Daniel 8 - 6-7 - The he goat stamps on the Ram and breaks its horns

Daniel 8:6-7
The he goat stamps on the ram and breaks its two horns!
By Brother Mike (2-21-25; 46 minutes)

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6 And he [the he goat] came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power .
7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground , and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand .

INTRODUCTION

In our Last Study of Daniel 8:5 , as Daniel was considering what he saw in his vision previous to verse 5, he first wrote, behold , which is a word that can function as a command to pay careful attention to what Daniel is about to see. So, we paid very close attention to what Daniel saw next, which was, an he goat came from the west on the surface of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes .

We were greatly helped in the literal application or meaning to this verse when the angel Gabriel said down in verse 21,

21 And the rough [hairy] goat [the previously mentioned he goat ] is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king .

So, from this information, we learned that the he goat was Alexander the Great because Gabriel just said, the great horn that is between his eyes [between

himself who deceived all the churches and congregations worldwide to worship him and receive the Mark of the Beast, and he brought in his counterfeit gospels, counterfeit teachings, and counterfeit signs and wonders to spiritually destroy them.

Now, before moving on further, we should note that Christ, like Satan, is also referred to as a lion in scripture. Remember, we read,

Re 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David [Christ] , hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof .

And, in describing Christ by four beasts (better translated as four living creatures), we read,

Re 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle .

So, Christ and Satan can both be described as a lion in scripture, but Satan is the counterfeit lion. Satan comes looking just like Christ, which is one of the reasons why he is described as a lion in the same way that Christ is. And there are many Old Testament verses that both typify Christ and Satan as a lion that we will not get into for brevity, but with that being said, let's look at one last verse. We read,

Hosea 13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought . {great ... : Heb. droughts }

6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me .
7 Therefore I [God] will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I [God] observe them :
8 I [God] will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I [God] devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them . {wild ... : Heb. beast of the field }

Notice that in this verse, because God is bringing judgment on His own people, God describes Himself as all three of the same beasts - the leopard, bear, and lion - which are used to describe Satan coming against God's Church as judgment against them during the Great Tribulation from May 21, 1988 to when Judgment Day began on May 21, 2011 in our verse of study, Revelation 13:2. In fact, Hosea 13:5-8, the verses we just read, typifies God's judgment that would come upon the New Testament Israel, the Church, which we see being described in verse 2 of our study in Revelation 13.

Now, our verse 2 of Revelation 13 ends like this: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. That is, the beast (Satan and his kingdom) that rose up out of the sea (was loosed to rise up out of the bottomless pit in which it was first bound at the cross) to bring God's judgment against all the churches and congregations worldwide beginning on May 21, 1988 according to the well-proven , Biblical Timeline of History got its power from the dragon who we learned is the devil, Satan himself .

Alexander the Great's eyes] is the first king of Grecia or Greece. And the word first did not mean the first in number but the first in degree. Therefore, the first king in degree of Grecia meant the greatest king of Grecia or Greece in the near future to when Daniel saw his vision, and that greatest king could be none other than Alexander the Great as everyone knows who has read ancient history of the 3rd century BC.

Also, this was not mentioned in our previous study , but in that Gabriel revealed Alexander the Great to be a hairy goat likely meant he was literally a hairy man in some way. Furthermore, because he was represented as a hairy he goat and the great horn between its eyes; and in the Bible, a goat represents an unsaved person, while a horn represents strength and power, we can reason that, not only was Alexander the great a hairy man, but he had great strength and power as well, which was obvious in how he was able to conquer the entire ancient, great Persian Kingdom that then consisted of the Medes and the Persians under Darius III in just 6-8 years (remember, the great ancient Median Kingdom had been made a part of Persia when king Cyrus of Persia had conquered it way back in 550 BC). Indeed, Alexander the Great must have been a wild beast of a man as the ensigns or banners that pictured goats on them went before him and his army as they marched forward to victory.

of God? Can the finite even grasp the infinite?

Well next, we found that the spiritual meaning or application of verse 5 in our last study to be this: the he goat that the angel Gabriel interpreted to be the hairy goat , we found to be the demon goat because the word hairy can spiritually be translated as demon . Also, since Gabriel said that this demon goat was the king of Grecia [Greece], and, spiritually, we found Grecia to refer to all the unsaved people in the world (see Daniel 8:5 , scroll down to page 14, begin reading at last paragraph), this demon goat must be king of all the unsaved people, which clearly reveals that this demon goat must be the devil himself, for, according to the Bible, spiritually, he is the only one who rules over all the billions of unsaved people in this world because he won the right to do so when he had deceived Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit in the garden, that she then gave to Adam who ate of as well to bring about the fall of the human race right into the hands of the devil.

Furthermore, the angel Gabriel not only revealed that the he goat is the hairy goat , which we discovered can be translated as the demon goat , and that this demon goat is the king of Grecia who, spiritually, is Satan himself, but Gabriel also said that the great horn between the demon goat's (Satan's) eyes is the first king (the first king of Grecia). And the word first does not mean the first in number, but the first in degree; therefore, the great horn that Gabriel revealed to be the first king of Grecia must be the greatest king of Grecia. And, once again, because we had discovered Grecia to spiritually symbolize all the unsaved people in this world (see Daniel 8:5 , scroll down to page 14, begin reading at last paragraph), the greatest king of Grecia (of all the unsaved people) can be none other than the devil himself. So, there can be no question that, spiritually, the he goat in Daniel's vision refers to the devil himself.

But now, we are reminded that Daniel 8:5 reads, an he goat came from the west on the surface of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes . As previously mentioned,

the he goat was found to be Satan. But what did it mean that he came from the west on the surface of the whole earth, and touched not the ground? Well, that Satan came from the west , we found to mean that he came from the realm of darkness because, remember, in the west is where the sunlight is extinguished as the sun goes down and then the darkness soon manifests itself. It is the exact opposite in the east, which is why Daniel saw the Ram (Christ) coming from the east, pushing west (verse 4), but he saw the he goat come from the west , pushing east (verse 5). Thus, spiritually, Christ is said to come from the east in scripture, the realm of light, but Satan is said to come from the west, the realm of darkness. It has nothing to do with literal directions on a compass or map.

So, spiritually, that Satan came from the west simply means that he came from the spiritual realm of darkness, not that he literally came from the west. But then, what did it spiritually mean that he came on the surface of the whole earth, and touched not the ground ? In answering this question, we were first reminded that the whole earth spiritually symbolizes the whole Christian Church (see Revelation 13:3 , begin reading at last paragraph on page 4 thru page 10; also Revelation 13:8 , see "all that dwell upon the earth"). Therefore, that Daniel saw that the he goat came from the west on the surface of the whole earth means that Satan came from the realm of darkness on the surface of the whole Christian Church. And, since, in the Hebrew, the prepositional phrase on the surface of can just as well be translated as above the surface of, we can say that Satan came from the realm of darkness above the surface of the whole Christian Church, and, spiritually, to be above or on the whole Christian Church meant that Satan had been given power and authority over the whole corporate Christian Church, which means he was given power and authority over every Christian church because as we will see, spiritually, Daniel's vision reveals a glimpse of the Great Tribulation period from May 21,1988 to May 21,2011, and even to this very day, when Satan had been given rule over all the Christian churches as the counterfeit Christ, THE ANTICHRIST (also called the Man of Sin), the Little Horn, the Beast, and the Abomination of Desolation. Indeed, Satan had been given rule over the whole Christian Church beginning on

May 21,1988 as God's Judgment against them, for judgment [had to] begin at the House God (1Peter 4:17), and that judgment on the Church then expanded to include the whole world as well as the Church ever since the many days of Judgment Day began on May 21,2011.

Finally, spiritually speaking, what did it mean that Satan touched not the ground ? Remembering that the word translated as ground is the same word translated as earth in the previous prepositional phrase on the surface of the whole earth , we decided to remain consistent and translate the word ground as earth . So, spiritually, we are asking, what did it mean that Satan touched not the earth ? And since, spiritually, we found that the term the earth symbolizes the Christian Church, what Daniel saw in his vision was Satan come from the realm of darkness with power and authority to rule over the Christian Church, and that he touched not the earth [the Church] simply emphasizes that he was no longer restrained in the Christian Church by the Holy Spirit, but he was now above the Church in power and great authority to rule over them all in the Church, for as we had learned, the Holy Spirit that once restrained the devil from being able to completely take over the whole Christian Church during the Church Age had departed out from the corporate Christian Church to allow for God's Judgment on His Church and the spiritual Great Tribulation on May 21,1988 by Satan having been given the power and authority to rule over them.

Well, let's begin to look at Daniel 8:6 for today's study. It reads,

6 And he [the he goat] came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power .

Of course, based on what we had already learned, the literal meaning or application to this verse is that the he goat represents Alexander the Great. The ram represents the kings of Media and Persia, and its two horns represent the two kingdoms of the Medes and Persians that by this time in Daniel's vision had long since merged to become one Great Persian Kingdom because

king Cyrus of Persia had conquered the Medes back in 550 BC, and they became part of the Persian Kingdom. But now, by this time in Daniel's vision, Darius III was the king of Persia during the 3rd century BC. Thus, when our verse states, And he [the he goat] came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river , this refers to when Alexander the Great and his army came against the Persian king, Darius III, which the Median kingdom had long since been made a part of, and he [Alexander the Great with his army] ran unto him [Darius III with his army] in the fury [or heat] of his power [or strength, might] .

Then in verse 7, we read,

7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand .

Since him , in this verse, refers to Alexander the Great, and the ram refers to the king of Persia, Darius III, the first part of this verse, in the literal meaning or application, is saying that I [Daniel] saw him [Alexander the Great with his army] come close [or approaching] unto the ram [Darius III with his army] and he [ Alexander the Great ] was moved with choler [bitter anger or rage against Darius III and his army] . And the result of Alexander's bitter rage against Darius III and his Persian army was that when Alexander approached the ram [Darius III with his army] , [he ] smote [struck] the ram [Darius of Persia with his army ], and brake [broke] his two horns [conquered the great Persian kingdom of the Medes and Persians] : and there was no power in the ram [Darius III with his army] to stand before him [ to stand before Alexander the Great with his army] , but he [Alexander and his army] cast him down to the ground , and stamped [trampled] upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram [Darius III with his army] out of his hand .

Now, it is not in the scope of this study to get into all the details of this literal meaning or application to these verses, for this is all ancient, already fulfilled history, and it was all merely a foreshadow or type of spiritual things to come that have been being fulfilled in our day. In other words, we, in these few remaining days of this world, have been spiritually experiencing what Daniel's vision ultimately meant, and the whole historical event of Alexander the Great conquering the combined kingdoms of Media and Persia under the Persian monarchy of king Darius III was merely what we will call a historical parable (history symbolizing spiritual things) that typified or foreshadowed events that would come during the Church Age from Pentecost in 33 AD to May 21,1988 when the Church Age ended (symbolized by the Ram's two horns being broken) and then the spiritual stamping upon Christ and His body (symbolized by the stamping upon the Ram ) during the Great Tribulation from May 21,1988 to May 21,2011, and even to this very day, for although Satan was, in principle, dethroned on May 21,2011, and Christ then began to rule the whole world with a rod of iron, we do not yet see Satan dethroned because God has permitted him to continue for a season and time as His instrument of judgment (Daniel 7:12). But we should mention that in the literal meaning or application to our verses, Alexander the Great was not defeated in just one battle. No, it took three major battles to finally defeat Darius III and the Persian empire. Nevertheless, according to the various written accounts of those battles, Darius III's armies were always badly defeated in each of the three major battles. And even though Darius III somehow escaped death in all three of the battles, he was eventually murdered by his own satrap, Bessus, who then declared himself to be king.

Well, let's now look at the spiritual application or meaning to our two verses 6 and 7 of Daniel 8, which the literal application and meaning foreshadowed or typified. This, of course, is what really matters to us since the spiritual application or meaning gives us a brief spiritual overview of the major happenings during the 1955 years of the Church Age and then the 23-year period of the Great Tribulation immediately after the Church Age from May 21,1988 to May 21,2011, and even to this very day. And because these things are spiritually discerned , the corporate Christian Church, which is full of the unsaved (natural or

carnal men) who have not the Spirit of God, they cannot see these things, for what does the scripture say,

12 Now we [the saved] have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God .
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual .
14 But the natural man [the unsaved] receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned .
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man .
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ (1Corinthians 2:12-16).

Furthermore, those who have remained in the Christian churches are being deluded by God Himself to believe a lie because they would not believe the endtime truths such as God's people having been called out from all the Christian churches to escaped God's Judgment upon them beginning on May 21,1988, the spiritual end of the Church Age on May 21,1988, Satan ruling in the corporate Christian Church as judgment against them ever since May 21,1988, any possibility of salvation having come to an end on May 21,2011, the many days of Judgment Day having begun on May 21,2011, the counterfeit Christ who is the Antichrist (also called the Man of Sin or Son of Perdition), the devil himself, having already come and taken his seat of rule in the corporate Christian Church or temple, and other spiritual truths as well. And God reveals why He is feeding them a strong delusion, so they believe a lie and are damned. He says,

10 ... because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved [especially many of the endtime truths].
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie [like God's Judgment is not on our church, and Satan doesn't rule in our church, and the Church Age is not spiritually over, and salvation is not over,

and the Antichrist has not yet come, and all the rest].
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness (2Thessalonians 2:10-12).

Now, let's be refreshed in our two verses of today's study, and then we will look at the spiritual application or meaning of them. They read,

6 And he [the he goat] came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power .
7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand .

To begin, we already learned in our last study of Daniel 8:5 that the he [the he goat] spiritually symbolizes the devil. The ram spiritually symbolizes Christ. And its two horns spiritually symbolize the Christian Church as well as Christ's strength or power. Therefore, when verse 6 states, And he [the he goat] came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power , it means that the devil came to Christ and His Church, which Daniel had seen standing before the river ( in front of the river leading the charge of the streaming forth of the river of the gospel during the Church Age - see verse 3 ), and the devil ran unto Christ and His Church in the fury of his power [or strength] .

So, spiritually, what Daniel witnessed in his vision was Christ and His Church (His mighty ones, for Ulai , the name of the river means mighty ones) bringing forth the gospel during the Church Age. Everywhere that they went, it was God's purpose that they were 100% successful in saving those who the Father had chosen from the foundation of the world, and no one, including Satan, was able to stand in His way, nor deliver anyone of them out of Christ's saving hand. So, Christ did all according to His will, and He became great throughout the Church

Age. But then, right near the end of the Church Age, the tables were turned, and Satan came out of the realm of darkness (symbolized by coming from the west) and was given great power to conquer and rule over Christ and His Church (symbolized by his coming above the surface of the whole Church(represented by on the surface of the whole earth ) and by his not touching the earth (see verse 5 study ).

We know that Satan had been given such power after released from the pit that he had been bound in at the cross ( Revelation 20 ) near the end of the Church Age to be used to bring God's Final Judgment on the world beginning at the House of God (1Peter 4:17) on May 21,1988 according to the quite accurate , Biblical Timeline of History . Thus, we read, and the devil ran unto Christ and His Church in the fury [heat] of his power [strength] to attack and kill them, for the hour of darkness (the Great Tribulation) in the Church had begun on May 21,1988 with the devil beginning to take over the rule of the whole corporate Christian Church as the counterfeit Christ who is the Antichrist (also called the Man of Sin) so that they would all worship him without even knowing it, and any possibility for true salvations would come to an end in every Christian church. Only counterfeit salvations in the spirit of Satan would ever take place again in the Christian Church, for the true Holy Spirit departed out from them all, and the spirit of Antichrist who is the Antichrist that was prophesied to come, the devil himself, took over the power or rule in the whole corporate Christian Church as the counterfeit Holy Spirit. Given all this, there should not be anyone who does not understand why Jesus said this about the Great Tribulation:

Mt 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be .

Now next, verse 7 reads,

7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of

his hand .

It should now be easy to realize the spiritual meaning or application of this verse since we have already learned what every important word or term in this verse spiritually means. Therefore, when our verse says, I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns , it means that Daniel saw Satan come close unto Christ and His Church, and Satan was moved with rage against Him, and struck Him, and conquered His Church . Indeed, Satan had great rage or anger against Christ because at the cross, Christ defeated him and then cast him out of heaven and bound him in the pit of this earth, so he could not keep the gospel from going forth to all God's Elect to save them during the Church Age although Satan could go about on earth as a roaring lion, seeking whom he might devour, and he was able to persecute, agitate, and even physically kill the Elect at various times in history. But he could not ever deliver the Elect out of the eternal saving hands of Christ. But then, to bring a spiritual end to the Church Age, Satan was released from being bound in the pit of this earth and given great power. So, he came close unto Christ, and he was moved with burning rage against Him because of what Christ had done to him at the cross, and he struck Christ and broke his two horns. That is, he conquered the Christian Church to bring an end to the Church Age and begin to be used by God to bring God's Final Judgment on the world by first beginning that judgment at the House or Temple of God, all the Christian churches, for Judgment [had to] begin at the House of God (1Peter 4:17), which was on May 21,1988 when the Great Tribulation also began with the removal of any more true salvations taking place in the Christian Church, and the devil having been given power and rule in the whole Christian Church as the counterfeit Christ and the true Antichrist that was prophesied to come, and revealed to already have come, by Holy Scripture in the Biblical Timeline of History on May 21,1988.

Now finally, we can also realize that when the last part of our verse says,

And there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him

down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand , it means that there was no power [strength] in Christ to stand before the devil, but the devil cast Christ down to the ground, and stamped upon Him. And, since the word ground is the same word that we have been translating as earth, we will remain consistent and translate it as earth here as well. And, if you will remember, the word earth spiritually symbolizes the Church (see Revelation 13:3 , begin reading at last paragraph on page 4 thru page 10; also Revelation 13:8 , see "all that dwell upon the earth"). Therefore, our verse states the following: and there was no power [strength] in Christ to stand before the devil, but the devil cast Christ down in the Church and stamped upon Him.

So, what our two verses, 6 and 7, in the spiritual application and meaning are saying is simply that Satan came to Christ who was with His Church, and Satan ran unto Christ in the fury or heat of his power or strength that he had been given after being loosed from the pit on May 21,1988 in which he had been bound at the cross. And when Satan came close to Christ, he was moved with burning rage against Him, so Satan struck Him to spiritually shatter the power of the corporate Christian Church to begin ruling over them. Then there was no power or strength left in Christ to stand before the devil, so the devil cast Him down in the Church, and spiritually stamped upon Him, and there was none that could deliver out of Satan's hand.

Notice how the tables were then turned upside down. Whereas throughout the Church Age, Christ and His Church conquered wherever they went to save all the Elect, and none could deliver the Elect from Christ's hand; at the end of the Church Age and beginning of God's Judgment and Great Tribulation upon the Church on May 21,1988, the power and strength of the Church was spiritually destroyed or shattered, and Christ was trampled as Satan had begun to rule in the whole Christian Church as God's Judgment against them due to all their idols of manmade or demonic doctrines, practices, and traditions as well as evil spirits that did and continue to do signs and wonders, completely deceiving, making them believe that God was and still is with them when He is not.

Yet if Christ is in heaven at the right hand of the Father, which He is, how could He have been trampled or stamped upon in the Christian Church? Answer: by His true people having been trampled, of course, for we are the body of Christ (1Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 4:12), even His flesh and bones (Ephesians 5:30); therefore, when we, God's Elect, were spiritually stamped upon, overcome, and spiritually killed in the Christian churches (silenced - Revelation 11:7 ; 13:7 ; 17:16-17 ; Daniel 7:7 ) during the Great Tribulation from May 21,1988 to May 21,2011, and even to this very day if we were to stand up for endtime truth in any church, it was and continues to be Christ Himself who was and would be trampled and overcome.

What we see, then, in Daniel 8 is what we have been seeing in many places of the Bible, except we are only seeing it in different symbolisms or parables that are spiritually discerned by comparing scripture with scripture so that those Christians who remain in the churches are seeing but see not, and hearing but hear not because they are being blinded to endtime truth by God Himself (2Thessalonians 2:11). But we, God's true people, every time we see the many scriptures that refer to the Great Tribulation, our understanding of endtime events is only being confirmed, broadened, and strengthened.

Now, until the next time, may Yahweh bless thee, and keep thee: Yahweh make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: Yahweh lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace (Numbers 6:24-26).

Alexander the Great's eyes] is the first king of Grecia or Greece. And the word first did not mean the first in number but the first in degree. Therefore, the first king in degree of Grecia meant the greatest king of Grecia or Greece in the near future to when Daniel saw his vision, and that greatest king could be none other than Alexander the Great as everyone knows who has read ancient history of the 3rd century BC.

Also, this was not mentioned in our previous study , but in that Gabriel revealed Alexander the Great to be a hairy goat likely meant he was literally a hairy man in some way. Furthermore, because he was represented as a hairy he goat and the great horn between its eyes; and in the Bible, a goat represents an unsaved person, while a horn represents strength and power, we can reason that, not only was Alexander the great a hairy man, but he had great strength and power as well, which was obvious in how he was able to conquer the entire ancient, great Persian Kingdom that then consisted of the Medes and the Persians under Darius III in just 6-8 years (remember, the great ancient Median Kingdom had been made a part of Persia when king Cyrus of Persia had conquered it way back in 550 BC). Indeed, Alexander the Great must have been a wild beast of a man as the ensigns or banners that pictured goats on them went before him and his army as they marched forward to victory.

But besides the literal meaning to verse 5, we saw in our last study a spiritual meaning or application as well, for all the literal and historical truths of the Old Covenant were but foreshadows or types of spiritual things that would come in the New Covenant. Thus, we call all the literal and historical truths of the Old Testament historical parables, for the literal historical stories of the Old Testament all reveal deeper truths than what appears on the surface of just the literal history. This lends strong support for God having written the Holy Scriptures through men, for only He who could see all things from beginning to the end and who has such great wisdom could have guided and written history by the letter of the law in such a way to foreshadow or typify spiritual things that would be revealed in the future during the New Covenant or Testament. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God (Romans 11:33)! Can any human even possibly fathom all the depth of the wisdom and knowledge