The Correlation of Daniel 10, Daniel 8, & Ezekiel 38 - The Transition of the 2nd to 3rd Kingdom

Shalom, friends. my name is Chadwick Harvey, and you have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you for joining us tonight as we correlate Daniel 10 — which is what we are seeing fulfilled right now — with Daniel 8 and Ezekiel 38. As we watch the trajectory of biblical prophecy unfold before our eyes, it truly is an amazing time to be alive. Just as the prophets said, it will be awesome to witness these things, yet absolutely terrible to see the destruction and loss of innocent lives on the face of the earth. We will also be going through the maps of the Middle East and North Africa, because there is more happening that I think is very important to examine beyond just the Israeli-American and Iranian conflict. We will look at things from both a geopolitical and economic perspective, and then we will see how all of this trajectory leads to the end of the age.

We have gone through Daniel 10 before on this channel. What I want to do now is show how Daniel 10 is going to end, and then bring in Daniel 8, because Persia appears in Daniel 8 as well. We will see the distinctions between those two chapters, and then look at Ezekiel 38 and 39, which many people are calling for right now — but it is simply not the appointed time. In Ezekiel 38, Persia is not the head of the alliance. The head of that alliance will be Turkey, or whoever is identified by all those names in that chapter. Persia will be underneath them. There is a great deal of confusion on this point. Some people are calling this the Purim War because it did start around the time of Purim, but this is not the Purim War. This has been a twelve-day war, not a two-day war. And this is not the redemption of the Jewish people — that comes when Yeshua returns.

There is a progression and a process to work through as we approach the end of the age, and the book of Daniel outlines it perfectly once we understand that these four kingdoms belong to the end of the age. The book of Daniel is actually a straightforward book to understand once we accept what Daniel himself said — that these kingdoms belong to the very end. We are watching four kingdoms rise to power right now, and they will all be crushed together at the end of the age.

In Daniel 2, and again in Daniel 7, four kingdoms are described. Both chapters present the same four kingdoms, and the fifth kingdom is the kingdom of Israel — the kingdom of Yeshua — when he returns. Most biblical prophecy teachers identify the first three kingdoms as Babylon (Iraq), Medo-Persia (Iran), and the Grecian Empire (Yavan), which is Turkey. This lines up with Revelation 2:12–13, where Yeshua says that Satan's throne is in Pergamum in western Turkey. So for this discussion, the first three kingdoms are Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.

If we are living at the end of the age, then we saw Iraq — the first kingdom — fall in 2003 with the defeat of Saddam Hussein. Just as Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 indicate, the second kingdom rose after that: Iran. That is precisely what has happened since 2003. Iran rose into superpower status, which is exactly why America, Israel, and Iran are in conflict right now. That superpower status is about to be diminished through the events we are witnessing, and Iran will be crushed in Daniel 8 as well.

Daniel 2:28 is critical to establishing this timeline. In that verse, Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar that the vision is for the end of the age. This means we cannot place these kingdoms 2,500 years in the past — that would be an error in biblical eschatology. Importantly, Daniel made that statement not at the fourth kingdom, but before the first kingdom, meaning the entire vision — all four kingdoms — belongs to the end of the age. Then Yeshua crushes all of them together in what becomes the beast kingdom.

So right now we are in the second kingdom of Daniel 2. The third kingdom is Turkey. Anyone who follows military geopolitics or biblical prophecy can see that Turkey is the next major power in this region. Even Benjamin Netanyahu and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett have stated that Turkey is the next concern — which means the Israeli government is tracking the same trajectory that biblical prophecy maps out. After the first three kingdoms, the beast kingdom rises, consisting of ten kings.

Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 are sister chapters covering these four kingdoms, followed by the fifth: the kingdom of Israel. In Daniel 7, the kingdoms are represented as beasts — a lion, a bear, and a leopard. The lion is Iraq, Babylon, which fell in 2003. The bear is Medo-Persia, which is Iran, and that is where we are right now. The leopard is the Grecian Empire, which is Turkey and the Ottoman legacy.

The beast kingdom is a conglomerate of all three. Revelation 13:1 makes this explicit. The Apostle John says he saw one beast, and that beast was a lion, a bear, and a leopard. He is pointing back to Daniel 7 and saying: those first three kingdoms become the conglomerate fourth kingdom. That fourth beast in Revelation 13 also has ten horns, matching exactly the ten horns of the fourth beast in Daniel 7. It is a perfect correspondence. Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 are sister chapters, and together they give us the rhythm of the four kingdoms in sequence.

That foundation brings us to Daniel 10 and Daniel 8, which are the transitional chapters between the second kingdom and the third kingdom. There are three wars involved in that transition. We are witnessing the second of those wars right now — Daniel 10 — and Daniel 8's war follows after this. Most of us can identify that we are living in Daniel 10 and in the second kingdom of Daniel 2 and Daniel 7. Daniel 10 and Daniel 8 together show the transition from the second kingdom to the third, and after that comes the beast kingdom rapidly, because the leopard is quick. It is a predator. It is swift. That is why the Lord used a leopard to represent Turkey — it moves fast, much like Turkey's takeover of Syria in eleven days.

The bear, Persia, has been in power for approximately twenty-three years, ever since Iraq fell in 2003. The bear has been slowly moving toward its termination, and this current war — the one described in Daniel 10 involving America, Israel, and Iran — is another step toward that termination. Turkey will come next.

Daniel 10 and Daniel 8 are sister chapters in the same way Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 are sister chapters. They cover the transition period between the second and third kingdoms. To all my Jewish friends, I want to be clear: it is not our appointed time right now. Our time comes when the Messiah returns. The greater Israel and the established kingdom will not come now — not according to biblical prophecy, not according to what the Messiah says, and not according to the Mosaic covenant.

There are only two chapters in the entire Bible that describe four kingdoms in succession followed by the fifth kingdom — the kingdom of Israel — and those are Daniel 2 and Daniel 7. Two witnesses establish the matter, which is why we examine both chapters together.

To be precise about the second kingdom: Medo-Persia is two peoples. The Medes are the Kurds, and the Persians are the Iranians. Media is the Kurds; Persia is Iran. Iran was known as Persia until the Islamic Revolution of 1979. With that understanding established, we now move to Daniel 10 and Daniel 8 — the transitional chapters from Medo-Persia to the Grecian Empire, or from Iran to Turkey in modern terms.

When this war started, we read Daniel 10 together on this channel, and what we are living through is a fulfillment of that chapter. It states explicitly that it is for the latter days, and it describes two wars between Israel and Iran before the arrival of Yavan — Turkey. I want to walk through the scriptures carefully, reading Daniel 10 one time through and then moving into Daniel 8 to confirm what is about to happen.

There is also something in Daniel 8 that I have held an opinion on for some time, but which may need to be reconsidered in light of this war. We should discuss it openly. If Turkey gets involved in this current conflict — and there have already been two missiles entering Turkish airspace — this situation could transition directly into the events described in Daniel 8. I am not saying it will, but it is possible. Daniel 10 and Daniel 8 together are the transitional chapters between the second and the third kingdoms of Daniel's four-kingdom sequence, and that is exactly where we appear to be standing right now.