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00:01 On this edition of 3ABN Sabbath School Panel,
00:03 we continue our study of How to Interpret Scripture. 00:06 This week is lesson number 11, "The Bible and Prophecy." 00:11 Want to encourage you to grab your Bible, 00:13 your pen, your paper, and your notebook, 00:15 as well as your Sabbath School quarterly 00:18 to join us for this study. 00:20 If you don't have a Sabbath School quarterly, 00:22 you can always go to absg.Adventist.org 00:26 and you can download your own copy. 00:29 That stands for adultbible studyguide.Adventist.org. 00:34 Join us for this study of the Word of God. 01:12 Hello and welcome to Sabbath School Panel. 01:15 I'm Jill Morikone. 01:16 And we're so glad that you have joined us 01:18 for a study of the Word of God. 01:21 I can't believe we're winding down 01:23 in this quarter how to interpret scripture 01:25 and we're all the way to lesson number 11, 01:29 The Bible and Prophecy. 01:30 Before we go any further, 01:32 I want to introduce to you our panel, our family 01:34 that we've been walking 01:36 through this quarter together with. 01:37 To my left, Pastor Ryan Day. Good to have you here. 01:39 Well, it's good to be here as always. 01:41 Amen. 01:42 To your left, Pastor John Lomacang. 01:44 Thank you for being here. You're welcome. 01:45 And I like the fact that we're gonna be talking 01:46 about prophecy in this lesson, How to Interpret Prophecy. 01:50 Amen. 01:52 To your left, Pastor John Dinzey. 01:54 Thank you for being here. 01:55 It's a blessing to be here 01:57 and I'm looking forward to this study. 01:58 It's powerful. Amen. 02:00 Last but not least, Pastor Kenny Shelton 02:03 anchoring at the other end. 02:05 Thank you for being here. It's just a blessing. 02:07 Praise the Lord for the opportunity. 02:08 Amen. 02:10 And we're so glad that you have joined us 02:11 as well for this study of the Word of God. 02:14 Before we go any further, 02:16 we want to go to the Lord in prayer. 02:17 And Pastor Kenny, would you pray for us? 02:19 Absolutely. 02:21 Our kind, gracious, Heavenly Father, 02:23 we thank You for the privilege of prayer today, 02:24 we come before Thee 02:26 because we sense our need of a Savior. 02:28 We sense our need of power of the Holy Spirit. 02:30 Lord, we have nothing within ourself 02:31 in which to give. 02:33 We rely totally upon Thee. 02:34 So we invite the Holy Spirit to consume 02:36 each and every one of us here, 02:38 those who are in front and those who are behind 02:40 every piece of equipment, 02:41 everything would be to Your honor and glory today. 02:44 May we pray to help our minds to be clear, sharp, 02:47 focused upon heaven. 02:49 And may the things of earth grow strangely dim 02:51 as we sit at Your feet today. 02:53 Thank You for this lesson. 02:54 Thank You for all the individuals 02:56 that are watching or listen, may it be a blessing. 02:58 We thank you again, Lord, take control in Jesus' name. 03:01 Amen. Amen. 03:03 It's been a wonderful study this entire quarter. 03:06 This quarter we have established 03:07 the inspiration of the Word of God. 03:09 Would you say that's accurate? 03:10 We've established the inspiration 03:12 of the prophetic Word, 03:14 the authority of the Bible over tradition, or experience, 03:19 or culture, or reason. 03:20 Sola Scriptura, 03:22 the Bible and the Bible alone as our authority of faith, 03:27 the doctrine and practice. 03:29 We've talked about the inherent power 03:31 in the Word of God, 03:33 and how the Word of God is living and life changing, 03:37 and the authority of the Bible over even other sources. 03:41 This week, we talk about the Bible and prophecy. 03:46 I want to start with the purpose of prophecy. 03:48 Bible prophecy is crucial to our identity. 03:52 And our mission is Seventh-day Adventist Christians. 03:56 Prophecy builds faith. 03:58 We've talked about this before. 03:59 Prophecy builds faith 04:01 in the authority of the Word of God. 04:04 Prophecy provides an internal and external mechanism 04:08 to confirm the accuracy of the Word of God. 04:11 Let's look at John 14. This is Jesus speaking. 04:15 This passage here shortly before His death. 04:17 John 14:29, 04:20 "Jesus says, 'And now I have told you 04:22 before it comes, that when it does come to pass, 04:26 you may believe." 04:28 Prophecy provides us internal and external mechanism 04:31 to confirm the accuracy of the Word of God. 04:34 When it happens, when it comes to pass, 04:36 we may believe. 04:38 Now there's different methods for interpreting prophecy. 04:42 There's the preterist method focusing more on the past. 04:47 There is a futurist method focusing on the future 04:50 or future fulfillment of prophecies. 04:53 The idealist method 04:54 which focuses on the ideas conveyed within that. 04:58 The historicist's method talks about events and prophecy 05:02 as being progressive. 05:04 We see a continuous fulfillment of history 05:07 starting in the past 05:08 and ending with God's eternal kingdom. 05:12 In other words, 05:13 many of the prophecies in the Bible 05:15 follow an unbroken linear flow of history 05:19 from past to present to future. 05:23 This was the method that the reformers followed. 05:25 And this is the method that we believe 05:27 as Seventh-day Adventist Christians. 05:30 Our memory text is Romans 8, Romans, why did I say Romans? 05:35 Daniel 8:14. 05:37 Daniel 8:14, which is, 05:41 you could say one of the backbone scriptures 05:43 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 05:46 "And he said unto me, 05:48 'Unto two thousand and three hundred days, 05:51 then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.'" 05:54 On Sunday we look at historicism and prophecy. 05:58 We look at the historical method 06:00 of interpreting prophecy as seen in the Book of Daniel. 06:03 We look at this principle of repeat and enlarge. 06:07 We're gonna look specifically at three different prophecies 06:11 of world kingdoms, 06:13 world empires that took place from Daniel's time in Babylon 06:16 all the way down to the Second Coming of Jesus. 06:20 This is Daniel 2, Daniel 7 and Daniel 8. 06:25 So turn with me to Daniel 2, 06:27 we're going to spend our time there in Daniel 2, 06:29 Daniel 7 and Daniel 8. 06:31 We'll look at this comparison as it were, 06:34 and this repeat and enlarge 06:36 principle of the kingdoms conveyed there. 06:39 Last quarter we discussed in, so if you watch last quarter, 06:42 this will be a bit of a reminder, 06:45 review and repeat and enlarge for you as well. 06:47 So Daniel 2, of course, remember, 06:49 Nebuchadnezzar had this dream, 06:51 and he couldn't remember his dream. 06:53 He called his magicians, and astrologers, and wise men, 06:56 and they couldn't tell him the dream 06:58 and they could not interpret the dream. 07:00 Then Daniel prayed to God 07:02 and God revealed the dream in a night vision. 07:06 And then Daniel went before the king. 07:09 And Daniel said, 07:10 "This is the dream and its interpretation." 07:13 So let's look at Daniel 2, we're in verses 36 through 38. 07:19 He is interpreting the dream. 07:20 He says, "This is the dream." 07:22 Now we would tell the interpretation of it 07:24 before the king. 07:25 This is Daniel 2:37 now. 07:27 "You, O king, are a king of kings. 07:29 For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, 07:33 strength, and glory, 07:35 and wherever the children of men dwell, 07:37 or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, 07:39 He has given them into your hand, 07:41 and has made you ruler over them all, 07:44 you are this head of gold." 07:46 The head of gold in the image 07:48 represented by the kingdom of Babylon. 07:51 Of course, at that time 07:52 Nebuchadnezzar was the king of Babylon. 07:55 Next we have the chest and arms of silver, 07:57 represented by Medo-Persia. 08:01 Now the text doesn't specifically say 08:02 Medo-Persia here, 08:04 but we can tell that through study, 08:05 through prophecy, through history, 08:07 and clearly it talks about it 08:09 in subsequent chapters of Daniel. 08:12 Daniel 2:39, 08:14 "After you shall arise 08:15 another kingdom inferior to you." 08:17 And we know that in Daniel Chapter 5, 08:20 that Babylon fell to the Medes and the Persians in one night. 08:25 The next half of that verse, this is, 08:27 "Then another, a third kingdom of bronze, 08:29 which shall rule over all the earth." 08:32 This is, we call it the belly and thighs of bronze 08:34 representing the kingdom of Greece. 08:37 Then the legs of iron, verse 40, 08:39 " And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, 08:41 inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces 08:43 and shatters everything, 08:45 and like iron that crushes, 08:46 that kingdom will break in pieces 08:48 and crush all the others." 08:49 This is the kingdom of Rome, 08:51 pagan Rome that came on the scene 08:53 next as the fourth kingdom. 08:55 Then we have the feet 08:56 partly of iron and partly of clay. 09:01 The Roman Emperor Constantine 09:03 divided the empire into western and eastern parts, 09:05 that's probably about AD 326. 09:08 The western part fell to the barbarians 09:10 and was divided into a number of European countries 09:12 which varied in strength. 09:14 The eastern part of the Roman Empire 09:17 continued as the Byzantine Empire 09:18 which was conquered by the Muslims in AD 1453. 09:23 We see this kingdom of iron and of clay, 09:26 we see some continuation of the iron 09:28 into this kingdom of the feet, 09:30 which we'll discuss further as a little horn power 09:33 coming later in Daniel 7 and Daniel Chapter 8. 09:35 Then we see this great stone that is cut out without hands, 09:40 representing the Second Coming of Jesus 09:42 and that eternal kingdom that will come 09:44 and that will set up 09:46 and no other kingdom will destroy that. 09:48 Turn to me to Daniel 7, 09:49 we look at this image again of the beasts, 09:53 instead of the image, 09:55 now we see four beasts come up. 09:58 We'll go through this quickly. 09:59 The first beast is synonymous 10:01 with the head of gold in Nebuchadnezzar's vision 10:06 in Daniel Chapter 2. 10:07 We're in Daniel 7:2-4. 10:10 "Daniel spoke, saying, 'I saw in my vision by night, 10:13 and behold, the four winds of heaven 10:15 were stirring up the Great Sea. 10:17 And four great beasts came up from the sea, 10:19 each different from the other. 10:21 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings. 10:23 I watched till its wings were plucked off, 10:25 and it was lifted up from the earth 10:27 and made to stand on two feet like a man, 10:29 and a man's heart was given to it. 10:32 Babylon, of course, is represented by gold, 10:34 which is the finest metal. 10:36 Here the kingdom of Babylon 10:38 is represented by the most noble animal 10:41 and bird, 10:42 the lion and the eagle. 10:45 Let's read verse 5, we see the next kingdom. 10:47 And suddenly another beast, a second, like a bear. 10:50 It was raised up on one side, 10:51 and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. 10:54 And they said thus to it: 'Arise, devour much flesh!' 10:59 " It's raised up on one side reflecting the unequal power 11:03 between the older Median Empire 11:05 and the younger but stronger Persian side 11:07 of the Medo-Persian Empire. 11:10 The three ribs represents the bear's victims, 11:13 you could say, 11:15 the countries that Medo-Persia had attacked and conquered, 11:18 Lydia, Babylon and Egypt. 11:20 Then we see the next beast which is the leopard. 11:23 Verse 6, "After this I looked, and there was another, 11:25 like a leopard, which had on its back 11:27 four wings of a bird. 11:29 The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it." 11:33 The wings show the swiftness 11:35 with which Alexander the Great conquered the world. 11:38 This is none other than the kingdom of Greece. 11:41 The four wings of the bird in the forehead 11:43 symbolize the four ways 11:44 that after Alexander's untimely death, 11:46 he was just about 33 or almost 33 when he died. 11:50 It was divided between his four generals. 11:53 Then we look at the great and terrible beast 11:55 having iron teeth and 10 horns. 11:58 That's in verse 7. 11:59 "After this I saw in the night visions, 12:01 and behold, a fourth beast, 12:02 dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. 12:06 It had huge iron teeth, 12:07 it was devouring, breaking in pieces, 12:09 trampling the residue with its feet. 12:11 It was different 12:12 from all the beasts that were before it, 12:14 and it had ten horns." 12:16 Iron teeth, signifying the iron legs 12:19 of the image of Daniel Chapter 4. 12:21 This is pagan Rome, 12:23 10 horn similar to the beast of Revelation 13, 12:26 and the beast in Daniel Chapter 8. 12:29 Then we see the little horn power 12:30 come up in the next verse, verse 8, 12:32 "I was considering the horns, 12:34 and there was another horn, 12:35 a little one, coming up among them, 12:37 before whom three of the first horns 12:39 were plucked out by the roots. 12:41 And there, in this horn, 12:42 were eyes like the eyes of a man, 12:44 and a mouth speaking pompous words." 12:46 This is the next power papal Rome, 12:49 that we see come on the scene 12:51 that speaks pompous words against the Most High 12:54 that persecutes the saints of the Most High 12:56 that intends to change times and law. 13:00 Now we don't have time to read all of Daniel Chapter 8, 13:03 but it does not begin with the kingdom of Babylon. 13:06 We see that instead the first beast that comes 13:09 would be the kingdom of Medo-Persia. 13:12 This is toward the end of the kingdom of Babylon. 13:15 So Daniel omits that 13:16 or the vision that God gave Daniel omitted that 13:19 and started with Medo-Persia. 13:21 That is the ram with two horns, 13:23 once again representing that unequal power 13:25 that with Media and Persia. 13:28 Then we see, of course, 13:29 the he-goat who comes with a notable horn, 13:32 which is Alexander the Great. 13:34 And we see later 13:35 that that is divided into the four kingdoms, 13:38 again, like the four generals. 13:41 Then we see in Daniel 8:9, 13:43 the little horn coming again 13:45 and it grows this time horizontally 13:47 representing pagan Rome. 13:49 Then in verse 10, it begins to grow vertically, 13:53 representing papal Rome, 13:56 casting down the hosts and stars of heaven, 13:59 attacking and persecuting God's people, 14:02 wanting to be as like the Most High 14:04 and attacking the heavenly sanctuary. 14:08 The image of Daniel 2 and the visions of Daniel 7 14:10 and Daniel 8 14:12 provide the basis 14:13 for the Protestant historicist interpretation of prophecy, 14:16 which Seventh-day Adventist Christians 14:18 still uphold today. 14:19 Amen. Amen. 14:21 Praise the Lord. 14:22 That was a lot of material to cover. 14:24 You tend to get those lessons 14:25 is all this material all packed in one, 14:27 but that was a great, great way of explaining it. 14:30 I have Monday's lesson which is entitled 14:32 "The Year-Day Principle." 14:34 And, you know, 14:36 as I was studying through this lesson, 14:38 you know, I love Bible prophecy, 14:40 and people don't realize 14:42 just how important this particular principle really is. 14:44 And you touched 14:45 on the multiple different schools of thought 14:49 or interpretation of Bible prophecy. 14:51 And I find it amazing that, you know, 14:54 you have the major three, you mentioned four, 14:55 but there's really three major schools of thought 14:58 which is the preterist 15:00 interpretation of Bible prophecy, 15:01 of course, the historicist interpretation, 15:04 of course, the futurism or futurist interpretation, 15:07 but it's interesting that in all of those but one, 15:11 there's no need for a year-day principle 15:13 or the application 15:14 of the year-day prophetic timing. 15:17 And so we're going to talk about this year-day principle 15:19 and we're going to talk about the validity. 15:21 First we're going to show some, 15:22 we're going to verify it in Scripture 15:24 and show exactly some examples 15:27 throughout the scriptures of this principle being used. 15:30 And then we're gonna talk about, you know, 15:32 how and in what situation 15:34 do we justify using this particular principle? 15:36 So I'm actually going to ask 15:38 you guys to help me out with this. 15:39 I need someone to take Numbers 14:34. 15:41 Brother Kenny, 15:42 why don't you take Numbers 14:34? 15:45 Brother John Dinzey, why don't you take Ezekiel 4:6? 15:48 Pastor, why don't you take Genesis 29:27? 15:54 And then Jill, we're gonna go into Luke 13:31 and 32. 15:59 So we're gonna start with Numbers 14:34, 16:02 probably the two primary text 16:04 that we often use to prove 16:06 or establish this year-day principle 16:08 for prophetic timing 16:10 and Ezekiel 4:6. 16:13 So we're gonna start with those first. 16:14 Brother Kenny, what does that say there? 16:15 It says here, verse 34, 16:17 "After the number of the days 16:19 in which he searched the land, even 40 days, 16:22 each day for a year 16:24 shall you bear your iniquities." 16:26 Okay, so basically this, in this particular instance, 16:30 the children of Israel out in the middle of the desert 16:32 in the wilderness, and they've been whining, 16:34 they've been complaining, they've been disobeying God. 16:36 And so, God declares a judgment up on everyone 16:40 from 20 years old, 16:42 up with the exception of a couple people. 16:44 Basically, God says, look, everyone, you know, 16:47 younger than 20 years old, they'll see the Promised Land, 16:49 but for every day that this has happened, 16:52 I'm gonna give you a year. 16:53 In other words, 16:54 40 years they wandered in the wilderness, 16:56 and anyone 20 years old or up 16:58 did not get to go into the Promised Land. 16:59 This year-day principle, 17:01 this is the prophetic timing established here 17:04 in this particular instance. 17:05 Let's go to Ezekiel 4:6, continue on that same note. 17:09 "And when you have completed them, 17:11 lie again on your right side, 17:13 then you shall bear 17:14 the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days. 17:17 I have laid on you a day for each year." 17:20 So there you go again. 17:21 So right here in this particular instance, 17:23 God is speaking to Ezekiel 17:24 and He's basically condemning the children of Israel 17:28 because of all of the apostasy. 17:29 They were in this incredible state of apostasy 17:32 when the Lord had drawn the line and said that's it. 17:35 And he makes Ezekiel lay on his right side. 17:39 And, of course, he establishes this 40 day time period, 17:42 but he says it's not going to be 40 days, 17:44 it's going to be 40 years. 17:46 And so, this day for a year principle 17:48 is established right here, you see that in Scripture. 17:50 Also, there are other ways 17:52 that we see this in the Scripture, 17:53 and I want to give a couple of examples of that. 17:56 Pastor, Genesis 29:27. 17:59 "Speaking of Laban and his request. 18:02 Right. 18:03 " Fulfill her week, 18:05 and we will give you this one also 18:08 for the service 18:09 which you will serve with me still another seven years." 18:14 Okay, so put this in context, Genesis 29, Jacob, 18:17 obviously came to get, 18:19 you know, to be with his bride, Rachel. 18:21 And so, for seven years, 18:23 he thinks he's working for Uncle Laban, 18:26 so that he can have Rachel as a bride. 18:27 And on his wedding day, 18:29 he finds out that he didn't marry Rachel. 18:30 He actually married the older sister, Leah. 18:33 And, of course, he goes back mad 18:35 at Uncle Laban and says, "Hey, what's going on here? 18:37 I wanted Rachel." 18:38 He says, "Look, I can't give you 18:39 the younger daughter before the older, 18:41 so I tell you what? 18:42 We'll work something out, work for me, 18:43 notice, he says, fulfill her week." 18:45 How many days are in a week? Seven. 18:47 There are seven days in a week. 18:48 So he says, "Fulfill her week 18:50 and then you can have Rachel also." 18:53 And so, it says there at the end of that verse. 18:55 He served me and still another seven years, 18:58 that year-day principle 19:00 is applied also in this particular text. 19:02 Again, we're just trying to establish 19:03 the validity of this 19:05 because I doing evangelistic series 19:07 and in talking and conversing 19:08 and doing Bible studies with people, 19:09 I run into all kinds of people to say, Oh, 19:11 this year-day principle is not really, 19:13 it's not really that big of a deal. 19:14 We don't need it, you know, 19:16 and because this year-day principle 19:17 is not applied appropriately and responsibly. 19:20 When we get to these prophetic books 19:22 like Daniel and Revelation, 19:24 we deal with a lot of time prophecies. 19:26 So what do you do with those time prophecies? 19:28 In misrepresenting 19:29 or misunderstanding these time prophecies 19:31 and not applying the year-day principle, 19:33 you have a completely different interpretation 19:36 of Bible prophecy. 19:37 In fact, you have 19:39 quite a large misinterpretation of Bible prophecy 19:42 when you do that. 19:43 And, of course, Jill, we also want to show 19:45 a New Testament example of this. 19:47 Jesus Himself used the year-day principle 19:51 in describing His own ministry. 19:52 So what does that say there, Luke 13:31 and 32? 19:57 "On that very day some Pharisees came, 19:58 saying to Him, 20:00 'Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You.' 20:03 And He said to them, 'Go, tell that fox, 20:05 behold, I cast out demons 20:07 and perform cures today and tomorrow, 20:09 and the third day I shall be perfected.'" 20:12 So this is quite interesting. 20:13 Jesus responds to the critics, you know, they've told him, 20:15 You better get out of here up to this point. 20:17 And it's just what probably have been 20:19 within the first six months of Jesus' ministry. 20:23 This is early on in His ministry, 20:25 and He's been out there, 20:26 you know, healing people 20:27 and performing all of these miracles 20:29 and the signs and these wonders, 20:30 and He's stirred up the community, 20:32 and it's gotten back to Herod. 20:34 And Herod doesn't like what's happening. 20:35 So again, a threat is made, you better get out of here 20:38 because Herod's coming after You. 20:39 He said, "You tell that fox, 20:41 that I cast out demons and perform cures," 20:43 notice six months relatively into His ministry, 20:46 "today, tomorrow, 20:47 and the third day I should be perfected." 20:49 Did Jesus continue His ministry three more days 20:51 or three more years? 20:53 So we see that Jesus applies the year-day principle 20:56 even to His own ministry. 20:58 So I believe that very clearly in Scripture 21:00 we see this verified. 21:02 Now the question I want to ask 21:03 is how and in what situation 21:05 do we justify using this year-day principle. 21:08 And I want to read some text here very quickly. 21:10 I'm not going to go in depth, 21:11 but I just want to mention them. 21:13 We're speaking of text using prophetic timing 21:15 such as Daniel 7:25, 21:18 which toward the end of that particular verse, 21:20 it says, "Then the saints shall be given to his hand 21:22 for a time and times and a half a time." 21:25 What do we do with that? 21:26 Is that, that's clearly prophetic timing. 21:28 Also Daniel 8:14, which we mentioned earlier. 21:31 "And he said to me, for 2300 days, 21:33 then the sanctuary shall be cleansed." 21:35 Is that literal days 21:36 or are we talking about this year-day principle 21:39 being applied years. 21:40 We'll come back to that in just a moment. 21:42 Also Revelation 12:6, where it says, 21:45 "Then the woman fled into the wilderness, 21:46 where she had a place prepared by God, 21:49 that they should feed her there 1,260 days." 21:53 So was this the literal days or are we talking about years? 21:56 Okay. 21:57 And then, of course, another example, 21:59 Revelation 13:5, 22:00 speaking of that Antichrist power, 22:02 it says, "And he was given a mouth 22:04 speaking great things and blasphemies, 22:06 and he was given authority to continue 42 months." 22:10 So what we want to establish here 22:12 is there are three elements 22:15 to support a year-day principle 22:17 in these prophecies of Daniel 22:18 and Revelation that we mentioned. 22:20 Now, I just gave reference to four. 22:21 There's many others 22:22 that we don't have time to mention, 22:24 but I want to establish these elements. 22:25 Here it is. 22:26 The first one is the use of symbols. 22:28 Okay? 22:29 Because the majority of these passages are symbolic, 22:33 it would only make sense 22:34 that the numbers are also symbolic as well. 22:37 So we can't read these chapters and see all of the symbolism 22:39 come to the numbers and say, 22:40 Oh, those are literal numbers. 22:42 It fits the theme that symbolism, 22:44 symbolism, symbolism all the way through, 22:46 symbolic beasts, symbolic numbers, 22:48 symbolic timeframes as well. 22:50 The second point that solidifies or verifies 22:54 the use of this principle is, 22:57 of course, the long time periods. 22:59 These are extensive long time periods. 23:01 So many of the events and kingdoms 23:03 depicted in the prophecies cover a span of many centuries. 23:07 If the numbers were taken literal, 23:09 then the time prophecies would not harmonize 23:11 with the span of time 23:12 in which the kingdoms represent. 23:14 Okay? So that's number two. 23:16 And the number three very quickly, 23:18 is the peculiar expressions and how they're said. 23:21 The peculiar expressions used to designate 23:22 these time periods suggests a symbolic interpretation. 23:25 And we're talking about, you know, 23:27 these are not common ways to express time, you know, 23:29 I'm not going to come to you and say, you know, 23:31 Brother Kenny, I wanna you to come to my house 23:33 and spend 13 evenings and mornings with me, 23:36 you know, it's just not a common time 23:38 or time times and a half of time, right? 23:40 And, of course, the 42 months, 23:42 how many people do you know say, 23:43 you know, how old is that kid? 23:44 Oh, he's 42 months. 23:46 You know, we don't talk like this. 23:47 So these are definitely symbolic language expressions 23:51 to communicate 23:52 that we're not talking about literal time periods, 23:54 we're not talking about literal days. 23:56 But if you apply this prophetic principle, 23:59 a year-day principle, 24:00 then you are establishing a healthy interpretation 24:04 that makes sense. 24:05 And then in just really closing here 24:06 when we consider Daniel 8:14, 2,300 years. 24:10 I mean, if that was literal days 24:11 that would have put Daniel 24:13 about six years into the future. 24:15 But we know that if you read Daniel Chapter 8, 24:17 it's talking about the time of the end, 24:19 not 2,300 days but 2,300 years. 24:23 Year-day principle, use it responsibly. 24:27 And it's awesome, 24:28 it really helps us to understand 24:30 Bible prophecy better. 24:31 Amen. Thank you so much, Ryan. 24:33 You know I've studied and understood 24:35 the year-day principle, 24:36 but you shared some things 24:38 that were new for me in interpreting it. 24:40 That was great. Thank you. 24:41 We're gonna take a short break. 24:43 We'll be right back. 24:49 Ever wish you could watch 24:50 a 3ABN Sabbath School Panel again, 24:53 or share it on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter? 24:56 Well, you can by visiting 3abnsabbathschoolpanel.com. 25:01 A clean design makes it easy 25:03 to find the program you're looking for. 25:05 There are also links to the Adult Bible Study Guide 25:09 so you can follow along. 25:11 Sharing is easy. 25:12 Just click share and choose your favorite social media. 25:15 Share a link, save a life for eternity. 25:23 Welcome back to our study of the Bible and prophecy. 25:26 We'll continue with Tuesday's lesson, 25:27 Pastor John Lomacang. 25:29 Well, I'm going to build on what you started, Jill, 25:31 because mine is, in fact, 25:32 identifying the little horn 25:36 of Daniel 7 and Daniel 8. 25:40 I want to begin with a couple of things though, 25:42 because we talked about different schools of thought, 25:46 futurism, preterism and historicism. 25:51 Strangely enough, 25:52 because historicism is a confluence, 25:55 it's a linear understanding of Bible prophecy. 25:58 You find that historicism then, it has a past, 26:01 it has a present and it has a future. 26:04 While it's not futurism, 26:06 all of the prophecies outlined in historicism 26:10 have not been fulfilled. 26:12 So there is a future aspect of historicism 26:14 not known as futurism, 26:17 because futurism pushes 26:18 all of a prophecy to the future. 26:21 But historicism has a continual linear unfolding. 26:24 As you find the four kingdoms, 26:27 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. 26:29 In Babylon's day, then Medo-Persia, 26:31 Greece and Rome were futurists, 26:32 were of future understanding. 26:35 In John's day, he was living at the time when Babylon, 26:39 Medo-Persia and Greece had already fallen. 26:40 That's right. 26:41 He was living in the time of political Rome, 26:46 or the secular aspects of Rome. 26:49 But then the papal part of it was yet to come. 26:52 So when you look at historicism, 26:54 there's a continual unfolding 26:56 and we know as we look at the books of Revelation, 26:59 at the book of Revelation and Daniel together, 27:02 there are some aspects that are yet to be fulfilled, 27:04 which we don't call futurism, 27:06 but simply 27:08 the latter components of historicism. 27:10 I want to add one more thing. 27:12 There's also three other schools of thought, 27:16 pre-tribulation, pre-millennialism, 27:19 then this post-tribulation, pre-millennialism. 27:22 And then there's a millennialism. 27:25 Let me go ahead and identify those very quickly 27:27 because we're going to get 27:28 to the little horn here in just a moment 27:30 and show you how that fits 27:31 into the categorical description 27:33 of each of those aspects of understanding prophecy. 27:36 Post-tribulation, 27:37 pre-millennialism fits into the category, 27:39 you may have heard about the rapture 27:41 or the secret rapture, 27:43 meaning people believe that before the tribulation, 27:45 sorry, pre-tribulation, 27:48 pre-millennialism is what fits into the rapture. 27:51 People believe that before the tribulation 27:54 and before the thousand years is when Jesus is going to come. 27:58 But the Bible speaks of the return of Christ 28:00 as post-tribulation, meaning after the tribulation, 28:05 before the thousand years 28:06 is when the return of Jesus is going to come. 28:09 We are post-tribulation, pre-millennialists. 28:13 Try to remember that on tomorrow. 28:16 Then there's a third category 28:17 which came along later on that's called a millennialism, 28:21 which a millennialist believe 28:22 that we are living in the thousand year period. 28:26 And they believe that 28:28 at the end of the thousand year period, 28:29 Jesus will come, 28:31 destroy sin and make the earth, renew the earth. 28:35 We are not a millennialist. 28:36 That's a smaller school of thought. 28:39 So primarily all of Christendom 28:40 is broken down into post-tribulation 28:43 or pre-tribulation, we are post, 28:45 meaning Jesus is going to come after the tribulation. 28:48 That's why Psalms 91 is so significant. 28:51 He talked about in the time of trouble, 28:53 1000 will fall at your side 28:54 and 10,000 now at your right hand, 28:56 but will not come near you only with your eyes, 28:59 will you behold and see the reward of the wicked. 29:02 And then in Revelation, 29:04 the prayer of Christ was not that, 29:07 not that the church will be taken out of the world, 29:10 but that they'll be kept 29:11 from the trouble 29:12 that will be coming upon the world. 29:14 Then also you go back to the parallel of that, 29:16 in the land of Egypt, 29:18 during the falling of the plagues, 29:21 the Israelites were in Egypt. 29:23 They were not taken out of Egypt yet. 29:27 So seven of those ten plagues affected Egypt. 29:30 The last three affected Israel. 29:32 The last few were primarily for the Egyptians alone. 29:36 And so you see that the whole inference 29:38 of the time of trouble 29:40 or the understanding of prophecy is this fact, 29:42 that people of God are going to be protected 29:45 during that time. 29:46 They're not going to be taken away from that time. 29:49 They'll see the impact, 29:50 but there'll be dwelling in the secret place 29:52 of the Most High, Psalm 91. 29:54 Now the little horn, Jill, you did a very good job, 29:57 but what I want to add to that is 2 Peter 1:20. 30:00 The Bible says, 30:01 one of the reasons why we understand 30:03 Bible prophecy 30:05 the way we do is we don't allow 30:07 Scripture to be a private interpretations, 30:10 knowing this first that no prophecy of Scripture 30:14 is of any private interpretation. 30:16 I think in one of our prior lessons, 30:18 we pointed out 30:19 that the Bible identifies its own symbols. 30:21 And this is really important 30:23 because if you go outside of the Bible 30:25 to begin to identify symbols, 30:27 there are people that identify what's happening in the Bible 30:30 based on news reports, 30:32 or based on some war 30:34 that's taking place in the Middle East. 30:35 I remember when the Gulf War happened 30:37 in 1991, 30:39 a whole host of pastors and evangelical leaders said, 30:44 "Oh, this is the battle of Armageddon." 30:47 And I remember very well, newspaper editor 30:50 in the Vallejo Times in Vallejo, California, 30:52 wrote in the article. 30:54 He says, "If you are so sure 30:55 that this is the battle of Armageddon, 30:59 why didn't you tell us before it happened." 31:02 And we found out 31:04 that the Gulf War was just the Gulf War, 31:06 it was not the battle of Armageddon. 31:09 So what's pointed out in this 31:10 as far as the little horn's power 31:12 is concerned, remember, as Jill pointed out Daniel 2, 31:16 the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, 31:19 and you didn't get to the iron and clay, 31:21 which is in the feet and the ten toes 31:23 where the iron and clay are still mixed, 31:24 showing that in the course of human history, 31:27 down at the very end, 31:28 the iron and clay are going to be involved 31:30 in the closing scenes. 31:31 Then you have in Daniel Chapter 7, 31:33 you have the lion, you have what else? 31:36 The bear, you have the leopard with four heads and four wings. 31:39 Then you have the nondescript beast 31:41 which has iron teeth, 31:43 that tramples and breaks the residue of the earth 31:46 with its feet. 31:47 Then the iron in that beast is parallel to the iron 31:52 in the image of Daniel 2, 31:54 which is in the toes of that image, 31:56 meaning that we all know now historically, 31:59 that the only four kingdoms that we had in antiquity 32:02 that still exist today is the kingdom of Rome. 32:05 That's right. 32:06 And so when we think about Rome 32:08 and its part in Latter Day Events, 32:12 it is not... 32:14 It's not pagan any longer, 32:16 gets pagan and politically religious. 32:20 So it maintains its pagan aspects 32:23 from where 32:24 its worship principles have come from, 32:27 but it's very political. 32:28 So we can say, it's a religio-political power. 32:32 But when you think of Daniel 7 and 8, 32:34 and that's what 32:35 this particular day was pointing out, 32:37 so what you did, Jill, was wonderful. 32:38 You took the broader view, but in Daniel 7 and 8, 32:42 it identifies seven particular principles 32:45 to show that Rome is involved in both of these chapters. 32:49 So let's bring out one of those. 32:50 First of all, 32:52 both are described in Daniel 7 and 8 as a horn. 32:57 You find clearly in Daniel 7. 32:59 The Bible says in Daniel 7:8, 20 and 25. 33:03 I'll just read verse 8, 33:04 "I was considering the horns, 33:06 and there was another horn, a little one." 33:11 Verse 20, "And the ten horns that were on its head, 33:14 and the other horn." 33:17 And then verse 25, 33:18 speaking about that horn, 33:20 "He shall speak pompous or great words 33:22 against the Most High," 33:23 describing what it's going to do. 33:25 So Rome, you'll find clearly in history, 33:28 one of the most outspoken powers against God 33:32 was the bishops and the popes of Rome, 33:36 as it were to almost to try to confiscate God's authority 33:42 and in His Holiness 33:43 by calling themselves God on earth, 33:46 saying that even angels are subject 33:48 to their dictates and their laws. 33:50 So they did describe themselves as the Bible does. 33:53 So both are described as horns, the other one, 33:56 both are described as persecuting powers. 34:00 Very carefully, 34:01 both are self exalting and blasphemous. 34:05 What does blasphemous mean? 34:06 That means when you try to usurp a position 34:09 and an authority that belongs only to God. 34:12 Prime example, 34:14 who can forgive sin but God alone. 34:17 And Rome claims to be able, 34:18 the leaders of Rome claimed to be able to forgive sin. 34:20 But there's only one mediator between God and man, 34:23 that's the man Christ Jesus. 34:24 But Rome, its leadership in the religious sense 34:27 tend to be in a mediatorial role 34:30 between God and man. 34:31 And you find Mary continually, 34:33 I was just reading an article recently. 34:34 He says, Mary, 34:36 and we had a terrible tragedy recently, 34:38 some somebody famous passed away, but they said, 34:42 "May Mary be your intermediary 34:44 between your family and you now." 34:47 Well, you know, we love Mary 34:48 but Mary's sleeping in her grave. 34:51 So very quickly, both are self exalting powers. 34:53 The fourth thing, both target the people of God. 34:57 The fifth point, 34:59 both had aspects of their activity 35:02 delineated by a prophetic time. 35:05 In other words, they're both locked 35:06 to a particular time when they came into existence 35:09 and when they will receive a wound. 35:11 The sixth point, 35:12 both of them extend until the end of time 35:15 clearly pointing out that fourth kingdom, 35:18 the power of Rome, 35:19 and both are to be supernaturally destroyed. 35:25 God in essence is going to have the final say. 35:28 No power whether great or small 35:30 will survive the kingdom of God. 35:32 That's right. Amen. 35:34 Amen. Amen. 35:35 Well, by now, I think 35:37 our viewers and listeners have realized 35:40 that you have to pay close attention 35:43 to each and every part of this 35:44 because we're dealing with Bible prophecy. 35:46 A lot of information is being thrown at you 35:49 that is very important, very vital. 35:52 The part that I have to do, 35:53 I have the list to follow just to cover a portion 35:55 that the first time I explained to somebody 35:57 took me 45 minutes. 36:00 Let's see what, how far we can get. 36:03 Let's go to the lesson entitled 36:08 "The Investigative Judgment." 36:11 I would like to read from Matthew 16:27 to 28. 36:15 After I read this, 36:18 maybe Pastor Ryan can read Revelation 22:12, for me. 36:22 So Matthew 16:27 and 28. 36:25 The Bible says, 36:26 "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, 36:31 and loses his own soul? 36:33 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 36:36 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father 36:40 with His angels, 36:41 and then He will reward each according to his works. 36:46 Now, Revelation 22:12. 36:49 Revelation 22:12, says, 36:51 "And behold, I am coming quickly, 36:53 and My reward is with Me, 36:54 to give to every one according to his work." 36:57 Thank you very much. 36:58 So we see these two scriptures 37:01 tell us that when Jesus comes in His glory, 37:04 He is coming to give people according to their works. 37:08 This helps us to understand that before this 37:10 there is an investigative judgment 37:12 that takes place. 37:14 And this is what we're going to go into 37:16 as we go 37:17 into Revelation Chapter 7 and 8, and even 9. 37:21 So the prophetic outline 37:22 that we have been studying this week 37:25 really has found 37:27 what the lesson calls overwhelming support 37:29 among Protestant historicists since the era, 37:32 the Reformation. 37:34 But the part about the investigative judgment, 37:37 it was not until the 1800s 37:39 that this began to be understood. 37:43 Because, like it says in the Book of Daniel, 37:46 the angel told them to seal up those things. 37:49 It is for the time of the end. 37:51 So as we arrive at the time of the end, 37:53 these things became clearer for God's people. 37:56 And this is why we can tell you 37:58 that there is an investigative judgment 38:00 going on right now, 38:02 and you must pay close attention to this. 38:05 We encourage you to read Daniel 7, 38:08 8 and 9 carefully to understand this better. 38:11 But we're going to give you like a brief, 38:13 very brief outline of what's going on. 38:16 Let's go to Daniel 7:9-14. 38:18 Daniel 7:9-14, 38:22 "I watched till thrones were put in place, 38:25 and the Ancient of Days was seated, 38:27 His garment was white as snow, 38:29 and the hair of His head was like pure wool. 38:32 His throne was a fiery flame, its wheels a burning fire. 38:37 A fiery stream issued and came forth 38:40 from before Him. 38:41 A thousand thousands ministered to Him, 38:44 ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him." 38:47 A very important thing is taking place. 38:49 Notice, "The court was seated, and the books were opened." 38:55 This is a court scene that is taking place here 38:57 in Daniel Chapter 7 38:59 in the midst of what's going on the earth, 39:01 this is happening in heaven. 39:04 Notice now as we move on to verse 11. 39:07 "I watched then 39:08 because of the sound of the pompous words 39:10 which the horn was speaking," 39:12 which we have already talked about. 39:14 While this is going on, 39:16 on earth that is going on in heaven 39:18 that we're talking about. 39:19 "I watched till the beast was slain, 39:21 and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame. 39:25 As for the rest of the beasts, 39:26 they had their dominion taken away, 39:29 yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. 39:33 I was watching," notice this, 39:35 "in the night visions, and behold, 39:37 One like the Son of Man, 39:38 coming with the clouds of heaven!" 39:41 Now people think, oh, wait a minute, 39:42 Jesus Christ is coming to earth to rescue His children. 39:45 No, pay close attention. 39:47 Where does He go? 39:48 The verse continues by saying, 39:50 "He came to the Ancient of Days, 39:52 and they brought Him near before Him." 39:56 So in verse 13, 39:58 it establishes that Jesus the Son of man 40:01 goes before the Ancient of Days, 40:04 where the scene of judgment is taking place. 40:07 Remember that the books are open, 40:09 the court was seated and the books were open. 40:11 This is where Jesus is brought. This is a court scene. 40:14 This is the investigative judgment 40:16 that is described here in Daniel. 40:20 This is a parallel passage. 40:22 I'm trying to say parallel passage 40:23 in Daniel Chapter 7 to Daniel Chapter 8. 40:26 Now let's finish verse 14. 40:29 "Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, 40:33 that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. 40:36 His dominion is an everlasting dominion, 40:39 which shall not pass away, 40:40 and His kingdom 40:42 the one which shall not be destroyed." 40:44 This is a parallel passage 40:46 to what's going on in Daniel Chapter 8. 40:48 And we'll have to move quickly to Daniel 8:14. 40:52 You have already heard this 2,300 days, 40:56 day for a year prophecy. 40:59 This is what we're talking about, 41:00 so it's 2,300 years. 41:02 Let's read Daniel 8:14. 41:05 "And he said to me, for 2,300 days, 41:09 then the sanctuary shall be cleansed." 41:12 Yes, some Bible version say 41:15 unto 2,000 evenings and mornings, 41:19 then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. 41:20 The question is, what sanctuary? 41:22 Is it the sanctuary on earth, or is it a sanctuary in heaven? 41:26 This is a parallel passage to Daniel Chapter 7, 41:29 where the court is seated and the books are open. 41:32 This is an investigative judgment 41:34 prior to Jesus Christ coming to this earth. 41:37 Every case must be decided, because when He comes, 41:41 He is coming with His reward to get to every person 41:44 according to his works. 41:46 So let's move quickly now. 41:48 Let's read Daniel 8:26 and 27. 41:52 "And the vision of the evenings and mornings 41:55 which was told is true, therefore seal up the vision, 41:59 for it refers to many days in the future." 42:04 And Daniel's like, he was shocked. 42:06 "And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days, 42:09 afterward I arose and went about the king's business. 42:12 I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it." 42:15 Daniel wanted to understand 42:17 what was going to happen to his people. 42:19 And he continued and prayed and prayed, 42:21 asking for understanding, 42:23 but it was to be sealed till the time of the end, 42:25 the early 1800s, like I mentioned. 42:28 Let's go to Daniel 9:24. 42:30 We have to find the starting point 42:31 of these 2,300 years. 42:34 In Daniel 9:24, 42:36 we pick up the prophecy 42:38 because here is something powerful 42:40 that we must understand 70 weeks prophecy, 42:43 weeks of prophecy. 42:45 "Seventy weeks are determined 42:46 for your people and for your holy city, 42:50 to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, 42:53 to make reconciliation for iniquity, 42:56 to bring in everlasting righteousness, 42:58 to seal up vision and prophecy, 43:00 and to anoint the Most Holy." 43:04 A lot is going on here 43:05 that we unfortunately did not have time 43:07 to talk about. 43:08 But this part here where it says 43:11 70 weeks are determined, 43:13 this is cut off, cut off from what? 43:17 Cut off from what? 43:18 From the 2,300 years, the 70 weeks. 43:23 What 70 times 7? Four hundred and ninety. 43:26 So 490 years were to be cut off or separated 43:29 because something was going to happen 43:31 during those 490 years. 43:33 Opportunity for the people of Israel, 43:35 like we read here to, to finish the city, 43:40 to finish transgression, 43:41 to make an end of sins 43:42 and to make reconciliation for iniquity. 43:44 Jesus Christ during these 400 years 43:46 was going to come to make reconciliation 43:50 for His people, for you and I. 43:51 Praise the Lord for that. 43:53 Unfortunately, we do not have time 43:54 to go too much into this. 43:56 Let's go to verse 25. 43:57 "Know therefore and understand, 43:59 that from the going forth of the command to restore 44:05 and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, 44:08 there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks, 44:12 the street shall be built again, 44:14 and the wall, even in troublesome times." 44:18 So we have here a mention of a decree, 44:22 a command 44:23 that was supposed to be put forth. 44:25 And that's the starting point 44:26 of the prophecy of the 2,300 years. 44:30 When you go Ezra Chapter 7, 44:31 you'll find a decree by Artaxerxes. 44:35 And this decree is been found, it's been researched. 44:40 It is a day 44:41 that is set in stone, let's say, 44:44 "In the fall of 457 BC, the decree was issued." 44:48 Read Ezra Chapter 7 44:50 to see that it fulfills the details 44:52 specified in Daniel Chapter 9. 44:55 So from that point, 44:56 if you look at your image there 44:58 and those that are listening will just have to imagine this, 45:01 457 counting 2,300 years 45:06 takes you to the year 1844. 45:10 In the fall of 1844, something happened, 45:14 described in Daniel Chapter 7, the Ancient of Days, 45:18 the court is there, and the books are open, 45:22 and Jesus Christ comes before Him. 45:24 Jesus goes from the Holy Place 45:26 to the Most Holy Place 45:28 to decide the case of every individual, 45:31 and starts with the dead, 45:34 then eventually moves to the living. 45:36 And after this, 45:37 Jesus Christ comes shortly after that. 45:40 That's all we have time for. 45:42 I wish we had time for more. Oh, my goodness. 45:44 I like that, you know, it really is encouraging. 45:46 We are living in the time of judgment, 45:48 and it encouraged us to be ready, right, 45:51 for the coming of Jesus. 45:52 So, you know, very good job, 45:54 a lot of material each one of you covered 45:55 is awesome. 45:56 I'm going to do Thursday's lesson 45:58 by the grace of God. 45:59 We're going to talk about typology, 46:00 yeah, in prophecy, you know, what does that mean? 46:02 What is it all about here? 46:04 And then we'll go into some passage of Scripture 46:05 that will maybe help us to understand it. 46:07 Definition, if you're like me, I like definitions of things. 46:10 I can make up my own, but that's not good enough. 46:12 So I'm gonna go what it says here, 46:14 "Typology is a study 46:15 or an analysis of classification 46:18 based on types and categories." 46:21 Notice, or you too, you can say 46:22 it's a doctrine of theological types. 46:26 So here we can see here 46:27 that through these things that Christian belief, 46:30 we're talking about prefigures and symbolize 46:33 by things in the Old Testament and the New Testament, 46:35 I think we can see that pretty clearly. 46:37 So understanding typology is very important 46:40 in study of Scripture. 46:42 And I'll just give you two quick reasons. 46:44 If you wish to conduct research, 46:47 this is one thing that you would want to use 46:50 if you're trying to use 46:51 a different system of classification 46:53 of materials and stuff 46:55 in order to understand how to relate to each other, 46:57 this would be good. 46:59 So how this fits in with all that we're talking about here, 47:02 I think it's very important, 47:03 because we're digging in prophecy. 47:06 We need to understand these things. 47:07 So typology focuses on actual persons, 47:11 and also events, and institutions, 47:14 and things that are founded historically, 47:17 historical reality 47:18 that points forward to a greater reality. 47:21 So it talks about one thing, 47:22 and then also refers to something on later on 47:25 that will be magnified as we go in. 47:27 This method of interpretation 47:29 goes back to Jesus, goes back 47:30 to the New Testament time's writers. 47:33 Of course, it's found in the Old Testament, 47:34 we're gonna look at some of those things 47:36 in a moment. 47:37 All right, our lesson ask us to read these. 47:38 So I'm going to try just to go ahead and read 47:41 these verses if you don't mind. 47:42 Get through them, 1 Corinthians Chapter 10. 47:45 There's a lot of verses here but I think very important 47:47 that we go through them. 47:48 In 1 Corinthians Chapter 10, we read verses 1 through 13 47:51 because this sets the stage here 47:53 for what we want to get across by the grace of God. 47:56 Bible says, " Moreover, brethren, 47:58 I would not that ye should be ignorant, 48:00 how all of our fathers were under the cloud, 48:03 and all passed unto the sea. 48:06 And we're all baptized into Moses in the cloud 48:09 and in the sea. 48:10 And did all eat the same spiritual meat, 48:12 and did all drink the same spiritual drink." 48:15 Notice what it says, it says, 48:17 "For they drink of that spiritual rock 48:19 that followed them" 48:20 and that rock was who? 48:22 Christ, yes. 48:23 "But with many of them, God was not well pleased, 48:27 for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 48:30 Now these things were for," what? 48:32 "For our examples, 48:34 and to the intent we should not lust 48:35 after evil things as they also lusted. 48:39 Neither be idolaters, as were some of them, 48:41 as it is written that people sat down to eat, 48:44 drink, and then they rose up to play." 48:46 It sounds like today almost, isn't it? 48:47 Sure. 48:49 "Neither let us commit fornication 48:50 as some of them committed and fell in the day, 48:53 day three and 20,000, 23, 000." 48:56 It's hard for me to kind of relate 48:57 to such a lot of bodies, a lot of people, 48:59 a lot of things were going on. 49:00 God was displeased. 49:02 "Neither let us tempt Christ as some them also tempted 49:05 and were destroyed by of serpents, 49:08 neither murmur ye, " notice this, 49:10 "as some of them also murmured 49:12 and were destroyed by the destroyer. 49:15 Now all these things happen to them for, 49:17 once again here it is examples, 49:19 "that they were written for our admonition 49:21 upon whom the ends of the world are come." 49:25 Verse 12, "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth 49:27 take heed lest he fall." 49:29 I've used that several times. 49:30 It's been used on me a few times. 49:32 Verse 13, I like this, 49:33 probably most familiar in all the verses. 49:36 It says, "There hath no temptation taken you, 49:38 but such as common to man that God is," I love it, 49:41 "He's faithful, 49:43 who will not suffer you to be tempted above all 49:45 that you're able but will with the temptation," 49:47 do what? 49:49 "Make a way of escape, 49:51 that you may be able to bear it." 49:53 Again, it's been mentioned here, 49:54 He's not going to take us out of it, 49:57 but He's going to provide a way that we can go through it. 50:00 I like that, I think that really adds to that. 50:02 So as we look at this thing, 50:03 let's go back in 1 Corinthians 1:10-13. 50:06 And let's kind of dissect it 50:08 just a little bit in the moments that we have. 50:09 Paul reminds the Corinthians here 50:11 and I think it's reminder to us who are living today. 50:14 It may hit harder to us today. 50:16 He said, not to be basically, don't be puffed up 50:19 with this thing called spiritual pride 50:21 or pride in any form here, 50:23 because you remember Peter there in the Mark 14:31, 50:28 you know, when he said, 50:29 when Jesus was talking to him about... 50:31 Jesus talking to him 50:32 about what he would go through and so on, 50:34 and Peter was telling, 50:36 but I'm going to be right with you. 50:37 And he says, simply right then, he said, 50:39 "If I have to" what? 50:40 "If I have to die, he said, I'm going to do that." 50:44 So we see that there was, can be some spiritual pride. 50:46 There was pride there, 50:48 no matter what I have to go through, 50:49 I'll be able to, I'm gonna follow you 50:50 all the way Lord, and we know what he did. 50:52 So the warning here and Paul has given the warning 50:54 to the Corinthian Church here. 50:56 He said, "Be careful about spiritual pride." 50:58 And we realize even the church and in our own individual life. 51:01 Now notice, the Israelites we know 51:03 were highly favored of God, 51:05 but they fail to enter into the Promised Land 51:08 because they would not follow God's instructions. 51:11 We have to question, 51:12 are we following God's instructions today 51:15 the way that he has them pinned down? 51:17 Not the way we like to see them, 51:18 not the way that we think they ought to be. 51:20 But are we following the way that God had them inspired 51:23 and pin down today. 51:25 That just simply we've to ask ourselves, 51:28 and he's telling the Corinthian believers, 51:29 the church, he's saying, "Look, 51:31 if we do the way they did, 51:32 you're not going to go in either." 51:34 I think sometime even we need to hear that, 51:36 even in the church pews, 51:37 we need to realize 'cause we come to church, 51:38 we pay our tithe, we're here every week, 51:40 doesn't mean we're going to make it 51:41 to the kingdom of God. 51:43 It's him that doeth the will of the Father. 51:44 So, you know, 51:46 we need to be obeying Jesus Christ. 51:48 We realize what? 51:49 They didn't obey out in the wilderness, 51:51 has been meandering, 40 years wandering around. 51:52 Why? 51:54 Because they disobeyed God, it went farther than that, 51:56 because they still didn't learn their lesson. 51:58 And then they went into Babylonian captivity, 52:00 didn't they in Jeremiah Chapter 17? 52:03 Read about that and also Chapter 25. 52:07 They went into captivity. 52:08 There's a warning for us today. 52:10 Many. 52:11 Here's maybe one of the sad things 52:14 is that many did not go 52:17 into the land of milk and honey, 52:19 but they came close. 52:22 Think about it. They came close. 52:24 They almost completed their journey 52:28 and they didn't finish the course. 52:31 And one of the passage I... 52:32 I mean, I really love in Scripture. 52:34 I think it's in 2 Timothy 4:7. 52:38 Paul speaking. 52:39 I've read it a few times, 52:41 and I've cried over it a few times. 52:42 I think that's all right, 52:43 because sometimes it hits home. 52:45 Paul said at the end of his life, 52:46 and that's what I want to say at the end of my life. 52:49 You want to say at the end of your life, 52:50 I know you do. 52:51 He said, "I have run," what? 52:53 "I fought a good fight. 52:55 I have finished the course. 52:59 I have kept the faith." Amen. 53:01 So he finished it, so these Israelites, 53:03 they just about made it to the land of milk, 53:06 but the enemy came in, hit them, 53:08 and they didn't make it into. 53:09 Could happen to us today? 53:10 Though you're saying, we want Jesus come, 53:12 we need to be sure 53:13 that we're ready for Jesus to come. 53:14 We need to be loyal to know to Jesus. 53:16 Take heed, 53:17 it's what it says writer, take heed. 53:19 We're not gonna have time 53:20 to get in all the talks about here. 53:22 Paul takes us back to the Exodus, 53:23 you know, into here. 53:25 Here he's developing a typology. 53:27 This is what we're getting into, 53:29 based on the experience of the ancient Hebrews 53:32 in the wilderness. 53:33 Remember, God inspired Moses to record the events, 53:37 once again it's mentioned at least twice 53:38 what we read for our example. 53:41 The Bible is for our example. We'll read a few of those. 53:44 Maybe we'll have time to go over at least one of them, 53:46 Matthew 12:40. 53:48 Typology, notice how this comes. 53:50 Matthew 12:40, the Bible says, 53:53 "For as Jonas was three days 53:56 and three nights in the whale's belly, 53:58 so shall the Son of man be three days, 54:01 three nights in the heart of the earth." 54:03 So how does it work here? 54:04 For as Jonas or Jonah would be, would he'd be a type? 54:08 Yeah. 54:09 And then for three days three nights 54:10 in the whale's belly, 54:12 so shall the Son of Man, antitype, ain't that right? 54:15 Right for three days, 54:16 three nights in the heart of the earth. 54:18 So each of these, notice, text, Jesus, 54:21 and the New Testament writers apply type 54:24 and antitype interpretation 54:27 and then they allow the prophetic significance 54:31 to just stand out, 54:33 so you can understand it in a greater fulfillment. 54:36 In John 19:36, we have time for one more, John 19:36, 54:41 says, "For these things were," notice this, "were done, 54:44 that the scriptures might be fulfilled of him, 54:46 a bone of him shall not be..." 54:49 Broken. 54:50 "A bone of him shall not be broken." 54:51 You go to Psalms, I think it's 34:20. 54:55 It says, "There he keepeth his bones 54:57 and not one of them would be broken." 55:00 You know, praise God, that there's, you know, 55:02 we can get into the Word of God 55:04 and there's things here we can look at and we'd say, 55:05 praise God. 55:07 To me, it's like he's wanting to take a photo, 55:08 so that we can look it over, 55:10 we can see something developing here. 55:11 And later on, it even develops, you know, 55:14 fuller for us to help us 55:16 of those who are living in these last days. 55:18 Paul's word to the Corinthian Church, 55:21 our words should be to each other today 55:22 to the church, 55:24 this movement, the last day movement, 55:26 is we need to be careful. 55:27 Those things were written for examples on, right? 55:30 And so we need to follow those 55:31 so that we don't come up short. 55:34 You've begun this race, my friend, 55:35 and you have to go to the finish line, 55:37 and only by the grace of God, can you do that. 55:39 Keep your eyes focused upon Jesus, 55:40 and you'll be there. 55:42 Amen. Amen. 55:43 Thank you all so much. 55:44 What an incredible study, The Bible and Prophecy. 55:47 I just think we can have six weeks on this 55:49 and then we could begin to do it justice. 55:51 We want to give each one of you 55:52 a moment to share about your day. 55:54 Yeah, you know, 55:55 I'm not necessarily particularly about my day 55:58 being that I talked about the day-year principle. 56:01 But again, we've talked about prophecy 56:03 and, Brother Kenny, you mentioned something 56:04 just a few minutes ago that take us home. 56:06 And that's the fact that, you know, 56:08 the children of Israel came close. 56:11 I mean, they came right up to the Promised Land, 56:13 but they didn't enter, 56:15 you know, I don't want that to be the reality in my life. 56:18 I don't want to get close and miss it. 56:20 I want to go into the Promised Land. 56:21 So my prayer is that we all surrender to Jesus now 56:24 that we can go over into the Promised Land. 56:26 That's right. 56:27 And talking about all the little horns 56:29 and the big horns and the kingdoms. 56:31 The beautiful message about the Bible 56:33 is the kingdoms of this world 56:35 will become the kingdom of our Lord and of our Christ, 56:38 and only He shall reign forever and ever. 56:42 Amen. Amen. 56:44 Well, it is through the blood of Jesus Christ 56:46 that any one of us can be saved right now. 56:49 Since 1844, 56:51 there is a judgment taking place. 56:53 Jesus is in the Most Holy Place interceding for us, 56:56 and we should be living according to that knowledge. 56:59 Amen. 57:00 You know, we're living in the time that time's events, 57:02 there's good, there's bad, 57:04 there's victories, there's defeat. 57:06 There's a way to gain heaven, there's a way to lose heaven. 57:09 Remember, God had them inspired 57:10 written in the Word 57:12 so that we might read them 57:13 and they might be an example for us 57:15 who are living in these very last hours 57:18 if I might say of earth's history. 57:19 Just be ready, Jesus is coming. 57:21 Amen. 57:23 Thank you so much, Pastor Kenny, Pastor Johnny, 57:25 Pastor John, and Pastor Ryan, 57:27 what an incredible blessing 57:29 to open up God's Word and study. 57:32 And there's a blessing promised on you 57:33 as you open up God's Word and study. 57:35 I think of Revelation 1:3, 57:37 I want to leave you with this scripture. 57:39 "Blessed is he who reads 57:42 and those who hear the words of this prophecy, 57:45 and keep those things which are written in it, 57:49 for the time is near." 57:51 We believe we are living 57:53 in the investigative judgment hour, 57:55 that Jesus is soon to come 57:57 and now is the day of salvation. 58:00 If you hear God's speaking to your heart, 58:03 do not harden your heart, but open it up and say yes, 58:06 come in, change me, 58:08 and I want to learn the prophecies in Your Word. 58:10 Join us next week for our lesson 12 58:13 dealing with difficult passages. |
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