Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001606A
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00:13 Okay, here is a tiny recap from the last program.
00:19 We are talking about the next president 00:21 of the United States of the world. 00:24 This amazing story 00:25 is in the ancient city of Babylon. 00:30 There are two young men who were involved. 00:33 One of the young man was a mighty king 00:36 and his name is Nebuchadnezzar 00:38 and there is another young man who outlives him 00:41 and his name is Daniel. 00:44 And we have overwhelming proof 00:47 that we are talking here about historical happenings. 00:51 We are going to take the Bible now. 00:53 I'm going to turn to Daniel Chapter 2 00:55 as we continue on from the last program. 00:58 Daniel Chapter 2 01:00 and we are going to start at verse, 01:02 let me see verse 31. 01:07 Verse 31, you ready, folks. 01:09 We are gonna start at verse 31 01:12 and we're going to read you 01:15 the king's dream of the superman. 01:18 "You, O king, were watching--" 01:21 Verse 31. 01:23 "And behold, a great image! 01:27 This great image, whose splendor was excellent, 01:29 stood before you, and its form was awesome. 01:33 This image's head was of fine gold, 01:36 its chest and arms of silver, 01:38 its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, 01:43 its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 01:45 You watched 01:47 while a stone was cut out without hands, 01:49 which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, 01:53 and broke them in pieces. 01:55 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, 01:59 and the gold were crushed together, 02:01 and became like chaff 02:02 from the summer threshing floor, 02:05 the wind carried them away 02:06 so that no trace of them was found. 02:09 And the stone that struck 02:11 the image became a great mountain 02:14 and filled the whole earth." 02:18 This is the king's dream. 02:22 This is the dream that was given to Daniel 02:28 by Almighty God. 02:30 There was a great metal man, 02:33 head of gold, chest of silver, 02:37 belly and thighs of bronze, 02:42 legs partly of iron and partly of clay. 02:46 Then you come down to the feet and then there comes a stone... 02:55 and then the amazing thing is 02:59 that the stone grows and grows and becomes a might mountain 03:04 and fills the whole earth. 03:06 That stone represents the next president 03:10 of the United States of the world, 03:14 who won't be in bed with the lobbyists. 03:18 Amen. 03:21 Now, they're revealing the interpretation. 03:24 Now please, remember this. 03:28 "If genuine prophecy exists, 03:32 then the main issues of the age are met." 03:38 If genuine prophecy exists, 03:40 we know who we are, we know where we came from, 03:43 we know why we are here and we know where we are going. 03:47 You see, all right, 03:49 the interpretation verse 36 and onwards. 03:53 You ready? "This is the dream. 03:56 Now we will tell the interpretation of it 03:59 before the king. 04:00 You, O king, are a king of kings. 04:01 For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, 04:04 power, strength, and glory, 04:06 and wherever the children of men dwell, 04:08 and the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, 04:11 He has given them into your hand, 04:13 and has made you ruler over them all 04:16 you are this head of gold." 04:20 And so, the head of gold on the Colossus, 04:24 on the great metal man symbolizes 04:27 the kingdom of Babylon. 04:29 Oh, somebody says, 04:31 "Well, that's just interpretation." 04:32 No, it's not. No, it's just reading. 04:36 It's a bit of history. that's all it is. 04:38 And this is the power that ruled the world 04:40 starting with the Neo-Babylonian Empire 04:42 from 605 down to 538 BC. 04:47 So the head of gold, 04:49 this is a fact, it's not theology, 04:53 it's' not churcheology, it is simply a fact. 04:57 That's Babylon. 04:59 Okay, now come little bit further please, 05:01 verse 39, 39A actually. 05:05 "But after you shall arise another kingdom 05:08 inferior to you." 05:13 Let me tell you the facts... 05:18 538 BC 05:24 the Persians and the Medes surrounded the city of Babylon 05:30 and Babylon was overthrown exactly as the Bible said. 05:35 This is Babylon 05:37 and the chest is Medo-Persia. 05:42 I went to Persia 05:44 because I wanted to check out the prophecy. 05:48 And when I was there, I took some pictures 05:53 and when I came back, 05:55 as I would come back to camp at night, 05:57 the words would be thumbing in my mind, 06:01 the Bible was right about Babylon, 06:04 Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar. 06:07 It was right about the Persians. 06:10 This is taken from the Shah's Palace. 06:13 These are some of them mighty Persian kings. 06:17 When I went down to Persepolis, 06:20 I saw there an inscription 06:23 that actually talked about the great King Xerxes. 06:28 And if you read the Book of Esther 06:30 his name is called Ahasuerus, 06:34 but he was the one-- 06:36 This is where I saw the inscriptions 06:39 about his marrying this Jewish girl. 06:43 But you see this is 06:45 the great power of the Persian kings. 06:49 Persia that is called Iran today 06:52 is a mighty civilization that goes back 06:56 thousands and thousands of years 06:58 before we were sort off. 07:01 Now come to Daniel 2:39, 07:07 "But after you, that's after Babylon, 07:09 shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, 07:11 then another, a third kingdom of bronze, 07:14 which shall rule over all the earth." 07:17 This is not speculation. 07:20 In 331 BC a meteor came 07:26 blazing across the sky. 07:30 Alexander the Great 07:33 and so the thighs, the belly and the thighs 07:37 represent the power of Alexander the Great, 07:40 the great Grecian empire. 07:42 This is actually an ancient picture of Alexander. 07:49 It is actually not taken with an iPad or anything, 07:53 but an actual picture of Alexander the Great 07:57 and there you have of course the Parthenon 08:01 which is named for the great mother goddess. 08:05 You see the ancient world 08:06 believed in worshipping the queen of heaven 08:10 and thus they built on the acropolises. 08:13 All these pictures, I got so many pictures 08:16 but these are just a few of them. 08:18 This is the marketplace down here 08:21 that is mentioned in the New Testament. 08:24 And of course, 08:26 this gives us reason to believe 08:29 that the prophecy is right on track. 08:32 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Alexander the Great. 08:38 Somebody comes along and says, 08:40 "Oh, it's all speculation." 08:41 No, it's not speculation, it's intelligence. 08:45 It's knowledge, that's all there is to it. 08:48 Now come on a little further my, friends, Daniel 2:40, 08:54 "And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, 08:57 inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces 08:59 and shatters all these, and like iron that crushes, 09:02 that kingdom will break in pieces 09:06 and crush all the others." 09:08 History tells me Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece 09:12 and Greece was taken over and conquered 09:19 by the great power of the Roman Empire. 09:23 Now... 09:28 How on earth 09:30 I've said to the leaders of the atheistic moment, 09:34 they've had no answer except to say you are right. 09:36 How did the prophet, a young man in Babylon 09:40 2,500 years ago know that this would happen. 09:44 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and that he would know 09:48 that the fourth one would be strong as iron. 09:54 You know, what Gibbon calls this empire? 09:57 The iron monarchy or Rome. 10:01 The Parthenon, the temple of all the God's. 10:06 There you have the Coliseum where some people think 10:08 the Christian were put to death. 10:10 It is not true. 10:12 The Christians were put to death 10:14 in the Circus Maximus 10:17 and I'm going to bring up a picture sometime today 10:20 of the Circus Maximus and you can see 10:22 where the Christians were put to death. 10:25 There it is, the Circus Maximus. 10:30 I just wish I had more time. 10:34 Let me talk to you about Vespasian and Titus. 10:39 Here we go. 10:41 The city of Jerusalem 10:43 was destroyed by the Romans, 10:49 and the siege started 10:50 I think if my memory is working well today 10:52 was in 66 AD. 10:55 You can read the words in the ancient Roman, 10:59 it says Vespasian. 11:01 But Vespasian had a son and his name was Titus. 11:06 And Titus the great Roman general 11:08 destroyed the city of Jerusalem in 70 AD 11:12 and this was a result of the crucifixion of Christ. 11:18 They put Christ to death and then there was hell to pay. 11:24 And if you go into the arch of Titus, 11:27 you will actually see there 11:29 the Roman soldiers cutting away the golden candlesticks. 11:35 Did you know this? 11:36 I'm not getting into this today. 11:38 This was also predicted in the Bible. 11:43 Every word of the destruction of Jerusalem 11:48 and the great cities in this world today 11:51 and the nations, 11:53 all written down in the prophecies. 11:57 Amazing. 12:00 Well so much for that because I got to keep moving. 12:03 Come down to verse 41 and onwards. 12:06 "Whereas you saw the feet and toes, 12:08 partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, 12:11 the kingdom shall be divided--" 12:12 Roman Empire would be divided. 12:15 "Yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, 12:17 just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 12:21 And as the toes of the feet 12:22 were partly of iron and partly of clay, 12:24 so the kingdom shall be partly strong 12:26 and partly fragile. 12:28 And as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay, 12:31 they will mingle with the seed of men, 12:33 that's marriage, 12:35 but they will not adhere to one another, 12:36 just as iron does not mix with clay." 12:40 Now, if I had written the prophecy, 12:41 I would have said, 12:43 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, another world empire 12:46 but the Bible said the kingdom shall be divided. 12:52 And the mighty Roman Empire 12:53 was not followed by another great world empire. 12:57 Between 300 and 500 AD, 13:01 it broke up into the kingdoms and the states of Europe. 13:08 And on the ruins of the old Roman Empire 13:11 came the greatest Roman Empire of all. 13:17 Now the most amazing thing is this. 13:20 This is the tough one for the skeptic. 13:24 The Bible says they would mingle themselves 13:27 with the seed of men, the kings here. 13:30 The history of Europe is the story of intermarriage 13:35 to bring about a fifth world empire 13:39 but the Word of God said, the Bible said 2,500 years ago 13:42 there will never be union again over there 13:47 on the ruins of the Roman Empire. 13:50 They shall not cleave, they will not stick together. 13:53 Not everybody believe the words of the prophecy. 13:57 And over the centuries 13:59 there have been a number of people 14:02 who have set out to destroy the Word of God 14:05 and say we will have a fifth world empire. 14:09 We will give birth to the Roman Empire again. 14:14 Some have said, 14:16 "Well, the Euro zone is going to do it." 14:17 The story of the Euro zone 14:20 is one of conflict and is harmony, 14:25 but you think of some of the great conquerors, 14:27 you had Napoleon Bonaparte. 14:32 He said, he set out to tear the heart out of glory 14:37 said Napoleon. 14:39 And then more closer to our time, 14:41 we had the Fuhrer who had one great plan 14:46 and that was to set out the Third Reich 14:52 and rebuild the Roman Empire. 14:55 But there was a little island off the coast of Europe 15:00 led by a man who said, "Never, never, never." 15:07 And when the whole world said, "They are going to go down," 15:12 he said "Never, never, never." 15:19 But, you know, the man who set out to destroy 15:24 was a man who was actually fighting the Word of God. 15:29 And let this sync down into your mind. 15:33 You know, this man invaded Russia. 15:37 He said, when I destroy Russia, 15:40 I will set up the new world empire. 15:44 But you know the story 15:46 that one day a snowflake kissed his cheek... 15:53 and there in the very heart of the Russian Empire, 15:59 he found a terrible defeat. 16:01 He limped home with most of his army, 16:04 the same as the Nazis did. 16:07 Listen carefully. 16:10 I can tell it to you with absolute certainty. 16:12 The Bible teaches Babylon, 16:15 Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome. 16:19 How did he know 16:21 the fourth empire was going to be the iron empire? 16:24 Come on tell me, how did he know? 16:25 How did he know? 16:28 People say, "Well, you know, just a guess." 16:31 Why don't you guess like that? 16:33 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome and then division 16:38 and division, division, division, division to vision 16:43 And so, I would say to you 16:45 if "Genuine prophecy exists in the Bible, 16:49 then the main issues of our age are met." 16:55 Because if genuine prophecy exists 16:57 and God exists, you see. 17:00 And if God exists, then you exist too. 17:02 You see, God died they say, 17:04 God died in the 19th century, man died in the 20th century. 17:09 A hundred million people put to death 17:11 in the 20th century because they got rid of God. 17:16 It's just a fact you know. 17:20 Now, what we have here of course 17:24 is history in advance. 17:26 So in this prophecy that was written 17:30 in old Babylon 2,600 years ago, 17:34 you have this outline of world history. 17:36 Babylon, head of gold. 17:38 Chest of silver, Medo-Persia. 17:41 Greece, Alexander the Great. 17:44 Let me tell you something. 17:45 I got so much to tell you, I don't have enough time. 17:48 Would you like to know why Alexander the Great 17:50 did not destroy Jerusalem? 17:53 Because he went out 17:54 and destroyed every place in the world. 17:56 When he came to Jerusalem, he didn't destroy it. 17:59 Because when he went to destroy Jerusalem, 18:01 he was met by a group of priests, 18:05 Jewish priests in their robes carrying the Book of Daniel, 18:09 the scriptures. 18:11 And they showed Alexander the Great 18:13 where he is actually mentioned in the Bible. 18:19 As he is mentioned in Daniel 8 and also Daniel 11 18:23 and alluded to him. 18:26 They took him into the temple and he said, 18:30 "You are the people of God." 18:32 That's the only reason he didn't destroy the Jews, 18:34 he hates the Jews but he saved their city 18:38 because of this prophecy. 18:39 So Babylon, Medo-Persia, 18:43 Greece, Rome and then Europe 18:48 and the prophecy has come to pass 18:51 including the failure of any man 18:55 to set up a fifth world empire, it has all come to pass 18:59 and it was written down in this book 19:02 which is the basis of civilization. 19:10 But now the next world ruler. 19:15 Daniel 2:44, 45... 19:22 "In the days of these kings--" 19:24 Look at it. 19:26 "The God of heaven will set up a kingdom 19:28 which shall never be destroyed..." 19:31 Goodness. 19:33 "And the kingdom shall not be left to other people, 19:35 it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, 19:39 and it shall stand forever. 19:41 Inasmuch as you saw 19:42 that the stone was cut out of the mountain 19:45 without hands, 19:47 and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, 19:49 the clay, the silver, and the gold, 19:51 the great God has made known to the king 19:53 what will come to pass after this. 19:56 The dream is certain, 19:58 and the interpretation is sure." 20:00 Listen, I can tell you 20:04 what the next world empire is going to be. 20:07 But look at this again, Head of gold you see. 20:12 Babylon, you can't argue about this, 20:13 it's just a fact. 20:16 Chest of silver, Medo-Persia. 20:20 Greece led by Alexander. 20:22 Then Rome the Rome of the Caesars. 20:26 And then the feet and the toes, 20:28 we live down in the toes. 20:30 And then you have the stone. 20:37 I notice and I'm afflicted also 20:40 that everybody is very interested 20:42 in these elections. 20:45 You know, you turn television, that's all you get. 20:49 But I want to tell you folks something. 20:53 The stone strikes the image 20:56 and the kingdoms of this world are destroyed. 21:02 I wouldn't be putting too much faith in them. 21:05 I wouldn't be too concerned about them 21:08 because the kingdoms of this world 21:11 are destined to destruction. 21:17 The stone is coming, if you listen carefully, 21:20 listen here. 21:21 If you listen carefully, listening, 21:26 you listen carefully, 21:29 you're gonna almost hear the stone coming. 21:34 Everywhere I go people say to me 21:36 when they discover what I do, 21:38 they say to me, "What's next?" 21:42 People say to me "What's next? 21:44 What do you think is going to happen? 21:45 What's going to?" 21:46 A Muslim man came to me recently, he said, 21:48 "What's going to happen? 21:49 What do you think is going to happen?" 21:51 He said, "I believe something tremendous 21:54 is about to happen in the world. 21:56 What's going to happen?" 21:58 People say, ask me, "What's going to happen?" 22:00 I can tell you what's going to happen. 22:02 The next great event in the history of this planet 22:06 is the coming of the stone of destiny, 22:10 the destruction of earthly kingdoms 22:12 and the setting up of the kingdom of God himself. 22:18 Now I'm going to tell you just a little tiny bit of, 22:22 tiny little bit of theology. 22:26 The word stone is Eben 22:32 and the word for son is Ben. 22:38 Hebrews loved to play around these words. 22:41 Ben, Eben. 22:43 The stone, the stone, the son. 22:49 In other parts of scripture, 22:52 there is a person who is called the Son of Man. 22:57 He is the Christ. 23:00 The next world ruler is Ben, Eben. 23:07 The stone, the son, the Christ. 23:15 Now think about it. 23:17 Do I have hope? Yeah, of course I do. 23:21 Do I have hope? 23:22 Do I believe the future is going to be tremendous? 23:24 Yes, I do. 23:26 Am I depressed over the elections or anything else? 23:30 I'm not terribly concerned. 23:32 I can tell you why, 23:33 because there is a God in heaven. 23:38 Now, I think this is true. 23:40 Think about this 23:41 and I've said this to millions of atheists. 23:43 I've seen, 23:45 I've seen vast numbers of atheists, 23:47 communists become believers, 23:51 including the colonel who used to teach atheism 23:53 to the troops in Ukraine. 23:57 He came to my meetings, became a true believer. 24:00 He said, I've seen the evidence. 24:04 So I have hope, I know who I am. 24:08 I know where I came from. 24:11 I know why I am here and I know where I am going, 24:17 you see. 24:19 And it's not wishful thinking is I don't say it 24:22 because church people like to say it. 24:27 I say it because of the facts of history. 24:32 Listen, I learnt this many, many years ago. 24:36 See if my memory is good bring it back to me. 24:39 First the Babylonian kingdom ruled the world. 24:43 Then Medo-Persia's banners were unfurled. 24:49 Next after Greece held universal sway. 24:54 Rome sees the scepter. 24:57 Where are we today? 25:02 Down in the feet made of iron and clay, 25:08 weak and divided, 25:12 soon to pass away. 25:17 What will the next 25:20 great glorious drama be? 25:25 Christ, Christ and He is coming... 25:32 and eternity. 25:36 And as the ancient Egyptian said 25:38 when they saw something that was supernatural 25:40 would say could not understand. 25:43 They had this saying to the Pharaohs, 25:46 "This is the finger of God. 25:51 Today you my, friend, 25:54 you have felt the finger of God 25:59 and you have come face to face 26:03 with the God of Bible prophecy." 26:08 I have just come from Russia via Switzerland 26:12 and I'm now in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. 26:16 This place has got huge memories for me 26:20 because back in '95 we ran a campaign in the city 26:24 and in spite of terrific opposition, 26:27 by the grace of God 26:28 we baptized 3,530 precious souls 26:34 in the Dneiper River. 26:36 I'm back here today because I believe 26:39 that we need to take care of the people we baptized. 26:43 I don't believe it's right to baptize people 26:46 and then to walk away 26:48 and to leave them literally in the cold. 26:52 When I read my Bible, 26:54 I find where the Apostle Paul went back time after time 26:58 to visit the people that he had baptized. 27:02 And so I'm back here today for the 43rd time 27:07 in Russia and Ukraine together to visit the people. 27:12 I'm back here to preach the gospel of Christ. 27:15 I'm back here to explain the Word of God 27:17 and let these people know 27:19 that they are not forgotten and never will be forgotten. 27:25 We believe that there is a tremendous opportunity 27:29 for the preaching of the gospel of Christ 27:32 in this part of the world. 27:34 The soul hunger still exists and the Carter Report 27:40 has got a goal to take the gospel of Christ 27:44 to the people of Russia and the people of Ukraine. 27:48 I just want to say to you, dear friend, 27:50 my heart is overwhelmed with thankfulness 27:54 for your magnificent support. 27:56 Thank you in Jesus' name. 28:10 For a copy of today's program, 28:12 please contact us at P.O. 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