CHAPTER 21 B
During this lesson, we will look at the role of Satan’s imposter covenant agreement he tries to make with the world at the close of time.
Daniel 8:21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Spiritually, the King of Grecia is the king of the Gentile world or Satan. See previous studies from Daniel 8:5 on the spiritual meaning of Greece from the Bible.
Spiritually and for our purposes, the question could be asked who is king of the Gentile world or the world that does not know God? The first king of the Gentile world would be Satan. Christ calls him the Prince of this World.
John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
John 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
His name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon which means destroyer.
Revelation 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
That we are talking about Satan directly and are looking at him as He is represented by the He-goat can be verified also by the words of Daniel 8:19 which speak of “the last end of the indignation”. The only description of an angry or indignant character in Daniel 8 is the He-goat. Comparing scripture with scripture, in the book of Revelation, there is only one angry power opposed to Christ at the close of time and that is the dragon or Satan.
Go back and review the study on the great horn of Daniel 8:5 and the word notable regarding this horn.
This horn is unique in that it is striking in appearance. It is a NOTEABLE revelation or compact: meaning an agreement, or covenant. A covenant is a contract or agreement between two or more parties. In Hebrew and Christian thinking we make covenant relationship with God, like a marriage. And that covenant rightly understood is the acceptance of the soul to the gospel or revelation of Jesus Christ.
In the Bible there are good covenants made with God such as baptism, the Ten Commandments being covenants of new birth and life. The example of God’s Ten Commandment covenant is below.
Exodus 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Exodus-Chapter-19/
This first covenant in Exodus 19 had a weakness because sinful man did not keep it and kept on sinning. Man needed a Man Who would stand strong to keep the Holy Law of God and Who also could save them. And so, God sent Christ, the Mighty Man. Christ was the man who did indeed obey God’s voice and keep His covenant. He was indeed a peculiar treasure to God above all people. He was the Man who had no sin and Who trusted God and obeyed Him even to the death of the cross in perfect love to save the sinner. In this covenant relationship with man based on the merits of a righteous Savior, God graciously brought us into a relationship with Himself that will never end.
Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Hebrews-Chapter-8/
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-Chapter-28/
However, it is interesting that this word “notable” in Daniel 8 is used in relation to a power or horn, which, directly opposes God's will in that he destroys two horns or powers of the kings of the Medes and Persians concerning freedom for His people to worship Him and to have a government under God.
In the Bible there are covenants made with evil powers, covenants of death. Less talked about perhaps are the covenants with evil. These covenants do not hold water but are worthless lies.
Isaiah 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Instances of the devil working to make a covenant by lying and subtilty are as follows:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-Chapter-3/
In the example above, Satan gets into Eve’s head or thinking as he directly opposes God’s Word placing his word above God’s and so placing himself above God. The serpent tempts her to enter a covenant with himself by eating the forbidden fruit promising her life eternal. The sad thing is, Eve already had eternal life by her Creator, but by eating she transferred her allegiance from God to Satan or by whom she chose to accept and believe essentially divorcing herself from God the Life Giver.
Satan also tried to make a covenant with Christ.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-Chapter-4/
Again, as though he had created the world, the devil tried to place himself to be God. In this case, Jesus admonished him. If Satan had succeeded, our salvation would have been negated. Death would have remained the lot of the human family. Satan would have ruled in opposition to God.
The words of Daniel 8:5 “between his eyes” are significant also in Hebrew thought for a thing of prominence, like the heart of the landscape, or it is also symbolic of the seat of thinking. And in Hebrew it was symbolic of keeping the covenant of God in their thinking or heart. But in the case of this horn there is a different agreement or covenant in the heart, a covenant in opposition to God.
There are instances throughout the Bible where Satan uses mediums or instrumentalities to work through. One of those cases is the prophecy in Daniel 7 where the Bible states the Little Horn power speaks great words “against the Most High” and “thinks to change times and laws”.
Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Daniel-Chapter-7/
Look at the descriptions of this horn. He is described as a man who blasphemes God by speaking as if he were God. He also makes war with the people of God.
Daniel 7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Daniel 7:20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
The Bible tells us the wicked one will literally take God’s covenant law and attempt to speak it as if it were his own. He intends for the world to bow in obedience to himself as if he were God.
Psalms 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-Chapter-50/
Today, just like with Eve and with Christ, Satan wants to be worshipped as God. Since Christ kept his Fathers will or covenant, Christ as a man, through His own righteousness, forever sealed the covenant promise to man. The covenant still stands! Satan could not destroy that. So, plan B, Satan devised to use earthly, human powers to make an apparent change in the will or covenant of God. In the case of the Little Horn power of Daniel 7 which is the same as in Daniel 8 and Revelation 12 & 13, Satan used this blasphemous power for 1260 years to bring about a false covenant with man and to tear down the institutions or covenants of God, changing “times and laws”. A time change included stealing the Lord’s Day as his own and setting aside the Sabbath of creation week and putting in its place another day of the week, the first day or Sunday for worship of the Creator. The papal power also boldly substituted and changed individual commands or laws within the ten commandments of God. The gift of salvation, Satan through the papacy, sold for gain to build an earthly pompous kingdom. And to maintain supremacy, Satan endeavored to keep this false covenant in the hearts of the human race, essentially divorcing humanity from God or breaking the true covenant relationship with God.
In the New Testament this Little Horn power is known as the “man of sin” of 2 Thessalonians 2 and as the Leopard-like beast of Revelation 13.
Look at the Bible warning.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
So, from our studies, the “man of sin” has already been revealed as being the papacy. However, the Bible warns us that the “Lamb-like beast, which we have discovered representing the United States of America, will eventually exercise the same power as the Leopard-like beast or Man of sin of Revelation 13 and 2 Thessalonians 2 and will speak like a dragon (deceptively at first and forcefully in the end). Through a popular vote, Protestant America will give her powers of religious liberty and civil liberty away. Once she does this, she gives power to the image of the Leopard-like beast to live again. The great Protestant Reformation is over. There is no land of freedom of religion or civil freedom to help the world in this crisis. And there will be a covenant or agreement made with the devil. To secure temporal life, people will sell their soul to Satan thinking they are doing it for Christ because of Satan’s lies. Notice it is about worship. Just as with God’s covenant law, this is a mark in the forehead or hand representing the seat of our thoughts and actions. If we choose to believe the lie, we receive the mark. If we choose to act and worship the image of the beast, we receive the mark. The mark is the notable covenant made with Satan.
Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-Chapter-13/
But Scripture also tells us that this is a test for the world. Will we choose Christ or Satan? Who is supreme ruler of your heart? The one who provides lies as a refuge or the One Who Himself is the Covenant of truth and life. As you read the verses below compare our Mighty God and the free republic and land He has provided for us as refuge from persecution and totalitarian government. This scripture can be applicable to the situation of the United States of America.
Joshua 24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Joshua-Chapter-24/
CHAPTER SUMMARY
During this lesson, lookED at the role of Satan’s imposter covenant agreement he tries to make with the world at the close of time.
Spiritually, the King of Grecia is the king of the Gentile world or Satan. Spiritually and for our purposes, the question could be asked who is king of the Gentile world or the world that does not know God? The first king of the Gentile world would be Satan. Christ calls him the Prince of this World. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon which means destroyer.
That we are talking about Satan directly and are looking at him as He is represented by the He-goat can be verified also by the words of Daniel 8:19 which speak of “the last end of the indignation”. The only description of an angry or indignant character in Daniel 8 is the He-goat. Comparing scripture with scripture, in the book of Revelation, there is only one angry power opposed to Christ at the close of time and that is the dragon or Satan.
The great noteable horn on the He-Goat is unique in that it is striking in appearance. It is a NOTEABLE revelation or compact: meaning an agreement, or covenant. A covenant is a contract or agreement between two or more parties. In Hebrew and Christian thinking we make covenant relationship with God, like a marriage. And that covenant rightly understood is the acceptance of the soul to the gospel or revelation of Jesus Christ.
In the Bible there are good covenants made with God such as baptism and the Ten Commandments both being covenants of new birth and life.
This first covenant in Exodus 19 regarding the Ten Commandments had a weakness because sinful man did not keep it and kept on sinning. Man needed a Man Who would stand strong to keep the Holy Law of God and Who also could save them. And so, God sent Christ, the Mighty Man. Christ was the man who did indeed obey God’s voice and keep His covenant. He was indeed a peculiar treasure to God above all people. He was the Man who had no sin and Who trusted God and obeyed Him even to the death of the cross in perfect love to save the sinner. In this covenant relationship with man based on the merits of a righteous Savior, God graciously brought us into a relationship with Himself that will never end.
It is interesting that this word “notable” in Daniel 8 is used in relation to a power or horn, which, directly opposes God's will in that he destroys two horns or powers of the kings of the Medes and Persians concerning freedom for His people to worship Him and to have a government under God. In the Bible there are covenants made with evil powers, covenants of death. Less talked about perhaps are the covenants with evil. These covenants do not hold water but are worthless lies. Instances of the devil working to make a covenant by lying and subtilty are seen in the Serpent’s encounter with Eve and in Satan’s encounter with Christ on the Mount of Temptation.
Satan gets into Eve’s head or thinking as he directly opposes God’s Word placing his word above God’s and so placing himself above God. The serpent tempts her to enter a covenant with himself by eating the forbidden fruit promising her life eternal. The sad thing is, Eve already had eternal life by her Creator, but by eating she transferred her allegiance from God to Satan or by whom she chose to accept and believe essentially divorcing herself from God the Life Giver.
Satan also tried to make a covenant with Christ. Again, as though he had created the world, the devil tried to place himself to be God. In this case, Jesus admonished him. If Satan had succeeded, our salvation would have been negated. Death would have remained the lot of the human family. Satan would have ruled in opposition to God.
The words of Daniel 8:5 “between his eyes” are significant also in Hebrew thought for a thing of prominence, like the heart of the landscape, or it is also symbolic of the seat of thinking. And in Hebrew it was symbolic of keeping the covenant of God in their thinking or heart. But in the case of this horn there is a different agreement or covenant in the heart, a covenant in opposition to God.
There are instances throughout the Bible where Satan uses mediums or instrumentalities to work through. One of those cases is the prophecy in Daniel 7 where the Bible states the Little Horn power speaks great words “against the Most High” and “thinks to change times and laws”.
Look at the descriptions of this horn. He is described as a man who blasphemes God by speaking as if he were God. He also makes war with the people of God.
The Bible tells us the wicked one will literally take God’s covenant law and attempt to speak it as if it were his own. He intends for the world to bow in obedience to himself as if he were God.
Today, just like with Eve and with Christ, Satan wants to be worshipped as God. Since Christ kept his Fathers will or covenant, Christ as a man, through His own righteousness, forever sealed the covenant promise to man. The covenant still stands! Satan could not destroy that. So, plan B, Satan devised to use earthly, human powers to make an apparent change in the will or covenant of God. In the case of the Little Horn power of Daniel 7 which is the same as in Daniel 8 and Revelation 12 & 13, Satan used this blasphemous power for 1260 years to bring about a false covenant with man and to tear down the institutions or covenants of God, changing “times and laws”. A time change included stealing the Lord’s Day as his own and setting aside the Sabbath of creation week and putting in its place another day of the week, the first day or Sunday for worship of the Creator. The papal power also boldly substituted and changed individual commands or laws within the ten commandments of God. The gift of salvation, Satan through the papacy, sold for gain to build an earthly pompous kingdom. And to maintain supremacy, Satan endeavored to keep this false covenant in the hearts of the human race, essentially divorcing humanity from God or breaking the true covenant relationship with God.
In the New Testament this Little Horn power is known as the “man of sin” of 2 Thessalonians 2 and as the Leopard-like beast of Revelation 13. From our studies, the “man of sin” has already been revealed as being the papacy. However, the Bible warns us that the “Lamb-like beast, which we have discovered representing the United States of America, will eventually exercise the same power as the Leopard-like beast or Man of sin of Revelation 13 and 2 Thessalonians 2 and will speak like a dragon (deceptively at first and forcefully in the end). Through a popular vote, Protestant America will give her powers of religious liberty and civil liberty away. Once she does this, she gives power to the image of the Leopard-like beast to live again. The great Protestant Reformation is over. There is no land of freedom of religion or civil freedom to help the world in this crisis. And there will be a covenant or agreement made with the devil. To secure temporal life, people will sell their soul to Satan thinking they are doing it for Christ because of Satan’s lies. Notice it is about worship. Just as with God’s covenant law, this is a mark in the forehead or hand representing the seat of our thoughts and actions. If we choose to believe the lie, we receive the mark. If we choose to act and worship the image of the beast, we receive the mark. The mark is the notable covenant made with Satan.
But Scripture also tells us that this is a test for the world. Will we choose Christ or Satan? Who is supreme ruler of your heart? The one who provides lies as a refuge or the One Who Himself is the Covenant of truth and life. As you read the verses below compare our Mighty God and the free republic and land He has provided for us as refuge from persecution and totalitarian government. This scripture can be applicable to the situation of the United States of America.