Participants: Phillip Sizemore (Host)
Series Code: LOE
Program Code: LOE000023
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00:01 Harvest truly is plenteous,
00:03 but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore, 00:05 the Lord of the harvest, that he will, 00:07 he will send forth laborers into his harvest. 00:10 Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 00:13 "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" 00:17 Then said I, "Here am I, send me, send me". 00:23 Life on the Edge will enable you to be an 00:25 effective harvester for the Lord. 00:27 We now invite you into our 00:29 classroom to come, experience Life. 00:43 Welcome back to Pine Lake Retreat 00:44 in sunny Groveland, Florida. 00:47 I'm glad everybody is able to get up 00:48 this morning and be here on time. 00:51 And I want to welcome you at home for being 00:52 here with us that, that you are with us today. 00:54 We're glad that you was able to make it. 00:57 Today, we gonna be going over 00:58 the second part of the Judgment, Judgment 2, 01:02 actually the Judgment 2, part 2. 01:04 Yesterday, went over the Judgment 2, part 1 01:06 and you can find that on our website, 01:08 if you are tuning in right now for the first time. 01:10 And we're going to pick up in the middle of a study 01:12 and it seems confusing to you. 01:14 You can...you can actually go on to the website or... 01:16 or maybe you can actually order the DVD. 01:18 You will be able to do that as well 01:19 if you want to have your own hard copy of it, 01:20 you can do that at www.comeexperiencelife.com. 01:24 And you can also download the study guide 01:26 that goes along with what we are doing here, 01:28 you can download that at the same place. 01:30 And so what we are going to be doing right now 01:32 is going into the second half of that study. 01:35 Yesterday, we covered all the details about how 01:38 we get up to the point of an investigative judgment 01:41 is going to begin sometime after what year according 01:44 what we just... if we, let's stop, 01:46 let's go this way, let's just stop at Daniel chapter 7. 01:48 We were at Daniel chapter 7, you remember that? 01:50 And we actually set a date, 01:51 that the judgment has to begin sometime 01:53 after what year, does anybody remember? 01:54 1798, yes, when he receives the deadly wounded there, 01:57 the antichrist receives a deadly wound. 01:59 After that according to Daniel 7 the judgment will begin, 02:02 we went through three times in Daniel 7. 02:05 It shows three times in there the order of events, 02:07 Babylon, Medo Persia, Greece, Rome. 02:10 Rome is divided, then the little horn power rises 02:12 and then the little horn makes war with the saints 02:14 and wars against the saints. 02:15 And then after he wars with the saints, 02:17 the Bible says, it ought to go for a certain time, 02:20 and then the judgment begins. 02:21 And then what happens after the judgment? 02:24 The coming of the Christ, right, we got to go back, 02:26 we get to go to heaven, 02:27 it's all over this world just ends, right. 02:28 And so, he laid that out three times in a row in Daniel 7, 02:32 and then we went to the Daniel chapter 8, 02:34 and we showed that Daniel chapter 8 started, 02:36 instead with Babylon like Daniel 2, and Daniel 7 did. 02:39 What did Daniel chapter 8 start with, what kingdom? 02:42 Medo Persia, and then I made the statement there yesterday. 02:45 And this where we're gonna get to the proving 02:46 point out of this today. 02:47 But the Medo-Persian Empire, 02:49 whenever, the reason the Bible starts right there 02:52 is because it was during their reign, 02:54 the Medo Persia was reigning, 02:55 whenever the time line part of prophecy of Daniel 8. 02:58 Whenever that timeline prophecy starts, 03:00 the Medo Persians would be ruling. 03:02 So the reason I didn't start with Babylon, 03:03 even though Babylon was still ruling 03:04 when Daniel was having this vision. 03:05 It begins with the Medo-Persian Empire 03:07 and the reason is so is because the whole beginning 03:10 of the timeline prophecy began at 457 BC. 03:14 In the 457 BC during that timeframe 03:17 when the Medo-Persian Empire was ruling. 03:18 So that's kind gives us a little bit of overview 03:20 of what we were at yesterday, 03:22 and we'll touch on that again today, 03:23 we're going in more detail with it today. 03:26 Right now, we'll go the screen here, 03:27 you see we're at the 2300 day, the Judgment 2 study. 03:30 And...and when you label that in your Bible, 03:33 as you're marking your Bible, you would be labeled with J2, 03:35 you won't write Judgment 2, that will take a lot of space. 03:37 So, you just write J2, you know, 03:40 when you're marking through your Bible. 03:41 And we looked yesterday, the purpose of this study, 03:43 the purpose is, the end time, pre-advent judgment commenced 03:47 in 1844 AD when Jesus Christ entered 03:50 into the Most Holy Place of the Heavenly Sanctuary. 03:52 So the purpose of the study is to show that, 03:55 to show that from the Bible. 03:56 And some people are saying how in the world 03:58 can you get that out of the Bible? 03:59 Stick around and you'll see. You'll find out. 04:02 And then let's go on to the next slide here. 04:05 Center it, we're centering it on the very fact, 04:07 the center of the study, what it's showing, 04:09 what we are trying to show, it says, 04:10 Jesus is fair, Jesus is fair, 04:12 therefore He judges us before He gives us our reward. 04:15 And you remember yesterday, we went through all the times, 04:18 not all the times obviously but quite a few times in the Bible. 04:20 Where...where before Jesus before God would ever pass 04:24 judgment on somebody, what would He first do? 04:27 He would investigate, right? He would give them opportunity. 04:30 When Adam and Eve sinned, He came down 04:31 and He questioned them. 04:32 He didn't just come down and pass judgment 04:33 because that would give somebody an opportunity 04:36 possibly to say, I'm not sure He was fair with that. 04:38 But when He comes down and He investigates, 04:40 they actually confess out of their own mouth, 04:42 yeah, you're right. And you know, 04:44 what the Bible teaches, at the end of the Judgment, 04:46 at the end when Christ comes, 04:47 what's the Bible says is going to happen, 04:48 every knee will bow, everyone's gonna say, 04:50 hey, He was fair and just. But how can they say 04:53 that unless He's first and they know, 04:55 they understand that what He has done has been fair and just. 04:57 He actually spends time to investigate, 04:59 and He, and its proved, it just proved positive 05:01 that God is a God of love, 05:03 a God of fairness and a God of Justice. 05:05 So, you know, there... there's a lot of forces out 05:07 there right now in the world that...that try to teach 05:09 that God is none of those things. 05:11 They try to teach that God is not fair, not just, 05:14 and as we went through these studies, 05:15 we've seen some of those points brought about like, 05:17 like the devil what have you believe 05:18 that whenever a sinner that's lost, 05:22 whenever they get their reward, 05:23 that their reward is actually eternity in the flames of hell. 05:26 And as it paints God like as a tyrant, 05:28 remember we studied that, 05:29 makes Him look like a scoundrel, doesn't it? 05:31 because we would never do that to our kids. 05:33 But yet God would do that to His creative beings whom He loves. 05:36 It didn't make sense, we went through the Bible, 05:38 and we showed, we done the... or the hell study there. 05:40 The very fact that God is God of love, 05:42 and He's not going to burn sinners forever. 05:44 So you have the force in the world teaching 05:46 that God is a tyrant and then God comes along, 05:48 he wants us to show that as His people, 05:50 He wants us to present from His word 05:52 and in our lives that God is not a tyrant like that. 05:54 And He goes through each of the studies, 05:56 you'll find out God has a day of rest for us. 05:58 And the devil is trying to take that away. 06:00 He wants us working 24 hours a day, 06:01 seven days a week, and never spend that time with Him. 06:04 And so as we're going through this study, 06:06 now we are finding out in the 2300 day, 06:08 the judgment scene. Some people want 06:10 to reject that altogether, that is not a judgment, 06:12 but you think about it. If it was not a judgment, 06:14 if God doesn't take time to do the judging 06:17 and make sure that He's fair and just in all that He does. 06:20 Then that would say, someone could say, 06:21 you know, what? 06:22 I was lost but God was unfair with me. 06:25 But if God took time to look at your case. 06:27 If God took the time to make sure that... 06:29 that the people who are going to be in heaven 06:31 are going to be safe out there 06:32 for at least the ages of eternity? 06:34 And...and the people that were lost, 06:35 deserved to be lost, and He took the time to do that, 06:37 then you can say that God is fair, and God is just. 06:40 We'd all be able to confess that wouldn't we. 06:41 You know, in the book of Nahum chapter 1 and verse 9, 06:44 it says that, "Affliction and sin, 06:45 it will not rise its ugly head up a second time." 06:48 And so after Jesus comes, how could He be sure 06:50 that this stuff is not going to happen again? 06:52 He's first done a Judgment and He has looked at the hearts, 06:55 He has looked at the case of each one of us, 06:56 and He said, you know what? I can trust Darlene, right, 06:59 I can trust Shalida here, I can trust Thausen, 07:01 He's making a point that I know I can trust Him 07:04 for eternity because I have looked at their case. 07:06 And so heaven is going to be a safe place. 07:08 You know, I have heard people say, 07:09 you're not going to lock your doors in heaven, 07:10 my house ain't gonna have a door. 07:12 You know, why? 07:15 Here we go now, we left off that yesterday 07:16 in Daniel chapter 2, Daniel chapter 8 rather, 07:18 Daniel chapter 8, we went through 07:20 all the way down through verse 27. 07:22 Now I'm just gonna pick up right now, 07:23 with a little short review here, 07:25 just so we can kind of fill in the blank here. 07:27 Remember we looked at two words for vision in Daniel chapter 8. 07:34 Yeah, Daniel chapter 8, we looked at the two words 07:36 for the vision like the word was translated vision. 07:37 Two different ways, two different words 07:40 that are translated vision in Daniel chapter 8, 07:42 one is we look in the verses 1, 2, 3, 15 to 17 07:46 all those verses and Daniel 9:21, 07:48 Hazon, speaking of the entire vision. 07:50 And then, but then when it gets down 07:52 to the very end of Daniel chapter 8 07:53 verse, we would look at the verse 26 and 27, 07:56 He uses a different word, and the word used there is Mareh 07:59 And we started showing that it is going to be a link. 08:01 Now, we're refreshing here because excuse me, 08:04 this is going to tie right in to where we're going to 08:06 when we go to Daniel chapter 9. 08:07 But look what he says here 08:08 in Daniel chapter 8 verse 26 and 27 once again, 08:11 "And the Mareh, of the evenings and the mornings 08:13 which was told is true, 08:14 that word vision there is translated 08:16 from the word Mareh. Therefore, wherefore, 08:19 shut up the vision or the Mareh, 08:21 for it shall be there for many days." 08:23 So the vision is still here for many days, 08:25 "And I Daniel fainted in was sick certain days; 08:27 afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; 08:29 and I was astonished at the Mareh, 08:31 but none understood it." 08:33 None understood what part of the vision, 08:36 you know again, it's very interesting 08:37 that when he talks about the Mareh 08:39 the vision the 2300 days, he says, 08:41 that's the part that was not understood. 08:43 And you know that... that's the part 08:44 that was not understood because all the first parts, 08:46 he explained it pretty clearly. 08:47 I mean we might not understand all little details 08:49 and everything, a little horn as you are going 08:50 through reading that, but you do understand 08:52 that Daniel likely understood it was another kingdom 08:54 that was persecuting God's people. 08:55 There was an understanding there, 08:56 there was, it wasn't like, I wonder what in the world 08:58 this is even talking about? 09:00 And so...and so God actually explains in verse 20, 09:02 that that ram was the Medo-Persians, 09:03 and in verse 21 that the rough goat was Greece. 09:06 And then after that he explains that about his other kingdoms, 09:09 this little horn, after these four divide up. 09:11 This little horn rises up, 09:12 and he's persecuting God's people. 09:13 Just like Daniel 7, so it's likely that Daniel 09:16 understood that, right? 09:18 It's likely he understood all that. 09:19 But then he gets down to the last part once again 09:21 in verse 26 and 27. And he uses a different word 09:24 for vision there than he did on the rest of it. 09:26 And when he uses that word for vision, 09:28 he says, I didn't understand this, 09:29 and neither did anybody else. 09:31 So that's the last time as we leave off 09:33 in Daniel chapter 8 at the end of it, 09:35 it's the last point you find Daniel 09:36 not understanding something. 09:37 Because if you go to Daniel chapter 9 now, 09:39 we're going to go to Daniel chapter 9 09:41 and I am going to do something a little bit different here. 09:42 You look up, you look on the slide, 09:44 and when you give the study 09:45 in Daniel chapter 9 verse 20 to 24 09:47 where you go to and study, 09:48 just generally you just jump right into it. 09:50 But since we're teaching a class here, 09:52 and we're spending a little more time on some of the details, 09:55 I want to help you to understand what happened 09:58 in the prayer. Because it's very interesting, 10:00 Daniel begins, Daniel 9, and he says this, verse 1, 10:05 "In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, 10:07 the seed of the Medes, which was made King 10:10 over the realm of the Chaldeans; 10:11 In the first year of his reign I Daniel did not understand, 10:14 is that what it says? 10:15 Verse 2 what it says? I Daniel understood, 10:19 so he says, so he's not asking for an understanding here, 10:21 is he? He says, I understood 10:23 by books the number of the years whereof the word 10:26 of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, 10:27 that he would accomplish 70 years 10:29 in desolation of Jerusalem." 10:31 Now, as I've read about this, 10:32 I've thought a few things that you can just kind 10:35 of follow along here a little bit. 10:37 Daniel sees this vision, in Daniel chapter 8, 10:39 he sees this vision and he understands that, 10:41 that it says in 2300 more, unless he says, 10:44 it literal days, that's like six and half years 10:46 or something like that. 10:47 Then the sanctuary will be cleansed, 10:49 but he's reading Jeremiah, the prophet. 10:50 And Jeremiah says that at the end of 70 years ago 10:53 and he delivered. Well, Daniel looks and it's like, 10:56 the 70 years is almost up. 10:58 What's this 2300 more year thing gonna be? 11:01 What this all about? You mean, I got to wait 11:02 that much longer before the sanctuary is restored 11:04 and cleansed here, right? Because Daniel is looking 11:07 to the earthly sanctuary. He is like, I got to wait 11:09 all this time before everything works out. 11:12 And you can imagine, he's stressful right? 11:14 So, he begins this prayer, under stress he begins 11:16 a prayer he says, Lord, he turns 11:18 to the only thing he has for help, 11:19 and he starts confessing his sins. 11:21 He says, "I set my face to the Lord to look 11:23 and seek in prayer and supplications 11:25 and fasting in sackcloth, and ashes." 11:27 That's a good way to pray. 11:29 Right, fasting, and you know with sackcloth, 11:32 and ashes, that what they put dead people in, 11:34 dead people wrapped in sackcloth, 11:35 and the ashes that's what you turn back 11:37 to ashes right when you're dead. 11:38 Basically, he's thinking himself 11:39 as the dead person before God. 11:40 He is so humbles so... so humiliating himself, 11:43 you know, what he say, I'm nothing, Lord. 11:44 But I want to answer to prayer here, 11:46 fasting dead people don't eat, right? 11:48 So it's just simply just like admitting 11:50 that he's a nobody, he's nothing and that he... 11:53 that he cannot depend on himself for anything 11:56 that he's gonna do, he's going to be depending on... 11:57 depending upon God, that's his confession here, right? 11:59 And then he goes through these little confession thing, 12:01 and again I normally don't do this in this study 12:04 when I give the study. 12:05 But for the sake of us right here, 12:07 I want you to understand where Daniel is coming from? 12:08 As we go into the explanation, you know, he was struggling 12:12 with something here, he didn't understand 12:13 how could be 2300 more years or 2300 days 12:15 before the sanctuary is cleansed, 12:17 when it should be time to cleanse it now. 12:19 So there's a struggle going on. 12:22 "And I prayed unto the LORD my God, 12:24 and made my confession, and said, O Lord, 12:26 the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant 12:29 and mercy to them that love him, 12:31 and to them that keep his commandments." 12:32 Now, I'm going to go just out of Bible study 12:34 and then I'm going to do little preaching, okay. 12:36 It says, that God keeps the covenant with who? 12:41 Those who love Him and do what? Keep His commandments, 12:44 isn't that interesting? Daniel himself says, 12:46 hey, you know God keeps his covenant 12:48 with those who love Him and keep His commandments. 12:49 So therefore, if those don't love, 12:51 the people don't love Him, and don't keep His commandments, 12:53 does God keeps His covenant with them? 12:55 No, no, it's the point, so God's covenant is made with who? 12:58 Those who love Him and keep His commandments, 12:59 He keeps it with them. We have sinned, 13:01 he says, you know, I have heard it said many times 13:04 you know that, you never see anything recorded for Daniel, 13:07 ever done anything wrong? 13:08 There are just a few people in the Bible, 13:09 you find that about and Daniel being 13:10 is one of those like he never, not that he ever sinned, 13:13 we know that all sinned and fallen 13:14 short of the glory of God, except Jesus Christ, right? 13:17 But you never find anything recorded 13:18 that Daniel done anything wrong. 13:19 Right here, Daniel is confessing his sins. 13:22 And look what he says, he says, 13:24 "We have sinned, we committed iniquity, 13:25 he's putting himself right with him, 13:27 we've done wickedly, we've rebelled, 13:29 in departing from your precepts and your judgments." 13:31 Look what he says in verse 6, 13:32 "Neither have we listened unto your servants the prophets, 13:37 which spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, 13:40 our fathers, and to all the people of the land." 13:42 Now I wanna ask you something here. 13:45 What prophet was a contemporary of Daniel 13:47 while Daniel was in Jerusalem doing his preaching, 13:49 or when Daniel in Jerusalem right 13:51 before they got taken captive and moved away to Babylon, 13:55 right before that happened, there was a prophet, 13:56 he's in the Bible, and he was saying, 13:58 that all the stuff was going to happen, 13:59 but nobody was believing him, who was that? 14:02 He was Jeremiah, exactly right, 14:03 and you know what something interesting about Jeremiah 14:05 when you read Jeremiah chapter 1. 14:06 Jeremiah was just a young kid, he was young guy, 14:09 and he's like Lord I can't go and speak to these people, 14:11 they are not going to listen to me. 14:12 And Daniel would have been one of the young people 14:14 in Babylon in that time that likely wasn't listening 14:17 to the thing that Jeremiah had to say. 14:18 And you can't slam Daniel for that, 14:20 because it would've been just about like any of us here 14:23 that you have some guy come along. 14:25 And he's preaching a message that's contrary 14:27 what all the leaders in the church and the pastors 14:29 in church and things like that are saying, 14:30 although he is sent from God, 14:31 Jeremiah was sent from God, right? 14:33 But they were all rejecting him and probably 14:34 all the young people in town said, you know, 14:37 Jeremiah can't be right, let me look at him, 14:39 he hasn't been through, he hasn't been through seminary, 14:41 he hasn't done anything, he's just a young guy. 14:42 And then all the professors of theology over here, 14:45 they are saying he's wrong that God's gonna protect us 14:47 and we're gonna be kept safe. 14:48 You understand what maybe went on Daniel's heart, 14:50 and the other people around? But who ended up being right? 14:53 Jeremiah, and so Daniel then he thinks, 14:54 can you imagine, he's like the old man now 14:56 he's thinking back? You know Jeremiah, 14:58 was saying that this would happen, 14:59 but seems like in his book he wrote something about 15:01 the time we would be in bondage. 15:03 So, he's studying the book of Jeremiah 15:05 the prophet he says, and lo and behold, 15:07 he realizes that Jeremiah was right. 15:11 All the things that he said was right. 15:12 And also God is getting ready to deliver us 15:14 because we are at the end of 70 years. 15:16 And so he starts praying, God, forgive me, 15:19 I never listened to the prophets before, 15:21 can you imagine? It...it's hard to be humble 15:24 yourself and admit that maybe the prophets were right 15:27 and I was wrong, isn't it? If you reject it, 15:30 it's hard to turn back around and say, 15:31 you know I was actually the one who was wrong, 15:33 man of God there, right? And so Daniel begins to 15:35 and keeps going through his prayer. 15:36 Now we're going to get into the, 15:37 back to the study portion of this. 15:39 That was just a little extra, 15:40 and we don't charge extra for that. 15:42 You know, and we're going to get into the study portion now, 15:45 we're going to Daniel Chapter 9 and verse 20. 15:47 Daniel 9 and verse 20, 15:49 this is like the end of the thought, 15:50 the end of the prayer. 15:52 You can read through this prayer, 15:53 it takes about, I mean, if you read at the normal pace, 15:56 and you don't go really fast, probably just couple of minutes 15:57 to read through this prayer. 15:58 And just keep that in mind as we go through this 16:00 as I think it's very interesting. 16:01 "While I was yes, speaking, and praying, 16:03 and confessing my sins, and the sin of the people, 16:07 Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD 16:12 my God for the holy mountain of my God; 16:15 While I was yet speaking in prayer, 16:16 even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision. 16:21 Now...now just... just what word you suppose 16:23 he's used there when he uses it? 16:25 Hazon, yeah, right because he's talking 16:26 about the whole entire vision, I saw him in the entire vision, 16:29 all the way back to the beginning, 16:30 the man that I saw when I saw that big vision hazon, right. 16:33 The man I saw on the vision at the beginning, 16:36 being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time 16:39 of the evening oblation." The evening offering, 16:41 that's what the oblation, the evening offering, 16:43 you know they have.... they would spend Jews 16:46 especially those who worship and he should be doing now, 16:49 you know morning, and in afternoon 16:51 and the evening they would be worshiping God, 16:52 special times they would spend there. 16:54 And so this is the time of the evening. 16:56 "And he informed me, and talked with me, 16:58 and said, O Daniel, I've not come forth 17:01 to give you skill and understanding." 17:04 Let me ask you, when is the last time 17:06 that Daniel needed any skill of understanding? 17:10 When was it? Back in Daniel chapter...chapter 8, 17:14 the last two verses 26 and 27, 26 and 27, the last two verses. 17:18 And when you get to verse 27 he says, 17:20 "No one understood the Mareh, 17:23 the vision, and no one understood it, 17:25 and so therefore he fainted, he was sick 17:27 and that was the end of it, right? 17:28 He didn't understanding any of that. 17:30 But then you get to Daniel chapter 9, 17:31 just one chapter later, Daniel can still hear you, 17:35 I've no place for his asking for any understanding 17:37 in Daniel chapter 9. He never comes to Daniel Chapter 9, 17:39 and says, Lord please give me understanding of this 17:41 or give me understanding of that. 17:42 He as a matter of fact says, hey, I understood 17:45 that Jeremiah said we be here 70 years, 17:47 it wasn't a need for understanding, 17:49 it was that he did understand what the Bible is saying. 17:51 The last time we find him not understanding something 17:54 is at the end of the vision of Daniel chapter 8. 17:57 And so Gabriel comes here and he says, 17:59 it's the same Gabriel, the same man 18:01 that I saw on the Hazon, the entire vision. 18:04 Now when was the last time that he had a vision? 18:06 In Daniel chapter 8, and the word uses Hazon there, 18:09 so basically the last I had a vision 18:11 that man Gabriel was there, and now, 18:13 he's the same one back now, 18:14 and he's gonna give me understanding. 18:16 And look what he gives an understanding off. 18:17 Verse 23, at the beginning of your supplications, 18:21 did you pick that up? 18:22 I am sorry, at the beginning of your prayer Daniel 18:26 and at the beginning of your supplication 18:28 at that time the commandment came forth, 18:30 and I am come to show you; for you are greatly beloved: 18:33 therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. 18:35 So Daniel soon as he started praying, 18:36 God says, okay, Gabriel, go give him understanding. 18:39 So...so, Gabriel standing there before Jesus Christ, 18:41 he's standing there in heaven, right? 18:43 And God says, okay, go give Daniel understanding, 18:45 and Daniel travels from... from where God's presence is, 18:49 to where Daniel is. 18:51 In a matter of just a few minutes, 18:52 how long that prayer was, 18:54 interrupting in the middle of his prayer, 18:55 that's moving fast, isn't it? 18:57 That's like the speed of thought, 18:59 and so I don't know how God does that, 19:01 I can't wait to find out, you know, I can't wait 19:03 to maybe be able to do that myself, 19:04 be able to travel that fast maybe, 19:05 maybe the angels have some kind of advantage 19:07 when we get to heaven and where we got to hang over 19:09 on their coat on something in order to go that fast. 19:11 I don't know how it's going to workout? 19:12 But I just think that's beautiful and interesting 19:14 the fact that he went from where God was to Daniel 19:16 was in like two minutes. 19:17 And he maybe there before that listen 19:19 to the rest of his prayer, we don't know. 19:21 You know, maybe traveling at the speed of thought, 19:23 beautiful, isn't it? 19:24 So he goes on, he says, "Daniel, you are greatly beloved 19:28 therefore understand the matter and consider the vision." 19:34 What word do you suppose is being used there for vision? 19:37 The Mareh, and it makes a perfect sense, doesn't it? 19:39 Because it was the Mareh, 19:40 that Daniel didn't understand, it was Mareh, 19:42 that word there that Daniel did not understand, 19:45 that was the part he was having trouble with. 19:47 And so he says, "Therefore, I want you now 19:49 to understand the Mareh, the vision, 19:52 the part of the 2300 days. 19:54 Do you see... so you see the tie, 19:56 they were ties two together. 19:57 Because the reason I am bringing... 19:59 bringing that point out because many people reject that. 20:02 He says, oh, no, no, no, he's not talking about 20:03 the 2300 days, he's not leading back to that. 20:05 Brothers and sisters, it's obvious 20:07 he is leading back to that. 20:08 He's using the word, the word used there is completely 20:10 different word than what he was using all the rest 20:12 of time when he was using the word term Hazon, 20:14 it was like He purposely, God purposely had Daniel tied 20:17 those together so that you and I standing here, 20:20 in the time we are standing in... 20:21 in the year 2000... I think I shouldn't date us 20:24 for the video uh.. I'll do it anyway this is done in 2009, 20:28 Now I'll say 2010, and then we'll think 20:29 we done it ahead of time. 20:30 Now how did they done, done yesterday? 20:32 Anyway, but the God knew that we would be sitting here, 20:36 at this time and there will be all kinds 20:38 of deceptions out there in the world, 20:39 you know that. And things and people 20:41 trying to say, hey, this doesn't fit, 20:42 this isn't right, to destroying the faith 20:44 of the people who are trusting in the Lord, 20:46 and realizing that hey, what God has said is true. 20:49 And so he ties it directly here with the wording, 20:51 he ties it to the 2300 days, 20:53 he says, I want to consider the vision 20:55 and understand the matter, 20:57 and consider the vision or the Mareh, 20:59 give you understanding of that. 21:00 Then look at verse 24, "70 weeks are determined 21:04 upon thy people and upon thy holy city, 21:07 to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, 21:09 to make reconciliation for iniquity, 21:10 and to bring in everlasting righteousness, 21:12 and to seal up the vision and prophecy, 21:14 and to anoint the most Holy." 21:16 So all these things are going to happen within this 70... 21:20 70 week time frame. But now, I want you to notice 21:23 something here again in verse 24. 21:25 Because there is word here, 21:26 that it is not really well in the King James 21:30 as far as translate go, and that's the word determined, 21:32 where it says, 70 weeks are determined up on thy people. 21:35 Now the word that you find there in the Hebrew, 21:38 is one, that word is Chatak, 21:40 I don't know if I am saying right 21:41 or not but I just put up there, 21:42 and somebody can let you know about it, 21:44 striking up, Chatak, who said that? 21:46 somebody said that? All right, Scot back there straight me 21:48 on that and so you don't have to write me a letter, 21:51 if I said it right, write Scott a letter 21:53 and if Scott said right, you can write me one. 21:55 Okay, Chatak whatever it is there but in mean 21:57 now here's what's interesting, nowhere else in the Bible, 22:00 do we have that word. So we can't go to another place 22:03 in the Bible and say, let's compare 22:04 and see, what does this word means, right? 22:06 You can't do it that way, but there is something, 22:09 something about that word that you do find 22:10 in other places in Jewish, in Jewish writings. 22:13 The missioner or which is like the, 22:15 it was written in a second, third century AD, 22:17 it was a Bible commentary, 22:20 written on the Jewish Bible commentary, 22:22 uses that same word Chatak several times. 22:25 Right, it uses several times in there. 22:27 And when it uses it, in tenth, it's like 18 times, 22:30 in ten of the 18 times, it's referring to cutting off the, 22:33 the in part of a animal, in an animal sacrifice. 22:37 You know, it talk about the cutting off 22:38 the leg or cutting off, you know, cutting off 22:40 some part of the animal sacrifice. 22:41 So when the word is used in context in other places, 22:44 it's actually talking about cutting something off. 22:47 And when you look at the... 22:48 if you look at maybe in some of the concordances like the... 22:53 oh, strongs or one of those like that, 22:55 it does also define that as one way of saying 22:58 that word, it means to be cut off. 23:00 Are you following? So when he says, 23:03 70 weeks are cut off upon thy people, 23:07 maybe one of your Bibles has that written in translation, 23:09 does anybody have a Bible instead of saying, 23:11 determined it says something like cut off 23:13 in that same version here because everybody 23:14 has a King James version just about in here, right? 23:18 Hey, you are? Decreed, okay. 23:20 70 weeks are decreed upon thy people. 23:22 So there are different translations there, 23:24 and however it is. But the word 23:26 that fits best there, the word that makes 23:28 most sense is 70 weeks are cut off, 23:30 upon thy people and upon the Holy city. 23:31 In other words, there's a 70 week span or 70, 23:35 or 70 weeks and you take a day from your Bible prophecy, 23:38 how long is that? Yes, 70 times 7 is 49 , 23:42 or 490 rather, and so you have got 490 years, 23:44 this decreed, or cut off, or determined upon your people. 23:48 Right, 70 weeks are determined upon the people, 23:51 and that's the starting point for the 70 week prophecy, 23:53 and that's what you find for a starting point. 23:55 So here, let's look at this 70 weeks cut off from what? 23:58 And they are cut off from the Mareh of the 2300 days. 24:03 Are you following that? 24:04 Now listen, the 2300 prophecy the Mareh, 24:07 when you look at that, you have 23, 2300 days 24:11 that the Bible is talking about. 24:12 And then here it says, that... 24:14 that what kind of prophecy is that by the way? 24:16 It's a time, what we call time prophecy, right? 24:18 So the last thing Daniel did not understand 24:20 was the time prophecy and he used 24:21 the term Mareh about right? 24:23 And then you come here in Daniel chapter 9, 24:25 and it says, 70 weeks are determined upon your people 24:28 and speaking just after verse 23 24:29 consider the vision or the Mareh. 24:31 He says, I want you to consider the vision, 24:34 70 weeks are determined upon your people. 24:36 What is a 70 week prophecy? 24:37 What would you call that? 24:39 A time prophecy, so the last time he didn't have 24:41 the understanding speaking of... 24:42 of a vision was a 2300 day prophecy, a time prophecy. 24:45 And then he comes and gives him an explanation 24:47 and he gives him an explanation using a time prophecy. 24:51 And he says, this time prophecy is cut off, 24:53 cut off from what? 24:55 It has to be cut off from 2300 days, 24:57 what else what it would it be cut off from? 24:58 You can't cut 2300 days off from the little horn. 25:02 Or 70 weeks rather you can't cut 70 weeks off the little horn 25:05 You can't cut 70 weeks off the Medo-Persian Empire can you? 25:07 It makes no sense, does it? 25:08 But can you cut 70 weeks off from 2300 days, 25:13 yeah, absolutely you can 25:14 and it could be cut off from that. 25:15 And so he says, this cut off for your people, 25:18 and for the Holy city. And now let's just keep around 25:20 and going to the slides here, and look at this. 25:21 So, you find a 70 weeks, it goes 490 years. 25:24 In 2300 year total and you're cutting off 490. 25:28 So apparently at the end of 490 25:30 how much time do you have left? 25:31 1810 days or years, so you can do 25:35 in two different ways or you can take 1810 years from 34 AD. 25:38 When you do that... that's the end of the 70 weeks. 25:41 Or you can take 2300 years from 457 BC 25:45 and you come with the year 1844. 25:47 Now you've already studied with Scott 25:48 that the 70 weeks begins when? 25:51 457 BC, you studied that one when Scott done... 25:53 done the whole thing there on Daniel 9, right. 25:56 He already studied Daniel 9 with you, 25:58 and so, it showed when you done Daniel 9, 26:02 you found the 457 BC, what happened 26:04 at the end of these 70 weeks? 26:07 Or actually at the end of the 69 weeks in that time frame, 26:09 what was it that happened? 26:10 The Christ was here right on time, 26:12 there was here, He came on time, 26:13 He's crucified on time, and then the Gospel went to Gentiles 26:16 in 34 AD, you remember all that happening? 26:18 Now, here just assure as the 457 BC point to Christ, 26:23 right, that time frame has to the beginning time frame 26:25 because it comes and points to Christ. 26:27 This assure that is you have to also apply it 26:29 to the coming or the judgment scene 26:31 at the end of that time frame 26:32 or the cleansing of sanctuary at the end of 2300 days. 26:35 In other words, if the beginning time prophecy doesn't fit, 26:39 do we have the 2300 day time prophecy? 26:41 It also doesn't fit for the Messiah. 26:45 Are you understanding? Let's go on, it maybe, 26:47 it will clear up a little bit. 26:50 Here we go bring that out, bring that up, okay. 26:54 In 457 BC, the decree went out to restore 26:57 and build Jerusalem just like the Bible say what happened 26:59 at the beginning of the 70 weeks, 27:00 you remember that? And then after 483 years 27:03 or the 69 weeks what happened? 27:06 Jesus was baptized, this is just a review, 27:08 when we looked... Scott already looked over this, 27:09 didn't he? You might remember this, right? 27:12 Everybody, okay, and then there in 31 AD 27:14 Jesus was crucified in the midst of the week the Messiah 27:16 was cut off but not for Himself, you know, 27:18 who is He cut off for? For us, right. 27:21 And then in 34 AD you find the stoning of Steven 27:24 and the Gospel goes to the Gentiles, 27:25 and that's the end of the 490 years. 27:27 So you got the 70 weeks prophecy ends there. 27:30 But if it's cut off from the rest of 2300 days 27:33 then that means you take 2300, right? 27:36 You minus the other part of the time there you minus 27:40 the 490 years there leads you 1810 years. 27:46 Its cut off from the 2300 days, 27:48 if you take 490 from 2300 becomes 1810. 27:52 Now, what happened at the end of 1000, 27:54 at the year 1844 actually 1810 years later what happened? 28:01 Some very interesting things happened. 28:03 We're going to look at that when we do 28:04 the spirit of prophecy study but... 28:05 but I want to... but notice up there 28:06 that something happened in 1844 28:08 and the Bible tells us what that would be, 28:09 what was it? The cleansing of the sanctuary. 28:12 Now here's a question, the cleansing of what sanctuary? 28:17 How do we know it was a heavenly sanctuary? 28:21 Because there was no sanctuary on earth in that time, right. 28:23 In the year 1844 there was no sanctuary on earth, 28:25 but now even in the day of Daniel, 28:27 you think what Daniel was doing? 28:28 When Daniel sees that 2300 years 28:31 and the sanctuary will be cleansed in his mind, 28:33 he's thinking of what sanctuary? 28:35 The one on earth, which one he was referring to? 28:37 The one in heaven, can you understand 28:38 why he was distressed. even himself had made 28:42 a mistake right there that he was thinking 28:43 of earthly sanctuary not the one in heaven being cleansed 28:46 And so what actually takes place, 28:48 what is this all about cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary 28:51 and all this kind of stuff? 28:52 And you remember as you studied with Scott on Judgment Part 1, 28:56 when he does Judgment Part 1, 28:59 you remember that he showed how a sanctuary worked, right. 29:03 And you had the outside there in the courtyard 29:06 they will make the sacrifice, they'll take the blood 29:08 and remember they would go where into with it, 29:09 the holy place, right, and sprinkle the blood there. 29:11 And all through the year the sins of the people will be 29:14 piling up there in that holy place, right? 29:16 And then one time a year, on the day of atonement, 29:20 the high priest that this time would go 29:22 into the most holy place, 29:23 and then the sanctuary would be cleansed. 29:25 I just won't get into details 29:26 that the sanctuary would be cleansed, 29:28 and everybody be right, everything be okay 29:29 at that point, right? 29:31 And so, what's being going on in heaven 29:34 since Christ ascended to heaven, let's go and find out. 29:38 I think that's our next slide here, 29:39 in Mark chapter 16 and verse 19, 29:41 and who'd like to read Mark 16 verse 19. 29:43 Do we have any volunteers? 29:44 As we are turning there, 29:45 give everybody time to get there. Mark 16. 29:53 You know these studies here are a little 29:54 more laborious than others, you know, 29:57 as far as this kind of plowing through it. 29:58 But once you get a understanding of this, 30:00 it helps solidify the fact that you know what your high priest 30:03 is doing for you. You have confidence in him. 30:05 It's not so much of the details here, 30:07 it's not so much worrying about the dates, you know, 30:09 all though they are important. As it is to what's going on? 30:12 And to understand also that we have entered 30:15 into the last days, and how that off hits. 30:18 You remember Daniel prophecy said this is going to apply 30:19 to the last days. Tom, do you want to read 30:23 that for us, Mark chapter 16 and verse 19? 30:27 I am sorry 16:19 yeah. So then after the Lord 30:32 had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven, 30:36 and sat down at the right hand of God. 30:38 So...so Jesus here so that we find here, 30:40 Jesus went out and sat, where did He go to sit 30:42 when He ascended to heaven? The right hand of God. 30:45 Now remember when you studied the sanctuary, 30:46 where was God's throne symbolized in the sanctuary 30:50 do you remember? In the holy place, 30:52 you had the table of show bread, you had the two stags 30:54 right there right, and you had one that's representing 30:58 God's throne there and when you studied the sanctuary 31:00 you saw that. That you have God's throne 31:03 represented in the holy place, out in the holy place. 31:06 But know God's throne is portable, it's movable? 31:10 That actually when it does different scenes 31:11 in the Judgment scene that He would go to different places, 31:14 so it was a symbol out there in the holy place of Christ 31:17 and going sitting down by his father, 31:19 the two loaves of bread, there sitting 31:21 in the holy place out there...on the table of show bread, 31:24 are you following me there? Let's us go on and look as we 31:28 continue down the Revelation chapter 1. 31:30 Revelation chapter 1, now, as you go to the book 31:32 of Revelation, you'll notice some things. 31:34 As you go to Revelation, it progresses through 31:37 the sanctuary. All the book of Revelation does, 31:40 it progresses as Christ going through the sanctuary. 31:43 Now according to what we just read, where did Christ go 31:45 when He ascended? To sit at right hand 31:47 of the Father, where is He in Revelation Chapter 1, 31:49 is He in the most holy place? Or the holy place? 31:52 Revelation chapter 1 verse 12 and 13, Shalida, 31:55 do you want to read that for us? Revelation Chapter 1 31:58 verse 12 and 13, we gonna find out, is Christ, 32:01 when He ascended that He go to the most holy place 32:03 or the holy place according to the book of Revelation. 32:05 Go ahead and read that for us. 32:07 "And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. 32:09 And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 32:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto 32:17 the Son of man, clothe with a garment down to the foot, 32:21 and girt about the paps with a golden girdle." 32:26 Okay where's he showing Jesus being? 32:28 Where the candlestick and the all the stuff are? 32:30 It's in the holy place, right, so Revelation opens 32:32 up with Jesus still in the holy place, and He's doing 32:35 His work there in the holy place. 32:36 Now what does the high priest do each day 32:38 in a holy place? What would he be doing? 32:42 The blood would be brought in, and here the people sins 32:45 would be transferred to the sanctuary 32:46 from the people to the sacrificed animals 32:48 the blood going into the holy place, right, daily. 32:50 This would be going on everyday and that's what 32:52 the high priest would be doing. And we see Jesus here in 32:54 Revelation chapter 1, doing just that. 32:57 He's in the holy place, he's doing the job 32:59 of the priest. But now we're gonna see 33:01 as we go the book of Daniel, we're gonna back 33:03 to the book of Daniel chapter 7 when we look at 33:05 a little earlier, chapter 7 verse 9 to 14, 33:07 and we're gonna see in progress from the holy place 33:11 to the most holy place. We're gonna see the progress 33:15 from the holy place unto the most holy place. 33:17 And that's found in Daniel chapter 7, 33:19 starting in verse 9 to 14, let me get there myself. 33:25 Ezekiel, Daniel, please be patient with me, 33:31 Daniel chapter 7 verse 9 to 14. 33:34 And we'll probably get Darlene to read that, 33:38 will that be all right Darlene? All right, 33:40 Daniel chapter 7 and verse 9 to 14. 33:44 "I watched till thrones were put in place, 33:47 and the Ancient of days was seated, 33:50 his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head 33:53 was like pure wool: his throne was a fiery flame, 33:58 its wheels are burning fire. A fiery stream issued 34:02 and came forth from before him: a thousand thousands 34:05 ministered to Him, and ten thousand times 34:09 ten thousand stood before him: the court was seated, 34:11 and the books were opened. I watched then because 34:15 of the sound of the pompous words 34:17 which the horn was speaking: I watched till the beast 34:20 was slain, and its body destroyed, 34:22 and given to the burning flame. As for the rest of the beasts, 34:28 they had their dominion taken away: 34:31 yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. 34:35 I was watching in the night visions, and, behold, 34:39 one like the Son of man coming with the clouds of heaven, 34:44 and He came to the Ancient of days, and they brought Him 34:46 near before him. Then to him was given dominion, 34:50 and glory, and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, 34:54 and languages, should serve him. 34:56 His dominion is an everlasting dominion, 34:59 which shall not pass away, and his kingdom 35:02 the one which shall not be destroyed." 35:05 Okay, can you see there in the texts when he starts off 35:07 in Daniel chapter 9, and it says, that I'll be held with 35:10 thrones were set in place, they were set up, 35:12 and the ancient of days took his seat, 35:13 it's the beginning and then he goes on talking about 35:15 this beginning of the Judgment scene taking place, 35:17 you understand that right? Now, where....where 35:19 would this whenever this judgment would take place? 35:22 It would be in heaven but specifically now, 35:24 we're going into the most holy place. 35:27 The whole thing has moved because on the day of atonement 35:30 as you learned the Bible teaches, you know, 35:32 the thy Lord is found in this sanctuary, right, 35:34 in the book of Psalms, right? And you learned that 35:36 they day of atonement, or the day of judgment, 35:38 the word atonement is the same thing, 35:40 you know like the day of the judgment would take place, 35:42 where at? In the most holy place, 35:44 so you find God here in the sanctuary in heaven 35:46 and you notice here that it says, it says, 35:49 let me get down to it. Oh, yeah, verse 9, 35:52 and where it talks about toward the later part of that, 35:54 it says, his hair was like pure wool, His throne 35:56 was like a fiery flame and wheels as burning fire. 36:00 God's throne has what? Wheels. So, if you have wheels, 36:03 what that make you? Portable, movable, 36:05 right it moves, so it moves, it moves now, 36:07 the whole thing, the whole proceeding here moves 36:09 now from the holy place to where? 36:10 The most holy place because what begins the judgment. 36:13 And according what we look that out in Daniel 7 36:15 when does this judgment begin and just looking at Daniel 7 36:18 sometime after 1798. And so he's looking here 36:22 and he sees this whole thing, this whole process of things 36:24 taking place. Now I want to understand 36:26 something. Because, it's pretty common 36:29 knowledge that in the year 1844 that many people thought 36:33 that Jesus was going to come back, 36:34 and the whole cleansing of the sanctuary with God cleansing 36:37 the earth with fire, you know that's the common 36:39 teaching out there. William Miller, he would read 36:41 this and others him being the Baptist minister, 36:43 and the other who is reading this, 36:45 they would read these stories in the Bible 36:46 or actually these prophecies in the Bible. 36:48 And he takes a look at this and he says, 36:49 huh, so you have the little mouth, 36:52 the little horn speaking great things and the throne, 36:55 the judgment, and Jesus comes, and that's the whole 36:58 thing about....about what's going on there because you, 36:59 that's why I let you read down verse 13 and 14, 37:02 he says, hey Jesus is coming. When He comes, 37:04 Jesus is going to come, whenever, all that takes place. 37:06 But what he did not understand, what he didn't understand 37:09 was the sanctuary that he was talking about, 37:11 wasn't the earth. You don't find anything 37:13 in the Bible referring to the earth as the sanctuary, right? 37:15 You find, where God's people refer to the sanctuary. 37:18 What you not know that you are the temple of God? 37:20 The Bible teaches that. So he thought that this 37:23 was the whole process of Jesus coming and cleansing 37:25 the earth with fire. And many others did too, 37:27 and they portrayed Jesus is gonna come in 1844. 37:30 They had the time frame right as we've already seen. 37:32 1844 fits perfectly with everything else doesn't it? 37:35 But they had the event wrong. Jesus begins the judgment scene 37:40 in 1844. Now here's the question, 37:44 how long should it take God to cleanse the sanctuary? 37:50 I mean how quickly can He do it? 37:51 He calls worlds into existence, right? 37:54 So He begins the Judgment scene with the dead 37:56 and He moves on into the living, 37:57 this whole judgment scene takes place, 37:58 but couldn't God just do the judgment like that 38:00 and be done? So what's taking Him so long? 38:08 He should be able finish, shouldn't He, Robert? 38:11 He should be able to say, okay, guilty, innocent, 38:14 guilty, innocent, innocent, innocent, 38:15 innocent, innocent, innocent, 38:17 we're all innocent in here right? 38:18 And we all gonna be in heaven, right nobody's guilty; 38:20 we are all going to be in heaven, is it? 38:21 Shouldn't He able to do that...that quick? 38:23 But now remember, as we go through our lives, 38:26 is everybody here sinless? So what you doing 38:28 when you...each day, each moment you know, 38:30 you are confessing, right. What happens to that sin 38:32 when you confess it? Where does it go, 38:35 does it go away and nothing, you know when sin takes place, 38:39 it's like something, something tangible happens. 38:41 You know, there is something there, 38:43 it has to be got rid of, that's why you have 38:45 to have the shedding of blood to get rid of something 38:46 that's intangible. You know, sin is not really 38:48 something, you can't see like look, 38:49 I got this jar sin here. Now we have to, 38:52 we have to blood sacrifice to get rid of it. 38:54 Doesn't work like that, does it? 38:55 But it is like something tangible takes place 38:57 so when you confess your sins, it has to go somewhere, 39:00 so where are they going? To the holy place right, 39:04 they are going to the holy place. 39:05 Right now, Jesus says, our high priest is doing 39:07 his work. Now...but then after 1844 39:10 where does He move to? In the most holy place. 39:12 And so the sin is still piling up, during this time 39:15 while He is in there. You know during 39:17 the Day of Atonement what were the people 39:18 had to be doing on the Day of Atonement? 39:21 They are afflicting themselves, you know they would humbling 39:23 themselves, praying and afflicting themselves. 39:24 And by the way, if they weren't doing that, 39:25 in the Old Testament, Day of Atonement. 39:27 When the high priest would drop that sensor, 39:30 and he would come out of the most holy place. 39:32 And no one knew when he was going to do that? 39:34 No one knew and the high priest is going to come out 39:36 of the most holy place on the Day of Atonement. 39:38 He'd be there sometimes like last year He was in it 39:39 for like three hours year before that, 39:41 I don't know how it worked exactly. 39:42 You know, as far as how long he had been there, 39:43 but he wasn't always in there for same amount of time. 39:46 And the people never knew when He was going 39:48 to come out at the most holy place. 39:49 So they'd be outside afflicting their souls 39:51 praying asking God for forgiveness, 39:52 making sure they're right with him. 39:54 Because if they didn't and the high priest come out 39:57 of the most holy place, you know what happened? 39:58 They were cut off, they were lost, 40:00 they couldn't be saved, you know, 40:02 they were cut off from the people. 40:04 And so when you apply that to the actual real thing 40:06 taking place with Jesus now in the most holy place 40:09 in heaven and what should we would be doing? 40:11 afflicting our souls, The Day of Atonement 40:13 is taking place, The Day of Atonement, 40:15 the typical part of it right, the actual fulfillment of this. 40:18 Jesus is now in the most holy place 40:19 and as we confess our sins, they are still piling up there, 40:22 He is still forgiving them. But if we're not afflicting 40:26 our self, we're not confessing our sins, 40:27 they are not going there. And you know what's gonna 40:29 happen very soon. He's gonna come out, 40:33 he's gonna come out of the most holy place. 40:34 So it would take Jesus no time to actually cleanse 40:38 the sanctuary right? He can do it real quick, 40:41 what's taking him so long? You and me, 40:44 you know your sanctuary... you know, 40:46 your body is a temple of God. All, all of us collectively, 40:49 God is waiting for to cleanse us; 40:51 He's pouring His spirit out upon His people, 40:53 He's doing the cleansing process, 40:55 if we'll let him, if we'll let him. 40:59 He's getting a people ready for translation. 41:02 He's getting a people ready to go to heaven. 41:04 He's waiting on us, He can cleanse the sanctuary 41:06 there in no time. I like it in John chapter 14 41:10 when it says: In my Father's house are many mansions: 41:12 if it were not so, I would have told you. 41:14 I go to prepare a place for you. Many people will say oh! 41:16 Yeah, he's up there right now like with his contractors 41:18 up there working and they are building, 41:20 buildings and building mansions, so we can all have 41:22 some place to live. People actually believe that. 41:25 We're talking about the God who spoke the words 41:27 into existence. How long would it take Jesus 41:29 to prepare a place for us? You know what place 41:31 He's trying to prepare? He's trying to prepare 41:34 our hearts. He's preparing us to be able 41:37 to go there. You and I right now, 41:39 if an angel would have pop in here right now 41:40 with all of his glory, you know, what will happen to us? 41:42 We all fall down on our face and we've just be 41:44 like past out like dead, I mean like what happened 41:45 to the Roman soldiers at Christ's tomb? 41:47 Do you know what would happen if God would appear here 41:49 right here right now? Everyone one of us would be 41:52 immediately evaporated, be gone. 41:54 He's preparing a people to stand in his presence, 41:57 that's the cleansing, the cleansing is taking place 42:00 right now, He is cleansing us. 42:02 How is he doing it? Malachi chapter 3, 42:04 that's our next text, I put it on the screen here 42:06 for a moment. Malachi chapter 3 and I would 42:08 like to get Tim to read that one, if you would. 42:10 It's the last book of the Old Testament. 42:11 Malachi chapter 3, the book before Matthew. 42:18 You notice most people in their Bibles, 42:21 you have a blank page here before Matthew, 42:23 right, you see that blank page, just as a little note 42:25 that's a good place to make notes. 42:27 You can get a lot of notes here and right here 42:29 in that blank page. But Malachi chapter 3, 42:32 Tim I want you to read verses 1 through 6 42:35 when you get there, Malachi 3, 1 through 6. 42:38 It says: "Behold, I will send my messenger, 42:40 and he shall prepare the way before me: 42:44 and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come 42:47 to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, 42:50 whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, 42:53 saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide 42:56 the day of his coming? And who shall stand 42:59 when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner's fire, 43:03 and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit 43:07 as a refiner and purifier of silver: 43:10 and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them 43:13 as gold and silver, that they may offer unto 43:16 the Lord an offering in righteousness. 43:19 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem 43:21 be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, 43:24 and as in former years. And I will come near 43:28 to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness 43:33 against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, 43:36 and against false swearers, and against those 43:39 that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, 43:43 and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger 43:47 from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. 43:51 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons 43:54 of Jacob are not consumed. I am the Lord, 43:57 I change not therefore you are not consumed 43:59 at the end of that, think about that what 44:01 they are saying. Is it God of love and mercy? 44:04 that's why you are not consumed, 44:05 I don't changed, I'm still merciful and, 44:07 and how do we know? Why is he, or how do we know 44:09 he saying that? Because just above that 44:10 He says: all the people doing sorcery 44:12 and all these kind of things right. 44:13 If he just like done quick justice, 44:15 we would all immediately be wiped out. 44:17 But notice what he says, what's he doing right now? 44:19 He's purifying his people. Let me, let me just pick it up 44:23 on it again, it says: "Behold, I will send my messenger, 44:26 and he shall prepare the way before the Lord. 44:27 Verse 2: But who may abide the day of his coming? 44:31 Or who shall stand when he appeareth? 44:33 For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap. 44:36 He's doing a refining, in another words 44:39 the only people that can stand in His coming, 44:40 are those people that allow Him to refine them 44:43 and make them pure and white with the fuller' soap, 44:46 you know, he's working on us right now. 44:48 He's working on our hearts, he's purifying us. 44:50 I remember, I got this friend Sergio 44:52 and he makes teeth for a living. 44:54 And one of the things he makes, people something 44:58 want gold teeth another things like that 44:59 and he got his crucibles in their place where do the teeth 45:03 and they heat up the metal. And you know, 45:05 and they got to keep getting the drossy stuff off, 45:06 because you want to just the best metal they can get 45:08 when they make these different silver teeth or gold 45:10 or copper teeth. And he brought some 45:12 pictures in of these crucibles and things like 45:13 that and showed us what they were like 45:14 and how it work like, one time at church, 45:16 when we've studying this very thing. 45:17 In another words, what Jesus is doing? What a crucible is? 45:20 Its where you put the precious metal in there 45:23 and to be heated it up and it melts and gets hot under 45:25 that heat, under that fire right, that would being us 45:28 getting hot under the persecution 45:29 and things like that, the trials of this world. 45:32 And he looks at it, and it's all drossy on top. 45:35 You can't see anything but drossy stuff, 45:36 because all that nastiness rises to the top 45:38 and the impurities do rise at the top under the heat. 45:41 So, you know what, you know what the refiner does? 45:42 He scrapes off the top of that. And then he keeps 45:46 heating up and it gets more of the drossy stuff 45:48 on top like that, the impurities just keep coming 45:51 to the top and he's scraping off the top until 45:52 you know eventually does happen? He looks into it 45:56 and the person refining it, we'll see his reflection in it. 45:59 And when see his reflection in it, you know 46:01 what he has to do it immediately at that time, 46:03 take it off the heat, because if he leaves 46:05 it in the heat, you know what will happen? 46:06 It will ruin the metal. What's God doing right now? 46:10 What symbolism is given here that God is doing 46:12 with the crucible and with the refiner' fire, 46:15 what's he doing? He's waiting till He sees 46:18 His reflection in us, and when that time comes. 46:20 Now, think about it during the judgment 46:22 and while He's cleansing us. When that time comes, 46:25 when He sees His reflection in you, Vanessa. 46:29 When He sees the reflection in me and His people, 46:31 when he sees his reflection, he can't wait any longer. 46:35 He can't let it go any longer, then He comes. 46:36 The good news of this whole judgment scene 46:40 that we've looked here, the good news about it, 46:41 is God is doing the judging right now, 46:43 He's looking in His people, He's finding His people. 46:45 You know, the Bible says that God, 46:46 the God eyes run to and fro in the earth, 46:49 looking for those people that whose heart is right with them. 46:52 And to show himself mighty in their behalf, 46:55 I think it's in 2nd Chronicle 16. 46:57 I'm not a 100 percent sure, hold on I can tell you. 47:00 It's interesting statement to have isn't it? 47:02 Let's see it's in, 2nd Chronicle 69, 2nd Chronicle 69 47:09 where you find that, where His eye's run 47:10 to and fro in the earth. God even now, 47:13 He's wanting to prepare a people through 47:15 this judgment process who will be ready when He comes. 47:19 And when His people are ready, 47:21 when that temple is cleansed, when everything is done, 47:23 Jesus is gonna come and He's gonna take us home 47:27 to be with Him. Amen. I'm looking forward 47:30 to that time. Amen. When this judgment scene is. 47:32 Now, we have just a few more minutes 47:34 and what I want to do here in just 47:35 a few more minutes, just because the time part 47:37 of this thing is a little sketchy in some people's minds 47:40 you know, I remember when I first learned this, 47:42 I went through the study, the first time 47:44 as I was looking at this. I was really in pretty trouble 47:47 because it's like man I'm not getting this. 47:49 This is so hard to understand and if you're going through 47:52 about four or five, six times, it didn't make sense, 47:54 but I still couldn't explain to somebody else, 47:56 you know. And even now, I feel like 47:59 I can't explain to somebody else, so I have 48:00 people come to me and said that make no sense at all. 48:02 I'm like well, it didn't to me either the first time 48:04 you know, but after I went over and over 48:05 and over and over and the guy that 48:06 I was hearing it from, I believe if I'm mistaking 48:08 the first time I heard this was from Doug Batchelor. 48:11 And so did you think he can make it clear? 48:13 You know, I love that guy, he makes it awful clear, 48:15 makes things very clear, but I still didn't get it. 48:16 It seems like he was just talking in tongues, 48:19 you know he was speaking in another language. 48:21 But after I heard it several times then I started 48:24 tying things together and understanding it. 48:25 And I said, Oh! I get it and I understood 48:28 why it was important? Because this assures 48:31 that judgment begins in 1844 to let to us 48:33 we're in the last days as sure as that time is, 48:35 is as sure as Jesus coming on time. 48:38 And so when you start tying these things together, 48:39 you know, that just assure as Christ came, 48:41 the judgment happen too. So, what I want to do, 48:43 I just want to backup just a little bit 48:45 and do a little bit of review with you, 48:46 all we have a few minutes. So, let's go back to 48:48 Daniel chapter 8 rather, Daniel chapter 8. 48:53 And we look in Daniel chapter 8, we find out 48:56 and once again that the word, two words of vision 48:59 were Mareh and Hazon, right. And in Daniel chapter 8 49:03 verse 26 it says: The Mareh, 49:05 the vision of the evening and the morning 49:06 which was told is true: therefore shut up the vision; 49:09 for it shall be for many days. So, he tells them 49:12 to shut the vision up, it is true, shut up were to be 49:14 for when? Many days, so it's gonna be 49:17 applying to, still yet into the future. 49:20 And then Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; 49:22 and after that he rose up, and did the king's business; 49:24 and he says, he was astonished at the vision, 49:25 but nobody understood it. Now I had trouble 49:27 with this sometimes, Daniel didn't understand it, 49:31 but Daniel writes himself even he is very uncertain, 49:34 he write something that may give you some encouragement 49:36 right now. Did Daniel understand 49:37 the vision at this time? No, but did God eventually 49:39 get him understanding. Okay, look at Daniel chapter 12, 49:44 Daniel chapter 12, we're gonna tie these two statements 49:48 together to give us encouragement, 49:49 because some people might not understand it, 49:50 and become discouraged. But notice that Daniel 49:53 didn't understand at the beginning either, 49:54 but he understood later, all right. 49:56 Look at Daniel chapter 12, it says: 49:59 "And many of them that sleep in the dust, 50:00 verse 2, I'm in verse 2: "And many of them 50:01 that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, 50:03 some to everlasting life, and some to shame 50:04 and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise, 50:07 verse 3: They that be what? Wise shall shine 50:11 as the brightness of the firmament; 50:13 and they shall turn many to righteousness 50:15 and shall be as stars forever and ever. 50:18 So, the wise, what's wise gonna do? 50:20 They gonna turn many people to righteousness. 50:21 So, the wise people are people that are 50:23 preaching God's message aren't they? 50:25 Look now in verse 9: Daniel 12 verse 9: 50:29 He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are closed up 50:31 and sealed to when, the time of the end. 50:33 So, there are people gonna understand it 50:35 before the time of the end comes along? 50:36 No...not before the time of the end comes along. 50:38 I'm sorry, I'll pick you out on that, 50:40 no one heard you on the recording anyway there, 50:43 Anita. But no one, what he says? 50:48 it say it would be for time being. 50:49 In another words, it won't be understood till you reach 50:50 the time of the end. And so many people wonder 50:52 what all these stuff meant, until like the time of the end 50:54 begin run about 1844 timeframe right? 50:56 But look what it says in verse 10: 50:58 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried, 51:00 many shall be purified, made and made white and tried, 51:04 what do we learn at the end of Daniel? 51:05 At the end of our study. The crucible right, 51:07 the purification process, many people gonna go through 51:10 these purification process, are you following this? 51:13 But the wicked shall do wickedly. 51:15 So during the purification process 51:17 what's gonna happen the wicked, what are the wicked 51:19 are gonna be doing? They're gonna be doing 51:20 wickedly and none of the wicked will understand. 51:24 None of the wicked will understand. 51:26 Now, you're thinking oh! Look I'm not getting this, 51:28 does that mean you're wicked? Carry on. 51:31 But the wise shall understand, the wise shall understand. 51:35 Now did Daniel understand when he first heard it? 51:38 No, but did he eventually after, after sometime did he get, 51:41 get what was going on taking place? Yeah, 51:42 because Gabriel came back and explained it to him, 51:44 the spirit of God was working with him 51:45 and explain it to him what was going on. 51:47 So, and I love how is here, because how do you know 51:50 who's the wise is? Do you know who's the wise 51:52 is based on their understanding. No, back in verse 3, 51:56 it tells us how you know who the wise is? 51:57 Who are the wise? Those who turn people 52:00 to righteousness. So if you gonna to have 52:02 an understanding of what God, what's spirit 52:04 to God is teaching to like any of these prophesies 52:06 and things like that, you are struggling with it. 52:08 One of the things you may need to be doing 52:10 is sharing what you know. You're turning people 52:12 to righteousness. You're teaching people 52:14 about Jesus. You're teaching them 52:15 that he wants them to ready for His coming. 52:16 And even though you might not understand 52:18 all the details as you share your faith, 52:20 you know God's gonna do for you. 52:21 What's He gonna do for you? He's gonna give you 52:23 understanding, you're gonna be wise, 52:26 because it's the wise that turn people to righteousness. 52:28 So it says many of purified made white, 52:30 the wicked will do wickedly, but the wise will understand. 52:33 You want a understanding of this? 52:35 Come to Life, we'll teach you how to share 52:38 your faith with others and you will be wise, right? 52:42 You will be turning people to righteousness, 52:44 that's what that's about. Now back to this again okay. 52:47 So, Daniel then, he didn't not understand the vision, 52:50 the Mareh and then we go to Daniel chapter 9 52:53 and there was a link between 2300 Day Prophecy, 52:58 there was a link between 2300 days in Daniel chapter 8 53:01 and a link between that the 70 week prophecy 53:03 in Daniel chapter 9? You remember what that link was? 53:05 How we link them together? The word, the word, 53:07 what was the word? Mareh, Mareh or vision, right? 53:10 the two words use for vision there, 53:12 that's only time you find it using in those two chapters, 53:14 is the link in the 2300 days with the 70 weeks. 53:18 And it says, the 70 weeks are cut off, 53:19 remember what did that cut off, cut off from what? 53:22 From that 2300 day timeframe has to be cut off from that. 53:27 Are you following, every body okay? 53:29 Now, some people say, now why can the 2300 days 53:31 be cut off from the end of it? Why is that be cut off 53:33 from the beginning? That's a good question isn't it? 53:35 How do you know the 2300 day and the 70 weeks is cut off 53:38 from the beginning and not the end? 53:40 How do you now that? Because of Christ, right? 53:45 if you cut it off from the end of the 2300 days 53:47 and so you pick something out at the end 457 BC 53:50 and you go to the end and then you back up in 457 BC 53:53 and go to the other way right, is that taking 53:55 to the time of the end? No, if you go 457 BC backwards 54:00 you know, you know you can't, that takes nowhere 54:03 near the time of the end. And then the whole Christ 54:05 prophecy wouldn't fit either, so God's give us a dual 54:07 prophecy here; He gives us a 70 weeks and 2300 days. 54:10 So it can both show you that Christ came on time 54:12 and that the 2300 Days Prophecy ended on time in 1844. 54:17 And remember, this prophecy according to Daniel 54:19 and this in Daniel chapter 8, verse 19 this prophecy 54:23 is for the appointed time at the end. 54:26 This is gonna, so the time of the end according 54:29 to the Bible what end sometime toward the later part 54:33 of this earth's history, the time we're living in now, 54:35 around the year 1844. So, it's taking us down 54:38 to the end of time. Now, if the end time 54:42 or the time of the end begins around that time 54:44 the 1844 timeframe, what's that saying about 54:47 our time right now? Do you understand 54:51 the importance of this prophecy? 54:52 Time is gonna about to be no more, it's about to run out. 54:56 Aren't you looking forward to the time you don't have stop, 54:58 you don't have a clock. Amen. Like right now 55:00 they're holding our hands up and things like 55:01 that on the camera and say he's got like a minute 55:02 or two minutes how you know, want to wrap this up 55:04 or whatever. One day we can be in heaven 55:06 and we can all talk for like 10 years nobody will get 55:09 tired of it. No stop watches 55:12 anything like that, because you don't get tired, right? 55:14 You may say okay look, I'll come back and listen 55:16 to you another in next year but I'm gonna go 55:17 and take a year off here is sabbatical. 55:19 Anyway, time one day will run out, 55:23 now let us finish here, we're gonna just finish up here. 55:27 I'll just add another text in it, this is a little extra. 55:30 Now, when I give this study in somebody's home, 55:32 this is another one, I usually spend extra time with. 55:34 Like, I try to get done with it. A lot of time I will go back 55:38 and study just a part I just start with you again over. 55:41 I'll get my little chart back out, 55:43 now I don't have the chart on the slides, 55:44 so I can't go to my side and show it to you again. 55:46 But I'll get my chart back out this is just some good advice 55:47 I think and I just go over one more with them. 55:50 Now, Pastor Scott goes, goes crazy with me 55:52 if I do things like that, because I end up being 55:53 in the home like an hour and half and he says 55:54 they won't invite you back, look I'm persistent. 55:57 You know, I though invite you back, 56:01 but it puts you in your home a lot longer, 56:03 but I'll try my best to make sure... because normally, 56:06 unless somebody is a really intelligent person, 56:07 really up there, they don't get it the first time 56:10 or even the second time through, but it's an important study. 56:14 Do you know, you know that the 1844 investigative judgment 56:17 study is what makes you particular 56:18 Seventh-day Adventist Christian? 56:20 It's the only truth that's taught out there, 56:22 that this church holds that no one else holds. 56:26 And those one of the things that makes 56:27 this part of God's remnant church. 56:28 And we're gonna study, a study on the remnant later on 56:31 and who's God remnant is? But, this is one 56:33 of those things. And so, when this is eventually 56:36 finally said and done, whether people 56:38 believe it or not, Jesus one day is gonna make 56:40 the pronouncement at the end of these judgment scene 56:43 in Revelation chapter 22 verse11: He that is unjust, 56:46 let him be unjust still, we look at this at the beginning, 56:48 and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: 56:51 and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: 56:54 and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 56:57 Now, what does that say, what kind of language does 56:59 that sound like? Its sound like finalization 57:02 of the Judgment scene doesn't it? It's over that's it. 57:05 you are gonna remain holy or you gonna remain filthy. 57:07 And then what's the next line that takes place? 57:09 And behold I come quickly. The judgment ends, 57:13 I'll be come quickly, you know that ties in perfectly with, 57:15 Daniel 7 we look at that three times there as well. 57:17 The Bible is replete with this, with this whole theme, 57:19 judgment then the Second Coming. And so I would like 57:23 to invite the people or you guys here of course 57:25 but the people at home, that I want to invite you, 57:27 to go to our website www.comeexperiencelife.com 57:31 and download both this video or you can actually get 57:34 the one prior to this to give you an understanding 57:36 of full context of what we've been studying today. 57:39 And we're looking forward to seeing you again 57:40 at our next study here at LIFE. |
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