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00:04 Greetings, whoever you are and wherever you are.
00:09 I'm glad you're here 00:10 because I'd like to invite you to journey with me 00:13 in the witness of something very special. 00:16 It's an eye-opening, heartwarming, 00:19 21st century high-tech portrayal 00:22 of God's word for this generation. 00:26 Now every generation has had his word from the Lord. 00:29 But you will agree no people has ever been 00:32 more in need of that word 00:34 than the frightened and fretful morally 00:36 debauched generation in which we live. 00:39 And as we shall see in what follows, 00:42 none of God's servant speak more forcefully 00:45 to modern humanity 00:46 than the two prophetic Titans of holy scripture, 00:50 Daniel of the Old Testament 00:52 and John the Revelator of the new. 00:55 Now the bad news 00:56 is that things couldn't get much worse. 00:59 Our drug dazed, celebrity craze, 01:01 terrorist infested, 01:02 commandment contested generation 01:05 is literally tottering 01:07 on the edge of physical and moral self-destruction. 01:11 But the good news 01:13 is that in the midst of all evil views 01:16 and failed philosophies pervading our planet, 01:19 there is a clear 01:21 and positive word from the Lord, 01:25 and as explained 01:26 by the four scholarly pastors who follow, 01:28 it's an exciting, healing, helpful, 01:31 hopeful word presented with sights and sounds 01:34 that make it an experience 01:36 you won't forget and will want to share. 01:40 So here it is, Daniel and the Revelation. 01:45 Bible truth linked 01:46 in four prophetic segments, science, 01:50 Daniel, Revelation and the grand conclusion, 01:54 the second coming of Christ. 01:57 Ready for the journey? Good. 02:01 Then let's begin. 02:15 Good morning Seattle. 02:18 Jeffrey D here bringing you the low down 02:20 so you can wake up. 02:22 Temperature is roughly 70 with a high of 80 02:24 and you bet your life, 02:25 it's gonna rain, rain, rain but cheer up, folks, 02:29 did you hear that? 05:49 Good evening. 05:50 We continue our coverage 05:52 of this morning's two tragic events. 05:54 A display of aggression that is being called 05:56 the worst act of terror in modern history 05:59 and also the unprecedented earthquake 06:01 that has left several countries in ruin. 06:04 As world leaders scramble to determine their next steps, 06:08 we are being told that in a few minutes, 06:11 the president will be coming out of protective isolation 06:14 to make a statement. 06:19 Madam President, we just heard from the UN. 06:22 It's in the speech. Yes, ma'am. 06:25 Cameras rolling. Quiet on the set. 06:27 You're on in five, four, three, two. 06:33 My fellow Americans and for that matter, 06:36 fellow citizens of this troubled planet. 06:39 It is with both respect and with sorrow 06:42 that I address you following 06:44 what is undoubtedly the worst days 06:46 in recorded history. 06:48 The sheer scope and number of lives lost 06:51 or forever scarred by the events of this morning 06:54 is hard to wrap our minds around. 06:56 I have no doubt 06:58 that the perpetrators of this horrific act 07:01 did not anticipate 07:02 that as they planned to hurt humanity, 07:05 nature would also be about to unleash her own fury 07:08 at the very same time. 07:10 The chances of this occurring together 07:13 were almost zero. 07:14 One in billions and the combined effect 07:17 has been almost biblical in proportion. 07:26 It is obvious I think, 07:28 especially in light of recent events 07:30 such as the growth of the unity coalition 07:33 and our global efforts 07:35 to maintain a spiritual base presence 07:37 in every nation 07:39 that this is God's way of telling us, 07:42 we need to bond together to enforce a moral revolution. 07:47 Many of you have lost loved ones. 07:50 As you know, I have lost loved ones. 07:53 But now the nation is wondering what we will do. 07:56 The world is looking to us for leadership. 07:59 I have spoken 08:01 with representatives of other nations 08:03 as well as UN representatives 08:05 and I have their support in finding the guilty parties 08:08 of this act of terror. 08:10 But also in sanctioning those 08:12 who oppose the unity coalition in its cause. 08:16 I urge the rest of the world to join us 08:19 as we do God's work. 08:21 I wish to assure the citizens of this country, 08:24 and of those abroad 08:26 that we stand on the side of light, 08:29 and with God's help justice will be served and right 08:33 will be returned to our society. 08:35 Thank you. 08:36 God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. 10:15 Brothers and sisters, 10:17 as we consider the world and the time in which we live, 10:20 I'm sure, you'd agree with me 10:21 that we're living in a very fast paced society. 10:24 I mean compared to a hundred years ago, 10:26 things have changed dramatically. 10:28 We are referred to as the now generation. 10:31 We want what we want and we want it now. 10:33 We're into quick fixes and get rich quick plans 10:36 and fast transportation, fast communication, 10:38 easy relationships 10:40 and of all these things plus many different activities, 10:43 we're being pulled in so many different directions. 10:46 And keep in mind that in the busyness of life, 10:49 it's important 10:50 that if you want to get anything done, 10:52 to make sure you manage your time wisely. 10:55 A schedule is very, very helpful. 10:58 We have deadlines and appointments, 11:00 things pulling us here and there and everywhere 11:03 and everything that we do is dependent upon time. 11:06 And, friends, the same is the case 11:09 in the spiritual realm. 11:11 I want us to notice what the Bible says 11:13 in the Book of Romans 13:11. 11:15 The Apostle Paul wrote this. 11:18 "And that, knowing the time, 11:21 that now it is a high time to awake out of sleep: 11:25 for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 11:29 The Bible calls us to realize that right now is a high time, 11:32 an urgent time, a solemn time. 11:35 It's not a time for us to be sleepy 11:37 but a time for us to arouse from spiritual slumber 11:40 because Jesus is coming soon. 11:44 Today, we're going to see 11:46 how we can know for sure that this, 11:48 His second coming is very, very near. 11:53 How many of you have ever had to catch a plane 11:55 that left very early in the morning? 11:57 If you're anything like me, 11:59 you know that the only way 12:00 you're gonna catch that plane is if you set the alarm clock. 12:04 You see the purpose of an alarm clock 12:07 is to make you aware of the current time 12:10 so that you can get up 12:11 and get ready before it's too late. 12:15 Have you ever slept through an alarm? 12:17 It's not a good thing, is it? 12:19 Have you ever hit the snooze button 12:20 over and over again just thinking to yourself, 12:22 oh, let me just sleep a little bit longer. 12:25 Well, friends, 12:26 God in His Holy Word has given us some alarms. 12:30 Alarms to help us wake up from spiritual slumber because, 12:33 friends, we have a celestial flight to catch. 12:37 A flight from earth to heaven. 12:39 But the only way, 12:40 we will be ready for that flight 12:42 is if we are stirred up 12:44 and awakened to realize the urgent and solemn time 12:47 in which we're living in today. 12:49 So God in His infinite mercy and love 12:52 has given us signs of alarms 12:55 to arouse us from spiritual slumber. 12:57 But it's tragic and unfortunate that many people are sleeping 13:01 through the alarms or worse yet, 13:03 they are actually some who are awakened momentarily 13:07 and they recognize the signs of the last days 13:09 and yet they are content to hit 13:11 the spiritual snooze button and they say, 13:14 let me just sleep a little bit longer. 13:18 But, friends, to sleep spiritually 13:21 during the signs that Jesus has given us, 13:24 to sleep spiritually 13:26 during this crisis hour is fatal. 13:30 I want to tell what Jesus said in Matthew 24:33. 13:34 Jesus here gives us signs of alarm. 13:37 He said, "So likewise you, 13:39 when you shall see all these things, 13:41 know that it is near, even at the doors." 13:45 In other words, 13:46 God has given us some visible signs 13:48 that we can see with our eyes 13:50 to let us know that the end of time 13:52 is very near. 13:53 It's almost here and it's not mere few. 13:57 So let's discover what are these signs of alarm 14:00 that Christ gave to arouse us from spiritual slumber. 14:02 I mean, how do we know 14:04 that we are really living at the end of the world? 14:07 Friends, as we consider 14:08 the economical, social, political, 14:10 natural and religious conditions 14:12 of our world, 14:13 we would discover that the only logical, 14:15 reasonable and consisting conclusion, 14:17 we can come to is that we are truly living 14:20 in the final hours of this world's history. 14:24 If this world is going to end, the question is how. 14:28 But we don't have to guess or speculate in our minds. 14:31 All we have to do is open the Word of God, 14:34 especially in the Book of Revelation, 14:36 God tells us how this world is gonna end. 14:38 In fact, He repeats it three times. 14:40 In the last chapter, of the last book of the Bible, 14:42 Revelation 22, 14:44 I want you to notice what the Bible says in verse 7. 14:47 Jesus says, 14:49 "Behold, I come quickly: 14:52 blessed is he that keeps 14:53 the sayings of the prophecy of this book." 14:56 And then He repeats it a second time in verse 12, 14:59 "And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, 15:04 to give every man according as his work shall be." 15:07 And if twice wasn't enough, 15:08 Jesus says it the third time in verse 20. 15:12 "He who testifies of these things says, 15:14 surely, I come quickly. 15:18 Amen. 15:20 Even so, John the Revelator responds, come, Lord Jesus." 15:25 Here we find that in the last book of Bible, 15:27 the last chapter of the last book of the Bible, 15:30 Jesus repeats thrice, 15:32 three times, I am coming quickly. 15:35 I am coming quickly, then the third time He says, 15:38 surely I am coming quickly. 15:40 You see, friends, 15:42 the Book of Revelation beats 15:43 with a sense of urgency of the second coming, 15:45 the return of King Jesus. 15:47 This is how the world is gonna come to an end. 15:50 And it's a glorious hope 15:52 that God has given to His children 15:54 who are living in this crazy and chaotic world. 15:58 But the question is, how soon is soon? 16:01 How quickly is quickly and how near is near? 16:05 Haven't people in other generations believed 16:08 that Jesus was coming in their lifetime, 16:10 and yet those generations have passed off the scene 16:12 and Jesus had not yet come? 16:15 How do we know that we are not like 16:16 all the other previous generations 16:19 who thought Jesus would come but didn't. 16:22 Now, friends, 16:23 I know that in the Christian world today 16:26 there have been individuals who are doomsdayers. 16:30 People who'll talk about the end of time 16:31 in a sense of doom and gloom. 16:34 There are many people who have set false alarms 16:36 and certain dates 16:37 for the second coming of Christ. 16:38 And all these predictions have failed over and over again 16:41 and unfortunately many of these false alarms 16:45 have caused people to become desensitized 16:47 and callous to reality of the soon coming of Christ. 16:52 Just like the little child in the story of the boy 16:54 that cried wolf. 16:56 You remember that story, right? 16:58 The little boy gave false alarms. 17:01 When people came, nothing took place. 17:04 But those false alarms did not stop 17:07 the wolf from eventually coming 17:09 and just because there are many false alarms 17:11 in the religious world today, 17:13 doesn't mean that the wolf will never come. 17:16 Of all these false alarms have been given, 17:19 Jesus is still going to come, friends. 17:21 In fact notice 17:23 what the Bible says in Matthew 24:36. 17:26 Jesus says, 17:28 "But of that day and hour no one knows." 17:31 Friends, no one knows 17:32 the exact day or hour of Jesus' return. 17:36 However Christ has given us signs 17:38 to warn us that the end is very near. 17:41 He has given us these signs not to scare us 17:44 but so that we can sense the urgency of the hour 17:47 and prepare for His glorious return. 17:50 And, friends, I would like you to consider 17:53 that not only are religious people 17:55 talking about the end of time, 17:57 but I want us to notice 17:58 that even secularists, and humanists, and atheists, 18:01 and agnostics are recognizing 18:03 that we're living in unprecedented times. 18:07 A time in which a crisis is about to take place. 18:11 People today all over the world are realizing 18:13 that the time in which we live 18:15 now is different from just 50 years ago. 18:18 I invite you to notice with me a few examples of this. 18:22 I'm sure, many of you heard of Dr. Stephen Hawking. 18:25 He's an astrophysicist, 18:26 currently holding Sir 18:27 Isaac Newton's chair 18:29 of mathematics at Cambridge University. 18:30 He's written one 18:31 of the best-selling science books of all time, 18:34 entitled A Brief History of Time. 18:37 And this man, Dr. Stephen Hawkings 18:39 is known as by many as the greatest 18:42 scientific mind in the world today. 18:44 He's known as Einstein's successor. 18:46 But unfortunately this genius of a mind 18:48 is trapped in a debilitated body. 18:51 He has Lou Gehrig's disease 18:53 which means he's confined to a wheelchair. 18:55 He can't speak. 18:56 He has a little bit of movement in his hand and fingers 18:59 which enables him to speak 19:00 through a voice synchronizer as he types on the screen. 19:03 And not long ago, 19:05 Dr. Stephen Hawking 19:06 had a speech at Cornell University. 19:09 He was giving a lecture to a group of thought leaders, 19:12 lecturing about the future of mankind 19:14 and the future of our world. 19:15 Now I want you to notice 19:16 what this secular scientific mind had to say 19:18 and keep in mind, friends, he's an atheist. 19:21 He does not believe in the Bible or God. 19:24 But I want you to notice 19:26 what this scientific atheistic mind 19:28 had to say concerning the time in which we live. 19:31 Dr. Stephen Hawking said and I quote, 19:34 "Our long term survival 19:36 and any hope for our species is in question. 19:39 However if we can keep from destroying each other 19:42 for the next one hundred years, 19:44 sufficient technology 19:45 would develop to distribute humanity 19:48 to various planets and then no one tragedy 19:52 or atrocity will eradicate all at the same time." 19:57 Dr. Stephen Hawking, a scientific, secular, 20:01 atheistic minded, 20:03 as he considered the condition of our world, 20:05 he said that we're living 20:06 in a very questionable time in this world's history. 20:09 And his solution to the problems 20:11 that we're facing in our world is science. 20:14 He says that as technology develops, 20:17 we can go to other planets and so that 20:19 if there is a tragedy or catastrophe 20:22 that will take place on earth, 20:23 that the human species will continue to survive 20:27 on different planets. 20:29 Here savior is science. 20:32 Oh, friends, I want to submit to you 20:33 that we need a far greater savior 20:35 than what science can offer. 20:37 But here is an example of a secular mind, 20:40 not a religious mind, 20:42 but a secular mind's perspective 20:43 on the end of time. 20:45 Here is another example for you to consider. 20:48 A man by the name of Eugene Linden. 20:50 Eugene Linden is an award winning 20:51 journalist and author. 20:53 He writes for many high profile secular magazines 20:56 like Time and Wall Street Journal 20:58 and National Geographic and Fortune Magazine. 21:01 He also wrote a book entitled "The Future in Plain Sight'. 21:06 He's writing from a non-religious, 21:08 non-biblical point of view, 21:10 and in this book Eugene Linden 21:11 gives nine compelling arguments 21:14 as to why this world can't last much longer 21:17 in the condition it's in today. 21:19 Nine clues to the coming instability and, friends, 21:23 as we compare what the secular minds are saying 21:25 to what the Bible says, the only logical reasonable, 21:29 intelligent common sense conclusion 21:31 we can come to 21:33 is that the end of time is very near. 21:35 It's almost here and it's not mere few. 21:39 See, friends, the only solution to the problem 21:42 that we are facing in our world today 21:44 is the second coming of Christ. 21:47 You see, my brothers and my sisters, 21:48 there is no politician or political party 21:52 that has the answers to the problems our world 21:54 is facing today. 21:56 Free healthcare is not going to stop disease and death. 22:00 Bearing arms is not going to keep people safe. 22:03 Welfare is not going to stop hunger and homelessness. 22:06 National security will not stop the conflict and the chaos. 22:10 Making more laws is not going to stop 22:13 the lawlessness in our world. 22:14 The only solution to the pollution, 22:17 the only answer to the cancer of our world 22:19 is the coming of Christ and, friends, 22:21 I'm so glad that He's coming soon. 22:24 He's coming soon, He's coming soon. 22:28 So I encourage you, I invite you, 22:30 I challenge you to get ready, get ready, get ready, 22:34 Jesus is coming soon. 23:17 I was there in the beginning watching 23:20 from above as Adam and his wife Eve 23:22 were promised that the deliverer would come. 23:34 Even there in the unfolding of earth's history, 23:38 the plans of God were laid and etched into prophetic time. 23:49 Throughout the millennia in which I have served 23:52 as God's messenger, 23:54 I've witnessed the ebb and flow of empires, 23:58 the rise and fall of kings. 24:05 I've seen famine, fire, flood, 24:10 conquest and triumph. 24:14 I smiled as men and women learned of the heavens 24:18 and when they reached them, I swelled with pride. 24:27 Yet, man can be so arrogant. 24:34 He believes that he is the author 24:37 of his destiny, 24:38 that he is the writer of history. 24:42 He believes that upon his shoulders 24:45 the future is carried 24:47 and that at his own efforts the past is laid. 24:54 But truly, the past, present and the future spawn 25:01 in the mind and lie 25:04 in the hands of one, 25:08 the author, the writer, 25:13 the king and forever... 25:25 He reigns. 26:06 In the early '80s, 26:08 there was a controversy in our church 26:12 over the understanding of some of our doctrines. 26:17 They were seriously brought into question 26:20 by a couple of very well known 26:24 and very educated individuals. 26:27 And so as I was praying about it, 26:30 the thought occurred to my mind and that was this, 26:33 to take my Book of Daniel 26:36 and to read it over and over again. 26:40 And, my friends, 26:42 it was one of the most thrilling experiences 26:44 I've ever had. 26:46 I clearly saw that what we teach 26:49 about the prophecies 26:51 in the Book of Daniel are real and true. 26:54 So what I hope to accomplish with you 26:58 is that I would inspire you to read your Bible, 27:03 especially the Book of Daniel 27:06 because if you do, 27:08 you will be tremendously blessed 27:10 the way I was. 27:13 So take your Bibles and turn to chapter 2. 27:18 "Now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, 27:22 Nebuchadnezzar had dreams, 27:26 and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him. 27:31 Then the king gave the command to call the magicians, 27:34 the astrologers, the sorcerers, 27:36 the Chaldeans to tell the king his dream. 27:41 So they came and they stood before the king. 27:45 And the king said to them, "I have had a dream, 27:48 and my spirit is anxious to know the dream." 27:53 And then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, 27:57 "O king, liver forever! 28:00 Tell your servants the dream, 28:03 and we will give you the interpretation." 28:07 This interaction between 28:09 the king and the wise men went on three times in a row, 28:14 and all three times they made excuses 28:17 because they knew, they could not deliver. 28:20 Finally the king lost his temper 28:23 and declared that all of them are going to be destroyed 28:26 if they can't tell the dream as well as the interpretation 28:32 and that's when 28:33 the executioner came to Daniel's door. 28:36 Now, we find this to be very interesting, 28:40 for we're pretty sure that Daniel wasn't called 28:42 in with the wise men, 28:44 probably because 28:46 he's a foreigner and they don't like him. 28:50 But when they go to execute, 28:52 they come to Daniel and Daniel asked them, 28:55 what are you doing, and why are you doing this? 28:58 He told them the story. 29:00 So Daniel then went to the king and asked for time 29:04 and, folks, here we are in a serious situation, 29:07 Daniel's life is on the line and what does he do? 29:11 He comes back to his room, 29:13 he gets Shadrach Meshach and Abednego 29:16 and they have a prayer meeting. 29:19 That's exactly what it says here in the Bible. 29:23 It says, "That they might seek the mercies of God..." 29:26 Verse 18. 29:28 "The God of heaven concerning the secret, 29:31 so that Daniel and his companions 29:33 might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon." 29:38 We need to be praying people like Daniel. 29:41 In fact, what would happen, if you were told, 29:43 we came to kill you, 29:46 would you think of prayer first 29:47 or would you think of everything else? 29:49 Daniel said, give me time, 29:51 then he went and prayed and God gave him the answer. 29:56 And so he comes to the king and this is... 29:59 Here is one of the high points of the chapter to me. 30:04 Daniel answered in the presence of the king and he said, 30:07 "The secret which the king has demanded, 30:10 the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, 30:12 the soothsayers cannot declare to the king. 30:17 But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, 30:21 and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar 30:24 what will be in the latter days. 30:27 Your dream, and your vision on your head 30:30 upon your bed, are these." 30:32 My friends, there might be something here 30:34 you never noticed. 30:36 Daniel said there is a God in heaven who does what? 30:42 He reveal secrets. 30:45 In fact, I want you to look at how many time 30:48 the word secret is in chapter 2 30:53 is repeated over and over. 30:56 And I just hear God trying to say, 30:59 my people, this book holds the wisdom. 31:03 Not the universities, 31:06 not the internet necessarily but this book. 31:11 God is the one who reveal secrets. 31:13 Have you ever felt I can never understand 31:15 the Book of Revelation? 31:17 Have you ever felt that I don't, 31:19 I can never understand 31:21 the prophecies of the Book of Daniel. 31:24 Then pray, my friend. 31:26 That's what God is waiting for His people to do. 31:29 In the last days, there is gonna be a crisis, 31:31 the crisis is coming. 31:32 People need to be prayed up. 31:35 They need to pray about everything all the time. 31:37 We need to be praying churches. 31:40 We need to be praying pastors. 31:42 We need to be praying people. 31:45 God reveal secrets. 31:47 In fact, you know, what Amos says, 31:49 "He reveals His secrets to His servants, the prophets." 31:52 Therefore we should be reading 31:54 the Books of Daniel and Revelation. 31:56 We should be studying them 31:58 and when we are perplexed we should pray about it. 32:01 That's what Daniel did, Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah. 32:04 And God revealed it to Daniel. 32:14 Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said, 32:19 "You, O king, were watching, 32:22 and behold, a great image! 32:28 This great image, whose splendor was excellent, 32:32 stood before you, and its form was awesome. 32:37 This image's head was of fine gold, 32:40 its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 32:47 its legs of iron, 32:50 its feet partly of iron 32:53 and partly of clay. 32:58 You watched while a stone was cut out without hands 33:02 and struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, 33:06 and broke them in pieces. 33:11 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, 33:14 and the gold were crushed together, 33:17 and became like chaff 33:19 from the summer threshing floors, 33:22 the wind carried them away 33:24 so that no trace of them was found. 33:27 And the stone that struck the image 33:29 became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. 33:36 This is the dream. 33:38 Now we will tell the interpretation of it 33:41 before the king. 33:43 You, O king, are a king of kings. 33:48 For the God of heaven 33:49 has given you a kingdom, power, strength, 33:53 and glory, and wherever the children of men dwell, 33:57 or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, 34:01 He has given them into your hand, 34:04 and has made you ruler over them all. 34:07 You are this head of gold. 34:12 But after you shall arise 34:14 another kingdom inferior to yours, 34:17 then another, a third kingdom of bronze, 34:21 which shall rule over all the earth. 34:25 And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, 34:29 inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces 34:32 and shatters everything, and like iron that crushes, 34:37 that kingdom will break in pieces 34:40 and crush all the others. 34:43 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, 34:45 partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, 34:49 the kingdom shall be divided, 34:51 yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, 34:55 just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 35:00 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron 35:03 and partly of clay, 35:05 so the kingdom shall be partly strong 35:08 and partly fragile. 35:10 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, 35:13 they will mingle with the seed of men, 35:16 but they will not adhere to one another, 35:20 just as iron does not mix with clay. 35:24 And in the days of these kings 35:26 the God of heaven will set up a kingdom 35:30 which shall never be destroyed, 35:32 and the kingdom shall not be left 35:34 to other people, 35:36 it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, 35:41 and it shall stand forever. 35:45 Inasmuch as you saw the stone 35:47 was cut out of the mountain without hands, 35:50 and that it broke in pieces the iron, 35:53 the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, 35:59 the great God has made known to the king 36:03 what will come to pass after this. 36:07 The dream is certain, 36:09 and the interpretation is sure." 36:18 And so he tells the king, 36:20 you saw a great image and the king's eyes got wide. 36:23 Oh, yeah, but it was peculiar. 36:26 Well, they had many different metals. 36:29 Oh, that's right. 36:31 Head of gold, breast and arms of silver, 36:34 thighs of brass, legs of iron, 36:37 toes of iron and clay 36:39 and then a rock was cut out without hand 36:41 and smote the image at the feet and the whole image 36:44 just disappeared and blew away 36:47 and the rock filled the whole world. 36:50 That's it Daniel, that's it. 36:53 You're right, you know it, you knew it. 36:55 This is incredible. What does it mean? 36:57 What does it mean? 36:59 And then Daniel told him. 37:02 King, you're that head of gold 37:05 but after you there is going to be another kingdom. 37:09 Now, my friends, when we study prophecy, 37:11 one of the things we have to do 37:13 is let the Bible interpret itself. 37:16 And so now we know that in prophecy, 37:19 metal represent kingdoms and they follow in order 37:24 and the description 37:26 of these kingdoms give a clue to who they represent. 37:32 But Daniel immediately pinpointed in chapter 2 37:37 that Babylon is the head of gold. 37:40 What kingdom followed Babylon? 37:42 Get out your history book. 37:44 Medo-Persia overthrew Babylon. 37:47 Who overthrew Medo-Persia? 37:49 The Greeks overthrew Persia. 37:52 And you'll find that the history 37:54 is laid out for us here. 37:56 And then he goes down, 37:58 he gets all the way to the legs of iron 38:02 which stand for the Roman Empire 38:05 and then he says something very interesting. 38:09 Verse 40, 38:11 "And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, 38:15 inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces 38:17 and shatters everything, 38:19 like the iron that crushes, 38:21 the kingdom will break in pieces 38:23 and crush all others. 38:26 Whereas you saw the feet and the toes, 38:29 part of potter's clay and part of iron, 38:32 the kingdom shall be divided." 38:38 How would anyone but a prophet know 38:41 that after the fourth world kingdom Rome, 38:45 there would be no fifth world kingdom. 38:48 It would be a divided one, 38:50 and so we see 38:52 that embedded in the prophecies themselves 38:56 are these proofs that we need to show us 38:59 that Daniel indeed was a prophet 39:01 just like Jesus said he was. 39:04 And that he can be trusted these prophecies are real. 39:08 These stories are true and we must study them. 39:13 And so he said, 39:15 this kingdom will be divided 39:19 and not only that, I want you to jump to verse 43. 39:24 "As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, 39:28 they will mingle with the seed of men, 39:31 but they will not adhere to one another, 39:34 just as iron does not mix with clay." 39:39 And I point that out to you 39:40 because, he said, it would be a divided kingdom. 39:43 It will never unite and throughout history 39:45 there has been a number of individuals 39:48 who have tried to unite it 39:49 and it has never ever worked. 39:51 Why? 39:53 Because the Bible says 39:54 they will not cleave one to another. 39:58 They will not unite. 40:00 They will always be separate and even some thought 40:03 when the Euro Zone came in 40:05 that this was going to defeat the prophecy, 40:08 but you can already see 40:10 that there is people pulling away from the Euro Zone 40:13 or it's nothing more than 40:15 just an alliance on a piece of paper. 40:17 They still are the individual nations, 40:21 political units themselves with their own leaders. 40:25 They will not cling together. 40:28 Until the coming of Jesus Christ, 40:30 they will be separate. 40:33 And so we see how important prophecy is. 40:36 It prepares us for the future and we can look back 40:40 and we can see what has happened, 40:43 the Bible said would happen, 40:45 and now we have confidence in the Bible 40:48 in spite of the fact 40:49 that many intellectuals today are ridiculing the Bible, 40:56 its veracity and Christians 40:58 in general for believing this. 41:03 In verse 44, 41:05 there are in my Bible seven words 41:09 that are just outstanding. 41:11 And here is what it says. 41:13 And in the days of these kings, what kings? 41:18 In the days of divided kingdom of Europe, 41:23 what will happen? 41:25 The God of heaven will set up a kingdom 41:29 which shall never be destroyed 41:30 and the kingdom 41:32 shall not be left to other people, 41:34 it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, 41:38 and it shall stand forever. 41:41 My friends, we're living in that day 41:44 even though the Europe 41:46 has been in existence for a while now, 41:48 we're living in that day. 41:50 Why is it taking so long? 41:52 Because God is waiting for more people to accept Him 41:55 so He can have a bigger kingdom than He has now. 41:59 He's waiting for His people 42:01 to sow longingly desire His coming 42:05 that we will help further His kingdom 42:09 and final decisions will be made on both side 42:13 and He can hasten back. 42:55 Imagine having the most dire yet most wonderful 42:58 and most important message 43:00 ever to be given to the human species. 43:09 Imagine how after seeing millennia of suffering, war, 43:14 trials, plague and fear, 43:17 you bear good news of a coming deliverance. 43:20 You bear glad tidings of the end of war. 43:25 You bear this news yet few will listen. 43:39 Since the beginning, we have walked among you, 43:43 sometimes seen, mostly unseen. 43:47 We've cried when you've cried, cheered when you've tried, 43:51 triumphed when you triumphed. 43:54 We've merged leaders, 43:56 shielded prophets, turned battles, 43:59 working behind the scenes to protect, 44:03 to guide history, 44:04 fight injustice and to fulfill prophecy. 44:16 We have this duty 44:19 in the quest to carry out God's will 44:21 to save you. 44:25 Ye, even when you crucified Him, 44:29 we stood by awe 44:31 so that salvation may be reachable, 44:34 and that one day 44:36 we could bring this message to you. 44:41 The King is coming. 44:44 The King is coming. 44:47 The King is coming. 44:54 Yet few will listen. 44:57 Maybe you hope to hide behind ignorance, 45:00 maybe you feel that by closing your ears, 45:04 your eyes, this wretched age may last a bit longer. 45:09 You may live in sin a bit longer 45:13 and Jesus will forever delay. 45:18 But may friends, 45:21 he that shall come will come and will not tarry. 46:00 After all you have endured, 46:03 after all He has endured for you, 46:06 hear this message and be ready. 49:01 In chapter 14 of the Book of Revelation... 49:08 the work of the church is announced. 49:14 Angels fly carrying the great message 49:16 representing the work of the church. 49:23 And then as you get down toward the end of that book, 49:26 it describes the beginning of the end 49:31 of Christ's enemy. 49:34 In Revelation Christ wins. 49:39 In the Book of Revelation Christ wins, 49:41 therefore the believers win. 49:46 It's like the end of the movie, 49:50 the events, the last events are rapid ones. 49:53 The work of the church, 49:55 the beginning of the fall of Babylon, 49:58 Revelation 14. 50:00 Seven last plagues are announced, 50:02 Revelation 15. 50:04 Seven last plagues fall, Revelation 16. 50:09 The last exposure and identity of the wicked church 50:14 represented as a woman, chapter 17. 50:18 The wickedness of the church that is, 50:21 that part of the church that is anti-God, anti-Christ, 50:24 that part of the church that would distort His word 50:27 and distort His message 50:28 and His character falls in chapter 18. 50:31 And then in chapter 19 50:34 verse 11. 50:37 "And I saw heaven opened, 50:41 and behold a white horse, 50:44 and he that sat up on him called Faithful and True, 50:49 and in righteousness he doth and make war. 50:52 His eyes, verse 12:19, were as a flame of fire, 50:58 on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written, 51:03 that no man knew but he himself. 51:07 And he was clothed 51:08 with a vesture dipped in blood." 51:11 Verse 13 of chapter 19, 51:12 "And his name is called the Word of God." 51:15 And I told you, 51:18 how that Revelation dips into every book in the Bible. 51:21 It's in John. 51:23 When John wrote his gospel, 51:26 he identifies Jesus as the Word of God. 51:28 In the beginning was the Word, remember, 51:31 and the Word was with God and the Word was God, 51:33 all things were made by Him, 51:35 without him wasn't anything that was made, 51:39 and then in verse 14 and the Word was made flesh. 51:43 Well, we know without a question then 51:46 that this person riding this horse 51:51 is in fact Jesus Christ Himself. 51:56 Verse 14, "And the armies 51:58 which were in heaven followed him 51:59 upon white horses, 52:00 clothed in fine linen, white and clean." 52:03 Now this is the same dress 52:06 that's described to God's people 52:08 in chapter seven and in chapter 14. 52:12 "And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword..." 52:14 Of course we know in Hebrews, 52:16 see all of the Bible comes in Revelation, 52:18 Hebrews, "The word of God is called a sword 52:21 and with it he should smite the nations, 52:23 he shall rule them with a rod of iron." 52:26 Remember, rod of iron, that was in chapter 12. 52:29 That they will rule with a rod of iron. 52:31 So this is the same Jesus. 52:34 "And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness 52:36 and the wrath of Almighty God. 52:39 And he hath on his vesture 52:40 and on his thigh a name written, 52:42 King of kings, and Lord of lords." 52:48 It's Jesus. 52:49 In Revelation, Jesus wins. 52:55 It's the most comforting aspect of the book. 53:01 Without His victory, we have no victory. 53:05 Without His success, we have no success. 53:10 Without His overcoming, we cannot overcome. 53:15 Without His death, 53:18 His life, His resurrection, 53:22 His ascension, we can have none of that. 53:26 In fact Paul said it. 53:28 He said, if Christ did not die and raised, 53:30 then we have lived in vain. 53:32 We believed in vain. 53:35 In Revelation, 53:37 Christ wins. 53:43 Revelation 20 then, 53:44 it introduces us to that period of a thousand year 53:47 when the earth is desolate and Satan is locked in a pit, 53:51 the bottomless pit is this earth. 53:53 With no human beings alive because when Jesus comes, 53:57 the living wicked are struck dead. 54:01 The dead wicked stay dead. 54:03 The righteous dead rise up 54:06 and the righteous living are caught up. 54:09 So the earth is desolate for thousand years. 54:12 And in Revelation 20 reveal that we are with Christ, 54:17 judging, judging, marvelous, 54:20 marvelous piece in Revelation 20. 54:22 And then in Revelation 21... 54:28 "I saw new heavens and a new earth: 54:32 for the first heaven 54:34 and the first earth were passed away, 54:38 there was no more sea." 54:39 We're going all the way back now to Genesis, 54:41 the Book of Genesis, remember. 54:42 When the earth was made, there were rivers but no seas. 54:46 The new heavens and a new earth. 54:48 The earth will be remade, like it was before. 54:53 But it gets better than that. 54:55 "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, 54:58 coming down from God out of heaven, 55:00 prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 55:02 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, 55:04 Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, 55:08 he will dwell with them, they shall be his people, 55:11 God himself shall be with them, and be their God." 55:13 Christ now makes this planet over 55:17 which the great controversy 55:18 has been fought His headquarters. 55:22 So since in Revelation, 55:23 Jesus wins in Revelation we win. 55:32 Great victory, "God, verse 4, 55:34 shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, 55:35 and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, 55:38 nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, 55:41 for the former things are passed away." 55:48 It's in the Book of 2 Peter 55:53 that we read that when Christ comes, 55:55 the very elements will melt with fervent heat. 55:57 I keep telling you that Revelation 55:59 has in it every part of the Bible. 56:03 But now let me just pause a minute here. 56:07 Christ wins, we win but let me pause. 56:11 You cannot read the Book of Revelation 56:16 without understanding how totally devastating sin 56:21 has been to this planet. 56:25 The molecules... 56:29 the Bible calls them the elements, 56:32 the atoms, the bacteria, 56:38 the viruses. 56:42 We're just a polluted people 56:45 living on a polluted planet 56:49 saved by an undefiled God. 56:56 And this is why Christ has to do it. 56:59 See only the creator can recreate 57:04 and sin has been so devastating, 57:06 so demeaning, so destructive to this planet, 57:11 it needs recreation. 57:13 You can't... 57:14 It's like a house that has been in a storm. 57:18 You can't go and repaint the walls. 57:20 You have to tear the walls down. 57:24 You got to tear it down. 57:27 You got to do demolition before you do reconstruction. 57:30 That's how this planet is. 57:32 That's how we are. 57:34 So Jesus declares 57:35 that this mortal shall put on immortality, 57:37 this corruptible shall put on incorruption. 57:40 He has to redo the whole thing. 57:43 Oh, by the way, 57:44 it's time for me to say 57:45 therefore that the only thing that's gonna go with you 57:48 from this earth to the next is your character. 57:53 Your connection with Jesus 57:56 and the Book of Revelation appeals to you. 57:58 I mean listen, listen, look at this, look at this, 58:01 look at this, look at this. 58:02 "And the Spirit and the bride, Revelation 22, say Come. 58:06 Let him that heareth say, Come. 58:08 Let him that is athirst come. 58:10 Whosoever will let him come 58:11 and take of the water of life freely." 58:14 Revelation ends with an appeal, an appeal. 58:20 Accept the Jesus who did it. 58:24 Accept the Jesus who died. 58:28 Accept the Jesus who took the book of seals and owned it. 58:31 Accept the Jesus who stands at the door and knock saying, 58:35 if any man here, let him come. 58:37 Accept that Jesus, the book ends in an appeal. 58:44 Verse 14, Revelation 22, 58:48 "Blessed are they that do his commandments, 58:51 that they may have right to the tree of life, 58:54 and may enter in through the gates into the city." 58:56 Do you see it? 58:58 Revelation 21 paints that new world. 59:01 And no more death and dying, and crying and pain, 59:04 and so forth, 59:05 and how that earth is gonna look 59:07 and no darkness there 59:09 and oh, it's all marvelous, it's marvelous, 59:12 but Christ wins 59:15 and the question is will you win? 59:24 Let me put it a bit more frankly. 59:28 Are you a born loser? 59:34 No, you're not. You know, you're not. 59:39 You hook your wagon now to the Christ who win. 59:42 You hook your wagon to the Jesus who came. 59:46 You hook your wagon 59:49 to the Christ revealed in the Book of Revelation, 59:52 You hook your hope and your faith to the Jesus 59:56 who can defeat His enemy while hanging on a cross. 01:00:00 You hook your hopes to the Christ 01:00:04 who has power over death. 01:00:07 And He's introduced that way in the very beginning 01:00:10 of the Book of Revelation. 01:00:12 He's introduced that way, I'm the Alpha and the Omega, 01:00:16 the beginning and the end. 01:00:19 Which is and which was, which is to come, 01:00:24 the all mighty in the Book of Revelation. 01:00:29 Jesus wins 01:00:33 and the whole purpose of the book 01:00:36 is to reveal to you how He does it. 01:00:41 He does it 01:00:44 by keeping the commandments of God. 01:00:48 He does it 01:00:51 by staying true to the Father 01:00:54 and He does it 01:00:57 by being unwavering in His loyalty to that Father. 01:01:05 Therefore, you can. 01:01:13 Don't miss part two of Daniel and the Revelation, 01:01:17 "The Return of Christ". 01:01:48 As light of God's presence shines 01:01:50 through the very foundations of the city shines 01:01:53 through the walls, in fact, transparent gold. 01:01:56 Those walls of earth. |
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