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00:06 The German city of Nuremberg is over 950 years old and is
00:10 located in the very heart of Germany. For centuries Nuremberg
00:18 was the unofficial capital of the Holy Roman Empire.
00:21 Successive German kings or emperors resided and held court
00:26 here. It was a place of power and prestige. Adolph Hitler and
00:38 the Nazis saw Nuremberg as the perfect stage for their
00:42 activities. Huge fanatical Nazi rallies were held here From this
00:47 platform Hitler delivered his fiery speeches that stirred the
00:52 emotions of his people. Nuremberg became a center of
01:01 Nazi idealists. Here plans were made and strategies finalized.
01:07 Adolph Hitler planned to unite Europe and establish an empire
01:11 that would last for a thousand years. The Thousand-Year Reich.
01:17 He plunged the world into the largest, most destructive, most
01:21 violent and most widespread war the world has ever seen. But
01:27 Adolph Hitler could have saved himself, his people and the
01:32 world a lot of heartache and agony if only he'd taken note of
01:37 an ancient prophecy cast in stone above the entrance to
01:42 the Old Town Hall or Rotthaus right here in Nuremberg. This
01:48 amazing prophecy written 2600 years ago accurately predicted
01:54 the future of Europe, the outcome of World War II and the
01:58 fate of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis. And it also contains a
02:02 message for us today. Don't miss it.
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02:48 Nuremberg is a city of castles, cathedrals, and canals. Here
02:53 German emperors were crowned, saints were buried and the most
02:57 famous and talented German artists in history created awe
03:01 inspiring works. Today Nuremberg is the second largest city in
03:06 State of Bavaria after Munich which is about 170 km south.
03:13 Nuremberg held great significance during the Nazi
03:18 era. Adolph Hitler
03:20 and the Nazis saw Nuremberg as the perfect stage
03:24 for their activities. Because of the city's relevance to the Holy
03:28 Roman Empire and it's position in the center of Germany, the
03:32 Nazi party chose the city to be the site of huge Nazi party
03:37 conventions. In 1933, Adolph Hitler declared that Nuremberg
03:43 should be the city of the Nazi party rallies. The Nazis
03:49 constructed monumental buildings arenas and roads for these mass
03:53 rallies, events and parades. These fanatical party rallies
03:58 became huge Nazi propaganda events. From this very platform
04:04 Adolph Hitler delivered his passionate and fiery speeches
04:08 that raised the hopes and stirred the emotions of his
04:12 people. (mass cheering) Nuremberg became the center of
04:21 Nazi idealists. Here plans were made and strategies finalized.
04:26 Adolph Hitler planned to unite Europe and establish an empire
04:31 that would last for a thousand years. The Thousand Year Reich.
04:36 He plunged the world into the largest, most destructive, most
04:45 violent and most widespread war the world has ever seen. It was
04:51 the first truly global war. Every continent participated.
04:55 World War II involved 61 countries with nearly two
05:01 million people, three-quarters of the world's population.
05:05 Sixty-two million people lost their lives. Hitler arrogantly
05:10 believed he could conquer Europe with the strength of his armies
05:13 and establish a world empire that would last for a thousand
05:20 years. But there was one German soldier, Franz Hassel, in the
05:23 elite company 699, who boldly told his superiors that Hitler
05:29 was doomed to failure. Franz Hassel was absolutely certain
05:34 about this. And you know the reason he was so sure. This
05:39 prophecy cast in stone above the entrance to the Old Town Hall
05:43 here in Nuremberg. These stone images depict a prophecy from
05:48 the Bible book of Daniel written 2600 years ago. It predicted the
05:54 outcome of World War II and the fate of Adolph Hitler and the
05:59 Nazis. At the risk of death, Hassel told his commanding
06:03 officer, Captain Rickers, that Germany would never unite Europe
06:08 under the Nazi swastika and control the world. He boldly
06:13 stated that Hitler and his plans were doomed. As Unit 699 drove
06:19 deep into Russia, Captain Rickers believed what Hassel was
06:24 saying and carried extra fuel and supplies hoping for a safe
06:27 retreat. They were among the very few who returned home
06:31 safely from the Russian front. So what is this prophecy from
06:39 the Bible book of Daniel? Well let's take a closer look at
06:42 these prophetic images cast in stone above the entrance to the
06:47 Old Town Hall. The first image is of a lion with eagles wings
06:53 together with a statue of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. The
06:58 second is a bear along with an image of Cyrus the Great of
07:02 Medo-Persia. A closer look at the other image shows a leopard
07:07 with four heads and is matched with a statue of Alexander the
07:11 Great of Greece. The fourth is a nondescript beast with 10
07:16 horns and is matched with Julius Caesar of Rome. So what do
07:23 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome have to do with Adolph
07:28 Hitler and the Third Reich symbolized by these Nazi
07:32 megastructures behind me? Well, let's find out.
07:41 Our investigation starts in Babylon. Babylon was once the
07:45 golden city of the ancient world. A great warrior king,
07:49 Nebuchadnezzar, ruled it from 605 to 562 B.C. His rule
07:58 stretched through most of the middle east and at the time this
08:02 was the center of the world. In 605 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar and
08:08 his armies struck out westward on a mission of conquest.
08:11 As part of their mission they attacked the city of Jerusalem.
08:16 They besieged and plundered the city looting the temple and
08:21 carrying off many of the sacred golden vessels. Daniel, a young
08:26 Jewish prince, was taken captive and with the cream of the city's
08:31 youth carried off to Babylon as a war hostage where he was
08:34 trained to be a servant of the king and one of the empire's
08:37 wise men. Now we pick up this story in the Bible book of
08:43 Daniel in the second chapter. Soon after Daniel's appointment
08:47 to the royal staff, strife broke out in the palace.
08:50 Nebuchadnezzar had gone to bed worried about Babylon and the
08:55 future of his kingdom. As he slept that night the king had a
09:01 dream that seemed to contain omens. And because of the great
09:05 importance he placed on dreams, he had to know what the dream
09:10 meant. But then a peculiar thing happened. Nebuchadnezzar forgot
09:16 his dream. In his desperation to recall it he brought in his
09:28 magicians, astrologers, sorcerers and wise men that
09:32 claimed to be able to read minds and foretell the future. To this
09:36 assembly of the wise men of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar brings
09:41 his strange demand:
09:52 These astrologers and magicians claimed to have psychic powers
09:56 and contact with the gods. They claimed to be able to read the
10:00 stars and foretell the future. Now it was up to them to either
10:05 prove their claims or expose their deceit:
10:15 They figured they could analyze the dream and then just make up
10:19 any old interpretation they wanted. He recognized what they
10:23 were trying to do. So notice what he demanded:
10:31 Well the so-called wise men failed miserably. Notice what
10:37 they nervously confessed:
10:53 The wise men couldn't meet the king's demands and so were
11:00 exposed as frauds. In a moment of anger Nebuchadnezzar
11:04 commanded that they all be killed. Execute them he
11:08 commanded. Execute all the wise men of Babylon. Now although
11:14 Daniel knew nothing of this incident the soldiers came for
11:17 him as well because he was considered a wise man. Desperate
11:22 he prayed for Divine intervention because, well
11:27 without it he was going to be killed. According to the text
11:30 God revealed the king's dream and its interpretation to Daniel
11:35 He then got to speak with the king. Notice what he said in
11:38 Daniel chapter 2:28.
11:50 He then told the king there was only one dependable source of
11:54 information about the future. Daniel's God. The king leaned
11:59 forward as if inpatient to hear the dream and its interpretation
12:04 Then Daniel went on to outline the entire dream:
12:34 Well, very simple. The king's dream was of a large statue. Its
12:39 head was of gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and
12:43 thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet a mixture of iron
12:49 and clay. Notice as Daniel continues in Daniel chapter 2
12:54 verses 34 and 35.
13:30 Now here comes the action. The statue was standing there when a
13:34 stone comes down and smashes it to smithereens and then a wind
13:39 comes and blows away the remains and that stone becomes a
13:45 mountain that covers the whole earth. Now what could this
13:50 strange dream have to do with Adolph Hitler and the Nazis, you
13:54 say. And what message does it contain for us today? Well as we
13:59 will discover the dream outlines the future in an amazing way.
14:05 In only 150 words the dream sketched the main course of
14:10 history from Babylon's day, 600 B.C., to the climax of
14:16 earth's history including the period of the second World War.
14:20 It starts in Nebuchadnezzar's day and stretches generation
14:25 after generation right down until the time of modern Europe
14:30 and beyond. But what does it all mean? Well breathlessly the king
14:36 waited for the interpretation. Here it is in Daniel chapter 2
14:40 verses 36 to 38:
14:51 How clear, how plain. We'll find out as the prophecy unfolds that
14:58 each part of this metal image represents a world empire or
15:02 nation that follows one after another. So notice what Daniel
15:07 went on to say in Daniel chapter 2 verses 39 and 40:
15:37 Pretty self-explanatory isn't it? After Babylon came a second
15:42 kingdom though inferior to Babylon. After that a third
15:46 kingdom and finally a fourth one made of crushing iron. So the
15:52 bottom line is that this was indeed a dream about the rise
15:58 and fall of great world empires starting with Babylon. Now just
16:03 as this prophecy predicted three other great world empires arose.
16:07 History shows that after Babylon fell the Medo-Persian
16:11 empire came. It was the second empire. After Medo-Persia came
16:18 the vast Greek empire which expanded under Alexander the
16:23 Great. The Jewish historian Josephus documented how
16:27 Alexander the Great knew his destiny as a result of being
16:31 shown the prophecies of Daniel. And then the predicted fourth
16:36 kingdom, the Roman Empire, followed after the fall of
16:40 Greece. All this just as Daniel had predicted. So there we have
16:47 them. Four great world empires following one after another;
16:54 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. Now do they ring a bell?
16:59 Well of course. They are the very same four empires cast in
17:05 stone above the entrance to the Old Town Hall in Nuremberg. Now
17:11 here is where this gets very interesting. The iron of the
17:15 legs symbolized ancient Rome. But the iron of Rome continues
17:20 down into the feet where the iron was mixed with clay.
17:24 Remember its legs were of iron its feet partly of iron and
17:29 partly of clay. Now all the other metals remained where they
17:34 were. The gold in the head, the silver in the arms and chest,
17:40 the bronze in the belly but the iron, the symbol of Rome, began
17:45 in the legs and continued all the way to the feet where it was
17:50 mixed with clay. Clay. We think of clay as brittle especially in
17:56 contrast to iron. What does this mean? Well Daniel explains in
18:02 Daniel chapter 2 verse 41-43:
18:41 Now, look at what you have here. When Pagan Rome fell it was not
18:46 going to be replaced by a single empire like the ones that
18:50 preceded it. Remember each empire was replaced by a
18:55 different metal symbolizing a new one. In contrast, Rome had
19:01 been divided up, carved up, in what had become and are still
19:06 now the nations of modern Europe. And that's why the iron
19:09 remains all the way down even into the feet and toes where it
19:15 was mixed with clay. This prediction was made about 600
19:20 years before Christ and look how accurately it depicts the
19:24 situation in Europe to this day. The Roman Empire was divided
19:29 into different powers that ultimately became modern Europe.
19:34 But notice what else it said about them in Daniel chapter
19:37 2 and verse 43:
19:54 You notice is says they will not adhere one to another. That is
19:59 these nations will never be united. Two world wars in the
20:05 last century alone were nothing but these nations massacring
20:09 each other. And even today in many places things are still
20:14 very touchy. Sure there'd be a European Union and a single
20:18 currency, at least in part of Europe but even all this is in
20:23 danger of fraying. You only have to look at what's happening in
20:27 Greece and Britain to see how unstable, uncertain and divided
20:32 Europe really is. The Bible predicted that the nations of
20:37 Europe would mix together and try to unite. However, the Bible
20:41 also predicted that no matter how hard they'd try they would
20:47 never become fully united:
20:53 The most powerful military men in history have tired.
20:56 Charlemagne tried and failed. Charles V tried and failed.
21:02 Louis XIV tried and failed. And Napoleon Bonaparte tried and
21:09 failed. And then came Kaiser Wilhelm II. He set out to unite
21:14 Europe in 1914. But we all know the tragic end of the Kaiser's
21:20 story. He plunged the nations into World War I with terrible
21:25 consequences. Over 16 million soldiers and civilians lost
21:31 their lives. And then came Adolph Hitler with an army of
21:43 five million Hitler promised to do what the Kaiser couldn't.
21:45 Here he was building the largest indoor arena the world had ever
21:50 seen. He promised his people to unite Europe and build an empire
21:56 that would last for a thousand years, a Thousand Year Reich.
22:00 Well, we've already seen the results of his attempt to unite
22:04 Europe. His mega complex is nothing but a pile of ruins and
22:10 he perished amidst the ruins of his own bunker. Hitler could
22:15 have saved himself, his people and the world a lot of pain and
22:19 heartache if only he'd taken notice of the prophecy cast in
22:24 stone over the entrance to the Old Town Hall in Nuremberg. You
22:29 see, it's another of Daniel's prophecies. It's found in Daniel
22:33 chapter 7 and builds on the foundation provided by Daniel
22:38 chapter 2. It follows the same historical outline as Daniel 2.
22:42 It's a parallel prophecy. It also predicted the same four
22:47 great world empires: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome.
22:53 But instead of using metals to represent these empires it uses
22:58 animals. So the lion with wings is matched with the statue of
23:02 Nebuchadnezzar symbolizing Babylon and the gold head of the
23:07 Daniel 2 statue. The bear is matched with Cyrus the Great
23:11 symbolizing Medo-Persia and the silver chest and arms of the
23:15 great statue. The leopard is matched with Alexander the Great
23:20 symbolizing Greece and the thighs of bronze in the statue
23:24 and finally the beast with 10 horns is matched with Julius
23:28 Caesar symbolizing Rome and the legs of iron of the statue. Like
23:34 Daniel 2 and the great metal image, Daniel 7 and it's animal
23:39 symbols predicted that there would only be four great world
23:42 empires: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. That's it.
23:48 There wouldn't be a fifth one. Now why is this ancient king's
23:54 dream relevant to us today? Simply because it shows us where
24:00 we are living in the stream of time. Where are we living? Not
24:04 in the time of the head of gold, not in the time of the chest and
24:09 arms of silver. Not in the time of the thighs of bronze and
24:13 not in the time of the legs of iron, but in the feet and toes
24:18 of iron and clay. Where are we living today? In the toenails of
24:24 history. So what's going to happen next? Well the prophecy
24:28 gives us the answer in Daniel chapter 2 and verse 44:
24:49 You'll notice it says, in the time of those kings. Which
24:55 kings? The nations of today. The nations of modern Europe that
25:01 have been attempting to unite. In the time of those nations,
25:05 the God of heaven will set up a kingdom symbolized by the stone
25:10 cut out without hands. The next current event on the stage of
25:14 history is the coming of Jesus and the setting up of his
25:19 kingdom. The Bible predicts that it will be Jesus who will set up
25:24 his kingdom. The next world empire will be the kingdom of
25:28 Jesus Christ. And the best news of all is this kingdom of peace
25:33 and happiness that will last forever. Do you remember Franz
25:39 Hassel, the German soldier who believed God's word with simple
25:44 faith. He believed the predictions of Bible prophecy.
25:46 He trusted in a God who is in control of the future no matter
25:52 what. He accepted the promise of Jesus found in Luke chapter
25:55 12 and verse 32:
26:07 Jesus is coming soon. He's coming to set up his kingdom. He
26:12 wants you there. Are you ready? Why not make a decision to be a
26:16 decision to be a citizen in God's kingdom right now while we
26:22 pray. Dear heavenly Father, we thank
26:27 you for the great prophecies of the Bible that clearly tell us
26:31 that Jesus is coming soon to establish your eternal kingdom.
26:36 We all want to be ready when Jesus comes. Please grant each
26:42 of us a place in your kingdom we pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
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28:00 Until next week remember the ultimate destination of life's
28:04 journey. Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth. And God will
28:09 wipe away every tear from their eyes. There shall be no more
28:13 death nor sorrow nor crying. There shall be no more pain for
28:17 the former things have passed away.
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