It Is Written

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00:07 It has stood the test of time.
00:12 God's book, the Bible.
00:17 Still relevant in today's complex world.
00:22 It Is Written.
00:25 Sharing hope around the globe.
00:36 Thanks for joining me today on It Is Written.
00:39 I'm John Bradshaw.
00:40 I'm glad to have you with me.
00:42 The Bible is full of great stories.
00:44 We can think of the story of the Exodus, when Moses led
00:47 Israel out of Egyptian slavery, through the Red Sea
00:50 that was miraculously opened up by God, then through the
00:52 wilderness for forty years while God fed them with bread
00:54 from heaven.
00:56 A great, great story.
00:58 In the Bible there's the story of Joseph.
01:01 Betrayed by his brothers and sold into slavery in Egypt,
01:04 Joseph made an incredible rise from languishing in a
01:06 prison cell to being second person only to Pharaoh in the
01:08 Egyptian government.
01:11 He was reunited with his family and was responsible
01:14 for getting God's people AND Egypt through a devastating
01:17 famine.
01:18 High drama, and a magnificent story.
01:22 We could add to that list and mention Nehemiah restoring
01:24 Jerusalem and building the wall of the city while his
01:27 enemies were trying to ruin his work.
01:30 There's the story of Esther, who rose from difficulty to
01:32 become the Queen of the Medo-Persian Empire, married
01:35 to the most powerful man on the planet - and used by God
01:38 to bring deliverance to her people.
01:43 Now these stories don't just exist merely to be good
01:45 stories.
01:47 They're not in the Bible just to entertain us or as bedtime
01:49 stories for our children.
01:52 The great Bible stories were carefully preserved and then
01:56 included in the Bible to teach important lessons -
01:58 lessons about God and about faith and about prophecy and
02:01 about salvation and forgiveness and redemption.
02:04 Those stories are in the Bible to give us hope and
02:07 understanding and insight.
02:10 There's a well-known Bible story we're going to look at
02:12 today.
02:13 It comes to us from the times of the prophet Daniel.
02:17 And at the end of our program today I'm going to tell you
02:19 how you can get a copy of an important book I've written
02:22 on the subject of the Book of Revelation, explaining some
02:24 of Revelation's great prophecies and showing what
02:28 the book of Revelation, what End-Time Prophecy is REALLY
02:30 all about.
02:32 So make sure you get that information at the end of the
02:33 program today so we can get today's free book to you.
02:37 [Music] The book of Daniel is an enormously important book
02:43 of the Bible, especially relating to last-day Bible
02:46 prophecy.
02:47 Jesus quoted from the book of Daniel.
02:50 John borrowed a lot of imagery from the book of
02:52 Daniel when he was writing Revelation.
02:55 Daniel was raised in the city of Jerusalem, but of the 363
02:59 verses in the book of Daniel, Daniel himself is in Babylon
03:05 or the kingdom of Babylon for 362 of them.
03:08 And that's significant.
03:11 [Music] In the opening verse of the book of Daniel God's
03:15 people are attacked - in fact conquered - by the ruling
03:18 heathen power in the world.
03:19 Stop an think about that.
03:21 That is shocking.
03:22 God's people were intended to be the recipients of the
03:25 blessings of God, especially favored by God, kept by the
03:29 providence of God.
03:30 But instead they experienced 70 years of captivity in
03:34 Babylon.
03:36 The prophet Jeremiah prophesied this would happen,
03:39 and he tells us why in Jeremiah chapter 25, we'll
03:43 start in verse 4: "And the LORD has sent to you all His
03:46 servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but
03:49 you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear.
03:53 They said, 'Repent now everyone of his evil way and
03:56 his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has
03:59 given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
04:02 Jeremiah 25:4-5 KJV Now notice this.
04:06 Here's what God says next, Do not go after other gods
04:09 to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me
04:12 to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not
04:15 harm you.
04:17 Yet you have not listened to Me," says the LORD, "that you
04:19 might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands
04:21 to your own hurt.'Jeremiah 25:6-7 KJV Judah had
04:26 disobeyed God.
04:27 Instead of being faithful to God they even went so far as
04:30 to serve and worship other gods.
04:33 And that's something God just couldn't tolerate - when His
04:36 people rejecting Him and serving other gods, living
04:38 lives of disobedience.
04:40 So, here's what God said.
04:43 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have
04:45 not heard My words, behold, I will send and take all the
04:48 families of the north, says the LORD, 'and Nebuchadnezzar
04:51 the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them
04:54 against this land, against its inhabitants, and against
04:57 these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them,
05:00 and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and
05:02 perpetual desolations.
05:04 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and
05:07 the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and
05:10 the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and
05:13 the light of the lamp.
05:14 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an
05:17 astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king
05:20 of Babylon seventy years.
05:23 Jeremiah 25:8-11 KJV Judah went into captivity
05:27 because of their unfaithfulness to God - and because they
05:30 rejected the true God and served and worshiped
05:35 false gods.
05:36 I think it's important that we notice something here.
05:38 Here's what God did.
05:39 Instead of just cutting them off forever, God had a plan
05:42 to work with Judah and to bring His people to the place
05:46 where they would turn back to Him.
05:48 Even though going into captivity was tough medicine,
05:51 it was God's mercy on display.
05:54 God had chosen His people to be a light to the world - in
05:57 fact, Paul said in Acts 13 that the children of Israel
06:00 had been chosen by God to be a light to the Gentiles,
06:06 meaning, essentially, that God wanted to use Israel to
06:08 share the knowledge of His goodness with the whole world
06:12 - including, ultimately, to you and me.
06:14 If Israel was failing miserably in staying close to
06:17 God's will, God could hardly use them as His witnesses to
06:20 the world.
06:22 God didn't give up on His people easily.
06:25 Speaking of the northern kingdom of Israel, God said
06:30 in Hosea 11:8, And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I
06:37 have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall
06:41 find none iniquity in me that were sin.
06:44 Hosea 11:8 KJV Now when we say Judah was sliding into
06:48 sin and apostasy, we're not talking small-time stuff.
06:50 Jeremiah writes that there was murder going on, and
06:52 oppression, and Sabbath-breaking, Baal
06:56 worship - and that was some seriously bad stuff involving
06:58 terrible immorality and even child sacrifice.
07:03 God felt he had to resort to drastic measures to get the
07:06 attention of His people.
07:08 God said, And it shall come to pass, when seventy years
07:11 are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon,
07:14 and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and
07:18 the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual
07:21 desolations.
07:23 Jeremiah 25:12 So Israel, acting
07:25 like they were doing nothing wrong, went into
07:28 captivity, with God's intention being that when
07:30 they came out of captivity they would have experience or
07:34 would have experienced a change of heart.
07:38 [Music] And it was while they were in Babylon that God
07:40 communicated some of the most remarkable prophecies in the
07:43 Bible to and through a young man named Daniel.
07:49 We are going to look at one of those remarkable
07:51 prophecies - one with immense significance for earth's
07:55 final days - in just a moment.
08:14 If God is supposed to be all about love, why did my Dad
08:19 die of cancer last year?
08:22 I prayed for him to live.
08:25 I've been struggling with the idea that maybe God doesn't
08:30 love me.
08:33 That's a serious concern.
08:35 The one thing you can know for sure is that God is love.
08:38 The Bible says those very words in 1 John 4.
08:42 John 3:16 - For God so LOVED the world...
08:47 The situation you've referred to is very serious - it's
08:50 tragic.
08:51 I'm very sorry.
08:52 In the Bible there were numerous sad situations.
08:55 John the Baptist lost his life.
08:58 Peter was imprisoned and was freed by God, but James was
09:02 imprisoned and lost his life.
09:04 Now does that mean God didn't love or care about those
09:07 people?
09:09 Of course not.
09:10 The sad fact is that we live in a world of sin.
09:13 When Adam and Eve chose to come out from under God's
09:17 dominion, sin was introduced into the world.
09:20 Satan worked in the human family and introduced all
09:23 kinds of sin.
09:24 Disease is a result of the sin problem.
09:30 God could have stopped sin and sickness from happening,
09:33 but only as He took away people's freedom of choice.
09:35 And what kind of world would it be if we didn't have
09:37 freedom of choice?
09:38 When humans sinned, God decided that He would let sin
09:41 run its course - even knowing that there would be terrible
09:44 consequences.
09:46 However, in the middle of all of that He has given us the
09:48 opportunity to choose to follow Him and to be
09:51 ultimately restored.
09:53 Now keep this in mind.
09:54 God knows what you're going through.
09:57 He lost a Son because of sin in the world.
10:01 You can be sure God is familiar with your pain - by
10:04 experience.
10:06 Sin even cost Jesus His life.
10:09 Now, the great news is that Jesus is coming again.
10:13 There'll be a resurrection on that day.
10:15 The Bible says the dead in Christ shall rise.
10:19 And you can look forward to seeing your father again, and
10:22 knowing that we'll live together in a world where
10:25 there will be no more sin, no more death, no more sadness.
10:29 God is going to make it all okay.
10:32 You can trust Him.
10:34 He DOES love you.
10:36 You can submit your Bible questions to us here at It Is
10:39 Written by going to our website: itiswritten.com.
10:43 Hit the QUESTIONS tab and in a future program -- all going
10:46 well, hopefully -- I'll be able to answer your Bible
10:49 question.
10:53 If you have a Bible question for pastor John Bradshaw,
10:56 please write to It Is Written, Box O, Thousand
10:59 Oaks, California 91359 or visit our website
11:03 itiswritten.com and send us your questions on-line.
11:08 I'm John Bradshaw - Thanks for joining me today
11:10 on It Is Written.
11:11 And please be sure to stay by at the end of this program
11:13 and get today's free gift book, Revelation Today, which
11:16 will help you get a whole lot more out of Bible prophecy
11:18 and will help you understand what the book of Revelation
11:22 is really all about.
11:23 There's a lot more to it than beasts and horns and images
11:25 and symbols.
11:26 And Revelation Today will help you see that.
11:29 [Music] When King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
11:33 attacked the city of Jerusalem, many Jews were
11:36 taken captive and marched across the hot Middle Eastern
11:39 desert to Babylon - situated in what we would call today
11:43 Iraq.
11:44 Daniel was most likely just a teenager at the time, a young
11:46 man - you could get away with calling him a boy.
11:50 And he was separated from his family and taken to a foreign
11:52 land and immersed in paganism.
11:56 His denomination didn't have any churches in Babylon, so
11:58 Daniel was really separated from his upbringing and his
12:01 religious customs.
12:02 And he couldn't worship God in the manner in which he was
12:06 accustomed.
12:08 As soon as Daniel arrived in Babylon the challenges came
12:11 at him thick and fast.
12:13 Daniel was challenged on the basis of his faith in God.
12:15 [Music] So what would he do when he was tested on the
12:22 principles in which he believed?
12:24 No sooner had Daniel arrived in Babylon than he was faced
12:26 with a dilemma.
12:27 The King had ordered that some of the outstanding youth
12:29 that head been brought to Babylon should be fed with
12:31 food from the royal household - really a great privilege.
12:33 But to eat the kings food would have been almost
12:37 certainly for Daniel to eat unclean food, and he knew God
12:40 didn't want him eating unclean food.
12:44 On the other hand, to refuse to eat the food would have
12:45 been to incur the wrath of the king.
12:47 So Daniel could either eat the food and dishonor God, or
12:50 not eat the food and dishonor the king - and maybe, in
12:57 fact, probably definitely - be severely punished.
13:00 In choosing to honor God, God honored Daniel and worked it
13:02 out that Daniel could eat a simple vegetarian diet, and
13:05 as a result Daniel and his friends Shadrach, Meshach and
13:08 Abednego were blessed by God with good health and with the
13:10 favor of the Babylonian officers.
13:14 Daniel learned early in Babylon that it was better to
13:17 put God first, no matter what the cost might be.
13:26 [Music] Then in Daniel chapter two, King
13:27 Nebuchadnezzar had a remarkable dream where he saw
13:29 a great image.
13:31 The image had a head made out of gold, its chest and arms
13:33 were of silver, its mid-section was bronze, its
13:36 legs were made of iron and its feet were made out of
13:38 iron and clay.
13:40 Ultimately, in answer to the prayers of Daniel and his
13:51 three friends, God gave Daniel the interpretation of
13:55 the dream and Daniel explained it to the king.
13:58 Daniel explained to the king that the dream was about the
14:05 rising and falling of kingdoms, and that the
14:09 kingdom of Babylon would one day be conquered by another
14:11 kingdom.
14:13 Shocking news to the king.
14:15 Daniel told of the time that a great Rock would come and
14:21 sweep away the kingdoms of the world.
14:23 In other words, Jesus would return to the earth and set
14:25 up a kingdom that would last forever.
14:30 And then in Daniel 3, we see an important theme develop
14:35 that actually has prophetic ramifications.
14:37 While Daniel 3 contains one of the great Bible stories,
14:42 there's an important lesson in that story that helps us
14:44 to understand the great spiritual crisis soon to come
14:46 to the world.
14:47 Keep this in mind.
14:48 God's people were in captivity large part
14:51 because they had stopped worshiping God.
14:55 And Daniel 3 deals with this question of worship.
14:58 Daniel himself doesn't appear in Daniel 3 - we're not told
15:04 where he is but we can presume he was out of Babylon
15:05 on business for the king.
15:07 By now he has been promoted by Nebuchadnezzar to a
15:09 position of great authority, and Daniel isn't mentioned at
15:13 all in chapter 3, at least not in this story.
15:15 King Nebuchadnezzar had a statue built like the one he
15:16 saw in his dream, except unlike the image in his dream
15:20 this image was made entirely of gold.
15:27 That was Nebuchadnezzar's way of saying, My kingdom isn't
15:31 passing away not matter what Daniel's God says!'Imagine
15:33 this!
15:35 The statue was 90 feet high and made of solid gold.
15:41 Nebuchadnezzar called everyone who was anyone to
15:43 assemble on the plain of Dura to inaugurate the image.
15:45 They would bow down to it - and worship it.
15:46 And Nebuchadnezzar made clear that anyone who refused to
15:49 worship this image would be thrown into a fiery furnace.
15:56 Nebuchadnezzar had a lot of building done while he was
15:58 king - there were kilns all over Babylon, for building
16:06 bricks, and in Iraq as it was then there was no shortage of
16:08 fuel to get a fire burning white hot.
16:12 But Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego wouldn't bow down to
16:15 the image.
16:17 Even though their lives were on the line, they wouldn't
16:19 violate their conscience and they wouldn't dishonor God,
16:23 even though they were miles from home and even though
16:25 what they were being asked to do was culturally and
16:28 religiously acceptable where they were.
16:32 They wouldn't do it.
16:33 To them, worshiping God was sacred.
16:36 It was important enough that they would lose their lives
16:40 over it if they had to.
16:41 They wouldn't give their worship to anyone
16:45 but God.
16:49 And something incredible happened.
16:52 When they went into that fiery furnace, Jesus stood
16:55 with them in the flames and they weren't hurt.
16:59 Their hair wasn't even singed and they and when they came
17:03 out of the furnace, they didn't even smell of smoke.
17:05 Nebuchadnezzar said this in Daniel 3:24 and 25, Did not
17:14 we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?
17:17 I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the
17:21 fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is
17:24 like the Son of God.
17:28 Daniel 3:24, 25 KJV The pre-incarnate Christ stood
17:31 with them.
17:32 The Son of God came from heaven to honor these
17:34 faithful young men who chose to worship God rather than
17:37 compromise and bow down before an idol - even though
17:40 they might pay for that with their lives.
17:44 That's courage, isn't it?
17:45 That's faithfulness.
17:47 In the Ten Commandments God says in the first
17:49 commandment, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
17:52 Exodus 20:3, KJV And God says
17:54 in the second commandment, speaking of idols and images,
17:58 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve
18:00 them.
18:02 Exodus 20:5 KJV These young
18:04 men understood that.
18:06 Worship was important to them.
18:08 Worshiping God God's way was important to them.
18:12 There's a great prophetic connection between what
18:15 happened out there on the Plain of Dura that day and
18:17 what s going to take place in the world just before Jesus
18:22 returns.
18:23 We'll look at that next.
18:28 In Matthew 4:4 the Word of God says It is written 'Man
18:31 shall not live by bread alone but by every word that
18:35 proceeds out of the mouth of God'.'Every Word is a one
18:38 minute Bible-based daily devotional presented by
18:41 Pastor John Bradshaw and designed especially for busy
18:44 people like you.
18:47 Look for Every Word on selected networks or watch it
18:50 on-line everyday on our website itiswritten.com.
18:54 Receive a daily spiritual boost.
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18:59 Here is a sample: In a courtroom,
19:09 a witness is often called upon to testify as to
19:12 what he or she has seen.
19:13 Typically, if several witnesses testify in the same
19:16 way - agreeing on certain facts - one side or the other
19:19 feels like they've got a pretty good case.
19:22 Listen to what John wrote in 1 John 1:1:
19:23 "That which was from the beginning, which
19:26 we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we
19:29 have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the
19:31 Word of life.'For John, Jesus was REAL.
19:33 He had seen Him, touched Him.
19:38 What we read in the Bible is not a myth.
19:40 When it comes to Jesus, we're reading about
19:42 someone others saw, knew, & touched...
19:44 If John appeared in court, he'd be a pretty
19:47 convincing witness.
19:47 You can be convinced today - the
19:50 Christ of the Bible is real, true, and you can have
19:54 confidence in Him today.
19:55 I'm John Bradshaw for It Is Written.
19:57 Let's live today by Every Word.
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20:27 On It Is Written today we're looking at the prophetic
20:29 connection between the experience of the three young
20:32 men in the fiery furnace, and the prophecies of the Book of
20:35 Revelation - end-time prophecies that will very
20:37 likely affect most people watching this program.
20:40 Let's look at the book of Revelation.
20:43 In Revelation 13, a beast rises up out of the sea.
20:46 We've mentioned before on It Is Written that in prophecy a
20:48 beast represents a kingdom.
20:51 If you want Biblical evidence for that you look in Daniel
20:53 7, where in verse 23 it says, The fourth beast shall be the
20:57 fourth kingdom on earth.
20:59 Daniel 7:23 KJV That's clear.
21:01 In Revelation, beasts rising up out of the sea represent
21:04 nations rising up out of populated parts of the earth.
21:07 So if you want to make a parallel, in Revelation 13
21:10 you have a kingdom or a nation, just as you have in
21:13 Daniel 3.
21:15 What does the nation in Revelation 13 do?
21:18 We read this, Revelation 13:4, it says, And they
21:24 worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast:
21:27 and they worshipped the beast.
21:30 Revelation 13:4, KJV Here's a kingdom receiving worship -
21:32 worship that only God should receive.
21:35 Now that's what was going on in Daniel 3.
21:37 Now there's more on that.
21:39 Revelation 13:8 says, And all that dwell upon the earth
21:46 shall worship him.
21:47 Revelation 13:8 KJV And yet it goes further.
21:49 Remember, in Daniel 3 the king enforced false worship,
21:54 and anyone who wouldn't cooperate would be sentenced
21:56 to death.
21:58 Now, do we see that happening in earth's last days?
22:01 Revelation 13:15, And he had power to give life unto the
22:07 image of the beast, that the image of the beast should
22:11 both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the
22:14 image of the beast should be killed. Revelation 13:15 KJV
22:18 Now let me ask you - who should people worship?
22:21 Of course - God.
22:23 Getting away from worshipping God was what led Israel into
22:26 apostasy in the first place.
22:28 But what's going to happen in the final days of earth's
22:30 history?
22:31 An IMAGE will be set up - that's what happened in
22:34 Daniel Chapter 3.
22:36 An image will be set up, and all will be commanded to
22:39 worship the image.
22:41 Those who don't will be forced to pay a high price
22:44 for that.
22:45 Those who do worship the image will receive what the
22:49 Bible calls the Mark of the Beast and they'll be lost.
22:51 That's an even higher price to pay.
22:54 In Daniel three, you have the conflict of the last days
22:57 playing out in microcosm: a pagan leader establishes an
23:00 image and commands false worship contrary to the will
23:03 of God.
23:05 In Revelation 13 you have the same thing, but on a global
23:07 scale: in contradiction to the word of God, an image is
23:12 set up and false worship is commanded.
23:15 And what we see in Daniel is very telling: very few
23:19 opposed the false worship.
23:21 In Revelation 13:8 we read this, And all that dwell upon
23:29 the earth shall worship him.
23:31 That's Revelation 13:8 KJV Now here's something to keep
23:35 in mind.
23:36 In John 4:24 Jesus said, God is a Spirit: and they that
23:40 worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
23:44 John 24:4, KJV Worshiping God God's way.
23:48 If we'll make the Bible the basis for our lives we won't
23:52 have to worry about being on the wrong side of this
23:53 crisis.
23:54 If we've decided to do what is in harmony with the word
23:56 of God - if God's will is the basis for everything in our
24:00 lives, if Jesus is living His life in us - we're going to
24:03 be okay.
24:05 See, the good news is that God's people triumph in the
24:07 end.
24:10 There's a massive spiritual battle going on in the world
24:11 today, and there's an enemy that wants no one to be
24:12 saved.
24:13 But God's people who have chosen to be faithful to Him
24:20 receive the Seal of God, and can know that just like Jesus
24:24 stood in the fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meshach and
24:27 Abednego, He'll do it again and stand with His people in
24:32 their time of trial.
24:34 The same Jesus who stood with those three, faithful young
24:37 men says to us today, I will never leave you or forsake
24:40 you.
24:41 Hebrews 13:5, NKJV Lo, I am with you always, even unto
24:43 the end of the world.
24:45 Matthew 28:20 KJV But he that shall endure unto the end,
24:47 the same shall be saved.
24:48 Matthew 24:13 KJV I hope you'll get the book I'm
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26:28 There's a great spiritual crisis coming.
26:33 God stood with those three young men, Shadrach, Meshach
26:36 and Abednego when they stood for him.
26:37 Let's pray together now that we will follow God, God's way
26:39 and stand for Him today and tomorrow, knowing that Jesus
26:42 will stand with us.
26:44 Let's pray.
26:46 Our Father in heaven, we thank you that we can know
26:49 you through faith in your son Jesus, who died for us to
26:52 take care of our sin debt, who died for us so that we in
26:56 turn could have faith in him and receive new hearts and be
26:58 cleaned up of all of our mess.
27:01 We read in the Bible there are challenging times ahead.
27:04 I know we don't have to lose sleep about that.
27:07 But I also know that we need to be making decisions now,
27:10 Lord, that our hearts are given to you so that as
27:14 Christ lives his life in us, we can stand for you no
27:17 matter what.
27:19 Thank you that Jesus stand with us.
27:23 Keep us and bless us, please.
27:27 We pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
27:29 [Music] Thank you for joining me today.
27:44 I look forward to seeing you again next time.
27:48 Until then, please remember: It is written: Man shall not
27:50 live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from
27:56 the mouth of God.
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