Handout - Western Christadelphian Bible School

2 Daniel 7:25
Moving anticlockwise around the chart, from the uppermost segment (Dan 12:7), we next
find that the little horn of Daniel 7 operates for the same 3 1 / 2 times; he also carries out
substantially the same activities. But more information is added.
"He shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the
most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand
until a time and times and the dividing of time" (Dan 7:25).
In this place, 3 1 / 2 times is the period that the "saints of the most high" are given into the hand
of the little horn, during which he "wears them out". This is the same idea as we found in
Daniel 12:7, where the king of the north "scatters the power" of the holy people. So the
passages are linked by their common duration and their subject matter.
"Saints" - A Side Issue
Incidentally, the English word "saint(s)" translates four Hebrew and one Greek words which
can refer to one of three things, depending on context. "Saints" can mean what we
commonly take the word to mean: "those that have made a covenant with (God) by sacrifice"
(Psa 50:5). But it can also apply to Israel, and, sometimes, to angels:
Here is an example of the word "saints" applied to Israel:
"O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled;
they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to
be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to
bury them" (Psa 79:1-3).
Here is an example of the word "saints" applied to angels:
"The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from
mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a
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