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Hello and welcome
again to: Daniel All Access.
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My name is C.A. Murray
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it's my privilege and
pleasure to welcome you all
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to this odyssey
through the book of Daniel.
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As we seek to make Daniel
very plain and very pertinent
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Daniel has much to
say to us in these days
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so we welcome you
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and we ask you to dig
deeply and think deeply
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because the Lord has a message
for each and every one of us
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in the book of Daniel.
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Will you pray with me now.
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"Father God, as
we open your Word,
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we ask for your Spirit
because we need your Spirit
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to understand your Word.
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Enlighten us,
illuminate the path before us
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that we may see
and know and do...
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and we thank you dear
Father, in Jesus' name, amen. "
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Audience: Amen.
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The title of our presentation
today is: Dream Catcher
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and I hold in my
hand a Dream Catcher.
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This is an Indian artifact
from the American Indians
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particularly the Ojibwe
Tribe and the Lakota Tribe.
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Now, if you cannot
say, "Ojibwe and Lakota"
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just say Chippewa and Sioux
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because they
are the same tribes.
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The Ojibwe are the Chippewa
and the Lakota are the Sioux
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but they particularly
made Dream Catchers.
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It is made from
Willow bark and the idea was
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that the Dream Catcher was to
keep you from having bad dreams
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so, if you ever went
to a Lakota Reservation...
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a Sioux Reservation
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or an
Ojibwe-Chippewa Reservation,
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you would find one of
these somewhere in the house.
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It was designed to
ward off bad dreams.
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Now the Indians thought that
bad dreams were kind of dumb
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and good dreams
were kind of smart
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because bad
dreams have evil intent
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and good dreams
have good intent.
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So the idea was
the dumb bad dream
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would get caught
up in the webbing
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and couldn't get through
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and there's a little
tiny hole here in the middle,
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the good dream would find
it's way through that hole
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and get to the mind
of the sleeping person
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and the little rattles that
are here... these little rattles
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were to guide the
good dreams through
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but bad dreams would
get caught up in the web
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and in the morning
they would dissipate
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and only the smart good
dream would make its way
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all the way through to the
mind of the sleeping person.
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Boy, I wish it
could be that easy.
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Audience: Amen...
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But it is not...
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because the Bible
says in Daniel chapter 2,
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and that's our study for today
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that Nebuchadnezzar
had a series of dreams
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and I guess, he would
call these "bad dreams. "
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Pause.
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In the second year of
his reign very early on
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he is plagued now by
a series of bad dreams
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or at the very
least, "disturbing dreams. "
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These dreams
literally rocked his world.
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They so tormented him
that he could not function,
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he could not eat and he
certainly could not sleep.
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Now, the Bible
says, "Dreams" with an "s"
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later on, it says, "dream"
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so, what we believe is...
it is... it is the same dream
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several times...
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not different
dreams but one dream
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night... after night...
after night... after night
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which is bad enough
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but then to be
disturbed from your sleep
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and then wake up from your dream
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and not know what you
dreamed is a pretty shaky thing.
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How many of you
have ever had bad dreams?
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Audience: Agreeing.
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And you kind of
wish you could forget it
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because
sometimes they seem so real
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but Nebuchadnezzar
had a series of dreams,
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didn't know what he
dreamt but he knew it was bad
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pause...
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and it disturbed
him very, very much.
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The same dream night
after night after night.
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Now, most of the
monarchs in the ancient days
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kept people on staff...
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these were people
who are hired and paid
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to consult the stars
and to look into prophecies
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and to deal with astrology
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and to deal with
things like dreams
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and Nebuchadnezzar...
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the Babylonian
Empire was no different.
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There were men there who existed
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to serve the
king in that fashion.
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Their job was to consult mediums
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and the stars and astrologers
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and then give the king
information that he requested
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and that he needed.
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So it is natural now,
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since
Nebuchadnezzar has this problem
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he's got dreams
that are disturbing him,
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he doesn't know what they mean,
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it is natural that he
would consult these individuals
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to try to get some understanding
as to what these dreams meant.
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So he wants a
de-briefing from them.
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Now, what is
interesting is that God told
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the Israelite Community...
the Jewish Community...
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stay away from
this kind of stuff...
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you know that... from
the days of... of Saul
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no
demonology... no necromancy...
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no consulting with wizards,
no consulting with spirits,
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they were to stay
completely away from that...
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which is interesting
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because we'll come back
to that in just a moment
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but in Babylon... not
only were these people revered,
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they were at the top of
the food chain as it were,
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people who could divine
things and tell secrets,
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they were much
prized for this ability.
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So, Nebuchadnezzar
says, "I've got a dream...
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this dream is disturbing me...
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I'm having this
dream night after night...
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after night... after night
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and what I want you
to do is explain to me
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not only what the dream meant
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but I'm going to need you
to tell me what I dreamed.
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Now, that's pretty tough...
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"I need you to tell me what
I dreamed and what it meant. "
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And so, here's our
text, the Bible says,
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I'm in Daniel
chapter 2 verse 4...
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"Then spake the Chaldeans
to the king in Aramaic... "
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and remember
last night I told you,
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that Daniel is a
series of sandwiches...
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here's the first
part of the sandwich
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because right here
at the word "Aramaic"
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Daniel changes his
writing from Hebrew to Aramaic
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right here...
this is a change...
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so this is the meat
part of the sandwich
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that we were
talking about last night,
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so the king is asking
them... their answer is,
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"Then spake the Chaldeans
to the King in Aramaic,
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O king, live for ever:
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tell thy servants the dream,
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and we will shew you
the interpretation. "
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Now, doesn't
that sound reasonable?
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"You tell me what you dreamt
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and I'll tell
you what it means. "
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That's not an
unreasonable request...
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but the king was
not pleased with that.
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They're trying to tell him
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"Tell us what you dreamt...
we'll tell you what it means
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because that's our job. "
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So, now we get some
insight into the mental make-up
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of a rash,
hot-headed, absolute monarch
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who has a bunch of employees
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who are not only
trying to save their jobs...
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they're trying
to save their necks.
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"Tell me the dream...
you will be rich and wealthy,
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fail to tell me the dream... and
I'll have you cut to pieces. "
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"Please me... and you live...
disappoint me... and you die. "
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Pretty rough choice
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but that is a
choice that they were given
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and their response is,
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"What you're
asking is impossible"
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Here we have it in
Daniel chapter 2 verse 10.
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The Bible says,
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"The Chaldeans answered
before the king, and said,
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There is not a
man upon the earth
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that can shew the king's matter:
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therefore there is
no king, nor ruler,
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that asked such a
thing of any magician,
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or astrologer, or Chaldean. "
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They are saying,
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"What you're
asking is impossible.
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Nobody asks that kind of thing,
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we simply cannot do it,
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we are paid to
interpret dreams not read minds.
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What you're asking
is for a mind-reader
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and we are not that. "
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Daniel 2:11 "And
it is a rare thing
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that the king requireth,
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and there is none other
that can shew it before the king
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except the gods, whose
dwelling is not with flesh. "
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They're basically
saying, "We can't do this,
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your request is unreasonable. "
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And as you look at the
request, it is unreasonable
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but you're dealing with a man
who doesn't care about reason
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so the answer comes... the
response comes in verse 12,
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the Bible says, "For
this cause the king was angry"
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not only angry,
he was very furious.
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"and commanded to destroy
all the wise men of Babylon. "
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This is a rash guy...
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we're getting a
picture of Nebuchadnezzar
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as kind of a
hot-headed guy who says...
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who talks before he thinks
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and who acts very, very rash
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so, automatically,
"you're all going to die"
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"And the decree went forth that
the wise men should be slain;
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and they sought Daniel
and his fellows to be slain. "
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Now, here's what's interesting,
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somehow
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Daniel and the three Hebrew boys
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get lumped in with
the wise men of Babylon,
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somehow they get
lumped in with the astrologers
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and the soothsayers and...
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and they had
nothing to do with that
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in fact, the Jewish religion
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specifically forbade
that kind of activity
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but in the minds of those
who were doing the killing
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and the minds of
King Nebuchadnezzar
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a wise man... is a wise man
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whether you're
one of my wise men
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or you're a Jewish wise man,
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everybody's going to die
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and Ellen White tells us
the killing actually had begun
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and so, Arioch comes to Daniel
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and he is coming to Daniel and
the Hebrew boys to take his life
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to take their lives...
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Daniel goes to the king
and gets a stay of execution.
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He consults with Hananiah,
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Azariah and Mishael...
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you know them as
Shadrach, Meshach and Obednego
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they are people of God,
now, here's the side bar
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we talked about this last night,
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"When you want to
know the will of God,
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one way is to seek council from
people that you know know God!"
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Amen.
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Does that make sense?
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Every Christian ought to
have somebody in your life
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that you know knows God
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so that you can get counsel
when you need it... amen.
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Hopefully, it's your husband...
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amen
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or your wife...
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amen
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but if not, find somebody
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hmmm... find somebody
that you know knows God
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who can pray with you
when prayer time is needed,
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who can cry with you
when crying time is needed,
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who can laugh with you
when laughing time comes
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someone that you know knows God
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that you can
take your problems to
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and not have them on
Facebook the next day.
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You know what I'm talking about?
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Audience: Yes... laughter.
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Find somebody... now...
let me say this as a caveat,
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it's best for a woman to find
a woman to do that with, amen,
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and best for men to
find a man to do that with
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amen
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but find somebody
who you know knows God
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who can help you negotiate
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some of the
rough patches in life,
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because everybody needs a friend
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and everybody needs
a friend who knows God
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who can give you some
good, sound counsel...
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I'm tempted to
go into a long story
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but we've got a lot to talk
about so I'm not going to do it
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but find somebody
that you know knows God
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who you trust with your secrets
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who will keep them
between you and God... amen...
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Audience: Amen.
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Because
everybody needs a friend,
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everybody needs
somebody to counsel with
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and so, Daniel went immediately
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to Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego
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the three Hebrew boys...
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because he knew
that they knew God
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so Daniel and his fellows
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are also slated
for extermination
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and make no mistake about it,
the killing had already begun
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and Daniel and his friends
were next on the hit list
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and praise God
Daniel got to Nebuchadnezzar
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and got a stay of execution
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so, they're praying
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and they're praying
for the grace of God
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we've got it in Daniel chapter 2
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I'm looking at verses
18 and 19 in your Word.
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They're praying that
they would desire the mercies
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of the God of heaven
concerning this secret
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that Daniel and his
fellows should not perish
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with the rest of the
wise men of Babylon...
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they didn't even belong
there but they got lumped in.
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"Then was the secret revealed
unto Daniel in a night vision
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and then Daniel
blessed the God of heaven. "
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Two things, one... notice that
in this life-and-death matter.
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You don't see Daniel fasting,
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you don't see Daniel going all
night and laying upon the ground
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you don't see
Daniel afflicting his soul,
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now that does come a
little later again in chapter 9
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but he's not doing it now.
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This is a life-and-death matter.
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He asked God and God
gives him the answer...
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fast... huh...
00:15:28.86\00:15:30.23
he just asked Him... "God... "
00:15:30.26\00:15:32.03
see, the Lord
wants to help you, amen.
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Audience: Amen.
00:15:33.93\00:15:35.66
God wants to bless you, God
wants to give you good gifts
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you don't want
to tear yourself up,
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the Bible says,
"Ask and ye shall... "
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Audience: Receive...
00:15:44.74\00:15:46.07
Hmmm... hmmm... so,
Daniel just asked...
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God gives him a dream...
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gives him the answer... amen...
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and immediately... immediately
Daniel praises the Lord,
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now, he could have said,
"Hey King, I got the answer
00:15:55.68\00:15:59.85
and if you want
to grease my palm...
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I'll give you the answer"
00:16:02.82\00:16:05.09
or he could have
taken credit for himself
00:16:05.13\00:16:08.96
but he gave credit
where credit is due, amen.
00:16:09.03\00:16:12.07
Audience: Amen.
00:16:12.10\00:16:13.54
You see, every good
gift and every perfect gift
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comes from... comes from God
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and when God blesses
you with something good,
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God ought to get the credit.
00:16:22.68\00:16:25.65
Audience: Amen.
00:16:25.68\00:16:27.02
Amen... if anything
good happens in our lives...
00:16:27.05\00:16:29.75
comes from... comes from God.
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Ellen White says this,
00:16:32.25\00:16:34.09
"We are laid under
obligation to praise the Lord"
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Audience: Amen.
00:16:37.66\00:16:38.99
You have an
obligation to praise the Lord,
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it's not... it's not... it's not
something you can do or not do
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or may do or not want to do,
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you have an obligation...
we have an obligation
00:16:47.84\00:16:51.37
to praise God in our lives,
00:16:51.41\00:16:53.27
when God blesses you,
open your mouth and praise Him.
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Audience: Amen.
00:16:56.41\00:16:57.75
Amen... not just quiet praise,
00:16:57.78\00:16:59.45
"I'm thinking
about praising God"
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hmmm... hmmm...
00:17:01.28\00:17:03.72
open your mouth and praise Him.
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Amen.
00:17:05.25\00:17:06.59
We are laid under obligation...
and let me say this,
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If you're praying
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and your prayers are
kind of hitting the ceiling
00:17:10.46\00:17:12.09
and coming back down
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stop requesting
and start praising
00:17:13.53\00:17:19.27
and praise will
crack that ceiling.
00:17:19.30\00:17:21.87
Audience: Amen...
amen... yes... amen... amen...
00:17:21.90\00:17:24.84
Yeah, just let
the shopping list stay
00:17:24.87\00:17:28.78
and spend some time praising God
00:17:28.84\00:17:31.81
and praise will usher
you into the presence of God.
00:17:31.85\00:17:35.65
It will... just
stop and praise Him...
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just find
something to thank God for.
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"Lord, one and one is
two... oh I praise you. "
00:17:41.79\00:17:44.99
Amen.
00:17:45.03\00:17:46.43
Praise Him for your
peanut butter and jelly sandwich
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just find
something to praise Him for
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because He's
worthy to be praised...
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and the fact that you're here
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and you're smiling
00:17:54.94\00:17:56.54
and you got
clothes and you got food
00:17:56.60\00:17:58.67
and you got: one, two,
three, four, five on this hand
00:17:58.71\00:18:01.41
and one, two, three,
four, five on this hand...
00:18:01.44\00:18:03.55
that's something to
praise God for... so praise Him
00:18:03.58\00:18:06.85
and you will find
that praise ushers you
00:18:06.88\00:18:09.88
into the presence of
God in a marvelous way
00:18:09.92\00:18:12.89
and so, the first thing Daniel
did when he got the answer
00:18:12.92\00:18:16.39
is he praised the God of heaven.
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So, Daniel gets the answer...
God gives him the answer
00:18:20.23\00:18:24.87
and he praises God...
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every good gift...
every perfect gift...
00:18:27.64\00:18:30.27
let me give you
the text for that,
00:18:30.31\00:18:31.67
that's James chapter 1 verse 17.
00:18:31.71\00:18:33.07
We need to thank Him.
00:18:33.11\00:18:35.04
Ellen White says as I said,
00:18:35.08\00:18:36.81
"We are under
obligation to praise the Lord. "
00:18:36.85\00:18:39.91
Now, verses 20
through 23 in Daniel chapter 2
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are all "praise verses"
00:18:42.82\00:18:44.45
he's just praising
God for what He's done.
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Four full verses of praise
to God who deserves our praise
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so, "there is a
God in heaven" he says,
00:18:51.16\00:18:53.70
"who answers things and
who gives us understanding. "
00:18:53.73\00:18:58.20
You know, people wonder why...
00:18:58.23\00:19:00.60
people wonder why
Pastors make appeals at funerals
00:19:00.64\00:19:04.87
it's... it's... it's because
00:19:04.91\00:19:09.24
when your life
is out of control,
00:19:09.28\00:19:12.15
that's the time you get
sensitive to the need for Jesus
00:19:12.18\00:19:19.59
you hear me?
00:19:19.62\00:19:21.32
When everything is going
well and everything is fine,
00:19:21.36\00:19:25.76
sometimes we feel we
don't necessarily need the Lord
00:19:25.79\00:19:29.90
but when you get that
negative doctor's report...
00:19:29.93\00:19:34.00
hmmm... hmmm...
00:19:34.04\00:19:35.77
or you get a notice... a
little pink slip from your job
00:19:35.80\00:19:41.88
amen...
00:19:41.91\00:19:43.71
or
00:19:43.75\00:19:45.38
a police car pulls up in front
00:19:45.41\00:19:47.78
and your child
is in the backseat,
00:19:47.85\00:19:50.19
those are times that are
called "Seasons of the Soul"
00:19:50.22\00:19:55.52
when you become
sensitive for your need
00:19:55.56\00:20:00.83
of some divine aid in your life
00:20:00.86\00:20:03.73
so, when you lose a
family member or a spouse,
00:20:03.77\00:20:08.97
that's the time
to talk about God
00:20:09.00\00:20:12.21
and you got a king
who is a control freak
00:20:12.27\00:20:15.71
and his life is out of control
00:20:15.74\00:20:17.95
and what does Daniel do?
00:20:17.98\00:20:20.42
That's the time he
inserts God in there.
00:20:20.45\00:20:23.99
"There is a God
00:20:24.02\00:20:27.12
who can help you. "
00:20:27.16\00:20:30.16
Well, now he's
ready to listen, amen.
00:20:30.23\00:20:33.13
You know, after 9/11,
I was there in New York,
00:20:33.16\00:20:35.86
after 9/11 the...
00:20:35.93\00:20:37.27
9/11 happened on a Tuesday
00:20:37.30\00:20:39.13
you should have seen the
Adventist churches on Saturday
00:20:39.17\00:20:41.74
pause...
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and the first-day
churches on Sunday...
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packed...
packed... packed... packed
00:20:46.11\00:20:48.44
for about two
months, Gary, two months...
00:20:48.51\00:20:51.65
then the exigency wore off
00:20:51.68\00:20:54.62
and folk kind of went
back to their lethargy.
00:20:54.68\00:20:56.92
But seasons of
the soul are the times
00:20:56.99\00:20:59.79
when you need to
bring God in to the mix.
00:20:59.85\00:21:03.76
Death, divorce, loss
of livelihood, moving...
00:21:03.79\00:21:07.66
Gary... you know, moving
from one State to another
00:21:07.70\00:21:11.53
that's... that's
when you need God,
00:21:11.57\00:21:12.90
you start packing up
stuff and stuff is breaking...
00:21:12.93\00:21:14.77
and stuff is
getting chipped and...
00:21:14.80\00:21:16.34
you know, that's the
"Season of the Soul. "
00:21:16.37\00:21:17.97
Bad medical report...
00:21:18.01\00:21:20.84
pause...
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you got a king and the
dream is making him crazy
00:21:23.18\00:21:27.35
and he wants control and
his life is out of control,
00:21:27.38\00:21:31.52
that's the time to
tell him about God, amen...
00:21:31.55\00:21:34.29
seasons of the soul.
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I lived next door to
a lady some years ago
00:21:35.69\00:21:38.99
husband and wife doing well...
00:21:39.03\00:21:41.56
child got a full scholarship
to I think it was Dartmouth,
00:21:41.60\00:21:44.93
one of those Ivy League
schools... doing very well
00:21:44.97\00:21:46.84
husband owned a gas station
00:21:46.87\00:21:48.24
and he was also
the principal mechanic
00:21:48.27\00:21:51.07
so they were
making a lot of money
00:21:51.11\00:21:53.21
and they were very nice to us
00:21:53.24\00:21:55.28
but anytime I tried to steer
the conversation to "God Stuff"
00:21:55.34\00:22:00.72
the wife kind of
put a halt to it,
00:22:00.75\00:22:02.78
"We don't want to hear that,
00:22:02.82\00:22:04.15
we know you're a Preacher but
ply that trade someplace else
00:22:04.19\00:22:07.79
we don't... we
don't want to hear it"
00:22:07.82\00:22:09.16
and they were doing well
00:22:09.19\00:22:11.16
and one day, she left her job
00:22:11.19\00:22:13.46
and she decided she
would surprise her husband
00:22:13.50\00:22:16.33
at the gas station
00:22:16.36\00:22:17.70
so she went to the gas
station and she got the surprise
00:22:17.73\00:22:21.17
because he was in the
back with somebody else
00:22:21.20\00:22:24.54
who wasn't her.
00:22:24.57\00:22:27.34
Audience: Hmmm...
00:22:27.38\00:22:30.05
So, now she's ready for Jesus...
00:22:30.08\00:22:31.41
and you know what?
Jesus was ready for her, amen.
00:22:31.45\00:22:35.42
Audience: Amen.
00:22:35.45\00:22:36.85
It's called a
"Season of the Soul"
00:22:36.89\00:22:38.32
when your when
your world gets rocked,
00:22:38.35\00:22:41.02
that's when you
know you need the Lord
00:22:41.06\00:22:43.69
and this came...
00:22:43.73\00:22:45.86
his world is out of control...
00:22:45.89\00:22:48.56
he is disturbed... he
can't eat... he can't sleep
00:22:48.60\00:22:50.30
he can't function...
he can't rule his kingdom
00:22:50.37\00:22:53.20
and God tells
Daniel to tell him,
00:22:53.23\00:22:56.67
"There is a God in
heaven who can help you. "
00:22:56.71\00:23:01.84
God has made you a spectator
to the history of the world.
00:23:01.88\00:23:09.68
Now this... this is
a... this is a heathen king,
00:23:09.72\00:23:12.79
this is not an Israeli
king, this is a heathen king.
00:23:12.82\00:23:15.86
Follow me, you have 42 kings
00:23:15.92\00:23:21.86
of the nation of Israel,
00:23:21.93\00:23:23.80
42 in total,
00:23:23.83\00:23:25.20
if you take out the first three,
that's Saul, David and Solomon,
00:23:25.23\00:23:30.17
you got 39 kings,
00:23:30.21\00:23:32.24
after Solomon, you
know the kingdom was divided
00:23:32.27\00:23:35.38
Rehoboam... Jeroboam...
00:23:35.41\00:23:37.75
so now you got
Israel in the north
00:23:37.78\00:23:39.48
Judah in the south
00:23:39.51\00:23:41.38
ten tribes constituted Israel...
00:23:41.42\00:23:44.42
two tribes... really
two tribes and a half
00:23:44.45\00:23:46.59
because you had
Judah... Benjamin...
00:23:46.62\00:23:48.52
and you had some
Levites there in the temple
00:23:48.56\00:23:52.66
so, of the Israel
kings... there were 19,
00:23:52.69\00:23:56.70
of that 19... guess how many,
the Bible says, were good kings?
00:23:56.77\00:24:02.94
Out of 19...
00:24:02.97\00:24:05.77
not one...
00:24:05.81\00:24:08.51
0 for 19... all bad,
00:24:08.54\00:24:11.55
now in Judah, you got 20 kings
00:24:11.58\00:24:15.38
19 men and praise the
Lord, one woman, Molly,
00:24:15.42\00:24:22.39
you got one woman,
her name was Athaliah
00:24:22.42\00:24:25.39
now I've got
some bad news for you,
00:24:25.43\00:24:27.63
bad... very bad...
00:24:27.66\00:24:31.23
killed a lot of people
at the very beginning...
00:24:31.27\00:24:33.80
bad way to start out your...
your kingdom... six years bad...
00:24:33.84\00:24:36.91
of the 19 guys that
were kings of Judah,
00:24:36.94\00:24:42.24
guess how many were
considered good kings?
00:24:42.28\00:24:47.12
Only eight...
00:24:47.15\00:24:50.22
only eight... I'll
give you their names.
00:24:50.25\00:24:53.29
You know them because
they're so few in number,
00:24:53.36\00:24:55.66
Asa, Jehoshaphat,
Joash, Amaziah, Azariah,
00:24:55.69\00:24:59.26
Jotham, Hezekiah...
00:24:59.29\00:25:00.63
and one we talked
about last night... Josiah.
00:25:00.66\00:25:02.60
So out of... out of 39 kings,
00:25:02.63\00:25:06.63
only eight could
the Bible commend,
00:25:06.67\00:25:09.54
all the
others... the Bible says,
00:25:09.57\00:25:12.34
"they're evil in
the sight of the Lord"
00:25:12.37\00:25:13.71
so, no wonder, when God wants
to find somebody to work with,
00:25:13.74\00:25:17.45
He's got to leave Israel...
He's got to leave Judah
00:25:17.51\00:25:20.62
and go to Babylon to find
somebody that He can work with.
00:25:20.65\00:25:23.82
Pause.
00:25:23.85\00:25:26.35
Over 19...
00:25:26.39\00:25:28.86
and eight out of 39...
00:25:28.89\00:25:33.09
and really you could put
Saul in the minus category,
00:25:33.13\00:25:37.77
David... he had his
ups, he had his downs...
00:25:37.80\00:25:43.77
and Solomon started out good
00:25:43.81\00:25:46.47
and 300 wives and
700 girlfriends later,
00:25:46.51\00:25:50.85
his world got a little shaky
00:25:50.88\00:25:52.71
so God could not even
find someone in His own...
00:25:52.78\00:25:58.92
of His own people...
00:25:58.95\00:26:00.92
so He's got to go to Babylon
and latch on to a heathen king
00:26:00.96\00:26:08.03
you know, God will
use whoever He can...
00:26:08.06\00:26:10.03
wherever He can...
wherever He can find you.
00:26:10.07\00:26:11.93
If you don't speak, the
rocks are going to cry out,
00:26:11.97\00:26:15.50
amen...
00:26:15.54\00:26:17.07
and if... if... if... if
you don't get it done over here,
00:26:17.11\00:26:20.08
God's going to find
somebody over there,
00:26:20.11\00:26:21.74
God is not beholden to anybody,
00:26:21.78\00:26:25.08
so, He's using
now Nebuchadnezzar
00:26:25.11\00:26:27.45
and
Nebuchadnezzar is not the first
00:26:27.48\00:26:29.58
and he certainly
won't be the last,
00:26:29.62\00:26:31.65
he is making Nebuchadnezzar
a spectator in history.
00:26:31.69\00:26:35.39
Here's what you saw,
00:26:35.42\00:26:37.26
we've got to get
through this fast,
00:26:37.29\00:26:38.66
you saw a giant image,
there it is on the screen,
00:26:38.69\00:26:40.43
90 feet tall... 27 meters tall,
00:26:40.46\00:26:42.96
and 9 feet
wide... 2.7 meters wide,
00:26:43.00\00:26:46.63
that's what you
saw, it was a statue.
00:26:46.67\00:26:50.34
Now, to get some...
some sort of context,
00:26:50.41\00:26:54.04
the Statue of
Liberty from the base
00:26:54.08\00:26:56.11
not the base... but the
feet to the top of that torch
00:26:56.14\00:26:59.78
is a 111 feet tall, I
said, from head to toe
00:26:59.81\00:27:05.02
but it's really
from toe to torch...
00:27:05.05\00:27:07.52
111 feet tall.
00:27:07.56\00:27:10.23
Daniel's image probably
came up to the top of the crown
00:27:10.26\00:27:16.06
of the Statue of Liberty
00:27:16.10\00:27:18.03
so, this is... this is...
for that day and that time,
00:27:18.10\00:27:20.20
a... a... a massive image.
00:27:20.24\00:27:22.64
"What you saw... " Daniel says
00:27:22.67\00:27:26.17
"was excellent
and awesome in form...
00:27:26.21\00:27:28.64
the head was of fine gold,
00:27:28.68\00:27:33.01
the chest and
arms were of silver,
00:27:33.05\00:27:37.39
the belly and
thighs were of bronze"
00:27:37.42\00:27:40.69
and that's
bronze... not brass...
00:27:40.72\00:27:43.89
bronze is copper and tin...
brass is copper and zinc...
00:27:43.93\00:27:47.06
this is bronze...
00:27:47.10\00:27:49.03
"the legs of iron
00:27:49.06\00:27:50.97
and the feet... a
mixture of iron and clay.
00:27:51.00\00:27:56.40
Then later on, you saw a
stone cut out without hands,
00:27:56.47\00:28:00.38
that stone hit
the image on the feet,
00:28:00.41\00:28:02.81
dissolved it and
filled the whole earth. "
00:28:02.84\00:28:07.15
Now the bombshell...
00:28:07.18\00:28:08.52
"You, O king,
00:28:08.55\00:28:10.49
are that head of gold. "
00:28:10.52\00:28:13.02
Now, that
identified Nebuchadnezzar
00:28:13.05\00:28:15.86
as the head of gold but
it also identifies us...
00:28:15.89\00:28:18.79
identifies for us a starting
place for this prophecy.
00:28:18.83\00:28:23.06
We begin in 605 B.C.
00:28:23.10\00:28:25.70
the Babylonian Empire
lasted 605 B.C. to 539 B.C.
00:28:25.73\00:28:29.14
now look at this, as
you're looking on the screen
00:28:29.17\00:28:32.51
you see, the Babylon Empire
really is not a very big empire
00:28:32.54\00:28:36.04
as empires go... this
is not a lot of territory,
00:28:36.08\00:28:38.91
in fact, of the world empires,
it is the smallest by far,
00:28:38.95\00:28:43.02
began in 605 B.C. at
the Battle of Carchemish...
00:28:43.08\00:28:47.49
we talked about that
last night ended at 539 B.C.
00:28:47.52\00:28:51.93
so that is the
timeline for Babylon.
00:28:51.96\00:28:55.63
The Bible says, "You, O
king, are the head of gold. "
00:28:55.66\00:28:59.23
I need to point out here,
00:28:59.27\00:29:01.60
when God says, "you"
00:29:01.64\00:29:03.91
he's not talking about
Nebuchadnezzar, per se,
00:29:03.94\00:29:07.48
He is referring
to Nebuchadnezzar
00:29:07.51\00:29:09.71
but more... He's referring
to Babylon and the Empire.
00:29:09.74\00:29:14.22
God is not calling out
kings, He's calling out kingdoms
00:29:14.25\00:29:18.69
so the "you" was not,
00:29:18.72\00:29:20.69
"You, Nebuchadnezzar
are the golden boy"
00:29:20.72\00:29:23.76
it's, "your kingdom
is this head of gold
00:29:23.79\00:29:26.73
but after you shall arise
another kingdom inferior to you"
00:29:26.76\00:29:31.73
and the word "inferior"
kind of caught me because
00:29:31.80\00:29:34.84
it's only used one time in the
Bible... and that's the place,
00:29:34.90\00:29:38.37
it's only used that one time,
00:29:38.41\00:29:40.78
it has to do with earthiness
00:29:40.81\00:29:42.91
so, when we're talking
about inferior kingdoms,
00:29:42.94\00:29:45.61
we're not talking about size
because each successive kingdom
00:29:45.65\00:29:51.49
was larger in size than Babylon,
00:29:51.52\00:29:53.15
Babylon was, by
far, the smallest.
00:29:53.22\00:29:54.79
Most scholars state they're
talking about the opulence
00:29:54.82\00:29:58.59
of the capital city
00:29:58.63\00:29:59.96
because none of the kingdoms...
00:30:00.00\00:30:01.70
even Rome which
had running water
00:30:01.73\00:30:03.67
and bathrooms and saunas,
00:30:03.70\00:30:05.83
none of them had the
opulence of the city of Babylon.
00:30:05.87\00:30:10.57
So, the word is,
00:30:10.61\00:30:12.71
"You're the
king... you're the gold...
00:30:12.74\00:30:14.71
but you're not
going to be there forever,
00:30:14.74\00:30:16.64
inferior kingdoms are going
to come along behind you. "
00:30:16.68\00:30:21.32
These metals that made up
these next several kingdoms,
00:30:21.35\00:30:25.95
were less value but
interestingly enough
00:30:25.99\00:30:29.59
they were harder than gold,
00:30:29.62\00:30:31.76
gold is really the
softest of them all
00:30:31.79\00:30:34.86
and they increase
in overall wealth.
00:30:34.90\00:30:38.07
Pause.
00:30:38.10\00:30:40.64
One of the things that we
will see in the next little bit
00:30:40.67\00:30:44.74
and we've got so much to cover
00:30:44.77\00:30:47.08
God spent an
inordinate amount of time
00:30:47.14\00:30:52.55
with King Nebuchadnezzar.
00:30:52.58\00:30:55.38
He did for Nebuchadnezzar
00:30:55.42\00:30:58.15
that which He did for no
other of the ancient kings
00:30:58.19\00:31:03.16
and there's a reason for that,
00:31:03.22\00:31:05.16
we will see that
in just a little bit
00:31:05.19\00:31:07.60
but God spent a lot of
time with Nebuchadnezzar.
00:31:07.63\00:31:11.40
He didn't do that
with... with Cyrus and Darius,
00:31:11.43\00:31:15.17
He certainly didn't do
that with Alexander the Great,
00:31:15.20\00:31:18.51
He didn't do that with
any other Roman Emperors
00:31:18.54\00:31:21.34
and by the time Rome came along,
00:31:21.38\00:31:23.21
those emperors were so decadent
00:31:23.24\00:31:25.01
and so full of debauchery
that they were really...
00:31:25.05\00:31:28.68
you cannot say, "Beyond hope"
00:31:28.72\00:31:30.15
but certainly, their minds
were not on the things of God.
00:31:30.19\00:31:33.72
You've got people like Caligula,
Nero, Diocletian,Tiberius,
00:31:33.76\00:31:38.09
Commodus, Elagabalus...
these guys of implacable cruelty
00:31:38.16\00:31:42.46
Elagabalus spent his life
00:31:42.50\00:31:44.27
in one orgy and
social engagement to another
00:31:44.30\00:31:49.60
so, we don't see God
putting in the work with these
00:31:49.64\00:31:53.41
as He did with Nebuchadnezzar
and there is a reason for that
00:31:53.44\00:31:56.88
and you will see
that as we go through this
00:31:56.91\00:31:59.11
so the "you" is Nebuchadnezzar,
00:31:59.15\00:32:01.25
but in a more
profound way it is Babylon.
00:32:01.28\00:32:04.45
The book of Daniel is
not an exposition on kings
00:32:04.49\00:32:08.26
but rather... kingdoms.
00:32:08.29\00:32:09.62
it is not an
exposition on people
00:32:09.66\00:32:13.53
but rather,
principalities and powers...
00:32:13.56\00:32:16.56
not
necessarily... personalities.
00:32:16.60\00:32:19.37
So, let's walk through it,
00:32:19.40\00:32:21.20
let me add
something very quickly,
00:32:21.27\00:32:23.41
just popped in my mind,
00:32:23.44\00:32:24.77
we call these "world empires"
and there it's on the screen
00:32:24.81\00:32:29.81
but there were empires...
other places in the world
00:32:29.84\00:32:33.55
you look at the Zhou Dynasty
00:32:33.58\00:32:36.35
there in... in China,
00:32:36.38\00:32:38.45
who's bigger than
all of these empires...
00:32:38.49\00:32:39.82
there were
other world empires...
00:32:39.85\00:32:42.56
it lasted from
770 B.C. to 256 B.C.
00:32:42.59\00:32:45.33
then you've got the
Qin Shi Huang Dynasty.
00:32:45.36\00:32:50.37
In 1974, they
were digging in China
00:32:50.43\00:32:53.44
and they ran across all these
clay soldiers that they made,
00:32:53.47\00:32:57.54
this is a wonder of a find,
00:32:57.57\00:32:58.91
four football fields
worth of clay soldiers
00:32:58.94\00:33:01.78
full life-size...
each one done individually
00:33:01.81\00:33:04.75
8,000 clay soldiers... they
were done during the Qin Dynasty
00:33:04.78\00:33:10.39
or the "Qwin" Dynasty...
00:33:10.42\00:33:11.75
and The Great Wall of China...
00:33:11.79\00:33:14.06
again, under this Dynasty,
00:33:14.09\00:33:16.29
so, we use the
term "world empires"
00:33:16.32\00:33:19.16
but the truth is...
00:33:19.19\00:33:20.53
there were empires in
other parts of the world.
00:33:20.56\00:33:22.86
The Han Dynasty... large dynasty
00:33:22.90\00:33:27.24
covering almost
all of South-East Asia,
00:33:27.27\00:33:29.90
lasted for 400 plus
years for 24 plus Emperors.
00:33:29.97\00:33:35.58
So, the great world empires
existed in other places...
00:33:35.61\00:33:40.22
but the Bible investigates
and this is important...
00:33:40.25\00:33:44.85
the Bible
investigates those nations
00:33:44.89\00:33:47.49
that were directly affected
by God and God's people.
00:33:47.52\00:33:50.99
There were other world empires
00:33:51.03\00:33:52.66
and one of the things that
I'm going to be very interested
00:33:52.69\00:33:55.16
to sit down and talk to
the Lord about in heaven
00:33:55.20\00:33:57.80
is
00:33:57.83\00:33:59.60
"how You managed
to get the gospel
00:33:59.63\00:34:03.51
to places where man
could not take it. "
00:34:03.54\00:34:05.67
I had the
privilege of working on
00:34:05.71\00:34:08.28
a Production called,
00:34:08.31\00:34:11.15
"The Seventh-day Lessons
from Lost Pages of History"
00:34:11.18\00:34:14.05
and one of the
things that we found out
00:34:14.08\00:34:15.92
in working on that
production is that,
00:34:15.95\00:34:17.72
"God... down through the ages
has done some remarkable things
00:34:17.75\00:34:21.29
to get the gospel where
people could not take it. "
00:34:21.32\00:34:23.69
There are legends in
00:34:23.73\00:34:26.33
the Inuit Community...
00:34:26.36\00:34:28.90
the Eskimo
Community of two men in white
00:34:28.93\00:34:30.80
appearing and
bringing them the Sabbath.
00:34:30.87\00:34:33.94
There are lessons in India...
in South-East Asia... Asia...
00:34:33.97\00:34:41.28
even in the
American-Indian culture
00:34:41.31\00:34:43.75
of God using angelic beings
to bring the gospel to people
00:34:43.78\00:34:49.02
and when the
settlers found them,
00:34:49.05\00:34:51.79
they were
already keeping Sabbath.
00:34:51.82\00:34:54.49
Down in Zimbabwe...
this walled complex called,
00:34:54.52\00:34:58.49
"Great Zimbabwe"
00:34:58.53\00:34:59.86
and the historians said,
"There's no way in the world
00:34:59.89\00:35:04.27
that that kind of architecture
00:35:04.30\00:35:05.87
could be done
there in Great Zimbabwe"
00:35:05.93\00:35:08.90
well, on the wall,
00:35:08.94\00:35:10.27
there are hieroglyphics
proclaiming the Sabbath
00:35:10.31\00:35:13.17
so, God has done some things...
00:35:13.21\00:35:15.54
He's not waiting
on man all the time
00:35:15.58\00:35:17.71
sometimes, He goes
Himself and does it
00:35:17.75\00:35:19.78
and one of the things
I'll be anxious to talk
00:35:19.81\00:35:21.65
to the Lord about in heaven
00:35:21.68\00:35:23.25
is the ways that He
got the Sabbath into places
00:35:23.28\00:35:27.22
where mankind never went,
00:35:27.26\00:35:28.96
where the western
culture never went,
00:35:29.02\00:35:32.09
so, these great
dynasties existed but...
00:35:32.13\00:35:35.16
you know, one thing about God
00:35:35.20\00:35:36.83
and I praise the Lord for it,
00:35:36.87\00:35:38.50
God is fair... amen...
00:35:38.53\00:35:40.04
everybody will
have a fair opportunity,
00:35:40.07\00:35:42.64
God's not trying
to kick anybody out...
00:35:42.67\00:35:45.21
He's trying to get everybody in
00:35:45.27\00:35:47.64
amen and amen...
00:35:47.68\00:35:49.48
now we've got to
move kind of quickly.
00:35:49.51\00:35:52.05
So, Daniel
chapter 2 verses 36 to 38,
00:35:52.08\00:35:54.58
the Babylonian
Empire lasted some 70 years
00:35:54.62\00:35:58.99
Nebuchadnezzar ruled
for 40 of those years,
00:35:59.02\00:36:03.39
some scholars say 45...
00:36:03.43\00:36:05.09
I tend to believe... 40.
00:36:05.13\00:36:06.73
The text indicates
that the position...
00:36:06.76\00:36:10.17
the status that Nebuchadnezzar
had... that he enjoyed
00:36:10.20\00:36:13.47
was actively supplied by God,
00:36:13.54\00:36:16.77
in other words, God
used Nebuchadnezzar...
00:36:16.81\00:36:20.31
a heathen king
with a pagan background
00:36:20.34\00:36:23.81
but God used him.
00:36:23.85\00:36:25.18
He was the unquestioned
and unrivaled ruler...
00:36:25.21\00:36:28.15
the unfettered power and
authority of his country...
00:36:28.18\00:36:31.49
now, let me give you a
political side bar very quick,
00:36:31.52\00:36:34.66
when Babylon fell,
00:36:34.69\00:36:36.52
Darius the Mede
took over in 539 B.C.
00:36:36.56\00:36:40.50
he only reigned a few
years and it was under his rule
00:36:40.53\00:36:46.23
that Cyrus the
Great came into prominence
00:36:46.27\00:36:52.14
and we see that in Daniel 5:31,
00:36:52.17\00:36:56.44
Darius only ruled
a very short time,
00:36:56.48\00:37:01.45
he is most famous...
we're going to talk about this
00:37:01.48\00:37:04.95
in our coming
meetings for signing a petition
00:37:05.02\00:37:08.86
that he could not take back
00:37:08.92\00:37:10.63
that was part of the laws of
the Medes and the Persians...
00:37:10.69\00:37:13.66
he wasn't in there long
00:37:13.70\00:37:15.20
but he got himself hung
up because of pride and ego
00:37:15.23\00:37:18.20
we're going to
talk about that also.
00:37:18.23\00:37:20.14
Pause.
00:37:20.17\00:37:24.34
Nebuchadnezzar made a decree
and when Daniel spoke with him,
00:37:24.37\00:37:29.98
he changed that decree
00:37:30.01\00:37:32.15
that couldn't happen
in the Medo-Persian Empire
00:37:32.18\00:37:35.25
because once you made a
decree, it could not be changed
00:37:35.28\00:37:37.45
and there's something really...
00:37:37.49\00:37:39.55
there's something
really, really great about that
00:37:39.59\00:37:42.06
and we'll take a look at it
when we get to Daniel chapter 9
00:37:42.09\00:37:44.89
you talk about the
war between good and evil
00:37:44.93\00:37:48.36
and Christ and Satan,
00:37:48.40\00:37:49.73
and I just discovered a link
between Daniel 9 and Daniel 6
00:37:49.76\00:37:53.67
that is... just...
00:37:53.70\00:37:55.04
you talk about God
being in time... on time...
00:37:55.07\00:37:56.94
every time...
just when you need him,
00:37:56.97\00:37:58.31
when you see this link
it's going to blow your mind
00:37:58.34\00:38:00.88
because God really
did some wonderful things
00:38:00.91\00:38:03.35
for... with... to...
and through His people.
00:38:03.38\00:38:07.12
So, the following
kingdom is Medo-Persia...
00:38:07.15\00:38:10.82
you got the
Medo-Persian timeline...
00:38:10.89\00:38:12.52
I'm trying to go fast... I got
some stuff I want to show you
00:38:12.55\00:38:14.59
that's really, really important,
00:38:14.62\00:38:15.96
you got the
Medo-Persian timeline 538 to 331
00:38:15.99\00:38:20.43
followed by Greece 331 to 168,
00:38:20.46\00:38:24.50
now, the Medo-Persian timeline
00:38:24.53\00:38:28.47
is the time when the
book of Esther was written
00:38:28.50\00:38:30.41
you know the story of the
king and his wife, Vashti,
00:38:30.44\00:38:35.24
and how she was dismissed
00:38:35.28\00:38:36.81
and they found Esther
and then you got the intrigue
00:38:36.85\00:38:40.92
with Mordecai and Haman,
00:38:40.95\00:38:42.42
that's during the
Babylonian time... so...
00:38:42.45\00:38:45.85
not Babylonian time...
the Medo-Persian time...
00:38:45.89\00:38:49.26
and you've got all of
this intrigue going on there
00:38:49.29\00:38:52.59
and we'll touch on
that in just a little bit
00:38:52.63\00:38:53.96
now you've got the Roman
Empire, 168 B.C. to 476 A.D.
00:38:54.00\00:39:00.17
the largest
empire as you can see,
00:39:00.20\00:39:02.64
the Roman Empire covered
pretty much... all of Europe
00:39:02.67\00:39:05.21
and as you look right
up there in the corner,
00:39:05.24\00:39:06.98
you see... it crossed
over the English Channel
00:39:07.01\00:39:08.68
into Great Britain also
00:39:08.71\00:39:10.05
by far, the largest
of the world empires.
00:39:10.08\00:39:13.52
They had learned to use
bronze and copper and iron
00:39:13.55\00:39:18.95
and they were much
more efficient in their war,
00:39:18.99\00:39:23.66
they were much more
efficient in their conquering
00:39:23.69\00:39:28.30
and by the time we
get to the Roman Empire,
00:39:28.33\00:39:32.10
they had learned to smelt iron
00:39:32.13\00:39:34.27
so the Romans had
iron spears and iron armor
00:39:34.30\00:39:37.37
and iron shields and iron swords
00:39:37.41\00:39:39.01
the gladius... the
short Roman sword...
00:39:39.04\00:39:41.84
much more mechanized...
much more highly efficient
00:39:41.88\00:39:44.65
168 to 476 A.D.
00:39:44.68\00:39:49.68
This was a kingdom
that was ruling the world
00:39:49.72\00:39:53.36
when Christ was born
00:39:53.39\00:39:55.32
and there is a beautiful
little text in Micah chapter 5
00:39:55.36\00:40:00.60
and verse 2
that I want to go to.
00:40:00.63\00:40:04.33
Micah chapter 5 and verse 2,
00:40:04.37\00:40:08.54
we skipped over it...
want to go back to that
00:40:08.57\00:40:11.94
the Bible says, "But
thou, Bethlehem Ephratah"
00:40:11.97\00:40:15.28
Bethlehem means house of bread
00:40:15.34\00:40:18.28
Ephratah means fruitful
00:40:18.31\00:40:20.88
so, it's, "But thou,
'fruitful house of bread,'
00:40:20.92\00:40:24.49
though thou be little
among the thousands of Judah,
00:40:24.52\00:40:28.06
yet out of thee
shall come forth unto me
00:40:28.09\00:40:32.03
He that is to
be ruler in Israel;
00:40:32.06\00:40:35.36
whose goings forth
have been from of old,
00:40:35.40\00:40:38.77
from everlasting
even to everlasting. "
00:40:38.80\00:40:42.14
So, it was
under the Roman Empire
00:40:42.17\00:40:44.47
and we will talk
about this extensively
00:40:44.51\00:40:46.64
in our coming
meetings that Christ was born,
00:40:46.68\00:40:50.51
God even used an
unwilling Caesar Augustus
00:40:50.55\00:40:54.22
to send out a decree
00:40:54.28\00:40:56.08
that took Mary and
Joseph back to Bethlehem
00:40:56.12\00:40:59.32
from their home in Nazareth
00:40:59.35\00:41:01.99
to be registered...
00:41:02.02\00:41:03.76
I'll say again, "God
will use anybody at any time
00:41:03.79\00:41:06.76
willing... and
sometimes even unwilling...
00:41:06.80\00:41:10.53
to do His work and
to save His people. "
00:41:10.57\00:41:14.24
Amen...
00:41:14.27\00:41:15.60
Audience: Amen.
00:41:15.64\00:41:16.97
Been to that city of Bethlehem,
it is still a pretty modest town
00:41:17.01\00:41:21.41
it's in Arab hands now
00:41:21.44\00:41:23.11
but it is quite a...
an interesting place...
00:41:23.14\00:41:28.02
So, Nebuchadnezzar
now sees the feet and toes
00:41:28.05\00:41:32.95
and I want to spend
our last few minutes
00:41:32.99\00:41:35.32
in this particular
setting dealing with this.
00:41:35.36\00:41:38.89
"For they are part of
iron and part of clay"
00:41:38.93\00:41:43.37
two materials that can
never be mixed together
00:41:43.40\00:41:47.80
"some strong and some weak"
00:41:47.84\00:41:51.71
Daniel chapter
2 verses 42 and 43
00:41:51.74\00:41:55.81
the Bible says, "And
as the toes of the feet
00:41:55.84\00:41:59.48
were part of
iron and part of clay,
00:41:59.51\00:42:01.88
so the kingdom shall
be partly strong... "
00:42:01.92\00:42:04.92
and I found a
translation that says,
00:42:04.95\00:42:07.42
"partly broken"
00:42:07.46\00:42:08.99
the New King James
says, "partly fragile"
00:42:09.02\00:42:13.50
the King James
says, "partly weak"
00:42:13.53\00:42:16.50
strong and weak...
00:42:16.53\00:42:17.90
"And whereas thou
sawest iron mixed with clay,
00:42:17.93\00:42:21.40
they shall mingle
with the seeds of men:
00:42:21.47\00:42:25.14
but they shall not
cleave one to another,
00:42:25.17\00:42:29.18
even as iron is
not mixed with clay. "
00:42:29.21\00:42:33.15
Now this is a part of the
Bible that we usually skip over
00:42:33.18\00:42:36.32
but I want to spend
just a little time there
00:42:36.35\00:42:39.95
because the Bible says,
00:42:39.99\00:42:42.39
there will never ever
be another world empire.
00:42:42.42\00:42:48.26
Amen.
00:42:48.33\00:42:49.76
You're never going to
have one ruler again...
00:42:49.80\00:42:52.77
it's not going to happen...
00:42:52.80\00:42:54.77
even though down
through the centuries
00:42:54.80\00:42:58.21
men have tried
and tried and tried.
00:42:58.24\00:43:01.48
They tried to unite
the world through force
00:43:01.51\00:43:05.11
or through coercion.
00:43:05.15\00:43:06.68
The first person who tried
to do this was Charlemagne...
00:43:06.72\00:43:10.79
he tried to establish
a new Holy Roman Empire,
00:43:10.82\00:43:15.86
he really wanted to unite
all of Europe... he failed.
00:43:15.89\00:43:18.93
The second person
was Charles the Fifth
00:43:18.96\00:43:22.56
Holy Roman
Empire... Emperor rather...
00:43:22.60\00:43:25.97
he tried to unite the world...
00:43:26.00\00:43:28.17
he failed and
died in a monastory.
00:43:28.20\00:43:31.54
The next person
was Louis the 14th...
00:43:31.57\00:43:34.81
better known as
the Sun King of France,
00:43:34.84\00:43:38.01
reigned 72 years
00:43:38.08\00:43:41.58
started five wars... including
one war that lasted 30 years.
00:43:41.62\00:43:49.16
It's called: The
Thirty Years' War
00:43:49.19\00:43:52.19
it was a religious war
00:43:52.23\00:43:53.80
because he tried to unite the
world under the Catholic Church.
00:43:53.83\00:43:58.23
He is followed by, of
course, Napoleon Bonaparte.
00:43:58.27\00:44:02.00
He tried to unite all of Europe.
00:44:02.04\00:44:05.34
He was defeated
00:44:05.37\00:44:06.71
he met his
Waterloo and was poisoned
00:44:06.74\00:44:10.21
followed by Kaiser Wilhelm
00:44:10.25\00:44:14.18
German Emperor...
King of Prussia...
00:44:14.22\00:44:17.02
he tried to unite the world...
00:44:17.05\00:44:20.29
succeeded in
starting World War 1...
00:44:20.32\00:44:23.06
not he alone but
he had a part in it
00:44:23.09\00:44:25.79
he failed...
00:44:25.83\00:44:27.23
followed by Adolf Hitler
00:44:27.26\00:44:30.17
he tried to unite the
world in a 1,000-year Reich...
00:44:30.20\00:44:34.50
ended up committing
suicide in a mountain chalet
00:44:34.54\00:44:38.77
with his
girlfriend, Eva Braun...
00:44:38.81\00:44:41.71
followed by Benito Mussolini
00:44:41.74\00:44:45.15
who joined hands with Hitler
00:44:45.21\00:44:48.58
wound up being hanged
by the Italian Underground.
00:44:48.62\00:44:53.19
The Bible says,
"Though they try and try,
00:44:53.22\00:44:56.73
they shall not cleave
or adhere one to another.
00:44:56.76\00:45:02.30
So now, someone
came up with the idea...
00:45:02.33\00:45:06.97
"Let's unite through
politics and economy"
00:45:07.00\00:45:11.91
and they tried
politics and diplomacy...
00:45:11.94\00:45:15.78
"League of Nations"
right after World War 1.
00:45:15.81\00:45:19.58
Limited success... failed...
00:45:19.61\00:45:22.58
followed by "United Nations"
00:45:22.62\00:45:25.55
existing today
00:45:25.62\00:45:26.96
I had... and
baptized a Secretary
00:45:26.99\00:45:29.39
from the United Nations
00:45:29.42\00:45:30.79
and she told me... "All we
do in that building is argue
00:45:30.83\00:45:36.06
nobody solves anything...
nobody does anything...
00:45:36.10\00:45:39.73
we just argue...
argue... argue... argue... "
00:45:39.77\00:45:43.17
I had the privilege of baptizing
00:45:43.20\00:45:44.97
the Ambassador to
the United Nations
00:45:45.01\00:45:46.98
from the Island of Grenada,
00:45:47.01\00:45:48.34
the Honorable
Franklyn O'Brien Dolland...
00:45:48.38\00:45:51.05
he's now a member of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:45:51.11\00:45:52.75
he said, "When I
joined the church,
00:45:52.78\00:45:55.42
I had to in my resignation
at the United Nations
00:45:55.45\00:45:59.05
because all you do is
argue... argue... argue...
00:45:59.09\00:46:02.62
and spy on each other
00:46:02.66\00:46:04.39
and I don't see myself doing
that... and going to heaven. "
00:46:04.46\00:46:07.56
So, he quit... amen.
00:46:07.60\00:46:09.33
Pause.
00:46:09.36\00:46:11.40
That was followed by NATO
00:46:11.43\00:46:13.44
The North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
00:46:13.47\00:46:17.11
a loosely-put-together
group of countries
00:46:17.14\00:46:20.78
that are... said they're
going to protect each other
00:46:20.81\00:46:23.88
but they argue as
much as they agree
00:46:23.91\00:46:27.62
because man cannot go
against the Word of God.
00:46:27.68\00:46:32.52
Now we've got...
since 1994 November 1,
00:46:32.55\00:46:37.36
1993 rather...
00:46:37.43\00:46:39.03
the European Union...
00:46:39.06\00:46:41.23
amen.
00:46:41.26\00:46:42.76
28 States... 19
of which use the Euro
00:46:42.80\00:46:47.34
and they cannot seem to agree
00:46:47.40\00:46:52.34
because some of
the States are strong
00:46:52.37\00:46:54.71
and some of the States are weak
00:46:54.74\00:46:56.44
and some of the
States have money
00:46:56.48\00:46:58.28
and some of the
States are broke...
00:46:58.31\00:47:00.08
and the strong
States like Germany
00:47:00.12\00:47:01.82
are tired of footing the bill
for the poor States like Greece,
00:47:01.85\00:47:04.89
so, the European Union
00:47:04.92\00:47:06.82
is a very shaky
grouping of countries
00:47:06.86\00:47:11.13
and if you want to know if
the European Union is a success,
00:47:11.16\00:47:16.56
I got one word for you... Brexit
00:47:16.60\00:47:19.83
England is out
00:47:19.87\00:47:22.47
and now the other States are
thinking about getting out too
00:47:22.50\00:47:26.21
because the Bible says,
00:47:26.24\00:47:28.14
"Man shall not cleave
00:47:28.18\00:47:30.98
one to another"
00:47:31.01\00:47:32.51
they are not
going to stick together.
00:47:32.55\00:47:34.12
They're not going to adhere.
00:47:34.15\00:47:35.92
Access Point: Unity
through intermarriage
00:47:35.98\00:47:41.96
the Bible says, "they shall
mingle with the seed of men. "
00:47:41.99\00:47:46.39
I want to spend a
few minutes on this.
00:47:46.46\00:47:48.80
"They shall not
adhere to one another. "
00:47:48.83\00:47:52.93
One of the ways that
the countries of Europe
00:47:52.97\00:47:57.01
tried to defy the will of
God was through intermarriage.
00:47:57.04\00:48:05.61
Now, I'm going to take
you through some things,
00:48:05.65\00:48:08.05
let's take a look at Portugal.
00:48:08.08\00:48:10.42
This is just one small example.
00:48:10.49\00:48:13.92
You got Maria...
she's a princess,
00:48:13.96\00:48:17.13
she's 26 years of age,
00:48:17.16\00:48:19.29
she marries her uncle, Pedro.
00:48:19.33\00:48:22.46
Pedro when he's crowned king
takes the name... Peter the 3rd.
00:48:22.50\00:48:28.77
He is 43.
00:48:28.80\00:48:30.51
Peter was Maria's
father's youngest brother,
00:48:30.54\00:48:36.34
he's now her husband.
00:48:36.38\00:48:38.05
Maria and Peter the 3rd
have a son whose name is Joseph.
00:48:38.08\00:48:44.15
At age 15,
Joseph marries his aunt
00:48:44.19\00:48:48.46
who is Maria's sister, Benedita.
00:48:48.49\00:48:52.69
She is 30,
00:48:52.76\00:48:55.03
so Peter the
3rd's daughter-in-law
00:48:55.06\00:48:58.80
is also his sister-in-law
00:48:58.83\00:49:00.84
and his son's aunt
is also his niece...
00:49:00.87\00:49:05.11
his niece and his
wife is also his niece.
00:49:05.14\00:49:09.31
Pause.
00:49:09.34\00:49:11.45
That's just one little example.
00:49:11.48\00:49:13.72
"They shall not cleave. "
00:49:13.75\00:49:16.15
Let's talk about
Victoria of England...
00:49:16.18\00:49:18.95
literally the Queen
Mother of all Europe.
00:49:18.99\00:49:21.66
Victoria married her
first cousin... Prince Albert,
00:49:21.69\00:49:26.80
they had nine children,
00:49:26.86\00:49:29.40
one boy... eight girls...
00:49:29.46\00:49:31.93
all eight girls
carried the Hemophilia gene...
00:49:31.97\00:49:39.74
you know what that is?
00:49:39.77\00:49:41.11
That's when your blood
won't clot and you just bleed,
00:49:41.14\00:49:43.11
all eight girls...
00:49:43.14\00:49:45.05
so strong was this gene
00:49:45.08\00:49:47.08
that not only did
her daughters carry it,
00:49:47.12\00:49:50.69
her daughter's
daughters carried it,
00:49:50.72\00:49:52.89
her daughter's
daughter's daughters carried it
00:49:52.95\00:49:55.12
and her daughter's daughter's
daughter's daughters carried it
00:49:55.16\00:49:57.89
four generations...
00:49:57.93\00:49:59.46
so whoever married
one of those girls,
00:49:59.49\00:50:02.73
their children
were hemophiliacs.
00:50:02.76\00:50:05.93
Leopold died at age
31... brain hemorrhage...
00:50:05.97\00:50:12.11
married a daughter...
00:50:12.14\00:50:14.21
Prince Frederick of Hesse
died of a brain hemorrhage
00:50:14.24\00:50:18.88
married a daughter...
00:50:18.91\00:50:22.02
Prince Waldemar of Prussia
waiting for a blood transfusion
00:50:22.08\00:50:27.76
bled to death on the table...
00:50:27.79\00:50:30.33
his mother was a
daughter of Victoria.
00:50:30.36\00:50:33.53
Lord Leopold Mountbatten
died on the operating table
00:50:33.56\00:50:38.43
age 32... his
mother was a daughter...
00:50:38.50\00:50:42.37
bled to death...
00:50:42.40\00:50:43.74
Prince Heinrich of
Prussia... four years old...
00:50:43.77\00:50:47.38
fell and scraped his knee...
00:50:47.44\00:50:49.68
just a little
fall... a little scrape...
00:50:49.71\00:50:51.61
bled to death...
00:50:51.65\00:50:53.21
his mother was a
granddaughter of Victoria.
00:50:53.25\00:50:57.12
Prince Alfonso, age 31,
00:50:57.15\00:50:59.79
his brother,
Prince Gonzalo, age 19
00:50:59.82\00:51:02.99
minor car accident...
00:51:03.02\00:51:05.29
both bled to death.
00:51:05.33\00:51:07.56
Their mother was a
granddaughter of Victoria.
00:51:07.60\00:51:13.13
Pause.
00:51:13.17\00:51:15.74
Alexa of Russia... little boy...
00:51:15.77\00:51:20.01
his mother was a
great-granddaughter of Victoria
00:51:20.04\00:51:26.88
and that gene came through.
00:51:26.92\00:51:29.02
Pause.
00:51:29.05\00:51:31.09
Europe tried to defy the laws
of God with disastrous results.
00:51:31.15\00:51:40.13
They tried to
unite through marriage...
00:51:40.16\00:51:43.23
they tried to
do through marriage
00:51:43.26\00:51:45.47
what they
couldn't do through war
00:51:45.53\00:51:47.67
and what they
couldn't do through economy.
00:51:47.70\00:51:49.60
Now, look at this face,
00:51:49.64\00:51:50.97
this is Charles
the Fifth of Spain.
00:51:51.01\00:51:53.38
There were a
bunch of Charleses...
00:51:53.41\00:51:55.78
in fact, there were a
bunch of Charles the Fifths...
00:51:55.81\00:51:57.68
there were eight
Charles the Fifth...
00:51:57.71\00:51:59.55
Charles of Spain,
Charles of Prussia,
00:51:59.58\00:52:01.25
Charles of France...
00:52:01.28\00:52:02.62
what do you
notice about that face?
00:52:02.65\00:52:04.65
Pause.
00:52:04.69\00:52:08.02
Well, I'll tell you,
you see that elongated jaw?
00:52:08.06\00:52:11.33
Pause.
00:52:11.36\00:52:13.40
Now, you don't see it that much
in Charles the Fifth of Spain,
00:52:13.43\00:52:17.20
let's look one
generation later at his son...
00:52:17.23\00:52:19.60
Audience: Smiling.
00:52:19.63\00:52:22.50
What do you notice
about that face right away?
00:52:22.54\00:52:25.64
Over-exaggerated jaw...
his nose comes down to his lips
00:52:25.67\00:52:31.55
that... Ladies and Gentlemen
is a genetic deformity.
00:52:31.58\00:52:35.72
Let's go to the next
slide... what is it called?
00:52:35.75\00:52:39.85
It's called: The Habsburg Jaw
00:52:39.89\00:52:42.86
it's called: The Habsburg Jaw.
00:52:42.89\00:52:45.83
Now, this young
man died at age 39.
00:52:45.86\00:52:49.73
That's a genetic deformity
00:52:49.76\00:52:51.90
that came about through
centuries of inbreeding...
00:52:51.93\00:52:56.54
of trying to cleave together
when God said, "they would not"
00:52:56.57\00:53:00.94
the first Habsburg... Rudolph
00:53:00.98\00:53:03.38
was put on the throne of
the Holy Roman Empire in 1273
00:53:03.41\00:53:09.75
and for the next 700 years,
00:53:09.78\00:53:14.72
the Habsburg
interbred with one another
00:53:14.76\00:53:18.93
so that by the 1400s
you've got that Habsburg Jaw
00:53:18.96\00:53:25.47
and there was a time
00:53:25.50\00:53:26.84
when almost
every leader in Europe
00:53:26.87\00:53:29.80
looked just like that.
00:53:29.84\00:53:32.17
That's inbreeding and inbreeding
and inbreeding and inbreeding
00:53:32.21\00:53:37.28
for 100s of years...
00:53:37.35\00:53:38.78
I've got sheet upon
sheet upon sheet of... of...
00:53:38.81\00:53:42.88
of lists of people who died
because of... of inbreeding.
00:53:42.92\00:53:48.36
That young man that
I just showed you...
00:53:48.39\00:53:51.13
that's Charles the 2nd of Spain
00:53:51.16\00:53:54.70
his father and his mother...
00:53:54.73\00:53:58.23
well, his mother was
the niece of his father.
00:53:58.27\00:54:02.60
His grandparents
on his father's side
00:54:02.64\00:54:07.78
were first cousins...
00:54:07.81\00:54:09.28
his grandparents
on his mother's side
00:54:09.31\00:54:13.62
were first cousins...
00:54:13.65\00:54:15.15
so, can you see how
tightly this is inbred?
00:54:15.18\00:54:19.12
You can't
produce healthy children
00:54:19.15\00:54:20.96
when you're
breeding that closely...
00:54:20.99\00:54:23.39
it's called:
Consanguino Relationships.
00:54:23.43\00:54:25.79
Consanguino relationships
starts at first cousins.
00:54:25.83\00:54:30.53
You can't marry
your first cousin
00:54:30.57\00:54:32.57
and produce a healthy child
00:54:32.60\00:54:34.14
you can't do it.
00:54:34.17\00:54:35.54
That's why in India today
you got so many blind people
00:54:35.57\00:54:38.94
because you got
husbands marry...
00:54:38.97\00:54:41.51
rather, you got brothers
and sisters marrying each other
00:54:41.54\00:54:43.61
and this... this
kind of relationship
00:54:43.65\00:54:46.78
took place over
hundreds of years
00:54:46.82\00:54:49.85
in... in Europe.
00:54:49.88\00:54:51.62
You can't see this
but everywhere here
00:54:51.65\00:54:54.06
where you've got a
little slanted line...
00:54:54.12\00:54:56.62
that's where an
uncle married a niece
00:54:56.66\00:54:59.13
and you got it again and
again and again and again.
00:54:59.16\00:55:02.53
So, that fellow
that you just saw...
00:55:02.56\00:55:05.83
his... his family
began in the 1400s...
00:55:05.87\00:55:09.04
from the 1400s to the 1600s...
there was constant inbreeding
00:55:09.07\00:55:13.17
marrying
sister... marrying cousin...
00:55:13.24\00:55:15.48
marrying first
cousins... marrying niece
00:55:15.51\00:55:17.75
and after 200
years of inbreeding,
00:55:17.78\00:55:20.25
that's what you end up with,
00:55:20.28\00:55:22.12
now, what's bad about that is
00:55:22.15\00:55:23.92
not only did you get
the physical deformities
00:55:23.99\00:55:25.55
of the Habsburg Jaw,
00:55:25.59\00:55:26.99
you also got mental deformity
00:55:27.02\00:55:29.99
and these deformities
00:55:30.03\00:55:32.29
reveal
themselves in men and women.
00:55:32.36\00:55:35.40
I pulled up this stuff from
the internet just yesterday...
00:55:35.43\00:55:37.83
you got women who had
that same elongated jaw.
00:55:37.90\00:55:41.00
There were people born
during the Habsburg era
00:55:41.04\00:55:44.11
whose jaw was so displaced,
they could not eat food...
00:55:44.14\00:55:46.88
they could not chew...
00:55:46.91\00:55:48.88
all because of inbreeding
00:55:48.91\00:55:50.61
and God said, "They will
not cleave one to another. "
00:55:50.65\00:55:55.32
So, you got 100s and 100s
of years of... of inbreeding.
00:55:55.35\00:55:59.22
Charles the... let
me get this right...
00:55:59.25\00:56:03.66
Charles... no... Louis
the 9th from the 13th century
00:56:03.69\00:56:08.46
and Louis the
14th... the Sun King...
00:56:08.50\00:56:12.53
in the 17th century
the genealogists have found
00:56:12.57\00:56:18.64
that there were 368
links between those two kings
00:56:18.67\00:56:24.75
several centuries apart...
00:56:24.78\00:56:27.25
now that doesn't
sound like anything bad
00:56:27.28\00:56:29.28
until you
understand what they're saying.
00:56:29.32\00:56:31.25
If you take a parent... two
parents... father and mother
00:56:31.29\00:56:37.33
they have a child,
00:56:37.39\00:56:38.73
then that child
marries somebody else,
00:56:38.76\00:56:40.86
the family tree ought
to be going this way...
00:56:40.90\00:56:43.53
shouldn't it as
you add people...
00:56:43.57\00:56:47.14
but when you marry consanguily,
00:56:47.17\00:56:50.67
what happens is, the
family tree goes this way
00:56:50.71\00:56:53.31
and then it begins
to turn and go this way
00:56:53.34\00:56:55.98
and you're
beginning to concentrate
00:56:56.01\00:56:58.78
deformities...
00:56:58.81\00:57:00.25
and that's what happened in
Europe during all of those years
00:57:00.28\00:57:03.15
now very quickly, we go to
the St. Bartholomew Massacre,
00:57:03.18\00:57:06.69
massacre... very quickly,
the St. Bartholomew Massacre
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was a massacre of Catholics
upon French Huguenots...
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Charles the 9th had a sister.
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Her name was Margaret of Valois.
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Margaret of Valois was Catholic.
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She was intending to
marry a Henry of Navarre
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the Head of the Huguenots.
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So, all the Huguenots came into
Paris for that great wedding
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but it really was a ruse...
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there was never
going to be a marriage.
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The night before the
wedding, a bell was tolled,
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and roving bands of
Catholics slaughtered Huguenots
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Protestants... for...
Ellen White says, "two months"
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most historians just
say many, many weeks.
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When it was over,
70,000 Protestant Huguenots
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who were French Catholics...
rather... French Calvinists...
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were dead...
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now, why is that important?
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It's important
because Charles the 9th
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was inbred...
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his parents on
both sides were...
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in fact his mother was
Catherine de' Medici...
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and she was inbred and
his father was inbred...
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more than just
physical deformity,
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this inbreeding after so many
years caused mental deformity.
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So, you had kings who
would start wars and kill people
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and who were mean and ferocious
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and without
love and without care
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and that's what started this...
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this... this St.
Bartholomew Massacre.
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Henry the 9th was the product
of centuries of inbreeding
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so, he was incapable
and incompetent to be a king
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and you had
kings ruling countries
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who could not
control themselves.
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Why? Because the Bible says,
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"They shall not
cleave one to another"
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and no matter how you try it
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and no matter how you cut it,
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these things
simply could not be.
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I've got to skip over
a lot of this material
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because we've got...
we've got to let you go
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but in verse 44,
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the Bible says, "And
in the days of these kings
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the God of heaven
will set up a kingdom... "
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now let me say this just
very quickly before we close,
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here's how good God is...
here's how God ended this.
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In the 1700s, after
500 years of inbreeding
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the women had
become so infertile
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that they could not
carry babies to term.
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So it began to self-abort,
they just couldn't carry them
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and the men had inbred so much
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that they could
not father children
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so after 5- 6- 700
years of inbreeding
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the Habsburg
Dynasty simply died out...
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God just put an end to it.
01:00:01.70\01:00:03.13
The men could not father...
the women could not mother...
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and so, it just died...
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"They shall not
cleave one to another. "
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But that's what we inherited
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from them trying
to go against God.
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Let me close with this.
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The Bible says, "In
the days of these kings
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the God of heaven
will set up a kingdom,
01:00:20.88\01:00:23.52
which shall
never be destroyed... "
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can you say, "amen. "
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Audience: Amen.
01:00:27.06\01:00:28.39
"In the days of these
kings, it shall break in pieces
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and consume all
of these kingdoms,
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and it shall stand for ever. "
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Pause.
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I am so glad that one of the
things that Daniel assures us
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is that, this world
is coming to an end.
01:00:50.38\01:00:54.98
Audience: Amen.
01:00:55.02\01:00:56.42
Is that good or
bad... ready or not...
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Jesus is coming...
01:00:59.22\01:01:01.16
Audience: Amen... hallelujah...
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And the men and
the machinations of men
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will not delay the
coming of the Lord,
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the Bible says,
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"He that shall come, will
come and will not tarry. "
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And as we look over the long
and sad history of this world,
01:01:16.10\01:01:22.21
it could be pretty depressing
01:01:22.24\01:01:25.88
but as we look forward
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to the glorious
world that is to come
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Ladies and
Gentlemen, it's pretty exciting.
01:01:31.12\01:01:34.09
Audience: Amen.
01:01:34.12\01:01:35.52
Man has done some
pretty awful things
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but we serve an
awfully great God,
01:01:38.83\01:01:42.80
who is ready... willing and able
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to save all who come
to Him by Jesus Christ
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and so, in verse
47, at the very end,
01:01:51.21\01:01:53.91
Nebuchadnezzar says,
01:01:53.98\01:01:56.64
"Truly your God
is a God of Gods,
01:01:56.68\01:01:59.28
the Lord of kings,
and a revealer of secrets,
01:01:59.31\01:02:03.49
since you could
reveal this secret. "
01:02:03.52\01:02:06.19
Even Nebuchadnezzar...
a heathen king...
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had to give glory to God
01:02:08.89\01:02:11.26
for what He did and who He was.
01:02:11.29\01:02:14.60
There is coming a
time, Ladies and Gentlemen,
01:02:14.66\01:02:17.53
where every mouth shall confess,
01:02:17.57\01:02:20.17
every tongue shall confess
01:02:20.20\01:02:23.20
that He is King
01:02:23.24\01:02:24.87
and he is Lord of all.
01:02:24.91\01:02:27.61
Shall we pray?
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"Father God, thank you
for giving us your presence,
01:02:29.01\01:02:31.68
thank you for
the book of Daniel,
01:02:31.71\01:02:34.25
thank you for what
you showed a heathen king
01:02:34.28\01:02:38.25
so many centuries ago,
01:02:38.29\01:02:40.29
it gives us courage that
God is still on the throne
01:02:40.32\01:02:45.39
and that one day we
will be around that throne
01:02:45.43\01:02:50.67
to sing His praises forevermore,
01:02:50.70\01:02:53.30
we thank you and we praise you
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in Jesus' name, amen. "
01:02:55.97\01:02:57.97
Audience: Amen.
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