The chastening of the children of Israel, the people of God would go on and on and on until

the end time, the time of Antichrist.

So serious was their sinfulness, so obstinate are their continued rejections that they're chasing goes on and on and on and on. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. You know him

by several names in the Bible. He's called The Lawless One, The Son of Perdition, and simply The Beast.

You'll hear a few more names for this person, better known as Antichrist, on today's edition of Grace to

you as John continues his current study from the book of Daniel titled

The Future of Israel. So follow along in your Bible as John begins today's lesson.

Daniel chapter 11 verses 36 to 45.

Daniel has been focusing on the fact that God has planned to chasten his people Israel.

That because of their sinfulness, they were taken into Babylonian captivity.

That was not the end of their chastening.

That was the beginning. They were

chasing for 70 years. Daniel kind of thought it would be over at the end of 70

years. God said no that's only the beginning. And God sent this angel in chapter 10, 11, and 12 to unfold to Daniel that the chastening of

the children of Israel, the people of God would go on and on and on until the end time the time of Antichrist.

So serious was their sinfulness,

so obstinate are their continued rejections that their chastening goes on and on and on and on.

Gentile oppression of Israel will last until the kingdom of Messiah.

The angel says to Daniel, Daniel,

millennia will go by and the land will be overrun. It will be

oppressed. It will be devastated. It will be

plundered. And that is exactly the case. In fact, I remember the first time that I went to the land of Israel, I remarked at how barren it was, even on the hillsides and I was instructed

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