Tonight we begin a 3
part series, and these 3 parts
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cover a topic that is very
important Biblically, but a
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topic that, unfortunately,
is not well understood.
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It addresses the topic of
the judgment, the judgment from
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a Biblical perspective.
When we use the word "judgment",
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or the word "judgment"
comes into the mind, many times
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we see that as a
negative thing, we think
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"Oh, the judgment... " we
begin to shake, and this fear,
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and trepidation of
this impending judgment,
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"Guilty" sort of thing.
What we're going to discover
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from a Biblical perspective
is that the judgment is actually
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good news for those who
have put their faith and their
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confidence in Christ.
That's why the title is
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"There really is
a Final Judgment,"
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"but don't be
afraid, it's good news."
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So let's begin with a
word of prayer and we'll dive
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right into our presentation.
Father in heaven, we come
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before You this evening
and we are anticipating a great
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blessing, you have
been with us so many nights,
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and Father, You've blessed
us, You've enriched us, You've
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given us a Biblical
understanding of so many
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things. Father, now as we embark
from a Biblical perspective,
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upon this topic of the judgment,
particularly as it refers
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and references Bible prophecy,
we ask, Father, that Your
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Spirit will be with us.
We want to thank You for
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the insights that you've
already given as we have opened
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Your Word You have
opened our hearts. So Father,
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tonight we ask that the
Spirit that inspired this Word,
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the Spirit that inspired
the Bible would now come into
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this room and be the
Spirit that instructs that us.
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Father, please, through
this humble vessel, do something
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awesome, do something
supernatural and may we come
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apart here with a clearer,
more Biblical, more accurate
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understanding of who you
are, and just exactly what this
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judgment entails, for
we ask it in Jesus' name,
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and let everyone say
"amen". [Audience] Amen.
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Okay, great. So
let's go right to our
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study guide, we do have quite
a little bit of information
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to cover tonight, so I want
to make you that same promise
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I have in nights passed, if I
go so fast tonight that you just
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can't follow me, which seems
unlikely because I'm afraid
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to go too fast or my voice might
just turn off, but if somehow
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I'm able to go too fast tonight
so that you can't keep up
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with me, you just go
back to that CD table, you say
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"Randy, I couldn't
understand what he was saying,"
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"I only got half of my blanks
filled in, and I need a free CD"
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"and David said that you'd give
me one", we will give you one.
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If I go so fast tonight that you
can't get it, it doesn't do you
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as much as we want it to,
now I did tell you that I speak
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4 times faster than the average
person, so if you only get
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half of what I say, you
get twice as much as the normal
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speaking person would. Okay?
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So let's go right to our
study guide, and it says:
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This series of presentation
covers a very important topic:
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The Sanctuary. With
the raising of hands,
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how many know what the sanctuary
is, the Biblical sanctuary?
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The sanctuary, that
is, the temple of God.
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We must begin by noting
that there are 2 temples:
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and earthly and a
heavenly, and that's going to be
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absolutely central, absolutely
fundamental to our study
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this evening and in
the forthcoming nights.
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2 Temples, an earthly and a
heavenly, we'll look at that
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in just a moment. As
we shall soon discover,
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the temple on earth
was a picture, or a model,
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of the temple in
heaven. Just as the high priest
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ministered in the
earthly sanctuary, Jesus Christ,
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our High Priest is ministering
in the heavenly sanctuary.
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Now before we do that we
want to set this all in its
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proper context. I'm
going to give you several
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texts, don't worry if you can't
get all of these, that's fine,
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but what I want to try and show
you is that from a Biblical,
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New Testament perspective,
the judgment was future
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to the New Testament writers,
that's critical, the judgment
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was future to the
New Testament writers.
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Now, none of these texts
are in your study guide tonight,
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so if want these you're going
to have to write them down.
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Now, we will go over these
texts again at least 1 more
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time, but I just want to
quickly go over them with you
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on the board. Acts
17:31, Luke writing,
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Paul speaking: [text on screen]
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"that man" - being Jesus
Christ. [Continues to read]
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In the English language we have
3 verb tenses: past, present
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and future. You say "Of course,
there's only 3 verb tenses",
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well in other language there
are actually many different
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verb tenses, you have past
perfect, and past imperfect,
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and present continuous,
etc, but in the English language
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we have just past, present
and future. Now I want you
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to notice this again keeping
that in mind "Because He has"
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"appointed a day on which
He will judge", what verb tense
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would that be?
[Audience] Future.
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He will do it. Now
notice the next passage,
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very similar, Acts 24:25,
Luke writing, Paul speaking:
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[text on screen]
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So Paul was speaking to
Felix and he was talking about
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righteousness, he was
talking about temperance,
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and the judgment that was going
to come, which means it was
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in the future. I'll
show you a few other
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texts to that effect, that
are many in the New Testament,
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we really want to solidify this
with our thinking as we commence
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with this 3 part series
on the judgment. Romans 2:16,
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the apostle
Paul: [text on screen]
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So if you're paying attention,
2 things are beginning
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to emerge, #1- the judgment
was future to the Bible writers,
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that is, the New
Testament writers.
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The second thing that you're
noticing is that Jesus Christ
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is central to the
judgment. Did you notice that?
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Notice it says here: "He
will judge the secrets of men"
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"by Jesus Christ." So
those are the 2 things that
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are emerging, Romans
14:10: [text on screen]
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That's a very good question
for us, sometimes we can be
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very judgmental, Paul
says "Hey!" [text on screen]
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"...shall", what verb
tense is that? Future tense.
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[continues to read]
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So you see both things there
in that passage, the judgment
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is future, and Christ
is central to the judgment
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message. And one last one,
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Romans
14:11,13: [text on screen]
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There are other passages that
could be presented, it looks
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like I threw one more in,
Hebrews 10:30: [text on screen]
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So it should be crystal clear
to us that from the perspective
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of the New Testament
writers, who were writing about
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the 1st century AD, for
them the judgment was always
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in the future, not in
the past, not in the present.
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Paul reasoned of
judgment to come.
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So that's the first thing
we really want to solidify
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in the thinking as we
commence this 3 part series.
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Now let's do a little bit
of review, we've been over
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this before, but it's
absolutely essential that we see
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the judgment in the big scheme
of things. We spent a little
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time in the second night of
our meetings looking at this
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statue here, and a man by
the name of Nebuchadnezzar had
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a dream, and that statue
represented a great timeline.
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What was the head of gold
everyone? [Audience] Babylon.
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Chest and arms of
silver? [Audience] Medo-Persia.
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Belly and thighs of
bronze? [Audience] Greece.
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The long legs of iron
was...? [Audience] Rome.
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And then down there
the feet of iron and clay?
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- [Audience] Divided
Rome. - Very very good.
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And then we saw these beasts
in Daniel 7, in fact, why don't
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we go there together, Daniel 7,
and here we found that important
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Bible principle of
"review and enlarge", very good,
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"A" students in the front row.
That doesn't mean you're not
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"A" students in the back row,
it doesn't mean that at all,
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it just means we've got some "A"
students here in the front row.
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So God would review, just
as any good teacher would do,
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just as any good educator would
do, He reviews the material
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He's been over, and then
He begins to enlarge upon
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that material. So
here in Daniel 7 we saw
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not 4 metals, but 4 beasts.
The first was a lion that had
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eagle's wings, and that
represented the same thing
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that the head of gold
did: Babylon, reigning from
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605-539 BC. After that there was
a bear with 3 ribs in the mouth,
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what was unusual about
that bear? It was tipped up
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on one side, showing
an imbalance of power,
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and that was the Medo-Persian
power, reigning from 539-331 BC,
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corresponding with the
chest and arms of silver.
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Then we move to the 4
headed strange leopard, with 4
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wings of a fowl, corresponding
with Greece, and you remember,
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the 4 heads of the leopard
represented the kingdom of
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Greece after Alexander the Great
died, his kingdom was divided
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into how many
parts? [Audience] 4.
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That's exactly right,
Alexander the Great's last
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words were "The
kingdom goes to the strongest",
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from 331-168 BC. We
also told you that wings
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in Bible prophecy
represent speed, and a leopard
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is one of the fastest land
mammals, so you put 4 wings
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on a leopard, you
have a fast moving beast.
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Greece, the great
kingdom of Greece of antiquity,
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Alexander the Great began
to conquer the then known world
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at the age of 16, by the time
he was 32 he had completed it.
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In fact, it is said, on
one occasion that Alexander
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the Great wept because he said
there was no one left to kill.
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So then we move to the
long legs of Rome, and here this
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beast, this ferocious,
terrible, this horrific beast,
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reigning for almost 700
years from 168 BC-476 AD,
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that would be the
Great Iron Monarchy of Rome.
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We've given you
several quotations from secular
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historians who support
this basic, broad chronology,
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but then Rome was
divided, it was not conquered.
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How many toes would
there be on this image?
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[Audience] Ten. Ten
toes, how many horns
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came out of that
beast? [Audience] Ten.
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And what kind of
teeth did that beast have?
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- [Audience] Iron. -
Iron teeth, corresponding
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with the iron in the legs.
So God is simply reviewing.
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Then you remember
there was that little horn,
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I want to go back to
that slide there...come on...
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have mercy...Oh, maybe I
should point it this way at
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the computer. [Audience laughs]
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So, there was that little
horn, and that was the new
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information, so you're there
in Daniel 7, let's pick it up.
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Daniel 7, if you've been
following along you'd get right
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up to verse 7, and that's
the beasts, so I'll pick it up
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in verse 7, you'll
know right where we are.
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Daniel 7:7: "After this I saw in
the night visions, and behold,"
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"a fourth beast, dreadful and
terrible, exceedingly strong,"
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"it had huge iron teeth,
it was devouring and breaking"
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"in pieces, and trampling
the residue with its feet;"
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"it was different from all
the beasts that were before it,"
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"and it had 10 horns."
Now watch this, verse 8:
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"I was considering the horns",
Daniel says "I was thinking"
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"about those horns",
something about the horns caught
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his attention; what does
the word "consider" mean?
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It means what? If I say
"Well, let me consider it",
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what am I saying?
"Let me think about it",
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so Daniel says "I was thinking
about the horns", "...and there"
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"came up another horn, a little
one, coming up among them,"
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"before whom 3 of the
first horns were plucked up by"
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"the roots, and in this
horn were eyes like the eyes"
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"of a man, and a mouth
speaking pompous words."
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This little horn is none
other than the Antichrist power,
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we've already identified this
individual, very interesting
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though, notice it says that he
sees this little horn coming up,
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and the little horn is
speaking pompous words.
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Now, what is the very
next thing that Daniel sees?
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Look at verse 9, this
is absolutely critical.
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Verse 9: "I watched till
thrones were put in place"
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"and the Ancient
of Days was seated."
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Who's the Ancient of Days?
That would be God the Father,
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"...the Ancient of Days
was seated, His garment was as"
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"white as snow, His hair
was like pure wool, His throne"
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"wa a fiery flame and its wheels
a burning fire", verse 10,
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"a fiery stream issued
from before Him, thousand"
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"thousands ministered to Him,
ten thousand times ten thousand"
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"stood before Him,", and notice
this last part "the court"
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"was seated and
the books were opened."
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I want you to notice that
sequence, just imagine with
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me that you're Daniel and God is
showing you something in vision.
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So you see this lion
with eagle's wings come up,
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and you're watching it
across the cinematic screen
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of the sky, then you see
the bear with the 3 ribs in
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the mouth come up, representing
the Medo-Persian empire,
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you're seeing across the
cinematic screen of the sky;
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and then you see a 4 headed
leopard come up and move across
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the cinematic screen of the sky,
and then you see this dreadful,
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terrible beast coming up,
strong and horrific, and he goes
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across and fades off the
screen, and then you come up
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and you see a little horn,
the 10 horns, and then you see
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this little horn, and what's
the very next thing that Daniel
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sees on the cinema
screen? He sees a judgment scene
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in heaven. Look at verse 8,
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the last words of verse 8
are "a mouth speaking pompous"
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"words", then verses 9 and
10 he says "I saw the judgment"
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"in heaven". So if
you are going to look
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at this in chronology,
it's actually very simple:
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he sees Babylon, then he
sees Medo-Persia, then he sees
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Greece, then he sees Rome, and
then divided Rome, then he sees
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the judgment
scene, is that clear?
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Let's do it again, let's
see if I can get it right:
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he sees Babylon, Medo-Persia,
then Greece, then Rome,
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then divided Rome, and then
the judgment, the little horn,
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and then the judgment. Exactly!
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So let's look at this,
here are the great time periods
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of Daniel 7, write these down,
they're right on your study
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guide: [text on screen]
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That sequence has to
be absolutely indelibly
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impressed upon your mind,
in fact, that sequence is so
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important that it
occurs 3 times in Daniel 7,
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3 times you see that identical
sequence, I'm giving you
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a little moment
to write that down.
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For those of you who are
right with me, let me show you
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something fascinating,
you're still there in Daniel 7,
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look at verse 19, Daniel 7:19:
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"Then I wished to know the
truth about the 4th beast,"
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"which was different from
all the other, exceedingly"
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"dreadful, with its teeth
of iron, its nails of bronze,"
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"which devoured, and
broke in pieces, and trampled"
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"the residue with its
feet", so who's that great,
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terrible,
horrific, 4th beast? Rome.
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So verse 19 is Rome, in my
Bible I've put a little "R"
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there, that tells me that's
Rome. Now look at verse 20:
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"And the 10 horns which
were on its head, and the other"
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"horns which came up
after, before which 3 fell,"
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"namely, that horn which had
eyes, and mouth, which spoke"
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"pompous words, whose appearance
was greater that his fellows."
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That's the little
horn. So verse 19 is Rome,
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verse 20 is the little
horn, now, without even looking
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at verse 21, without even
looking at it, what do you
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think would be the next
thing? [Audience] The judgment.
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Look at verse 21, it says:
"I was watching, and the same"
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"horn was making war against
the saints, and prevailing"
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"against them", that's still the
little horn, look at verse 22,
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"until the Ancient of Days
came and a judgment was given"
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"in favor of the saints of
the Most High, and the time"
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"came for the saints to posses
the kingdom", you're right,
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you see the sequence,
that's the second time.
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So it goes here from
Rome, to the little horn,
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to the judgment, you've got it.
Now, something in that verse,
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if you've picked it up, verse
22, it says "judgment was given"
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"in favor of the
saints", who are the saints?
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We are, God's people.
Now look at this, see if you
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can pick it up again, I'm
in verse 23, watch the sequence
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again, verse 23: "Thus he said",
this is the angel explaining
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the vision, it's a very simple
vision as a matter of fact,
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"the 4th beast shall be
a 4th kingdom on the earth"
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"what shall be different from
all other kingdoms, it shall"
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"devour the whole earth
and trample it, and break it"
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"in pieces." What
kingdom is he talking about?
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Rome, so in my Bible
I've written a little "R" I've
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written by verse 23, very
simple, now look at verse 24.
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"The 10 horns are 10 kings who
shall arise out of this kingdom"
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"and another shall arise after
them, he shall be different"
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"from the first ones,
and he shall subdue 3 kings."
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"He shall speak pompous
words against the Most High,"
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"he shall persecute the saints
of the Most High, he shall"
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"intend to change times
and laws", we've spent time
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on this, "then the saints shall
be given into his hands for"
00:16:46.14\00:16:48.99
"a time, times and half a
time", look at that, in verse 23
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you have Rome, in verses
24 and 25 you have the little
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horn, now without looking at
your Bible, what do you think
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you would expect
in verses 26 and 27?
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- [Audience] Judgment. -
Exactly, look at 26 and 27,
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"But the court shall be
seated and then will take away"
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"his dominion to consume
it and destroy it forever,"
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"then the kingdom and the
dominion, and the greatness"
00:17:07.98\00:17:10.63
"of the kingdoms under the
whole heaven shall be given"
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"to the people of the
saints of the Most High".
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"God's kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and all dominion"
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"shall serve and obey
Him". So 3 times in Daniel 7,
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it is unmistakably
clear, 3 times you see Rome,
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little horn,
judgment, everyone see that?
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3 times, Rome,
little horn, judgment.
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Let's say it all together
[Everyone] Rome, little horn,
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judgment. There it is.
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Let's continue on, if you
were paying careful attention
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you noticed that the
very reason that the heavenly
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court is called to session
is because of the blasphemous
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words of the little horn.
The little horn is basically
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shooting his mouth off against
God, against God's people,
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and we're going to see
that more in just a moment,
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so God calls His
court to session to overrule
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the kangaroo court
of the little horn.
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Notice this
one: [text on screen]
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In fact, you'd write that
in right there if you were
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paying attention.
Right there at the bottom
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of page 1: The pompous
words of the little horn call
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to session the heavenly court,
additionally, the persecution
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of God's people in God's name
calls to session the heavenly
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court. That's all right there.
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The judgment is a major
theme of Daniel 7, the sequence:
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Rome, little horn, judgment,
occurs 3 times in this 1 chapter
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alone. If this
much is clear so far,
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let's say amen. [Audience] Amen.
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Okay, that's all for tonight's
presentation, we'll see
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you all... Nah,
I'm just kidding.
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[Audience laughs]
Now, I want you to jump up,
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jump back up to the paragraph
just above that subheading
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where it says "Daniel
7", everyone see that?
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Let's fill that in; Daniel
7 deals largely with political
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kingdoms and political
movements, Daniel 8 covers
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basically the same time
period, but primarily addresses
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spiritual issues and spiritual
battles. We'll be in Daniel 8
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in just a moment.
The beasts of Daniel 7
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are preditory beasts, that's
what you'd write in there.
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Look at these beasts, you've
got a lion, you've got a bear,
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you've got a leopard, and
some horrifically terrible beast
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that was so, so bad, Daniel
couldn't even describe it.
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So the beasts of Daniel 7 were
beasts of prey, or preditory
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beasts. Now,
what's going to happen
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in just a few moments,
we're going to go to Daniel 8,
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but what we find in Daniel
8 is not leopards, and lions,
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and bears, do you know what
we find there? A ram and a goat.
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That's what you'd write in
there, it says the beasts of
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Daniel 8 are clean beasts.
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You might be saying "Did he
say clean? Did he think that"
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"they'd taken a
bath?" We say clean, we mean
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ritually, and ceremonialy clean
in the mind of the Israelite.
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They were clean beasts
from the sanctuary service
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designed to teach 2
very different things.
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In Daniel 7 it's primarily
political, but in Daniel 8
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there's a shift to a more
spiritual emphasis, and we'll
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pick that up here in just
a moment, in fact, I think
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that's actually where we're
going to go in just seconds.
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Let's go to our second
page. Now we've said this this
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morning, but it bears repeating,
there was a time when being
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a Christian meant something.
There was a time when it meant
00:20:22.47\00:20:25.39
more than having the little
fish on the back of your car,
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there was a time when being
a Christian meant being more
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that having the T-shirt,
there was a time when being
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a Christian meant more than
just going to church, there was
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a time when if you took
a stand for Jesus, you took
00:20:36.71\00:20:39.39
a stand for His Word, that'd
be the last thing you ever
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did, are we clear on
that? Beloved, there was a time
00:20:42.22\00:20:44.92
called the Dark Ages where
all you had to do as a Christian
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was walk up to an idol,
or to some sort of a statue,
00:20:47.72\00:20:50.65
perhaps of the Roman
Emperor and take a little pinch
00:20:50.68\00:20:53.57
of incense and just drop
it before that thing, and walk
00:20:53.60\00:20:56.46
away, and you were fine,
and Christians said "No,"
00:20:56.49\00:20:59.01
"I can't do that", and they
would be killed and slaughtered,
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and put into the Colosseum
to be torn apart by angry lions
00:21:02.22\00:21:05.44
and other beasts just because
they refused to capitulate
00:21:05.47\00:21:08.69
on 1 of God's commandments.
There was a time when saying
00:21:08.72\00:21:11.87
you were a Christian meant more
than it means for many people
00:21:11.90\00:21:14.73
today, [Audience] Amen.
00:21:14.76\00:21:17.15
...during that
period of the Dark Ages.
00:21:17.19\00:21:19.73
That was a terrific, amazing
time, when people had to be
00:21:19.76\00:21:22.52
very courageous, very
bold, to stand for truth.
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We talked about this this
morning, Martin Luther stood
00:21:25.48\00:21:28.24
before the Council of Worms,
April 17, 1521, and he said
00:21:28.27\00:21:31.02
"Listen, if you can demonstrate
to me by the Scriptures,"
00:21:31.05\00:21:33.77
"or according just to
plain reason, I will recant,"
00:21:33.80\00:21:36.49
"but if you can't, I can't
step down, it's neither safe,"
00:21:36.52\00:21:39.70
"nor wise, to go against
my conscience, here I stand,"
00:21:39.73\00:21:42.88
"God help me." Powerful.
00:21:42.91\00:21:45.52
Martin Luther walked
right out of there with absolute
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confidence in God, and some
people thought that was the last
00:21:48.30\00:21:50.97
thing he was ever going
to do, and Martin Luther died
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of old age, very
interesting. Now go to Daniel 8.
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Daniel 8 and the little
horn's attack on God's people,
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we're at the top of
page 2 on your study guide.
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In Daniel 8 the focus is
clearly spiritual in nature,
00:22:05.45\00:22:09.01
it addresses the spiritual
attack made by the little
00:22:09.04\00:22:12.40
horn on God and His people.
Now we're just going to read
00:22:12.43\00:22:15.68
through, beginning in Daniel,
quite a little bit of this
00:22:15.71\00:22:18.93
vision so you can see
just how simple it is.
00:22:18.96\00:22:26.31
Daniel 8:1: "In the 3rd year
of the reign of King Belshazzar"
00:22:26.35\00:22:30.08
"a vision appeared to me,
to me Daniel, after the one"
00:22:30.11\00:22:33.00
"that appeared to me
the first time", so he says
00:22:33.03\00:22:35.60
"I got this vision after
the 1 in Daniel 7", verse 2:
00:22:35.63\00:22:38.73
"I saw in vision, and it
so happened that while I was"
00:22:38.76\00:22:41.80
"looking I was in
Shushan the citadel which is in"
00:22:41.83\00:22:44.80
"the province of Elam; and
I saw in the vision that I"
00:22:44.83\00:22:47.50
"was by the River Ulai", he's
telling you the circumstances,
00:22:47.53\00:22:50.35
the surroundings of
when he received the vision.
00:22:50.38\00:22:53.00
Verse 3: "Then I lifted
up my eyes and I saw there,"
00:22:53.03\00:22:55.61
"standing beside the
river, there was a ram"
00:22:55.64\00:22:59.69
"which had 2 horns,
and the 2 horns were high,"
00:22:59.73\00:23:03.77
"but one was higher than
the other, and the higher one"
00:23:03.81\00:23:07.92
"came up last." So here Daniel
sees a ram, notice, a clean
00:23:07.95\00:23:12.04
beast, not a preditory
beast. We could say "I wonder"
00:23:12.07\00:23:15.05
"what the ram is? Maybe it's
China, maybe it's North Korea,"
00:23:15.08\00:23:18.59
"who's the ram?"
Well, we don't need to guess
00:23:18.62\00:23:21.34
and wonder, just stay
there in Daniel 8, and jump down
00:23:21.37\00:23:24.19
to verse 20, Daniel
8:20, the angel comes and says
00:23:24.22\00:23:26.95
"Hey Daniel, let me
tell you what the ram is."
00:23:26.98\00:23:29.64
Daniel 8:20: "The ram which
you saw having the 2 horns,"
00:23:29.67\00:23:34.21
"they are kings of Media
and Persia", so the ram is
00:23:34.24\00:23:38.55
Medo-Persia, that's
pretty easy isn't it?
00:23:38.58\00:23:41.67
The angel just says it,
"the ram is Medo-Persia".
00:23:41.70\00:23:45.98
Now notice what happens
next, we're now in verse 4:
00:23:46.01\00:23:50.28
"I saw the ram pushing", now
pay very careful attention here,
00:23:50.32\00:23:53.43
verse 4, "I saw the ram
pushing westward, northward,"
00:23:53.46\00:23:57.45
"and southward", how
many directions is that?
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[Audience]
Three. Three directions.
00:24:00.56\00:24:02.80
How many ribs did the
bear have in his mouth?
00:24:02.83\00:24:05.61
[Audience] Three.
You're getting it, all we're
00:24:05.64\00:24:08.36
doing is reviewing, different
language, different pictures,
00:24:08.39\00:24:11.25
same history, history doesn't
change, history's the same,
00:24:11.28\00:24:14.11
but God is using
different emphases to bring out
00:24:14.14\00:24:16.71
different points and to really
focus our attention on whatever
00:24:16.74\00:24:19.73
it is He has in
mind at that moment.
00:24:19.76\00:24:22.12
So it says here the ram was
pushing westward, northward,
00:24:22.15\00:24:25.05
and southward "so that no
animal could withstand him,"
00:24:25.08\00:24:28.11
"nor was there any that
could deliver from his hand,"
00:24:28.14\00:24:31.18
"but he did according to
his will, and he became great."
00:24:31.21\00:24:34.19
Now, if you're in the habit
of underlining in your Bible
00:24:34.22\00:24:37.12
I would circle "great", that's
going to become impotant in just
00:24:37.15\00:24:40.56
a moment, let's say that
together "the ram became great",
00:24:40.59\00:24:44.97
what's the next thing
Daniel sees? Very simple vision,
00:24:45.00\00:24:49.38
verse 5: "As I was considering",
what does considering mean?
00:24:49.41\00:24:53.06
"As I was thinking, suddenly",
what does the word "suddenly"
00:24:53.09\00:24:56.71
mean? It means "quickly",
00:24:56.74\00:24:58.89
very rapidly, very quickly,
"suddenly a male goat came"
00:24:58.93\00:25:02.94
"from the west across the
surface of the whole earth"
00:25:02.98\00:25:06.82
"and it didn't even touch
the ground, it had a notable"
00:25:06.86\00:25:10.09
"horn between its eyes, then
he came to the ram that I had"
00:25:10.12\00:25:13.25
"seen with 2 horns, which
was standing beside the river,"
00:25:13.28\00:25:16.38
"and he ran into
him with furious power."
00:25:16.41\00:25:19.80
Clearly this goat has
issues. He's mad as a hornet,
00:25:19.84\00:25:23.33
he runs into the ram, and
he thrashes it into oblivion.
00:25:23.36\00:25:26.19
Verse 7: "And I saw him
confronting the ram, he was"
00:25:26.22\00:25:28.99
"moved with rage against him,
he attacked the ram, he broke"
00:25:29.02\00:25:31.86
"his 2 horns, there was no
power in the ram to withstand"
00:25:31.89\00:25:34.74
"him, but he cast him down
to the ground, he trampled"
00:25:34.77\00:25:37.57
"on him, and there was no
one that could deliver the ram"
00:25:37.60\00:25:40.36
"from his hand." Hmm,
I wonder who the goat is.
00:25:40.39\00:25:43.21
Just based on what you know
already, just based on simple
00:25:43.24\00:25:45.88
history and what we've
seen on Daniel 2 and Daniel 7,
00:25:45.91\00:25:48.48
who was it that conquered
Medo-Persia, who do you think
00:25:48.51\00:25:51.05
this goat might
be? [Audience] Greece.
00:25:51.08\00:25:53.71
Look down at verse 21,
same chapter, here it is:
00:25:53.74\00:25:56.72
"And the male goat is
the kingdom of Greece",
00:25:56.75\00:25:59.66
so notice, the Bible interprets
itself, is that clear everyone?
00:25:59.69\00:26:05.76
The kingdom of Greece and
the large horn that is between
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its eyes is the first
king, and who was that?
00:26:09.00\00:26:12.06
Alexander the Great. So
notice, we're going over
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some of the same ground that we
saw in Daniel 2, so we're here,
00:26:15.12\00:26:17.62
Medo-Persia to Greece,
that we saw in Daniel 7,
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Medo-Persia to Greece.
By the way, remember, Greece
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moved very rapidly, and what
was that word we just saw there?
00:26:22.97\00:26:28.01
"Suddenly", so it's all the
same, that's the great thing
00:26:28.04\00:26:31.33
about Bible prophecy, once
you get 1 thing right, and then
00:26:31.36\00:26:34.25
you get 2 things right, and
then you get 3 things right,
00:26:34.28\00:26:37.53
it just begins to cascade
and it gets easier and easier,
00:26:37.56\00:26:40.77
but if you get 1 thing
wrong, guess what happens,
00:26:40.80\00:26:44.15
you get everything else
wrong. Think of it this way,
00:26:44.18\00:26:47.56
if you want to go due
north 100 miles, how many steps
00:26:47.59\00:26:50.93
have to be due
north? Every single step,
00:26:50.96\00:26:53.74
and what's the most important
step? [Audience] First.
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Your first step, that's
right. So if you get the first
00:26:56.46\00:26:59.04
step right, it's easier
to get the second step right,
00:26:59.07\00:27:01.75
and it's easier to get
the 3rd and the 4th, but if we
00:27:01.78\00:27:04.44
make an error on that
first step, we're bound to make
00:27:04.47\00:27:07.13
an error on the 2nd,
3rd, 4th down the line.
00:27:07.16\00:27:09.68
So far so good? So
let's continue the vision.
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Verse 8: "Therefore, the
male goat grew very great",
00:27:12.20\00:27:18.60
the ram was great, but
the male goat is very great.
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Do you see an increase in power?
00:27:25.05\00:27:27.73
So the ram is great, the male
goat is very great, "but when"
00:27:27.76\00:27:31.00
"he became strong the large horn
was broken", that's Alexander
00:27:31.03\00:27:34.24
the Great, "and in place of
it four notable ones came up"
00:27:34.27\00:27:38.66
"toward the four
winds of heaven".
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What does that remind us
of? The 4 heads of the leopard.
00:27:41.36\00:27:44.63
Are you beginning
to see? Very simple.
00:27:44.66\00:27:47.00
4 notable ones come up.
This is where things get
00:27:47.03\00:27:50.73
amazing, "and out of one
of them came a little horn"
00:27:50.77\00:27:53.87
"which grew exceedingly
towards the south, toward"
00:27:53.90\00:27:56.94
"the east and
toward the glorious land."
00:27:56.97\00:27:59.82
Now this is where people
say "whoa, whoa, slow down,"
00:27:59.85\00:28:02.71
"we missed Rome,
what happened to Rome?"
00:28:02.74\00:28:06.16
Did you think
that? Because look at it,
00:28:06.20\00:28:09.62
we went from the
ram, who was the ram?
00:28:09.65\00:28:13.02
Medo-Persia, and then we went
to the goat, who's the goat?
00:28:13.06\00:28:16.54
Greece, and now we're at
the little horn, the little horn
00:28:16.57\00:28:20.00
is papal Rome, hmmm,
we're missing Pagan Rome.
00:28:20.03\00:28:24.13
No we're not, not at all
because think of it this way,
00:28:24.17\00:28:29.66
in Daniel 2 here's Rome,
the long legs of iron is Rome,
00:28:29.69\00:28:34.41
but what was down in the
feet? Divided Rome, but what was
00:28:34.44\00:28:39.13
it made of? Iron and clay.
00:28:39.16\00:28:41.36
So notice this: Rome just
changes, but still exists right
00:28:41.39\00:28:45.43
down to the very end,
still Rome, but it just changes
00:28:45.46\00:28:49.43
and exists right down to the
very end, think of this horrific
00:28:49.46\00:28:52.33
beast here,
what's the 4th beast?
00:28:52.36\00:28:54.78
Rome, and then
what grows out of Rome?
00:28:54.81\00:28:57.38
Those horns, so those
horns continue to grow so Rome
00:28:57.41\00:29:01.25
continues, but it just takes
on a different manifestation,
00:29:01.28\00:29:05.14
Rome transitioned from
being primarily a civil power
00:29:05.17\00:29:09.24
to be an ecclesiastical
power, or a spiritual power.
00:29:09.28\00:29:13.27
So you really have 2 distinct
phases of Rome, you have
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civil Rome, or if you
prefer, Pagan Rome, and then
00:29:16.71\00:29:20.09
you have papal Rome, or if
you prefer, spiritual Rome,
00:29:20.12\00:29:23.55
but both are Rome. Now
look at this, Bible students
00:29:23.58\00:29:26.98
put your thinking
caps on, look at verse 9.
00:29:27.01\00:29:29.16
It says: "And out of one of them
came a little horn, which grew"
00:29:29.19\00:29:32.96
"exceedingly towards the south,
towards the east, and towards"
00:29:32.99\00:29:36.73
"the glorious
land". I want you to notice
00:29:36.76\00:29:39.28
that this little horn is moving
in 3 directions, and it's all
00:29:39.31\00:29:43.36
on a horizontal plain, look
at it again until you see it:
00:29:43.39\00:29:47.34
"towards the South,
towards the east, and towards"
00:29:47.37\00:29:50.68
"the glorious land", so
here the primary emphasis of
00:29:50.71\00:29:53.96
the little horn's conquests
were along a horizontal plain,
00:29:53.99\00:29:58.10
these are political or military
conquests, but watch what
00:29:58.13\00:30:03.07
happens in the next verse.
Verse 10, it says: "and it grew"
00:30:03.10\00:30:08.88
"up to the host of heaven, and
it cast down some of the host"
00:30:08.91\00:30:13.29
"and some of the stars to the
ground and it trampled them."
00:30:13.32\00:30:17.61
So do you see the
distinction there?
00:30:17.64\00:30:19.41
In the first verse he's
moving on a horizontal plain,
00:30:19.44\00:30:23.36
in the next verse he's
moving upward, even to heaven.
00:30:23.40\00:30:27.31
So that's what we find here.
00:30:27.34\00:30:31.11
Let's look at our next one.
00:30:33.01\00:30:35.89
Hallelujah, there we go!
Medo-Persia, that's what we saw,
00:30:44.63\00:30:48.59
the ram, then Greece,
then the little horn moving on
00:30:48.62\00:30:55.22
a terrestrial plain, that
is a horizontal plain pushing
00:30:55.26\00:31:01.86
southward, pushing westward,
and pushing towards the glorious
00:31:01.90\00:31:04.71
land, which was Jerusalem,
pushing towards the Jewish
00:31:04.74\00:31:08.13
homeland. Then
the next thing you see
00:31:08.16\00:31:10.75
is the little horn begins his
attack, but now he's not moving
00:31:10.78\00:31:13.54
just on this plain, he's moving
on the vertical plain, and he
00:31:13.57\00:31:16.33
begins to attack
even heaven itself.
00:31:16.36\00:31:18.82
You say "wait a minute, how
can he attack heaven itself?"
00:31:18.85\00:31:21.68
We're going to get to
that in just a moment.
00:31:21.71\00:31:25.61
Let's continue this, this is
so amazing, look at verse 11.
00:31:25.64\00:31:30.57
I know you're writing, so I'll
give you just a little moment.
00:31:30.61\00:31:35.51
Daniel 8:11. The
first word is "he".
00:31:35.54\00:31:42.83
"He is the little horn", I
want you to notice what he does
00:31:42.87\00:31:46.57
in verse 11, it is
absolutely audacious, verse 11:
00:31:46.60\00:31:50.85
"He even exulted himself as
high as the Prince of the host."
00:31:50.89\00:31:58.56
Who's the Prince of
the host? [Audience] Jesus.
00:31:58.59\00:32:01.43
Jesus Christ, do you see
the vertical movements now?
00:32:01.46\00:32:04.71
So this little horn begins
to vaunt himself even against
00:32:04.74\00:32:08.19
Jesus, "and by him
the daily was taken away,"
00:32:08.22\00:32:12.21
"and the place of his
sanctuary was thrown down".
00:32:12.25\00:32:15.87
He begins a spiritual
attack and begins to throw down
00:32:15.90\00:32:19.49
even the sanctuary of God.
Look at verse 12: "Because of"
00:32:19.52\00:32:22.90
"the transgression, and
army was given over to the horn"
00:32:22.93\00:32:26.25
"to oppose the daily sacrifices,
and he cast truth to"
00:32:26.28\00:32:30.58
"the ground, he did all
of this and he prospered."
00:32:30.61\00:32:34.54
Notice, this is a spiritual
battle, listen beloved, he's
00:32:34.57\00:32:37.47
casting truth to the ground,
he's making war with God's
00:32:37.50\00:32:40.34
people, he's making war with
God's Son, he is throwing God's
00:32:40.37\00:32:43.38
sanctuary to the ground.
That's a spiritual battle.
00:32:43.41\00:32:48.34
Now, already any Israelite,
any Jew who was studying
00:32:48.37\00:32:52.18
His Scriptures would have
already known that because
00:32:52.21\00:32:55.99
in the transition from Daniel
7 we go from these preditory,
00:32:56.02\00:33:00.02
unclean beasts to Daniel
8, and we're dealing with
00:33:00.05\00:33:02.80
sanctuary
beasts, rams and goats.
00:33:02.83\00:33:06.66
So anyone's going to immediately
notice: "Oh, this is dealing"
00:33:06.70\00:33:09.74
"more with spiritual issues,
not political machinations"
00:33:09.77\00:33:13.46
"primarily." This gets amazing,
00:33:13.49\00:33:16.45
you're there at the
top of page 2, it says:
00:33:16.49\00:33:20.22
List the 4 things that
the little horn of Daniel 8
00:33:20.26\00:33:22.98
attacks. #1- he
attacks God's people.
00:33:23.01\00:33:31.80
Let's just look at a couple
of those verses, you can write
00:33:31.84\00:33:34.64
these verses
down, look at verse 24.
00:33:34.67\00:33:39.55
It says "His power shall
be mighty, but not by his own"
00:33:39.59\00:33:43.11
"power, he shall destroy
fearfully and he shall prosper"
00:33:43.14\00:33:46.87
"and thrive, and he shall
destroy the mighty and also"
00:33:46.90\00:33:50.44
"the holy people." So
here we see this little horn
00:33:50.47\00:33:53.95
making war against God's people.
We saw that already, look at
00:33:53.98\00:33:58.34
verse 13: "then I heard a
holy one speaking, and another"
00:33:58.37\00:34:01.85
"holy one said to that
certain one who was speaking,"
00:34:01.88\00:34:05.03
"How long will be the
vision concerning the daily"
00:34:05.06\00:34:07.99
"sacrifices and the
transgression of desolation,"
00:34:08.02\00:34:11.34
"and the giving of both
the sanctuary and the host"
00:34:11.38\00:34:14.70
"to be trampled underfoot?"
"How long is this little rascal"
00:34:14.73\00:34:19.33
"going to make war with
God's people, and thrash them?"
00:34:19.36\00:34:22.87
that's basically
what's happening.
00:34:22.90\00:34:25.62
So #1- he makes war with
God's people; #2- he makes war
00:34:25.65\00:34:29.19
with God's Son. We
already saw that didn't we?
00:34:29.22\00:34:32.56
He exalts himself in verse 11
against the Prince of the host.
00:34:32.59\00:34:39.36
Then look at verse 25,
as if that's not enough,
00:34:39.39\00:34:43.35
speaking of this Antichristian
power: "Through his cunning"
00:34:43.38\00:34:46.37
"he shall cause deceit
to prosper under his rule,"
00:34:46.40\00:34:49.57
"he shall exalt himself in his
heart, he shall destroy many"
00:34:49.60\00:34:53.97
"in their prosperity,", and look
at this: "he shall even rise"
00:34:54.00\00:34:58.36
"against the Prince of
princes, but he shall be broken"
00:34:58.39\00:35:02.81
"without human means."
Who is the Prince of peace?
00:35:02.84\00:35:05.98
Jesus Christ. Who's
King of kings, and Lord
00:35:06.01\00:35:08.68
of lords? So who would
be the Prince of princes?
00:35:08.71\00:35:11.47
Jesus Christ, and that's
what Daniel is saying here,
00:35:11.50\00:35:14.27
the angel's explaining the
vision to Daniel, and Daniel
00:35:14.30\00:35:17.07
can hardly believe it, he
sees this little horn destroying
00:35:17.10\00:35:19.81
God's people and then he begins
to make war even with Jesus.
00:35:19.84\00:35:22.62
So how would you
ever make war with Jesus?
00:35:22.65\00:35:25.25
I mean, does he just transport
up into heaven and get into an
00:35:25.28\00:35:28.12
arm wrestling match with
Jesus? No, you begin to obscure
00:35:28.15\00:35:30.94
the place of Jesus, you set
up your own sacrifices by taking
00:35:30.97\00:35:33.74
away from the sacrifice
of Jesus, you set up your own
00:35:33.77\00:35:36.53
priesthood by taking away
from the priesthood of Jesus,
00:35:36.56\00:35:39.27
you set up your own sanctuary
and temple by taking away
00:35:39.30\00:35:42.02
from the sanctuary and
temple of Jesus, so the mind's
00:35:42.05\00:35:44.84
of people in the Dark Ages,
particularly when they didn't
00:35:44.87\00:35:47.67
have the Bible, and the
only show in town basically says
00:35:47.70\00:35:50.47
"You want forgiveness?
You come to our priest."
00:35:50.50\00:35:53.03
"You want a sacrifice?
You come to our mass."
00:35:53.06\00:35:55.53
"You want a temple?
You come to our sanctuary."
00:35:55.56\00:35:57.97
The only show in town is
basically obscuring the person
00:35:58.00\00:36:01.14
of Jesus and in doing that, they
are making war with the real
00:36:01.17\00:36:05.00
Jesus, is that clear everyone?
The people didn't have their
00:36:05.03\00:36:08.46
Bibles, they didn't know
that the Bible says there's only
00:36:08.49\00:36:11.59
1 mediator between God
and man, the man Christ Jesus,
00:36:11.62\00:36:14.66
they didn't know all of
this, so the priest says this,
00:36:14.69\00:36:17.38
and the cardinal says
this, and the prelate says this,
00:36:17.41\00:36:20.07
and the Pope says
this, it was the Dark Ages.
00:36:20.10\00:36:25.14
So this power makes war
with God's people, and it makes
00:36:25.18\00:36:28.53
war with God's Son, and
look at verse 12 again, it says
00:36:28.56\00:36:31.89
in verse 12 "he even
cast truth to the ground".
00:36:31.92\00:36:35.10
So #3- he makes
war with God's truth.
00:36:35.13\00:36:38.23
Clearly this is
a spiritual battle.
00:36:40.73\00:36:45.74
Then #4- he makes war with
God's sanctuary, God's temple.
00:36:45.78\00:36:49.84
We already read it, but
look at verse 13 again, it says:
00:36:49.87\00:36:53.85
"how long will the sanctuary
and the host be trampled"
00:36:53.88\00:36:57.80
"underfoot?" So
Daniel's seeing all of this
00:36:57.83\00:37:00.60
in vision, let's go back
and review it so we can see it.
00:37:00.63\00:37:03.77
Daniel sees Medo-Persia,
that's fine, he sees the ram,
00:37:03.80\00:37:06.66
and then he sees Greece,
that's fine, he sees the goat,
00:37:06.69\00:37:09.48
and then he begins to see this
little horn power come up that
00:37:09.51\00:37:12.25
moves on a horizontal
plain, that's what we would call
00:37:12.28\00:37:14.99
Pagan Rome, but then that
thing is not satisfied moving on
00:37:15.02\00:37:17.68
a horizontal plain and it begins
to move on a vertical plain,
00:37:17.71\00:37:20.34
and begins to make war with God,
with God's people, with God's
00:37:20.37\00:37:22.96
truth, with God's Son,
with God's sanctuary, begins
00:37:22.99\00:37:26.35
to make a spiritual
warfare against God.
00:37:26.38\00:37:31.74
Daniel's watching all of
this in vision, and he overhears
00:37:31.78\00:37:35.69
a discussion, a conversation
between 2 angels, that's
00:37:35.72\00:37:39.54
verses 13 and 14, here it is,
"then I heard", Daniel speaking,
00:37:39.57\00:37:43.98
"a holy one speaking, and
another holy one said to that"
00:37:44.01\00:37:46.75
"certain one", so now Daniel's
listening in on a heavenly
00:37:46.78\00:37:49.43
conversation, "and one say, How
long will the vision concerning"
00:37:49.46\00:37:53.59
"the daily sacrifices and
the transgression of desolation"
00:37:53.62\00:37:56.58
"to give the sanctuary and the
host to be trampled underfoot?"
00:37:56.61\00:37:59.53
In other words, one is saying
"How long is this garbage"
00:37:59.56\00:38:01.84
"going to go one?
Really! How long is God going"
00:38:01.87\00:38:06.55
"to tolerate this?"
The answer's in verse 14:
00:38:06.59\00:38:11.27
[text on screen]
00:38:11.30\00:38:15.93
That is the longest time
prophecy in all of the Bible,
00:38:19.93\00:38:23.64
you just read it.
How many days was it?
00:38:23.67\00:38:26.18
2300 days. Notice
that that time period,
00:38:26.21\00:38:28.66
2300 days is in direct response
to the question "how long"
00:38:28.69\00:38:32.59
"is this going to go
on?" "Oh, 2300 days."
00:38:32.62\00:38:39.38
Right there, you're on
page 2, let's take a look at it,
00:38:39.42\00:38:42.90
by the way, you will
need this for tomorrow night,
00:38:42.93\00:38:45.71
we are not going to make it
through all of this, so this
00:38:45.74\00:38:48.60
is your lesson for tonight,
and on Monday night, so be sure
00:38:48.63\00:38:51.46
to not lose this one.
The longest time prophecy in
00:38:51.49\00:38:54.11
the Bible is
found in Daniel 8:14.
00:38:54.14\00:38:56.55
It deals with a time
period stretching from the time
00:38:56.58\00:38:59.69
of Daniel all the way down to
the last days, that's what you'd
00:38:59.72\00:39:07.69
write in there.
Remember that a day in end time
00:39:07.72\00:39:11.98
Bible prophecy equals a year in
literal time, that's absolutely
00:39:12.02\00:39:18.25
essential, we've given you
2 verses there: Ezekiel 4:6,
00:39:18.28\00:39:22.19
Numbers 14:34. Even right
there in the immediate context
00:39:22.22\00:39:26.16
of Daniel 8 it is clear that
the days of the 2300 prophecy
00:39:26.19\00:39:30.14
could not be literal 24
hour days, consider that 2300
00:39:30.17\00:39:33.56
literal days would reach a
mere 7 years into the future,
00:39:33.59\00:39:36.76
yet the angel Gabriel, who
came to interpret the vision for
00:39:36.79\00:39:39.91
Daniel made it clear that
the vision pertained to the time
00:39:39.94\00:39:43.04
of the end. You're
still there in your
00:39:43.07\00:39:45.66
Bibles, pick up your
Bible, look at Daniel 8:15,
00:39:45.69\00:39:55.14
this is Gabriel, Gabriel comes
to explain the vision, verse 15:
00:39:55.18\00:39:58.53
"Then it happened, when I,
Daniel, had seen the vision"
00:39:58.56\00:40:01.28
"I was seeking the meaning,
and suddenly there stood"
00:40:01.31\00:40:04.00
"before me one having
the appearance of a man."
00:40:04.03\00:40:06.70
Boom, this figure
stands before Daniel, verse 16:
00:40:06.73\00:40:09.33
"And I heard a man's voice
between the banks of the Ulai,"
00:40:09.36\00:40:12.12
"who called, and said," [David
lowers his voice], "Gabriel,"
00:40:12.15\00:40:14.89
"make this man... ", Oh, that
sounds good with my voice low,
00:40:14.92\00:40:17.63
"Gabriel, make this man
to understand the vision."
00:40:17.66\00:40:20.18
"So he, Gabriel, came near
where I stood and when he came"
00:40:20.21\00:40:23.09
"I was afraid and fell on
my face. But he said to me,"
00:40:23.12\00:40:26.05
"Understand, son of man,"
that's speaking to Daniel,
00:40:26.08\00:40:28.91
Gabriel's speaking to
Daniel, he's come to explain
00:40:28.94\00:40:31.70
the vision, "Understand, son
of man, that the vision refers"
00:40:31.73\00:40:35.30
"to the time of the
end." So Daniel's sitting there
00:40:35.33\00:40:41.69
absolutely flabbergasted about
this vision, Gabriel comes down
00:40:41.73\00:40:45.80
and says "Daniel, understand
something, the vision pertains"
00:40:45.83\00:40:49.78
"to the time of the end."
Daniel lived 600 years before
00:40:49.81\00:40:54.83
the time of Jesus, 2300 literal
days would reach a whopping
00:40:54.86\00:40:59.15
7 years into the future,
is that anywhere near the time
00:40:59.18\00:41:03.44
of the end? No,
so you have internal
00:41:03.47\00:41:06.90
evidence that these 2300
days are not literal days,
00:41:06.94\00:41:10.42
but in prophecy, just as water
represents peoples, multitudes,
00:41:10.45\00:41:15.17
nations and languages, and
what does a beast represent
00:41:15.20\00:41:17.65
in Bible prophecy, a kingdom,
or a nation, what does a horn
00:41:17.68\00:41:20.99
represent? A power,
that's exactly right.
00:41:21.02\00:41:23.87
What does a woman
represent? A church.
00:41:23.90\00:41:26.69
Okay, what does a
prophetic day represent?
00:41:26.72\00:41:29.51
A year, so it's all symbolic.
You have internal evidence
00:41:29.54\00:41:32.52
right there, Gabriel shows
up and he says "Hey listen,"
00:41:32.55\00:41:35.47
"the vision has to do with
the end of time, the last days."
00:41:35.50\00:41:38.86
Look at verse 26 of the same
chapter, Gabriel still speaking,
00:41:38.89\00:41:42.20
by the way, this isn't David
Asscherick speaking, this is
00:41:42.23\00:41:45.48
Gabriel speaking to Daniel,
Gabriel says: "And the vision"
00:41:45.51\00:41:48.58
"of the evenings and mornings,
which was told is true,"
00:41:48.61\00:41:51.62
"therefore seal up the vision,
for it refers", my Bible says,
00:41:51.65\00:41:56.47
"to many days in the
future." Do you all see that?
00:41:56.50\00:42:00.58
Many days; is 7 years
many days in the future?
00:42:00.61\00:42:04.66
Not at all, he says "Many.
Seal this vision up Daniel",
00:42:04.70\00:42:08.33
why was he told to seal it
up? Because primarily it didn't
00:42:08.36\00:42:11.94
pertain to his
time. "Seal it up Daniel,"
00:42:11.97\00:42:14.63
this vision has to do with
people living down at the end
00:42:14.66\00:42:17.51
of time. In
fact, I can't resist,
00:42:17.54\00:42:20.86
go to Daniel 12, I just can't
resist, so you're going to have
00:42:20.90\00:42:24.54
to forgive me. Daniel
12, look at this, verse 4.
00:42:24.57\00:42:33.09
Daniel 12:4: "But you, Daniel,
shut up the words and seal"
00:42:33.13\00:42:40.28
"the book until the time of the
end, many will run to and fro"
00:42:40.31\00:42:45.93
"and knowledge will increase."
God says "Daniel, seal the book"
00:42:45.96\00:42:51.55
"and it will be
unsealed at the end of time."
00:42:51.58\00:42:55.00
Why? Let's think about
that for just a moment,
00:42:55.03\00:42:57.87
is God being arbitrary, is God
saying "Nanny-nanny-boo-boo,"
00:42:57.90\00:43:00.74
"I know it and you
don't!" No, think about it.
00:43:00.77\00:43:04.15
Daniel lived 600 years
before the time of Jesus.
00:43:04.18\00:43:07.50
Why can we understand the
prophecies of Daniel today?
00:43:07.53\00:43:10.46
Because we live in a
place where we can look back
00:43:10.49\00:43:13.36
through history and see its
fulfillment, that was a luxury
00:43:13.39\00:43:16.77
not afforded Daniel, Daniel
lived 600 years before the time
00:43:16.80\00:43:19.94
of Jesus, here we live 2000
years after the time of Jesus,
00:43:19.97\00:43:22.99
so we can look back and say
"Oh yeah, there was Babylon,"
00:43:23.02\00:43:25.93
"yep, saw it; Medo-persia,
yep; Greece, yep; Rome, yep;"
00:43:25.96\00:43:28.81
"Rome divided, yep; little
horn." We can see it from where
00:43:28.84\00:43:31.65
we're standing in history.
So the sealing of Daniel's
00:43:31.68\00:43:34.42
prophecy until the time of
the end was not God arbitrarily
00:43:34.45\00:43:37.15
saying "Well you know, just
at the end of time", it was God
00:43:37.18\00:43:40.18
saying "People won't really be
able to grasp the significance"
00:43:40.21\00:43:43.16
"of these prophecies until they
have the historical landscape"
00:43:43.19\00:43:47.97
"to look back over and say, Wow,
it fits exactly as God said."
00:43:48.00\00:43:52.77
And that's basically what
Gabriel says when he comes
00:43:52.80\00:43:55.74
down, he says "Hey Daniel,
seal it up until the time"
00:43:55.77\00:43:58.64
"of the end because this
vision has to do with many"
00:43:58.67\00:44:01.51
"days in the future."
That's how we know that
00:44:01.54\00:44:04.41
those 2300 days can't be
literal days, impossible.
00:44:04.44\00:44:10.64
There's internal
evidence right there.
00:44:10.67\00:44:13.14
Now, you're still
there, 2nd page, the paragraph
00:44:13.17\00:44:15.95
that says "According... ".
According to the last verse
00:44:15.98\00:44:19.07
of this chapter, Daniel
was astonished at the vision,
00:44:19.10\00:44:22.12
but he did not understand
it. In fact, let's look at that,
00:44:22.15\00:44:24.31
Daniel 8, look at the
very last verse of Daniel 8,
00:44:24.34\00:44:28.36
verse 27: "And I, Daniel,
fainted and I was sick for"
00:44:28.40\00:44:31.86
"days; afterward I arose,
and I went about the king's"
00:44:31.89\00:44:36.24
"business, and I was astonished
by the vision, but no one"
00:44:36.28\00:44:40.63
"understood it."
Okay, just a question
00:44:40.66\00:44:43.31
for you here, does
Daniel understand the vision?
00:44:43.34\00:44:45.97
No. Now, he must have understood
some of it because the angel
00:44:46.00\00:44:48.85
told him, the ram is
Medo-Persia, Daniel wasn't
00:44:48.88\00:44:52.20
stupid, he would have known
that, and the goat was Greece.
00:44:52.23\00:44:57.49
So he would have understood
some of it, but he didn't
00:44:57.52\00:45:00.43
understand all of it.
He says "hey, at the end"
00:45:00.46\00:45:03.15
"of the thing I was astonished,
in fact, I was so crushed"
00:45:03.18\00:45:05.95
"by what I saw that little
horn doing to God's people,"
00:45:05.98\00:45:08.72
"God's truth, God's sanctuary,
and God's Son", he says
00:45:08.75\00:45:11.45
"I fainted." Remember
beloved, Daniel wasn't
00:45:11.48\00:45:14.20
at the cinema, Daniel wasn't
at the movies, Daniel was seeing
00:45:14.23\00:45:17.43
a real power, making a
real war against real people,
00:45:17.46\00:45:21.74
historians tell us that between
50-100 million martyrs gave
00:45:21.78\00:45:26.34
their lives for no greater
crime than wanting to know
00:45:26.37\00:45:30.18
and live by this Word
Just imagine seeing that
00:45:30.21\00:45:33.87
in vision. Daniel was crushed.
00:45:33.90\00:45:37.69
He was devastated,
that's why when he listened in
00:45:37.73\00:45:40.45
on that conversation, one
angel said "how long is this"
00:45:40.48\00:45:43.32
"going to go on? Really!
How long is this going to go on"
00:45:43.35\00:45:46.54
"and God's going to allow
His sanctuary, and His host,"
00:45:46.57\00:45:49.72
"and His truth, and His
Son to be trampled underfoot"
00:45:49.75\00:45:52.86
"by this rampaging
little horn power?"
00:45:52.89\00:45:55.44
He said "Hey listen, this
isn't going to go on forever,"
00:45:55.47\00:45:58.26
"2300 days, tough it out,
and then the sanctuary will be"
00:45:58.29\00:46:01.05
"cleansed." Does
the vision make sense
00:46:01.08\00:46:03.91
at least broadly, yes or
no? It's actually quite a simple
00:46:03.94\00:46:07.15
vision, so let's continue.
So we're right there on that
00:46:07.18\00:46:10.36
same paragraph:...he
even fainted. Why was he so
00:46:10.39\00:46:13.79
troubled after all? The answer
is quite simple: Daniel has just
00:46:13.82\00:46:16.65
seen in vision that this
little horn would wage a very
00:46:16.68\00:46:21.61
effective war against
God, His truth, and His people,
00:46:21.64\00:46:25.79
and that it would last for
a very long period of time,
00:46:25.83\00:46:29.95
more than 1000 years.
Daniel had already seen his
00:46:29.98\00:46:33.44
own beloved city, Jerusalem,
sacked by the armies of Babylon,
00:46:33.47\00:46:36.58
and now in vision he sees
even more trouble and calamities
00:46:36.61\00:46:39.69
for God's people.
This was serious stuff
00:46:39.72\00:46:42.50
for Daniel, this
was no Hollywood movie.
00:46:42.53\00:46:45.24
Daniel was visibly
shaken, he says "I fainted."
00:46:45.27\00:46:51.47
So there we go, the accusations
of the little horn, bottom
00:46:51.51\00:46:54.40
of that page. The
kangaroo courts and trials
00:46:54.43\00:46:57.05
of the little horn, the
Antichrist, stand in direct
00:46:57.08\00:47:00.43
opposition and contradiction
to the findings of God's
00:47:00.46\00:47:03.78
heavenly court.
These false trials actually
00:47:03.81\00:47:06.53
found God's people guilty
of blasphemy, what a mockery!
00:47:06.56\00:47:12.77
Now here is an important
point: The judgment of Daniel 7
00:47:12.80\00:47:19.00
and the cleansing of
the sanctuary in Daniel 8
00:47:19.03\00:47:22.80
are synonymous events,
they're the same event.
00:47:22.84\00:47:25.90
That is, they describe
the same thing, in order to
00:47:25.93\00:47:28.90
understand this we must turn
our attention to the Israelite
00:47:28.93\00:47:31.78
sanctuary; but before we
do that, I want to be sure
00:47:31.81\00:47:34.46
this is crystal
clear. Let's review.
00:47:34.49\00:47:37.02
You might think "Oh,
we're reviewing again... "
00:47:37.05\00:47:39.75
We're going to
review, and I'll tell you why.
00:47:39.78\00:47:42.41
Okay, let's go, what was
the sequence that we saw 3 times
00:47:42.44\00:47:45.19
in Daniel 7? Rome,
little horn, judgment.
00:47:45.22\00:47:47.67
Clear on that everyone?
3 times: Rome, little horn,
00:47:47.70\00:47:51.39
judgment, and remember,
judgment was given in favor
00:47:51.42\00:47:55.10
of whom? [Audience] Saints.
00:47:55.13\00:47:58.45
Why? Let's try
to wrap our fingers
00:47:58.48\00:48:01.73
around this historically,
this Antichristian power is
00:48:01.77\00:48:06.38
arraigning God's people
before these kangaroo courts
00:48:06.41\00:48:10.85
of prelates, and pontiffs,
and cardinals, and priests,
00:48:10.89\00:48:15.26
and charging them with blasphemy
because they wanted to know
00:48:15.30\00:48:20.22
the Bible, because
they wanted to follow Jesus,
00:48:20.25\00:48:22.82
because they didn't want
to have to go along with all
00:48:22.85\00:48:25.47
of the traditions and
accoutrements of the church,
00:48:25.50\00:48:28.06
and they would stand there
in their mighty regalia, looking
00:48:28.09\00:48:30.95
down at these cowering
individuals before them
00:48:30.98\00:48:33.45
who just wanted to serve
the Lord, and they would burn
00:48:33.48\00:48:36.45
them at the stake, or
throw them to the lions,
00:48:36.48\00:48:39.01
and say "Guilty of blasphemy",
and on many occasions
00:48:39.04\00:48:41.76
you can read it, it's all
history, they would take caps
00:48:41.79\00:48:44.45
and put these dunce cap looking
things on them as they burned
00:48:44.48\00:48:47.29
them that would say "Heretic",
and "Blasphemer", and these
00:48:47.32\00:48:50.48
were the true people of
God, and they would call these
00:48:50.51\00:48:53.83
great councils together to
basically condemn God's people.
00:48:53.86\00:48:57.14
And God looks
down and says "No".
00:48:57.17\00:48:59.69
Now step into their mind, from
their mindset this church was
00:48:59.73\00:49:03.18
the only church in town,
it was the only show in town.
00:49:03.21\00:49:06.78
From their perspective, when
the prelate said, or the bishop
00:49:06.81\00:49:09.84
said, or the Pope said, or
the cardinal said "Hey listen,"
00:49:09.87\00:49:12.81
"you're excommunicated",
from their perspective, without
00:49:12.84\00:49:15.70
having the Bible - we
take the Bible so for granted,
00:49:15.73\00:49:18.53
from their perspective they're
eternally lost, they're going
00:49:18.56\00:49:21.41
throughout the ceaseless eternal
ages in the fires of hell
00:49:21.44\00:49:24.29
because some man said so.
These people were literally
00:49:24.32\00:49:28.03
living in the most terrible
darkness, that's why we call
00:49:28.06\00:49:31.74
it the Dark Ages. So
the people of God were
00:49:31.77\00:49:35.29
being arraigned before these
kangaroo courts, and God says:
00:49:35.32\00:49:40.15
"Enough, I'll call my own court
to session", and that's why
00:49:40.18\00:49:45.00
we saw: Rome, little
horn, the judgment was seated.
00:49:45.03\00:49:50.64
Why? Because of
the pompous words
00:49:50.67\00:49:53.06
of the little horn, and because
of the persecution of God's
00:49:53.09\00:49:55.94
people. God
sets His own judgment
00:49:55.97\00:49:58.41
and says "I'm going to
undo, I'm going to overturn"
00:49:58.44\00:50:01.20
"all of these kangaroo
court judgments with the true,"
00:50:01.23\00:50:03.96
"heavenly judgment,
in favor of My people. "
00:50:03.99\00:50:08.68
That's the scene you've
got to have in your mind,
00:50:08.72\00:50:11.62
and you know what
the verdict of that is?
00:50:11.65\00:50:14.20
The verdict of that
court is that everyone who puts
00:50:14.23\00:50:17.29
their faith in Jesus
gets the kingdom of God.
00:50:17.32\00:50:20.95
[Audience] Amen.
That's everyone of us,
00:50:20.98\00:50:23.78
that's why the judgment
is not bad news for you,
00:50:23.81\00:50:26.61
if you've put your faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bible
00:50:26.64\00:50:29.56
teaches that Jesus is
your advocate, that means He's
00:50:29.59\00:50:32.27
your lawyer and He's your
judge, think of it, can you
00:50:32.30\00:50:34.95
have a better situation?
Your defense lawyer is
00:50:34.98\00:50:37.73
your judge, that's a
can't lose situation.
00:50:37.76\00:50:40.19
I'm looking across the room
over here at one of my brothers
00:50:40.22\00:50:42.97
who's a lawyer, I'm
looking at brother Cob, that's
00:50:43.00\00:50:45.68
a win/win situation
isn't it brother Cob?
00:50:45.71\00:50:48.49
You can't lose. We
think "oh the judgment,"
00:50:48.52\00:50:51.23
"all of my deeds are going
to come up", listen beloved,
00:50:51.26\00:50:54.13
do you know what's going
to happen in the judgment?
00:50:54.16\00:50:57.14
God is going to hide the
record of you pathetic life
00:50:57.17\00:51:00.42
in the perfect righteous
life of the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:51:00.45\00:51:03.66
[Audience] Amen.
That's what's going to happen
00:51:03.69\00:51:06.59
to you in the judgment,
that's why you find David in
00:51:06.62\00:51:09.42
the Psalms, he's not
saying "Oh, I'm so afraid of"
00:51:09.45\00:51:12.38
"the judgment, I could
faint and die", he's saying:
00:51:12.41\00:51:15.48
"Oh Lord, judge Your people."
Many times you find David
00:51:15.51\00:51:18.75
saying in the Psalms "judge
me, O God", because he knew
00:51:18.78\00:51:22.04
he'd put his faith in a perfect
God, and that perfect God
00:51:22.07\00:51:25.29
could handle his case.
So God convenes His court
00:51:25.32\00:51:30.28
in direct opposition to
the these Mickey Mouse courts
00:51:30.32\00:51:33.45
that were taking place
down here on earth, and remember
00:51:33.48\00:51:36.44
again, all these people,
as far as they were concerned,
00:51:36.47\00:51:39.36
they didn't have the Bible,
they're looking up and thinking
00:51:39.39\00:51:42.21
"Oh, this is the church, these
are the cardinals, these are"
00:51:42.24\00:51:45.00
"the priests, we must obey."
Are you beginning to see this
00:51:45.03\00:51:47.76
in your mind? Very powerful!
00:51:47.79\00:51:52.17
I've only got 4 minutes
left, so I'm a little reluctant
00:51:52.21\00:51:57.00
to advance, but we've got
to do that just very quickly.
00:51:57.04\00:52:01.80
A heavenly model, you see there,
there's 2 part: Part 1, Part 2.
00:52:01.84\00:52:05.80
A heavenly model and the
divine drama of salvation.
00:52:05.83\00:52:08.62
Let's do this. The
key, you see that there,
00:52:08.65\00:52:11.31
that's what you'd write in: The
key that unlocks the judgment
00:52:11.34\00:52:14.99
is found in the
Israelite sanctuary.
00:52:15.02\00:52:19.23
The key that unlocks
the judgment is found in
00:52:19.27\00:52:23.42
the Israelite sanctuary.
The cleansing of the sanctuary
00:52:23.46\00:52:28.38
was a day of judgment for
Israel, symbolizing the final
00:52:28.41\00:52:33.30
judgment. So far so good?
00:52:33.33\00:52:37.39
The cleansing of the sanctuary
took place on what's called
00:52:37.43\00:52:40.99
"The Day of Atonement".
How many of you have heard
00:52:41.02\00:52:45.27
that before "The
Day of Atonement"?
00:52:45.30\00:52:48.26
The word "atonement's" a
very easy word to understand,
00:52:48.30\00:52:52.65
it divides neatly into 3
parts: "at", "one", "ment".
00:52:52.68\00:52:56.79
The Day of Atonement was
the day when God was once again
00:52:56.82\00:53:00.90
at one with His
people: The Day of Atonement.
00:53:00.93\00:53:06.76
Otherwise known as Yom Kippur,
that's what you can write
00:53:06.80\00:53:09.70
in there, "Yom
Kippur", the Day of Judgment.
00:53:09.73\00:53:12.36
In order to understand
the day of atonement, we must
00:53:12.39\00:53:15.19
understand, at least in a basic
sense, the purpose and drama
00:53:15.22\00:53:19.14
of the Israelite sanctuary.
There were 2 main services
00:53:19.17\00:53:23.27
that were carried
out in the sanctuary.
00:53:23.30\00:53:27.10
Certainly, there were many
ceremonies and rituals, but they
00:53:27.14\00:53:29.97
can be roughly divided
into 2 main categories:
00:53:30.00\00:53:32.69
the daily service
and the yearly service.
00:53:32.72\00:53:35.02
How many services? Daily
service and the yearly service.
00:53:35.05\00:53:39.47
The yearly service took place on
the 10th day of the 7th month,
00:53:39.50\00:53:42.65
that was the Day of Atonement.
Now this is basically how it
00:53:42.68\00:53:46.21
worked, and this would be a
perfect place for us to stop:
00:53:46.24\00:53:49.74
there are basically 3
compartments to the Israelite
00:53:49.77\00:53:53.69
sanctuary. Very simple.
00:53:53.72\00:53:57.56
This is like if you were in a
helicopter looking down on it,
00:53:57.60\00:54:01.19
so here's the 3 areas,
#1 would be the courtyard,
00:54:01.22\00:54:04.11
in fact, you see see there
at the bottom of this page,
00:54:04.14\00:54:06.83
I give you the opportunity
to draw this out, I'd recommend
00:54:06.86\00:54:09.52
you do that. There,
#1, that's the courtyard,
00:54:09.55\00:54:14.02
and that criss-cross
grid represents the altar.
00:54:14.06\00:54:18.52
Just behind that, that blue
circle represented the laver,
00:54:18.56\00:54:21.67
or the wash bin where the
priests would wash themselves
00:54:21.70\00:54:24.75
before going in to the
sanctuary, which is represented
00:54:24.78\00:54:28.65
by the black sections there.
The sanctuary, this is where
00:54:28.68\00:54:32.54
you're actually entering a room,
out here you're still in the out
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of doors, but there, in 2 and
3 you're actually entering into
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a room, and that
room had 2 parts.
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The first that you
would step into was called
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"The Holy Place".
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And then in front of you
there was a large curtain,
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very heavy curtain, and on
the other side of that curtain
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was "The Most Holy
Place". The Most Holy Place,
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incidentally,
was a perfect cube.
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It was perfectly square
on all sides; incidentally,
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very interesting, when
you go to Revelation 21
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and 22, the New
Jerusalem is a perfect cube.
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You read it, it's just as wide
as it is tall, as it is long,
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representing the Most Holy
Place of the heavenly sanctuary.
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So, there was 3 parts:
the courtyard, the Holy Place,
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and the Most Holy Place.
This pattern, this sanctuary
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was not something that Moses
made up, it wasn't something
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that Aaron made up, it wasn't
something the Israelites got
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together and made up,
God showed this to Moses.
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In fact, that's what
we're going to learn Monday;
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this was a picture of the
temple in heaven, 3 places:
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the courtyard, the Holy
Place and the Most Holy Place,
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and the daily services
centered around numbers 1 and 2,
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but the yearly service, the
Day of Atonement, or the Day of
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Judgment centered
around guess which number?
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- [Audience] Three. -
Number three, you've got it.
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What we're going to
discover in our next 2 lessons,
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I praise the Lord Jesus,
we've made good time tonight,
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what we're going to
discover in our next 2 lessons
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is exactly how this sanctuary,
what does that mean there
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in Daniel 8:14: "the
sanctuary will be cleansed"?
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We're going to discover
exactly what that means from
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a Biblical
perspective. By the way, I knew
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that this was going to get
caught right in the middle,
00:56:39.19\00:56:42.03
it's just way too much
information to present in
00:56:42.06\00:56:44.48
a single, I actually did it one
time and it took me 2 and half
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hours, we're not
going to even try that.
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But here's the 2 things I
want to know, #1: tonight's
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presentation, up to this
point, do we at least broadly
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feel clear about
what we're looking at?
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Pretty simple, all we've done
is looked at Daniel 8 primarily.
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Daniel 8 is just a
recapitulation of Daniel 7;
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Medo-Persia, Greece,
little horn, judgment;
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pretty simple, and then
we're ending by looking at these
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3 elements: courtyard,
Holy Place, Most Holy Place.
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Let me tell you, our
next message is entitled,
00:57:16.21\00:57:18.95
not tomorrow night, but the
following night, it's entitled
00:57:18.98\00:57:21.89
"Perfect Prophetic Proof
of the Identity of Jesus".
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If you've ever had
anyone ever ask you, a skeptic,
00:57:25.86\00:57:29.76
or an unbeliever say to you
"Well, how do you know Jesus"
00:57:29.79\00:57:32.69
"is the guy?" I
will give you rock solid
00:57:32.72\00:57:36.32
prophetic proof that
unmistakably points to Jesus
00:57:36.36\00:57:41.63
of Nazareth as the only
guy, as we look at this,
00:57:41.66\00:57:46.87
a powerful prophecy, you're just
going to go "Whoa! Praise God"
00:57:46.90\00:57:50.53
"in heaven", you will have
one of the most powerful quivers
00:57:50.56\00:57:54.07
in your arsenal to share
with skeptics, with unbelievers,
00:57:54.10\00:57:57.55
and with Christians alike, that
will root your faith and ground
00:57:57.58\00:58:01.38
your faith in the absolute,
total truthfulness of God's
00:58:01.41\00:58:05.68
Word.
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