Hello, this is Give Me The Bible
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a wonderful series that we've
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been enjoying for the last
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four months.
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And we are so excited
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to have Kenneth
Cox Ministries here.
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This is his production
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coming to you live from
the 3ABN Worship Center.
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And we want to
welcome our live audience
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as well as all of those
who are watching by television
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or by Internet or
possibly listening on the radio.
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You know, I am very honored
tonight to get to introduce
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to you one of my very
special, most favorite people
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in the whole wide
world I guess you could say.
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And the reason that I
feel this way about Pastor and
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Evangelist Kenneth Cox is
because he has a pastor's heart
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and an
evangelist's call on his life.
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Don't you enjoy
his presentations that
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it seems he knows
how to focus on building
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a lasting relationship,
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a close, intimate,
personal relationship
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with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And you know he also
specializes in world history
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and how it relates
to Bible prophecies
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and current events.
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So this has been
a great undertaking.
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this Give Me The Bible series...
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We are meeting once a month,
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five sessions each month.
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And so far he has
covered salvation,
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the second coming,
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umm, the Holy
Spirit, and the Sabbath...
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all about focusing on
that personal relationship.
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But tonight he is going
to begin a 5-part series
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called Five Have Fallen.
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And this is
going to be on Babylon,
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on Medo-Persia,
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Greece, Pagan
Rome, and Papal Rome.
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But each night he's
going to spend on one topic
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on one of those nations,
so we're really going to have
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a greater understanding, I
believe, than we did before.
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I want to read to you...
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I hadn't anticipated this...
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I want to read you a
scripture from II Peter
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because I believe that
that pertains to tonight.
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In II Peter chapter 1
and verse 19 the Bible says:
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"So we have the prophetic Word
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confirmed, made sure,
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which you do well to heed
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as a light that
shines in a dark place
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until the day dawns
and the morning star rises
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in your hearts.
Knowing this first,
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that no prophecy of scripture
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is of any
private interpretation.
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For prophecy never
came by the will of man
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but holy men of God spoke
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as they were moved
by the Holy Spirit. "
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And tonight Pastor
and Evangelist Kenneth Cox
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is going to be
teaching us on Babylon.
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You will want to not
miss any of this series.
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It's going to be coming
to you in four evenings.
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It will be
tonight, Friday night,
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Saturday and Sunday
night, all at 7:00 pm CST
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as well as don't miss the
special second presentation
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that comes first on the Sabbath
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and that is at 11:00 am CST.
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But before Pastor
Cox comes to teach to us
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I would like to introduce
to you Emily Felts-Jones
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from Bring Forth Ministries,
and she's going to do
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special music tonight
beginning with a song called
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There Is A River. Emily...
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There is a river
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that flows for me.
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Streaming down
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from the Mount of Calvary.
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Healing water,
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spilling over running free.
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There is a river
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that flows for me.
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There is a river
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that flows for me.
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Streaming down
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from the Mount of Calvary.
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Healing water,
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spilling over running free.
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There is a river
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that flows for me.
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There is a river
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that flows for me.
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And I will drink
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from that flood eternally.
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My sins are buried there
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and carried to the sea.
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There is a river
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that flows for me.
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Yes we'll gather at
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the river,
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the beautiful, the beautiful
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river.
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Gather with the saints
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at the river
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that flows
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by the throne of God.
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Healing water,
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spilling over running free.
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There is a river
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that flows for me.
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Healing water,
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spilling over running free.
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There is a river
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that flows for me.
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Hallelujah!
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Thank you Emily
Felts-Jones. Did you enjoy that?
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Amen! Thank you, Emily.
Appreciate that very much.
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Good evening.
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Very happy to welcome
all of you here tonight.
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Also want to say welcome
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to all those of you that have
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joined us on television,
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watching, or listening over the
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radio. We're happy to
welcome you this evening.
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Appreciate you tuning in.
We hope tonight's presentation
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will be helpful to you
as we talk about prophecy.
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We're going into
prophecy during this series
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and next month's
series will be on prophecy.
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Dealing with this...
very, very important.
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What says the
Bible, the blessed Bible?
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This my only question be.
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Search the
scriptures for the waymarks...
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the great prophetic waymarks.
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What says the Book of God to me?
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That's what we need
to watch and look for.
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You see, Bible
prophecy is important enough
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that if you were
to take Bible prophecy
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and miracles - those two
things - out of this book,
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all you would have left
is a book of philosophy.
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That is what makes the
Bible distinctly different
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than anything else is prophecy,
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and it's very
important that you and I
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understand the
prophecies of God's Word...
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see what God is talking about.
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Tonight we're
talking about Babylon...
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the nation of Babylon.
What the scripture says
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about Babylon. Our
next presentation after that
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will be on Medo-Persia.
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What does the
scripture tell us about that?
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These nations are very important
because they greatly influenced
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what took place
with God's people,
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the development of God's
Word. All that fits in there
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and with the time
prophecy that's taking place.
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So we'll look at our
next presentation about the
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Medes and the Persians...
what the scripture says.
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What are you looking for tonight
on the subject of Babylon?
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Well, the first thing I
would tell you to look for
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is watch how accurate God is.
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You know, if you have
any questions in your heart
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or in your soul about prophecy,
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and you... and you
wonder if the Word of God
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is something that you
can really depend on at all,
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then watch. Watch for
the accuracy of God's Word.
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How even in minute things
He outlined it and said exactly
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how it would take
place and what would happen.
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So we hope it will
bless you as we take a look
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at the nation of Babylon and we
begin to take it step by step.
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The title for this
series is Five Have Fallen.
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And that's what we'll do
during these five presentations
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is talk about the
five that have fallen
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and what the
scripture has to say about it.
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So we hope that you'll be
blessed as we continue to study
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God's Word.
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We're delighted to
have Emily with us.
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I know you'll be
blessed as she sings for you
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during this series and
that you'll see and understand
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her love for the
Lord as she sings
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I Know God Holds Tomorrow.
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I don't know about tomorrow,
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I just live from day to day.
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And I don't borrow from its
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sunshine
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for its skies may turn to gray.
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And I don't worry
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about the future,
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for I know what Jesus said.
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So today I'll walk
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beside Him,
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for He knows
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what lies ahead.
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Many things about tomorrow
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I don't need
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to understand.
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For I know
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who holds tomorrow,
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and I know
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who holds my hand.
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I don't know about tomorrow,
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it may bring me poverty.
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But the One who
feeds the sparrow,
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is the One who stands by me.
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And the path that is my portion
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May be through
the flame or flood;
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But His presence goes before me
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And I'm covered in His blood.
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Many things
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about tomorrow
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I don't need to understand.
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For I know who holds tomorrow,
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And I know
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who holds my hand.
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He leadeth me,
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He leadeth me.
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By His own hand He leadeth me.
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And His faithful follower
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I will be,
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For by His hand
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He leadeth me.
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Many things about tomorrow
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I just don't need to understand.
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For I know who holds tomorrow,
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Yes, I know
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who holds my hand.
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Heavenly Father,
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as we open Your
Word this evening
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we pray for enlightenment.
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May we understand and see
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the prophecies of Your Word.
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Lord, may Your
Spirit make them clear.
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We are thankful
for the assurance
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that You hold
everything in Your hand
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and that You know
what the outcome is.
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Help us, Lord, that
we might respond in faith
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and each one of
us might follow You.
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For this we pray in
Christ's name, Amen.
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The book of Revelation
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is the last book in your Bible.
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It's a book of prophecy,
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and the 17th chapter
of the book of Revelation
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is the last chapter in the
Bible that presents beasts.
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In fact, you have a woman riding
on a scarlet-colored beast.
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This beast has seven heads.
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Those seven heads
are very, very important.
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The scripture tells us those
seven heads are seven kings.
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And this is what
we're looking at because
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this prophecy in Revelation 17
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takes you right through history
right down to the present day
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and our time. And that's what
we're going to endeavor to do
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in this series
and the next series
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is take you step by
step all the way down
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through time up to the present.
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And so the text there
in Revelation 17 says this:
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So this is what it tells us...
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that there are five kings here.
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Five of them have fallen.
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That's what we're going
to look at in this series.
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Then it says there's
one that is, is not, yet is.
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We'll look at that
in the next series.
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But this is what
we're going to be looking at
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that we can understand
exactly what it's talking about.
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So we thank you for being here.
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We hope it will bless
you as we talk about it.
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Now tonight, in
order to understand that,
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you've got to understand
the time and the situation.
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So I'm going to take
you back to a period of time
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and help you understand a little
bit of what's happening here.
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And you're going to
take a look here at a map.
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And on this map
this is what is called
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The Fertile Crescent.
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Now what you have here, folks,
is you have the Middle East.
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Uh, The Fertile Crescent
is where everybody traveled.
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If you can see the green here,
you can see it comes up there
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and comes out of the sea there.
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And then you have
rivers like the Euphrates
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and the Tigris
that runs up there,
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goes through
the curve at the top
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and they come
down to the Jordan.
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This is where people traveled.
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This is where they
went about their travel
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because there was water
here, there was vegetation here.
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They could travel
and everything was fine.
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So this is what
happened and took place,
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and they traveled on
The Fertile Crescent.
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So we hope that
as we look at that
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it will help you understand a
little bit of where the travel
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took place and what happened.
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So let's go and take a
look at what is happening here.
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The kingdom that is ruling
at this time is a kingdom called
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Assyria.
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Assyria has taken
all the Mesopotamia...
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all this area
under their control.
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There's a king - the last
one in Assyria... one of the
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last ones... and
that was Ashurbanipal.
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He was the king there.
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But Ashurbanipal is getting old.
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His sons don't seem to
have much of an interest
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in the kingdom.
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And therefore down in Babylon
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down in Babylon - if
you can see Babylon here -
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there is an X. Right
down here we... at the bottom
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if you can see that
green, that's where Babylon is.
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There's a vice regent in Babylon
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and his name is Nebopilesar.
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Nebopilesar sees
this as his time.
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He sees this as the
time for him to do something.
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And so with the Chaldeans,
he sets out and begins to
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overthrow Assyria.
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And he moved
into Babylon in 626 BC
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and overthrew Babylon.
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Nebopilesar goes on from there.
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The capital for
Assyria is Nineveh.
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He enters Nineveh;
overthrows Nineveh.
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And the people, the king and
those that were in charge there,
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they fled Nineveh and
they went up to a place called
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Harron. And there in Harron
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they tried to set up rule again.
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Now, let me just back up
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and give you a little
bit of background here.
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You remember Abraham?
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Huh? You
remember Abraham of old?
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Well, Abraham came
out of Ur of the Chaldees.
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That's down below
Babylon a little bit.
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And when he left, he and
his family - his father, his
00:20:04.15\00:20:07.93
brother and all - they went up
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to the top of
The Fertile Crescent
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and they stayed there.
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And that's where you
get the name Harron...
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because that was his brother.
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So you have the town there,
Harron, where these Assyrians
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have come and they
have set up a government
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trying to rule again.
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By this time,
Nebopilesar has gotten old
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and so he calls in his son...
calls in his son Nebuchadnezzar.
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And he tells Nebuchadnezzar
that they have driven them out
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of Harron and now the Assyrians
have gone up to a place called
00:20:43.31\00:20:47.32
Carchemish. And they
decided that they would set up
00:20:47.52\00:20:50.85
defense in Carchemish.
And so Nebopilesar has asked
00:20:50.95\00:20:56.06
Nebuchadnezzar to go up
and to take care of them.
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Get rid of them. And
so Nebuchadnezzar goes up
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to Carchemish to do this.
Let me kind of point these out
00:21:04.18\00:21:07.97
for you if you have a
little trouble seeing it.
00:21:08.18\00:21:10.03
I've tried to put some X there.
But if you go up here to the top
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you can see an X.
That's where Carchemish is.
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Carchemish is a place
there on the Euphrates River
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where they have set up
trying to have a defense against
00:21:22.07\00:21:26.68
Nabopilesar.
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Well, something
begins to happen here.
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Begins to take place
because down in Egypt
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there is pharaoh
by the name of Necho.
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Pharaoh Necho is an
ally of the Assyrians
00:21:39.73\00:21:44.22
but he has in his mind
that he's going to come up here
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to Carchemish and he's
going to defeat Nebuchadnezzar.
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And then he's much
stronger than the Assyrians
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and so all of it
would come under him,
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and he would be the ruler of
Mesopotamia as well as Egypt.
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So Pharaoh Necho leaves Egypt
00:22:05.85\00:22:09.43
going up to Carchemish
to take on Nebuchadnezzar.
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Interesting thing...
because if you notice here...
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Down here in Egypt, if
you follow the path there,
00:22:18.11\00:22:22.59
Pharaoh Necho has
to go through Israel.
00:22:22.79\00:22:26.89
And so on the
way up to Carchemish
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he's going through
Judah, if you please.
00:22:30.91\00:22:33.59
And as he's going through
Judah, there is a good king.
00:22:33.79\00:22:37.86
One of the best
kings Judah has ever had
00:22:38.06\00:22:41.29
by the name of
Josiah. And Josiah decides
00:22:41.49\00:22:45.33
he's not going to let
Pharaoh Necho go up there.
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Scripture has this to tell us...
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and it says:
00:22:51.89\00:22:53.55
Interesting situation here,
folks. This is a good king.
00:23:05.79\00:23:09.42
He has served the Lord,
tried to walk with the Lord
00:23:09.62\00:23:13.05
in all that he did.
00:23:13.25\00:23:14.33
But he failed to
do something here.
00:23:14.53\00:23:17.53
Watch:
00:23:17.73\00:23:19.03
Said: "I'm not coming
through here to fight you, " OK?
00:23:33.07\00:23:36.89
Pharaoh Necho
sent him word and said:
00:23:46.01\00:23:49.83
"The Lord has
sent me to do this.
00:23:50.03\00:23:51.87
You stay out of
it. Leave me alone. "
00:23:52.07\00:23:54.65
Josiah did not consult the Lord.
00:23:54.95\00:23:59.50
Josiah decided he was going
to go up and stop Pharaoh Necho
00:24:01.35\00:24:04.75
and he didn't ask the
Lord whether that was something
00:24:04.95\00:24:07.32
he should do or he shouldn't.
He didn't consult the Lord.
00:24:07.52\00:24:10.06
And as a result...
00:24:10.26\00:24:12.13
See, these were what God said...
00:24:25.53\00:24:27.92
So here he is
fighting against Pharaoh Necho,
00:24:32.11\00:24:35.70
and this is what happened.
00:24:35.80\00:24:37.11
Took him out of there,
brought him to Jerusalem.
00:24:59.37\00:25:02.13
And it says:
00:25:02.23\00:25:03.25
Killed right there.
Pharaoh Necho goes on up
00:25:12.52\00:25:17.92
to Carchemish to
face Nebuchadnezzar.
00:25:18.12\00:25:21.20
Nebuchadnezzar, folks,
overthrew the Assyrians.
00:25:21.40\00:25:26.24
He overthrew Pharaoh Necho.
00:25:26.45\00:25:29.06
Chased Pharaoh
Necho back to Egypt.
00:25:29.26\00:25:31.92
He overthrew them all.
00:25:32.12\00:25:33.65
Now,
Nebuchadnezzar is in charge.
00:25:33.85\00:25:38.78
He's... he's overthrown these.
He's the one who's in charge.
00:25:38.98\00:25:42.99
And since he chased
Pharaoh Necho back to Egypt,
00:25:43.19\00:25:48.94
he had to go through Judah.
00:25:49.14\00:25:51.92
And so Nebuchadnezzar decides
00:25:52.12\00:25:55.87
that since he's
going through Judah
00:25:56.07\00:25:57.96
he might as well
subdue them also.
00:25:58.16\00:26:00.49
And that's when Nebuchadnezzar
came in and overthrew.
00:26:00.69\00:26:05.32
Destroyed the city,
destroyed the temple.
00:26:05.52\00:26:10.01
Did all that at that time.
00:26:10.21\00:26:11.92
Something
interesting happening here.
00:26:12.12\00:26:14.46
It's while
Nebuchadnezzar is here, folks,
00:26:14.66\00:26:18.26
that... and he's in Israel...
00:26:18.46\00:26:21.18
that he gets word that
his father, Nabopilesar,
00:26:21.38\00:26:24.83
has died.
00:26:25.04\00:26:26.34
OK, watch.
00:26:26.54\00:26:28.62
If you take and you go by
the way of The Fertile Crescent,
00:26:28.65\00:26:34.58
you follow the rivers.
00:26:34.78\00:26:36.50
Take up the
Jordan, go up to the top
00:26:36.70\00:26:38.63
and take the Euphrates and
the Tigris back down to Babylon,
00:26:38.83\00:26:42.04
that's about 1,500 miles.
00:26:42.25\00:26:46.32
About how long that is.
00:26:46.52\00:26:48.31
Nebuchadnezzar knew that he
could not spend that much time,
00:26:48.51\00:26:53.40
that he had to
secure the kingdom.
00:26:53.60\00:26:56.13
He had to do something quickly.
00:26:56.33\00:26:57.99
And so taking a
servant and some horses,
00:26:58.19\00:27:00.91
they start out and they
go across the Arabian Desert
00:27:01.12\00:27:05.68
from Jerusalem over to
Babylon about 1,000 miles
00:27:05.88\00:27:10.68
across the desert.
00:27:10.88\00:27:12.21
Absolutely
tremendous feat that he did.
00:27:12.41\00:27:15.51
But he arrived
there; secured the kingdom.
00:27:15.71\00:27:18.05
And now Nebuchadnezzar
is probably the leading
00:27:18.25\00:27:23.22
monarch of that whole area.
00:27:23.42\00:27:25.89
All has come under his control.
00:27:26.09\00:27:28.42
That gives you some background
of what's happening here.
00:27:28.62\00:27:31.76
Because, before he left to
make that trip back to Babylon
00:27:31.96\00:27:36.40
he took his captain
and he told his captain...
00:27:36.60\00:27:39.53
He said: "I want you to
select about 50-70 young men
00:27:39.73\00:27:45.29
of the Israelites here
and bring them back to Babylon
00:27:45.32\00:27:50.40
to be trained to be servants
00:27:50.60\00:27:54.00
and trained to work
in the courts of Babylon.
00:27:54.20\00:27:56.95
He gave them instructions...
he gave them some real
00:27:57.15\00:27:59.47
interesting instructions.
00:27:59.58\00:28:00.87
You know what he
told them? He said
00:28:00.97\00:28:02.01
they had to be of royal blood.
They had to be good looking.
00:28:02.21\00:28:06.83
You can read it
in the scriptures.
00:28:07.03\00:28:08.36
Said they had
to be good looking.
00:28:08.47\00:28:09.49
Said they had to be...
have great social graces
00:28:09.69\00:28:13.07
and they had to be intelligent.
00:28:13.28\00:28:15.40
Those were the things
that Nebuchadnezzar told him
00:28:15.60\00:28:17.77
they had to be.
00:28:17.87\00:28:18.90
And so he chooses these young
men to take them back to Babylon
00:28:19.10\00:28:23.80
and among those that he
chose were four young men
00:28:24.00\00:28:28.32
by the name of Daniel,
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
00:28:28.62\00:28:34.54
One thing that Nebuchadnezzar
did not ask for...
00:28:34.74\00:28:38.62
When he gave the
list of things he wanted
00:28:38.82\00:28:41.21
he didn't ask for any
of them to be spiritual...
00:28:41.41\00:28:45.04
but these four boys were.
00:28:46.26\00:28:48.61
Made a tremendous difference.
00:28:48.81\00:28:51.98
because they took those
young men back and trained them
00:28:52.18\00:28:56.10
in the courts of
Babylon for three years.
00:28:56.30\00:28:59.74
At the end of
three years of training
00:28:59.94\00:29:02.81
when Nebuchadnezzar
himself tested them,
00:29:03.02\00:29:05.71
he found those young men to
be ten times more intelligent
00:29:05.91\00:29:11.53
than anybody
else in his kingdom.
00:29:11.73\00:29:13.87
Tremendous young men!
00:29:14.07\00:29:16.60
These were to work in
the courts of Babylon.
00:29:16.80\00:29:19.79
Well, it isn't
too long after that
00:29:19.99\00:29:22.99
that Nebuchadnezzar has a dream.
00:29:23.20\00:29:26.50
And in this dream he sees
something that has a profound
00:29:26.70\00:29:30.81
impression upon him but...
00:29:31.01\00:29:34.37
in the morning he
can't remember what it was.
00:29:34.67\00:29:37.26
Knows it's important
but he can't remember it.
00:29:37.46\00:29:40.98
And so he calls in his wise men
00:29:41.18\00:29:44.51
and told them "I had a dream.
00:29:44.71\00:29:47.06
I know it's important
00:29:47.26\00:29:48.77
but I can't remember
what the dream was. "
00:29:48.88\00:29:50.87
And they said: "Well, can
you tell us what the dream was?
00:29:51.07\00:29:55.03
We'll tell you what it means. "
00:29:55.24\00:29:56.47
And he said:
"Well, I'll tell you what,
00:29:57.55\00:29:59.38
you tell me what I dreamed
00:29:59.58\00:30:02.70
and then I'll know you
can tell me what it means. "
00:30:02.90\00:30:05.32
Well they said: "Nobody
on earth would ask that. "
00:30:05.52\00:30:08.73
And the more they talked the
madder Nebuchadnezzar became.
00:30:08.93\00:30:13.34
Now folks, you
have to understand...
00:30:13.54\00:30:14.68
this man is a dictator.
00:30:14.78\00:30:16.41
You do what he says. I mean,
00:30:16.62\00:30:20.02
and if you don't, there
are severe consequences.
00:30:20.12\00:30:22.46
And so he said: "You either
tell me or I'm going to have
00:30:22.66\00:30:24.58
all of you killed. "
00:30:24.68\00:30:25.86
And they couldn't tell him,
00:30:26.06\00:30:28.17
and so he gave orders:
00:30:28.38\00:30:30.13
Now, interesting...
00:30:35.42\00:30:39.17
when Nebuchadnezzar
called in his wise men,
00:30:39.47\00:30:42.90
he didn't call in Daniel
00:30:43.00\00:30:44.57
or Shadrach or
Meshach or Abednego.
00:30:44.60\00:30:47.29
He didn't call them in.
00:30:47.39\00:30:48.48
Why didn't he call them in?
00:30:48.68\00:30:50.94
Because they were novices.
00:30:51.14\00:30:53.05
They were young; they
didn't have experience
00:30:53.26\00:30:57.88
and so he didn't call them in.
00:30:58.08\00:30:59.39
You know how
that works, don't you?
00:30:59.49\00:31:01.01
Huh? You know,
when you start out
00:31:01.21\00:31:04.06
they say "Well you know, if
you're going to get anywhere,
00:31:04.26\00:31:06.49
you've got to get an education.
00:31:06.59\00:31:08.16
You've got to go
and get an education. "
00:31:08.36\00:31:10.63
And so you got to
school and get an education.
00:31:10.83\00:31:12.72
You get out of
school and they say:
00:31:12.82\00:31:14.69
"Well good, you got an
education but - you know -
00:31:14.89\00:31:17.37
in order to be any good you
gotta have some experience. "
00:31:17.58\00:31:21.00
And so you work at it and
work at it all those years
00:31:21.20\00:31:24.61
getting the experience.
And finally when you get the
00:31:24.71\00:31:26.92
experience they say:
"Ah, you're too old. "
00:31:27.03\00:31:29.28
You know, that's
usually the way it goes.
00:31:29.48\00:31:32.63
But anyhow, they
didn't have the experience.
00:31:32.83\00:31:34.78
But when
Nebuchadnezzar gave the decree
00:31:34.98\00:31:37.12
to kill all the wise men,
00:31:37.32\00:31:38.65
that included
Daniel and his companions.
00:31:38.85\00:31:41.15
And so they began to pray.
00:31:41.35\00:31:43.75
They asked for time to pray.
00:31:44.05\00:31:47.08
And they prayed, and
God revealed to Daniel
00:31:47.28\00:31:50.55
and his companions what
Nebuchadnezzar had seen.
00:31:50.75\00:31:53.54
Daniel now goes in before
King Nebuchadnezzar to tell him
00:31:53.75\00:31:58.54
what he had seen in that dream.
00:31:58.74\00:32:00.30
Now this is a prophecy, folks.
00:32:00.50\00:32:02.11
Listen to it. It talks about it:
00:32:02.31\00:32:04.42
Said: "Can
you... can you tell me
00:32:15.95\00:32:18.37
that... the dream
and the interpretation? "
00:32:18.57\00:32:20.81
He said: "Uh,
can't... can't they tell you
00:32:35.84\00:32:38.22
what you've seen in it? "
00:32:38.42\00:32:40.95
Now watch:
00:32:41.15\00:32:42.96
What will be when?
00:32:53.74\00:32:55.29
Latter days. Put it
down. See, we are talking about
00:32:55.50\00:32:59.04
a prophecy that
doesn't affect just his day
00:32:59.24\00:33:01.95
but goes clear
to the end of time.
00:33:02.05\00:33:03.99
What will be in
the latter days...
00:33:04.19\00:33:06.52
So he said: "This is what
you saw, Nebuchadnezzar. "
00:33:10.11\00:33:13.86
This is what he saw.
00:33:24.80\00:33:26.28
So here it shows
this image being crushed.
00:33:59.30\00:34:01.47
Now, that's what he saw.
00:34:10.71\00:34:13.85
Saw a great image. This
great image had a head of gold,
00:34:14.05\00:34:17.42
arms and breast of silver,
00:34:17.62\00:34:19.42
belly and thighs of bronze,
00:34:19.62\00:34:22.23
legs of iron, feet part
of iron and part of clay.
00:34:22.44\00:34:25.42
Watch as Daniel
tells him what it means:
00:34:25.62\00:34:29.04
So he said
clearly: "Nebuchadnezzar,
00:34:58.41\00:35:01.08
you are this head of gold. "
00:35:01.28\00:35:02.83
Why would God say
that Nebuchadnezzar was
00:35:03.03\00:35:05.75
that head of gold? Because...
Babylon only lasted 70 years.
00:35:05.85\00:35:10.50
Nebuchadnezzar ruled 40
00:35:10.70\00:35:13.80
of those 70 years.
00:35:14.00\00:35:15.44
That's why He said:
"You are this head of gold. "
00:35:15.54\00:35:17.33
He was the one that built it
00:35:17.54\00:35:19.37
and the ruler of that.
00:35:19.47\00:35:20.84
OK. Nebuchadnezzar...
00:35:21.04\00:35:24.13
history's not very
kind to him, folks.
00:35:24.43\00:35:27.67
He was a very, very hard man
00:35:27.87\00:35:31.09
and, like I said, a dictator
00:35:31.29\00:35:35.09
and didn't have
much use for anybody.
00:35:35.12\00:35:38.14
But evidently God
saw in Nebuchadnezzar
00:35:38.34\00:35:43.02
something that nobody else saw
00:35:43.12\00:35:44.83
because you find God
over and over coming back
00:35:45.03\00:35:49.39
trying to get
Nebuchadnezzar's attention.
00:35:49.59\00:35:52.08
Uh, showed him this
image. Told him what it means.
00:35:53.14\00:35:56.16
Nebuchadnezzar saw that
but it didn't last long.
00:35:56.36\00:36:00.04
Decided that he
would build an image.
00:36:00.24\00:36:03.34
But it wasn't going to
just have a head of gold,
00:36:03.54\00:36:06.01
it was going to be gold
from the head to the foot.
00:36:06.21\00:36:09.04
And so out on the plains
of Dura he had an image built.
00:36:09.24\00:36:13.51
Huge image. Called in all of
his governors and his officers
00:36:13.71\00:36:17.58
and everybody.
Had an orchestra there
00:36:17.69\00:36:20.05
and said: "We're going to
play music, and when you hear
00:36:20.25\00:36:22.41
the music all of you
are going to bow down
00:36:22.51\00:36:24.25
and you're going to
worship this... this image. "
00:36:24.45\00:36:28.62
Well, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego were there
00:36:28.82\00:36:32.27
and they said: "King,
we're not going to worship
00:36:32.47\00:36:35.61
your image. "
00:36:35.71\00:36:37.29
And that made
Nebuchadnezzar so mad
00:36:37.49\00:36:39.85
that he said: "Either
you worship that image
00:36:40.05\00:36:43.12
or I'm going to throw
you into the fiery furnace. "
00:36:43.32\00:36:45.76
And they said: "King,
throw us in the fiery furnace
00:36:45.96\00:36:50.15
if you want to, but we're not
going to worship your image. "
00:36:50.25\00:36:52.40
And he said: "Heat that
furnace seven times hotter. "
00:36:52.60\00:36:57.04
So hot that when they threw in
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
00:36:57.24\00:37:02.97
it killed the guards.
00:37:03.07\00:37:04.42
And when they threw them in,
00:37:05.95\00:37:07.47
as
Nebuchadnezzar looked in there,
00:37:07.67\00:37:09.99
here they were walking around.
00:37:10.19\00:37:12.50
And he said: "Didn't we
throw three men in here?
00:37:12.70\00:37:17.43
I see four...
00:37:17.73\00:37:19.88
One like the Son of God. "
00:37:20.08\00:37:23.60
Must have been
something distinctly different.
00:37:23.80\00:37:26.04
He told Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego "Come out. "
00:37:26.24\00:37:30.31
When they came
out of there, folks,
00:37:30.51\00:37:32.98
there wasn't even the
smell of smoke on them.
00:37:33.19\00:37:35.99
Not even the hair was singed.
00:37:36.19\00:37:38.85
Well, you know,
that got his attention...
00:37:39.15\00:37:43.30
for a little bit. You know, got
his attention for a little bit.
00:37:43.50\00:37:46.69
But it isn't too
long until Nebuchadnezzar
00:37:46.89\00:37:49.70
is kind of, uh, you know...
00:37:49.90\00:37:52.11
thinking how great
he is... how wonderful.
00:37:52.31\00:37:55.78
This is a sketch of Babylon.
00:37:55.98\00:37:58.68
I want to show you a little
bit because Nebuchadnezzar
00:37:58.89\00:38:00.91
has lavished upon this city
00:38:01.11\00:38:04.16
all the things he's
fought nation after nation.
00:38:04.36\00:38:06.92
Brought gold and silver.
00:38:07.12\00:38:08.32
He's made this
city like none other.
00:38:08.52\00:38:10.77
You're looking at the walls.
00:38:10.97\00:38:12.97
There were two sets of
walls that went around the city.
00:38:13.17\00:38:15.72
One set was wide enough
that two chariots could race
00:38:15.75\00:38:19.78
side by side around
the top of the wall.
00:38:19.98\00:38:22.46
The walls were
over 100 feet high.
00:38:22.56\00:38:24.91
Right there as you
see the ramp going across
00:38:25.11\00:38:28.74
is what is
called the Ishtar Gate.
00:38:28.94\00:38:31.63
That's the Ishtar Gate.
I'm going to show you tonight
00:38:31.83\00:38:35.48
the Ishtar Gate.
This is not a replica.
00:38:35.68\00:38:39.73
This is the Ishtar Gate.
00:38:39.93\00:38:43.42
You see, Germany
went in and excavated...
00:38:43.92\00:38:49.84
went in and took the
things out of Babylon.
00:38:50.04\00:38:53.80
They sent men over there
and they took that gate apart
00:38:54.01\00:38:57.40
brick by brick
and tablet by tablet.
00:38:57.61\00:39:02.07
And they numbered them
and they brought them all back
00:39:02.28\00:39:05.76
and they put them back together.
00:39:05.96\00:39:07.63
Now this is inside
the Pergamon Museum
00:39:07.83\00:39:11.74
in Britain... I mean in Berlin.
00:39:11.94\00:39:14.17
Because of that it
doesn't look too big.
00:39:14.38\00:39:18.09
Let me tell you, that
gate is over 85 feet high.
00:39:18.29\00:39:22.50
To give you a little
idea of the size of it.
00:39:22.70\00:39:25.45
Those are clay...
brick or clay tablets.
00:39:25.65\00:39:30.82
Look at the color.
They haven't done anything.
00:39:31.02\00:39:34.85
That's exactly
the way they were.
00:39:35.05\00:39:36.55
Marvelous. This will give
you a little better look at it.
00:39:36.75\00:39:39.91
Those clay tablets
were there and they stand.
00:39:40.11\00:39:43.03
That's been
thousands of years, folks.
00:39:43.16\00:39:45.42
He lavished upon that
city until it was looked upon
00:39:45.63\00:39:49.77
the city that was
impregnable, could not be taken.
00:39:49.97\00:39:53.29
They had enough food
inside the city to last them
00:39:53.49\00:39:55.85
for 40 years
without ever going outside.
00:39:56.05\00:39:58.09
Inside the city was what
was called the Hanging Gardens.
00:39:58.29\00:40:03.23
Nebuchadnezzar... that's one
of the 7 Wonders of the World.
00:40:03.44\00:40:06.87
He had that made for his wife
00:40:07.07\00:40:09.81
because she was
from the mountain country
00:40:10.01\00:40:12.19
and Babylon sits out on
the plain. So he built that
00:40:12.40\00:40:15.88
to remind her of
her mountain home.
00:40:16.08\00:40:18.25
Seven Hanging Gardens
in the city of Babylon.
00:40:18.45\00:40:22.50
Wonderful place. This is
a statement that was found
00:40:22.70\00:40:26.26
on a clay tablet in
Babylon. This is what it says:
00:40:26.46\00:40:30.40
But God had told him
that wasn't going to happen.
00:40:38.72\00:40:41.69
But he didn't
want to accept that.
00:40:41.89\00:40:44.33
Wanted it to last forever.
00:40:44.53\00:40:46.48
Nebuchadnezzar went ahead,
built his kingdom and all.
00:40:46.68\00:40:49.53
And God gave him a dream again.
00:40:49.73\00:40:53.00
And God said: "Nebuchadnezzar,
here's a great tree.
00:40:53.20\00:40:57.53
The birds nest in the tree.
The beasts get shade under it.
00:40:57.74\00:41:02.26
It feeds all
these and everything. "
00:41:02.36\00:41:05.00
Said: "This great
tree takes everything
00:41:05.11\00:41:07.42
but a Holy One
came and cut it down. "
00:41:07.62\00:41:10.70
And he said: "Seven
times would pass over it. "
00:41:10.90\00:41:14.37
He didn't know what it meant.
00:41:14.57\00:41:17.58
Called in Daniel.
Had Daniel interpret it.
00:41:17.78\00:41:22.07
Daniel said: "King,
give your heart to God.
00:41:22.27\00:41:26.59
Change your ways,
because if you don't
00:41:26.79\00:41:30.06
then you're going
to lose your kingdom. "
00:41:30.26\00:41:32.63
Watch. He said: "Quit
being so... " How should I put?
00:41:32.83\00:41:36.39
"so pompous and
quit being so proud. "
00:41:36.59\00:41:39.27
Well, this is what happened.
00:41:39.47\00:41:41.72
This is 12 months
after he had the vision.
00:41:43.42\00:41:45.50
I mean, he's
really laying it on thick.
00:42:04.09\00:42:06.84
He had been warned.
00:42:20.52\00:42:22.87
Twelve months later
exactly as God said.
00:42:23.07\00:42:25.81
Or seven years.
00:42:36.50\00:42:37.83
Seven years he went out and
he ate grass like an animal.
00:43:07.57\00:43:12.32
Changed. I mean, he
had finally woke up.
00:43:43.01\00:43:47.52
Change of heart in his life.
00:43:47.72\00:43:50.14
OK, watch. Over and
over. Now folks, a principle in
00:43:51.13\00:43:55.67
in understanding Bible
prophecy is simply this:
00:43:55.88\00:43:58.21
that God repeats and enlarges.
00:43:58.41\00:44:02.01
Repeats and
enlarges... that's a principle.
00:44:02.21\00:44:05.17
We have just looked at Daniel 2.
00:44:05.37\00:44:07.70
Now we're going to
take a look at Daniel 7.
00:44:07.90\00:44:09.75
Watch Him repeat and enlarge.
00:44:09.95\00:44:12.13
OK, Daniel has now had a dream.
00:44:23.10\00:44:25.30
All right. In Bible prophecy
00:44:33.31\00:44:36.59
wind represents war, strife.
00:44:36.79\00:44:39.88
Water represents people.
00:44:40.09\00:44:43.07
And so what it's saying
here is there was war and strife
00:44:43.27\00:44:45.69
among the people
and as a result of that
00:44:45.89\00:44:48.47
So here, four beasts
are rising out of the sea.
00:44:53.12\00:44:55.91
And it tells us the first one...
00:44:56.11\00:44:58.12
That was the first
beast. This is Babylon.
00:45:04.70\00:45:07.97
Says here that this beast
raised itself up on its feet.
00:45:09.21\00:45:14.40
That is because of the
conversion of Nebuchadnezzar.
00:45:21.72\00:45:25.24
That is the only
beast in this Bible, folks,
00:45:25.44\00:45:28.51
that says a man's
heart was given to it.
00:45:28.71\00:45:31.28
That was because
of his conversion.
00:45:31.58\00:45:34.24
But it speaks of this
lion that had eagle's wings.
00:45:34.44\00:45:38.21
I'm going to take you back to
that picture that I showed you
00:45:38.24\00:45:43.05
of the Ishtar Gate.
00:45:43.25\00:45:44.48
If you can see it,
you see the lion there?
00:45:44.68\00:45:47.32
If you look closely the
different color down there
00:45:47.52\00:45:52.64
you can see the wing on that
lion. See it coming down there?
00:45:52.84\00:45:57.35
That's the wing
on the lion there.
00:45:57.55\00:46:00.84
That's what they
used to represent Babylon.
00:46:01.04\00:46:03.10
In fact, England did some
excavating on Babylon of old.
00:46:03.30\00:46:08.07
And if you go to the
British Museum they have
00:46:08.27\00:46:10.09
statues of lions
with eagle's wings
00:46:10.29\00:46:13.47
that they took from Babylon.
00:46:13.67\00:46:15.11
So it represented...
00:46:15.21\00:46:16.35
So this lion represented
00:46:16.55\00:46:18.86
Babylon. This becomes important
00:46:19.06\00:46:22.31
because it's one of the heads
00:46:22.52\00:46:25.55
on that beast in Revelation 17
00:46:25.75\00:46:29.46
where it says:
"Five have fallen. "
00:46:29.66\00:46:34.09
Becomes very, very
important for that reason.
00:46:34.29\00:46:38.03
Daniel the 5th chapter...
00:46:39.59\00:46:41.72
Let me explain
what's happened here.
00:46:50.30\00:46:52.59
Belshazzar, folks, is actually
Nebuchadnezzar's grandson.
00:46:52.79\00:46:58.03
Nebuchadnezzar's
son was Nabonidus.
00:46:58.23\00:47:03.33
Nabonidus. And Nabonidus
just didn't have a real interest
00:47:03.53\00:47:08.10
in the kingdom.
00:47:08.30\00:47:09.79
And so he took some soldiers
and went off and fought some
00:47:09.99\00:47:14.06
battles and so forth
00:47:14.26\00:47:15.48
but he turned the running
of the nation and everything
00:47:15.68\00:47:18.32
over to his son. By
this time, Nebuchadnezzar
00:47:18.52\00:47:22.96
has died and so Belshazzar
is running the kingdom.
00:47:23.16\00:47:27.16
This is the
grandson of Nebuchadnezzar.
00:47:27.37\00:47:29.77
And so it says
that he's taken...
00:47:29.98\00:47:33.05
having a big feast here.
00:47:34.70\00:47:36.78
Now when Nebuchadnezzar
went down and he overthrew
00:47:48.48\00:47:51.14
Jerusalem and sacked
the place and the temple,
00:47:51.34\00:47:55.66
he took all the gold in the
temple and all the vessels...
00:47:55.87\00:47:59.25
silver and gold vessels, he
took all that back to Babylon
00:47:59.45\00:48:02.57
with him. So here
Belshazzar is having this feast,
00:48:02.68\00:48:06.07
this party if you please,
00:48:06.27\00:48:07.65
and they decide
they want to drink
00:48:07.85\00:48:10.09
out of the golden vessels.
00:48:10.29\00:48:12.78
It's not just their
drinking from them, folks.
00:48:30.76\00:48:33.98
They are actually
- how should I say -
00:48:34.18\00:48:37.67
making fun of
God and what He did
00:48:37.87\00:48:42.51
because it says here:
00:48:42.71\00:48:44.23
They praised these gods.
00:48:53.64\00:48:55.18
They were saying how they were
greater than the God of Israel.
00:48:55.38\00:48:58.66
That's what they were doing.
00:48:58.86\00:49:00.86
And as a result of that...
00:49:01.06\00:49:02.51
I mean, here they
are having their party.
00:49:15.44\00:49:17.64
Everything's going
along and all of a sudden
00:49:17.84\00:49:20.69
over on the wall a
bloodless hand begins to write.
00:49:20.89\00:49:25.25
Watch how
Belshazzar reacts to that:
00:49:27.33\00:49:31.11
When he saw that,
he... I mean, everything...
00:49:44.85\00:49:49.74
he realized he had
come to the place where
00:49:49.94\00:49:54.83
he didn't know what to do.
00:49:55.03\00:49:56.79
And so, what did they do?
00:49:56.99\00:50:00.13
Called in the wise men.
00:50:00.33\00:50:02.39
Asked them to read what the
hand had written on the wall.
00:50:03.65\00:50:06.84
None of them... none
of them could read it.
00:50:08.07\00:50:11.33
Watch what takes place here:
00:50:11.53\00:50:13.10
This is the grandmother...
00:50:14.70\00:50:16.67
this is
Belshazzar's grandmother...
00:50:16.87\00:50:20.02
She heard about this;
heard what was going on.
00:50:25.01\00:50:27.44
They called in Daniel.
00:51:20.59\00:51:22.77
Belshazzar said:
"I'll tell you what.
00:51:24.50\00:51:26.06
If you can tell
me what that says,
00:51:26.26\00:51:27.78
I'll make you the
third in the kingdom. "
00:51:27.98\00:51:30.62
See, he was really
second. His father was first,
00:51:30.82\00:51:34.48
him... Said: "I'll make
you third in the kingdom,
00:51:34.68\00:51:36.93
put a gold chain around
your neck, and all this. "
00:51:37.03\00:51:39.60
And Daniel said:
00:51:39.80\00:51:41.37
"You keep your gifts.
00:51:41.58\00:51:42.91
I don't need your gifts. "
00:51:43.11\00:51:45.48
And then he chastised him
very clearly for not listening
00:51:45.68\00:51:51.19
to what had taken place
and following his grandfather.
00:51:51.39\00:51:54.45
And then after he had
finished that, he interpreted
00:51:54.65\00:51:58.98
what it had to say.
00:51:59.18\00:52:00.98
Terrible.
00:52:07.74\00:52:09.64
Terrible.
00:52:14.78\00:52:16.08
Just think, come to
the end of your life
00:52:16.29\00:52:19.37
and say you've been weighed in
the balances and found wanting.
00:52:19.57\00:52:24.66
Terrible.
00:52:25.74\00:52:27.69
Said: "Your
kingdom has been divided
00:52:37.16\00:52:40.37
and given to the
Medes and the Persians. "
00:52:40.57\00:52:43.42
Babylon - the
first one of the five -
00:52:58.86\00:53:04.01
fell just exactly
as the scripture said.
00:53:04.21\00:53:08.63
Notice how accurately
God described everything.
00:53:08.83\00:53:12.27
How it took place just
exactly as God said it would.
00:53:12.47\00:53:17.84
You see, as we go
through these prophecies
00:53:18.04\00:53:20.46
you're going to see how God
showed each one, took place.
00:53:20.66\00:53:24.23
And so we've looked at Daniel 2.
00:53:24.44\00:53:26.79
We looked at Daniel 5, Daniel 7.
00:53:26.99\00:53:30.39
All those that talked
about Babylon, what's happening.
00:53:30.79\00:53:35.09
So Five Have Fallen.
00:53:35.29\00:53:36.85
Our next presentation
will be about the second one.
00:53:37.05\00:53:40.02
Let's bow our heads for prayer.
00:53:40.22\00:53:41.48
Father in Heaven,
00:53:41.68\00:53:43.37
as we see how You
have shown in Your Word
00:53:43.57\00:53:48.84
exactly how
nations come into being
00:53:49.04\00:53:52.85
and how You're the
One that sets up kings and
00:53:53.05\00:53:55.71
takes them down, we pray
that we might also be mindful
00:53:55.81\00:54:00.61
that You're the One
that rules in our lives
00:54:00.81\00:54:03.84
and that we will
surrender our lives to You.
00:54:03.87\00:54:06.71
And that we'll look at Your
Word, study it, follow it...
00:54:07.42\00:54:10.99
that we might know
Your will and Your desire.
00:54:11.19\00:54:15.08
Bless each one. For this
we ask in Christ's name, Amen.
00:54:15.28\00:54:20.49
God bless you.
Remember next presentation is
00:54:20.69\00:54:24.57
on the Medes and the Persians.
00:54:24.77\00:54:26.73
I think you'll find as
we go through these five
00:54:26.93\00:54:29.29
it will begin to fill in
more and more all the time.
00:54:29.49\00:54:32.70
So God bless you.
00:54:32.91\00:54:33.93
Stay close to the
Lord Jesus Christ.
00:54:34.14\00:54:36.42
The Bible says in Matthew 13:44
00:54:41.48\00:54:44.94
Every day we pass
by ordinary places
00:54:58.70\00:55:01.32
that may be hiding
something of incredible value.
00:55:01.52\00:55:04.78
Whether buried in a field
or squirreled away in an attic,
00:55:04.98\00:55:08.80
or even an old,
fallen-down house.
00:55:09.00\00:55:11.75
But imagine for a
moment the thrill of stumbling
00:55:11.96\00:55:15.46
upon a treasure
beyond your wildest dreams.
00:55:15.66\00:55:18.63
Will you eagerly
sell everything you have
00:55:18.83\00:55:21.29
to gain something
of much greater value?
00:55:21.49\00:55:24.20
Will you be willing to
endure criticism of friends,
00:55:24.40\00:55:27.53
even family members,
in order to obtain it?
00:55:27.73\00:55:30.63
This parable speaks of the
most incredible treasure of all,
00:55:30.83\00:55:34.32
and it's hidden in God's Word.
00:55:34.52\00:55:37.25
That treasure is
Jesus Christ himself.
00:55:37.45\00:55:41.38
But sadly, even
those who claim Him
00:55:42.01\00:55:45.61
often don't recognize
this infinite treasure.
00:55:45.81\00:55:48.81
Just watch how quickly they
toss aside what the Bible says
00:55:49.01\00:55:53.28
when it becomes inconvenient.
00:55:53.48\00:55:55.94
Friends, the treasure of the
gospel are hidden in God's Word.
00:55:56.98\00:56:01.84
Many of its readers have
eyes, but they do not see.
00:56:02.04\00:56:06.27
They have ears,
but they don't hear.
00:56:06.47\00:56:09.37
They never find
its hidden treasure.
00:56:09.57\00:56:12.52
In fact, they may
read it over and over
00:56:12.72\00:56:15.89
and never see it.
00:56:16.09\00:56:17.13
Even worse, many
times they do see it
00:56:17.33\00:56:20.03
but think the price is too high.
00:56:20.23\00:56:22.64
Like the Jews of old
00:56:22.84\00:56:24.63
who rejected the Messiah
because He was not in harmony
00:56:24.83\00:56:27.99
with their ambitious desires,
00:56:28.19\00:56:30.12
many won't seek
heavenly treasure
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because earthly
treasure is more alluring.
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They reason that if they
could just obtain the things
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which they desire
they would have peace.
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Sadly, they don't realize
that they carry the disturber
00:56:41.46\00:56:45.30
of their own peace
inside their hearts.
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They pass by the
One who declared:
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"Peace I leave with
you. My peace I give to you.
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Not as the world
gives do I give to you.
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Let not your heart be troubled,
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neither let it be afraid. "
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The treasure of the Bible
are revealed only to those
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who carefully study its pages
00:57:07.33\00:57:09.20
with a humble
and searching heart.
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Our whole ministry is dedicated
to helping men and women
00:57:11.52\00:57:14.76
find the priceless
treasure hidden in the Bible.
00:57:14.79\00:57:17.99
We pray that you
will not be satisfied
00:57:18.19\00:57:21.08
with surface truths
00:57:21.28\00:57:23.06
but instead you'll want
to unearth the precious gems
00:57:23.26\00:57:26.97
that others pass by.
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Dig into the Bible as a
miner digs into the earth
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to find veins of
gold. Don't give up
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until you have found
a relationship with God,
00:57:35.63\00:57:37.83
and then join us in spreading
the good news to the world.
00:57:38.03\00:57:42.53
Please consider what you can do
00:57:42.56\00:57:44.34
for those who still
don't know about Jesus.
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As the Holy Spirit impresses,
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please send your
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Your gifts help bring
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