THE BIBLE & GREECE: THE FOUR HORNS
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Bible And Greece
a) The Old Testament, although completed before the time of the Greek empire, speaks of it predictably in prophecy.
b The New Testament, although written after the time of the Greek empire, is still influenced by it because Greek culture lived on strongly even after the empire fell. The Greek language was chosen by God as the tongue in which every book of the New Testament was written. The New Testament sometimes even calls all non-Jews "the Greeks" because in New Testament times a lot of the world spoke Greek and borrowed its culture.
2. The Four Horns
a) After Alexander the Great's death, the empire was fragmented by his four strongest generals. (Lysimachus took Thrace, Seleucus Nicator took Syria, Ptolemy took Egypt, and Cassander took Macedonia and Greece). The goat with a large horn replaced by four horns represents this (Daniel 8:8,22). So does the four-winged four-headed leopard described earlier (Daniel 7:6).
The End ...
1. The Bible And Greecea) The Old Testament, although completed before the time of the Greek empire, speaks of it predictably in prophecy.
b The New Testament, although written after the time of the Greek empire, is still influenced by it because Greek culture lived on strongly even after the empire fell. The Greek language was chosen by God as the tongue in which every book of the New Testament was written. The New Testament sometimes even calls all non-Jews "the Greeks" because in New Testament times a lot of the world spoke Greek and borrowed its culture.
2. The Four Horns
a) After Alexander the Great's death, the empire was fragmented by his four strongest generals. (Lysimachus took Thrace, Seleucus Nicator took Syria, Ptolemy took Egypt, and Cassander took Macedonia and Greece). The goat with a large horn replaced by four horns represents this (Daniel 8:8,22). So does the four-winged four-headed leopard described earlier (Daniel 7:6).
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