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00:02 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
00:04 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:14 >>IF YOU GO 483 YEARS FROM 457 B.C., IT COMES TO THE BAPTISM OF 00:21 JESUS IN 27 A.D. WOW, CHRIST CAME RIGHT ON TIME 00:26 THE FIRST TIME, JUST LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD. 00:28 WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE BELIEVE THE BIBLE? 00:34 TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION IS GOING TO BE ONE THAT I'M ACTUALLY 00:37 COMBINING A COUPLE OF STUDIES INTO ONE PRESENTATION DEALING 00:41 WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE LONGEST TIME PROPHECY AND THE SANCTUARY. 00:47 THE LESSON TODAY IS LESSON #11, DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF 00:50 CLEANSING THE SANCTUARY. NOW, WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO 00:54 QUESTION #1 AND I'VE GOT A LOT TO COVER, SO YOU PRAY FOR ME - 00:58 I'LL PRAY FOR YOU BECAUSE I'M GOING TO TALK FAST. 01:00 I'LL PRAY YOU CAN LISTEN FAST. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY. 01:04 ALRIGHT, QUESTION #1 - WE'RE GOING TO - THIS IS BASED ON A 01:06 PROPHECY IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8 AND IT TELLS US - MATTER OF FACT, 01:10 OPEN YOUR BIBLES. WE REALLY NEED TO LOOK. 01:12 IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES WITH YOU OPEN YOUR BIBLES TO 01:14 DANIEL 8. YOU NEED TO AT LEAST INTRODUCE 01:16 THIS BEFORE WE DIVE INTO THE QUESTION. 01:18 DANIEL 8, VERSE 1, "IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING 01:22 BELSHAZZAR A VISION APPEARED TO ME - TO ME, DANIEL - AFTER THE 01:27 ONE THAT APPEARED TO ME THE FIRST TIME. 01:29 I SAW IN THE VISION, AND IT SO HAPPENED WHILE I WAS LOOKING, 01:32 THAT I WAS IN SHUSHAN, THE CITADEL, WHICH IS IN THE 01:35 PROVINCE OF ELAM; AND I SAW IN THE VISION THAT I WAS BY THE 01:39 RIVER ULAI. THEN I LIFTED MY EYES AND SAW, 01:41 AND THERE, STANDING BESIDE THE RIVER, WAS A RAM WHICH HAD TWO 01:45 HORNS," - NOW HE STARTS TO HAVE THIS VISION, HE'S ABOVE THE 01:49 RIVER AND HE SEES THIS RAM AND HE'S WONDERING 'WHAT DOES THIS 01:52 MEAN?' AND THEN LATER THERE'S A GOAT. 01:54 IF YOU READ THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, HE SAYS, 'I WAS IN 01:57 VISION AND I SAW A LION, THEN I SAW A BEAR, THEN I SAW A 02:01 LEOPARD.' AND WHILE HE'S WONDERING WHAT THESE THINGS 02:03 MEAN, THE ANGEL COMES AND EXPLAINS THAT THESE ANIMALS 02:08 REPRESENT DIFFERENT KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES THAT WILL HAVE SOME 02:13 DOMINATING INFLUENCE OVER GOD'S PEOPLE DURING THEIR REIGN. 02:18 HE FORETELLS THE HISTORY. YOU KNOW, IN DANIEL 2, YOU 02:21 REMEMBER WE STUDIED THAT? HE GAVE A PANORAMA OF THE 02:24 WORLD'S HISTORY AND THEIR KINGDOMS THROUGH THAT GIANT 02:27 METAL IMAGE. GOD OFTEN REPEATS THESE THINGS 02:30 AND USES DIFFERENT PARABLES AND DREAMS TO GIVE PERSPECTIVE. 02:35 SO NOW IN DANIEL 8, LET'S GO INTO THIS. 02:38 FIRST HE SEES A RAM BY THE RIVER - TWO HORNS - AND ONE OF THEM 02:43 WAS HIGHER THAN THE OTHER "AND THE HIGHER ONE CAME UP LAST. 02:47 I SAW THE RAM PUSHING WESTWARD, NORTHWARD, AND SOUTHWARD, SO 02:50 THAT NO ANIMAL COULD WITHSTAND HIM; NOR WAS THERE ANY THAT 02:53 COULD DELIVER FROM HIS HAND, BUT HE DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL AND 02:56 BECAME GREAT. AND AS I WAS CONSIDERING, 02:58 SUDDENLY A MALE GOAT CAME FROM THE WEST, ACROSS THE SURFACE OF 03:03 THE WHOLE EARTH, WITHOUT TOUCHING THE GROUND; AND THE 03:06 GOAT HAD A NOTABLE HORN BETWEEN HIS EYES." - ONE NOTABLE HORN - 03:10 "THEN HE CAME TO THE RAM THAT HAD TWO HORNS, WHICH I HAD SEEN 03:14 STANDING BESIDE THE RIVER, AND RAN AT HIM WITH FURIOUS POWER. 03:17 AND I SAW HIM CONFRONTING THE RAM; HE WAS MOVED WITH RAGE 03:20 AGAINST HIM, ATTACKED THE RAM, AND BROKE HIS TWO HORNS. 03:24 THERE WAS NO POWER IN THE RAM TO WITHSTAND HIM, BUT HE CAST HIM 03:27 DOWN TO THE GROUND AND TRAMPLED HIM; AND THERE WAS NO ONE THAT 03:31 COULD DELIVER THE RAM FROM HIS HAND. 03:32 THEREFORE THE MALE GOAT GREW VERY GREAT; BUT WHEN HE BECAME 03:37 STRONG, THE LARGE HORN WAS BROKEN, AND IN PLACE OF IT FOUR 03:42 NOTABLE ONES CAME UP TOWARD THE FOUR WINDS OF HEAVEN." 03:45 ALRIGHT, WE'VE GOT TO PAUSE THERE. 03:47 WE'LL COME BACK TO THIS CHAPTER, BUT I JUST WANTED TO READ IT 03:49 RIGHT FROM THE BIBLE AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO IN AND 03:51 INTERPRET/STUDY WHAT DOES THIS DREAM MEAN. 03:54 ALRIGHT, QUESTION #1: DANIEL HAS THIS AMAZING VISION - CHAPTER 8 03:59 - IN WHICH HE SEES A RAM WITH TWO HORNS. 04:03 WHOM DOES THIS RAM REPRESENT? LATER IN THE CHAPTER THE ANGEL 04:06 COMES TO DANIEL AND TELLS HIM - YOU CAN READ IN VERSE 20, "THE 04:11 RAM WHICH YOU SAW, HAVING THE TWO HORNS - THEY ARE THE KINGS 04:15 OF MEDIA AND PERSIA." LATER IT SAYS ONE WAS - ONE OF 04:20 THOSE HORNS WAS BIGGER THAN THE OTHER - IT STARTED OUT WITH THE 04:23 MEDIAN ONE, BUT THEN THE PERSIAN KINGDOM BECAME GREATER. 04:27 LATER, THAT EMPIRE WAS JUST CALLED THE PERSIAN EMPIRE 04:29 BECAUSE OF THAT OTHER HORN. NOW THIS SHOULD ALSO BE 04:33 REMEMBERED THAT IF YOU'RE A JEW, WHAT DO THEY DO GOING THROUGH 04:36 THE WILDERNESS? WHAT WAS THEIR OCCUPATION? 04:38 ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, JOSEPH, DAVID? SHEPHERDS. 04:42 THEY WERE VERY FAMILIAR WITH SHEEPS AND GOATS. 04:45 JESUS COMPARED THE JUDGMENT TO SHEEP AND GOATS AND SO HERE, 04:49 WITH THESE TWO CREATURES, HE ILLUSTRATES THESE TWO GREAT 04:52 EMPIRES. ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO JUMP 04:55 RIGHT TO QUESTION #2. NEXT DANIEL SAW THE GOAT WITH A 04:59 GREAT HORN BETWEEN HIS EYES. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? 05:03 THAT'S TALKING ABOUT THIS GOAT IS REPRESENTING THE NEXT KING 05:07 AND HE ATTACKS THE RAM. IT SAYS HE COMES FROM THE WEST. 05:12 THIS IS THE KINGDOM OF GREECE COMING FROM THE WEST. 05:16 IT SAYS HE COMES VERY QUICKLY, VERY FIERCELY - THERE IS NO 05:20 HISTORIAN THAT WILL DENY THAT AMONG THE EMPIRES - ANCIENT 05:23 EMPIRES - NOBODY DID IT QUICKER THAN ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 05:27 HE WAS 32 WHEN HE DIED. FROM THE TIME HE WAS 19 UNTIL 05:31 ABOUT 24 HE WAS CONQUERING THE WORLD. VERY RAPID - HIS SOLDIERS 05:35 MARCHED FASTER AND FARTHER THAN JUST ABOUT ANYBODY ELSE. 05:39 AND SO THERE'S THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THE TWO AND THE GOAT 05:43 DESTROYS THE RAM. ALEXANDER DEFEATED DARIUS AND HE 05:48 CONQUERED THE PERSIAN EMPIRE AND OVERTOOK THEIR TERRITORY. 05:52 DANIEL 8, VERSE 21 AND 22, "THE ROUGH GOAT" - THE ANGEL TELLS US 05:57 - DO WE HAVE TO GUESS WHAT IT IS? 05:58 - "THE ROUGH GOAT IS THE KING OF (GREECE) GRECIA:" - IS HOW THEY 06:02 SAID IT IN THE KING JAMES - "AND THE GREAT HORN THAT IS BETWEEN 06:05 HIS EYES IS THE FIRST KING." 06:09 NOW THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT 06:10 HAPPENED WITH ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 06:12 IT SAYS HE CAME FROM THE WEST - THAT'S WHERE HE CAME FROM, WHEN 06:14 YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT PERSIA - AND HE DID IT WITH FEROCITY. 06:17 HE DID IT WITH GREAT SPEED. IN THE PRIOR CHAPTER - CHAPTER 7 06:21 OF DANIEL, GREECE IS COMPARED TO A LEOPARD WITH FOUR WINGS 06:24 BECAUSE HIS FEET DIDN'T EVEN TOUCH THE GROUND. 06:26 HE WENT SO QUICKLY WITH HIS CONQUERING. 06:30 CONSIDERING THEY DID NOT HAVE MECHANIZED ARMIES BACK THEN, NO 06:32 ARMY MOVED FASTER IN HISTORY THAN ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S ARMY. 06:36 IT WAS JUST INCREDIBLE. 06:37 AND THEN IT SAYS THAT AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS POWER, IN ITS 06:42 PRIME, THE HORN - THE MAIN, PRINCIPLE HORN IS BROKEN OFF. 06:47 IT DOESN'T WEAR DOWN, IT SNAPS. ALEXANDER DIED SUDDENLY. 06:52 THOUGH HE COULD CONQUER THE WORLD, HE DIDN'T DO VERY WELL 06:55 CONQUERING HIMSELF. AND THEY'RE STILL NOT SURE. 06:57 THEY DON'T - IT WAS AFTER A NIGHT OF PRETTY ROWDY DRINKING 07:00 HE FELL ILL. THEY DON'T KNOW IF SOMEONE TRIED 07:02 TO POISON HIM. THEY'RE STILL NOT SURE AND WE 07:04 MAY NEVER KNOW UNTIL HEAVEN WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED. 07:07 THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS MALARIA. IT WAS A FEVER. 07:10 THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS ALCOHOL POISONING, BUT VERY 07:14 YOUNG HE DIED. AND ON HIS DEATH BED, I THINK I 07:17 TOLD YOU, HIS WIFE ASKED HIM 'WHO WILL RULE IN YOUR PLACE?' 07:20 AND HE SAID, 'THE STRONGEST.' AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. 07:24 IT SAYS OUT OF THE PLACE OF THAT - YOU CAN READ HERE IN THIS NEXT 07:28 SECTION - "NOW THAT BEING BROKEN, WHEREAS FOUR STOOD UP 07:32 FOR IT, FOUR KINGDOMS SHALL STAND UP OUT OF THE NATION." 07:37 THE FOUR PRINCIPLE GENERALS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT THEN DIVIDED 07:41 HIS EMPIRE AMONG THEM INTO FOUR REGIONS. 07:44 AND THEN THEY EVENTUALLY BEGAN TO FIGHT AMONG THEMSELVES. 07:48 BUT THE KINGDOM OF GREECE THEN LASTED LONGER EVEN THAN THE 07:52 KINGDOM OF PERSIA. QUESTION #3: THEN, AS YOU READ 07:56 ON IT SAYS OUT OF ONE OF THOSE FOUR HORNS A LITTLE HORN BEGINS 08:02 TO SPROUT AND IT ENDS UP BECOMING A VERY BIG POWER. 08:08 WHAT POWER DID THIS LITTLE HORN REPRESENT? 08:11 YOU CAN SEE THE FULFILLMENT OF THIS DURING THE TIME OF CHRIST. 08:13 WHAT EMPIRE FOLLOWED THE GREEK EMPIRE? 08:16 >>ROME. >>ROME. 08:18 ACTS 2 - 18:2, RATHER - "...CLAUDIUS (CAESAR) HAD 08:22 COMMANDED ALL JEWS TO DEPART FROM ROME." 08:24 HE HAD CONTROL OVER THE WHOLE EMPIRE AND AT THAT POINT HE WAS 08:27 SUSPICIOUS OF THE JEWS AND TOLD THEM THEY HAD TO LEAVE. 08:31 SO YOU'VE GOT THIS GOAT - JUST TO REVIEW - AND THE 08:34 PRINCIPLE POWER IS ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 08:37 IT'S BROKEN OFF AND, FROM IT, FOUR COME UP - FOUR OTHER HORNS 08:40 - FOUR DIVISIONS - FOUR GENERALS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND ONE 08:45 LITTLE HORN BEGINS TO COME UP FROM AMONG THESE. 08:49 BUT NOW THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS POWER. 08:51 THIS POWER IS ONE WE WANT TO NOTICE BECAUSE YOU READ ON, IT 08:54 GROWS INTO WHAT WE LATER KNOW AS THE ANTICHRIST POWER. 08:58 YOU READ IN DANIEL 7, VERSE 8, "...IN THE HORN WERE EYES LIKE 09:03 THE EYES OF MAN, AND A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS." 09:09 THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT IT. 09:11 IT - LATER IT SAYS IT'S GUILTY OF BLASPHEMY - POMPOUS WORDS. 09:18 AND IT TALKS ABOUT THIS ALSO IN REVELATION CHAPTER 17 - WHAT 09:22 THIS POWER DOES. DANIEL CHAPTER 7, VERSE 24 09:25 "HE IS DIVERSE, OR DIFFERENT FROM, THE FIRST." 09:30 THE FIRST KINGDOMS THAT WE SAW, WHETHER IT'S BABYLON, OR 09:35 MEDO-PERSIA, AND GREECE - THEY WERE YOUR TYPICAL MONARCHIES LED 09:38 BY A GOVERNMENT. BUT WHAT HAPPENED WITH ROME, 09:41 ROME NOT ONLY WAS THE IRON MONARCHY, AS THE ROMAN EMPIRE 09:44 LED BY CAESARS BEGAN TO FALL, IN ITS PLACE, THE ROMAN POWER WAS 09:50 SUBSTITUTED WITH A RELIGIOUS POWER. GRADUALLY, AS THE ROMAN 09:55 POWER BEGAN TO CRUMBLE, THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH GREW. 09:57 BUT IT DIDN'T JUST STAY A RELIGION, IT BECAME A POLITICAL 10:01 RELIGIOUS POWER AS WELL. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 10:05 QUESTION #4: DANIEL WAS TOLD THAT THIS LITTLE HORN WOULD 10:09 DEFILE THE SANCTUARY. HOW LONG WOULD IT BE UNTIL THE 10:13 SANCTUARY WAS CLEANSED? NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THE 10:16 LONGEST TIME PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE. 10:18 AND YOU READ IN DANIEL 8, VERSE 14, "UNTO" - SAY IT WITH ME - 10:22 "TWO THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED DAYS; THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY 10:27 BE CLEANSED." NOW GO - GO BACK TO YOUR BIBLES FOR A SECOND. 10:31 IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8 AND IF WE READ DOWN HERE - VERSE 10:36 12 - "BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION, AN ARMY WAS GIVEN OVER TO THE 10:41 HORN TO OPPOSE THE DAILY SACRIFICES; AND HE CAST TRUTH 10:45 DOWN TO THE GROUND. HE DID ALL THIS AND PROSPERED." 10:51 SO WHAT'S HAPPENING IS THE TRUTH OF GOD AND THE TRUTH OF THE 10:55 BIBLE AND THE TRUTH OF JESUS DURING THIS TIME 10:57 BECOMES COMPROMISED AND YET IT PROSPERS. 11:01 WELL, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE QUICK HISTORY. 11:04 I WON'T DIVERGE ON THIS, BUT I THINK MOST OF US KNOW THAT, 11:09 DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THREE OR FOUR 11:13 HUNDRED YEARS AFTER CHRIST, ORIGINALLY CHRISTIANS WERE 11:16 PERSECUTED IN ROME. THEY FED THEM TO THE LIONS, 11:19 RIGHT? I USED TO WONDER AS A KID. I'D HEAR HOW THEY BURNED 11:22 CHRISTIANS AT THE STAKE AND THEY FED THEM TO THE LIONS - YOU 11:26 KNOW, THEY MADE JOKES ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME. 11:28 AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, ROME BECOMES THE CENTER OF 11:31 CHRISTIANITY. AND YOU GO, 'WHAT HAPPENED? 11:33 I THOUGHT THAT THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED THERE AND THEN ALL OF 11:35 A SUDDEN IT BECOMES HEADQUARTERS. 11:36 SOMETHING OBVIOUSLY CHANGED, RIGHT? 11:39 AND REALLY, WHAT HAPPENED WAS, WITH THE CONVERSION OF 11:42 CONSTANTINE - I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT THIS LATER, WHAT WAS ONCE 11:46 CONSIDERED RELIGIO-ILLICITA - FORBIDDEN RELIGION - WAS 11:50 PERSECUTED, OUTLAWED - THEY WERE KILLED. THEY BUILT CATACOMBS. 11:53 THEY WENT UNDERGROUND - IT SUDDENLY BECAME THE STATE 11:56 RELIGION AND IT ALMOST OVERNIGHT BECAME FASHIONABLE, WITH THE 11:59 CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE, TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN. 12:02 BUT WHAT HAPPENED IS A LOT OF PEOPLE STARTED COMING INTO THE 12:05 CHURCH FROM THE DIFFERENT GRECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS THAT 12:08 WEREN'T TOTALLY CONVERTED - DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE TEACHINGS 12:11 OF JESUS - AND THEY TRIED TO BRING SOME OF THEIR PAGAN IDEAS 12:14 WITH THEM. 12:17 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, WE'RE GOING TO BE BACK IN JUST A 12:19 MOMENT TO COMPLETE TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 12:21 HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED BEFORE ABOUT THIS INDIVIDUAL DESCRIBED 12:24 IN THE BIBLE AS THE ANTICHRIST? 12:27 WE HAVE A SPECIAL STUDY GUIDE WE'D LIKE TO MAKE 12:29 AVAILABLE TO YOU FOR FREE. 12:30 YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO GET IT. 12:32 IT'S CALLED, "WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST?" 12:34 USING THE PROPHECIES FOUND IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL AND 12:37 REVELATION, ALONG WITH OTHER SCRIPTURES BY JESUS, 12:40 WE'LL UNDERSTAND BETTER THIS INDIVIDUAL, 12:43 THIS POWER THAT IS GOING TO BE OPPRESSING GOD'S 12:46 PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS. 12:47 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND 12:50 ASK FOR OFFER NUMBER 125, OR VISIT THE 12:53 WEB ADDRESS ON YOUR SCREEN. 12:55 AND AFTER YOU READ IT, SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 12:58 WELL, LET'S GET BACK TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 13:00 AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 13:04 WE STUDIED THE OTHER NIGHT ABOUT 13:06 THE TRUTH ABOUT HELL - THAT PEOPLE DO NOT GO RIGHT AT DEATH 13:12 TO - BEFORE JUDGMENT OR RESURRECTION - A PLACE OF 13:15 BURNING WHERE THEY BURN THROUGH ALL ETERNITY. DID WE - WE 13:17 LEARNED THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE, THERE IS A PUNISHMENT, BUT 13:19 THERE'S MISUNDERSTANDING THAT CAME IN FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY, 13:22 RIGHT? CAST THE TRUTH TO THE GROUND IN PRACTICE. 13:26 THE IDEA OF PURGATORY, THIS HALFWAY BURNING PLACE, WE FOUND 13:29 OUT THAT THAT'S BEEN RENOUNCED. IT'S NOT BIBLICAL. 13:32 THERE'S NOTHING IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THAT. 13:33 THE IDEA THAT THE DEAD GO IMMEDIATELY TO HEAVEN AS SOON AS 13:37 THEY DIE AND THEN THEY COME BACK FOR THEIR BODIES OR THEY'RE IN 13:40 ABRAHAM'S BOSOM WAITING. WE FOUND OUT THAT'S NOT IN THE 13:43 BIBLE AND A LOT OF OTHER THINGS - THE TRUTH WAS CAST TO THE 13:47 GROUND. THE IDEA THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO 13:50 KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE BECAUSE ONCE YOU BELIEVE 13:52 IN JESUS YOU CAN SOMEHOW IGNORE HIS LAW, THAT'S ANOTHER ONE OF 13:57 THE TRUTHS THAT WAS CAST TO THE GROUND. 13:59 ALL KINDS OF THINGS BEGAN TO GET CORRUPTED DURING THIS TIME. 14:02 SO, WHEN WOULD THERE BE A CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY? 14:07 ALRIGHT, QUESTION #5: HOW DID DANIEL RESPOND WHEN HE SAW THIS 14:10 LITTLE HORN POWER PERSECUTE GOD'S PEOPLE AND OBSCURE THE 14:14 TRUTH? WHEN DANIEL WAS GETTING THIS 14:17 INFORMATION ABOUT THIS VISION FROM THE ANGEL, HE JUST - HE 14:22 SEES WHAT'S HAPPENING TO HIS OWN PEOPLE AND HE'S HEARTBROKEN. 14:24 AND IT SAYS IN DANIEL 8:27, "AND I, DANIEL, FAINTED AND WAS SICK 14:30 FOR DAYS;" - HE'S AN OLDER MAN NOW, YOU KNOW, HE CAME TO 14:34 BABYLON PROBABLY 15 - 16 YEARS OLD - SEVENTY YEARS HAVE GONE 14:37 BY. HE'S IN HIS 80S, MAYBE EVEN 14:40 LONGER, AND HE HAS THIS VERY HEAVY VISION OF GOD'S PEOPLE 14:44 BEING PERSECUTED BY THIS ANTICHRIST POWER AND IT - HE 14:49 ACTUALLY SWOONS, PRACTICALLY. HE'S SICK AND HE CAN'T 14:52 UNDERSTAND IT AND THE ANGEL KNOWS HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO 14:54 COME BACK AND FINISH EXPLAINING THIS PROPHECY. 14:56 IT'S FINISHED IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9. 15:00 NOW YOU CAN UNDERSTAND, DANIEL IS A YOUNG MAN. 15:03 BEFORE HE IS CARRIED OFF CAPTIVE TO BABYLON, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 15:10 BUILDING IN THE WORLD WAS NOT THE TAJ MAHAL BACK THEN, IT WAS 15:13 NOT EVEN THE HANGING GARDENS. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING IN 15:16 THE WORLD WAS A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR BUILDING BUILT BY DAVID, 15:20 WHO GATHERED THE MONEY AND HIS SON SOLOMON DID THE 15:23 CONSTRUCTION. IT HAD GOLDEN ROOMS. 15:27 IT HAD BRONZE PILLARS BIGGER THAN ANY IN THE WORLD. 15:30 THEY EVEN NAMED THEM - TWO PILLARS THEY WERE SO BIG - AND 15:33 DANIEL GREW UP AS A BOY SEEING THIS MAJESTIC TEMPLE. 15:38 IT WAS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD. 15:40 BUT HE LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS DESTROYED. 15:44 HE WATCHED - DANIEL WATCHED AS HIS PEOPLE WERE CONQUERED. 15:46 THE CITY WAS DESTROYED - JERUSALEM - THE PLACE THAT GOD 15:49 HAD CHOSEN, DAVID HAD RULED. THEY WERE SCATTERED AS SLAVES - 15:53 MANY WERE SLAIN - AND THE YEARNING OF DANIEL'S HEART FOR 15:57 THE SEVENTY YEARS HE WAS IN BABYLON: 'WHEN WILL THE MESSIAH 16:00 COME? WHEN WILL THE SON OF DAVID COME? 16:02 WHEN WILL WE GET TO GO BACK TO JERUSALEM?' AT THE BEGINNING OF 16:06 DANIEL 9 IT ACTUALLY SAYS DANIEL IS READING THE BIBLE. 16:10 NOW HE DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME BIBLE WE HAVE, BUT HE HAD THE 16:12 PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAH, ISAIAH, DAVID - ALL THE PRIOR PROPHETS. 16:18 DANIEL IS READING THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH - HE TELLS YOU IN 16:22 CHAPTER 9 - AND HE REALIZES THERE JEREMIAH SAYS SEVENTY 16:25 YEARS AND GOD'S PEOPLE WILL COME BACK AND DANIEL SAYS, 'LORD, 16:27 SEVENTY YEARS IS UP. THE KING OF PERSIA IS NOW HERE. 16:30 WHEN ARE WE GOING HOME?' 16:31 WHILE HE'S PRAYING, THE ANGEL GABRIEL COMES TO HIM AND HE 16:37 SAYS, 'DANIEL, I'VE COME TO GIVE YOU UNDERSTANDING IN THE 16:40 VISION.' AND HERE - HERE YOU HAVE THAT. 16:42 HE SAYS, "AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR SUPPLICATIONS THE COMMAND 16:46 WENT OUT, AND I HAVE COME TO TELL YOU," - SO ANGEL - THE 16:48 ANGEL GABRIEL HAS COME TO EXPLAIN THE VISION. WHAT VISION? 16:51 THE ONE HE STARTED HAVING IN CHAPTER 8 BUT HE FAINTED. 16:54 SO THIS IS THE ONE THAT'S ACTUALLY INTRODUCING THE COMING 16:58 OF THE MESSIAH - THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS. 17:02 QUESTION #6: IN THE NEXT CHAPTER THE ANGEL EXPLAINS THE PROPHECY 17:07 IN GREATER DETAIL. HOW LONG WAS THE TIME PERIOD NOT 17:11 PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED IN THE VISION? 17:14 NOW GET YOUR BIBLES, TURN WITH ME TO DANIEL 9:23. 17:19 "AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR SUPPLICATIONS THE COMMAND WENT 17:22 OUT, AND I HAVE COME TO TELL YOU, FOR YOU ARE GREATLY 17:26 BELOVED;" - WHY ANGELS ARE FAST. AT THE BEGINNING OF DANIEL'S 17:29 PRAYER, GABRIEL IS SENT. ANGEL'S DON'T TRAVEL THE SPEED 17:32 OF SOUND OR THE SPEED OF LIGHT, THEY TRAVEL THE SPEED OF ANGELS 17:38 - THE SPEED OF THOUGHT, ANYWAY, THEY'RE GOING FAST. 17:40 HE'S GOING THROUGH THE COSMOS - "AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR 17:43 SUPPLICATIONS THE COMMAND WENT OUT, AND I HAVE COME TO TELL 17:46 YOU, FOR YOU ARE GREATLY BELOVED; THEREFORE CONSIDER THE 17:48 MATTER AND UNDERSTAND THE VISION:" NOW THERE'S NO VISION 17:51 IN CHAPTER 9 SO WHAT VISION IS THE ANGEL TALKING ABOUT? 17:54 THE ONE IN CHAPTER 8 HE DIDN'T GET TO FINISH EXPLAINING BECAUSE 17:57 DANIEL FAINTED, RIGHT? "SEVENTY WEEKS" - HERE WE GO, 18:02 VERSE 24 - DANIEL 9:24 - "SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED 18:05 FOR YOUR PEOPLE" - WHO ARE DANIEL'S PEOPLE? 18:08 JEWISH NATION - "SEVENTY WEEKS" - THE WORD DETERMINED THERE 18:12 MEANS 'CUT OFF' OR 'ALLOTTED' OR 'REMAIN' - "FOR YOUR PEOPLE" - 18:15 FOR WHAT? TO INTRODUCE THE MESSIAH TO THE 18:18 WORLD - "FOR YOUR HOLY CITY, TO FINISH THE TRANSGRESSION, TO 18:23 MAKE AN END OF SINS," - THE FINAL SACRIFICE FOR SIN WOULD BE 18:26 OFFERED - "TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY, TO 18:30 BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS" - THAT'S CHRIST 18:33 WHO BRINGS THAT EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS - "TO SEAL UP 18:36 VISION AND PROPHECY, AND TO ANOINT THE MOST HOLY." 18:42 YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD CHRIST MEANS? 18:44 ANOINTED. YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD MESSIAH 18:47 MEANS? IT'S HEBREW FOR ANOINTED. 18:50 WHEN THE PROPHET SAMUEL POURED OIL ON DAVID'S HEAD, HE WAS 18:55 ANOINTED WITH OIL - JESUS WAS ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 18:59 HE WAS THE ANOINTED OF GOD WHEN GOD BECAME A MAN, OKAY? 19:03 SO HE SAID SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED FOR ALL THESE THINGS 19:05 TO BE ACCOMPLISHED. KNOW AND UNDERSTAND. 19:07 NOW HERE'S THE STARTING POINT FOR ALL THESE PROPHECIES - VERSE 19:11 25 - "KNOW THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND, THAT FROM THE GOING 19:13 FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM UNTIL 19:17 MESSIAH THE PRINCE, THERE SHALL BE SEVEN WEEKS AND SIXTY-TWO 19:23 WEEKS;" THAT'S A TOTAL OF 69 - "THE STREET SHALL BE BUILT 19:27 AGAIN, AND THE WALL, EVEN IN TROUBLESOME TIMES." 19:30 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE TIME OF NEHEMIAH. 19:32 THEY REBUILT THE STREET AND THE WALL DURING TROUBLOUS TIMES. 19:34 "AND AFTER THE SIXTY-TWO WEEKS MESSIAH SHALL BE CUT OFF, BUT 19:40 NOT FOR HIMSELF; AND THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME 19:44 SHALL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY. 19:46 THE END OF IT SHALL BE WITH A FLOOD, AND TILL THE END OF 19:50 THE WAR DESOLATIONS ARE DETERMINED." 19:52 JESUS TALKS ABOUT THE ABOMINATION THAT MAKES DESOLATE. 19:55 "THEN HE SHALL CONFIRM A COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE 19:58 WEEK;" - NOW THE 'HE' THAT CONFIRMS THE COVENANT - THERE'S 20:02 TWO PEOPLE HERE - ONE YOU'VE GOT MESSIAH THE PRINCE COMING, THE 20:05 OTHER YOU'VE GOT A PRINCE THAT COMES TO DESTROY. 27 - HE'S 20:08 GOING BACK TO THE MESSIAH THE PRINCE. HE WILL "CONFIRM A 20:11 COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK; BUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK 20:14 HE SHALL BRING AN END TO SACRIFICE AND OFFERING. 20:17 AND ON THE WING OF ABOMINATION SHALL BE ONE WHO MAKES DESOLATE, 20:20 EVEN UNTIL THE CONSUMMATION, WHICH IS DETERMINED, IS POURED 20:23 OUT ON THE DESOLATE." SO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS. 20:26 JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW 24 - SECOND COMING - JESUS TALKS 20:30 ABOUT THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION. HE SAYS 'WRITTEN OF 20:33 BY DANIEL THE PROPHET. WHOEVER READS, LET HIM 20:35 UNDERSTAND.' JESUS IS TELLING YOU AND ME TONIGHT, 'I WANT YOU 20:38 TO READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS.' OKAY? 20:40 SO THIS IS THE PROPHECIES HE WAS REFERRING TO IN MATTHEW 24 THAT 20:45 HE SAYS WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND. ALRIGHT, WE JUST READ IT. 20:47 NOW LET'S GO BACK TO OUR SCREEN HERE. 20:49 IN THE NEXT CHAPTER, CHAPTER 9, THE ANGEL EXPLAINS THAT THE 20:54 PROPHECY - FROM CHAPTER 8 - IN GREATER DETAIL. 20:58 HOW LONG WAS THE TIME PERIOD NOT PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED IN THE 21:02 VISION? YOU CAN READ THAT IN DANIEL 9:24. HE SAYS, HOW MUCH? 21:06 "SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED UPON THY PEOPLE AND UPON THE 21:12 HOLY CITY TO SEAL UP THE VISION AND THE PROPHECY." 21:13 NOW HOW MANY DAYS IN A WEEK? >>SEVEN. 21:17 >>SEVEN IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY. HOW MANY DAYS IS SEVENTY 21:22 WEEKS THEN? SEVEN TIMES SEVEN IS? 21:24 >>SEVENTY-NINE. >>FORTY-NINE? THAT IS FOUR 21:28 HUNDRED AND NINETY, RIGHT? BUT IN PROPHECY A DAY EQUALS A YEAR. 21:35 I'LL SHOW YOU SOME SCRIPTURES ON THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. 21:37 SO GOD IS TELLING DANIEL THERE ARE FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY 21:41 PROPHETIC YEARS THAT ARE GOING TO BE ALLOTTED TO YOUR PEOPLE TO 21:44 FULFILL THEIR MAIN VISION - THE MAIN MISSION OF THE JEWS WAS TO 21:47 INTRODUCE THE MESSIAH. GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM, THROUGH 21:50 YOUR SEED ALL THE WORLD WOULD BE BLESSED. 21:53 HOW IS THE WHOLE WORLD BLESSED THROUGH HIS SEED? 21:55 PRINCIPALLY THROUGH JESUS, RIGHT? 21:57 ALRIGHT, SO QUESTION #7: WHAT IS THE STARTING POINT FOR THE 22:02 2,300-DAY AND SEVENTY-WEEK TIME PROPHECIES? 22:07 HE TELLS YOU RIGHT THERE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9, VERSE 25, 22:10 "KNOW THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND, THAT FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE 22:14 COMMANDMENT TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM UNTIL MESSIAH THE 22:19 PRINCE" - FROM THIS POINT TO THIS POINT - "THERE SHALL BE 22:22 SEVEN WEEKS AND THREE-SCORE AND TWO WEEKS" - THREE SCORE AND TWO 22:26 IS SIXTY-TWO, RIGHT? A SCORE IS TWENTY. 22:28 SIXTY-TWO PLUS SEVEN IS HOW MUCH? 22:32 SIXTY-NINE. SO YOU'VE GOT ONE WEEK MISSING. 22:35 HE TELLS US WHAT HAPPENS IN THE MIDST OF THAT LAST WEEK - HE 22:38 MAKES THE SACRIFICE CEASE. SO HE BREAKS IT UP LIKE THAT 22:41 BECAUSE THERE'S THE FIRST SEVEN WEEKS. 22:43 THEY'RE BUILDING THE WALL AND THE STREET. 22:45 THEN YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER SIXTY-NINE WEEKS AND AT THE END 22:48 OF THAT SIXTY-NINE WEEK PERIOD IT SAYS THAT THE MESSIAH IS 22:52 GOING TO BE ANOINTED AND BEGIN HIS MINISTRY. 22:57 SO UNTIL MESSIAH THE PRINCE, SEVEN WEEKS - THREE SCORE AND 23:01 TWO WEEKS. THE STARTING POINT IS FROM THE 23:03 GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM. 23:06 CAN WE KNOW, FROM ALL THE DUSTY, MUSTY RECORDS OF HISTORY, WHEN 23:10 DID THAT HAPPEN? GOOD NEWS. 23:12 IT'S GIVEN IN YOUR BIBLE. IT'S IN EZRA 7:7. 23:16 YOU CAN REMEMBER THAT. GOOD NUMBER. 23:18 EZRA 7:7 - THE DECREE OF KING ARTAXERXES - THAT KING GAVE A 23:24 DECREE THAT ALLOWED THEM TO GO BACK. 23:26 IT WAS THE MOST PROMINENT VARIETY OF DECREES THAT CAME 23:30 SAYING THAT THEY COULD REBUILD THE CITY AND THE WALLS 23:33 AND THE TEMPLE AND THAT IS 457 B.C. 23:38 IT IS A VERY CLEARLY ESTABLISHED DATE IN HISTORY. 23:40 SO YOU'VE GOT THE STARTING POINT - 457 - AND HE SAYS NOW IT'LL BE 23:45 SIXTY-NINE WEEKS UNTIL THE MESSIAH BEGINS HIS MINISTRY. 23:49 FIRST THERE'D BE THE SEVEN WEEKS - FORTY-NINE YEARS WHILE THEY'RE 23:52 BUILDING THE STREET AND THE WALL IN TROUBLOUS TIMES, THEN THERE'D 23:54 BE ANOTHER SIXTY-TWO WEEKS - A TOTAL OF SIXTY-NINE, RIGHT? 23:59 NOW WHEN YOU'RE INTERPRETING BIBLE PROPHECY, WHAT IS THE 24:01 PRINCIPLE THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO USE? A DAY EQUALS A YEAR. 24:07 >>A YEAR. >>YOU CAN READ THIS - THERE'S 24:09 SEVERAL VERSES IN EZEKIEL 4:6, "I HAVE APPOINTED THEE EACH DAY 24:12 FOR A YEAR." YOU CAN READ NUMBERS 14:34 "EACH DAY FOR A 24:17 YEAR" - EVEN JESUS ESTABLISHED THIS. 24:22 ONE TIME THEY CAME TO CHRIST - I THINK IT'S LUKE 13 AND THEY 24:24 SAID, 'YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL, JESUS, JOHN THE BAPTIST HAS BEEN 24:27 ARRESTED.' THIS WAS ABOUT SIX MONTHS INTO JESUS' MINISTRY AND 24:31 JESUS SAID, "GO TELL THAT FOX I TEACH, DO CURES, CAST OUT DEVILS 24:36 TODAY, TOMORROW, AND THE THIRD DAY I WILL BE PERFECTED" - OR 24:41 COMPLETED. JESUS DIDN'T TEACH THREE MORE 24:43 DAYS; HE TAUGHT THREE MORE YEARS. 24:45 BUT HE MADE A PROPHECY AND HE USED THE DAY FOR A YEAR 24:48 PRINCIPLE. SO WHEN YOU INTERPRET THESE 24:51 PROPHECIES, THAT'S THE ONLY WAY IT EVEN COMES CLOSE TO ADDING 24:53 UP. SO NOW DID IT HAPPEN? IF YOU GO - A DAY EQUALS A YEAR 24:59 IN PROPHECY - IF YOU GO 483 YEARS FROM 457 B.C. 25:05 IT COMES TO THE BAPTISM OF JESUS IN 27 A.D. 25:09 WHEN I - WHEN I WAS UP IN THE CAVE AND I READ THIS, I WAS SO 25:12 EXCITED WHEN I REALIZED HOW TRUE PROPHECY IS, I LITERALLY GOT UP 25:17 - I COULDN'T SIT DOWN ANYMORE BECAUSE I WAS SO EXCITED. 25:20 I'M ALL BY MYSELF AND I JUST STARTED JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND 25:22 PRAISING GOD. I SAID, 'WOW, CHRIST CAME RIGHT 25:25 ON TIME THE FIRST TIME JUST LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD. 25:27 WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE BELIEVE THE BIBLE?' 25:30 SO WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF CHARTS HERE THAT WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP 25:33 JUST TO REVIEW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. 25:36 FIRST WE KNOW, FROM 457, YOU'VE GOT SIXTY-NINE WEEKS - THAT 25:41 WOULD GO 483 YEARS TO THE POINT OF HIS BAPTISM. 25:45 THAT WOULD BE 27 A.D. AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT ON TIME. 25:50 AND THEN IT TELLS US, "AFTER THREE SCORE AND TWO WEEKS SHALL 25:55 MESSIAH BE" - WHAT? >>CUT OFF. 25:57 >>"CUT OFF. BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF." 26:00 WHO WAS HE CUT OFF FOR? >>US. 26:04 >>FOR YOU, FOR ME, HE WAS CUT OFF FROM THE LAND OF THE LIVING. 26:08 JESUS LAID DOWN HIS LIFE. 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