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it talks about a big war that's going to happen,
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so you have demons
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and a battle of Jesus with the strong man,
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another apocalyptic story.
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You have the emphasis on suffering and persecution,
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and that's a common theme of Jewish apocalyptic.
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Not that the Messiah would suffer
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but that the Jews themselves might have to suffer
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before the fabulous kingdom of the end time.
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Remember you saw it in Daniel, when we read Daniel two classes ago,
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Daniel predicts suffering for the righteous,
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and only after the suffering