Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he (((the Roman power))))* corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Dan 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Dan 11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Dan 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
*The HE is the Roman power. We really need to remember these are powers at play here political, religious powers.
We've already talked about God's covenant, but here it is mentioned again. God's covenant with His people is His truth. When any are against the truth they are against God's covenant. The Roman power -pagan/papal holds little with God's whole truth and no matter how many lies are mingled with truth, a single lie corrupts the truth. God would only have the entire truth, never having anything to do with a single lie, not even lies we might call harmless and tout them as white lies.
When paganism introduced it's rituals and merged them with Christianity they brought with them man's laws breaking God's laws. Man substituting God's truth for the beliefs of false gods. Sunday- the day of the Sun. Sunday a day for worshipping the sun.
Sól also was called Sunna, Sunne, and Frau Sunne, from which are derived the words, sun and Sunday.
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The English noun Sunday derived sometime before 1250 from sunedai, which itself developed from Old English (before 700) Sunnandæg (literally meaning "sun's day"), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Middle Dutch sonnendach (modern Dutch zondag), Old High German sunnun tag (modern German Sonntag), and Old Norse sunnudagr (Danish and Norwegian søndag, and Swedish söndag). The Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), which is a translation of the Greek heméra helíou.[2] The p-Celtic Welsh language also translates the Latin "day of the sun" as dydd Sul.
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The day of the sun-- the very god so many pagans worship, not God, but the sun god, the sun. Worshipping the sun, not worshipping God.
With sun worshipping introduced to Christianity, a compromise was made towards the pagans drawing them into a whole new religion, but it was NOT God's truth, it was NOT God's religion, but rather a false, corrupted religion put up in its place. The covenant was broken once more. Wickedness was done against the covenant.
Now we need to realize something here-- Daniel was given over and over prophecies that all led up to when? The time of the end. All of the prophecies pointed towards that very first prophecy- that statue whose destruction would come at the very end as God's new world is ushered in.
This prophecy in Daniel 11 leads up to that end as well.
We've gone through quite a bit of history but this next bit takes in a long span. Just as the Dark Ages of our history are known for being- just that- Dark times.
'Dark Ages (historiography), the concept of a supposed period of intellectual darkness that occurred in Europe following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
the European Middle Ages (5th to 15th centuries AD)'
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Dark Ages" is a historical periodization emphasizing the cultural and economic deterioration that supposedly occurred in Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.[1][2] The label employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the "darkness" of the period with earlier and later periods of "light". The period was characterized by a paucity of historical and other written records for much of the period, rendering it obscure to historians. The term "Dark Age" itself derives from the Latin saeculum obscurum, originally applied by Caesar Baronius in 1602 to a tumultuous period in the 10th and 11th century.[3]
Originally, the term characterized the bulk of the Middle Ages, or roughly the 6th to 13th centuries, as a period of intellectual darkness between the extinguishing of the "light of Rome" after the end of Late Antiquity, and the rise of the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century.[4] This definition is still found in popular usage,[1][2][5] but increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages since the 19th century has led to the label being restricted in application. Since the 20th century, it is frequently applied only to the earlier part of the era, the Early Middle Ages (c. 5th–10th century).[6][7] However, many modern scholars who study the era tend to avoid the term altogether for its negative connotations, finding it misleading and inaccurate for any part of the Middle Ages.[8][9]
The concept of a Dark Age originated with the Italian scholar Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) in the 1330s, and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature.[4][10] Petrarch regarded the post-Roman centuries as "dark" compared to the light of classical antiquity. Later historians expanded the term to refer to the transitional period between Roman times and the High Middle Ages (c. 11th–13th century), including not only the lack of Latin literature, but also a lack of contemporary written history, general demographic decline, limited building activity and material cultural achievements in general. Later historians and writers picked up the concept, and popular culture has further expanded on it as a vehicle to depict the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness, extending its pejorative use and expanding its scope.[11]
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Reading this we can see where a label given and accepted, a label taught in history- modern history for a long, long time- is being altered. People want to strip away those words Dark Ages, but they hold true. There was a long period of time for a lot of intellectual as well as religious darkness. You know as well as I know that knowledge was stunted for a long, long time as opposed to the enlightenment we have found ourselves in since the late 1700's on right into the 1800's, and of course 1900's and today we are so incredible farther ahead in just a few hundred years it's hard to comprehend how people lived in such an intellectual void. You have to stop and think that our modes of transportation remained virtually unchanged for thousands and thousands of years only to go from horses to cars, to planes, to rockets, to shuttles. We're talking thousands of years of the same thing only to be changed phenomenally in just a few hundred years. No matter what contemporary people wish to say, wish to change to better suit them, FACTS speak for themselves.
From the 6th to the 15th centuries… 900 years the world was coming caught up in a period of time unlike any other. The Roman Empire fell and in its place NO other world empire came up but things broke apart never to be joined again. Our world today still has those results of that time when the empire was shattered. There was only a gradual rise up out of those 'dark ages', it wasn't instantaneous, just as little is. We have to stop here though and look at the 'dark ages' for a bit. Reread this--
Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he (((the Roman power))))* corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Dan 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Dan 11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Dan 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
God's people would -
Fall by the sword.
Fall by flame.
Fall by captivity.
Fall by spoil.
For how long? Many days.
Falling, tried, purged.
What happened during this time for God's true people? They were horrifically oppressed for all that Christianity was now accepted in the mainstream. The false religious force under the guise of being truly Christ's persecuted those who truly were Christ's.
Who hasn't heard of the persecution of any who defied the papal rule?
The Roman Catholic history is rife with its stifling, oppressive control over people. Having people put to death- horrible deaths, torturous deaths all in the name of God. These people were FAR from being Christ-like. Christ would NEVER have approved of any of this, not one bit and yet these people called themselves God's, these people called themselves Christians, these people today still call themselves God's only true church yet they still hold to many, many perverted rites not Biblical at all. These rituals are gross atrocities yet so few can see them for what they really, truly are. People are blind because they do NOT want to see.
Darkness enveloped the world as God predicted it would.
May God please help us to understand His truths. There is much more to understand and we cannot of our own selves comprehend anything.
More tomorrow by God's grace.
In His amazing love!
Amen!
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