PART 12 DANIEL’S SECOND VISION

TEXT- DANIEL 8:1-27

INTRODUCTION

HERE IN THIS CHAPTER WE FIND ANOTHER VISION THAT DANIEL HAD WHILE HE WAS A CAPTIVE IN BABYLON.

THIS IS THE SECOND OF FOUR VISIONS THAT DANIEL HAD AND IT IS ONE THAT IS ALSO FILLED WITH MUCH PROPHECY CONCERNING THE END TIME.

DANIEL'S FIRST VISION WE WERE TOLD TOOK PLACE WHILE HE WAS ASLEEP ON HIS BED ONE NIGHT, U. HERE IN THIS CHAPTER THOUGH WE ARE NOT TOLD IF DANIEL WAS ASLEEP OR AWAKE DURING THIS VISION.

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT HE WAS AWAKE DURING THIS VISION SINCE THERE IS NO MENTION OF HIM BEING ASLEEP.

THIS WOULD NOT BE UNCOMMON BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD VISIONS WHILE THEY WERE AWAKE AND WERE PUT INTO A KIND OF TRANCE.

ACTS 10:1-3  AT CAESAREA THERE WAS A MAN NAMED CORNELIUS, A CENTURION IN WHAT WAS KNOWN AS THE ITALIAN REGIMENT. 2HE AND ALL HIS FAMILY WERE DEVOUT AND GOD-FEARING; HE GAVE GENEROUSLY TO THOSE IN NEED AND PRAYED TO GOD REGULARLY. 3ONE DAY AT ABOUT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON HE HAD A VISION. HE DISTINCTLY SAW AN ANGEL OF GOD, WHO CAME TO HIM AND SAID, "CORNELIUS!"

ACTS 10:9-10  ABOUT NOON THE FOLLOWING DAY AS THEY WERE ON THEIR JOURNEY AND APPROACHING THE CITY, PETER WENT UP ON THE ROOF TO PRAY. 10HE BECAME HUNGRY AND WANTED SOMETHING TO EAT, AND WHILE THE MEAL WAS BEING PREPARED, HE FELL INTO A TRANCE.

IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE SEVERAL DIFFERENT EXPRESSIONS OR PHRASES THAT ARE USED HERE IN THIS CHAPTER SUCH AS: "THE TIME OF THE END",  "THE FINAL PERIOD OF INDIGNATION", AND "THE APPOINTED TIME OF THE END."

ALL OF THESE PHRASES REFER TO THAT PERIOD OF TIME KNOWN AS THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD OR THE LAST 3 ½ YEARS OF THE TRIBULATION.

THIS DOES NOT MEAN THOUGH THAT EVERYTHING THAT DANIEL SAW IN HIS VISION PERTAINS TO THIS PERIOD OF TIME, BUT IT DOES MEAN THAT ITS FINAL AND COMPLETE FULFILLMENT WILL TAKE PLACE DURING THIS TIME.

MANY OF THE THINGS WHICH DANIEL SAW IN HIS VISION HAVE ALREADY BEEN FULFILLED YET THERE IS MUCH MORE TO COME.