“When you fail to see the prophetic program is not operating, but has been interrupted, you can’t grasp what’s necessary to be prepared for the days ahead. We’re talking about the war behind the scenes today that even Israel doesn’t know that it’s fighting. It’s the behind-the-scenes war that is the real conflict going on as the nations of the earth function.
“Daniel 10 is a passage that demonstrates that for you and
this is one of those really weird chapters in all of the Bible. You look at it
and say, ‘Wow, what in the world is all that?!’ The answer is, don’t try to interpret
it; try to understand it," says Richard Jordan.
“Daniel is at least 90 years old at this point and God sends
an angel to give him some information, which is found in chapters 11 and 12.
Those chapters are the climax of the book and they focus on the very last days
of ‘the last days’ of God’s program with the nation Israel.
“They focus on a point in prophetic scripture that more attention is given to in the Bible than ANY other period in human history, including
the earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“Daniel 10:14: [14] Now I am come to make thee understand what shall
befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
“What do ‘the last days’ of prophecy focus on and who are
they about? Israel. I’m convinced that most of the problems people have about
the eschatology of ‘the last days’ are really an ecclesiology problem.
“If you understand the nature of the Body of Christ, and the
fact that the Body of Christ is a mystery hid in God, not a part of the prophetic
program, then you can understand why were not in ‘the last days.’ It’s a failure to understand, not prophecy,
but the mystery program. That distinction affects everything.
“The most amazing passage in prophecy to me is Daniel 9. How
he predicts right to the exact day when Jesus Christ will come and present Himself
to the nation Israel, coming down off the Mount of Olives on a colt, the foal
of an ass, presenting Himself as their king.
“Daniel 9 predicts
that. He tells you when it’s going to begin, how many days. Not just years or
months, somewhere close, but exactly the number of days it’s going to be until
it comes to pass and it’s fulfilled right on the day.
“And the Lord Jesus Christ says in Luke 19, ‘This is the day!’
and tells Israel they’re accountable to know that because their scripture laid
it out for them. You’d have to be poisoned in your understanding not to know the
Bible’s the Word of God.”
*****
“In Daniel 10, Gabriel comes to answer the prayer of Daniel and explains to him that ‘the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.’
“Michael is the archangel, so when it says ‘Michael, one of the chief princes,’ he’s talking about one of the chief rulers of the angelic world. Well, this prince of Persia is another angel who rules over a territory in the heavens called Persia. But there was there also a territory on the earth called Persia. In fact, there’s where Daniel was.
“You see, there’s a correspondence between these demonic creatures and satanic angels and what goes on on Planet Earth in that day. Because Satan, just like he was in Christ’s day, has gathered his armies of cohorts together to hold the land of Palestine. . . ."
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