This is the true story of the world: Though the exiles returned to Israel, they remained under foreign rule for most of the intertestimental period, during which they longed for the revealing of the LORD'S Messiah.

1. The political events, pressures, and disappointments of the intertestimental period up until the reign of Antiochus IV, 167 B.C.
2. Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the abomination that makes desolate
3. The Maccabean revolt and the Hasmonean Dynasty (167 B.C. - 63 B.C.)
4. Rome