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Spiritual Armor For Spiritual War
Contributed by Curtis Kittrell on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: Unfortunately, most of us don’t know the first thing about fighting the kind of war in this scripture. For, as Ephesians 6:10-12 says, it’s not a battle of flesh and blood, but of the spirit.
c[thing was revealed] A term used 25 times in Daniel and 45 times in Revelation,
emphasizing the subject matter of both books.
d[revealed unto Daniel] Note the price Daniel paid for this revelation and the method
whereby he received it (Daniel 10:2-12:13). Divine revelations have always had an impressive effect upon their receivers (Daniel 2,4,5,7-12; Isaiah 6; Rev. 1; Genesis 15).
e[time appointed was long] The time for fulfillment was in the far distant future (Daniel 10:14,35). Even yet it has not been completed. At least all of Daniel 11:35-12:13 is yet to be fulfilled. The Hebrew: tsaba (HSN-6635) gadowl (HSN-1419) means long warfare. The true idea is that there will be many wars before all these things are fulfilled.
The Vision of Wars
1.The war between Gabriel and the satanic prince of Persia who resisted him and sought to keep him from giving this vision of wars to Daniel (Daniel 10:12-13,20)
2.That between the Persians and Greeks (Daniel 10:20-21,11:2-3; Daniel 8:20-21)
3.War of the Medes and Persians with the Babylonians (Daniel 11:1; Daniel 5:25-31)
4.That of the generals of Alexander the Great seizing control of his empire and dividing it into 4 parts (Daniel 11:4; Daniel 8:8,22). See pt. 7 of The Angelic Interpretation
5.The 1st war between Syria and Egypt, 2 of the 4 divisions of Alexander’s empire (Daniel 11:5)
6.The 2nd war between Syria and Egypt (Daniel 11:7-9)
7.The 3rd war between Syria and Egypt (Daniel 11:10-12)
8.The 4th war between Syria and Egypt (Daniel 11:13-16)
9.The 5th war between Syria and Egypt (Daniel 11:17)
10.The war between Syria and Greece and Rome (Daniel 11:18-19)
11.The 1st war between Syria and Israel (Daniel 11:20)
12.The 2nd war between Syria and Israel (Daniel 11:21-24)
13.The 6th war between Syria and Egypt (Daniel 11:25-27)
14.The 3rd war between Syria and Israel (Daniel 11:28)
15.The 7th war between Syria and Egypt (Daniel 11:29-31)
16.The 4th war between Syria and Israel (Daniel 11:32-34)
17.War between Syria and God (Daniel 11:36-39)
18.The 8th and last war between Syria and Egypt (Daniel 11:40-42)
19.The 5th war between Syria and Israel (Daniel 11:41)
20.War between Syria and other nations (Daniel 11:41)
21.Syrian war with the Libyans and Ethiopians (Daniel 11:43)
22.War between Syria and the 10 kingdoms under her and Russia and the nations north and east of the old Roman Empire territory (Daniel 11:44)
23.The 6th and last war between Syria and Israel (Daniel 11:45; Zech. 14:1-5,14)
24.War between Syria and Christ at His second coming (Daniel 11:45; Daniel 7:21-22,25-27; Daniel 8:23-25; Daniel 9:27)
25.War in heaven between Michael and his angels and Satan and his angels (Daniel 12:1; Rev. 12:7-12)
f[understood the thing] If Daniel understood the vision before the now historical section (Daniel 11:2-34) was fulfilled, we today can surely understand the vision after the fulfillment of this section. The whole vision is very plain, as we shall see.
Daniel 10:2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
Daniel 10:2
a [three full weeks] This is a long time for a man to be in fasting, prayer, and constant emotional strain.
