Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000151A
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01:00 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>IF YOU GO 483 YEARS FROM 457 B.C., IT COMES TO THE BAPTISM OF 01:19 JESUS IN 27 A.D. WOW, CHRIST CAME RIGHT ON TIME 01:23 THE FIRST TIME, JUST LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD. 01:25 WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE BELIEVE THE BIBLE? 01:30 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:33 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:35 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:39 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:42 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:51 TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION IS GOING TO BE ONE THAT I'M ACTUALLY 01:54 COMBINING A COUPLE OF STUDIES INTO ONE PRESENTATION DEALING 01:58 WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE LONGEST TIME PROPHECY AND THE SANCTUARY. 02:04 THE LESSON TODAY IS LESSON #11, DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF 02:07 CLEANSING THE SANCTUARY. NOW, WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO 02:11 QUESTION #1 AND I'VE GOT A LOT TO COVER, SO YOU PRAY FOR ME - 02:16 I'LL PRAY FOR YOU BECAUSE I'M GOING TO TALK FAST. 02:18 I'LL PRAY YOU CAN LISTEN FAST. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY. 02:21 ALRIGHT, QUESTION #1 - WE'RE GOING TO - THIS IS BASED ON A 02:23 PROPHECY IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8 AND IT TELLS US - MATTER OF FACT, 02:27 OPEN YOUR BIBLES. WE REALLY NEED TO LOOK. 02:29 IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES WITH YOU OPEN YOUR BIBLES TO 02:31 DANIEL 8. YOU NEED TO AT LEAST INTRODUCE 02:33 THIS BEFORE WE DIVE INTO THE QUESTION. 02:35 DANIEL 8, VERSE 1, "IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING 02:40 BELSHAZZAR A VISION APPEARED TO ME - TO ME, DANIEL - AFTER THE 02:44 ONE THAT APPEARED TO ME THE FIRST TIME. 02:46 I SAW IN THE VISION, AND IT SO HAPPENED WHILE I WAS LOOKING, 02:49 THAT I WAS IN SHUSHAN, THE CITADEL, WHICH IS IN THE 02:52 PROVINCE OF ELAM; AND I SAW IN THE VISION THAT I WAS BY THE 02:56 RIVER ULAI. THEN I LIFTED MY EYES AND SAW, 02:58 AND THERE, STANDING BESIDE THE RIVER, WAS A RAM WHICH HAD TWO 03:02 HORNS," - NOW HE STARTS TO HAVE THIS VISION, HE'S ABOVE THE 03:07 RIVER AND HE SEES THIS RAM AND HE'S WONDERING 'WHAT DOES THIS 03:10 MEAN?' AND THEN LATER THERE'S A GOAT. 03:11 IF YOU READ THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, HE SAYS, 'I WAS IN 03:15 VISION AND I SAW A LION, THEN I SAW A BEAR, THEN I SAW A 03:18 LEOPARD.' AND WHILE HE'S WONDERING WHAT THESE THINGS 03:20 MEAN, THE ANGEL COMES AND EXPLAINS THAT THESE ANIMALS 03:25 REPRESENT DIFFERENT KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES THAT WILL HAVE SOME 03:30 DOMINATING INFLUENCE OVER GOD'S PEOPLE DURING THEIR REIGN. 03:35 HE FORETELLS THE HISTORY. YOU KNOW, IN DANIEL 2, YOU 03:39 REMEMBER WE STUDIED THAT? HE GAVE A PANORAMA OF THE 03:41 WORLD'S HISTORY AND THEIR KINGDOMS THROUGH THAT GIANT 03:44 METAL IMAGE. GOD OFTEN REPEATS THESE THINGS 03:47 AND USES DIFFERENT PARABLES AND DREAMS TO GIVE PERSPECTIVE. 03:53 SO NOW IN DANIEL 8, LET'S GO INTO THIS. 03:55 FIRST HE SEES A RAM BY THE RIVER - TWO HORNS - AND ONE OF THEM 04:00 WAS HIGHER THAN THE OTHER "AND THE HIGHER ONE CAME UP LAST. 04:04 I SAW THE RAM PUSHING WESTWARD, NORTHWARD, AND SOUTHWARD, SO 04:08 THAT NO ANIMAL COULD WITHSTAND HIM; NOR WAS THERE ANY THAT 04:10 COULD DELIVER FROM HIS HAND, BUT HE DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL AND 04:13 BECAME GREAT. AND AS I WAS CONSIDERING, 04:16 SUDDENLY A MALE GOAT CAME FROM THE WEST, ACROSS THE SURFACE OF 04:21 THE WHOLE EARTH, WITHOUT TOUCHING THE GROUND; AND THE 04:24 GOAT HAD A NOTABLE HORN BETWEEN HIS EYES." - ONE NOTABLE HORN - 04:27 "THEN HE CAME TO THE RAM THAT HAD TWO HORNS, WHICH I HAD SEEN 04:31 STANDING BESIDE THE RIVER, AND RAN AT HIM WITH FURIOUS POWER. 04:34 AND I SAW HIM CONFRONTING THE RAM; HE WAS MOVED WITH RAGE 04:37 AGAINST HIM, ATTACKED THE RAM, AND BROKE HIS TWO HORNS. 04:41 THERE WAS NO POWER IN THE RAM TO WITHSTAND HIM, BUT HE CAST HIM 04:45 DOWN TO THE GROUND AND TRAMPLED HIM; AND THERE WAS NO ONE THAT 04:48 COULD DELIVER THE RAM FROM HIS HAND. 04:50 THEREFORE THE MALE GOAT GREW VERY GREAT; BUT WHEN HE BECAME 04:54 STRONG, THE LARGE HORN WAS BROKEN, AND IN PLACE OF IT FOUR 04:59 NOTABLE ONES CAME UP TOWARD THE FOUR WINDS OF HEAVEN." 05:03 ALRIGHT, WE'VE GOT TO PAUSE THERE. 05:04 WE'LL COME BACK TO THIS CHAPTER, BUT I JUST WANTED TO READ IT 05:06 RIGHT FROM THE BIBLE AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO IN AND 05:08 INTERPRET/STUDY WHAT DOES THIS DREAM MEAN. 05:11 ALRIGHT, QUESTION #1: DANIEL HAS THIS AMAZING VISION - CHAPTER 8 05:17 - IN WHICH HE SEES A RAM WITH TWO HORNS. 05:20 WHOM DOES THIS RAM REPRESENT? LATER IN THE CHAPTER THE ANGEL 05:24 COMES TO DANIEL AND TELLS HIM - YOU CAN READ IN VERSE 20, "THE 05:28 RAM WHICH YOU SAW, HAVING THE TWO HORNS - THEY ARE THE KINGS 05:32 OF MEDIA AND PERSIA." LATER IT SAYS ONE WAS - ONE OF 05:38 THOSE HORNS WAS BIGGER THAN THE OTHER - IT STARTED OUT WITH THE 05:40 MEDIAN ONE, BUT THEN THE PERSIAN KINGDOM BECAME GREATER. 05:44 LATER, THAT EMPIRE WAS JUST CALLED THE PERSIAN EMPIRE 05:47 BECAUSE OF THAT OTHER HORN. NOW THIS SHOULD ALSO BE 05:51 REMEMBERED THAT IF YOU'RE A JEW, WHAT DO THEY DO GOING THROUGH 05:54 THE WILDERNESS? WHAT WAS THEIR OCCUPATION? 05:56 ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, JOSEPH, DAVID? SHEPHERDS. 05:59 THEY WERE VERY FAMILIAR WITH SHEEPS AND GOATS. 06:02 JESUS COMPARED THE JUDGMENT TO SHEEP AND GOATS AND SO HERE, 06:07 WITH THESE TWO CREATURES, HE ILLUSTRATES THESE TWO GREAT 06:10 EMPIRES. ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO JUMP 06:12 RIGHT TO QUESTION #2. NEXT DANIEL SAW THE GOAT WITH A 06:16 GREAT HORN BETWEEN HIS EYES. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? 06:20 THAT'S TALKING ABOUT THIS GOAT IS REPRESENTING THE NEXT KING 06:25 AND HE ATTACKS THE RAM. IT SAYS HE COMES FROM THE WEST. 06:29 THIS IS THE KINGDOM OF GREECE COMING FROM THE WEST. 06:33 IT SAYS HE COMES VERY QUICKLY, VERY FIERCELY - THERE IS NO 06:37 HISTORIAN THAT WILL DENY THAT AMONG THE EMPIRES - ANCIENT 06:41 EMPIRES - NOBODY DID IT QUICKER THAN ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 06:44 HE WAS 32 WHEN HE DIED. FROM THE TIME HE WAS 19 UNTIL 06:48 ABOUT 24 HE WAS CONQUERING THE WORLD. VERY RAPID - HIS SOLDIERS 06:53 MARCHED FASTER AND FARTHER THAN JUST ABOUT ANYBODY ELSE. 06:57 AND SO THERE'S THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THE TWO AND THE GOAT 07:01 DESTROYS THE RAM. ALEXANDER DEFEATED DARIUS AND HE 07:06 CONQUERED THE PERSIAN EMPIRE AND OVERTOOK THEIR TERRITORY. 07:10 DANIEL 8, VERSE 21 AND 22, "THE ROUGH GOAT" - THE ANGEL TELLS US 07:15 - DO WE HAVE TO GUESS WHAT IT IS? 07:16 - "THE ROUGH GOAT IS THE KING OF (GREECE) GRECIA:" - IS HOW THEY 07:20 SAID IT IN THE KING JAMES - "AND THE GREAT HORN THAT IS BETWEEN 07:23 HIS EYES IS THE FIRST KING." NOW THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT 07:27 HAPPENED WITH ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 07:30 IT SAYS HE CAME FROM THE WEST - THAT'S WHERE HE CAME FROM, WHEN 07:32 YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT PERSIA - AND HE DID IT WITH FEROCITY. 07:35 HE DID IT WITH GREAT SPEED. IN THE PRIOR CHAPTER - CHAPTER 7 07:39 OF DANIEL, GREECE IS COMPARED TO A LEOPARD WITH FOUR WINGS 07:41 BECAUSE HIS FEET DIDN'T EVEN TOUCH THE GROUND. 07:44 HE WENT SO QUICKLY WITH HIS CONQUERING. 07:47 CONSIDERING THEY DID NOT HAVE MECHANIZED ARMIES BACK THEN, NO 07:50 ARMY MOVED FASTER IN HISTORY THAN ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S ARMY. 07:54 IT WAS JUST INCREDIBLE. 07:55 AND THEN IT SAYS THAT AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS POWER, IN ITS 07:59 PRIME, THE HORN - THE MAIN, PRINCIPLE HORN IS BROKEN OFF. 08:05 IT DOESN'T WEAR DOWN, IT SNAPS. ALEXANDER DIED SUDDENLY. 08:10 THOUGH HE COULD CONQUER THE WORLD, HE DIDN'T DO VERY WELL 08:12 CONQUERING HIMSELF. AND THEY'RE STILL NOT SURE. 08:14 THEY DON'T - IT WAS AFTER A NIGHT OF PRETTY ROWDY DRINKING 08:17 HE FELL ILL. THEY DON'T KNOW IF SOMEONE TRIED 08:19 TO POISON HIM. THEY'RE STILL NOT SURE AND WE 08:22 MAY NEVER KNOW UNTIL HEAVEN WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED. 08:24 THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS MALARIA. IT WAS A FEVER. 08:28 THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS ALCOHOL POISONING, BUT VERY 08:32 YOUNG HE DIED. AND ON HIS DEATH BED, I THINK I 08:35 TOLD YOU, HIS WIFE ASKED HIM 'WHO WILL RULE IN YOUR PLACE?' 08:38 AND HE SAID, 'THE STRONGEST.' AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. 08:42 IT SAYS OUT OF THE PLACE OF THAT - YOU CAN READ HERE IN THIS NEXT 08:45 SECTION - "NOW THAT BEING BROKEN, WHEREAS FOUR STOOD UP 08:49 FOR IT, FOUR KINGDOMS SHALL STAND UP OUT OF THE NATION." 08:54 THE FOUR PRINCIPLE GENERALS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT THEN DIVIDED 08:58 HIS EMPIRE AMONG THEM INTO FOUR REGIONS. 09:02 AND THEN THEY EVENTUALLY BEGAN TO FIGHT AMONG THEMSELVES. 09:06 BUT THE KINGDOM OF GREECE THEN LASTED LONGER EVEN THAN THE 09:10 KINGDOM OF PERSIA. QUESTION #3: THEN, AS YOU READ 09:14 ON IT SAYS OUT OF ONE OF THOSE FOUR HORNS A LITTLE HORN BEGINS 09:20 TO SPROUT AND IT ENDS UP BECOMING A VERY BIG POWER. 09:25 WHAT POWER DID THIS LITTLE HORN REPRESENT? 09:28 YOU CAN SEE THE FULFILLMENT OF THIS DURING THE TIME OF CHRIST. 09:31 WHAT EMPIRE FOLLOWED THE GREEK EMPIRE? 09:34 >>ROME. >>ROME. 09:35 ACTS 2 - 18:2, RATHER - "...CLAUDIUS (CAESAR) HAD 09:39 COMMANDED ALL JEWS TO DEPART FROM ROME." 09:42 HE HAD CONTROL OVER THE WHOLE EMPIRE AND AT THAT POINT HE WAS 09:45 SUSPICIOUS OF THE JEWS AND TOLD THEM THEY HAD TO LEAVE. 09:48 SO YOU'VE GOT THIS GOAT - JUST TO REVIEW - AND THE 09:52 PRINCIPLE POWER IS ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 09:54 IT'S BROKEN OFF AND, FROM IT, FOUR COME UP - FOUR OTHER HORNS 09:58 - FOUR DIVISIONS - FOUR GENERALS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND ONE 10:03 LITTLE HORN BEGINS TO COME UP FROM AMONG THESE. 10:06 BUT NOW THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS POWER. 10:09 THIS POWER IS ONE WE WANT TO NOTICE BECAUSE YOU READ ON, IT 10:12 GROWS INTO WHAT WE LATER KNOW AS THE ANTICHRIST POWER. 10:16 YOU READ IN DANIEL 7, VERSE 8, "...IN THE HORN WERE EYES LIKE 10:21 THE EYES OF MAN, AND A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS." 10:26 THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT IT. 10:29 IT - LATER IT SAYS IT'S GUILTY OF BLASPHEMY - POMPOUS WORDS. 10:35 AND IT TALKS ABOUT THIS ALSO IN REVELATION CHAPTER 17 - WHAT 10:39 THIS POWER DOES. DANIEL CHAPTER 7, VERSE 24 10:43 "HE IS DIVERSE, OR DIFFERENT FROM, THE FIRST." 10:47 THE FIRST KINGDOMS THAT WE SAW, WHETHER IT'S BABYLON, OR 10:52 MEDO-PERSIA, AND GREECE - THEY WERE YOUR TYPICAL MONARCHIES LED 10:56 BY A GOVERNMENT. BUT WHAT HAPPENED WITH ROME, 10:58 ROME NOT ONLY WAS THE IRON MONARCHY, AS THE ROMAN EMPIRE 11:02 LED BY CAESARS BEGAN TO FALL, IN ITS PLACE, THE ROMAN POWER WAS 11:08 SUBSTITUTED WITH A RELIGIOUS POWER. GRADUALLY, AS THE ROMAN 11:13 POWER BEGAN TO CRUMBLE, THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH GREW. 11:15 BUT IT DIDN'T JUST STAY A RELIGION, IT BECAME A POLITICAL 11:19 RELIGIOUS POWER AS WELL. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 11:23 QUESTION #4: DANIEL WAS TOLD THAT THIS LITTLE HORN WOULD 11:26 DEFILE THE SANCTUARY. HOW LONG WOULD IT BE UNTIL THE 11:31 SANCTUARY WAS CLEANSED? NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THE 11:34 LONGEST TIME PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE. 11:36 AND YOU READ IN DANIEL 8, VERSE 14, "UNTO" - SAY IT WITH ME - 11:40 "TWO THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED DAYS; THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY 11:45 BE CLEANSED." NOW GO - GO BACK TO YOUR BIBLES FOR A SECOND. 11:48 IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8 AND IF WE READ DOWN HERE - VERSE 11:54 12 - "BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION, AN ARMY WAS GIVEN OVER TO THE 11:58 HORN TO OPPOSE THE DAILY SACRIFICES; AND HE CAST TRUTH 12:02 DOWN TO THE GROUND. HE DID ALL THIS AND PROSPERED." 12:09 SO WHAT'S HAPPENING IS THE TRUTH OF GOD AND THE TRUTH OF THE 12:13 BIBLE AND THE TRUTH OF JESUS DURING THIS TIME 12:15 BECOMES COMPROMISED AND YET IT PROSPERS. 12:19 WELL, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE QUICK HISTORY. 12:22 I WON'T DIVERGE ON THIS, BUT I THINK MOST OF US KNOW THAT, 12:27 DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THREE OR FOUR 12:31 HUNDRED YEARS AFTER CHRIST, ORIGINALLY CHRISTIANS WERE 12:34 PERSECUTED IN ROME. THEY FED THEM TO THE LIONS, 12:37 RIGHT? I USED TO WONDER AS A KID. I'D HEAR HOW THEY BURNED 12:39 CHRISTIANS AT THE STAKE AND THEY FED THEM TO THE LIONS - YOU 12:43 KNOW, THEY MADE JOKES ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME. 12:46 AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, ROME BECOMES THE CENTER OF 12:49 CHRISTIANITY. AND YOU GO, 'WHAT HAPPENED? 12:51 I THOUGHT THAT THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED THERE AND THEN ALL OF 12:52 A SUDDEN IT BECOMES HEADQUARTERS. 12:54 SOMETHING OBVIOUSLY CHANGED, RIGHT? 12:56 AND REALLY, WHAT HAPPENED WAS, WITH THE CONVERSION OF 13:00 CONSTANTINE - I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT THIS LATER, WHAT WAS ONCE 13:04 CONSIDERED RELIGIO-ILLICITA - FORBIDDEN RELIGION - WAS 13:07 PERSECUTED, OUTLAWED - THEY WERE KILLED. THEY BUILT CATACOMBS. 13:11 THEY WENT UNDERGROUND - IT SUDDENLY BECAME THE STATE 13:14 RELIGION AND IT ALMOST OVERNIGHT BECAME FASHIONABLE, WITH THE 13:17 CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE, TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN. 13:20 BUT WHAT HAPPENED IS A LOT OF PEOPLE STARTED COMING INTO THE 13:23 CHURCH FROM THE DIFFERENT GRECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS THAT 13:26 WEREN'T TOTALLY CONVERTED - DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE TEACHINGS 13:29 OF JESUS - AND THEY TRIED TO BRING SOME OF THEIR PAGAN IDEAS 13:31 WITH THEM. WE STUDIED THE OTHER NIGHT ABOUT 13:35 THE TRUTH ABOUT HELL - THAT PEOPLE DO NOT GO RIGHT AT DEATH 13:40 TO - BEFORE JUDGMENT OR RESURRECTION - A PLACE OF 13:43 BURNING WHERE THEY BURN THROUGH ALL ETERNITY. DID WE - WE 13:45 LEARNED THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE, THERE IS A PUNISHMENT, BUT 13:47 THERE'S MISUNDERSTANDING THAT CAME IN FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY, 13:51 RIGHT? CAST THE TRUTH TO THE GROUND IN PRACTICE. 13:54 THE IDEA OF PURGATORY, THIS HALFWAY BURNING PLACE, WE FOUND 13:58 OUT THAT THAT'S BEEN RENOUNCED. IT'S NOT BIBLICAL. 14:00 THERE'S NOTHING IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THAT. 14:02 THE IDEA THAT THE DEAD GO IMMEDIATELY TO HEAVEN AS SOON AS 14:05 THEY DIE AND THEN THEY COME BACK FOR THEIR BODIES OR THEY'RE IN 14:08 ABRAHAM'S BOSOM WAITING. WE FOUND OUT THAT'S NOT IN THE 14:11 BIBLE AND A LOT OF OTHER THINGS - THE TRUTH WAS CAST TO THE 14:16 GROUND. THE IDEA THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO 14:18 KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE BECAUSE ONCE YOU BELIEVE 14:21 IN JESUS YOU CAN SOMEHOW IGNORE HIS LAW, THAT'S ANOTHER ONE OF 14:25 THE TRUTHS THAT WAS CAST TO THE GROUND. 14:27 ALL KINDS OF THINGS BEGAN TO GET CORRUPTED DURING THIS TIME. 14:30 SO, WHEN WOULD THERE BE A CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY? 14:35 ALRIGHT, QUESTION #5: HOW DID DANIEL RESPOND WHEN HE SAW THIS 14:39 LITTLE HORN POWER PERSECUTE GOD'S PEOPLE AND OBSCURE THE 14:43 TRUTH? WHEN DANIEL WAS GETTING THIS 14:45 INFORMATION ABOUT THIS VISION FROM THE ANGEL, HE JUST - HE 14:50 SEES WHAT'S HAPPENING TO HIS OWN PEOPLE AND HE'S HEARTBROKEN. 14:52 AND IT SAYS IN DANIEL 8:27, "AND I, DANIEL, FAINTED AND WAS SICK 14:58 FOR DAYS;" - HE'S AN OLDER MAN NOW, YOU KNOW, HE CAME TO 15:03 BABYLON PROBABLY 15 - 16 YEARS OLD - SEVENTY YEARS HAVE GONE 15:06 BY. HE'S IN HIS 80S, MAYBE EVEN 15:08 LONGER, AND HE HAS THIS VERY HEAVY VISION OF GOD'S PEOPLE 15:12 BEING PERSECUTED BY THIS ANTICHRIST POWER AND IT - HE 15:17 ACTUALLY SWOONS, PRACTICALLY. HE'S SICK AND HE CAN'T 15:20 UNDERSTAND IT AND THE ANGEL KNOWS HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO 15:23 COME BACK AND FINISH EXPLAINING THIS PROPHECY. 15:25 IT'S FINISHED IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9. 15:28 NOW YOU CAN UNDERSTAND, DANIEL IS A YOUNG MAN. 15:32 BEFORE HE IS CARRIED OFF CAPTIVE TO BABYLON, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 15:38 BUILDING IN THE WORLD WAS NOT THE TAJ MAHAL BACK THEN, IT WAS 15:42 NOT EVEN THE HANGING GARDENS. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING IN 15:45 THE WORLD WAS A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR BUILDING BUILT BY DAVID, 15:49 WHO GATHERED THE MONEY AND HIS SON SOLOMON DID THE 15:52 CONSTRUCTION. IT HAD GOLDEN ROOMS. 15:56 IT HAD BRONZE PILLARS BIGGER THAN ANY IN THE WORLD. 15:58 THEY EVEN NAMED THEM - TWO PILLARS THEY WERE SO BIG - AND 16:02 DANIEL GREW UP AS A BOY SEEING THIS MAJESTIC TEMPLE. 16:06 IT WAS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD. 16:09 BUT HE LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS DESTROYED. 16:12 HE WATCHED - DANIEL WATCHED AS HIS PEOPLE WERE CONQUERED. 16:15 THE CITY WAS DESTROYED - JERUSALEM - THE PLACE THAT GOD 16:18 HAD CHOSEN, DAVID HAD RULED. THEY WERE SCATTERED AS SLAVES - 16:22 MANY WERE SLAIN - AND THE YEARNING OF DANIEL'S HEART FOR 16:25 THE SEVENTY YEARS HE WAS IN BABYLON: 'WHEN WILL THE MESSIAH 16:29 COME? WHEN WILL THE SON OF DAVID COME? 16:31 WHEN WILL WE GET TO GO BACK TO JERUSALEM?' AT THE BEGINNING OF 16:34 DANIEL 9 IT ACTUALLY SAYS DANIEL IS READING THE BIBLE. 16:39 NOW HE DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME BIBLE WE HAVE, BUT HE HAD THE 16:41 PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAH, ISAIAH, DAVID - ALL THE PRIOR PROPHETS. 16:47 DANIEL IS READING THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH - HE TELLS YOU IN 16:50 CHAPTER 9 - AND HE REALIZES THERE JEREMIAH SAYS SEVENTY 16:53 YEARS AND GOD'S PEOPLE WILL COME BACK AND DANIEL SAYS, 'LORD, 16:56 SEVENTY YEARS IS UP. THE KING OF PERSIA IS NOW HERE. 16:58 WHEN ARE WE GOING HOME?' 17:00 WHILE HE'S PRAYING, THE ANGEL GABRIEL COMES TO HIM AND HE 17:06 SAYS, 'DANIEL, I'VE COME TO GIVE YOU UNDERSTANDING IN THE 17:09 VISION.' AND HERE - HERE YOU HAVE THAT. 17:11 HE SAYS, "AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR SUPPLICATIONS THE COMMAND 17:14 WENT OUT, AND I HAVE COME TO TELL YOU," - SO ANGEL - THE 17:17 ANGEL GABRIEL HAS COME TO EXPLAIN THE VISION. WHAT VISION? 17:20 THE ONE HE STARTED HAVING IN CHAPTER 8 BUT HE FAINTED. 17:23 SO THIS IS THE ONE THAT'S ACTUALLY INTRODUCING THE COMING 17:27 OF THE MESSIAH - THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS. 17:30 QUESTION #6: IN THE NEXT CHAPTER THE ANGEL EXPLAINS THE PROPHECY 17:35 IN GREATER DETAIL. HOW LONG WAS THE TIME PERIOD NOT 17:39 PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED IN THE VISION? 17:42 NOW GET YOUR BIBLES, TURN WITH ME TO DANIEL 9:23. 17:48 "AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR SUPPLICATIONS THE COMMAND WENT 17:51 OUT, AND I HAVE COME TO TELL YOU, FOR YOU ARE GREATLY 17:54 BELOVED;" - WHY ANGELS ARE FAST. AT THE BEGINNING OF DANIEL'S 17:58 PRAYER, GABRIEL IS SENT. ANGEL'S DON'T TRAVEL THE SPEED 18:01 OF SOUND OR THE SPEED OF LIGHT, THEY TRAVEL THE SPEED OF ANGELS 18:07 - THE SPEED OF THOUGHT, ANYWAY, THEY'RE GOING FAST. 18:09 HE'S GOING THROUGH THE COSMOS - "AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR 18:12 SUPPLICATIONS THE COMMAND WENT OUT, AND I HAVE COME TO TELL 18:15 YOU, FOR YOU ARE GREATLY BELOVED; THEREFORE CONSIDER THE 18:16 MATTER AND UNDERSTAND THE VISION:" NOW THERE'S NO VISION 18:19 IN CHAPTER 9 SO WHAT VISION IS THE ANGEL TALKING ABOUT? 18:23 THE ONE IN CHAPTER 8 HE DIDN'T GET TO FINISH EXPLAINING BECAUSE 18:26 DANIEL FAINTED, RIGHT? "SEVENTY WEEKS" - HERE WE GO, 18:30 VERSE 24 - DANIEL 9:24 - "SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED 18:34 FOR YOUR PEOPLE" - WHO ARE DANIEL'S PEOPLE? 18:36 JEWISH NATION - "SEVENTY WEEKS" - THE WORD DETERMINED THERE 18:40 MEANS 'CUT OFF' OR 'ALLOTTED' OR 'REMAIN' - "FOR YOUR PEOPLE" - 18:44 FOR WHAT? TO INTRODUCE THE MESSIAH TO THE 18:46 WORLD - "FOR YOUR HOLY CITY, TO FINISH THE TRANSGRESSION, TO 18:52 MAKE AN END OF SINS," - THE FINAL SACRIFICE FOR SIN WOULD BE 18:55 OFFERED - "TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY, TO 18:59 BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS" - THAT'S CHRIST 19:02 WHO BRINGS THAT EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS - "TO SEAL UP 19:05 VISION AND PROPHECY, AND TO ANOINT THE MOST HOLY." 19:11 YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD CHRIST MEANS? 19:13 ANOINTED. YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD MESSIAH 19:16 MEANS? IT'S HEBREW FOR ANOINTED. 19:19 WHEN THE PROPHET SAMUEL POURED OIL ON DAVID'S HEAD, HE WAS 19:24 ANOINTED WITH OIL - JESUS WAS ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 19:27 HE WAS THE ANOINTED OF GOD WHEN GOD BECAME A MAN, OKAY? 19:31 SO HE SAID SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED FOR ALL THESE THINGS 19:33 TO BE ACCOMPLISHED. KNOW AND UNDERSTAND. 19:36 NOW HERE'S THE STARTING POINT FOR ALL THESE PROPHECIES - VERSE 19:39 25 - "KNOW THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND, THAT FROM THE GOING 19:42 FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM UNTIL 19:45 MESSIAH THE PRINCE, THERE SHALL BE SEVEN WEEKS AND SIXTY-TWO 19:52 WEEKS;" THAT'S A TOTAL OF 69 - "THE STREET SHALL BE BUILT 19:56 AGAIN, AND THE WALL, EVEN IN TROUBLESOME TIMES." 19:59 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE TIME OF NEHEMIAH. 20:00 THEY REBUILT THE STREET AND THE WALL DURING TROUBLOUS TIMES. 20:03 "AND AFTER THE SIXTY-TWO WEEKS MESSIAH SHALL BE CUT OFF, BUT 20:09 NOT FOR HIMSELF; AND THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME 20:12 SHALL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY. 20:15 THE END OF IT SHALL BE WITH A FLOOD, AND TILL THE END OF 20:18 THE WAR DESOLATIONS ARE DETERMINED." 20:21 JESUS TALKS ABOUT THE ABOMINATION THAT MAKES DESOLATE. 20:24 "THEN HE SHALL CONFIRM A COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE 20:27 WEEK;" - NOW THE 'HE' THAT CONFIRMS THE COVENANT - THERE'S 20:31 TWO PEOPLE HERE - ONE YOU'VE GOT MESSIAH THE PRINCE COMING, THE 20:33 OTHER YOU'VE GOT A PRINCE THAT COMES TO DESTROY. 27 - HE'S 20:36 GOING BACK TO THE MESSIAH THE PRINCE. HE WILL "CONFIRM A 20:40 COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK; BUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK 20:43 HE SHALL BRING AN END TO SACRIFICE AND OFFERING. 20:46 AND ON THE WING OF ABOMINATION SHALL BE ONE WHO MAKES DESOLATE, 20:48 EVEN UNTIL THE CONSUMMATION, WHICH IS DETERMINED, IS POURED 20:52 OUT ON THE DESOLATE." SO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS. 20:55 JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW 24 - SECOND COMING - JESUS TALKS 20:59 ABOUT THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION. HE SAYS 'WRITTEN OF 21:01 BY DANIEL THE PROPHET. WHOEVER READS, LET HIM 21:04 UNDERSTAND.' JESUS IS TELLING YOU AND ME TONIGHT, 'I WANT YOU 21:07 TO READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS.' OKAY? 21:09 SO THIS IS THE PROPHECIES HE WAS REFERRING TO IN MATTHEW 24 THAT 21:14 HE SAYS WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND. ALRIGHT, WE JUST READ IT. 21:16 NOW LET'S GO BACK TO OUR SCREEN HERE. 21:18 IN THE NEXT CHAPTER, CHAPTER 9, THE ANGEL EXPLAINS THAT THE 21:23 PROPHECY - FROM CHAPTER 8 - IN GREATER DETAIL. 21:26 HOW LONG WAS THE TIME PERIOD NOT PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED IN THE 21:30 VISION? YOU CAN READ THAT IN DANIEL 9:24. HE SAYS, HOW MUCH? 21:35 "SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED UPON THY PEOPLE AND UPON THE 21:40 HOLY CITY TO SEAL UP THE VISION AND THE PROPHECY." 21:42 NOW HOW MANY DAYS IN A WEEK? >>SEVEN. 21:46 >>SEVEN IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY. HOW MANY DAYS IS SEVENTY 21:51 WEEKS THEN? SEVEN TIMES SEVEN IS? 21:53 >>SEVENTY-NINE. >>FORTY-NINE? THAT IS FOUR 21:57 HUNDRED AND NINETY, RIGHT? BUT IN PROPHECY A DAY EQUALS A YEAR. 22:04 I'LL SHOW YOU SOME SCRIPTURES ON THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. 22:06 SO GOD IS TELLING DANIEL THERE ARE FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY 22:10 PROPHETIC YEARS THAT ARE GOING TO BE ALLOTTED TO YOUR PEOPLE TO 22:13 FULFILL THEIR MAIN VISION - THE MAIN MISSION OF THE JEWS WAS TO 22:16 INTRODUCE THE MESSIAH. GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM, THROUGH 22:19 YOUR SEED ALL THE WORLD WOULD BE BLESSED. 22:22 HOW IS THE WHOLE WORLD BLESSED THROUGH HIS SEED? 22:24 PRINCIPALLY THROUGH JESUS, RIGHT? 22:26 ALRIGHT, SO QUESTION #7: WHAT IS THE STARTING POINT FOR THE 22:31 2,300-DAY AND SEVENTY-WEEK TIME PROPHECIES? 22:35 HE TELLS YOU RIGHT THERE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9, VERSE 25, 22:39 "KNOW THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND, THAT FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE 22:42 COMMANDMENT TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM UNTIL MESSIAH THE 22:48 PRINCE" - FROM THIS POINT TO THIS POINT - "THERE SHALL BE 22:51 SEVEN WEEKS AND THREE-SCORE AND TWO WEEKS" - THREE SCORE AND TWO 22:55 IS SIXTY-TWO, RIGHT? A SCORE IS TWENTY. 22:57 SIXTY-TWO PLUS SEVEN IS HOW MUCH? 23:01 SIXTY-NINE. SO YOU'VE GOT ONE WEEK MISSING. 23:04 HE TELLS US WHAT HAPPENS IN THE MIDST OF THAT LAST WEEK - HE 23:07 MAKES THE SACRIFICE CEASE. SO HE BREAKS IT UP LIKE THAT 23:10 BECAUSE THERE'S THE FIRST SEVEN WEEKS. 23:12 THEY'RE BUILDING THE WALL AND THE STREET. 23:14 THEN YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER SIXTY-NINE WEEKS AND AT THE END 23:17 OF THAT SIXTY-NINE WEEK PERIOD IT SAYS THAT THE MESSIAH IS 23:21 GOING TO BE ANOINTED AND BEGIN HIS MINISTRY. 23:26 SO UNTIL MESSIAH THE PRINCE, SEVEN WEEKS - THREE SCORE AND 23:30 TWO WEEKS. THE STARTING POINT IS FROM THE 23:32 GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM. 23:35 CAN WE KNOW, FROM ALL THE DUSTY, MUSTY RECORDS OF HISTORY, WHEN 23:38 DID THAT HAPPEN? GOOD NEWS. 23:41 IT'S GIVEN IN YOUR BIBLE. IT'S IN EZRA 7:7. 23:45 YOU CAN REMEMBER THAT. GOOD NUMBER. 23:47 EZRA 7:7 - THE DECREE OF KING ARTAXERXES - THAT KING GAVE A 23:53 DECREE THAT ALLOWED THEM TO GO BACK. 23:55 IT WAS THE MOST PROMINENT VARIETY OF DECREES THAT CAME 23:59 SAYING THAT THEY COULD REBUILD THE CITY AND THE WALLS 24:03 AND THE TEMPLE AND THAT IS 457 B.C. 24:07 IT IS A VERY CLEARLY ESTABLISHED DATE IN HISTORY. 24:09 SO YOU'VE GOT THE STARTING POINT - 457 - AND HE SAYS NOW IT'LL BE 24:14 SIXTY-NINE WEEKS UNTIL THE MESSIAH BEGINS HIS MINISTRY. 24:18 FIRST THERE'D BE THE SEVEN WEEKS - FORTY-NINE YEARS WHILE THEY'RE 24:21 BUILDING THE STREET AND THE WALL IN TROUBLOUS TIMES, THEN THERE'D 24:23 BE ANOTHER SIXTY-TWO WEEKS - A TOTAL OF SIXTY-NINE, RIGHT? 24:28 NOW WHEN YOU'RE INTERPRETING BIBLE PROPHECY, WHAT IS THE 24:30 PRINCIPLE THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO USE? A DAY EQUALS A YEAR. 24:36 >>A YEAR. >>YOU CAN READ THIS - THERE'S 24:38 SEVERAL VERSES IN EZEKIEL 4:6, "I HAVE APPOINTED THEE EACH DAY 24:41 FOR A YEAR." YOU CAN READ NUMBERS 14:34 "EACH DAY FOR A 24:46 YEAR" - EVEN JESUS ESTABLISHED THIS. 24:51 ONE TIME THEY CAME TO CHRIST - I THINK IT'S LUKE 13 AND THEY 24:53 SAID, 'YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL, JESUS, JOHN THE BAPTIST HAS BEEN 24:56 ARRESTED.' THIS WAS ABOUT SIX MONTHS INTO JESUS' MINISTRY AND 25:00 JESUS SAID, "GO TELL THAT FOX I TEACH, DO CURES, CAST OUT DEVILS 25:05 TODAY, TOMORROW, AND THE THIRD DAY I WILL BE PERFECTED" - OR 25:10 COMPLETED. JESUS DIDN'T TEACH THREE MORE 25:12 DAYS; HE TAUGHT THREE MORE YEARS. 25:14 BUT HE MADE A PROPHECY AND HE USED THE DAY FOR A YEAR 25:17 PRINCIPLE. SO WHEN YOU INTERPRET THESE 25:20 PROPHECIES, THAT'S THE ONLY WAY IT EVEN COMES CLOSE TO ADDING 25:23 UP. SO NOW DID IT HAPPEN? IF YOU GO - A DAY EQUALS A YEAR 25:28 IN PROPHECY - IF YOU GO 483 YEARS FROM 457 B.C. 25:34 IT COMES TO THE BAPTISM OF JESUS IN 27 A.D. 25:38 WHEN I - WHEN I WAS UP IN THE CAVE AND I READ THIS, I WAS SO 25:41 EXCITED WHEN I REALIZED HOW TRUE PROPHECY IS, I LITERALLY GOT UP 25:46 - I COULDN'T SIT DOWN ANYMORE BECAUSE I WAS SO EXCITED. 25:49 I'M ALL BY MYSELF AND I JUST STARTED JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND 25:52 PRAISING GOD. I SAID, 'WOW, CHRIST CAME RIGHT 25:54 ON TIME THE FIRST TIME JUST LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD. 25:56 WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE BELIEVE THE BIBLE?' 25:59 SO WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF CHARTS HERE THAT WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP 26:02 JUST TO REVIEW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. 26:05 FIRST WE KNOW, FROM 457, YOU'VE GOT SIXTY-NINE WEEKS - THAT 26:10 WOULD GO 483 YEARS TO THE POINT OF HIS BAPTISM. 26:14 THAT WOULD BE 27 A.D. AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT ON TIME. 26:19 AND THEN IT TELLS US, "AFTER THREE SCORE AND TWO WEEKS SHALL 26:24 MESSIAH BE" - WHAT? >>CUT OFF. 26:27 >>"CUT OFF. BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF." 26:30 WHO WAS HE CUT OFF FOR? >>US. 26:33 >>FOR YOU, FOR ME, HE WAS CUT OFF FROM THE LAND OF THE LIVING. 26:37 JESUS LAID DOWN HIS LIFE. IN HIS PRIME HE DIED FOR US. 26:45 >>HI FRIENDS, YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT EVERY MONTH ON 26:48 GOOGLE ABOUT 20 MILLION PEOPLE DO A SEARCH ASKING HOW WILL THE 26:53 WORLD END? PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW. 26:56 THE ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS ARE REALLY FOUND IN THE BIBLE 26:59 AND THE BIBLE PROPHECIES IN PARTICULAR. 27:01 THAT'S WHY AMAZING FACTS HAS SPENT A LOT OF TIME PREPARING A 27:05 VERY SPECIAL MAGAZINE - WE'RE SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS - ON DANIEL 27:08 AND REVELATION. IT COVERS THE PRIMARY PROPHECIES. 27:12 IT'S A FULL MAGAZINE - 84 PAGES - FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH 27:15 BEAUTIFUL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS THAT ANYBODY CAN READ AND 27:19 UNDERSTAND. WOULD YOU LIKE A FREE COPY OF 27:22 THIS NEW MAGAZINE ON DANIEL AND REVELATION? 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