The Iron rule of Rome was coming up fully doing away with the last
remnants of Greece rulership.
Dan 11:16 But he that cometh against him (KoN) shall do according to
his own will, and none shall stand before him (KoS -Roman power rising) : and he
shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
The dividing rule of North and South was slipping away as Rome became
ruler over all the land.
Within the Roman rule however there was a lot of internal strife and
there were many years of fighting amongst themselves.
Now we have to look at prophecy and it say- HE shall stand in the
glorious land. Where is the glorious land?
Eze 20:6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring
them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing
with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands
Jer 3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give
thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said,
Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Zec 2:12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy
land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
So the one to rise and none stand against him would do so in the
glorious land (Palestine)- let's look at history but first let's read
this--
Dan 11:16 But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own
will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land,
which by his hand shall be consumed.
'Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey ... (September 29, 106
BC – September 29, 48 BC), was a military and political leader of the late Roman
Republic. '
'Pompey in the east
….
'Pompey in the Temple of Jerusalem, by Jean Fouquet
At Pompey's approach, Mithridates strategically withdrew his forces.
Tigranes the Great refused him refuge, so he made his way to his own dominions
in the Cimmerian Bosporus. Pompey secured a treaty with Tigranes, and in 65 BC
set out in pursuit of Mithridates, but met resistance from the Caucasian
Iberians and Albanians. He advanced to Phasis in Colchis and liaised with his
legate Servilius, admiral of his Euxine fleet, before decisively defeating
Mithridates. Pompey then retraced his steps, wintered at Pontus, and made it
into a Roman province. In 64 BC, he marched into Syria, deposed its king,
Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, and reconstituted this, too, as a Roman province.[34]
In 63 BC, he moved south, and established Roman supremacy in Phoenicia and
Coele-Syria.[35]
In Judea, Pompey intervened in civil war between Hyrcanus II, who
supported the Pharisee faction against Aristobulus II and the Sadducees in
Judaea's civil war. The armies of Pompey and Hyrcanus II laid siege to
Jerusalem. After three months, the city fell.[36]
"Of the Jews there fell twelve thousand, but of the Romans very few....
and no small enormities were committed about the temple itself, which, in former
ages, had been inaccessible, and seen by none; for Pompey went into it, and not
a few of those that were with him also, and saw all that which it was unlawful
for any other men to see but only for the high priests. There were in that
temple the golden table, the holy candlestick, and the pouring vessels, and a
great quantity of spices; and besides these there were among the treasures two
thousand talents of sacred money: yet did Pompey touch nothing of all this, on
account of his regard to religion; and in this point also he acted in a manner
that was worthy of his virtue. The next day he gave order to those that had the
charge of the temple to cleanse it, and to bring what offerings the law required
to God; and restored the high priesthood to Hyrcanus, both because he had been
useful to him in other respects, and because he hindered the Jews in the country
from giving Aristobulus any assistance in his war against him." (Josephus,
Antiquities of the Jews, book 14, chapter 4; tr. by William Whiston, available
at Project Gutenberg.)
During the war in Judea, Pompey heard of Mithridates' suicide; his army had
deserted him for his son Pharnaces.[34] Rome's Asian protectorates now extended
as far east as the Black Sea and the Caucasus. Pompey's military victories,
political settlements and annexations in Asia created Rome's new frontier on the
east.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey
But Pompey had others that would stand before him - who is this person?
Who would continue what Pompey had begun?
Dan 11:17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his
whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give
him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side,
neither be for him.
Dan 11:18 After this shall he turn his face unto the
isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the
reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to
turn upon him.
'Gaius Julius Caesar[2] (13 July 100 BC[3] – 15 March 44 BC)[4] was a
Roman general and statesman. He played a critical role in the gradual
transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
In 60 BC, Caesar entered into a political alliance with Crassus and Pompey
that was to dominate Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass
power through populist tactics were opposed within the Roman Senate by the
conservative elite, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of
Cicero. Caesar's conquest of Gaul, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory
to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to
cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first
invasion of Britain. These achievements granted him unmatched military power and
threatened to eclipse Pompey's standing.
The balance of power was further upset by the death of Crassus in 53
BC. Political realignments in Rome finally led to a standoff between Caesar and
Pompey, the latter having taken up the cause of the Senate. Ordered by the
senate to stand trial in Rome for various charges, Caesar marched from Gaul to
Italy with his legions, crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC. This sparked a civil war
from which he emerged as the unrivaled leader of the Roman world.
After assuming control of government, he began extensive reforms of Roman
society and government. He centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic and was
eventually proclaimed "dictator in perpetuity". A group of senators, led by
Marcus Junius Brutus, assassinated the dictator on the Ides of March (15 March)
44 BC, hoping to restore the constitutional government of the Republic. However,
the result was a series of civil wars, which ultimately led to the establishment
of the permanent Roman Empire by Caesar's adopted heir Octavius (later known as
Augustus). Much of Caesar's life is known from his own accounts of his military
campaigns, and other contemporary sources, mainly the letters and speeches of
Cicero and the historical writings of Sallust. The later biographies of Caesar
by Suetonius and Plutarch are also major sources.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
'REIGN OF JULIUS CAESAR (48 - 44 BC)
Julius Caesar, who lived from
100 - 44 BC, finally settled his struggle with Pompey in 48 BC at the Battle of
Pharsalus. In this battle Pompey was killed, and Julius Caesar then became the
undisputed ruler of the Roman Empire. Antipater, who had previously supported
Pompey, was an excellent diplomat and managed to convince Julius Caesar that he
was now loyal to him. Julius Caesar allowed him to remain in his position of
power in Palestine.
Julius Caesar also manifested a very lenient attitude toward the Jewish
people throughout his kingdom, and granted them many special favors, among which
was the right of full religious freedom. A year after Julius Caesar came to
power Antipater died, and his son Herod became Procurator of Judea. Three years
later, in March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated.'
Pasted from <http://www.zianet.com/maxey/Inter5.htm>
Dan 11:17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his
whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give
him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side,
neither be for him.
Dan 11:18 After this shall he turn his face unto the
isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the
reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to
turn upon him.
The upright ones? God's chosen people. The Jewish people and Julius
Caesar got along well together.
Who was the daughter of women?
'Cleopatra VII Philopator (...Late 69 BC[1] – August 12, 30 BC) was the
last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
As pharaoh, she consummated a liaison with Julius Caesar that
solidified her grip on the throne. She later elevated her son with Caesar,
Caesarion, to co-ruler in name.'
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_VII>
'...but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him. After this
shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his
own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own
reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.' (Dan. 11:17,18)
After Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, she aligned with Mark Antony in
opposition to Caesar's legal heir, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (later known
as Augustus). '
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_VII>
'Caesar even took steps to transform Italy into a province, and to link
more tightly the other provinces of the empire into a single cohesive unit. This
addressed the underlying problem that had caused the Social War decades earlier,
where individuals outside Rome and Italy were not considered "Roman", and thus
were not given full citizenship rights. This process, of fusing the entire Roman
Empire into a single unit, rather than maintaining it as a network of unequal
principalities, would ultimately be completed by Caesar's successor, the emperor
Augustus. '
*
'On the Ides of March (15 March; see Roman calendar) of 44 BC, Caesar was
due to appear at a session of the Senate. Mark Antony, having vaguely learned of
the plot the night before from a terrified Liberator named Servilius Casca, and
fearing the worst, went to head Caesar off. The plotters, however, had
anticipated this and, fearing that Antony would come to Caesar's aid, had
arranged for Trebonius to intercept him just as he approached the portico of
Theatre of Pompey, where the session was to be held, and detain him outside.
(Plutarch, however, assigns this action to delay Antony to Brutus Albinus.) When
he heard the commotion from the senate chamber, Antony fled.[74]
According to Plutarch, as Caesar arrived at the Senate, Tillius Cimber
presented him with a petition to recall his exiled brother.[75] The other
conspirators crowded round to offer support. Both Plutarch and Suetonius say
that Caesar waved him away, but Cimber grabbed his shoulders and pulled down
Caesar's tunic. Caesar then cried to Cimber, "Why, this is violence!" ("Ista
quidem vis est!").[76] At the same time, Casca produced his dagger and made a
glancing thrust at the dictator's neck. Caesar turned around quickly and caught
Casca by the arm. According to Plutarch, he said in Latin, "Casca, you villain,
what are you doing?"[77] Casca, frightened, shouted, "Help, brother!" in Greek
("?de?f?, ß???e?!", "adelphe, boethei!"). Within moments, the entire group,
including Brutus, was striking out at the dictator. Caesar attempted to get
away, but, blinded by blood, he tripped and fell; the men continued stabbing him
as he lay defenceless on the lower steps of the portico. According to Eutropius,
around 60 or more men participated in the assassination. He was stabbed 23
times.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
'Cause it to turn upon him' Dan. 11:18 Indeed Julius Caesar caused
those he thought his own to turn upon him.
Prophecy- History.
So much to learn, so much to study and by the grace of God we will
understand this as we are meant to understand. Step by step, bit by bit it does
unfold and will continue to unfold.
You might have notice I'm taking a lot of my reference from the online-
wikipedia. Why? Because it's a source that EVERYONE can contribute to, not just
one person's opinion. We need to have a source that is non-bias in a lot of way
and strictly informational. Not that people don't post their opinions but if any
one finds out it is just an opinion and not a fact then they're called on it
right away. Is it perfect, no, not by any means. By the grace of God we will
be able to learn truth and only His truth.
In His amazing LOVE!
Through HIS righteousness, only HIS righteousness!
Amen.