The topic today is
"The Next President
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and the Last President of
United States of the World."
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Before we talk about this today,
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there are some big questions
that you and I need to ask
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and we need to answer.
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If you're gonna
be happy, who am I?
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Who am I?
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Am I the product of
time plus matter plus chance?
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Can life as Professor Dawkins
from Oxford University says,
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"Can life come from non-life?
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Can knowledge,
information come from chaos?"
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Did you know that in the
human body there are literally
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trillions of cells?
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Did you know that in each
cell, you have the information
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that is found in a
library of 100,000 volumes
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each of a thousand pages?
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And he discovered this recently,
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so I'm sharing it with you.
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But did all this information,
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where did this
information come from?
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The Russians, I've
been to Russia many times
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and spoken to
millions of atheists.
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And the Russians for
almost 70 years were taught
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that they were
machines or animals.
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So what am I?
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Am I an animal?
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Am I a machine
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or am I something
infinitely of more value?
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Richard Dawkins
said and you've all heard
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of the great
Professor Richard Dawkins,
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the world's most famous atheist.
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He said "That the
best thing a person can do
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as he approaches
the end of his life
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is to stand on the
deck of the ship and salute.
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Go down with the ship
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because he said there
is nothing after that."
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Today we are going to
explore life's biggest questions
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and I want to read
this statement to you
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and I want you to get
it down into the molecules
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of your mind because
it's of great importance.
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"If genuine prophecy exists,
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the main issues
of our age are met."
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Want you to think about this.
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It's a philosophical question.
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"If genuine prophecy exists,
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then the main issues of
life and of our age are met."
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Because if there
is genuine prophecy,
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it shows that we are
not alone in the universe.
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It shows that
there is a super mind
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that can see into the future.
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"The genuine prophecy exists,
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the main issues
of life are met."
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The Quran is not
a book of prophecy,
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neither are the writings
of the Hebrews scholars,
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there is only one book
that claims to tell the future,
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that is this book here
which is called the Bible.
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And today we are going to notice
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that amazing prophecy.
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In fact, we are going to
notice at least two prophecies,
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amazing prophecies
that as far as I'm concerned
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and I think as far
as you are concerned
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after we are through
here today you will say,
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"Genuine prophecy does exist."
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I want you to
come in the Bible now
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to the Book of
Isaiah 13:19 and onwards,
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the Book of Isaiah.
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This book takes us
back about 2,600 years.
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Remember that date, it goes
back to about 600 or 700 BC.
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Isaiah 13:19.
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I want all of you
folks just to notice it.
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We're gonna put it
up here on the screen
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and we are going to
notice it in the Bible.
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The Bible says, this was
written about 600, 700 BC.
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"And Babylon, the
glory of kingdoms,
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the beauty of
the Chaldeans' pride,
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will be as when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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It will never be inhabited,
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nor will it be settled
from generation to generation,
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nor will the
Arabian pitch tents there,
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nor will the shepherds
make their folds there."
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"The greatest days of
Babylon were still to come
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when this verse was written.
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But wild beasts of
the desert will lie there,
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and their houses
will be full of owls,
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ostriches will dwell there,
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and wild goats will caper there.
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And hyenas will howl in
their citadels, and jackals..."
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"Remember the word jackal.
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Jackals in the palaces.
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Her time is near to come,
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and her days will
not be prolonged."
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I've been to
Babylon on many occasions.
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It's in the old land Mesopotamia
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that we call today Iraq.
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Babylon was once the
United States of the world.
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It was the great super power.
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It was a magnificent place.
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This is as you would notice,
this is the famous Ishtar Gate
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named after the Mother Goddess.
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And from here
we get the ceremony
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of the tradition of Easter.
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The Ishtar Gate, and this
great city was founded upon
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the great river Euphrates
that we are going to talk about
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as we go along today because
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Babylon was finally overthrown
because of the River Euphrates.
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The walls, the palaces
were made of glazed brick.
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It was the
dominant power in the world
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about 2, 600 years ago.
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The most famous ruler
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was King Nebuchadnezzar.
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I want you to
see something here.
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You want to see just
a little bit of magic.
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You ready for this,
it's not really, folks.
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Want to see a
little bit of magic?
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What I'm gonna do, I'm gonna--
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was that magic or is it not?
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I'll tell you it was
magic, it actually happened.
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This contains the building list.
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I took this in
the British Museum.
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It contains the
building list of Nebuchadnezzar.
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It talks about his arrogance
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when he walked
around the city and he said
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"Is not this great Babylon
that I've build for my glory."
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And it is written down
here in the strange letters
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that we call the Cuneiform.
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Now the years rolled
by and some of you folks
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will be aware of this
from studying history.
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The years rolled by, he
died and after other years,
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one of his
descendents was a young larrikin
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as they would say in island
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or a waster by the
name of Belshazzar.
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Now for many, many,
many years skeptics said
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that Belshazzar did not exist
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because in the Cuneiform it said
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that the last king of
Babylon was Nabonidus,
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but it's an interesting
thing that the Bible said
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that the last king of Babylon,
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the last king on the
throne was Belshazzar.
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And skeptics said
for many, many years,
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it is another evidence
that the Bible is phony.
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But then scholars,
archeologists discovered this.
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There it goes.
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It says here.
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Look at it, "The
foundation cylinder
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marking the restoration
of the Temple of the Moon God
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at Ur by King Nabonidus.
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It ends with a prayer for him
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and his son, Belshazzar."
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And what
actually happened was this
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that Nabonidus
got sick of it all,
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he got sick of
fighting congress in the senate
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and he retired
to the hill country
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and his son
took over the throne.
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Now I want you to notice a
very interesting text here.
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I want you to come to
Isaiah 45:1, my friends.
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Isaiah 45:1
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"Thus says the Lord to
His anointed, to Cyrus,
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whose right hand I have held
to subdue nations before him
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and loose the armor of kings,
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to open before
him the double doors,
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so that their
gates will not be shut."
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I want you to think of this.
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The Bible says come a
man after Nebuchadnezzar
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and his name was Cyrus
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and he would be the person
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who would overthrow
the city of Babylon.
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It says the gates
would not be shut,
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I want you to remember that.
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This is interesting because
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Cyrus did not
operate until 150 years
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after that text was
written down by the prophet.
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Did you know that?
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This
description of Cyrus by name
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is written down in
the Hebrew writings
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more than 100
years before he was born.
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And it says when
Cyrus got to the place,
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the gates would not shut.
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Let me tell you, I got
to tell you so much today.
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Babylon was
surrounded by tremendous walls.
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I've been there
in many occasions.
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Four walls, total
thickness of the wall
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is about 80, 90, 100 feet.
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And when the Medo-Persian army
surrounded the city of Babylon,
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they could not
break down the walls.
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But flowing through the
heart of Babylon was this.
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I want you to see this.
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I want you to see this.
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Gonna show it to you, here
it comes the River Euphrates.
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Now the story is told
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and confirmed by
one great historian
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that when the armies of
Cyrus saw that they could
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not break down the walls,
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they diverted
the River Euphrates.
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Now I want you to come
in your Bible over here
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to Isaiah 50:38, 39,
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the Book of Jeremiah,
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we are not talking about Isaiah.
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We are coming over here
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to Jeremiah 50:38, 39,
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have you got that.
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Jeremiah 50:38,
39 the Bible said,
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"A drought is
against her waters,
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and they will be dried up.
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For it is the
land of carved images,
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and they are
insane with their idols.
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There the wild desert
beasts shall dwell there
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with the jackals,
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and the
ostriches will dwell in it.
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It will be
inhabited no more forever,
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nor will it be dwelt in
from generation to generation."
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History tells me,
soldiers, Cyrus the Great,
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diverted the River Euphrates
and they actually marched down
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the muddy banks
into the River Euphrates
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and they waited along the
bed of the River Euphrates.
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And when they came
to the double gates
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for the first time
in Babylon's history,
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the gates had not been locked.
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Now you say to me,
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"You know, I
couldn't believe the Bible
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because it's all faith."
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We are not
talking faith here today.
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You want to
hear what I'm saying.
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We are not talking faith.
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We are talking facts.
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We are talking evidence.
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This is not just pie in
the sky in the sweet by and by.
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We are talking
evidence and facts now
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and at the very same
time that this was going on,
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there was Belshazzar
whose name is written down
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in Nabonidus' inscription.
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And then he was
having this drunken feast
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and the Bible tells
me a bloodless hand came
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and wrote on the
wall of the palace
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"mene, mene, tekel, upharsin."
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And that was the end
of the Babylonian Empire,
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the Neo-Babylonian Empire
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and then Babylon went
down and down and down.
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I have visited there many times.
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On one occasion this
is the Lion of Babylon.
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In Bible prophecy
Babylon is called the lion.
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This is the Lion of Babylon
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that you can see today
in the city of Babylon.
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Very hard to go there today.
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When I was there
was a television crew,
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I went to
Nebuchadnezzar's summer palace.
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This is buddy my
cameraman from Texas
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and we climbed up into
Nebuchadnezzar's summer palace.
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Don't have time
to tell you the story
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but we were surrounded
to seem by the Iraqi Army
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and helicopter
gunships over our heads.
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We were carrying what
looked like a bazooka.
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It was a tripod, tripod case
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and the colonel
came to me he said,
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"What on earth you're doing?"
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"We told him what he said,
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Well, you see the car over there
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that's Saddam
Hussein our president
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and the CIA
couldn't get close to him.
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No, I'm telling
you, he was over there.
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They said, "What are you doing?"
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We said, "We are here
because we believe the Bible."
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And another amazing thing
happened when I was there.
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In
Nebuchadnezzar's summer palace,
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we disturbed a little creature,
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a jackal came
running out of the ruins.
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I stood there
and I said to myself
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"There is a God in
heaven and the Bible is true.
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"And I believe in
the Bible not because
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I was brought up
to believe the Bible."
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Want you to hear this.
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I believe the Bible
not because of blind faith,
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I believe the Bible because
of overwhelming evidence.
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You hear what I'm
saying today? Amen.
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Now here you got it, there
you got Nebuchadnezzar's palace.
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This is where we met
the soldiers of Saddam.
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Along here Saddam
came with his soldiers
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and it is in the same,
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in the same place that I
disturbed a little jackal.
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I want to tell
you something today,
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I have seen divine
predictions fulfilled.
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I believe in the
Bible not because
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I was brought up
to believe in it.
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I do not believe
because of blind faith,
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I believe in it because
of the overwhelming evidence.
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Amen.
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You get it?
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Well, now, we're
going to talk about
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the king's amazing dream.
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The vision of
the superman, okay.
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Now I want you to
come to the Book of Daniel.
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This book was written
we believe around 600 BC.
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It's a very ancient book.
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A portion of it was discovered
in the Dead Sea Scrolls
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and therefore we
believe it goes back
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many, many years before Christ.
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Daniel 2:1-3 have you got it.
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"Now in the second year
of Nebuchadnezzar's reign..."
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You say, "Sure
there's a Nebuchadnezzar?"
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Absolutely.
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I've seen his
name in the Cuneiform.
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"Nebuchadnezzar had
dreams, his spirit was troubled,
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"so troubled that
his sleep left him.
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Then the king gave the
command to call the magicians,
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the astrologers, the
sorcerers, and the Chaldeans
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to tell the king his dreams.
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So they came and they
stood before the king.
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And the king said to
them, 'I have had a dream,
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and my spirit is
anxious to know the dream.'"
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It is self explanatory.
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The king has a dream,
it's like a nightmare.
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It scares the
daylight out of him
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and he asks for the magicians,
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the spiritualists
and the philosophers,
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the smart guys to come
and tell him all about it.
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Now look at Daniel 2:4-11.
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"Then the Chaldeans
spoke to the king in Aramaic,
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'O king, live forever!
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Tell your servants the dream,
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and we will give
the interpretation.'
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But the king answered
and said to the Chaldeans,
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'My decision is firm,
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if you do not make
known me to the dream
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and its interpretation,
you shall be cut in pieces,
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and your houses
shall be made an ash heap.
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However, if you tell the
dream and its interpretation,
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you shall receive from me gifts,
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rewards, and great honor.
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Therefore tell me the
dream and its interpretation.'
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They answered again and said,
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'Let the king tell
his servants the dream,
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and we will give
its interpretation.'
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The king answered and said,
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'I know for certain
that you would gain time,
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because you see
that my decision is firm,
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if you do not make
known the dream to me,
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there is only
one decree for you!
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For you have
agreed to speak lying
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and corrupt words before
me till the time has changed.
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Therefore tell me the dream,
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and I shall know that you
can tell me the interpretation.'
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The Chaldeans
answered the king, and said,
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'There is not a man on earth
who can tell the king's matter,
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therefore no
king, lord, or ruler
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has ever asked any such thing
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of any magician,
astrologer, or Chaldean.
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It is a difficult
thing that the king requests,
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and there is none other
who can tell it to the king
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except the gods, whose
dwelling is not with flesh."
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Now let me tell you the story.
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These men are shown to be what
they are that they are phonies.
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And so the king not being
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a model of
Christian charity says,
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"We're gonna put
them all to death."
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Now listen to this.
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In the wise man's
union all these phonies,
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they had placed a
young man from Jerusalem
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who had been brought to
Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar
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when he overthrew
Jerusalem in 605 BC.
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His name was Daniel
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and he is the star
of this presentation.
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They come to kill
Daniel, the soldiers do.
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Daniel says, "Why is the
decree so hasty from the king,
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give me time."
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So the king says,
"Okay, give you time."
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Daniel goes, the
Bible says and he prays
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and Almighty God tells
him what the king dreamed.
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Not only does the Almighty God
tell him what the king dreamed.
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Who can know
another man's dreams?
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But he tells the king,
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tells Daniel
exactly what it means.
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Now listen,
00:20:49.38\00:20:52.75
as you've never listened before.
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Want to tell you folk something.
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You say to me, "You
got a lot of confidence?"
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Yeah, I sure have
because I have seen things.
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I have seen the
leaders of atheism
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in Russia and Ukraine say
00:21:11.50\00:21:16.64
"We have no answer."
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Would you be the judge, please,
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and would you notice
chapter 2 verse 24 to 28
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in this book that
is 2,600 years old
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Daniel 2:24 onwards,
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"Then Daniel went to Arioch,
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whom the king had appointed
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to destroy the
wise men of Babylon.
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He went and said thus to him,
00:21:48.34\00:21:49.67
'Do not destroy the
wise men of Babylon,
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take me before the king,
00:21:52.91\00:21:54.24
and I will tell the
king the interpretation.'"
00:21:54.28\00:21:57.25
Then Arioch quickly
brought Daniel before the king,
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and said to him, 'I have found
a man of the captives of Judah,
00:22:00.02\00:22:04.05
who will make known to
the king the interpretation.'
00:22:04.09\00:22:07.06
The king answered
and said to Daniel,
00:22:07.09\00:22:08.69
whose name was Belteshazzar,
00:22:08.72\00:22:12.63
'Are you able to
make known to me the dream
00:22:12.66\00:22:15.20
which I have seen,
and its interpretation?'
00:22:15.23\00:22:17.53
Daniel answered in the
presence of the king, and said,
00:22:17.57\00:22:20.17
'The secret which the king
has demanded, the wise men,
00:22:20.20\00:22:23.97
the astrologers, the
magicians, and the soothsayers
00:22:24.01\00:22:27.04
cannot declare to the king.
00:22:27.08\00:22:30.18
But there is a God in
heaven who reveals secrets,
00:22:30.21\00:22:37.15
and He has made known
to King Nebuchadnezzar
00:22:37.19\00:22:41.12
what will be in the latter days.
00:22:41.16\00:22:45.76
Your dream,
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and the visions of your
head upon your bed, were these."
00:22:47.73\00:22:53.13
Now listen
carefully, look at me.
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I believe the Bible
not because of blind faith.
00:23:01.48\00:23:06.78
I was not brought up in
a cloister or in a church.
00:23:06.82\00:23:10.69
I've met people who say,
"Why do you believe the Bible?"
00:23:13.96\00:23:17.16
They say,
"Well, I just believe."
00:23:17.19\00:23:20.43
That is a nonsense statement,
00:23:20.46\00:23:23.16
unworthy of anybody
with any brain at all.
00:23:23.20\00:23:27.87
No wonder the
skeptics and the atheist laugh
00:23:27.90\00:23:32.67
but I believe my, friend,
because not of blind faith
00:23:32.71\00:23:38.08
but because of the evidence.
00:23:38.11\00:23:41.82
Now today, I've proven to you
00:23:41.85\00:23:45.99
that there is such
a place as Babylon.
00:23:46.02\00:23:48.82
Once upon a
time skeptics derived
00:23:48.86\00:23:50.53
that there was even a Babylon.
00:23:50.56\00:23:52.79
We know that there
isn't was a Babylon.
00:23:52.83\00:23:56.16
We know today, it
is in the very state
00:23:56.20\00:23:58.90
that the prophet
said it would be in,
00:23:58.93\00:24:01.04
it is a hailing
wilderness and a desolation.
00:24:01.07\00:24:05.01
I know that, I have seen that.
00:24:05.04\00:24:07.04
I have seen divine
predictions fulfilled.
00:24:07.08\00:24:10.28
We know that there
was a Nebuchadnezzar.
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We know that. This is not faith.
00:24:14.52\00:24:16.79
Don't talk to me and
say it is all airy-fairy.
00:24:16.82\00:24:20.06
No, no, no. It is the truth.
00:24:20.09\00:24:22.76
His name is written
down in the inscriptions.
00:24:22.79\00:24:25.19
We know that
there was a Belshazzar.
00:24:25.23\00:24:29.03
We know this.
00:24:29.06\00:24:30.53
We know that he was
the son of Nabonidus.
00:24:30.57\00:24:33.74
We know this.
00:24:33.77\00:24:37.31
And we know that
there was a Cyrus.
00:24:37.34\00:24:40.88
In the British
Museum, I had the privilege
00:24:40.91\00:24:42.98
of going and inspecting.
00:24:43.01\00:24:45.81
We had it on the screen before,
I'm not gonna put it up now.
00:24:45.85\00:24:50.99
It went past so
fast because I forgot.
00:24:51.02\00:24:54.72
But in the British
Museum, there is this beautiful,
00:24:54.76\00:24:58.36
beautiful, beautiful cylinder.
00:24:58.39\00:25:02.33
It talks about Cyrus
00:25:02.36\00:25:04.73
and how Cyrus
defeated his enemies
00:25:04.77\00:25:08.40
and the Babylonians and
how he let the people go free.
00:25:08.44\00:25:12.61
It's all written down.
00:25:12.64\00:25:14.38
You see...
00:25:14.41\00:25:15.74
It is written in the Bible
00:25:18.48\00:25:20.88
and it is written
in the inscriptions
00:25:20.92\00:25:23.99
and mine eyes
have seen the glory.
00:25:24.02\00:25:26.19
Now, what we are
gonna do is this.
00:25:29.49\00:25:33.36
This is the Cyrus cylinder.
00:25:33.40\00:25:37.83
There it is, the Cyrus cylinder
that actually talks about
00:25:37.87\00:25:43.61
his mighty exploits
as in the Bible now.
00:25:43.64\00:25:49.64
Next time the
story of the superman
00:25:49.68\00:25:55.58
and the history of the world
00:25:55.62\00:25:59.02
and the next president of
the United States of the world.
00:25:59.05\00:26:03.36
I have just come from
Russia via Switzerland
00:26:12.67\00:26:16.07
and I'm now in Kiev,
the capital of Ukraine.
00:26:16.10\00:26:20.28
This place has got
huge memories for me
00:26:20.31\00:26:23.98
because back in '95 we
ran a campaign in the city
00:26:24.01\00:26:28.58
and in spite of
terrific opposition,
00:26:28.62\00:26:31.75
by the grace of God we baptized
00:26:31.79\00:26:33.66
3,530 precious souls
00:26:33.69\00:26:38.29
in the Dneiper River.
00:26:38.33\00:26:40.80
I'm back here today
because I believe that
00:26:40.83\00:26:43.73
we need to take care
of the people we baptized.
00:26:43.77\00:26:47.74
I don't believe it's
right to baptize people
00:26:47.77\00:26:50.91
and then to walk away
00:26:50.94\00:26:52.54
and to leave them
literally in the cold.
00:26:52.57\00:26:56.54
When I read my Bible,
00:26:56.58\00:26:58.21
I find where the
Apostle Paul went back
00:26:58.25\00:27:01.12
time after time
00:27:01.15\00:27:02.92
to visit the people
that he had baptized.
00:27:02.95\00:27:06.25
And so I'm back here
today for the 43rd time
00:27:06.29\00:27:11.66
in Russia and Ukraine
together to visit the people.
00:27:11.69\00:27:15.76
I'm back here to
preach the gospel of Christ.
00:27:15.80\00:27:19.23
I'm back here to
explain the Word of God
00:27:19.27\00:27:21.74
and let these people know
that they are not forgotten
00:27:21.77\00:27:25.41
and never will be forgotten.
00:27:25.44\00:27:29.24
We believe that there
is a tremendous opportunity
00:27:29.28\00:27:33.45
for the preaching
of the gospel of Christ
00:27:33.48\00:27:36.25
in this part of the world.
00:27:36.28\00:27:38.25
The soul hunger still exists
00:27:38.29\00:27:42.26
and the Carter
Report has got a goal
00:27:42.29\00:27:46.03
to take the gospel of Christ
00:27:46.06\00:27:48.13
to the people of Russia
and the people of Ukraine.
00:27:48.16\00:27:52.47
I just want to say
to you, dear friend,
00:27:52.50\00:27:54.90
my heart is
overwhelmed with thankfulness
00:27:54.94\00:27:57.91
for your magnificent support.
00:27:57.94\00:28:00.08
Thank you in Jesus' name.
00:28:00.11\00:28:03.01
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