Hello there, happy Sabbath.
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Come on in, we're
about to meet with the king.
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Hello, I'm Uncle Daniel
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and we have another
wonderful worship time
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to enjoy together as
we commence the Sabbath.
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And hello to you Aunty Leah,
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and to each girl and
boy who has joined us.
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Are we ready for
another "Day with the King?"
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Yes!
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It's lovely to
hear from you by email
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from wherever you are watching.
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If you want to say hello to us
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and let us know a
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with your
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you can contact us at
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Uncle Daniel, I'd like to
say hello to Joe in Albany,
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down in the southern
part of Western Australia.
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Joe likes to watch
"A Day with the King."
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Hello Joe.
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Before we start
our worship time,
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let's pray and
ask God to be with us.
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Alesha would you
like to do that for us?
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Sure.
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Dear God, please
bless us as we worship You
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and be with those
joining us from home,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Thanks, Alesha.
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Aunty Leah, can you
teach us more about prophecy?
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Yes, I can.
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We've been looking
at the prophetic gift,
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which is the
ability to tell the future.
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We've also learned
that God speaks to us
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through His
servants, the prophets.
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Sometimes the
prophets gave direct messages
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about what was going to happen.
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For example,
Noah spent 120 years
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warning the people
about a worldwide flood,
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and that's
exactly what happened.
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Sometimes
prophecies are conditional,
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like Jonah and the whale.
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Jonah
prophesied to the Ninevites
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that their city would
be destroyed in 40 days,
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if they do not repent and
turn from their wicked ways.
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But they did listened to Jonah,
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and they did
repent and obeyed God,
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and so God did
not destroy the city.
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Some prophecies are
giving using symbols.
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Later in our Bible study,
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we'll discover that
King Nebuchadnezzar's dream
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was actually a
prophecy given in symbols.
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What does God say about
prophecies given in symbols?
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Let's see what the Bible
gem says in our jewel box.
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Maybe it can shed
some light for us.
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Amber, would you like to get
the jewel out of the jewel box.
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Wow, what does
that rivet represent?
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Deuteronomy 29:29.
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Tamia, would you
like to read that for us.
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"The secret things
belong to the Lord our God,
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but those things which
are revealed belong to us
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and to our children forever,
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that we may do all
the words of this law."
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This text tells
us that God means us,
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to understand prophecy
even if it is given in symbols.
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Prophecy
wouldn't be any use to us
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if we couldn't understand it.
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God has promised to
reveal their meaning to us.
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It'll strengthen our faith
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and help us to
trust and obey God,
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but we need to
prayerfully and diligently
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search the scriptures.
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Amber, what's the secret
clue to understanding prophecy?
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Can you please read that for us?
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All the clues to
understanding prophecy
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are contained in the Bible.
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That's good news.
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We don't need to
look anywhere else,
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that's why we're
having a Bible treasure hunt.
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I can't wait to get
into our Bible study today,
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when we will solve
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the mystery of
the symbolic prophecy
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that God gave to
King Nebuchadnezzar.
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So remember,
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God intents that we
should understand the prophecies
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because they can
guide the choices
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we make in our lives day by day.
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Thanks Aunty
Leah, those pretty gems
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does me remember
of the Bible gems.
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Hey, everybody,
Braedan's back...
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Hello, Braedan. Hi, Braedan.
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Hi, everyone.
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Are you ready to sing?
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Yes!
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Let's start with
the Sabbath song,
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"This is the day
the Lord has made."
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This is the day
the Lord has made
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He calls this day His own
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Let us be glad, and welcome Him
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This Sabbath to our home
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Let us be glad and welcome Him
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This Sabbath to our home
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Braedan, can we
sing "The kings dream?"
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That's a great choice,
let's sing it together.
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God showed the king of Babylon
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What was to
happen when he'd gone
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A mighty image of a man
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Was used to show
God's master plan
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Golden head, the
chest and arms of silver
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Thighs and belly
were all of brass
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The legs were
iron, the feet were too
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Mixed in with miry clay
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The head of gold was Babylon
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The silver - Medo-Persia strong
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Then Greece, the
brass, would rule with might
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Iron Rome, would
nations, turn to flight
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The iron and clay
in the feet and toes
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Would never mix
together, God knows
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A stone uncut by human hands
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Would crush the image of a man
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That is the kingdom of our Lord
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Who'll reign on
earth for evermore
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Braedan, can we
sing "I have the joy?"
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Oh, that's such a good song,
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it's one of my favorites,
let's sing it together.
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I have the joy, joy, joy, joy
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Down in my
heart Down in my heart
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Down in my heart I
have the joy, joy, joy, joy
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Down in my heart
Down in my heart to stay!
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I have the peace
that passes understanding
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Down in my heart
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Down in my heart
Down in my heart!
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I have the peace
that passes understanding
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Down in my heart
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Down in my heart to stay!
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Thanks for sharing
those songs with us, Braedan.
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And now we're going to listen
to another story from Dr. John.
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Hello, boys and girls.
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It's Dr. John here.
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Hello, boys and girls
right around the world.
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I brought something
rather sad to show you today.
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It's a sword.
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This sword is
about 400 years old.
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And if you look
along the top here,
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it's got chinks on it
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because it has
been used in battle.
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It has hurt people.
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This sword is called Ascalon.
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And you know the sad
part about war and battles
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is that people get
hurt and people die.
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And if this was run
through you or you are shot,
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and you're lying
on the battlefield
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and no one could rescue you,
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you're in shock
and you feel pain,
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but you start to get thirsty.
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And feeling
thirsty is one of the most
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basic feelings of all people.
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And there was a young soldier,
his name was Richard Kirkland.
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And as you can see,
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this picture was
taken quite a while ago.
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He was just a young
man, 22 years of age.
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Nobody thought much of him,
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but he did
something that resulted in him
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having a memorial
because after a long battle
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that lasted all
day and all night,
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he was hiding behind the wall
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and he could hear the cries
of wounded soldiers in pain,
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and they were all
crying out for one thing.
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Water. Water, exactly.
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When you are dying of thirst,
your last thought is for water.
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And some of the
soldiers were saying,
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aha, they deserve
that, let them suffer.
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But Richard Kirkland
said that was so sad.
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So early in the
morning he went to his General,
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whose name was General Kershaw,
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he knocked on the
door and the guard said,
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"What do you want soldier?"
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I want to talk
to General Kershaw.
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General Kershaw was sitting
at the table and he said,
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"What do you want son?"
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He said, "I want to take water
to the soldiers who are hurt."
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You put your
head above that wall
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and you'll get a
bullet in the head,
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they will shoot you.
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"Sir, I cannot bear the sound
of that suffering any longer,
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please let me take some water."
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And general Kershaw said,
"Young man, you will die."
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"Please, let me go" he said.
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Okay, we'll have
your funeral later.
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And he went down the
steps and he came back, he said,
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I have a white hanky
and if I hold that up,
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it's a sign
that I come in peace,
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that I'm surrendering.
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General Kershaw said,
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"I'm sorry, we
haven't surrendered,
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you can't take a
white hanky with you."
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So he climbed over the
wall, waiting to be shot.
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And he went to
the first soldier,
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he gave him a drink of
water, and then to another
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and he spent all day
going from soldier to soldier.
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And all the enemy
that had their riffles on,
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they couldn't
believe what he was doing.
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And finally when he had
given every soldier a drink.
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He went back, he
never had a bullet,
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you know,
unfortunately he was killed
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by being brave
in another battle,
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but they made a
statue to Richard Kirkland
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because of his bravery.
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And if you do
something extremely brave,
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extremely wonderful, they
will make a statue of you.
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I've never had a
statue made of me,
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but if you go to
that battlefield today,
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you'll see the
statue to Richard Kirkland.
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And in our study,
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we get to study about a man
who built a statue for himself.
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He was a proud man,
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he was different
to Richard Kirkland.
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But Richard Kirkland was
the greatest of the great
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because he was driven by love
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and Jesus calls
Himself the water of life.
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And it is that water
that when you get it,
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you are so nourished.
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Remember Richard Kirkland,
thank you boys and girls.
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It's Bible study time again.
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Today we'll discover
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the meaning of
King Nebuchadnezzar's
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mysterious dream.
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Hope you left your
bookmark in Daniel Chapter 2
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from last week.
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But first, Aunty Leah,
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would you please
ask God to be with us
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as we study our Bible.
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Sure.
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Father in heaven,
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thank You so much
for the story of Daniel.
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Please help us to understand
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how we can better follow
You by the things we read.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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Now Jireh, do you remember
what we learnt last week?
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The king had a
dream and forgot it.
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Yes, that's right.
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And because none of his wise men
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could tell him the dream,
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he ordered that
they all be killed,
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including Daniel
and his companions
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but how did God help?
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God told Daniel the dream.
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Yes.
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Our story finished last
week with Daniel telling Arioch,
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the captain of the king's guard
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that he could tell
the king his dream.
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How exciting that must
have been for everyone,
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you know, "Yeah, he was saved."
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Let's return to
Daniel Chapter 2,
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where Arioch quickly
brought Daniel before the king.
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Bethany, would
you read Daniel 2:26,
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which tell us the
king's question to Daniel.
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"The king answered
and said to Daniel,
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whose name was Belteshazzar,
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'Are you able
to make known to me
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the dream which I have
seen, and its interpretation?'"
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Now do you think
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the king might have
been feeling skeptical
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and suspicious
of Daniel's claim?
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I'm sure he was,
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after all didn't the other
wise men tell him differently.
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Well, Daniel, started
by agreeing with the king,
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that the wise
men, the astrologers,
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the magicians,
and the soothsayers
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would not be able
to tell him his dream.
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But he went on to say something
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that really gripped
the kings' attention.
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Jireh, can you please
read that in verse 28?
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"But there is a God in
heaven who reveals secrets,
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and He has made known
to the King Nebuchadnezzar
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what will be in
the latter days."
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Um, see Daniel
signaled to the king
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that this was a
dream of huge significance
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of cosmic proportions,
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right down to the
last days of this world.
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He also indicated
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how privileged
King Nebuchadnezzar was
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that the God, the
ruler of the whole universe
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would select him
to reveal His plans
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for the future of this planet.
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As for Daniel
himself, verse 30 tells us,
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he wanted to make sure
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that the king clearly understood
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that any wisdom he
appeared to possess
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was all a gift from God.
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God was trying to
reach King Nebuchadnezzar's
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mind and heart
through the humble Daniel.
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Daniel then told him the dream.
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Let's read Daniel
Chapter 2 starting with Bryce.
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Verse 31 please?
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"You, O king, were watching,
and behold, a great image!
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This great image,
whose splendor was excellent,
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stood before you,
and its form was awesome.
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This image's
head was of fine gold,
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its chest and arms of silver,
its belly and thighs of bronze,
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its legs of
iron, its feet partly
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of iron and partly of clay."
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Um, and verse 34,
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can you please
read that, Chemiah?
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"You watched while a
stone was cut out without hands,
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which struck the image on
its feet of iron and clay,
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and broke them in pieces."
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And verse 35, Chemiah,
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"Then the iron, the
clay, the bronze, the silver,
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and the gold
were crushed together,
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and became like chaff
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from the summer
threshing floors,
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the wind carried them away
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so that no trace
of them was found.
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And the stone
that struck the image
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became a great mountain
and filled the whole earth."
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What an unusual dream.
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Nebuchadnezzar dreamed of a man
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made up of these
different kind of metals.
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Let's have a look at
an artist interpretation
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of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
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So, what was the head made off?
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Gold.
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What about the torso?
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Silver.
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And the thighs?
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Brass.
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Yeah, brass is a shiny metal
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that is not nearly as
valuable as silver or gold.
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Now the legs, what
were they made off?
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Iron.
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And the feet?
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Half iron, half clay.
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Is iron strong?
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Yes! Yes!
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Yeah.
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Is clay as strong as iron?
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No! No.
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Finally we learn
of a stone that grows.
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Can stones grow?
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No! No.
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well, in dreams
anything can happen.
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In this dream
the stone grew so big
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that it filled the whole earth.
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Now remember, Aunty Leah said,
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messages were often
given to prophets in symbols.
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Pictures of things that
represent something else.
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Some important message
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that God wants His
people to understand.
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Well, these metals and the stone
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represent important
events in earth's history.
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Having confidently declared
to the king, this is the dream,
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Daniel then went on to explain
the meaning of the dream.
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Sai, please read verse 37?
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"You, O king,
are a king of kings.
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For the God of heaven
has given you a kingdom,
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power, strength, and glory.
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And verse 38 please, Aunty Leah?
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"And wherever the
children of men dwell,
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or the beasts of the field
and the birds of the heaven,
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He has given
them into your hand,
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and has made you
ruler over them all
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and you are this head of gold."
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Babylon was
renowned for its gold.
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It was everywhere.
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Nothing has been
seen like it since.
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Let's continue
with verse 39 and 40.
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Thanks, Bethany.
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"But after you shall arise
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another kingdom
inferior to yours,
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and then another, a
third kingdom of bronze,
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which shall rule
all over the earth.
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And the fourth kingdom
shall be as strong as iron,
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in as much as
iron breaks in pieces
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and shatters everything,
and like iron that crushes,
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that kingdom
will break in pieces
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and crush all the others."
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This is a very
powerful and very cruel kingdom
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that's being described.
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Let's read on
with verse 41 and 42.
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Thanks Jireh.
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"Whereas you saw
the feet and toes,
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partly of potter's
clay and partly of iron,
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and kingdom shall be divided,
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yet the strength of
the iron shall be in it,
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just as you saw the
iron mixed with ceramic clay.
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And as the toes of the feet
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were partly of
iron and partly of clay,
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so the kingdom shall be
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partly strong
and partly fragile."
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Thank you.
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And, Bryce, can you
please also read verse 43?
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"As you saw iron
mixed with ceramic clay,
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they will mingle
with the seeds of men,
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but they will not
adhere to one another,
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just as iron does
not mix with clay."
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Logically, if you
were making predictions
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about four
world powers in a row,
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you might expect
another world power to follow
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because that's what
happened every other time.
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But no,
something quite different
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and unusual is predicted.
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Daniel says that
the fourth world power
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will break up
into many kingdoms,
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10 major ones as it turns
out just like the 10 toes.
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We know from
history that the world power
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which followed
Babylon was Medo-Persia,
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then Greece conquered
the world, followed by Rome.
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Rome eventually
broke up into 10 nations,
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some strong and some weak
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just like the iron and the clay.
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These are the nations
that became the Europe
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we know it today.
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Verse 43 says that
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these nations
tried various strategies
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to unite and grow stronger,
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like fighting and intermarrying,
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but nothing has worked.
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Chemiah, can you
please read our torchlight
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Mrs. White's writings in
Royalty and Ruin, page 177.
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"In history, the
growth of nations,
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the rise and fall of empires,
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appear as if dependent
on human will and ability.
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But the Word of God
draws the curtain aside,
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and we see the agencies
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of the all merciful One,
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silently, patiently working
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out the counsels
of His own will."
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Right.
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So God is in control
throughout human history,
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no matter how it looks to us.
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In verse 44, God
promises to end all the fighting
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and struggles for power
and set up a perfect kingdom
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that will stand forever.
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That's a kingdom I want
to be a part of, don't you?
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Yeah. Yes.
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Now, in verse 45,
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Daniel tactfully reminds
the king how privileged he is,
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that the great God
of heaven and earth
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has made known to him
the future of the world.
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Then Daniel confidently adds,
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the dream is certain and
its interpretation is sure.
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Verse 46 and 47 tells us
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that King
Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face
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before Daniel and said,
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"Truly your God is
the God of the gods,
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the Lord of kings and
a revealer of secrets,
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since you could
reveal this secret.
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So, Daniel got it right
because God revealed it to him.
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Let's go over our memory verse,
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and read the last part
of 1 Samuel 2:30 together.
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Are we ready?
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"Those who honor
Me, I will honor."
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And God certainly
did honored Daniel
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and his three companions.
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The kings' wise
men's lives were saved.
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And verse 48 says,
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he gave Daniel many great gifts
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and made him rule
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over the whole
province of Babylon.
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He also made Daniel the boss
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over all the
wise men of Babylon.
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Daniel's three
friends were promoted too.
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Their years of diligent study
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and
faithfulness in following God
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had prepared them to be
shining lights for Gods' truth
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in that mighty
nation that ruled the world.
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And best of all, God offers
us the same power that He gave
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to Daniel and his companions,
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so we too can be
shining lights for Him.
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Pictures always help us
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when we're
learning something new.
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So why don't you get
our devotional for today
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and review the
pictures and their meaning.
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Listen to Matthew and Caleigh.
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What do you want?
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You bored?
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Yes.
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Look what I got.
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Whoa!
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Look at that. Cool.
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Where did you get these?
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adaywiththeking.com.
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Thanks Matthew and Caleigh.
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Uncle Daniel what are we
going to learn about next week?
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Next week we
have a gripping story
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about a life
threatening test that confronted
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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
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and how they honored God at
the risk of their own lives.
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I'm looking forward
to hearing about that.
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Let's practice the memory verse.
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"Those who honor
me, I will honor."
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1 Samuel 2:30.
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You know, I found this promise
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to be true in my
life so many times.
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God is so faithful.
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He keeps every promise.
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Bethany, what did you
learn about the king today?
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If we study the Bible,
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we can find out the
truth for ourselves.
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Yes, but we may need to dig deep
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and always ask the Holy
Spirit to give us understanding.
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Uncle Daniel,
it's time to finish
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with our blessing song.
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May God bless you and keep you
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And fill your heart with love
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May God guide and protect you
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And watch you from above
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And Sabbath after Sabbath
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We greet the day of rest
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The day the king of glory
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Has sanctified and blessed
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Goodbye my friend
till we meet again
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For another day with the king
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Goodbye.
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Happy Sabbath.
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I know Jesus loves me
because He's blessed me
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with amazing family and friends.
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I know Jesus loves me
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because He keeps me
safe from day to day.
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I know Jesus loves me
because He gave me animals.
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