Day with the King, A

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00:02 Hello there, happy Sabbath.
00:03 Come on in, we're about to meet with the King.
00:42 Welcome to our lounge room
00:44 at the commencement of another Sabbath day.
00:46 I'm Aunty Leah and we're so pleased
00:48 to have Uncle Daniel with us too.
00:51 Hello, Aunty Leah.
00:52 Hi, Uncle Daniel.
00:54 And hello to each one of you here with us.
00:56 I love the way you help out with our worship time.
00:59 Hello!
01:01 Is there anyone else you'd like to say hello to?
01:04 I would. Who's that?
01:06 I want to say hello to my friend Talitha.
01:08 She lives in Beaudesert in Queensland, Australia.
01:11 Hello, Talitha!
01:13 Bryce, would you please say a prayer for us
01:16 to invite Jesus to be with us today as we worship?
01:20 Dear, Lord, thank You
01:22 for keeping us safe this week.
01:23 Please be with us now in Jesus' name, amen.
01:26 Amen.
01:28 Thank you, Bryce.
01:29 Aunty Leah,
01:30 what clue to Bible prophecy do you have for us today?
01:34 Well, last week we learned about prophetic time.
01:38 Our jewel box contains another Bible gem
01:40 about prophetic time.
01:42 Who would like to find that?
01:43 I would.
01:49 Wow!
01:50 What does that lovely gemstone represent?
01:53 Ezekiel 4:6.
01:55 In this text, God tells to Prophet Ezekiel
01:58 to lie on his side for a set amount of time
02:01 as a symbol of what God is going to do
02:04 to rebellious Israelites.
02:06 Chemiah, would you please read that for us?
02:08 Sure.
02:11 "Lie again on your right side,
02:13 then you shall bear
02:14 the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days.
02:17 I have laid on you a day for each year."
02:21 Thank you.
02:22 Like our verse last week, God uses a day in prophecy
02:26 to represent one literal or one calendar year.
02:29 We need to work out some more time prophecies
02:32 which we'll use in the weeks ahead.
02:35 How long does one day in prophecy represent?
02:37 One year!
02:39 If a prophecy talked about seven days,
02:42 how long would that be?
02:43 Seven years!
02:45 Yes.
02:46 If a prophecy talked about one week
02:48 in prophetic time,
02:49 how many literal years would that equal?
02:52 Seven years! Yes.
02:54 Because one week equals seven days.
02:57 If the Bible talked about the middle of the week,
03:00 it would be talking about
03:01 halfway through the week, right?
03:03 So what is half of seven?
03:05 Three and a half!
03:07 If a prophecy talks about three and a half days,
03:10 how many years is it referring to in real time?
03:13 Three and a half years!
03:15 Very good.
03:17 We're going to learn about a prophecy
03:19 that is 70 weeks long.
03:21 Wow!
03:22 That's 70 times 7, which is 490 days.
03:26 So 490 prophetic days is how many years?
03:31 Four hundred and ninety years!
03:33 Excellent, guys. Good work.
03:35 In a few weeks time
03:37 these clues will help us to understand
03:39 a beautiful prophecy about Jesus.
03:42 Meanwhile, in today's Bible story,
03:44 we'll learn about another mysterious prophetic message.
03:48 I can't wait to find out more about that.
03:51 So remember, the Bible explains itself.
03:54 Jeremiah, what clue do we have in our jewel box
03:56 to help us understand symbolic prophecies?
04:02 Dig deep.
04:04 So we don't need to go outside the Bible to understand
04:07 what the Bible has to say.
04:09 We have to dig deep
04:11 into different parts of scripture
04:12 to find out the meaning of some symbols.
04:15 It's gonna be a wonderful journey of discovery.
04:18 It's the best treasure hunt you'll ever go on.
04:20 We don't even have to be good at maths
04:23 to understand time prophecies.
04:25 One day equals one year.
04:27 That's pretty simple, isn't it?
04:28 Uncle Daniel, Braedan's here.
04:30 You're right. Braedan, welcome.
04:33 Thanks, Uncle Daniel.
04:34 I'm so glad that it's a Sabbath once again.
04:37 We've actually got a brand new song
04:39 that's called "This is the day the Lord has made."
04:41 It's a Sabbath song. Let's sing it together.
04:48 This is the day the Lord has made
04:52 He calls this day His own
04:56 Let us be glad, and welcome Him
05:01 This Sabbath to our home
05:06 Let us be glad and welcome Him
05:11 This Sabbath to our home
05:16 Braedan, can we sing "Books of the Bible?"
05:18 Ooh, wow!
05:19 That's a challenging one, but we'll give it a go.
05:26 Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua
05:33 Judges, Ruth, 1st and 2nd Samuel
05:36 1st and 2nd Kings, 1st and 2nd Chronicles
05:42 Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs
05:47 Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon
05:51 Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel
05:57 Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos
06:00 Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk
06:06 Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
06:11 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Acts
06:16 Romans, 1st and 2nd Corinthians
06:18 Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
06:22 1st and 2nd Thessalonians
06:26 1st and 2nd Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James
06:31 1st and 2nd Peter 1st and 2nd, 3rd John
06:35 Jude and Revelation
06:36 That's the Old and New Testament
06:38 Amen!
06:41 Can we sing "What so ever?"
06:43 We can sing that song. It's a really good one.
06:51 What so ever things are lovely
06:55 What so ever things are pure
06:59 What so ever things are just and of good report
07:03 These are the things to think about
07:07 What so ever things are honest
07:11 What so ever things are true
07:15 What so ever things have virtue and are excellent
07:18 These are the things to think about
07:23 These are the things to think about
07:26 These are the things to think about
07:33 Thanks for singing with us, Braedan.
07:35 Now, Dr. John has another story for us.
07:38 Hello, boys and girls, I'm Dr. John.
07:40 And I'm so happy to see you,
07:42 and I'm so happy to see the boys and girls
07:45 watching on their televisions right across the world.
07:49 David Douglas was born in Scotland
07:53 and as he grew up he had one passion.
07:57 He loved trees.
08:01 And wherever he went, he would plant a little tree,
08:04 and when he left school, they said,
08:06 "I think you're going to have to work with trees."
08:09 So he got a job in a garden
08:11 and he was so good at growing trees.
08:15 They said, "We want you to go all the way across to America
08:19 and explore and bring home some new trees."
08:22 Oh, boy!
08:24 That was a job he really wanted and off he went.
08:29 And he was travelling in the woods
08:32 and he didn't know that Indians were stalking him.
08:37 They've never seen a white man before.
08:40 And all of a sudden they jumped out at him.
08:43 He was not only good at trees, he was a very good runner,
08:48 and he started to run as fast as he could
08:52 and they couldn't keep up with him.
08:53 But he was carrying a box on his bag called a vasculum
08:58 for carrying little seedlings.
09:00 And that was bumping on his back
09:02 and there was one Indian who was catching up with him
09:05 and when he was just about to grab him,
09:08 he suddenly stopped, bent down,
09:10 and the Indian went ahead of a hill, splat.
09:15 And then the rest of the Indians caught him.
09:18 And they sat him down
09:20 and they looked at him
09:23 and they said, "We've never seen a white man before.
09:26 We'll give you some food."
09:29 So they gave him some fruits, some fish,
09:31 and it wasn't very good.
09:33 And he was feeling upset in the tummy.
09:36 And in his bag, he asked for some water.
09:41 He did something that absolutely amazed them.
09:46 He got his medicine.
09:48 And when I pour this in,
09:50 it'll look as though it's boiling
09:52 'cause Indians all thought that it was boiling.
09:55 And he put it in
09:58 and he stirred with his,
10:00 "How could he put his finger in boiling water?"
10:04 And then he drank it.
10:08 And they said, "He is magic."
10:11 We'll show you
10:12 all the strange trees in America.
10:16 And, you know, he found a tree
10:19 that was a beautiful big tree.
10:21 He just loved the tree like that.
10:24 But he then found a tree
10:26 that is now named after him, it is called the Douglas fir,
10:31 and it is the most popular Christmas tree
10:35 in the whole world.
10:37 He decided that he would take one home.
10:40 And he got a little seedling just like that,
10:44 and he wrapped it up, he put it in his vasculum,
10:48 and he took it all the way back to Scotland.
10:52 And when they looked at it,
10:55 and they saw in the roots there was gold.
11:00 He's got it from an area where there was gold.
11:03 And they said, "Look at the gold."
11:05 And you know what he said?
11:07 "I'm not interested in looking at the gold.
11:10 I'm only interested in looking at the tree
11:13 because the tree
11:14 is more precious than the gold."
11:19 And, you know, the Bible has a lot to say about trees
11:22 and they are very, very important.
11:25 Because right in the very first book of the Bible,
11:30 it talks about the tree of life.
11:32 And the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
11:37 And through the Bible, it talks about Abraham
11:41 resting under a great big oak tree.
11:45 And Jesus talks about different types of trees
11:49 and in the very end of the Bible,
11:50 that talks about the tree of life.
11:54 And trees are things that people used to worship
11:57 but God said, "It is a symbol of My strength and My love,
12:03 and it's a symbol of eternal life."
12:05 Because when we get to heaven,
12:08 we will eat from the tree of life.
12:12 And God has given that tree special powers.
12:16 Remember David Douglas, the man who loved trees
12:21 and risked his life to give us beautiful trees.
12:24 Thank you, boys and girls.
12:26 Hello, again. Ready for our Bible study?
12:29 Open your Bible to Daniel Chapter 5,
12:31 in readiness for today's story.
12:33 Who would like to offer a prayer
12:35 to ask the Holy Spirit to be with us
12:37 as we study our Bibles today?
12:38 I will. Thank you, Sai.
12:41 Dear God, thank You for these Bible stories.
12:45 Please send Your Holy Spirit to help us understand
12:49 what we read.
12:50 In Jesus' name, amen.
12:52 Amen.
12:53 Chemiah, what did we learn about last week?
12:56 That God humbled the king for seven years.
12:59 Yes, He did.
13:00 And did King Nebuchadnezzar
13:02 finally submit to God's control?
13:04 Yes. Yes.
13:06 Nebuchadnezzar ruled till he was old,
13:08 his son took over the throne
13:10 and then Nebuchadnezzar's grandson, King Belshazzar
13:13 became co-ruler of the kingdom.
13:16 Belshazzar knew about his grandfather's experience
13:20 of being humbled by God for seven years,
13:22 but he was young,
13:24 self-centered, and rebellious.
13:26 He liked big parties and getting drunk.
13:29 Our story today starts in Daniel 5:1.
13:34 Could you please read that, Bethany?
13:37 Oh, "Belshazzar,
13:39 the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords
13:43 and drank wine in the presence of the thousand."
13:46 That's not a very upright king, is it?
13:48 But it didn't stop there.
13:51 In drunk and defiance of God, King Belshazzar commanded
13:54 that the gold and silver vessels taken
13:56 from the temple in Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar
13:59 to be brought out.
14:01 They put intoxicating wine into the holy temple vessels.
14:05 Belshazzar, his lords, his wives,
14:07 and his concubines all drank from them
14:09 and mocked God by praising the god of gold and silver,
14:13 bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
14:16 Now, that was an act which forced God to respond.
14:20 Let's see what our torchlight, Mrs. White's book
14:23 Prophets and Kings, page 530 shines on this.
14:28 Would you please read that, Caleb?
14:29 Sure.
14:33 "In that last night of mad folly,
14:35 Belshazzar and his lords had filled up
14:37 the measure of their guilt
14:39 and the guilt of the Chaldean kingdom.
14:42 No longer could God's restraining hand ward
14:45 off the impending evil.
14:48 Through manifold providences,
14:50 God had sought to teach them reverence for His law."
14:54 Then a really scary thing happened.
14:57 Bryce, could you please read about that in verse 5?
15:03 "In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared
15:06 and wrote opposite the lampstand
15:08 on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace,
15:11 and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote."
15:14 God sent King Belshazzar, a text message
15:17 written on the wall with a bloodless hand.
15:20 What a party stopper.
15:22 You can see from our picture here
15:23 that it certainly would have given everyone a fright.
15:26 Can you read that in verse 6, Chemiah?
15:32 "Then the king's countenance changed,
15:34 and his thoughts troubled him,
15:36 so that the joints of his hips were loosened,
15:39 and his knees knocked against each other."
15:43 Can you imagine that?
15:45 The king's knees knocking together.
15:47 He was really scared.
15:49 He screamed for those useless astrologers,
15:52 Chaldeans and soothsayers
15:53 and offered them a purple robe, a gold chain,
15:56 and even a third place in the kingdom
15:59 if they could interpret the writing on the wall.
16:01 But do you think they could?
16:03 No! No, they couldn't.
16:06 Panic broke out.
16:07 They were drunk and screams of terror,
16:09 as the letters glowed larger and brighter
16:12 so much so that the queen mother heard about it
16:14 and came into the banquet hall to try to settle the situation.
16:18 She told Belshazzar to call Daniel in.
16:21 So Daniel was brought in before the king.
16:24 The king had heard about
16:26 Daniel's ability to interpret dreams
16:28 in relation to his grandfather King Nebuchadnezzar.
16:32 Jireh, will you please read
16:34 what the king said to Daniel in verse 16?
16:39 "And I have heard of you, that you can give
16:43 interpretations and explain enigmas.
16:47 Now if you can read the writing
16:49 and make known to me its interpretation,
16:52 you shall be clothed with purple
16:54 and have a chain of gold around your neck,
16:56 and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."
17:00 Daniel had a reputation for solving mysteries,
17:03 riddles, and puzzles.
17:04 That's what explaining enigmas means.
17:07 Daniel was an elderly man at this point.
17:10 He had been in Babylon for nearly 70 years,
17:13 and he remained faithful to God amidst all the attractions
17:17 and luxurious lifestyles of the palace court.
17:21 According to historians,
17:22 Belshazzar was co-ruler of Babylon with his father.
17:26 So do you think Daniel was excited about
17:29 being made the third ruler in the kingdom?
17:32 No!
17:34 Let's find out.
17:35 Sai, can you please read about that in verse 17?
17:40 "Then Daniel answered and said before the king,
17:44 'Let your gifts be for yourself,
17:46 and give your rewards to another,
17:49 yet I will read the writing to the king,
17:52 and make known to him the interpretation.'"
17:56 Daniel told the king that he could keep his gifts
17:59 and went to give him a family history lesson.
18:02 Aunty Leah, could you please read that in verses 18-20?
18:05 Yes.
18:07 "O king, the Most High God
18:09 gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom,
18:11 and majesty, glory, and honor.
18:14 And because of the majesty that He gave him,
18:16 all peoples, nations, and languages trembled
18:19 and feared before him.
18:20 Whomever he wished, he executed,
18:23 whomever he wished, he kept alive,
18:25 whomever he wished, he set up,
18:27 and whomever he wished, he put down.
18:30 But when his heart was lifted up,
18:31 and his spirit was hardened in pride,
18:34 he was deposed from his kingly throne,
18:36 and they took his glory from him."
18:39 And, Bethany, could you please read verse 21?
18:43 "Then he was driven from the sons of men,
18:46 his heart was made like the beasts,
18:47 and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys.
18:50 They fed him grass like oxen,
18:52 and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,
18:54 till he knew that the Most High God
18:56 rules in the kingdom of men,
18:58 and appoints over it whomever He chooses."
19:00 Then Daniel gave Belshazzar addressing down in verse 22.
19:05 He accused Belshazzar of refusing
19:07 to humble his heart,
19:08 even though he knew of all the supernatural things
19:11 that had happened to his grandfather,
19:12 King Nebuchadnezzar.
19:14 Caleb, could you please read verse 23
19:17 where Daniel continues to rebuke Belshazzar?
19:20 Sure.
19:21 "And you have lifted yourself up
19:24 against the Lord of heaven.
19:26 They have brought the vessels of His house before you,
19:29 and you and your lords, and your wives,
19:31 and your concubines, have drunk wine from them.
19:34 And you have praised the gods of silver and gold,
19:38 bronze and iron, wood and stone,
19:40 which do not see or hear or know.
19:43 And the God who holds your breath in His hands
19:46 and owns all your ways, you have not glorified."
19:49 Daniel told Belshazzar
19:51 that the fingers of the hand was sent from God
19:54 as a direct result of his God defying behavior.
19:57 Verse 25 tells us that this mysterious bloodless hand
20:01 write the words "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN."
20:05 Then Daniel gave the interpretation.
20:07 Daniel uses the word "PERES" in his explanation.
20:11 This is the singular form of the word "UPHARSIN."
20:15 Bryce, could you please read the next two verses,
20:18 verses 26-28?
20:23 "This is the interpretation of each word.
20:25 MENE: God has numbered your kingdom,
20:27 and finished it.
20:29 TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances,
20:31 and found wanting.
20:32 PERES: Your kingdom has been divided,
20:35 and given to the Medes and Persians."
20:37 So as promised,
20:38 Belshazzar commanded that Daniel be clothed with purple,
20:42 with a gold chain around his neck.
20:44 And he proclaimed Daniel, the third ruler in the kingdom.
20:47 The only problem was
20:49 that the kingdom didn't even last that night.
20:52 As Daniel was explaining
20:54 the mysterious writing on the wall,
20:56 the Medes and Persians were already at work
20:58 diverting River Euphrates
21:00 which ran through Babylon wine opening in the wall.
21:04 Cyrus marched his soldiers up the drained riverbed
21:07 and through the huge metal river gates
21:09 that had been accidentally left open.
21:11 Amazingly Cyrus's ability to enter Babylon
21:14 because the gates were left open that night
21:17 was prophesied around 150 years earlier by the Prophet Isaiah.
21:22 So we know that God was in control
21:25 as Cyrus conquered Babylon.
21:27 You can read about that in Isaiah 45:1-5.
21:32 Chemiah, can you please tell us
21:33 what happened next in verses 30-31?
21:40 "That very night Belshazzar,
21:41 king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
21:44 And..."
21:47 Darius.
21:48 "Darius the Mede received the kingdom,
21:51 being about 62 years old."
21:54 Let's turn to Proverbs 16:18.
21:59 And read our memory verse together.
22:01 This is a warning about pride.
22:03 It also talks about a haughty spirit
22:06 which means being conceited, stuck up, or snobbish.
22:10 Are we ready to do that?
22:12 All right, let's read it together.
22:14 "Pride goes before destruction,
22:17 and a haughty spirit before a fall."
22:21 Sadly, King Belshazzar demonstrated
22:23 how true that proverb really is.
22:26 His pride led to his own destruction
22:28 that very night and his haughty,
22:30 conceited spirit led to the fall
22:33 of the Babylonian Empire.
22:35 So let's remember to stay humble
22:38 and give God the glory
22:39 for all our achievements and prosperity.
22:43 Thank you for joining us in our Bible study.
22:45 The daily devotional goes into more depth
22:48 on our study today.
22:49 Here's how you can obtain your copy.
22:55 What do you want? You bored?
22:58 Yes.
22:59 Look what I got.
23:03 Whoa!
23:04 Look at that. Cool.
23:06 Where did you get these?
23:09 adaywiththeking.com.
23:12 Uncle Daniel, what are we going to learn about next week?
23:15 Well, next week, we're going to learn about
23:18 what happened to Daniel
23:19 after the night Babylon was captured.
23:22 We have an amazing animal story
23:25 which will strengthen our trust in God
23:26 in all circumstances.
23:29 I like animal stories.
23:31 It's time to say our memory verse.
23:33 All together.
23:35 "Pride goes before destruction,
23:38 and a haughty spirit before a fall."
23:42 Proverbs 16:18.
23:45 Some Bible verses are warnings.
23:47 They are given to protect us
23:49 and to save us from making fools of ourselves.
23:52 Janina, what did you learn about the King this week?
23:55 I need to stay humble like Jesus.
23:58 Yes.
23:59 Jesus is our example in everything,
24:02 and we don't need to brag and boast.
24:04 And Jesus also gives us
24:06 the power to follow His example,
24:08 because we can't do anything good without Him.
24:11 Aunty Leah, I think it's time to close our worship time.
24:14 Already?
24:15 Can we sing the blessing song to the children at home?
24:18 Yes, we can. Ready, everyone?
24:25 May God bless you and give you
24:30 And fill your heart with love
24:35 May God guide and protect you
24:40 And watch you from above
24:46 And Sabbath after Sabbath
24:51 We greet the day of rest
24:56 The day that King of glory
25:01 Has sanctified and blessed
25:06 Goodbye, my friend, till we meet again
25:11 For another Day with the King
25:17 Goodbye! Happy Sabbath!
25:28 I know Jesus loves me because He first loved me.
25:38 I know Jesus loves me
25:39 because He's coming to take me home with Him.
25:47 I know Jesus loves me because He died for me.


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