As you studied this session, what feelings and thoughts came up as you considered the detail and the fact that Daniel 11 was written before any of this had taken place? 522 -13-7

It always amazes me just how amazed people are by the workings of God. And yes it is fascinating that the book of Daniel 11 is history written in advance about the so called silent years between the old and New Testament.

However can this foreknowledge on the part of God be amazing when one considers that God spoke the world into existence? That God knows the beginning from the end in the end from the beginning. God is omnipresent, Omniscience and omnipotent.
I consider God's dictating history in advance through His messengers to Daniel as almost a so what. This is such a minor thing in the scope of who God really is. As an aside, perhaps when God considered that fallen man would someday read His history written in advance He presented several renderings of the same events elsewhere in Daniel 7 and in His Word so we would get it.

It's almost humorous that so many people will profess to be Christians and yet doubt the prophetic word of God. How often have these arrogant people said “I believe in most of the New Testament but the Old Testament is allegory?" And of course people have disputed that Daniel was written hundreds of years before the events he prophesies actually happened. They say “Surely the book of Daniel was written after the fact.” Of course this whole argument falls apart when one picks up a copy of the Septuagint Bible, the Old Testament written in the very concise language of the Greeks. The Septuagint Bible was commissioned by King Ptolemy Philadelphia and was completed nearly 300 years before the birth of Christ. This would have been during the not so silent years between the Old and New Testaments.

When I think of those who dispute the Word of God I’m reminded of the first four verses of Psalm 2, “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.”