The Eighth Chapter of Daniel

• Dan. 8:1. The third year of Belshazzar, the last year of Babylon.
• Dan. 8:2. Daniel in Elam when given the vision.
• Dan. 8:3-14. Symbols given,—a ram, a rough goat, a little horn, and the 2300 days.
• Dan. 8:15. Daniel sought for the meaning.
• Dan. 8:16. Gabriel commissioned to make him understand.
• Dan. 8:20. Ram represented Medo-Persia.
• Dan. 8:21. Goat a symbol of Greece.
• Dan. 8:6. 7. Overthrow of Grecia by Medo-Persia.
• Dan. 8:8, 22; 11:4. Grecia divided into four divisions.
• Dan. 8:24, 25. The power following Grecia, which will be understood at the time of the end. Verse 17.
• Dan. 8:26, 27. Gabriel began to explain the time mentioned in the 14th verse, but Daniel fainted and could not understand.
• Dan. 9:1. The first year of Medo-Persia’s universal reign. Since the vision of the 8th chapter Babylon had been overthrown.
• Dan. 9:2. Daniel studied Jeremiah’s prophecy. Jer. 25:11. 12; 29:10
• Dan. 93-19. Daniel’s prayer reveals fear of lengthened captivity. The 2300 Days of Dan. 8:14
• Dan 9:20, 21. Gabriel appeared while Daniel was praying.
• Dan. 9:22, 23. Came to give understanding. Daniel told to consider the vision.
• Dan. 9:24. Gabriel begins where he left off in Dan. 8:26, and explains the 2300 days.
• Dan. 9:25. The period begins with the command to restore and build Jerusalem.
• Ezra 6:14. It took three kings to complete the decree.
• Ezra l:l-4. The first part given by Cyrus 536 B.C.
• Ezra 6:1-12. The second part given by Darius, the Persian.
• Ezra 7:11-27. Artaxerxes completed the decree in 457 B. c. It required 79 years to complete the decree.
• Ezra 7:9. Nearly half of the year passed before the decree reached Jerusalem. It was 456 1/2 before the decree went into effect.
• Dan. 9:25. The 2300 days began when the decree went into effect 456 1/2 B.C.; 70 weeks, or 490 years, were determined, or cut off for the Jews. The six definite things mentioned were all fulfilled by Christ within the 70 weeks. His death sealed the vision. He was anointed at His baptism, the heavenly sanctuary was anointed before Christ entered it with His blood to fulfill the type. Ex. 40:9-11.
• Dan. 9:25. The 70 weeks were divided into seven, sixty-two, and one week.
• Num. 14:34; Eze. 4:6, margin. A day of prophetic time equals a year.
• Gen. 29:27. Seven years equal a week of symbolic time.
• Dan. 9:25. Seven weeks and 62 weeks, or 483 years, reached to Messiah. Subtracting 456 1/2 years from 483, leaves 26 1/2 A.D., or 27 A.D., the date for the Messiah.
• John 1:41, margin. The Hebrew word Messiah in English is anointed; the 483 years reached to the Anointed One.
• Acts 10:38. Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost.
• Luke 3:21, 22, margin. This anointing took place at the baptism of Christ, A.D. 27.
• Mark 1:9-15. Jesus, as He entered upon His ministry, announced that "the time was fulfilled."
• Dan. 9:26, 27. In the midst of the 70th week, Messiah "was to be cut off," and "cause the sacrifice to cease."
• Dan. 9:27. He was to confirm the covenant for one week, and yet be cut off in the midst of the week.
• Heb. 2:3. The Saviour taught the first part of the week, and His followers the last part.
• Luke 24:47. According to Christ’s instruction, the disciples confined their labors to Jerusalem for 3 1/2 years after the crucifixion.
• Acts 8:1-4. After the rejection of the gospel and the stoning of Stephen, the disciples went everywhere preaching the word. This was A.D. 34, the end of the 70 weeks. The gospel was no longer confined to the Jews. Seventy weeks, or 490 years, taken from the 2300 days, leaves 1810 years. The 70 weeks ended A.D. 34; 1810 added to A.D. 34 brings us to the autumn of 1844.
• Dan. 8:14. In the autumn of 1844, at the end of the 2300 days, the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, or the investigative judgment, began in the heavenly sanctuary.