Daniel Without Make-up And Long Toes
By Gerrie Malan
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Many books and articles have been written on the apocalyptic book of Daniel in the Old Testament of the Bible. A search by the authors for the expression Daniel’s Seventy Weeks on the Internet for example, turned up 574 000 results. One has to dig deep though, to find articles or books showing that the writer was prepared to look at Daniel without all the make-up imposed on it through pagan techniques of philosophy and modern spiritual philosophising.
The Book of Daniel is mostly the foundational starting point of the modern end-times doctrines and it is the book from which the so-called Antichrist world ruler to come is construed and upon which many calculations of end-times related dates have been made and remade over and over again.
The Christian faith has become the target of growing skepticism and outright derogatory accusations of following myths. Although wrong and twisted doctrines have made their contribution over a long time, this skepticism has been fuelled in no small way by modern end-times teaching and its abundance of unfulfilled predictions that have come and gone. The ‘make-up’ part of the title refers to the centuries of philosophised approaches and interpretations that have been applied to the book of Daniel, while the long toes idea comes from a chart of the statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s vision, depicting an inserted so-called church age as ten very long toes already covering some 2000 years. An important part of the authors' approach is to settle the contextual background before discussing the prophecies.
Gerrie Malan
Gerrie and Martie Malan were married in 1970. Shortly afterwards he entered a new career in the South African Correctional Services, where he served for 25 years. They were transferred many times and also had to relocate twice annually between Pretoria and Cape Town for eight years when Gerrie was a member of the Correctional Services’ Parliamentary staff. Although Martie could take up employment for short periods in those years, she mostly found herself in the role of home maker, raising their three children – often under difficult circumstances.Shortly after he was released on pension in 1995 following severe burnout, Gerrie became a lecturer in Correctional Management at the Technikon SA, which later merged with the University of South Africa. It was in this time that they left the Reformed church in which they were raised to go on a journey through the Pentecostal and Charismatic environments in search of biblical truth.Martie, in the meantime, had taken on studies in biblical counselling, with Gerrie soon joining her. While she focussed on the area of emotional healing, Gerrie’s focus was on spiritual warfare. He continued afterwards with studies in the ministry environment and eventually completed a doctoral degree in Systematic Theology through the United Kingdom based Calvary University. For his thesis he studied Christ’s ‘born again’ and Paul’s ‘in Christ’ concepts. On their journey they had wonderful experiences and met precious people, church leaders as well as ordinary church members. But as they studied the Scriptures, more and more questions arose about specific traditional church doctrines.A home group of five in April 2001 soon grew to a weekly meeting of some 50 people. The group quickly grew into a formal congregation (Hosea Christian Family Church), which later joined with another where Gerrie and Martie took up the leadership of the Bible College. Today they are not attached to any denomination as they focus on the search for biblical truth on many questions that developed during their journey through the Reformed, Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions. Unlike so many others who in similar processes have turned their back on the Bible, they feel that they have developed a much better understanding of the simple biblical truths when it is stripped of centuries of philosophising and pollution which robbed humanity of the kingdom life that was and is in God’s heart for His people.The couple currently reside in the town of Hibberdene in the Kwazulu-Natal Province of South Africa. They have three married children and six grandchildren.
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Daniel Without Make-up And Long Toes - Gerrie Malan
DANIEL WITHOUT MAKE-UP AND LONG TOES
(The Prophecies of Daniel Revisited)
Gerrie and Martie Malan
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2013 G.J. (Gerrie) & M.J. (Martie) Malan.
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Cover photo and design by Gerrie Malan.
Various Bible versions have been used in writing this book and the copyright owners and their copyright are acknowledged in the References section.
Dedication
This book is a team effort between Gerrie and Martie Malan. While Gerrie has been the scribe in the process, the understanding of biblical knowledge presented flows from intensive Bible study, discussions and eventual contribution by both.
We present the book in honour of our heavenly Father, who gave the Son of His love as the Light of the World, and His Word as the lamp for our feet and light unto our path.
It is our sincere trust that the book will kindle in readers a new desire to revisit what they have been taught about the Daniel prophecies, however sincere and wonderful their teachers might be, and follow the Berean example to carefully sift the Scriptures anew in order to see if those teachers have always rightly divided the Word of Truth.
Contents
preface
settling the background
Introductory Remarks
Background to the Book of Daniel
Who were the Babylonian Exiles?
Dreams of Four Empires
THE SEVENTY SEVENS PROPHECY
Introductory Remarks
The Seventy Sevens Prophecy
THE LATTER DAYS PROPHECIES
Introductory Remarks
Double Prophecy or False Doctrine?
Conclusion
REFERENCES
Recommended Resources
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
MORE BOOKS BY THE AUTHORS
Preface
Many books and articles have been written on the apocalyptic book of Daniel in the Old Testament of the Bible. Searching the expression Daniel’s Seventy Weeks on the Internet for example, turned up 574 000 results. One has to dig deep though, to find articles or books showing that the writer was prepared to look at Daniel without all the make-up imposed on it through Greek techniques of philosophy and modern spiritual philosophising.
Well-known and widely respected South African pastor, the late Edmund Roebert, wrote his book on Daniel in 1992 under the title of The Prophet Daniel Looks Into The Future. Roebert’s preface to the book starts out with the following two paragraphs:
Prophecy is in the Bible to be known and understood. It is not the hiding of truth but a matter of unveiling it. God has chosen to give us guidelines about the future.
People want to know about the future! God wants people to know about the future! For that reason about twenty-five percent of the Bible books are prophetic. For that reason He sent the precious Holy Spirit to teach us about things to come (John 16:13).
By both the book’s title and these two kick-off paragraphs, pastor Roebert leaves the reader in no doubt as to the titrated truth that follows. With the expression ‘titrated truth’ we have borrowed a concept from the natural sciences that describes a process by which the scientist is looking for a predetermined answer. If he wants to know the percentage of a chlorine in solution, for example, his process will show just that and nothing else. The solution might contain many other substances, but the process will not identify them.
This, sadly, is a description of how many Bible scholars have dealt with the Bible, especially through the last two centuries. Some teachings, for example, follow a process of titration based on the interpretation of Bible prophecies in a double sense, or as a repetitive ongoing phenomenon. This simply means that prophecy is seen as applying to a specific situation or people in biblical times, but with another future implication for modern humankind. In other words, a biblical prophecy for the ancient nation of Israel allegedly also has a veiled prophecy for people to come in a distant future to the literal biblical situation.
The Book of Daniel is mostly the foundational starting point of many modern end-times teachings. It is the book from which an Antichrist world ruler to come is identified and upon which many calculations of end-times related dates have unfortunately been made and remade over and over again.
The Christian faith has become the target of growing skepticism and outright derogatory accusations. Although wrong and twisted doctrines have made their contribution over a long time, this skepticism has been fuelled in no small way by some end-times teachings and its abundance of unfulfilled predictions that have come and gone. The ‘make-up’ part of our title refers to the centuries of philosophised approaches and interpretations that have been applied to the book of Daniel, while the long toes idea comes from a chart of the statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s vision, depicting the so-called church age as ten very long toes already covering some 2000 years.
We invite you to take this walk with us through the world of Daniel and his people, looking again at exactly what this prophetic book and