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There is only one word
that can describe this moment,
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"Finally" that's the word.
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Ivor: And "Fire. "
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James: And "Fire" okay.
Ivor: We'll do two words.
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James: We'll get
fire out of Finally...
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Yvonne: Yes.
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James: It's been a long
journey to get to this place,
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we're really excited...
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had a lot of response to
Salvation in Symbols and Signs
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and I get e-mails every week...
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Jason forwards
them to me... and you...
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and we... just our
Answering are involved
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and it's really cool because
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people are really eager
for this Series on Daniel
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so we're finally
getting to the book of Daniel
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which, by the way, we all know
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is connected to
the book of Revelation.
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They're like twins... we
call them prophetic twins.
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They are so connected together
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that we will not be
able to help ourselves
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but to jump into
the book of Revelation
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as we move through
the book of Daniel.
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So, we're going to move
through the book of Daniel,
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but we're also going to connect
it with the book of Revelation,
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we're going to
connect it to history...
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we're going to see a lot
of beautiful personal stories
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in Daniel... kind
of like islands...
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you know, Revelation was
just one symbol after another...
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one beast...
one... you know, this...
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but Daniel kind of interrupts
that sequence of visions
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with these stories...
these powerful stories...
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relational stories
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that really can
captivate our hearts
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and so it's going to
be exciting to see that.
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We going to start with
the whole history of Daniel...
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how he got involved in this...
in this kingdom of Babylon
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on what God was all
about in doing that.
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So, we should begin
with a word of prayer.
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Who would like to pray for us?
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Ivor: I will pray.
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James: Ivor...
all right, take us in.
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Ivor: "Heavenly Father,
we come before You this time
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thanking You for
giving us another opportunity
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to come together
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and this time, to
study the book of Daniel.
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Lord, we have waited
long for this moment,
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there are many people
who are looking forward
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to this Series
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and we just pray, Lord, that
You would guide our thoughts...
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that You would inspire us...
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and Lord, we pray that
You would make this book
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open to all who
are... who are viewing...
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to all who seek to understand.
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Guide us Lord, we pray
in Jesus' name, amen. "
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All: Amen.
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All right, we're
going to do the same thing
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that we did last time,
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we're going to take our time.
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Now, we don't have 22
chapters, we only have 12...
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but we're still
going to take our time
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and we're going to make
sure we go slow and easy,
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we're going to do
an Overview of Daniel,
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so, we're just going to
kind of look at the big picture
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and look at some of the themes
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and then we'll go back and
we'll just do it verse by verse
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and we don't know how
long it's going to take
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we're hoping to cut out what?
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20 some programs this time.
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Jason: Maybe 24 of
those for this part.
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Laughter...
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So, start us up Jason, why
don't you start us out here
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in Daniel chapter 1
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and let's just read
this first verse here
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and then we'll
just jump right in.
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Okay, "In the third year
of the reign of Jehoiakim
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king of Judah,
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Nebuchadnezzar kind of Babylon
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came to
Jerusalem, and besieged it. "
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James: Let's read
verse 2 too. Jason: Okay.
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"And the Lord gave Jehoiakim
king of Judah into his hand,
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with some of the
articles of the house of God,
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which he carried
into the land of Shinar
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to the house of his god;
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and he brought the articles into
the treasure house of his god. "
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All right, this
is big right here,
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we're just going to
just pause right here
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and start thinking about
one of the main themes of Daniel
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and this first theme
we're going to look at
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is a theme of judgment.
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The word "Daniel"
actually has meaning.
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The word "Dan" means to judge
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and the word "Daniel"
means, "God is Judge. "
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What do you do when
your life falls apart?
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You know, what do you do?
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How do you relate to... to God
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or to your religion...
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to whatever God it is that
you are following or no God,
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how do you relate to life when
everything just falls apart?
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because that's
what's happening right here.
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Everything is falling
apart... not just for Israel...
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for Judah... we should say,
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because Israel has
already been scattered,
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but for Daniel himself
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and can you still trust in God
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and what we see here
in these first two verses
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is, we see this
introduction that tells us
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that the enemy has come in...
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the enemy of God's
people has surrounded them...
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surrounded Jerusalem
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and God... the
God that you serve...
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the God that you follow...
the God that you believe in
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has gone ahead and delivered
you into the enemy's hands.
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Hmmm...
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So, Nebuchadnezzar comes
and he besieges Jerusalem
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and it says in verse 2,
"And the Lord gave Jehoiakim
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king of Judah into his hand...
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with part of the
vessels of the house of his God
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which he carried
into the land of Shinar
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and put it in the
house of his god. "
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This is a battle of the Gods
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and right away,
what we find here
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and one of the main
themes in the book of Daniel
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is the theme of the gospel.
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It's a theme of God's
willingness to humble Himself
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before the nations
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because back in
the day, you know,
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"My God is
better than your God...
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and my God is
stronger than your God...
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and my religion is
better than your religion...
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my religion is
the right religion...
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your religion is the wrong
religion... I'll show you why. "
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And Nebuchadnezzar says,
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"I'll show you that my
god is stronger than your God,
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I'm going to go and
I'm going to fight you
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representing your God...
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I'm going to beat you
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because my god is
stronger than your God,
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and I'm going to take
all of your God's stuff
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and I'm going to put
it in my god's temple...
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that's what I'm going to do.
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Yvonne: Hmmm...
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Okay, and of course,
we believe God is God
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and there are no other gods,
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but God humbles
Himself before the nations,
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He knows what
Nebuchadnezzar is thinking,
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He knows what the
nations are thinking,
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He humbles Himself and He...
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we think, "Oh, why did God
let His people go captive?"
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"Why did God let
Himself be taken captive?"
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"Why did God humble
Himself before the nations?"
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"Why did God come
down to this earth
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in the person of Jesus Christ?"
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"Why did He...
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why didn't He call for
those legions of angels?"
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"Why didn't He
knock out those Romans?"
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"Why didn't He take
care of... of the enemy?"
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"Why didn't He
just take them out?
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He can feed 1,000s with
just little bit of food,
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He can resurrect the
dead, we've got a Messiah now,
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hosanna, He's coming...
He's going to get these guys. "
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And what does He do?
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He goes to the
cross and He dies.
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So, Daniel chapter 1 introduces
us to this theme of the gospel,
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it introduces us to a God
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Who humbles
Himself before the nations
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that He may be
exalted in His way...
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in His way... not in our way...
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not in Daniel's
way but in His way.
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So, as we get into this now,
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we start seeing
the theme of the cross,
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we start seeing
the theme of humility,
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and humility is all
through the book of Daniel...
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I mean, over and over again,
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Daniel now is a... a
representative of God,
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Daniel is revealing God,
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and Daniel has this attitude
of humility all the way through
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because this is the way that God
shows up in the book of Daniel.
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God doesn't show
up as a conqueror,
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He tried that once, you know,
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coming through with the
people, conquering the nations
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and it didn't work
because people got lackadaisy,
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and they got... they got proud
and they isolated themselves
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so now God humbles Himself
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because the...
the humility of God
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wants to reach
out to the nations...
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the cross wants to
reach out to the nations.
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God wants Nebuchadnezzar...
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God wants the Babylonians...
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God wants His people
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and so, He humbles
Himself before the nations
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so Nebuchadnezzar thinks,
"I'm taking your God captive. "
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And God's like,
"Well, I'm actually...
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I'm coming as a guest...
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I'm coming to
your place as a guest,
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I've got something... "
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you know, Pilate says, "Oh,
we're taking out your King. "
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Well, actually,
this is God's plan,
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"You will have
no power against me
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but... but... but God
allowed this to happen. "
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So, God has a purpose here,
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and that's what we want to
look at when we get into Daniel.
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What is God's purpose?
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Because this will
prepare us for Revelation.
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When everything falls
apart in Revelation 13...
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when everything falls apart,
God's people can't buy or sell,
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and they're
surrounded by the enemy,
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and it seems like
God's giving them over...
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what is it that God's purpose
is for us... for God's people
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when we get into
that last-day crisis?
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Yvonne: Hmmm...
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Ivor: And we'll... just
in connection with that,
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God has people in
Babylon... end-time context
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that He is going to
use in a special way
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just as He used
Daniel and his three friends
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in a special way in Babylon.
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There is a... you'll
find that there's a parallel
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between what we're going
to see in Daniel chapter 1...
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even just these two verses
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and then, all the way
through the book of Daniel
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not only is there
the theme of the gospel,
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and by-the-way, Christ...
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we're going to see Christ
is all in the book of Daniel.
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Christ is in Daniel chapter
1, He's in Daniel chapter 2,
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He's in Daniel chapter 3,
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He's in Daniel chapter 4,
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in some really,
really like, mind-blowing...
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just amazing off-the-chain...
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off-the-wall ways, right?
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Yvonne: Love it.
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But the book of
Daniel is going to...
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the book of Daniel
is... is almost like a...
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a... a pattern that shows us
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what is going to
happen at the end of time.
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All: Hmmm...
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And so, as we
study the book of Daniel,
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we're going to be
seeing the theme of judgment,
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we're going to be seeing
the theme of end-time events,
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we're going to be seeing the
theme of Christ and the gospel,
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and it's...
by-the-way, you know,
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we kind of talked about
this just before the Program,
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the... the most
difficult chapter in...
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I would say, the
Bible is Daniel chapter 11.
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James and Yvonne: Hmmm...
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That is the one that
there is the most controversy...
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and so, as we go
through this Study,
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we're actually going to
be setting the foundation
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to help you guys, you know,
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you guys are our
students, and thus, by extension
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everyone out
there that's watching...
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but you are our video students
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so we're going to be trying
to prepare you to understand
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Daniel 11 from Daniel 1 verse 1.
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We're just going to be
setting the foundation,
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we're going to be
following the theme
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so that as we go
through and we see judgment
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and we see
sanctuaries being cleansed
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and we see little
horns rising into power
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and all these different things,
it's going to prepare you
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so that, by the
time we get to Daniel 11,
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you're not going to be
like, "Well, wait a minute... "
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you're... hopefully,
if we do our job well,
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you'll be like, "Oh,
oh oh oh, ho... I get it!"
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Students: Yes, yes, yes.
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So, that's the plan.
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Yvonne: Good. James: Amen.
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Jason: Hopefully, we'll do
that without any pop quizzes.
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Ivor: Yes.
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Laughter.
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I think we should
probably, you know,
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just do an Overview of
all the chapters of Daniel,
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so, and... and...
I'm going to share
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that there is a
message in this Overview
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and especially
an end-time message
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that we'll see as we
go through these chapters,
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so, beginning
with Daniel chapter 1
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and we're just summarizing here,
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so, Daniel chapter
1... what is that about?
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James: So... so we
begin with this picture,
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I believe, we begin with
this picture of the cross,
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we begin with
this picture of God
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humbling Himself
before the nations
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so that He can
be lifted up there.
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We're going to see
that in Daniel chapter 2,
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Daniel chapter 1
begins by introducing us
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to the way that God
works through humility.
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So, it's really significant
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that
Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned here
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as taking the vessels of
the house of Judah's God...
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Daniel's God...
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into the house of his god.
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It's really interesting here
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that the Lord gave
Judah into his hands...
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God gave Jesus Christ
into the hands of Pilate...
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into the hands of the enemies.
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Ivor: But just let me add
here that you will see that
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in the book of
Daniel, Daniel has like...
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he has no recorded sin...
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it's very interesting
that Daniel is blameless
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before his enemies
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and yet, he was taken
captive with his people...
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he came to a
strange land with his people
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who were guilty.
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Right? you almost wonder,
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"Well... if like...
Daniel was a good person...
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the three Hebrews... good...
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how did they end
up in captivity?"
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And focusing in on Daniel
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you see this
picture of the gospel
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of Jesus who came to this earth
as a prisoner, if you will,
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with His brothers and sisters
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even though He
was not guilty of sin.
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James: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Ivor: So, you see that
picture with the gospel
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right there in Daniel chapter 1,
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through the
person of Daniel himself.
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Yvonne: Hmmm...
hmmm... a type of Christ.
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Ivor: A type of Christ.
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James: And the word itself,
Daniel... God is judge...
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"Dan" means to judge...
"El" God... God is judge.
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So, you have
this theme of judgment
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and this is the way
Christ related to the Pharisees
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who questioned Him...
the religious leaders...
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"I do God's
will... God is my judge...
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I don't do what I want to do,
I do what God wants to do... "
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and so, Daniel is cooperating.
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You can imagine,
before Daniel's time,
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Isaiah wrote
about this experience,
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the very experience that
Daniel is going through...
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Isaiah writes about it
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and you can imagine
because Daniel's just a kid,
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when he goes to
Babylon, he's just a teenager,
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15- 16-years old...
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he's just a young guy
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and you can imagine that
Daniel's parents were like,
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"Okay, we need to get
into Isaiah right now, Kids,
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because you know this
is... this is coming...
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we don't know when it's
coming but this is coming... "
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we got to get you ready
and so, what God is doing is,
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He's preparing His people.
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As you get into
the book of Daniel
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there's a lot of
history that goes before Daniel,
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and we'll look at that,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel...
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Jeremiah and Ezekiel are
contemporaries with Daniel,
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they're alive...
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they're speaking into
the crisis as it's happening,
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but Isaiah has prophesied...
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he has predicted
about this crisis.
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Isaiah is also
the Messianic book.
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It's all about Christ,
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it's all about
the sacrifice He makes
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so, as Daniel is reading Isaiah,
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he's reading about
this Babylonian captivity,
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all of a sudden he
comes to Isaiah 53,
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Whoa! "All we like
sheep have gone astray;
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we have turned
everyone to his own way;
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and the LORD has laid on
him the iniquity of us all. "
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He was like a lamb
before the shearers...
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He was dumb... He
didn't speak... He didn't...
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He didn't... He submitted...
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He surrendered to God's will
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and this is where
Daniel is getting his strength.
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You know, and it's for us.
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How hard is it to
surrender to God's will?
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Well, it's particularly
difficult if we don't...
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if we're not sure
of what God's will is.
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Once we have that
"Ah Ha moment... "
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"Oh, this is God's will,
God is directing me in this. "
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Once we have that "Ah ha moment"
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we're like, "Okay, I
can surrender this... "
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because we can
surrender to... to the...
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to the... to the hand of
someone we know is on our side
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and not only that,
but is with us in the fire
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and with us in the water
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which is another
theme that we see
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through Daniel and Revelation.
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In Daniel... He's
with us in the fire,
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in Revelation...
through the water.
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You know, they sing a
song of Moses and the Lamb
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Yvonne: Isaiah 43:1.
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Yes, and you've got... and
so you've got this picture..
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this beautiful picture of
God's people in Revelation
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standing on the Sea of
Glass mingled with fire
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and singing the song
of Moses and the Lamb
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because they've gone
through that trial...
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they've gone
through that experience,
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they're with God in the fire...
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they're with God in the water
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and Daniel is... that's what
his experience is right here,
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this is judgment,
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so, one of the themes that
we have in Daniel chapter 1,
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you bring up another one, Ivor,
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whatever you got
here is judgment.
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Ivor: Yeah.
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James: God is allowing
judgment to come upon His people
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for being
disobedient... for not...
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and here's the disobedience
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because
sometimes we're thinking,
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"What disobedience?"
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Like they weren't
keeping the Sabbath?
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Yeah, probably they
were worshipping idols...
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well probably... obviously...
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but what was the
major disobedience?
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Disobeying God in
disregarding His Commandments
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led them to disregard
people... the nations.
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The reason God
put them on the earth
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to make them a peculiar people,
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is not so they could go
to heaven by themselves,
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and who cares about all the
rest of those heathen, right?
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The reason why God
has us on this earth
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is to witness...
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to testify of Jesus
and His love for everyone
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and they had
forgotten all about that
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and so, as they are making
alliances and confederacies
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with all the other
nations and compromising,
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they're saying, "We
don't care about you,
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we don't care about
the light and the love
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that God has
given us to give to you,
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we don't care about that,
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what we care about is
'us' and how you can benefit us
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and you can help us and
things you can do for us. "
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And so, God's got
to break all this up,
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got to bring them down
because He wants Nebuchadnezzar,
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He wants the Babylonians...
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He's bringing
judgment in chapter one
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because He wants His
emissaries... His ambassadors...
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to go in and to
reach out to these people
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and show them Who
He is. Yvonne: Hmmm...
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Ivor: So, just to add
to that, Daniel chapter 1
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is where Daniel,
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
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are invited to eat the
king's meat and drink his wine
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and obviously they refuse.
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So, I want you to
think about this, like,
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"What... what...
who was the king?"
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Yvonne: Nebuchadnezzar.
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Ivor: Nebuchadnezzar...
and he was king of...
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Yvonne: Babylon.
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Ivor: Babylon... so, what
you have in Daniel chapter 1
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is that the kingdom of Babylon
is trying to force God's people
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to drink the wine of Babylon.
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Yvonne: Ooooh.
James: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Yvonne: Ooooh...
Ivor: And, what do they do?
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they refuse
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and as a result of refusing to
partake of the wine of Babylon,
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they are ten times wiser
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so, automatically, right
there in Daniel chapter 1
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guess what we have?
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We have this foreshadow
of an end-time scenario
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in which there will
be a group of people
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who... while the
wine of Babylon...
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or Babylon is trying to
enforce drinking its wine,
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they're going to say, "No,
we're not going to do that"
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and those people
are going to be wiser...
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think about the parable of
the wise and foolish virgins,
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or you know,
just... at the end of time,
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the book of Daniel tells us that
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those that be wise
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shall shine as the
brightness of the firmament.
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So, Man, how do we...
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how do we be among
that people that are wise?
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Well, part of it is:
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Refusing the wine
of Babylon, right?
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And we refuse
the wine of Babylon
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because... not
out of a, you know,
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out of a sense of
self-righteousness
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but because we are to
be reflecting the character
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and person of Jesus Christ.
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Yvonne: Hmmm...
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James: Which is in His
Ten Commandments by the way.
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Ivor: Absolutely.
James: Ten times wiser.
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So, I just want you to
think about this for a moment,
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the message in Daniel chapter 1,
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I'm going to
actually give you a...
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share a whole message
but it's coming in parts.
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So, just think, Daniel
1, and think these words,
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at the end of time,
there will be a people
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who avoid the wine of Babylon.
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Those people will
be ten times wiser.
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James: Hmmm... hmmm...
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Right? and the message
just pauses right there
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because we're only
in Daniel chapter 1.
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Daniel chapter 2 is
going to add to that message.
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So, we'll actually see a message
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unfolding through all
the chapters of Daniel
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specifically directed
to God's end-time people.
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James: Hmmm...
hmmm... Yvonne: Wow!
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Ivor: Right, those
who, you know, fear God...
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keep His Commandments...
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who have Jesus
in their hearts...
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this is His message
of encouragement saying,
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"Hey, listen, just
like Isaiah wrote about...
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'Hey Daniel, I want you to know
00:19:48.28\00:19:50.12
these are the things
that are going to happen... '"
00:19:50.19\00:19:51.52
the book of
Daniel was written for us
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to let us know,
"Hey, I'm going before you,
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I really know
what's going to happen
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and I'm showing you through
the chapters of this book
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what is coming. "
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James: Hmmm... Yvonne: Hmmm...
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James: All right,
Daniel chapter 2...
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just a couple of verses
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that I thought would
be good for us to look at,
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in Philippians... Jason, can
you read these verses for us?
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Philippians chapter 2...
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and by the way, we're
going to the New Testament
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and we're going to...
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we're going to see how
the themes of the gospel...
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themes of the New Testament
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are woven
throughout the book of Daniel
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and throughout
the Old Testament.
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Sometimes Folks think,
"Oh, the Old Testament is old
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that's the... you
know, that's the old stuff...
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and the New Testament...
that's where the gospel is. "
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The Old Testament...
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most of the New Testament...
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or I shouldn't
say, "Most of it... "
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a lot of the New Testament
is Old Testament quoted.
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Paul is bringing out...
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John is bringing out...
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Luke is bringing out
the themes of the gospel...
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the gospel is bringing out...
00:20:49.94\00:20:51.28
the themes of the gospel
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that are found in
the Old Testament...
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but we couldn't see...
the Jews couldn't see it
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and so, the bad thing
about the Old Testament
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is not that the
gospel isn't there...
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the bad thing about
the Old Testament is
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that we're not
looking for the gospel there
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and so, we're not
finding the gospel there.
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Yvonne: Oh, it's good.
00:21:03.86\00:21:05.19
James: But as we go
into Daniel chapter 2 now,
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we're going to
see this very theme
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that Jason is going to
read to us about here...
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just think about this
as we get into Daniel 2,
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Jason, read for us
if you would please,
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Philippians 2 verses 5 and
go all the way down to verse 11.
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Jason: Okay, "Let
this mind be in you
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which was also in Christ Jesus,
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who, being in the form of
God, did not consider it robbery
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to be equal with God,
00:21:30.59\00:21:32.02
but made Himself
of no reputation,
00:21:32.05\00:21:34.32
taking the form
of a bondservant,
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and coming in
the likeness of men.
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And being found in
appearance as a man,
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He humbled Himself
and became obedient
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to the point of death,
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even the death of the cross.
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Therefore God also
has highly exalted Him
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and given Him the name
which is above every name,
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that at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow,
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of those in heaven,
and of those on earth,
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and of those under the earth,
00:22:01.68\00:22:03.25
and that every
tongue should confess
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that Jesus Christ is Lord,
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to the glory of
God the Father. "
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James: All right,
so, in these verses,
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I just want to summarize them,
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you've got a "humbling" of
God in the person of Jesus,
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and then you've got
an "exalting" of God
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before the nations,
00:22:16.70\00:22:18.03
and all the
nations are going to just,
00:22:18.07\00:22:20.07
"Whoa! this is
the God of Gods... "
00:22:20.14\00:22:22.24
so now, that's
what we see in Daniel 2.
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In Daniel 1, God humbles
Himself before the nations,
00:22:24.41\00:22:27.38
He allows His
people to go captive...
00:22:27.41\00:22:29.38
He allows the vessels of
His house to be taken to the
00:22:29.41\00:22:31.48
vessels of the gods of Babylon.
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He's humbling
Himself before the nations.
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His name... and
you'll see this in Daniel 9,
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when Daniel is
praying he's saying,
00:22:38.39\00:22:39.72
"God, we're praying
for You and for Your sake
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and for Your
sanctuary that's desolate...
00:22:42.09\00:22:44.56
Your name is... "
00:22:44.59\00:22:45.93
Moses... same thing...
00:22:45.96\00:22:47.30
"Don't blot out Your people...
don't destroy Your people
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because Your name
before the heathen...
00:22:49.26\00:22:50.87
Your name will
be misrepresented. "
00:22:50.90\00:22:52.37
It's all about God's
character in Daniel chapter 1,
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he's humbling himself
00:22:56.47\00:22:57.81
but in Daniel chapter 2,
00:22:57.84\00:22:59.17
He is exalted... He gives
Nebuchadnezzar a dream in it,
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can't... can't figure it out.
00:23:03.38\00:23:04.71
None of the wise
men can figure it out.
00:23:04.75\00:23:06.08
Nobody in the kingdom of
Babylon can figure this out
00:23:06.11\00:23:08.22
except for Daniel
and his three friends
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and how they do
it? Through prayer
00:23:10.82\00:23:12.89
and as they get
an answer from God,
00:23:12.92\00:23:15.16
and they give
Nebuchadnezzar the dream
00:23:15.19\00:23:17.43
and the interpretation of it,
00:23:17.46\00:23:18.79
Nebuchadnezzar goes, "Wow!
there is no God like your God. "
00:23:18.83\00:23:21.50
"Wait a minute... you just said
00:23:21.53\00:23:22.86
that my god is
stronger than your God
00:23:22.90\00:23:25.03
and you just took the vessels
of my God into your house
00:23:25.07\00:23:27.44
and you put them in... "
00:23:27.47\00:23:28.80
"There is nobody
like your God, Daniel,
00:23:28.84\00:23:30.54
your God is a God of Gods,
your God is the King of kings. "
00:23:30.61\00:23:32.94
You see the transition
that's taking place right there?
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That's Philippians chapter 2
00:23:35.31\00:23:37.05
verses 5 all the
way through 10...
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transition theme.
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Ivor: So, let's
add to that again
00:23:40.25\00:23:42.52
that the fact that in
Daniel 2, what you have is,
00:23:42.55\00:23:47.46
Nebuchadnezzar having this dream
00:23:47.49\00:23:49.02
and we'll get into the
details of the dream in...
00:23:49.06\00:23:52.69
in further studies
00:23:52.76\00:23:54.70
but, the basic
element of this dream is that
00:23:54.73\00:23:57.90
Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom...
00:23:57.93\00:23:59.97
Daniel actually tells him,
00:24:00.04\00:24:01.84
"Nebuchadnezzar, your
kingdom is going to fall. "
00:24:01.87\00:24:05.31
All: Hmmm...
00:24:05.34\00:24:06.68
So, the wise men
around Nebuchadnezzar
00:24:06.71\00:24:08.81
could not
understand this message.
00:24:08.88\00:24:11.05
They couldn't understand the
dream... the prophetic dream,
00:24:11.08\00:24:13.85
they could not... they did
not have prophetic insight.
00:24:13.92\00:24:16.62
Only Daniel and his friends
were able to preach this message
00:24:16.69\00:24:22.79
that Babylon is going to fall.
00:24:22.82\00:24:26.16
So, put Daniel
one and two together.
00:24:26.19\00:24:27.53
At the end of time,
there will be a people
00:24:27.60\00:24:29.83
who will avoid
the wine of Babylon.
00:24:29.86\00:24:31.67
As a result, they
will be ten times wiser.
00:24:31.70\00:24:34.47
They will be the ones
00:24:34.54\00:24:36.64
that are able to
preach the message
00:24:36.71\00:24:39.14
that Babylon will fall.
00:24:39.17\00:24:42.58
James: Hmmm...
hmmm... Yvonne: Wow!
00:24:42.61\00:24:44.35
Ivor: Right, so, that's
Daniel 1 and 2 put together
00:24:44.38\00:24:47.12
and what we're seeing
is this theme of the gospel
00:24:47.15\00:24:49.78
following... I mean,
00:24:49.85\00:24:51.52
paralleling this theme of
00:24:51.55\00:24:53.19
end-time events for God's people
00:24:53.22\00:24:55.32
and again, this goes all the
way through the book of Daniel
00:24:55.36\00:24:57.86
so, every chapter
actually adds to that...
00:24:57.89\00:25:02.06
that sentence or that message
00:25:02.10\00:25:03.97
so, now we know, "Okay, wow!
00:25:04.00\00:25:05.80
I'm encouraged
because guess what?
00:25:05.83\00:25:07.54
At the end of time,
there is going to be a people
00:25:07.57\00:25:09.67
who do stand strong... who
do avoid the wine of Babylon
00:25:09.70\00:25:12.81
and because of that,
00:25:12.84\00:25:14.48
God is going to bless
them with special wisdom
00:25:14.51\00:25:17.35
and insight...
00:25:17.38\00:25:18.75
and when everybody else
around is not understanding
00:25:18.78\00:25:21.05
the prophetic message...
00:25:21.12\00:25:22.45
'What does this
prophecy... what does...
00:25:22.48\00:25:24.02
what does this
mean? I have no... '
00:25:24.09\00:25:25.75
they are the ones that everyone
is going to turn to and say,
00:25:25.79\00:25:28.56
'Can you explain this?'"
00:25:28.59\00:25:30.03
Jason: It's like the
three angels' messages.
00:25:30.06\00:25:33.60
James: Easy... easy...
00:25:33.63\00:25:36.87
All: Laughter.
00:25:36.90\00:25:38.93
Yvonne: Exciting...
that is so exciting.
00:25:39.00\00:25:41.24
James: Let's pound on
this table right here.
00:25:41.27\00:25:43.51
Jason: I'm glad this is solid.
00:25:43.54\00:25:46.14
All: Laughter.
00:25:46.17\00:25:48.91
James: So, it's
good stuff, we're...
00:25:48.94\00:25:50.28
we're done in
about two minutes...
00:25:50.35\00:25:51.68
I'm thinking
we'll stop right here
00:25:51.71\00:25:53.05
because we're going to
pick up in chapter 3...
00:25:53.08\00:25:55.08
we're going to pick up another
theme that we don't want to...
00:25:55.12\00:25:57.22
we don't want to cut
out off too quickly...
00:25:57.29\00:25:59.92
but I just want us to...
to just summarize this...
00:25:59.95\00:26:03.66
get this all
together in our brains,
00:26:03.73\00:26:06.26
so, the book of
Daniel is a supplement
00:26:06.29\00:26:08.76
to the book of Revelation.
00:26:08.80\00:26:10.47
Okay, they're
twin prophetic books...
00:26:10.50\00:26:12.23
they connect together...
I shouldn't say that...
00:26:12.27\00:26:14.17
I should say, "Revelation
is a supplement to Daniel"
00:26:14.24\00:26:16.10
but they're
connected together, all right.
00:26:16.14\00:26:17.94
So, you've got similar
themes... prophetic themes...
00:26:17.97\00:26:20.58
you've got also some
stories coming into Daniel
00:26:20.61\00:26:23.28
which we're going to look at,
00:26:23.35\00:26:24.68
and you've got definitely
00:26:24.71\00:26:26.05
"everlasting gospel"
in the book of Daniel.
00:26:26.08\00:26:27.62
All: Hmmm...
00:26:27.65\00:26:28.98
Along with this
everlasting gospel theme,
00:26:29.02\00:26:30.82
Ivor's been bringing
out this beautiful idea
00:26:30.89\00:26:32.72
that helps us in the end
of time to understand what...
00:26:32.79\00:26:36.59
where we're going
to stand with God...
00:26:36.62\00:26:38.09
what God wants us
to... instructions for us...
00:26:38.16\00:26:40.80
"Hey, you've got to
resist the wine of Babylon
00:26:40.83\00:26:43.37
because I want to
bless you with wisdom,
00:26:43.40\00:26:45.63
I want to bless you
with ten times the wisdom
00:26:45.70\00:26:48.24
over those who are
partaking of that wine
00:26:48.27\00:26:50.74
because I have a
message I want to communicate
00:26:50.81\00:26:52.34
through you to others...
00:26:52.37\00:26:53.71
and that message is
going to be communicated
00:26:53.78\00:26:55.78
as you put your
complete reliance on me,
00:26:55.81\00:26:57.55
not on the wine of
Babylon... not on armed flesh...
00:26:57.58\00:27:01.12
but put your
complete reliance on me. "
00:27:01.15\00:27:02.68
We'll see that a little bit more
00:27:02.75\00:27:04.09
as we get into
the first verse here
00:27:04.12\00:27:06.89
and how we're tempted to put our
reliance on the arm of flesh...
00:27:06.96\00:27:10.03
different ways that
we try to depend on man
00:27:10.13\00:27:14.10
instead of depending on God
00:27:14.13\00:27:15.63
and what we see here then is,
00:27:15.70\00:27:17.17
God humbling
Himself before the nations
00:27:17.20\00:27:18.87
and then, Daniel chapter 2,
00:27:18.90\00:27:21.07
He's exalted before the
nations through this dream,
00:27:21.14\00:27:23.71
and as the dream comes forth,
Nebuchadnezzar goes, "Whoa... "
00:27:23.74\00:27:26.78
Nebuchadnezzar
is the first person
00:27:26.81\00:27:28.28
to attend a Daniel Seminar.
00:27:28.31\00:27:30.15
Jason: Hmmm...
Yvonne: Laughing...
00:27:30.18\00:27:31.65
James: He says... but
we're always like, "Okay...
00:27:31.68\00:27:33.21
preach it, Daniel, tell
me what's it all about... "
00:27:33.25\00:27:34.72
and after he's
done, Nebuchadnezzar says,
00:27:34.75\00:27:36.89
"I want to join your church,
00:27:36.92\00:27:38.25
I want to be part
of that Movement. "
00:27:38.29\00:27:39.62
So, this is a beautiful picture
00:27:39.65\00:27:40.99
that we're going
to see right here,
00:27:41.02\00:27:42.36
and I believe God has
given us a good start...
00:27:42.39\00:27:44.99
a good beginning
00:27:45.03\00:27:46.36
but our time is up... I
mean, it just went so fast...
00:27:46.39\00:27:47.93
we're... we're just done
00:27:47.96\00:27:49.53
so, I know we've
got to tell our Viewers
00:27:49.56\00:27:52.43
how they can get a hold of
us, this... that and the other,
00:27:52.47\00:27:54.14
we'll have to do
that in our next Program
00:27:54.24\00:27:55.57
because we're finished, right?
00:27:55.60\00:27:57.24
Ivor: Yeah, that's right.
00:27:57.31\00:27:58.64