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by the friends of The
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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Doug Batchelor: Have you ever
been so nervous, frightened, or
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upset that you fainted?
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About 15% of adults are apt
to faint at the sight of blood.
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And it's not uncommon for people
to pass out at weddings or other
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public ceremonies that require
prolonged standing or stress.
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People have even been known to
faint in response to disturbing
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movies or when they're startled.
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The medical term for this is
vasovagal syncope, a condition
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caused by an extreme and rapid
drop in blood pressure that
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causes an individual to
temporarily lose consciousness.
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In Daniel chapter 8, we read
that one of God's great prophets
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had a similar experience when he
saw something in vision that was
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so distressing, he fainted from
shock and was sick for days.
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But what happened in
this disturbing vision that so
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troubled the prophet?
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And what's the meaning of
the terrifying image he saw?
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How does this longest Bible
time prophecy relate to God's
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people and the antichrist?
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You might be surprised how
the answers to these questions
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affect your life today.
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So join me now, as we
take a closer look at this very
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important subject.
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Doug: The wisest man who ever
lived, in Ecclesiastes, Solomon
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says at the end, as he's talking
about the vanity of life, what
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really matters.
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He pursued wisdom.
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He tried to understand.
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He had building projects
he pursued, a hedonistic life.
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He had done it all, tried it
all, and he wraps it all up by
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saying, "Here is the
conclusion of the whole matter."
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Ecclesiastes chapter 12, "Fear
God and keep His commandments,
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for this is the
whole duty of man.
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For God will bring every work
into judgment with every secret
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thing, whether
it be good or evil."
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That is not a
statement for just a few people.
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Paul says, "We will all
appear before the judgment seat
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of Christ."
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There is a judgment day coming,
but the Lord tells us that
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because there is a
way for us to prepare.
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Well, there's a prophecy in
the Bible that talks about this
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great judgment day where
everyone is going to give an
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account one way or the other.
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And we're not only looking
in Revelation, but the book of
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Daniel and
Revelation are parallel books.
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Let me just give
you a quick example.
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Daniel chapter 7 talks about
these four kingdoms that would
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persecute God's people, a lion,
a leopard, a bear, and then this
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nondescript beast.
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Then you go to Revelation 13,
the beast in Revelation 13, says
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he's like a lion, a
leopard, and a bear, and some
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nondescript beast.
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There's great parallels
between Daniel and Revelation.
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And, in Daniel, you've got this
image with the ten toes, and
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then you get to Revelation,
you've got the beast with the
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ten horns, and a lot of overlap.
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So, to understand the judgment
in Revelation, we also need to
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go to the book of Daniel.
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We're going to do that now
as we delve into our lesson.
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Question number one: Daniel's
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vision starts with a ram that
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has two horns.
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What does this ram represent?
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Do we need to guess, or does
the angel help us understand it?
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The angel comes to explain it,
and he said, "The ram that you
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saw, having the two horns--they
are the kings of--" what empire?
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Okay, now listen very carefully.
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When you read the prophecy in
Daniel chapter 2, Daniel chapter
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7, Daniel chapter 8, Daniel
chapter 9, Daniel chapter 10,
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11, 12, it's not dealing with
every government of the world.
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Those prophecies are
dealing exclusively with the
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governments and the world powers
that had a dramatic impact on
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God's people and His movement.
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So you're not going to find the
prophecy of Daniel talking about
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India, so to speak, or--
actually, Persia covered part of
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that, but, let's pick
Australia, Inca Empire, China.
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They're not dealing with that;
they're dealing with the ones
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that occupied God's people,
the Jews, and then later, as
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Christianity
spread, that persecution.
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So these are the kingdoms
and the powers that are listed.
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And, since these beasts
represent kings, when we get to
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Revelation, we talk
about the mark of the beast.
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I remember, when I first became
a Christian, they said, "The
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beast, it's a big computer."
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Any of you heard that?
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Yes, you came from that era.
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And we thought the barcode, the
barcode on all the products when
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it first came out, that's the
mark; don't buy anything that's
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got a barcode on it.
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All my friends that believe
that are now dead; they starved
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to death.
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So, there's a lot
of misunderstandings.
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But the beast, even in
Revelation 13, is a power.
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It's talking about a
political, religious power.
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All right, next, Daniel sees
a goat appears in this vision,
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with a great big horn
between its eyes, Daniel 8:5.
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What does this mean?
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The angel comes
later to tell us.
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"The male goat is the kingdom
of--" by the way, a male goat is
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what we'd call a Billy goat.
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"The male goat is the
kingdom of--" what--"Greece.
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And the large horn that
is between his eyes is the
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first king."
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And now who do you
think this first king is?
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It's Alexander the Great.
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And, as for the broken horn, he,
33 and he died at the zenith of
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his power, says he died, "and
that four horns stand up in its
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place, four--" what--"kingdoms
shall arise out of that nation,
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but not with the same power."
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They did not have the
consolidation of power that
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Alexander the Great had.
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So you've got this goat,
this Billy goat--I don't know if
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you've ever been butted by a
Billy goat, but I had a neighbor
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that once had me take care
of his goats while he was gone.
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He said, "Watch out for Billy."
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They're very creative; they
named their Billy goat, Billy.
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And so they said,
"Watch out for Billy."
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And, boy, you turn your back
to do anything, that goat is
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just waiting.
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His whole life revolves
around hoping that you will turn
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your back.
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And he charged me, and,
fortunately, he kind of reached
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the end of his chain, so I did
not get the full brunt of him.
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But they look for
opportunities to charge.
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This goat charges the ram,
the sheep, the male sheep, and
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kills it.
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And Alexander destroyed the
Persians, but--and he's really
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an incredible soldier.
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You think about it; just in
12 years--He had Aristotle for
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a teacher.
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In 12 years, he marched
his soldiers 22,000 miles.
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He conquered the world, but
he could not conquer himself.
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He died from either malaria or
alcoholism, drinking too much, a
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fever, at 33 years of age.
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And, as he was dying, they said,
"Who will rule in your place?"
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And he is said to have
responded, "The strongest."
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Well, his generals--He had
a young son that was not old
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enough to rule.
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His generals sort of fought
and divided up the kingdom into
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four parts.
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This is exactly what the
prophecy said would happen.
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And there you've got a map
of the Ancient Macedonian or
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Greek Empire.
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You could see the influence of
Alexander went all the way from
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Greece to the borders of
India, into Egypt, and up north
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into Turkey.
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And it was amazing how
much ground he covered and the
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influence of his conquest;
that's why the Bible is written
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in Greek, the New Testament,
because it became the language
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of education all through that
part of the world back then.
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Divided up Lysimachus
and Cassander and Ptolemy and
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Seleucus, the different Generals
of Alexander, and then it went
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through a lot of carving
up and intrigue after that.
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Then the vision, as you read on,
it says, from one of the four
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horns--or the four divisions of
Alexander's kingdom--"a little
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horn sprouts,"
Daniel 8, verse 9.
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What power does it represent?
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Says, "It came to pass--"
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You look in Luke chapter 2, what
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power came after the Greeks?
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"It came to pass in those days
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that a decree went out from--"
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who--"from Caesar Augustus that
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all the world should
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be registered."
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You can also look in John 19:15,
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"Pilate said to them, 'Shall I
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crucify your king?'
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And the chief priests answered,
'We have no king but Caesar!'"
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It's kind of frightening, and it
was Caesar who had expelled all
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the Jews from Rome in the days
when Paul was out preaching.
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So you've got this goat that had
the four--one central horn is
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broken off; Alexander dies;
his four generals divide up
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the kingdom.
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From one of the four, the
general that occupied and ruled
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the territory where
Rome is, he lost his power.
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And Rome began to grow into an
empire until they conquered the
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Greeks in about 168 BC,
and they continued to grow.
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Now, something you're going
to notice with each one of these
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empires, they're
stronger than the one before.
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Talks about this strong ram, and
then this very strong goat, and
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then this
exceedingly strong little horn.
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And you'll also notice, when
you get to the vision in Daniel
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chapter 2, it says that you've
got--each kingdom has a harder
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metal than the one before.
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What's harder, silver or gold?
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Silver.
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What's harder, bronze or silver?
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Bronze.
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What's harder, iron or bronze?
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Iron.
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What's harder, stone or iron?
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Stone.
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Yes, because the clay and
the iron, that's concrete.
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And, by the way, it's a stone
that destroys the whole thing.
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And you'll notice, in
that vision in Daniel 2--I'm
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assuming some of you have read
it--that there's a progression.
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Each one of these kingdoms lasts
longer; each empire lasts longer
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than the one before it.
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This has all been fulfilled.
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This is so exciting to me;
it's all been fulfilled by the
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history books.
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So, now, just
back up a little bit.
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Number four: What time
prophecy--we're going to study
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the longest time prophecy in the
Bible in the time that remains.
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What time prophecy is
introduced into the vision?
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It says, "For--" what's
the number--"two thousand three
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hundred days; then shall
the sanctuary be cleansed."
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Now, is that talking about 2,300
days, literal days, or, when you
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have a prophecy
like this, what is a day?
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The Bible tells us, if you look
in Ezekiel chapter 4, verse 6,
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"I have laid on you
a day for each year."
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In prophecy, a
day equals a year.
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The children of Israel, when
they had the spies, those 12
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spies went through the promised
land for 40 days, but they did
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not believe--at
least 10 of them.
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Moses said, "Because you did
not believe, for every day they
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wandered, there'll be a year."
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And then Jesus says, in
Luke chapter 13--After John the
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Baptist was imprisoned by Herod,
some messengers came to Jesus.
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They said, "You
know, John's been beheaded.
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You better be careful.
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Herod's got his eye on you."
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Listen how Jesus responds, "Go
tell that fox--" meaning Herod--
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"I teach and do cures and cast
out devils today, tomorrow, and
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the third day I will be
perfected--" or completed.
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Did Jesus preach three
more days or three more years?
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Three more years
after the execution of John.
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So, even Jesus, making a
prophecy, used a day for a year.
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So, when it says 2,300 days,
what are we really reading?
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Two thousand three hundred
years, all right, so this is a
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prophecy in Daniel 8; he's
talking about this beast power
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that was going to persecute
God's people, this little horn.
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Well, did the Roman
power persecute God's people?
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They had one point, then they
destroyed--not only did they
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occupy Israel, not only were the
Romans instrumental in executing
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Jesus, then they began to
persecute Christians and Jews,
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ultimately destroying the Jewish
temple and scattering the people
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and enslaving them and
crucifying 2,000 of them.
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And so it was a terrible
persecuting power that God
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warned Daniel about.
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But, as they say, wait,
there's more in the prophecy.
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What happens at the
end of the 2,300 days?
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"For two thousand three hundred
days; then shall the--" what--
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"the sanctuary be cleansed."
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All right, if you go 2,300 years
from the time of Daniel, was
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there a sanctuary in Israel?
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Temple had been destroyed, but
did we learn last night there is
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still a sanctuary on earth?
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What's the sanctuary on earth?
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Point to it.
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You are the temple of
God; we are living stones.
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Is there a
sanctuary in heaven still?
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We have a high priest, we read
in Hebrews; he's ministering
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before the real
throne of God in heaven.
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So what is his prophecy?
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Two thousand three hundred
days of sanctuary be cleansed;
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cleansed from what?
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The Bible tells us; you read a
little; go back a few verses, in
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Daniel 8:12, "He--" the beast
power--"cast the truth down to
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the ground.
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He did all this, he
practiced, and he prospered."
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There would be a great falling
away that would come into the
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church through this beast
power during the dark ages.
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And this is what
happened to Christianity.
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So there would be a cleansing
from the errors of that time and
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a cleansing from sin in heaven,
and it would--this movement,
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this cleansing, would
begin 2,300 days after a
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starting point.
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But there's a problem here.
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In Daniel
chapter 8, Daniel faints.
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I don't know if you
got your Bibles handy.
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The angel gives Daniel this
prophecy, and you go to the last
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verse in chapter 8, and he says,
"Seal of the vision, for it
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refers to many days in the
future--" I'm reading Daniel
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8:26--"and I--" Daniel--
"fainted and was sick for
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days afterward.
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I arose and went about the
king's business because I was
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astonished by the vision
and no one understood it."
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Now, Daniel is given a vision;
he tells them that the vision is
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going to be 2,300 days, or 2,300
years, but, in order to know
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what that means, you
need a starting point.
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Does that make sense?
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Otherwise, how do
you get an ending point?
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It doesn't mean
anything; it's just floating out
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there anywhere.
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Daniel 9 conveniently--Keep in
mind, in the Bible, there were
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no chapters originally;
those were added years later by
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scholars that were reading
so they could find things
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more easily.
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Daniel 8 flows into Daniel 9,
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and another vision happens.
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In Daniel 9, Daniel is given
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another time prophecy.
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How is this time prophecy
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related to the 2,300 days?
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They've got the same
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starting period.
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"O Daniel, I have come
forth to give you understanding.
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Therefore consider the
matter, and understand the--"
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What vision--?
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The one he had just given
him, in the previous chapter.
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"Seventy weeks are determined
for your people and for the
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holy city."
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This is called
the 490-year prophecy.
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When I first studied this, I
was in the mountains living by
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myself like a hermit in a cave.
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And God had worked it out where
I was just by myself, and I had
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my Bible and some good books.
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And, when I read this
and I finally understood this
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prophecy, I'll just tell you, I
was by myself, and I was jumping
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up and down praising the Lord,
scaring all the lizards and
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snakes because, I thought
to myself, "Jesus came right on
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time the first time."
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And He said, "I'm coming again."
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He is going to come.
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It was longer than maybe Daniel
had hoped, but He did come, and
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He promised He would come again.
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Number seven: When is the start
date for the 70 week and 2,300
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day prophecies?
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There's only one date given for
both prophecies; it's the only
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starting period.
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What is that starting point?
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He gives it to us in
Daniel 9:25, "Know therefore and
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understand, that from the going
forth of the commandment to
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restore and build Jerusalem
until the Messiah the Prince,
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shall be seven weeks
and sixty-two weeks."
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Now, the going forth of
the commandment was given by
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Artaxerxes I.
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There were
actually three commands that
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gave the Jews permission to go
back, and Darius gave a command
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to do certain things.
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But the final command that's
listed there, in Ezra chapter 7;
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you can look it up for yourself;
it's right there in the Bible;
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that's our starting point; it's
a date in history we're very
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sure of because we know
that Artaxerxes I, he followed
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Xerxes, who was assassinated.
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And we know, based on the
Persian calendar, what year of
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the reign it would be
when he issued this decree.
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We know what years Ezra went
with the captives back, and you
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can do the math and
figure it out; it's 457 BC.
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So you can even take out your
calculator and figure this out.
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If you go 7 weeks plus 62
weeks, at 69 weeks, 69 weeks is
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483 years.
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If you go 483 years from
457 BC, it comes to 27 AD.
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What happens there?
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Jesus comes to John in the
wilderness, and He's baptized.
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And I am so thankful for Luke;
Luke, he pegs that time period
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as just the best
historian in history.
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He says, In the 15th year of
the reign of Tiberius Caesar, he
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tells Pilate was
governor of Judea.
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He talks about Philip; he talks
about everybody, and there's
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only one time in Roman
history when all these rulers
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overlapped, and it's 27 AD.
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So it's just a really
well-established date, and I'm
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just thankful that God made
it easy for us to figure these
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things out.
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Number 8: What other important
events are revealed from the
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start date of
the 70-week prophecy?
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Well, it also said, in Daniel
9:25, "From the going forth of
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the command to restore and
build Jerusalem until--" who--
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"Messiah--" who's that; that's
Jesus--"the Prince, shall be
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seven weeks and
sixty-two weeks."
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See, the reason it breaks
off seven weeks separately is it
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took 49 years for them to
finish establishing the city,
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rebuilding, building the walls,
and becoming an independent
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group again.
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And so He breaks it up that
way, but then there's another 62
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weeks from the completion of
them having independence that
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way, until the Messiah comes.
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Now, I've got a little chart
up on the screen; it's going
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to grow.
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So you've got the starting point
457 BC; this is the decree to
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restore Jerusalem; it's
the third and final decree
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by Artaxerxes.
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And, if you go 483 years, it
comes to the baptism of Jesus.
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But, if you go 2,300
years, it comes to 1844.
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Well, let's take
this one piece at a time.
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You're probably wondering,
what's, what happened then?
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Look at the first part here.
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You've got--it's not on the
chart there, but first you've
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got your 49 years
of rebuilding the city.
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Then you've got 483 years;
it says the Messiah would be cut
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off after that point,
Jesus is baptized in 27 AD.
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Are you still with me?
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Then He confirms the covenant
with many for one week, that's
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seven years.
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In the midst--3 1/2 years into
His ministry--He is cut off,
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but He's not done
trying to confirm the
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covenant with His people.
00:20:09.00\00:20:10.31
You know what Jesus
said to the apostles?
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"As the Father
sent Me, so send I you."
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Jesus healed the
sick; He raised the dead.
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The apostles healed the
sick; they raised the dead.
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Jesus preached the gospel;
they preached the gospel.
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Jesus said, "I'm
sent to the lost sheep."
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They went just
to the lost sheep.
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Until the supreme court
condemned Stephen, after hearing
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the gospel, and executed him,
God was especially focusing the
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message on His people.
00:20:34.03\00:20:36.16
"After the sixty-two weeks
Messiah shall be--" what--"cut
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off, but not for Himself.
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And He'll confirm the covenant
with many for one week; but in
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the middle of the week
He'll bring an end to sacrifice
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and offering."
00:20:50.41\00:20:51.75
Jesus, 3 1/2 years after He
began his ministry, He died on a
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cross outside of Jerusalem.
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The veil of the temple was torn,
there was an earthquake, graves
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were opened.
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It was the end of
the sacrificial system.
00:21:02.86\00:21:04.99
Paul says, "Now
Christ is our Passover."
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You don't need to
kill lambs anymore.
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Circumcision is nothing.
Uncircumcision is nothing.
00:21:10.27\00:21:12.93
But keeping the
commandments is what matters.
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It's what Paul says.
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All right, so, looking once
again, you've got, you see in
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the midst of that last week, 3
1/2 years in person, 3 1/2 years
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through those who heard Him.
00:21:25.95\00:21:27.82
It says, "He confirmed the
covenant first Himself, then
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through those who heard Him,"
the apostles and the disciples.
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And it was in the midst of
that last seven, Jesus died on
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the cross.
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Friends, this is so amazing
to me; it all fits perfectly.
00:21:39.86\00:21:42.50
How could God control time
and events and see this far in
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advance so perfectly?
00:21:45.87\00:21:47.97
So, when He says He's
coming again, can we trust Him?
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Number nine: What happened at
the end of the 70-week prophecy?
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"Seventy weeks are determined
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for your people, for the holy
00:21:57.35\00:21:59.21
city, to finish the
00:21:59.25\00:22:00.85
transgression, to make an end of
00:22:00.88\00:22:02.58
sins, to make reconciliation
00:22:02.62\00:22:04.22
for iniquity, to bring in
00:22:04.25\00:22:05.82
everlasting righteousness, to
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seal up the vision and prophecy,
00:22:07.36\00:22:09.22
and anoint the Most Holy."
00:22:09.26\00:22:10.86
All of those things happened
00:22:10.89\00:22:13.19
just as God said.
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So, you see, that prophecy, the
charts up there, reaches all the
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way from 457 to 1844, and it's
also the 490-year prophecy that
00:22:17.53\00:22:22.97
tells us about the time
cut off for the Jewish nation.
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Number ten: On what date
did the 2,300-day prophecy end?
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Revelation 14:7, "Fear God and
give glory to Him, for the hour
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of His judgment has come."
00:22:39.59\00:22:41.72
We entered a phase
of the first judgment.
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I told you there's
three phases of judgment.
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The judgment that happens
before Jesus comes has begun.
00:22:46.93\00:22:52.17
And Christ is now--He's entered
into a special final phase with
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the Father.
00:22:55.97\00:22:57.31
You might call it the day of
atonement, heavenly, interceding
00:22:57.34\00:23:00.34
for His people.
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Number eleven: What is
the pre-advent judgment?
00:23:02.04\00:23:05.68
It tells us, in 1 Peter chapter
4, "For the time has come for
00:23:05.71\00:23:09.92
judgment to begin--"
where--"at the house of God."
00:23:09.95\00:23:13.89
So where does this
judgment principally begin?
00:23:13.92\00:23:16.86
Jesus is not judging the lost
world during this time because
00:23:16.89\00:23:19.79
He, Jesus said,
"They're already condemned."
00:23:19.83\00:23:23.06
It's those who have taken His
name to see if they're sincere,
00:23:23.10\00:23:27.70
you know.
00:23:27.74\00:23:29.04
Jesus said, "You'll know
them by--" what--"their fruits."
00:23:29.07\00:23:31.24
Do they have the
fruits of the Spirit?
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Didn't Jesus curse a tree
that had leaves and no fruit?
00:23:32.71\00:23:36.04
He went and He looked
it over and found no fruit.
00:23:36.08\00:23:38.65
He wants us to have the fruits
of the Spirit, and this is what
00:23:38.68\00:23:41.18
He said about
the vine, in John 15.
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How many of you have read in
your Bibles, Ezekiel chapter 9,
00:23:43.82\00:23:47.46
where it says that there's
a judgment that begins at the
00:23:47.49\00:23:50.16
house of God?
00:23:50.19\00:23:51.49
These angels of destruction
go through Jerusalem, beginning
00:23:51.53\00:23:54.96
with the ancient men, and
those that sigh and cry and pray
00:23:55.00\00:23:59.13
because of the sins of God's
people, they get a saving mark
00:23:59.17\00:24:02.94
on their foreheads.
00:24:02.97\00:24:04.27
We always think a mark
on the forehead is bad.
00:24:04.31\00:24:06.31
Revelation says, "The
saved have the seal of God in
00:24:06.34\00:24:08.54
their forehead."
00:24:08.58\00:24:09.91
Revelation 14 says, "They've
got their Father's name in
00:24:09.94\00:24:12.45
their foreheads."
00:24:12.48\00:24:13.82
In Ezekiel 9, the ones who have
the mark of the angel are saved,
00:24:13.85\00:24:17.89
and the destroying angels go
through and execute everybody
00:24:17.92\00:24:20.66
else in that vision.
00:24:20.69\00:24:22.79
So we want to be among those
who are praying and striving for
00:24:22.82\00:24:26.63
holiness to please God, amen?
00:24:26.66\00:24:30.13
And then Jesus tells us, "And
behold, I am coming quickly, and
00:24:30.17\00:24:34.87
My reward is with Me, to give to
every one according to--" what--
00:24:34.90\00:24:39.37
"his work."
00:24:39.41\00:24:41.08
I know I went through that
quickly, but Jesus, He's not
00:24:41.11\00:24:43.71
only our advocate, He's
witnessing in our behalf.
00:24:43.75\00:24:47.65
And He can declare us
safe during that time.
00:24:47.68\00:24:50.72
¤¤¤
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Doug: Either directly or
indirectly, virtually every
00:24:54.89\00:24:57.96
Bible writer refers to
the great judgment day.
00:24:57.99\00:25:01.50
Paul says, "We will all
stand before the judgment seat
00:25:01.53\00:25:05.07
of Christ."
00:25:05.10\00:25:06.50
In light of our countless sins,
the thought of facing a life's
00:25:06.53\00:25:09.37
record before a holy God can
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00:25:09.40\00:25:12.87
every man.
00:25:12.91\00:25:14.21
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