THE WINGS OF ABOMINATION

 

AN EXAMINATION OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL

Copyright Ó 2004 by

D. MICHAEL BINGHAM

Dream Image

 

This study guide does not pretend to do justice to the Book of Daniel, rather it is intended to focus attention on events prophesied by Daniel to be fulfilled in our lifetime, at the end of the world, and to assist the reader as he attempts to unravel this enigmatic work.  Recommended is a book by the Reverend Clarence Larkin, first published in 1929, called “The Book of Daniel”.  Also recommended is a book written by the author of this paper, “A White Stone and a World Church...”, available through the White Stone Foundation, P.O. Box 93, Centerville, Utah 84014, for a suggested donation of $20.00, plus $2.00 postage.  To avoid confusing Larkin’s book with the Book of Daniel, any references to Larkin’s book will be designated “Larkin” with a page number.  The reader should be cautioned that Larkin interprets Daniel without the benefit of an understanding of ‘prophetic types’ and without the advantage of a testimony or understanding of the gospel restored through God’s prophet, Joseph Smith Jr.  Larkin’s book does, however, have excellent history and some worthwhile insights.

 

Chapter One

Daniel in Babylon

 

Daniel was, most likely, forcibly made a eunuch and was of royal descent (v. 3,7. See also Larkin, p.22)

 

“5.  Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:

6.  Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon:  nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

7.  And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.          (Isaiah 39:5-7)

 

Daniel probably did not want to eat the “King’s meat” (v.5) because it would violate the Mosaic law; note that the word “defile” appears twice in verse 8.  For this reason Daniel devised a plan to obey Jehovah without offending Nebuchadnezzar.

 

“But unto him that keepeth my commandments I will give the mysteries of my kingdom, and the same shall be in him a well of living water, springing up unto everlasting life.”  (D&C 63:23)

 

Daniel had understanding in “all visions and dreams” (v.17).  Note in verse 21 that Daniel “continued” until the first year of Cyrus the Persian, yet it is not recorded that Daniel died.

 

Chapter Two

Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

 

The Book of Daniel is written in Hebrew up to verse 4, then shifts to Aramaic until chapter 8, whereupon the text reverts to Hebrew (Larkin, p.15).  Daniel’s Aramaic text focuses primarily upon contemporaneous events and future events which relate to the kingdoms of the world.  When the text of the Book of Daniel was recorded in Hebrew, its emphasis was more upon God’s covenant people, both Israelite and Gentile.

The King had a dream and wanted both the dream and the interpretation, yet, if he remembered the dream, he refused to recount it to the sorcerers and Chaldeans because he feared they would “gain the time” or invent some distant future interpretation (v.8, 9).  The sorcerers were unable to comply, so the King sentenced all of the “wise men of Babylon” to death, including Daniel and the three Hebrews.

NOTE VERSES 16-23

Much is said of Daniel’s courage, yet what of his charity?  One cannot begin to imagine the competition, ‘boot-licking’, intrigue and treachery of the sorcerers, Chaldeans and eunuchs in the court of Nebuchadnezzar; each seeking the King’s favor above his competitors.  Surely Daniel had been wounded in this lion’s den, yet Daniel sought to save his enemies.

NOTE VERSES 24-27

Much is said of Daniel’s wisdom, yet what of his humility?  Here was a chance for Daniel to boast of his great wisdom to the King, and to gather throngs at his feet, yet he glorified God, as he should.

NOTE VERSES 28-30

For the “sake” of those condemned the matter is revealed.

NOTE VERSES 31-45

Much has been written of Nebuchadnezzar’s ‘metal man’ dream and interpretation.  The precision and clarity of the dream leaves little to conjecture about.  A discourse by Orson Pratt is recommended (J.D.,vol.15:71); the reader is also referred to the image depiction and world kingdom chart at the end of this paper.  Nebuchadnezzar was the head of gold (v.38).  “Whom he would he slew”; the King was not restricted by law, he was the law.

The Medes and Persians (a combined kingdom) comprise the next inferior kingdom of silver.  The decrees or laws of this kingdom had precedent over its king’s whims as Daniel could attest, since he landed in a lion’s den by a decree and not by the King’s will.  The chest of silver is connected to two silver arms:  Medea and Persia.

The third and continually inferior kingdom, the belly and “thighs”, is Macedonia (Greece).  Larkin states (p.46-47) that “thighs” is mistranslated (v.32) and should read “thigh part” or lower abdomen or lower torso.  This is significant because Macedonia yielded to Rome, which subsequently split into two legs.  Also of note (v.39) is that Alexander the Great was prophesied by Daniel to “rule over all the earth”.  Should we stone Daniel because Alexander did not, in fact, conquer the whole earth?  The third kingdom conquered the whole “prophetic earth” which is that portion of the earth pertaining to God’s covenant people, as foretold by the prophets.

Moving westward across the earth; downward on the metallic image and downward through time, we come to the powerful, yet inferior, fourth kingdom of iron, Rome.  Rome was one, yet in time divided into the eastern Byzantine Empire and western Holy Roman Empire.  Those who have come to disdain the Roman legacy of “law” and “religion” which we have inherited will appreciate Larkin’s suggestion that the imagery would have been clearer if Rome were designated as “thigh parts and legs”, showing this division.  Larkin renders “thigh parts” as “buttocks” (p.47) and has aptly defined Rome as the tin-man’s southern exposure, so to speak.

Lastly, westward to Europe and the United States, the image followed behind Israel ever westward and northward, down through history to the feet of iron and clay: ten “toes” (v.42), “ten horns”, “ten kings”.  This inferior kingdom is many United Nations, which are divided by war, intrigue and shifting alliances, yet held together by conspiracy.  Much is made of the number ten; ten kings reigned at the time of the gospel restoration; European common market countries once numbered ten and had ten stars on their flag.  I find nothing more significant to the number ten than counting one’s toes.

Much more important than the number 10 is the number 2.  The image has two feet.  Many will agree that the legacy of Rome went to London then to New York, yet the image has two legs and feet, so let us not forget that the “soul” of the Byzantine empire migrated (figuratively speaking) to Russian Orthodox Moscow.  The King of Assyria (Russia, the King of the North) is the big toe on the left foot, if you will, and the King of Egypt (the United States, the King of the South) is the big toe on the right foot.  These opposing toes have inferior kings lined up behind them on either side.

Most fundamentalist Christians have banded together and erroneously agreed that the “New World Order” is the one world government that will force the whole earth to receive a “mark in the right hand”, yet in this they err because they forget to count their toes.  This incorrect assumption is derived from a lack of understanding of Revelation, chapter 13.  There will never be a monolithic, one-world dictator like Nebuchadnezzar again.

The King of Egypt has unfenced cities and boasts of his “new world order” while his strength diminishes.  The King of Assyria feigns weakness yet has many ships, chariots and horsemen.  The King of Assyria conspires also.

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Remember,

We bade our brothers, Isaac’s sons, adieu.

We left them in the lands of Assyria with embracing and tears;

So many years ago.

We set out for what must be better country and better years;

Towards the sun where it sets, and sends its golden hue.

__________________________

 

“12.  And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.”  (Genesis 21:12)

 

The ten kings are strong yet broken (v.42).  Half wear gray flannel and are easily deposed on election day; they are not gods, but lawyers and bean counters, “mingled with the seed of men”.  Their counterparts have clubbed their way to the top of ruthless communist bureaucracies; those left standing after the battle-royal.

 

“35.  Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them:  and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”  (Daniel, chapter 2, v.35)

 

God’s kingdom is His work, His strange act; He will cut His stone out without hands, out of these mountains of Joseph.  We sing the song “Ye elders of Israel” and it is more a prayer than a song, for God will set His hand the second time to recover Israel to these desert “mountains of Ephraim”, yet Joseph had two sons, and they are Manasseh’s mountains also.  Joseph went first to Egypt, for his brothers despised him, yet he brought them down to Egypt and saved them all from famine, and so “all Israel shall be saved”; yet Joseph had two sons; and the mountains blessed Joseph.

 

“29.  And the Lord blessed Levi, and the Angel of the Presence, me; the powers of glory, Simeon; the heaven, Reuben; the earth, Issachar; the sea, Zebulun; the mountains, Joseph; the tabernacle, Benjamin; the luminaries, Dan; Eden, Naphtali; the sun, Gad; the moon, Asher.

30.  And ye shall be the people of the Lord, and have one tongue; and there shall be there no spirit of deceit of Beliar, for he shall be cast into the fire for ever.” (Testament of Judah, 4:29,30, “Forgotten Books of Eden”)

 

Our capricious King Nebuchadnezzar praised Daniel’s God as the god of gods and a revealer of secrets.  He then gave Daniel and the three Hebrews great authority in his kingdom (v.47-49).

 

Chapter Three

The Image of Gold

 

The image that the King of Babylon set up in the plain of Dura for all to see was a “Man of Sin”, because it is sin to worship an idol.  Larkin concluded that this ninety-foot ‘Oscar’ standing on a pedestal for all to see was made of wood and gold leaf.  The image was:

60 cubits high and 6 cubits wide

 

Larkin concluded (p.58) that the number of this image was 66, arriving at it by adding:

60 + 6 = 66

 

One method of reducing the dimensions of the idol (said to have been 60x6x6) to an essential number is to use the cabalistic technique of discounting the zero in 60, rendering 60 by 6 by 6 into 6 by 6 by 6 or 666.  This number can be further reduced by adding the numbers together, making 18, which reduces to 9, which is the Hebrew letter Teth: the serpent.  The image in Revelation, chapter 13, was given life or breath.  The “false prophet” is a man (man’s number is 6; short of perfection, which is 7; 7 is God’s number).  This “false prophet” in the book of Revelation is the “man of sin” of 2 Thessalonians and is a living object of worship; hence his number is 666.

 

FALSE GOD                        A MAN                    MAN OF SIN

66  ------------------------------------->  6                  =            666        

“Abomination”                        NOT A GOD                   FALSE PROPHET

 

666:  The “Man of Sin” or living idol, “standing where it ought not” “in the temple”, “showing himself that he is God”; standing to intercede for God as though he were Christ, is the anti-Christ.  The anti-Christ is not atheist, he does, however, stand up in opposition to Christ; the anti-Christ is a false Christ.

LUCIFER

Nebuchadnezzar obviously had a surprise party planned at the unveiling of his abomination (idol).  Daniel was possibly away or detained with affairs of state, yet unfortunately the three, now famous, Hebrews were suddenly faced with a choice:  obey God and be burned alive or disobey God and live.  The punishment for obeying God was not to lose the right to vote or to lose property or at worst to be put in a cell and fed, rather to die a horrible death.

What could Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego do?  What have God’s true servants always done?  The Hebrews had negotiated their way out of eating b.l.t. sandwiches and lobster, yet standing in the plain of Dura with the idol, the furnace and the enraged and capricious king with all his chief officials on their knees, there would be no negotiation.

NOTE VERSES 16-25

The three Hebrews would not bow to the image, they were “not careful” and instead spoke plainly that God could save them yet might not; their concern was to obey God, let the king do what he will, let God do what He will.  Is this not the obligation of any who would serve God?

The United States is Egypt, yet it is also Babylon (Rev. ch. 18).  Just as there was a fire kindled in a furnace in Babylon “seven times more than it is want to be heated” so will all Babylon be in a furnace, hotter than seven days.

 

“26.  Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.”  (Isaiah 30:26)

 

Israel will be saved by fire.  In the midst of Nebuchadnezzar’s fire one will walk like unto the Son of God, for He will plead with us face to face in the desert.  The mountains blessed Joseph, and all Israel will be saved on Mount Zion; for if the Lord had not left us a small remnant we should have been burned as Sodom and we should have been even as Gomorrah.

NOTE VERSES 26-30

God’s capricious “servant” Nebuchadnezzar once again decides to revere the God of the Hebrews and issues a decree that God should not be disdained, for after the trial by fire comes the peace.

 

CHAPTER FOUR

Nebuchadnezzar Humbled

 

The king declares a dream he had through verse 18.  Daniel is reluctant, yet, with the king’s assurance, Daniel interprets the king’s dream through verse 26.  Daniel advises the king that his sanity may not depart from him if he repents of his sins, especially his inattention to the poor, thereby “lengthening thy tranquillity” or sanity.  Here again we have a glimpse of Daniel’s nature.  He, no doubt, has any and every available necessity and luxury yet he pleads the cause of the poor whom the king has neglected.

After a year (v.29) Nebuchadnezzar boasts of his greatness and power and is stricken with insanity and is driven off to live like an ox for seven times or years.  The Lord’s wrath passes, the king’s sanity returns and we find him again eloquently praising God.  We learn from the king’s lessons that men ‘learn obedience by the things which they suffer’; better to obey God and not suffer or count temporary suffering as praise; this is the patience and faith of the saints.

 

CHAPTER FIVE

The handwriting on the wall

 

P       T       M     M

 

R      K      N      N

 

S       L       A      A

 

The above is a depiction of how the handwriting on the wall might have appeared (though in Aramaic).  Larkin informs us that this depiction comes from the Talmud (Larkin, p.89).  MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN (vertically from right to left) translates:  “Numbered”, “Numbered”, “Weighed”, “Division”.

 

Daniel’s inspired interpretation (Daniel had already had the 4 beasts and ‘willful’ king visions):

 

MENE “God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.”

TEKEL “Thou (Belshazzar) art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.”

PERES (singular of upharsin) “Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

King Nebuchadnezzar’s grandson (?), King Belshazzar, (Jeremiah refers to him as a son, Jer.27:7 [see Larkin p.82]) profaned the vessels in worship to pagan gods, Marduk, Baal, Tammuz: gods of wood and stone (v.23).  Belshazzar’s pride was lifted in profaning the God whom his grandfather had come to revere:  Jehovah.

Babylon was celebrating its victory over Cyrus the Persian because he had thus far been unable, through siege, to overthrow the double-walled city of Babylon: the “fortress of munitions”.  Cyrus, therefore, had part of his army divert the Euphrates river, and the rest came in by night under the walls through the lowered river channel from two directions and then in through the “two-leaved” inner brazen gates that had been left open as the victory celebration raged in Babylon.

 

“27.  That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

28.  That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure:  even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.”  (Isaiah 44:27,28)

“1.  Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

2.  I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight:  I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

3.  And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.”  (Isaiah 45:1-3)

 

The stone masons, (typified as Hyrum Abif) sent by Hyrum of Tyre to assist in the construction of Solomon’s temple, stole the endowment and perverted it and initiated Philistines (Canaanites) into the endowment stolen from the House of the Lord.  The King of Tyrus is Lucifer (Ezekiel 28:12-17).

The son of the King of Tyrus is the Prince of Tyrus (Ezek. 28:1-11); he is “the son of perdition” “in the temple”; he has perverted the endowment and initiated Canaanites into the House of the Lord.  As in the days of Daniel, the vessels of the House of God have been filled with a drink-offering to Baal.

Tyrus is the United States; Tyrus will burn first.

 

“18.  Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.”  (Ezek. 28:18)

 

Babylon is the United States; Babylon will burn first.

 

“6.  For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

8.  And he cried, [as] A lion:  My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

9.  And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.  And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.”  (Isaiah 21:6,8,9)

 

CHAPTER SIX

The lions’ den

 

“5.  Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”  (Daniel 6:5)

 

The saints have always been tested by the kingdoms of the world concerning the laws of their God.  This is the patience and faith of the saints; to obey and go into the lion’s den.

After the tribulation and the trial comes the decree of peace, the millennium.

 

“25.  Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

26.  I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel:  for he is the living God, and steadfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.”  (Daniel 6:25,26)

 

CHAPTER SEVEN

Four beasts from the sea

 

Daniel’s vision of the four beasts parallels the dream that both he and Nebuchadnezzar had had earlier; please refer to the kingdoms of the world chart at the end of this paper.

The sea from which these kingdoms emerged was the Mediterranean Sea.  The reason there are not 5 beasts is because the feet of the metal image correspond exactly with the ten horns upon the fourth beast.  Larkin’s reference to “buttocks” and Daniel’s legs of iron are Rome; the influence of these Roman legs carried over into the feet and ten toes of iron and clay, ten horns, ten toes, ten kings.  The horns on the fourth beast are the fifth kingdom.

 

1.  Babylon:  The lion is the king of beasts and the eagle the king of birds.  Nebuchadnezzar received the heart of a man (verse 4, also Larkin p.120).  Babylon moved with the speed and at the great distance of an eagle, and seized its prey like a lion.

2.  Medo-Persia:  Huge lumbering armies, like a bear devouring much flesh, symbolize the Persian hordes.  Larkin understands the bear raising up on one side to show that, of the two, Persia was the stronger “side” and more deadly; and that the three ribs in its teeth were a representation of the “triple alliance” of Lydia, Babylon, and Egypt which Medo-Persia crushed (verse 5, Larkin p.121, 122)

3.  Macedonia:  The next inferior kingdom going down through time is also an inferior beast as a bear is inferior to a lion.  The four-winged leopard of Alexander the Great represented his lightning-fast, yet outnumbered, army.  The four inferior wings of a fowl were sufficient to carry his conquest to the four points of the compass of the whole “prophetic earth”.  The leopard had four heads because Alexander the Great’s kingdom was short-lived after his untimely demise, and divided into Thrace, Macedonia, Syria and Egypt (verse 6, Larkin p.122, 123).

4.  Rome:  Although iron is inferior to gold, silver or brass, yet it can break them all to pieces.  Just as the iron (envisioned in the metal idol) survives into the feet of iron and clay, the 10, 3, and 1 horns from this fourth beast survive until God destroys all kingdoms except His.  Today we are afflicted with the legacy of Rome, both in law and religion.  If I may, I will suggest that you picture this fourth beast with five horns on the east side of his head and five on the west (verse 7).

         a.  10 Horns:  No more significance need be applied to the number ten than that it carries through the imagery of the feet and toes of the dream image.  Remember that these ten kings are in ostensibly opposing camps represented by what have been called NATO and the supposedly defunct Warsaw Pact.

         b.  3 Horns:  These three horns are discovered by learning the identity of a latter-day government referred to as the “little horn” (verses 8,20,24).  These three are:

                            1.  England

                            2.  France

                            3.  Spain

         c.  1 Horn (Little Horn or Stout Horn):  The United States of America displaced England, France and Spain in its quest for “manifest destiny” here in this “promised” and “choice” land of North America.  The three kings were uprooted as the U.S.A. conquered “from sea to shining sea” (verse 8).  The appearance or “look” of the U.S.A. is “stout” because it imagines that it is the greatest military power on the face of the earth now that communism has “fallen” in this present year (A.D. 1993).  The U.S.A. allowed the saints (the restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) to be driven and persecuted, allowed Governor Boggs to issue an extermination notice, allowed Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith and other saints to be martyred.  The U.S. at first sent Johnson’s army, followed by marshals and carpetbaggers to enforce Edmunds-Tucker (anti-polygamy laws).  The U.S. spoke against the God who inspired its very founding and thought “to change times and laws” by denying the saints freedom of religion (verse 25).

The gentile saints were “worn out” or forced to capitulate on the “law” of plural marriage (verse 25); they were “prevailed against” or lost their “war” with the U.S.A. (verse 21).  The gentile saints (L.D.S.) were removed from the control of the U.S.A. when the majority of them eventually capitulated and complied with the Manifesto and thereby disobeyed God by bowing to the golden image; at which time they were no longer “given into his (the horn’s) hand”; they escaped his hand, for now, by disobedience to God.

Daniel was even given the year of this capitulation in code.

 

TIME

     TIMES

  DIVIDING

(one prophetic year)

    (2 times)

  OF TIME

360

       720

      180                        1260

 

 

    

1260  x  1½  years for each day  =  1890 years A.D.

 

One should ask from what point in time the years are to be counted.  Daniel gave three different numbers of days which all begin at the same time:  1260, 1290, 1335.  All three begin “from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away” (see Daniel 12:11). The daily sacrifice was that of a spotless lamb (one in the morning, one in the evening).  Christ is the daily sacrifice who was “taken away” into Egypt in His infancy, and because the Jews rejected Him they lost their priesthood, their kingdom and their temple not to mention the ability to perform a ritual no longer required, Christ is the daily sacrifice, and the time at which these three numbers of years begin is the time of His birth.

If one old testament prophet has counted time, commencing at Christ’s birth, then there must be others, and there are; Ezekiel has (this is covered in this writer’s other books), and so has Hosea.  Recall when you read the following verse in Hosea, that a thousand of man’s years are but a day with the Lord.

 

“15.  I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face:  in their affliction they will seek me early.

1.  Come, and let us return unto the LORD:  for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

2.  After two days will he revive us:  in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.”  (Hosea 5:15; 6:1-2)

 

 

1890 A.D. is the year of the saints’ capitulation; the year God’s law was transgressed or changed.  The times were also changed; the times of the gentiles were fulfilled.

 

“11.  I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake:  I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

12.  As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away:  yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.”  (Daniel 7:11,12)

 

The U.S.A., the heir of the Roman beast, burns first, and the rest will follow.  One might rightly ask how it is that “the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom” if they were “worn out” and “prevailed against” and “given into his (the horn’s) hand”.  Daniel is shown, in one chapter, about 2,540 years of world events and he does not clearly show the transfer of God’s kingdom from the gentile “saints” to the children of Israel.  The seizure of the kingdom, the talent and the priesthood from the gentiles by the outcasts of Israel is the Lord’s “strange act”.  This differentiation is not covered in chapter seven, except perhaps for one cryptic line of verse:  “...the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High” (v.27); the people among the saints, Ephraim within the gentiles and then to “all Israel”.

 

“36.  For, verily I say that the rebellious are not of the blood of Ephraim, wherefore they shall be plucked out.”  (D&C 64:36)

 

The “Ancient of Days” in verses 9, 10 and 13 is Adam, or Michael the Archangel, who takes dominion from the USA and gives it to Jehovah’s earthly kingdom in preparation for the coming of the “Son of Man” or Christ “with the clouds” (v.13).

 

CHAPTER EIGHT

The king of fierce countenance

 

It is important to remember that the Book of Daniel has now discontinued Aramaic text and has reverted to Hebrew.  The Book of Daniel uses this technique to change focus from the kingdoms of the world to the covenant people, be they gentile “disciples” or the seed of Jacob.  By writing in Hebrew, Daniel now focuses on the covenant people.

Daniel is taken in vision from Babylon to Shushan, the capital of Persia and is shown that Babylon will fall to Persia.  He is shown much more.  He sees the Babylon of John’s day—Rome, and he is shown events within the last Babylon: the United States.  Daniel is shown a latter-day king, yet we are not told what he is the king of.  It will be shown that he is an ecclesiastical king and not a secular one.

The two-horned ram in verses three and four is the joined Medo-Persian kingdom; the shorter horn is Darius the Mede, the taller, Cyrus the Persian.  The taller horn compares to the Bear rising upon one side in chapter seven, one side being stronger (see verse 20).

The he-goat (rough goat, v.21) is the “king of Grecia” (v.21) or Greece or Macedonia.  The notable horn (v.5) is Alexander the Great who dies when young and at the height of his power; the horn is broken (v.8).  The four kingdoms emerging from Macedonia are the four horns replacing the one: Thrace, Macedonia, Syria and Egypt (v.22).

 

“9.  And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land” (v.9).

 

The little horn in chapter seven is the United States; this little horn is Rome.  Rome came to power after Macedonia, as the iron followed the brass.  Rome was merely a crude, yet even more brutal, copy of Grecian civilization.

 

“10.  And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.” (v.10)

 

Rome stamped on the host of heaven (“host of the stars”) because this starry host is a type for Christ’s Church in His day; the host is Christ’s Church.  Rome crucified Christ and persecuted and perverted His Church (host) off the face of the earth.  Rome eventually destroyed Christ’s church by becoming “His church”.  Rome conquered east and south and took the pleasant land (Jerusalem).  The fact that Daniel’s visions use the same symbol (the little horn) for Rome and the United States is quite significant.  Rome persecuted and subjugated the church and killed Christ (or allowed his crucifixion).  The United States persecuted and subjugated the restored church and killed Joseph Smith, (or allowed his martyrdom).  The U.S.A. changed “times and laws” by changing the L.D.S. Church.  This is why John used Babylon as a figure for Rome as well as for the United States.  Babylon subjugated and perverted the Lord’s people.

 

THE FIRST BABYLON:                     BABYLON

THE SECOND BABYLON:                         ROME

THE THIRD BABYLON:                             THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

A cursory reading of verses 11-14 might lead one to believe that the topic is Rome and the second abomination with the destruction of the temple by Titus in 70 A.D., yet this is not the case.  This vision covers roughly 2,540 years to the ending of the world and there is a large historical leap between verse ten, which pertains to events transpiring in the reign of the second Babylon (Rome), and verse eleven, which shifts to events transpiring during the reign of the third Babylon, (the United States).  Gabriel (Noah) is instructed to explain the vision.  He explains, “at the time of the end shall be the vision”.  How can Gabriel say that the vision is at the end of the world (right now) when it comprehends civilizations from 500 B.C. long turned to dust and carried off by the wind?

 

VISION PHASE

PRELIMINARY EVENTS

verses 2-10

9 verses

LATTER-DAY VISION

verses 11-14

4 verses

 

EXPLANATION PHASE

PRELIMINARY EVENTS

verses 20-22

3 verses

61 words

LATTER-DAY VISION

verses 23-26

5 verses

131 words

 

Notice from the “vision phase” of the preceding chart that there are twice as many verses of preliminary events leading up to the latter-day vision than the actual vision itself.  In the “explanation phase”, however, there are more than twice the words dedicated to explaining “latter time” events than the number of words used to explain preliminary events.  Although called “preliminary events”, all of these events were in Daniel’s future.

World events from distant ages echo what happens at the end of the world, clarifying Gabriel’s emphasis on the “time of the end”.  We shall look at Gabriel’s “latter time” explanation first (v.23-26) so as to eliminate conjecture about verses 11-14.  We jump from Macedonia and Rome right to some sort of king, not a king of Grecia or Media or Persia, not a king of a province or land at all, but the king of the covenant.  This king is none other than...

 

“THE SON OF PERDITION”

“IN THE TEMPLE”

(spoken of by Paul in Second Thessalonians).

 

VERSE 23

 

1.  “the transgressors”:  The fallen L.D.S. Church, who “transgressed the laws, changed the ordinances, broken the everlasting covenant” (Isaiah 24:5) by issuing the Manifesto of 1890, thus binding the law and sealing the testimony (Isaiah 8:16), which “fulfilled” “the times of the gentiles” (D&C 45:28-30).

2.  “come to the full”:  This denotes our time when the fallen saints (transgressors) have filled their cup of wrath by allowing themselves to be led by this son of perdition.  This is the “fulness” of the gentiles.

3.  the “king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up”.  Recall that Daniel understood “hard sentences” (Dan. 5:12) or difficult passages or texts.  This “king” without a true country (whom Daniel describes in Hebrew because he is of the covenant) understands “dark sentences”; this king understands evil texts and chants and oaths to Lucifer, as did Cain and perhaps Judas.  His standing up signifies that he will take over the L.D.S. Church, or come to power over these “transgressors”.

 

VERSE 24

 

1.  Mighty power, “but not his own power”:  The fierce king’s power is not direct political or military power, but the authority granted him by the “saints” who raise their right hand to sustain him and receive the “mark of the beast” (and the power later granted this fierce king by the ten kings who conspire with the beast and with this king, who is also called the false prophet; [Revelations 17]).

2.  “destroy wonderfully”:  The way the king of the covenant destroys the “holy people” (L.D.S.) is truly a wonderment because he will destroy not by war, but by “peace” (v.25).  The “holy” people are called “mighty” because of their great political power in the intermountain west and their growing financial, political and media power throughout the world.  It must have been a wonderment for Daniel to hear of and see a king who was not able to merely send a small detachment of soldiers out to kill anyone who opposed him; a king with no tax collectors who, nonetheless, rakes in billions of shekels each year.

 

VERSE 25

 

1.  “cause crafts to prosper in his hand”:  Through the king’s controlling hand he will recruit some of the “holy people” to his “dark” or evil “craft”:  witchcraft.  He will also bring practitioners of his “craft” here to the pleasant land.  Since he is both a secret sorcerer (who understands dark sentences) and a priest, he will cause priestcraft to prosper also.

2.  “magnify himself in his heart”:  As in II Thess. 2:1-4, he will secretly say that he is god until God reveals him (Ezek. 28:1-12).

3.  “by peace (prosperity) shall destroy many”:  Through his association with the third Babylon he will sway all the “holy people” into upholding secret works of darkness (abortion, secret combinations — conspiracies to disarm and enslave).  He will assure that his people do not resist evil governments and are at peace and have prosperity.

4.  “shall stand up against the Prince of princes”:  To stand up to, and face as equal and especially in opposition, is to be “anti”.  He is the anti-Prince or anti-Christ.  The fierce king is the metaphorical son of Lucifer.

5.  “he shall be broken, without hand” or by God in the latter time, although he does not believe it because he supposes that he is “wiser than Daniel” (Ezek. 28:1-12).

 

 

 

VERSE 26

 

This vision and its true meaning have been shut up until now; “the time of the end”.  If you refuse to believe it now, you can wait with bloody hands until God reveals the “man of sin” “in the temple”, as Paul promised so many years ago.  If you refuse to believe it then and still uphold him, and refuse to repent, then you will go into the lake of fire.

 

VERSES 11 AND 12

 

These verses pertain to the fierce king and the transgressors; the son of perdition in control, and the L.D.S. Church.  It is written with the preferred translation (from the margin of the 1977 Oxford King James L.D.S. missionary Bible) inserted in place of portions of the existing text and shown in bold.  Commentary appears in brackets; please compare with the King James text.

 

11.  Yea he (the fierce king) magnified himself even against the prince of the host (Christ), and from him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down (Salt Lake Temple destroyed — thus taking away the daily sacrifice).

12.  And the host (L.D.S. Church) was given over for transgression against the daily sacrifice, and it (host or church) cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced (priestcraft, witchcraft), and prospered (became wealthy and powerful).

 

The son of perdition will live to see the Salt Lake Temple cast to the ground, thus taking from him the ability to perform the “daily sacrifice”.  Subsequent to that, the host or church will be annihilated because it profaned the temple and despised the truth.  “That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thess. 2:12)

 

“14.  Behold, thus saith the Lord unto my people — you have many things to do and to repent of; for behold, your sins have come up unto me, and are not pardoned, because you seek to counsel in your own ways.

“15.  And your hearts are not satisfied.  And ye obey not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness.”  (D&C 56:14,15)

 

VERSES 13, 14

 

These verses will be given in the same manner that verses eleven and twelve were, please compare the King James.

 

13.  Then I heard the wonderful numberer speaking, and another saint said to (this) numberer of secrets which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary (Salt Lake Temple) and the host (L.D.S.) to be trodden under foot?

14.  And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred (evening morning) days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed (justified, meaning destroyed).

 

The “prophet like unto Moses” was Christ.  The revelations of Ezekiel, Daniel, John and Hosea all used the birth of Christ as a starting point for some of their prophecies.  It is therefore possible that the birth of Moses is a starting point for the 2300 days.  If Moses (Dan. 9:2,11) is the “wonderful numberer”, who received the numerically encoded Torah and recorded the book of Numbers, and if the 2,300 days commence from his birth (which date is contested), we can then arrive at the following by using Daniel’s multiplier of a year and a half for a day:

 

2,300 days x 1.5  =              3450 years

 

                                             3450

Birth of Moses?                -1442 B.C.                    (subtract B.C. component

                                                                                         to arrive at A.D. date)

                                             2008

+1 year                              +0001                            (correction for crossing

                                                                                             from B.C. to A.D.)

2,300 days ends          2009 A.D.?

 

The date of 2009 A.D. for the treading down of the L.D.S. Church (the temple falls before the “saints” are annihilated) is most likely too great a figure.  Of note, the date for the crucifixion of Christ by strict application of the seventy weeks (Ch.9) is too long by about five years.  Larkin states that there may be one or two years’ error in B.C. profane history.  At present this writer is unable to resolve this prophecy to a year.

Daniel calls the defilement of the temple by the L.D.S. Church “the transgression of desolation” (v.13).  This temple defilement is both literal and symbolic.  It is literal because, like Israel, the gentile saints have allowed the inhabitants of Canaan into the temple and have mingled their seed; they have allowed women and men who have participated in abortion into their temples; they have excommunicated people for attempting to live up to their covenants made in the temple endowment (the new and everlasting covenant of marriage) and the Church has cut out significant portions and has modified portions of the endowment.  The L.D.S. Church has symbolically defiled the temple by breaking God’s commandments and by changing the ordinances.  The innocent blood of all the children slaughtered as a result of the change in official church policy allowing abortion is on the hands of every “saint” with a temple recommend or who raises their hand to sustain the hierarchy of the church “as constituted”.  Everyone who, in the temple, raises his hands up to God has blood on them!—Innocent blood!

 

“15.  And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you:  yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear:  your hands are full of blood.”  (Isaiah 1:15)

 

Daniel foretold the three abominations in reverse order:

 

3.      The third abomination of desolation:

Destruction of L.D.S. Temple

 

“32.  And again, this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all the nations, and then shall the end come, or the destruction of the wicked.

  33.  And again shall the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, be fulfilled.”  (Matthew 24:32,33, Inspired Version)

 

2.      The second abomination of desolation:

Destruction of Jerusalem Temple 70 A.D.

1.      The first abomination of desolation:

Defilement of the Jerusalem Temple 168 B.C. by Antiochus Epiphanes.

 

An abomination is an idol.  The word “overspreading” (9:27) literally means “wings” (Larkin p.214).  God’s covenant with man was represented by the arc of the covenant which was topped with two cherubim with wings spread toward each other and touching.  The wings of the cherubim overspread and protected the covenant people, yet man has forever erected idols to Baal in God’s house, seeking protection under...

 

“THE WINGS OF ABOMINATION”.

 

CHAPTER NINE

The seventy weeks

 

The majority of chapter nine is a prayer by Daniel on behalf of sinful Israel.  Gabriel comes to him during this prayer, therefore it is called the “interrupted prayer”.  Joseph Smith informs us that Gabriel is Noah (TPJS p.157).  This is the second time Gabriel “touched” Daniel or “set him upright”, thus we know that Noah was actually translated because he had a physical body those many years before Christ made resurrection possible.

The information imparted by Gabriel to Daniel was that he was “greatly beloved”.  What greater honor could anyone have than this?  John the Revelator was also called “beloved”.  We should consider ourselves fortunate to have received the beautiful truths which these men gave us out of their great tribulation.  Gabriel then gives Daniel the prophetic chronology of the “seventy weeks”.  The seventy weeks are to begin with the commandment to “restore” Jerusalem (v.25, also Neh. 2:1-8).  This date is given as 445 B.C. (Larkin p.186).  The first 69 weeks are weeks of seven years each and not weeks of days (69 seven-year weeks; “each day for a year”).  However, this last week is a period of seventy years and not seven years.  The seventy weeks conclude after Christ’s mortal ministry.

The following events are to be accomplished within the seventy weeks (v.24).

1.  “to finish the transgression”:  This is the second abomination of desolation upon the Jews and the temple at Jerusalem.  An abomination of desolation is always “transgression” and defilement of the temple coupled with destruction upon the covenant people.  The last two abominations are both associated with the destruction of the temple as well.

2.  “Make an end of sins, and make reconciliation for iniquity”:  This refers to Christ’s atonement whereby sin and iniquity are done away through repentance, obedience, justification and sanctification.

3.  “to bring in everlasting righteousness”:  Without Christ’s sacrifice no one could ever achieve righteousness.

4.  “seal up the vision and prophecy”:  To fulfill the Mosaic Law and the prophecies concerning the atonement of Christ, and to seal the testimony and prophecy of Christ’s Apostles with their blood.

5.  “anoint the Most Holy”:  The ordination of Christ by God to the priesthood of the order of Melchizedek thereby anointing him a King unto the most high God.

 

7 weeks + 62 weeks = 69 weeks

 

The 7 weeks (49 years) represent the time that “the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times” (v.25)... “to build Jerusalem” (v.25).

62 more weeks (v.26) making a total of 69 weeks or 483 years accomplish the execution (“cut off”, v.26) of “Messiah the Prince”, “but not for himself” (v.26).  Christ is executed for us.

The last week (70--not 7--years) begins with the crucifixion and ends with the cessation of the confirmation of the covenant or “seal(ing) up the vision”.  In the middle of this week (about 70 A.D.) Titus comes and destroys the temple (see Matthew 24:12, J.S.T.).  The following chart will show the termination of these years using 445 B.C. as a starting point.

 

 

                                                      70 Weeks                            Historic

                                                      Calculation                          Date

 

Crucifixion

of Christ

39 A.D.

30-34 A.D.

Abomination of

desolation(mid-week)

74 A.D. approx.

70 A.D.

Cessation of the

Covenant

109 A.D.

      ?

 

The cessation of the confirmation of the covenant is the beginning of the “great apostasy”.  John the Beloved is said to have “died” about 100 A.D., yet we know that he was translated, and that the Church went into apostasy and the covenant ceased, fulfilling the Seventy Weeks prophecy.

 

CHAPTER TEN

The man in linen

 

Daniel was in “mourning” on some type of fast for twenty-one days and a “man clothed in linen” (v.5, 6) appears with a “body” (v.6) so glorious and radiant that Daniel passes out.  We are not told the identity of the “man clothed in linen”, yet we learn in chapter twelve that Daniel is attended by at least two angels in addition to the man in linen.  Larkin believes the man in linen to be Christ (p.221) because Daniel’s description is similar to the description found in Revelation 1:12-15.  John, when attempting to worship his glorious visitor, however, discovered that the messenger was actually an angel representing Christ. (Rev. 22:8,9).  It is the writer’s opinion that Daniel’s man clothed in linen is Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament.

Jehovah:  The God of justice and wrath and power and vengeance who has been patient a great number of years.  Jehovah is the representative to this earth of the Elohim or the patriarchal order or council of the Gods; though there are “lords many and Gods many”, Jehovah is the supreme God of this earth and has a celestial body of flesh and bones (not blood).

Michael:  The Archangel, the son of Jehovah.  Michael is the “ancient of days”.  We learn through Joseph Smith Jr. that the archangel or supreme angel actually once lived on the earth and went by a different name:  Adam.  We also learn from Joseph through Brigham Young that Adam once lived on another earth, received his exaltation and fathered all of the spirits who will come to this earth.  Michael is the God who functions under Jehovah as the Archangel (for the present) (D&C 76:58,59).  Adam took upon himself mortality once again though a change in his body so that he could commence the human family and was eventually translated into a “terrestrial” state (Pearl of Great Price, Moses 6:61-68) and was to father the physical body of Jesus Christ after having previously fathered his spirit in the pre-mortal realm.  His “days are ancient” because he has lived these many years without sleeping in the dust; he was “changed in the twinkling of an eye.”

Jesus Christ:  The Mediator, the Savior, the Redeemer, the bearer of mercy, the means by which Jehovah may forgive the penitent sinner and not “rob justice”.  The Messiah saves us, and brings us back to God if we will.  Jesus Christ is not Jehovah as is erroneously being taught today in the L.D.S. Church.  Jesus has, however, been called by the names and titles of his Father and Grandfather and this is appropriate when He represents them. (see Mysteries of the Creation, by Ogden Kraut).

Gabriel:  Lived on earth as Noah and “died” yet “did not sleep”, he was “changed in the twinkling of an eye” and thus had a body to “touch” Daniel and “set him upright”.  Gabriel is in command under Michael and is also the head of the human family under Michael.  Noah, like Adam, is the father of all living today.

Perhaps the two angels on either side of the river (Daniel 12:5) were Michael and Gabriel, the ancient patriarchs who stood on either side of the great flood, with Jehovah standing over the river and presiding over the affairs of the whole earth; standing over the river of life (Dan. 12:6).

 

The Father:  Jehovah (Michael is the Father under His Father: Jehovah, as appointed by Him.)

 

“15.  That you may come up unto the crown prepared for you, and be made rulers over many kingdoms, saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Zion [Jehovah], who hath established the foundations of Adam-ondi-Ahman;

16.  Who hath appointed Michael your prince, and established his feet, and set him upon high, and given unto him the keys of salvation under the counsel and direction of the Holy One, who is without beginning of days or end of life.”  (D&C 78:15,16)

 

The Son:  Jesus Christ, the son of Jehovah’s son; the Only Begotten of Michael the Archangel in

mortality.

The Holy Ghost:         1.  The light of truth — the power of the Gods.

                                             2.  An office held by at least two of the sons of Michael while “personages of

     spirit”.

Michael:  Adam; God’s “son” (Luke 3:38) in ‘disguise’ as the Archangel (until revealed in this

dispensation).

Gabriel:  Noah; Michael’s spirit son in ‘disguise’ as an angel.

 

“Richards and Little wrote a Compendium of the Faith and Doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1882.  This was a volume originally written by Richards in 1857 and published by Orson Pratt in England.  Both editions contain a list of 45 “Names, Titles, and Characters Given to Jesus”.  Interestingly, the name Jehovah is not on the list!

...President Young explained to the School of the Prophets that “Elohim, Yahova & Michael, were Father, Son and Grandson.  They made this earth and Michael became Adam.”  (Joseph F. Smith Journal, June 17, 1871)  Thus, this Yahova in the creation of this earth was in reality our “Grandfather” in heaven.  These terms are applied to different persons in different councils, just as the term “God” has been.” (Mysteries of Creation, p.81, Ogden Kraut)

 

It is reasonable that Jehovah (v.5, 6), having a celestial body, appears to Daniel (in “the heat of the spirit”) thus sapping him of his strength.  It is likely that Gabriel is the angel “sent” (v.11) to strengthen Daniel and converse with him in verses 10 through 19, preparing Daniel to hear the vision from Jehovah from verse 20 (chapter 10) to the end of the book of Daniel.

 

VERSES 10-19

 

This angel “like the similitude of the sons of men” (v.16) is, no doubt, Gabriel, who has a translated or “terrestrial” body that can appear glorious or appear as a mortal, unlike a celestial body (such as Jehovah’s) the presence of which is deadly to anyone not “strengthened” by the Holy Ghost.  This angel states that he needs assistance from Michael to contend with the “prince of Persia” whom Larkin believes is a ‘fallen angel’ under the command of Lucifer.  The person in verses 16, 17 and 19, whom Daniel calls “my Lord” while conversing with the angel, is the glorious, radiant “man in linen” whom the angel (Gabriel?) is preparing Daniel to hear.

Compare the writer’s understanding of the latter part of verse 19 with the actual text.

 

“...I was strengthened, and said, Let my Lord (Jehovah) speak; for thou hast strengthened me (through Gabriel’s ministration).”

 

Christ was a spirit at this time and had not yet received a fulness nor been ordained a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

 

“21.  But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth:  and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.” (Daniel 10:21)

 

The personage addressing Daniel knew all the times, from beginning to end, as did Michael.

 

“36.  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”

37.  But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.”  (Matt. 24:36,37)

 

In a patriarchal, Biblical context, a person’s grandson is also considered his son, and his grandfather is also considered his father.  The words “grandson” and “grandfather” do not appear in the King James Bible  In this context, Michael is Christ’s father as is His grandfather Jehovah.  Michael is Daniel’s “prince”, just as Jehovah is Daniel’s king.  For this reason, Michael, as well as Jehovah, knows the end and the beginning.

 

“5.  Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.

6.  And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?” (Dan. 12:5,6)

 

Was it Gabriel who asked, because he did not know what Jehovah and Michael knew?

 

“7.  And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”  (Dan. 12:7)

 

Did the “man in linen” swear by himself because there is none greater to swear by (see Heb. 6:13), did he swear by Jehovah, is he Jehovah?

 

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The “willful” king

 

Daniel is now given the history of the covenant people before it happens, which is written in Hebrew, not Aramaic.  Larkin informs us (p.228) that some scholars believed that the Book of Daniel was a forgery because it was so detailed and accurate that it was considered impossible for Daniel to chronicle these events before they transpired.  Is anything impossible to God?  Verses 5 through 30 cover the conflict of the Seleucidae of Syria, the king of the north; and the Ptolemies of Egypt, the king of the south.  This historic sequence of kings is lumped into two composite or representative kings, one of the north and one of the south.

Syria and Egypt (two of the four Grecian horns) waged war for years back and forth across the Holy Land, which had initially been a province of Egypt.  Larkin looked at them as two great opposing millstones grinding up the promised land.  For the purposes of this paper we shall skip this history with the comment that if you have any doubts whether this revelation to Daniel was from God, please read the history in Larkin’s book.  For more detail on the events from verse 30 to the end of the chapter see this writer’s other book (A White Stone and A World Church...).

 

“29.  At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.

30.  For the ships of Chittim shall come against him:  therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.” (Dan. 11:29,30)

 

The sexual pervert and “vile person” (v.21) Antiochus Epiphanes (the king of the north) returns to wage war on Egypt (the king of the south) yet is unable to, because the ships of Chittim (Rome) lie at anchor in the harbor at Alexandria Egypt.  Enraged, Antiochus returns to Jerusalem where he has recently killed 40,000 Jews and taken 40,000 as slaves.  He conquers Jerusalem and profanes the temple committing the...

 

1ST ABOMINATION

 

“31.  And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.”  (Dan. 11:31)

 

This abomination is believed to be an idol which Antiochus set up above the altar of Jehovah upon which he poured swine’s blood as an offering to his pagan god, thus polluting the temple and taking away the ability of the priests to perform the daily sacrifice of two spotless lambs (morning and evening).  This is believed to have occurred in 168 B.C.

 

“32.  And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” (Dan. 11:32)

 

The evil Jews who conspire with the Syrians and remain in the city are juxtaposed with the priest Mattathias and his sons who lead the Maccabees and go to the mountains to wage guerrilla warfare against Syria.

 

“33.  And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.” (Dan. 11:33)

 

“They who understand” are Jesus Christ and his apostles, seventy and disciples, yet many are martyred and Christ’s church is destroyed and its remnant becomes apostate.  The Jews are scattered and Israel goes into its long captivity “many days”.

 

”34.  Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.” (Dan. 11:34)

 

After “they fall” (the great apostasy) the “little help” is the restoration through Joseph Smith Jr., yet the gentile church is soon “flattered” (like the Jews who had submitted to Syria) into disobedience and the times of the gentiles are fulfilled in 1890.

 

“35.  And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.” (Dan. 11:35)

 

Some of those who refuse to yield to the U.S.A. controlled and fallen L.D.S. Church (the beast from the earth, Rev. Ch.13) will be killed by this beast (the two witnesses, Rev. Ch.11) to make them white and resurrect them at the time of the end.

 

“3.  And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

10.  Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.”   (Dan. 12:3,10)

 

THE WILLFUL KING

 

A relatively considerable amount of text (verses 36-40) is now spent on the ‘willful king’, who is not a real king yet he is typified as the king of Palestine; this king however is a religious, and not a secular king.  The ‘willful king’ is the king of the covenant (see v.22).  The ‘willful king’ wears two hats; he is Lucifer’s ‘son’ and he is the de facto or future actual president of the L.D.S. Church; he is the “son of perdition” “in the temple”.

This king is the very same “king of fierce countenance” of chapter 8; the sorcerer king.

 

“36.  And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.” (Dan. 11:36)

 

The king will do whatever he wants in the “glorious land” (Utah) and secretly declare himself god.  He will gain wealth until the transgression or “indignation” or abomination is full.  This is an allusion to the third abomination mentioned first (ch.8).

 

“37.  Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.” (Dan. 11:37)

 

This closet homosexual will not regard the God of Abraham, yet he will make himself god.  (Is the “desire of women” also ‘the seed of Eve’ [Gen. 3:14-15] who would, one day, tread the seed of the serpent: Jesus Christ?)

 

“38.  But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.” (Dan. 11:38)

 

Instead of worshipping God, he will worship the god of “forces” (the U.S./U.N. and the financial oligarchy of the New World Order).

 

“39.  Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange God, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.” (Dan. 11:39)

 

These things he will do in the “fortress of Munitions” (preferred text) or Babylon III, the U.S.A.  His strange god, Lucifer, will rule over many, through their acquiescence to secret societies (The New World Order) and their submission to unconstitutional law; Lucifer will have human sacrifice in the form of abortion; Lucifer will reign through secret sorcery.  The ‘willful king’ will not divide the land for inheritance, as in consecration, to get gain he will steal the land and wealth of others.  His theft is accomplished as ‘trustee in trust’ of the LDS Church.

 

“40.  And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass over.” (Dan. 11:40)

 

Egypt is the United States, the kingdom of the south; neatly parceled, surveyed land; water-works and water-ways; standing towers; temples of worship and monuments to eternal life; manicured parks; well-ordered, furrowed fields; the mingled people busied in commerce, thriving under the sun, trafficking by river and by sea.

Assyria is Russia, the kingdom of the north, white Shemites from the north bringing death like a cold north wind, overflowing the land with waves of soldiers from all the heathen nations, burning temples, overthrowing towers, breaking standing images into the ground, ravaging all the women, murdering everyone...at the time of the end.

 

“41.  He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

42.  He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.” (Dan. 11:41,42)

 

The “pleasant land” will not escape, yet these three will:  Edom, Moab and Ammon on the king’s highway in the desert mountain, for her banners will be terrible and who can stand against her?

 

“43.  But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.” (Dan. 11:43)

 

Mingled nations from the south will follow close behind the Assyrian and the heathen, and little of Egypt will survive.

 

“44.  But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.” (Dan. 11:44)

 

The burning of Egypt is merely the beginning of the Assyrian conquest.  They will be called away in fury, for the world is now set ablaze; the cedars and oaks of Egypt are ashes, nevertheless, the holy seed will thereby germinate.

 

“45.  And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.” (Dan. 11:45)

 

When the king of Assyria pitches his war tent toward the north and the east of old world Egypt at the glorious holy mountain between the seas, in the ancient goodly land at Jerusalem, he will come to his end in the valley of decision.

 

CHAPTER TWELVE

The end of the days

 

“1.  And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.”  (Dan. 12:1)

 

 

Adam-ondi-Ahman will occur after ‘Egypt’ is swept of its evil inhabitants.  The book is the book of the Law of God.

 

“7.  And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”  (Dan. 12:7)

 

The scattering of the power of the Holy people was accomplished when the times of the gentiles were fulfilled and the law was bound and the testimony sealed among the gentiles.  This is the rosetta-stone of Daniel’s days and times.

 

A YEAR AND A HALF

FOR A DAY

 

TIME         TIMES     HALF                

 360    +        720    +  180              =                1260   x     1.5     =    1890

 

1890 A.D.

 

The 1890 Manifesto, ostensibly stopping plural marriage, fulfilled the times of the gentiles.

 

“9.  And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.”  (Dan. 12:9)

 

There is no way to understand Daniel without understanding both the times of the gentiles being fulfilled, and the fulness of the gentiles.  This is the key to the lock on this sealed revelation and this is the time of the end.

 

“10.  Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.”  (Dan. 12:10)

 

Many will come out of great tribulation, both in ‘Assyria’ and ‘Egypt’, to stand on Mount Zion; the wicked will find security in blindness and deafness and will walk in darkness at noonday, and will be cut off root and branch.

 

“11.  And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.”  Dan. 12:11)

 

Christ is the daily sacrifice (taken into Egypt as an infant), the spotless lamb, the time is counted from his birth.  The termination of these days (1,290) is the year in which the gentile “saints” hired a clever, ambitious little man with a good head for finances who, one day, would stand up as the anti-Christ, and who would acquire a penchant for building temples to the god of forces, and monuments to himself.

 

1290 x 1.5 = 1935 A.D.

 

This is also the year in which the L.D.S. changed plural marriage from a misdemeanor to a felony in Utah (H.B. 224), adding defiance to disobedience.  They then established their false prophets as objects of worship, idols standing in the temple, thus “setting up” the third abomination.

 

“12.  Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”  (Dan. 12:12)

 

1335 x 1.5 = 2002½ A.D.

 

Blessed is he who remains faithful at the appointed time.  Most will not.

 

“13.  But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.”  (Dan. 12:13)

 

Daniel would go his way and find rest and receive his inheritance, not in spirit paradise, not in the resurrection at the meridian of time, but at the end of the days.  Surely Daniel also ate the same sweet scroll of bitterness which Ezekiel had eaten; the little book eaten by John.  Surely Daniel, knowing good and evil, partook of the fruit of the tree of life.

 

ADDENDUM:  Since writing this study guide a decade ago, the year commencing in 2002.5 came to an end around June 30th, 2003 A.D.  Daniel’s two previous encrypted years, 1890 and 1935, saw the L.D.S. Church acquiesce to the laws of the latter-day Babylon in 1890 by issuing “The Manifesto” after the Supreme Court upheld the Edmonds-Tucker anti-polygamy law, and then in 1935 the L.D.S. joined in the religious persecution by making plural marriage a felony in Utah (H.B. 224).  I predicted that, based on the past, something would happen relative to the laws of the land and plural marriage prior to June 30, 2003.  This did happen, yet in an unexpected way.  On June 26th, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court issued Lawrence V. Texas which legalized all private acts of homosexual sodomy.  A man can now be a sodomite in Babylon, yet he can not live the law of Abraham (plural marriage).  Lawrence v. Texas has caused a furor among ‘conservative Christians’ and L.D.S. who are now clamoring all the more for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, thus forestalling the courts from legalizing homosexual or lesbian “marriage” (and plural marriage as well).  Will the L.D.S. be forced to solemnize a sodomite “marriage” in their temple?  How long before the Archangel burns Sodom?  Time will tell.  The great fear of legalizing homosexual “marriage” in the U.S.A. seems to be that it will ultimately lead to “polygamy”.