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TODAY'S
PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM
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"THE MILLENNIUM OF
PROPHECY" VIDEO SERIES.
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>> THE THEME OF
OUR STUDY TONIGHT IS
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"THE MILLENNIAL MAN."
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A VERY BRIGHT KING BY THE NAME
OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD A DREAM.
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AND IN THAT DREAM HE SAW
THIS MAJESTIC COLOSSAL IMAGE,
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AND THAT IMAGE OUTLINED
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
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FROM NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S
DAY TO THE END OF THE WORLD.
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AND THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT
FOR US TO STUDY THIS PROPHECY.
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS A GENERAL
WHO HAD MANAGED TO CONQUER
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THE THEN CIVILIZED
WORLD. BABYLON AT ITS ZENITH HAD
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TWO OF THE SEVEN WONDERS
OF THE WORLD WITHIN ITS WALLS.
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THE WALLS OF BABYLON WERE
ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF
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THE ANCIENT WORLD, AND SO ALSO
YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE HANGING
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GARDENS OF BABYLON THAT
NEBUCHADNEZZAR BUILT FOR HIS
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WIFE, SEMIRAMIS, WHERE HE
HAD BEAUTIFUL TREES IMPORTED
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FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
HE WENT TO SLEEP AND HE HAD
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THIS DREAM.
EVIDENTLY HE HAD A GOOD HEART
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AND GOD SPOKE TO HIM WITH THIS
VIVID THREE-DIMENSIONAL VISION
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THAT OUTLINED THE HISTORY OF THE
WORLD. AND IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S
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DREAM IS A PICTURE OF WHAT
WE CAN EXPECT IN THE FUTURE.
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NOW, BEFORE WE GO TO THE STUDY,
WE'RE GOING TO GET A LITTLE
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OVERVIEW OF
WHAT THAT VISION WAS.
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YOU CAN FIND IT IN YOUR BIBLE
IN DANIEL 2:31, AND TAKE NOTE
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OF THE ANIMATION THAT YOU'RE
GOING TO SEE ON THE SCREEN.
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IT SAYS, "THOU, O KING, SAWEST,
AND BEHOLD A GREAT IMAGE.
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THIS GREAT IMAGE, WHOSE
BRIGHTNESS WAS EXCELLENT,
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STOOD BEFORE THEE; AND
THE FORM THEREOF WAS TERRIBLE.
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THE IMAGE'S HEAD WAS OF GOLD,
FINE GOLD, ITS BREAST AND ARMS
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WERE SILVER, ITS BELLY AND ITS
THIGHS WERE OF BRASS, ITS LEGS
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OF IRON, HIS FEET PART
OF IRON AND PART OF CLAY.
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THOU SAWEST TILL THAT A STONE
WAS CUT WITHOUT HANDS WOULD
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SMOTE THE IMAGE ON THE
FEET THAT WERE OF IRON AND CLAY,
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AND BROKE THEM TO PIECES.
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THEN WAS THE IRON AND THE CLAY,
AND THE BRASS AND THE SILVER,
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AND THE GOLD BROKEN IN
PIECES TOGETHER AND BECAME LIKE
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THE CHAFF OF THE SUMMER
THRESHING FLOOR; AND THE WIND
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CARRIED THEM AWAY, SO THAT
NO PLACE WAS FOUND FOR THEM: AND
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THE STONE THAT SMOTE THE
IMAGE BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN
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AND FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH."
NOW, THERE YOU'VE GOT A VISUAL
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PICTURE, YOU'VE GOT IT ON YOUR,
IN YOUR BIBLES, OF WHAT THIS
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DREAM, WHAT THIS VISION IS
ABOUT. THIS MILLENNIAL MAN,
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MADE OF ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT
MINERALS, OUTLINES THE HISTORY
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OF THE WORLD FROM THE TIME
OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR TO THE END.
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WHY DID GOD GIVE THE
BABYLONIAN KING THIS DREAM?
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NOW, THE ANSWER IS IN
THE BIBLE, DANIEL 2:28,
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"BUT THERE'S A GOD IN
HEAVEN THAT REVEALETH SECRETS,
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AND HE'S MAKING KNOWN
TO KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR WHAT
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SHALL BE IN THE LATTER DAYS."
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SO THIS DREAM REVEALS THE
SECRET ABOUT THE LAST DAYS
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OR THE LATTER DAYS.
IT'S TELLING US THE FUTURE.
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NOW, I WANT TO GIVE YOU
THE BACKGROUND A LITTLE BIT.
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AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR WOKE UP
WITH THIS DREAM, HE KNEW THIS
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WAS NOT A DREAM FROM
EATING TOO MUCH CAMEL STEAK.
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THIS DREAM WAS SOMETHING
THAT HAD A TREMENDOUS IMPACT
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ON HIS MIND. HE KNEW
THERE WAS A MEANING TO IT.
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HE CALLED TOGETHER ALL
OF HIS WISE MEN AND HIS
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COUNSELORS--THE ASTROLOGERS
AND THE PROPHETS IN HIS KINGDOM,
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THE PSYCHICS--AND HE SAID,
"TELL ME, I'VE HAD A DREAM AND
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I NEED TO KNOW WHAT IT MEANS."
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AND THEY SAID, "OKAY, TELL US
THE DREAM AND WE'LL MANUFACTURE,
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I MEAN WE'LL TELL
YOU THE INTERPRETATION."
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THESE SO-CALLED WISE MEN WERE
ON THE KING'S PAYROLL AND THEY
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HAD A HABIT OF CONJURING UP
FANCIFUL PROPHECIES THAT WERE
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USUALLY VERY FLATTERING
FOR THE KING, TO HELP HIM GET
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PROMOTIONS AND PAY RAISES.
AND THE KING SAID, "YOU KNOW,
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I'VE HAD THIS DREAM AND
IT'S BEGINNING ALREADY TO FAIL."
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ANY OF YOU HAVE A DREAM AND
IT SHOCKS YOU, AND JUST A FEW
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HOURS LATER IT'S
BECOMING UNCLEAR THE DETAILS?
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AND HE SAID, "YOU CLAIM TO
BE PROPHETS--I WANT TO KNOW WHAT
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THE MEANING OF THIS DREAM
IS. IF YOU'RE A REAL PROPHET,
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YOU TELL ME WHAT THE DREAM
IS, AND THEN I'LL KNOW YOU CAN
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TELL ME THE INTERPRETATION."
WELL, THEY BEGAN TO SQUIRM.
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AND THEY SAID, "WELL,
THAT'S A LITTLE UNREASONABLE.
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I MEAN YES, WE'VE GOT
SPECIAL GIFTS, BUT THAT'S ASKING
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TOO MUCH." AND THE KING
WAS AGGRAVATED, BECAUSE HE WAS
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SUSPICIOUS THAT THESE
PROPHETS WERE COUNTERFEITS.
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WHEN THE KING'S COUNSELORS
FAILED TO REVEAL AND INTERPRET
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THE DREAM, WHAT WAS
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S COMMAND?
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ANSWER--THE KING COMMANDED
TO DESTROY ALL OF THE WISE MEN
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IN BABYLON. NOW, WE
NEED TO PAUSE AT THIS
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POINT AND BACK UP, AND GIVE
YOU A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY.
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YOU SEE, A FEW YEARS EARLIER,
NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD CONQUERED
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JERUSALEM. THE
TEMPLE HAD BEEN BURNT,
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AND JUST A LITTLE BEFORE HE DID
THAT, HE CARRIED AWAY A NUMBER
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OF CAPTIVES FROM JERUSALEM BACK
TO BABYLON, WHERE THEY SETTLED
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FOR ABOUT 70 YEARS.
AMONG THOSE CAPTIVES WERE FOUR
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YOUNG MEN WHO
WERE OF ROYAL DESCENT.
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THEIR NAMES WERE DANIEL,
HANANIAH, MISHAEL AND AZARIAH.
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THEY WERE TRAINED IN
THE BABYLONIAN PALACE.
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THEY WERE ALLOWED TO EAT FROM
THE ROYAL CAFETERIA AND THEY
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WERE BEING GROOMED TO BE
AMBASSADORS AND COUNSELORS,
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AND ULTIMATELY WISE
MEN FOR NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
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THEY HAD BEEN CHOSEN
FOR THEIR BRIGHTNESS.
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WELL, WHEN THE KING GAVE THE
DECREE THAT ALL OF THE WISE MEN
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SHOULD BE DESTROYED, BECAUSE
DANIEL AND HIS THREE FRIENDS
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WERE SO YOUNG--THEY
WEREN'T INVITED AT THAT POINT.
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WHEN DANIEL LEARNED ABOUT THE
DEATH DECREE, WHAT DID HE ASK
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OF THE KING AND WHAT DID HE
TELL HIS FRIENDS? THE ANSWER?
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IT TELLS US, "DANIEL WENT
IN AND HE DESIRED OF THE KING
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THAT HE WOULD
GIVE HIM TIME." WHY?
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THAT HE COULD SHOW THE
KING THE INTERPRETATION.
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HE SAID, "YOU HAVEN'T INVITED
US, WE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT
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THIS--GIVE US A LITTLE TIME."
AND I THINK DANIEL MAY HAVE
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EVEN PUT A LIMIT ON IT.
WHAT DID DANIEL DO AFTER THAT?
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YOU CAN BET THAT HE AND
HIS FRIENDS HAD A VERY INTENSE
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PRAYER MEETING. IT
SAYS HERE, "THEN DANIEL WENT
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TO HIS HOUSE AND HE MADE
THE THING KNOWN TO HANANIAH,
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MISHAEL AND AZARIAH, HIS
COMPANIONS, THAT THEY WOULD
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DESIRE MERCIES OF THE GOD OF
HEAVEN CONCERNING THIS SECRET."
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THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT
ONLY GOD COULD REVEAL TO THEM.
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WHEN THE LORD REVEALED THE
DREAM TO DANIEL, TO WHOM DID HE
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GIVE PRAISE AND CREDIT?
NOW, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
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THE ANSWER? DANIEL
SAID, "I THANK THEE
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AND PRAISE THEE, O THOU GOD
OF MY FATHERS. THERE IS A GOD IN
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HEAVEN THAT REVEALETH SECRETS."
GOD REVEALED THE SECRET.
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WHAT TWO OBJECTS DID DANIEL SAY
THAT THE KING SAW IN HIS DREAM?
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THERE WERE TWO SPECIFIC
THINGS THAT WERE DIFFERENT--
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WHAT WERE THEY? FIRST
OF ALL, "THOU, O KING,
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SAWEST AND BEHOLD--"
A WHAT? "A GREAT IMAGE."
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THIS COLOSSAL IMAGE THAT
WAS GOLD AND SILVER, AND BRONZE
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AND IRON, AND IRON
AND MIRY CLAY WAS AN IDOL.
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AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE
BIBLE SAYS ABOUT IDOLS?
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IT REPRESENTED THE
PAGAN RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD.
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AND IT REPRESENTED ALL OF
THE FALSE AND THE COUNTERFEIT
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METHODS OF TRUTH IN THE WORLD.
THE ANSWER TO THE SECOND PART,
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"THOU SAWEST TILL A
STONE WAS CUT WITHOUT HANDS."
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NOW, THAT STONE THAT IS
CUT WITHOUT HANDS, THERE'S
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SOMETHING
SUPERNATURAL ABOUT THE STONE.
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WE'LL FIND OUT
MORE ABOUT THAT LATER.
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WHAT DOES THE
HEAD OF GOLD REPRESENT?
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LET'S GO RIGHT NOW INTO THE
INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THESE
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DIFFERENT
MATERIALS ARE IN THE DREAM.
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DANIEL TOLD THE KING,
"THOU ART THIS HEAD OF GOLD."
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DANIEL SAID THAT KING
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, AND IN
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PARTICULAR THE KINGDOM OF
BABYLON, THAT WAS THE HEAD
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OF GOLD. BABYLON
WAS ONE OF THE MOST
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GLORIOUS KINGDOMS OF ANTIQUITY.
ONE HISTORIAN TELLS US IT WAS
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15 MILES ON EACH SIDE, MAKING
IT 60 MILES IN CIRCUMFERENCE.
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THE WALLS OF THE CITY WERE
OVER 65 FEET WIDE AT THE BOTTOM
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AND 55 FEET WIDE AT THE TOP.
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AND HERODOTUS SAYS THAT
YOU COULD RIDE FOUR CHARIOTS
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ABREAST AROUND THE
CITY ON TOP OF THE WALLS.
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THE RIVER EUPHRATES
RAN UNDERNEATH THE CITY.
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THE EUPHRATES
RIVER IRRIGATED THE CITY.
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IT RAN UNDER THE WALLS,
THROUGH THE CITY AND OUT
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THE OTHER SIDE. AND
THEY USED THAT WATER OF
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COURSE TO IRRIGATE
THE HANGING GARDENS.
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NOT ONLY THAT, IT
WAS A BEAUTIFUL CITY.
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THEY HAD GLAZED BLUE AND GOLD,
AND PURPLE TILES THAT MOUNTED
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THE WALLS IN THE
PALACES. AND SO HERE BABYLON WAS
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SYMBOLIZED AS THIS HEAD OF GOLD.
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WOULD THE KINGDOM OF
BABYLON LAST FOREVER?
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WELL, HOW LONG
DID THE GOLD LAST?
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IT IS FOLLOWED NOW
BY ANOTHER MATERIAL.
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IT SAYS, "AFTER THESE SHALL
ANOTHER KINGDOM ARISE INFERIOR
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TO THEE, JUST AS
SILVER IS INFERIOR TO GOLD."
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BABYLON LASTED FROM ABOUT
605 B.C. TO 539 B.C. THERE
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ARE SOME DETAILS IN HISTORY,
SO WE CAN KNOW HOW IT FELL.
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AND MATTER OF FACT, THE BOOK
OF DANIEL TELLS THE HISTORY--
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DANIEL WAS THERE
WHEN BABYLON FELL.
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CHAPTER 5 OF DANIEL
TELLS ABOUT THIS WILD PARTY
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S
GRANDSON, BELSHAZZAR, HAD.
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NABODONIUS, BELSHAZZAR'S
FATHER, NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S SON
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WAS OFF FIGHTING
BATTLES SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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AND HIS YOUNG SON WAS ALL OF
A SUDDEN IN CHARGE OF THE CITY.
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KIND OF PRONOUNCED HIMSELF
KING IN PLACE OF HIS FATHER,
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WHILE HIS FATHER WAS
AWAY, THEY HAD A WILD PARTY.
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IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT
THE MEDO-PERSIAN ARMY HAD NOW
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MARCHED AGAINST
BABYLON, YOUNG BELSHAZZAR SAID,
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"WE'RE NOT AFRAID--THEY'LL
NEVER GET THROUGH THE WALLS."
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ONE HISTORIAN TELLS US THEY HAD
20 YEARS WORTH OF GRAIN STORED
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AWAY IN THEIR SILOS.
THEY HAD WATER RUNNING
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UNDER THE WALLS. HE
THOUGH, "WE'VE GOT FOOD,
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WE'VE GOT WATER; WE CAN
WITHSTAND A SIEGE OF 20 YEARS."
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SO THEY HAD A WILD PARTY, AND HE
BECAME VERY POMPOUS AS HE DRANK.
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AND HE SAID, "YOU KNOW,
MY GRANDFATHER CONQUERED THE
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PEOPLE OF JUDEA, AND HE CARRIED
AWAY ALL OF THE SACRED VESSELS
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FROM THEIR GOD AND FROM
THEIR TEMPLE--LET'S BRING THOSE
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SACRED VESSELS,
THEIR CUPS AND BOWLS OUT.
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LET'S POUR OUR WINE INTO IT AND
LET'S TOAST OUR GODS, BECAUSE
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OUR GODS ARE BIGGER THAN
THE GOD JEHOVAH OF ISRAEL."
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AND HE BEGAN TO MOCK THE GOD
OF HEAVEN AND DRINK TO THE GODS
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OF GOLD AND
SILVER, AND STONE AND WOOD.
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AND AS HE WAS MOCKING GOD,
SUDDENLY A HAND APPEARED AND
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BEGAN TO WRITE IN
BURNING LETTERS ON THE WALL OVER
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BY A LAMP. AND
YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAID?
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IT SAID, "THE PARTY'S OVER."
THAT'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT IT
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SAID, BUT IN
ESSENCE THAT'S WHAT IT SAID.
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THAT HANDWRITING WAS
WRITTEN, A CRYPTIC MESSAGE,
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"MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN."
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AND AGAIN, NOW YOUNG
BELSHAZZAR, HE CALLS FOR ALL OF
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THE WISE MEN AND THE
PSYCHICS TO COME, AND HE DIALS
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THE HOTLINE, HE
SAYS, "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
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THESE FLAMING LETTERS
ARE UP THERE ON THE WALL."
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AND HIS KNEES WERE SHAKING
TOGETHER, THE BIBLE TELLS US.
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AND THEY SAID, "WE
DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS."
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AND HE PROCLAIMED THAT HE WOULD
GIVE GREAT REWARDS TO ANYBODY
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WHO COULD TELL HIM WHAT
IT MEANS. HE'D MAKE 'EM THIRD
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RULER IN THE KINGDOM.
FINALLY DANIEL WAS BROUGHT IN.
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NOW DANIEL IS AN OLD
MAN, 70 YEARS HAVE GONE BY.
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AND DANIEL SAYS, "I'LL TELL
YOU WHAT THE WRITING IS, BUT YOU
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CAN KEEP YOUR REWARDS, BECAUSE
I KNOW WHAT IT SAYS AND YOU
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WILL NOT BE IN A
POSITION TO REWARD ANYBODY."
00:11:55.91\00:11:58.65
AND DANIEL GAVE THE TRANSLATION
FOR THESE WORDS THAT WERE ON
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THE WALL. YOU CAN FIND IT IN
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DANIEL 5:25-28, "MENE"
IS THE FIRST STATEMENT.
00:12:03.52\00:12:09.52
THEN THE MEANING OF THAT IS,
"MENE TEKEL," "THOU ART WEIGHED
00:12:09.56\00:12:15.10
IN THE BALANCES
AND FOUND WANTING."
00:12:15.13\00:12:17.67
AND THEN THE LAST PART
IS "PERES," "THY KINGDOM IS
00:12:17.70\00:12:21.27
DIVIDED AND GIVEN TO
THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS."
00:12:21.30\00:12:23.77
THAT VERY NIGHT, WHILE
THIS EVENT IS TAKING PLACE IN
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THE BANQUET HALL, CYRUS,
A BRILLIANT PERSIAN GENERAL,
00:12:26.94\00:12:30.08
DIVERTED THE EUPHRATES RIVER,
WHERE IT RUNS UNDERNEATH THE
00:12:30.11\00:12:33.75
WALLS, INTO A
DRY HOLLOW LAKEBED.
00:12:33.78\00:12:38.05
AND REMEMBER WE TOLD YOU
THE RIVER RAN UNDER THE WALLS?
00:12:38.09\00:12:40.96
CYRUS HAD A WHOLE ARMY OF
ENGINEERS DIGGING THIS CHANNEL,
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THEN THEY BROKE THE DAM.
THE WATER THAT NORMALLY RUNS
00:12:43.89\00:12:46.43
UNDER THE CITY WALLS, WAS
DIVERTED OFF INTO THIS DRY
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BASIN, AND HIS ARMY
MARCHED UNDERNEATH THE WALLS OF
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BABYLON. THAT'S
WHY WHEN IT SAYS IN
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REVELATION THE EUPHRATES RIVER
DRIES UP, IT HAS SIGNIFICANCE.
00:12:54.44\00:12:57.64
GOD HAD FORETOLD 150 YEARS
BEFORE CYRUS WAS BORN IN THE
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BOOK OF ISAIAH THAT THIS
WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND HE
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MENTIONS CYRUS BY HIS VERY NAME.
00:13:05.85\00:13:08.55
HERE IT IS IN ISAIAH
45:1, "THUS SAYS THE LORD TO HIS
00:13:08.58\00:13:12.59
ANOINTED, TO CYRUS, WHOSE RIGHT
HAND I HAVE HELD, TO SUBDUE
00:13:12.62\00:13:17.16
NATIONS BEFORE HIM AND
TO LOOSE THE ARMOR OF KINGS.
00:13:17.19\00:13:20.90
TO OPEN BEFORE HIM THE
DOUBLE DOORS, SO THE GATES WILL
00:13:20.93\00:13:24.20
NOT BE SHUT." YOU
REMEMBER I TOLD YOU THAT
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HIS ARMY THEN MARCHED IN THE
MUDDY RIVERBED UNDER THE WALLS?
00:13:26.30\00:13:29.00
THERE WAS AN INNER GATE,
AND THE GUARDS IN THE CITY WERE
00:13:29.04\00:13:31.87
DRUNK AND THEY HAD LEFT THE
GATES UNLOCKED, NEVER DREAMING
00:13:31.91\00:13:34.24
THAT THEY'D
MARCH UP THE RIVERBED.
00:13:34.28\00:13:36.54
JUST AS GOD HAD PREDICTED,
THE DOORS HAD BEEN LEFT OPEN
00:13:36.58\00:13:40.02
AND BABYLON FELL THAT NIGHT.
AND BELSHAZZAR AND ALL OF HIS
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CABINET WAS SLAIN WITH THE
EXCEPTION OF ONE OLD WISE MAN
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NAMED DANIEL.
GOD'S WORD NEVER FAILS.
00:13:47.92\00:13:51.16
SOMETHING ELSE ISAIAH
PROPHESIED ABOUT BABYLON, NOT
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ONLY WOULD IT FALL AND THE
PERSIAN KINGDOM WOULD THEN TAKE
00:13:53.80\00:13:56.23
ITS PLACE, BUT IT
WOULD NEVER BE REBUILT AGAIN.
00:13:56.26\00:13:59.30
IT WOULD NEVER
BE INHABITED AGAIN.
00:13:59.33\00:14:01.10
HERE YOU FIND IT AGAIN IN THE
BOOK OF ISAIAH, "AND BABYLON,
00:14:01.14\00:14:04.17
THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS, THE
BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEANS PRIDE,
00:14:04.21\00:14:07.68
WILL BE AS WHEN GOD
OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
00:14:07.71\00:14:11.98
IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED,
NOR WILL IT BE SETTLED
00:14:12.01\00:14:14.95
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
00:14:14.98\00:14:17.32
NOR WILL THE
ARABIAN PITCH TENTS THERE.
00:14:17.35\00:14:20.09
NOR WILL THE SHEPHERDS
MAKE THEIR SHEEP FOLDS THERE.
00:14:20.12\00:14:23.02
BUT WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT
WILL LAY THERE AND THEIR HOUSES
00:14:23.06\00:14:26.46
WILL BE FULL OF OWLS,
OSTRICHES WILL DWELL THERE,
00:14:26.49\00:14:29.60
AND WILD GOATS WILL
SCAMPER OR PLAY THERE."
00:14:29.63\00:14:33.00
SADDAM HUSSEIN WANTED TO
DISPROVE THE JEWISH PROPHECIES.
00:14:33.03\00:14:37.37
HE HAD EXTENSIVE PLANS
TO REBUILD ANCIENT BABYLON.
00:14:37.41\00:14:41.64
BUT HISTORY INTERVENED WITH
SOMETHING CALLED "DESERT STORM,
00:14:41.68\00:14:47.38
THE PERSIAN GULF WAR."
IT DRAINED HIS TREASURY.
00:14:47.42\00:14:50.85
AND HERE YOU ACTUALLY HAVE
SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIS ATTEMPT
00:14:50.89\00:14:53.32
TO REBUILD THE WALL. HE
DID SUCCEED IN RESTORING
00:14:53.36\00:14:56.02
A SECTION OF THE WALL
FOR TOURISTS TO LOOK AT.
00:14:56.06\00:14:58.56
AND ONE OF THE GATES WAS
RESTORED, BUT HE DID NOT THWART
00:14:58.59\00:15:01.90
THE PROPHECY OF GOD. AND
HERE YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE
00:15:01.93\00:15:04.20
NOW OF THE RUINS OF
BABYLON. IT IS STILL IN RUINS,
00:15:04.23\00:15:08.44
GOD'S WORD DOES
NOT FALL ON THE GROUND.
00:15:08.47\00:15:10.61
WHAT DO YOU SAY?
YOU CAN TRUST IT.
00:15:10.64\00:15:13.11
MAN CANNOT
OVERTURN THE WORD OF GOD,
00:15:13.14\00:15:15.38
IT'S GOING TO BE DEPENDABLE.
00:15:15.41\00:15:16.75
THE NEXT KINGDOM THAT
CAME ON THE SCENE THAT FOLLOWED
00:15:16.78\00:15:19.55
BABYLON, AS YOU
HEARD, WAS MEDO-PERSIA.
00:15:19.58\00:15:21.65
IT LASTED A LITTLE LONGER
THAN THE BABYLONIAN KINGDOM,
00:15:21.68\00:15:24.85
539 TO 331 B.C. NOW,
THE PERSIAN PEOPLE WERE
00:15:24.89\00:15:29.82
A VERY AGGRESSIVE
AND A WARLIKE PEOPLE.
00:15:29.86\00:15:32.46
AND THEY WERE GREATER IN
NUMBERS AND THEIR ARMIES WERE
00:15:32.49\00:15:35.40
LARGER. SILVER
WAS THEIR MEDIUM OF
00:15:35.43\00:15:38.47
EXCHANGE, AND THEY DID
EXTENSIVE BUILDING, BUT THEY
00:15:38.50\00:15:41.60
NEVER REACHED THE SAME
GLORY AS ANCIENT BABYLON.
00:15:41.64\00:15:44.97
HERE ARE SOME OF
THE RUINS OF PERSEPOLIS.
00:15:45.01\00:15:47.14
AND THEY HAD A LOT OF VERY
BEAUTIFUL ORNATE BUILDINGS.
00:15:47.18\00:15:50.08
THIS WAS A PALACE THAT
ALEXANDER THE GREAT BURNED
00:15:50.11\00:15:51.91
TO THE GROUND, BECAUSE HIS
SOLDIERS GOT DRUNK ONE NIGHT.
00:15:51.95\00:15:54.25
AND IT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE
ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
00:15:54.28\00:15:56.85
SILVER WAS THEIR CURRENCY--
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:15:56.89\00:15:59.79
MATTER OF FACT, PERSEPOLIS,
THEY UNEARTHED A SILVER GOOSE.
00:15:59.82\00:16:03.79
SILVER WAS THEIR MEDIUM OF
EXCHANGE, BUT AS I'VE ALREADY
00:16:03.83\00:16:05.93
HINTED, THAT KINGDOM
WOULD NOT LAST FOREVER.
00:16:05.96\00:16:08.63
IT WAS THEN REPLACED BY ANOTHER.
00:16:08.66\00:16:10.53
WHAT METAL WOULD REPRESENT
THE KINGDOM THAT FOLLOWED
00:16:10.57\00:16:13.34
MEDO-PERSIA? THE ANSWER?
ANOTHER THIRD KINGDOM OF BRASS
00:16:13.37\00:16:20.54
SHALL BEAR RULE
OVER ALL THE EARTH.
00:16:20.58\00:16:23.04
THIS BRONZE KINGDOM, OF COURSE,
REPRESENTED ALEXANDER THE
00:16:23.08\00:16:26.35
GREAT. AND WHO WAS HE THE KING
OF? IT WAS MACEDONIA, BUT WE
00:16:26.38\00:16:29.65
COMMONLY CALL IT
THE KING OF GREECE.
00:16:29.68\00:16:31.92
ONE HISTORIAN WROTE, "I AM
PERSUADED THAT THERE WAS NO
00:16:31.95\00:16:35.89
NATION, CITY NOR PEOPLE THEN
BEING WHETHER HIS NAME DID NOT
00:16:35.92\00:16:40.20
REACH. THERE
SEEMS TO ME TO HAVE BEEN
00:16:40.23\00:16:42.96
SOME DIVINE HAND PRESIDING
OVER HIS BIRTH AND ACTION."
00:16:43.00\00:16:47.20
THIS IS A HISTORIAN SAYING
SOME DIVINE HAND SEEMED TO BE
00:16:47.24\00:16:50.97
PRESIDING OVER HIS
BIRTH AND HIS ACTIONS.
00:16:51.01\00:16:53.14
GREECE WENT FROM 331
B.C. TO ABOUT 168 B.C.
00:16:53.17\00:16:58.25
WHAT METAL REPRESENTS THE
FOURTH KINGDOM? DANIEL 2:40,
00:16:58.28\00:17:04.12
"THE FOURTH KINGDOM
SHALL BE AS STRONG AS...IRON."
00:17:04.15\00:17:08.76
NOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT
FOURTH KINGDOM WAS THAT WAS AS
00:17:08.79\00:17:11.56
STRONG AS IRON?
THE KINGDOM OF ROME.
00:17:11.59\00:17:14.73
DANIEL 2:40 TELLS US, "IN AS
MUCH AS IRON BREAKS IN PIECES
00:17:14.73\00:17:18.30
AND SHATTERS EVERYTHING, LIKE
IRON THAT CRUSHES, THAT KINGDOM
00:17:18.33\00:17:22.47
WILL BREAK IN PIECES
AND CRUSH ALL OTHERS."
00:17:22.50\00:17:25.84
IRON WAS CONSIDERED SO
MUCH MORE DESIRABLE AND ROME WAS
00:17:25.87\00:17:28.74
ABLE TO CONQUER THE WORLD BY
VIRTUE OF THEIR IRON WEAPONS.
00:17:28.78\00:17:32.55
EDWARD GIBBON, THE FAMOUS
HISTORIAN, SAID, "THE IMAGES OF
00:17:32.58\00:17:36.25
GOLD AND SILVER OR BRASS THAT
MIGHT SERVE TO REPRESENT THE
00:17:36.28\00:17:39.85
NATIONS AND THEIR KINGS,
THEY WERE SUCCESSIVELY BROKEN
00:17:39.89\00:17:42.99
BY THE IRON MONARCHY OF ROME."
00:17:43.02\00:17:46.39
EVEN THE HISTORIANS REFER
TO ROME AS THE IRON EMPIRE THAT
00:17:46.43\00:17:50.43
SPREAD ITS ROADS AND ITS
TENTACLES INTO NORTHERN AFRICA,
00:17:50.47\00:17:53.90
SPAIN, ENGLAND, AND
THEY CONTINUED TO EXPAND.
00:17:53.94\00:17:57.24
NOTICE EACH KINGDOM IS LASTING
LONGER THAN THE ONE BEFORE,
00:17:57.27\00:18:01.04
BUT DID NOT HAVE THE SAME LUSTER
IN GLORY AS THE ONE BEFORE.
00:18:01.08\00:18:05.68
ROME WENT FROM 168 B.C.
WHERE THEY DEFEATED ALEXANDER
00:18:05.71\00:18:09.22
THE GREAT AT THE BATTLE
OF PADINAá OR THE GREEKS,
00:18:09.25\00:18:12.55
TO THE MID 4TH CENTURY A.D.
THE REASON WE CAN'T GIVE YOU
00:18:12.59\00:18:15.79
A PRECISE DATE THERE IS BECAUSE
ROME DID NOT FALL IN A DAY.
00:18:15.82\00:18:19.59
IT WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY
AND IT DIDN'T FALL IN A DAY.
00:18:19.63\00:18:22.30
ROME SORT OF DISINTEGRATED
SLOWLY FROM WITHIN.
00:18:22.33\00:18:26.13
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AFTER
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE?
00:18:26.17\00:18:28.54
ANSWER, "THE KINGDOM
SHALL BE DIVIDED AS THE TOES
00:18:28.57\00:18:33.64
AND THE FEET WERE PART
OF IRON AND PART OF CLAY."
00:18:33.68\00:18:37.75
IT'S A DIVIDED KINGDOM.
00:18:37.78\00:18:39.48
IT'S UNITED, BUT IT'S
NOT WELDED TOGETHER AGAIN.
00:18:39.51\00:18:42.15
"SO THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PARTLY
STRONG AND PARTLY BROKEN."
00:18:42.18\00:18:46.09
NOW, WHAT CAME OUT OF
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE?
00:18:46.12\00:18:49.12
WELL, GRADUALLY, BECAUSE
OF THEIR DECADENCE, THEY BEGAN
00:18:49.16\00:18:51.63
TO LOSE CONTROL.
PRETTY SOON THE EMPIRE WAS
00:18:51.66\00:18:54.96
INVADED ON ALL ITS DIFFERENT
FRONTS. IT BEGAN TO DIVIDE
00:18:55.00\00:18:58.87
FROM WITHIN THROUGH ALL OF
THESE COUPS AND THIS ACTIVITY.
00:18:58.90\00:19:02.07
THE BARBARIANS AND THE HUNS
BEGAN TO ATTACK FROM THE NORTH,
00:19:02.10\00:19:05.11
AND THE GERMAN TRIBES,
THEY WERE ATTACKED BY SEA.
00:19:05.14\00:19:09.28
AND LITTLE BY LITTLE ROME'S
POWER WAS ERODED, UNTIL IN THE
00:19:09.31\00:19:12.48
PLACE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE,
COVERING BASICALLY THE SAME
00:19:12.51\00:19:15.62
GEOGRAPHY, THERE WAS NOW
WHAT WE THINK OF AS THE MODERN
00:19:15.65\00:19:18.92
NATIONS OF EUROPE. HOW
MANY TOES DID THIS BEAST
00:19:18.95\00:19:24.23
HAVE, OR THIS IMAGE HAVE?
THIS COLOSSAL IMAGE HAD TEN TOES
00:19:24.26\00:19:28.23
AND IT WAS
DIVIDED INTO TEN KINGDOMS.
00:19:28.26\00:19:30.43
HERE ARE THE ANCIENT
NAMES OF THOSE TEN DIVISIONS.
00:19:30.47\00:19:34.74
WOULD THESE TEN KINGDOMS
EVER SUCCEED IN UNITING?
00:19:34.77\00:19:38.24
NO, THEY WOULD TRY,
BUT THEY WOULDN'T SUCCEED.
00:19:38.27\00:19:41.48
IT SAYS, "THEY WILL MINGLE
THEMSELVES WITH THE SEED OF
00:19:41.51\00:19:44.21
MEN," THEY TRIED TO DO IT
THROUGH INTERMARRIAGE, "BUT
00:19:44.25\00:19:47.55
THEY WILL NOT CLEAVE ONE TO
ANOTHER, EVEN AS IRON IS NOT
00:19:47.58\00:19:51.85
MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY."
SEVERAL ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO
00:19:51.89\00:19:55.52
REUNITE AND TO FORGE
TOGETHER THAT ANCIENT LUSTER
00:19:55.56\00:19:58.89
THAT ROME ENJOYED. ROME
SORT OF WAS THE PINNACLE
00:19:58.93\00:20:01.30
OF WORLD EMPIRES WHEN
IT COMES TO ITS EXPANSE.
00:20:01.33\00:20:05.33
CHARLEMAGNE TRIED AND HE
WAS ABLE TO GAIN A GREAT DEAL OF
00:20:05.37\00:20:09.00
POWER AND PRESTIGE, BUT HE
COULD NOT REGAIN THE FORMER
00:20:09.04\00:20:11.91
GLORY. LOUIS XIV ALSO TRIED.
NAPOLEON PROBABLY CAME AS CLOSE
00:20:11.94\00:20:17.01
AS ANYBODY, THAT LITTLE
GENERAL, LITTLE CORPORAL.
00:20:17.05\00:20:19.48
"THE DELIVERANCE,"
ONE HISTORIAN WRITES,
00:20:19.51\00:20:22.58
"THE DELIVERANCE OF EUROPE FROM
THE DOMINION OF NAPOLEON WAS
00:20:22.62\00:20:25.65
AFFECTED NEITHER BY RUSSIA
NOR BY GERMANY, NOR BY ENGLAND,
00:20:25.69\00:20:29.36
BUT BY THE HAND OF GOD.
HE CAME SO CLOSE, AND THEN
00:20:29.39\00:20:33.33
THERE AT WATERLOO HE GAVE SOME
ORDERS THAT WERE MISUNDERSTOOD,
00:20:33.36\00:20:36.50
AND CANNONS WERE MISPLACED,
AND EVERYTHING FELL APART.
00:20:36.53\00:20:38.73
AND THEY GOT STUCK IN THE MUD
AND YOU COULD SEE THE HAND OF
00:20:38.77\00:20:41.47
GOD SAY, "NO, THEY WILL
NOT CLEAVE ONE TO ANOTHER."
00:20:41.50\00:20:46.14
ADOLF HITLER HAD THIS VISION OF
GRANDEUR THAT HE AND MUSSOLINI
00:20:46.17\00:20:52.08
WOULD BE ABLE TO JOIN
TOGETHER THEIR POWERS AGAIN AND
00:20:52.11\00:20:55.32
ESTABLISH THIS THOUSAND
YEAR REICH, TRYING TO LAST EVEN
00:20:55.35\00:20:59.19
LONGER THAN THE ROMAN POWER.
GOD SAID, "THEY WILL NOT CLEAVE
00:20:59.22\00:21:02.82
ONE TO ANOTHER."
NOW, YOU MIGHT BE
00:21:02.86\00:21:04.46
WONDERING--DOESN'T THE BOOK
OF REVELATIONS SAY THAT THERE'S
00:21:04.49\00:21:06.93
GOING TO BE A
ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT? NO.
00:21:06.96\00:21:09.70
REVELATION 13 SAYS THAT THIS
BEAST POWER COMPELS THE WHOLE
00:21:09.73\00:21:14.64
WORLD TO WORSHIP. THAT'S NOT
GOVERNMENT-- THAT'S RELIGION.
00:21:14.67\00:21:19.07
THERE IS GOING TO BE AN ATTEMPT
FOR ONE WORLD RELIGION BEFORE
00:21:19.11\00:21:22.61
THE END COMES, BUT THERE
NEVER IS GOING TO BE A ONE-WORLD
00:21:22.64\00:21:25.81
GOVERNMENT. WHO WILL
SET UP THE FINAL KINGDOM?
00:21:25.85\00:21:28.98
"AND IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS
SHALL THE GOD OF HEAVEN SET UP
00:21:29.02\00:21:35.62
A KINGDOM, WHICH
SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED."
00:21:35.66\00:21:38.29
THERE IS A KINGDOM
COMING THAT WILL LAST FOREVER.
00:21:38.33\00:21:40.76
NOW, I WANT YOU TO
NOTICE SOMETHING, FRIENDS.
00:21:40.80\00:21:42.73
WE ARE LIVING AT
THE VERY END OF TIME.
00:21:42.76\00:21:45.40
WE'RE LIVING DOWN IN WHAT YOU
WOULD CALL THE TOES--WE'RE THE
00:21:45.43\00:21:48.17
TOENAILS OF THIS GREAT
IMAGE IN THE SCOPE OF HISTORY.
00:21:48.20\00:21:52.21
EVERYTHING HAS HAPPENED RIGHT
ON TARGET AS GOD FORETOLD IT
00:21:52.24\00:21:54.98
WOULD. I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
WHAT ARE THE FEET MADE OUT OF?
00:21:55.01\00:21:58.21
IT SAYS THE FEET ARE MADE OUT
OF IRON MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY.
00:21:58.25\00:22:02.38
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT
WHAT OUR WORLD IS MADE OUT OF
00:22:02.42\00:22:04.55
TODAY? OUR WORLD IS MADE OUT OF,
00:22:04.59\00:22:07.06
THE NUMBER ONE
BUILDING MATERIAL IS CONCRETE.
00:22:07.09\00:22:10.79
HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED
PEOPLE WORK WITH CONCRETE?
00:22:10.83\00:22:12.73
FIRST THEY TAKE THE IRON
AND THEY PUT IT IN THE FORMS.
00:22:12.76\00:22:16.23
THEN THEY POUR IN
THE MUSH, THE CONCRETE.
00:22:16.26\00:22:20.74
WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT WOULD
LOOK LIKE TO AN ANCIENT PROPHET
00:22:20.77\00:22:22.90
WHO DIDN'T HAVE A
WORD FOR CONCRETE?
00:22:22.94\00:22:25.61
IT WOULD LOOK VERY MUCH
LIKE MIRY, WHICH IS MUSHY CLAY--
00:22:25.64\00:22:28.74
IRON MIXED WITH MUSHY
CLAY. NEW YORK CITY IS CALLED
00:22:28.78\00:22:32.55
"THE CITY OF IRON AND
CONCRETE." WE ARE LIVING IN THE
00:22:32.58\00:22:37.45
CIVILIZATION OF CONCRETE, WHICH
IS IRON MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY.
00:22:37.49\00:22:41.06
WE ARE LIVING
NOW IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:22:41.09\00:22:43.32
WHAT DOES THE STONE DO
TO THE OTHER WORLD KINGDOMS?
00:22:43.36\00:22:47.60
THE ANSWER, "THE STONE
WAS CUT WITHOUT HANDS."
00:22:47.66\00:22:51.00
INCIDENTALLY,
PARDON ME, I WANT TO STOP.
00:22:51.03\00:22:53.23
THERE'S ONLY ONE OTHER
TIME IN THE BIBLE WHEN A STONE
00:22:53.27\00:22:55.70
WAS CUT WITHOUT HUMAN HANDS.
THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD
00:22:55.74\00:22:58.81
HEWED TWO TABLES OF
STONES FROM A MOUNTAIN. OKAY?
00:22:58.84\00:23:02.78
SO THIS IS
SUPERNATURAL. THIS IS GOOD.
00:23:02.81\00:23:04.81
THE IDOL WAS BAD. THE
STONE WINS IN THE END.
00:23:04.85\00:23:08.05
THE ROCK IS JESUS--HE'S
CALLED THE ROCK OF AGES.
00:23:08.08\00:23:11.25
"THE STONE WAS CUT WITHOUT
HANDS, WHICH SMOTE THE IMAGE
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UPON ITS FEET THAT WERE OF
IRON AND CLAY, AND BROKE THEM
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INTO PIECES." AND
THEN IT GOES ON TO TELL US,
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"AND THE STONE THAT SMOTE THE
IMAGE BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN."
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AND AS YOU STUDY PROPHECIES,
YOU'LL UNDERSTAND A MOUNTAIN
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IS A KINGDOM.
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"IT GROWS INTO A GREAT MOUNTAIN
AND FILLS THE WHOLE EARTH."
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THE JEWS ARE PRAYING
FOR THE COMING KINGDOM.
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PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS
PRAY, "THY KINGDOM COME."
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THE EARTHLY KINGDOMS RISE
AND FALL, AND THERE'S A LOT
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OF INSTABILITY IN
THE WORLD GOVERNMENTS.
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BUT THERE IS ANOTHER KINGDOM
COMING THAT'S GOING TO LAST
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A LONG TIME. THIS COLOSSAL
IMAGE OUTLINES THE HISTORY OF
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THE WORLD--THE GOLD, THE
SILVER, THE BRONZE, THE IRON.
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LET'S REVIEW QUICKLY.
THE GOLD IS WHAT KINGDOM?
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BABYLON. THE
SILVER WHAT KINGDOM?
00:23:56.60\00:23:58.97
MEDO-PERSIA. THE BRONZE
IS WHAT KINGDOM? GREECE.
00:23:59.00\00:24:03.41
IRON IS THE KINGDOM OF?
THE IRON MONARCHY OF ROME.
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THEN THE IRON AND CLAY ARE THE
TEN DIVISIONS OF WHAT WE WOULD
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THINK OF MODERN EUROPE NOW,
AND THEY REACH FROM ABOUT 476
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'TIL WHEN? 'TIL GOD
SETS UP HIS KINGDOM.
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AFTER HEARING DANIEL'S CLEAR
INTERPRETATION OF THE DREAM,
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WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR
SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
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"THE KING ANSWERED DANIEL
AND SAID, OF A TRUTH, IT IS THAT
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YOUR GOD IS A GOD OF
GODS, AND A LORD OF KINGS,
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AND A REVEALER OF SECRETS."
HE SAID, "THE DREAM IS CERTAIN
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AND THE INTERPRETATION
IS SURE." YOU KNOW, WHAT
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID IS STILL
TRUE TODAY, "NOTHING HAS FAILED.
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THE WORDS OF GOD HAVE NOT
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THE NEXT THING THAT IS
SCHEDULED IS THAT STONE IS
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GOING TO COME. SOME
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00:24:49.85\00:24:52.75
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