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>>WELCOME TO GRANITE BAY
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE ARE SO THRILLED THAT YOU
HAVE DECIDED TO JOIN US TO STUDY
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GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. A
SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE OF
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YOU WHO ARE JOINING US
LIVE ON THE INTERNET, ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY, AROUND THE WORLD -
HOWEVER YOU'RE JOINING US, WE
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KNOW THAT IT IS BY NO MISTAKE
THAT WE ARE STUDYING TOGETHER AS
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GOD'S REMNANT FAMILY,
READY TO GO TO HEAVEN.
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WE WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING WE
CAN TO GET US THERE TO SEE OUR
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SAVIOR FACE TO FACE.
BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY, LET'S
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SING TOGETHER AS WE ALWAYS DO.
WE'RE GOING TO START WITH HYMN
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#434 - WE SPEAK OF THE REALMS
- WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST
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AND THE LAST
VERSES OF HYMN #434.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WE SPEAK OF THE
REALMS OF THE BLEST, THAT
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COUNTRY SO BRIGHT AND SO
FAIR, AND OFT ARE ITS GLORIES
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CONFESSED; BUT WHAT
MUST IT BE TO BE THERE!
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WE SPEAK OF ITS PATHWAYS
OF GOLD, ITS WALLS DECKED WITH
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JEWELS SO RARE, ITS WONDERS AND
PLEASURES UNTOLD; BUT WHAT MUST
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IT BE TO BE THERE! DO
THOU, 'MIDST TEMPTATION AND
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WOE, FOR HEAVEN MY SPIRIT
PREPARE, AND SHORTLY I ALSO
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SHALL KNOW AND FEEL
WHAT IT IS TO BE THERE.
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THEN O'ER THE BRIGHT FIELDS
WE SHALL GO IN GLORIES CELESTIAL
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AND FAIR WITH SAINTS AND
WITH ANGELS AT HOME AND JESUS,
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HIMSELF, WILL BE THERE
>>YOU KNOW, THIS WEEK, AS WE'VE
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BEEN STUDYING THE EXILES AS
MISSIONARIES, WE ARE ALL EXILES
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AS MISSIONARIES. WE
ARE TRAPPED HERE ON THIS
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PLANET, READY TO GO HOME,
AND THAT'S WHAT THESE SONGS ARE
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ABOUT THIS WEEK, WE'RE SINGING
ABOUT LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY
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THAT WE CAN BE WITH OUR SAVIOR
FACE TO FACE AND WHILE WE ARE
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HERE OCCUPYING THIS PLANET,
THAT WE CONTINUE TO BE THE
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MISSIONARIES THAT GOD WANTS US
TO BE SO THAT WE CAN FINISH HIS
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WORK. LET'S
SING THE GLORY SONG .
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THIS IS THE CULMINATION OF ALL
OF OUR EFFORTS COUPLED WITH THE
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HOLY SPIRIT, THAT WE WILL BE
SINGING 'GLORY, GLORY' FOREVER
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AND EVER. THE
GLORY SONG - HYMN #435 -
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WE'RE GOING TO
SING ALL THREE VERSES.
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>>WHEN ALL MY LABORS AND TRIALS
ARE O'ER, AND I AM SAFE ON THAT
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BEAUTIFUL SHORE, JUST TO BE NEAR
THE LORD I ADORE, WILL THROUGH
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THE AGES BE GLORY FOR ME.
O THAT WILL BE GLORY FOR ME.
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GLORY FOR ME, GLORY
FOR ME, WHEN BY HIS GRACE
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I SHALL LOOK ON HIS FACE, THAT
WILL BE GLORY, BE GLORY FOR ME.
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WHEN BY THE GIFT OF HIS INFINITE
GRACE, I AM ACCORDED IN HEAVEN A
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PLACE, JUST TO BE THERE AND TO
LOOK ON HIS FACE, WILL THROUGH
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THE AGES BE GLORY FOR ME.
O THAT WILL BE GLORY FOR ME.
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GLORY FOR ME, GLORY
FOR ME, WHEN BY HIS GRACE
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I SHALL LOOK ON HIS FACE, THAT
WILL BE GLORY, BE GLORY FOR ME.
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FRIENDS WILL BE THERE I HAVE
LOVED LONG AGO; JOY LIKE A RIVER
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AROUND ME WILL FLOW, YET, JUST
A SMILE FROM MY SAVIOR, I KNOW,
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WILL THROUGH THE
AGES BE GLORY FOR ME.
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O THAT WILL BE GLORY FOR ME.
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GLORY FOR ME, GLORY
FOR ME, WHEN BY HIS GRACE
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I SHALL LOOK ON HIS FACE, THAT
WILL BE GLORY, BE GLORY FOR ME.
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>>YOU KNOW, THIS WEEK I WAS
CHATTING WITH MY THREE NIECES
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THAT ARE VISITING AND WE
WERE CHATTING ABOUT HEAVEN.
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AND I JUST INVITE YOU, AS YOU GO
THROUGH THIS NEXT WEEK, TO JUST
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PICTURE HEAVEN IN YOUR MIND FOR
JUST A LITTLE BIT, AND PICTURE
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WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE AND THE
HOLY SPIRIT WILL ENLIGHTEN YOU
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AND CONTINUE TO GROW AND WE
WILL SOON BE THERE TOGETHER.
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AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO
INVITE PASTOR - OR DR. DEROSE -
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UP FOR PRAYER AND HE
WILL TAKE US INTO OUR STUDY.
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>>LET'S PRAY TOGETHER.
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU
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SO MUCH THAT WE
CAN LIFT OUR VOICES.
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THANK YOU FOR
POINTING OUR MINDS HEAVENWARD.
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AND WE PRAY NOW, AS WE PREPARE
TO OPEN YOUR WORD, YOU WOULD DO
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JUST THAT: BRING US
INTO THE AUDIENCE OF HEAVEN.
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WE ASK IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
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THAT MINISTRY IN MUSIC AND THANK
YOU FOR JOINING US - WHETHER IT
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BE BY AIR OR WHETHER IT'S
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WONDERFUL TO BE STUDYING THE
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MISSIONARIES -
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TODAY WE'RE TACKLING LESSON #5
- LESSON #5 IS THEMED EXILES AS
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MISSIONARIES . AND
WE'VE ALREADY HAD A NICE
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FOUNDATION FOR THE LESSON AS
WE'VE BEEN SINGING TOGETHER AND
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REFLECTING ON JUST HOW
GOD LEADS AN EXILED PEOPLE.
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YOU KNOW, IN HEBREWS, AS IT'S
SPEAKING ABOUT THE HEROES OF
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FAITH, WE'RE REMINDED THAT WE'RE
ALL STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS IN
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THIS PLACE. THIS IS
NOT OUR HOME, AS IT'S
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BEEN SAID, WE'RE JUST
PASSING THROUGH. WELL, WITH THAT
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BACK GROUND, OUR LESSON
ESPECIALLY FOCUSES US ON
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THE PERSONAGE OF DANIEL.
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THERE'S A NUMBER THAT ARE
MENTIONED IN THIS LESSON, BUT
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MOST OF THE
LESSON FOCUSES ON DANIEL.
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I INVITE YOU TO TURN IN YOUR
BIBLES TO DANIEL CHAPTER 1, TO
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GET A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND
INTO A BOOK THAT'S BECOME VERY
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FAMILIAR TO SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS AND TO THOSE WHO
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FELLOWSHIP WITH US, BECAUSE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS ARE A
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PEOPLE OF PROPHECY - A
PEOPLE OF BIBLE PROPHECY.
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SO DANIEL IS FAMILIAR BECAUSE
IN THAT BOOK IT SPEAKS WITH
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QUITE, QUITE SURPRISING TO MANY
PEOPLE IF THEY'VE NEVER STUDIED
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IT BEFORE - QUITE SURPRISING
CLARITY AS TO OUR DAY.
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BUT DANIEL ALSO, NOT ONLY HAS
PROPHECIES, BUT IT HAS STORIES.
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AND THE NARRATIVE PORTIONS OF
DANIEL - THE STORIES OF DANIEL -
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SHOW US THE KIND OF CHARACTER
THAT WE NEED TO HAVE IN THE LAST
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DAYS. SO, WITH
THAT BACKGROUND, LET'S
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BEGIN IN THE VERY
BEGINNING OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
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IT STARTS IN VERSE 1 OF
CHAPTER 1, WITH A LITTLE BIT OF
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BACKGROUND, IT SAYS "IN
THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF
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JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH CAME
NEBUCHADNEZZARE KING OF BABYLON
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UNTO JERUSALEM AND BESIEGED IT."
NOW LET'S JUST STOP RIGHT THERE,
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BECAUSE IN ANTIQUITY, EVERYTHING
IN THE MIND SET OF THE ANCIENTS
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WAS UNDER THE CONTROL OF
THE GODS AND IF ONE NATION BEAT
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ANOTHER NATION IT WAS BECAUSE
THEIR GODS WERE BETTER THAN THE
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GODS OF THE PEOPLE
THAT THEY CONQUERED.
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SO I WANT YOU TO GET THIS
PICTURE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 1: THE
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GOD OF HEAVEN, HIS PEOPLE, HAVE
BEEN OVERRUN BY THE BABYLONIANS,
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AND NOT ONLY IS JERUSALEM
CONQUERED FOR THE FIRST TIME
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UNDER BABYLON - THERE'LL BE
THREE CONQUESTS - BUT UNDER THIS
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FIRST CONQUEST, EVEN THE
TEMPLE PRECINCTS ARE DEFILED.
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THE ENEMY COMES IN AND TAKES
ARTICLES OUT OF THE HOUSE OF GOD
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AND BRINGS THEM -
WHERE? TO BABYLON - TO BABYLON.
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AND SO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN
THE MINDS OF THE BABYLONIANS?
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'OUR GOD IS BETTER THAN YOUR
GOD - OUR GOD'S BETTER THAN YOUR
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GOD. WE'VE WON AND YOU LOST.'
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SO CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY IS
TELLING THE JEWS THAT 'YOU ARE
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FOLLOWING A LOSING
RELIGION. YOU'RE LOSERS.
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GET ON - YOU KNOW, COME
ON, JOIN THE REAL WORLD.
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GET WITH IT BECAUSE
THAT'S A THING OF THE PAST.
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NOW IT'S ALL ABOUT BABYLON.' NOW
SOME OF YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WE'LL,
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THAT'S KIND OF A
STRETCH' BUT IT'S REALLY NOT.
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THAT IS THE MIND SET OF
ANTIQUITY. AND SO THEY WERE
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SAYING THAT GOD'S
TEMPLE, GOD'S SANCTUARY,
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GOD'S WORSHIP IS IRRELEVANT.
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NOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR
WAS A VERY WISE RULER.
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AND WHAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR WOULD DO
WHEN HE WOULD CONQUER A NATION -
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HE WOULD TAKE SOME OF THE OWN
ROYAL SEED, IF YOU WILL - SOME
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OF THE LINEAGE - THOSE IN THAT
NATION THAT WERE DESIGNATED -
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THAT WERE IN LINE TO BE LEADERS,
TO BE KINGS, TO BE ROYALTY - AND
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HE WOULD BRING THEM TO BABYLON
AND HE WOULD BRING THEM TO THE
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SCHOOLS OF BABYLON AND HE WOULD
TRAIN THEM TO BE BABYLONIANS, AT
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LEAST IN MIND. AND
SO THAT'S THE SITUATION
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THAT, NOT ONLY DANIEL FINDS
HIMSELF BUT, NO DOUBT, MANY
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YOUNG HEBREW MEN GROOMED TO
BE LEADERS AND THEN GO BACK TO
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THEIR OWN COUNTRIES AS PUPPET
RULERS BEING MANIPULATED, IF YOU
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WILL, BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
THAT'S THE TRAINING PROGRAM.
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AND SO IT SAYS IN VERSE 5
OF DANIEL CHAPTER 1, "THE KING
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APPOINTED FOR THEM A
DAILY PROVISION OF THE KING'S
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DELICACIES, AND OF THE WINE
WHICH HE DRANK, AND THREE YEARS
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OF TRAINING FOR THEM, SO THAT AT
THE END OF THAT TIME THEY MIGHT
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SERVE BEFORE THE KING. NOW
FROM AMONG THOSE OF THE SONS
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OF JUDAH WERE DANIEL,
HANANIAH, MISHAEL, AND AZARIAH.
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TO THEM THE CHIEF OF THE EUNUCHS
GAVE NAMES: HE GAVE DANIEL THE
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NAME BELTESHAZZAR; TO HANANIAH,
SHADRACH; TO MICHAEL, MESHACH;
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AND TO AZARIAH, ABEDNEGO."
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NOW THERE'S SOMETHING
INTERESTING ABOUT ALL THEIR
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HEBREW NAMES, THEY ALL HAVE
A FORM OF GOD IN THEIR NAMES.
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SO IF YOU LOOK THERE,
THOSE NAMES THAT HAVE 'AH' LIKE
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AZARI(AH) OR HANANI(AH) - THOSE
ARE DERIVED FROM THE NAME FOR
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GOD: YAH - OKAY? AND
THOSE THAT HAVE THE FORM EL
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IN THEIR NAME LIKE MISHA(EL)
OR DANI(EL) THAT IS ANOTHER FORM
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FOR THE NAME OF GOD
'EL' OR FROM 'ELOHIM'.
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SO THESE ARE HEBREW YOUNG MEN
THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN NAMES BY
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THEIR PARENTS THAT
REMINDED THEM OF THE TRUE GOD.
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NOW THEY ARE GIVEN NAMES BY THE
BABYLONIANS - ALL OF THE NAMES
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THEY'RE GIVEN ARE NAMES THAT
POINT THEM TO BABYLONIAN GODS.
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DO YOU GET THE PICTURE? SO
THIS IS A BRAIN-WASHING PROCESS.
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THEY'RE BEING INDOCTRINATED
INTO BABYLONIAN CULTURE.
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NOW THE KING, WANTING TO TRAIN
THESE YOUNG MEN TO BE LEADERS IN
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THEIR OWN NATION, IS
GOING TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF THEM.
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AND YOU NOTICE WHAT FOOD
THEY'RE GIVEN: IN VERSE 5, IT IS
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ACTUALLY OF THE KING'S OWN FOOD
AND DRINK THAT THEY'RE GIVEN.
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NOW LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION:
DO YOU THINK THAT THE KING WAS
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JUST EATING AND
DRINKING JUST ANY OLD THING?
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ACTUALLY, I'M SURE THE KING
WAS FOLLOWING THE CUTTING-EDGE
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WISDOM OF THE PROFESSORS OF
BABYLON AT THE TIME AND HE WAS
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EATING THE FINEST DIET
THAT YOU COULD EAT, ACCORDING TO
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THE SECULAR
STANDARDS OF THE DAY.
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NOW SOME OF YOU MAY THINK, IF
YOU'RE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST OR
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HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATING WITH
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, OR HAVE
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BEEN VIEWING PROGRAMMING FROM
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, THAT
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS,
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE RIGHT ON THE
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CUTTING EDGE OF NUTRITIONAL
SCIENCE AND EVERY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST NOW REALIZES THAT WHAT
THEY'VE BEEN PROMOTING FOR YEARS
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- A VEGETARIAN DIET - HAS
NOW BEEN VINDICATED BY WORLD
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SCIENTIFIC CIRCLES.
WELL, THERE IS SOME TRUTH IN
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THAT, BUT I WILL TELL YOU
THAT THE WORLD AUTHORITIES ON
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NUTRITION HAVE NOT
GOT IT ALL STRAIGHT.
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YOU CAN FIND MANY FINE
NUTRITIONISTS WHO ARE TELLING US
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THAT WE SHOULD BE ENJOYING MORE
OF THOSE FOODS AND DRINKS THAT
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WERE ON NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S TABLE,
LIKE THOSE FERMENTED BEVERAGES.
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ARE YOU AWARE OF THIS?
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MANY RESEARCHERS - I WOULD
SAY BLINDED BY CULTURAL BIAS.
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NOW YOU CAN SAY, 'THIS IS A
STRONG CHARGE YOU'RE MAKING,
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DR. DEROSE.' BUT I WOULD
SAY IT'S A CULTURAL BIAS.
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AND YOU CAN LOOK THROUGH THE
MEDICAL RESEARCH LITERATURE AND
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YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FIND STRONG
EVIDENCE THAT WE SHOULD BE
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DRINKING SOME ALCOHOL.
IN FACT, YOU'LL FIND THE
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OPPOSITE IF YOU
LOOK OBJECTIVELY.
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AND YOU SAY, 'WELL, YOU'RE BEING
PRETTY ARROGANT TO ACT LIKE YOU
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CAN LOOK OBJECTIVELY AT THE
MEDICAL RESEARCH LITERATURE WHEN
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OTHERS AREN'T.' BUT I'M JUST
TELLING YOU, THERE'S PLENTY OF
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LITERATURE OUT THERE SHOWING
US THAT EVEN IN MODERATION
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ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
ARE HARMFUL FOR OUR HEALTH.
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NOT ALONE - NOT ALONE
OUR PHYSICAL HEALTH, BUT OUR
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MORAL HEALTH. LET'S
COME BACK TO DANIEL AND
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SEE WHAT - DANIEL'S TAKE ON IT.
YOU KNOW THE STORY, DON'T YOU?
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IN DANIEL CHAPTER ONE, VERSE 8,
IT SAYS, "BUT DANIEL PURPOSED IN
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HIS HEART THAT HE WOULD NOT
DEFILE HIMSELF WITH THE PORTION
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OF THE KING'S DELICACIES, NOR
WITH THE WINE WHICH HE DRANK;
00:16:15.60\00:16:19.87
THEREFORE HE REQUESTED OF
THE CHIEF OF THE EUNUCHS THAT HE
00:16:19.91\00:16:23.61
MIGHT NOT DEFILE HIMSELF."
DO YOU CATCH THE OPERATIVE WORD
00:16:23.65\00:16:29.05
IN THAT VERSE? IT APPEARS MORE
THAN ONCE. THAT WORD IS WHAT?
00:16:29.08\00:16:34.62
>>DEFILE. >>DEFILE.
00:16:34.66\00:16:36.62
NOW I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE
THOUGHT MUCH ABOUT THIS WORD
00:16:36.66\00:16:38.73
'DEFILE', BUT CAN
YOU DEFILE THE DIRT?
00:16:38.76\00:16:41.20
YOU CAN'T DEFILE SOMETHING
THAT'S - DEFILEMENT IS ONLY
00:16:41.23\00:16:46.40
SOMETHING THAT APPLIES
TO SOMETHING THAT'S HOLY.
00:16:46.43\00:16:49.97
YOU CAN ONLY DEFILE
SOMETHING THAT IS HOLY.
00:16:50.01\00:16:52.97
SO WHAT DANIEL'S SAYING HERE
IS THAT IT MAY LOOK LIKE THE
00:16:53.01\00:16:57.01
SANCTUARY IS DESTROYED OR
THE SANCTUARY SERVICE HAS BEEN
00:16:57.05\00:17:01.52
VIOLATED, AT
LEAST, AT THIS POINT.
00:17:01.55\00:17:04.29
IT MAY LOOK, FROM A SECULAR
PERSPECTIVE, THAT BABYLON HAS IT
00:17:04.32\00:17:09.06
RIGHT - THAT THEY'RE THE
- THEY'VE - THEY'RE IN THE
00:17:09.09\00:17:12.63
POSITION OF RULERSHIP, BUT
GOD TELLS ME THAT MY BODY IS HIS
00:17:12.66\00:17:16.83
TEMPLE. IT MAY LOOK LIKE
GOD'S SANCTUARY MESSAGE IS
00:17:16.87\00:17:21.70
IRRELEVANT, BUT IT'S NOT. AND MY
BODY IS A SANCTUARY AND I AM NOT
00:17:21.74\00:17:28.91
GOING TO DEFILE MY BODY.
HIS ARGUMENT, INTERESTINGLY,
00:17:28.94\00:17:34.18
IS NOT PRIMARILY AN
ARGUMENT FROM PHYSICAL HEALTH.
00:17:34.22\00:17:38.05
HIS ARGUMENT IS PRIMARILY AN
ARGUMENT FROM MORAL DEFILEMENT
00:17:38.09\00:17:44.93
AND HE'S SAYING, 'I AM GOING TO
LIVE - I AM - I HAVE BEEN TAKEN
00:17:44.96\00:17:48.30
AND I'M IN A SITUATION WHERE
I'M NOT IN CONTROL, BUT I AM NOT
00:17:48.33\00:17:52.97
GOING TO ALLOW MY BODY TO
BE DEFILED. I AM LIVING IN THE
00:17:53.00\00:17:56.60
SIGHT OF A HOLY GOD
WHO'S LOOKING DOWN ON ME.
00:17:56.64\00:18:02.31
AND THIS IS A FITTING PLACE
TO STOP IN THE STORY BECAUSE I
00:18:02.34\00:18:06.08
REALLY BELIEVE THIS CONTEXT OF
DANIEL SPEAKS TO US ELOQUENTLY
00:18:06.11\00:18:10.29
IN 2015 BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE
MIDST OF A CULTURE WHERE MANY
00:18:10.32\00:18:15.86
ARE TRYING TO TELL US THAT
CHRISTIANITY IS IRRELEVANT.
00:18:15.89\00:18:19.73
'IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN
YOU'RE JUST NOT WITH IT.
00:18:19.76\00:18:22.53
YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ALL THE
EVIDENCE THAT'S OUT THERE.
00:18:22.56\00:18:24.67
AND ONCE YOU DID, YOU'D REALIZE
THAT ALL THIS STUFF ABOUT THE
00:18:24.70\00:18:27.64
BIBLE AND THE SANCTUARY AND ALL
THIS IS IRRELEVANT.' AND GOD IS
00:18:27.67\00:18:30.91
CALLING US TO BE LIKE
DANIEL - TO SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:18:30.94\00:18:33.91
THE SCHOLARS AT HARVARD MAY
SAY SOMETHING. THE SCHOLARS AT
00:18:33.94\00:18:39.71
STANFORD AND OXFORD MAY
SEEM TO BE IN AGREEMENT.
00:18:39.75\00:18:42.72
THEY MAY BE TELLING US THAT OUR
LIFESTYLE AND EVEN A GODLY WAY
00:18:42.75\00:18:46.65
OF LIVING IS NOT
RELEVANT. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:18:46.69\00:18:49.32
I HAVE COMPELLING EVIDENCE THAT,
IN SPITE OF HOW IT MAY LOOK AT
00:18:49.36\00:18:53.16
TIMES, THAT GOD IS
STILL ON THE THRONE.
00:18:53.19\00:18:58.07
>>AMEN. >>AND GOD
CALLS FOR THAT WITNESS
00:18:58.10\00:19:00.07
TODAY, FROM ALL OF US, THAT
WE'RE GOING TO LIVE AS DANIEL
00:19:00.10\00:19:03.47
LIVED, IN THE
SIGHT OF A HOLY GOD.
00:19:03.51\00:19:08.24
AND SO, AS THE BOOK OF DANIEL
PLAYS OUT, IS ACTUALLY FOUNDED
00:19:08.28\00:19:11.81
ON THAT INITIAL DECISION DANIEL
MAKES - AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE
00:19:11.85\00:19:15.05
DOES? HE ACTUALLY
PUTS HIS LIFE ON THE LINE.
00:19:15.08\00:19:18.45
AND WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE WHEN
DANIEL REQUESTS THE VEGETARIAN
00:19:18.49\00:19:22.39
DIET THAT HE REQUESTS -
AND, BY THE WAY, THAT IS
00:19:22.42\00:19:24.83
EXACTLY WHAT HE REQUESTED - IF
YOU LOOK AT VERSES 8 AND 9 AS IT
00:19:24.86\00:19:31.23
PLAYS OUT, AND THEN INTO VERSE
10 AND ONWARD, YOU'LL SEE WHAT
00:19:31.27\00:19:35.84
DANIEL ASKED. VERSE 12
IS THE OPERATIVE VERSE:
00:19:35.87\00:19:39.04
"PLEASE TEST YOUR SERVANTS FOR
TEN DAYS, AND LET THEM GIVE US
00:19:39.07\00:19:43.31
VEGETABLES TO EAT
AND WATER TO DRINK."
00:19:43.35\00:19:47.62
AND SO THAT REQUEST IS NOT BORNE
OUT OF SOME NARROW-MINDED VIEW
00:19:47.65\00:19:52.02
OF HEALTHFUL LIVING, IT IS BORNE
OUT BECAUSE DANIEL BELIEVED AND
00:19:52.05\00:20:01.03
RESPECTED THE GOD OF
HEAVEN AND HIS COUNSEL.
00:20:01.06\00:20:04.27
AND AS A RESULT - YOU KNOW THE
STORY, MOST OF YOU - DANIEL IS
00:20:04.30\00:20:08.17
BLESSED NOT ONLY WITH PHYSICAL
BLESSINGS - WITHIN TEN DAYS IT
00:20:08.20\00:20:11.74
SAYS THAT WHEN THEY ACTUALLY
STUDIED THOSE YOUNG MEN, THEY
00:20:11.77\00:20:16.58
WERE FAIRER AND FATTER IN FLESH,
AS SOME OF THE TRANSLATIONS
00:20:16.61\00:20:20.55
RENDER IT, BUT THEY
DEFINITELY WERE HEALTHIER.
00:20:20.58\00:20:25.79
THEY LOOKED BETTER.
AND SOME OF YOU ARE SAYING,
00:20:25.82\00:20:27.76
'WELL, DR. DEROSE, YOU KNOW, IT
WOULDN'T HURT YOU TO LOOK A BIT,
00:20:27.79\00:20:29.66
YOU KNOW, FULLER IN FLESH.'
WELL, LISTEN, WE ALL HAVE
00:20:29.69\00:20:34.10
DIFFERENT GENETIC MAKE UPS.
SOME OF YOU ARE BLESSED THAT YOU
00:20:34.10\00:20:36.87
CAN HOLD WEIGHT A LITTLE
BIT MORE EFFECTIVELY THAN I CAN.
00:20:36.90\00:20:40.17
OTHERS OF YOU THINK
THAT I'M MORE BLESSED.
00:20:40.20\00:20:42.60
BUT THAT IS NOT - THAT IS
NOT WHAT THE STORY'S ABOUT.
00:20:42.64\00:20:46.24
THE STORY IS ABOUT FAITHFUL
LIVING - FAITHFUL LIVING.
00:20:46.27\00:20:49.48
WELL, AS THE BOOK OF DANIEL
PLAYS OUT, NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE
00:20:49.51\00:20:53.55
THIS BACKGROUND THAT
IS MENTIONED AND SPECIALLY
00:20:53.58\00:20:56.72
HIGHLIGHTED IN DANIEL 1 AND IN
- SUNDAY, IN SABBATH'S LESSONS,
00:20:56.75\00:21:01.92
BUT WE HAVE SOME VERY
INTERESTING THINGS THEN THAT
00:21:01.96\00:21:05.26
DEVELOP BASED ON THAT STAND THAT
DANIEL TOOK BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE
00:21:05.29\00:21:08.70
STORY, BUT WE NEED TO TAKE
SOME TIME AND LOOK AT THIS.
00:21:08.73\00:21:11.97
BUT MAYBE BEFORE WE DO, I WANT
TO POINT SOMETHING OUT TO YOU.
00:21:12.00\00:21:14.94
AS WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT DANIEL
1, A LOT OF YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO
00:21:14.97\00:21:18.64
RELATE TO DANIEL AND
YOU SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:21:18.67\00:21:21.04
DANIEL WAS A REAL GOOD' - AND
I HATE TO DO THIS, BUT I'M GOING
00:21:21.08\00:21:25.41
TO PUT A LABEL ON DANIEL - A
LABEL THAT'S SOMETIMES USED IN
00:21:25.45\00:21:29.98
CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN CIRCLES:
'DANIEL WAS REALLY A GOOD
00:21:30.02\00:21:33.49
CONSERVATIVE, DANIEL WAS.
HE FOLLOWED THE HEALTH MESSAGE
00:21:33.52\00:21:38.56
AND, YOU KNOW,
FOLLOWED ALL GOD'S PRINCIPLES.
00:21:38.59\00:21:41.20
WITH THAT BACKGROUND I JUST HAVE
TO FAST FORWARD BECAUSE, AS YOU
00:21:41.23\00:21:46.50
GO THROUGH THIS LESSON ON
EXILES, IN THURSDAY'S LESSON,
00:21:46.53\00:21:49.70
EVEN THOUGH MOST OF THE LESSON
ALL THE WAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY IS
00:21:49.74\00:21:53.58
DEALING WITH DANIEL AND, BY
GOD'S GRACE, WE'LL COME BACK
00:21:53.61\00:21:56.18
THERE BEFORE TOO LONG, WE'RE
REMINDED THAT THERE WERE SOME
00:21:56.21\00:21:58.98
OTHER EXILES AS WITNESSES
WHOSE STORY WAS A LITTLE BIT
00:21:59.01\00:22:03.39
DIFFERENT. ONE OF
THEM IS IDENTIFIED, WHO
00:22:03.42\00:22:06.19
WE'LL STUDY MORE IN FUTURE
LESSONS, IS ESTHER - ESTHER.
00:22:06.22\00:22:12.36
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT DANIEL 1 IN
SOME DETAIL, LET'S JUMP OVER NOW
00:22:12.39\00:22:16.26
TO ESTHER CHAPTER 1. JUST
A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND,
00:22:16.30\00:22:19.60
DANIEL WAS TAKEN CAPTIVE IN WHAT
MOST HISTORIANS BELIEVE WAS 605
00:22:19.63\00:22:25.41
B.C., DURING NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S
FIRST CONQUEST OF JERUSALEM.
00:22:25.44\00:22:30.58
AND SOME 70 YEARS LATER,
YOU KNOW THAT THE EXILES WERE
00:22:30.61\00:22:35.15
ALLOWED TO RETURN HOME AND THIS
STORY ACTUALLY TAKES PLACE MANY
00:22:35.18\00:22:44.46
YEARS AFTER THAT,
SO ROUGHLY 537 B.C.
00:22:44.49\00:22:49.20
IS WHEN CYRUS ISSUES HIS DECREE
TO ALLOW THE JEWS LIVING IN WHAT
00:22:49.23\00:22:56.67
WAS FIRST BABYLON, NOW
CONQUERED, AT THAT TIME, BY THE
00:22:56.71\00:23:00.54
MEDES AND THE PERSIANS,
ALLOWED THEM TO RETURN HOME.
00:23:00.58\00:23:03.55
THE BOOK OF ESTHER IS SET AROUND
483 B.C. SO IF YOU'RE DOING SOME
00:23:03.58\00:23:09.75
QUICK MATH, YOU'RE
TALKING OVER 50 YEARS.
00:23:09.78\00:23:13.05
AND WHY THAT'S SIGNIFICANT
IS, IF WE WERE TO TAKE THE TIME
00:23:13.09\00:23:17.16
TODAY TO LOOK AT THE BOOK OF
EZRA, YOU'D FIND THAT WHEN THAT
00:23:17.19\00:23:21.33
DECREE FROM CYRUS WENT OUT
ALLOWING THE JEWS TO GO BACK
00:23:21.36\00:23:26.27
HOME - THEY WERE EXILES - THEY
WERE GIVEN THE INVITATION NOW TO
00:23:26.30\00:23:30.54
GO BACK HOME - MAYBE - I KNOW
WE'RE JUMPING AROUND A LITTLE
00:23:30.57\00:23:34.21
BIT, BUT EZRA ISN'T
THAT FAR FROM ESTHER.
00:23:34.24\00:23:36.85
MAYBE WE SHOULD LOOK AT EZRA
1 - JUST TURN A FEW BOOKS BACK -
00:23:36.88\00:23:39.21
WE'LL COME TO
ESTHER IN A MINUTE.
00:23:39.25\00:23:41.92
EZRA CHAPTER 1 - SO CYRUS
IS MAKING THIS PROCLAMATION
00:23:41.95\00:23:47.82
ALLOWING THE JEWS TO RETURN BACK
TO JERUSALEM AND IN VERSE 5 OF
00:23:47.86\00:23:57.60
EZRA 1 IT SAYS, "THEN THE HEADS
OF THE FATHERS' HOUSES OF JUDAH
00:23:57.63\00:24:02.44
AND BENJAMIN, AND THE PRIESTS
AND THE LEVITES, WITH ALL THOSE
00:24:02.47\00:24:05.97
SPIRITS GOD HAD MOVED, AROSE
TO GO UP AND BUILD THE HOUSE OF
00:24:06.01\00:24:10.15
THE LORD WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM."
SO GOD GIVES A MESSAGE - A LOT
00:24:10.18\00:24:14.38
OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
IS - WE'VE BEEN STUDYING ABOUT
00:24:14.42\00:24:17.09
BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES - IS HOW
GOD GIVES US CALLS THROUGHOUT
00:24:17.12\00:24:20.62
HISTORY 'TO GO' - TO GO - AND
SO, HERE'S THIS CALL THAT COMES.
00:24:20.66\00:24:23.86
IT COMES THROUGH A HEATHEN
RULER, CYRUS, AND THE CALL IS TO
00:24:23.89\00:24:27.20
GO. IT'S TO GO FROM
BABYLON BACK TO JERUSALEM.
00:24:27.23\00:24:34.67
BUT NOT EVERYONE HEEDS THAT CALL
AND SO, WHEN WE COME TO EZRA,
00:24:34.70\00:24:39.71
WE GET THE BACKGROUND.
00:24:39.74\00:24:43.68
AND WHEN WE JUMP A FEW BOOKS
AHEAD TO ESTHER, WE FIND THAT
00:24:43.71\00:24:46.95
AMONG THOSE WHO DID NOT GO BACK
- AND, BY THE WAY, THERE WAS
00:24:46.98\00:24:50.39
MORE THAN ONE OPPORTUNITY TO
GO BACK IN THOSE FIFTY YEARS -
00:24:50.42\00:24:53.89
ESTHER AND THOSE OF HER
CLAN ARE STILL IN BABYLON.
00:24:53.92\00:25:00.26
DO YOU
UNDERSTAND THE DYNAMIC HERE?
00:25:00.30\00:25:02.63
BUT IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN THAT
BECAUSE, YOU NOTICE WHAT HER
00:25:02.66\00:25:06.07
NAME IS, DON'T
YOU? HER NAME IS WHAT?
00:25:06.10\00:25:09.24
WE CALL HER 'ESTHER' BUT AS YOU
READ THROUGH THE BACKGROUND OF
00:25:09.27\00:25:15.14
THE STORY, YOU LEARN THAT
SHE ACTUALLY HAD ANOTHER NAME,
00:25:15.18\00:25:19.41
HADASSAH. SOUNDING
FAMILIAR TO SOME OF
00:25:19.45\00:25:22.45
YOU? WHAT IS
THE - WHERE DOES THE
00:25:22.48\00:25:26.22
NAME 'ESTHER' COME
FROM? DO ANY OF YOU KNOW?
00:25:26.25\00:25:28.46
IT'S ACTUALLY A BABYLONIAN NAME
THAT COMES FROM 'ISHTAR' WHICH
00:25:28.49\00:25:33.90
ACTUALLY IS THE SAME NAME THAT
WAS TRANSFORMED INTO ASHTOR AND
00:25:33.93\00:25:39.27
ASHTORETH - THIS IS A - IS
A NAME OF SECULAR GODS IN THE
00:25:39.30\00:25:44.74
BABYLONIAN MIND SET. AND
SO, AS YOU REALIZE THAT YOU
00:25:44.77\00:25:50.55
SAY, 'WELL, IT WAS JUST TO
CONCEAL HER IDENTITY THAT MAYBE
00:25:50.58\00:25:55.42
SHE WAS GIVEN THAT NAME, SO THAT
SHE COULD MINGLE A LITTLE BIT
00:25:55.45\00:25:58.75
MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH THE
PEOPLE.' BUT AS YOU READ THROUGH
00:25:58.79\00:26:01.22
WHAT HAPPENS IN ESTHER CHAPTERS
1 AND 2, YOU FIND SOME THINGS
00:26:01.26\00:26:06.29
THAT SHOULD MAKE US
JUST A LITTLE BIT UNEASY.
00:26:06.33\00:26:10.17
WELL LET'S LOOK AT IT: ESTHER
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 7 - THIS IS
00:26:10.20\00:26:17.97
WHERE IT REFERS
TO HER TWO NAMES.
00:26:18.01\00:26:20.38
IT SAYS, "MORDECAI" - A NEAR
RELATIVE OF ESTHER - OLDER -
00:26:20.41\00:26:25.45
"HAD BROUGHT UP HADASSAH,
THAT IS, ESTHER, HIS UNCLE'S
00:26:25.48\00:26:30.12
DAUGHTER, FOR SHE HAD
NEITHER FATHER NOR MOTHER.
00:26:30.15\00:26:32.29
THE YOUNG WOMAN WAS
LOVELY AND BEAUTIFUL.
00:26:32.32\00:26:34.39
WHEN HER FATHER AND MOTHER DIED,
MORDECAI TOOK HER AS HIS OWN
00:26:34.42\00:26:38.03
DAUGHTER." NOW SOME
OF YOU SAY, 'WELL MAYBE
00:26:38.06\00:26:40.86
ESTHER WAS THE NAME GIVEN BY
THE BABYLONIANS - AT LEAST THE
00:26:40.90\00:26:43.20
BABYLONIAN INFLUENCE THERE IN
THE MEDO-PERSIAN REALM.' WELL,
00:26:43.23\00:26:47.07
PERHAPS. MAYBE. BUT
LOOK AT VERSE 8: "SO IT WAS,
00:26:47.10\00:26:50.77
WHEN THE KING'S COMMAND AND
DECREE WERE HEARD," - AND THE
00:26:50.81\00:26:53.71
COMMAND WAS THAT BECAUSE VASHTI,
THE QUEEN THAT WE'RE INTRODUCED
00:26:53.74\00:26:58.75
TO IN CHAPTER 1 OF
ESTHER - STOOD FOR PRINCIPLE.
00:26:58.78\00:27:02.55
WHEN THE KING WAS IN A DRUNKEN
FEAST, SHE APPARENTLY WOULD NOT
00:27:02.58\00:27:07.02
SHOW HER BEAUTY TO THE
DEGREE THE KING WANTED HER TO.
00:27:07.06\00:27:12.36
SHE WAS PUNISHED. SHE
WAS DE-THRONED AND NOW THE
00:27:12.39\00:27:17.50
KING IS LOOKING FOR A NEW
QUEEN. AND SO THEY BRING THESE
00:27:17.53\00:27:23.47
BEAUTIFUL YOUNG
WOMEN TO THE KING'S PALACE.
00:27:23.51\00:27:27.34
NOW LOOK AT VERSE
10 OF ESTHER CHAPTER 2.
00:27:27.38\00:27:31.08
"ESTHER HAD NOT REVEALED HER
PEOPLE OR FAMILY FOR MORDECAI
00:27:31.11\00:27:35.55
HAD CHARGED HER
NOT TO REVEAL IT."
00:27:35.58\00:27:38.95
AND AS YOU READ WHAT THE
PREPARATIONS WERE FOR THESE
00:27:38.99\00:27:42.16
WOMEN, IT WAS AN EXTENSIVE,
LONG-TERM PREPARATION.
00:27:42.19\00:27:47.66
VERSE 12 TELLS US HOW
LONG THEIR PREPARATION WAS.
00:27:47.73\00:27:50.67
DO YOU SEE IT THERE
IN ESTHER 2, VERSE 12?
00:27:50.70\00:27:54.20
THEIR PREPARATION WAS FOR TWELVE
MONTHS. HOW DO YOU CONCEAL
00:27:54.24\00:27:59.67
THAT YOU'RE A JEW FOR
TWELVE MONTHS? HOW DO YOU DO IT?
00:27:59.71\00:28:05.31
DO THE JEWS DO ANYTHING
DISTINCTIVELY - AS FAR AS WHAT
00:28:05.35\00:28:08.92
THEY DID ON A WEEKLY BASIS?
YEAH, HOW ABOUT WHAT THEY ATE?
00:28:08.95\00:28:13.36
WAS THERE A WAY TO CONCEAL
- NOW, AGAIN, WHAT I'M JUST
00:28:13.39\00:28:18.43
TELLING YOU - I'M NOT SAYING
ESTHER DID ANYTHING WRONG, I'M
00:28:18.46\00:28:21.20
NOT SAYING THAT
ESTHER WAS NOT FAITHFUL.
00:28:21.23\00:28:23.70
IF YOU LOOK AT ESTHER'S
BACKGROUND - IF YOU LOOK AT
00:28:23.73\00:28:26.40
WHERE SHE WAS, I WOULD SUGGEST
TO YOU THAT IF YOU WANT TO PUT
00:28:26.43\00:28:29.74
LABELS ON PEOPLE, YOU WOULD SAY
THAT ESTHER WAS FROM A LIBERAL
00:28:29.77\00:28:32.81
FAMILY AND A VERY LIBERAL
BACKGROUND, DOING SOME THINGS
00:28:32.84\00:28:36.18
THAT, IF THEY WERE NOT
QUESTIONABLE, THEY SURELY WOULD
00:28:36.21\00:28:39.01
RAISE IN THE MIND
OF PEOPLE, QUESTIONS.
00:28:39.05\00:28:42.32
NOW, FORTUNATELY, LIKE I
SAID, WE'RE NOT JUST STUDYING -
00:28:42.35\00:28:46.65
TALKING ABOUT ESTHER TODAY,
BUT NEXT WEEK YOU'LL GET TO HEAR
00:28:46.69\00:28:50.26
ANOTHER OPINION ON IT AND
CAN SET EVERYTHING STRAIGHT.
00:28:50.29\00:28:54.20
SO JUST MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THAT
IF YOU'RE DISAPPOINTED, YOU FIND
00:28:54.20\00:28:56.50
OUT WHO'S TEACHING THE LESSON
NEXT WEEK AND MAKE SURE YOU GET,
00:28:56.53\00:29:00.90
YOU KNOW, THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE.
00:29:00.94\00:29:04.34
BUT WHAT I'M TRYING TO SHARE
WITH YOU HERE IS WHAT WE TEND TO
00:29:04.37\00:29:08.98
DO IS WE TEND TO PUT PEOPLE IN
CATEGORIES. DO YOU REALIZE, IN
00:29:09.01\00:29:12.28
THE BOOK OF DANIEL, WHERE WE'RE
GOING BACK TO - THERE IS NOT ONE
00:29:12.31\00:29:15.28
WRONG ACT RECORDED OF DANIEL?
NOT ONE THING. NOT ONE. DANIEL'S
00:29:15.32\00:29:21.46
AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT SOME HAVE
CALLED LIVING THE SANCTIFIED
00:29:21.49\00:29:24.83
LIFE. WHAT I THINK IS SO
SIGNIFICANT ABOUT THIS LESSON IS
00:29:24.86\00:29:30.90
THAT WE TEND TO LABEL PEOPLE
AND WHEN WE LABEL PEOPLE, WE
00:29:30.93\00:29:36.24
DISQUALIFY
OURSELVES, OFTENTIMES.
00:29:36.27\00:29:39.91
YOU SAY, 'I COULD
NEVER DO WHAT DANIEL DID.
00:29:39.94\00:29:43.11
I DON'T HAVE THAT
KIND OF A TRACK RECORD.
00:29:43.14\00:29:46.35
I COULDN'T DO IT.' 'I
COULDN'T BE LIKE ESTHER.
00:29:46.38\00:29:50.72
I WOULD - I MEAN, SHE WAS REALLY
ON THE EDGE. I MEAN, IF THEY
00:29:50.75\00:29:53.32
CALLED ME IN THAT, YOU KNOW,
I WOULD SAY, 'I CANNOT DO THIS.
00:29:53.36\00:29:56.42
I CANNOT SPEND THE NIGHT WITH
THE KING.' BY THE WAY, THAT'S
00:29:56.46\00:29:59.89
THE TIME PERIOD THAT THEY
HAD TO SPEND WITH THE KING - THE
00:29:59.93\00:30:03.06
EVENING HOURS - YOU
CAN READ IT IN ESTHER 2.
00:30:03.10\00:30:06.13
SOME HAVE THOUGHT THAT THAT
MEANT THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN
00:30:06.17\00:30:08.84
ACTIVITIES THAT THEY ENGAGED
IN THAT WOULD BE LESS THAN
00:30:08.87\00:30:10.91
COMMENDABLE. BUT
MAYBE ESTHER STOOD FOR
00:30:10.94\00:30:13.17
PRINCIPLE IN THAT VERY SETTING.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
00:30:13.21\00:30:16.34
ALL I'M TELLING YOU IS IF ONE OF
YOUR DAUGHTERS OR GRANDDAUGHTERS
00:30:16.38\00:30:20.52
SAID THAT THEY'RE AN INTERN
AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND THEY'RE
00:30:20.55\00:30:24.12
SPENDING THE NIGHT WITH A
CONGRESSMAN, YOU WOULD NOT THINK
00:30:24.15\00:30:27.09
THAT THIS WAS PROBABLY GOING TO
BE AN ALL-EVENING BIBLE STUDY,
00:30:27.12\00:30:30.06
RIGHT? AND THIS IS THE - SO
I'M TRYING TO HELP US SEE IS WE
00:30:30.09\00:30:34.96
SOMEHOW THINK THAT IN ORDER
TO BE THE RIGHT WITNESS, WE HAVE
00:30:35.00\00:30:39.97
TO, YOU KNOW, LOOK
RIGHT. WE HAVE TO BE PERFECT.
00:30:40.00\00:30:42.27
AND I'VE HAD PEOPLE TELL
ME THAT IN SO MANY WORDS.
00:30:42.30\00:30:44.57
THEY SAID, 'BUT DR.
DEROSE, DO YOU KNOW WHAT I DID?'
00:30:44.61\00:30:46.84
OR 'DO YOU KNOW
HOW I LOOK, DR. DEROSE?
00:30:46.88\00:30:49.08
DO YOU KNOW I HAVE
THIS - THIS HEALTH PROBLEM?'
00:30:49.11\00:30:51.45
AND 'HOW CAN I TELL PEOPLE ABOUT
A BETTER DIET IF I HAVE THIS
00:30:51.48\00:30:54.15
HEALTH ISSUE OR IF I
TEND TO HAVE WEIGHT PROBLEMS?'
00:30:54.18\00:30:57.29
LISTEN, THANK THE LORD
YOU ONLY WEIGHT 400, REALLY.
00:30:57.32\00:31:02.29
I MEAN - I MEAN, I'VE HAD
PATIENTS WEIGHT OVER 600 POUNDS.
00:31:02.32\00:31:06.53
AND YOU SAY, 'WELL
THAT'S NO CONSOLATION!'
00:31:06.56\00:31:09.03
BUT THE POINT I'M MAKING IS
WE'VE ALL GOT DIFFERENT GENETIC
00:31:09.06\00:31:13.00
BACKGROUNDS AND WE'VE LIVED
IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS AND
00:31:13.03\00:31:15.77
WHETHER YOU HAVE AN AUTO-IMMUNE
DISEASE OR WHETHER YOU'VE HAD
00:31:15.80\00:31:18.34
CANCER OR WHETHER YOU'RE
OVERWEIGHT DOESN'T MEAN THAT
00:31:18.37\00:31:21.31
YOU'RE DISQUALIFIED FROM
BEING A WITNESS FOR JESUS.
00:31:21.34\00:31:24.55
THE POINT IS, WE'RE ALL EXILES.
00:31:24.58\00:31:28.02
DANIEL AND ESTHER, IT SEEMS
LIKE THEY'RE COMING FROM TWO
00:31:28.05\00:31:32.52
DIFFERENT POLES BUT THE POINT
IS, AT THE END OF THE STORY,
00:31:32.55\00:31:35.82
BOTH OF THEM END UP
DOING THE SAME THING.
00:31:35.86\00:31:38.86
LET'S LOOK AT DANIEL 6 AND SEE
ONE OF THE TELLING EXAMPLES OF
00:31:38.89\00:31:45.53
DANIEL'S COMMITMENT
TO THE GOD OF HEAVEN.
00:31:45.57\00:31:50.27
SO ESTHER, YOU KNOW, SHE
SAID, 'IF I PERISH, I PERISH.
00:31:50.31\00:31:54.71
I'M GOING TO DO WHAT GOD'S
CALLING ME TO DO.' WE SEE THAT
00:31:54.74\00:31:57.35
VERY SAME SPIRIT IN DANIEL.
WE SAW IT THERE IN DANIEL 1.
00:31:57.38\00:32:02.18
THE HEAD SERVANT CHARGED
WITH TAKING CARE OF THOSE HEBREW
00:32:02.22\00:32:07.76
YOUNG MEN, HE FELT THAT
THE REQUEST THAT DANIEL AND HIS
00:32:07.79\00:32:10.99
FRIENDS WERE MAKING WAS
GOING TO ENDANGER HIS HEAD.
00:32:11.03\00:32:15.13
IF IT WAS GOING TO ENDANGER
THE HEAD OF ONE OF THE OFFICERS,
00:32:15.16\00:32:19.70
WHAT DO YOU THINK DANIEL WAS
DOING? HE WAS PUTTING HIS LIFE
00:32:19.73\00:32:21.87
ON THE LINE. I MEAN,
TO GO AGAINST THE KING?
00:32:21.90\00:32:24.87
COME ON, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN YOU GO AGAINST THE
00:32:24.91\00:32:27.74
KING AND SAY THAT YOU KNOW
BETTER THAN THE KING ABOUT HOW
00:32:27.78\00:32:31.18
YOU SHOULD LIVE YOUR LIFE?
DANIEL 6 - AMAZING STORY - THE
00:32:31.21\00:32:38.49
REALM HAS CHANGED.
DANIEL 5 TELLS US THE STORY OF
00:32:38.52\00:32:40.96
BELSHAZZAR, THE
LAST ON THE THRONE.
00:32:40.99\00:32:44.13
AND MAYBE - MAYBE I
JUST NEED TO PAUSE HERE.
00:32:44.16\00:32:47.40
IF YOU'VE NEVER STUDIED THE
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF DANIEL
00:32:47.40\00:32:49.66
5, IT IS ONE OF THE MOST
CONVINCING EVIDENCES FOR THE
00:32:49.70\00:32:54.20
AUTHENTICITY OF
THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
00:32:54.24\00:32:57.41
YOU SEE, THROUGHOUT HISTORY,
MANY SECULAR SCHOLARS SAID
00:32:57.44\00:33:01.68
THE BOOK OF
DANIEL IS JUST A FARCE.
00:33:01.71\00:33:04.25
THE PROPHECIES IN THERE ARE SO
COMPELLING THAT THEY COULD NOT
00:33:04.28\00:33:08.38
HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
WHEN DANIEL SAID HE LIVED.
00:33:08.42\00:33:11.59
THEY HAD TO BE
WRITTEN AFTER THE FACT.
00:33:11.62\00:33:13.05
YOU KNOW, HOW COULD DANIEL
HAVE KNOWN IN ADVANCE ALL THESE
00:33:13.09\00:33:17.36
KINGDOMS THAT WOULD
COME ONE AFTER ANOTHER?
00:33:17.39\00:33:19.83
HOW COULD HE MENTION, BY NAME,
AN EMPIRE LIKE GREECE THAT WAS
00:33:19.86\00:33:24.20
NOT TO COME FOR
HUNDREDS OF YEARS?
00:33:24.23\00:33:26.20
THIS ALL HAD TO BE WRITTEN
AFTER GREECE CAME ON THE SCENE.
00:33:26.23\00:33:28.97
AND SO MANY TRY TO DATE DANIEL
CENTURIES AND CENTURIES LATER.
00:33:29.00\00:33:32.54
BUT HERE'S THE INTERESTING THING
THAT COMES OUT TO US IN THE BOOK
00:33:32.57\00:33:36.95
OF DANIEL. IN
DANIEL CHAPTER 5 THERE IS A
00:33:36.98\00:33:39.71
RULER NAMED
BELSHAZZAR ON THE THRONE.
00:33:39.75\00:33:42.62
FOR CENTURIES AND CENTURIES -
MILLENIA - BELSHAZZAR WAS LOST
00:33:42.65\00:33:48.92
FROM HISTORY - NO RECORD IN
HERODITUS, THE GREAT HISTORIAN,
00:33:48.96\00:33:52.76
OF A BELSHAZZAR.
BELSHAZZAR DIDN'T EXIST - THAT'S
00:33:52.79\00:33:57.23
WHAT SECULAR THEOLOGIANS
THOUGHT FOR MANY YEARS.
00:33:57.27\00:34:02.27
AND, IN FACT, BECAUSE THEY COULD
FIND NO RECORD OF BELSHAZZAR -
00:34:02.30\00:34:06.11
HE WASN'T IN THE
KING LIST OF BABYLON.
00:34:06.14\00:34:08.18
THEY SAID DANIEL WAS JUST A
FABRICATION - MADE UP THE NAME
00:34:08.21\00:34:11.85
OF A KING - UNTIL INSCRIPTIONS
WERE DISCOVERED - INSCRIPTIONS
00:34:11.88\00:34:18.65
THAT ACTUALLY SHOWED THAT
BELSHAZZAR, EVEN THOUGH HE SAT
00:34:18.69\00:34:22.62
AS KING, WHEN BABYLON WAS
CONQUERED, HE WAS THE SECOND IN
00:34:22.66\00:34:28.73
CHARGE. HIS
FATHER, ACTUALLY, WAS THE
00:34:28.76\00:34:32.00
KING BUT HE WAS AWAY AT THAT
TIME - THAT A WHOLE OTHER STORY
00:34:32.03\00:34:37.91
- AND BELSHAZZAR, JUST AS DANIEL
5 RECORDS IT, WAS SITTING ON THE
00:34:37.94\00:34:45.21
THRONE OF BABYLON.
THAT'S WHY HE COULD ONLY OFFER
00:34:45.25\00:34:48.32
DANIEL THE THIRD HIGHEST
POSITION IN THE KINGDOM -
00:34:48.35\00:34:51.55
BECAUSE HE WAS
SECOND. HIS FATHER WAS FIRST.
00:34:51.59\00:34:54.76
SO IN DANIEL 5, WHEN DANIEL IS
OFFERED TO BE THE THIRD RULER,
00:34:54.79\00:34:57.53
THAT'S THE HIGHEST POSITION
BELSHAZZAR COULD GIVE HIM.
00:34:57.56\00:35:00.93
NOW WHY DO I SAY
THIS IS SO COMPELLING?
00:35:00.96\00:35:04.23
IT'S BECAUSE BELSHAZZAR, SHORTLY
AFTER THE CONQUEST OF BABYLON BY
00:35:04.27\00:35:09.44
THE MEDES AND THE
PERSIANS, WAS LOST FROM HISTORY.
00:35:09.47\00:35:12.84
DANIEL 5 ESTABLISHES THAT THE
BOOK OF DANIEL WAS WRITTEN WHEN
00:35:12.87\00:35:19.05
IT WAS WRITTEN - WHEN IT CLAIMS
TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN - DURING
00:35:19.08\00:35:22.18
THE TIME OF DANIEL - DURING
THE TIME OF BABYLON'S REIGN.
00:35:22.22\00:35:25.15
AND SO, NOW WHEN WE COME TO
DANIEL 6, BELSHAZZAR IS NO MORE.
00:35:25.19\00:35:30.49
THE BABYLONIAN
EMPIRE HAS CRUMBLED.
00:35:30.53\00:35:34.36
THE PROPHECIES OF
ISAIAH 38 HAVE BEEN FULFILLED.
00:35:34.36\00:35:40.20
AND NOW, IN DANIEL 6,
THERE IS A NEW RULING POWER.
00:35:40.24\00:35:45.17
AND THIS IS UNHEARD OF. THE
MEDO PERSIANS NOW TAKE OVER.
00:35:45.21\00:35:48.51
AND DANIEL, WHO WAS IN A LEADING
POSITION IN BABYLON, IS NOW PUT
00:35:48.54\00:35:53.11
IN A LEADING POSITION
BY THE CONQUERING PEOPLE.
00:35:53.15\00:35:56.75
I MEAN, THIS
JUST DOES NOT HAPPEN.
00:35:56.79\00:35:58.49
IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN AMERICA.
00:35:58.52\00:35:59.92
I MEAN, CAN -
YOU KNOW IT HAPPENS.
00:35:59.95\00:36:01.56
WHEN THERE'S A, YOU KNOW, WHEN
THERE'S A CHANGE OF PARTY IN THE
00:36:01.59\00:36:04.23
WHITE HOUSE, HOW MANY TIMES DO
YOU SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:36:04.26\00:36:07.60
THESE FOUR CABINET MEMBERS DID A
GREAT JOB FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA SO
00:36:07.60\00:36:11.00
NOW THAT WE HAVE A REPUBLICAN
PRESIDENT - BY THE WAY, I'M NOT
00:36:11.03\00:36:15.00
TRYING TO BE PROPHETIC HERE, BUT
LET'S SAY THERE'S A CHANGE OF
00:36:15.04\00:36:18.14
PARTY. THEY'RE NOT
GOING TO KEEP THOSE
00:36:18.17\00:36:20.78
FOUR CABINET MEMBERS IN.
THEY'RE GOING TO CLEAN HOUSE.
00:36:20.81\00:36:23.58
IT WAS EVEN MORE
AMAZING IN ANTIQUITY.
00:36:23.61\00:36:29.32
AND SO IT SAYS IN DANIEL CHAPTER
6 AND VERSE 1, "IT PLEASED
00:36:29.35\00:36:33.59
DARIUS TO SET OVER THE KINGDOM
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SATRAPS,
00:36:33.62\00:36:38.43
TO BE OVER THE WHOLE KINGDOM;
AND OVER THESE, THREE GOVERNORS,
00:36:38.46\00:36:42.46
OF WHOM DANIEL WAS ONE, THAT THE
SATRAPS MIGHT GIVE ACCOUNT TO
00:36:42.50\00:36:47.90
THEM, SO THAT THE
KING WOULD SUFFER NO LOSS."
00:36:47.94\00:36:52.64
AND THEN AS THE ACCOUNT GOES ON,
DANIEL EXCELS. ALL THE OTHERS
00:36:52.67\00:36:57.55
IN LEADERSHIP - AND WHAT
HAPPENS? THE KING IS ABOUT TO
00:36:57.58\00:37:01.82
PROMOTE DANIEL AND
EVERYBODY STARTS TO GET JEALOUS.
00:37:01.85\00:37:05.39
AND SO THEY INDUCE THE KING
TO MAKE A VERY FOOLISH DECREE -
00:37:05.42\00:37:13.80
VERY FOOLISH DECREE - AND YOU
KNOW WHAT HAPPENS, DARIUS SIGNS
00:37:13.83\00:37:21.97
THIS DECREE - IT'S DESCRIBED IN
VERSE 7 - THAT WHOEVER PETITIONS
00:37:22.00\00:37:29.08
ANY GOD OR MAN FOR THIRTY DAYS,
EXCEPT KING DARIUS, WOULD BE
00:37:29.11\00:37:36.62
CAST INTO A DEN OF LIONS.
AND SO THE DECREE GOES OUT.
00:37:36.65\00:37:42.62
IT'S A FOOLISH DECREE BECAUSE
THEY ALL KNEW WHAT DANIEL DID.
00:37:42.66\00:37:47.13
DANIEL WOULD PRAY THREE
TIME A DAY TOWARDS JERUSALEM.
00:37:47.20\00:37:51.73
NOW'S A FITTING TIME TO STOP,
BECAUSE SOME OF YOU ALREADY
00:37:51.77\00:37:55.17
THOUGHT THAT I IMPLIED THAT
ESTHER AND HER FAMILY COULDN'T
00:37:55.20\00:37:57.81
HAVE BEEN TOO HOLY BECAUSE THEY
DIDN'T GO BACK TO JERUSALEM WHEN
00:37:57.84\00:38:02.68
THAT DECREE WENT OUT FROM CYRUS,
BUT DANIEL NEVER WENT BACK TO
00:38:02.71\00:38:09.05
JERUSALEM.
NEHEMIAH NEVER WENT BACK.
00:38:09.08\00:38:13.46
BUT I'M JUST SAYING THEY WEREN'T
FOLLOWING THAT CALL TO COUNTRY
00:38:13.49\00:38:17.69
LIVING THAT SOME
OF YOU HAVE FOLLOWED.
00:38:17.73\00:38:19.69
I MEAN, JERUSALEM, BACK THEN,
AFTER IT WAS DESTROYED BY THE
00:38:19.73\00:38:24.87
BABYLONIANS, IT WAS
PRETTY - PRETTY BLEAK.
00:38:24.90\00:38:27.87
I MEAN, THEY DIDN'T
EVEN HAVE A WALL, OKAY?
00:38:27.90\00:38:30.61
SO BACK TO THE
STORY. WHAT DOES DANIEL DO?
00:38:30.64\00:38:36.78
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN
YOUR FAITH IS UNDER FIRE?
00:38:36.81\00:38:40.85
YOU SAY, 'WELL, IN THE BOOK
OF ESTHER - ESTHER, YOU KNOW,
00:38:40.88\00:38:44.19
JUST KIND OF KEPT IT
QUIET. WHAT DOES DANIEL DO?
00:38:44.22\00:38:48.42
DANIEL DOES NOT CHANGE HIS
HABITUAL PRACTICE BECAUSE OF
00:38:48.46\00:38:54.03
HUMAN LAWS AND HE CONTINUES
TO PRAY OPENLY TO THE GOD OF
00:38:54.10\00:38:58.73
HEAVEN. NOW SOME
MIGHT SAY, 'WELL,
00:38:58.77\00:39:01.94
THERE'S NO LAW.
THERE'S NO BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE
00:39:01.97\00:39:05.44
THAT SAYS THAT YOU HAVE TO
PRAY WITH YOUR WINDOW OPEN.
00:39:05.47\00:39:08.04
WHY DID HE KEEP DOING
IT?' >>BECAUSE HE ALWAYS DID.
00:39:08.08\00:39:12.85
>>BECAUSE HE ALWAYS
DID, SOME OF YOU SAY?
00:39:12.88\00:39:15.28
YOU KNOW, HERE'S THE POINT:
WE'RE READING ABOUT EXILES -
00:39:15.32\00:39:19.12
WE'RE READING
ABOUT MISSIONARIES.
00:39:19.15\00:39:21.06
YOU KNOW, I CAN'T TELL
YOU HOW GOD'S LEADING YOU.
00:39:21.09\00:39:24.26
I CAN'T TELL YOU, YOU KNOW,
BECAUSE YOU'RE WORKING IN THIS
00:39:24.29\00:39:27.03
PLACE, YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT
FOLLOWING THE LORD, YOU KNOW,
00:39:27.03\00:39:29.60
BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE ARE
ALL MESSED UP OVER THERE.
00:39:29.63\00:39:31.47
I MEAN, YOU KNOW HOW MESSED
UP THEY WERE IN THE COURTS OF
00:39:31.50\00:39:33.60
BABYLON? SO DANIEL,
FORCIBLY BROUGHT INTO
00:39:33.64\00:39:39.14
EXILE - ESTHER - IT WASN'T HER
CHOICE TO BE THERE IN THE KING'S
00:39:39.17\00:39:43.71
PALACE - AND GOD
USED THEM POWERFULLY.
00:39:43.75\00:39:47.35
AND, BY THE WAY, BOTH ESTHER AND
DANIEL WERE QUITE YOUNG, RIGHT?
00:39:47.38\00:39:52.95
THAT'S WHAT THE EVIDENCE
INDICATES - QUITE YOUNG - SO
00:39:52.99\00:39:55.42
SOME OF YOU SAY, 'SO THAT'S WHAT
DISQUALIFIES ME, DR. DEROSE,
00:39:55.46\00:39:57.89
BECAUSE I'M A
BIT OLDER THAN THAT.
00:39:57.93\00:40:00.53
NO ONE WOULD CHOOSE
ME FOR A BEAUTY QUEEN.
00:40:00.56\00:40:03.43
NO ONE WOULD TAKE ME AS A
YOUNG PERSON THAT THEY COULD
00:40:03.47\00:40:06.50
INDOCTRINATE. I'M
OVER THE HILL, DR. DEROSE.'
00:40:06.53\00:40:08.50
BUT THESE MISSIONARY STORIES
WE'RE LOOKING AT ACTUALLY CUT
00:40:08.54\00:40:13.04
ACROSS GENDER, AGE, BACKGROUND,
LABELS. LOOK WITH ME REAL
00:40:13.07\00:40:26.25
QUICKLY AT PSALM 90 - PSALM 90 -
MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHO WROTE
00:40:26.29\00:40:33.13
PSALM 90 UNLESS THEY LOOK AT IT
AND READ THE FOOTNOTE THAT'S IN
00:40:33.16\00:40:38.10
MOST BIBLES.
PSALM 90, WHO WROTE IT?
00:40:38.13\00:40:44.04
>>MOSES. >>MOSES.
00:40:44.07\00:40:46.57
DID YOU KNOW MOSES WROTE A
PSALM? AND THE PSALM THAT MOSES
00:40:46.61\00:40:51.81
WROTE HAS A VERY
INTERESTING VERSE IN IT.
00:40:51.85\00:40:54.58
AND THAT VERSE IS FOUND IN VERSE
10 - PSALM 90, VERSE 10, "THE
00:40:54.62\00:41:04.93
DAYS OF OUR LIVES ARE SEVENTY
YEARS; AND IF BY REASON OF
00:41:04.96\00:41:11.17
STRENGTH THEY ARE EIGHTY YEARS,
YET THEIR BOAST IS ONLY LABOR
00:41:11.20\00:41:15.10
AND SORROW; FOR IT IS
SOON CUT OFF, AND WE FLY AWAY."
00:41:15.14\00:41:19.94
IN MOSES' DAY, HOW
LONG DID PEOPLE LIVE?
00:41:19.97\00:41:22.24
>>SEVENTY YEARS.
>>SEVENTY YEARS, MAYBE EIGHTY,
00:41:22.28\00:41:25.95
OKAY? WHAT'S
THE LIFE SPAN TODAY?
00:41:25.98\00:41:30.65
WHAT NUMBER DO
YOU WANT TO PUT ON IT?
00:41:30.69\00:41:35.99
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF SOMEONE'S,
YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE REALLY
00:41:36.02\00:41:39.19
FORTUNATE
THEY'LL LIVE TO HOW LONG?
00:41:39.23\00:41:41.40
>>NINETY.
>>NINETY? MAYBE A HUNDRED.
00:41:41.43\00:41:46.13
>>SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.
>>SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS?
00:41:46.17\00:41:49.74
HOW OLD WAS MOSES WHEN HE
WAS CALLED TO BE THE GREAT
00:41:49.77\00:41:52.37
MISSIONARY TO THE
EGYPTIANS? >>EIGHTY.
00:41:52.41\00:41:57.08
>>HE WAS EIGHTY.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE
00:41:57.11\00:42:00.55
IMPLICATIONS OF
WHEN MOSES WAS CALLED?
00:42:00.58\00:42:04.95
MOSES WAS CALLED WHEN HE WAS
A DEAD MAN. (LAUGHTER) REALLY.
00:42:04.99\00:42:10.93
HE WAS CALLED
WHEN HE WAS A DEAD MAN.
00:42:10.96\00:42:13.56
AND SO YOU'RE SITTING HERE TODAY
- YOU'RE SAYING, 'IT'S OVER FOR
00:42:13.60\00:42:16.56
ME, DR. DEROSE, I'VE LIVED
MY LIFE. I MEAN, I'M RETIRED.
00:42:16.60\00:42:19.27
I CAN'T EVEN DRIVE MYSELF.
THEY TOOK AWAY MY DRIVER'S
00:42:19.30\00:42:22.34
LICENSE FROM ME. WHAT CAN I DO?'
00:42:22.37\00:42:24.51
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER
WHO OLD OR HOW YOUNG YOU ARE.
00:42:24.54\00:42:28.41
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHEN THE
PERSON NEXT TO YOU SAYS, 'BOY, I
00:42:28.44\00:42:31.05
HOPE THOSE LIBERALS DON'T SIT
NEXT TO ME IN CHURCH.' OR 'BOY,
00:42:31.08\00:42:33.48
THAT GUY IS SO CONSERVATIVE HE'S
DISGUSTING.' I MEAN, WE - WE -
00:42:33.52\00:42:36.89
DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
WE, AMONG OURSELVES, WE LABEL
00:42:36.92\00:42:41.56
EACH OTHER AND
THEN, WHAT DO WE DO?
00:42:41.59\00:42:43.96
WE LOOK AT OURSELVES IN THE
MIRROR AND SAY, 'WHAT CAN I DO?
00:42:43.99\00:42:45.83
I'M NOT LIKE
DANIEL. I'M NOT LIKE ESTHER.
00:42:45.86\00:42:48.10
I'M NOT LIKE MOSES. BUT
THE WHOLE POINT - WHY THERE
00:42:48.13\00:42:51.90
ARE SO MANY STORIES - IS
BECAUSE WE'RE LIKE ALL OF THEM.
00:42:51.93\00:42:54.84
WE'RE LIKE ALL OF THEM.
DANIEL, IN DANIEL 6, IS THROWN
00:42:54.87\00:43:05.25
IN THE LION'S DEN. AND
WHAT IS THE OUTCOME OF DANIEL'S
00:43:05.28\00:43:12.02
EXPERIENCE? WHAT'S THE RESULT?
THE RESULT IN DANIEL 6, IS WE
00:43:12.05\00:43:20.66
HAVE THIS AMAZING PROCLAMATION -
IT'S REFERRED TO US IN CHAPTER -
00:43:20.70\00:43:25.33
OR IN TUESDAY'S LESSON. IT
ACTUALLY QUOTES THIS POWERFUL
00:43:25.37\00:43:32.21
PASSAGE IN
DANIEL 6:25 THROUGH 27.
00:43:32.24\00:43:38.88
IT SAYS, 'THEN KING DARIUS WROTE
TO ALL PEOPLES, NATIONS, AND
00:43:38.91\00:43:43.72
LANGUAGES, THAT DWELL IN ALL THE
EARTH: PEACE BE MULTIPLIED UNTO
00:43:43.75\00:43:47.39
YOU. I MAKE A
DECREE, THAT IN EVERY
00:43:47.42\00:43:50.56
DOMINION OF MY KINGDOM PEOPLE
MUST FEAR AND REVERENCE THE GOD
00:43:50.59\00:43:53.13
OF DANIEL: FOR HE IS THE LIVING
GOD AND HE ENDURES FOREVER.
00:43:53.16\00:43:56.97
HIS KINGDOM WILL
NOT BE DESTROYED.
00:43:57.00\00:43:58.77
HIS DOMINION WILL NEVER
END. HE RESCUES AND HE SAVES.
00:43:58.80\00:44:02.70
HE PERFORMS SIGNS AND WONDERS IN
THE HEAVENS AND ON THE EARTH.'
00:44:02.74\00:44:05.57
HE HAS RESCUED DANIEL
FROM THE POWER OF THE LIONS.
00:44:05.61\00:44:09.78
AND WHAT'S INTERESTING - WHAT'S
POINTED OUT IN THE LESSON, AS
00:44:09.81\00:44:12.95
WELL, IS A PRECEDING VERSE.
BEFORE DANIEL WAS THROWN IN THE
00:44:12.98\00:44:16.95
LION'S DEN IT REMINDS US OF
VERSE 20, RIGHT THERE AT THE
00:44:16.99\00:44:21.32
BEGINNING OF TUESDAY'S LESSON,
BECAUSE WHAT - WHAT IT'S LIKELY
00:44:21.36\00:44:29.86
DARIUS WAS SAYING BEFORE DANIEL
WAS THROWN IN, ARE THE VERY
00:44:29.90\00:44:34.40
WORDS THAT COME OUT OF HIS MOUTH
AT THE END OF THAT EVENING THAT
00:44:34.44\00:44:39.31
DANIEL SPENDS IN
THE ROYAL LION CHAMBER.
00:44:39.34\00:44:44.51
AND HE SAYS, IN DANIEL 6:20,
"O DANIEL, SERVANT OF THE LIVING
00:44:44.55\00:44:49.72
GOD, IS THY GOD, WHOM THOU
SERVEST CONTINUALLY, ABLE TO
00:44:49.75\00:44:56.79
DELIVER THEE FROM THE LIONS?"
AND THE ANSWER, OF COURSE, IS
00:44:56.83\00:45:01.46
'YES.' GOD WAS
SEEN AS THE LIVING GOD.
00:45:01.50\00:45:06.50
DANIEL WAS SEEN AS
CONTINUALLY FOLLOWING JESUS.
00:45:06.53\00:45:11.11
YOU SAY, 'BUT I
HAVEN'T BEEN SEEN THAT WAY.
00:45:11.14\00:45:12.61
I MEAN, I'VE MESSED UP ALREADY.'
LISTEN, THEY DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE
00:45:12.64\00:45:16.08
ESTHER WAS A JEW. THEY
DIDN'T SAY THAT TO ESTHER.
00:45:16.11\00:45:20.52
THEY DIDN'T SAY, 'THE GOD THAT
YOU SERVE CONTINUALLY.' THEY
00:45:20.55\00:45:23.22
DIDN'T EVEN MAKE THE CONNECTION.
THE POINT IS, WHEREVER WE'VE
00:45:23.25\00:45:25.49
BEEN AT IN OUR PAST, GOD GIVES
US THE OPPORTUNITY TODAY, AND
00:45:25.52\00:45:29.72
THIS WEEK, TO DO WHAT?
TO BE MISSIONARIES FOR HIM.
00:45:29.76\00:45:33.43
TO GO AND REPRESENT HIM.
NOT TO DISQUALIFY OURSELVES.
00:45:33.46\00:45:36.53
NOT TO SAY, 'WELL, I HAVEN'T
DONE THINGS RIGHT AND IF I SAID
00:45:36.56\00:45:39.03
I WAS A CHRISTIAN WHERE I WORK,
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE SEEN
00:45:39.07\00:45:41.84
WHAT I'VE BEEN WATCHING. THEY'VE
SEEN THE MAGAZINES I BRING.
00:45:41.87\00:45:43.81
IF I TELL THEM I'M A VEGETARIAN
THEY'LL SAY, WELL, THEY SAW ME
00:45:43.84\00:45:48.18
AT BURGER KING LAST WEEK.
GETTING A - EATING A HAMBURGER.'
00:45:48.21\00:45:53.68
DO YOU SEE WHAT SATAN TRIES TO
DO? SATAN TRIES TO THROW IN OUR
00:45:53.72\00:46:00.89
FACE WHERE WE HAVE
SLIPPED - WHERE WE HAVE FALLEN.
00:46:00.92\00:46:05.03
AND WHAT GOD IS TRYING TO DO
IS TRYING TO GET OUR ATTENTION
00:46:05.06\00:46:09.56
SAYING WE ALL HAVE THIS
MISSIONARY CALLING AND THAT
00:46:09.60\00:46:14.30
MISSIONARY CALLING IS MOST
POWERFUL WHEN WE HAVE TO STAND
00:46:14.34\00:46:18.81
FOR SOMETHING WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE
THE WORLD IS POINTING IN ANOTHER
00:46:18.84\00:46:23.28
DIRECTION. GO BACK
WITH ME TO DANIEL 2.
00:46:23.31\00:46:25.88
IT'S ANOTHER STORY
THAT'S HIGHLIGHTED, ACTUALLY,
00:46:25.91\00:46:28.95
IN MONDAY'S LESSON. I
KNOW SOME OF YOU LIKE THE,
00:46:28.98\00:46:31.15
YOU KNOW, SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO
LESSON STUDY AND SO YOU'RE VERY
00:46:31.19\00:46:34.86
THANKFUL THAT I'M NOT UP
HERE MUCH, BUT I TEND TO LIKE TO
00:46:34.89\00:46:38.63
INTEGRATE THINGS IN MY OWN
MIND AND MY MIND JUMPS AROUND.
00:46:38.66\00:46:43.00
AND SOME OF YOU SAY, 'WELL,
I'M GLAD THAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE A
00:46:43.03\00:46:45.97
MORE SMOOTH-FLOWING MIND
THAN YOURS, DR. DEROSE.' BUT I'M
00:46:46.00\00:46:49.50
TRYING TO PULL ALL OF THIS
TOGETHER AND SAY, 'WHAT DOES IT
00:46:49.54\00:46:51.91
SAY TO ME?' AND
AS I LOOK AT THESE
00:46:51.94\00:46:54.64
COMPARISONS AND THESE CONTRASTS,
GOD HAS A CALL FOR ME.
00:46:54.68\00:46:58.28
AND EVEN IF SOME OF YOU
DON'T THINK THAT THAT CALLING IS
00:46:58.31\00:47:02.65
PROBABLY APPLICABLE TO
THIS INDIVIDUAL UP FRONT, THAT'S
00:47:02.68\00:47:07.19
OKAY, BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN
WRITTEN OFF BY SOME PEOPLE TOO,
00:47:07.22\00:47:11.53
HAVEN'T YOU? NO, REALLY.
00:47:11.56\00:47:14.20
AND IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT GOD
DOESN'T HAVE A MINISTRY FOR YOU.
00:47:14.23\00:47:17.43
'BUT DR. DEROSE, DO YOU KNOW WHO
TOLD ME THAT I SHOULD NEVER OPEN
00:47:17.47\00:47:21.24
MY MOUTH AND SAY ANYTHING ABOUT
JESUS BECAUSE I ALWAYS MAKE A
00:47:21.27\00:47:23.97
FOOL OF MYSELF?' I
DON'T CARE WHO TOLD YOU THAT,
00:47:24.01\00:47:25.61
GOD WANTS TO USE
YOU. GOD WANTS TO USE YOU.
00:47:25.64\00:47:30.21
CHAPTER 2 OF DANIEL -
AGAIN, A VERY FAMILIAR STORY.
00:47:30.25\00:47:34.78
IN DANIEL 1, WE HAVE THAT
AMAZING PROPHECY WHERE GOD, IN -
00:47:34.82\00:47:38.02
IN A WAY THAT COULD SPEAK TO A
HEATHEN KING, GIVES HIM AN IMAGE
00:47:38.05\00:47:43.89
OF AN IDOL - AN IDOL MADE UP
OF VARIOUS METALS THAT FORETOLD
00:47:43.93\00:47:47.83
KINGDOMS THAT WOULD COME AND
GO AFTER THE TIME OF BABYLON.
00:47:47.86\00:47:54.34
BABYLON, OF COURSE, BEING
REPRESENTED - BABYLON - IT'S
00:47:54.37\00:47:57.51
KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR AS THE
HEAD OF GOLD IN THAT IMAGE.
00:47:57.54\00:47:59.41
IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2,
NEBUCHADNEZZAR BASICALLY, AT
00:47:59.44\00:48:02.34
THIS POINT, REJECTING
THE VISION OF DANIEL 1.
00:48:02.38\00:48:06.28
HE SAYS, 'NO, THERE IS GOING
TO BE NO SUCCESSION OF KINGDOMS.
00:48:06.31\00:48:10.22
BABYLON, THE HEAD OF
GOLD, IS GOING TO RULE FOREVER.
00:48:10.25\00:48:13.12
I'M GOING TO BUILD AN IMAGE JUST
LIKE THE ONE GOD GAVE ME AND I'M
00:48:13.15\00:48:16.62
GOING TO MAKE IT ALL OF
GOLD. BABYLON IS GOING TO RULE
00:48:16.66\00:48:19.59
FOREVER.' AND HE
CALLS A BIG WORSHIP SERVICE.
00:48:19.63\00:48:24.50
IT WAS A WORSHIP SERVICE - A BIG
FESTIVAL ON THE PLAIN OF DURA,
00:48:24.53\00:48:28.74
WHERE THEY'RE GOING
TO CONSECRATE THIS IDOL.
00:48:28.77\00:48:32.31
IT WAS TO BE A WORSHIP SERVICE,
THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT IT
00:48:32.34\00:48:35.51
AS YOU READ THE CONTEXT.
00:48:35.54\00:48:37.35
AND SO, WHAT HAPPENS
IN THE MIDST OF THIS?
00:48:37.38\00:48:40.52
THE CALL GOES OUT. THE
CALL GOES OUT IN DANIEL 3.
00:48:40.55\00:48:47.59
I HAVE YOU LOOKING AT DANIEL 2,
I KNOW, BUT IN MONDAY'S LESSON
00:48:47.62\00:48:52.66
IT STARTS WITH DANIEL 2 AND THEN
TRANSITIONS US INTO DANIEL 3.
00:48:52.69\00:48:59.20
IN DANIEL 2 YOU HAVE THAT
INITIAL VISION AND THEN IN
00:48:59.23\00:49:02.04
DANIEL 3 YOU HAVE THE THREE
HEBREWS THAT STAND FAITHFULLY.
00:49:02.07\00:49:07.14
WHEN THIS CALL GOES OUT ON THE
PLAIN OF DURA, AND IT SAYS IN
00:49:07.18\00:49:12.81
VERSE 8 OF DANIEL CHAPTER 3,
CERTAIN CHALDEANS (BABYLONIAN
00:49:12.85\00:49:18.52
INTELLIGENTSIA) COME FORWARD.
THEY ACCUSE THESE THREE JEWS -
00:49:18.55\00:49:23.76
SHADRACH, MISHACH, AND
ABEDNEGO - OF NOT BOWING DOWN.
00:49:23.79\00:49:28.66
IT SAYS, VERY CLEARLY, IN VERSE
11, "WHOEVER DOES NOT BOW DOWN
00:49:28.70\00:49:33.34
AND WORSHIP SHALL BE CAST INTO
THE MIDST OF A BURNING FIERY
00:49:33.37\00:49:36.44
FURNACE." - THEY'RE
QUOTING THE KING AND
00:49:36.47\00:49:38.11
THEY'RE SAYING,
'THAT'S WHAT THESE MEN DESERVE.
00:49:38.14\00:49:39.94
THEY HAVE NOT WORSHIPED.'
AND SO NEBUCHADNEZZAR GIVES THEM
00:49:39.97\00:49:44.11
ANOTHER CHANCE AND THEY SAY,
'WE'RE GOING TO BE FAITHFUL.
00:49:44.15\00:49:47.42
GOD CAN SAVE US, BUT EVEN IF
HE DOESN'T, WE'RE NOT GOING TO
00:49:47.45\00:49:52.39
CAPITULATE.' AND SO, IN
THAT TIME OF ADVERSITY, THEY'RE
00:49:52.42\00:49:56.16
THROWN INTO THE FIERY FURNACE.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS?
00:49:56.19\00:49:59.33
GOD DELIVERS THEM.
WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN DELIVERED
00:49:59.36\00:50:03.47
IF THEY HADN'T
HAVE STOOD FAITHFUL?
00:50:03.50\00:50:06.23
WOULD GOD'S PEOPLE HAVE
BEEN DELIVERED, IN THE TIME OF
00:50:06.27\00:50:08.77
ESTHER, IF ESTHER HADN'T STOOD
FAITHFUL? WOULD DANIEL HAVE BEEN
00:50:08.80\00:50:13.27
DELIVERED FROM THE LION'S
DEN IF HE HADN'T STOOD FAITHFUL?
00:50:13.31\00:50:16.21
YOU SAY, 'HE WOULD NEVER HAVE
BEEN THROWN THERE.' THE WHOLE
00:50:16.24\00:50:18.65
POINT IS, GOD IS SEEKING TO DO
WHAT WE READ ABOUT IN REVELATION
00:50:18.68\00:50:21.38
14 - GIVE A MESSAGE TO EVERY
NATION, KINGDOM, TONGUE AND
00:50:21.42\00:50:25.69
PEOPLE.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR TRIED TO DO IT ON
00:50:25.72\00:50:28.29
THE PLAIN OF DURA - TRIED TO GET
EVERYONE TO WORSHIP A FALSE GOD,
00:50:28.32\00:50:30.79
BUT IN THE END, WHEN WE STAND
FAITHFUL AS GOD'S MISSIONARIES,
00:50:30.83\00:50:35.30
THE GOD IN HEAVEN
WILL BE WORSHIPED.
00:50:35.33\00:50:39.03
THAT'S THE CHALLENGE FOR
ME. IT'S A CHALLENGE FOR YOU.
00:50:39.07\00:50:42.04
IT'S THE CHALLENGE TODAY AS WE
INTERACT WITH ONE ANOTHER, AND
00:50:42.07\00:50:44.77
THE CHALLENGE THIS WEEK AS WE GO
ABOUT ASKING THE QUESTION OF THE
00:50:44.81\00:50:48.34
LORD, 'WHAT WOULD
YOU HAVE ME TO DO?
00:50:48.38\00:50:50.95
WHERE WOULD YOU HAVE ME TO
GO?' AND THEN PRAYING FOR THE
00:50:50.98\00:50:53.15
STRENGTH TO FOLLOW. >>AMEN.
00:50:53.18\00:50:55.08
>>WELL, WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER
THAT BUILDS ON THIS MESSAGE,
00:50:55.12\00:50:59.32
ACTUALLY, DEATHWATCH IN SIBERIA
- DEATHWATCH IN SIBERIA -
00:50:59.35\00:51:04.79
IT'S OFFER #114. YOU
CAN GET IT BY CALLING
00:51:04.83\00:51:07.56
866-STUDY-MORE -
THAT'S 1-866-788-3966.
00:51:07.60\00:51:16.71
I INVITE YOU TO BE BACK HERE
IN THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
00:51:16.74\00:51:20.64
ADVENTIST CHURCH NEXT WEEK.
ACTUALLY, AS WE PICK UP THE
00:51:20.68\00:51:23.91
STUDY OF ESTHER, WE INVITE YOU
THAT ARE JOINING US BY WAY OF
00:51:23.95\00:51:26.65
CAMERA TO JOIN US AS WELL,
AS WE STUDY MORE ABOUT BIBLICAL
00:51:26.68\00:51:31.32
MISSIONARIES. (MUSIC)
00:51:31.35\00:51:40.76
>>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN IN 1965
WITH A GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
00:51:40.80\00:51:45.87
>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND
THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST -
00:51:45.90\00:51:48.80
FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
00:51:48.84\00:51:51.07
>>THESE RADIO BROADCASTS WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
00:51:51.11\00:51:54.98
SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
00:51:55.01\00:51:58.88
TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
00:51:58.91\00:52:02.52
THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
00:52:02.55\00:52:06.45
BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
00:52:06.49\00:52:09.22
IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
00:52:09.26\00:52:14.20
GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
00:52:14.23\00:52:17.20
EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:52:17.23\00:52:21.07
IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
00:52:21.10\00:52:25.31
MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
00:52:25.34\00:52:28.81
PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
00:52:28.84\00:52:32.38
MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:52:32.41\00:52:36.12
FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
00:52:36.15\00:52:39.95
BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
00:52:39.99\00:52:44.13
TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
00:52:44.16\00:52:48.06
WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
00:52:48.10\00:52:50.73
EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH
00:52:50.77\00:52:55.27
SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS.
AMAZING FACTS - GOD'S MESSAGE,
00:52:55.30\00:53:01.84
OUR MISSION.
>>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES.
00:53:01.88\00:53:17.53
>>MY GREATEST WISH IS THAT
MY CHILDREN WILL SEE ME THE WAY
00:53:17.56\00:53:24.73
I SEE MY - MY OWN FATHER.
HE'S A VERY DEVOTED MAN AND THAT
00:53:24.77\00:53:33.07
KIND OF FRAMED MY CHILDHOOD
GOING FORWARD FROM THERE, WHERE
00:53:33.11\00:53:36.71
I WAS ALWAYS INVOLVED IN CHURCH
WORK AND I HAD A VERY RICH
00:53:36.75\00:53:41.52
EXPERIENCE WITH THE LORD AT
A YOUNG AGE - ALL THE WAY UP
00:53:41.55\00:53:47.49
THROUGH COLLEGE. THEN
AFTER I GOT MARRIED I GOT
00:53:47.52\00:53:49.92
IN A COMPANY CALLED COMCAST AND
I SPENT THE PAST, ROUGHLY EIGHT
00:53:49.96\00:53:56.83
AND A HALF YEARS - NINE YEARS
AT COMCAST AND I WAS ACTUALLY
00:53:56.87\00:54:01.60
WATCHING TELEVISION WITH MY SON
AND A COMCAST COMMERCIAL CAME ON
00:54:01.64\00:54:06.71
THE AIR AND HE SAID,
'OH DADDY, THAT'S COMCAST .
00:54:06.74\00:54:11.61
THAT'S WHERE YOU WORK, DADDY.'
AND MOST FATHERS WOULD BE PROUD
00:54:11.65\00:54:17.32
WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT IT
REALLY STRUCK ME THAT, YOU KNOW,
00:54:17.35\00:54:21.39
MY SON'S GETTING OLDER AND HE
DOES NOT SEE ME AS A SERVANT OF
00:54:21.42\00:54:24.53
THE LORD, HE SEES ME AS
A SERVANT OF MY COMPANY.
00:54:24.56\00:54:28.46
AND I KNEW THAT I WOULD HAVE
TO MAKE SOME CHANGES BECAUSE I
00:54:28.50\00:54:33.60
WANTED HIM TO KNOW ME AS A MAN
OF GOD. I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD
00:54:33.64\00:54:39.44
BE A PREACHER OR ANYTHING LIKE
THAT, BUT I KNEW THAT THERE WAS
00:54:39.47\00:54:43.28
ROOM IN THE WORK FOR ME AND
FOR MY - FOR MY TALENTS AND I
00:54:43.31\00:54:50.49
WANTED MY SON TO SEE
ME OPERATING IN THE WORK.
00:54:50.52\00:54:53.96
THAT'S WHEN I KNEW THAT MY
TIME THERE WAS COMING TO AN END.
00:54:53.99\00:55:00.70
I WAS SITTING IN MY OFFICE ONE
DAY AND I WAS KNEELING IN PRAYER
00:55:00.73\00:55:04.23
AND I SAID, 'GOD, YOU KNOW,
SHOW ME WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO
00:55:04.27\00:55:07.14
BECAUSE THIS SEEMS LIKE A
BIG MOVE HERE AND, YOU KNOW,
00:55:07.17\00:55:15.24
EVERYONE'S THINKING I'M CRAZY
AND I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW,
00:55:15.28\00:55:20.15
YOU KNOW, THINGS ARE GOING TO
GO IF THEY DON'T GO WELL.' CRAZY
00:55:20.18\00:55:27.46
THOUGHT WHEN YOU'RE THINKING
ABOUT GOD AND I LIFTED MY HEAD
00:55:27.49\00:55:33.90
UP IN PRAYER AND THERE WERE JUST
LIKE A FLOCK OF, I DON'T KNOW,
00:55:33.93\00:55:39.43
MAYBE THREE HUNDRED BIRDS THAT
WERE JUST FLYING AND THEY WERE
00:55:39.47\00:55:43.57
SWOOPING DOWN OVER THE WATER AND
THEY WOULD FLY BACK UP AND THEN
00:55:43.61\00:55:47.54
THEY WOULD CHASE EACH OTHER
AROUND AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST
00:55:47.58\00:55:51.85
LOOKING AT THE PATTERN OF THE
GIANT FLOCK AND THE PROMISE OF
00:55:51.88\00:55:55.68
THE LORD CAME TO ME, WHERE
HE SAYS THAT, YOU KNOW, HE TAKES
00:55:55.72\00:56:00.09
CARE OF THE SPARROWS AND YOU
DON'T SEE THEM WORRYING ABOUT
00:56:00.12\00:56:04.33
HOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE
TAKEN CARE OF FROM DAY TO DAY.
00:56:04.36\00:56:08.96
YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T WRING THEIR
HANDS WONDERING, YOU KNOW, WILL
00:56:09.00\00:56:13.27
THERE BE ANY
WORMS TO EAT TOMORROW?
00:56:13.30\00:56:15.07
AND THAT PROMISE REALLY STOOD
OUT TO ME AND HE SAID, 'YOU
00:56:15.10\00:56:20.58
KNOW, HOW MUCH MORE DO I LOVE
YOU? YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GOING TO
00:56:20.61\00:56:24.05
SEND YOU ON A MISSION TO DO MY
WORK AND LEAVE YOU HIGH AND DRY,
00:56:24.08\00:56:29.05
BECAUSE YOU
CLAIM TO BE MY CHILD.
00:56:29.08\00:56:31.39
YOU CLAIM TO BE MY SON
AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.' THAT
00:56:31.42\00:56:36.09
ASSURANCE ALLOWS ME TO KNOW THAT
WHATEVER HAPPENS HERE, WHATEVER
00:56:36.12\00:56:40.73
HAPPENS AFTER HERE, WE'RE SONS
OF GOD AND THERE ARE CERTAIN
00:56:40.76\00:56:48.10
THINGS THAT WE
SHOULDN'T WORRY ABOUT.
00:56:48.14\00:56:49.87
FROM THE DAY WE ARRIVED AT
AFCOE, IT'S BEEN OBVIOUS THAT
00:56:49.90\00:56:56.51
GOD HAS BLESSED THE AMAZING
FACTS MINISTRY, THE AFCOE
00:56:56.54\00:57:00.35
PROGRAM - AND I WILL BE USING
MY AFCOE EXPERIENCE, NO MATTER
00:57:00.38\00:57:06.25
WHERE I GO, TO REACH PEOPLE
BECAUSE THE PERSONAL TOUCH OF
00:57:06.29\00:57:10.29
FACE-TO-FACE EVANGELISM,
SPEAKING AND SHARING THE WORD OF
00:57:10.33\00:57:17.37
GOD OUT OF YOUR OWN MOUTH -
THERE'S NO REPLACEMENT FOR THAT
00:57:17.40\00:57:20.57
AND AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN VERY
INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING ME FIND
00:57:20.60\00:57:24.81
THE AREA OF THE WORK OF GOD
AND SHOWING ME HOW LARGE AND HOW
00:57:24.84\00:57:33.08
BROAD IT IS. IT'S
BEEN A TREMENDOUS BLESSING
00:57:33.11\00:57:36.42
TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE WE'RE
AROUND PEOPLE SEEKING TO DO
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