AN AMAZING FACT? THREE DAYS BEFORE ABRAHAM 00:00:07.60\00:00:11.24 LINCOLN WAS SHOT HE RELATED TO HIS WIFE AND SOME FRIENDS THAT 00:00:11.24\00:00:14.28 HE HAD HAD A VIVID DREAM. THIS IS AN APRIL 14, 1865 AND 00:00:14.28\00:00:21.28 SAYS HE DREAMED HE WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THAT HE HEARD 00:00:21.28\00:00:23.62 THE SOUNDS OF MOURNING. HE FOLLOWED THE SOUNDS UNTIL HE 00:00:23.62\00:00:27.02 CAME TO THE EAST ROOM, WHERE HE SAW THE SOLDIERS WERE GATHERED 00:00:27.02\00:00:30.66 AROUND THE COVERED BODY SURROUNDED BY MOURNERS. 00:00:30.66\00:00:33.86 HE ASKED ONE OF THE SOLDIERS WHO WAS IT AND WHAT HAPPENED? 00:00:33.86\00:00:37.67 AND THEY SAID IT'S THE PRESIDENT, HE WAS KILLED BY AN 00:00:37.67\00:00:42.64 ASSASSIN. YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, NOT EVERY 00:00:42.64\00:00:44.57 EXTREME PROPHETIC, BUT IN HISTORY SOMETIMES GOD GIVES 00:00:44.57\00:00:47.88 PROPHETIC DREAMS TO WORLD LEADERS. 00:00:47.88\00:00:50.45 STAY WITH US AND WE ARE GOING LEARN MORE ON THIS PRESENTATION 00:00:50.45\00:00:53.25 OF REVELATION NOW. ¤ 00:00:53.25\00:00:57.92 ¤ GOOD EVENING, FRIENDS, WELCOME TO AGAIN TO REVELATION NOW, 00:00:57.92\00:01:12.87 EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TO CHANGE, WE WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE 00:01:12.87\00:01:16.07 WHO ARE JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD, 00:01:16.07\00:01:18.91 PART OF OUR ONLINE VIEWERS WHO ARE NUMBERING IN THE HUNDREDS OF 00:01:18.91\00:01:24.35 THOUSANDS, VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU, JUST A REMINDER, 00:01:24.35\00:01:28.28 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS PROGRAM TRANSLATED LIVE INTO 00:01:28.28\00:01:32.32 SPANISH, YOU CAN DO SO BY GOING TO THE REVELATION NOW SPANISH 00:01:32.32\00:01:37.63 WEBSITE, YOU WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO VIEW IT IN SPANISH TRANSLATED 00:01:37.63\00:01:41.20 ON LATINO FACEBOOK PAGE AS WELL AS THE FACEBOOK PAGE CHANNEL, IF 00:01:41.20\00:01:47.04 YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET THIS PROGRAMMING FOR THE DEAF YOU CAN 00:01:47.04\00:01:49.47 ALSO GET INFORMATION ABOUT THAT AT THE REVELATION NOW WEBSITE. 00:01:49.47\00:01:57.58 WE WILL TAKE SOME BIBLE QUESTIONS. 00:01:57.58\00:02:00.42 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE BIBLE QUESTION ON FACEBOOK TYPE 00:02:00.42\00:02:02.82 IT INTO THE COMMENTS SECTION FOLLOWING THE PRESENTATION THIS 00:02:02.82\00:02:05.85 EVENING AND WE WILL BE TAKING AS MANY OF THOSE BIBLE QUESTIONS AS 00:02:05.85\00:02:10.59 POSSIBLE. EARTH EAST LAST EMPIRE AND WE 00:02:10.59\00:02:15.60 HAVE SOME SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL THAT WILL HELP YOU IN YOUR STUDY 00:02:15.60\00:02:19.30 OF GOD'S WORD, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD A LESSON ENTITLED 00:02:19.30\00:02:25.37 DREAM OF THE AGES. YOU CAN HELP FOLLOWED THE 00:02:25.37\00:02:34.12 PRESENTATION PASTOR DOUG DOES, IT WON'T FOLLOW EXACTLY THE 00:02:34.12\00:02:36.22 LESSON BUT HOPEFULLY YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ THE LESSON 00:02:36.22\00:02:38.89 AFTERWARDS AND LOOK UP THE BIBLE VERSES AND HELP YOU IN YOUR 00:02:38.89\00:02:42.19 UNDERSTANDING OF BIBLE TRUTH. WE HAVE A FREE OFFER WE WOULD 00:02:42.19\00:02:47.93 LIKE TO MAKE 0 TO KNOWS IN NORTH AMERICA, IT IS ENTITLED THE LAST 00:02:47.93\00:02:51.53 NIGHT ON EARTH, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS, TEXT THE 00:02:51.53\00:02:56.14 WORD EARTH TO THE NUMBER 40544 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET A 00:02:56.14\00:03:02.88 DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FOR BOOK AND ALSO DOWNLOAD IT IF YOU ARE 00:03:02.88\00:03:05.58 OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA AT THE REVELATION NOW WEBSITE. 00:03:05.58\00:03:10.49 JUGHTS CAN CLICK ON THE LINK THAT SAYS FREE OFFER AND I THINK 00:03:10.49\00:03:12.89 YOU WILL BE ENCOURAGED WHILE YOU READ ABOUT SOME OF THE PROFITS 00:03:12.89\00:03:15.66 RELATING TO THE LAST DAYS. NOW, I WILL PRESENT, THE 00:03:15.66\00:03:20.33 PRESENTER OF THE SERIES IS PASTOR DOUG BACHELOR, A FEW 00:03:20.33\00:03:24.37 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT PASTOR DOUG HE HAS A WEEKLY 00:03:24.37\00:03:27.50 TELEVISION PROGRAM CALLED AMAZING FACTS BY DOUG BACHELOR 00:03:27.50\00:03:30.94 WHICH HE IS SEEN ON SATELLITE AND CABLE STATIONS ACROSS NORTH 00:03:30.94\00:03:36.34 AMERICA, ALSO SEEN WEEKLY IN AUSTRALIA, IN INDIA, IN THE 00:03:36.34\00:03:39.48 MIDDLE EAST, IN EUROPE, AND IN VARIOUS PARTS OF AFRICA, 00:03:39.48\00:03:45.99 PHYSICAL HAS A WEEKLY RADIO PROGRAM, BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE, 00:03:45.99\00:03:49.62 WHERE HE SHARED BIBLE ANSWERS TO A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS THAT 00:03:49.62\00:03:52.99 PEOPLE HAVE, AND THEY JUST CALLED IN WITH THEIR BIBLE 00:03:52.99\00:03:56.40 QUESTIONS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LISTEN TO 00:03:56.40\00:03:58.20 BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE YOU DO SO ON A SUNDAY EVENING AT 7:00 P.M. 00:03:58.20\00:04:02.70 PACIFIC TIME. OF COURSE WE ARE NOT DOING THAT 00:04:02.70\00:04:04.14 THOUSAND BECAUSE OF OUR LIVE REVELATION NOW SEMINAR, BUT THAT 00:04:04.14\00:04:08.14 WILL PICK UP AGAIN AFTER WE ARE FINISHED WITH THIS PROGRAM, 00:04:08.14\00:04:12.51 PASTOR DOUG WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO COME FORWARD AND 00:04:12.51\00:04:15.22 WE ARE LOOKING SO FORWARD TO OUR STUDY TONIGHT TALKING ABOUT 00:04:15.22\00:04:18.59 EARTH'S LAST EMPIRE AND A LOT OF FOLKS ARE WONDERING, DOES 00:04:18.59\00:04:23.36 AMERICA HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH BIBLE PROPHECY, EMPIRES 00:04:23.36\00:04:26.90 COME AND EMPIRES GO, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE UNITED STATES? 00:04:26.90\00:04:30.50 YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY, PASTOR ROSS, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION THAT IS 00:04:30.50\00:04:33.44 COMING LATER IN THIS SERIES WHERE WE SPECIFICALLY ARE 00:04:33.44\00:04:36.60 TALKING ABOUT AMERICA IN PROPHECY SO THE ANSWER IN A WORD 00:04:36.60\00:04:40.48 IS YES, BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO GO INTO GREAT DETAIL ABOUT THAT 00:04:40.48\00:04:44.11 BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT WORLD EMPIRES AS THEY 00:04:44.11\00:04:47.35 ARE REVEALED IN PROPHECY IN THIS PRESENTATION. 00:04:47.35\00:04:50.12 >> ALL RIGHT. WELL BEFORE WE GET STARTED LET'S 00:04:50.12\00:04:52.12 HAVE A WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE 00:04:52.12\00:04:55.49 AGAIN WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR WORD AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR US 00:04:55.49\00:04:57.49 TO OPEN IT AND STUDY TOGETHER, LORD, YOU REVEAL TO US WHERE WE 00:04:57.49\00:05:00.93 ARE IN THE STREAM OF TIME, SOME IMPORTANT SIGN POSTS ALONG THE 00:05:00.93\00:05:04.73 WAY THAT POINT US TO THE NEW COMING OF JESUS CHRIST. 00:05:04.73\00:05:08.00 SO ONCE BEN, FATHER WE ASK YOUR BLESSING AND YOUR GUIDELINES, BE 00:05:08.00\00:05:10.87 WITH THOSE LISTENING AOUND THE COUNTRY AND ALL OVER THE WORLD, 00:05:10.87\00:05:13.48 AND WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 00:05:13.48\00:05:19.65 THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, HE IS PART OF THAT WEEKLY RADIO 00:05:19.65\00:05:22.75 PROGRAM WHERE WE ANSWER BIBLE QUESTIONS AND AFTER OUR 00:05:22.75\00:05:26.45 PRESENTATION TONIGHT WE WILL BE BACK TOGETHER AGAIN TO ANSWER 00:05:26.45\00:05:30.03 YOUR QUESTIONS. SO BE LISTENING DURING THIS 00:05:30.03\00:05:33.06 PRESENTATION, YOU MAY SAY I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THAT, WE 00:05:33.06\00:05:35.76 ESPECIALLY ENCOURAGE QUESTIONS THAT RELATE TO THAT NIGHT'S 00:05:35.76\00:05:38.93 SUBJECT AND YOU CAN BE SENDING THOSE IN ON FACEBOOK AND AFTER 00:05:38.93\00:05:41.87 THE PROGRAM, WE ARE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THOSE. 00:05:41.87\00:05:44.51 YOU KNOW, WE ARE OFF TO A GOOD START THIS OUR PRESENTATION LAST 00:05:44.51\00:05:48.54 MIGHT, BASED ON THE WEB TRAFFIC AND THE AVERAGES OF THE CHANNELS 00:05:48.54\00:05:52.21 THAT WERE CRRYING THE BROADCAST, I WANT TO THANK OUR 00:05:52.21\00:05:55.28 FRIENDS AT 3 ABN AND ALSO A -- FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE AND A NUMBER 00:05:55.28\00:06:00.52 OF DIFFERENT OUTLETS, WELL OVER 100,000 PEOPLE WERE TUNED IN 00:06:00.52\00:06:03.09 LAST NIGHT AND WE KNOW THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE ARCHIVED ARE 00:06:03.09\00:06:06.83 CONTINUING TO BE VIEWED SO WE JUST PRAISE THE LORD AND HOPE 00:06:06.83\00:06:08.90 THAT YOU ARE PRAYING FOR THESE PRESENTATIONS, BECAUSE WE ARE 00:06:08.90\00:06:12.23 LIVING IN VERY UNIQUE TIMES RIGHT NOW, AND I SHOULD MENTION, 00:06:12.23\00:06:15.94 I HEARD MY WIFE'S, WIFE'S VOICE OUT THERE, THERE IS A SMALL 00:06:15.94\00:06:22.28 STUDIO AUDIENCE IN THIS AMAZING FACILITY AND KNOW WE HAVE A BIG 00:06:22.28\00:06:25.08 AUDIENCE OUT THERE. YOU KNOW, OUR PRESENTATION 00:06:25.08\00:06:27.65 TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE LESSON EARTH'S 00:06:27.65\00:06:32.35 LAST EMPIRE. AND YES THE BIBLE PROPHECIES DO 00:06:32.35\00:06:35.89 ADDRESS THIS SUBJECT, BUT, YOU KNOW, BEFORE I GET INTO THE 00:06:35.89\00:06:38.43 SUBJECT, WE WOULD LIKE TO GET OUT ON THE STREETS AND WE HAVE 00:06:38.43\00:06:41.76 HAD OUR MEDIA TEAM GO OUT TO SOME MAJOR CITIES AND ASK SOME 00:06:41.76\00:06:46.20 RELEVANT QUESTIONS TO KIND OF GET A TEAL OF WHAT IS THE 00:06:46.20\00:06:48.70 THINKING OUT THERE IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC REGARDING 00:06:48.70\00:06:51.67 PROPHECY AND DREAMS AND ARMAGEDDON AND WELL I WILL LET 00:06:51.67\00:06:54.21 YOU HEAR FOR YOURSELF. ALL THE WAY TRUE. 00:06:54.21\00:07:00.68 THERE ARE 2,000 PROPHECIES THAT CAME TRUE, THE WHOLE COVID 00:07:00.68\00:07:05.45 EPIDEMIC AND SOME OF THE WEATHER SITUATIONS, I THINK WEATHER WITH 00:07:05.45\00:07:11.56 IS AN INDICATOR THAT GOD IS ANGRY. 00:07:11.56\00:07:13.36 >> I THINK NO ONE CAN PREDICT ANYTHING IN FUTURE BECAUSE 00:07:13.36\00:07:17.40 EVERYTHING IS SO RANDOM AND EVERYTHING IS SO LIKE, IT IS 00:07:17.40\00:07:21.60 LIKE IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE WHERE THINGS ARE HEADED TO. 00:07:21.60\00:07:23.64 >> I THINK ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE,S, TO BE HONEST WITH 00:07:23.64\00:07:26.84 YOU, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE, TO MOVE SOMETHING WITH THEIR 00:07:26.84\00:07:32.11 MIND? POSSIBLY, I CAN'T -- I AM AN AGNOSTIC AND I CAN'T SAY ONE 00:07:32.11\00:07:35.32 WAY OR THE OTHER WHO IS RIGHT OR WRONG BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE THE 00:07:35.32\00:07:38.65 ANSWERS MYSELF. >> YES. 00:07:38.65\00:07:39.82 IT IS POSSIBLE. LIKE YOU MEAN, COME ON LOOKS 00:07:39.82\00:07:42.66 LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, IF I SAY I AM A -- I AM A DUDE AND -- IN THE 00:07:42.66\00:07:50.97 NEXT MINUTE THAT'S KNOWING THE FUTURE, CORRECT, RIGHT? 00:07:50.97\00:07:53.60 >> ARMAGEDDON OTHER THAN THE MOVIE WILL PROBABLY BE THE END 00:07:53.60\00:07:56.20 OF THE WORLD, ANGELS WILL COME DOWN, THE DEVIL WILL RISE AND IT 00:07:56.20\00:08:00.68 WILL BE THE ANTI-CHRIST VERSUS THE ANGELS. 00:08:00.68\00:08:05.65 >> ARMAGEDDON, LAST DAY, EVERYTHING IS DESTROYED. 00:08:05.65\00:08:11.55 EVERYONE DIES. >> WELL, ARMAGEDDON IS SUPPOSED 00:08:11.55\00:08:14.69 TO BE THE FINAL BATTLE ON THE A PLAINS OF MEGEDDO. 00:08:14.69\00:08:21.80 >> THERE YOU HAVE IT, FRIENDS, YOU SEE THAT THERE IS QUITE A 00:08:21.80\00:08:26.53 DIFFERENCE OF OPINION ON SOME OF THESE BIBLICAL IMPROVE CITY, 00:08:26.53\00:08:30.57 ARMAGEDDON THEMES, AND TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT 00:08:30.57\00:08:33.81 EARTH'S LAST EMPIRE. NOW, IF YOU READ THE BOOK OF 00:08:33.81\00:08:37.18 REVELATION, YOU WILL SEE THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE A BATTLE 00:08:37.18\00:08:40.65 BETWEEN TWO CITIES TAKING PLACE IN REVELATION THAT GOES ALL THE 00:08:40.65\00:08:43.55 WAY BACK TO THE BOOK OF GENESIS, IN THE VERY BEGINNING IT TALKS 00:08:43.55\00:08:48.86 ABOUT BABYLON, HAS TALKED ABOUT BABEL BACK THEM AND ALSO TALKS 00:08:48.86\00:08:54.36 ABOUT JERUSALEM BUT IT WAS CALLED SALEM AND THE WORD 00:08:54.36\00:08:58.50 BABYLON IS ACTUALLY MENTIONED, BY THE WAY BABYLON MEANS 00:08:58.50\00:09:00.97 CONFUSION AND YOU CAN TELL FROM SOME OF THE INTERVIEWS OUT THERE 00:09:00.97\00:09:03.51 IS A LOT OF CONFUSION ABOUT BIBLE PROPHECY AND THE END OF 00:09:03.51\00:09:06.37 THE WORLD. BUT THE WORD BABYLON REALLY, IS 00:09:06.37\00:09:11.61 FOUND SEVEN TIMES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, JERUSALEM IS ONLY 00:09:11.61\00:09:14.58 FOUND THREE TIMES, KINGDOM IS FOUND SEVEN TIMES ALSO. 00:09:14.58\00:09:18.02 BUT ORDER TO UNDERSTAND HOW BABYLON FITS INTO REVELATION, AS 00:09:18.02\00:09:22.52 I MENTIONED, OUT OF THE 404 VERSES IN REVELATION, TWO78 ARE 00:09:22.52\00:09:28.53 FOUND ALMOST WORD FOR WORD SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE BIBLE. 00:09:28.53\00:09:31.27 SO GOING BACK IN REVELATION, WE CAN SEE, WELL, READING IN 00:09:31.27\00:09:35.34 REVELATION I SHOULD SAY, WE CAN SEE REVELATION 18:21 THUS WITH 00:09:35.34\00:09:40.51 VIOLENCE SHALL THAT GREAT CITY-BABYLON BE THROWN DOWN AND SHALL NOT BE FOUND ANYMORE. 00:09:40.51\00:09:46.38 SEVERAL TIMES NEAR REVELATION IT TALKS ABOUT THE FALL OF BABYLON, 00:09:46.38\00:09:49.55 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHO IS BABYLON? 00:09:49.55\00:09:51.65 IT TALKS ABOUT MYSTERY BABYLON IN REVELATION. 00:09:51.65\00:09:55.19 WELL, IF YOU GO BACK IN THE BEGINNING, YOU FIND THE FIRST 00:09:55.19\00:09:58.33 REFERENCE TO BABYLON IN REVELATION -- I AM SORRY, IN 00:09:58.33\00:10:01.43 GENESIS, CHAPTER 10, NIMROD WAS THE ONE WHO FOUNDED THE CITY, 00:10:01.43\00:10:05.13 BUT THEN WE READ IN CHAPTER 11 ABOUT FOLLOWING THE FLOOD, 00:10:05.13\00:10:09.37 THEN WANTED TO MAKE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES, GOD TOLD THEM TO GO 00:10:09.37\00:10:14.11 SCATTER, DISPERSE, BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY BUT THEY 00:10:14.11\00:10:19.08 CONGREGATED INSTEAD THEY WOULDN'T BE DESTROYED WITH 00:10:19.08\00:10:21.95 ANOTHER THE FLOOD THEY SAID A LET'S MAKE A TOWER AND SAVE 00:10:21.95\00:10:26.09 OURSELVES IN CASE WE CAN'T SAVE GOD, SO BABYLON, AND THAT WHOLE 00:10:26.09\00:10:30.16 TOWER BEING CONFUSED AND CONFOUNDED, IT BECAME A SYMBOL 00:10:30.16\00:10:34.36 FOR CONFUSION IN THE BIBLE. IT SAYS THERE ARE ITS NAME IS 00:10:34.36\00:10:39.57 CALLED BABEL BECAUSE THERE THE LORD CONFUSED THE LANGUAGE OF 00:10:39.57\00:10:42.60 ALL ALL THE EARTH AND I TELL YOU THERE IS A LOT OF SPIRITUAL 00:10:42.60\00:10:46.04 CONFUSION IN THE WORLD TODAY. THOUSAND WHEN YOU JUMP AHEAD IN 00:10:46.04\00:10:48.11 THE BIBLE TO THE BACH OF DANIEL, THAT IS WHEN, THAT IS WHEN BACK 00:10:48.11\00:10:53.42 ON REALLY REACHED ITS ZENITH BECAUSE YOU SEE, VERSE WAS 0 00:10:53.42\00:10:57.69 CONQUERED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE SECOND, THIS GREAT KING OF AGE 00:10:57.69\00:11:01.62 SHUNTED BABYLON AND THE PEOPLE WERE CARRIED OFF TO BACK RON, 00:11:01.62\00:11:04.96 AND THEY WERE HELD CAPTIVE THERE, AND SO WHEN IT TALKS 00:11:04.96\00:11:08.90 ABOUT BABYLON CONQUERING GOD'S PEOPLE AND TAKING THEM AWAY, 00:11:08.90\00:11:12.33 THERE IS THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF GOD AND THE KINGDOM OF 00:11:12.33\00:11:16.00 BABYLON WE SEE PLAYING OUT THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES. 00:11:16.00\00:11:20.44 SO MEMBER CAD CZAR'S KINGDOM RAN FROM SIX 12-B C TO 539 BC IF 00:11:20.44\00:11:26.28 YOU, BUT IF YOU GO TO DANIEL CHAPTER 2 IT DESCRIBES THE KING 00:11:26.28\00:11:30.69 HAVING A DREAM, AFTER HIS KINGDOM WAS ESTABLISHED AND 00:11:30.69\00:11:35.86 SETTLED, HE BEGAN TO REALIZE, YOU KNOW, I BUILT THIS UP, BUT 00:11:35.86\00:11:39.36 HOW LONG WILL IT LAST .. AND HE, WHILE HE WAS THINKING ABOUT THE 00:11:39.36\00:11:44.57 FUTURE AND HOW LONG HIS KINGDOM WOULD LAST, THE LORD GAVE THIS 00:11:44.57\00:11:49.57 POWERFUL MONARCH AN INCREDIBLE VIVID DREAM. 00:11:49.57\00:11:52.17 NOW SOME DREAMS ARE JUST THE RESULT OF, YOU KNOW, THE STRANGE 00:11:52.17\00:11:54.94 THINGS THAT HAPPEN DURING THE DAY. 00:11:54.94\00:11:57.21 I KNOW I USED TO PLAY A LOT OF RACQUETBALL BEFORE COVID, I 00:11:57.21\00:12:00.85 PLAYED MORE RACQUETBALL, AND I PLAYED SO MUCH THAT SOMETIMES I 00:12:00.85\00:12:04.39 WOULD BE LAYING IN BED KAREN LAYING NEXT TO ME AND TAKE MY 00:12:04.39\00:12:07.79 ARM AND SWING IT, SHE WOULD SAY, ARE YOU OKAY? 00:12:07.79\00:12:10.69 I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A SHOT IN MY DREAM. 00:12:10.69\00:12:13.33 AND SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES DREAMS COME THROUGH THE 00:12:13.33\00:12:15.70 MULTITUDE OF BUSINESS SOLOMON TELLS US BUT SOMETIMES WE HAVE 00:12:15.70\00:12:19.87 DREAMS THAT WERE EXTREMELY REAL AND VIVID. 00:12:19.87\00:12:22.74 MORE LIKE A VISION. THE KING KNEW THERE WAS 00:12:22.74\00:12:25.47 SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS DREAM. 00:12:25.47\00:12:28.01 AND WE ARE GOING TO SHOW YOU WHERE YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE THIS 00:12:28.01\00:12:30.85 DREAM, IT IS FOUND IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2, AND I AM GOING TO 00:12:30.85\00:12:33.75 READ VERSES -- I AM GOING TO READ DANIEL 231-35 THAT 00:12:33.75\00:12:40.79 DESCRIBES WHAT THE KING SAW AND THEN GO BACK AND TALK ABOUT THAT 00:12:40.79\00:12:44.56 STORY. DANIEL CHAPTER 2:31. 00:12:44.56\00:12:47.86 YOU OH KING WERE WATCHING AND BEHOLD A GREAT IMAGE, AND THIS 00:12:47.86\00:12:52.33 GREAT IMAGE ITS SPLENDOR WAS EXCELLENT STOOD BEFORE YOU AND 00:12:52.33\00:12:55.47 ITS FORM WAS AWESOME, THIS IMAGE'S HEAD WAS OF FINEGOLD, 00:12:55.47\00:13:00.44 ITS CHEST AND ARMS WERE SILVER, ITS BELLY AND THIGHS WERE BRONZE 00:13:00.44\00:13:05.08 AND LEGS OF IRON, ITS FEET PARTLY IRON AND PARTLY CLAY, HE 00:13:05.08\00:13:10.15 WATCHED WHILE A STONE WAS CUT WITHOUT HANDS WHICH INSTRUCTS 00:13:10.15\00:13:13.49 STRUCK THE IMAGE ON ITS FEET OF IRON AND CLAY AND BROKE THEM IN 00:13:13.49\00:13:17.33 PIECES. THEN THE IRON AND THE CLAY, THE 00:13:17.33\00:13:19.33 BRONZE AND THE SILVER AND THE GOLD WERE CRUSHED TOGETHER AND 00:13:19.33\00:13:22.76 BECAME LIKE THE CHAFF OF THE SUMMER THRESHING FLOOR AND THE 00:13:22.76\00:13:26.13 WIND CARRIED THEM AWAY SO THAT NO TRACE OF THEM WAS FOUND, AND 00:13:26.13\00:13:29.50 THE STONE THAT STRUCK THE IMAGE BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN AND 00:13:29.50\00:13:33.58 FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH. >> THIS RECREATES THAT VISION SO 00:13:33.58\00:13:40.58 YOU CAN SEE IT AND GET IT PICTURED IN YOUR MIND, IN FACT, 00:13:40.58\00:13:44.55 ON THE SHELF BEHIND ME YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING IF YOU HAVE SEEN A 00:13:44.55\00:13:48.36 WIDE SHOT OF THE SET WE HAVE THIS ARTIFACT, NO, I WANT TO 00:13:48.36\00:13:52.13 MAKE SURE NO ONE THINGS AT OUR AMAZING FACTS WE ARE BURNING 00:13:52.13\00:13:59.13 INNOCENCE BEFORE AN IDOL, THIS IS A REPRODUCTION OF WHAT THE 00:13:59.13\00:14:03.34 KING SAW IN HIS DREAM, WE CALL HIM MELVIN, I HOPE NOBODY HERE 00:14:03.34\00:14:08.14 IS CALLED MELVIN, BUT ANYWAY, SO THIS DREAM OUTLINES THE HISTORY 00:14:08.14\00:14:14.08 OF THE WORLD .. SO WITH THIS BACKGROUND LET'S GO AHEAD AND 00:14:14.08\00:14:16.72 GET INTO OUR STUDY FOR TONIGHT, GOING AGAIN TO THESE STUDIES 00:14:16.72\00:14:21.99 WITH A QUESTION ANSWER FORMAT THAT HELPS US TO PASS THE RIGHT 00:14:21.99\00:14:28.63 QUESTIONS AND GIVES I GIVE YOU TO ANSWERSLY GIVE YOU A LOT OF 00:14:28.63\00:14:31.27 BIBLE SCRIPTURES TONIGHT SO YOU CAN TAKE NOTES, OF COURSE YOU 00:14:31.27\00:14:34.30 CAN PLAY THESE BACK LATER AND YOU REQUEST THE LESSONS AND 00:14:34.30\00:14:37.24 DOWNLOAD THEM THAT WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THIS. 00:14:37.24\00:14:39.44 QUESTION NUMBER 1. WHY DID GOD GIVE THE BABYLONIAN 00:14:39.44\00:14:43.48 KING THIS DREAM? YOU READ IN DANIEL 2:28 HE SAID 00:14:43.48\00:14:48.45 THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN THAT REVEALS SECRETS AND MAKES KNOWN 00:14:48.45\00:14:51.39 TO THE KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR CZAR WHAT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS? 00:14:51.39\00:14:57.46 WHAT DOES HIS DREAM ARE HAVE TO BE WITH? 00:14:57.46\00:14:59.43 WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE LAST DAYS. 00:14:59.43\00:15:01.20 I AM TELLING YOU SECRET. THIS DREAM IS REVEALING 00:15:01.20\00:15:03.23 SOMETHING ABOUT THE FUTURE. NOW, WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR HE, 00:15:03.23\00:15:09.37 WHEN HE HAS THE DREAM HE DID WHAT RULERS DID BACK THEN THEM, 00:15:09.37\00:15:16.18 WHEN PHAROAH HAD THE DREAM OF THE SEVEN FAT AND SKINNY COWS 00:15:16.18\00:15:20.08 AND CALLED IN HIS WISE MEN AND SAYS WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? 00:15:20.08\00:15:22.78 AND THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO TELL HIM. 00:15:22.78\00:15:24.75 THESE GREAT MONARCHS OFTEN HAD -- THEY HAD MAGICIANS AND 00:15:24.75\00:15:30.16 SORCERERS AND ADVISORS THAT WENT THROUGH ALL OF THEIR DIFFERENT 00:15:30.16\00:15:33.40 INCANTATIONS TO SUPPOSEDLY GUIDE THE KING WITH THEIR WISDOM. 00:15:33.40\00:15:36.63 AND THIS WAS FAIRLY COMMON THROUGH CHINESE AND BABYLON AND 00:15:36.63\00:15:41.90 EGYPT AND MANY OF THE EMPIRES SO HE CALLED IN HIS WISE MEN AND 00:15:41.90\00:15:45.74 MAGICIANS AND SORCERERS AND SAYS I HAD THIS DREAM, I KNOW IT IS A 00:15:45.74\00:15:49.64 DIVINE DREAM. IT IS DIFFERENT. 00:15:49.64\00:15:50.68 GOD WAS TELLING ME SOMETHING. I THE DEALT INTENSITY OF IT, 00:15:50.68\00:15:54.15 TELL ME WHAT THE DREAM MEANS. AND THEY SAID, OKAY, THAT'S WHY 00:15:54.15\00:15:58.15 WE ARE ON THE KING'S PAYROLL. TELL US THE DREAM AND WE WILL 00:15:58.15\00:16:01.39 MANUFACTURE -- I MEAN WE WILL TELL THE KING THE DREAM, WHAT IT 00:16:01.39\00:16:05.93 MEANS. THEY ARE REALLY GOOD AT 00:16:05.93\00:16:08.03 CONCOCTING THINGS BUT THE KING SAID YOU KNOW, IT ALREADY IS 00:16:08.03\00:16:12.43 BECOMING FUZZY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU EVER HAD A DREAM BEFORE THAT 00:16:12.43\00:16:14.94 YOU THINK, WOW, AND THEN YOU TRY AND TELL IT TO SOMEONE A LITTLE 00:16:14.94\00:16:18.74 LATER AND YOU SAY, AH, IT IS GETTING HARD TO REMEMBER BECAUSE 00:16:18.74\00:16:21.34 THE PART OF YOR BRAIN THAT DOES DREAMING IN YOUR BRAIN LEVELS, 00:16:21.34\00:16:25.55 IT IS NOT THE SAME LUCID PART OF YOUR BRAIN YOU THINK WITH, THE 00:16:25.55\00:16:30.19 CONSCIOUS BRAIN. AND SO THEY ARE OFTEN SEPARATED 00:16:30.19\00:16:33.19 BY A VEIL AND IT IS HARD TO RECALL. 00:16:33.19\00:16:35.09 SO THE KING SAID LOOK I WANT TO FIND OUT IF YOU GUYS ARE 00:16:35.09\00:16:38.49 AUTHENTIC. IF YOU REALLY HAVE DIVINE 00:16:38.49\00:16:40.83 INSIGHT, TELL ME THE DREAM, THEN I WILL KNOW YOU CAN TELL ME 00:16:40.83\00:16:43.93 INTERPRETATION AND YOU ARE NOT JUST MAKING SOMETHING UP. 00:16:43.93\00:16:46.87 WELL, THEY BEGAN TO STALL AND THEY SAID, WELL, THAT IS A 00:16:46.87\00:16:50.01 LITTLE UNREASONABLE, THERE IS NO KING THAT WOULD EVER ASK HIS 00:16:50.01\00:16:53.38 MAGICIANS OR HIS WISE MEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 00:16:53.38\00:16:55.48 YOU TELL US THE DREAM AND WE WILL TELL YOU THE 00:16:55.48\00:16:59.45 INTERPRETATION. AND HE WAS GETTING MORE AND MORE 00:16:59.45\00:17:02.05 FRUSTRATED WITH THEM UNTIL FINALLY THE KING KNOWING THE 00:17:02.05\00:17:04.49 IMPORTANCE OF THIS AND BEGINNING TO DOUBT THE AUTHENTICITY OF HIS 00:17:04.49\00:17:09.16 WISE MEN, HE ISSUED A DECREE THEY SHOULD ALL BE GATHERED AND 00:17:09.16\00:17:13.16 EXECUTED IF THEY COULDN'T TELL HIM WHAT HIS DREAM WAS AND WHAT 00:17:13.16\00:17:15.76 THE INTERPRETATION WAS. WHEN THE KING'S COUNSELORS 00:17:15.76\00:17:19.60 FAILED TO REVEAL AND INTERPRET THE DREAM WHAT WAS 00:17:19.60\00:17:23.30 NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S COMMAND? HE ACTUALLY BEGAN TO GET HIS 00:17:23.30\00:17:26.78 LEGAL COUNSEL TOGETHER AND SAID WE ARE GOING GET A DECREE 00:17:26.78\00:17:29.24 BECAUSE IF YOU GOING TO WIPE OUT ALL OF THE WISE MEN IN YOUR 00:17:29.24\00:17:33.42 KINGDOM YOU NEED TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL, HE WAS ASSEMBLING AND 00:17:33.42\00:17:36.42 GETTING THE PAPERWORK DONE AND IF YOU CAN'T TELL ME DREAM I 00:17:36.42\00:17:39.09 WILL HAVE YOU ALL EXECUTED. THE KING COMMANDED TO DESTROY 00:17:39.09\00:17:42.89 ALL OF THE WISE MEN OF BABYLON. NOW, PART OF THE PROBLEM IN THIS 00:17:42.89\00:17:48.23 STORY IS THAT IN THE KINGDOM OF BABYLON THERE WERE FOUR HEBREWS 00:17:48.23\00:17:52.03 THAT WERE SERVING IN THE KING'S CABINET AND THEY WERE SORT OF 00:17:52.03\00:17:56.97 INTERN WISE MEN. THEY WERE JUNIOR WISE MEN, SO TO 00:17:56.97\00:18:01.08 SPEAK. YOU READ IN CHAPTER 1 HOW THE 00:18:01.08\00:18:03.48 KING HAD TESTED THEM AND POUND THEM TEN TIMES WISER THAN ALL OF 00:18:03.48\00:18:07.02 HIS MAGICIANS AND AS VOLUME VS., THEY WERE NOT INCITED TO THIS 00:18:07.02\00:18:10.82 FIRST GATHERING WHERE THE KING SAID TELL ME MY DREAM .. SO 00:18:10.82\00:18:14.39 DANIEL CONSEQUENT TO THE GUARD THAT WAS GATHERING THE WISE MEN 00:18:14.39\00:18:17.33 AND TALKING ABOUT EXTERMINATING THEM AND HE SAID WHY IS THE 00:18:17.33\00:18:21.76 KING'S DECREE SO HASTY? ASK THE KING IF HE WANT TO KNOW 00:18:21.76\00:18:24.73 THE DREAM TO GIVE ME SOME TIME AND I WILL TELL HIM. 00:18:24.73\00:18:27.60 SO WHEN DANIEL LEARNED ABOUT THE DECREE WHAT DID HE ASK OF THE 00:18:27.60\00:18:31.94 KING AND WHAT DID HE TELL HIS FRIENDS? 00:18:31.94\00:18:35.91 DANIEL WENT IN AND HE TOLD THE KING HE WOULD GIVE HIM TIME AND 00:18:35.91\00:18:42.52 HE WOULD SHOW THE KING THE INTERPRETATION. 00:18:42.52\00:18:44.52 NOW HE WASN'T STALLING, HE IS BASICALLY SAYING, GIVE ME A 00:18:44.52\00:18:46.55 COUPLE OF DAYS AND I WILL TELL THE KING WHAT THE INTERPRETATION 00:18:46.55\00:18:50.19 IS. HOW COULD DANIEL SAY SOMETHING 00:18:50.19\00:18:53.53 THAT OUTRAGEOUS AND AUDACIOUS? HOW WOULD HE KNOW HE COULD DO 00:18:53.53\00:18:56.73 THAT? THAT WAS A PRETTY RISKY THING TO 00:18:56.73\00:18:58.90 SAY. WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU READ IN 00:18:58.90\00:19:00.44 DANIEL CHAPTER 2, IT SAYS DANIEL THEN GOES TO HIS HOUSE, HE MAKES 00:19:00.44\00:19:04.21 THE THING KNOWN TO HANANIAH, AND -- THOSE ARE THE JEWISH NAMES 00:19:04.21\00:19:10.45 FOR SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO THEY WOULD DESIRE 00:19:10.45\00:19:14.62 MERCIES OF THE GOD OF HEAVEN CONCERNING THE SECRET AND THESE 00:19:14.62\00:19:17.52 FOUR YOUNG MEN GAVE -- AND NOW LOOK IN DANIEL CHAPTER 1, VERSE 00:19:17.52\00:19:22.69 SEVEN, WHY DID DANIEL HAVE THIS CONFIDENCE? 00:19:22.69\00:19:25.23 AS FOR THE FOUR YOUNG MEN GOD GAVE THEM KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL IN 00:19:25.23\00:19:28.60 ALL LITERATURE AND WISDOM AND DANIEL HAD UNDERSTANDING AND ALL 00:19:28.60\00:19:32.93 VISIONS IN DREAMS, IT SAYS THAT IN CHAPTER 1. 00:19:32.93\00:19:35.10 THAT'S WHY DANIEL HAD CONFIDENCE IN CHAPTER 2 THAT HE COULD TELL 00:19:35.10\00:19:38.17 THE KING WHAT HIS MESSAGE WAS OR WHAT HIS VISION WAS. 00:19:38.17\00:19:42.78 BUT THEY PRAYED. THEY KNEW THAT THESE SECRETS 00:19:42.78\00:19:45.75 ONLY BELONG TO GOD. IF YOU KNEW THAT YOUR LIFE 00:19:45.75\00:19:49.25 DEPENDED ON HAVING AN ANSWER YOU HAD TO DREAM SOMEONE ELSE'S 00:19:49.25\00:19:52.39 DREAM. YOU HAVE A PRETTY HEALTHY PRAYER 00:19:52.39\00:19:55.02 MEETING. AND I AM SURE THOSE FOUR YOUNG 00:19:55.02\00:19:56.42 MEN WERE PRAYING THEIR HEARTS OUT THAT NIGHT, BUT EVENTUALLY 00:19:56.42\00:19:59.26 THEY HAD PEACE AND THEY DRIFTED OFF TO SLEEP AND WHAT DO YOU 00:19:59.26\00:20:02.70 KNOW? DANIEL ENDED UP HAVING THIS 00:20:02.70\00:20:04.83 VIVID DREAM AND HE KNEW IT WAS THE DREAM OF THE KING. 00:20:04.83\00:20:08.60 AND THE NEXT DAY HE THEN RELATED THIS QUESTION, GHEN LORD 00:20:08.60\00:20:13.98 REVEALED THE DREAM DANIEL, TO WHOM DID HE GIVE PRAISE AND 00:20:13.98\00:20:17.81 CREDIT? HE DIDN'T TAKE IT FOR HIMSELF. 00:20:17.81\00:20:20.35 HE KNEW THAT GLORY BELONGED TO GOD, IT SAYS THAT THEY GATHERED 00:20:20.35\00:20:24.12 AND THEY THANKED LORD, I THINK A THEE AND PRAISE THEY THEE OH THE 00:20:24.12\00:20:29.59 GOD OF MY FATHERS THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN THAT REVEALS SECRETS 00:20:29.59\00:20:32.83 AND HE HAS MADE KNOWN TO KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR WHAT WILL BE IN 00:20:32.83\00:20:37.73 THE LAST DAYS, HE IS EMPHASIZING THE CONTEXT OF WHAT THIS DREAM 00:20:37.73\00:20:41.94 CAN IS ABOUT AND HOW IT RELATES TO YOU TODAY, LISTEN CAREFULLY 00:20:41.94\00:20:45.57 AND WE WILL FIND OUT WHERE WE ARE IN THE SCOPE OF HISTORY. 00:20:45.57\00:20:47.81 WE HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION TONIGHT. 00:20:47.81\00:20:50.25 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD AND GOD ONLY CAN SEE THE BEGINNING FROM 00:20:50.25\00:20:54.12 THE END. ISAIAH CHAPTER 48, NINE AND 10, 00:20:54.12\00:20:58.45 REMEMBER THE FORMER THINGS OF OLD FOR I AM GOD AND THERE IS NO 00:20:58.45\00:21:02.56 OTHER. I AM GOD AND THERE IS FAWN LIKE 00:21:02.56\00:21:04.99 ME. DECLARING THE END FROM THE 00:21:04.99\00:21:07.93 BEGINNING AND FROM ACHE SHUNT TIMES THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT 00:21:07.93\00:21:10.13 YET DONE. GOD CAN DECLARE FROM ANCIENT 00:21:10.13\00:21:13.54 TIMES THINGS THAT HAVEN'T YET HAPPENED. 00:21:13.54\00:21:16.37 SO IN THE DREAM, AND WE READ IT, YOU SAW IT ON THE SCREEN, WHAT 00:21:16.37\00:21:20.74 ARE THE TWO OBJECTS THAT KING SAW IN THAT DREAM THAT 00:21:20.74\00:21:23.98 ESPECIALLY STOOD OUT? FIRST OF ALL, HE SAYS THOU OH 00:21:23.98\00:21:29.58 KING SAW A GREAT IMAGE. THIS ITSELF IS SOMETHING THAT IS 00:21:29.58\00:21:32.69 VERY TELLING. IN THE BIBLE, YOU KNOW WHAT THE 00:21:32.69\00:21:36.26 SECOND COMMANDMENT IS? DO NOT MAKE THE LIKENESS OF 00:21:36.26\00:21:39.49 ANYTHING IN THE HEAVEN ABOVE OR THE EARTH BENEATH OR THE WATER 00:21:39.49\00:21:42.53 UNDER THE EARTH, A DO NOT MAKE IMAGES, DO NOT BOW DOWN TO 00:21:42.53\00:21:46.23 IMAGES BUT THE BABYLON THEY WERE FAMOUS FOR IDOL TRIAS, IDOL 00:21:46.23\00:21:51.34 TRIAS THEY WERE IN MANY .. PAGAN CULTURES OF THE WORLD, SO THE 00:21:51.34\00:21:55.31 FACT THIS IS OF A GREAT IMAGE, EVIDENTLY AN IMAGE OF A MAN, 00:21:55.31\00:21:59.11 LOOKING IN DANIEL CHAPTER SEVEN, DANIEL CHAPTER 8 IT TALKS ABOUT 00:21:59.11\00:22:04.69 THE VISION OFFICE BEASTS AND IT TELLS YOU THEY ARE BEASTS BUT 00:22:04.69\00:22:07.49 THIS BECAUSE IT HAS CHEST AND ARMS AND LEGS AND TOES IT IS 00:22:07.49\00:22:11.06 PRETTY SURE THE IMAGE OF A MAN, IT REPRESENTS REPRESENT MAN'S 00:22:11.06\00:22:15.30 KINGDOM ON EARTH. WHEN YOU GET TO DANIEL CHAPTER 00:22:15.30\00:22:18.90 3, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, MAKES A HUGE IMAGE, PROBABLY SIX CUBITS WIDE, 00:22:18.90\00:22:25.64 60 TALL, SIX, SIX, SIX, YOU FIND THAT IMAGE IN REVELATION ALSO, 00:22:25.64\00:22:31.25 AND SO THIS IMAGE REPRESENTED THE RELIGION, THE KINGDOMS OF 00:22:31.25\00:22:36.05 MAN IN THE WORLD THAT WERE AT ODDS OR OPPOSING THE KINGDOM OF 00:22:36.05\00:22:40.69 GOD. NOTICE THE KING'S WISE MEN DID 00:22:40.69\00:22:43.02 NOT HAVE REAL POWER, WHO WAS IT THAT COULD FINALLY TELL THE KING 00:22:43.02\00:22:46.16 WHAT THE ANSWER WAS? IT WAS THE JEW IN THE COURT. 00:22:46.16\00:22:50.27 IN THE DAYS OF PHAROAH, THE WISE MEN COULD NOT TELL PHAROAH ABOUT 00:22:50.27\00:22:53.84 THE DREAM, WHO HAS THE -- WHO HAD THE ANSWER? 00:22:53.84\00:22:56.57 IT WAS JOSEPH THE JEW IN THE COURT. 00:22:56.57\00:22:58.74 AND YOU WILL SEE THIS HAPPENING MANY TIMES THROUGH HISTORY THAT 00:22:58.74\00:23:02.21 GOD GAVE HIS PEOPLE THAT WISDOM, THAT'S WHY THIS BOOK, THE BIBLE 00:23:02.21\00:23:06.28 IS A BOOK, PAUL SAYS GOD CREATED THE HOLY ORACLE TO THE JEWISH 00:23:06.28\00:23:11.29 NATION SO YOU HAVE GOT THIS TWO POLAR OPPOSITES. 00:23:11.29\00:23:15.92 THIS IDOL, THIS IMAGE IS A BIG IDOL THAT REPRESENTS COUNTERFEIT 00:23:15.92\00:23:20.96 WORSHIP. THOSE ARE THE BATTLES YOU ARE 00:23:20.96\00:23:22.30 GOING TO SEE IN THE LAST DAYS BETWEEN THOSE WHO WORSHIP GOD 00:23:22.30\00:23:25.00 AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE. 00:23:25.00\00:23:28.47 SO ONE THING YOU SEE IS THIS GREAT IMAGE. 00:23:28.47\00:23:30.87 THE OTHER THING YOU SEE IS THERE IS A STONE CUT WITHOUT HANDS, 00:23:30.87\00:23:35.98 NOW THAT IS GOING TO COME UP A LITTLE LATER, YOU SEE, WITH TEN 00:23:35.98\00:23:38.98 JEWS MADE AN ALTAR, THEY WERE TOLD, DO POT LIFT UP YOUR TOOL 00:23:38.98\00:23:43.69 UPON IT, IF YOU LIFT UP YOUR TOOL UPON IT YOU HAVE POLLUTED 00:23:43.69\00:23:47.06 IT AND PROFANED IT, I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE TEMPTED TO CARVE THAT 00:23:47.06\00:23:50.36 STONE, EVEN IF IT IS AN ALTAR INTO ANYTHING ORNATE, BECAUSE I 00:23:50.36\00:23:53.76 DON'T WANT YOU TO BE TEMPTED TO WORSHIP IDOLS. 00:23:53.76\00:23:56.23 I WANT YOU TO SIMPLY TAKE RAW STONE, SO WHEN IT SAYS THIS 00:23:56.23\00:23:58.70 STONE IS CUT WITHOUT MAN'S HANDS IT IS TALKING ABOUT GOD'S TRUTH. 00:23:58.70\00:24:03.17 JESUS IS THE ROCK OF AGES, CHRIST SAID HE THAT HEARS THESE 00:24:03.17\00:24:07.01 WORDS OF MINE IS THE WISE MAN WHO BUILT ON THE ROCK. 00:24:07.01\00:24:10.71 DAVID BROUGHT DOWN GOLIATH WITH A STONE, AND SO THIS REPRESENTS 00:24:10.71\00:24:15.15 THE WORD OF GOD, AND SO YOU HAVE THESE TWO CONTRASTING SYMBOLS, 00:24:15.15\00:24:20.89 SOMEONE GOLD AND SILVER AND ALL THE EARTHLY TREASURER, BUT THE 00:24:20.89\00:24:24.79 OTHER ONE IS IS A ZONE, TEN COMMAND IT IS WORD OF GOD 00:24:24.79\00:24:28.00 WRITTEN ON STONE. AND SO SCRIEGHT AWAY A JEW 00:24:28.00\00:24:32.77 READING THIS WOULD UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE TWO OPPOSING ELEMENTS 00:24:32.77\00:24:35.44 THAT ARE HERE. NUMBER 6, WHAT DOES THE HEAD OF 00:24:35.44\00:24:38.27 GOLD REPRESENT? NOW WE ARE GOING TO START GOING 00:24:38.27\00:24:41.01 THROUGH THESE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS IN THE VISION TO FIND OUT POINT 00:24:41.01\00:24:44.15 BY POINT WHAT DO THEY MEAN? WELL, DANIEL TOLD THE KING CAN 00:24:44.15\00:24:47.78 VERY PLAINLY WHEN HE INTERPRETED IT JUST READ CHAPTER 2 OF DAN 00:24:47.78\00:24:52.29 JOEL YOU WILL HAVE ALL AFTER THIS HERE, YOU THIS HEAD OF GOLD 00:24:52.29\00:24:56.12 NOW GOLD OF COURSE IS THE MOST PRECIOUS OF THE MEDALS YOU, 00:24:56.12\00:24:59.66 METALS YOU FIND IN THE VISION AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS THE KING 00:24:59.66\00:25:03.16 OF ONE OF THE MOST MAJESTIC EMPIRES IN THE WORLD. 00:25:03.16\00:25:05.90 I HAVE GOT A FEW NOTES HERE FROM AN AGE SHUNT HISTORIAN BY THE 00:25:05.90\00:25:09.94 NAME OF HEROD US THE, AND HE .. GIVES A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT 00:25:09.94\00:25:14.01 ANCIENT BABYLON WAS LIKE. LET ME READ SOME OF THIS TO YOU. 00:25:14.01\00:25:19.08 BABYLON REACHED ITS GLORY DURING THE REIGN OF KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR 00:25:19.08\00:25:24.95 SECOND, WAS PROBABLY THE LARGEST CITY OF ANTIQUITY, THE ENTIRE 00:25:24.95\00:25:28.22 CITY OF BABYLON WAS AN IMMENSE SQUARE TOTALING 15 MILES ON EACH 00:25:28.22\00:25:33.60 SIDE, 60 MILES AROUND, BABYLON EACH SIDE WITH A MAR DUKES 00:25:33.60\00:25:39.43 TEMPLE AND THE TOWER OF BABYLON AT THE CENTER .. THE CITY WAS 00:25:39.43\00:25:42.60 DIVIDED INTO INTO EQUAL PARTS WITH A RIVER EUPHRATES RUNNING 00:25:42.60\00:25:47.58 UNDER THE WALLS, NOTICE THAT LATER, IT COMES UP LATER 00:25:47.58\00:25:50.31 TONIGHT, RIVER EUPHRATES RUNNING UNDER THE WALL THAT HELPED 00:25:50.31\00:25:54.58 IRRIGATE THE ENTIRE METROPOLIS, 25 AVENUES 150 FEET WIDE, I WISH 00:25:54.58\00:25:59.52 OUR STREETS WERE THAT WIDE WHICH RAN INTRODUCES CITY THERE NORTH 00:25:59.52\00:26:02.32 TO SOUTH. THE SAME NUMBER CROSSED AT RIGHT 00:26:02.32\00:26:05.23 AGE ALSO FROM EAST TO WEST MAKING A TOTAL OF 676 GREAT 00:26:05.23\00:26:10.03 BLOCKS, THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE EACH. 00:26:10.03\00:26:12.33 WITH SMALLER STREETS OF COURSE INTERSECTING THOSE. 00:26:12.33\00:26:15.90 KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR ALSO BUILT MASSIVE FORTIFICATIONS WITH 00:26:15.90\00:26:19.64 IMMENSE IMMENSELY THICK WALLS THAT 00:26:19.64\00:26:22.08 MEASURED BETWEEN 67 FEAT AT THE BASE TO 54 FEET AT THE TOP, AND 00:26:22.08\00:26:27.38 HISTORIANS STRUGGLED WITH THIS BUZZ HEROD US THE SAID 320 FEET 00:26:27.38\00:26:34.46 HIGH, 600 FEET HIGH, YOU THINK, WHO KNOWS? 00:26:34.46\00:26:36.29 A LOT OF THOSE BRICKS WERE TAKEN AFTER THE FALL OF BABYLON AND 00:26:36.29\00:26:38.83 USED TO REBUILD OTHER THINGS, AND THEY JUST ALL DISAPPEARED. 00:26:38.83\00:26:42.53 .. AND ITS AT THE US THAT ONE HISTORIAN SAID FOUR CHARIOTS 00:26:42.53\00:26:46.87 COULD RACE ON OF THE WALLS OF BABYLON, NOT 00:26:46.87\00:26:50.47 ONLY WAS BABYLON BIG BUT BUILDING, THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS 00:26:50.47\00:26:53.94 WERE LAID WITH BRIGHT GLAZED BRICKS HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE 00:26:53.94\00:26:57.91 ISSUE TAR GATE THAT HAS BEEN .. CAREFULLY EXCAVATED IN BABYLON 00:26:57.91\00:27:02.32 AND REBUILT, REASSEMBLED, IN BERLIN IN A MUSEUM, AND JUST TO 00:27:02.32\00:27:07.29 TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF THE CITY DURING THIS 00:27:07.29\00:27:10.53 TIME AND SAYS THE OUTER WALLS WERE YELLOW, THE GATES WERE 00:27:10.53\00:27:13.16 BLUE, THE PALACES WERE ROSE RED, AND THE TIMPLES WERE WHITE. 00:27:13.16\00:27:17.60 ALL THIS PLUS THE THEME IS HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON ONE 00:27:17.60\00:27:20.70 OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, BY THE WAY WHAT 00:27:20.70\00:27:23.77 HAPPENED IS NEBUCHADNEZZAR MARRIED A GIRL FROM THE 00:27:23.77\00:27:25.91 MOUNTAINS AND SHE WENT TO THE PLAINS OF MESOPOTAMIA AND GOT 00:27:25.91\00:27:31.25 HOME STICK BECAUSE IT WAS FLAT EVERYWHERE, HE SAYSLY BUILD YOU 00:27:31.25\00:27:34.82 A MOUNTAIN, HE BUILT A MINUTE AND PLANTED IT WITH TREES AND 00:27:34.82\00:27:37.52 GARDENS FROM ALL OVER THE KNOWN WORLD AND THEN HE HAD VERY 00:27:37.52\00:27:41.02 CLEVER PUMPS THAT WERE PUMPING WATER UP TO THE TOP AND CREATING 00:27:41.02\00:27:44.76 WATERFALLS AS IT WENT DOWN AND THE NUMBER OF HISTORIANS SAID IT 00:27:44.76\00:27:47.03 WAS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL, ONE OF THE WON WONDERS OF THE WORLD, 00:27:47.03\00:27:51.40 MADE HIS WIFE A MOUNTAIN, YOU BACHELOR'S DON'T GET ANY IDEAS 00:27:51.40\00:27:54.17 ABOUT THAT. ALL OF THIS SPLENDOR WAS UNEQUAL 00:27:54.17\00:27:58.17 TO ANY CITY. YOU UNDERSTAND WHY 00:27:58.17\00:28:00.34 NEBUCHADNEZZAR AT ONE POINT CAME SO PROUD HE STOOD UPON THE 00:28:00.34\00:28:03.88 BALCONY OVERLOOKING BABYLON AS THE SUN WAS GOING DOWN, ISN'T 00:28:03.88\00:28:08.25 THIS THE GREAT BABYLON I BUILT? THERE WAS GOLD EVERYWHERE AND 00:28:08.25\00:28:12.29 THEY HAD TONS AND TONS OF GOLD, NEBUCHADNEZZAR CONQUERED VERSE 00:28:12.29\00:28:15.12 AND HE CARRIED ALL OF THE GOLD FROM SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, WHICH HAD 00:28:15.12\00:28:19.39 TONS OF GOAD, CARRIED IT OFF TO BABYLON AND CONQUERED A LOT OF 00:28:19.39\00:28:22.53 OTHER NATIONS AND ALL THE REVENUE FROM TAXES AND IT WAS 00:28:22.53\00:28:26.10 IMMENSELY RICH, IT WAS THE HEAD OF GOLD WHERE BABYLON'S KING 00:28:26.10\00:28:30.77 DOWELED LAST FOREVER? śWELL WE HEARD IT, THE GOLD 00:28:30.77\00:28:34.91 TRANSITIONED INTO ANOTHER METAL REPRESENTING ANOTHER KINGDOM, 00:28:34.91\00:28:38.65 NOW BIBLE GOES INTO A LOT OF DETAIL TO TELL US ABOUT THIS 00:28:38.65\00:28:42.02 CHEST AND ARMS OF SILVER. SO AFTER YOU WILL ARISE ANOTHER 00:28:42.02\00:28:49.82 KINGDOM INFERIOR TO THEE, STILL MIGHTY AND POWERFUL BUT NOT 00:28:49.82\00:28:53.09 NEARLY AS POWERFUL OR STRONG AS THAT GLORIOUS HEAD OF GOLD AND 00:28:53.09\00:28:58.23 THE BIBLE TELLS US HOW THIS ALL HAPPENED. 00:28:58.23\00:29:01.60 YOU KNOW, THEY WERE DOING SOME EXCAVATING AROUND BABYLON AND 00:29:01.60\00:29:04.17 FOUND A TABLET THAT WAS INSCRIBED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND 00:29:04.17\00:29:08.64 IN ALGEA AND THE BABYLONIAN TABLET IT SAYS I HAVE 00:29:08.64\00:29:15.55 STRENGTHENED AND ESTABLISHED BY REIGN FOREVER, HE WANTED HIS 00:29:15.55\00:29:18.69 KINGDOM TO LAST FOREVER. WE WILL FIND OUT IN ANOTHER 00:29:18.69\00:29:21.56 PRESENTATION ABOUT HOW HE MADE AN EFFORT FOR IT TO LAST 00:29:21.56\00:29:24.63 FOREVER. BUT AS WE ALL KNOW, BABYLON DID 00:29:24.63\00:29:26.83 NOT LAST FOREVER. AND IN THE BIBLE, IF YOU FLEAD 00:29:26.83\00:29:29.70 DANIEL CHAPTER 5, IT TELLS YOU ABOUT THE FALL OF BABYLON. 00:29:29.70\00:29:32.57 I THINK MOST OF US HAVE HEARD THE EXPRESSION BEFORE, 00:29:32.57\00:29:35.57 HANDWRITING ON THE WALL. I DID NOT KNOW WHAT THAT MEANT 00:29:35.57\00:29:37.84 MOST OF MY LIFE UNTIL I PICKED UP THE BIBLE AND I FOUND OUT 00:29:37.84\00:29:40.78 THAT CAME FROM A STORY YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE. 00:29:40.78\00:29:46.25 BABYLON FINALLY NEBUCHADNEZZAR PASSED AWAY, HIS SON, EVIL 00:29:46.25\00:29:51.32 MURDOCH REIGNED FOR A LITTLE WHILE, ASSASSINATED AND PARDON 00:29:51.32\00:29:55.79 MISS REIGNED .. AND THE SON OF NAB DONIS .. WAS BELSHAZZAR AND 00:29:55.79\00:30:01.23 WHILE HIS FATHER WAS OUT DOING ARCHAEOLOGY IN OTHER PARTS OF 00:30:01.23\00:30:04.20 THE KINGDOM HE DECIDED TO HAVE A WILD PARTY AND HE WASN'T AT ALL 00:30:04.20\00:30:07.20 CONCERNED THAT THE NEEDS NEEDS AND PERSIANS WERE THREATENING TO 00:30:07.20\00:30:10.97 ATTACKS .. AND SAYS THEY WILL NEVER GET THROUGH THE WALLS, WE 00:30:10.97\00:30:15.88 DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE NEEDS AND PERKS TO HE HAD A 00:30:15.88\00:30:21.05 BARACK OBAMA BIG PARTIES WE HAVE ENOUGH FOOD THE CITY TO LAST 20 00:30:21.05\00:30:24.55 YEARS .. AND THEY DID, THEY HAD QUITE A BIT, SOME OF THESE 00:30:24.55\00:30:28.32 SIEGES, WHERE ONE KINGDOM WOULD SURROUND ANOTHER WOULD LAST FOR 00:30:28.32\00:30:32.99 YEARS, NEBUCHADNEZZAR TOOK IN TWO YEARS AND CAMPED OUTSIDE OF 00:30:32.99\00:30:36.63 JERUSALEM TO CONQUER THE CITY, THE ROMANS CAMPED OUTSIDE OF 00:30:36.63\00:30:40.17 MASADA FOR THREE YEARS .. AND UNTIL BELSHAZZAR SAID THE 00:30:40.17\00:30:45.57 PERSIANS TO CITY THEY ARE NEVER GOING CONQUER US, THEY DON'T 00:30:45.57\00:30:48.51 HAVE THE DICHOTOMY TO OUTLAST US, ECONOMY TO OUT LAST US, THEY 00:30:48.51\00:30:53.15 HAD A BIG FEAST AND THROWING FOOD OVER THE WALLS TO SHOW THEY 00:30:53.15\00:30:56.92 WEREN'T AFRAID BUT THEN THEY MADE A FATAL MISTAKE, DURING 00:30:56.92\00:31:00.06 THAT FEAST, THE KING HAD HEARD THAT DANIEL HAD FORETOLD THE 00:31:00.06\00:31:06.09 BABYLONIAN KINGDOM WOULD NOT LAST FOREVER WE WILL SHOW YOU 00:31:06.09\00:31:09.30 WHOSE GOD IS THE MOST POWERFUL, THE GOD OF BABYLON OR THE GOD 00:31:09.30\00:31:14.77 JEHOVAH, AND THEY BROUGHT THESE GOLDEN VESSELS IN FROM SOLOMON'S 00:31:14.77\00:31:18.24 TEMPLE, AND THEY BEGAN TO FILL THEM WITH FERMENTED DRINK AND 00:31:18.24\00:31:21.51 THEY BEGAN TO TOAST AND PRAISE THEIR GODS OF GOLD AND SILVER 00:31:21.51\00:31:26.85 AND WOOD AND STONE AND WHILE HE WAS CARRYING ON IN BLASPHEMING 00:31:26.85\00:31:30.99 THE GOD OF HEAVEN, SUDDENLY A BLOODLESS HAND WAS ILLUMINATED 00:31:30.99\00:31:36.02 AND BAN TO WRITE ON THE PLASTER OF THE WALLS IN THIS PASSIVE 00:31:36.02\00:31:40.53 HALL OF BABYLON AND THEY SAID THEY HAD A BANQUET HALL A 00:31:40.53\00:31:43.73 QUARTER OF A MILE LONG, THERE WERE PEACOCKS CARRYING GOLDEN 00:31:43.73\00:31:47.84 CHAR CROTTS WITH DRINK WALKING AROUND IT WAS SO MAJESTIC AND 00:31:47.84\00:31:51.64 THERE ON THAT BANQUET HALL, WORDS BEGAN TO WRITE AND THE 00:31:51.64\00:31:56.04 BIBLE SAYS THE KING'S KNEES BEGAN TO KNOCK TOGETHER AND HIS 00:31:56.04\00:31:59.18 LINES WERE LOOSE, NOW THAT PHRASE LINES LOOSE CAN BE 00:31:59.18\00:32:02.58 TRANSLATED HE WET HIS PANTS, THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS HE BECAME 00:32:02.58\00:32:05.52 SO FREQUENT TEND HIS KNEES BAN TO SHAKE, HE, WE DIDN'T GET A 00:32:05.52\00:32:09.59 SHOT OF THAT, AND, YEAH, HE JUST, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? 00:32:09.59\00:32:15.03 ED HE LOOKED UP AND HE SEES THESE WORDS, WRITING ON THE 00:32:15.03\00:32:20.10 WALL, AND THE BLOOD LEFT HIS FACE AND THEN HE SAYS, BRING IN 00:32:20.10\00:32:23.74 THE WISE MEN, YOU THINK HE WOULD HAVE LEARNED FROM NEBUCHADNEZZAR 00:32:23.74\00:32:28.01 BUT, THAT THEY CAN TELL ME, THEY NAME AND HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT 00:32:28.01\00:32:31.51 MEANT BUT JUST AS SCARED. AND FINALLY THE 00:32:31.51\00:32:38.22 , HIS GRANDFATHER KNEW AND EVEN THE WISE MEN ASKED LIKE HE WAS 00:32:38.22\00:32:42.22 THE WISEST OF THE WISE AND HE IS STILL ALIVE AND FINALLY CALLS IN 00:32:42.22\00:32:46.29 DANIEL AND SAYSLY TELL YOU WHAT THE WRITING IS, THE KING SAYS I 00:32:46.29\00:32:49.03 WILL GIVE YOU A REWARD AND MAKE YOU THE THIRD RULE NEVER THE 00:32:49.03\00:32:52.00 KING CAN.COM AND GIVE YOU A GOLDEN CHAIN. 00:32:52.00\00:32:53.90 >> KEEP YOUR REWARDS BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT THE VISION SAYS AND 00:32:53.90\00:32:56.20 YOU REALLY HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER ME. 00:32:56.20\00:32:58.34 >> AND SO HE INTERPRETED IT FOR HIM, YO HEARD THE EXPRESSION, 00:32:58.34\00:33:01.91 HANDWRITING ON THE WALL, THE WORDS -- IT MEANT GOD HAS 00:33:01.91\00:33:06.75 NUMBERED YOUR KINGDOM AND FINISHED IT 00:33:06.75\00:33:14.66 . YOU ARE WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE 00:33:14.66\00:33:16.93 AND FOUND WANTING. YOUR KINGDOM IS DIVIDED AND 00:33:16.93\00:33:20.90 GIVENS TO THE MEDES AND PERSIANS. 00:33:20.90\00:33:24.70 THAT VERY NIGHT WHEN THE KING WAS DOING THAT, BABYLON HAD 00:33:24.70\00:33:27.37 ALREADY BE G UNTO FALL. AND THE FALL OF BABYLON HAD BEEN 00:33:27.37\00:33:31.64 FORETOLD IN THE BIBLE OVER 150 YEARS EARLIER. 00:33:31.64\00:33:35.64 YOU READ IN JEREMIAH 25:12, I WILL PUNISH THE KING OF BABYLON 00:33:35.64\00:33:40.48 AND THAT NATION SAYTH THE LORD FOR THEIR INIQUITY AND THE LAND 00:33:40.48\00:33:45.25 OF THE CHALDEANS AND I WILL MAKE IT A PERPETUAL DESOLATION, JUST 00:33:45.25\00:33:50.03 A LITTLE INTERESTING FOOTNOTE I THOUGHT YOU WOULD FIND 00:33:50.03\00:33:54.56 FASCINATING, YOU KNOW WHEN SADDAM HUSSEIN WHO WAS OF COURSE 00:33:54.56\00:33:57.90 RULING IN IRAQ FOR YEARS AND THAT'S WHERE THE ANCIENT CITY OF 00:33:57.90\00:34:01.10 BABYLON S HE FANCIED HIMSELF THE REINCARNATION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 00:34:01.10\00:34:04.77 IN FACT HE TOLD PEOPLE, I AM NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE THIRD, HE 00:34:04.77\00:34:12.58 USED ALL OF THIS PROPAGANDA AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO 00:34:12.58\00:34:16.08 DOCUMENTATION HE WAS RELATED AND TRIED -- HE HAD NEBUCHADNEZZAR 00:34:16.08\00:34:19.79 CHARIOT RECONSTRUCTED AND TOOK PICTURES OF HIMSELF, AND HE HAD 00:34:19.79\00:34:23.26 COINS STAMPED WITH HIS IMAGE AND HE HAD THE ARTISTS MAKE SURE HIS 00:34:23.26\00:34:26.56 FACE AND PORTRAIT LOOKED LIKE NEBUCHADNEZZAR SO PEOPLE WOULD 00:34:26.56\00:34:29.80 THINK THAT HE WAS SOME REINCARNATION OF THIS ANCIENT 00:34:29.80\00:34:33.03 KING AND ONE REASON IS BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT THE YOU SAID YOU 00:34:33.03\00:34:36.81 ARE NEVER GOING TO UNITE THE ARAB WORLD, BABYLON, IRAQ IS 00:34:36.81\00:34:40.31 NEVER GOING TO BE A WORLD EMPIRE, BECAUSE GOD SAID THAT 00:34:40.31\00:34:43.24 THAT HEAD OF GOLD IS GOING TO PASS AWAY AND IN THE IMPROVE 00:34:43.24\00:34:46.15 CITIES OF ISAIAH IT SAYS IT WILL NEVER BE REBUILT, LOOK AT SOME 00:34:46.15\00:34:50.82 OF THESE, FIRST OF ALL, SADDAM HUSSEIN I SHOULD SAY, HE TRIED 00:34:50.82\00:34:53.12 TO REBUILD BABYLON, HE SPENT UP TO $500 MILLION TRY TRYING TO 00:34:53.12\00:34:58.19 RESTORE THE RUINS OF THE ANCIENT CITY. 00:34:58.19\00:35:01.26 HE WAS INTERRUPTED TWICE BECAUSE OF THE TWO PHASES OF THE GULF 00:35:01.26\00:35:05.03 WAR, THE FINAL TIME OF COURSE DIDN'T END VERY WELL FOR HIM. 00:35:05.03\00:35:07.97 HE WAS ARRESTED AND ULTIMATELY EXECUTED AND THIS VERY DAY RUINS 00:35:07.97\00:35:12.41 ARE JUST THAT, THEY ARE RUINS AS THE BIBLE FOR TOLD. 00:35:12.41\00:35:14.94 HE TRIED TO OVER THROW AND CONFOUND THE BIBLE PROPHECY AND 00:35:14.94\00:35:18.75 YOU CAN'T DO THAT. HE HERE IS WHAT ISAIAH SAID 00:35:18.75\00:35:21.65 ABOUT BABYLON, SOME PEOPLE THINK BABYLON IS GOING TO BE REBUILT 00:35:21.65\00:35:25.22 YOU ARE NOT READING YOUR BIBLE, ISAIAH, BABYLON, THE GLORY OF 00:35:25.22\00:35:30.23 THE KINGDOMS, THE BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEANS PRIDE WILL BE AS WHEN 00:35:30.23\00:35:34.36 GOD OVER THREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH, JUST GO TO THE SOUTH 00:35:34.36\00:35:38.17 END OF THE DEAD SEA AND YOU WILL SEE THERE IS NOTHING THERE. 00:35:38.17\00:35:40.87 IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED NOR WILL IT BE SETTLED FROM 00:35:40.87\00:35:44.47 GENERATION TO GENERATION, NOR WILL THE ARABIAN PITCH HIS TENT 00:35:44.47\00:35:49.11 THERE, IT WILL BE FULL OF NOTHING BUT DOLEFUL CREATURES. 00:35:49.11\00:35:52.01 YOU KNOW, IT IS INTERESTING THAT IT WAS SITUATED WHERE YOU WOULD 00:35:52.01\00:35:55.45 THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE TO REBUILD A CITY, MANY CITIES 00:35:55.45\00:35:58.42 HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN WAR AND REBUILD THEM, JERUSALEM HAS BEEN 00:35:58.42\00:36:01.56 DESTROYED AND REBUILT 27 TIMES AND IT IS STILL THERE. 00:36:01.56\00:36:05.46 THAT IS, AND IT IS UP ON A MOUNTAIN, BABYLON WAS BY THE 00:36:05.46\00:36:09.46 EUPHRATES RIVER AND DESTROYED AND NEVER REBUILT. 00:36:09.46\00:36:11.80 HERE IS ANOTHER PROPHECY, JEREMIAH 50:30 HE EIGHT, A 00:36:11.80\00:36:16.34 DROUGHT IS AGAINST HER WATERS AND THEY WILL BE DRIED UP, NOW 00:36:16.34\00:36:19.51 WHY DOES JEREMIAH SAY THAT, THE BIBLE EVEN TELLS THE WHO AND THE 00:36:19.51\00:36:23.71 HOW BABYLON WOULD FALL, YOU KNOW, I MENTIONED THE EUPHRATES 00:36:23.71\00:36:28.55 RIVER RAN UNDER THE WALL AND WHILE CYRUS THE GENERAL WOULD 00:36:28.55\00:36:31.92 SOON BE KING AND HIS FATHER IN LAW DARIUS THE MEDE THE FIRST 00:36:31.92\00:36:36.06 KING WERE IN CAMP, STARTED OUT THE MEADOW PERSIAN KINGDOM, 00:36:36.06\00:36:40.83 EVENTUALLY THE PERSIANS SORT OF ABSORBED THE MEDES AND KNOWN 00:36:40.83\00:36:44.43 BASICALLY AS THE PERSIAN KINGDOM .., BUCYRUS, HE WANTED TO 00:36:44.43\00:36:50.24 CONQUER THE CITY AND HE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE ALMOST 00:36:50.24\00:36:52.27 IMPOSSIBLE TO GO OVER THE WALLS, SO HE THOUGHT, WELL BUT THERE IS 00:36:52.27\00:36:55.54 A WEAKNESS IN IN THAT THE RIVER RUNS UNDER THE WALLS, THEY 00:36:55.54\00:36:59.38 DIDN'T HAVE SCUBA GEAR BACK THEN BUT HE GOT A BRILLIANT IDEA OR 00:36:59.38\00:37:02.82 SOMEONE GAVE IT TO HIM. THERE WAS A VERY LARGE DRY LAKE 00:37:02.82\00:37:06.79 BED NOT FAR FROM THE EUPHRATES AND IT WAS LOWER THAN THE RIVER 00:37:06.79\00:37:11.13 LEVEL, AND HE HAD HIS SOLDIERS DIG THIS MASS IF TRENCH THAT 00:37:11.13\00:37:15.86 WOULD DIVERT THE WATER OF THE EUPHRATES OVER TO THIS DRY LAKE 00:37:15.86\00:37:19.73 BED AND ONE DAY JUST AS THE SUN WAS GOING DOWN HE HAD THEM BREAK 00:37:19.73\00:37:23.87 THE FINAL SCOOP OF DIRT OUT THAT SENT THE EUPHRATES RUSHING OFF 00:37:23.87\00:37:28.21 INTO THIS DRY AREA, THIS CHANNEL HE REPRESENTED, LOWERED THE 00:37:28.21\00:37:31.75 WATER LEVEL, HE HAD SOME SOLDIERS GO UNDERNEATH THE WALL 00:37:31.75\00:37:35.05 AND THERE WAS THE INNER GATES AND OUTER GATES, THE SOLDIERS 00:37:35.05\00:37:38.69 HAD BEEN DRUNK FROM BELL CHAZZ STAR'S PARTY AND LEFT THE OUTER 00:37:38.69\00:37:43.93 GATES UNLOCKED, THE ARMY CAME POURING IN AND KILLED THE GUARDS 00:37:43.93\00:37:48.33 .. AND THE CITY WAS TAKEN IN ONE NIGHT. 00:37:48.33\00:37:51.40 JUST AS THE BIBLE FORETOLD, NOTICE THAT JEREMIAH SAID THE 00:37:51.40\00:37:55.20 WATERS WILL BE DRIED UP AND THE WATERS OF THE EUPHRATES ARE 00:37:55.20\00:37:59.64 DRYING UP ALSO NOW, FRIENDS AND IT MENTIONS THIS IN REVELATION 00:37:59.64\00:38:02.48 IT TALKS ABOUT THE SIX PLAGUES, THE EUPHRATES DRYING UP AND THAT 00:38:02.48\00:38:08.45 WILL COME UP LATER, WHERE IT IS THE LAND OF CARVED IMAGES AND 00:38:08.45\00:38:11.75 THEY ARE INSANE WITH THEIR IDOLS, WHAT DID WE SAY ABOUT A 00:38:11.75\00:38:15.86 IDOL TRIAS BEING ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE PROBLEMS OF BABYLON? 00:38:15.86\00:38:28.74 >> HE LIVED LONG BEFORE NEBUCHADNEZZAR, LONG BEFORE 00:38:28.74\00:38:32.77 CYRUS, GOD NAMES THE ONE WHO WOULD CONQUER BABYLON AND 00:38:32.77\00:38:36.14 LIBERATE HIS PEOPLE BY NAME, 150 YEARS BEFORE HE IS BORN. 00:38:36.14\00:38:41.22 SCHOLARS THAT READ THE BIBLE ARE SO MYSTIFIED BY ALL OF THE OF 00:38:41.22\00:38:44.09 THIS BECAUSE THEY THINK HOW COULD THIS BE THAT YOU CAN KNOW 00:38:44.09\00:38:47.69 SOMEONES NAME, THAT THEY WOULD BE THE RULER WITH SUCH 00:38:47.69\00:38:51.76 PRECISION? THUS SAYS THE LORD, HE IS 00:38:51.76\00:38:54.56 ANOINTED THAT MEANS CHOSEN ONE, CYRUS WHOSE RIGHT HAND I HAVE 00:38:54.56\00:38:58.10 HELD TO SUBDUE NATIONS BEFORE HIM, TO LOSE THE ARMOR OF KINGS, 00:38:58.10\00:39:02.27 AND TO OPEN BEFORE HIM THE DOUBLE DOORS, THE INNER GATES TO 00:39:02.27\00:39:06.47 THE SEA, SO THE GATES WILL NOT BE SHUT. 00:39:06.47\00:39:08.84 AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED HISTORICALLY. 00:39:08.84\00:39:12.18 INDEED YOU GO TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND ONE OF GREAT 00:39:12.18\00:39:15.98 ARTIFACTS THERE, I HAVE BEEN THERE AND SEEN THIS, IS THE 00:39:15.98\00:39:18.79 CYRUS CYLINDER, AND IN THIS CYLINDER, IN THE CUNEIFORM THEY 00:39:18.79\00:39:22.59 WRITE THERE HE SAYS HOW EASILY BABYLON WAS TAKEN AND THAT WHEN 00:39:22.59\00:39:27.00 HE CAME INTO POWER HE LET THE CAPTIVES OF THE BABYLONIANS GO 00:39:27.00\00:39:31.03 FREE, THAT OF COURSE INCLUDED THE JEWISH PEOPLE. 00:39:31.03\00:39:33.03 THIS ALL HAPPENED. AND I JUST GET EXCITED THINKING 00:39:33.03\00:39:35.87 ABOUT IT. HOW PEOPLE WOULD DOUBT THE WORD 00:39:35.87\00:39:38.04 OF GOD IN THESE PROPHECIES. SO THAT THEN TRANSITIONS US SWIEWS 00:39:38.04\00:39:43.31 THIS NEXT KINGDOM, THE KINGDOM OF PERSIA WHICH WAS ALSO A 00:39:43.31\00:39:47.08 MIGHTY KINGDOM, NOTICE SOMETHING AS WE MOVE ALONG HERE. 00:39:47.08\00:39:51.19 EACH EMPIRE YOU GO FROM GLD TO SILVER, IT IS DIMINISHING IN 00:39:51.19\00:39:58.23 VALUE, INCREASING IN STRENGTH, SILVER IS HARDER THAN GOLD, 00:39:58.23\00:40:01.63 BRONZE IS HARDER THAN SILVER, SEE WHAT I AM SAYING? 00:40:01.63\00:40:05.40 THE PERSIAN EMPIRE HAS BIGGER BORDERS THAN NEBUCHADNEZZAR, AND 00:40:05.40\00:40:13.41 THE EMPIRE LASTS LONGER THAN THE ONE BEFORE IT SO THERE ARE VERY 00:40:13.41\00:40:16.75 INTERESTING SEQUENCES HAPPENING IN THIS VISION THAT ARE REALLY 00:40:16.75\00:40:19.68 UNCANNY. AND HERE IS A PICTURE OF SOME OF 00:40:19.68\00:40:21.25 THE AGE SHUNT RUINS OF PER SYPHILIS WHICH I THINK IS A 00:40:21.25\00:40:25.45 GREEK WORD, MEANING CITY, I THINK CITY OF THE PERSIANS AND 00:40:25.45\00:40:28.86 IT WAS THEIR CAPITAL CITY .. AND ALSO VERY MAGNIFICENT AND THERE 00:40:28.86\00:40:32.09 ARE A NUMBER OF RULERS, THAT LAST ADD LITTLE LONGER THAN 00:40:32.09\00:40:36.43 GREEK -- OR THAN THE BACK 0 LONIAN KINGDOM, BABYLONIAN THE 00:40:36.43\00:40:44.74 KINGDOM, TO 331 BC AND THEN WE GO ON TO THE NEXT EMPIRE. 00:40:44.74\00:40:49.31 QUESTION 8. WHAT METAL WOULD BE REPRESENTED 00:40:49.31\00:40:51.18 IN THE KINGDOM THAT FOLLOWED MEADOW PERSIA? 00:40:51.18\00:40:54.85 >> YOU READ IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2, VERSE 29 .. ANOTHER THIRD 00:40:54.85\00:40:59.45 KINGDOM OF BRASS SHALL BEAR RULE OVER ALL THE EARTH. 00:40:59.45\00:41:05.03 AND EVERY SCHOOL CHILD KNOWS ABOUT ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 00:41:05.03\00:41:08.76 AND THIS IS -- WAS A GREAT STRETCH OF THE GREEK INFLUENCE 00:41:08.76\00:41:15.04 AND HELENATION THAT WENT THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST .. 00:41:15.04\00:41:18.07 AND PARTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN BACK THEN. 00:41:18.07\00:41:22.88 GREEK HISTORIAN SAID I WAS PERSUADED THERE WAS NO NATION, 00:41:22.88\00:41:26.08 CITY OR PEOPLE IN BEING WHERE HIS NAME DID NOT REACH. 00:41:26.08\00:41:30.49 THE EXPLOITS AND THE MILITARY GENIUS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT 00:41:30.49\00:41:36.79 HAVE BEEN NOTED BY MANY IN HISTORY AND HE WAS SO INCREDIBLY 00:41:36.79\00:41:40.73 BRAVE, HIS SOLDIERS WERE SO LOYAL THAT IF HE ORDERED SOME OF 00:41:40.73\00:41:43.83 THEM TO MARCH OFF A CLIFF THEY WOULD NOT QUESTION HIM, THEY 00:41:43.83\00:41:47.47 WOULD MARCH OFF A CLIFF. AND HE WAS VERY GOOD TO THEM 00:41:47.47\00:41:50.41 BECAUSE HE WOULD LEAD THEM INTO BATTLE, HE DIDN'T JUST SAY GO 00:41:50.41\00:41:54.08 FIGHT, HE WOULD OFTEN BE ON HIS HORSE CHARGING A COUPLE OF TIMES 00:41:54.08\00:41:56.61 ALEXANDER WAS THE FIRST ONE OVER THE WALL, THEY WERE SO INSPIRED 00:41:56.61\00:41:59.61 BY HIS COUNSEL, ONCE HE NEARLY GOT KILLED AND WOUNDED BADLY, 00:41:59.61\00:42:03.15 BUT HE WAS EXTREMELY COURAGEOUS, HE ALMOST FELT. 00:42:03.15\00:42:06.62 FELT LIKE HE WASIN VINCIBLE AND STRANGE HE NEVER DID GUY BATTLE. 00:42:06.62\00:42:13.43 0 DIE IN BATTLE, I AM PERSUADED THE WHOLE WORLD HEARD ABOUT HIM. 00:42:13.43\00:42:16.70 THERE SEEMS TO ME TO BE SOME DIVINE HAND PRESIDING OVER HIS 00:42:16.70\00:42:20.34 BIRTH AND ANSWERS. THIS IS INTERESTING, HISTORICAL 00:42:20.34\00:42:24.17 LIBRARY EVEN HISTORIANS LOOKING AT THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE 00:42:24.17\00:42:27.71 GREAT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE WAS SOME DIVINE HAND, SOME SAY IT 00:42:27.71\00:42:30.25 WAS THE GREEK GODS AND SOME SAY MAYBE IT WAS THE GOD OF THE 00:42:30.25\00:42:33.52 BIBLE, THEY ALL DISAGREE BUT THEY SAYINGS THERE ARE SO MANY 00:42:33.52\00:42:36.42 REMARKABLE EVENTS IN HIS LIFE THAT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS SOME 00:42:36.42\00:42:40.16 DIVINE HAND THAT WAS GIVING HIM VICTORY OVER A MUCH BIGGER ARMY 00:42:40.16\00:42:44.86 THAN THE PERSIANS HAD, YOU PROBABLY HEARD THE STORY ABOUT 00:42:44.86\00:42:48.36 THE BRAVE GREEKS THAT FOUGHT THERE, THE SPARTANS AGAINST A 00:42:48.36\00:42:52.50 MASSIVE GROUP OF PERSIANS, NOW THERE IS AN INTERESTING STORY 00:42:52.50\00:42:55.44 FROM HISTORY THAT YOU CAN READ THIS IN THE WRITINGS OF JO 00:42:55.44\00:42:59.37 SEPHUS WHICH YOU CAN FIND ONLINE, THAT WHEN ALEXANDER THE 00:42:59.37\00:43:02.88 GREAT FINISHED CONQUERING TYRE, IT IS INTERESTING ALL OF THE 00:43:02.88\00:43:08.55 OTHER KINGS TRIED TO CONQUER TYRE, BECAUSE THE CAPITAL WAS 00:43:08.55\00:43:12.89 OFF THE COAST THERE, NORTH OF ISRAEL, AND IT WAS ON AN ISLAND, 00:43:12.89\00:43:17.26 AND THEY WERE THE PHOENICIANS WERE REALLY THE MASTERS OF THE 00:43:17.26\00:43:21.20 SEE, ALEXANDER SAID IF WE CAN'T CONQUER IT BY SEA, WE WILL 00:43:21.20\00:43:26.03 CONQUER BY LAND AND THE SOLDIERS SAYS HOW WILL YOU DO THAT? 00:43:26.03\00:43:28.94 WE WILL TAKE THE RUINS OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF TYRE AND PUSHED 00:43:28.94\00:43:32.87 THEM OFF INTO THE CITY AND BUILD A BRIDGE AND WE WILL CONNECT IT 00:43:32.87\00:43:35.98 WITH LAND. AND THEY DID THAT. 00:43:35.98\00:43:38.11 HE WAS COMMITTED. IF SOMEONE WOULDN'T SURRENDER HE 00:43:38.11\00:43:41.42 WENT AFTER THEM AND THEY BASICALLY BUILT UNDER CONSTANT 00:43:41.42\00:43:44.82 FIRE FROM THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY, THEY BUILT A CAUSEWAY AND 00:43:44.82\00:43:47.56 HE CONQUERED THE CITY OF TYRE. AT THAT TIME HE SAID JERUSALEM 00:43:47.56\00:43:51.16 IS NEXT. BUT WHEN HE WAS ON HIS WAY DOWN 00:43:51.16\00:43:53.70 TO JERUSALEM,, TO CONQUER THE JEWISH NATION, THE PRIESTS, THE 00:43:53.70\00:44:00.04 HIGH PRIESTS WENT OUT OF THE CITY, THEY CAME FORWARD TO THEM 00:44:00.04\00:44:02.90 DRESSED IN THEIR HOLY VESTMENTS AND THEY WERE BRINGING A SCROLL 00:44:02.90\00:44:08.74 WITH THEM AND THE KING WAS SO IMPRESSED WHEN HE SAW THEM HE 00:44:08.74\00:44:11.48 GOT OFF HIS HORSE, HE WALKED UP TO THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS 00:44:11.48\00:44:15.15 SOLDIERS WERE AMAZED, THE SOLDIERS THOUGHT THEY WOULD 00:44:15.15\00:44:17.69 ATTACK HIM, HE GOT OFF HIS HORSE AND WALKED TO UP TO THE PRIESTS 00:44:17.69\00:44:20.99 AND HE BOWED AND WORSHIPPED GOD. AND HIS GENERAL LATER ASKED HIM 00:44:20.99\00:44:24.99 WHAT WERE YOU DOING? WHY WOULD YOU BOW? 00:44:24.99\00:44:26.96 I WASN'T WORSHIPPING THE PRIEST, I WAS WORSHIPPING HIS GOD AND 00:44:26.96\00:44:29.66 THE PRIESTS HAD THESE VEST.S ON AND WEARING THE MITRE AND LITTLE 00:44:29.66\00:44:35.14 GOLD PLAQUE THAT SAID HOLINESS TO THE LORD ABOVE HIS HEAD. 00:44:35.14\00:44:39.27 ALEXANDER SAID WHEN I WAS IN MACEDONIA, I HAD A DREAM, WE 00:44:39.27\00:44:43.51 TALKED ABOUT GREAT MONARCHS HAVING THESE PROPHETIC DREAMS, 00:44:43.51\00:44:47.32 SAID I HAVE A DREAM, AND A MAN DRESSED IN THESE VESTMENTS TOLD 00:44:47.32\00:44:50.55 ME YOU MUST GO FORTH AND CONQUER THE PERSIANS. 00:44:50.55\00:44:53.46 SO I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE IN THESE VESTMENTS UNTIL NOW. 00:44:53.46\00:44:56.52 THEN THE PERSIANS THROUGH A TRANSLATOR SHOWED HIM THE SCROLL 00:44:56.52\00:45:00.73 OF DANIEL, WHERE IN THE SCROLL OF DANIEL, WE VONT GET TEN THERE 00:45:00.73\00:45:04.80 YET BUT IT ACTUALLY MENTIONS GREEK, BREES AS THE KINGDOM THAT 00:45:04.80\00:45:08.30 WOULD RULE AND CONQUER THE PERSIANS. 00:45:08.30\00:45:10.71 HE SAW THAT AND HE DID NOT ATTACK JERUSALEM. 00:45:10.71\00:45:14.21 HE LET THEM GO ON IN PEACE. AND SO A VERY INTERESTING BIT OF 00:45:14.21\00:45:18.45 HISTORY. WELL HE WENT ON FROM THERE AND 00:45:18.45\00:45:20.28 HE EVENTUALLY MADE HIS WAY TO BABYLON AND HE WENT ALL THE WAY 00:45:20.28\00:45:23.02 TO THE BORDERS OF INDIA, I THINK I READ SOMEWHERE THAT ALEXANDER 00:45:23.02\00:45:26.59 IN 11TH YEARS MARCHED HIS ARMY 22,000 MILES. 00:45:26.59\00:45:31.76 AND BRILLIANT -- YOU PROBABLY HEARD THE STORY THAT SAYS THAT 00:45:31.76\00:45:35.73 HE REALIZED THERE WERE NO MORE WORLDS TO CONQUER SO HE JUST SAT 00:45:35.73\00:45:38.67 DOWN AND CRIED AND THEN HE DIED. THAT'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT 00:45:38.67\00:45:42.17 HAPPENED. BUT HE DID WANT TO KEEP FIGHTING 00:45:42.17\00:45:43.91 AND HIS SOLDIERS HAD BEEN AWAY FROM HOME FOR YEARS, THEY SAID 00:45:43.91\00:45:46.74 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. AND SO HE SETTLED IN BABYLON AND 00:45:46.74\00:45:50.48 HE HAD A DRUNKEN FEAST AND HE EITHER DIED FROM ALCOHOL 00:45:50.48\00:45:55.55 POISONING, POISONING, SOMEONE MAY HAVE TRIED TO POISON HIM OR 00:45:55.55\00:45:58.92 FROM MA LAYER, I CAN'T THEY ARE NOT SURE. 00:45:58.92\00:46:00.69 AND AS HE WAS DYING, HIS GENERALS AROUND AROUND HIM ASKED 00:46:00.69\00:46:07.13 WHO WOULD RULE IN YOUR PLACE, HE HAD ONE YOUNG THAT WAS VERY 00:46:07.13\00:46:09.63 YOUNG AND ALEXANDER SAID THE STRONGEST. 00:46:09.63\00:46:14.60 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED HIS KINGDOM WAS DIVIDED INTO FOUR PARTS, IT 00:46:14.60\00:46:17.61 IS INTERESTING THE PERSIANS, THEIR MONETARY SYSTEM WAS 00:46:17.61\00:46:20.98 SILVER, THE GREEKS, THEIR ARMOR WAS BRONZE, AND SO AS YOU GO 00:46:20.98\00:46:24.15 FROM THE GOLD, WHICH WAS A PRIMARY CURRENCY THERE IN BACK 00:46:24.15\00:46:28.28 LON TO THE STILL VERY, PRIMARY CURRENCY FOR THE PEREZS, THE 00:46:28.28\00:46:32.85 GREEKS ALSO DID USE COPPER, IN THEIR CURRENCY BUT THEY USED 00:46:32.85\00:46:39.46 BRONZE IN THEIR MAIL, IN THEIR ARMOR AND THE KINGDOM OF 00:46:39.46\00:46:44.30 ALEXANDER EVEN BIGGER LASTED LONGER THAN THE PERSIANS, AND 00:46:44.30\00:46:47.24 AGAIN BRONZE IS HARDER THAN SILVER, BUT IT DID NOT LAST 00:46:47.24\00:46:51.41 FOREVER, YOU CAN CONQUER THE WORLD BUT HE COULDN'T CONQUER 00:46:51.41\00:46:55.71 HIMSELF. 331 TO BC TO 168 BC WHEN CAME 00:46:55.71\00:47:02.22 THE NEXT WORLD EMPIRE THAT IS QUESTION NUMBER NINE, WHAT METAL 00:47:02.22\00:47:07.02 REPRESENTS THE FOURTH KINGDOM, YOU READ IN DANIEL 2:40, THE 00:47:07.02\00:47:11.46 FOURTH KINGDOM WILL BE AS STRONG AS IRON. 00:47:11.46\00:47:14.86 I THINK THAT EVERY SCHOOLBOY KNOWS THAT IS DOING.COM THAT 00:47:14.86\00:47:20.07 FOLLOWED GREECE WAS THE KINGDOM OF ROME. 00:47:20.07\00:47:22.10 IN FACT, YOU READ EDWARD GIBBONS WHO WROTE THE CLASSIC, I AM SURE 00:47:22.10\00:47:26.57 NOBODY HAS READ THE WHOLE THING, A FEW HISTORIANS BUT IT IS 00:47:26.57\00:47:29.38 VOLUMES AND SPENT HIS LIFE WRITING, THE DECLINE AND FALL OF 00:47:29.38\00:47:32.15 THE ROMAN EMPIRE. HE EVEN SAID IN THERE, THE 00:47:32.15\00:47:34.78 IMAGES, LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE HE USED, THE IMAGES OF GOLD OR 00:47:34.78\00:47:38.32 SILVER OR BRASS THAT MIGHT SERVE TO REPRESENT THE NATIONS AND 00:47:38.32\00:47:41.46 THEIR KINGS WERE EXCESSIVELY BROKEN BY THE IRON MONARCHY OF 00:47:41.46\00:47:48.13 ROME, ROME HAD MASTERED IRON WEAPON BRING AND LEARNED HOW TO 00:47:48.13\00:47:51.90 QUICKLY PRODUCE IRON, AND IF YOU HAD AN IRON SWORD THE BIBLE 00:47:51.90\00:47:56.04 TIMES YOU COULD FIGHT AGAINST SOMEBODY REQUEST A BRONZE SWORD 00:47:56.04\00:47:58.91 AND ACTUALLY CUT THEIR SWORD AND BREAK IT, IT WAS SO MUCH 00:47:58.91\00:48:02.41 STRONGER AND WE KNOW IT WAS THE IRON WEAPONS OF THE ROMANS THAT 00:48:02.41\00:48:07.65 WENT INTO BETHLEHEM AND KILLED THE BABIES UNDER THE ORDER OF 00:48:07.65\00:48:11.72 HEROD. IT WAS THE ROMAN GOVERNOR 00:48:11.72\00:48:14.26 PONTIUS PILATE THAT HAD JESUS WHIPPED WITH A IRON CAT OF NINE 00:48:14.26\00:48:19.03 TAILS AND ROMAN SOLDIERS THAT WERE THERE DRIVING THE NAILS 00:48:19.03\00:48:22.96 INTO HIS HANDS AND FEET, IRON NAILS, THERE WAS A ROMAN SOLDIER 00:48:22.96\00:48:27.34 THAT TOOK A SPEAR AND PUT IT IN THE SIDE AND ANOTHER ROMAN 00:48:27.34\00:48:32.17 CENTURION THAT STOOD AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS AND SAID, TRULY 00:48:32.17\00:48:34.61 THERE WAS THE SON OF GOD, THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT WHO WAS 00:48:34.61\00:48:37.61 RULING THE WORLD DURING THIS TIME. 00:48:37.61\00:48:40.28 THE IRON MONARCHY OF ROASM, AND THERE WERE ROMANS THAT WERE 00:48:40.28\00:48:45.35 GUARDING THE TUNE WHEN JESUS ROWS FROM THE DEAD, PRAISE GOD 00:48:45.35\00:48:49.62 BUT THEY COULDN'T KEEP HIM IN THE GRAVE EVEN THOUGH THEY PUT A 00:48:49.62\00:48:52.79 ROMAN STEEL ON HIS TOMBSTONE, THE ANGEL BROKE THE STEEL AND 00:48:52.79\00:48:57.77 JESUS CAME OUT AND I WANT TO, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE LOOK ON 00:48:57.77\00:49:02.24 PILATE'S FACE WHEN HE GOT THE NEWS. 00:49:02.24\00:49:06.71 ROAMS ONE, A VERY POWERFUL KINGDOM, NOW ONE REASON I THINK 00:49:06.71\00:49:09.98 THEY GOT, GOD WAITED UNTIL THE TIME OF THE ROMANS BEFORE HE 00:49:09.98\00:49:12.38 SENT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD, DURING THE REIGN OF AUGUST GUS 00:49:12.38\00:49:17.49 DISCUSS CAESAR THEY HAD PACKS ROMA NAAH, THE ROMAN PARTLY 00:49:17.49\00:49:21.42 SUNNY, PEACE .. THERE WAS A PERIOD BECAUSE OF THE IRON FIST 00:49:21.42\00:49:24.39 ROME RULED WITH OF RELATIVE PEACE AND DURING THAT TIME, THE 00:49:24.39\00:49:27.73 ROADS, YOU HEARD TO THE ROMAN ROADS, ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME, 00:49:27.73\00:49:31.67 THEY DEVELOPED THE BEST COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WHERE NEWS 00:49:31.67\00:49:34.24 COULD TRAVEL THE FASTEST BECAUSE OF THE ROADS AND TRADE AND THAT 00:49:34.24\00:49:37.84 WAS THE BEST TIME TO POUR OUT THE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE THE JEWS 00:49:37.84\00:49:42.54 AT PENTECOST CAME FROM ALL OVER THE ROMAN EM FIRE WORSHIP, AND 00:49:42.54\00:49:46.21 THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT THEY QUICKLY SCATTERED WITH THE 00:49:46.21\00:49:50.05 GOSPEL MESSAGE THROUGH THE ROMAN ROADS ALL OVER THE WORLD. 00:49:50.05\00:49:53.49 0 THRSTLESZ OF COURSE SOME BRILLIANT DESIGN IN JESUS COMING 00:49:53.49\00:49:56.76 DURING THAT TIME. BUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE, IT ALSO 00:49:56.76\00:50:00.76 WOULD NOT LAST, NOT THE ROME RULED BY THE CAESAR'S, WHAT 00:50:00.76\00:50:04.83 WOULD HAPPEN AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE? 00:50:04.83\00:50:08.47 IT SAYS THE KINGDOM WILL BE DIVIDED AS THE TOES, FEET WERE 00:50:08.47\00:50:11.84 PARTLY OF IRON AND PARTLY OF CLAY SO THE KINGDOM WILL BE 00:50:11.84\00:50:16.91 PARTLY STRONG AND PARTLY BROKEN. ROME WAS NOT REALLY CONQUERED BY 00:50:16.91\00:50:22.68 ANY ONE EMPIRE, IT IS TRUE THE BARBARIANS AND THE HUNDREDTHS 00:50:22.68\00:50:26.92 LIKE ATTILA THE HUN CAME AND THEY WREAKED HAVOC ON THE ROMAN 00:50:26.92\00:50:30.46 EMPIRE BUT IF YOU READ .. IN THE PHILIP MYERS, ACTUALLY IN EDWARD 00:50:30.46\00:50:35.66 GIBBONS BOOK FIRST HE DESCRIBES THE FIVE THINGS THAT BROUGHT 00:50:35.66\00:50:38.10 DOWN THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND I THIS -- I THINK YOU 00:50:38.10\00:50:41.37 WILL FIND THIS INTERESTING. BECAUSE SOME OF IT THINK WE SEE 00:50:41.37\00:50:44.74 IN THE WORLD TODAY. FIVE THINGS THAT LED TO ROME'S 00:50:44.74\00:50:50.05 DOWNFALL. THE UNDERMINING OF THE DIGNITY 00:50:50.05\00:50:52.11 AND SANCTITY OF THE HOME. THE INCREASING IN TAXES AND 00:50:52.11\00:50:56.85 SPENDING OF PUBLIC MONEY FOR BREAD AND CIRCUSES. 00:50:56.85\00:51:02.72 THE MAD PLEASURE, SPORTS BECOMING MORE EXCITING AND MORE 00:51:02.72\00:51:05.79 BRUTAL. THE BUILDING OF ARMAMENTS WHEN 00:51:05.79\00:51:07.96 THE REAL ENEMY WAS THE DECADENCE OF THE PEOPLE. 00:51:07.96\00:51:11.30 THE DECAY OF RELIGION, WITH FAITH FADING INTO MERE FORM. 00:51:11.30\00:51:17.17 PHILIP MIRE IN HIS BOOK ROME, THE RISE AND FALL, HE MADE THIS 00:51:17.17\00:51:21.04 OBSERVATION ABOUT THE ROMANS, ALMOST FROM THE BEGINNING THE 00:51:21.04\00:51:24.61 ROMANS STAGE WAS GROSS AND IMMORAL, IT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN 00:51:24.61\00:51:28.68 AGENCIES THROUGH WHICH MUST BE ATTRIBUTED THE UNDERMINING OF 00:51:28.68\00:51:30.99 WHAT ORIGINALLY HAD BEEN A SOUND MORAL LIVE OF THE ROMAN SOCIETY, 00:51:30.99\00:51:37.06 DURING OCTAVIAN AUGUSTUS CAESAR HE WAS A STRONG GENERAL BUT 00:51:37.06\00:51:40.03 BELIEVED IN THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FAMILY AND THE HOME AND THE 00:51:40.03\00:51:42.53 MARRIAGE, BUT IT IS A SUCCEEDING CAESARS CAME ALONG SO MANY WERE 00:51:42.53\00:51:48.44 SO DEBAUCHED LIKE NERO THEY BEGAN TO CRUMBLE, ROME WAS NOT 00:51:48.44\00:51:51.87 DESTROYED FROM THE OUTSIDE, IT WE 00:51:51.87\00:51:53.71 ERODED FROM THE INSIDE OUT. IT SAID, SO ABSORBED DID THE 00:51:53.71\00:51:58.65 PEOPLE BECOME IN THE END DECENT REPRESENTATIONS OF THE STAGE 00:51:58.65\00:52:03.82 THEY THOUGHT ALL LOST AND AFFAIRS FOR THE AFFAIRS OF REAL 00:52:03.82\00:52:06.32 LIFE AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE HDTV BACK THEN, BUT THEY BECAME 00:52:06.32\00:52:10.89 SO DISTRACTED WITH ENTERTAINMENT, YOU WONDER WHAT 00:52:10.89\00:52:16.30 THAT, WHAT THEY WOULD SAY ABOUT THE WORLD TODAY, YOU WONDER HOW 00:52:16.30\00:52:18.97 MUCH LONGER ANY EMPIRE CAN LAST WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE 00:52:18.97\00:52:22.14 WORLD AND THE IMMORALITY. SO ROME SORT OF DISINTEGRATED 00:52:22.14\00:52:26.41 AND IT FELL INTO REALLY TEN DIFFERENT KINGDOMS. 00:52:26.41\00:52:30.08 AND JUST LIKE THE FEET OF THE NONE, STATE USE GET THE TEN TOES 00:52:30.08\00:52:33.68 AND THE FEET WERE IRON MIXED WITH CLAY, STILL HAD THE ROMAN 00:52:33.68\00:52:36.99 INFLUENCE, THE IRON, BUT IT WAS MIXED WITH CLAY, AND, YOU KNOW, 00:52:36.99\00:52:40.49 THE AGE SUBJECT NAMES WERE THE VANDALS IN NORTH AFRICA, LOCAL 00:52:40.49\00:52:44.16 BARDS IN I ITALY, OS EXTRA GATS, THE BURGUNDIANS, THE FRANK, 00:52:44.16\00:52:50.90 WHAT, ALEMANS WOULD BE THE GERMAN, ANGLO SAXONS, THE SWEDES 00:52:50.90\00:52:55.37 AND THE SPANISH AND THOSE ARE OF COURSE THE MORE MODERN NAMES BUT 00:52:55.37\00:52:59.17 THAT BRINGS US DOWN TO WE ARE IN THE LAST ELEMENT HERE WHICH IS 00:52:59.17\00:53:02.61 THE FEET. OF IRON AND CLAY. 00:53:02.61\00:53:06.31 NOW I THINK IT IS VERY INTERESTING THE FEET OF IRN AND 00:53:06.31\00:53:08.88 CLAY HERE IS A LITTLE AMAZING FACT THIS IS THE PANTHEON. 00:53:08.88\00:53:14.66 IT IS ONE TOSTLEDDEST CONCRETE BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD. 00:53:14.66\00:53:17.19 THIS WAS BUILT FROM ANCIENT ROMAN CEMENT BUT IT WAS NOT 00:53:17.19\00:53:23.43 REINFORCED. 2000 YEARS OLD, I GUESS SEA STAR 00:53:23.43\00:53:26.23 BUILT IT AND INCREDIBLY IT SURVIVED SEVERAL EARTHQUAKES AND 00:53:26.23\00:53:29.50 STILL THERE TODAY, AND REALLY MAKES YOU WONDER, IT WASN'T 00:53:29.50\00:53:33.04 UNTIL ABOUT 1867 THAT REREINFORCED CONCRETE WAS 00:53:33.04\00:53:38.08 DEVELOPED. LET ME SHARE WITH YOU A LITTLE 00:53:38.08\00:53:39.55 AMAZING FACT ABOUT THAT. HERE CONCRETE IS USED MORE THAN 00:53:39.55\00:53:46.99 ANY OTHER MAN-MADE MATERIAL IN THE WORLD. 00:53:46.99\00:53:49.76 WHY AM I SAYING THIS? WHAT IS CONCRETE. 00:53:49.76\00:53:51.46 >> WHAT DID DANIEL SEE? THE FEET ARE MADE OF IRON AND 00:53:51.46\00:53:56.33 MIRE CLAY, I WONDER HOW A PROPHET WOULD DESCRIBE THE 00:53:56.33\00:53:59.87 WORLD'S NUMBER ONE BUILDING MATERIAL TODAY? 00:53:59.87\00:54:03.47 CONCRETE IS USED MORE THAN ANY OTHER MAN-MADE MATERIAL IN THE 00:54:03.47\00:54:06.01 WORLD, ADMISSION CONCRETE IS THE SECOND MOST CONSUMED SUBSTANCE 00:54:06.01\00:54:08.48 IN THE WORLD, THAT DOESN'T MEAN PEOPLE EAT IT, BEHIND WATER. 00:54:08.48\00:54:13.21 THE INDUSTRY ALONE IS WORTH OVER 37 BILLION, AND EMPLOYEES MORE 00:54:13.21\00:54:18.52 THAN 2 MILLION EMPLOYEES IN THE UNITED STATES. 00:54:18.52\00:54:21.56 10 BILLION TONS OF CON CONCRETE ARE PRODUCED EVERY YEAR, IT IS 00:54:21.56\00:54:25.26 THE NUMBER ONE BUILDING MATERIAL IN THE WORLD, AND ALL AROUND THE 00:54:25.26\00:54:30.57 WORLD NOW THE EMPIRES ARE BUILT OUT OF IRON AND MIRE CLAY, VERY 00:54:30.57\00:54:35.20 INTERESTING .. SO THESE KINGDOMS LET ME GO BACK AND READ 00:54:35.20\00:54:39.77 QUESTION 10 AGAIN, WOULD ANY OF THESE KINGDOMS SUCCEED IN 00:54:39.77\00:54:43.65 UNITING AGAIN? THE PROPHET SAYS THEY WILL 00:54:43.65\00:54:45.45 MINGLE THEMSELVES WITH THE FEET OF MEN, THAT MEANS THEY 00:54:45.45\00:54:48.92 INTERMARRY WITH THE DESCENDANT BUT NOT CHIEF ONE TO ANOTHER 00:54:48.92\00:54:52.55 JUST AS IRON IS NOT MIXED WITH MIRE CLAY, WITH CONCRETE YOU 00:54:52.55\00:54:56.89 WILL STILL FIND IRON AND STILL FIND CLAY AND THEY DON'T BLEND 00:54:56.89\00:55:01.00 LIKE OIL AND WATER. JUST ONE LITTLE FOOTNOTE FROM 00:55:01.00\00:55:04.67 HISTORY QUEEN VICTORIA, UNTIL QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND, SHE 00:55:04.67\00:55:08.37 WAS THE LONGEST REIGNING QUEEN IN HISTORY, I THINK 63 YEARS WAS 00:55:08.37\00:55:12.67 HER REIGN, HER DESCENDANTS INCLUDING 40 GRANDCHILDREN TO 00:55:12.67\00:55:17.05 MARRIED INTO ALMOST EVERY ROYAL FAMILY IN EUROPE, THEY WERE 00:55:17.05\00:55:20.98 TRYING DESPERATELY TO REUNITE EUROPE AND SO TIRED OF WAR, IF 00:55:20.98\00:55:25.15 WE JUST ALL INTERMARRY WE CAN HAVE A LASTING PEACE BUT IT 00:55:25.15\00:55:30.09 DIDN'T WORK, THEY TRIED TO ENTER MINGLE WITH THE SEED OF MEN, 00:55:30.09\00:55:34.13 THAT'S WHAT THEY TRIED TO DO IN THIS TIME AND ALL OF THESE 00:55:34.13\00:55:37.97 ARRANGED MARRIAGE WHETHER THEY LIKED OR SAW EACH OTHER OR NOT 00:55:37.97\00:55:40.50 BETWEEN THE SPANISH AND ENGLISH AND THE GERMANS AND THE SWISS 00:55:40.50\00:55:43.00 AND ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT EMPIRES TRYING TO FORGE THROUGH 00:55:43.00\00:55:46.47 MARRIAGE SOME ALLIANCE BUT IT KEPT EVOLVING INTO WAR. 00:55:46.47\00:55:50.55 AND YOU CAN JUST LOOK AT THE HISTORY BOOKS, EVERYBODY FROM 00:55:50.55\00:55:54.68 ATTILA THE HUN, THE CHARLEMAGNE, NAAH POPIAN, HITLER, KEYSER 00:55:54.68\00:56:00.72 WILHELM. >> KIEGZER IS GERMAN FOR CAESAR. 00:56:00.72\00:56:02.96 YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD CZAR MEANS? 00:56:02.96\00:56:05.43 IT IS RUSSIAN FOR CESAR. THEY ALL WANTED TO REFORGE THAT 00:56:05.43\00:56:10.03 ROMAN EMPIRE. AND THE ROMAN INFLUENCE, THE 00:56:10.03\00:56:12.00 IRON WAS STILL MIXED THROUGH IT ALL. 00:56:12.00\00:56:14.60 THE CALENDAR, MANY OF THE GOVERNMENTS WERE BASED ON THE 00:56:14.60\00:56:18.04 ROMAN FOUNDATIONS. SO NOW THAT BRINGS US DOWN TO 00:56:18.04\00:56:21.28 THE VERY ENDS OF TIME. WHO WILL SET UP THE FINAL 00:56:21.28\00:56:26.51 KINGDOM. IT SAYS THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS 00:56:26.51\00:56:29.28 SHALL THE GOD OF HEAVEN SET UP A KINGDOM WHICH SHALL NEVER BE 00:56:29.28\00:56:33.19 DESTROYED. NOW THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THAT 00:56:33.19\00:56:36.32 STONE, THAT COMES FROM THE HEAVENS, CUT WITHOUT MAN'S HANDS 00:56:36.32\00:56:40.10 THAT WILL DESTROY THE IDOL, NOW OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOES A SHARP 00:56:40.10\00:56:45.77 SWORD WITH IT HE SHOULD STRIKE THE NATIONS AND HE HIMSELF WE 00:56:45.77\00:56:48.70 ARE BACK IN REVELATION WHERE WE STARTED HE HIMSELF WILL RULE 00:56:48.70\00:56:51.74 THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON, SHE GOING TO DESTROY, THE ONLY THING 00:56:51.74\00:56:55.28 YOU CAN DESTROY WITH IS MORE IRON, AND JESUS' KINGDOM IS ONE 00:56:55.28\00:56:59.41 THAT WILL LAST FOREVER. WHAT DOES THE STONE DO TO THE 00:56:59.41\00:57:02.02 OTHER WORLD KINGDOMS? IT SAYS THE STONE THAT WAS CUT 00:57:02.02\00:57:05.79 WITHOUT HANDS, NOTICE THAT WITHOUT HANDS AGAIN, WHICH SMOKE 00:57:05.79\00:57:12.69 THE IMAGE UPON THE FEET MEANS IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE LAST 00:57:12.69\00:57:15.80 DAYS, THIS IS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE FEET, WHEN CHRIST COMES THE 00:57:15.80\00:57:18.93 SECOND TIME. SMIEGHT THEM ON THE FEET OF IRON 00:57:18.93\00:57:23.00 AND CLAY AND BROKE THEM TO PIECES. 00:57:23.00\00:57:25.07 NOTICE IT SAYS WITHOUT -- I WANT YOU TO NOTICE WHAT JESUS SAID. 00:57:25.07\00:57:29.44 IT SAYS WE HEARD HIM SAY, I WILL DESTROY THIS TEMPLE THAT IS MADE 00:57:29.44\00:57:33.85 WITH HANDS AND WITHIN THREE DAYS I WILL BUILD ANOTHER ONE WITHOUT 00:57:33.85\00:57:36.92 WHAT? WITHOUT HANDS. 00:57:36.92\00:57:38.32 IT IS TALKING ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 00:57:38.32\00:57:39.95 THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST. AND HE IS GOING TO COME AND HE 00:57:39.95\00:57:43.19 WILL THEN WIPE TOUT KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD AND HIS KINGDOM WILL 00:57:43.19\00:57:46.56 BE ETERNAL AND IT FILLS THE WHOLE EARTH. 00:57:46.56\00:57:49.13 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT HE CREATES A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW 00:57:49.13\00:57:54.20 EARTH WHERE IN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE STONE THAT 00:57:54.20\00:57:57.87 SMOLT THE IMAGE BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN, MOUNTAINS WERE OFTEN 00:57:57.87\00:58:01.01 SYMBOLS OF KINGDOMS AND FILLS THE WHOLE EARTH, THERE IS NO 00:58:01.01\00:58:04.25 COMPETITION NOT MOUNTAINS .. THERE IS ONE MOUNTAIN, ONE 00:58:04.25\00:58:06.98 PEOPLE, AND IF YOU WANT TO BE IN THE KINGDOM YOU NEED TO BE A 00:58:06.98\00:58:09.55 PART OF THAT PEOPLE. SO LET'S QUICKLY REVIEW WHAT WE 00:58:09.55\00:58:13.69 SAW HERE IN HISTORY. THE VISION SAID YOU WOULD HAVE 00:58:13.69\00:58:17.16 GOLD WHICH IS WHAT KINGDOM? BABYLON. 00:58:17.16\00:58:21.06 SILVER IS MEADOW PERSIAN. BRONZE IS GREECE, IRON IS ROME, 00:58:21.06\00:58:25.33 THE IRON AND CLAY? DIVIDED KINGDOM OF EUROPE AND 00:58:25.33\00:58:29.00 THE GREAT STONE IS CHRIST'S KINGDOM. 00:58:29.00\00:58:33.58 EVERYTHING HAPPENED IN ORDER, AGAIN .. DON'T MISS THIS, EACH 00:58:33.58\00:58:38.25 KINGDOM LASTS LONGER THAN THE ONE BEFORE. 00:58:38.25\00:58:39.95 EACH KINGDOM IS HARDER THAN THE ONE BEFORE. 00:58:39.95\00:58:45.72 AND ALSO YOU ARE REALIZING THAT THE VALUE OF THE EARTHLY 00:58:45.72\00:58:50.09 KINGDOMS, THE GOLD, THE SILVER, THE BRONZE, THE IRON, THEY ARE 00:58:50.09\00:58:55.06 DIMINISHING IN VALUE. AND THE FINALE THE ONE THAT IS 00:58:55.06\00:58:58.13 OF ETERNAL VALUE IS THE STONE, CHRIST, THE ROCK OF AGES. 00:58:58.13\00:59:03.20 FRIENDS, AFTER HEARING DANIEL'S CLEAR INTERPRETATION, THIS IS 00:59:03.20\00:59:06.74 QUESTION 14, IT IS REALLY AN APPEAL, WHAT DID THE DREAM OF -- 00:59:06.74\00:59:11.01 AFTER HE HEARD THE DREAM, WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAY ABOUT THE 00:59:11.01\00:59:14.88 LORD? THE KING ANSWERED AND SIDE 00:59:14.88\00:59:18.02 DANIEL, OF A TRUTH IT IS YOUR GOD IS A GOOD OF GODS AND A LORD 00:59:18.02\00:59:21.86 OF KINGS AND A REVEALER OF SECRETS. 00:59:21.86\00:59:25.59 YOU KNOW,, CAN YOU IMAGINE THE EXPRESSION ON THE KING'S FACE 00:59:25.59\00:59:30.50 WHEN DANIEL NOT ONLY SAID WELL HERE LET ME TELL YOU WHAT DREAM 00:59:30.50\00:59:33.70 WAS, AND THEN HE SAID NOW I WILL TELL YOU THE INTERPRETATION. 00:59:33.70\00:59:36.97 AS DANIEL WAS RELATING THE DREAM I AM SURE THAT THE GLINT OF 00:59:36.97\00:59:40.14 RECOGNITION WAS IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S EYE, YES, YES, 00:59:40.14\00:59:44.21 THAT'S IT. AND HE WAS PROBABLY JUST 00:59:44.21\00:59:46.92 MYSTIFIED HE WANTED TO WORSHIP DANIEL AND BURN INNOCENCE WHEN 00:59:46.92\00:59:50.15 HE SAW THIS MAN HAD THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GODS .. 00:59:50.15\00:59:53.59 REVEALED TO HIM, THIS DREAM HAS PLAYED OUT PERFECTLY IN HISTORY. 00:59:53.59\00:59:57.06 DANIEL GOES ON TO SAY THE DREAM IS CERTAIN AND THE 00:59:57.06\01:00:01.30 INTERPRETATION IS SURE. IT IS LIKE JOHN WHEN HE CLOSES 01:00:01.30\01:00:03.67 THE BOOK O REVELATION, HE SAID, I JOHN HAVE SEEN THESE THINGS 01:00:03.67\01:00:07.00 AND THESE WORDS ARE TRUE. FRIENDS, YOU CAN BELIEVE THIS 01:00:07.00\01:00:10.24 WORD OF GOD, NOTHING HAPPENING IN THE WORLD TODAY HAS SURPRISED 01:00:10.24\01:00:13.21 THE LORD, EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING RIGHT ON SCHEDULE, AND 01:00:13.21\01:00:16.64 I HOPE THAT YOU WILL REALIZE THE NEXT THING ON THE AGENDA, 01:00:16.64\01:00:19.68 ACCORDING TO THIS VISION, IS CHRIST IS COMING VERY SOON. 01:00:19.68\01:00:23.65 NOW THERE ARE A FEW OTHER THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE HAPPENING 01:00:23.65\01:00:25.82 THAT ARE OME SPECIFICS, AND WE WILL BE STUDYING DURING THE 01:00:25.82\01:00:28.86 SEMINAR BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT IT IS NOT GOING TO 01:00:28.86\01:00:31.86 FAIL, NOW LET ME ILLUSTRATE REAL QUICK IN CLOSING. 01:00:31.86\01:00:35.20 SUPPOSE I SAY I WANT YOU TO COME VISIT MRS. BAXTER UP AND I OUT 01:00:35.20\01:00:39.27 IN THE HILLS I WON'T GIVE THE EXACT ADDRESS HERE SO STAY WITH 01:00:39.27\01:00:43.00 ME. I AND I SAY WELL OKAY YOU GET 01:00:43.00\01:00:45.04 OUT ON INTERSTATE FIVE AND YOU DRIVE NORTH UNTIL YOU GET TO THE 01:00:45.04\01:00:48.21 TOWN OF WILLOWS AND THERE IN WILLOWS YOU WILL SEE A 90-FOOT 01:00:48.21\01:00:52.75 TALL STATUE MADE OF GOLD AND IT WILL SAY HIGHWAY 162, BABYLON. 01:00:52.75\01:00:57.92 AND YOU TURN LEFT THERE. SO YOU DRIVE UP THE ROAD AND 01:00:57.92\01:01:01.02 SURE ENOUGH THERE IS WILLOWS AND YOU DON'T SEE TOO MANY 90 FEET 01:01:01.02\01:01:04.56 TALL STATUES THAT ARE GOLD THAT SAY BABYLON AND YOU SAY THIS IS 01:01:04.56\01:01:07.50 IT, TURN LEFT. YOU TURN LEFT AND THEN SAY YOU 01:01:07.50\01:01:09.30 DRIVE FOR AN HOUR AND YOU ARE GOING TO COME TO A 90-FOOT 01:01:09.30\01:01:12.70 STATUE THAT SAYS PERSIAN ROAD AND YOU TURN RIGHT THERE, YOU 01:01:12.70\01:01:16.54 DRIVE AN HOUR AND IN YOU ARE, 90-FOOT STATUE OF SILVER, 01:01:16.54\01:01:20.08 PERSIAN ROAD, SO MUST BE -- CAN'T BE ON THE WRONG TRACK 01:01:20.08\01:01:25.38 KENTUCKY I, YOU DON'T SEE THAT EVERY DAY, TURN RIGHT AND I SAY 01:01:25.38\01:01:28.95 ANOTHER HOUR, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SAY? 01:01:28.95\01:01:30.75 YOU ARE GOING TO END UP SEEING A 90-FOOT STATUE OF BRONZE AND IT 01:01:30.75\01:01:34.39 SAYS GREEK ROAD, AND YOU TURN THERE. 01:01:34.39\01:01:37.23 AND THEN I SAY YOU GO ANOTHER HOUR ANN THEN YOU WILL SEE A 01:01:37.23\01:01:41.36 STATUE OF IRON AND THE ROMAN ROAD TURN LEFT HERE, AND THEN 01:01:41.36\01:01:44.20 YOU GO ANOTHER HOUR AND YOU ARE GOING TO SEE A STATUE OF IRON 01:01:44.20\01:01:47.84 AND CLAY, 90 FEET TALL, AND YOU TURN RIGHT HERE AND IT IS GOING 01:01:47.84\01:01:51.81 TO SAY IRON AND CLAY -- AND AT THE END OF THAT ROAD YOU CAN 01:01:51.81\01:01:56.68 FIND MY HOME. WHO WOULD DOUBT AFTER EVERYTHING 01:01:56.68\01:02:02.15 ALONG THE DIRECTIONS HAS PLAYED OUT EXACTLY AS I SAID THAT THE 01:02:02.15\01:02:06.39 LAST PART WOULD FAIL? FRIENDS, GOD HAS PERFECTLY 01:02:06.39\01:02:10.46 OUTLINED WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD FROM THE DAYS OF 01:02:10.46\01:02:12.59 DANIEL TO OUR FROM PRESENT-DAY AND I SHOULD MENTION RIGHT HERE 01:02:12.59\01:02:15.53 ONE IS GOING TO SAY, WELL, PASTOR DOUG, HOW COME THIS 01:02:15.53\01:02:18.77 VISION DOESN'T TALK ABOUT THE OTHER GREAT EMPIRES? 01:02:18.77\01:02:20.84 WASN'T THERE A GREAT EMPIRE IN THE INCAS AND AZTECS AND IN 01:02:20.84\01:02:25.77 CHINA AND THERE WERE OTHER EM FIRES/FLYERS THE WORLD AND 01:02:25.77\01:02:28.01 INDIA, THAT'S TRUE, THIS IS DEALING WITH THE EMPIRES THAT 01:02:28.01\01:02:31.85 HAD POWER OVER GOD'S PEOPLE. AND SO THAT'S WHY THEY WERE 01:02:31.85\01:02:36.72 EMPHASIZING THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED IN HISTORY, FRIENDS. 01:02:36.72\01:02:40.09 WHY WOULD HE DOUBT THE LAST PART THAT JESUS IS COMING AGAIN. 01:02:40.09\01:02:43.02 THE NEXT THING ON THE LIST, IS JESUS IS GOING TO RETURN, AND 01:02:43.02\01:02:47.86 THEN THE GOOD NEWS, THE GOOD NEWS IF YOU PART OF HIS KINGDOM, 01:02:47.86\01:02:51.70 WHEN JESUS OLD HIS MOUTH AND STARTED PREACHING HE SAID REPENT 01:02:51.70\01:02:55.10 FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND, PO 2,000 YEARS AGO YOU 01:02:55.10\01:02:58.47 COULD CHOOSE TO BECOME A CITIZEN OF THAT KINGDOM AND RIGHT NOW WE 01:02:58.47\01:03:02.68 ARE AMBASSADORS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY BUT SOON JESUS IS GOING 01:03:02.68\01:03:05.68 TO COME AND HE IS GOING TO CONQUER ALL OF THE KINGDOMS OF 01:03:05.68\01:03:08.15 THIS WORLD, AND HE WILL ULTIMATELY CREATE A NEW HEAVEN 01:03:08.15\01:03:11.59 AND A NEW EARTH, YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF THAT KINGDOM. 01:03:11.59\01:03:14.99 ONLY WAY THAT HAPPENS, FRIENDS IS YOU COME THE CHRIST AND YOU 01:03:14.99\01:03:18.83 ASK HIM TO BE YOUR SAVIOR, TO FOR FIVE YOUR SINS AND TO FILL 01:03:18.83\01:03:22.20 YOU WITH HIS SPIRIT. HE PROMISES THAT YOU CAN BE BORN 01:03:22.20\01:03:25.77 AGAIN. HE WANTS YOU TO BE IN THAT 01:03:25.77\01:03:27.17 KINGDOM AND DIED TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE. 01:03:27.17\01:03:28.64 I HOPE THAT YOU WILL ASK HI RIGHT NOW. 01:03:28.64\01:03:30.31 LET ME PRAY WITH YOU BEFORE WE CLOSE THIS SEGMENT AND DON'T GO 01:03:30.31\01:03:34.28 ANYWHERE, PASTOR ROSS AND I WILL BE BACK AFTERWARD WITH BIBLE 01:03:34.28\01:03:37.91 QUESTIONS. FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE ARE VERY 01:03:37.91\01:03:40.05 THANKFUL THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN US THE TRUTH IN YOUR WORD, AND 01:03:40.05\01:03:43.22 THESE POWERFUL IMPROVE CITIES THAT ARE SO EXCEEDINGLY CLEAR, 01:03:43.22\01:03:46.19 LORD WE KNOW THE NEXT THING TO HAPPEN IS YOUR KINGDOM IS GOING 01:03:46.19\01:03:49.56 TO COME, THAT ALL OF THE IDOLS AND THE FALSE RELIGIONS AND THE 01:03:49.56\01:03:53.56 CONFUSION OF THE WORLD IS GOING TO BE GROUND TO POWDER AND 01:03:53.56\01:03:56.26 BROKEN AWAY, BUT YOUR KINGDOM WILL BE THAT ONE WHICH LASTS 01:03:56.26\01:03:59.90 FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING, I PRAY THAT WE CAN CHOOSE NOW TO 01:03:59.90\01:04:04.51 BE DIGITTED INTO THAT INDUCTED INTO THAT KINGDOM IN THE NAME OF 01:04:04.51\01:04:09.91 YOUR SON JESUS, AND WE PRAISE HIS NAME, AMEN, WE WILL BE RIGHT 01:04:09.91\01:04:14.28 BACK, DON'T GO ANYWHERE, BIBLE QUESTIONS IN JUST A MOMENT. 01:04:14.28\01:04:19.62 >> THE LONGEST RIVER IN THE NILE, OVER 4,250 MILES LONG AND 01:04:19.62\01:04:39.47 THE AMAZING THING IS, EVEN THE KINGDOM OF EGYPT DID NOT KNOW 01:04:39.47\01:04:42.11 WHAT WAS THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, PEOPLE 01:04:42.11\01:04:46.05 AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN, EUROPE, THEY ALL WONDERED WHERE 01:04:46.05\01:04:48.92 THE NILE RIVER ACTUALLY CAME FROM. 01:04:48.92\01:04:52.35 THERE WERE SOME AMAZING CRAZY THEORIES, SOME THOUGHT IT WENT 01:04:52.35\01:04:55.82 UNDERGROUND FOR HUNDREDS OF MILES AND CAME UP AGAIN AND EVEN 01:04:55.82\01:04:58.39 SENT ARMIES TO FIND THE SOURCE BUT THEY COULD NEVER FIND SOURCE 01:04:58.39\01:05:01.83 OF THE MAIN TRIBUTARY. IT WASN'T UNTIL 1863 WHEN JOHN 01:05:01.83\01:05:07.87 WENT ON AN EXPEDITION FROM ENGLAND AND HE DISCOVERED THE 01:05:07.87\01:05:11.37 LARGEST LAKE IN AFRICA AND THE SECOND LARGEST FRESHWATER LAKE 01:05:11.37\01:05:14.71 IN THE WORLD, NEXT TO LAKE SUPERIOR IN AMERICA HE NAMED IT 01:05:14.71\01:05:19.78 AFTER THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND, LAKE VICTORIA AND WHAT IS REALLY 01:05:19.78\01:05:24.22 IMPORTANT IS WHEN THE WATER RAIN OUT OF LAKE VICTORIA, THE SOURCE 01:05:24.22\01:05:28.39 OF THE NILE, PEOPLE HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR IT FOR THOUSANDS OF 01:05:28.39\01:05:32.16 YEARS. SO A FEW YEARS LATER IN 1872, 01:05:32.16\01:05:35.56 WHEN HENRY MORTON STANLEY THE ONE FOUND DAVID LIVINGSTON WHEN 01:05:35.56\01:05:41.77 HE WAS EXPLORING HE EXPLORED THE ENTIRE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE LAKE 01:05:41.77\01:05:45.61 CONFIRMING IT WAS THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 01:05:45.61\01:05:47.74 YOU KNOW, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 4 TELLS ABOUT A WOMAN 01:05:47.74\01:05:50.51 WHO CAME TO A WELL TO JUST GET A DRINK OF AVERAGE WATER BUT THERE 01:05:50.51\01:05:54.92 SHE MET JESUS WHO IS THE LIVING WATER, HE SAID THE WATER THAT 01:05:54.92\01:05:57.69 YOU ARE DRINKING NOW IT IS GOING TO LEAVE YOU THIRSTY AGAIN, AND 01:05:57.69\01:06:01.12 YOU WILL NEED TO JUST KEEP COMING AND NEVER BE SATISFIED, 01:06:01.12\01:06:03.86 BUT I AM THE SOURCE OF LIVING WATER THAT WILL BE AN ARTESIAN 01:06:03.86\01:06:08.13 WELL OF LIFE SPRINGING UP IN YOUR HEART AND HE OFFERED HER 01:06:08.13\01:06:11.47 THIS LIVING WATER, FRIENDS HE IS OFFERING ALL OF US LIVING WATER 01:06:11.47\01:06:14.50 THAT COMES FROM ACCEPTING JESUS. HAVE YOU DISCOVERED THE SOURCE? 01:06:14.50\01:06:25.51 I WANT TO WELCOME YOU ALL BACK, FRIENDS. 01:06:25.51\01:06:31.72 HELLO FRIENDS, WE WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU ALL BACK TO 01:06:31.72\01:06:34.46 REVELATION NOW, AND PASTOR DOUG HAS DONE A GREAT STUDY OF 01:06:34.46\01:06:37.63 LOOKING AT DANIEL CHAPTER 2 AND NOW GETTING INTO OUR BIBLE 01:06:37.63\01:06:41.36 QUESTIONS. WE HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM 01:06:41.36\01:06:42.86 FOLKS THAT CAME IN. JUST BEFORE WE GET TO YOUR 01:06:42.86\01:06:46.00 QUESTIONS, OH, LET ME REMIND YOU IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ASK A 01:06:46.00\01:06:48.47 QUESTION, JUST GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE AND YOU ACTUALLY 01:06:48.47\01:06:51.74 TYPE IT RIGHT THERE IN THE COMMENT SECTION WE WILL TRY TO 01:06:51.74\01:06:54.11 ANSWER AS MANY QUESTIONS AS WE CAN, I WANT TO REMIND YOU OF OUR 01:06:54.11\01:06:57.98 FREE OFFER FOR FOR FOR TODAY A BOOK ENTITLED THE LAST NIGHT ON 01:06:57.98\01:07:01.85 EARTH. AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO 01:07:01.85\01:07:02.92 RECEIVE, THIS YOU CAN JUST GO TO THE REVELATION NOW WEBSITE AND 01:07:02.92\01:07:06.15 YOU DOWNLOAD IT, OR IF YOU LIKE I DON'T CAN TEXT THE WORD EARTH 01:07:06.15\01:07:09.82 TO THE NUMBER 40544. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET A 01:07:09.82\01:07:14.30 DIGITAL COPY OF THE BOOK AND I THINK YOU WILL REALLY ENJOY 01:07:14.30\01:07:17.00 READING IT, A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION. 01:07:17.00\01:07:18.93 >> AMEN. >> SO MAKE SURE YOU TAKE 01:07:18.93\01:07:20.57 ADVANTAGE OF THAT. ALL RIGHT. 01:07:20.57\01:07:21.80 PASTOR DOUG, ARE WE READY FOR OUR BIBLE QUESTIONS. 01:07:21.80\01:07:24.91 >> JUST GIVE ME A SECOND. >> HE GAVE ME A COUGH DROP 01:07:24.91\01:07:30.65 BETWEEN PROGRAMS AND I DON'T WANT TO SWALLOW IT, I MIGHT 01:07:30.65\01:07:33.35 CHOKE ON IT BUT I DON'T WANT TO CHEW IT UP. 01:07:33.35\01:07:35.58 YOU ONLY DO THIS TO YOUR WIFE. >> OKAY. 01:07:35.58\01:07:38.75 WE ARE GOOD NOW, I AM READY. >> IT IS PROOF THIS IS LIVE SO, 01:07:38.75\01:07:43.63 YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS THAT -- WE HAVE TO 01:07:43.63\01:07:47.03 START PUTTING UP ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT HAS COME IN AND 01:07:47.03\01:07:49.50 YOU CAN DO THAT AT THIS TIME. THE QUESTION IS, WHEN WILL 01:07:49.50\01:07:55.17 CHRIST SET UP HIS KINGDOM ON THE EARTH? 01:07:55.17\01:07:58.81 WELL THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION, BECAUSE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE 01:07:58.81\01:08:01.64 KINGDOM OF JESUS, THERE ARE REALLY TWO ASPECTS OF IT. 01:08:01.64\01:08:04.58 YOU HAVE THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM THAT TECHNICALLY HAS BEEN AROUND 01:08:04.58\01:08:07.68 EVER SINCE THE GARDEN OF EDEN, WHEN ADAM AND EVE OFFERED THE 01:08:07.68\01:08:11.99 LAMB THEY OFFERED THE SACRIFICE OF GOD'S SON THAT WOULD COME, 01:08:11.99\01:08:14.79 THEY WOULD BE FOR GIVEN BASED ON FAITH, YOU KNOW, ABRAHAM WAS 01:08:14.79\01:08:17.73 PART OF THAT KINGDOM, IT CAME MORE VIVIDLY WHEN JESUS DAME 01:08:17.73\01:08:21.43 FIRST TIME AND HE SAID THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND. 01:08:21.43\01:08:24.60 AND HE WAS PREACHING THAT AS WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST, WITHIN WEEKS 01:08:24.60\01:08:29.00 THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM. THE LITERAL KINGDOM WHERE JESUS 01:08:29.00\01:08:33.24 ACTUALLY CREATES A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH THAT IS GOING TO 01:08:33.24\01:08:36.41 HAPPEN, WELL, GOD'S PEOPLE ARE TAKEN TO THE MANSIONS HE 01:08:36.41\01:08:39.25 PREPARED OF THE SECOND COMING AND NEW JERUSALEM SAYS THAT 01:08:39.25\01:08:43.89 KINGDOM COMES DOWN THIS CAMPAIGN 21 FOLLOWING THE MILLENNIUM. 01:08:43.89\01:08:47.12 SO THERE ARE THESE PHASES OF REALITY IN THE KINGDOM. 01:08:47.12\01:08:50.39 WE BECOME CITIZENS NOW IN THE KINGDOM WHEN WE ACCEPT JESUS, 01:08:50.39\01:08:54.73 BUT THERE ARE STILL WARS THIS THIS LIFE. 01:08:54.73\01:08:55.93 >> I BELIEVE WE HAVE A WHOLE PRESENTATION COMING THAT IS 01:08:55.93\01:08:58.13 GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THAT 1,000 YEARS, THE MILLENNIUM SO 01:08:58.13\01:09:03.17 STAY TUNED FOR THAT. >> THE NEXT QUESTION WE HAVE FO 01:09:03.17\01:09:05.24 THIS EVENING, IT SAYS WHAT KIND OF BODIES WILL PEOPLE HAVE IN 01:09:05.24\01:09:09.81 GOD'S NEW KING CAN.COM? >> AND AGAIN WE HAVE GOT A 01:09:09.81\01:09:12.88 LESSON THAT WILL GO INTO MORE DETAIL TALKING ABOUT WHAT 01:09:12.88\01:09:15.58 REVELATION SAYS ABOUT THE RESURRECTION AND ETERNAL LIFE, 01:09:15.58\01:09:20.59 BUT WE ARE NOT GHOSTS, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE OFTEN THINK I AM NOT SO 01:09:20.59\01:09:24.86 SURE I WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN AND BE A BABY NAKED FAT CHERUB ON A 01:09:24.86\01:09:29.76 CLOUD INSTRUMENT AGO HANDWRITTEN OR, A HARP, THAT IS NOT WHAT IT 01:09:29.76\01:09:36.20 IS LIKE, PHILIPPIANS SAYS WE WILL HAVE BODIES LIKENED TO HIS 01:09:36.20\01:09:41.04 GLORIOUS BODY AND WHEN HE APPEARED TO THE DISSIGN UNLESS 01:09:41.04\01:09:43.65 THE UPPER ROOM HE SAID TOUCH ME, FEEL ME. 01:09:43.65\01:09:46.38 A SPIRIT DOESN'T HAVE FLESH AND BONE AS YOU SEE THAT I HAVE. 01:09:46.38\01:09:49.02 AND THEN HE SAID I AM HUNGRY. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO EAT? 01:09:49.02\01:09:51.82 AND AS A MATTER OF FACT, TWO OR THREE TIMES WHEN HE APPEARED TO 01:09:51.82\01:09:53.82 THE DISCIPLES, HE ATE, HE SHOWED THEM HE WAS VERY REAL. 01:09:53.82\01:09:58.59 AND SO AS WHEN GOT CREATED ADAM AND EVE THEY HAD REAL BODIES AND 01:09:58.59\01:10:02.33 TO THE WORLD MADE NEW WE HAVE REAL BODIES BUT THEY HAVE THE 01:10:02.33\01:10:05.53 ADDED SPIRITUAL DIMENSION YES LOST BECAUSE OF SIN. 01:10:05.53\01:10:08.14 >> OKAY. AND WE HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION 01:10:08.14\01:10:10.67 BEFORE WE GO TO THE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN SENT IN THROUGH 01:10:10.67\01:10:13.61 FACEBOOK. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT PART DOES 01:10:13.61\01:10:15.31 FREE CHOICE HAVE IN DETERMINING WHO WILL BE SAVED AND WHO WILL 01:10:15.31\01:10:19.28 BE LOST? >> YES, I SAW THAT QUESTION AND 01:10:19.28\01:10:20.98 I THOUGHT WELL THIS HAS BEEN A BIG DEBATE OF CHRISTIANITY FOR 01:10:20.98\01:10:25.15 MILLENNIA RIGHT NOW LAST 2,000 YEARS THE SUBJECT OF GOD'S 01:10:25.15\01:10:29.66 SOVEREIGN POWER AND FREE WILL. AND THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT 01:10:29.66\01:10:34.50 GOD IS SOVEREIGN BUT IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT GOD DOES GIVE PEOPLE 01:10:34.50\01:10:39.33 CHOICE AND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE SAVED BY HAZE BRACE AND HIS 01:10:39.33\01:10:44.41 -- GOD IS VERY CLEAR THAT HIS PROVIDENCE DOES INTERVENE THE 01:10:44.41\01:10:48.01 OUR LIVES AS HE DID WITH THE APOSTLE PAUL AND UP ON THE CROSS 01:10:48.01\01:10:52.95 BUT THEN WE MAKE CHOICES, THAT'S WHY JOSHUA SAID CHOOSY E TODAY 01:10:52.95\01:10:57.89 WHO YOU WILL SERVE AND CHRIST SAID SAYS WHOEVER WILL, HE HAS 01:10:57.89\01:11:01.39 GIVEN US A WILL, WE CAN CHOOSE, NOW GOD KNOWS WHAT PEOPLE WILL 01:11:01.39\01:11:04.99 CHOOSE BECAUSE HE KNOWS EVERYTHING, BUT BECAUSE HE KNOWS 01:11:04.99\01:11:08.20 IT, DOESN'T MEAN HE HAS TAKEN AWAY THEIR ABILITY TO CHOOSE. 01:11:08.20\01:11:12.23 AND SOS SO IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO 01:11:12.23\01:11:15.64 PEOPLE, SOME PEOPLE SAY WELL GOD IS GOING TO SAVE WHO HE SAVES 01:11:15.64\01:11:20.14 AND IF I HAVE NO CHOICELY WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. 01:11:20.14\01:11:22.71 YOU DO NEED TO MAKE A CHOICE AND YOU DO NEED TO CHOOSE TO COME 01:11:22.71\01:11:26.21 CAN THAT'S PART IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. 01:11:26.21\01:11:28.02 >> WE HAVE A BOOK THAT FOLKS CAN READ ONLINE, CAN A SAVED MAN 01:11:28.02\01:11:33.99 DECIDE TO BE LOST. YOU CAN CLICK ON THE FREE 01:11:33.99\01:11:35.76 LIBRARY RESOURCE AND YOU READ THE BOOK. 01:11:35.76\01:11:37.69 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> ALL RIGHT GOING INTO SOME OFOF 01:11:37.69\01:11:41.53 REQUEST ALTERNATES ARE COMING THROUGH FACEBOOK. 01:11:41.53\01:11:43.06 THIS IS A QUESTION, TIED IN A LITTLE BIT WITH LAST NIGHT'S 01:11:43.06\01:11:47.00 PRESENTATION, IT SAYS I HAVE A QUESTION IS THE SECOND COMING 01:11:47.00\01:11:49.27 AND THE RAPTURE THE SAME EVENT? >> WELL, YES. 01:11:49.27\01:11:55.04 WELL, WHEN JESUS COMES, FIRST OF ALL, THE FIRST IS WHEN CHRIST 01:11:55.04\01:11:58.71 CAME AS OUR SACRIFICE, HE CAME AS A LAMB. 01:11:58.71\01:12:01.58 HE CAME QUIETLY AND MEEKLY. AND -- BUT THE JEWISH LEADERS, 01:12:01.58\01:12:05.95 MANY OF THEM, TEACH APOSTLES THEY THOUGHT HE WAS COMING LIKE 01:12:05.95\01:12:09.09 A CONQUERING KING THE FIRST TIME BUZZ THERE ARE PROPHECIES IN THE 01:12:09.09\01:12:12.66 BIBLE AMOUNT THAT TALK ABOUT CHRIST COMING AS A CONQUERING 01:12:12.66\01:12:17.00 KING, THAT'S THE SECOND COMING. SO HE CAME AS A LAMB BUT THEY 01:12:17.00\01:12:22.30 GOT THE LAMB AND THE LION MIXED-UP. 01:12:22.30\01:12:24.61 AND NOW JESUS IS COMING LIKE A LION NEXT TIME AND MANY PEOPLE 01:12:24.61\01:12:28.38 THINK SHE COMING QUIETLY, A SECRET RAPTURE, BUT WHEN HE 01:12:28.38\01:12:31.21 COMES NEXT TIME, YOU CAN READ IT IN FIRST THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 01:12:31.21\01:12:35.28 4 THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, THE 01:12:35.28\01:12:38.72 VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL THE TRUMPET OF GOD AND THE DEAD WILL 01:12:38.72\01:12:42.89 RISE AND WE WHO ARE ALIVE WILL BE CAUGHT UP, THAT'S RAPTURE, SO 01:12:42.89\01:12:47.03 WHEN JESUS COMES WITH THAT TRUMP, THE SHOUT, THE LOUD 01:12:47.03\01:12:52.17 NOISE, THE ROAR, THAT'S WHEN WE ARE CAUGHT UP TO MEET HIM IN THE 01:12:52.17\01:12:55.64 AIR, WE ARE TRANSFORMED AND GIVEN GLORIFIED BODIES AND THAT 01:12:55.64\01:12:59.77 IS THE AM RAPTURE AND FOLLOWING THE TRIP POPULATION. 01:12:59.77\01:13:02.11 THAT'S WHY HE SAID HE THAT ENDURES TO THE END WILL BE 01:13:02.11\01:13:05.31 SAVED. ALL RIGHT WE HAVE A QUESTION 01:13:05.31\01:13:06.95 COMING FROM PAUL WHO IS IN MEXICO, HE IS NINE YEARS OLD, 01:13:06.95\01:13:11.02 AND HERE IS HIS QUESTION. IT SAYS ARE GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT 01:13:11.02\01:13:15.16 SPIRIT AND JESUS THREE PERSONS OR ONE PERSON? 01:13:15.16\01:13:17.39 I AM CONFUSED. >> AND DON'T FEEL BADLY A LOT OF 01:13:17.39\01:13:22.23 PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH THIS ISSUE, BUT I THINK THE BIBLE IS VERY 01:13:22.23\01:13:24.80 CLEAR THAT THERE ARE THREE DISTINCT PERSONS IN WHAT WE 01:13:24.80\01:13:28.54 WOULD CALL THE GODHEAD. FOLKS SOMETIMES ARE THROWN 01:13:28.54\01:13:32.71 BECAUSE JESUS AND MOSES, YOU KNOW, THEY SAY HERE OUR LORD IS 01:13:32.71\01:13:37.18 GOD IS ONE AND LOVE THE HEART ALL OF THY HEART AND STRENGTH. 01:13:37.18\01:13:41.98 >> THAT DIFFICULT NOD, THAT DID NOT MEAN NUMERICAL QUANTITY, A 01:13:41.98\01:13:45.45 MAN LEAVES HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND CHIEFS TO HIS WIFE AND THEY 01:13:45.45\01:13:49.16 TWO BECOME ONE. AND I DON'T KNOW 17, JESUS 01:13:49.16\01:13:51.39 PRAYED FOR THE APOSTLES, FATHER THAT THEY MIGHT BE ONE AS WE ARE 01:13:51.39\01:13:55.60 ONE. WELL WE KNOW APOSTLES THERE ARE 01:13:55.60\01:13:57.87 12 OF THEM AFTER JUDAS WAS REPLACED. 01:13:57.87\01:14:01.44 AND THAT MEANS THAT JESUS IS .. SEPARATE, THE FATHER IS SEPARATE 01:14:01.44\01:14:05.04 BUT THEY ARE ONE, AT THE BAPTISM WE SEE GOD THE FATHER SAYING 01:14:05.04\01:14:08.18 THIS IS MY SON, WE ARE IN TO DIFFERENT PLACES AND GOD SPIRIT 01:14:08.18\01:14:11.85 COMING DOWN LIKE A DOVE. AND SO WE BELIEVE THERE ARE 01:14:11.85\01:14:15.68 THREE DISTINCT PERSONS IN WHAT WE WOULD CALL THE GODHEAD, THE 01:14:15.68\01:14:18.15 FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, PERFECTLY ONE AND 01:14:18.15\01:14:21.36 UNITED, BUT THEY ARE THREE DISTINCT PERSONS WITH DISTINCT 01:14:21.36\01:14:24.89 OFFICES, I THINK WE GOD A BOOK ON THAT TOO IF PEOPLE WANT. 01:14:24.89\01:14:26.86 >> THAT'S RIGHT. IT IS CALLED THE TRINITY, IS IT 01:14:26.86\01:14:29.93 BIBLICAL? A. 01:14:29.93\01:14:30.87 >> YES AND GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS 01:14:30.87\01:14:33.07 WEBSITE AND YOU READ THE BOOK. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY I 01:14:33.07\01:14:34.94 BELIEVE THAT IN THE HEBREW LANGUAGE THERE ARE ACTUALLY 01:14:34.94\01:14:38.27 DIFFERENT WORDS USED THAT ARE TRANSLATED AS ONE. 01:14:38.27\01:14:41.31 IN THE HEBREW THERE IS A PLURAL FORM OF THE WORD ONE. 01:14:41.31\01:14:45.05 >> UH-HUH. >> THIS IS A SINGULAR FORM BUT 01:14:45.05\01:14:47.18 ALSO PLEURAL, AS YOU SAID, ONE CAN MEAN ONE IN PURPOSE, UNITED, 01:14:47.18\01:14:51.05 NOT NECESSARILY NUMERICAL ONENESS. 01:14:51.05\01:14:53.39 >> GOOD POINT IN GENESIS WHEN GOD CREATES, LET US, THERE IS A 01:14:53.39\01:14:57.43 PLURAL FORM OF GOD THERE. >> YES. 01:14:57.43\01:14:58.73 >> LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE AND HE SAYS THAT AGAIN IN 01:14:58.73\01:15:02.36 GENESIS 11, THE MAN HAS BECOME LIKE US. 01:15:02.36\01:15:04.40 SO YES, I THINK THERE IS ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION 01:15:04.40\01:15:06.84 YOU CAN SEE THE THREE PERSONS OF THE GODHEAD. 01:15:06.84\01:15:09.57 >> ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE GOT SOMEBODY ASKING, WHY 01:15:09.57\01:15:12.04 DO THINGS COME IN THREES IN REVELATION? 01:15:12.04\01:15:15.64 >> SPEAKING OF THREES, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE MAY AS WELL JUST 01:15:15.64\01:15:19.41 UNPACK, TALK ABOUT BIBLE NUMBERS FOR A MINUTE AND THIS MAY COME 01:15:19.41\01:15:21.75 UP AGAIN, SO I HOPE YOU CAN BEAR WITH US IF WE DO SOME 01:15:21.75\01:15:26.09 REPETITION. BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN NUMBERS 01:15:26.09\01:15:27.82 THAT HAVE MEANINGS IN REVELATION THE NUMBER 12 COMES UP QUITE A 01:15:27.82\01:15:33.19 BIT, AND IT IS OFTEN THE NUMBER FOR THE CHURCH, YOU HAVE GOT THE 01:15:33.19\01:15:36.50 LEADERSHIP OF THE CHURCH, 12 APOSTLES, 12 JUDGES, 12 TRIBES, 01:15:36.50\01:15:40.07 THE CHURCH LIVES IN A CITY THAT IS 12,000 FURLONGS WITH 12 GATES 01:15:40.07\01:15:44.44 AND TREE OF LIFE WITH 12 KINDS OF FRUIT, 12 TIMES A YEAR, 144, 01:15:44.44\01:15:49.01 SO YOU HAVE GOT 12 AS THE CHURCH, SEVEN IS REPRESENTING 01:15:49.01\01:15:53.75 GOD'S PERFECTION, PERFECT CYCLE, THE WEEK, AND THEN REVELATION 01:15:53.75\01:15:57.25 YOU WILL HAVE TO PASS ME, SEVEN TRUMPETS, SEVEN CHURCHES, SEVEN 01:15:57.25\01:16:02.76 PLAGUES, SEVEN SEALS, SEVEN EYES, SEVEN HORNS, I KNOW I AM 01:16:02.76\01:16:07.03 FOR GETTING SOME. >> SEVEN THUNDERS. 01:16:07.03\01:16:08.73 >> YES. >> JUST GET -- YES, YOU GET YOUR 01:16:08.73\01:16:12.47 COMPUTER OUT AND SEE A LOT OF SEVENS. 01:16:12.47\01:16:14.84 >> I DON'T KNOW IF YOU MENTIONED PLAGUES. 01:16:14.84\01:16:16.44 >> YES A LOT OF SEVENS. >> AND THEN YOU HAVE THREE, SEE 01:16:16.44\01:16:18.64 A NUMBER THAT IS SORT OF LIKE -- IT IS A NUMBER TALKING ABOUT 01:16:18.64\01:16:23.41 GOD, YOU HAVE GOT, YOU KNOW, GOD THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT 01:16:23.41\01:16:27.22 BUT IN REVELATION EVERY TIME YOU SEE THREE DOESN'T MEAN GOD, IT 01:16:27.22\01:16:31.22 MEANS YOU A COUNTERFEIT TRINI REVELATION OF THE BEAST, THE 01:16:31.22\01:16:34.82 DRAGON AND THE FALSE PROPHET AND WHEN THE JUDGMENT COMES, THE 01:16:34.82\01:16:37.59 CITY IS DIVIDED IN THREE PARTS, YOU SEE THREE ALL THE WAY 01:16:37.59\01:16:42.03 THROUGH THE BECOME OF REVELATION. 01:16:42.03\01:16:44.70 AND LATER WE WILL TALK ABOUT THE NUMBER 666 AND SOME OF THE OTHER 01:16:44.70\01:16:47.54 NUMBERS. >> MAYBE WE WILL JUST MENTION 01:16:47.54\01:16:49.37 ONE NUMBER, PASTOR YOU BROUGHT IT UP, NUMBER 2 IN THE BIBLE, 01:16:49.37\01:16:53.11 SIGNIFICANT YOU HAVE THE TWO WITNESSES. 01:16:53.11\01:16:54.34 >> YES. >> ACTUALLY IN REVELATION 01:16:54.34\01:16:56.18 CHAPTER 11, WE A ADD QUESTION ABOUT THAT, YOU HAVE THE NUMBER 01:16:56.18\01:16:58.48 FOUR WHICH REPRESENTS THE FOUR POINTS OF THE COMPASS, THE 01:16:58.48\01:17:01.48 REASON THAT IS SIGNIFICANT IS BECAUSE REVELATION CHAPTER 01:17:01.48\01:17:04.35 7 TALKS ABOUT ANGELS HOLDING THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH. 01:17:04.35\01:17:06.89 >> YES. >> AND THERE ARE OTHERS. 01:17:06.89\01:17:08.26 >> AND TWO IS THE WORD OF GOD. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 01:17:08.26\01:17:10.13 >> THE WORD OF GOD IS SHARPER THAN A TWO-EDGED SWORD, TEN 01:17:10.13\01:17:13.86 COMMANDMENTS ON TWO TABLES OF STONE, AND IN THE MOUTH OF TWO 01:17:13.86\01:17:16.67 OR THREE WITNESSES, SO, YES. >> FIVE IS TEACHING BUT WE WILL 01:17:16.67\01:17:21.10 GET TO ALL OF THAT LATER ON. >> THIS QUESTION IS, THIS PERSON 01:17:21.10\01:17:26.51 IS ASKING HOW DO WE KNOW IF A TREATMENT IS IMPORTANT OR IS 01:17:26.51\01:17:32.81 SIGNIFICANT? >> WELL, THAT IS A GOOD 01:17:32.81\01:17:35.45 QUESTION. AND I GET A LOT OF CALLS EVERY 01:17:35.45\01:17:38.02 NOW AND THEN PEOPLE SAY PASTOR DOUG I HAVE A DREAM CAN YOU TELL 01:17:38.02\01:17:40.82 ME WHAT IT MEANS AND I WILL TELL YOU FRIENDS I DON'T KNOW IF I 01:17:40.82\01:17:43.49 HAVE EVER ACCUSED OF HAVING THE GIFT OF INTERPRETATION AND, YOU 01:17:43.49\01:17:46.59 KNOW, SOMETIMES I THINK GOD DOES SPEAK TO PEOPLE THROUGH DREAMS 01:17:46.59\01:17:49.23 AND I THINK THAT IF HE GIVES YOU A DREAM THAT IS FROM HIM, HE 01:17:49.23\01:17:52.60 WILL BE VERY VIVID AND VERY CLEAR, VERY REAL AND GOD WILL 01:17:52.60\01:17:56.34 EITHER GIVE YOU SOMEONE TO UNDERSTAND THE DREAM OR HE WILL 01:17:56.34\01:18:00.04 GIVE YOU THE UNDERSTANDING, SOMETIMES GOD WILL GIVE US A 01:18:00.04\01:18:02.88 DREAM THAT IS FRIGHTENING, AND IT IS A WARNING AND YOU KNOW 01:18:02.88\01:18:05.91 THAT GOD IS TELLING YOU SOMETHING IN A DREAM. 01:18:05.91\01:18:09.48 AND, YOU KNOW, I KNOW SOME PEOPLE THAT DREAM THAT THEY WERE 01:18:09.48\01:18:11.52 LOST AND JESUS CAME AND THEY WOKE UP AND SO THANKFUL THAT IT 01:18:11.52\01:18:15.46 WAS JUST A DREAM. AND THEY HAD A CHANCE. 01:18:15.46\01:18:18.13 AFTER I QUIT SMOKING I WAS REALLY TENNED FOR A LONG TIME TO 01:18:18.13\01:18:21.00 START AGAIN, IT WAS A BIG BATTLE FOR ME, AND I DREAMED THAT I HAD 01:18:21.00\01:18:24.90 STARTED SMOKING AGAIN AND I WAS SO ASHAMED, AND I WOKE UP AND I 01:18:24.90\01:18:29.04 WAS SO GRAD IT WAS A DREAM. I NEVER DID SMOKE AGAIN. 01:18:29.04\01:18:33.27 SO GOD LIKE HE TOLD ME, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THIS. 01:18:33.27\01:18:36.34 THINK ABOUT THE SHAME THAT YOU WILL FEEL. 01:18:36.34\01:18:37.95 SO IT MIGHT BE PERSONAL. AND SO IF GOD GIVES YOU A DREAM 01:18:37.95\01:18:40.92 HE WILL EITHER LET YOU KNOW OR HE WILL SEND SOMEBODY, HE WON'T 01:18:40.92\01:18:43.75 GIVE YOU A MESSAGE TO, TO NOT HAVE YOU ABLE TO UNDERSTAND IT. 01:18:43.75\01:18:48.09 >> ANOTHER QUESTION THAT IS COMING, PASTOR, WHAT ABOUT 01:18:48.09\01:18:52.36 PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AS IT RELATES TO 01:18:52.36\01:18:55.50 THEIR SALVATION? >> WELL GOD IS GOOD. 01:18:55.50\01:18:59.37 TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN MUCH IS REQUIRED AND IF WE HAVE, YOU 01:18:59.37\01:19:02.17 KNOW, GREAT UNDERSTANDING WE SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT. 01:19:02.17\01:19:05.54 PEOPLE WHO ARE YOUNG OR THEY ARE HANDICAPPED AND JUST COMPREHEND 01:19:05.54\01:19:09.81 THE ISSUES OF RIGHT AND WRONG AND WHAT IS AT STAKE IN THOSE 01:19:09.81\01:19:13.55 DECISIONS GOD IS VERY MERCIFUL SO I DON'T THINK WE EVER HAVE TO 01:19:13.55\01:19:16.52 WORRY ABOUT HIM JUDGING PEOPLE THAT WAY. 01:19:16.52\01:19:19.85 AND, YOU KNOW, EVEN -- I KNOW SOME GOOD CHRISTIANS THEY GET 01:19:19.85\01:19:22.39 OLD AND STRUGGLE WITH DEMENTIA AND IT IS CLEARLY A PHYSICAL 01:19:22.39\01:19:25.83 PROBLEM AND THEIR BRAIN HAS BEEN AFFECTED AND THEIR BEHAVIOR MAY 01:19:25.83\01:19:28.96 CHANGE AND THE CEREBRUM, THE CEREBELLUM IS THE FRONT, 01:19:28.96\01:19:34.24 CEREBRUM IS NO LONGER CONTROLLING THEIR RATIONAL 01:19:34.24\01:19:36.50 THINGS ARE BEING CONTROLLED BY LOWER NATURE AND GOD KNOWS THAT 01:19:36.50\01:19:39.51 AND HE WILL JUDGE THEM BASED ON THE TENOR OF TEAR LIFE, DON'T 01:19:39.51\01:19:43.28 WORRY, GOD IS HER CIVIL. >> HE IS JUST. 01:19:43.28\01:19:45.05 >> WE HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THAT HAVE COME IN ABOUT 01:19:45.05\01:19:48.42 REVELATION. AND THE QUESTION IS, CAN YOU YOU 01:19:48.42\01:19:50.22 TELL US MORE ABOUT THE TWO WITNESSES IN REVELATION CHAPTER 01:19:50.22\01:19:54.09 11? >> YES, AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T 01:19:54.09\01:19:55.39 THINK WE HAVE A SPECIFIC LESSON ON THAT SO WE WILL TAKE A 01:19:55.39\01:19:59.16 MOMENT. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 01:19:59.16\01:20:01.16 SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT TWO WITNESSES ARE MOSES AND ELIJAH 01:20:01.16\01:20:04.07 AND IN A SENSE, THEY ARE, NOW STAY WITH ME. 01:20:04.07\01:20:07.57 LAST PROPHETS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, MALACHI CHAPTER 01:20:07.57\01:20:10.54 4 SAYS REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES, BEHOLD I SEND YOU A 01:20:10.54\01:20:15.38 ELIJAH THE PROPHET AND TRENT WORD OF GOD. 01:20:15.38\01:20:17.18 MOSES IS THE LAW, ELIJAH IS THE PROPHETS THEY APPEAR TO JESUS ON 01:20:17.18\01:20:22.05 THIS MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION IN MARK CHAPTER 9, AND SO WHEN IT 01:20:22.05\01:20:26.09 TALKS ABOUT THE TO WITNESSES IN REVELATION 11 IT SAYS THEY GOT 01:20:26.09\01:20:29.32 POWER TO PROCLAIM PLAGUES TO SET UP THE HEAVENS SO IT DOESN'T 01:20:29.32\01:20:32.96 RAIN, AND BOTH MOSES AND ELIJAH THEY SEND FIRE, FIRE CAME DOWN 01:20:32.96\01:20:37.97 FOR BOTH OF THEM AND THERE WERE PLAGUES, ELIJAH PRAYED AND IT 01:20:37.97\01:20:42.27 DIDN'T RAIN AND HE PRAYED AGAIN AND IT DID RAIN YOU SEE POWER OF 01:20:42.27\01:20:46.68 GOD IN THEIR TEACHINGS, HE SAID THESE 22 WITNESSES THEY ARE 01:20:46.68\01:20:50.18 SLAIN AND THEIR BODIES LIE IN THE STREET, SOME PEOPLE THINK 01:20:50.18\01:20:52.91 THAT MOSES AND ELIJAH WILL COME BACK DOWN-TO-EARTH AND BE KILLED 01:20:52.91\01:20:56.25 AND FLY THE STREET, NO THEY HAVE GOT A GLORIFIED BODIES AND IN 01:20:56.25\01:20:59.35 HEAVEN NOW AND WON'T DIE AGAIN. IT IS TALKING ABOUT WHAT THEY 01:20:59.35\01:21:04.36 REPRESENT THE WORD OF GOD WILL BE UNDER ATTACK IN THE LAST 01:21:04.36\01:21:07.13 DAYS. AND MANY SCHOLARS THAT BELIEVE 01:21:07.13\01:21:11.63 IN THE HISTORIC VIEW OF PROPHECY THEY INTERPRET THAT REVELATION 01:21:11.63\01:21:15.04 11 IS TALKING ABOUT THE BIRTH OF ATHEISM, WHEN IT GAME FIRST 01:21:15.04\01:21:18.71 NATION THAT OFFICIAL RIO DE JANEIRO CLAIRD THERE IS NO GOD, 01:21:18.71\01:21:22.18 THEY BURNED BIBLES, THE WORD OF GOD IN THE STREETS, 0 FOR 3 AND 01:21:22.18\01:21:25.35 A HALF YEARS THEY OUTLAWED THE WORD OF GOD AND SAYS THEIR 01:21:25.35\01:21:28.68 BODIES LIE IN THE STREETS FOR THREE AND A HALF DAYS, DAY AND 01:21:28.68\01:21:32.72 IMPROVE IN A YEAR IS A AND SO THAT IS A SHORT ANSWER. 01:21:32.72\01:21:36.29 I COULD SAY MORE, BUT. >> WE DO HAVE A BOOK ON THAT 01:21:36.29\01:21:39.36 PASS A SORRY, THINK I IT IS CALLED THE TWO WITNESSES, AGAIN, 01:21:39.36\01:21:41.63 IT IS FREE GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE AND READ IT THERE, 01:21:41.63\01:21:45.07 JUST CLICK ON THE FREE LIBRARY. >> AND DOWNLOAD IT, YES. 01:21:45.07\01:21:47.57 >> ANOTHER REVELATION QUESTION, IT SAYS WHO ARE THE BEASTS OF 01:21:47.57\01:21:52.37 REVELATION CHAPTER 4? >> ALL RIGHT. 01:21:52.37\01:21:54.71 >> REFERRING TO THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES AROUND THE -- 01:21:54.71\01:21:56.95 >> YES, AND YOU WILL ALSO FIND THEM MENTIONED IN EZEKIEL I 01:21:56.95\01:22:00.78 THINK CHAPTER 1 IT TALKS ABOUT THESE CREATURES, REMEMBER I SAID 01:22:00.78\01:22:04.72 REVELATION YOU CAN ALSO FIND IT IS SORT OF LIKE A REFLECTION OF 01:22:04.72\01:22:08.52 THE OLD TEST. AND YOU HAVE GOT A LION AN 01:22:08.52\01:22:12.76 EAGLE, A CALF AND A MAN, I AM LOOKING AT PASTOR ROSS TO MAKE 01:22:12.76\01:22:16.10 SURE I GET MY BEASTS RIGHT AND THEY HAVE THESE FACES, NOW IN 01:22:16.10\01:22:21.54 REVELATION KEEP IN MIND THESE ARE SYMBOLS, DOESN'T MEAN GOD IN 01:22:21.54\01:22:25.74 HEAVEN IS STATE YOUR NAME PAID BARNYARD OF ANIMALS. 01:22:25.74\01:22:28.68 EACH OF THOSE ANIMALS HAVE SYMBOLISM IN THE BIBLE, EAGLES 01:22:28.68\01:22:33.21 FOR TEAR VISION, THEIR POWER AND FLIGHT THEY COULD GO HIGHER THAN 01:22:33.21\01:22:36.95 ANY CREATURE AND SEE FARTHER. THE CALF WAS A SACRIFICE, IT WAS 01:22:36.95\01:22:40.76 ALSO A BEAST OF STRENGTH AND SERVANT AND THE MAN-MADE IN 01:22:40.76\01:22:44.73 GOD'S IMAGE AND THE LIE RON WAS, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MAJESTIC 01:22:44.73\01:22:49.33 BEASTS AND EVEN A TYPE OF CHRIST IN THE BIBLE YOU HAVE AN 01:22:49.33\01:22:52.43 INTERESTING. >> YES IF YOU LOOK AT THE ORDER 01:22:52.43\01:22:54.10 THAT THE BIBLE GIVES US IN REVELATION CHAPTER 4, THE 01:22:54.10\01:22:57.44 FOLLOWING CREATURES THE FIRST IS LIKEN TO A LION, SOME ARE SEEING 01:22:57.44\01:23:00.94 THAT CHRIST PRIOR TO THE INCAR FACE, SHE THE KING OF KINGS, HE 01:23:00.94\01:23:04.48 IS IN HEAVEN, AND THEN IT SAYS THAT THE NEXT EAGLE IS A CALF OR 01:23:04.48\01:23:08.65 AN OX, AND SO WHEN JESUS CAME TO THIS EARTH HE CAME TO BEAR OUR 01:23:08.65\01:23:12.55 SINS AND DIE A SACRIFICE FOR US, THE THIRD LIVING CREATURE HAS 01:23:12.55\01:23:16.99 THE FACE LIKENED TO A MAN, AND A SOME SEEING THAT CHRIST 01:23:16.99\01:23:20.96 RESURRECTED NOW IS A HIGH PRIEST MINISTERING FOR US IN HEMP AND 01:23:20.96\01:23:24.47 THE FOURTH LIVING CREATURE IS LIKE AN EAGLE, SIMILAR 01:23:24.47\01:23:29.80 SYMBOLIZING JESUS COMING AS KING OF KINGS TO EXECUTE THE WICKED 01:23:29.80\01:23:34.31 SO HE HAS SEEN THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION PLAYED OUT. 01:23:34.31\01:23:36.08 >> YES. >> IT IS KIND OF AN INTERESTING 01:23:36.08\01:23:38.11 STUDY, REVELATION IS FILLED WITH SYMBOLS. 01:23:38.11\01:23:39.95 >> AND LAYERS AND LAYERS TO THIS. 01:23:39.95\01:23:41.58 >> I HEARD ONE PERSON SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE FOUR 01:23:41.58\01:23:44.79 GOSPELS, FOUR GIVES YOU ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE, WE JUST MENTIONED 01:23:44.79\01:23:47.66 THE FOUR ANGELS, FOR DIRECTIONS REPRESENT SOMETHING THAT IS 01:23:47.66\01:23:50.49 UNIVERSAL, AND IT IS ALSO TELLING US ABOUT THE UNIVERSAL 01:23:50.49\01:23:53.33 DOMINION OF GOD IN THE FOUR GOSPELS OF MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE 01:23:53.33\01:23:56.30 AND JOHN, MATTHEW JESUS AS YOU SAID IS THE LION, THE KING, MARK 01:23:56.30\01:24:01.00 SHOWS JESUS IS THE QUICKEST GOSPEL, THE EAGLE, LUKE SHOWS 01:24:01.00\01:24:05.04 JESUS WHO IS THE MAN, LUKE IS THE PHYSICIANS, TALKS ABOUT 01:24:05.04\01:24:10.01 HUMANITY AND I DON'T KNOW SHOWS JESUS AS THE LAMB, THE 01:24:10.01\01:24:12.71 SACRIFICE, THE CALF OF GOD. >> SO, YEAH, YOU SEE THE WHOLE 01:24:12.71\01:24:16.45 GOSPEL IN THERE. >> OKAY. 01:24:16.45\01:24:18.12 WE HAVE ANOTHER QUESTIONS COMING, PASTOR DOUG, HOW LONG 01:24:18.12\01:24:20.72 WILL BE THE TRIP POPULATION, TRIBULATION PERIOD? 01:24:20.72\01:24:23.93 >> GOOD QUESTION, NOW ALL CHURCHES AGREE AND MOST 01:24:23.93\01:24:27.20 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AGREE THERE IS GOING TO BE A GREAT 01:24:27.20\01:24:30.07 TRIBULATION, JESUS SAYS THIS IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 24 IN MARK 01:24:30.07\01:24:34.10 CHAPTER 13, AND LUKE CHAPTER 21, LUKE 17, AND IF YOU READ IN 01:24:34.10\01:24:38.77 DANIEL CHAPTER 12, MICHAEL STANDS UP AND A A TIME OF 01:24:38.77\01:24:43.65 TROUBLE AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN THERE IS GOING TO BE A VERY 01:24:43.65\01:24:45.91 SERIOUS TIME OF TROUBLE IN THE FUTURE. I DON'T WORRY ABOUT 01:24:45.91\01:24:48.75 THAT. I JUST WORRY ABOUT BEING FAITHFUL, YOU DON'T FIND A VERSE 01:24:48.75\01:24:51.99 ANYWHERE THAT SAID AND IT WILL BE SEVEN YEARS BUT PEOPLE TALK 01:24:51.99\01:24:54.86 ABOUT THE SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION, IT COULD BE, WE 01:24:54.86\01:24:57.13 DON'T KNOW, I SERIOUSLY DOUBT GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE AND I 01:24:57.13\01:25:00.10 SHOULD ADD THAT TWO TIMES OF, TWO KINDS OF TROUBLE, ONE TIME 01:25:00.10\01:25:02.76 OF TROUBLE WHICH IS SORT OF THE PRELIMINARY WHERE GOD'S PEOPLE 01:25:02.76\01:25:06.60 ARE PREACHING THERE IS ARE GOING TO BE LAWS RESTRICTING WORSHIP 01:25:06.60\01:25:09.67 WHERE YOU CANNOT BUY OR SELL, BUT FINALLY WHEN IT GETS TO A 01:25:09.67\01:25:13.41 DEATH DECREE IS WHEN THE GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE COMES AND WHEN 01:25:13.41\01:25:16.88 THE SEVEN PLAGUES FALL, NOW, I DON'T THINK SEVEN YEARS ARE 01:25:16.88\01:25:19.31 GOING ON DURING THE SEVEN PLAGUES BECAUSE YOU WILL BE AT 01:25:19.31\01:25:21.92 THE INTENSITY -- NOTHING TO DRINK, AND THE PLAYINGS THAT 01:25:21.92\01:25:27.39 FELL ON THE EGYPT WHICH WERE LIKE THE SEVEN PLAGUES THEY 01:25:27.39\01:25:30.26 HAPPENED IN A MATTER OF MONTHS, SEVERAL WEEKS. 01:25:30.26\01:25:33.90 THOSE TEN PLAGUES, THESE SEVEN PLAYINGS, IT IS PROBABLY A 01:25:33.90\01:25:37.67 MATTER OF WEEKS, THE PLAYINGS THAT CAME TO JOB, A MATTER OF 01:25:37.67\01:25:40.90 WEEKS BUT TO THE SMALL-TIME OF TROUBLE, IT IS GOING TO BE MAYBE 01:25:40.90\01:25:43.44 A FEW YEARS AND GIVES US A CHANCE TO STILL PREACH, PEOPLE 01:25:43.44\01:25:46.81 WILL COME INTO THE CHURCH, SOME WILL GET DISCOURAGED AND LOSE 01:25:46.81\01:25:49.51 THEIR FAITH AND FALL OUT OF THE CHURCH, THAT MAY BE A PERIOD OF 01:25:49.51\01:25:52.01 A FEW YEARS, WE DON'T KNOW. >> REVELATION TALKS ABOUT 01:25:52.01\01:25:56.42 JUDGMENTS OR PLAGUES COMING UPON BABYLON, IT SAYS A PLAGUE SHALL 01:25:56.42\01:26:02.66 COME ONE DAY, SO THAT'S WHY SOME ARE THINKING IT IS WITHIN A 01:26:02.66\01:26:06.39 YEAR. >> ANOTHER QUESTION THAT IS 01:26:06.39\01:26:08.13 COMING DO WE KNOW HOW OR DO WE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HOW JESUS 01:26:08.13\01:26:11.87 LOOKED WHEN HE WAS ON THE EARTH? >> YES. 01:26:11.87\01:26:15.64 HE LOOKED VERY NORMAL. AND THE REASON I SAY THAT IS, 01:26:15.64\01:26:19.81 YOU KNOW, EVEN WHEN THEY WANTED TO ARREST HIM THEY SAID JUDAS 01:26:19.81\01:26:23.78 WHICH ONE IS HE? JESUS SEEMED TO MELT INTO THE 01:26:23.78\01:26:26.35 CROWD AND HE WENT QUIETLY TO THE FEAST, SOMETIMES THEY TOOK UP 01:26:26.35\01:26:30.55 STONES TO STONE JESUS AND HE WOULD JUST SORT OF METAL IN ET 01:26:30.55\01:26:32.95 IN THE CROWD, HE WASN'T AROUND WEARING SOME FABULOUS ROBES AS 01:26:32.95\01:26:37.19 HE SOMETIMES IS PORTRAYED. THE BIBLE SAYS THERE IS NO 01:26:37.19\01:26:39.89 OUTWARD BEAUTY THAT WE DESIRE HIM. 01:26:39.89\01:26:42.06 HE DID HAVE A BEARD. THE BIBLE SAYS THEY PLUCKED OUT 01:26:42.06\01:26:44.47 HIS BEARD, SO WE KNOW THAT DOESN'T TELL US WHAT COLOR HIS 01:26:44.47\01:26:47.40 HAIR WAS, HE HAD EVIDENTLY LOOKED LIKE A GALILEAN, AND SO 01:26:47.40\01:26:54.14 HE LOOKED LIKE THE TYPICAL YOU OF THE DAY, BECAUSE HE SEEMED TO 01:26:54.14\01:26:58.28 MELT IN RIGHT WITH HIS FOLLOWERS. 01:26:58.28\01:27:00.28 >> OKAY. NEXT PERSON, HE IS ASKING, ARE 01:27:00.28\01:27:02.85 WE ENTERING INTO THE TIME OF TROUBLE? 01:27:02.85\01:27:06.12 >> OH, I THINK WE HAVE ALL BEEN ASKING OURSELVES THAT QUESTION. 01:27:06.12\01:27:12.69 WELL, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT,, I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE MORE 01:27:12.69\01:27:16.13 SEVERE THAN THIS? BUT ARE WE ENTERING INTO IT? 01:27:16.13\01:27:17.93 IT SEEMS THAT WAY TO ME. I HAVE BEEN PERSONALLY A VERY 01:27:17.93\01:27:25.24 TROUBLED AT HOW QUICKLY WE HAVE LOST FREEDOMS, AND BUT, YOU 01:27:25.24\01:27:29.98 KNOW, NOBODY, NOBODY WANTS TO SAY THAT SOME OF THESE THINGS 01:27:29.98\01:27:33.18 AREN'T JUSTIFIABLE, NOBODY WANTS TO BE GUILTY OF EXACERBATING A 01:27:33.18\01:27:37.65 PANDEMIC, AND BEING A ONE-MAN PATHOGEN AND GOING AROUND AND 01:27:37.65\01:27:40.72 SAYING WELL I WANT MY FREEDOM SO I AM GOING TO INFECT EVERYBODY, 01:27:40.72\01:27:44.03 BUT WHAT WE SEE WHEN IT IS BROADCAST IN A CERTAIN WAY, 01:27:44.03\01:27:47.13 PEOPLE WILL SAY, I AM WILLING TO SURRENDER CERTAIN FREEDOMS, AND 01:27:47.13\01:27:50.60 THAT ALWAYS IS A CAUSE FOR CONCERN. 01:27:50.60\01:27:53.77 I THINK IT WAS, I DON'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS JEFFERSON OR FRANKLIN 01:27:53.77\01:27:56.57 THAT SAID, IF WE ARE WILLING TO SACK ICE FREEDOMS FOR A SENSE OF 01:27:56.57\01:28:00.91 SECURITY, WE WILL END UP WITH NEITHER FREEDOM OR SECURITY. 01:28:00.91\01:28:05.68 AND SO THAT IS ONE OF MY BIG CONCERNS. 01:28:05.68\01:28:09.38 YOU KNOW, IN SOME WAYS, THIS TIME OF TROUBLE FOR SOME PEOPLE 01:28:09.38\01:28:12.92 IT HAS BEEN VERY DIFFICULT, AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS CONCERNED WHEN 01:28:12.92\01:28:17.23 WHAT I SAW THAT THERE WAS A TOILET PAPER SHORTAGE IN NORTH 01:28:17.23\01:28:20.96 AMERICA, I WASN'T CONCERNED ABOUT THAT BUT I WAS CONCERNED, 01:28:20.96\01:28:23.03 WILL BE AT THE PANIC. PEOPLE STRIPPING SHELVES OF 01:28:23.03\01:28:27.60 SPAGHETTI, RICE AND TOILET PAPER AND I THOUGHT, AND THERE WAS NO 01:28:27.60\01:28:31.54 SHORTAGE. I MEAN, THEY WERE STILL MAKING 01:28:31.54\01:28:33.84 TOILET PAPER AND STILL FARMING RICE AND ALL OF THAT STUFF WAS 01:28:33.84\01:28:36.51 STILL AVAILABLE BUT PEOPLE PANICKED AND STRIPPED THE SHE 01:28:36.51\01:28:38.95 SHELVES AND I THOUGHT WHAT HAPPENS IF HEAVEN FORBID THERE 01:28:38.95\01:28:42.05 IS SOME KIND OF A FUEL SHORTAGE OR HIGHWAYS, IF TRUCKS CAN'T 01:28:42.05\01:28:47.69 DELIVER AND IN SOME OF THESE CITIES WE HAVE SEEN RIOTING AND 01:28:47.69\01:28:50.26 GREAT UNREST, AND I THOUGHT, BOY, IT SHOWS YOU HOW QUICKLY 01:28:50.26\01:28:54.73 THINGS CAN IMPLODE. AND SO I THINK THAT THIS IS A 01:28:54.73\01:28:59.40 GREAT TIME TO SAY I WANT TO GET RIGHT WITH GOD, BECAUSE YOU 01:28:59.40\01:29:02.60 DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME ANYBODY HAS. 01:29:02.60\01:29:04.31 >> OKAY. WELL AGAIN, WE WANT TO THANK 01:29:04.31\01:29:06.88 THOSE WHO ARE JOINING US ON THE VARIOUS OUTLETS PARTICIPATING IN 01:29:06.88\01:29:10.18 OUR STUDY AND I WANT TO REMIND YOU WE WILL BE BACK TOMORROW 01:29:10.18\01:29:13.68 EVENING AT 7:00 P.M. PACIFIC TIME FOR ANOTHER STUDY THE GOD'S 01:29:13.68\01:29:18.35 WORD, UNTIL THEN, GOD PRESS. 01:29:18.35\01:29:33.34