Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000067
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00:08 >> COMING UP NEXT ON "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS."
00:11 >> THE SECRET KEY TO UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF DANIEL AND 00:16 REVELATION, AND THE PROPHETIC BOOKS OF SCRIPTURE, 00:19 ARE THE STORIES IN THE BIBLE. 00:25 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS "AMAZING FACTS" HAS BEEN 00:28 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:32 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR 00:34 BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK 00:38 AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:44 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:46 "THE MILLENNIUM OF PROPHECY" VIDEO SERIES. 00:54 >> THE THEME OF OUR STUDY TONIGHT IS 00:55 "THE MILLENNIAL MAN." 00:57 A VERY BRIGHT KING BY THE NAME OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD A DREAM. 01:01 AND IN THAT DREAM HE SAW THIS MAJESTIC COLOSSAL IMAGE, 01:04 AND THAT IMAGE OUTLINED THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD 01:08 FROM NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DAY TO THE END OF THE WORLD. 01:11 AND THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO STUDY THIS PROPHECY. 01:15 NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS A GENERAL WHO HAD MANAGED TO CONQUER 01:17 THE THEN CIVILIZED WORLD. BABYLON AT ITS ZENITH HAD 01:21 TWO OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD WITHIN ITS WALLS. 01:25 THE WALLS OF BABYLON WERE ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF 01:27 THE ANCIENT WORLD, AND SO ALSO YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE HANGING 01:31 GARDENS OF BABYLON THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR BUILT FOR HIS 01:33 WIFE, SEMIRAMIS, WHERE HE HAD BEAUTIFUL TREES IMPORTED 01:36 FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HE WENT TO SLEEP AND HE HAD 01:40 THIS DREAM. EVIDENTLY HE HAD A GOOD HEART 01:43 AND GOD SPOKE TO HIM WITH THIS VIVID THREE-DIMENSIONAL VISION 01:48 THAT OUTLINED THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. AND IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S 01:51 DREAM IS A PICTURE OF WHAT WE CAN EXPECT IN THE FUTURE. 01:55 NOW, BEFORE WE GO TO THE STUDY, WE'RE GOING TO GET A LITTLE 01:58 OVERVIEW OF WHAT THAT VISION WAS. 02:00 YOU CAN FIND IT IN YOUR BIBLE IN DANIEL 2:31, AND TAKE NOTE 02:05 OF THE ANIMATION THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE ON THE SCREEN. 02:09 IT SAYS, "THOU, O KING, SAWEST, AND BEHOLD A GREAT IMAGE. 02:13 THIS GREAT IMAGE, WHOSE BRIGHTNESS WAS EXCELLENT, 02:15 STOOD BEFORE THEE; AND THE FORM THEREOF WAS TERRIBLE. 02:19 THE IMAGE'S HEAD WAS OF GOLD, FINE GOLD, ITS BREAST AND ARMS 02:22 WERE SILVER, ITS BELLY AND ITS THIGHS WERE OF BRASS, ITS LEGS 02:27 OF IRON, HIS FEET PART OF IRON AND PART OF CLAY. 02:30 THOU SAWEST TILL THAT A STONE WAS CUT WITHOUT HANDS WOULD 02:35 SMOTE THE IMAGE ON THE FEET THAT WERE OF IRON AND CLAY, 02:37 AND BROKE THEM TO PIECES. 02:39 THEN WAS THE IRON AND THE CLAY, AND THE BRASS AND THE SILVER, 02:42 AND THE GOLD BROKEN IN PIECES TOGETHER AND BECAME LIKE 02:45 THE CHAFF OF THE SUMMER THRESHING FLOOR; AND THE WIND 02:48 CARRIED THEM AWAY, SO THAT NO PLACE WAS FOUND FOR THEM: AND 02:51 THE STONE THAT SMOTE THE IMAGE BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN 02:54 AND FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH." NOW, THERE YOU'VE GOT A VISUAL 02:57 PICTURE, YOU'VE GOT IT ON YOUR, IN YOUR BIBLES, OF WHAT THIS 03:01 DREAM, WHAT THIS VISION IS ABOUT. THIS MILLENNIAL MAN, 03:05 MADE OF ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT MINERALS, OUTLINES THE HISTORY 03:09 OF THE WORLD FROM THE TIME OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR TO THE END. 03:12 WHY DID GOD GIVE THE BABYLONIAN KING THIS DREAM? 03:15 NOW, THE ANSWER IS IN THE BIBLE, DANIEL 2:28, 03:19 "BUT THERE'S A GOD IN HEAVEN THAT REVEALETH SECRETS, 03:23 AND HE'S MAKING KNOWN TO KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR WHAT 03:25 SHALL BE IN THE LATTER DAYS." 03:28 SO THIS DREAM REVEALS THE SECRET ABOUT THE LAST DAYS 03:33 OR THE LATTER DAYS. IT'S TELLING US THE FUTURE. 03:36 NOW, I WANT TO GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND A LITTLE BIT. 03:38 AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR WOKE UP WITH THIS DREAM, HE KNEW THIS 03:40 WAS NOT A DREAM FROM EATING TOO MUCH CAMEL STEAK. 03:44 THIS DREAM WAS SOMETHING THAT HAD A TREMENDOUS IMPACT 03:48 ON HIS MIND. HE KNEW THERE WAS A MEANING TO IT. 03:50 HE CALLED TOGETHER ALL OF HIS WISE MEN AND HIS 03:53 COUNSELORS--THE ASTROLOGERS AND THE PROPHETS IN HIS KINGDOM, 03:57 THE PSYCHICS--AND HE SAID, "TELL ME, I'VE HAD A DREAM AND 04:00 I NEED TO KNOW WHAT IT MEANS." 04:02 AND THEY SAID, "OKAY, TELL US THE DREAM AND WE'LL MANUFACTURE, 04:06 I MEAN WE'LL TELL YOU THE INTERPRETATION." 04:09 THESE SO-CALLED WISE MEN WERE ON THE KING'S PAYROLL AND THEY 04:13 HAD A HABIT OF CONJURING UP FANCIFUL PROPHECIES THAT WERE 04:17 USUALLY VERY FLATTERING FOR THE KING, TO HELP HIM GET 04:20 PROMOTIONS AND PAY RAISES. AND THE KING SAID, "YOU KNOW, 04:24 I'VE HAD THIS DREAM AND IT'S BEGINNING ALREADY TO FAIL." 04:27 ANY OF YOU HAVE A DREAM AND IT SHOCKS YOU, AND JUST A FEW 04:29 HOURS LATER IT'S BECOMING UNCLEAR THE DETAILS? 04:32 AND HE SAID, "YOU CLAIM TO BE PROPHETS--I WANT TO KNOW WHAT 04:36 THE MEANING OF THIS DREAM IS. IF YOU'RE A REAL PROPHET, 04:38 YOU TELL ME WHAT THE DREAM IS, AND THEN I'LL KNOW YOU CAN 04:41 TELL ME THE INTERPRETATION." WELL, THEY BEGAN TO SQUIRM. 04:44 AND THEY SAID, "WELL, THAT'S A LITTLE UNREASONABLE. 04:47 I MEAN YES, WE'VE GOT SPECIAL GIFTS, BUT THAT'S ASKING 04:49 TOO MUCH." AND THE KING WAS AGGRAVATED, BECAUSE HE WAS 04:52 SUSPICIOUS THAT THESE PROPHETS WERE COUNTERFEITS. 04:55 WHEN THE KING'S COUNSELORS FAILED TO REVEAL AND INTERPRET 04:59 THE DREAM, WHAT WAS NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S COMMAND? 05:03 ANSWER--THE KING COMMANDED TO DESTROY ALL OF THE WISE MEN 05:08 IN BABYLON. NOW, WE NEED TO PAUSE AT THIS 05:10 POINT AND BACK UP, AND GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY. 05:13 YOU SEE, A FEW YEARS EARLIER, NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD CONQUERED 05:17 JERUSALEM. THE TEMPLE HAD BEEN BURNT, 05:20 AND JUST A LITTLE BEFORE HE DID THAT, HE CARRIED AWAY A NUMBER 05:23 OF CAPTIVES FROM JERUSALEM BACK TO BABYLON, WHERE THEY SETTLED 05:27 FOR ABOUT 70 YEARS. AMONG THOSE CAPTIVES WERE FOUR 05:30 YOUNG MEN WHO WERE OF ROYAL DESCENT. 05:33 THEIR NAMES WERE DANIEL, HANANIAH, MISHAEL AND AZARIAH. 05:38 THEY WERE TRAINED IN THE BABYLONIAN PALACE. 05:41 THEY WERE ALLOWED TO EAT FROM THE ROYAL CAFETERIA AND THEY 05:44 WERE BEING GROOMED TO BE AMBASSADORS AND COUNSELORS, 05:47 AND ULTIMATELY WISE MEN FOR NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 05:50 THEY HAD BEEN CHOSEN FOR THEIR BRIGHTNESS. 05:52 WELL, WHEN THE KING GAVE THE DECREE THAT ALL OF THE WISE MEN 05:56 SHOULD BE DESTROYED, BECAUSE DANIEL AND HIS THREE FRIENDS 05:59 WERE SO YOUNG--THEY WEREN'T INVITED AT THAT POINT. 06:01 WHEN DANIEL LEARNED ABOUT THE DEATH DECREE, WHAT DID HE ASK 06:05 OF THE KING AND WHAT DID HE TELL HIS FRIENDS? THE ANSWER? 06:09 IT TELLS US, "DANIEL WENT IN AND HE DESIRED OF THE KING 06:14 THAT HE WOULD GIVE HIM TIME." WHY? 06:17 THAT HE COULD SHOW THE KING THE INTERPRETATION. 06:22 HE SAID, "YOU HAVEN'T INVITED US, WE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT 06:25 THIS--GIVE US A LITTLE TIME." AND I THINK DANIEL MAY HAVE 06:28 EVEN PUT A LIMIT ON IT. WHAT DID DANIEL DO AFTER THAT? 06:31 YOU CAN BET THAT HE AND HIS FRIENDS HAD A VERY INTENSE 06:35 PRAYER MEETING. IT SAYS HERE, "THEN DANIEL WENT 06:38 TO HIS HOUSE AND HE MADE THE THING KNOWN TO HANANIAH, 06:42 MISHAEL AND AZARIAH, HIS COMPANIONS, THAT THEY WOULD 06:45 DESIRE MERCIES OF THE GOD OF HEAVEN CONCERNING THIS SECRET." 06:50 THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT ONLY GOD COULD REVEAL TO THEM. 06:54 WHEN THE LORD REVEALED THE DREAM TO DANIEL, TO WHOM DID HE 06:56 GIVE PRAISE AND CREDIT? NOW, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 06:59 THE ANSWER? DANIEL SAID, "I THANK THEE 07:02 AND PRAISE THEE, O THOU GOD OF MY FATHERS. THERE IS A GOD IN 07:08 HEAVEN THAT REVEALETH SECRETS." GOD REVEALED THE SECRET. 07:13 WHAT TWO OBJECTS DID DANIEL SAY THAT THE KING SAW IN HIS DREAM? 07:18 THERE WERE TWO SPECIFIC THINGS THAT WERE DIFFERENT-- 07:20 WHAT WERE THEY? FIRST OF ALL, "THOU, O KING, 07:23 SAWEST AND BEHOLD--" A WHAT? "A GREAT IMAGE." 07:26 THIS COLOSSAL IMAGE THAT WAS GOLD AND SILVER, AND BRONZE 07:30 AND IRON, AND IRON AND MIRY CLAY WAS AN IDOL. 07:36 AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT IDOLS? 07:38 IT REPRESENTED THE PAGAN RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD. 07:41 AND IT REPRESENTED ALL OF THE FALSE AND THE COUNTERFEIT 07:44 METHODS OF TRUTH IN THE WORLD. THE ANSWER TO THE SECOND PART, 07:49 "THOU SAWEST TILL A STONE WAS CUT WITHOUT HANDS." 07:55 NOW, THAT STONE THAT IS CUT WITHOUT HANDS, THERE'S 07:57 SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL ABOUT THE STONE. 07:59 WE'LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THAT LATER. 08:01 WHAT DOES THE HEAD OF GOLD REPRESENT? 08:04 LET'S GO RIGHT NOW INTO THE INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THESE 08:06 DIFFERENT MATERIALS ARE IN THE DREAM. 08:09 DANIEL TOLD THE KING, "THOU ART THIS HEAD OF GOLD." 08:15 DANIEL SAID THAT KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR, AND IN 08:17 PARTICULAR THE KINGDOM OF BABYLON, THAT WAS THE HEAD 08:20 OF GOLD. BABYLON WAS ONE OF THE MOST 08:22 GLORIOUS KINGDOMS OF ANTIQUITY. ONE HISTORIAN TELLS US IT WAS 08:26 15 MILES ON EACH SIDE, MAKING IT 60 MILES IN CIRCUMFERENCE. 08:33 THE WALLS OF THE CITY WERE OVER 65 FEET WIDE AT THE BOTTOM 08:37 AND 55 FEET WIDE AT THE TOP. 08:40 AND HERODOTUS SAYS THAT YOU COULD RIDE FOUR CHARIOTS 08:43 ABREAST AROUND THE CITY ON TOP OF THE WALLS. 08:47 THE RIVER EUPHRATES RAN UNDERNEATH THE CITY. 08:51 THE EUPHRATES RIVER IRRIGATED THE CITY. 08:53 IT RAN UNDER THE WALLS, THROUGH THE CITY AND OUT 08:55 THE OTHER SIDE. AND THEY USED THAT WATER OF 08:57 COURSE TO IRRIGATE THE HANGING GARDENS. 08:59 NOT ONLY THAT, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL CITY. 09:01 THEY HAD GLAZED BLUE AND GOLD, AND PURPLE TILES THAT MOUNTED 09:06 THE WALLS IN THE PALACES. AND SO HERE BABYLON WAS 09:10 SYMBOLIZED AS THIS HEAD OF GOLD. 09:12 WOULD THE KINGDOM OF BABYLON LAST FOREVER? 09:15 WELL, HOW LONG DID THE GOLD LAST? 09:17 IT IS FOLLOWED NOW BY ANOTHER MATERIAL. 09:19 IT SAYS, "AFTER THESE SHALL ANOTHER KINGDOM ARISE INFERIOR 09:24 TO THEE, JUST AS SILVER IS INFERIOR TO GOLD." 09:28 BABYLON LASTED FROM ABOUT 605 B.C. TO 539 B.C. THERE 09:33 ARE SOME DETAILS IN HISTORY, SO WE CAN KNOW HOW IT FELL. 09:37 AND MATTER OF FACT, THE BOOK OF DANIEL TELLS THE HISTORY-- 09:40 DANIEL WAS THERE WHEN BABYLON FELL. 09:42 CHAPTER 5 OF DANIEL TELLS ABOUT THIS WILD PARTY 09:45 NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S GRANDSON, BELSHAZZAR, HAD. 09:49 NABODONIUS, BELSHAZZAR'S FATHER, NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S SON 09:53 WAS OFF FIGHTING BATTLES SOMEWHERE ELSE. 09:55 AND HIS YOUNG SON WAS ALL OF A SUDDEN IN CHARGE OF THE CITY. 09:58 KIND OF PRONOUNCED HIMSELF KING IN PLACE OF HIS FATHER, 10:02 WHILE HIS FATHER WAS AWAY, THEY HAD A WILD PARTY. 10:05 IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE MEDO-PERSIAN ARMY HAD NOW 10:08 MARCHED AGAINST BABYLON, YOUNG BELSHAZZAR SAID, 10:11 "WE'RE NOT AFRAID--THEY'LL NEVER GET THROUGH THE WALLS." 10:14 ONE HISTORIAN TELLS US THEY HAD 20 YEARS WORTH OF GRAIN STORED 10:18 AWAY IN THEIR SILOS. THEY HAD WATER RUNNING 10:20 UNDER THE WALLS. HE THOUGH, "WE'VE GOT FOOD, 10:22 WE'VE GOT WATER; WE CAN WITHSTAND A SIEGE OF 20 YEARS." 10:25 SO THEY HAD A WILD PARTY, AND HE BECAME VERY POMPOUS AS HE DRANK. 10:29 AND HE SAID, "YOU KNOW, MY GRANDFATHER CONQUERED THE 10:34 PEOPLE OF JUDEA, AND HE CARRIED AWAY ALL OF THE SACRED VESSELS 10:38 FROM THEIR GOD AND FROM THEIR TEMPLE--LET'S BRING THOSE 10:41 SACRED VESSELS, THEIR CUPS AND BOWLS OUT. 10:43 LET'S POUR OUR WINE INTO IT AND LET'S TOAST OUR GODS, BECAUSE 10:47 OUR GODS ARE BIGGER THAN THE GOD JEHOVAH OF ISRAEL." 10:50 AND HE BEGAN TO MOCK THE GOD OF HEAVEN AND DRINK TO THE GODS 10:55 OF GOLD AND SILVER, AND STONE AND WOOD. 10:58 AND AS HE WAS MOCKING GOD, SUDDENLY A HAND APPEARED AND 11:04 BEGAN TO WRITE IN BURNING LETTERS ON THE WALL OVER 11:07 BY A LAMP. AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAID? 11:11 IT SAID, "THE PARTY'S OVER." THAT'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT IT 11:14 SAID, BUT IN ESSENCE THAT'S WHAT IT SAID. 11:17 THAT HANDWRITING WAS WRITTEN, A CRYPTIC MESSAGE, 11:20 "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN." 11:22 AND AGAIN, NOW YOUNG BELSHAZZAR, HE CALLS FOR ALL OF 11:26 THE WISE MEN AND THE PSYCHICS TO COME, AND HE DIALS 11:29 THE HOTLINE, HE SAYS, "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? 11:31 THESE FLAMING LETTERS ARE UP THERE ON THE WALL." 11:33 AND HIS KNEES WERE SHAKING TOGETHER, THE BIBLE TELLS US. 11:37 AND THEY SAID, "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS." 11:39 AND HE PROCLAIMED THAT HE WOULD GIVE GREAT REWARDS TO ANYBODY 11:42 WHO COULD TELL HIM WHAT IT MEANS. HE'D MAKE 'EM THIRD 11:44 RULER IN THE KINGDOM. FINALLY DANIEL WAS BROUGHT IN. 11:47 NOW DANIEL IS AN OLD MAN, 70 YEARS HAVE GONE BY. 11:51 AND DANIEL SAYS, "I'LL TELL YOU WHAT THE WRITING IS, BUT YOU 11:53 CAN KEEP YOUR REWARDS, BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT IT SAYS AND YOU 11:55 WILL NOT BE IN A POSITION TO REWARD ANYBODY." 11:58 AND DANIEL GAVE THE TRANSLATION FOR THESE WORDS THAT WERE ON 12:02 THE WALL. YOU CAN FIND IT IN 12:03 DANIEL 5:25-28, "MENE" IS THE FIRST STATEMENT. 12:09 THEN THE MEANING OF THAT IS, "MENE TEKEL," "THOU ART WEIGHED 12:15 IN THE BALANCES AND FOUND WANTING." 12:17 AND THEN THE LAST PART IS "PERES," "THY KINGDOM IS 12:21 DIVIDED AND GIVEN TO THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS." 12:23 THAT VERY NIGHT, WHILE THIS EVENT IS TAKING PLACE IN 12:26 THE BANQUET HALL, CYRUS, A BRILLIANT PERSIAN GENERAL, 12:30 DIVERTED THE EUPHRATES RIVER, WHERE IT RUNS UNDERNEATH THE 12:33 WALLS, INTO A DRY HOLLOW LAKEBED. 12:38 AND REMEMBER WE TOLD YOU THE RIVER RAN UNDER THE WALLS? 12:40 CYRUS HAD A WHOLE ARMY OF ENGINEERS DIGGING THIS CHANNEL, 12:43 THEN THEY BROKE THE DAM. THE WATER THAT NORMALLY RUNS 12:46 UNDER THE CITY WALLS, WAS DIVERTED OFF INTO THIS DRY 12:49 BASIN, AND HIS ARMY MARCHED UNDERNEATH THE WALLS OF 12:52 BABYLON. THAT'S WHY WHEN IT SAYS IN 12:54 REVELATION THE EUPHRATES RIVER DRIES UP, IT HAS SIGNIFICANCE. 12:57 GOD HAD FORETOLD 150 YEARS BEFORE CYRUS WAS BORN IN THE 13:03 BOOK OF ISAIAH THAT THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND HE 13:05 MENTIONS CYRUS BY HIS VERY NAME. 13:08 HERE IT IS IN ISAIAH 45:1, "THUS SAYS THE LORD TO HIS 13:12 ANOINTED, TO CYRUS, WHOSE RIGHT HAND I HAVE HELD, TO SUBDUE 13:17 NATIONS BEFORE HIM AND TO LOOSE THE ARMOR OF KINGS. 13:20 TO OPEN BEFORE HIM THE DOUBLE DOORS, SO THE GATES WILL 13:24 NOT BE SHUT." YOU REMEMBER I TOLD YOU THAT 13:26 HIS ARMY THEN MARCHED IN THE MUDDY RIVERBED UNDER THE WALLS? 13:29 THERE WAS AN INNER GATE, AND THE GUARDS IN THE CITY WERE 13:31 DRUNK AND THEY HAD LEFT THE GATES UNLOCKED, NEVER DREAMING 13:34 THAT THEY'D MARCH UP THE RIVERBED. 13:36 JUST AS GOD HAD PREDICTED, THE DOORS HAD BEEN LEFT OPEN 13:40 AND BABYLON FELL THAT NIGHT. AND BELSHAZZAR AND ALL OF HIS 13:43 CABINET WAS SLAIN WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE OLD WISE MAN 13:47 NAMED DANIEL. GOD'S WORD NEVER FAILS. 13:51 SOMETHING ELSE ISAIAH PROPHESIED ABOUT BABYLON, NOT 13:53 ONLY WOULD IT FALL AND THE PERSIAN KINGDOM WOULD THEN TAKE 13:56 ITS PLACE, BUT IT WOULD NEVER BE REBUILT AGAIN. 13:59 IT WOULD NEVER BE INHABITED AGAIN. 14:01 HERE YOU FIND IT AGAIN IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, "AND BABYLON, 14:04 THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS, THE BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEANS PRIDE, 14:07 WILL BE AS WHEN GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH. 14:12 IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED, NOR WILL IT BE SETTLED 14:14 FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. 14:17 NOR WILL THE ARABIAN PITCH TENTS THERE. 14:20 NOR WILL THE SHEPHERDS MAKE THEIR SHEEP FOLDS THERE. 14:23 BUT WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT WILL LAY THERE AND THEIR HOUSES 14:26 WILL BE FULL OF OWLS, OSTRICHES WILL DWELL THERE, 14:29 AND WILD GOATS WILL SCAMPER OR PLAY THERE." 14:33 SADDAM HUSSEIN WANTED TO DISPROVE THE JEWISH PROPHECIES. 14:37 HE HAD EXTENSIVE PLANS TO REBUILD ANCIENT BABYLON. 14:41 BUT HISTORY INTERVENED WITH SOMETHING CALLED "DESERT STORM, 14:47 THE PERSIAN GULF WAR." IT DRAINED HIS TREASURY. 14:50 AND HERE YOU ACTUALLY HAVE SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIS ATTEMPT 14:53 TO REBUILD THE WALL. HE DID SUCCEED IN RESTORING 14:56 A SECTION OF THE WALL FOR TOURISTS TO LOOK AT. 14:58 AND ONE OF THE GATES WAS RESTORED, BUT HE DID NOT THWART 15:01 THE PROPHECY OF GOD. AND HERE YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE 15:04 NOW OF THE RUINS OF BABYLON. IT IS STILL IN RUINS, 15:08 GOD'S WORD DOES NOT FALL ON THE GROUND. 15:10 WHAT DO YOU SAY? YOU CAN TRUST IT. 15:13 MAN CANNOT OVERTURN THE WORD OF GOD, 15:15 IT'S GOING TO BE DEPENDABLE. 15:16 THE NEXT KINGDOM THAT CAME ON THE SCENE THAT FOLLOWED 15:19 BABYLON, AS YOU HEARD, WAS MEDO-PERSIA. 15:21 IT LASTED A LITTLE LONGER THAN THE BABYLONIAN KINGDOM, 15:24 539 TO 331 B.C. NOW, THE PERSIAN PEOPLE WERE 15:29 A VERY AGGRESSIVE AND A WARLIKE PEOPLE. 15:32 AND THEY WERE GREATER IN NUMBERS AND THEIR ARMIES WERE 15:35 LARGER. SILVER WAS THEIR MEDIUM OF 15:38 EXCHANGE, AND THEY DID EXTENSIVE BUILDING, BUT THEY 15:41 NEVER REACHED THE SAME GLORY AS ANCIENT BABYLON. 15:45 HERE ARE SOME OF THE RUINS OF PERSEPOLIS. 15:47 AND THEY HAD A LOT OF VERY BEAUTIFUL ORNATE BUILDINGS. 15:50 THIS WAS A PALACE THAT ALEXANDER THE GREAT BURNED 15:51 TO THE GROUND, BECAUSE HIS SOLDIERS GOT DRUNK ONE NIGHT. 15:54 AND IT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD. 15:56 SILVER WAS THEIR CURRENCY-- ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 15:59 MATTER OF FACT, PERSEPOLIS, THEY UNEARTHED A SILVER GOOSE. 16:03 SILVER WAS THEIR MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE, BUT AS I'VE ALREADY 16:05 HINTED, THAT KINGDOM WOULD NOT LAST FOREVER. 16:08 IT WAS THEN REPLACED BY ANOTHER. 16:10 WHAT METAL WOULD REPRESENT THE KINGDOM THAT FOLLOWED 16:13 MEDO-PERSIA? THE ANSWER? ANOTHER THIRD KINGDOM OF BRASS 16:20 SHALL BEAR RULE OVER ALL THE EARTH. 16:23 THIS BRONZE KINGDOM, OF COURSE, REPRESENTED ALEXANDER THE 16:26 GREAT. AND WHO WAS HE THE KING OF? IT WAS MACEDONIA, BUT WE 16:29 COMMONLY CALL IT THE KING OF GREECE. 16:31 ONE HISTORIAN WROTE, "I AM PERSUADED THAT THERE WAS NO 16:35 NATION, CITY NOR PEOPLE THEN BEING WHETHER HIS NAME DID NOT 16:40 REACH. THERE SEEMS TO ME TO HAVE BEEN 16:43 SOME DIVINE HAND PRESIDING OVER HIS BIRTH AND ACTION." 16:47 THIS IS A HISTORIAN SAYING SOME DIVINE HAND SEEMED TO BE 16:51 PRESIDING OVER HIS BIRTH AND HIS ACTIONS. 16:53 GREECE WENT FROM 331 B.C. TO ABOUT 168 B.C. 16:58 WHAT METAL REPRESENTS THE FOURTH KINGDOM? DANIEL 2:40, 17:04 "THE FOURTH KINGDOM SHALL BE AS STRONG AS...IRON." 17:08 NOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT FOURTH KINGDOM WAS THAT WAS AS 17:11 STRONG AS IRON? THE KINGDOM OF ROME. 17:14 DANIEL 2:40 TELLS US, "IN AS MUCH AS IRON BREAKS IN PIECES 17:18 AND SHATTERS EVERYTHING, LIKE IRON THAT CRUSHES, THAT KINGDOM 17:22 WILL BREAK IN PIECES AND CRUSH ALL OTHERS." 17:25 IRON WAS CONSIDERED SO MUCH MORE DESIRABLE AND ROME WAS 17:28 ABLE TO CONQUER THE WORLD BY VIRTUE OF THEIR IRON WEAPONS. 17:32 EDWARD GIBBON, THE FAMOUS HISTORIAN, SAID, "THE IMAGES OF 17:36 GOLD AND SILVER OR BRASS THAT MIGHT SERVE TO REPRESENT THE 17:39 NATIONS AND THEIR KINGS, THEY WERE SUCCESSIVELY BROKEN 17:43 BY THE IRON MONARCHY OF ROME." 17:46 EVEN THE HISTORIANS REFER TO ROME AS THE IRON EMPIRE THAT 17:50 SPREAD ITS ROADS AND ITS TENTACLES INTO NORTHERN AFRICA, 17:53 SPAIN, ENGLAND, AND THEY CONTINUED TO EXPAND. 17:57 NOTICE EACH KINGDOM IS LASTING LONGER THAN THE ONE BEFORE, 18:01 BUT DID NOT HAVE THE SAME LUSTER IN GLORY AS THE ONE BEFORE. 18:05 ROME WENT FROM 168 B.C. WHERE THEY DEFEATED ALEXANDER 18:09 THE GREAT AT THE BATTLE OF PADINAá OR THE GREEKS, 18:12 TO THE MID 4TH CENTURY A.D. THE REASON WE CAN'T GIVE YOU 18:15 A PRECISE DATE THERE IS BECAUSE ROME DID NOT FALL IN A DAY. 18:19 IT WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY AND IT DIDN'T FALL IN A DAY. 18:22 ROME SORT OF DISINTEGRATED SLOWLY FROM WITHIN. 18:26 WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE? 18:28 ANSWER, "THE KINGDOM SHALL BE DIVIDED AS THE TOES 18:33 AND THE FEET WERE PART OF IRON AND PART OF CLAY." 18:37 IT'S A DIVIDED KINGDOM. 18:39 IT'S UNITED, BUT IT'S NOT WELDED TOGETHER AGAIN. 18:42 "SO THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PARTLY STRONG AND PARTLY BROKEN." 18:46 NOW, WHAT CAME OUT OF THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE? 18:49 WELL, GRADUALLY, BECAUSE OF THEIR DECADENCE, THEY BEGAN 18:51 TO LOSE CONTROL. PRETTY SOON THE EMPIRE WAS 18:55 INVADED ON ALL ITS DIFFERENT FRONTS. IT BEGAN TO DIVIDE 18:58 FROM WITHIN THROUGH ALL OF THESE COUPS AND THIS ACTIVITY. 19:02 THE BARBARIANS AND THE HUNS BEGAN TO ATTACK FROM THE NORTH, 19:05 AND THE GERMAN TRIBES, THEY WERE ATTACKED BY SEA. 19:09 AND LITTLE BY LITTLE ROME'S POWER WAS ERODED, UNTIL IN THE 19:12 PLACE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, COVERING BASICALLY THE SAME 19:15 GEOGRAPHY, THERE WAS NOW WHAT WE THINK OF AS THE MODERN 19:18 NATIONS OF EUROPE. HOW MANY TOES DID THIS BEAST 19:24 HAVE, OR THIS IMAGE HAVE? THIS COLOSSAL IMAGE HAD TEN TOES 19:28 AND IT WAS DIVIDED INTO TEN KINGDOMS. 19:30 HERE ARE THE ANCIENT NAMES OF THOSE TEN DIVISIONS. 19:34 WOULD THESE TEN KINGDOMS EVER SUCCEED IN UNITING? 19:38 NO, THEY WOULD TRY, BUT THEY WOULDN'T SUCCEED. 19:41 IT SAYS, "THEY WILL MINGLE THEMSELVES WITH THE SEED OF 19:44 MEN," THEY TRIED TO DO IT THROUGH INTERMARRIAGE, "BUT 19:47 THEY WILL NOT CLEAVE ONE TO ANOTHER, EVEN AS IRON IS NOT 19:51 MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY." SEVERAL ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO 19:55 REUNITE AND TO FORGE TOGETHER THAT ANCIENT LUSTER 19:58 THAT ROME ENJOYED. ROME SORT OF WAS THE PINNACLE 20:01 OF WORLD EMPIRES WHEN IT COMES TO ITS EXPANSE. 20:05 CHARLEMAGNE TRIED AND HE WAS ABLE TO GAIN A GREAT DEAL OF 20:09 POWER AND PRESTIGE, BUT HE COULD NOT REGAIN THE FORMER 20:11 GLORY. LOUIS XIV ALSO TRIED. NAPOLEON PROBABLY CAME AS CLOSE 20:17 AS ANYBODY, THAT LITTLE GENERAL, LITTLE CORPORAL. 20:19 "THE DELIVERANCE," ONE HISTORIAN WRITES, 20:22 "THE DELIVERANCE OF EUROPE FROM THE DOMINION OF NAPOLEON WAS 20:25 AFFECTED NEITHER BY RUSSIA NOR BY GERMANY, NOR BY ENGLAND, 20:29 BUT BY THE HAND OF GOD. HE CAME SO CLOSE, AND THEN 20:33 THERE AT WATERLOO HE GAVE SOME ORDERS THAT WERE MISUNDERSTOOD, 20:36 AND CANNONS WERE MISPLACED, AND EVERYTHING FELL APART. 20:38 AND THEY GOT STUCK IN THE MUD AND YOU COULD SEE THE HAND OF 20:41 GOD SAY, "NO, THEY WILL NOT CLEAVE ONE TO ANOTHER." 20:46 ADOLF HITLER HAD THIS VISION OF GRANDEUR THAT HE AND MUSSOLINI 20:52 WOULD BE ABLE TO JOIN TOGETHER THEIR POWERS AGAIN AND 20:55 ESTABLISH THIS THOUSAND YEAR REICH, TRYING TO LAST EVEN 20:59 LONGER THAN THE ROMAN POWER. GOD SAID, "THEY WILL NOT CLEAVE 21:02 ONE TO ANOTHER." NOW, YOU MIGHT BE 21:04 WONDERING--DOESN'T THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS SAY THAT THERE'S 21:06 GOING TO BE A ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT? NO. 21:09 REVELATION 13 SAYS THAT THIS BEAST POWER COMPELS THE WHOLE 21:14 WORLD TO WORSHIP. THAT'S NOT GOVERNMENT-- THAT'S RELIGION. 21:19 THERE IS GOING TO BE AN ATTEMPT FOR ONE WORLD RELIGION BEFORE 21:22 THE END COMES, BUT THERE NEVER IS GOING TO BE A ONE-WORLD 21:25 GOVERNMENT. WHO WILL SET UP THE FINAL KINGDOM? 21:29 "AND IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS SHALL THE GOD OF HEAVEN SET UP 21:35 A KINGDOM, WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED." 21:38 THERE IS A KINGDOM COMING THAT WILL LAST FOREVER. 21:40 NOW, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING, FRIENDS. 21:42 WE ARE LIVING AT THE VERY END OF TIME. 21:45 WE'RE LIVING DOWN IN WHAT YOU WOULD CALL THE TOES--WE'RE THE 21:48 TOENAILS OF THIS GREAT IMAGE IN THE SCOPE OF HISTORY. 21:52 EVERYTHING HAS HAPPENED RIGHT ON TARGET AS GOD FORETOLD IT 21:55 WOULD. I WANT YOU TO NOTICE WHAT ARE THE FEET MADE OUT OF? 21:58 IT SAYS THE FEET ARE MADE OUT OF IRON MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY. 22:02 HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT OUR WORLD IS MADE OUT OF 22:04 TODAY? OUR WORLD IS MADE OUT OF, 22:07 THE NUMBER ONE BUILDING MATERIAL IS CONCRETE. 22:10 HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED PEOPLE WORK WITH CONCRETE? 22:12 FIRST THEY TAKE THE IRON AND THEY PUT IT IN THE FORMS. 22:16 THEN THEY POUR IN THE MUSH, THE CONCRETE. 22:20 WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE TO AN ANCIENT PROPHET 22:22 WHO DIDN'T HAVE A WORD FOR CONCRETE? 22:25 IT WOULD LOOK VERY MUCH LIKE MIRY, WHICH IS MUSHY CLAY-- 22:28 IRON MIXED WITH MUSHY CLAY. NEW YORK CITY IS CALLED 22:32 "THE CITY OF IRON AND CONCRETE." WE ARE LIVING IN THE 22:37 CIVILIZATION OF CONCRETE, WHICH IS IRON MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY. 22:41 WE ARE LIVING NOW IN THE LAST DAYS. 22:43 WHAT DOES THE STONE DO TO THE OTHER WORLD KINGDOMS? 22:47 THE ANSWER, "THE STONE WAS CUT WITHOUT HANDS." 22:51 INCIDENTALLY, PARDON ME, I WANT TO STOP. 22:53 THERE'S ONLY ONE OTHER TIME IN THE BIBLE WHEN A STONE 22:55 WAS CUT WITHOUT HUMAN HANDS. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD 22:58 HEWED TWO TABLES OF STONES FROM A MOUNTAIN. OKAY? 23:02 SO THIS IS SUPERNATURAL. THIS IS GOOD. 23:04 THE IDOL WAS BAD. THE STONE WINS IN THE END. 23:08 THE ROCK IS JESUS--HE'S CALLED THE ROCK OF AGES. 23:11 "THE STONE WAS CUT WITHOUT HANDS, WHICH SMOTE THE IMAGE 23:14 UPON ITS FEET THAT WERE OF IRON AND CLAY, AND BROKE THEM 23:17 INTO PIECES." AND THEN IT GOES ON TO TELL US, 23:20 "AND THE STONE THAT SMOTE THE IMAGE BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN." 23:24 AND AS YOU STUDY PROPHECIES, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND A MOUNTAIN 23:26 IS A KINGDOM. 23:28 "IT GROWS INTO A GREAT MOUNTAIN AND FILLS THE WHOLE EARTH." 23:31 THE JEWS ARE PRAYING FOR THE COMING KINGDOM. 23:34 PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS PRAY, "THY KINGDOM COME." 23:39 THE EARTHLY KINGDOMS RISE AND FALL, AND THERE'S A LOT 23:41 OF INSTABILITY IN THE WORLD GOVERNMENTS. 23:44 BUT THERE IS ANOTHER KINGDOM COMING THAT'S GOING TO LAST 23:47 A LONG TIME. THIS COLOSSAL IMAGE OUTLINES THE HISTORY OF 23:50 THE WORLD--THE GOLD, THE SILVER, THE BRONZE, THE IRON. 23:54 LET'S REVIEW QUICKLY. THE GOLD IS WHAT KINGDOM? 23:56 BABYLON. THE SILVER WHAT KINGDOM? 23:59 MEDO-PERSIA. THE BRONZE IS WHAT KINGDOM? GREECE. 24:03 IRON IS THE KINGDOM OF? THE IRON MONARCHY OF ROME. 24:07 THEN THE IRON AND CLAY ARE THE TEN DIVISIONS OF WHAT WE WOULD 24:10 THINK OF MODERN EUROPE NOW, AND THEY REACH FROM ABOUT 476 24:13 'TIL WHEN? 'TIL GOD SETS UP HIS KINGDOM. 24:17 AFTER HEARING DANIEL'S CLEAR INTERPRETATION OF THE DREAM, 24:20 WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAY ABOUT THE LORD? 24:23 "THE KING ANSWERED DANIEL AND SAID, OF A TRUTH, IT IS THAT 24:27 YOUR GOD IS A GOD OF GODS, AND A LORD OF KINGS, 24:31 AND A REVEALER OF SECRETS." HE SAID, "THE DREAM IS CERTAIN 24:36 AND THE INTERPRETATION IS SURE." YOU KNOW, WHAT 24:39 NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID IS STILL TRUE TODAY, "NOTHING HAS FAILED. 24:43 THE WORDS OF GOD HAVE NOT FALLEN VOID TO THE GROUND." 24:46 THE NEXT THING THAT IS SCHEDULED IS THAT STONE IS 24:49 GOING TO COME. 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