Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001704A
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00:01 The Carter Report presents living victoriously.
00:06 Secrets of Success 00:07 from Prime Minister Daniel of Babylon City 00:10 with your host, John Carter. 00:26 Millions around the world 00:27 have attended the Carter Report programs 00:30 and seeing the wonders of biblical archaeology. 00:32 From the treasures of King Tutankhamun, 00:34 to the Great Pyramids of Giza, 00:36 vast audiences have walked through John Carter, 00:38 the dusty roads of ancient Egypt. 00:41 The journey has continued 00:42 as the masses have gazed upon the palaces of Petra, 00:45 and the Stones of Herod's Temple. 00:47 The largest secular crowds 00:49 attending religious meetings anywhere 00:50 have exclaimed at last. 00:53 He was evidence to believe in God. 00:55 Please support the Carter Report 00:56 in its unique mission. 00:57 Write to John Carter, PO Box 1900, 01:00 Thousand Oaks, California 91358 or PO Box 861, 01:05 Terrigal, New South Wales 2260, Australia. 01:08 Once again that address is the Carter Report, 01:11 PO Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California 01:14 91358 or PO Box 861, 01:18 Terrigal, New South Wales 2260, Australia. 01:27 Welcome back. 01:28 We're talking about your fabulous future 01:30 in the coming new world order. 01:33 I want you to turn over here to the Book of Daniel, 01:34 as we continue on today. 01:36 Daniel 2:29-30, we're getting started 29-30. 01:43 But "As for you, O king, 01:44 thoughts came to your mind while on your bed, 01:47 about what would come to pass after this. 01:50 And He who reveals secrets 01:52 has made known to you what will be. 01:55 But as for me, this secret has not been revealed to me 01:58 because I have more wisdom than anyone living, 02:01 but for our sakes 02:02 who make known the interpretation to the king, 02:05 and that you may know the thoughts of your heart." 02:09 Just want to tell you, folks, before we go any further. 02:12 When we talk about Bible prophecy, 02:15 Bible prophecy actually sees into future. 02:18 It tells us what is going to happen. 02:20 It tells us about the great events 02:22 in the history of the world. 02:23 We're going to see that today. 02:26 Because God is almighty God, He doesn't live in time. 02:32 God sees the future 02:35 as though it were yesterday 02:40 or maybe even today. 02:42 So God knows exactly what is going to happen. 02:46 He knows what is going to happen in America. 02:49 He knows what is going to happen in Russia. 02:53 And the great prophecies are written down in this book 02:56 that is called The Bible. 02:58 Now notice Daniel 2:31-35, Daniel 2:31-35. 03:04 "You, O king, were watching. 03:06 and behold, a great image! 03:09 This great image, whose splendor was excellent, 03:12 stood before you, and its form was awesome. 03:16 This image's head was of fine gold, 03:20 its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 03:24 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron 03:27 and partly of clay. 03:29 You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, 03:33 which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, 03:37 and broke them in pieces. 03:39 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, 03:42 and the gold were crushed together, 03:44 became like chaff 03:46 from the summer threshing floors, 03:49 the wind carried them away 03:52 so that no trace of them was found. 03:55 And the stone that struck the image 03:57 became a great mountain 04:02 and filled the whole earth." 04:07 This is the wonderful world of tomorrow. 04:13 I'm going to tell you a secret. 04:16 I have seen thousands and thousands 04:21 of atheists come to Christ 04:23 because of the great prophecy of this metal man, 04:27 and they have left atheism, 04:30 and they have become members of God's Church. 04:34 Yeah. 04:36 And they haven't just believed because of blind faith. 04:40 I personally don't believe in blind faith. 04:43 I believe that true faith rests upon overwhelming evidence. 04:50 And today, we're not talking blind faith, 04:53 we're talking evidence. 04:55 Now Daniel 2:36-43. 05:00 Would you please notice it? 05:01 Daniel 2:36-43. 05:04 "This is the dream. 05:06 Now we will tell he interpretation of it 05:08 before the king. 05:09 You, O king, are a king of kings. 05:12 For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, 05:15 power, strength, and glory, 05:17 and wherever the children of men dwell, 05:19 or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, 05:22 He has given them into your hand, 05:24 and has made you ruler over them all, 05:26 you are this head of gold. 05:29 But after you shall arise 05:30 another kingdom inferior to you, 05:33 then another, a third kingdom of bronze, 05:35 which shall rule over all the earth. 05:37 And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, 05:41 inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces 05:43 and shatters everything. 05:45 And like iron that crushes, 05:46 that kingdom will break in pieces 05:48 and crush all the others." 05:51 And keep reading with me please, 05:53 down to verse 43, 05:55 "Whereas you saw the feet and the toes, 05:57 partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, 06:00 the kingdom shall be divided. 06:03 Yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, 06:05 just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 06:09 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron 06:12 and partly of clay, 06:14 so the kingdom shall be partly strong 06:16 and partly fragile. 06:18 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, 06:20 they will mingle with the seed of men, 06:23 but they will not adhere to one another, 06:26 just as iron does not mix with clay." 06:29 Now this what I'm going to give you now is history. 06:33 He saw a tremendous metal man 06:37 and the head of gold was followed by the rest, 06:42 of course, but the head of gold represents the Bible says, 06:48 the kingdom of Babylon. 06:49 The Bible says this. 06:51 This is written about 600 years before Christ. 06:54 Babylon ruled the world between 605 and 538 BC. 06:59 An atheist can't come along and say, "This is not true." 07:02 This is a fact. 07:04 We're not talking fable, we're not even talking faith, 07:07 we're talking fact. 07:09 But the Bible says, there would come a kingdom 07:11 after the head of gold, and we're going to see this 07:14 as it comes up on the screen. 07:16 We're going to come now to the great Chest of Silver. 07:21 And after Babylon history tells me 07:23 came the Jew kingdom of Medo-Persia. 07:28 Cyrus the Great was the great deliverer of the Jewish nation. 07:32 This kingdom ruled the world from 538-331 BC, 07:36 this is not religion, this is not speculation, 07:41 this is simply historical fact. 07:44 But the Bible says, there is another kingdom 07:47 which is likened to the Belly of Bronze, 07:50 and we shall see what this is. 07:52 Babylon, Medo-Persia, and then you have the kingdom 07:55 which was started by Alexander the Great, 07:59 that ruled the world from 331 through to one around 160 BC. 08:03 That was the great kingdom of the Greeks. 08:08 And listen, want to tell you, folks, something, 08:11 this may seem impossible to believe, 08:15 but Cyrus who let the Jews go, 08:20 Cyrus was described in Bible prophecy 08:23 in the prophecies of Isaiah by name a 100 years 08:28 before he was born. 08:31 How do you explain this? 08:33 Alexander the Great is described 08:36 in the prophecies of the Bible before he is born. 08:41 How can we understand 08:44 that the Bible can tell the future? 08:48 Let me tell you why. 08:49 This is a little aside. 08:52 We live in four dimensions, 08:56 length, breadth, width, and time. 09:02 But God lives in not our universe. 09:07 God is not in time, time is in God. 09:13 God doesn't live in four dimensions, 09:16 God lives in multi-dimensions. 09:21 And scientists today, like my friend Hugh Ross, 09:25 are making the assertion that they know today 09:29 there are at least a dozen dimensions. 09:34 This is beyond my comprehension. 09:39 But the Bible says, there is a God in heaven, 09:41 and this God can see the future, 09:44 and he can see your future. 09:47 You hear this? 09:50 He sees you tomorrow. 09:53 Not only yesterday and today, He sees the future. 09:58 Now we come down to the Legs of Iron. 10:01 Babylon Medo-Persia, Greece, 10:05 and then you come down to the formidable Legs of Iron. 10:11 And history, not the Bible, history tells me 10:15 this is the iron monarchy of Rome. 10:20 It came on the scene about 160 BC. 10:24 Some would say, it is still ruling today 10:30 in a divided state. 10:34 But after the Legs of Iron, you come down to the feet. 10:40 And the feet are symbolic of this, 10:45 because we read the text 2,500 years ago. 10:50 The Bible says, the kingdom 10:53 or the Roman Kingdom would be a divided kingdom. 10:58 It says, in this translation. 11:00 The kingdom will be divided. 11:05 Now I say to the atheist, 11:08 please for a moment be rational, indulge me. 11:15 How did this man writing in Babylon 11:17 2, 500 years ago know 11:20 that the Roman Empire would be divided. 11:25 And what is more than this, 11:27 that the Roman Empire would not be followed 11:30 by another earthly empire, 11:33 but that these kingdoms would remain 11:37 in a state of Aeneas, disease. 11:43 Now today, they've been talking about the European Union. 11:49 They're not talking about the European Union 11:51 so much today, 11:53 because the European Union is now the European disunion. 12:00 Britain has left it in the famous Brexit 12:03 and all over this place people are uneasy. 12:12 Now we say to the atheists, please tell me, 12:18 how did he know? 12:20 Don't say to me, you're just talking religion 12:23 and I'm going to block my mind. 12:26 I want to tell you, when I preached in Russia 12:29 and Ukraine and other communist countries, 12:32 I saw hundreds of thousands of atheists 12:37 including leading members of the KGB 12:40 give up their atheism and their communism, 12:44 and become believers in God. 12:47 There's a God in heaven. 12:49 And they didn't do it on the basis of faith, 12:52 they did it on the basis of evidence. 12:55 You see. 12:56 So the Bible is not just a book of faith, it leads us to faith. 13:00 It is a book of evidence, 13:03 so that we can have an intelligent reason 13:05 why we can believe that there is a God in heaven. 13:08 You see. 13:09 Now read on a little bit further please, verses 41-45. 13:16 "Whereas you saw the feet and the toes, 13:20 partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, 13:23 the kingdom shall be divided." 13:25 We know that happened. 13:27 "Yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, 13:30 just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 13:34 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron 13:38 and partly of clay, 13:40 so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile." 13:44 That's Europe today. 13:46 "As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, 13:49 they will mingle with the seed of men." 13:52 Marriage was used to bring Europe together. 13:56 "But they will not adhere to one another, 13:58 " which is what you're seeing today. 14:00 "Just as iron does not mix with clay. 14:04 And in the days of these kings 14:06 the God of heaven will set up a kingdom 14:09 which shall never be destroyed. 14:12 And the kingdom shall not be left to other people, 14:15 it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, 14:21 and it shall stand forever. 14:23 Inasmuch as you saw 14:24 that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, 14:28 and that it broke in pieces the iron, 14:30 the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. 14:34 The great God has made known to the king 14:36 what will come to pass after this. 14:39 The dream is certain, 14:42 and its interpretation is sure", as you have said. 14:49 Now listen. 14:52 He sees a great metal man, 14:55 that is the history of the world. 14:58 You know, where we are living today? 15:00 We're not living in the Legs of Iron, 15:03 we're not even living in the feet, 15:05 we're living down in the toes. 15:08 In the toes of time. 15:10 Someone saying, the toe nails. 15:14 And the Bible says, have a look at this, 15:16 Head of Gold, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, 15:22 then you have the division which is called Europe. 15:27 And we are seeing Bible prophecy 15:29 being fulfilled today in Europe 15:32 and in the United States of America. 15:36 I have no time to talk about that today, 15:40 but I want to say to my American friends, 15:44 I wish you would go 15:46 and study the prophecies of the Bible, 15:50 especially, the prophecies of Revelation 13. 15:55 Because great prophecies are being fulfilled today 15:59 concerning the United States of America. 16:03 As one person said, the final movements are going 16:06 to be rapid one, so they are. 16:10 There are things happening today in America 16:14 which are moving with such force and rapidity 16:18 that it must make the angels wonder. 16:23 They must be amazed. 16:27 And so you come down past all of these great empires, 16:31 you come down to the Legs of Iron, 16:32 the Roman Empire with the Caesars, 16:35 then you come down to the feet, 16:36 the division of the Roman Empire. 16:39 And then you come down to the very last days, 16:42 and then there comes the stone, 16:44 which the Bible says, is the Kingdom of God. 16:49 Don't think people are running the world. 16:56 We sometimes get afraid about political leaders, 17:00 they are not in charge. 17:02 Thank God. 17:04 I want you to know this, the stone is coming, 17:08 it's the Kingdom of God. 17:13 And this stone is a supernatural stone. 17:16 I want you to see it again. 17:18 This stone is symbolic of the Kingdom of God. 17:24 And so the next great kingdom in this world 17:29 is not going to be the kingdom of man, 17:33 it is going to be the Kingdom of God. 17:38 Listen to this. 17:40 The stone is in Mr. Trump. 17:45 The stone is in the leader of the Chinese. 17:49 The stone is in Mr. Putin. 17:53 The stone is not that guy from North Korea, 17:58 not just Korea. 18:02 It's not a worldly leader, the stone is symbolic 18:06 of the supernatural kingdom of God. 18:09 Amen. 18:11 Because Jesus said, Jesus Christ said 18:14 that He would come again, 18:18 and the stone represents the return of Christ. 18:23 And God is going to set up a brand new world. 18:27 This is absolutely amazing. 18:29 He's going to set up a new world. 18:31 There's going to be no wars, 18:34 no poverty, no crime, no sin, 18:39 no sorrow, and no death. 18:44 This is the stone of destiny that is coming. 18:49 This is the new world order. 18:54 It's not going to be man's world order, 18:57 it is going to be the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. 19:02 And the Bible says, this is certain 19:05 and this is absolutely sure. 19:09 I want you to read another text with me. 19:11 Would you come to Daniel 2:46 and onwards? 19:16 Daniel 2:46 down to 49, my friend. 19:22 Daniel 2:46-49. 19:27 You got it? It says, Daniel 2:46. 19:30 "Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, 19:34 prostrate before Daniel, and commanded 19:36 that they should present an offering and incense to him. 19:41 The king answered Daniel, and said, 19:42 'Truly your God is the God of gods, 19:45 the Lord of kings, 19:47 and a revealer of secrets, 19:49 since you could reveal this secret.' 19:52 Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts. 19:57 And he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, 20:01 and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon." 20:06 Now look at this next verse. 20:07 "Also Daniel petitioned the king, 20:10 and he set Shadrach, Meshach, 20:12 and Abed-Nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon, 20:17 but Daniel sat in the gate of the king." 20:20 Now I want to have your eyes, 20:22 just want to tell you something. 20:25 These people were promoted. 20:28 They were made the rulers over the Babylonian Kingdom. 20:31 The day is going to come 20:34 when God's people are going to be promoted to glory. 20:37 Amen. 20:40 At the start of the meeting, I talked to you about 20:43 that big storm, 20:46 that little chink in the clouds. 20:48 I saw it with my own eyes. 20:50 I watched in amazement. 20:52 I saw this, this jet come along I thought, 20:55 where is he going to go? 20:56 He's going to go into the storm, 20:58 this is going to be dangerous. 21:00 I'm glad I'm not in the storm. 21:04 But the captain at that stage saw something I couldn't see. 21:08 I saw it a little bit later on. 21:10 He saw an opening in the storm, and he saw the blue sky, 21:17 and then he saw sunshine ahead. 21:21 And listen, there's coming a tremendous storm, 21:25 I sort of can feel it in my bones. 21:29 When I turn on television, 21:31 I can feel that storm is coming. 21:35 When I look at what's going on in the world, 21:37 what's going on in Europe, I can sense, 21:40 I can hear the thunder. 21:43 When I visit Russia and Ukraine, 21:45 and when I go over near the border of Russia, 21:48 where they're fighting, I know there is a storm coming. 21:52 I know this. 21:55 When I look at the tremendous deficit 21:57 that America is carrying 21:58 and nobody's talking about anymore. 22:01 Nobody talks about it, what's happened to it? 22:04 Has somebody paid the bill? 22:07 Twenty trillion dollars, 22:08 increasing by billions every day, 22:11 I know that there's an economic storm coming. 22:16 When I see the terrorism in the world, 22:20 and the fierce hatreds in the hearts of men and women, 22:26 I can see the lightning, I can hear the thunder. 22:32 But this great prophecy today tells me this, 22:37 that after the storm 22:41 there is promotion for the people of God. 22:45 Now the salvation, I mean, 22:46 you've got quite an interesting statement. 22:49 When one of their people dies they say, 22:52 he was promoted to glory, promoted to glory. 22:57 Now we may not exactly agree with their theology 23:02 on the state of the death. 23:03 But I want you to know this. 23:06 When Jesus comes, when the stone comes, 23:10 and this great kingdom floods over the world, 23:14 God's people are going to be promoted home to glory. 23:20 Yeah, they're going to be princes. 23:25 They're going to rule over the universe. 23:29 So I want you all to know this, 23:33 you're gonna have a tremendous joy in your soul, 23:37 you're going to have a tremendous confidence. 23:41 I know so many people are afraid of the future, 23:44 I have no fear of the future, 23:47 because my life is in the hands of God. 23:51 Amen. 23:53 And so we can have a tremendous optimism, 23:56 not a false optimism, 23:58 but we can have a tremendous optimism, 24:01 and a tremendous joy, and a tremendous confidence, 24:06 and a tremendous hope that just voices up 24:10 and keeps the fire going inside the soul. 24:16 Because the Bible teaches of the great stone 24:20 that represents the Kingdom of God is coming. 24:25 Now I want to pray with you, would you bow your heads? 24:30 Our Father in heaven, 24:32 we thank You for this astounding prophecy. 24:36 We thank You that we can see 24:37 the history of the world in advance, 24:40 that God knows the future because God lives in the future 24:44 as He lives in today and yesterday. 24:48 And we thank You that this prophecy proves 24:52 that there is a God in heaven, 24:53 and it proves that the Bible is true. 24:57 And this great prophecy tells us 24:59 that after the storm, 25:04 there is going to be peace in the valley, 25:06 there's going to be a beautiful home 25:08 for the people of God, 25:10 and God's people who follow Christ 25:14 are going to be promoted to glory. 25:18 We thank You, we praise You, and we bless You, 25:23 and we look forward to this great event 25:26 with great anticipation, 25:31 and we do so in Jesus' name, amen. 25:36 Amen. Amen. 25:38 Thank you my friends. 25:40 Thank you. Thank you, thank you. 25:42 Amen. 25:49 Hi there, I'm John Carter in Havana, Cuba, 25:52 at this communist fortress. 25:54 We're here to preach the gospel of Christ to the public, 25:57 but more than this, 25:59 we are running a school of evangelism 26:01 and biblical studies for the Cuban pastors, 26:06 140 pastors coming from right across this wonderful island, 26:12 and they're coming to join with us to study 26:14 how best we can meet the needs of the Cuban people. 26:20 The Cuban people are just the most wonderful people, 26:23 they're warm, friendly, and I'm amazed 26:26 that in the meetings every night 26:27 that we are taking 26:29 that I think most of the people there 26:31 are young people. 26:33 Now, of course, when I say young people, 26:35 I mean people up to say 35 years of age. 26:39 They're young to me, but they're so warm 26:42 and they're so receptive, 26:44 and when they come forward night by night to accept Jesus, 26:48 they come with tremendous sincerity. 26:50 So what a privilege it is to be here 26:52 in the land of Cuba. 26:55 But remember to pray for the pastors. 26:58 140 pastors are coming from Guantanamo Bay 27:03 and other places right across this island nation. 27:07 They're coming to join forces with us. 27:09 Think of this, they're coming from Guantanamo Bay 27:12 and everywhere. 27:14 We're going to meet with them, 27:15 study with them, pray with them, 27:17 to devise the best means of reaching this nation 27:22 for the Lord Jesus Christ, 27:24 and thank you for being my special partner. 27:50 For a copy of today's program, 27:52 please contact us at PO Box 1900, 27:56 Thousand Oaks, California 91358, 28:00 or in Australia, contact us at PO Box 861, 28:05 Terrigal, New South Wales 2260. 28:09 This program is made possible 28:11 through the generous support of viewers like you. 28:14 We thank you for your continued support. 28:17 May God richly bless you. |
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