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EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH:
CLARENCE LARKIN:
THE BOOK OF DANIEL:
TABLE OF CONTENTS, INTRODUCTION,
AND THE PROPHETIC WORD
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THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS

GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH.
THAT IS WHY HE IS GOD.

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THE TEXT OF SOME OF THE BOOKS ON THIS WEB PAGE BY CLARENCE LARKIN HAS BEEN ALTERED TO REMOVE ANY REFERENCES TO THE ENGLISH REVISED VERSION, THE AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION, OR A "BETTER GREEK" TEXT. IT HAS ALSO BEEN ALTERED TO REMOVE ANY, AND HOPEFULLY ALL, REFERENCES TO A BETTER TRANSLATION OR BETTER MANUSCRIPTS. THE OFFENDING STATEMENTS HAVE BEEN REMOVED AND/OR CORRECTED WITH THE KING JAMES BIBLE. WE ALSO TOOK THE LIBERTY TO REMOVE ANY PARENTHETICAL WORDS THAT WERE OBVIOUS INSERTIONS FROM THE ENGLISH REVISED VERSION. LARKIN MANY TIMES WOULD INSERT A WORD IN PARENTHESIS IN THE MIDDLE OF A KING JAMES BIBLE SCRIPTURE QUOTE THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY INSERTED FROM THE ENGLISH REVISED VERSION WITHOUT HIM IDENTIFYING THAT THE QUOTE WAS FROM THE ENGLISH REVISED VERSION. WE REMOVED THESE ALSO. THERE MAY BE SOME DRAWINGS AND TABLES THAT STILL HAVE THESE REFERNCES IN THEM. IF SO, WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO EDIT THEM OUT. HOWEVER, MOST OF THE DRAWINGS AND TABLES ARE IN JPEG PICTURE FORMAT AND PROBABLY CANNOT BE EDITED OUT. WITH THE BENEFIT OF BEING ABLE TO INSPECT AND EXPERIENCE THE CORRUPT FRUIT AND POLLUTION OF MODERN ENGLISH VERSIONS (PERVERSIONS), THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ANYONE IN THE YEAR 2013 TO USE ANYTHING BUT THE AUTHORIZED 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE. TO DO SO IS TO BED DOWN WITH A RELIGIOUS HARLOT AND PARTAKE OF HER APOSTASY AND HERESY. GREAT SHAME IS BROUGHT UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BY ENTERING INTO THE SPIRITUAL WHORE HOUSE OF MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS. MANY FOLKS WHO DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM CORRECTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE WILL RAISE A BIG STINK WHEN YOU CORRECT THE WORK OF A MERE MAN. THAT IS THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction
The Prophetic Word
The Book of Daniel

EXPOSITION OF THE BOOK
First Division-Historical. Chapters 1 to 6.

Chapter 1. The Beginning of Gentile Dominion
Chapter 2. Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
Chapter 3. The Golden Image
Chapter 4. The Tree Dream
Chapter 5. The Fall of Babylon
Chapter 6. The Lions’ Den


SECOND DIVISION –PROPHETICAL CHAPTERS 7 TO 12

Chapter 7. The Four Wild Beasts
Chapter 8. The Ram and the He-Goat
Chapter 9. The Seventy Weeks


CHAPTER 10: THE SCRIPTURES OF TRUTH

Chapter 10: Part I – The Relation of Supernatural Beings to the Earth.
Chapter 10:1 to 11:1. 145


Chapter 10: Part II – The Pre-written History of the
Kings of the North and South. Chapter 11:2-35


Chapter 10: Part III – The ‘Time of the End.’ Chapter 11:36 to 12:13


CHARTS

Book of Daniel
Prophetic Days of Scripture
Daniel and Revelation Compared Facing
Beast Out Of The Sea
The Scarlet Colored Beast
Daniel’s Seventieth Week
The Seventy Weeks of Scripture

INRODUCTION



This exposition of the book of Daniel is the closing and crowning work by Rev. Clarence Larkin, a servant of God, whose life was wholly devoted to the study, teaching, and preaching of God’s precious word. During the more than forty years of his quiet, but blessed ministry as a pastor and teacher, he made a very faithful use of his time and opportunity to thoroughly study the whole counsel of God as embodied in the Scriptures, not only for his own heart, but in order to help others as fully as possible to know their Lord and Saviour.

Calling to his aid the best books on the exposition of the Bible by the ablest scholars and teachers of this and other days, and depending upon the Holy Spirit for needed illumination, the author obeyed the conviction that it was the will of God to pass on to the Church of Christ the results of the years of his enrichment in the knowledge of God and of His word. At the sacrifice of time, pleasure, strength, and financial profit, he gave himself to prepare, not only this book on ‘Daniel,’ but also a book on “Revelation,” “Second Coming of Christ,” “Rightly Dividing the Word,” and “Dispensational Truth,” without doubt the best book of Bible charts that is printed.
Suffering in body, yet strong in the power of the Holy Spirit, Rev. Larkin pressed on till this book of Daniel was completed, then His loving Saviour and Lord said “Come home and rest with Me.”

Through this consecrated servant, the Lord has given to His Church a wealth of wisdom concerning His redemptive counsels, in such form that every believer may be greatly aided in the study to show themselves approved unto God, workmen who need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The writer of this note thanks God for the great blessing to his own life and ministry through his intimate acquaintance with Rev. Larkin, and with his teaching, and heartily commends this volume now dedicated to the Lord and to all of His blood bought ones.

Our prayer is that every reader may be greatly blessed, like Daniel, in being given “understanding” of the counsels of God concerning the present and future evil times, and the glories of Christ which are yet to be manifest.

Yours in His Service,
W. W. RUGH,
Founder of the Bible Institute
of Pennsylvania

THE PROPHETIC WORD



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The Bible is unlike all other religious books in that it bases its “Authenticity,” “Authority,” and “Inspiration” on PROPHECY. All other religious books contain no predictions as to the future. If its authors had attempted to foretell future events, their unfulfillment would long ago have discredited their writings. Prophecy is –

HISTORY WRITTEN IN ADVANCE,

and proves the foreknowledge of God. This the Prophet Daniel opened to the heathen king, Nebuchadnezzar, in his interpretation of the king’s “Dream”–

“The Great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass HEREAFTER: and the ‘Dream’ is certain, and the interpretation thereof SURE.” Dan. 2:45.

Prophecy is twofold, “descriptive” and “predictive.” The prophets were both “forth-tellers” and “fore-tellers.” They had both “insight” and “foresight.” Their prophetic utterances were not the deductions of reason, but were imparted to them by the Holy Spirit –

“For the ‘Prophecy’ came not in old time by the ‘will of man’: but Holy Men of God spake as they were MOVED BY THE HOLY GHOST.” 2 Pet. 1:21.

The importance of the study of the “Prophetic Scriptures” is seen when we recall that two-thirds of the Scriptures are prophetic, either in type, symbol, or direct statement, and that more than one-half of them are as yet unfulfilled; and as those that have been fulfilled were literally fulfilled, as the promises in reference to the “First Coming” of Christ, so those as yet unfulfilled, will be as literally fulfilled. If then we would know the “MIND OF GOD” as to the future we must study the “Prophetic Scriptures,” or remain in that class that the Apostle Peter speaks of as being-“WILLINGLY IGNORANT,” so as to claim “ignorance” as an excuse for conduct. 2 Pet. 3:3-8. We are living in a “Dark World,” and we need the “SURE WORD OF PROPHECY” to LIGHT us over the stormy “Sea of Time.” 2 Pet. 1:19. When men see that God has a “Plan and Purpose in the Ages” they will take heart and not be discouraged by the things that are taking place on the earth in these days.

But we must not forget that – “No prophecy of the Scriptures is of any private interpretation.” 2 Pet. 1:20. That is, no prophecy is to be interpreted by itself, but in harmony with the whole body of prediction on any given subject. It is not to be interpreted to suit the theory of any “cult.” The “Grasshopper Method” of interpretation or exegesis must be avoided. There is no form of evil doctrine or practice that may not claim apparent Scriptural sanction and support from isolated passages taken out of their context, but no erroneous doctrine can ever find support in the Word of God when the whole united testimony of the Scriptures is weighed against it.

The prophecies are not to be “allegorized” or “spiritualized.” God expounds prophecy by literally fulfilling it in every detail. For illustration, when God said to Abraham –

“Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them: and they shall afflict them FOUR HUNDRED YEARS: and also that nation, whom they shall serve will I JUDGE (by Plagues): and afterward shall they come out with great substance,” (see Ex. 12:35-36) Gen. 15:13-14,

did He mean that Abraham’s seed should enter into some spiritual experience which would cause great mental disquietude and heart searching, out of which they would emerge richer in experience and spirituality, or did He mean exactly what the words literally imply? Let the history of their experience in Egypt, as recorded in the first twelve chapters of Exodus, answer. There was nothing allegorical in the whips of the Egyptian Taskmasters, nor spiritual in the double tale of bricks. The Divine law of prophetical interpretation is, that the prophecy will be literally and in exact detail fulfilled.

The requirements of a genuine prediction are five in number.

1. It must have been made known PRIOR to its fulfilment.
2. It must be beyond all HUMAN FORESIGHT.
3. It must give DETAILS.
4. A SUFFICIENT TIME MUST ELAPSE BETWEEN ITS PUBLICATION AND FULFILMENT TO EXCLUDE THE PROPHET, OR ANY INTERESTED PARTY, FROM FULFILLING IT.
5. There must be a CLEAR AND DETAILED FULFILMENT OF THE PROPHECY IN EVERY PARTICULAR.

For illustration, there were 16 detailed prophecies in reference to Christ’s First Coming that were literally fulfilled during the last week of His life, as follows –

1. Sold for 30 pieces of silver. Zech. 11:12.
2. Betrayed by a friend. Psa. 41:9.
3. Forsaken by His Disciples. Zech. 13:7.
4. Accused by false witnesses, Psa. 35:11.
5. Dumb before His accusers. Isa. 53:7.
6. Spit upon and scourged. Isa. 53:5.
7. Hands and feet pierced. Psa. 22:16.
8. His garments divided by lot. Psa. 22:18.
9. Mocked by His enemies. Psa. 22:7-8.
10. Given gall and vinegar. Psa. 69:21.
11. Prayed for His murderers. Isa, 53:12.
12. Not a bone broken. Psa. 34:20.
13. Crucified with thieves. Isa. 53:12.
14. His forsaken cry. Psa. 22:1.
15. His side pierced. Zech 12:10.
16. Buried as a rich man. Isa. 53:9.

Now according to the law of “Compound Probabilities” there was one chance in 65,536 that all these prophecies would head up, or be fulfilled, in the same individual. And when we consider that these prophecies were made by different prophets during a period of 600 years, and half of them about 1000 years before Jesus was born, and notice how they dovetail together with such marvellous accuracy to describe the betrayal, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus, we cannot but admit that the men who foretold those incidents must have been indwelt by the “Spirit of God.”

The student of Prophecy must learn to “Rightly Divide the Word.” While all Scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction (2 Tim. 3:16-17), and was written for our learning, it is not all addressed to us. Part of it is addressed to the “JEWS,” part to the “GENTILES,” and part to the “CHURCH.” These three constitute the “Three Classes” into which humanity is divided. 1 Cor. 10:32. The “Jews” and “Gentiles” are distinct from each other, while the “Church” is composed of both, but as a “NEW BODY.” Eph. 1:22-23; Col. 1:18; Gal. 3:27-28; Col. 3:10-11. The Church is not a subject of prophecy but of Revelation. The burden of prophecy is the Jews, Palestine, Jerusalem, and the Messiah. Therefore it is very important in studying the Scriptures not to give to the “Church” what belongs to the “Jews” or “Gentiles,” and vice versa. The “Church” is not seen in the Old Testament. It treats only of the “Jews” and “Gentiles.” The Old Testament chapter headings are misleading. They do not belong to the text but were put there by the publisher. For illustration, take the chapter headings of Isaiah 43 and 44, which read-“The Lord comforteth the ‘Church’ with His promises.” The very first verse of those chapters refutes the heading, distinctly saying that the chapter is addressed to “ISRAEL,” not the “Church.” If we want to know about the “Church” we must confine ourselves to the New Testament, and there to the Acts and the Epistles. The entire history of God’s chosen people “Israel” is given in the Scriptures. They are an earthly people. From their call in Abraham to the present time is history. Their regathering, repentance, and restoration to their own land, and their future earthly glory is the subject of prophecy. The prophetic history of the “Gentile Nations” is outlined in the Book of Daniel, the book we are about to study. This “Present Evil Age” and the manner of its ending is also the subject of prophecy. It behooves us therefore if we would know about the future events that are to come to pass on the earth that we should be students of prophecy. Men and women resort to fortune tellers, clairvoyants, and mediums to get information as to the future, when they have the “more sure word of prophecy.” Because of the neglect of the study of Prophecy the Scriptures have fallen into disrepute, and scepticism and infidelity have become widespread, and an unscriptural optimism as to the world growing better is heard on every side. The neglect of the “Prophetic Word” leaves man ignorant of “God’s Plan and Purpose as to the Ages,” and makes him the easy prey of all the lying inventions and delusive “Cults” of the day. The only cure for the rationalism of the day is the study of Prophecy. The book we are about to study is a “Prophetic Foreview” of the “Gentile Nations” and their last great ruler – THE ANTICHRIST.

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